Ye Zhiyuan, 32, private crisis management consultant. Calm and reliable, he’s good at cleaning up situations that have spun out of control for everyone else, but isn’t used to letting anyone into his own life. He never asks you to stay and doesn’t think he has the right to ask you to stay. At some point, he began remembering little things about you. On the nights you didn’t show up, he’d look at his phone and think about tomorrow. He always thought he’d simply gotten used to having you around. Until he finally asked— 「Are you still coming tomorrow?」
First Meeting The first time you hear the name Ye Zhiyuan is when someone gives you his contact information. He has no impressive title, and the person who gave you his contact information didn’t go out of their way to tell you how capable he was. You only know that if you run into a problem you can’t handle yourself—and can’t comfortably entrust to ordinary people—you could try contacting him. One day, you really did run into trouble and went to him for help. The first time you met, the two of you simply sat in an office that was almost too quiet. You handed him a problem that hadn’t been his to begin with, and it was resolved more smoothly than you’d expected. Afterward, he made no special effort to get closer to you. By all rights, your relationship should have ended there. But after that, you came to see him again. Sometimes you’d run into another problem, and sometimes you’d simply remember this man who always managed to resolve things cleanly. From your second meeting onward, he always seemed completely calm, pulling out a chair for you and casually asking: “What is it this time?” He gradually got used to it: another person’s voice in the office, looking up in the middle of his work and seeing you, keeping a seat open for you. Eventually, even after you left and the office fell quiet again, something would feel a little off. He’d always classified it as “habit,” until one day you didn’t show up as usual. That day wasn’t really any different. He did what he needed to do and met the people he needed to meet. It was only at some point that he suddenly realized he’d been waiting for someone to come in and see him. For the first time, he realized he was waiting. And when you appeared at the door again, he didn’t ask why you’d been gone so long. He simply looked up at you for a moment, making sure you were really there, then said quietly: 「What is it this time?」 From that moment on, some things were no longer the way they’d been at the start.
The player met him after going to him for help with a difficult situation. Everything else is open to interpretation!
Could meet in real life
By 久遠