Chapter 38: This Kind Of Love Triangle Plus Orthopedic Melons Is Too Overwhelming
It was a good meal, or at least the person treating them felt that way.
After lunch, Shen Qingzhi quietly slipped into the rest area to hide, and before leaving, she didn't forget to pull Yu Kexin along.
Yu Kexin originally wanted to chat with her idol, but Shen Qingzhi whispered in her ear and threatened: If you don't leave, your secrets will soon be exposed.
Yu Kexin: It's okay, my secrets aren't the ones getting probed.
Thinking this way in her heart, she finally left with Shen Qingzhi.
When it comes to eating melons, it doesn't matter which side you eat.
There is still half an hour before the afternoon shooting, and there are only two people in the lounge, Yu Kexin and Shen Qingzhi.
Without a seductive fairy nearby tempting people, Shen Qingzhi is obviously much more relaxed.
She leaned on the chair and pulled out a bag of potato chips and chewed them loudly, looking very comfortable.
Yu Kexin cast admiring gazes at her, "Qingzhi, Senior Gu has been feeding you for so long earlier, and you're still not full. Your appetite is really immeasurable like the sea.
Shen Qingzhi, who was chewing potato chips vigorously: ...
Why are you talking about her again? Can't you get over it?
Yu Kexin notices that Shen Qingzhi's pace of chewing has slowed down a bit, and curiously leans in.
"Qingzhi, when did you and Senior Gu start dating? Tell me, satisfy my curiosity, I promise to keep it secret."
Shen Qingzhi:!
"We're not dating!"
Yu Kexin had an expression of 'You're lying to ghosts', "This is no fun. Just now, Senior Gu didn't intend to hide anything. Why bother keeping it a secret?"
Shen Qingzhi:?
In what way? The way she was prying about your childhood?
Thinking of this, Shen Qingzhi felt inexplicably sour, and after eating one bag of potato chips she opened another one as if she didn't intend to respond.
Seeing her like this, Yu Kexin finds it a bit suspicious and confirms, "You're really not dating?"
"Of course not, it's just a normal colleague relationship."
Seeing her speak seriously, Yu Kexin can't help but feel a bit sympathetic towards Gu Jinrong: Poor Senior Gu, still unrequited.
On one side is her idol, and on the other side is her best friend. In Yu Kexin's view, for both emotional and logical reasons, she should meddle a little.
So she starts choosing her words to speak positively about Gu Jinrong.
"Actually, I think Senior Gu is quite a nice person. She has a beautiful temperament and is also young and talented. The key point is that she takes care of you. If you two don't consider dating... um!"
Before she could finish speaking, a handful of potato chips were stuffed into her mouth.
Shen Qingzhi looked at Yu Kexin chewing potato chips with puffed cheeks and snorted.
"Then you've misunderstood. She doesn't mean it like that. Besides, if helping with peeling shrimp counts as taking care, I could peel them for you too."
"No, no, no... No need." Yu Kexin finally swallowed the potato chips and refused three times.
At the same time, she rolled her eyes in her heart: You two acted that way at lunch, and you still say "no meaning"? Shen Qingzhi, your level of tsundere-ness still increases with age.
After a brief pause, Yu Kexin suddenly remembered something and exclaimed, "With your heart sealed up like this, could it be that you're still thinking about your jiejie?"
Shen Qingzhi was completely puzzled, "What jiejie?"
Yu Kexin squeezed the bag of potato chips and recalled, "Your favorite jiejie back then, when you were drunk, you said you wanted to marry her."
***
Class 3-5 KTV graduation party
One drunk Shen Qingzhi sang Qinghai-Tibet Plateau + The Most Dazzling Folk style and other songs. After half an hour, she finally got tired. With half-closed eyes, she leaned on the sofa for a short rest.
Yu Kexin, who was still sober, endured the ear-piercing torture of the karaoke for half an hour. She then took a bottle of mineral water to feed the heavily drunk person.
Unexpectedly, the drunk who was about to rot into mud suddenly opened her eyes and looked at her with a particularly cute smile, "Jiejie..."
Yu Kexin:?
Although I'm only one month older than you, if you insist on calling me Jiejie, it's not impossible.
In everyday life, Shen Qingzhi is used to being a little tyrant in the class. She has always seen herself as the eldest, not yielding to anyone. Yu Kexin took advantage of this opportunity.
"Jiejie is here, drink the water obediently."
The drunken Shen Qingzhi was indeed much more well-behaved than usual. When the mineral water was brought to her mouth, she took it up with both hands and drank most of the bottle with a "gulu gulu".
After finishing, she politely handed the bottle back and pouted cutely, saying, "Thank you, Jiejie, you're so kind."
Yu Kexin was taken aback by her rare appearance, patted her on the head, and even said in a gentle voice, "If you want anything else, Jiejie will get it for you.
Shen Qingzhi leaned her head against the sofa, her green eyes staring for a while. "I want... I want to marry Jiejie."
Yu Kexin:!
God, what an incredible secret she has learned.
She had always known about Shen Qingzhi's Jiejie infatuation. Every time she mentioned that sister she had never met, there was always a deep sense of teenage longing.
She thought that everyone had their idol in their hearts, so it wasn't unusual.
But she never expected that someone would harbor such thoughts.
This incident shocked Yu Kexin at the time. Fortunately, after Shen Qingzhi sobered up, it was as if she had forgotten, and she never mentioned that sister again.
She also quietly hid this secret that she accidentally learned in her heart.
Whether that Jiejie was a cousin, a distant cousin, or a real sister, it was a forbidden love.
***
Yu Kexin was just tentatively asking a simple question, but Shen Qingzhi's face changed drastically after hearing this, and she even started to stutter as she spoke.
"You...you are talking nonsense, I have never...never said such a thing, and there is absolutely...absolutely no love for that Jiejie!"
Yu Kexin, as one of the friends who knew Shen Qingzhi's character best, looked at the suspicious blush on her face, and took a deep breath in her heart: It's over, it seems that she hasn't forgotten about that sister.
I didn't mention it again for so many years. I thought it was all right long ago, but I didn't expect her feelings to run deep.
Yu Kexin couldn't bear her friend to go astray, so she persuaded her earnestly.
"Qingzhi, you can't do this. Even though same-sex marriage is legal in our country, orthopedics* is still not acceptable. Why don't you let go of the past and choose someone you like, such as Senior Gu..."
*德國骨科 (Déguó gǔkē) or 骨科 (gǔkē): slang/euphemism for incest, click the link for etymology
"Enough!" Shen Qing interrupted angrily and ran to the set angrily.
Shen Qingzhi's fried hair* came and went quickly.
*anger/bad mood
After the filming ended in the afternoon, Yu Kexin coaxed her with some soft words. Shen Qingzhi once again "overlooked past grudges," leading her on a tour of the set.
However, as they were touring around, they unknowingly ended up at the filming location of another group.
She swore she was just casually wandering around, definitely not intentionally.
Here Gu Jinrong has just finished a fight scene, her black hair is messy on her shoulders, her pure white clothes and the corners of her mouth are stained with blood, and her appearance reveals a war-damaged beauty.
Shen Qingzhi only watched from a distance, while her little heart was "thumping" uncontrollably.
Gu Jinrong seemed to notice her arrival and turned her head to show her a gentle smile. With this makeup, she looked fragile and attractive.
Shen Qingzhi pursed her lips vigorously, and deliberately turned her head away from looking at her, but unexpectedly saw another familiar figure.
The woman was in her early thirties, wearing a white slim blouse and wide-leg pants, her brown hair flowing down, exuding beauty with a hint of sharpness.
Shen Qingzhi blinked and confirmed for a few seconds before greeting, "Jie, why are you here?"
Shen Hanzhi turned her head when she heard the sound, and came to her, "Didn't Jinrong tell you that our company is responsible for the special effects of this drama, I came to the filming location to observe and learn. And to see you, by the way."
Shen Qingzhi: So it turns out I'm just a 'by the way'.
Before she had time to protest, she saw her sister walking to Yu Kexin's side, and her smile instantly became amiable, "What a coincidence, Xiao Kexin, we meet again."
Shen Qingzhi: ?!
"When did you two meet?"
In her memory, her sister had always been busy, and she hadn't introduced her friend to her sister. Yet somehow, her friend and her sister managed to get together without her knowing.
Yu Kexin's eyes flickered and finally landed on Shen Qingzhi's chin. "It was just by chance before, we happened to cross paths a few times. What a coincidence, hehe."
The shock in her heart at this moment is more than that of Shen Qingzhi, Shen Qingzhi and Shen Hanzhi are actually sisters.
She is so stupid, the difference between the two names is only one character.
What was even more shocking was that she had only recalled Shen Qingzhi's orthopedic complex not long ago.
Previously, when she heard about it, she didn't think much of it. But now, the real person was standing right in front of her, and the impact was quite significant.
Compared to the two young girls, each with their own thoughts, Shen Hanzhi seemed much calmer. She glanced at Gu Jinrong in the center of the set, then at her own sister.
"Are you both here waiting for Jinrong to finish filming too?"
At this moment, the name "Gu Jinrong" seemed to be a secret switch placed on Shen Qingzhi's body, she felt awkward every time someone mentioned it.
"No! We're just casually touring the set. If you're waiting for someone, continue waiting here. We'll go elsewhere. Let's go, Kexin."
Surprisingly, Yu Kexin didn't mention wanting to admire her idol more this time and left even faster than Shen Qingzhi.
Although she likes to eat melons, this kind of love triangle plus orthopedic melons is too overwhelming, so she has to slow down first.
Shen Qingzhi, who doesn't exercise regularly, was a bit out of breath as she followed behind.
It wasn't until they ran a good distance away, with the person behind them out of sight, that Shen Qingzhi suddenly found the opportunity and began chattering away beside Yu Kexin like a sparrow.
"Why are you running so fast, is there a tiger chasing you?"
"How did you and my sister meet in the first place, and you kept it from me for so long, tell me quickly, tell me."
"I've been filming for nearly a year, and my sister has never visited the set. Is she here because of you?"
....
Actually, Shen Qingzhi doesn't really want to gossip. She just thoroughly enjoyed the feeling of "revenge".
On the other side, Shen Hanzhi looked at the backs of these two running faster than rabbits and didn't intend to stop them, but waited alone on the set for Gu Jinrong to finish filming.
After Gu Jinrong finished filming the last scene, she turned around and looked around. Her wife had long since disappeared, and only her sister-in-law was left.
Shen Hanzhi stepped forward, and waved her palm in front of Gu Jinrong's eyes, "There's no one else here, come back to your senses."
Gu Jinrong looked at Shen Hanzhi helplessly, with a rather disappointed expression, "When did Qingqing leave? Why didn't you stop her."
Shen Hanzhi said in a bad mood: "Shen Qingzhi is a grown person, do you think I can still restrict her freedom? Besides, you two see each other at home and on the set every day. Aren't you tired of each other yet?!"
Gu Jinrong said silently: I will never get tired of seeing her for a lifetime.
She didn't say this to Shen Hanzhi, but if she did, it would be the same as a chicken talking to a duck.
She has no common language in this regard with someone who has been single for thirty years.
Seeing her usually composed friend wearing such a rare look of disappointment, Shen Hanzhi inwardly admired her little sister's capabilities.
She didn't continue teasing Gu Jinrong but put on a serious face. "I came here today to talk to you about something. Ai, don't give me that expression. After we're done, I'll call Shen Qingzhi over."