novelraw Chapter 77
Chapter 77
Chapter 77 “Pfft—cough cough cough…”
In the café, Zuo Anke frantically cleaned up the coffee she had spilled on the table.
After she managed to compose herself and gave apologetic nods to the curious gazes around, she turned her wide eyes back to the girl sitting across from her.
To be precise, Zuo Anke was looking at Qin Qing’s wrist, and the rose gold bracelet on it.
She slowly and stiffly raised her head. “Don’t tell me… not only did you meet Wen Yufeng, but you also… reconciled with him?!”
Seeing Zuo Anke’s rare break from her elite woman façade, Qin Qing found it amusing and nodded.
“Yeah.”
She added, “We just got back together yesterday.”
“You two—!”
Zuo Anke was frustrated. “I’ve been so worried for so many days, and you two got back together so quickly! At this rate, won’t you be meeting the parents and discussing marriage by the end of the year?!”
Qin Qing took a sip of her coffee.
“Probably… not by the end of the year.”
“—Huh?”
“…” Qin Qing sighed. “Yesterday, when we got back together, my mom saw us—she insisted that after I finish my defense tomorrow, I should bring him home for her to meet.”
Zuo Anke’s shocked expression softened into a sympathetic look.
“But what’s the deal with you two? How did you reconcile so quickly? It’s only been two or three days since we lost contact, right?”
Qin Qing didn’t rush to answer.
Her gaze fell on the bracelet on her left wrist.
“Because I realized I really can’t forget him, it’s impossible… After so many years, I don’t even know how many times I’ve dreamed of him coming back to find me.”
“…”
“So I kept his number, calls, and messages on my phone, and I didn’t want to lose them. The gifts he gave me, I packed away neatly into a corner where I wouldn’t see them… but I couldn’t bear to throw them away.”
As she spoke softly, Qin Qing looked up with a gentle gaze.
“I don’t want to struggle anymore, Anke. Life is too short. Since I’ve confirmed he’s the one I want to fully love, and since I really can’t bear to be apart, why should we waste time torturing each other in this short life?”
Zuo Anke’s eyes flickered.
After a long pause, she lowered her head and gently traced the edge of her coffee cup, as if reminiscing about something.
“If everyone could think like you… there would indeed be fewer infatuated men and women in the world.”
Seeing Zuo Anke’s expression, Qin Qing felt a sense of resonance. Just as she was about to ask something else, Zuo Anke raised her head and smiled again.
“Now, won’t you two just have reconciled and immediately enter a long-distance relationship stage?”
Qin Qing was taken aback.
“What’s wrong?” Zuo Anke asked.
“I suddenly remembered…” Qin Qing said helplessly, “I forgot to mention that I need to go back to school early tomorrow morning to prepare for my defense.”
“Wow…”
Zuo Anke exaggeratedly exclaimed and gave Qin Qing a thumbs-up.
“Only you could ‘bully’ our school tyrant Wen like this.”
Qin Qing was amused. “We’re all grown-ups. Why do you keep bringing up his dark past?”
“Hey, I don’t want to hear that—what dark past! Wen Yufeng’s reputation is legendary. From the bottom of his class and skipping classes to fighting, he went from the bottom to the top three in less than a year—
he’s still talked about at Yishi High. Knowing someone like him, students from our year or the neighboring years could brag about it for a lifetime! Like me, always mentioning, back in our first year of high school, there was the Wen Yufeng…”
“All right, all right.”
Qin Qing couldn’t help but interrupt with a smile. “Lawyer Zuo, you’re really getting better at this.”
Zuo Anke nodded. “Yeah, so now you know how much I restrained myself before you.”
Qin Qing smiled slightly. “Thank you, Anke.”
Zuo Anke was momentarily stunned, then buried her face in her hands on the table.
“Oh, don’t be like this—now I’m embarrassed…”
Qin Qing couldn’t stop laughing at Zuo Anke’s antics, her eyes curving into crescent moons.
Meanwhile, Zuo Anke suddenly looked up from her angle, smiling as she looked at Qin Qing.
—
“It’s really great.”
“Ah?”
“You finally look so happy again… It’s wonderful that he’s back by your side.”
This time, before Qin Qing could react, Zuo Anke had already sat up straight and changed the subject.
The two chatted for another ten minutes, when Qin Qing’s phone vibrated in her bag.
Zuo Anke glanced at the phone on the table, then at Qin Qing’s bag, and then looked back at Qin Qing in confusion.
Qin Qing took out the phone from her bag, made a “It’s him” gesture to Zuo Anke, and answered the call with a smile.
“Where are you right now?”
The voice on the phone was magnetic and pleasant.
“I’m having coffee with Anke in a café.”
“‘Anke’?… Is that the girl who knew your birthday before I did?”
“…………Wen Yufeng, are you holding a grudge?”
“Am I?” The voice lowered slightly. “I haven’t even said that you’ve never had coffee with me.”
“………………Now you have.”
There was a pause on the other end of the line.
After a few seconds, Wen Yufeng’s tone changed. “I’ll come pick you up.”
“Uh, but I’m having lunch with Anke.”
Wen Yufeng: “…”
“Then I’ll treat you both to lunch.”
“……I’ll ask her.”
After Qin Qing finished speaking, she covered the receiver and looked at Zuo Anke, who was laughing nonstop at their conversation. “Are you coming for lunch?”
Zuo Anke managed to control her laughter. “If there’s food other than dog food, I might consider it.”
Half an hour later, a light gray sedan pulled up to the curb. The door opened, and a young man in a denim shirt and casual pants got out.
Zuo Anke, who had been watching out the window, pulled Qin Qing.
“Hey, Wen Yufeng’s here.”
Qin Qing looked over.
“Tsk tsk tsk… Can’t tell he’s twenty-seven. How come he looks like he’s in his early twenties? With those sky-high legs and all that youthful vitality and collagen—can you ask Wen Yufeng what his secret is for staying young?”
Zuo Anke joked, then suddenly her expression changed—
“I swear, when Wen Yufeng got out of the car, everyone in the café looking out the window, and even those walking by, all paused for a few seconds, regardless of age or gender.”
Qin Qing smiled. “I’ll make sure to pass on your flattering words.”
“Flattering?—look outside yourself!”
Zuo Anke turned around and gave her a playful shove.
Qin Qing casually looked outside, and then saw Wen Yufeng, who was about to walk into the café, seemingly stopped by two girls.
“I guarantee,” Zuo Anke “stirred the pot” beside her, “they’re asking for his WeChat.”
Qin Qing wasn’t annoyed and looked on with a smile.
“Do you think he’ll do?”
“……” Zuo Anke looked back at Qin Qing, puzzled. “How can you be so relaxed? If it were someone else’s girlfriend, they’d have already rolled up their sleeves to confront them. But you’re just watching the excitement?”
Qin Qing continued to smile, her eyes slightly squinted.
“He’s long given himself to me. I’m not worried.”
Zuo Anke: “…………”
“I suddenly regret agreeing to this lunch with you.”
“Don’t guess?”
Zuo Anke couldn’t hold back. “I’m guessing Wen Yufeng’s personality… would he say he doesn’t have WeChat? Or just claim he doesn’t have a phone?”
Before Zuo Anke finished, she saw Wen Yufeng take out his phone.
Zuo Anke immediately exploded, faster than Qin Qing, “Hey hey hey—what’s going on! Is he preparing to go home and kneel on the remote control, rub the washboard, or the CPU keyboard and durian??”
Before Qin Qing could respond, her phone rang again.
Zuo Anke froze, then looked at the old phone and raised an eyebrow.
“This is… external help?”
“You’re so nosy.” Qin Qing laughed and reached for the phone.
“I want to hear it on speaker!”
Zuo Anke covered the phone and only let go after Qin Qing nodded.
Qin Qing took the phone, answered it, and put it on speaker.
Clearing her throat, she said, “What’s up?”
As she spoke, her gaze unconsciously drifted outside.
The man, with almost a hundred percent rate of people looking back at him, was looking down at his phone screen, smiling with a husky voice, “Wife, someone wants my WeChat.”
“……”
Qin Qing: “????”
Zuo Anke: “!!!!!!”
Qin Qing quickly hung up with a decisive press.
Then she cleared her throat, nervously tucked a strand of hair behind her ear, and slowly looked at Zuo Anke.
Zuo Anke was still staring out the window.
The man in her line of sight, looking at the call ended screen, couldn’t suppress the smile at the corner of his mouth.
After a couple of seconds, he suddenly remembered there were two onlookers nearby.
Wen Yufeng glanced at the two awkward-looking girls, tossed his phone, and said, “Sorry, strict rules at home.”
With that, he walked towards the café’s front door.
“…………”
Zuo Anke finally slowly withdrew her gaze and focused on Qin Qing.
Her eyes were complex and full of emotion.
After a peculiar silence, Zuo Anke finally spoke, “—Doesn’t Wen Yufeng want the whole world to know you’re his girlfriend?”
“…”
“That husky voice, calling you ‘wife’ with that ambiguous tone, and that nearly uncontrollable joy… Wen Yufeng is like this when he’s with you???“
Qin Qing: “…”
He’s not, and he doesn’t, and you’re just making things up.
“Being teased and seduced by such an exceptional person—can you really hold your ground?”
Qin Qing: “…………”