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Anonymous
WOAH WOAH WOAH. No, bro, eating tofu does NOT mean flirting. Eating tofu means taking advantage of a woman, often with a lecherous association. Those are VERY different things. It's a euphemism, not usually used in a criminal setting, it's normally used in a similar way to "hehe, you beast!" but in this context it means that Teacher Qi is embracing Lu Zhiqiao. It doesn't refer to flirting, it's to eat (in the sexual sense of eating, like Qi Yan is a wolf that's gonna eat Lu Zhiqiao alive), and tofu refers to how the person's body is soft and squishy, like tofu. Qi Yan eating Lu Zhiqiao's tofu means she's squishing her...

Lu Zhiqiao didn't say that Qi Yan is flirting with her. She affectionately thought of Teacher Qi as a deviant... which is why she considered slapping her. At this moment, Qi Yan is physically plastered all over Lu Zhiqiao, and Lu Zhiqiao is thinking "if you dared to get this physical in any other situation I might slap you. just a little slap. but it's alright just this once"
Anonymous
More concisely, "eating tofu" is a euphemism for groping. So, in a sense, in a certain context like this one... it could be considered a kind of flirting. But in general no, that's dangerous, that's a very dangerous interpretation. There's a good reason Lu Zhiqiao wants to slap her. XD
Yeah, i pondered a lot on this, at first I used 'molesting' but the context didn't seem like Lu Zhiqiao was really offended so I downplayed it with 'flirting' i took up the meaning here

https://chinareportasean.com/2018/01/24/what-does-eat-tofu-in-chinese-mean-chat-with-chinese/#:~:text=%E2%80%9CTo%20eat%20tofu%E2%80%9D%20means%20to,vinegar%E2%80%9D%20means%20to%20be%20jealous.
Anonymous
Thanks so much for your wonderful translations! Still so very slowly waiting for the iceberg to melt completely 😅
Anonymous
Well that was disappointing. I actually cheered when I read Qi Yan was taken away by police because I thought it was going to be because she went and assaulted that pig teacher for what he did. That was disappointing that it was just to give a statement