Chapter 47: Secondary CP Chapter: Looks Like Even The Ring Knows How To Recognize Its Owner
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“Because of me? Because I divorced your sister, and your Qin family feels embarrassed and wants to take revenge on me?” This was the only reason Kong Huizhi could think of.
“Is our Qin family that bad?” Qin Shilan had thought that except for herself, Kong Huizhi would not dislike the rest of her family.
“The people in the Qin family are all fine, except for you.” Even though her marriage with Qin Shiyue had always been in name only, the two Qin elders had treated their daughter-in-law quite well. The ex-wife was naturally harmless too. Only this ex-wife’s older sister in front of her always made her feel uneasy.
“Being treated specially by you like this, I don’t know if I should be happy or sad. If I wanted to take revenge on you, I would have acted long ago. I wouldn’t have waited until today. I came to find you because there’s something I want you to help me with.” Qin Shilan spoke with extra sincerity, as if she really had some problem that needed Kong Huizhi’s help to solve.
Qin Shilan’s sincerity did not move Kong Huizhi at all. Inside, Kong Huizhi did not trust Qin Shilan. Qin Shilan might look like she had a very good personality and seemed harmless, but that was only an illusion.
“What President Qin can’t handle, I probably can’t help with either.” Kong Huizhi didn’t think she had the ability to be of any use to Qin Shilan.
“You definitely can. I wouldn’t have come for nothing.” Qin Shilan’s tone was very certain.
“Then may I ask, what is it that I can help with?” Kong Huizhi asked with a fake smile.
"I'm getting married." Qin Shilan looked at Kong Huizhi with a smile and didn’t miss the expression on her face.
The sudden news really shocked Kong Huizhi. She had known Qin Shilan for quite some time, and she had never seen Qin Shilan dating anyone. Qin Shilan suddenly saying she was going to get married felt like a fiancé had appeared out of thin air. Shock aside, Kong Huizhi quickly realized that Qin Shilan getting married had nothing to do with her. Coming specifically to tell her this, wasn’t that a bit strange? Could it be that she wanted to give her a wedding invitation to get another gift of money? But would Qin Shilan really lack the money?
Yet at this moment, Qin Shilan looked just like a woman eagerly awaiting marriage. This overly delicate expression on Qin Shilan’s face gave Kong Huizhi a weird feeling that made her skin crawl. She thought, whoever could win over Qin Shilan and make her show such an odd smile must be extraordinary.
"So?" Kong Huizhi asked, very confused. Qin Shilan getting married and Qin Shilan wanting her help, what connection was there between the two?
"Tomorrow I want to pick out wedding rings, and I want you to help me give ideas and choose a beautiful pair." Qin Shilan said it very seriously.
Kong Huizhi was once again surprised. Picking out wedding rings without going with the person you’re marrying, but instead going with her sister’s ex-wife, wasn’t that really strange? Asking her to go choose rings together made it feel like they were best girlfriends. Since when had they become that close?
"President Qin, if you want to pick out wedding rings, just go directly with your fiancé." Kong Huizhi seriously suggested.
"Correction, not a fiancé, a fiancée." Qin Shilan thought, she was indeed planning to go pick them out with her fiancée.
Qin Shilan is also bent? Kong Huizhi was surprised yet not surprised, because she had already suspected more than once that Qin Shilan had a sister complex. She had always felt that Qin Shilan’s excessive affection for Qin Shiyue was a bit abnormal. Could it be that Qin Shilan realized her feelings for her sister were not normal, so she wanted to find someone to marry in order to cover up or cut off her forbidden feelings? Kong Huizhi had already imagined a full ethical drama in her mind, and that kind of imagination even seemed reasonable.
"Then you should let her go with you to choose." Anyway, it should not be her. She did not have the free time to get involved in such a thing. She only wanted to stay far away from Qin Shilan.
"That would not be a surprise. I want to give her a big surprise. Marriage is a big deal. It must be treated seriously. You will go with me tomorrow and help me give some opinions." Qin Shilan’s tone left no room for Kong Huizhi to refuse.
She made it sound convincing, almost enough to fool a ghost. Choosing a wedding ring for a woman and asking another unrelated woman to give her opinion, no normal person would do such a thing.
"President Qin, my taste is not the same as your fiancée’s. My suggestions have no meaning, and I am not free tomorrow." Kong Huizhi refused very clearly.
"You have time to go all the way to the film city to find Lin Qingyi, but you do not have time to go with me to choose a wedding ring?" Qin Shilan’s gaze and tone both turned cold.
Kong Huizhi felt Qin Shilan’s displeasure, and also the emotional pressure brought by that displeasure. Probably because in the few times she had dealt with Qin Shilan before, she had lost every time, which made her quite wary of Qin Shilan.
"I just happen to be not free tomorrow. You can have your assistant go with you to choose. I believe her taste will definitely not be worse than mine. And I just got divorced, while you are about to get married. Letting a divorced woman choose your wedding ring is not a good sign…" Kong Huizhi tried hard to find excuses to make her refusal sound more tactful and more reasonable. She was still afraid of offending Qin Shilan.
"Not free tomorrow, but you should be free now, right?" Qin Shilan pushed down all the jealousy and displeasure in her heart. Now was not the time to be jealous, and she was not yet qualified to be jealous. However, the things she wanted to do were rarely things she could not make happen. Plans are fixed, but people are flexible. Since tomorrow would not work, then change the time. She had originally wanted to be considerate, since Kong Huizhi had just gotten off a flight not long ago, and let her rest well tonight before choosing the wedding rings. But someone clearly was not appreciative.
"Now!?" Kong Huizhi could not understand why Qin Shilan, who was about to get married, had to make her accompany her to choose wedding rings.
"Now."
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"Fine then." Kong Huizhi thought that since she could not get out of it, she might as well go with her and casually pick something. The sooner it was done, the sooner she could send her away.
When the elevator reached the floor of Kong Huizhi’s apartment, Qin Shilan pressed the button for the first floor, and the elevator went down again.
After getting into Qin Shilan’s car and seeing her seriously driving, Kong Huizhi felt more and more that it made no sense. Qin Shilan was very popular. She was not without friends or close girlfriends. Plenty of people would be willing to go with her to pick out wedding rings. Why did she have to ask her sister’s ex-wife? Even if she and Qin Shiyue had not divorced, she and Qin Shilan usually had little interaction. They were simply not close, definitely not close enough to be helping each other pick out wedding rings.
If it was not for revenge, then Qin Shilan coming to her was unreasonable. Even if it was revenge, there was no reason for her to personally get involved. In short, the more Kong Huizhi thought about it, the more she felt that the situation was strange. What exactly was Qin Shilan trying to do?
But Qin Shilan really did take her to pick out wedding rings.
"You pick."
"Me? You’re not going to pick?" Kong Huizhi looked at the dazzling, expensive diamond rings in front of her and, completely unable to understand, asked again.
"I’m a Libra. I have a hard time making choices. You pick a few first as options." Qin Shilan hadn’t expected that one day she would also use her zodiac sign as an excuse.
Kong Huizhi didn’t really believe Qin Shilan’s words. After all, there were plenty of decisions waiting for Qin Shilan to make. But since she said that, Kong Huizhi couldn’t expose her on the spot. Still, she could be sure Qin Shilan wasn’t very serious about her marriage partner. She didn’t even choose the wedding rings herself and just found some random stand-in to pick them. Kong Huizhi started to think that maybe her earlier imagined forbidden-love drama was actually reasonable. Whatever, it wasn’t her getting married. She just wanted to pick quickly and leave.
A few minutes later, Kong Huizhi handed the selected rings to Qin Shilan.
The next moment, Kong Huizhi was stunned again. Her hand was grabbed by Qin Shilan, and this crazy woman actually picked up one of the rings she had chosen and put it on her finger.
"What are you doing?" Kong Huizhi instinctively tried to pull her hand back. Picking wedding rings for someone was already enough, why did she have to try them on too? Was this reasonable? Kong Huizhi’s intuition told her that this didn’t feel right.
"Your hands look a lot like hers. The size seems about the same. Try it on so I can see if it looks good." Qin Shilan stared at Kong Huizhi’s hand, now wearing the ring. These hands were already beautiful, and with the ring, they looked even prettier. The more Qin Shilan looked, the more satisfied she felt.
Kong Huizhi immediately noticed the problem. Since when had Qin Shilan paid attention to her hands and even compared them to her fiancée’s? Had Qin Shilan been watching her that closely? Did she actually see her as a love rival? But there was no reason to ask a love rival to help choose wedding rings. Kong Huizhi suddenly felt an unexplainable sense of fear.
While she was still feeling uneasy, Qin Shilan stopped treating her hand as someone else’s. She removed the ring she had just put on her and replaced it with another one.
"Hands can’t be exactly the same, right?" Kong Huizhi realized what was happening as she watched Qin Shilan slide another ring onto her finger. She quickly pulled her hand back from Qin Shilan’s palm.
"It’s fine. Once the style is chosen, the size can be completely customized. Try this one. I think this ring looks prettier." Qin Shilan didn’t reach out to take off or put on the ring for her this time, only urged Kong Huizhi to put on the last ring she had chosen.
Kong Huizhi didn’t want to try on rings for someone else at all, but since she had already tried two, one more wouldn’t make a difference. So she put on the last ring.
"It really is prettier. What do you think?" Qin Shilan asked.
"As long as you like it." Kong Huizhi said flatly. She was about to take the ring off.
"Let me try it too. Wait until I try it on, then see if it matches before you take it off." Qin Shilan stopped her.
Kong Huizhi had been in a half-reluctant, half-compliant state all night, and this moment was no exception.
After Qin Shilan put on the ring, she placed her hand next to Kong Huizhi’s. Not only did the rings match, but she thought their hands matched as well. The more Qin Shilan looked, the more satisfied she felt.
Kong Huizhi looked at their hands side by side and felt extremely uncomfortable.
"This pair then." Qin Shilan finalized her choice.
Kong Huizhi looked at Qin Shilan, who had decisively chosen the rings, and thought, Who was it just now that said she was a Libra and had trouble making decisions?
"The rings are picked. I can go home now, right?" Kong Huizhi felt like she had just finished a task she hadn’t wanted to do and now only wanted to leave. But, unfortunately, the ring was stuck on her finger and wouldn’t come off.
"Looks like even the ring knows how to recognize its owner," Qin Shilan said with a smile.
Author's Note:
This is the secondary CP for now, the next chapter will still be about the main CP. Currently I prefer writing about the main CP.
Maybe after the main CP is finished, I will write about the secondary CP in the extra
