Chapter 24 (2/2)
How can taking off a tie produce such strong aura? Du Lei Si recomposed herself, putting on a flattering smile she said, “I … … I just wanted to ask … … where… … Where will I sleep?”
“There.” Lian Jun pointed to the inside of the room.
Du Lei Si froze, it was a long time before she tried to vainly say: “Then… … Where will you sleep?”
“There.” The President’s finger still pointed in one direction.
This time, Du Lei Si was embarra.s.sed and weakly said: “Over there … appears to … only have one room……”
“And?” Lian Jun asked.
“And … … there’s only one bed … …”
“And?”
“And then … … I … …” Du Lei Si finally gritted her teeth, and cruelly shouted the truth: “I don’t want to sleep on the floor!”
The President evoked a smile on his lips: “Who said I was going to make you sleep on the floor?”
Ah? Du Lei Si was stunned: “Then… … you want to sleep there?”
After she said this, the smile on the President’s lips disappeared: “How dare you ask me to sleep on the floor?”
“No! No that’s not it!” Du Lei Si continuously shook her head, for a moment she thought something wasn’t quite right, “you are not sleeping on the floor, I’m not sleeping on the floor, then we … … “
“We sleep on the bed.”
BOOM!——
Du Lei Si’s head exploded.
“No way! I don’t want to sleep with you!” Du Lei Si didn’t think before blurting this out.
“What are you talking about?” Lian Jun’s face instantly changed from sunny to cloudy, an overcast with a storm coming.
“I … … I said I don’t want to… … don’t want to … …don’t want you to suffer and squeeze into one bed with me……” After Du Lei Si finished speaking, Du Lei Si mentally slapped her own mouth, Du Lei Si ah Du Lei Si, how can you not having any principle?
Lian Jun’s expression calmed down, “I don’t mind.” He said and added the following words, “Besides it’s not the first time.”
Swis.h.!.+ Du Lei Si’s face turned red.
Obviously it was the President who’s forcing her to sleep in the same bed as him! At that moment, Du Lei Si low EQ suddenly had an epiphany, could it be the President wants to … … Want to eat her tofu[1]?
[1] 吃豆腐 chī dòu fǔ – Literal Definition: To take advantage of woman physically or verbally through actions bearing s.e.xual connotations. Eg: through inappropriate flirting.
The common saying of “Eating Tofu” is related to the story of “Tofu Xis.h.i.+”.
How the story came by: “Xis.h.i.+” was the name of a beautiful woman from the Spring and Autumn Period (770-476BC), who was presented by Fu Chai (the King of Wu) to Gou Jian ( the King of Yue). “Xis.h.i.+” then became a popular term for referring to beautiful woman, which is how it continues to be used today.
“Tofu Xis.h.i.+” refers to Yang Ersao, a character from the novel “Guxiang”, written by Lu Xun.
Yang is the owner of a tofu shop; she is young, beautiful and has flawless skin because she eats tofu all the time. She entices and flirts with men in order to sell more tofu. These men always go to her tofu shop under the guise that they are just going there to “eat tofu” in order to flirt with her. Over time, the idiom “eating tofu” came into use to refer to a man taking advantage of a woman.
How to use it in a sentence: Be careful, this idiom has a softer meaning in contemporary China and is generally only used in casual contexts, making it unsuitable for use in formal conversation. It is commonly used by men in a humourous manner during potentially embarra.s.sing situations. For example, if a man accidentally brushes the chest of an attractive woman whilst on a bus, he may then use the phrase to apologize her as such: Sorry, I did not mean to eat your tofu.
When Du Lei Si thought to this point, she was frighten by her own ideas.
Why would the President want to eat her tofu? So as they say, eating white tofu constantly, occasionally you would want to taste the smell of stinky tofu.
Phooey! How can she be stinky tofu? She is a delicate and tender, a smooth piece of soft tofu! (Du du, you overestimate yourself-_-| | | ）
The problem is that the President who constantly eat tofu lacks professional ethics! Clearly she was the one who was at disadvantage, yet he could turn things around and made it appear as if she forced him, eating his tofu instead.
“Fei Fei, someone wants to eat my tofu!” The resentment in De Lei Si exploded, taking advantage of the President taking a shower, Du Lei Si began sending text messages to Zhu Yao Fei.
After a while, Zhu Yao Fei’s replied message came: “Who’s so bored, even wants to eat your tofu?”
Du Lei Si’s little pride suffered a blow and argued back: “This person is dictatorial, overbearing, shameless, a man in beast clothing, worse to the extreme point!”
“Generally a beast in human clothing looks more beautiful”
“Well … … He really good-looking…… “
“Is he rich?”
“There is a lot of money … …”
After a while, before Du Lei Si got Zhu Yao Fei’s reply, she received a call from her instead. When she picked up the call, Zhu Yao Fei’s scolding came through: “A man who’s rich and handsome you don’t eat his tofu, why ain’t you eating his tofu first? You’re so silly!”
This powerful wave of earthquake finally made Du Lei Si regain her conscious, after a long time she suddenly realised——Oh! Why didn’t she eat the President’s tofu instead?
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