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January 7, X
Weather: Cloudy
Today, I’ll write the follow-up to yesterday’s entry.
To recap, this guy left halfway through the meal and told me to talk to the Japanese girl, which made me puzzled.
Was this his way of introducing me to someone? Why did I have to chat with that girl?
However, in order to not make the atmosphere even more awkward, I forced myself to talk to her.
Through the course of our conversation, I learned that she’s an international student from a nearby university. She’s also only 19 years old this year.
19 years old! She’s basically a child!
I secretly despised his ‘old cow eating young grass1’ behavior in my heart and, at the same time, wondered how he knew this girl.
When I brought this up, her expression subtly changed.
After a while, she asked if the sand sculpture and I were friends.
I answered vaguely; instead of saying the truth–that we’re childhood friends–I said we were just buddies who sometimes hung out on the weekends, but were not really close.
Hearing my words, the Japanese girl seemed to relax. She swept her eyes around the restaurant, then spilled her thoughts, complaining about the sand sculpture’s behavior in Japanese.
Honestly, I thought I had already seen and experienced it all, but after listening to the girl’s story, I felt my three views2 shaking.
This guy really has no sense of shame!
It went like this: The girl was just quietly studying in a classroom when this guy suddenly strolled over and said he wanted them to get to know each other better.
She felt that he was a little strange and subconsciously wanted to refuse, so she pretended her Chinese wasn’t good and she couldn’t understand him.
Then, his guy actually fished out his phone, pulled up Baidu Translations, and translated his words into Japanese!
At this point, the Japanese girl could no longer pretend she didn’t understand. With no other options, she bluntly said she had a boyfriend.
Most people would give up upon hearing that sentence, but this guy pressed on and told her he could teach her Chinese.
Teach, your sister! (╯=□=)╯︵┻━┻
When this guy still attended school, I was the one who did all of his language assignments for him. It’d be a wonder if he could teach other people!
The Japanese girl saw me sympathizing with her and finally smiled. She said she was very sorry for troubling me and wanted to split the cost of the meal3.
Of course, I couldn’t let girls pay!
Actually, I wanted to give this Japanese girl a sum of money as compensation for the psychological damages the sand sculpture caused her with his unreasonable pestering.
But of course, I didn’t. One, I already told her I was unfamiliar with him and giving her money would blow my cover. And two, it’s this guy’s mess–why should I be the one to clean it up? I absolutely won’t!
Seeing that the girl and I were having a lively conversation, the sand sculpture, probably wanting to see the play, returned to his seat.
I signaled the girl with my eyes to teach him a lesson4.
She hesitated for a moment, but then finally stood up and gave him a slap.
For a moment, this guy was stupefied, probably stunned.
Shortly afterwards, he flew into a rage and extended a hand as if to strike her back.
As the initiator who urged the girl on, I obviously couldn’t sit by and watch her get thrashed, so I stood in front of her, protecting her.
Seeing this, this guy’s eyes suddenly redden. He pointed at my nose and asked me who I was with.
The Japanese girl was already frightened silly, shivering as she hid behind my back.
When they saw this scene, staff members came up one after another to mediate the quarrel, and tried to calm him down.
I was suddenly glad he acted pretentious and chose to dine at a high-end Japanese restaurant, which only received one table of guests at a time.
Otherwise, how would this look like in the eyes of others? OTZ I didn’t want to be trending like this on Weibo.
Fortunately, this guy held back his impulses to beat people, and the Japanese girl successfully escaped.
But after that, he sprawled on the table alone and cried for a long time, complaining about how I got a new person and forgot the old, and so on. He even threatened to add me on his blacklist…
Alright, please block me. ╮(╯▽╰)╭ I just happen to need several days of peace and quiet.
With the end of the year approaching, matters in the company are quickly piling up. I really don’t have the time to deal with this sand sculpture everyday.
Translator’s Notes:
1. old cow eating young grass (idiom): a romance where the man is significantly older than the woman ↩
2. three views: a person’s view on life, the world, and themselves (or the values they hold dear) [I think…] ↩
3. Raws said something about AA system, which basically means everyone pays for their meals separately. ↩
4. literal: show him some color ↩
Naeda’s Log: For all of you worrying…
Here’s a rough translation of a comment I think explains the situation (WARNING: might be spoiler-y):
“Hahahahaha, I think the shou (YunFei) used the Japanese girl as an excuse for the gong (Feng Yao) to teach him Japanese. Afraid that the gong wouldn’t believe him, the shou made an appointment with a Japanese girl so he could prove that the person is real. However, the gong and the girl misunderstood that he’s a person after someone already in a relationship, so they beat him. (*/ω＼*) When he was slapped in front of his sweetheart, the shou, feeling like he lost face, flew into a rage and raised a hand to scare the girl. He didn’t expect that the gong would protect that ‘little slut’, so he was aggrieved and wronged. QAQ yingyingying(crying sounds), I will blacklist you!”
(His motives are slightly explained in Entry 11. ^^)
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