Love Affairs in Melbourne-Chapter 24 - 23: Do You Need to Leave a Message?

Bao Bao sensed from Yan Yan’s tone that there was a story here, not something from the past, but from the present.

"Why did your school hunk come to Melbourne?" Bao Bao’s question, sharp and to the point, was more effective than the bunch Shen Xi had asked.

"Qi Yi said he specifically came to Melbourne to find me," Yan Yan told the truth.

"Really? Really? Really?" Each and every gossip cell in Shen Xi was activated.

"Fake!" Yan Yan looked at Shen Xi with irritation.

"You quick, tell me, you..." Shen Xi ignored Yan Yan, intent only on continuing the gossip.

"I know you want to ask what I’m thinking, but you’d better not ask because I don’t even know myself at the moment. Please, two heroines, show mercy and let me think," Yan Yan raised her hand to block Shen Xi’s gossiping mouth.

"How can that be? You absolutely have to share this kind of thing with us, lift Shen Xi’s spirits, and by the way, we can also help you analyze," Bao Bao sided with Shen Xi, but she didn’t just want to hear the gossip.

"Analyze with your two’s dating experience?" Yan Yan was skeptical.

"Of course we can, my dating experience is so rich," Shen Xi implied with a touch of self-promotion.

"Is having a rich love experience something to brag about?" Yan Yan was a bit speechless. Who boasts about having a rich love experience in front of their current boyfriend as if it’s something so natural?

"I brag about what I want, Bao Bao doesn’t care, why should you? And you’re not confessing quickly," Shen Xi showed no intention of giving up.

"Hey, seriously, Qi Yi doesn’t have my contact information, if he really specifically came to find me, how did he manage to find his way here from the United States?

I already know he’s staying in the casino hotel, but I haven’t decided yet how to find him tomorrow morning.

But to say that today was a pure coincidence seems even more inconceivable."

Yan Yan didn’t confess, but instead expressed the doubts in her heart.

"What do you mean you don’t know how you’re going to find him by tomorrow morning? You didn’t get his contact information?" Bao Bao asked Yan Yan.

"No," Yan Yan answered.

"Did you ask him which of the three hotels in the casino it is?" Shen Xi asked with a face full of disbelief.

"I really didn’t know there were three hotels in the casino, so naturally I didn’t ask," Yan Yan honestly replied.

"You’re so careless – aren’t you afraid of courting death one day?" Shen Xi thought Yan Yan was beyond help.

"Then after I die, I’ll turn into a fierce ghost and haunt you every day," Yan Yan made a scary face.

"Fine, I’ll wait for that. And you wait too, when the time comes, I’ll have Bao Bao deal with you," Shen Xi was fearless with someone backing her up.

"So, have you thought about how you’re going to find him? You can’t possibly be just giving up?" Bao Bao asked Yan Yan.

"What giving up? How hard can it be to find someone? Just don’t disturb me while I’m thinking, and besides, I’m not even clear about the actual gossip, how can I share with you guys? If I can’t find him tomorrow, there really won’t be any gossip," at that moment, Yan Yan really hadn’t sorted out her own thoughts.

"Then you better think fast," Shen Xi summarized bluntly. "Really no more gossip," such a situation absolutely could not happen.

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Yan Yan finally got a moment of peace and returned to her room. freewebnøvel.coɱ

If Qi Yi had specifically come to Melbourne to find her, what was their relationship now?

Yan Yan always felt that her story with Qi Yi would end when she wrote "Tombstone Inscription," and that was already three years ago.

If Qi Yi had only just seen her blog post from that time, what could be his main purpose for coming?

No formal breakup five years ago, four years without any news from each other.

No one stays in the same place forever. No one remains unchanged.

Yan Yan’s thoughts were so chaotic she could barely remember what she and Qi Yi had talked about at the observation deck just now.

That must have been a fake Yan Yan just now, if she were real, she wouldn’t be silly enough to forget to ask for contact information.

Yan Yan knew that no matter how much she thought about it today, she wouldn’t understand what her true feelings were.

Luckily, she still had an urgent matter to deal with.

She had to find a way to locate Qi Yi.

Yan Yan knew she could do nothing. Given that Qi Yi had already been to her house, knew which unit she lived in at Eureka, if she couldn’t find Qi Yi could he really not find her?

But a promise made, a boast boasted, always had to be fulfilled by oneself.

So many years without seeing each other, to start with showing weakness was definitely not in line with the present Yan Yan’s behavior pattern. It was okay to be outsmarted by Qi Yi occasionally, but not to be constantly outsmarted, especially not from the start.

Just three hotels, three possibilities – how hard could it be? It wouldn’t take that much time to check one by one.

The key problem was, she didn’t even know the room number. Even if she checked each hotel one by one, they wouldn’t just give her the room number and let her go up.

Moreover, it wasn’t Yan Yan’s style to go back and forth between hotels.

After a moment of thought, although she had just been teased by Shen Xi and Bao Bao in the living room, Qi Yi would still have a distance to walk back to the Crown Casino.

At this moment, Qi Yi surely hadn’t arrived yet.

Yan Yan searched online and quickly found the front desk phone numbers for the three hotels at the Crown Casino.

Yan Yan’s first call was to the Crown Towers hotel at the casino.

Yan Yan told the front desk that she was a tourist, currently sightseeing on the 88th floor of Eureka’s Skydeck. She had picked up a wallet that, apart from cards, money, and passport, had a business card for a shuttle from Crown Towers hotel.

The passport holder’s nationality was Chinese, the passport holder’s Surname was Q-i, Given names were Y-i, a gentleman, probably a guest at the hotel.

Yan Yan asked the front desk to call Mr. Qi’s room to inquire about the best way to return his passport.

Losing a passport abroad is definitely an urgent matter, and the hotel’s front desk was also very kind to help Yan Yan check, apologizing that there was no gentleman with the last name Qi either currently staying or who had recently checked out.

Yan Yan hung up, and using the same story, called the Crown Metropol’s front desk.

And then Yan Yan found the hotel where Qi Yi was staying; it took less than three minutes, without even needing to use the phone number for the third hotel, Crown Promenade.

Crown Metropol’s front desk called Qi Yi’s room, Qi Yi was still on his way and hadn’t returned, so naturally, there was no answer from his room’s phone.

"Do you need me to leave Mr. Qi a message?" the hotel’s front desk asked Yan Yan.