Chapter 53: Heh, Can’t Play!
Source: https://www.jjwxc.net/onebook.php?novelid=5821232
This translation was originally posted on https://love4baihe.blogspot.com
[Since you said I can't, then even if I can't, I have to make it possible. We can try when there's a chance.] Lin Qingyi replied with joy.
This woman didn't dodge, she took the bait. Qin Shiyue's heartbeat sped up. She didn't dare be too happy. Maybe this was just a straight girl joking wildly with her. But even if she kept reminding herself, her heart still burned with hope. She was easily pulled back into this ambiguous whirlpool. Maybe even if it was only a straight girl’s joke, she still craved this taste of ambiguity.
"That's good. Didn't I say last time I’d treat you to a better and more expensive meal? When are you free? I must keep my word. After we eat and drink our fill, it'll be warm and lead to lustful thoughts." Qin Shiyue replied at once. She really didn't think a certain straight girl would do anything with her, but she did want to meet her.
Of course, if that straight girl really did do something with her, that would be best. Even if Lin Qingyi only wanted to ease her loneliness and treated her as a sex partner, Qin Shiyue still felt willing. As long as she gave her the chance, that was enough.
Qin Shiyue felt she really was willingly fallen and cheap, shamelessly wanting to give herself away. But if there was a chance to sleep with Lin Qingyi, who wouldn't want that? Anyway, she wanted it. She wanted it very much.
Qin Shiyue thought maybe she could only keep dreaming. Back at the hotel, things were already so ambiguous, yet there wasn't even a kiss. Thinking of this, Qin Shiyue sighed lightly.
At that moment, Lin Qingyi actually started a video call.
Qin Shiyue didn't expect Lin Qingyi to suddenly call through video. Her hands fumbled as she quickly answered.
After the video connected, the first thing Qin Shiyue heard was Lin Qingyi’s pleasant laugh. Before, whenever Lin Qingyi laughed like that, Qin Shiyue always felt she was laughing at her. Maybe it was because they hadn't seen each other for so long, but hearing Lin Qingyi laugh like that again, she was actually willing to be laughed at. She only felt that Lin Qingyi’s laughter made her ears tingle and her heart melt.
Her ears tingled, and her eyes didn’t get treated any worse.
Movie Queen Lin seemed to be vacationing on some small island in the southern hemisphere. Behind her was the blue sea and sky, with fine white sand close by. The movie queen was lying on a wicker chair in an unbelievably sexy turquoise bikini. Beside her was a coconut with a straw stuck in it. Filming finished, and she ran off to vacation, really knowing how to enjoy life. Compared to her, who had been busy like a dog lately, she felt she really didn’t know how to enjoy life at all.
Of course, none of that was the main point. What Qin Shiyue’s eyes locked on at this moment, that was all the main point.
Damn, the fabric was so little, and her figure was really that good. Qin Shiyue’s heart, already filled with wild thoughts, began to imagine even more without control.
“Baby is this eager to try if I can do it or not?” Lin Qingyi teased.
“Even if you can’t, I still can. If I can sleep with Movie Queen Lin, that’s real luck in love. Anyway, it’s all gain and no loss for me.” Qin Shiyue replied jokingly. She thought to herself, the word baby sure sounded sweet, if only she could really be the baby in her heart. But most likely, this scumbag straight girl called everyone that. Thinking of this, Qin Shiyue felt a little sour inside.
“Baby seems empty in body and mind, wanting a woman.” Lin Qingyi said in a certain tone. Her laughter hadn’t stopped since the moment she got Qin Shiyue’s message.
“Isn’t it you, woman, that I want?” Qin Shiyue said in what seemed like a casual tone, pretending she too was a straight girl. A bit of closeness between straight girls, saying she missed her, shouldn’t be a big deal.
The truest words were hidden in the most casual attitude and speech.
Lin Qingyi felt that the words coming from Vase Qin’s mouth today sounded especially pleasant, and her mood was especially joyful. This was the happiest she had felt since the drama ended, in sharp contrast to her earlier displeasure.
“What do you want me for?” Lin Qingyi asked carelessly.
Seeing Lin Qingyi’s smiling eyes, Qin Shiyue felt she seemed to enjoy this half-joking, half-ambiguous state. So Qin Shiyue decided to go along with it and be a bit bolder.
“You said I’m empty in body and mind. What else could I want you for?” Qin Shiyue asked back.
“This feels like a trap. I won’t guess.” Lin Qingyi clearly saw Qin Shiyue’s intention but purposely refused to go along.
Damn straight girl, already teasing her this far, then hitting the brakes.
“Then I’ll give you a hint, look up at the sky.” Qin Shiyue, unwilling to follow a certain straight girl’s lead, pressed the gas again. Since she got in the car so easily, then she would drive it to the end.
Lin Qingyi really did look up at the sun* and understood at once. She thought, as expected of a married-then-divorced bent girl, her car speed was fast enough to make people dizzy. Thinking that this lustful baby probably flirted with her ex-wife the same way, Lin Qingyi felt a sourness rise in her chest. It seemed like being too possessive wasn’t good either.
“Baby is really lustful.” Lin Qingyi, after looking at the sun, concluded in a serious tone.
Before, Qin Shiyue would’ve denied it. But now, she couldn’t. Ever since she’d changed her taste, her mind often replayed scenes of eating lychees.
Sensing Lin Qingyi didn’t want to keep speeding up, Qin Shiyue didn’t dare press the gas again either.
Heh, straight girl who can’t play to the end!
“So you’re on vacation, not coming back for a while?” Qin Shiyue changed the subject.
“Mm, I just got off the plane yesterday. I’ll probably stay for more than half a month.” Lin Qingyi answered truthfully.
“Then we’ll talk when you’re back.” Qin Shiyue thought of how she could only meet Lin Qingyi at least half a month later, and her mood sank a little.
“Then you enjoy your luck in love these days.” Lin Qingyi joked.
“Alright, I’ll take your good words. As long as it’s not Zhou Man, if there’s another woman throwing herself into my arms, I’ll make sure to enjoy the luck in love that flies my way.” Qin Shiyue shot back, not willing to lose.
Neither Lin Qingyi nor Qin Shiyue expected that her words would turn into prophecy. Later, Qin Shiyue really did have peach blossoms* blooming all around her.
*romantic entanglements
Her CP with Zhou Man kept its heat for a while.
Then, on another show, Qin Shiyue was paired with an unknown minor actress, practically eighteenth-line. Because of the program’s arrangement, the girl was made to feed Qin Shiyue on camera.
After the clip aired, Qin Shiyue hit hot searches again. The ranking was only fifth, but it brought that small-time actress unexpected fame.
This gave many actresses new ideas. As long as they stuck to Qin Shiyue, riding on her popularity, their exposure would rise a lot.
There was almost no downside. If a female star threw herself at a male star, she would be called shameless and lacking modesty. But if a woman threw herself at another woman, many would think it was full of love. Even if Qin Shiyue was bent herself.
As a result, many actresses started plotting to latch onto Qin Shiyue. Quite a number of them really wanted to seduce her too. Such a big traffic star, and a rich and pretty woman, if they could really hook Qin Shiyue, it would mean being tied to her all the time and even enjoying the resources behind her.
The first few who dared to eat crab indeed gained popularity, so the rest followed suit.
Qin Shiyue’s fans saw their Little Boss Qin surrounded by too many peach blossoms lately. Shipping CPs made them tired. Later on, the splashes became smaller, but there were still splashes.
Qin Shiyue was annoyed these days. She was always being touched by women, with people trying to throw themselves into her arms. Even with her good temper, she almost lost it. Today, one woman also tried to fall into her arms. She was probably a silly one, maybe her first time trying this stunt. She didn’t judge the distance and force right, and almost knocked Qin Shiyue, who was wearing high heels, onto the ground.
Still shaken, Qin Shiyue thought, were women lately all crazy? She felt like she had turned into a moving magnet, drawing in all these crazy women trying to use her fame.
“These women, even if they want fame, they don’t need to be this crazy, right?” Qin Shiyue couldn’t help but complain to Fang Xinhua.
“Getting a bit of fame for a while is fine. Most of them really want to be your official girlfriend. Baby, if you like one, just hook a finger and someone will warm your bed right away. When you’re tired, you can always change.” Fang Xinhua teased. The ones that pounced were just clumsy. Didn’t Baby notice? The little actresses showing up around her lately all acted way more ambiguous.
Huh!? Qin Shiyue was shocked. She thought these women only wanted fame. She never expected they were truly aiming at her. When did she become this popular?
“You look good, your temper is good, you’ve got President Qin as your sister, and you’re top traffic. What’s bad about being your girlfriend?” Back then, if Baby Qin’er hadn’t married so young, she would’ve been very sought after too. Movie Queen Lin was great, but Baby Qin’er wasn’t any worse.
“So all these count as my rotten peach blossoms?” Qin Shiyue’s tone suddenly turned a bit happy. She had always been the one liking others. At last, it was others liking her. Even if most of them had impure motives, rotten peach blossoms were still peach blossoms. They made her feel like she wasn’t so bad after all.
“Mm, aren't the peach blossoms blooming all around you?” Fang Xinhua saw that Baby Qin'er was happy and thought, don’t tell me she’s only now realizing how wanted she is?
“Give me your phone.” Qin Shiyue couldn’t wait to log in to the official site to show off.
“What are you going to do?” Fang Xinhua asked.
“I’m going to post on Weibo.” Qin Shiyue mainly wanted to show off to a certain someone who was on vacation, to let her know others loved her too.
Fang Xinhua handed her the phone.
“Is public construction failing lately? Women keep falling into my arms.” Qin Shiyue typed and sent out the post.
Not long after she posted it, Qin Shiyue’s Weibo shot to number one on the hot searches.
The local government’s official site even replied to Qin Shiyue’s Weibo: The road is not to blame.
So Weibo got even noisier.
Qin Shiyue’s fans all announced together: We don’t mind Little Boss Qin having a harem, the more the better.
So lately Qin Shiyue’s fans found a new game, putting all those women who chased after hype into Little Boss Qin’s harem. Based on CP heat, they gave those women titles of concubines. As for Movie Queen Lin, who Little Boss Qin herself chased for hype, she of course sat steady in the middle palace.
This made Lin Qingyi’s loyal fans mad. Who cares about being the Empress in Vase Qin’s harem group? Vase Qin wasn’t even fit to carry Movie Queen Lin’s shoes. Too shameless, it drove them crazy.
“Empress, these people really can imagine things…” Bai Wenxi had been eating melons with great joy lately, she almost laughed herself to death. Baby Qin’er was funny enough, but she didn’t expect her fans to be funny either. Sure enough, fans follow their idol. Hahaha, her master got crowned Empress, even palace-fight fanfics popped up. Damn, it was too funny…
On her free public trip, Bai Wenxi was too bored, she even secretly wrote a fanfic herself.
By contrast, her White Peacock’s fans were too serious. Even though Qin Shiyue’s fans made them furious, they couldn’t do anything about it. If they took it seriously, they would lose. If they didn’t, they would feel stifled.
Lin Qingyi gave a cold glance at Bai Wenxi, who was laughing so hard she almost fell apart.
Bai Wenxi tried hard to hold back her laugh. She felt her master was inhumane, forcing her to hold it in would cause inner injury.
“Hahaha…” Bai Wenxi finally couldn’t hold it, fell to the floor laughing with stomach pain. Even if she lost money, she had to laugh.
Source: https://www.jjwxc.net/onebook.php?novelid=5821232
This translation was originally posted on https://love4baihe.blogspot.com
"Baby Qin’er… you finally secured the weak-top spot… You’ve got a lot of character settings. Cold type, tsundere, scheming type. But one thing in common, you’re always high-class…" Bai Wenxi said while still laughing.
"Shut up!" Lin Qingyi had been too free lately, and she clearly read some fanfics. The more she read, the angrier she got. One of them was the most outrageous. It wrote she had secretly loved Baby Qin’er for a long time, loved her to death, then she just ended up as a side character, while Baby Qin’er and her ex-wife got back together. This made Lin Qingyi so mad, she almost registered a small account to curse the author, even wanted to drag the author out and whip the corpse. In the end, reason made her hold back, but inside she already cursed the author to death.
The author even arrogantly said, they just wanted to torture Lin Qingyi, beautiful-strong-tragic character setting, perfect!
Then a bunch of readers went: Wuwu Queen Lin is so pitiful, she likes our Little Boss Qin so much, I don’t agree if Little Boss Qin doesn’t choose her.
Lin Qingyi saw these comments and rolled her eyes to the sky.
She clearly didn’t know, that high-click-rate fanfic that tortured her and made her face turn green, was actually written by her very own manager who was laughing uncontrollably in front of her.
"Let's go back tomorrow." After twelve days of vacation, Lin Qingyi decided to cut short the planned fifteen days.
"I’ll change the ticket right away." Bai Wenxi thought, Baby Qin’er’s peach blossoms are blooming everywhere, no wonder the boss can’t sit still. What a pity, she couldn’t keep traveling on public funds. This kind of life, enjoying blue sky and white clouds while eating melons, was about to end.
The idol drama Qin Shiyue shot, "My Princess Girlfriend”, soon started airing on AX Video site.
After only the first episode aired, Qin Shiyue was once again on the hot search. This time it wasn’t gossip news, but a hot search she knew too well. Once again, she got mocked all over for bad acting, with endless memes and photo sets making fun of her.
In the past, because she was always mocked for poor acting, Qin Shiyue never thought this time the scale of mockery would be so huge. A
If it had been before, seeing these memes and photo sets about her bad acting would’ve probably made Qin Shiyue so mad she’d almost get a heart attack. This time, she kept her temper, stayed patient, and just waited for the third episode to air. She thought, this time I’ll blind you dogs with my acting.
When “My Princess Girlfriend” aired the second episode, the drama hit the hot search again.
Hot search topic: The drama is so bad, why haven’t I dropped it yet?
Top liked comment: The drama is really bad, but Qin Shiyue’s face is really beautiful.
Even Qin Shiyue’s fans, who wanted to defend their idol’s acting, felt guilty. So they decided to just go all out and self-mock: Little Boss Qin’s looks and acting must be inversely proportional. The prettier she is, the worse her acting gets. But her looks in the drama are so gorgeous, every outfit is stunning. In short, she’s just beautiful…
Qin Shiyue looked at her fans’ comments and didn’t feel happy. She quietly turned off the phone screen, feeling relieved again that by episode four she would make a comeback. But before that, she could only be a ninja turtle and keep holding it in!
Just then Bai Wenxi came in, carrying a box of super expensive Japanese strawberries and a box of little bear cookies. The strawberries were from the boss for her baby, the cookies she baked herself for Sister Fang.
“Why did Manager Bai suddenly come?” Qin Shiyue thought. Was it Lin Qingyi who sent her?
"My Teacher Lin was afraid you’d be unhappy, so she specially asked me to bring you strawberries. She hopes when you eat her sweet and fragrant strawberries, you’ll cheer up a bit."
Bai Wenxi saw Baby Qin’er in a good state, not really affected by the online ridicule.
"Why didn’t she come herself?" Qin Shiyue, once she heard Bai Wenxi was indeed sent by Lin Qingyi, felt a bit happy and a bit unhappy. Happy that someone cared at this time, unhappy that she didn’t come in person. It felt a bit lacking.
"She felt you haven’t lacked comfort lately, so she didn’t come in person," Bai Wenxi said with a smile.
"What?" Qin Shiyue didn’t react at first. After a while, she finally caught on. "Is she jealous?"
"I didn’t say that. But if you think so, it’s possible," Bai Wenxi replied slyly like a loach.
When Qin Shiyue thought of Lin Qingyi looking at the hot searches these past days, even if Lin Qingyi minded just a little, she felt happy.
She really was a bit unhappy from being ridiculed online, but now her mood has improved a lot.
Fang Xinhua saw her Baby Qin’er’s mood swayed so easily by that person, shook her head, and took the strawberries Lin Qingyi sent to wash.
After washing, Qin Shiyue picked the first strawberry, bit into it. A cream strawberry, fragrant and sweet, full of juice, and very delicious.
"Teacher Qin, since you’ve been ridiculed so badly, should we post a Weibo response?" Bai Wenxi suggested.
"Respond to what?" Fang Xinhua felt once the fourth episode aired, things would be fine. Baby Qin’er’s reputation would surely turn around. Now being ridiculed wasn’t a bad thing. The higher the heat, the stronger the comeback. But if Manager Bai had a better idea, she would gladly accept.
A few minutes later, Qin Shiyue’s official Weibo posted a new update: As a vase, I’m very qualified. As an actress, I feel ashamed. Along with it, she added a meme picture of a vase with her face on it.
Sure enough, this self-mocking about her acting and self-praising of her looks once again pushed Qin Shiyue onto the hot searches.
Fang Xinhua had a feeling this post would make Baby Qin’er’s discussion reach a new high. She knew this kind of post, looking like self-blackening and self-bragging at the same time, would spark a lot of debate. The discussion would surely blow up. She wondered if Manager Bai had come because Lin Qingyi specially told her to help Baby Qin’er stir up the buzz, warming things up early for the reputation turnaround?
“Where did Manager Bai graduate from?” Fang Xinhua asked curiously.
“A master’s from XX Media University, majoring in journalism and communication.” Baby-faced Manager Bai smiled shyly and cutely.
Fang Xinhua didn’t expect Manager Bai to be a top student in media. Surprised but not really, she thought Manager Bai was truly a hidden gem, not only good at cooking but also amazing at marketing.
“Manager Bai, you’re amazing,” Qin Shiyue praised sincerely while eating strawberries.
“Sister Fang is even more amazing,” Manager Bai said modestly.
Facts proved Fang Xinhua’s feeling was right. Qin Shiyue’s discussion level quickly rose to a new high. Some said Qin Shiyue was smart, that self-mockery was the best way to deal with ridicule. Some scolded her for being shameless, taking her bad acting lightly, yet still proud of her looks.
Those who scolded her and those who praised her were about the same. No matter what, she was no doubt the hottest female star at that moment.
Author's Note:
Qin Shiyue: Ha! Straight girl who can’t play!
Lin Qingyi: Baby can play however she likes from now on.
Ming Ye: Five-thousand-word big chapter, hurry and praise me.
