Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
Looking at Fang Yuanyuan’s tear-stained face, Xiang Wan felt like laughing.
Ungraciously, a faint smile formed on her lips as she coaxed Yuanyuan. “Didn’t you say that it’s your first time as well? Won’t that make you two even? Why are you crying so hard about it?”
“That’s not the same, I didn’t lie to him at all.” Fang Yuanyuan’s tears had created two lines on her face where her make-up was smudged. That look of hers was really… heartbroken. “I’ve made myself clear in the first place. I told him that time I was young and ignorant and I regretted it… He’s not the same… He and that woman, he must have considered it carefully before getting intimate with that woman, alright?”
“…” Xiang Wan did not know what to say.
“Sis! The moment I think about him and the other woman… making out. My mind is filled with all those scenes and I feel like killing someone!”
“Sigh!” Xiang Wan felt she could understand this.
Basing just on what Fang Yuanyuan told her, she already could imagine those making out scenes, let alone Yuanyuan?
Xiang Wan continued to offer comfort, holding Yuanyuan’s shoulders. “But then again…” she asked the crucial question after giving it a thought, “how did you know this?”
If in the first place, Huang He had intentions to lie, why would he tell Fang Yuanyuan the truth?
What had happened to lead to this?
Fang Yuanyuan bit her lower lip and looked at her pitifully. In the beginning, she refused to say anything as she felt it was a loss of face. Under Xiang Wan’s constant “interrogation”, Yuanyuan broke out in tears again.
“Today, I went to look him up after work and met a woman who came to Grand Orchid Pavilion who was looking for him as well… Huang He initially told me he did not know that woman… In the end, that woman pointed at him and gave him a dressing down, saying that he forgot her the moment he pulled up his pants…”
Urgh! What a story!
Xiang Wan felt troubled after pondering over it.
“Well, you shouldn’t just listen to her words alone, right? Maybe that woman was lying to slander him deliberately?”
“How can that be a lie?” Fang Yuanyuan was so angry that she was gritting her teeth. She said weakly, giving Xiang Wan a glance, “She even knew there was a mole at that place.”
“…”
Xiang Wan felt helpless at talking about such a topic.
“Well, I think it’s still normal if there are people who knew about that?”
“Boohoo… Why are you still taking his side?” Fang Yuanyuan cried even more bitterly. She grabbed Xiang Wan so tightly that she almost felt out of breath. “… The thing is he acquiesced to that by not refuting her claim! He even told me to come back first… Boohoo… I don’t want to live anymore…”
“…”
This story sounded so exaggerated!
And it actually happened to Huang He?
Well, no one would be able to handle such a situation, either.
Xiang Wan did not know how to console Fang Yuanyuan.
If she encouraged Yuanyuan to let it go and be understanding about it, it might appear that she was as though indifferent to Yuanyuan’s plight.
But if she insisted on telling Yuanyuan not to forgive Huang He, the matter did not seem to be so serious as well…
After all, from what Yuanyuan told her, that should have happened prior to Huang He knowing Fang Yuanyuan. Huang He was already in his early thirties, so it was normal if he had relationships before… In Xiang Wan’s opinion, Yuanyuan must have been too naive to believe that it was Huang He’s first time.
Xiang Wan felt troubled as she patted Yuanyuan’s back and tried to change the topic.
“Don’t be sad! Why don’t I give you a treat? Let’s go for hotpot?”
Every time when Xiang Wan was upset, she would go for hotpot. The spicy, boiling hotpot would bring her out of her troubles.
“Boohooo… Sob…” Fang Yuanyuan was still crying, but she did not object to the idea. “Where shall we go for hotpot?”
The mention of food sort of calmed her down.
The corners of Xiang Wan’s mouth curved upward. “You choose the venue. Choose anything you like! Since I’m getting my royalties soon, and it’s the first time I get so much royalties, I should give my Lord Editor a reward.”
Her words only made Fang Yuanyuan delighted for less than 10 seconds, unfortunately. “If you didn’t stop to update your story,” she pouted, “you’ll get even more royalties…”
“… This makes me sad, let’s not talk about it okay?”
“Okay!” Fang Yuanyuan sniffled, her pair of red, tear-soaked eyes looked at her. “You’re not going on a date with Detective Bai?”
Date? He’s going on a date with a man…
As Xiang Wan thought of that, she suddenly recalled that Bai Muchuan was going to look for Huang He.
The Huang He that made Fang Yuanyuan cry so pitifully about…
“Hm. Not going for a date. He went to look for your man.”
“He’s no longer my man, but another woman’s man!”
“… So serious?” Xiang Wan still did not know what Fang Yuanyuan did before she came back home crying.
“It’s much more serious than you think.” Fang Yuanyuan sniffled and suddenly looked fierce. “I gave him a tight clap and left.”
A slap huh? Okay, that fitted Fang Yuanyuan’s way of handling matters.
On the way to eat hotpot, Fang Yuanyuan drove her car while talking about Huang He. Xiang Wan talked to her while messaging Bai Muchuan secretly.
“Young Master, how’s the situation?”
She seldom took the initiative to message Bai Muchuan. Moreover, her choice of using the word “situation” seemed too generic.
Bai Muchuan took a long time to reply. “Things are bad, got to run!”
“…”
D*rn! Was he thinking that she was pranking him?
Xiang Wan look at his reply and felt like laughing. But it was not appropriate as Fang Yuanyuan was currently in such a distressed mood. She cleared her throat and took a peek at Yuanyuan before she messaged Bai Muchuan. “Are you with Huang He right now? I’m going to eat hotpot with Yuanyuan. My treat. You wanna come? This is a rare opportunity for you, you should treasure it!”
Bai Muchuan: “You’re not treating me specially. Not coming.”
What? You tsundere.
Xiang Wan felt like ignoring him. “Goodbye!”
Bai Muchuan: “Location? I might be late.”
Xiang Wan took another glance at Fang Yuanyuan who was still criticizing Huang He, yet every sentence she said had implied how good he had been treating her. It just simply meant that she was unwilling to let go of their relationship.
Whatever happened between Huang He and that woman, she should have a good talk with Huang He about it, face to face. Being impulsive would not help solve the problem.
Xiang Wan had a feeling that she was totally an expert in relationships. She sent Bai Muchuan the address of the hotpot restaurant they were going to and even specially issued a command.
“Remember to bring Huang He along! Otherwise, you don’t have to come.”
“Woman, wait for me to deal with you!”
“Hurhur! My white bone claws have been trained to the maximum level.”
“So scary! Miss, remember to protect me.”
“Of course—”
“Sleep with you tonight!”
“Scram!”
The two of them messaged each other to and fro. The phone notifications kept coming which made Fang Yuanyuan, who was dissing her boyfriend, unable to take it any longer.
She turned her head to Xiang Wan, gnashing her teeth. “Is this really a good time for you to flaunt your love in front of me?”
Xiang Wan quickly put away her phone and looked ahead. “I didn’t, I was actually helping you to get someone to come and apologize to you…”
“What?” Fang Yuanyuan got exasperated. “Who told you to ask him to come?”
“You’re the one!” Xiang Wan grinned at her. “Just stop this. You really really like him that you’re going to lose yourself. Why do you want to continue acting as if you don’t want to see him again?”
“…”
Fang Yuanyuan kept quiet.
It was true that she liked Huang He.
She really, really do like him.
She had never liked a man so much, and she had never done so much for anyone as well…
It was exactly because she really liked him that she couldn’t stand even a grain of sand between them.
“… But I don’t want to forgive him.”
“Let’s not talk about forgiveness for now. You should get the whole picture clear first. Otherwise, you will keep thinking about it. Won’t that be worse?”
The bystander is always the most clear-minded. Xiang Wan was able to see the problem clearly as she was not the one who was in it.
“Just meet him. If he doesn’t explain himself clearly, you need not forgive him… You can even make him pay the bill!”
Fang Yuanyuan snorted in response, meaning she had agreed to Xiang Wan’s persuasion.
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