The rain started so heavily suddenly that we both got inside the shop. "Hey, both of you kids stay here only till this rain stops. This rain seems to be a little dangerous," said Uncle Wang Lei.
"But Uncle Lei, do you know the reason why in this weather it starts raining heavily at this time in Shanghai? It's time for the rise of winter but it seems to be the rise of the rainy season," I said while watching the rain.
"Zhao Shiza, I haven't joined the weather reporting in Shanghai till now. When I'll join it, I'll definitely let you know when it's going to rain and why today it suddenly started raining without telling you. Such a disobedient rain this is, she needs to tell our Zhao Shiza before starting to rain," Uncle Wang Lei said to me in his slightly sarcastic humorous tone.
I made my puppy face and then I put my hand out of the shop, just enough so that the rainwater drops on my hand, and I did this to check whether the rain had stopped or not.
But then suddenly he pulled me inside and said, "Are you out of your mind? What are you doing?" he asked me in a scolding tone.
For a moment I just forgot to breathe, as his hand was still holding mine, which made my Mr. Heart skip a beat. While looking into his eyes I said, "I was just checking whether the rain has stopped or not."
"Checking whether the rain has stopped or not?" he repeated my sentence again in his angry tone. "Can't you see with your eyes that it didn't stop? Is it necessary to put your hand outside the shop? What if you fall on this slippery floor? What if you break your head? I won't work with an actress who broke her head, I won't, seriously," he said.
I rolled my eyes away from him and while looking at the rain I said, "Okay then cast a new one for you. But I'll do what I want to do, nobody can stop me. And when I know it's not dangerous then why should I step back."
"Who enrolled you in Shanghai University?" he asked furiously.
"What? What are you asking?" I asked him.
"Of course I need to take that person for a check-up of his mind," he said.
"Why?"
"Because it's illegal to enroll a child in a university. It's out of the rules."
"Who is a child here?" I started looking here and there trying to find the child he was talking about. Then he touched my face and made it move in front of him and now I was looking straight into his eyes, completely lost just like our drama series title Lost in Your Love.
"The child is standing in front of me. Who dares to be the child around you when you are here," he said to me while looking straight into my eyes. "You must get yourself enrolled in kindergarten, not in Shanghai University, and tell me if you need my help in that, I'll help you," he said.
I moved my eyes away from him and said, "The Xu Yuan is teasing me. Don't you think it's illegal to tease a kindergarten child?"
"Childish," he said while smiling a little.
"Did you say anything?" I asked him.
"No, nothing," he answered.
The rain started even more heavily than the previous minute. Uncle Lei said, "You both stay here only in the shade, don't go outside."
"But don't we have to go for shoot? Director Li must be calling us," I said while looking forward.
"Yes, we need to go. You are right," he said.
"But it's raining too heavily. How can we reach there?" I asked.
"I know, but look, it's not far away from our set location. We reached here just by walking for 20 minutes only, so we can go."
"Yes, I know, but Xu Yuan—I was in my own mind way of conversation and didn't even complete my sentence when he took off his big black jacket and held it over us like an umbrella, covering both of us. The jacket was quite heavy but still his hand was stable.
Then we both started running out of Uncle Lei's shop.
"Kids, listen! Wait for some time! Just wait!" Uncle Lei was screaming behind us, but we didn't stop, didn't look back, and kept on running.
And after crossing all difficulties, we successfully reached our set.
I took a deep sigh and said, "Finally we have reached," still catching my breath to be stable after that running.
"Yes, but look at you, you got a little wet from the rain. Dry yourself or else you'll catch a cold, it's changing weather."
I nodded my head.
"Wait, we haven't paid your Uncle Lei for our milk teas," he said.
"Don't worry, we don't need to," I said while smiling.
"Don't need to? What does that mean? And why giving this mischievous smile, hm?" he asked shockingly.
"Nothing, you won't understand," I said.
"What I won't understand?"
"This is typical Xu Yuan behaviour — who wants to know everything where he doesn't need to. Everything, even where he doesn't need to know anything, still he needs to know everything, right?" I said while looking straight into his eyes.
"What? Wait — you just called me 'typical Xu Yuan behaviour'? What's that? You mean I am putting my nose in everyone's matter when I don't need to?" he asked.
"You are quite intelligent, Mr. Xu Yuan," I said and patted his back, then went off from there towards my room, leaving him confused standing there.
And then he…
(To be continued)..