79: Miss Bai Who Protects Her Wife
"I don't know. Let's wait until tonight to discuss the specifics." Bai Ling shook her head and refused Qila's request. She was willing to ask for the truth here, but if she did that, she'd have to hand over the book.
She couldn't very well have Qila tell her the truth first and then give Qila the book at night, right?
Bai Ling believed that with Qila's personality, she absolutely wouldn't do such a thing.
"We're already so familiar with each other. Wouldn't it be fine to do it a bit early? Why must it be at night?" Qila pouted somewhat unhappily. If the transaction could be completed here, that would be the best thing.
But judging from Bai Ling's performance, this plan might fall through.
"The book isn't in my hands right now." Bai Ling indicated it wasn't that she didn't want to do this, but that she didn't currently have the trading item.
"Eh, I thought Sister Bai Ling came here to scout the location. So that's not it?"
"No, I have an appointment with someone." Bai Ling's gaze glanced toward the billboard where Leticia was hiding.
Qila nodded thoughtfully. If she had an appointment, she could probably guess who Bai Ling was meeting.
After all, Bai Ya had been chattering in Qila's ear about her sister's romantic problems quite a bit. One of the female leads in that story—that tsundere girl living downstairs from the Bai family—should be the person Bai Ling was meeting this time, right?
"Is it Miss Qianqian?"
"...Yes." Bai Ling nodded. She felt like Leticia might not be able to hide much longer.
Qila's sudden appearance really caught both of them off guard. If Qila caught Leticia here, Bai Ling couldn't even imagine how beautiful that scene would be.
"I've always heard Little Ya mention her Sister Qianqian. I wonder if I'll be lucky enough to meet her today?" Qila asked with a smile.
If her guess was correct, this Sister Qianqian should be the white-clad person from the Black and White Duo.
Of course, this was just speculation, but it was quite reliable speculation.
"No." Bai Ling said with a cold face. Although it wasn't visible on the surface, she was already trying very hard to make her expression look more fierce.
This expression of hers made Qila break out in a cold sweat. She felt like the girl in front of her seemed very angry.
Why would she be angry? She just wanted to meet that Sister Qianqian, right?
What was wrong with that? Bai Ling surely wouldn't be so petty as to not even let people look, right?
"She's afraid of strangers. Miss Su, please don't force her." Bai Ling tried to maintain her expression as much as possible, telling lies with her eyes wide open. "If there's nothing else, could you please leave quickly?"
The corner of Qila's mouth twitched involuntarily. The current Bai Ling looked just like someone protecting her little wife—it really felt quite wonderful.
"Sigh, alright then." Seeing Bai Ling so impolitely issue an order to leave, Qila sighed and reluctantly stood up from her chair. "I'll go, I'll go."
Holding her untouched bubble tea, Qila took a deep look at that billboard. She naturally knew there was someone hiding behind it—presumably that shy Miss Su Qianqian.
She had originally wanted to meet Bai Ling's white-clad partner as well, but now it seemed her calculations had come to nothing.
Bai Ling should just be a thug-type character for the person behind the scenes. She probably didn't know much.
However, her strength was indeed somewhat ridiculous.
Thinking this, Qila walked toward the entrance, looking back with every step, making those who didn't know think she had fallen for Bai Ling.
After seeing Qila off with an extremely kind gaze, Bai Ling said to Leticia, "You can come out now. Qila has left."
About a minute later, Leticia nervously poked her head out. "Really gone?"
"Really gone. You should be able to sense it, right?"
"I was worried she'd come back for a surprise attack. You have no idea how difficult that girl can be." Leticia breathed a sigh of relief and plopped down onto the chair Qila had just sat in.
After calming her somewhat rapid heartbeat, Leticia looked at Bai Ling with an inquiring gaze and asked the question she had wanted to ask earlier. "You already knew Qila?"
Those sweet calls of "Sister Bai Ling" made even Leticia, the original sister, feel a bit jealous.
"Don't explain first, let me guess." Leticia indicated she had already guessed everything. Connecting to what had happened a few days ago, she felt she had been ruthlessly betrayed by Bai Ling.
"Qila is that good friend named Su Qi that Little Ya made, right? After you borrowed the glasses from me, you should have realized that Su Qi was my sister Qila, but you lied to me saying you didn't know Su Qi."
"I trusted you so much, but you kept such an important matter from me. Bai Ling, you've disappointed me so much!"
Facing Leticia's baseless accusation, Bai Ling raised her hand and pressed on Leticia's somewhat excited shoulder. "You never had any hope in me to begin with."
Hadn't Leticia always said they were enemies and their relationship was bad?
So as an enemy, was there a problem with Bai Ling deceiving Leticia? No, right?
Who told Leticia to be so naive, really thinking Bai Ling wouldn't lie?
"I misjudged you." Leticia was choked by Bai Ling's words. After thinking for a long time, she could only squeeze out this weak sentence.
She had been the one emphasizing they were enemies, but when Bai Ling deceived her, she got angry. What kind of logic was that?
Leticia didn't want to be an unreasonable girl, even though she had the status and strength to be unreasonable.
"People change. But why are you so afraid of meeting Qila? She's your biological sister."
"It's precisely because she's my biological sister that I don't dare see her." Leticia covered her face, not wanting Bai Ling to see her expression. "I really don't know how to face Qila. What right does such a negligent sister like me have to see her?"
"Then you're still going to trick her tonight?"
"Tonight I'm Little Black, not Leticia." When it came to tonight's matter, Leticia immediately indicated she was very good at role-playing. "I just don't want Qila to know that Su Qianqian is Leticia. As for Little Black? I won't admit I'm Little Black."
Little Black and Leticia were different people. Hiding herself under a white robe, Leticia believed she could talk to Qila without any psychological burden and extract what she wanted from her.
"If you find it difficult, I can help." However, Bai Ling was still a bit worried about Leticia's state.
That performance just now, like a startled bird, really wasn't convincing at all.