Chapter 65: Her Taste Is Really Bent
Source: https://www.jjwxc.net/onebook.php?novelid=5821232
This translation was originally posted on https://love4baihe.blogspot.com
“Come over with your Sister Fang tonight, and buy some food on the way.” She ate a bad cup noodle, and then she ate some so so oatmeal. So Lin Qingyi felt she needed to fix the meals more than the hot searches. Lin Qingyi and Qin Shiyue both couldn't cook, and Lin Qingyi felt she might need to hire a live-in auntie with good cooking skills.
Your Sister Fang? Bai Wenxi thought. Since when did Sister Fang become mine? This way of saying it was a bit strange.
Bai Wenxi got Lin Qingyi’s order and sent a message to Fang Xinhua at once.
“My Teacher Lin invites you to her home to eat. Your Baby Qin’er’s also there.” Now her Teacher Lin and Sister Fang’s Baby Qin’er were one body. Later they would do PR and speak in one voice. Eating together tonight would help them reach a common view.
“What time? Address?” Fang Xinhua had almost the same thought as Bai Wenxi and agreed to the dinner at once.
“4 pm. Let's go together.” Bai Wenxi thought she could go to the supermarket with Sister Fang and buy food together. She feared she couldn't carry many things alone. The White Peacock didn't cook at all. Oatmeal was her limit. Things like seasonings and pots and seasonings were for sure lacking. And she herself cared about cooking and food skills. So she should prepare many things. She had a feeling Teacher Lin’s home would cook often in the future. After all, she has a family now.
“Okay.” Fang Xinhua readily agreed. She has a good impression toward Bai Wenxi.
After Qin Shiyue hung up the call with Fang Xinhua, she turned on her phone at once to check the new hot searches.
Weibo headline: No break in between, Qin Shiyue cheated on her wife with Lin Qingyi before their divorce.
Qin Shiyue tapped in and saw photos of herself entering and leaving Lin Qingyi’s hotel, and also the times they ate together.
Because Lin Qingyi kissed Qin Shiyue the night before last, and yesterday she confessed to Qin Shiyue with her own mouth, the heat stayed high. It stayed on the top hot search for 36 hours. Everyone was shipping the CP with joy. Then several marketing accounts popped up from who knows where and made detailed talks about how Qin Shiyue had no break in between, saying she cheated with Lin Qingyi during the marriage and caused the divorce. They also put the old photos of Qin Shiyue going in and out of Lin Qingyi’s hotel. So the hot search about Qin Shiyue cheating in the marriage climbed to the first place fast.
Passersby watched the drama and never felt it was too much. They ate melons until they were full.
At this time, Weibo comments were split in two.
Some criticized. Some defended. Weibo was very lively.
The more Qin Shiyue read, the more angry she felt. She was used to being slandered, that's okay. But now Lin Qingyi was dragged in and slandered too, and this made her even more angry. She looked at Lin Qingyi by instinct. Lin Qingyi was resting her head on her leg calmly, and she doesn't seem to care at all.
Qin Shiyue felt confused. Lin Qingyi answered a call from Manager Bai just now. Did Manager Bai not tell her?
“Aren’t you going to check on the new Weibo post?” Qin Shiyue couldn’t help asking.
“I already guessed it. It’s annoying to look at, so why look? Should I puff up like you and turn into a pufferfish?” Lin Qingyi reached out and pinched Qin Shiyue’s puffed face and asked with a smile.
“They are scolding me for cheating in the marriage, and they scolding you as a mistress who broke into someone else’s marriage. Aren’t you angry?” She even wanted to log into her small account and argue with those people who talked nonsense.
“Truth is truth. Lies are lies. Lies can’t turn into truth. Let them feel proud for now. It’s no big harm.” The time she and Qin Shiyue got together was indeed a bit delicate, so it was normal for some of the public to doubt. To stop people from blaming them again in the future when she and Qin Shiyue stayed together, Lin Qingyi planned to let this matter grow. The bigger the mess, the better. When they turned it over, they needed to turn it over fully so it would be settled once and for all.
“I feel like the public is easily led by others. They don’t care about the truth. Sometimes they just want to watch others fall and laugh.” Qin Shiyue had been in the entertainment circle for many years, so she wasn’t clueless. She knew long ago that people who like you don’t need you to say anything. They will choose to believe you. People who don’t like you won’t believe you no matter what you say. They even want to kick you when you’re down. Some don’t like you. Some don’t hate you but still like to watch the drama.
She was always a drama magnet, so she didn’t care much about her name. But Lin Qingyi always had good public favor and a shiny clean image. Now she was dragged down because of her. Thinking about how Lin Qingyi was affected made her feel upset.
“We’re not people others can push around. Don’t worry, this wave won’t last long. Don’t look at things that ruin your mood. Let’s keep watching the show.” Lin Qingyi reached out and took away Qin Shiyue’s phone.
“You get targeted because you’re with me. If you weren’t with me, you wouldn’t get dragged down.” Qin Shiyue still spoke with some gloom. She just couldn’t stand anyone attacking Lin Qingyi online.
“Qin Shiyue, it’s not like I met you yesterday. From the first day I knew you, you were already a traffic little flower who got mocked for acting and got hated every now and then. When you play with clay figures, you can’t stay clean. Before getting close to you and before planning to be with you, I already thought of all kinds of things that might happen, including this one now. These are things I don’t care about or things I can take. So there’s no such thing as you dragging me down. This is my own choice. People choose what gives them gain. I choose to be with you, so it means you matter more than all these things.”
Lin Qingyi always asked her own heart first. Do I like this? Do I want to do this? She wouldn’t get shaken by others’ voices.
Lin Qingyi spoke rationally. Rationality itself is a kind of strength and persuasion. Qin Shiyue realized these things couldn’t shake Lin Qingyi. A confident Lin Qingyi truly had a strong heart. The strength of one's heart could be passed to others. When Qin Shiyue realized Lin Qingyi might really not care at all, she felt she was troubling herself for nothing.
"The way you put it, it sounds so cold and unromantic. Shouldn't it be like: you like me so much that you're willing to give up everything for me because I'm the most important person in the world to you..." Qin Shiyue put the hot search out of her mind and started nitpicking.
“Would you even believe it if I said that?” Lin Qingyi asked with a smile.
“As long as you dare to say it, I dare to listen.” Qin Shiyue felt the truth didn’t matter much. She just liked to hear it.
"Baby, it's not good for you to like listening to fake sweet talk. You'll easily get hurt by a scumbag woman," Lin Qingyi said seriously.
“Being coaxed and fooled is still better than someone who flirts with you every day, but never takes responsibility, and even pretends to be straight, hot one moment and cold the next, like a jerk right?” Qin Shiyue thought about how she used to suffer over whether Lin Qingyi liked her or not, and she still had some resentment.
"That's still better than being a scumbag who puts her ex-wife's wedding photos on her bedside table for her current girlfriend to see, right?" Lin Qingyi thought to herself, anyone can bring up old grievances.
Qin Shiyue regretted once again not dealing with the photos sooner, which caused her to lose the moral high ground when arguing with Lin Qingyi.
“You did it on purpose. Mine was not. The intention is not the same.” Qin Shiyue didn’t give up and argued.
“Unconscious care is scarier. Baby, don’t tell me you still like Kong Huizhi in your subconscious?” If she didn’t let her win, someone would never win a fight with her.
“How could that be?!” Qin Shiyue denied at once after getting the blame pushed back on her by Lin Qingyi.
“Then who knows. You still put her wedding photo by your bed as a keepsake. And I flirted with you, but when did I not take responsibility? I took responsibility in front of the whole world. Everyone knows I like you now. So who’s more a jerk?” Lin Qingyi asked with full confidence.
Qin Shiyue ran out of words. Being compared like this, she did seem more at fault.
“Then let’s call these two things even.” Qin Shiyue felt she was about to lose, so she declared a draw fast.
Lin Qingyi lifted the corner of her mouth. She had the upper hand, but she wouldn’t chase a cornered enemy. She will spare her this time.
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Fang Xinhua went with Bai Wenxi to shop at the supermarket. When she saw the cart piling up like a mountain, she understood why Manager Bai wanted her to come. It was for her to help carry things.
“Do you need this much stuff to cook one meal?” Fang Xinhua could cook, but she was busy with work and rarely did it. She only cooked for her daughter sometimes, and even then she just made something simple. Seeing Bai Wenxi like this, Fang Xinhua felt she was preparing a whole imperial feast.
“Buy more so we won’t run short. You don’t even know how picky my Teacher Lin is. Oh right, besides liking abalone, what else does your Baby Qin’er like to eat?” After picking what Lin Qingyi liked and what she liked, Bai Wenxi asked about Qin Shiyue’s taste.
“All kinds of seafood with shells, juicy and fresh.” Fang Xinhua picked a few oysters that both she and Baby Qin’er loved.
“Your Baby Qin’er’s taste is really bent.” Bai Wenxi said.
Manager Bai said it so fast that Fang Xinhua couldn’t react. But Baby Qin’er’s taste did seem bent, so she couldn’t argue.
“Garlic oyster vermicelli tastes better, but my Teacher Lin might dislike it.” Bai Wenxi said with a straight face.
Fang Xinhua thought Manager Bai really thought a lot.
“What does Sister Fang like to eat?” Bai Wenxi asked about Fang Xinhua’s taste too.
“It’s all fine. I’m not picky.” Fang Xinhua also liked shell seafood, but she didn’t say it. She felt Bai Wenxi imagined too much.
After leaving the supermarket, Bai Wenxi and Fang Xinhua each held a big bag in both hands. Four big bags in total.
At 5:30, Bai Wenxi and Fang Xinhua arrived at the residential complex where Lin Qingyi and Qin Shiyue lived.
Fang Xinhua didn’t expect Lin Qingyi to have an apartment in Baby Qin’er’s complex too. From the start, seeing how Lin Qingyi treated Baby Qin’er, and the coincidence of living in the same complex, Fang Xinhua couldn’t help wondering if Lin Qingyi’s attention to Baby Qin’er really started only from that dance party.
“Did your Teacher Lin notice my Baby Qin’er earlier? Before filming together or dancing together?” Fang Xinhua asked with curiosity.
“I have no idea. They really didn’t have much contact before. But I also feel my Teacher Lin’s care and liking for your Baby Qin’er doesn’t look like the kind you get at the beginning. She cares more and likes her more than I expected.” Bai Wenxi thought that she wasn’t the only one who felt this.
“It’s not important. They’re together now.” After Lin Qingyi kissed Baby Qin’er boldly and confessed in public, Fang Xinhua finally felt good about her. Before that, Lin Qingyi kept Baby Qin’er hanging, and that made her uneasy.
“Mm, that’s why I said we’re a family from now on.” Bai Wenxi smiled. The White Peacock and Baby Qin'er together was a strong match. Maybe she and Sister Fang might even get to work together someday.
Well… barely counted as a family.
After entering Lin Qingyi’s place, Bai Wenxi went to wash fruit right away. She cut a fruit plate that looked like carved art.
“Manager Bai is really capable.” Qin Shiyue praised, thinking about how she had been jealous before and realizing she shouldn’t have, since Manager Bai is such a good person.
“You flatter me. These are just little skills.” Bai Wenxi smiled. Baby Qin’er was really likable and loved praising people, unlike her Teacher Lin, who had higher standards. Though getting the White Peacock’s recognition did feel more rewarding.
Normally, when her manager was praised, Lin Qingyi should feel happy. But she couldn’t help feeling a bit sour, thinking her baby was implying she wasn’t capable.
“That’s only because I have good taste and can hire good people.” Lin Qingyi said, then realized it sounded a bit childish.
“Teacher Lin really has good taste, hiring such a capable and lovely Manager Bai.” Fang Xinhua praised both Lin Qingyi and Bai Wenxi.
“I’ll feel embarrassed if you keep praising me like this. I’m going to the kitchen to cook.” Bai Wenxi said, then went busy in the kitchen.
“I’ll help you.” Fang Xinhua didn’t think it was right to just stay as a third wheel for the young couple, and she couldn’t let Bai Wenxi handle everything alone.
“Is it okay for us to sit like useless people waiting for the meal?” Qin Shiyue asked Lin Qingyi, feeling a bit ashamed to just sit in the living room waiting.
Source: https://www.jjwxc.net/onebook.php?novelid=5821232
This translation was originally posted on https://love4baihe.blogspot.com
“Let the skilled person do what she’s good at. We can just sit this one out. Besides, haven’t you noticed? Bai Wenxi really likes your Sister Fang.” Lin Qingyi asked.
“Huh!? Manager Bai and Sister Fang?” Qin Shiyue raised her voice in disbelief.
“Baby, you’re so loud. Are you afraid they won’t hear we’re talking about them?” Lin Qingyi reminded her.
Qin Shiyue realized and quickly covered her mouth.
“But Sister Fang seems straight.” Qin Shiyue lowered her voice while gossiping about her own manager.
“Before I met you, I was straight too.” Lin Qingyi said without caring.
“You were straight? Yeah right, I just laugh!” When Qin Shiyue heard Lin Qingyi pretend to be straight again, her gums felt itchy and she wanted to bite someone.
Author’s Note:
Lin Qingyi: Didn't you want to bite a long time ago? Fresh and juicy.
Qin Shiyue: I have already become a Buddhist monk, do not tempt me.
Lin Qingyi: We've eaten and drunk our fill. Are we going to hook up or not?
Qin Shiyue: I have returned to secular life, hook up.
