“Is it really that hard to eat?”
Gu Qing looked at Chen Luo’s pained expression, picked up her chopsticks with a puzzled look, then picked up a piece and put it in her mouth.
Before she even started chewing.
Gu Qing’s beautiful features twisted and contorted, and then she turned and rushed straight into the kitchen, spitting the beef in her mouth into the trash can.
Then.
She used a small bowl to get half a bowl of water and rinsed her mouth several times before her complexion gradually returned to normal.
She walked out of the kitchen.
Chen Luo, who had already put down his chopsticks and was sitting at the table, looked at Gu Qing and said, “What do you think?”
“…It is a little hard to eat,” Gu Qing replied awkwardly.
Then.
Gu Qing carried the entire basin of beef back into the kitchen, dumped it all into the trash can, and even washed the bowl three times.
In the living room.
Chen Luo stood up and said to Gu Qing, “Take your time. I’m heading back first.”
After saying that.
Chen Luo got up, walked downstairs, crossed the road, went to the supermarket across the street, bought a piece of pork belly, and then bought chili peppers and garlic shoots.
After returning home, he made a stir-fried pork belly with garlic shoots.
After finishing it.
Just as he was about to eat.
Gu Qing, from next door, caught the smell and came over. She knocked on the door, stood by the window, and said, “Chen Luo, can I come to your place and freeload a meal?”
“…”
Chen Luo said nothing.
But he still got up and opened the door for Gu Qing, then sat back down and continued eating, treating Gu Qing as if she did not exist.
After lunch.
Gu Qing was also extremely sensible. She washed the dishes, wiped down the kitchen stove, and put the leftover food into the fridge.
After doing all that.
Before leaving, she said to Chen Luo, “Chen Luo, I owe you another meal. I’ll pay you back someday.”
After saying that.
Gu Qing strode out the door on her long legs, not giving Chen Luo any chance to speak.
Chen Luo did not really take it to heart.
He played for a while, exercised a bit, and took a nap.
The afternoon passed by just like that.
He went out at 3:30.
He went to the training class for two hours. Because Meng Yue and Duoduo did not come, and only Gu Qing and her younger male cousin Langlang were there, the class was actually quite harmonious.
After class ended.
Chen Luo decided to eat out tonight to make up for the disastrous lunch, and by the way, he would call up his best bro.
So Chen Luo called Xu Anping.
The call connected.
A burst of clacking keyboard sounds came through the phone; Xu Anping was probably writing a novel.
“Come out and eat skewers.”
Chen Luo said.
“You’re treating me?”
Xu Anping asked.
“Of course you’re treating me!”
Chen Luo said, “I just got back to Jiangcheng and I’m broke. I spent all my money renting that place. I’ll treat you once I get paid!”
“I’m broke too.”
Xu Anping said awkwardly.
“Broke my ass! Skip one foot massage and that’s enough for several skewer meals!”
Chen Luo said speechlessly.
“You can’t say it like that! You think I go get foot massages for myself? I do it to find creative inspiration. I’m sacrificing myself for art. Don’t make me sound so vulgar!”
Xu Anping replied in a tone of “righteous indignation.”
But after saying that.
Even he could barely hold back his laughter, and Chen Luo was truly speechless after hearing it.
“Fine, I’ll treat then! Hurry up and come pick me up!”
Chen Luo said with a sigh.
…
More than an hour later.
Chen Luo and Xu Anping were sitting in a skewer restaurant, cooking skewers and drinking ice-cold beer.
After several bites of beef skewers.
And a few bottles of ice beer.
The two of them also started chatting about everything under the sun.
Completely unaware that at this very moment, a pair of eyes was watching them.
…
Inside a luxurious and grand estate, in an exquisite and cozy bedroom, a loli girl was sitting on the sofa.
She was wearing only a single black nightgown as thin as cicada wings, covering her slender yet curvy body.
The room was dim.
Only a sliver of moonlight from outside the window shone in, landing just right on a full-length mirror by the window, and the mirror happened to reflect the girl sitting on the sofa.
Those long, beautiful legs were pale against the dark, and those delicate jade-like feet were small and exquisite.
But looking higher.
There was a pair of eyes that were almost eerie and sickly.
At this moment.
Those eyes were quietly staring at an LCD screen, and the screen was showing Chen Luo and Xu Anping eating skewers.
“Look, Brother is so happy right now!”
Luo Qingqing looked at herself in the mirror and said with a smile.
“Yes!”
The Luo Qingqing in the mirror replied, “He’s living too comfortably right now. We can’t let him live this comfortably!”
“We have to make him feel tormented every single day, make him feel pain! We have to make them deeply torment Brother Luo! Only then will Brother Luo know who is the best woman to him in this world!”
Hearing that.
The Luo Qingqing on the sofa nodded excitedly, repeatedly saying to herself in the mirror.
“Yes!”
“Make them brutally torment Brother Luo. That way, my appearance will be even more meaningful!”
“Yes!”
“When Brother Luo has had enough torment, he’ll understand how good we are. Once we rescue him from the living hell of Jiangcheng, he’ll fall completely in love with you!”
The ‘Luo Qingqing’ in the mirror said again.
“Yes!”
“By then, Brother Luo will definitely fall deeply in love with me, just like when he loved me as a child, always giving me the warmest embrace!”
Luo Qingqing on the sofa said with utter longing.
Her face was full of yearning as she spoke.
She spread her arms and hugged herself, while desperately imagining in her heart the feeling of Chen Luo embracing her when they were children.
As she imagined it.
Luo Qingqing tightly curled up her body, drawing her legs onto the sofa, with the knees of her long legs pressing up against the bottom of her chin.
She contracted herself tightly.
Her arms wrapped around her own legs. Only in this way could she feel warmth, and a faint sense of security rose inside her heart.
“Don’t be afraid! All of this will pass! Brother Luo will ultimately belong only to you. Pick up your phone and call Shen Qiu!”
“Ultimately belongs only to me…”
Luo Qingqing murmured those words, her gaze slowly shifting to herself in the mirror, and an eerie smile slowly rose at the corner of her mouth.
Then.
Luo Qingqing slowly let go of herself. Clear red marks appeared on the inside of her arms, caused by hugging herself too tightly just now.
After letting go.
Luo Qingqing, still wearing that nightgown as thin as cicada wings, stepped barefoot onto the soft carpet, rose from the sofa, and turned off the LCD screen.
She admired her build in the moonlight for a while.
Looking at that nearly perfect girl’s body, Luo Qingqing smiled eerily again.
“Brother Luo will like it, right? He’ll definitely like me. I’m young, pretty, and obedient. He’ll definitely love me so, so much!”
After saying that.
Luo Qingqing finally went to the bedside, picked up the phone by her pillow, and opened her contacts. There were four contacts in total, exactly Chen Luo’s four ex-girlfriends.
She had already contacted the first two. The third was none other than Shen Qiu, the only young lady of the Shen family, an underworld family in Jiangcheng.
A woman famous for being domineering and violent.