Chapter 41: Hook
Source: https://www.jjwxc.net/onebook.php?novelid=5821232
This translation was originally posted on https://love4baihe.blogspot.com
Just a moment ago, she was so cold to her, even drove her away. Now the next moment she tells her to come over, acting all bossy like she can summon or dismiss her as she pleases. Who does she think she is? Qin Shiyue stared at the message, getting angrier the more she looked at it. She had a temper too, and she wasn’t some woman who came and went just because Lin Qingyi said so.
Qin Shiyue pretended she didn’t see the message and purposely ignored it, walking on toward her own hotel.
Fang Xinhua noticed that once Baby Qin’er looked at her phone, she didn’t seem upset anymore, and even looked a little mad. She wondered if Bai Wenxi had already explained things so fast, and Lin Qingyi had rushed to coax Baby Qin’er? If that was the case, maybe she could barely forgive it.
That message from Lin Qingyi was like a hook buried in Qin Shiyue’s heart, she couldn’t dig it out, and couldn’t ignore it either.
Not long after she got back to her hotel, Qin Shiyue still couldn’t hold it in.
“Weren’t you just acting like we didn’t know each other, like we weren’t close? Now what do you want me to come over for? I’m not going.” Qin Shiyue purposely chose to send a voice message to Lin Qingyi, because she felt that text couldn’t fully show how angry she was. Even if Lin Qingyi wanted her to come over, she should’ve used a nicer tone. Just that commanding tone alone was enough to make her mad.
But after she sent it, she realized only five minutes had passed since Lin Qingyi sent her message. Qin Shiyue felt she had replied too fast, like she cared too much. Now even if she tried to unsend it, it would leave a trace, so there was no point in deleting it.
What made Qin Shiyue even angrier was she had already replied, yet that woman didn’t reply back right away. One minute passed, then two...
Still no response. Lin Qingyi was leaving her hanging. How hateful! If she ever talked to Lin Qingyi again, she would be a dog, Qin Shiyue fumed in anger thinking that.
Actually, it really wasn’t Lin Qingyi’s fault, because just then, the doorbell rang, and she went to open the door.
“I have something important to report,” Bai Wenxi said right away when Lin Qingyi opened the door.
Lin Qingyi looked at Bai Wenxi, but didn’t seem to have any intention of letting her in. She gave Bai Wenxi three minutes. Make it quick, she wasn’t in the mood to deal with anything else right now.
“This afternoon, the reason Little Boss Qin showed up with her ex-wife was because Director Song Chengmu wasn’t feeling well and wrapped up filming early. The main reason she came to our set was to visit you. She just happened to run into Kong Huizhi at the entrance,” Bai Wenxi said all in one breath, not even stopping to breathe.
She didn’t skip work on purpose for Kong Huizhi, it was just a coincidence? Right then, the frozen lake in Lin Qingyi’s heart cracked apart, every piece of ice sinking down to the bottom. The water on the surface started to ripple, like winter had suddenly turned into spring.
“You asked Fang Xinhua on purpose?” The ice in Lin Qingyi’s heart had melted, but her face didn’t show it. Her voice was calm, without any emotion.
This… was hard to answer. Would the boss think she was meddling again?
Even though Bai Wenxi had been meddling a lot lately, well… since the mood was better now, it was fine.
“Alright, I got it,” Lin Qingyi said lightly, not making things hard for Bai Wenxi.
Bai Wenxi let out a quiet sigh of relief. She wasn’t scared of not guessing the boss’s thoughts, she was scared the boss would say one thing and mean another.
“By the way, about that lemon water Little Boss Qin sent… do you still want it?” Bai Wenxi didn’t forget to deal with the drink she picked up earlier that afternoon.
“Alright then,” Lin Qingyi said, her tone sounding a bit unwilling.
Bai Wenxi quickly returned to her room, took the lemon water out of the hotel’s mini fridge, and brought it to Lin Qingyi.
Lin Qingyi took the lemon water from Bai Wenxi’s hands, then finally closed the door to her room. She was planning to poke in a straw and drink it, but after thinking for a second, she placed the lemon water on the table instead, she could use it later to coax the Vase.
By the time Lin Qingyi got back to her room and picked up her phone again, it had already been five or six minutes. She had no idea how many times Qin Shiyue had gotten mad during those five or six minutes, or how many times she had cursed her in her head.
Right now, when Lin Qingyi looked at Qin Shiyue’s message again, her mood was completely different from before.
Lin Qingyi played Qin Shiyue’s voice message on speaker. Hearing her angry tone made the corners of her lips curl up. She thought, if the Flower Vase really didn’t want to come, she probably wouldn’t have replied at all. But since she did, and with such a mad voice, it clearly meant she wanted Lin Qingyi to coax her a little. Since the Vase wasn’t that hopeless, she could go and coax her later.
“Bai Wenxi came to see me just now, and I didn’t have my phone with me,” Lin Qingyi explained why she didn’t reply right away.
Qin Shiyue had said if she ever replied to Lin Qingyi again, she would be a dog. But the moment she got the message, she opened it right away. Seeing Lin Qingyi’s message did calm her down quite a bit.
“Why do you want me to come over?” Qin Shiyue still asked with a bit of a sharp tone, to show she was still upset about the way Lin Qingyi randomly flipped on her earlier.
“You’ll know when you get here.” Lin Qingyi just wanted her to come over. As for what she would do once she came, it didn’t matter much. But it could hook the Vase in. Curiosity could kill a cat, after all.
“If you don’t say it, I’m not going.” Qin Shiyue made it clear she had principles.
“Really not coming? Aren’t you curious?” Lin Qingyi sent a voice message, her tone teasing and sultry, still trying to lure Qin Shiyue over.
Source: https://www.jjwxc.net/onebook.php?novelid=5821232
This translation was originally posted on https://love4baihe.blogspot.com
“Not going!” Qin Shiyue stuck to her stance loudly, but deep down she was thinking: just now she was acting all cold like she wanted to freeze people to death, now suddenly her voice turns coquettish and sweet? What’s that about?
“I’m going take a shower first. I’ll be waiting for you~” Lin Qingyi wasn’t bothered by Qin Shiyue turning her down again. She believed the Flower Vase would show up. She would just shower first, come out all fresh and sweet, and wait for her.
Qin Shiyue struggled in her hotel room for twenty minutes before she finally couldn’t hold back her curiosity anymore. She was curious about why Lin Qingyi asked her to come over at this hour, and she also wanted to know why Lin Qingyi suddenly flipped on her earlier. If she didn’t figure it out, there would always be something stuck in her heart.
In the end, Qin Shiyue gave in and left her hotel. She didn’t tell Fang Xinhua. She felt a little embarrassed to let Sister Fang know she was going to look for Lin Qingyi again, so she went alone to the hotel where Lin Qingyi was staying.
By the time Qin Shiyue arrived, Lin Qingyi had just finished her shower.
Lin Qingyi’s pajamas tonight were a bit sexy.
Author's Note:
Lin Qingyi: Is it seductive? Or is it seductive?
Next chapter, Qin Shiyue is going to rise up to the occasion a bit.
My head hurt a little this noon, only got better this afternoon, so today’s will be a bit short.
Tomorrow might be a big 4,000-word chapter, just might, okay? No solid promises.
Random red envelope drop~
