Chapter 441 - The First Song of Qin (14) (2/2)

And now that it was suddenly taken away from him… How could he not be angry?

“C’mon.”

“Where?”

“To get on the internet.”

“Ah? I don’t really feel like it right now. Chu-Chu, you’re really going? Aren’t you angry about them slandering you? After such a long period of interaction… Chu-Chu, slow down! What’ve you been eating lately? You’re walking so fast! Even my legs can’t catch up with you.”

Shi Sheng rented a booth at an internet café, the type with two seats.

“What’s the name of that company?” Shi Sheng asked as she turned on the computer.

“Chenfeng Science Pte Ltd.”

The internet at the café was pretty good; the computer turned on quickly. Shi Sheng searched for the company Chen Xi mentioned.

It wasn’t a small business, and it didn’t have a good reputation either.

“You’re sure you wanna know who did it?” Shi Sheng asked Chen Xi a final time.

He nodded without hesitation.

……

When Shi Sheng and Chen Xi left the internet café, she patted his shoulder sympathetically.

Chen Xi’s expression was very downcast and contained a faint hint of anger.

“Why would he do this?” Chen Xi didn’t understand. ‘He’s clearly the one leading the project, why would he do such a thing at this time?’

“For money, duh.”

Men’s goals were money, power, and pretty women.

Women’s goals were money, beauty, and men.

There wasn’t really much difference.

“Is all that time and effort we spent just going into wedding clothes for someone else[1]?” Chen Xi was still a bit unwilling to accept it.

“Wedding clothes?” Shi Sheng snorted. “You’re overestimating your little team. That company’s going to land itself in hot soup, just you wait.”

“Chu-Chu…” ‘What does she mean by that?’

Shi Sheng smiled and didn’t answer.

Chen Xi wasn’t feeling happy, so Shi Sheng didn’t ask him to walk her home, instead heading back to her dorm alone.

“…Just a little kiss.”

“There are people around.”

“Who would be out here at this hour? I’m not leaving if you don’t kiss me.”

“…Just a short one?”

As Shi Sheng watched the couple acting lovey-dovey at the foot of a dorm building, she wished she could poke her eyes out. ‘Dog abuse again! Damn, I gotta go find beas—Pei!—Prof Qin to comfort my hurt feelings.’

Shi Sheng turned away, but her foot kicked a can that some idiot had littered. The resulting noise was loud enough to cause the couple to immediately turn around.

When Qiao Qian’qian saw who it was, she clearly blanked out for a moment. The awkward feeling of embarrassing herself in front of someone she knew took over her.

She pushed Tang Jinchen aside and walked towards Shi Sheng. “Xiaochu, can you not tell mum about this for now?”

Qiao Qian’qian was very afraid of Qiao-mu finding out about her relationship with Tang Jinchen.

Qiao-mu had always hoped for Qiao Qian’qian to find a boy older than her; there was no way she would agree to her being with someone four years her junior.

“How’s it any of my business?”

Shi Sheng paused, before taking two condoms out from her shirt pocket. “Be safe.”

The Qiao Qian’qian who received condoms, “…” ‘There’s something a bit off with my little sister…’

[1] I believe I’ve explained it before, but I’ll explain it again: this means to expend a lot of effort into something but see no benefits while another party gets to reap all the benefits. Usually, I’d contextualise it but since the following reply hinges on this, I left it alone.

[2] This is a sort of wordplay where the raws are “钱途”/“qian2tu2”. The actual phrase is “前途”/“qian2tu2”. It means future. The former switches out the first character for the character for money, so Shi Sheng is saying idiots got no money in their future. I think she’s trying to say Author-sama should’ve asked for more lol