The next day, Yin Ting and her father went to the cinema.
The movie they were seeing was set for ten ‘o’ clock in the morning. It was a melodramatic romance about a man and woman, who met and fell in love at first sight. Their passion burned bright, soon the woman was pregnant and they got married. The two of them were happy about their marriage and hopeful about the future, but real life invaded their idyll, and their passion began to ebb. They started to quarrel and have cold wars. They disagreed with each other’s suggestions and plans, and disliked details of each other’s lives. They fell into a cycle of blame, coupled with the husband’s negligence, they finally divorced. Ten years later, they each found other people to fall in love with, but looked back on their lives resentfully. ALLABOUTMYNOTHINGS.BLOGSPOT.CO.UK
When she realised this was the film her father chose, Yin Ting was speechless. He was trying to reinforce his message.
Yin Ting sighed inwardly and took a shot of the film poster, ‘Putting it on my blog,’ she told her dad.
Guohao did not reply. Yin Ting posted the picture and captioned “This is the film my dad took me to see.” She wanted Zhengqing to see it. (Zuben: You’d think he didn’t want you to get married at all.)
When they took their seats, Yin Ting could not concentrate. She put her phone on mute, but kept looking at it to see if Zhengqing had commented. The other blog followers were full of praise, calling Yin Ting’s father trendy for going to see a movie about young love.
Yin Tin complained in her mind; it is not for your guys to understand, it was for her family’s Serious to understand, but where was he? ALLABOUTMYNOTHINGS.BLOGSPOT.CO.UK
Ten minutes passed, and Yin Ting looked at her phone again. Zhengqing had made a post.
He put up a picture of a gas station and the staff were cheering his car captioned: Do you know why cars start on gasoline?
Yin Ting burst out laughing. At this time, the theatre was very quiet, people were getting engrossed in the film, so her laugh caused a lot of people to turn and look at her. Guohao glared at his daughter; didn’t she know she was being embarrassing right now?
Yin Ting covered her mouth, still laughing.
Why does a car reply on gasoline to start? Because you can cheer: Come on! Come on!
It was even funnier to her because he had teased her about it yesterday calling her ‘chicken soup brain’. He was so cute. ALLABOUTMYNOTHINGS.BLOGSPOT.CO.UK
After this, her heart was calm and she began to concentrate on the movie. It was actually good. The story and the cinematography were excellent.
At the end, she thought the most sensible thing they did was to sign the divorce papers. (Zuben: There was a lot more to this but I honestly didn’t want recount a bloddy imaginary movie. So if you want to read it yourself, please feel free to google translate it)
The movie brought to mind her and Zhengqing’s relationship, but it spurred her on to be more vigilant. ALLABOUTMYNOTHINGS.BLOGSPOT.CO.UK
She looked at her blog page again to see that Zhengqing had posted again. It was very cute: Miao-dada was dressed in little clothes and a little hat, held in Zhengqing’s hand as he took the picture in the mirror; Miao’s eyes looked wide, helpless and innocent. The picture was captioned: Hostage.
She burst out laughing again, though she tried to stop herself from laughing too loud, it was too late, she had distracted the other cimena goers, who were being touched by the movie. There were indignant glares at her.
Her father tried to look as though he didn’t know her.
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Zhengqing was really cute, she thought.
That evening, the both of them video chatted. They talked about their day, after the movie Yin Ting and her dad went to eat and then visited a friend of his. Zhengqing went to the gym, played hostage with the cat, and then worked a bit.
It looked like everyone was doing fine. The two of them laughed. Though they could not have their date, they felt fulfilled. She told Zhengqing about the movie, and told him her thoughts on it. Zhengqing listened, and they chatted while his hands were busy with something.
When she was finished talking, he sent an attachment to Yin Ting. When she opened it, she was surprised. ALLABOUTMYNOTHINGS.BLOGSPOT.CO.UK
He had scanned the pages of the diary they were creating and added one that he had created himself.
Yin Ting was touched by this. She was almost moved to tears. They really could be much stronger than the couple in the movie. This was the other side. (Zuben: It’s not like you’re caught in a fiery passion anyway)
‘Now we both have a copy. Neither of us will forget.’ He said.
Yin Ting laughed, ‘Your plan is very complicated ah’ but also very encouraging.
‘It’s not complicated, this is just the beginning.’ He said in his usual serious manner.
Yin Ting sniffed and said, ‘My plan B is much simpler.’
‘How so?’ ALLABOUTMYNOTHINGS.BLOGSPOT.CO.UK
‘It is very good. I will be good to my dad and good to you, so much so you will shout loudly that you cannot bear it. Then you’ll listen to me.’
‘Doesn’t sound like a good idea,’
‘I disagree.’
‘You can take care of your father. And be good to me, I will remember. No need to do more than that.’ Zhengqing said. (Zuben: I don’t know what she’s going for here)
Yin Ting laughed, how could something be too good? Maybe, she was wrong, maybe what she thought was good was not. Maybe a change of mind was what she needed.
The next day, Yin Ting went shopping with her dad. While they were shopping for her father, she looked at things that may look good on Zhengqing, so they could come together some other time.
The surprising thing was Zhengqing went to see the movie by himself. Alone!
When they chatted, Zhengqing told her what he thought of the movie. It seemed that the both of them had different opionions on the subject matter, but it was still fun to discuss them.
‘Very interesting, next time we shall go and see a movie together.’ He said. His chances of watching a movie was small, but his girlfriend had told him the plot was interesting, so he went to see it.
‘Alright! We should see a horror movie together.’ Yin Ting said excitedly rubbing her hands together. Discussing horror movies was fun, and it also had the added advantage creating opportunity to be hugged and spoiled by her boyfriend. She wasn’t afraid of horror movies, but being spoiled was a must. (Zuben: What if he’s the scared one?)
For their day’s entry Yin Ting wrote: You went alone to see a movie, though I could not go along with you, I was very touched. Though we interpreted the plot differently, we had a fun discussion about it without acquiescing to the other. For the first time, we have a date to go and see a horror movie; your blank look was funny. You made me realise that sometimes change and reactions aren’t always excitement or tears. Let’s continue simply and laugh lots together.
Monday was the same as always, Zhengqing read emails, went to meetings, signed documents etc. Yin Ting called him that morning,
‘Dad doesn’t want me to go out and play. He said there is a virulent flu going around.’ (Zuben: OMG, so naff. Is this his plan B? It isn’t going to last though)
‘Ah.’ Zhengqing nodded. So this was his plan B; not scold or shout, but gently restrict her movements. And if she quarrelled, it would lead to contradictions and conflict, ‘Then listen to him.’ (Zuben: For how long?)
‘I think so too.’ Yin Ting said relieved he was thinking the same as she was. She had been worried he would not be happy. ALLABOUTMYNOTHINGS.BLOGSPOT.CO.UK
‘Are you working overtime today?’
‘Yup.’ Today was a busy day full of meetings; he would need the time to catch up on his paper work.
‘Then I will send you dinner, alright?’
‘Alright.’ He replied. She hadn’t minded that he was working overtime.
At half past six, Zhengqing was in his office working when his secretary placed a big package on his desk,
‘Miss Yin sent this over, it’s your dinner. She also said she sent you an email.’
Zhengqing remembered what Yin Ting had said a while ago, “I want to get into your friend circle; starting with your secretary.”
He laughed, and thanked his secretary. She asked if there was anything else she could help with. He told her it was only documents involving the meeting, and let her go home. He turned to the package that had been sent, it was a nicely packed dinner. ALLABOUTMYNOTHINGS.BLOGSPOT.CO.UK
He looked at his emails; there was one from Yin Ting. She had not bothered him in his meeting or text or called. She wrote: The box is microwavable. The square boxes are food, the round one is soup. Warm it up, don’t eat it cold. Eat it all and do not throw anything away.
At the end she said: Although I can’t eat with you, I hope you can eat warm good food. Eat well and work hard. ALLABOUTMYNOTHINGS.BLOGSPOT.CO.UK
Zhengqing warmed the food in the office kitchen, and ate. His stomach and heart were filled with warm.
The next day, Yin Ting and her father went to the cinema.
The movie they were seeing was set for ten ‘o’ clock in the morning. It was a melodramatic romance about a man and woman, who met and fell in love at first sight. Their passion burned bright, soon the woman was pregnant and they got married. The two of them were happy about their marriage and hopeful about the future, but real life invaded their idyll, and their passion began to ebb. They started to quarrel and have cold wars. They disagreed with each other’s suggestions and plans, and disliked details of each other’s lives. They fell into a cycle of blame, coupled with the husband’s negligence, they finally divorced. Ten years later, they each found other people to fall in love with, but looked back on their lives resentfully. ALLABOUTMYNOTHINGS.BLOGSPOT.CO.UK
When she realised this was the film her father chose, Yin Ting was speechless. He was trying to reinforce his message.
Yin Ting sighed inwardly and took a shot of the film poster, ‘Putting it on my blog,’ she told her dad.
Guohao did not reply. Yin Ting posted the picture and captioned “This is the film my dad took me to see.” She wanted Zhengqing to see it. (Zuben: You’d think he didn’t want you to get married at all.)
When they took their seats, Yin Ting could not concentrate. She put her phone on mute, but kept looking at it to see if Zhengqing had commented. The other blog followers were full of praise, calling Yin Ting’s father trendy for going to see a movie about young love.
Yin Tin complained in her mind; it is not for your guys to understand, it was for her family’s Serious to understand, but where was he? ALLABOUTMYNOTHINGS.BLOGSPOT.CO.UK
Ten minutes passed, and Yin Ting looked at her phone again. Zhengqing had made a post.
He put up a picture of a gas station and the staff were cheering his car captioned: Do you know why cars start on gasoline?
Yin Ting burst out laughing. At this time, the theatre was very quiet, people were getting engrossed in the film, so her laugh caused a lot of people to turn and look at her. Guohao glared at his daughter; didn’t she know she was being embarrassing right now?
Yin Ting covered her mouth, still laughing.
Why does a car reply on gasoline to start? Because you can cheer: Come on! Come on!
It was even funnier to her because he had teased her about it yesterday calling her ‘chicken soup brain’. He was so cute. ALLABOUTMYNOTHINGS.BLOGSPOT.CO.UK
After this, her heart was calm and she began to concentrate on the movie. It was actually good. The story and the cinematography were excellent.
At the end, she thought the most sensible thing they did was to sign the divorce papers. (Zuben: There was a lot more to this but I honestly didn’t want recount a bloddy imaginary movie. So if you want to read it yourself, please feel free to google translate it)
The movie brought to mind her and Zhengqing’s relationship, but it spurred her on to be more vigilant. ALLABOUTMYNOTHINGS.BLOGSPOT.CO.UK
She looked at her blog page again to see that Zhengqing had posted again. It was very cute: Miao-dada was dressed in little clothes and a little hat, held in Zhengqing’s hand as he took the picture in the mirror; Miao’s eyes looked wide, helpless and innocent. The picture was captioned: Hostage.
She burst out laughing again, though she tried to stop herself from laughing too loud, it was too late, she had distracted the other cimena goers, who were being touched by the movie. There were indignant glares at her.
Her father tried to look as though he didn’t know her.
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Zhengqing was really cute, she thought.
That evening, the both of them video chatted. They talked about their day, after the movie Yin Ting and her dad went to eat and then visited a friend of his. Zhengqing went to the gym, played hostage with the cat, and then worked a bit.
It looked like everyone was doing fine. The two of them laughed. Though they could not have their date, they felt fulfilled. She told Zhengqing about the movie, and told him her thoughts on it. Zhengqing listened, and they chatted while his hands were busy with something.
When she was finished talking, he sent an attachment to Yin Ting. When she opened it, she was surprised. ALLABOUTMYNOTHINGS.BLOGSPOT.CO.UK
He had scanned the pages of the diary they were creating and added one that he had created himself.
Yin Ting was touched by this. She was almost moved to tears. They really could be much stronger than the couple in the movie. This was the other side. (Zuben: It’s not like you’re caught in a fiery passion anyway)
‘Now we both have a copy. Neither of us will forget.’ He said.
Yin Ting laughed, ‘Your plan is very complicated ah’ but also very encouraging.
‘It’s not complicated, this is just the beginning.’ He said in his usual serious manner.
Yin Ting sniffed and said, ‘My plan B is much simpler.’
‘How so?’ ALLABOUTMYNOTHINGS.BLOGSPOT.CO.UK
‘It is very good. I will be good to my dad and good to you, so much so you will shout loudly that you cannot bear it. Then you’ll listen to me.’
‘Doesn’t sound like a good idea,’
‘I disagree.’
‘You can take care of your father. And be good to me, I will remember. No need to do more than that.’ Zhengqing said. (Zuben: I don’t know what she’s going for here)
Yin Ting laughed, how could something be too good? Maybe, she was wrong, maybe what she thought was good was not. Maybe a change of mind was what she needed.
The next day, Yin Ting went shopping with her dad. While they were shopping for her father, she looked at things that may look good on Zhengqing, so they could come together some other time.
The surprising thing was Zhengqing went to see the movie by himself. Alone!
When they chatted, Zhengqing told her what he thought of the movie. It seemed that the both of them had different opionions on the subject matter, but it was still fun to discuss them.
‘Very interesting, next time we shall go and see a movie together.’ He said. His chances of watching a movie was small, but his girlfriend had told him the plot was interesting, so he went to see it.
‘Alright! We should see a horror movie together.’ Yin Ting said excitedly rubbing her hands together. Discussing horror movies was fun, and it also had the added advantage creating opportunity to be hugged and spoiled by her boyfriend. She wasn’t afraid of horror movies, but being spoiled was a must. (Zuben: What if he’s the scared one?)
For their day’s entry Yin Ting wrote: You went alone to see a movie, though I could not go along with you, I was very touched. Though we interpreted the plot differently, we had a fun discussion about it without acquiescing to the other. For the first time, we have a date to go and see a horror movie; your blank look was funny. You made me realise that sometimes change and reactions aren’t always excitement or tears. Let’s continue simply and laugh lots together.
Monday was the same as always, Zhengqing read emails, went to meetings, signed documents etc. Yin Ting called him that morning,
‘Dad doesn’t want me to go out and play. He said there is a virulent flu going around.’ (Zuben: OMG, so naff. Is this his plan B? It isn’t going to last though)
‘Ah.’ Zhengqing nodded. So this was his plan B; not scold or shout, but gently restrict her movements. And if she quarrelled, it would lead to contradictions and conflict, ‘Then listen to him.’ (Zuben: For how long?)
‘I think so too.’ Yin Ting said relieved he was thinking the same as she was. She had been worried he would not be happy. ALLABOUTMYNOTHINGS.BLOGSPOT.CO.UK
‘Are you working overtime today?’
‘Yup.’ Today was a busy day full of meetings; he would need the time to catch up on his paper work.
‘Then I will send you dinner, alright?’
‘Alright.’ He replied. She hadn’t minded that he was working overtime.
At half past six, Zhengqing was in his office working when his secretary placed a big package on his desk,
‘Miss Yin sent this over, it’s your dinner. She also said she sent you an email.’
Zhengqing remembered what Yin Ting had said a while ago, “I want to get into your friend circle; starting with your secretary.”
He laughed, and thanked his secretary. She asked if there was anything else she could help with. He told her it was only documents involving the meeting, and let her go home. He turned to the package that had been sent, it was a nicely packed dinner. ALLABOUTMYNOTHINGS.BLOGSPOT.CO.UK
He looked at his emails; there was one from Yin Ting. She had not bothered him in his meeting or text or called. She wrote: The box is microwavable. The square boxes are food, the round one is soup. Warm it up, don’t eat it cold. Eat it all and do not throw anything away.
At the end she said: Although I can’t eat with you, I hope you can eat warm good food. Eat well and work hard. ALLABOUTMYNOTHINGS.BLOGSPOT.CO.UK
Zhengqing warmed the food in the office kitchen, and ate. His stomach and heart were filled with warm.
