CH 45

Ye Kehuan’s kiss was extremely light, but for Jiang Laien, even if she did not make any other outrageous actions, she still shuddered with a vague sense of ambiguity when her breath swept across her ears like wings. Jiang Laien fell into her embrace, putting her hand on Ye Kehuan’s, and turning her head to look at her.

“Kehuan…”Jiang Laien’s lips were slightly parted, and her eyes were as soft as a mountain stream.

“Huh?” Ye Kehuan stared at her bright and somewhat blurred eyes, “What?”

“No, it’s nothing. I’ll just boil some water.” Jiang Laien’s cheeks were slightly hot, and she picked up the kettle again, turned on the faucet, and collected the water happily.

All of Jiang Laien’s subtle reactions fell into Ye Kehuan’s eyes, which made her raise her eyebrows: “Nothing?”

“Yeah, what else? I’m dying of thirst.” After turning off the faucet, Jiang Laien closed the lid of the electric kettle and plugged it in.

“I’m looking at you because you are thinking about something shameful.” Ye Kehuan smiled again.

“You don’t see anything, you’re full of yellow waste!” Jiang Laien gave her a sidelong glare.

“I didn’t say anything. Isn’t it you who is full of things like that?” Ye Kehuan followed up.

“You, you, I’m a famous lady!” Jiang Laien turned around again, leaned close to her, and raised her collar, “Don’t try to smear my name.”

“Purity and desire are only one word different.” Ye Kehuan smiled and looked down at her hand. 1 

“I won’t play with you.” Jiang Laien let go of her, went aside, picked up two apples from the fruit basket, and returned to the kitchen.

Ye Kehuan looked at her back and couldn’t help bending her lips. How many good things did she do in her last life to cultivate such a blessing and obtain such a beautiful and lovely girlfriend? Perhaps she saved the universe.

For the first time, Ye Kehuan felt that her world was as beautiful as it was flooded with endless light. If possible, she wanted to embrace that light ‘til the last moment of her life.

After thinking for a while, she suddenly remembered something. Ye Kehuan hurriedly lowered her head and took out her mobile phone and sent a WeChat message to Chen Lulu:

“Lulu, you really are a genius, thanks to you, I’m with Laien~

“Are you still in Chongyuan? If you are, let’s find time to have a meal. I have to thank you many times over.”

However, Ye Kehuan waited for a while, but Chen Lulu did not respond. She may be busy. Ye Kehuan didn’t think too much.

At that time, in an old residential area north of the city.

Chen Lulu was awakened by the sound of notifications from her mobile phone.

When she woke up, she only felt dizzy, and her temple seemed to have been punched by someone. Her mind was chaotic. Taking a deep breath, and then another, Chen Lulu turned her head, opened her eyes, and a small window on the opposite wall came into view. Chen Lulu realized that she was in a strange room at that moment.

Chen Lulu was taken aback for a moment, and instantly sat up, propped herself up on the bed with both hands, and looked around.

The layout of the room was very simple, with blue-gray wallpaper, beige cabinets, a small white desk, and a bed. The overall feeling was quite clean and tidy.

So, where was this place? It took a while before she slowly remembered all the things that happened the previous night. Could it be that Ji Changge saw that she was drunk and took her back to her home? Without thinking about it or checking her WeChat messages, Chen Lulu just lifted the quilt, grabbed the jacket next to her and put it on, got out of bed and opened the door and went out.

When she went out, she saw a very small living room. The walls were covered with oil painting frames. All the furniture was white or gray. The plants on the windowsill not only did not make the room more lively, but also seemed to exude a chilly taste.

“Boss Ji?” Chen Lulu tentatively called her name, walked to the kitchen, then to the bathroom, and finally opened another closed door. “Ji Changge?”

However, there was no one behind that door. However, Chen Lulu was taken aback for a while. The room was very small, the windows were sealed, the walls were covered with soundproof cotton, and there was an electronic piano, a desk, a computer, headphones, stereos, and pen and paper.

Not only does she like music, but she makes it herself? Chen Lulu approached the small table and leaned over to look at a sticky note posted on the lower right corner of the computer. She saw it read: Luxury.

What do you mean? Why are you so emotional? When Chen Lulu raised her hand and squeezed her chin and looked at the delicate handwriting, she suddenly heard the sound of an opening door. Chen Lulu was startled and turned around to leave the room. But just as she walked out the door, Ji Changge appeared before her.

“What are you doing here?” Ji Changge wore a black jacket, had one hand in her pocket, and the other hand carrying a bag of things, and looked at her calmly.

“I…” Chen Lulu was stunned, then the corners of her lips twitched: “It’s nothing, just woke up in a strange room suddenly, of course I had to see where I was, otherwise, in case it’s the den of a perverted serial killer, wouldn’t I die?”

She didn’t know if it was because Ji Changge’s dress was completely black today, but her face looked extremely pale; even her lips were bloodless.

Ji Changge looked at her, raised her hand to the door, and did not give her a second glance, just turned around and took her things to the kitchen: “You were drunk last night, and I asked where you live. You said you live in Shuilian Cave, Mount Huaguo. What could I do? I couldn’t throw you on the street, so I could only bring you to my place. 

When Chen Lulu listened, she closed her eyes and bit her left lower lip. Was she so drunk that night? Afterwards, Chen Lulu hurriedly followed up: “It turned out to be like that. Then, what happened later, did I later go drunk crazy?”

“What do you think?” Ji Changge took the things out of the bag with one hand.

Chen Lulu choked: “What did I do?”

After listening, Ji Changge glanced at her: “Called me.”

Chen Lulu looked at her, closed her mouth, held her breath, her eyes widened, her cheeks bulging like a hamster.

After a while, Chen Lulu asked again: “What did I scold you for?”

“Scumbag, vixen.” Ji Changge said lightly.

“No, no, I didn’t think about you that way, I…” Chen Lulu was sweating coldly, and her intestines were almost blue with regret.

“It’s okay.” Ji Changge shook her head, put some things in the refrigerator, closed the door, unscrewed the lid of a carton of milk with one hand, lifted it up and took two sips.

“Then, is your store closed today?” Chen Lulu remembered well. Ji Changge’s store opened at four o’clock every afternoon, and it was now approaching five o’clock. Could it be that she still had her own heart, and she was worried about her so she decided to stay at home?

Thinking of that, Chen Lulu was vaguely happy again. What? She just looks cold as expected.

At that time, Ji Changge put down the milk, turned her head to look at her, then took out her right hand wrapped in a piece of gauze from her pocket, and showed it to her: “It’s hurts, so I can’t do business.”

Chen Lulu was stunned again when she saw it: “Could it be that you rescued me from an injury last night? Sorry, does it hurt so much? What did the doctor say? Is it okay? How long will it take…”

Ji Changge glanced at her: “Don’t get drunk to that level anymore. You have to watch for cars when you walk.”

Chen Lulu was stunned for half a second, and nodded: “I know. I’m sorry. Well, it should be very inconvenient for you to get hurt, right? Have you eaten dinner? If you haven’t, I will cook it for you. I can also cook well!”

Ji Changge set her hand, turned and walked out of the kitchen, stopped by the sofa, and raised her hand to check the potted plants placed there: “Since you are now awake, you should be fine to go back by yourself.”

Just as Chen Lulu wanted to follow, after hearing Ji Changge’s words, she clenched her teeth on the kitchen door frame. The only emotion displayed in the voice of Ji Changge was indifference. Reminiscing about her own sentimental thoughts, Chen Lulu suddenly wanted to laugh. Even if she seemed to worry about her last night, maybe even if she replaced herself with someone else, Ji Changge would still do the same thing.

In the end, Chen Lulu loosened her jaw, took a deep breath, smiled, and walked forward pretending to be relaxed: Ji Changge, do you feel it’s annoying to even look at me now? Otherwise, why would you rush me away in such a hurry?”

“Don’t think too much. I just think it’s better to keep a distance between us, because we can’t be together.” Ji Changge turned around.

“I know…” Chen Lulu hugged her slightly trembling arms, her smile a little ugly, “I know we can’t be together, but, can’t we be friends?”

Ji Changge just watched her faintly, without saying a word.

As a result, Chen Lulu held the corners of her lips, smiling more and more reluctantly: “I was not happy last night, but it wasn’t because I wanted you to fall in love with me, but I just thought you were so unfeeling, and wouldn’t even accept me as a friend. Let’s talk about it. Didn’t you say that it was inconvenient to hurt your hand? In addition, you did save me, so I’m wondering if it’s reasonable for me to cook a meal for you, okay?”

It was undeniable that Chen Lulu’s words were disjointed.

Ji Changge turned her head to the side and stopped answering her words.

When Chen Lulu saw that, her heart became cold again, and she nodded: “Okay, I know, I’m going, I won’t disturb you.”

After speaking, Chen Lulu returned to the room, took her bag, walked out, put on her high heels, opened the door, and ran out quickly.

Ji Changge looked at the open door, coughed with her hand on her throat, frowned, and glanced at the time on her phone. She went to the coffee table and pulled out a drawer, took out a bottle of medicine, poured out a pill and swallowed it down with water.

At half past seven the next day.

After Ye Kehuan and Jiang Laien arrived on the set, Ye Kehuan smiled and greeted everyone as usual, but everyone’s expressions were a little weird. Ye Kehuan and Jiang Laien couldn’t help but glance at each other. Chao Mingqing and Yingying were also at a loss, but because they had to help Ye Kehuan and Jiang Laien get some things or something, they didn’t have time to ask them anything.

“What’s wrong?” Ye Kehuan couldn’t help but asking after sitting down in front of the makeup artist.

“Have you read the news just now?” The makeup artist asked softly while holding a makeup brush.

“No, what’s the news?” Ye Kehuan frowned, put her hand into the pocket of her army green cotton coat, and took her phone out to take a look.

“Hey, have a look.” The makeup artist sighed.

“Wait, let me see.” Ye Kehuan said, unlocking her phone.

After Jiang Laien listened from the side, she couldn’t help but frown, and then took back her phone that she had handed to Yingying.

Ye Kehuan had just unlocked her phone when she saw that the notification bar was full of several push notifications. Those news messages were basically pushed over ten minutes ago.

[Jiang Laien, Ye Kehuan, why did you turn your face on the set? Is the friendship broken or the cooperation hype a failure?]

[Shocking! The goddess of the nation was drunk at a barbecue shop late at night!]

Seeing those, Ye Kehuan couldn’t help squinting her eyes, then turned her head to look at Jiang Laien, only to see Jiang Laien frowning. It was just that there were so many people there, so they couldn’t talk about much.

Ye Kehuan turned around and went on Weibo, only to see that she and Jiang Laien had been ranked in the top ten in the hot search within a short period of time. Ye Kehuan frowned and clicked on a hot search tag, only to see a blogger named “Entertainment Baa Baa” post a long paragraph: “The pictures are all here, what do you think?”

The first video was of their lunch when they came to the set on New Year’s Day. Jiang Laien was sitting with others on the set, and after Ye Kehuan took her meal and walked over, she only just sat down and then got up and left, and gave the meal to someone else. Picture two was the video was of Jiang Laien being drunk in that barbecue restaurant.

Sliding her finger, Ye Kehuan clicked to open the comment section. In a short time, the number of comments in the area doubled, and everyone was discussing the matter in full swing.

[Netizens ‘See Through the Vicissitudes of the World’: What do I think? Hahaha, what else could it be but the ship overturned? I think they are simply people who can’t get along. It was estimated that they were together for cooperation and hype before, so they were forced to pretend to be good Chinese girlfriends, right?]

[Netizen ‘I Am The Most Beautiful’: Haha, I think so. Looking at the first video, Jiang Laien didn’t want to care about her at all, and she insisted on moving away. Why, not able to hold her thighs?]

[Netizen ‘I’m A Big Fool’: I know, it’s so easy to change one face, but impossible to change one’s nature, yuck! What kind of stupid thing is this, her fans still boast about her being a straightforward and hardworking girl every day, but they are really **** **** people!]

[Netizen ‘Little Jiang’s Little Leaf’: That’s enough. Combining the two pictures, doesn’t it feel like a quarrel between friends, and then Jiang Laien got drunk? If she got drunk because of sadness, doesn’t it mean that their relationship is good? Were you all born without brains?]

[Netizen ‘Professional Lianjing’: The question is, if they are indeed good friends, why would a person with such good temperament such as the Buddha be so angry that she does not care about her and even uses alcohol to relieve her troubles? Can it also be explained from the side that Ye Kehuan is like the one portrayed in the legend, who makes troubles everywhere? I think it’s you fans who have no brains!]

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The comments on the Internet could be said to be full of tricks and speculations. Some people said that in the previous show “The Food is Ready”, the various interactive sections of Ye Kehuan and Jiang Laien were designed scripts, and they were just acting with the purpose of making a commercial CP.

After all, it was the Internet. As long as any ordinary thing in life was moved to the Internet, it would be infinitely magnified, let alone celebrities.

In addition, Cheng Yan’s name also appeared again, probably because many people were sorry for her, feeling that she was “robbed” of resources by someone like Ye Kehuan, which was simply pitiful. In that way, netizens picked up Ye Kehuan’s previous “black history”. Some people even began to try to persuade Jiang Laien to give up the act and leave Ye Kehuan behind, saying that red and black should not mix.

As a result, some irrational fans of Ye Kehuan and Jiang Laien began to tear each other up. Some fans of Jiang Laien felt that Ye Kehuan was a scumbag who hugged her thighs, and wished she would die; some fans of Ye Kehuan felt that Jiang Laien’s fans were talking nonsense and making trouble, and then went up to Jiang Laien, say something like: “Before, when your Goddess posted on Sister Ye’s Weibo, she was just holding her thigh? If your Goddess has the ability, she won’t cooperate with Sister Ye to cool things down.”

The scene was once again filled with gunpowder and chaos.

Jiang Laien looked at those comments and was inexplicably upset. It wasn’t because she minded about herself, but she didn’t want to see Ye Kehuan being scolded in that way. Clearly, Ye Kehuan was not that kind of person.

“These people are really interesting. I look at you every day. Who doesn’t know that you two are good friends? Just speculating like this,” Jiang Laien’s makeup artist couldn’t help but ridicule and puff up. “Come on, raise your face a little.”

“Yeah, these people are really funny, raining wherever the wind is blowing, haha.” At that time, Cheng Yan walked in from the outside, saying that, but her face was red, like she was watching a big happy event.

Ye Kehuan turned her head and looked at her for a moment, then suddenly curled her lips and smiled: “Are you here?”

“Yes, good morning.” Cheng Yan still had an invisible smile in her eyes.

Ye Kehuan smiled again after listening, “Speaking of which, I haven’t thanked you yet.”

When Cheng Yan heard that, she was taken aback, her smile quickly solidifying. Could it be that Ye Kehuan was sarcastic? Did she see through it so quickly and realize that she did it? Wasn’t she just silly and sweet? Cheng Yan stared at her for a moment, grinning: “Thanks, why?”

Ye Kehuan stared at her steadily, her aura suddenly becoming a little gloomy, and the other people in the room couldn’t help being frightened by her, looking from her to Cheng Yan.

At that moment, Ye Kehuan suddenly smiled again, with a crooked smile, innocent and harmless: “What else could it be?”

Cheng Yan looked at her, swallowing involuntarily: “Why… I don’t understand?”

Ye Kehuan looked down and smiled like a white rabbit: “Did you forget the meal you prepared for Laien yesterday? I really enjoyed it. Please help me tell your brother, his art of cooking is really great!”

After Cheng Yan listened, she finally let out a sigh of relief, and didn’t pay attention to whether Ye Kehuan hid something in her words: “Well, there is nothing to thank me for, just eat happily.”

After listening to the conversation between the two, the people around looked at Jiang Laien again, feeling that things weren’t that simple.

Cheng Yan laughed again at last, then walked to a dressing table and sat down and brushed her hair.

Chao Mingqing stood next to Ye Kehuan, biting her lips, and didn’t know what, today, she really couldn’t stand seeing Cheng Yan.

After Ye Kehuan sat down Cheng Yan, she pondered over the subtle changes in her expression, and gradually put away the smile on her lips. After a moment, Ye Kehuan turned her head to look at her makeup artist, and smiled: “I’m sorry, please go ahead.”

The makeup artist was stunned for a second, then nodded and smiled: “Okay.”

That day’s filming was intensive. The same as the day before, from morning to afternoon, she didn’t have time to rest. It was probably because Ye Kehuan had to leave in a few days, so Director Chen arranged her accordingly. The filming was an exciting time, because the mystery was being revealed step by step.

After the filming of that day’s scenes was finished, it was almost seven o’clock in the evening. Jiang Laien took her phone and swiped it for a while before starting to remove her makeup and change clothes.

After leaving the set, Ye Kehuan saw that Jiang Laien was still staring at her phone while she was walking, so she reached out to embrace her shoulder: “Why, does the phone look better than me?”

Jiang Laien couldn’t help turning her head to retort: “How is that possible?!”

“Then why do you keep watching?” Ye Kehuan raised her eyebrows.

“I’m just looking at the comments under the news today. It’s too much. I’m thinking, I have to post something to make them stop talking like that.” Jiang Laien’s eyebrows were almost twisted.

“I want to say that I have experienced untold online violence. Sometimes, even if you speak reasonably well, they won’t listen to it and will just use it. Many people will only choose to believe what they are willing to believe.” Ye Kehuan said. Sometimes, you had to adopt other means, but whatever you chose, it would not wash away all prejudices.

“I’m not afraid of them talking about me, I just can’t see them talking about you. Look at those messy black materials, it’s really absurd, and some people believe…” Jiang Laien became more and more angry.

Ye Kehuan stopped when she heard that and looked at Jiang Laien’s blushing face. The current Jiang Laien looked really angry, as if she was about to blow up. That was the first time Ye Kehuan saw Jiang Laien when she was reading news and comments.

“Why…” Jiang Laien blanked.

“I’m happy.” Ye Kehuan said while laughing, her eyes clear.

“You don’t have a fever, why are you happy to see this kind of thing?” Jiang Laien lifted her hand that had been difficult to move because of the thick and loving cotton clothes that Ye Kehuan chose for her the previous night, and stroked Ye Kehuan’s forehead.

“I mean, you care so much about me, so I am really happy.” Ye Kehuan pulled down her wrist and continued to smile softly.

Jiang Laien listened and look at her like a mentally retarded person: “I think you are a fool.”

“Not.” Ye Kehuan touched her chin.

Jiang Laien’s face was hot, and she couldn’t help lowering her head, chuckling, and glancing at her again: “Don’t change the subject. Hey, I’ve been really angry all day today. Look at those people, this stuff is really messed up. I’m saying, why are they talking about you holding my thigh, where do they see that?”

“Forget them, I have a girlfriend now.” Ye Kehuan continued to walk with Jiang Laien’s arm.

Jiang Laien froze and continued: “The most important thing is that they will really affect your career. You are now officially on the rise. Sometimes people will have a herd effect, that is, who is being blown up on a large scale. If she has good acting skills, everyone thinks her acting is good, even if her acting skills are only above average, but if anyone is blown up with poor acting skills on a large scale, the public will acquiesce that her acting skills are poor, even if her acting skills are not that bad…”

“Forget them, I have a girlfriend now.” Ye Kehuan raised her eyebrows.

Jiang Laien was stunned again, and said: “Then, your resources will also be affected…”

“Forget them, I have a girlfriend now.” Ye Kehuan repeated.

Jiang Laien finally couldn’t help turning her head and looking at her: “Why always repeat this sentence?”

Ye Kehuan listened, pursed her lips and smiled, then stood in front of her and stretched out her hand to scrape the tip of Jiang Laien’s nose: “I just want to tell you that nothing else matters. You are my world.”

Jiang Laien shrank her head, her cheeks becoming more and more red, and said softly: “Sure enough, you are a big fool.”

But Ye Kehuan continued to stare at her motionlessly, her eyes burning.

“Why look at me…” Jiang Laien didn’t know what was going on. Every time she looked at her like that, she would feel very shy.

At that moment, Ye Kehuan laughed again, put her hand on her heart, and pointed to her head: “If loving you makes me stupid, then I am willing to be a fool for ten thousand years.”

The author has something to say: Jiang Laien: “Mom, this person is teasing me again!”

TL/N

1 - Both words here use Yu, but one is 玉 (jade, purity) and one is 欲 (want, desire)

2 - Just look it up. I don’t think this has any literary significance, but it is a really cool place.