He Kept Me as His First Love's Stand-In, but I Saved Him First novel · Chapter 19 of 24
Chapter 19: Ten Things
On the sixth of February Qiu turned sixty-four, and he celebrated by getting drunk on a bottle of yellow wine in his own shop.
He sat at the workbench with his glasses on his forehead and his face the colour of a persimmon.
Hanjing sat across from him on an upturned crate, with a cup he hadn't touched.
Zhe was in the back room, sorting felts by size, with the door open two fingers.
"Boy," Qiu said thickly.
"Master Qiu."
"I'm going to ask you something. You can't tell me to mind my own business, because it's my birthday."
"Ask."
"What's he like?"
Zhe's hand stopped over a roll of green baize.
"Zhe," Hanjing said carefully. "You mean Ning Zhe."
"Do I look like I mean another one? You've known him three years."
"Tell me what you know. Ten things."
"Master Qiu, that's not fair to ask."
"Ten," Qiu said. "Or I'll tell you the story about the goose."
There was a silence.
Through the gap, Zhe could see a slice of Hanjing's profile in the lamplight.
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