"This is not being seductive; at best... it's being sexy!"
Li Qingcheng parted her lips slightly. Her voice was soft, yet it carried an unquestionable... queen-like aura!
"Little Zhaoyue, tell me, who pissed you off this time?"
Qin Zhaoyue looked surprised. "How did you know I was mad?"
Li Qingcheng walked ahead, her sexy hips swaying as she made her way to the wine cabinet to pour two glasses of red wine, then handed one to Qin Zhaoyue!
"How do I know you're mad? Look at your face! It's pulled longer than Zhao Benshan's face! Your eyebrows are furrowed tighter than a knot! Besides, Little Zhaoyue, you only ever come to my place when you've been in a fight, treating me like a chamber pot and dumping all your negative emotions on me! On normal days, if I beg you to come share a meal with me, you never show up! Tell me, isn't that true?"
Wisdom shone in Li Qingcheng's eyes, making Qin Zhaoyue blush and quickly back down!
"Alright, alright, Auntie, I'll come over and keep you company often from now on, okay?"
To her surprise, Li Qingcheng let out a snort of laughter. "Forget it. You're a woman with a boyfriend now—a little ungrateful wolf who forgets her friends for a lover! I've met your boyfriend once. Classic dog-waist, inverted triangle. Does he service you well? Leaves you craving more, doesn't he? If nothing happened, would you ever bear to tear yourself away from that little male dog just to keep me company?"
Li Qingcheng's bold remarks caught Qin Zhaoyue off guard, making her face flush crimson. "Auntie, you... you... you're so improper! I'm not talking to you anymore..."
Qin Zhaoyue put on an angry act, turning her head away and huffing and puffing!
"Huh?" Li Qingcheng suddenly let out a startled gasp! With that, she walked right up to Qin Zhaoyue and reached out toward the peaks on Qin Zhaoyue's chest!
"Auntie, what are you doing? You're harassing me!"
"Tsk tsk tsk! A woman who's been watered by a man really is different. Those little steamed buns of yours must be a C-cup by now! Give it time, expanding to C-plus and advancing to D is just around the corner!"
With that, Li Qingcheng cupped her own magnificent chest with a look of regret. "Sigh, if I had a man to water me, I wouldn't be stuck lingering at the C-plus stage..."
"Auntie! Be serious, will you? I didn't come to you to discuss whether it's a C or a D!"
Li Qingcheng took a small sip of red wine. "Tell me, did you have a falling out with your boyfriend?"
Qin Zhaoyue nodded and recounted everything that had happened that day to her aunt.
"Little Zhaoyue! Is your brain full of water?" Li Qingcheng finally spoke her first words after a long pause!
"Uh..." Qin Zhaoyue felt as though she had been struck by lightning! The remark didn't cause much physical damage, but the insult value was off the charts! Within a single day, two different people had told her her brain was full of water!
Even Qin Zhaoyue was beginning to doubt her life choices!
"Auntie, Zihao is my younger brother. When I heard he had fainted, I went to take care of him. I don't think there's anything wrong with that! Even if I found out later that he wasn't really hurt, my brother is making a living all alone in Haizhou, completely isolated and helpless. What's wrong with me keeping him company for his birthday? ..."
Qin Zhaoyue brought out her theory of innocence once more to defend herself!
"So you like your sworn younger brother, huh?" Li Qingcheng asked suddenly!
"I... of course it's normal to like my younger brother, just like you like me..." As she said this, Qin Zhaoyue suddenly thought of someone buried deep in her heart, and this thought caused a flicker of strangeness to cross her face! And that flicker of strangeness was completely caught by Li Qingcheng!
"I think your boyfriend was right. Between men and women, there has to be a certain boundary! Expecting someone in love to be broad-minded? Isn't that a fairy tale?"
Qin Zhaoyue, however, said dismissively, "If the exact same thing happened to Xiao Qiang, I would never be that petty!"
Li Qingcheng replied with a disdainful look, "I'll believe that when pigs fly..."
Qin Zhaoyue didn't get the comfort she expected from her aunt, but she had no intention of going back tonight! If she was going back, Xiao Qiang would have to call her and beg her to return!
Meanwhile, back in Qin Zhaoyue's villa!
No lights were on in the room. Bathed in the lonely moonlight, a solitary figure sat desolately on the sofa! The ashtray in front of him was already overflowing with cigarette butts!
Although Qin Zhaoyue insisted stubbornly that nothing had happened between her and Chen Zihao, every pair of wild ducks that truly had done something never admitted to what they'd done once they got home!
Moreover, her actions had not only deeply wounded Xiao Qiang's heart, but had also repeatedly challenged his bottom line!
Ever since the name Chen Zihao had entered their lives, conflicts between the once deeply affectionate couple had erupted frequently, growing more severe each time!
"Could it really be that I'm just paranoid? Could it really be that I'm being petty and making a mountain out of a molehill?..."
The next day at eleven in the morning! Xiao Qiang finally woke up in a daze! Last night, he had polished off two entire bottles of liquor by himself... just to force himself into a deep sleep!
He looked around; Qin Zhaoyue was nowhere to be seen in the house!
Xiao Qiang sneered. "Qin Zhaoyue, are you waiting for me to cave and apologize to you again? Well, keep waiting then!"
With that, he started making his own meal.
Meanwhile, in her office at Qin's Real Estate Group, Qin Zhaoyue looked somewhat flustered. In her WeChat chat window with Xiao Qiang, she repeatedly typed, deleted, and re-typed the words: "Honey, what are you doing? I'm hungry!"
Yesterday at her aunt's place, despite putting up a tough front after her aunt's persuasion, she still felt she had gone just a tiny bit too far. That's why she intended to take the initiative and reach out to Xiao Qiang!
Yet the moment she thought, *I didn't actually do anything wrong, and yet you said those things to me*, her anger flared right back up.
After completely deleting the message, she muttered resentfully, "I didn't do anything wrong, you have to apologize first, hmph..."
"Sister Zhang! Go get me a meal from the cafeteria..."
Qin Zhaoyue said poutily.
It was already nine o'clock in the evening. Qin Zhaoyue had originally wanted to go to her aunt's place, but Li Qingcheng cut her off right at the pass.
"Little Zhaoyue, what you did was truly uncool. Wouldn't it be over if you just took the initiative to apologize to Xiao Qiang? Is there any conflict between a man and a woman that can't be resolved with one round of nookie? If one round isn't enough, make it two. As for that sworn younger brother of yours, even though I've never met him, he's definitely no good. Cut ties cleanly."
Qin Zhaoyue didn't take in the second half of Li Qingcheng's words because she was already evaluating the feasibility of the first part.
A moment later, Qin Zhaoyue said in a teasing tone, "Auntie, for someone who's been single since birth, you're supposed to be an emotional novice. How come you understand so much? Could it be that you've been sneaking snacks behind people's backs? Auntie, you better watch your safety, don't end up losing both your heart and fortune in the tragic end!"
Only to hear a roar come from the other end of the line: "Qin Zhaoyue, your brain isn't full of water, it's full of shit..."
Followed by a series of busy tones.