Time Travel: The Queen's Coronation

"Mr. Wei, I wonder if you still remember that you owe me a favor?" Zhang Mu's visit left me confused, but when he said this, I understood it instantly.

"Oh, tell me, what do you want me to do?"

"You know Xu Jing is coming back, right?" Zhang Mu said this shyly.

"I don't know, she didn't tell me!"

"Anyway, you just need to know that she is planning to come back."

"Even I didn't know she was coming back. How could you know when you have no relationship with her? Tell the truth!"

"You don't need to know so much. Anyway, she's coming back, so you have to return the favor!"

"First, tell me how you know her whereabouts? Are you a stalker?"

"How is this possible! I am, I..." Zhang Mu hesitated to speak.

"If you don't tell me, I don't want to help you!" I turned my head away very arrogantly, and Zhang Mu had no choice but to go aside and beg.

"Boss Wei, please stop making trouble. This might be my best chance! I beg you, please help me!"

"First, explain how you know Xu Jing's whereabouts, and then I'll consider it. What if you're a perverted stalker? Helping you would be like harming Xu Jing!"

"I swear I'm definitely not a perverted stalker! I found out her whereabouts through legitimate channels! I definitely didn't use any crooked means!" Zhang Mu promised solemnly.

"Since you want me to help you, but you won't tell me your intentions, how can I help you? You should know that I am Xu Jing's good friend!"

"If you weren't her good friend, I wouldn't have looked for you!" Zhang Mu muttered to himself.

"If you don't want to tell me, forget it! I'll just be a villain who breaks his promise for once. No one knows I owe you a favor anyway!"

"No, no, no, Mr. Wei, I told you it's not okay." Zhang Mu had no choice but to explain the reason to me, "My cousin and Xu Jing's brother are classmates. I asked my cousin to ask her brother about it."

"Really?"

"It's absolutely true! I will never lie to you!" Zhang Mu promised solemnly.

"Okay, I'll believe you for now. But you have to explain why you're pursuing Xu Jing. I've been asking her indirect questions, and I've discovered she doesn't even know you! And it seems like you two haven't had any contact whatsoever, so how did you decide on her? As Xu Jing's good friend, I have a responsibility to screen her before I help you, otherwise she'll be so angry I'll die!"

"This is personal privacy!"

"But if I help you, I'm invading Xu Jing's privacy!"

"You are making excuses!" Zhang Mu protested.

"Think it over carefully before you come to me! I can't possibly help a stranger who doesn't know Xu Jing get close to her. Besides, I don't know what kind of person you are. I don't even know if you're good or bad!"

"Mr. Wei, you..." Zhang Mu was very distressed.

"It's your freedom to say it or not, but it's also my freedom to help or not!"

"He's worthy of being the richest man! He's so clear-headed!" Zhang Mu exclaimed.

"So what's your choice?"

"Okay, okay! I'll tell you!" Zhang Mu agreed to my request reluctantly.

"I'm all ears!" I took a sip of tea excitedly.

"When I was in college, I ran into Xu Jing in a cafe. I was captivated by her the moment I saw her. I struggled to get her contact information, but by the time I finally mustered the courage to approach her, someone else was already chatting her up. I could only wait on the side, hoping the man would leave. But he said something to her, and she followed him out of the cafe. I followed him, but we ran into a demonstration. By the time I pulled myself out of the crowd, Xu Jing was gone."

"I've seen photos of Xu Jing from college. She's very beautiful. You put it nicely, saying it was love at first sight, but the essence is just lust at first sight!"

Zhang Mu looked at me helplessly, "You are the first woman I have ever met who is so unromantic!"

"Why are you so unromantic? Do you admit that you were tempted by a beautiful woman?"

"I said it was love at first sight!" Zhang Mu argued.

"Then why didn't you fall in love at first sight with other girls in the cafe? Why did you have to fall in love with her at first sight?"

"Mr. Wei, now is not the time to discuss this! Xu Jing will be back soon, and I don't have much time left, so please stop nitpicking with words, okay?" Zhang Mu said to me with a forced smile.

"OK! OK! I won't interrupt you, just continue."

"I continued searching for her until I spotted her at a debate competition. That's when I learned her name was Xu Jing, a Cambridge student and a fellow student of mine! I was so happy!"

"Are you from Cambridge too?"

"No, I'm from Oxford, but I really regret not choosing Cambridge. Otherwise, I could have bumped into her more often. I kept looking for opportunities to cross paths with her. I knew she liked playing tennis, so I took tennis lessons too. Unfortunately, I never ran into her on the tennis court."

"You are a few grades older than her, right?"

"Yes, I'm two years older than her. She was only a freshman when I was a junior. During the first two years of college, I didn't understand the feeling of having a crush on her. It wasn't until I met her that I knew what it felt like to be in love, what it meant to like someone."

"Then you still have plenty of opportunities, but why are you no different from strangers now?"

"It's really fate! I heard that she had a debate competition, so I skipped class to watch it. After the debate, I found that there was a boy next to her. She looked at him with eyes full of love, and he looked at her with eyes full of doting. I knew I was out, so I didn't dare to disturb her again." Zhang Mu smiled bitterly.

"Oh~ That boy is her ex-husband. She said that she and her ex-husband were together from campus to wedding dress, but unfortunately their marriage ended in a mess and ended in divorce."

"Yes, I knew she was divorced, so I filed for divorce from my wife at that time."

"You scumbag! What did your wife do wrong? You want to abandon her!" I was very angry.

"I know I'm sorry to my ex-wife, but I met such an amazing person when I was young, and I can't let go of him in my life. So when this opportunity comes to me, I can't give up! I want to be willful for once!"

"But what about your ex-wife? She married you, had children, and thought she'd grow old with you, but in the end you told her you'd always had another woman in your heart! How embarrassed did you make her feel?"

"I knew I was in the wrong, so when we divorced, I promised to leave the house with nothing. Later, she was probably too disappointed, so although she took two-thirds of my property during the divorce, she didn't take the child with her."

"Because your two children look so much like you, it must be heartbreaking for her to look at two faces that look like yours every day!"

"I know I've really let my ex-wife down, but I'm going to fight for myself this time! No matter what insults I bear, I'll accept them!"

"So what do you want me to do now?"

"I just want you to arrange a dinner for her to get to know me so we can interact."

"It's that simple?"

"Yes, it's that simple!"

"What if she doubts?"

"Then just tell her the truth and tell her that I have liked her for a long time!"

"I'm not trying to throw cold water on you, it's just that she doesn't like your style!"

"I will try my best to become the person she likes!" Zhang Mu was very confident.

"But she doesn't like you, so no matter how hard you try, it's all in vain."

"Boss Wei, I haven't even tried it yet, and you're already pouring cold water on me!"

"Okay, okay! I won't pour cold water on you anymore. I promise to introduce you to Xu Jing, okay?"

"It's a deal!" Zhang Mu was very happy.

"It's a word."