Chapter 38: Acid

Source: https://www.jjwxc.net/onebook.php?novelid=5821232
This translation was originally posted on https://love4baihe.blogspot.com

Why are they showing up here together?

At this time, even if Qin Shiyue is not at the set filming, why would she appear with Kong Huizhi? Did she know Kong Huizhi would come, so she ran over here on purpose?

Lin Qingyi having this kind of thought right now is very reasonable. She practices scenes with Qin Shiyue every night, and no one knows better than her how much Qin Shiyue has to shoot every day. So according to today’s progress, Qin Shiyue shouldn’t be here at all. She should still be at her own set filming.

Now showing up with Kong Huizhi together, it’s too much of a coincidence. Lin Qingyi finds it hard not to think Qin Shiyue still can’t forget her ex-wife. She even skips filming just to come here because she’s jealous.

Lin Qingyi puts all the discomfort in her heart on the fact that she’s been working so hard practicing scenes with her every night, using up a lot of her own time and energy. But she doesn’t take filming seriously and lets down Lin Qingyi’s effort. As soon as the ex-wife appears, she gets spineless and sticks behind her ex-wife’s butt like a tail. This kind of dumb vase, Lin Qingyi seems angry at her for being useless.

The ice in Lin Qingyi’s heart grows thicker and thicker, but on the surface, she still looks very professional while acting, like she’s not affected by that dumb vase at all.

The certain Vase didn’t know at all what the certain Movie Queen was thinking. As for chatting and laughing with her ex-wife, that was really a bit of being wrongly accused.

“What a coincidence, you also bought drinks.” Qin Shiyue only now noticed that her ex-wife also brought in a big bag of bottled drinks. After giving them to the crew, she kept one bottle in her hand. It was clearly for Lin Qingyi. She must not know that Lin Qingyi doesn’t drink bottled junk drinks, only drinks lemon water. Heh, Qin Shiyue felt like victory was in her hands. She smiled a bit arrogantly as she spoke.

So this bright smile happened to be caught by Lin Qingyi, and it completely looked like the two were happily chatting, a very annoying picture.

Kong Huizhi clearly also saw the ice lemon water in Qin Shiyue’s hands. That overly bright smile made even her feel that her ex-wife’s face was an eyesore. So the goddess only drinks lemon water? Kong Huizhi thought that she didn’t do enough homework. But doing homework on the goddess wasn’t easy, because all the information online about her was half-true and half-fake, which made it hard to tell what was real.

Even though Qin Shiyue’s smile was very arrogant, Kong Huizhi still had good manners and smiled a little with a nod. Then she focused on watching Lin Qingyi act.

Qin Shiyue looked at Kong Huizhi’s nonchalant look, like she didn’t care about her at all. She felt like her ex-wife looked a bit annoying. She started thinking, what did she even like about Kong Huizhi back then that made her like her for so long? She remembered, when she was little, she thought this big sister was really gentle and had a nice temper. Other people were always trying to please her, but Kong Huizhi always treated her cold and warm at the same time, not too nice, not too mean, which made her stand out from the rest. From the start, she felt like she was a bit special. It seemed like she really fell for her one day, when she saw Kong Huizhi feeding some stray cats without meaning to. She thought, “Such a gentle and pretty big sister is so nice,” and then she fell in deep.

At this time, Qin Shiyue finally realized, her ex-wife had never been that gentle to her, not even as gentle as to those stray cats.

Qin Shiyue looked at Kong Huizhi’s side face and suddenly thought of a lot of things from the past. Maybe it was because she didn’t like her that much anymore, so a lot of things she couldn’t see clearly before were now clear. Those things from the past, when she thought of them again now, felt kind of plain too and not as sad as before.

Qin Shiyue stared at Kong Huizhi in a daze for a moment, and this scene happened to fall into Lin Qingyi’s eyes. To her, it looked like Qin Shiyue was gazing at her ex-wife full of love.

The frost that started freezing from her heart and almost reached her chest was nearly about to freeze over her head and shoot out ice arrows from her eyes.

Lin Qingyi always boasted that she has control over these kinds of emotions well. But at this moment, she could feel her feelings slowly slipping out of her hands. She hated this kind of feeling that was starting to go out of control. And clearly, the reason this feeling came up was because of that Vase. So, she started blaming the Vase.

Even though she tried hard to hold back her feelings, they still climbed closer and closer to the edge, until they crossed the line. So she stopped acting. She knew even if the director would let that take pass, it wouldn’t be her best state. She didn’t like to be lazy with her work. It was better to calm down first.

Wang Chengxiong could feel that Movie Queen Lin wasn’t in as good a state as earlier. But that was only compared to herself. Compared to other people, she was still really good. So he didn’t call “cut,” but he didn’t expect that Movie Queen Lin would stop acting on her own. He still admired Lin Qingyi a lot for being this professional.

Even though Lin Qingyi only acted at her own sixty percent just now, for someone like Qin Shiyue who’s bad at acting, it was already a high score, so she was a bit confused. Everything was going fine, why did Lin Qingyi suddenly stop?

Even if she was confused, she still walked up to Lin Qingyi right away.

Kong Huizhi didn’t want to fall behind this time either, so she also stepped up right away.

The two divorced wives, secretly competing, almost at the same time handed over the drinks in their hands to Lin Qingyi.

History always repeats itself. This scene was so much like the last time the two of them asked Lin Qingyi to dance at the same time.

But this time, Qin Shiyue’s mood was totally different from before. That time she asked for the dance, it was just to mess things up. But this time, she clearly wanted to win. And she believed she could win too. After all, she and Lin Qingyi had been spending time together for over ten days. They were already really familiar with each other and had some kind of bond. So Lin Qingyi would definitely take the drink from someone she knew better.

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Unfortunately, Qin Shiyue was happy too early. She didn’t know that right now, in Lin Qingyi’s heart, she had already been nailed to the wall, getting shot full of holes by the ice arrows coming from the Movie Queen’s chest.

Lin Qingyi raised the corners of her mouth on the surface, but her smile was really faint, so faint that it had no warmth. She reached out and took the drink from Kong Huizhi’s hand.

Qin Shiyue, who thought she was sure to win, couldn’t believe it when she saw Lin Qingyi take the drink from Kong Huizhi. She felt like a huge hole had suddenly been stabbed in her chest. It hurt so bad it was killing her. And from that hole, it wasn’t blood coming out; it was acid. It was like her whole heart was getting burned up.

"Didn't Teacher Lin say she doesn't drink bottled junk drinks?" Qin Shiyue couldn’t help but ask with jealousy. She still didn’t get why Lin Qingyi would take a drink from Kong Huizhi. Wasn’t she supposed to be closer with herself? Right now, Qin Shiyue felt so jealous it hurt. She also started to get mad at Lin Qingyi without meaning to. So she refused to admit she cared because of Lin Qingyi. She’d rather say her jealousy now was because of Kong Huizhi.

Author’s Note:

Lin Qingyi: I'm already dying from jealousy, so of course I can't let you feel good either. If we're gonna be jealous, let's all be jealous together.

Qin Shiyue: Got slapped in the face, and fed a bowl of sulfuric acid too. This narcissus will definitely get minced by me sooner or later.

Lin Qingyi: What are you gonna use to mince it?

Qin Shiyue: What else, of course my hands.

There might be a random red envelope drop.