Chapter 84: Sister Xiao, Is This The New And Popular Way Of Flirting?
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After paying the boss, Ji Xiao left with the popsicle in her hand.
Fang Yiming, standing on the side, looked at Wei Qingyu beside her, then looked at Ji Xiao who had just walked out, feeling dumbfounded.
“Hey, Sister Xiao, why did you leave? What did you mean by what you said just now?” Fang Yiming said as she ran back to Ji Xiao’s side.
“What else could it mean? It’s just the literal meaning,” Ji Xiao said calmly, holding her milk tea and popsicle.
Fang Yiming was puzzled. “No way? You told Wei Qingyu to send medicine to that Jin Nanfeng? Hey, what’s wrong with you? That’s Wei Qingyu we’re talking about!”
“What about Wei Qingyu?” Ji Xiao asked back lightly, trying her best to show she didn’t care about her.
Looking at Ji Xiao, Fang Yiming seemed to have figured something out and said, “Sister Xiao, are you jealous of that Ji Nanfeng?!”
Ji Xiao looked at Fang Yiming, who was still out of it, and corrected her, “His last name is Jin.”
Then she limped a little faster, neatly ending the topic on her own.
The afternoon sunlight stretched the shadows of the two girls across the small square, one of them still showed a faint limp from behind.
Wei Qingyu took the small bottle from the counter and walked out of the convenience store, her steps sharp as she went after that shadow.
If she hadn’t seen Ji Xiao slip and fall from the wall, she wouldn’t have almost been hit by the ball, and she definitely wouldn’t have gotten involved with Jin Nanfeng.
The playful noise of students after class filled the small square. Wei Qingyu’s legs were long, and her strides were fast, soon she caught up to Ji Xiao.
Before she could even steady herself, she called out breathlessly, “Ji Xiao.”
Ji Xiao didn’t expect Wei Qingyu to chase after her. The limp in her step almost disappeared as she forced herself to walk normally and asked while still moving forward, “What?”
Seeing that, Wei Qingyu quickened her pace again.
Before Ji Xiao could react, she suddenly pushed her against the wall.
Wei Qingyu said, “Did you twist your ankle?”
The sun was right behind Wei Qingyu, and the light on her made her look dazzling.
Ji Xiao’s eyes flickered as she turned her head away and said coldly, “Yeah.”
“Then why did you give me the swelling and pain relief spray?” Wei Qingyu asked back.
“No reason,” Ji Xiao replied.
Seeing the tense air between the two, Fang Yiming couldn’t help but step in to ease things. “Qingyu, actually Sister Xiao meant well. She just saw you and Jin Nanfeng—”
But before Fang Yiming could finish, a sharp glare slashed across her face.
The moment Wei Qingyu heard Jin Nanfeng’s name, her expression grew darker.
Fang Yiming felt a chill run down her spine. The words at her lips were swallowed back, and she quickly said, “Ah, um, I just remembered, I still haven’t copied the math homework due next period. You two talk, I’m leaving first.”
Ji Xiao looked indifferently at Fang Yiming’s retreating back, frightened away by Wei Qingyu, when she suddenly felt the fabric around her ankle being lifted.
While Ji Xiao was distracted, Wei Qingyu crouched straight down in front of her and opened the bottle in her hand with a blank expression.
The girl’s cool hand covered the slightly swollen ankle. The chill of the spray carried the scent of herbal medicine, mixed with a faint trace of mint that drifted into Ji Xiao’s nose.
Even though Ji Xiao knew it wasn’t Wei Qingyu’s pheromone, her heart still gave a small uneasy flutter, making her frown slightly.
Looking at Wei Qingyu crouched in front of her, Ji Xiao tried to pull her foot back. “What are you doing?”
Ji Xiao’s voice sounded a bit impatient, but Wei Qingyu stayed unmoved.
Her grip was neither too strong nor too light, yet it still kept Ji Xiao, this Alpha, from dodging.
While calmly applying the medicine with no change in expression, Wei Qingyu asked in an unusually steady tone, “I should be the one asking. What are you doing?”
“You were supposed to use it on yourself. What’s the point of having me give it to him?”
As she spoke, Wei Qingyu lifted her head, raising her face to look up at Ji Xiao.
Those turquoise eyes carried a clear trace of irritation, making Ji Xiao’s heart skip a beat.
Her hand behind the wall tightened slightly as she tried to stay calm and said, “Weren’t you going to give it to him? I was just doing you a favor.”
Wei Qingyu frowned. “Who said I was going to give it to him?”
Hearing that, the knot in Ji Xiao’s chest suddenly loosened for reasons she couldn’t explain.
But she didn’t want Wei Qingyu to miss the chance to move her love line forward, so she suppressed the resistance in her heart and calmly reminded her, “He saved you. Aren’t you going to take responsibility?”
“I saved you before too, but I don’t see you taking responsibility for me.” Wei Qingyu’s voice was calm as she argued back, letting go of Ji Xiao’s ankle that was now treated and standing up in front of her.
The two of them were once again almost the same height, and the surroundings remained silent.
Ji Xiao looked at Wei Qingyu in silence. She could still feel the lingering cool comfort on her aching ankle from those soft fingertips.
The summer wind blew past them, carrying a bit of warmth, stirring the subtle tension that was meant to exist between the two.
What should she say to Wei Qingyu?
Should she say she was someone who didn’t know what was good for her, or that she didn’t care at all?
Both would hurt too much. She couldn’t bring herself to say either.
The noise around them went on, yet only this place stayed strangely quiet.
After a while, it was Wei Qingyu who broke the silence that felt like it had been paused. She added, “I already thanked him. I also saw a few classmates take him to the school clinic. I don’t owe him anything.”
Ji Xiao silently came back to her senses, an indescribable feeling rising inside her.
She gave a faint “Oh,” acting as if she didn’t care at all, then turned and started walking toward the teaching building.
But Ji Xiao hadn’t taken more than a few steps when that same cool hand reached out again, touching her arm.
Without a word, Wei Qingyu stepped forward, still expressionless, still taking the initiative to support Ji Xiao.
Ji Xiao frowned. “Wei Qingyu, what are you doing?”
Wei Qingyu lifted her eyes to look at Ji Xiao and said calmly, “If you don’t want it to get worse and be stuck with me holding you up every day, then bear with it for now.”
Her tone was exactly the same as on the first day of school: cold, stubborn, and tangled with affection.
It was a side of Wei Qingyu that Ji Xiao had never seen before, not even when she read the original text.
Wei Qingyu’s warning, sealing off every possible escape, left Ji Xiao no choice. She could only give in and let Wei Qingyu support her as they headed back to the teaching building together.
Right before the bell rang, Wei Qingyu helped Ji Xiao to their classroom door. “I’ll come by tonight to your room and help you apply the medicine.”
Leaning against the back door frame, Ji Xiao replied coldly, “No need.”
The bell had already rung. Without arguing, Wei Qingyu pulled her hand back from Ji Xiao’s wrist and took the milk tea from her hand. “Consider this a thank you gift.”
Before Ji Xiao could react, Wei Qingyu was already walking away with the medicine and milk tea in hand.
Ji Xiao just stood at the door, watching Wei Qingyu’s back, her expression conflicted.
She felt relieved that Wei Qingyu hadn’t developed feelings that crossed the line with Jin Nanfeng, yet worried because of it.
She really didn’t want to let Wei Qingyu go to someone else, but what could she do? The people in the book could never escape their written fate.
Still, after what happened today, even if Wei Qingyu didn’t feel that way yet, Jin Nanfeng probably did.
Thinking that, Ji Xiao let out a long sigh.
At that moment, Fang Yiming, who had witnessed everything from her seat, came out leisurely sipping her milk tea. “Sister Xiao, is this the new and popular way of flirting? I don’t get it.”
Ji Xiao glanced at Fang Yiming, reached out, and took the milk tea from her hand. “Get lost.”
….
The night quietly spread across the sky. In the silent room, the sound of a pen scratching impatiently against paper could be heard.
Ji Xiao was holding her pen in her left hand, working on her homework, but her expression showed clear irritation and distraction.
Wei Qingyu hadn’t gone home with her that afternoon. Ji Xiao thought she had come around and decided to give up, which made her indescribably depressed
But when she got home and went to look for some medicine for bruises and sprains, she found that all of it was gone.
Wei Qingyu hadn’t given up like she imagined at all.
She had figured out that Ji Xiao didn’t want to hear Aunt Wu nagging, that she would definitely try to find medicine and deal with it herself. So Wei Qingyu skipped the last self-study class, came home early, and took away all the medicine, leaving Ji Xiao with no choice.
“Knock knock.”
Just as Ji Xiao was struggling to describe how she felt after realizing what had happened, Wei Qingyu’s knock came right on time.
The door opened. The two of them stood face to face at the doorway, and Ji Xiao had no intention of inviting Wei Qingyu in.
Holding a small medicine box in her hand, Wei Qingyu asked casually, “You want to do it out here? Aunt Wu could come by any time.”
Hearing that, Ji Xiao sighed and gave in, stepping aside to let Wei Qingyu in.
Wei Qingyu didn’t bother with politeness. She walked straight to the stool at the end of Ji Xiao’s bed, set the small medicine box on it, and took out the ointments she had prepared. Then she gestured toward Ji Xiao, who was still standing by the door. “Sit.”
Ji Xiao let out a light sigh, closed the door, and sat down on the stool at the end of the bed.
She looked at the ointments she had never seen before, picked up one that looked like safflower oil, and said, “I can do it myself.”
But Wei Qingyu didn’t listen. She took the bottle of “safflower oil” back from Ji Xiao’s hand and half-kneeled down beside her.
Then, to Ji Xiao’s surprise, Wei Qingyu lifted her foot and placed it on her knee.
The girl’s fingers brushed past Ji Xiao’s unprepared, sensitive ankle, sending a shiver all over her body.
A jolt shot through Ji Xiao’s head. Seeing Wei Qingyu, who never bowed to anyone, kneeling before her, she felt something unexplainable. She quickly stopped her, saying, “Wei Qingyu, you don’t need to do this. I can put the medicine on myself.”
Wei Qingyu, just like that afternoon at school, stayed unmoved. While squeezing the ointment and spreading it on Ji Xiao’s ankle, she said calmly, “It helps blood flow and reduces bruises. It will heal faster this way.”
Her fingers gently spread the ointment on Ji Xiao’s ankle. The light fell just right on her focused side profile.
Her eyelashes were like fans, breaking through a clear pool of calm. Below her straight, delicate nose was a pair of bright lips, soft and faintly fragrant.
Maybe it was because the autumn heat hadn’t faded, Wei Qingyu dressed lighter than usual today.
The thin fabric hung from her shoulders, outlining her slim figure through the light. The pale skin under her slightly open collar faintly showed, tempting and suggestive.
Ji Xiao stole a glance at her, and the words she overheard at the convenience store in the afternoon flashed in her mind: "The two of them, an S-rank Alpha and an S-rank Omega, their pheromone compatibility must be high…"
Thinking that Wei Qingyu would someday be marked by that man, jealousy quietly climbed into Ji Xiao’s heart, pushing her to suddenly ask, “What about Jin Nanfeng? Will you do this for him too tomorrow?”
As soon as she finished speaking, Wei Qingyu’s hand that was massaging Ji Xiao’s ankle paused.
This wasn’t the first time she had heard Ji Xiao say the name “Jin Nanfeng.”
Nor was it the first time today.
The last time was at the banquet, when she talked with him all night.
This time, it was when he sprained his foot.
Wei Qingyu remembered Ji Xiao once said she didn’t mind falling for an Alpha.
A sense of crisis made her ask sharply, “Why do you keep bringing up Jin Nanfeng today? Do you like him?”
Source: http://www.jjwxc.net/onebook.php?novelid=5896087
This translation was originally posted on https://love4baihe.blogspot.com please read it there. and check out other stories too.
Ji Xiao frowned. “What nonsense are you talking about?”
Hearing that, it was like Wei Qingyu had touched the switch to a secret box in her heart.
She looked at the girl in front of her, smiled with interest, and asked back, “Am I talking nonsense, or have your actions lately been too confusing?”
Before her voice even fell, Ji Xiao felt the hand on her ankle slowly moving upward.
Then Wei Qingyu suddenly stood up. The light above her head flickered into Ji Xiao’s eyes, making her senses sharpen.
In that world wrapped in light, Ji Xiao felt a hand grip her left calf, then her right wrist that supported her body.
The faint scent of mint, which had been long missed, was light yet tempting, and it made the peach brandy lose its defense instantly.
When Ji Xiao opened her eyes again, Wei Qingyu’s delicate face filled most of her sight, so close and domineering.
Wei Qingyu leaned in with ease, her voice soft as she asked, “Ji Xiao, I really want to know, what exactly happened after you left the hospital that day?”
“You said I shouldn’t like you, then do you also think you shouldn’t like me?”
