Chapter 3.1 - To be a Childish Woman… (1/2)
Lou Yaoyao was immediately discharged from the hospital on that day. Since there wasn’t anything wrong with her body, she rather not stayed in the hospital. Although Fang Xilei did not approve, but she also couldn’t persuade Lou Yaoyao, so she had to consent, thus Lou Yaoyao being discharged was unavoidable.
The first thing to do after go home was to take a bath. As for Lou Qingqing who was doing household chores in the lounge with hesitant eyes, Lou Yaoyao completely ignored her existence, Lou Qingqing had better not provoke her, or else she would let Lou Qingqing experience what was called truly vicious!
In the past life, precisely because she had cherished her reputation too much, although there were a lot of cursing, but beside from quarrelling and throwing some sarcastic words, she basically hadn’t done anything excessive. Other people assumed that she treated her elder sister like servant, secretly beating her. However in reality, how could that happened? Lou Qingqing had her Papa who cares so much about her.
Beside… She was no match for Lou Qingqing…
Embarrassedly speaking, Lou Yaoyao —who had been pampered and spoiled since childhood and didn’t like to do exercise— was only one metre sixty two tall, whereas Lou Qinqing was one metre sixty eight tall. Even if the height didn’t matter, their figures were also quite different. Lou Yaoyao wasn’t an airport runway(flat-chest), she could also be a little proud of, but compared to Lou Qingqing’s magnificent shape, it wasn’t worth a thing.
1,62 m is about 5’4” and 1,68 m is about 5’6”, I think? (Sorry if I’m wrong. I too, use metric system.)
After Lou Yaoyao finished her bath, she stood dejectedly in front of a mirror with bath towel wrapped around her body. She couldn’t help but to look at her own feet. Her toes were round as pearl and glossy as jade, the skin was also tender and smooth. In the past life, in order to not to be inferior to Lou Qingqing, she had always worn more than ten centimetres high-heels. Not to mention that she had to endure hardship, her pair of feet had also —due to long term of not being let out— changed their shape.
10 cm ~ 4 inches?
Lou Yaoyao couldn’t help but to be somewhat grateful, now it wasn’t too early nor too late. If it had been two years later, Lou Qingqing would had been graduated to ‘become independent’, she would had transformed from the plain and simple style of dress in her school period, to the sexy White Bone Spirit’s look, dazzling men with allure. Everyone said that was because she had broken away from the family who had been ‘mistreating’ her, and thus turned over a new leaf.
White Bone Spirit: shapeshifting demoness from Journey to the West. For more information:
Jealousy made people crazy, especially when you found that the one that had always been inferior to you, was leaving you far behind. That taste was suffice to wipe out reason and rationality.
Lou Yaoyao pushed open the bathroom’s door, her bare feet stepped on the soft woolen rug, her toes were completely stretched out. As that soft and wonderful sensation was transmitted to her brain, all of her worries seemed to be completely away. Lou Yaoyao slowly walked step by step and for the first time thoroughly observed her own bedroom.
The snow white soft woolen rug was on the floor, the light blue curtains were hung by the side of the french window. A large bed, which was enough for her to roll ten times on it without even falling down, was arranged in the middle of the room. The pink bed drapes were hung above, the bed sheet was pink, the quilt was pink, the pillow was pink, and there were even a pair of human-sized pink bunny dolls at the bedside. This was probably the princess bedroom in a little girl’s dream. Lou Yaoyao sat on the bed, she was feeling nostalgic about these bunny dolls. It was very hard to imagine that this kind of cute arrangement was done by her stern old-fashioned Maternal Grandfather.
By the time Mama had been born, Maternal Grandfather had been nearly fifty years old. It’s reasonable to say that when elderly gains a daughter, it’s normal to be extremely doting. But Mama, who had lost her mother just after she had been born, had been raised and educated like a son by Maternal Grandfather. He had been extremely strict, because he had known that he had been old, that he wouldn’t have been able to protect her for many years later. He had been worried that after his death, his daughter would be bully by others. Therefore, he would have rather endured his daughter’s resentment, and had ruthlessly alienated his daughter.
But perhaps in order to make up for never being close to mother, the extremely strict Maternal Grandfather had been tremendously doting to Lou Yaoyao. He seemed to had given everything to Lou Yaoyao, what he originally hadn’t been able to give to Mama.
Lou Yaoyao thought that perhaps this bedroom, was what Maternal Grandfather had wanted for Mama.
However this dreamy bedroom, was entirely rearranged by Lou Yaoyao two years later in a fit of rage.
A twenty two years old woman yet still lived in a sparkly pink princess bedroom, she would be ridicule by mature woman, because this was very childish!
Over the years, Lou Yaoyao had missed more than once, missed her princess bedroom, missed her childishness. Only after ones had become grown up women did they understand that that kind of childishness —that they had always wanted to grow up when they were little— was what they heavily yearned for now, but wasn’t able to get. Because they were already a grown up woman and these kind of childish things were belong to little children.
A little girl who wore princess dress was forever innocent and adorable. A grown-up women who wore princess dress, even though it was just a slightly cute, a little immature dress, were a fake who pretended to be pure!
Heaven knows how Lou Yaoyao had wanted to do it all over again!
But she hadn’t been able ah, because she had not wanted be inferior to Lou Qingqing ah, she had not wanted to be said by others that she was unfeminine ah, she had not wanted to be said that she had not have any sex appeal ah!
Just for these ‘not wanted to’’s, those years, her life had been extremely tiresome.
The moment she saw this bed, Lou Yaoyao decided that this time, she would carefully treasure each and every of these, she wouldn’t let anyone change these!
As for other people’s opinions? In those years, beside being ridicule, what else had she gotten? Keep on laughing, ok? I will treat them as compliments and receive all of them!
With a sharply risen good mood, Lou Yaoyao was cheerfully and lightheartedly pacing, walking back and forth inside the room. The kitten shaped dressing table, the cosmetics weren’t in disorder, this’s really good! The clean and neat dressing room, didn’t have any dress that was too open nor too sexy, all was cute, this’s really good! Each and every furnitures was painted with sparkly pink, this was indeed very good!
To be a childish woman, it’s really good!
Lou Yaoyao was almost going crazy, up until Aunty Liu knocked on the door to remind her that she should have dinner, only then did she reluctantly came out of her pink bubble.
She was choosing in the dressing room for quite a while, hesitating to decide for quite a while. She wanted to wear every dress, it was really very difficult for her to choose. Finally, without any better option, she closed her eyes and randomly picked a set of dress.
After properly changed her clothes, Lou Yaoyao sat at the dressing table to arrange her hair, but she caught a sight of a familiar blue box on the table. She took the box with complicated mood and opened it. In it, lay two plain and simple bracelets.
The bracelets were composed of blue square-shaped beads, however the corners and edges were grinded to be smooth and round so that one didn’t have to be worried about being pricked on the wrist. They felt ice-cold, like a jade but not a jade, like a stone but not a stone, the beads had some vein lines in them, they looked very much plain and simple. This was the birthday gift which she had prepared for Chen Hao, one was to be given as present for Chen Hao and the other was for her to wear. Chen Hao had never been seen wearing his, but she had been wearing hers for seven years.
This one looked like a plain and simple gift, yet she had spend a lot of thought on it. Perhaps because it was too plain and simple, Lou Qingqing only then thought that it wasn’t worthy of being destroyed, after had taken it away, she also returned it back again. If this not the case, Lou Yaoyao could place the blame on Lou Qingqing. Anyway, Lou Yaoyao’s unreasonable tantrums were well-known, she didn’t care of how much dirty water would be splashed on her again.
To splash dirty water: slander
This bracelet naturally wouldn’t be gifted again, however… she hated to part with it. After all, she had spent a lot of thought on it. She also not used to. After had been wearing it for so many years, her wrist felt empty, her mind felt that something was missing.
After thinking about it, Lou Yaoyao opened the left side drawer and found a bussiness card from the inside.
“Hello, greetings, is this Lin’s Jewellery Store?… I am Lou Yaoyao. Last time, I ordered a pair of bracelet to be made in your store. … No, I don’t have any question, but I want to order another pair to be made. … Not the same, change one of the name…”
Lou Yaoyao put down the telephone, searched for a pair of scissors, cut both of the bracelets, and then throw them into the dustbin without any reluctance.
Whether it was gift or good feeling, both should be given to a person who would cherish them. This secret, Chen Hao hadn’t found it after so many years, how could he found it now?
No longer thinking about this issue, Lou Yaoyao took something from her right side drawer and went downstairs.
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