Chapter 50: Scumbag Woman
Source: https://www.jjwxc.net/onebook.php?novelid=5821232
This translation was originally posted on https://love4baihe.blogspot.com
Qin Shiyue woke up with a terrible headache. She did not react at once to where she was. Her eyes swept around. The place was familiar but also strange. Then she remembered. This was not her own hotel. This was Lin Qingyi’s hotel room. Was she on Lin Qingyi’s bed?
Realizing she was on Lin Qingyi’s bed, Qin Shiyue instinctively looked around the room for any sign of Lin Qingyi. But Lin Qingyi was nowhere to be seen.
Qin Shiyue tried hard to recall what happened last night. She remembered sending a message to Lin Qingyi saying she would go find her that night. Later, she wanted courage, so she drank some wine, not just a little, maybe too much. Because after that, things became blurry. She remembered hugging Lin Qingyi, maybe even kissing Lin Qingyi. But she was not sure if it really happened or if it was just a dream, or even just something she imagined. After all, she had dreamed about such things before. Some dreams were even more colorful.
She also did not remember if she asked Lin Qingyi whether she liked her. She felt she must have asked. She had thought about it for so long. Even drunk, she should still remember it. But did Lin Qingyi answer? In what situation? She had no memory at all.
So what exactly happened last night? Qin Shiyue had no clear idea. She was a little angry at herself. Why did she drink at such an important time? Getting drunk was bad enough, but why did she even black out?
Just then, Fang Xinhua came in. She had already checked on her twice earlier. Seeing Qin Shiyue still asleep, she did not wake her and let her sleep more.
“Where is Lin Qingyi?” Qin Shiyue noticed Lin Qingyi was not in the room. Did Lin Qingyi give her the room and take another one?
“She had something urgent and left first,” Fang Xinhua said, making honey water to help Qin Shiyue sober up.
“She left?” Qin Shiyue repeated, feeling a little empty. She had wanted to ask Lin Qingyi about last night. She had not expected Lin Qingyi to leave without saying goodbye. Her heart, which had been restless and spinning, suddenly became still. The emptiness made her feel uncomfortable.
“Why am I in her room? When did she leave?” Qin Shiyue could not help asking.
“She took care of you for over an hour after I brought you here when you were drunk and insisted on seeing her. As for what happened in the room, I have no way of knowing,” Fang Xinhua answered truthfully.
She took care of her for more than an hour? With Sister Fang there, she didn’t have to do that. Thinking of Lin Qingyi personally taking care of her drunken self for that long, Qin Shiyue felt slightly better. She could not help but wonder what exactly happened during that hour. Were the hugging and kissing fragments in her head real or just dreams? Only Lin Qingyi would know. Qin Shiyue wanted to message her to ask, but if those were just dreams, it would be embarrassing.
“Get up, wash up, and drink some honey water to sober up,” Fang Xinhua suggested.
“Okay.” Qin Shiyue felt uncomfortable, so she climbed out of bed. That was when she noticed she was wearing Lin Qingyi’s sexy red nightdress, the same one Lin Qingyi had worn before that made her look like a tempting lychee.
Fang Xinhua also noticed. So the Movie Queen even helped Baby Qin’er change into a nightdress. She had never seen Lin Qingyi wear such a daringly sexy red nightdress. Yet on Baby Qin’er, it looked surprisingly fitting and very beautiful.
“Did she change my clothes?” Qin Shiyue asked shyly. Even her underwear was gone. If Lin Qingyi had helped her change, didn’t that mean Lin Qingyi had seen her whole body?
Fang Xinhua glanced at the neatly folded clothes by the bed. On top was Qin Shiyue’s bra.
Queen Lin really did not treat herself as an outsider. Her Baby Qin’er lost out, she had been completely seen.
Qin Shiyue’s face turned red at once. Her body had been seen by the person she liked without her knowing, and she felt extremely shy. Yet she couldn’t help but wonder if Lin Qingyi had any other thoughts while changing her clothes, or if she was just a straight woman who naturally helped without thinking anything at all. Thinking it might be the latter made Qin Shiyue’s heart sink right away.
While washing up at the sink, Qin Shiyue noticed that her makeup had been removed too, which must have been done by Lin Qingyi. She was actually quite considerate. But what important matter did she have that made her leave so quickly?
After finishing the honey water, Qin Shiyue immediately picked up her phone, hoping Lin Qingyi would explain why she left. But to her disappointment, she didn’t receive any message from Lin Qingyi.
Was she still asleep?
After waiting for two hours, Qin Shiyue couldn’t hold back and finally sent Lin Qingyi a message herself.
[Thank you for taking care of me last night.] This seemed like a good excuse to start the conversation.
[You’re welcome, it was just a small thing.] Lin Qingyi replied fairly quickly, but the content felt ordinary, as if it carried no particular emotion.
[What was so important that you had to leave so quickly?] More important than me? Couldn’t you say goodbye to me in person? That was what Qin Shiyue minded.
[I took up an advertisement, I need to sign a contract, I was afraid I wouldn’t make it back in time, so I left early. Anyway, the filming is done.] Lin Qingyi casually made up an excuse.
That message made Qin Shiyue’s heart sink at once. She had been paying close attention to Lin Qingyi before and knew very well that Lin Qingyi rarely took ads. With her status, even if she accepted one, making the other party wait a day or two wouldn’t be a problem at all.
Did she say something last night that made Lin Qingyi want to avoid her? Maybe this was Lin Qingyi’s way of gently rejecting her.
[Did I talk nonsense last night? Or do something that bothered you? If I did, don’t take it seriously. I was drunk, it doesn’t count.] Qin Shiyue explained in a way that only made things more obvious. But as she typed those words, she felt as if there was a hole in her heart, and the pain made her uncomfortable.
[Huh? Did you want to do something messy to me? Too bad, you were actually quite obedient when drunk. You quickly slept like a pig, no matter how I called you, you wouldn’t wake up.] Lin Qingyi acted as if nothing had happened last night. She wanted to cool down the feelings Qin Shiyue developed in the drama but didn’t want to put out the fire all at once. She was afraid that Qin Shiyue might really give up and stop liking her. Lin Qingyi realized that she cared too much about Qin Shiyue. Otherwise, she wouldn’t be this cautious. Qin Shiyue had liked Kong Huizhi for so long; three months of liking her wasn’t very long. Yet she still didn’t dare to take risks. For the first time, she wasn’t confident that she could definitely surpass Kong Huizhi’s place in Qin Shiyue’s heart.
Qin Shiyue was not sure if she behaved as well as Lin Qingyi said last night, and she was not sure if Lin Qingyi gave her some dignity, did not reject her clearly, or maybe there was really a little liking inside, hooking her, yet not wanting to take responsibility, only wanting to stay ambiguous.
No matter which one, she was indeed hooked by her successfully. She felt that not being clearly rejected was not the worst situation. But she could confirm that Lin Qingyi did not like her that much, so the question she wanted to ask so much yesterday seemed unnecessary to ask now.
[You are the pig!] Qin Shiyue seemed to reply unhappily, trying to keep the teasing she had with Lin Qingyi before.
Just ambiguous, then let it be just ambiguous. Qin Shiyue still could not bear to end it.
In feelings, some people just cannot help but act cheap.
But Qin Shiyue found that even if she did not want to end it, Lin Qingyi had already ended it by herself. She still replied to her messages, but the content of her replies was just like that of a good friend, even like a close girl friend, only no longer ambiguous.
After realizing this fact, Qin Shiyue felt bitter inside. The play ended, and her short love also ended.
This was reality.
The reality was that no matter how sad she felt inside, Qin Shiyue had to pull herself together. She did not want to let herself stay idle at all. She knew that if she stayed idle, she would only feel worse. It was better to keep busy so she would have no time to think about Lin Qingyi.
So, Qin Shiyue asked Fang Xinhua to take many new jobs for her.
Lin Qingyi really filmed a perfume commercial. The excuse she casually used to fool Qin Shiyue had to come true once she said it.
This top luxury brand perfume commercial, paired with Lin Qingyi’s high-class style and beauty, turned out very well. Its click rate stayed high on all major video platforms and even made several hot searches.
First hot search: Want to use the same perfume as Lin Qingyi.
Second hot search: Only ask Lin Qingyi to keep working and shoot ads for all luxury brands.
Third hot search: Lin Qingyi’s commercial value surpassed Qin Shiyue’s and became the actress with the highest commercial value.
Originally, Qin Shiyue had the highest commercial value in endorsements among actresses, but Lin Qingyi’s strong selling power hit her hard, dropping her from first place to second.
Major luxury brands then offered high prices to ask Lin Qingyi to endorse them, but Lin Qingyi declined them all.
The only perfume brand that got Lin Qingyi’s endorsement became the biggest winner.
Qin Shiyue’s commercial value dropped because she was busy filming recently, and her exposure greatly decreased. For a traffic actress, this was a big taboo.
Her former rival, Zhou Man, who was also a traffic actress, replaced Qin Shiyue and became a regular female guest on the M Channel show [Hi!], and her momentum was strong. Zhou Man, who originally had a certain popularity gap with Qin Shiyue, now almost caught up with her and even took several of Qin Shiyue’s luxury endorsements midway.
Source: https://www.jjwxc.net/onebook.php?novelid=5821232
This translation was originally posted on https://love4baihe.blogspot.com
Luckily, Qin Shiyue had always been rather easy-going about these things and did not feel much about it.
After the recent idol drama finished filming, Qin Shiyue started appearing frequently again, and her popularity stayed high.
M Channel knew how to stir things up and create buzz. They directly invited Qin Shiyue to join the variety show [Hi!] as a guest for two episodes, under the pretext of a “return.”
Fang Xinhua thought the price was good and that it would help boost Qin Shiyue’s popularity again, so she accepted.
Qin Shiyue didn’t want to think about Lin Qingyi. Whatever work Fang Xinhua arranged, she accepted. Guest appearance? Fine, guest appearance.
With the help of this show, her standing rose again. Zhou Man, whose popularity had almost caught up to Qin Shiyue, turned pale when she heard Qin Shiyue was coming back as a guest.
“Should we leak the news that Qin Shiyue cheated on her wife with Lin Qingyi?” Zhou Man asked her manager.
Qin Shiyue had often been seen entering and leaving Lin Qingyi’s hotel. There was no way rivals didn’t know. They had been waiting to drop some big scandal, but they never managed to get a photo of the two spending the night together. So the rumor wasn’t strong enough yet.
Still, the fact that Qin Shiyue frequently visited Lin Qingyi’s hotel was enough to give people room to imagine and a reason to throw out the dirty water.
Author's Note:
Qin Shiyue: You looked and don’t need to take responsibility? A scumbag woman who’s heartless after the drama ends.
Lin Qingyi: The finger hasn’t even gone in and wasn't mercilessly pulled out, so it doesn’t count as too scumbag.
Random red packets dropping.
