52 – For her future good
Suyun watched as Qin Xue ran out wearing a bath towel.
It seemed like quite an important matter.
It was about the other party’s mother; the last time at such a moment, Qin Xue had directly kicked Suyun out of the car. So this time, she didn’t plan to go out immediately, wanting to wait until the other party was done.
“Um…” She felt a bit lonely in the bathtub all by herself.
Suyun hugged her legs in the tub, her mind filled with thoughts about what just happened.
‘Do you like me?’
Excluding friends and best friends, that left only lovers.
Did she like Qin Xue? If she had to answer that… it would be a yes, she liked her.
Qin Xue was actually quite nice, and adding in some personal traits, Suyun felt that 99% of boys would like her. She just didn’t know who would be lucky enough to be liked by Qin Xue.
What if I went and answered that I liked her, what would happen?
“No, no!” Suyun suddenly sat up straight in the bathtub, looking as if she had suddenly realized something.
She suddenly thought of something.
That was, she was a girl now, so were her actions during the shower a bit too gentlemanly?
Suyun could say that while showering, aside from those few glances at first, she hadn’t looked afterward, deliberately keeping her head down and turning away, which seemed quite unnatural, not like what an ordinary girl would do.
Throughout the whole time, Suyun’s face was also flushed.
Qin Xue wouldn’t think she was a lesbian and would kick her out once she answered, would she?
That would be awful; she still wanted to keep her meal ticket. It had been hard to deepen their relationship a bit; she didn’t want to be kicked out. She needed to cherish this opportunity.
Plus, she had gotten used to having Qin Xue by her side every day and felt a bit reliant on her.
After a fierce internal debate, Suyun ultimately decided not to answer Qin Xue’s question. If asked again, she would just say it was a friend’s affection.
Then, she wouldn’t hide anymore; she’d look directly! Best case, she’d even reach out to touch or pinch, without blushing, just smiling so that Qin Xue would think of her as a normal girl.
Yes, just like that.
Thinking of this, Suyun felt like she had lost out in that moment by acting gentlemanly and being suspected. It would have been better to just enjoy herself and be happy.
“Ah.” Suyun sighed heavily and got out of the bathtub.
Just out of the bath, Suyun still had many water droplets on her body. As she crossed the bathtub, her small white foot looked especially tempting under the bathroom lights.
Suyun stood barefoot on the floor and began searching for clothes nearby.
“Hmm… this should be what Qin Xue wants to wear.” Suyun first eliminated a relatively larger piece of ‘clothes,’ setting it aside carefully.
She found a long pants and sleeves outfit and put it on.
As for the innerwear, there were blue and pink options; she definitely chose blue.
“Uh, so obvious.” After finishing dressing, Suyun looked down and realized the abnormality.
She was missing a piece of innerwear; usually, she would put on something thicker, but Qin Xue hadn’t found her one.
“Wuwu…” Suyun’s mood instantly soured. She didn’t want to run out covering up; that would be too embarrassing.
……
In the bedroom, Qin Xue sat on the edge of the bed while Qin Yuan Yuan stood behind her, using a hairdryer to dry her hair.
“You said you would study well; what does this show as your result? The news has already reached me.”
The tone from the other end of Qin Xue’s phone clearly wasn’t good.
“Mom, I have indeed been studying seriously lately. That was a school activity; I was just watching on the side.”
“Watching? You’re practically making headlines, about to be on the cover. You shouldn’t embarrass our family and stop lying to me about studying. From now on, listen to me and be good.”
Qin Xue’s gentle explanations didn’t earn her any leniency; on the contrary, the other party felt that Qin Xue was using studying as an excuse to buy time.
“My friend fell off the stage; I was worried and ran up!”
“What friend falls off the stage for no reason? Plus, I feel like your friend with that white hair is probably no good, so stop hanging out with her.”
“Mom!…”
Qin Xue almost snapped back in that moment but held herself back.
She felt utterly powerless inside because she didn’t know how to convince this stubborn middle-aged woman.
But if she didn’t try to convince her, the other party might force her to associate with someone of a matching background.
All for her future good.
“Wait until you listen to me before you call me Mom. I don’t want to hear it right now. What’s wrong with you getting to know Su Wei a bit better? He’s a really good person.”
(Su Wei: The son of the chairman of the Su Corporation mentioned earlier)
“Eh…” Qin Xue was already at a loss for words upon hearing this, throwing her phone aside, holding her head in frustration.
“Mom, what my sister said is true!” At that moment, Qin Yuan Yuan, who had been listening from the back, couldn’t sit still anymore. She picked up the phone and spoke loudly into it.
“I saw with my own eyes my sister carefully opening unsealed books, and she studied all night.”
“No, not just one night; she’s been like this every night recently. My sister is really working hard now! Mom, you have to believe in her; you can’t always think of her like before.”
Qin Yuan Yuan kept talking into the phone, leaving the person on the other end momentarily speechless.
“…”
“Yuan Yuan, are you serious? You’re not working together with Qin Xue to fool me, are you? Let me tell you, you’re harming your sister like this.”
Facing this kind of language, the person on the other end still didn’t believe Qin Xue.
“Really, if you don’t believe, just come and see Sister Xue’s books. They’re full of notes!”
“Yuan Yuan, stop it…” Qin Xue couldn’t stand it anymore; she wanted to stop Qin Yuan Yuan.
“I have to tell you; Mom is being too unfair.”
The two sisters in the bedroom were fighting over the phone, and after a moment, a somewhat hesitant voice came from the phone.
“I believe you two; let’s consider that Qin Xue is really studying. I’ve been too suspicious.”
