Gold Medal Mediator [Quick Transmigration] 61p2

Chapter 61: I’m Really Not the Female Lead Part VIII p2

On the night of New Year’s Eve.

Many relatives were sitting at the Xue family’s New Year’s Eve dinner table. Almost the entire family had come to Xue Cheng’s house.

The large dining table, which usually seemed a little empty with just a few family members, was now lively and crowded with people. Xue Jiming was originally chatting with his other cousins when he suddenly heard his phone ring. He took it and saw—

It was Zhao He who had sent him a video invitation.

“Hey, Brother Jiming, is it almost time for Chengcheng’s show?” someone asked him as he was leaving, pointing to the New Year’s program on the TV.

Xue Jiming smiled at the person and replied casually, “He’s fine. He showed me the script a while ago.”

Then he quickly took his phone and returned to his room, happily making a New Year’s Eve call to his partner.

It wasn’t until his relatives called out for dinner that he came out of his room. He happened to see someone bringing Hua Baihe her meal in advance—because she had always been unwilling to deal with crowded situations. Xue Jiming leaned over and asked at the door:

“Sis, did Jiang Xue say when she’s coming?”

Hearing this, Hua Baihe’s chopsticks paused. She turned her head expressionlessly to look at the smug look on his face, and after a long while, she said:

“I don’t know.”

Xue Jiming: “…???”

How can she not know?

He looked at Hua Baihe’s expression and asked cautiously, “Did you two have a fight?”

Hua Baihe scooped up a sweet fermented rice ball with her spoon and said slowly, “That’s a good question.”

Then, in Xue Jiming’s bewildered expression, she replied meaningfully, “Guess?”

Xue Jiming: “…???”

For some reason, the closer it got to the New Year, the more he felt that his sister’s temper was becoming more and more unpredictable.

After thinking for a long time, he could only attribute this to the “New Year’s syndrome” that the other would have every New Year when she saw many relatives.

Xue Jiming expressed his understanding of her condition and did not block her fire here. He quickly took a step back, clasped his fists, and said:

“I’ve disturbed you.”

“Goodbye.”

He closed the door for Hua Baihe behind him.

…

Inside the door.

Hua Baihe chewed the sweet fermented rice balls in her mouth, trying to drown her sorrows in this bowl of snacks, but unfortunately…

There was too little alcohol in it.

Even after she had eaten the bowl clean, Hua Baihe was still very sober. She pushed the empty bowl aside, propped her chin on one hand, and said to the system with a vacant look in her eyes:

“Tong’er, let me tell you, when she comes, how can I politely and tactfully refuse her pursuit of me?”

The system had seen Hua Baihe in so many worlds, and this was the first time it had seen her refuse the pursuit of a beauty. It was so moved that its voice even trembled:

“As long as it’s a refusal, any way is fine!”

Hua Baihe nodded quickly:

“Then I’ll refuse Jiang Xue and immediately throw myself into the arms of the great Firefly. What do you think of this operation?”

System: “…”

System: “…………”

Who is it? Where is it? What did it just say?

Hua Baihe had no idea that she had unknowingly hurt the system again. She had been idle during this period of time, and with her Sherlock Holmes-like observation skills, she had browsed all the news about Firefly, and had even gone into her space to look.

Whether it was Weibo, the reader group, or her space.

There was no trace of her having a partner anywhere—

However, Hua Baihe was very interested in what Jiang Xue had said about “Firefly having a crush on someone.”

But she couldn’t find a single record of that person.

This person was really… good at hiding.

Either that person was always in her heart, or she had long since moved on from this relationship.

Hua Baihe decided that when she saw the real person, she would probe her in person.

The system had recovered from its internal injuries. It now asked Hua Baihe:

“I see you’re determined to be in a relationship, aren’t you?”

Hua Baihe swore to the heavens:

“Absolutely not! Isn’t it just that I have a lot of inconveniences with my actions, and I want to establish a mutual aid group to build a harmonious society together?”

This was the first time the system had heard someone describe a “friends with benefits relationship” so civilly.

It was silent for a long time, and then said in disbelief, “Were you like this in your original world?”

“I mean, why hasn’t the anti-pornography and anti-illegal publications team arrested you yet?”

Hua Baihe said shamelessly, “Probably because I’m good-looking.”

She then snorted and said, “I don’t know if some systems will regret it now. After all, if it hadn’t crippled my leg and limited my entertainment activities, I wouldn’t have to worry about laying my hands on an innocent little girl now.”

The system laughed coldly.

“Yes,” it said, “so we’ll see each other in the next world.”

Hua Baihe: “…???”

She suddenly had a bad premonition.

But before she could ask the system about the information of the next devil world, a new message appeared on her phone.

It was the store manager who had sent her today’s turnover.

Hua Baihe stared at the six-digit number on it in a daze, and immediately picked up her phone and asked, “Did another big customer come today?”

She decided that in the future, she would launch some special services for these high-end customers—

For example, she would draw one person from these super VIPs every month and give them some new product trial experiences. On the one hand, she could wait for customer feedback and improve the types of products she imported. On the other hand, she could also strengthen the relationship with her customers.

As she said this, she entered her ideas on it, writing a lot, before she pulled the page back to see the manager’s reply from earlier:

“No, it was your friend again this time. The one who placed a large order here last time.”

Hua Baihe was stunned for a few seconds before she remembered that the person the manager was talking about was Firefly.

If this great Firefly was really single, as she had said…

“Then she’s really a ruthless person.”

Hua Baihe murmured.

She herself at most bought some small-time entry-level products, but this Firefly really… dared to use anything on herself?

I can’t out-sassy her. Even with my natural broken leg, I can’t out-sassy her.

Hua Baihe was instantly sobered up. She said to the system decisively, “Please allow me to sincerely apologize to you for my previous dirty thoughts. Daddy, I promise that in this world, whether it’s Firefly or Jiang Xue, I will absolutely not lay a finger on them.”

The system was not very confident in her now and asked in a flat tone:

“Is that so?”

Hua Baihe nodded vigorously and said very sincerely, “Really, believe me. When two bottoms meet, one will be hurt. Firefly and I are not suitable.”

What’s more, this was a little bottom who seemed to really like to play BDSM games?

The system didn’t react for a moment. “What’s that?”

Hua Baihe was silent for a while, then switched to human language. “It means, if Firefly and I were lying on the same bed, we might tacitly start playing ‘123, Freeze’.”

Neither of them wants to be the first to move.

System: “…”

What is an underage system like me going through every day?

It replied dryly, “Okay, okay. Anyway, I can take this as good news, right?”

Hua Baihe nodded grimly.

It seemed that in this world, she was destined to walk alone.

…

Thanks to the manager, all of Hua Baihe’s thoughts about Firefly had disappeared, and she was in a state of celibacy throughout the New Year.

Until the day the Jiang family came to visit.

Logically speaking, during this New Year festival, the Jiang family would absolutely not want to have anything to do with the Xue family. Even when buying vegetables at the market, they would refuse to go to the stalls that the other had visited.

The reason this happened was purely because Jiang Qian had stayed up all night to finish reading the books that Dr. Wang had given him.

He had sat quietly in his room for a long time in the middle of the night. His wife had tried to persuade him to go to sleep several times, but he had stubbornly refused to move. In the end, the two of them had shed tears in front of each other.

The next day, he walked into Jiang Xue’s room and said to her:

“You… don’t eat takeout in your room all day. It’s the New Year, you should go out for a walk.”

The truth of Jiang Xue’s hunger strike was discovered, but there was not a hint of a blush on her face.

She just replied calmly, “Where to?”

Jiang Qian stared with a pair of red-rimmed eyes from staying up all night and said, “Besides the Xue family, do you have any other place you want to go!”

Jiang Xue was stunned.

She felt the warmth welling up in her eyes. After a long while, she said:

“Dad, thank you.”

…

On the third day of the New Year.

Jiang Qian and Xue Cheng, the two old fathers, sat in the Xue family’s living room, drinking tea face to face. Their faces were so grim that it was as if they were drinking horse urine.

So much so that Xue Jiming, who was pouring the tea, once thought that he had taken the wrong tea leaves, which had caused the two parents to be so dissatisfied with his skills.

In the end, it was Jiang Xue who broke the silence first and said to her father, “Dad, I’m going to see Sister Ling first… is that okay?”

She had originally stopped at Xue Ling, but because she thought of Jiang Qian’s expression this morning, she had added a question at the end.

When Jiang Qian heard this, he couldn’t help but feel angry.

He had already come to visit, and since he had entered the house, he had not seen Xue Ling come out. What kind of attitude was this?

He wanted to say no, but the Xue Cheng beside him nodded and replied, “Go ahead.”

Jiang Qian looked at him with bright eyes. “…”

This gentleman, is Jiang Xue your daughter???

Jiang Xue didn’t care about the strange atmosphere between the two big men. She got up and went to Hua Baihe’s room. Perhaps it was because everyone knew about her relationship with Hua Baihe, even the maid at the door didn’t stop her.

With the soft sound of the doorknob being turned.

Inside, a girl at the desk turned her wheelchair and looked at her calmly. “You’re here.”

Jiang Xue closed the door behind her, met her gaze, and let out a soft breath before she nodded at Hua Baihe and said:

“Hmm, I’m here, Sister Ling.”

Hua Baihe sat in her wheelchair and looked at her with ease, not in a hurry to ask her about the rumors that were flying around, but Jiang Xue had already taken the initiative to speak:

“I’m sorry, I used your situation as a pretext to come out to my family a while ago.”

Hua Baihe shook her head. “It’s fine.”

She said, “When are you going to explain it to your family?”

Jiang Xue walked towards her, her hand on the glasses in her pocket. She wasn’t wearing contacts today, so she couldn’t see the other person’s appearance clearly unless she got closer.

This was hereditary myopia. She had tried to control her reading habits in her later years, but she could only prevent her prescription from getting worse.

Hua Baihe didn’t feel any aggression from her, so she didn’t care about her actions.

“Explain…” Jiang Xue chewed on these words carefully. It wasn’t until she reached Hua Baihe that she slowly said, “What if I don’t plan to explain?”

She leaned down, propped one hand on the table, and leaned slightly towards the person in the wheelchair. The fragrance from her neck fell heavily, seeping into the other person’s nose.

“From the very beginning, from the first time we met, I was attracted to Sister Ling.”

Jiang Xue raised her hand and slowly tucked a strand of hair from Xue Ling’s shoulder behind her ear. When her cool fingertips touched her warm cheek, she successfully made the person under her shrink to the other side.

Hua Baihe suspected that this person had a second personality.

Every time she was at a distance from her, this person was gentle and polite. Once she got a little closer, the danger that could erupt at any time would eagerly burst out from every pore.

She stiffened and said bluntly, “I’m not interested in you.”

Jiang Xue was not worried at all and asked, “Then who are you interested in? Firefly?”

She was even prepared to show her cards if Hua Baihe nodded, but—

“No, I’m not interested in her either.”

Hua Baihe’s words sounded in the room.

Jiang Xue’s movements stopped.

She looked straight into Hua Baihe’s eyes and asked, “Why?”

Why?

Because you look like you don’t know how to play, and she, she looks like she knows how to play too well.

Hua Baihe sighed inwardly, thinking that it would be good if the two of them could be neutralized.

Before she could speak, Jiang Xue continued, “Sister Ling doesn’t like me because I look too boring, is that right?”

Hua Baihe blinked, not saying yes, and not saying no.

Jiang Xue laughed softly.

The laughter had just come out when it disappeared, almost imperceptible.

She straightened up, a faint smile on her lips. She raised her hand and smoothed her hair, her five fingers running from her forehead to the back, her soft black hair passing through her fingers.

“Just right.”

She said, “I’m also tired of always having to pretend to be a good girl in front of Sister Ling. Whether I can satisfy you or not, please, Sister Ling, taste me yourself before you say anything.”

She emphasized the last few words.

At the same time, she took out a rubber band from her pocket, easily tied her hair back in a few loops, and then took out her usual gold-rimmed glasses from her pocket and put them on her nose.

She had transformed from her previous innocent and harmless appearance into… a refined scoundrel.

Hua Baihe was startled by her big transformation, suspecting that this person was a Transformer. She saw her raise her hand to lift her chin and squint her eyes as she got closer:

“This is much more comfortable. I can see Sister Ling’s fragile and pitiful appearance clearly… I wonder if Sister Ling will still be so beautiful when she cries later?”

Hua Baihe trembled and called out to the system:

“Tong, Tong’er, is there some kind of monster living in her glasses? Why did she become so perverted after putting on a pair of glasses?”

The system was also shocked by this talented girl’s second personality:

“I, I don’t know.”

Hua Baihe sighed. “Sigh, it’s a good thing I like it.”

System: “…”

Damn it, here we go again.

Just as Hua Baihe was about to open her mouth to speak, a round ball that the other had taken out from her pocket was stuffed into her mouth.

She opened her eyes wide in surprise, wanting to say something, but it was already too late.

…

Ten minutes later, someone knocked on the door:

“Miss, it’s lunchtime. Are you planning to eat out today, or should we bring it into the room?”

With tears in her eyes, Hua Baihe kept making “mm-hmm” sounds, looking at the person in front of her. Her black eyes were covered with a layer of mist, like black pebbles in a river, becoming more round and translucent after being soaked in water.

Jiang Xue had one hand in the blanket she was covered with, and the other hand wiped the corner of her eye, close to her ear:

“Hmm? What did Sister Ling say?”

“No, you’re always whining at me like this. I can’t hear you at all.”

Hua Baihe tried hard to open her eyes, wanting to speak, but she still couldn’t say anything, and the knocking on the door outside was becoming more and more urgent.

Jiang Xue sighed and leaned close to her ear, saying:

“You don’t want to be seen in this pathetic state, right? Then promise me, you’ll speak properly.”

Hua Baihe was almost tricked by her tone of coaxing a child, but her body had reached its limit, so she could only nod at her impatiently.

Until her mouth was free again—

“No lunch! I have food here, Jiang Xue doesn’t need any either. You can let them eat by themselves!”

Jiang Xue satisfactorily wiped the sweat from her forehead and praised her, “Good girl. What else does Sister Ling want to play next? I’ll play with you.”

Hua Baihe nodded vigorously in her heart, but her face was full of fear as she shook her head desperately.

Jiang Xue tilted her head and asked:

“Ah, you don’t like this size? But you clearly had a lot of fun with this last time. Alright, let’s change it—but before we do, you have to answer a question for me.”

She said, “Now, do you like me more, or do you like Firefly more?”