Chapter 72: They're Pretty Good At Flirting (Half Main CP, Half Second CP)

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After talking things through with her sister, Qin Shiyue had no more knots in her heart, so she went back to her room.

After she returned to her room, she video called Lin Qingyi right away.

The call wasn’t picked up at once. Qin Shiyue thought she had already explained before, so Lin Qingyi shouldn’t be angry again. She was probably taking a shower. So Qin Shiyue used the gap and went to shower too.

When picking a nightdress, Qin Shiyue still chose with care. She felt that other than looking good, she didn’t have any strong points. She could only sell her looks.

After Lin Qingyi finished her bath, she came out while drying her hair and checking her phone. When she saw a missed video call, the corner of her mouth subconsciously lifted. After her long hair was half wet and half dry, she called Qin Shiyue back on video right away.

They already showered after doing it during the day, so to not delay the video with Lin Qingyi later, Qin Shiyue only rinsed briefly and came out. As soon as she left the bathroom, she heard the phone move and picked up right away.

Qin Shiyue, who planned to sell her looks, found that she was the one bewitched by the beauty instead.

Looking at Lin Qingyi right after a bath, Qin Shiyue felt she was in bad shape. Her head was full of inappropriate thoughts. Before she hadn’t tasted it, she craved it. After she tasted it, she craved it even more.

At the neckline of Lin Qingyi’s nightdress, on her fair skin, there were faint marks. They were marks she left before. Seeing them made Qin Shiyue very happy. The feeling of covering someone with her own marks felt good.

Lin Qingyi saw Qin Shiyue in her sexy little dress. It looked extra good on her. Large areas of snowy white skin were showing, making people want to eat.

“Baby is so sexy. I want to do it,” Lin Qingyi said, following her heart.

“Come on…” Qin Shiyue got the effect she wanted. It was fine as long as she wasn’t the only one thinking like a beast. Happy inside, Qin Shiyue even copied what she saw in movies. She slowly lifted one corner of her skirt, showing her snowy long leg, and invited her in a soft and teasing tone. Maybe because the person she wanted to seduce was the one she liked, Qin Shiyue, who was never good at acting, did better than usual today. She was teasing in a way that looked real.

Lin Qingyi watched Qin Shiyue’s act. Looking at that tempting slim white leg, her eyes grew deep and bright. She was really teased by that little beauty.

Qin Shiyue was only joking around with Lin Qingyi at first. But when she met Lin Qingyi’s burning gaze, she felt the skin she showed almost heat up at once. Damn it, just one look from Lin Qingyi, and she felt something.

As if she was afraid her leg would really be burned by Lin Qingyi’s gaze, Qin Shiyue quickly pulled the lifted nightdress down and covered the tempting long leg. She was still very reserved.

Lin Qingyi looked at Qin Shiyue’s flustered move to cover her leg, and she couldn’t help laughing. Her baby had the capital of a seductive beauty, but she was a bit short on aura and timing.

“Done talking with your sister?” Lin Qingyi flicked her half dry long hair and asked casually.

“Done. My sister really liked Kong Huizhi very early on. You were so sharp. One guess and you got it right.” If Lin Qingyi hadn’t hinted it, Qin Shiyue probably wouldn’t have thought of this at all.

“Baby finally knows she picked up a great deal.” Lin Qingyi looked like an all knowing older sister.

Lin Qingyi’s narcissistic tone was a bit annoying, but Qin Shiyue really couldn’t argue.

“My sister…” Qin Shiyue told Lin Qingyi about how Kong Huizhi was forced to sign a three year marriage agreement with her sister. Her sister only said to keep it from their parents. She didn’t say she couldn’t tell her pillow person.

Lin Qingyi thought it was the same trick. Using it twice and still working showed Qin Shilan was quite capable. She also felt Qin Shilan might really take down Kong Huizhi. After all, Qin Shilan wasn’t as easy to fool as Qin Shiyue. Qin Shiyue was truly a silly baby, otherwise she wouldn’t still be untouched after three years of marriage. In this marriage between Qin Shilan and Kong Huizhi, it was clear Kong Huizhi was bound to be the one held in Qin Shilan’s hand. The three year marriage agreement was clearly carefully designed by Qin Shilan. If the time was too long, Kong Huizhi wouldn’t agree easily. If it was too short, it wouldn’t help Qin Shilan take her down. Three years was just right. It gave Kong Huizhi hope and didn’t push her into rebellion. Qin Shilan was clearly a master at manipulating hearts.

“What kind of charm does the person you sisters both like, have? I kind of regret rejecting her too early. I should’ve learned more. Maybe there was a big surprise waiting for me.” Lin Qingyi said with regret, like she had missed an unknown treasure. Of course, she said this on purpose to poke Qin Shiyue. Qin Shiyue’s first love wasn’t her. For Lin Qingyi, this was always a sour spot, and thinking of it always made her unhappy. Luckily, the person they liked was someone she’d rejected. That feeling of standing at the top of the love chain made Lin Qingyi feel a bit balanced.

“No way!” Qin Shiyue panicked at once. She was afraid Lin Qingyi would really go learn about Kong Huizhi and find her better than herself. She didn’t have confidence she was better. “She’s already my sister-in-law. She and my sister are legally married. How can you provoke a married woman?”

Qin Shiyue stood on the moral high ground to criticize, to hide her lack of confidence.

“I just regret not learning more back then. I’m not planning to provoke her later. Baby doesn’t need to be so nervous.” Lin Qingyi kept poking her.

“If you want to learn, then go learn. Anyway, she and my sister only have a three year agreement. You still have a chance.” Qin Shiyue said with a bad tone. She was really jealous.

“Can you really bear to let me learn about her?” Lin Qingyi asked with a smile.

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“The legs are on you. Can I tie you up?” Qin Shiyue snorted and asked back. She knew Lin Qingyi was mostly joking, but she still felt unhappy.

“If you don’t try, how do you know you can’t tie me up?” Silly vase, how could she lack even this bit of confidence?

“You’d really let me tie you up?” Qin Shiyue’s tone got much lighter.

“Aren’t you my girlfriend? You still have this right.” Qin Shiyue was probably the one Lin Qingyi gave the most privileges to, yet someone still seemed completely unaware. So silly.

The word “girlfriend” was so sweet they went straight into Qin Shiyue’s heart and wiped away her earlier unhappiness at once.

“Then you’re not allowed to say things like that again.” Qin Shiyue made a request while holding the girlfriend title.

“Girlfriend is already making demands so fast. What’ll happen later?” Lin Qingyi teased.

“Someone can regret it. As long as Movie Queen Lin speaks, admirers would line up to France and that would still be few. You could even fill the Pacific Ocean,” Qin Shiyue snorted.

“Baby, your Geography must be bad. Even everyone on Earth couldn’t fill the Pacific Ocean. This is called "making things up,” Lin Qingyi felt that as long as she talked with the Vase a, her mood would turn good.

“Then your Language must be bad too. This is called exaggeration,” Qin Shiyue shot back. She felt her skill at snapping back had improved fast lately.

“Baby, your mouth skills have gotten even better lately.” The Vase was very good at snapping back these days. Could it be that using the tongue more often could help a second language growth? Still, the Vase’s tongue really was more useful now, and Lin Qingyi found that her own thoughts had slid far too much lately.

“Thinking about it, I really do feel like my sister and I are both thugs who force good women. If you think about it, she’s actually pretty pitiful,” Qin Shiyue said with a sigh.

“What, you’re feeling sorry for your ex-wife now?” Lin Qingyi asked lightly.

“What ex-wife? She’s my sister-in-law. It’s enough that my sister cares for her,” Qin Shiyue said with a strong survival instinct. “Damn, saying this out loud makes me feel like I’m helping evil and feeling ashamed?” Qin Shiyue felt it was best to avoid her ex-wife, no, her sister-in-law lately. Otherwise, it wouldn’t just be awkward for her, it would be awkward for the sister-in-law too.

“Three years ago, you really should’ve felt ashamed. But this time, it doesn’t have much to do with you. She was forced, and it’s not all because of you and your sister. The Zhang family used past favors to threaten her, and that really put her in a tough spot. If she can use this to fully break away from the Zhang family, it’s not a bad thing for her. Since your sister truly likes her, she probably won’t treat her badly,” Lin Qingyi said.

Kong Huizhi grew up under the Zhang family’s roof. The Zhang family raised her and paid her mother’s medical bills all these years. They would surely insist that Kong Huizhi owed the Zhang family two lives. That made her position very passive. Even if she wasn’t handed to Qin Shilan, the Zhang family might still find ways to sell her to someone else, and at a good price. After all, she was a somewhat famous female dancer, with figure, aura, and looks that drew people in. Otherwise, she wouldn’t have made the Qin sisters both fall for her.

“After you say it like that, I feel a bit better. It feels like my sister and I aren’t that bad,” Qin Shiyue felt comforted.

“Pfft.” Lin Qingyi couldn’t help laughing when she heard that. Someone clearly lacked self awareness. Putting herself next to Qin Shilan really wronged Qin Shilan.

“What are you laughing at now?” Qin Shiyue asked unhappily.

“Married for three years, forced a good woman, and did nothing at all. That’s really not that bad, just stupid,” Lin Qingyi thought that Qin Shiyue forced someone and got nothing out of it. Just thinking about it was funny. But if it wasn’t so funny, she wouldn’t have had the chance to pick up a bargain. This was the feeling of gaining benefits and still acting cute, and Lin Qingyi quite liked it.

“Lin Qingyi, how can you be so annoying? I am stupid, so stupid, yet you still like me,” Qin Shiyue thought that if Lin Qingyi were by her side right now, she’d definitely mess her up. She loved teasing her too much. So annoying.

“Yeah, I just like the rich family’s stupid daughter,” Lin Qingyi said with a smile.

Lin Qingyi’s sudden confession wiped away Qin Shiyue’s anger at once. As long as Lin Qingyi liked her, being the rich family’s stupid daughter didn’t seem so bad.

“Other than looking a bit good, I don’t seem to have any other strengths. I’m not outstanding at all. Do you still like me?” Qin Shiyue thought she should expose her flaws early, so Lin Qingyi wouldn’t want a return after seeing her true nature later.

“It’s fine. I’m very outstanding. I don’t need you to be outstanding. You just need to be proud of me, treat me as your sky, and follow me as your guide,” Lin Qingyi laid out her guiding ideology. It was enough for the vase to have this level of awareness.

“Wow, look, the narcissus bloomed again.” With this level of narcissism, only Lin Qingyi could do it. Qin Shiyue couldn’t help wanting to complain.

“Sister will give you one chance. Say it again,” Lin Qingyi snorted softly. If she was a narcissus, then someone loved eating narcissus, and didn’t mind the strong smell.

“Wow, such a beautiful narcissus. It’s even prettier when it blooms,” Qin Shiyue said fearlessly. She had someone backing her, so she wasn’t scared at all, and didn’t feel awkward driving the talk with Lin Qingyi.

“When a Vase is filled with flowers, and water spills out from the mouth of the bottle, it looks good too. There’s really a lot of water,” Lin Qingyi shot back without losing ground.

“That sounds like someone’s nectar is very little. I counted it. These past days, someone’s blooming times were clearly more. Qin Lin Qing Shi, taking the wife’s surname is correct,” Qin Shiyue said with slight pride.

“Is that so?” Lin Qingyi’s desire to win was stirred.

“Isn’t it true that someone bloomed more times?” Qin Shiyue said. She was speaking with facts.

Lin Qingyi smiled and didn’t deny it. Qin Shiyue probably forgot a saying. Pride comes before defeat.

When Qin Shiyue saw Lin Qingyi smile, her heart felt itchy. Ah, she missed her, missed her, missed her, and still wanted to do her.

….

Tonight, Qin Shilan went back home and wouldn’t return, which let Kong Huizhi finally breathe a little easier.

When Kong Huizhi thought about how she married Qin Shilan and had already been married for over a month, she still felt everything was absurd. If she had known she would end up marrying Qin Shilan, she would never have divorced Qin Shiyue. Anyway, Lin Qingyi didn’t like her. It was better to keep that empty marriage with Shiyue. At least facing Shiyue didn’t bring so much pressure, and at least it wasn’t shameful. Divorcing the younger sister and then marrying the older sister in less than three months, once it spread, Kong Huizhi could already imagine the strange looks and the gossip behind her back. Luckily, not many people knew about their marriage yet.

But in this world, there was no such thing as knowing earlier.

Kong Huizhi let out a soft sigh. When she was miserable, she still had to watch the person she once liked fall in love with her ex wife. They showed their affection so openly that it made her feel envy and jealousy. Envy and jealousy were one thing, but she even had to play the role of the good Chinese ex-wife and help clear rumors for them.

Her ex-wife divorced her and escaped the sea of suffering, then found new happiness. As for herself, she climbed out of one pit only to fall into another pit that was bigger and deeper.

Kong Huizhi thought maybe people really had fate. Maybe this was just her fate.

A professor once said, “If you don’t know your fate at forty, your understanding is too poor.” She was only thirty. Accepting fate so early, did that mean her understanding was too good? Kong Huizhi mocked herself in her heart.

Kong Huizhi’s mother had been the eldest daughter of the Zhang family. She loved dancing, and she fell in love with her dance partner. Naturally, her grandfather didn’t agree to this mismatched marriage and even threatened to cut ties. Her mother still married him without hesitation.

Both parents were dancers. With their genes and the family atmosphere, Kong Huizhi also loved dancing and showed outstanding talent.

Life for the family of three wasn’t rich, but it was calm and happy.

Until the car accident when she was eight. After a dance performance, her parents were on their way home when a serious accident happened. Her father died on the spot, and her mother was badly injured and became a vegetative patient.

Although her mother had cut ties with the Zhang family, she was still their daughter. An uncle from the Zhang family, whom she had never met before, appeared. Maybe because she looked very much like her mother, her uncle took her back to the Zhang family to raise her, paid for her mother’s medical bills, and supported her dancing. From then on, she lived under someone else’s roof and owed what the Zhang family called two great debts of kindness.

The Zhang family insisted she owed them two debts. Kong Huizhi knew she couldn’t escape. She had to repay them twice to satisfy them. No, as long as she still had value to squeeze out, they wouldn’t give up. But in Kong Huizhi’s eyes, this time, things between them were finally settled. Sold twice by the Zhang family, she didn’t want any ties with them anymore. This time, she could finally break free completely.

This was probably the only good thing among a pile of bad things.

With Qin Shilan not around, Kong Huizhi felt a sense of ease fill the room. Only now did she really notice her surroundings. Qin Shilan’s apartment was very big, so big it felt a bit empty. But Qin Shilan’s presence was usually too strong. When she was around, Kong Huizhi only felt pressure, not emptiness.

From the moment she signed the agreement and they got the marriage certificate, she had been forced to move into Qin Shilan’s place.

After marrying Qin Shilan, Kong Huizhi finally understood how free she had been when she married Qin Shiyue, and how kind and lovely her ex-wife had been. Only with comparison did she feel that regret, the kind that no amount of money could buy knowing earlier.

Actually, other than a pile of complicated rules, Qin Shilan didn’t really do anything too excessive. But she had too many rules, which took away a lot of Kong Huizhi’s sense of freedom and made her feel bound like a married person.

For example, one rule was that she had to live in this apartment with her and live a normal wife and wife life.

Another rule was that every night, she had to eat dinner with her.

There was also a rule that when it was time to fulfill wifely duties, she couldn’t refuse. Luckily, there was still a half year grace period. During these six months, she wouldn’t be forced. But this also meant that even though she and Qin Shilan were in a contract marriage, it was still a real wife and wife marriage. It was completely different from her last marriage, which made Kong Huizhi miss her ex-wife again. At least there was a six month grace period, which let her escape for now.

Besides that, there were many small, strange rules. This made Kong Huizhi feel that Qin Shilan truly deserved to be called a businesswoman, the kind of boss who treated employees harshly and without mercy.

In Kong Huizhi’s memory, Qin Shilan had always been very busy. But after marrying her, she actually got off work on time every day. Not only that, she even cooked dinner herself every night, and her cooking was surprisingly good. Why was she sure it was for her? Because before every meal, before Qin Shilan even got off work, she would send a message asking what she wanted to eat. And what she made was exactly what Kong Huizhi ordered.

Every time she saw Qin Shilan in a work suit with her sleeves rolled up, cooking for her, Kong Huizhi felt something very strange inside. She even wondered if Qin Shilan had some kind of servant fetish and wanted to bring someone home to serve as a master. Why did she think that?

The clothes she changed out of were always taken to be washed by Qin Shilan right away. Other clothes going into the washing machine were fine, but Qin Shilan even washed her underwear by hand, which almost made her jaw drop. After washing, she would often collect them right away, fold them neatly, and place them by her bedside, as if afraid she wouldn’t know who folded them. And she would put the small underwear on top. It was very awkward.

Also, she always got up early to make her a nutritious breakfast.

If she didn’t know Qin Shilan was a company boss, Kong Huizhi would’ve thought she was a gentle full time housewife. So every time she saw Qin Shilan do these things for her, she felt very strange and out of place. At first, she thought Qin Shilan married her to get revenge. But over this past month, other than these odd actions, Qin Shilan hadn’t really done anything to make things hard for her.

After Qin Shiyue and Lin Qingyi got together, Kong Huizhi still held onto a bit of hope and tested Qin Shilan. After all, Qin Shiyue was happy now, so there was no need to get revenge on her anymore.

“I want to marry you, and it has nothing to do with Shiyue.” One sentence from Qin Shilan cut off Kong Huizhi’s thoughts of divorce.

So Kong Huizhi couldn’t help suspecting that Qin Shilan might have some special servant fetish. Sure enough, some people looked bright and proper on the outside, but who knew what strange habits they had inside.

Even if Qin Shilan really had a servant fetish, Kong Huizhi didn’t have a master fetish. So every time Qin Shilan did those things, she felt a lot of pressure.

Even with Qin Shilan not around now, Kong Huizhi realized her head was still full of guesses about this possibly abnormal woman.

After realizing this, Kong Huizhi quickly stopped herself. She didn’t want to think about Qin Shilan anymore, and she didn’t want to think about this messy, depressing stuff. She wanted to put all her focus into dancing.

She stood up and walked toward the dance room. Yes, this apartment had a dance room. On the first day she moved in, Qin Shilan took her to the dance room to get familiar with it. At the time, she wondered why Qin Shilan would set up a dance room at home.

Qin Shilan’s explanation back then was that besides working out, she sometimes danced too. Kong Huizhi knew a little about Qin Shilan dancing, because her ex wife and her ex-parents-in-law, who were still her parents-in-law now, often praised their eldest daughter in front of her, saying how outstanding she was. Kong Huizhi didn’t want to know anything about Qin Shilan. She just listened politely.

Setting up a dance room next to a gym just for an occasional hobby was really luxurious.

When Qin Shilan was at home, Kong Huizhi never wanted to use the dance room in Qin Shilan’s place. She felt like a kidnapped hostage. A hostage should look like a hostage.

When she turned on the lights in the dance room, Kong Huizhi realized that the setup was completely professional. The mirrors, the flooring, and other materials were all carefully chosen. As a professional dancer, Kong Huizhi was very satisfied with this dance room.

She turned on the music and threw herself into the dance. This was her beloved craft, and it let her temporarily forget all her worries.

Author's Note:

Qin Shilan: Either you think I’m a sister-loving pervert, or you think I’m a masochistic pervert.  

Kong Huizhi: You’ll talk about it in the next chapter.  

This chapter is quite long, isn't it?