Chapter 80: Liar. Frail and weak, collapsing with a single touch.
Yu Mei was in a dilemma.
She had indeed come back with very important matters to discuss with the two of them.
But now it seemed that she had come at the wrong time.
These two were really something, doing this kind of thing in the study in broad daylight, without even closing the door.
“…”
Yu Mei, in the principle of being a good person to the end, helped them close the study door tightly from the outside.
She sat on the sofa in the living room and casually poured herself a cup of tea.
In the study, Cheng Yang, taking advantage of the fact that there was no one at home, was lying on the sofa, screaming.
“It hurts, it hurts, it hurts!”
Cheng Yang suddenly turned over and directly pounced on Xu Xun on the desk.
“I told you it hurts, but you still pressed.”
She couldn’t help but complain, staring at the triumphant upward curve of Xu Xun’s lips.
The moment their lips touched, Xu Xun said, “Meimei was here just now.”
Cheng Yang’s kissing action paused. “What?”
Xu Xun smiled and turned to look at the tightly closed study door.
“She helped us close the study door. If nothing unexpected happens, she’s still waiting for us in the living room. You should get off me quickly.”
Cheng Yang gritted her teeth. “Alright then. I’ll go and ask her what else she has to do.”
Sure enough, after leaving the study, the first thing Cheng Yang saw was the Yu Mei sitting on the living room sofa.
Yu Mei pretended to be calm and took a sip of tea. After seeing the two of them, she coughed lightly.
“…”
Cheng Yang was a little embarrassed. She had been shouting just now, and Yu Mei must have heard her.
She and Xu Xun had done nothing, just a massage. Yu Mei shouldn’t have misunderstood, right?
Little did she know that her image in Yu Mei’s heart had long been exhausted.
Yu Mei looked at the suspicious blush on her face, and the faint red marks on her shoulder and neck, and couldn’t help but sigh quietly in her heart.
Is this the married life of a married person?
Yu Mei was shocked. She didn’t understand but respected it.
Anyway, it wasn’t her own life.
Yu Mei put down her teacup, her gaze on the slightly nervous Xu Xun. “I’m here to tell you that Director Chen wants to film a literary period drama recently, about the rural life in the 1990s.”
Xu Xun was taken aback for a moment. “Rural life?”
Yu Mei nodded. “Yeah. You also know that the box office of literary films is average now, but it’s easy to win awards. I recommended you to Director Chen. She was very satisfied with your information. I’m here to ask for your opinion.”
Xu Xun was still in a daze. Cheng Yang was the first to speak. “Rural life, isn’t that just what A-Xun is good at? You know how to farm, raise small animals, and you can also do a lot of small handicrafts. You’re simply the chosen protagonist.”
Hearing this, Yu Mei turned her head and asked with a smile, “Then do you want to act?”
“…”
Cheng Yang shook her head. “No…”
Yu Mei directly interrupted her with a blank expression. “Alright, no need to say anymore. I knew you were a salted fish.”
“…”
Cheng Yang was silent for a moment, then obediently lowered her head, so guilty that she didn’t dare to look Yu Mei in the eye.
“Meimei, that’s not what I mean. I mean, if I also go to the crew, then who will make A-Xun a love bento at home?”
Yu Mei was about to raise her hand to hit her but was dodged by Cheng Yang.
“Hehe, do you need to make a bento yourself?”
Cheng Yang quickly said, “Didn’t you see the picture I posted on my Weibo and Moments? Those are all love bentoes that I made myself. They’re so beautiful.”
Yu Mei gave her a heavy blow. “Sorry, I don’t have time to look.”
“…”
Cheng Yang: “What? You don’t have time to look? Then who was the ghost who liked my Moments?”
Yu Mei: “Oh.”
Seeing that the two of them were about to argue, Xu Xun quickly changed the subject.
“I’ll film it, but my variety show for this season is not over yet. I want to know when Director Chen’s drama will be filmed.”
Yu Mei smiled with satisfaction. “Next spring, when the mountain flowers are in full bloom. It won’t delay your variety show.”
Cheng Yang held Xu Xun’s hand tightly. “This setting is simply tailor-made for you. I’m quite familiar with Director Chen. She’s a good director. You can film her drama without any worries.”
Xu Xun said in a small voice, “Will she think I’m a person with connections?”
Cheng Yang couldn’t help but laugh. “What’s wrong with that? Didn’t you hear Meimei say just now that Director Chen appreciates you very much? You can rest assured.”
Yu Mei also agreed, “As long as your acting skills and personality are good, so what if you have connections?”
Cheng Yang said with a grin, “My wife not only has good acting skills and a good personality, but she’s also beautiful.”
“…”
They’re showing off their affection again.
Yu Mei glanced at Cheng Yang helplessly. “Yangyang is right. The director doesn’t care if you’re bringing in capital. Back then, when you were filming Director Zhang’s drama…”
“Cough cough cough!”
Cheng Yang coughed a few times, interrupting the rest of Yu Mei’s words.
“…”
Such an obvious change of subject, it wasn’t that Xu Xun didn’t see it.
However, she did not ask but smiled and changed the subject for the two of them.
“You must be hungry. I’ll go and make dinner.”
Before Xu Xun could even stand up, Cheng Yang held her wrist tightly.
“You haven’t recovered from your heatstroke yesterday. Don’t do it. Leave dinner to me.”
Xu Xun said with a smile, “Alright then. Do you know what Meimei likes to eat?”
Just as Cheng Yang’s mouth was about to break into a smile, she met Yu Mei’s scrutinizing eyes.
“…”
“Sweet and sour pork ribs.”
Correct.
Xu Xun asked with a smile again, “Then do you know how to make it?”
Cheng Yang nodded. “Of course. During the time you were not at home, I would cook to pass the time when I was bored. Now, my cooking skills can be said to be superb. If you don’t believe me, you can just wait.”
After saying this, she turned and went to the kitchen.
Xu Xun sat across from Yu Mei and said with a smile, “Actually, I don’t think she’s very good at it.”
Yu Mei covered her mouth and smiled a little. “Me too. Don’t look at her glamorous appearance. She’s actually very clumsy.”
Xu Xun’s eyes widened. “No way. But when she was with me, I didn’t feel it.”
Yu Mei sat directly beside Xu Xun and said in a small voice, “That’s because you see her through rose-colored glasses. Let me tell you, when she was taking her driver’s license test, she failed the third subject seven times. The instructor said she was a prodigy.”
Xu Xun’s eyes were full of disbelief.
“Seven times? Isn’t the maximum five times for a person?”
Yu Mei glanced at the Cheng Yang who was peeling potatoes in the kitchen and lowered her voice. “There are two chances each time. I went with her to take the test. I was so dumbfounded. I’ve never seen such a stupid person.”
“…”
Xu Xun was stunned. She turned to look at the Cheng Yang in the kitchen.
But at this moment, Cheng Yang happened to tilt her head, and the two of them’s eyes met.
Xu Xun gave her a sweet smile.
Cheng Yang also curved her lips, signaling that she was going to make a potato stir-fry with chicken tonight.
Seeing the two of them smiling and chatting, and looking at her from time to time, she felt very happy in her heart, thinking that they must be praising her for being smart, capable, and good at taking care of people.
Little did she know that inside and outside the kitchen were two different worlds.
As a qualified “black fan” of Cheng Yang, Yu Mei knew everything that the other had experienced.
“You don’t know that she’s tone-deaf when she sings, right?”
Xu Xun’s eyes widened again. “Tone-deaf?”
She didn’t believe it. Cheng Yang had clearly released several albums.
“Impossible. I’ve bought her albums. She sings very well.”
Yu Mei pinched the bridge of her nose. “That’s all post-production tuning. After she had finished recording, she had made the sound engineer so busy. Later, when she sang again, she would record one sentence at a time.”
“…”
Xu Xun was shocked, Xu Xun didn’t believe it, Xu Xun doubted her life.
“No…”
But soon, she remembered that she had once told Cheng Yang that she wanted to hear her sing, but the other had refused her request no matter what, and had found all sorts of reasons to prevaricate.
So it was because she was embarrassed about being tone-deaf.
Xu Xun’s perfect filter for Cheng Yang was more than half broken.
“You don’t believe me?”
Yu Mei observed the strange expression on Xu Xun’s face and said with a smile, “You’ve liked her for so long. I thought you had already understood her thoroughly.”
Xu Xun lowered her eyelids. “She never told me.”
Yu Mei covered her mouth and secretly smiled, not at all aware that she had already caused a great disaster.
And the Cheng Yang who was clumsily cutting potato chunks in the kitchen was also completely unaware that she was already in deep trouble.
Besides making sweet and sour pork ribs, Cheng Yang also wanted to make a spicy potato stir-fry with chicken.
She had been drooling over the recipes recently and had collected several thousand cooking videos, but she hadn’t even finished half of them.
Every time she cooked, she would play the video and stir-fry at the same time.
She didn’t know how many times she had pulled the progress bar back and forth, and she didn’t know how many times the food in the pot had been burned.
Cheng Yang was getting more and more courageous with each setback, just like when she had been taking her driver’s license test, she had almost made the instructor cry from anger but had still persisted.
In the living room, the corners of Xu Xun’s lips curled up.
“What else? Share it with me.”
Yu Mei blinked her eyes. “She has a lot of luck with love.”
Xu Xun’s breath caught. She said nonchalantly, “I know that. It’s obvious. She’s already married, and there are still Omegas who want to marry her as their wife, wishing us a speedy divorce.”
Yu Mei waved her hand. “Not this. Let me tell you, when she was in high school, an Omega in her class had a crush on her. At night, after school, she had staged a damsel in distress scene, but as a result, she had accidentally kicked and broken her ribs and had been in the hospital for three months.”
“…”
Xu Xun had not transferred to the school at that time, but she had once heard her deskmate mention something about it. At that time, she had thought it was a rumor.
“Kicked and broke her ribs? How is that possible? Isn’t Yangyang always frail and weak?”
In Xu Xun’s impression, Cheng Yang had always been of this constitution, delicate and pampered, unable to even open a mineral water bottle, and had no strength to open a can.
“No, you must be mistaken. She’s very weak. The moment I press her, she lies down.”
Now it was Yu Mei’s turn to be shocked. “Who told you she’s frail and weak? It’s because her body was weak when she was a child, and she was a medicine pot. Auntie Cheng had her start learning Sanda when she was eight, and she’s been practicing for more than ten years.”
Xu Xun bit her lower lip. “She’s never told me. She said her constitution is weak, and she collapses with a single touch.”
Yu Mei was astonished. “She told you that herself? This bad guy, so cunning.”
Xu Xun didn’t know what to feel in her heart, but in the end, she still couldn’t help but laugh out loud.
“Don’t you think she’s quite cute like this?”
Yu Mei smiled without saying a word.
As expected, couples usually have a filter.
Xu Xun looked at Cheng Yang’s back, at the hand that was easily holding the iron pot, and couldn’t help but curve her lips into a smile.
So those delicate and dependent appearances, and the weakness after her illness, were all fake.
Although she had been deceived, Xu Xun’s state of mind had changed.
She was very happy.
Cheng Yang had deliberately pretended to be needed, deceived her, and lured her into this perfectly woven trap.
Even if Xu Xun fell in, she would still enjoy it.
