The Stars In Your Eyes - Chapter 210

This year’s winter is not as bad as last year. They rarely encounter heavy snow at night even though this is already entering January. Jian Kang Lu didn’t have to bring his thick coat every time he went to the hospital.

Jian Kang Lu just finish his presentation and answering questions from the hemodialysis trainee. As one of the best hospitals famous for it’s kidney treatment, B hospital is one of the hemodialysis training centres in this country. Jian Kang Lu will have to give 8 lectures in this 3 months training.

His phone vibrated. He peered at the screen, it was a call from Zhen Guo. Since it was not a call from the hospital nor his kitten, he pressed the silent button and continued to answer questions from the participant.

After he finished, he picked up his phone again, wanting to give Zhen Guo a call back. Jian Kang Lu noticed Zhen Guo sent him messages.

ZG : [I think I need to talk to you about something. When did you have time to meet me?]

JKL : [How about this weekend? We could have dinner together.]

ZG : [I just want to talk with you. Don’t bring Yutang. It won’t take long, I think..]

Jian Kang Lu frowned. It was rare for Zhen Guo to say this. He called Zhen Guo directly.

“Are you gonna confess your love to me?” Jian Kang Lu asked.

Zhen Guo sneered, “Only if you could grow breasts and chop your little birdie down there.”

“Then? What is this? Can’t we just talk on the phone? Do you need my help?” Jian Kang Lu opens his laptop. He still needs to check his email, containing data collected by his resident for his research.

“I think we should meet. When will you have free time? Thirty minutes is okay, I think..”

“How about today? At Cloud Eight?” Cloud Eight is a restaurant near his hospital which also serves good beer and liquor. Their coffee is also good.

“Too far! Come to Gioi, ah.”

Jian Kang Lu really hates this side of Zhen Guo. Told people to pick places but then rejected and pushed the other party to follow his own suggestion. Gioi is good, but it was so much closer to Zhen Guo’s company rather than his hospital.

Jian Kang Lu calls his kitten and tells him that he will meet with Zhen Guo but will still eat dinner with him later, just coming back late and maybe can’t pick Bai Yutang up. Today is Wednesday, a day where Jian Kang Lu usually picks his kitten and has dinner outside.

“Then I will cook at home. What dishes do you want me to cook, gege?”

Jian Kang Lu remembered that last Saturday his kitten tried a new recipe. It was easy to cook so his kitten won’t get too tired and very tasty. He likes it.

“One pot chicken rice.”

“Okay, gege. Have you finished your training lecture?”

Jian Kang Lu chatted a little bit with his kitten, then looked at the data in his laptop before inputting it to the statistical software. Rather than giving it to someone else, Jian Kang Lu enjoyed this kind of work, unlike his peers who didn’t understand how to manage the data and only took the final result.

After finished, he prepared to go to Gioi. He will reach there in one hour if he leaves now. But if he leaves later, who knows what time he will reach there in peak hour at B city?

When he reached there, Zhen Guo was already waiting for him.

“Have you waited for long?” Jian Kang Lu took his coat off and sat across from his best friend.

“I order Erdinger for you, the Kristall one.” Zhen Guo said.

Jian Kang Lu raised his eyebrow and looked at Zhen Guo with curiosity, “Why are you so polite? Suddenly you remembered to order my favourite beer.”

Does his best friend really have something bad to tell him? Does he have debt to settle and need to borrow money? Or something wrong with sister in law?

Zhen Guo and Jian Kang Lu have been friends for 20 year. He didn’t stall and talk straight to the point. In the next ten minutes, Jian Kang Lu was glad Zhen Guo ordered this beer for him while listening and asking Zhen Guo questions. Beer helps him to listen to this ridiculous and nasty story. He drinks and drinks, and orders the second bottle.

This all started last Sunday when Zhen Guo invited to the annual dinner party held by the architect’s association. Usually Zhen Guo just came, talked for a little bit with his old colleagues, then went home.

This year, the association asked him to give some speech regarding his last project, the L Life Experience Centre. The client is a property development company who required a space to target consumers chasing a green lifestyle.

It’s a modular wooden structure that is designed to be easily adapted or dismantled. The modules take the form of tree-like columns that can be applied independently or combined with others like Lego.

Because of that, Zhen Guo attended this event from the start until they finished the dinner and engaged in conversation with others.

At that dinner party, he also met the director of F firm, Bai Yutang’s old office. They weren’t really close, but familiar with each other. Zhen Guo didn’t talk much with him.

The things he told Jian Kang Lu today are not from that person. It was truly a coincidence.

In this event, a lot of architects come, especially the young ones. The one who could come is the one who already got their architect license. Bai Yutang and his friends are not yet qualified to get their license, thus they were not invited.

Zhen Guo needed to use the toilet after he was endlessly surrounded and talked. He already decided after using the toilet he wanted to run away and go home.

When he washes his hands, three men come and talk while finishing their business.

“It’s true! If you don’t believe me, you could ask old Liu. His cousin was this duck’s classmate. I heard it from him.”

“But it’s a T university student! Are you sure that duck is from T uni? Why a T uni student choose to be a duck?”

“T uni students just put their heads high and mighty. Who knows what kind of other nasty things they did? Don’t be fooled by their innocent appearance.”

Precisely because of this sentence that makes Zheng Guo, who wants to turn off the water and leave, suddenly perk his ear and want to hear which scoundrel is spreading bad rumors about his alma mater.

The water keeps running and Zheng Guo pretends to wash his hand meticulously while listening.

“And that guy working at your firm, Zhong Fan?”

“Yes. But he resigned a few months ago. Maybe his sugar daddy told him to stop working. I saw his sugar daddy several times. Old man with bald hair and fat. But he seems to pamper this duck. All his stuff is expensive.”

These three men are already done with their business and wash their hands. Because Zhen Guo still pretends to wash his hand, one of the guys queing to wash his hand. Zhen Guo deliberately lowered his head.

“Then, where does he work now?”

“I have no idea. We never contact each other. Why should I? I’m afraid of getting near this duck. You know that cutsleeve usually got AIDS, right. We all glad he resigned.”

“What is his name? Don’t tell me he is the new boy assigned to my team last month. But he’s a B uni graduate, not T uni.”

“His name is Bai Yutang. He looks like a proper one, but don’t be fooled with his appearance. All of his classmates know that he’s a duck with an ugly sugar daddy.”

Zhen Guo almost stumbled to hear this. Moreover to imagine his best friend described as an ugly, bald and fat sugar daddy. Does he hear it wrong? But Bai Yutang.. T uni architecture student.. Who else?

“I can’t believe a T uni student has a double job as architect and duck.”

“A duck might have a higher income than a low architect like us.”

“True, ahaha! All of his stuff is expensive, his bag alone costs 10.000 yuan when I check it in the store. And maybe he also enjoys stuffing his ass. Dirty boy.”

The man and one of his friends laughed while the other man kept silent.

Zhen Guo angered to hear that. He can’t hold himself and turn off the water. He raised his head and asked. “Hello..”

The three men have already finished washing their hands and want to go out. They all turn their heads and are stunned to see the man who washes his hand like being possessed by ghost water turns out to be Zhen Guo.

“Which firm do you work for?” Zhen Guo uses his polite tone even though he burns with anger. He stamps the man’s face who said a lot of nasty things in his brain, determined to get his name and won’t allow this man to work with him in the future.

No matter if they talk about another person, even if he hear the name Bai Yutang wrong, but this man is clearly homophobic and have a nasty personality.

“He-Hello Mr. Zhen Guo..” One of the men stammered. They just listened to this man’s speech one hour ago and admired his works so much. Which young architect in this country didn’t know this man?

“Hello.. May I know which firm you are working for?”

The three men answered. Three of them are working in different firms. They silently regret why they gossip in front of this God.

Zhen Guo sighed. The nasty man is working in F firm. Surely.. This might be the reason why Bai Yutang resigned.

He tried to hold his temper and still politely chat with them while walking out from the toilet. Truly, the toilet is not a good place to talk.

Zhen Guo just politely chats before saying goodbye to them. If Zhen Guo was a man with EQ, he would dig the story from these three men furthermore. Too bad he was not a man with low EQ. Very low. Like her wife often said, it’s a miracle a man like him could become a successful architect.