Chapter 318 - Ah Sha! Save Me... (1/2)

Lin Musheng’s attitude towards Wan Qingsi was kind of like a dead pig in a pot of boiling water. No matter how caustic and sharp Wan Qingsi’s words were, no matter how much his words burned, Lin Musheng just ignored him.

“Come, come, Xiao Shasha, the snails here are to die for!” Lin Musheng said, holding out a fork.

Wan Qingsi got in the way of Lin Musheng’s fork before it reached Ah Sha’s mouth and bit off the snail. He spat it out after he chewed two times. “Disgusting!”

Ah Sha looked at the two men exasperatedly. “Oh, my God… Can you two stop acting like a bunch of three-year-olds?”

Wan Qingsi’s phone suddenly rang. “I have to take this,” Wan Qingsi said, standing up.

Lin Musheng watched Wan Qingsi stepping out of the restaurant, then sighed. “Ah Sha, would you have chosen me if I met you earlier?”

“No,” Ah Sha said, giving Lin Musheng an apologetic smile. “For as long as I can remember, Wan Qingsi has always been there in my life ever since I was three. He’s become inseparable from my life.”

Lin Musheng smirked. “Shouldn’t have asked.”

“Musheng!” Ah Sha held his hand. “Thank you. Thank you so much for everything. I appreciate and respect your feelings for me, please don’t ever doubt that. And… I’ll forever be indebted to you for everything you’ve done for me. I truly hope that you can find your own happiness. I don’t think what you feel for me is love at all, but persistent gratitude. When you were on the brink of life and death, I gave you hope.”

“Is that really not love…?” Lin Musheng mumbled. Then, they heard Wan Qingsi’s angry roar. “How dare you touch her hand!”

Ah Sha stood up and held Wan Qingsi back before he could pounce on Lin Musheng. “Didn’t you see that I’m holding his hand, not the other way around? Geez!”

That statement actually made Wan Qingsi feel worse. Wan Qingsi glared at Ah Sha. “Why are you holding his hand?”

“Probably because she’s just suddenly realized that I’m a much better man than you are!” said Lin Musheng.

Wan Qingsi returned to his seat and picked up his wine glass elegantly. He took a sip and said, “Ah, that’s a relief then. Because no matter how I look at it, I can’t see how you could possibly be better than me.”

“Haha…” Lin Musheng chuckled. “Well, if we compare skin thickness, then you’re clearly way better than I am.”

On the way home, Wan Qingsi was still scowling as he drove. Ah Sha clung to his arm and began comforting him: “When I held his hand at the time, I was telling him that you’re the only man I’ll ever love. I was telling him not to waste any more of his time on me. We now have half of the formula because of him. I see him as a friend.”

“I know!” Wan Qingsi said, suddenly pulling up to the roadside. He hugged her tightly. “Ah Sha, because we grew up together, you never really had a choice. Right now… I’m scared. I’m terrified because now you know that I’m not the only man in this world who’s nice to you. If you had a choice, would you still love me…”

…

Ah Sha never knew that Wan Qingsi had been having such thoughts. To her, her Brother Xunxun was pretty much omnipotent. There was nothing in this world that was too difficult for him to handle. She never knew that there were times where he would feel insecure too.

“Brother Xunxun!” Ah Sha patted his back. “I don’t know about other women. Most of them will have to choose because they need to. But you see, I don’t even need to choose! Because I already fell in love with you when I was just a little girl. I wanted to marry you even back then. You’re like oxygen to me. I won’t be able to live without you.”

Wan Qingsi raised his head, revealing his sparkling eyes. “Really? You won’t hesitate at all? You won’t choose anyone but me?”

“It’s always just been you!” Ah Sha kissed him. “Don’t tell me you have some other woman you’re seeing?” Ah Sha’s gaze turned into a glare. “Who is it? That fake Ying Xin? I’m going to poison her to death!”

Wan Qingsi’s chest trembled with laughter, and he hugged her tight. “I can’t wait for us to get home!” he growled.

“Wan Qinshou!” Ah Sha poked his face. (T/N: Qinshou is a Chinese term for “animal”; in some contexts, it is used to refer to someone who is perverted or crazy about sex)

That night, they were extremely gentle with each other in their lovemaking. Perhaps their conversation in the car was cathartic in that so many years of pent-up emotions were finally brought to light. Ah Sha was very acquiescent, agreeing to any position that Wan Qingsi wanted, much to his delight. The word “babe” never stopped pouring out of his lips for the entire night.

It was already noon by the time Ah Sha arrived at the movie set the following day. She’d always been getting special treatment from the production crew; unless they had notified her in advance to come earlier, she usually just showed up at the movie set around noon.

The director was okay with this kind of schedule. After all, Stars Entertainment was paying for everything, and Wan Qingsi had already told them to take their time with the filming. If the director was okay with it, then, naturally, everyone else was too. Compared to other production teams whose crews had to start work early in the morning and then wrap up work way past midnight, they were practically in heaven!

“Are you okay?” Ah Sha asked Zheng Gege. She’d notice Zheng Gege spacing out a lot today.

Zheng Gege’s brows were knitted tightly. “I feel like someone’s been following me for the past two days.”

“Following you? When?” Ah Sha paused in thought. “You mean on the way home?”

“Yeah.” Zheng Gege nodded. “I stay in the Old City region with a lot of small alleyways. Good thing we usually wrap things up early. Otherwise, I don’t think I can go back alone.”

“Did you get on anyone’s bad side lately?” Ah Sha asked.

“With the way I am…” Zheng Gege shrugged. Ah Sha knew what she meant. Zheng Gege was usually cold and aloof. She wouldn’t have known it even if she did piss anyone off.

“Maybe I was being paranoid,” Zheng Gege said when she noticed Ah Sha’s frown. “I mean, I didn’t actually see anyone following me.”

“Give me your phone,” Ah Sha said, holding out her hand. Zheng Gege complied.

Ah Sha took the phone and saved her own number into the phone. “Call me if there’s anything. And I mean anything, you hear me?”

Touched, Zheng Gege retrieved her phone and said, “Thank you!”

Well, the old adage about a woman’s being accurate turned out to be correct. Three nights later, when Ah Sha and Wan Qingsi were playing Chinese Chess (the loser had to remove one article of clothing), Ah Sha’s phone suddenly rang. She picked up immediately when she glanced at the caller ID and saw that it was Zheng Gege.

“Ah Sha, someone’s trying to kidnap me, please! Hel—” CLACK! Someone had snatched the phone away. Ah Sha sprang to her feet.

Wan Qingsi could already tell that something was amiss based on Ah Sha’s body language. “What happened?” he asked.

“Zheng Gege was kidnapped,” Ah Sha said, quickly putting her clothes back on. “Ask Wan Yi to start tracking her down. She must’ve been abducted in the area near her place. She told me before that someone’s been following her.”