Love Affairs in Melbourne-Chapter 92 - 89 Endless Self-deprecation

"Where? Did I perhaps get plastic surgery in South Korea when I went back home?" Yan Yan didn’t know what Qi Yi was going to say.

"What I mean is, there seems to be something on your face," Qi Yi continued staring at Yan Yan.

"Ah? What is it?" Yan Yan reached up to touch her own face.

"You won’t be able to rub it off like that," Qi Yi kept looking at Yan Yan’s face.

"Oh, what should I do then? Find a place to wash my face?" Even without makeup, Yan Yan didn’t want her face to turn into a big multicolored cat.

"Washing won’t help, because what’s on your face today is the loving gaze I’m giving you," Qi Yi said seriously about the "thing" on Yan Yan’s face.

"Uh... Wall Street doesn’t seem very lively at all~" Yan Yan decided to change the subject.

Yan Yan couldn’t figure out where Qi Yi had learned to be so seriously cheesy.

The Wall Street Yan Yan imagined was definitely not as it appeared before her eyes at the moment.

"Wall Street isn’t a place for shopping and dining. It’s normal for it to be a bit quieter at night," Qi Yi tried to prevent Yan Yan from being overly surprised by the nighttime prosperity of Wall Street.

"So that’s how it is, you’re handsome, so whatever you say is right," This phrase had become Yan Yan’s current catchphrase.

"Am I really handsome?" Qi Yi asked such an "immodest" question for the first time.

"Of course, although I’m not very good-sighted, I truly think you’re handsome from the bottom of my heart," Yan Yan said very seriously.

"Why is it that every time you want to take a shot at me, you somehow manage to take yourself down too?" Qi Yi was puzzled.

"Probably, possibly, maybe because I’ve over-trained my anti-counter technique, and as a result, suffered backlash," Yan Yan put on a serious face.

"Good thing you didn’t say, ’To master this skill, one must first... self-castrate,’" Qi Yi was amused by Yan Yan’s ultra-serious face.

"Ah, you’ve discovered it! You’ve accidentally uncovered the secret I’ve hidden for many years! The truth is always so hard to accept. I was actually... a man! What to do, the return period has passed, it’s too late for regrets now~" Yan Yan was without boundaries when it came to self-deprecation.

"Even if the truth is singular and reality too cruel, what can I do? My IQ is urgent, it doesn’t matter if you’re male or female, human or ghost, I still like you all the same," Qi Yi was getting used to Yan Yan who now and then would self-deprecate.

"Not bad, Xiao Qizi, although your IQ isn’t great, your emotional intelligence is exceptional. I guess I can barely accept your affection for me," Yan Yan’s mood had been quite good ever since she met Qi Yi.

"Is liking me enough? Don’t you need me to love you?" Qi Yi asked in a very disappointed tone.

"No need for that, it’s enough that I love you," Yan Yan replied breezily.

"Isn’t that a bit too easy, just throwing out those three words I’ve sought for so long?" Qi Yi stopped in his tracks, his mood a mix of surprise and complexity.

"What three words? How hard can it be to say ’I love you’?

If you hadn’t always chased after me like a little wife, asking me to say it, I would have already said it countless times.

Falling in love with one’s boyfriend isn’t a shameful thing.

Besides, I couldn’t care less about losing face," Yan Yan didn’t think she had just said anything particularly remarkable.

"How did you manage to link ’I love you’ and ’losing face’ together?" Qi Yi reached out and touched Yan Yan’s head.

"You’re asking me? Who should I ask then? It’s not like I can read my own brain waves," Yan Yan responded cheekily to Qi Yi’s question.

"Can’t you just talk to me seriously at the crucial moment?" Qi Yi didn’t want the "romantic" atmosphere to be broken so quickly.

"Which eye of yours sees me not being serious? I’m even more real than pearls!" Yan Yan continued to joke around.

"Waiwai, thank you for loving me. Thank you for coming to New York to see me," Qi Yi suddenly gave Yan Yan another hug.

"Eh, what’s with you? Can’t hold a conversation without hugging and snuggling in public, don’t you know it’s unsightly?" Yan Yan said with a look of disgust.

"I don’t care, my eyes see no public, only you," Qi Yi said with deep affection.

"You’re so cheesy, the burger I just ate has turned into goosebumps and fallen off," Yan Yan said as she quickly shook her head as if she really felt a bit cold.

"Can I pick them up and eat them then?" Qi Yi asked with great sincerity.

"Your taste is really not normal," Yan Yan said with a hint of terror as she came to her final conclusion.

"If I didn’t have a strong taste, how could I be ’out of my mind’ enough to find your stink agreeable," Qi Yi stressed, emphasizing the words ’out of my mind’ that Yan Yan used earlier when describing him.

"How about we go to a place where we can openly hug and hold each other, where it’s impossible not to hug?" Yan Yan suddenly made an astonishing suggestion.

"Where?" After hearing that, Qi Yi finally let go of Yan Yan.

"You guess~" Yan Yan said, intentionally dragging out the sound.

"No guessing, let’s go back to the hotel," Qi Yi said, pulling Yan Yan’s hand, ready to head towards the hotel.

"Xiao Qizi, why are you pulling me back to the hotel, it’s still early~" Yan Yan expressed her dissatisfaction with a rejection.

"Then where else do you think it’s a place where ’you can’t help but hug’?" Qi Yi felt that his IQ wasn’t panicking just now; he quickly caught the hidden message in Yan Yan’s words.

"Rockefeller Center," Yan Yan revealed the location she had in mind, which had nothing to do with what Qi Yi was thinking. (note 1)

"Do you think the shopping mall there is suitable for public hugging, or the office building?" Qi Yi couldn’t quite figure out what mischievous idea Yan Yan was coming up with at the moment.

"Haha, can’t figure it out, can you? Let me, who majored in architectural design, enlighten you~

Rockefeller Center’s architecture is a classic example of Art Deco.

This style originated in Europe in the 1920s but became widespread in the United States.

New York City can be considered a museum of Art Deco architecture.

Apart from the large group at Rockefeller Center, there’s also the must-see Empire State Building, which is styled in the same manner.

New York ranks first in the number of Art Deco buildings, with Shanghai coming in second.

Naturally, having just flown from the second to the first, I need to go pay homage," Yan Yan began her explanation.

Art Deco is a precursor to Modernism and is one of Yan Yan’s favorite art styles.

"Are you intent on insulting my intelligence today?

Although I may not have heard of other styles, I know that Art Deco emerged from the development of geometry, integrating geometric shapes with painting and architectural art.

Being a math student, I happen to know about it.

Waiwai, at this moment, I have no interest in your lectures.

You can stop being mysterious. Besides the ’must hug’ thing, I have no interest in any other architectural style in New York," Qi Yi protested.

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note 1:

Rockefeller Center is a complex of commercial buildings located on the Sixth Avenue in Manhattan, New York. It is the largest private building complex in the world and one of the landmarks of New York.