Chapter 26-Try Something New (1/2)
The room was filled with the heavy breathing of a man, along with peace.
”I'm leaving.” Xin Qing held onto her waist and stood up. Ying Qingcang frowned as he could not bear to see her being like this and wanted to say something. But Xin Qing turned around and stared at him, ”Since you can't walk, so you are trying to break my legs as well?”
”It seems like you still have some energy, then get a hot towel and clean me.” The words that Ying Qingcang nearly spoke out changed. He stared at the shivering Xin Qing who was wearing her clothes. This damned girl, she’s really not deserving of his care.
Xin Qing glared at him and then turned to open the door.
”If you dare to leave, I'll let you experience it one more time.” Ying Qingcang said.
”You're really shameless.” Xin Qing gritted her teeth as she rushed into the bathroom with tremblings. She threw a towel on Ying Qingcang's body and then left without looking back.
Hearing the sound that Xin Qing slammed the door, Ying Qingcang looked at the ice-cold towel in his hand, frowned, then threw it on the ground and went to sleep.
On the next day, Xin Qing went to school. She couldn't even walk steadily, but she would not take a leave of absence. She had to do research in the library. Zhang Mi and Shi Qianqian helped her from the left and the right sides as they slowly walked to the library. During that time, Zhang Mi kept speaking.
”You come and leave by car everyday. How could you sprain your ankle? I don't know what I should say!”
Xin Qing smiled bitterly, for she could only use this excuse. Shi Qianqian suddenly looked at the other side of the field, as she frowned and said: ”Lin Xiaoyu ….”
They looked over and saw Lin Xiaoyu was walking towards the school gate from afar.
“Since there's no class in the afternoon, she said that she had to go out for something. What's wrong?” Zhang Mi did not care about it.
Shi Qianqian shook her head. ”Nothing.”
Xin Qing spent the entire afternoon in the library, trying to find some inspiration for herself. She liked simple but elegant styles, but the international judges favored the complex and characteristic works according to the information of previous competitions.
With this in mind, Xin Qing give up the style with strong national flavor, but to find inspiration from the western legends. She thought about it for a long time, and decided her work would be based on the story of God of Death's Daughter and Rainbow's Son.
The daughter of the God of Death and the son of the Rainbow loved each other, but Zeus had decreed that the God of Death should not fall in love with the light one. Otherwise, a curse would fall on the daughter of the God of Death and she would die with a thousand arrows piercing her heart. In order to break the curse, the Rainbow's son flew to the Arctic with her, looking for the Five-Colored Aurora. After so much suffering, their love touched Aurora. With her help, the Rainbow's son turned into a rainbow, while the daughter of the God of Death turned into a Bird Of Paradise, and then they lived a happy life.
When she finished reading this story, Xin Qing scoffed at it. How could there be such a love today? If they hadn't given up early, someone would have betrayed another.
”So those are only legends!” Zhang Mi said while she was holding a magazine, ”Modern love is meeting, sleeping, and breaking up.”
Shi Qianqian watched them for a long time before she finally said, ”I believe in love.” This made Xin Qing and Zhang Mi cry out in disbelief.
”I believe that one day, I will get the man I love. Maybe he is already by my side, but I haven’t found it yet.” Shi Qianqian muttered to herself as she looked out the window, ”There must be someone who will be standing by your side after you have gone through all the hardships.”
When she left the library, Xin Qing's draft was already formed. It would be the weekend tomorrow, so she went back to the dorm to take a few books. After Xin Qing packed up and prepared to leave, Lin Xiaoyu called to her and told her to go downstairs. Xin Qing did not think much of it. She put down the stuffs in her hands, and hurriedly ran downstairs. In the end, she saw Lin Xiaoyu and Xin Yudie were standing in front of the building.
”Xin Qing, she said that she needed to meet you, so I …” Lin Xiaoyu said perplexedly, ”We bumped into each other at the school gate, and she stopped me and didn't let me go.”
Xin Qing smiled at her: ”It's nothing, you may go back first!”
Lin Xiaoyu looked at Xin Yudie again. She bit her lips and ran into the dormitory.
”What do you want?” Xin Qing didn't have the patience to waste time with Xin Yudie right now, she had to prepare for the competition. As for the Xin family, she would slowly retrieve everything that belonged to her mother. As for Xin Yudie, Xin Qing did not regard her as her opponent at all.
Xin Yudie did not care about Xin Qing's attitude at all. Her smile returned to its former haughtiness and she looked at Xin Qing with contempt, ”I am here to remind you that without the support of a jewelry company, what are you going to use to make the work for the competition?” Xin Yudie laughed proudly, ”If you like, I will tell dad to allow you use the company's design room and materials. How is it?”
Xin Qing was upset for a moment. She had forgotten the most important part. Even if she could design it, it would be useless if she could not make it. Sketches were not important in the competition. She had money that Ying Qingcang had given her and it wasn't difficult for her to rent a design room, but what about the materials …
The more valuable the raw materials were, the higher quality the jewelry that was made of these materials would be. You could never be able to fake the real quality. Would she have to spend millions to buy diamonds?
Xin Qing felt that she had thought too little before, and the sense of incapability made her look listless.
Xin Yudie secretly sneered: Hmph, even if you beg me, I would not let you use anything of the Xin family!
”Hehe, does they belong to Xin family’s? They are my mother's. You are so shameless to keep them all, even came to me for blustering. Do you think that you will strike me by this way? “
Xin Qing laughed coldly: ”I'm telling you, since the day I left, I has nothing to do with you guys. You don’t need to come and provoke me from time to time.”
She turned around and was about to leave, but then she thought for a while and said, ”As for whether I can participate in the competition or not, you’ll just wait and see!”
”Xin Qing!” Zhang Mi and Shi Qianqian rushed over to protect her by standing in front of her.