During the New Year, Yu Yao received a New Year’s greeting message from the minor internet celebrity.
The minor internet celebrity, Xiao Qin, had been having a very difficult time over the past few months.
The weight loss pills she sold had encountered a massive problem; people were continuously claiming compensation, and her account had been banned by the platform.
Xiao Qin knew that Yu Yao had been sent to the hospital for emergency rescue in order to prove the efficacy of the medicine for her. Fearing that Yu Yao’s relatives would come looking for her, she had not dared to ask for news about Yu Yao all this time.
It was not until before the New Year, when she saw Yu Yao shopping with a girl in the mall, that she learned Yu Yao was alive.
She had squandered her money wantonly before and had not saved much. After the incident, those ambiguous partners of hers all avoided her like the plague. She was consuming her savings without any income while also having to guard against victims coming to her door, living her life like a stray dog.
Yu Yao looked so much more beautiful!
Since she was still alive, everything would be easy to handle…
Xiao Qin could not help but tentatively contact Yu Yao.
But Yu Yao did not answer her.
She knew Yu Yao was angry in her heart, but she was not discouraged either; after all, Yu Yao had always been her most loyal simp.
Therefore, she crouched near Yu Yao’s house for a few days, specially dressed herself up, and appeared on the mandatory path Zhao Chuji took to go to school.
Xiao Qin had figured out a pattern from her stakeout: Yu Yao would escort this little girl to school every day.
This little girl was probably a relative of Yu Yao, and she possessed a face that made Xiao Qin extremely envious and jealous pure as a lotus emerging from clear water, naturally beautiful without decoration.
Unlike herself, who had to spend a large amount of money on cosmetic repairs in order to maintain her beauty.
Looking closely, the girl even seemed a little familiar.
But she had no time to think carefully about the girl’s identity: Yu Yao’s reaction was entirely beyond her expectations.
Yu Yao’s eyes were steady and her expression was calm; the gaze directed at her no longer held any of the past infatuation and love.
“Yu Yao?”
Seeing that Yu Yao made no movement, Xiao Qin panicked a little and forced out a few tears with effort: “Are you really not going to care about me anymore?”
She moved closer, planning to pull Yu Yao’s sleeve. Before she could even touch Yu Yao, the little girl on the side grabbed her hand.
That little girl looked thin and weak, but she possessed the stubborn strength of an ox; her grip was extremely powerful.
She had been deliberately faking her crying before, but being grabbed like this by the little girl, she truly shed tears from the pain.
“Let go!” She screamed and flung her hand away, glaring furiously at the girl.
She met the girl’s gaze: that girl looked extremely beautiful, but her pair of eyes was pitch-black and bottomless, looking even somewhat eerie.
Clearly she had not used much strength, yet the girl was flung back two steps by her and only stabilized her body by being supported by Yu Yao.
“You’ve gone too far.” Yu Yao frowned and looked at her.
She was not the original owner who allowed Xiao Qin to demand and take whatever she wanted. She had long since blacklisted Xiao Qin’s messages. She originally thought Xiao Qin would stop pestering her, but she did not expect her to come right to the door.
Looking at Zhao Chuji’s appearance, a mouthful of blood choked in Xiao Qin’s throat: She must be faking it!
Thinking about it, one would naturally know that since Yu Yao had almost lost her life for her before, Yu Yao’s friends and relatives would certainly be displeased to see her approaching Yu Yao again…
If it were in the past, she would definitely turn around and leave without looking back. But today was different from the past; she could only swallow this anger, putting on a smile as she looked towards Zhao Chuji: “Little sister, it’s older sister’s fault. Older sister apologizes to you.”
“I will only say a few words to Yu Yao, alright?”
As she spoke, she looked at Yu Yao again with a face full of pleading: “Yu Yao, just a few minutes…”
Yu Yao compressed her lips: Xiao Qin looked as if she had an attitude of not stopping until she reached her goal. If she continued to be delayed by her, Zhao Chuji would soon be late.
It would be better to take this opportunity to clear things up completely with Xiao Qin.
“I will send Chuji to school first. Other matters can be discussed afterward.”
Seeing that Yu Yao had relented, Xiao Qin immediately beamed with joy, following behind Yu Yao while constantly asking after her warmth and health.
“Yu Yao, have you eaten breakfast? Do you want to go with me later to eat the crab soup dumplings we used to eat often?”
“The hairpin you gave me before is really beautiful. I want to know where you bought it; I want to buy a new style to give to you…”
She continuously attempted to draw close her relationship with Yu Yao, but Yu Yao kept her head lowered the entire time and did not pick up her words.
Very soon, the three of them arrived at the school gate.
“Is there anything you want to eat tonight?” Yu Yao habitually questioned Zhao Chuji.
In the past, Zhao Chuji would only answer by saying she would listen to her arrangements, but this time, Zhao Chuji paused her footsteps.
“I want to eat… braised pork ribs, sour and spicy fatty intestines, chestnut chicken…”
Zhao Chuji slowly recited the names of the dishes.
It was rare to see Zhao Chuji proactively ordering dishes, and the quantity was not small either. Yu Yao raised her head and could not help but take a glance at Zhao Chuji.
Zhao Chuji was still just like a little adult, keeping her face stiff so no expression could be seen, but her pair of eyes was suddenly incomparably deep, as if hiding a bottomless vortex…
Yu Yao’s head suddenly felt a bit dizzy.
“Yu Yao!”
Xiao Qin on the side was a bit unable to wait and could not help but speak out.
That bizarre sensation instantly dissipated.
Yu Yao shook her head. When she looked over again, Zhao Chuji had already lowered her eyes and turned around to walk into the school.
It was probably because she did not sleep well the previous night.
Yu Yao stroked her chest and did not take that bout of dizziness to heart.
She used the memo pad on her phone to record the dishes Zhao Chuji had recited, and found a milk tea shop near the school with Xiao Qin to sit down.
“Yu Yao, I really know I was wrong! I have been very worried about you during this period of time, and my heart was extremely guilt-ridden. But I have a pile of troubles on my body; I was afraid you would worry for me, so I didn’t dare to come find you…”
As soon as she sat down, Xiao Qin shed tears once again.
“I only realized in hindsight that I had already fallen in love with you. Give me one last chance, and I will definitely behave myself and be together with you in the future, only loving you…”
Xiao Qin pulled at Yu Yao’s sleeve, crying and complaining in a pitiful and helpless manner.
In the past, as long as she acted coquettishly a few times and shed a few tears, Yu Yao would bound to feel heartbroken and then reconcile with her.
Moreover this time, for the very first time, she relaxed her mouth and was willing to give Yu Yao the status of a girlfriend; Yu Yao would bound to be wild with joy.
But this time, she cried for a long time, yet Yu Yao’s face did not show any sign of being moved.
Her voice became weaker and weaker, and she just stared blankly at Yu Yao.
“The original Yu Yao is already dead.”
Yu Yao gave a sigh: “You say you love me, but you have never placed your heart on my body.”
“I am allergic to crabs. It was only to accompany you that I went to eat crab soup dumplings, and every time after eating them, I had to go back to get an intravenous drip.”
“If you had paid even a slight amount of attention, you would have discovered that the rhinestones on that hairpin I gave you formed the symbol ‘YX’. It was designed by me after staying up for several full nights.”
“Xiao Qin, I was indeed clumsy in the past, but my intentions toward you were open and aboveboard, completely worthy of being shown.”
“Now, what’s done is done and cannot be undone. Just look at it as if I am already dead!”
Yu Yao spoke out all the things the original owner had done for Xiao Qin.
She did not know whether Xiao Qin was sincere or fake; after she finished speaking, Xiao Qin covered her face, and tears continuously slid down from the gaps of her fingers.
But Yu Yao did not want to ask further.
She stood up from behind the table. After thinking about it, she still spoke of the original owner’s past arrangement.
“Do you still remember that I once gave you a cloth doll?”
“You said that was the only gift your mother gave you before she abandoned you, and it was lost on your way moving houses. This model of doll has already been discontinued on the market; I found a tailor and only managed to make it according to a photograph with great difficulty to give to you.”
“I believe that what you said that time was true. The expression in your eyes when you looked at the photograph of the cloth doll was exceptionally sincere. You… have never looked at me that way.”
“Two gold bars were sewn inside the body of the cloth doll, worth roughly over two hundred thousand. Consider it my final gift to you…”
In reality, the original owner understood everything, but love always caused her to deceive herself.
Yu Yao sighed, no longer paying attention to the weeping Xiao Qin, and got up to settle the bill.
Walking out of the milk tea shop, Yu Yao let out a long sigh of relief: For her, a person who had been single since birth, handling emotional disputes was truly a bit too difficult for her.
It was better to go and prepare the dishes to be eaten tonight!
Those dishes Zhao Chuji recited were all relatively difficult to handle; they could not be made without three to five hours…