29 Chapter 28 – Spicy Crispy Skin Fish 6 (1/2)
Dong Yiru was still in a state of exhilaration and was even scrolling through the comments for her to see. They all said the same thing, all along the lines of ”My heart has shattered.” Below Mu Mu's Weibo re-post, there was no lack of people within the entertainment circle excitedly wanting the inside gossip on what the female subject of the photograph looked like from a frontal view. Mu Mu was especially serious when he replied to a yellow-V Weibo-er who was a closer friend: Pretty. The type I like.
And then below that was another string of comments in the vein of ”Is this a hint that someone wants to steal someone else's girl ( ⊙ o ⊙)?!”
The line-up of comments was very orderly and under control…
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”You know, Mu Mu is my absolute cosplayer idol. If I were not paying attention to him all the time, I would definitely have missed this. Don't worry. It really was deleted almost instantly… Probably no one got a chance to save the photo…” Dong Yiru was still going on and on with her blah blah blah…
Gu Sheng was at a loss for words.
I need to calm down. Calm down…
That was all she could think.
She could not stay in the grocery store any longer. Fortunately, Dong Yiru was still in the middle of her work shift and did not dare talk too much with her. Gu Sheng found an excuse and ran out of there all the way home. Once she stepped in through the doorway, she saw her mother washing dishes in the kitchen. Hearing the sound of the front door, her mom turned to take a quick backwards glance. ”Why are you suddenly back? Didn't you say you weren't coming home this week? I didn't leave any dinner for you.”
”Mm … I went to a schoolmate's house. It's close to here. I came back since it was on the way.”
Mom did not say any more and simply pointed at the refrigerator. ”Your dad and I are on duty to take care of your [maternal] grandma through the night. If you're hungry, there are buns in the fridge. Get some to eat yourself.”
She answered with an ”mm.”
It was good there would be no one at home, definitely good. Otherwise, if she was acting abnormal the whole night, she was sure her dad and mom would interrogate her.
She wandered back into her room and felt her own face. Burning up, so burning up. She could completely imagine how red it was. She had been teased in so many ways and so fiercely today that in retrospect, she rather admired herself for even being able to last all the way back home. T.T
Toupai…
Qiang Qing Ci…
Mo Qingcheng…
These three names combined together made up one person. And this particular person was the voice she had liked from the time she had first stepped into the entertainment circle. Back then, she did not know he could sing. Her only thought at the time was that one day, she would compose, arrange, and write the lyrics and dialogue for a storyline song, and if Toupai could deliver one or two spoken lines in it, she would feel complete.
Complete.
At that time, her thinking was so simple…
She changed into her pajamas and sat out on the little balcony of her room. Her hands unconsciously rested on her guzheng. Her heart was still beating irregularly, sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly…
She and Toupai… How had they evolved into this sort of relationship? … Was Toupai being serious, or was this just more of the teasing that was normal in the 2-D world and he just could not be bothered to clarify?
She recalled how, occasionally, a big name in the entertainment circle had hinted that she was interested in Toupai and some romance rumors had then followed-suit, but those rumors also died out very quickly. Mo Qingcheng genuinely was not someone who liked to publicly clarify or declare his opinion on anything. On the contrary, he somewhat gave the sense that he was actually dissociated from the 2-D world. With the exception of this time…
She touched her hand to her face again…
Still so hot. T.T
Was this an indication that her mind was going to spend the night drifting around in space somewhere?…
Without thinking, she plucked a note on her guzheng. A ”twang” rang out. All of a sudden, something buried in her mind was prodded out. ”Shang Ye”… Today was Valentine's Day. Toupai said he was going to post ”Shang Ye” on Valentine's Day?! Oh no, oh no! The wave after wave of comments that were going to come were just too scary. She had not figured out what she was supposed to do… But if she continued being high profile like this, she really was going to go utterly insane.
She took a deep breath, then got up from the balcony and went back to her own bed. Lying there on her stomach, she stared at her mobile phone. Given the choice between either dialing the phone number or sending a WeChat message, she decisively went with the latter option… Keeping it to that form of communication seemed to at least allow her to maintain her composure a bit more.
She thought for a moment, then decided on typing the message: Still busy?
Very quickly, a voice message was returned from the other end.
Mo Qingcheng's voice could be heard clearly: ”Wait a sec. I just finished showering. Let me put on some clothes.”
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Her brain very successfully helped her conjure up an image. The next second, she was burying her face furiously into her pillow. Too, too much allowed for the imagination…
Soon, she heard her phone ring, and it was not a WeChat alert. It was an incoming phone call. Gu Sheng turned her head to the side and looked at her phone. Mo Qingcheng's name showed up on the screen. He had actually, truly called her. Not WeChat. A phone call… Gu Sheng hesitated for a dozen seconds or so before she finally answered.
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”Have you eaten dinner yet?” This was the first sentence Toupai said to her in his first phone call to her.
”Not yet…” Gu Sheng answered unthinkingly.
”I'm still at the hospital. Want to have dinner together?”
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