After We Broke Up, She Started Pursuing Me [Entertainment Industry] 26

Chapter 26

The two of them were close, and the moment their eyes met, it was as if a spark of electricity was generated, sending a tingling numbness straight to their hearts.

Zhou Jinsi felt as if she could see her own reflection through her clear eyes.

It was as if, at this very moment, only each other existed in their eyes.

Her heart stirred, but Zhou Jinsi subconsciously chose to retreat. She lightly turned her face away, trying to escape the feeling of being completely enveloped by Shi Qin’s presence.

Whenever Shi Qin got close, her heart would uncontrollably fall into disarray.

But when the scene from the hospital last time flashed in her mind, the budding amorous feelings instantly vanished.

Zhou Jinsi moved her lips and said softly, “But sometimes… if it’s not a good fit, it’s just not a good fit. No matter what you do, it’s useless.”

“It’s better to face this reality sooner. It’s better for everyone that way.”

Shi Qin frowned slightly in dissatisfaction. “Zhou Jinsi, sometimes I really don’t understand what you’re talking about.”

“Can you be a little clearer? What reality do I need to face?”

Zhou Jinsi turned to look out the window. At this moment, due to the emotional turmoil in her heart, the veins on her neck were faintly visible.

She exhaled, calming her somewhat agitated heart a little, before turning her gaze back to Shi Qin. “Shi Qin, can you please stop treating me like a fool?”

“You say I’m not being clear about things, but what about you? Have you figured out your own heart now?”

Zhou Jinsi’s emotions surged, and her eyes even grew moist, turning slightly red.

It wasn’t that she didn’t want to say it, but she didn’t want to lay everything bare. Why make things awkward for everyone?

Shi Qin was still pondering the meaning of her words, momentarily stunned. In Zhou Jinsi’s eyes, this was mistaken for a tacit admission.

Zhou Jinsi had thought that a month would be enough for her to sort out her feelings. She hadn’t expected that now, just bringing it up, a faint pain would still spread and linger in her heart.

Seeing her reddened eyes, Shi Qin’s heart inexplicably softened. Her slender fingertips touched the corner of her eye, gently wiping away a tear that was about to fall.

Her eyes were filled with affection, extremely tender. She said softly, “You really are a fool.”

“Haven’t I already said it?”

“From beginning to end, I’ve only ever had one person in my heart.”

Shi Qin’s hand was still caressing the side of her face, but for a moment, she forgot to pull away.

Her voice seemed to have a different kind of magic. Zhou Jinsi’s previously chaotic thoughts were gradually soothed.

“That person is you.”

“What more do I have to say for you to believe me?”

Zhou Jinsi’s lips parted as if to speak, but her brain had already stopped thinking.

In the novels Zhou Jinsi occasionally read, she always felt that the scenes where the main characters confessed to each other like this were too cheesy.

But now, she finally understood how beautiful and captivating those words were when they came from the mouth of the person she loved.

The space in the car was small. At this moment, Zhou Jinsi was leaning back against her seat, while Shi Qin leaned in from the side, almost resting against her.

The sweet fragrance of the baby’s breath air freshener wafted through the air, gradually filling the thin space. The intimate atmosphere warmed, growing more and more intense…

Shi Qin’s gaze slid from Zhou Jinsi’s eyes to her lips, lingered for two seconds, then slowly moved back to its original place, as if admiring a piece of exquisite porcelain, her eyes darting back and forth between her brows, eyes, and soft lips.

Zhou Jinsi’s heart sped up uncontrollably. Her entire chest was rising and falling lightly, her breathing about to stop.

Shi Qin moved another fraction closer, her eyes fixed on her lips. Zhou Jinsi nervously pressed them together.

After a long moment, Shi Qin finally moved her fingers, tucking the stray strands of hair from Zhou Jinsi’s lips, and looked up to meet her somewhat astonished gaze.

Shi Qin couldn’t help but chuckle. “What? Thought I was going to kiss you again?”

There she goes again, doing it on purpose.

Zhou Jinsi retracted her gaze, hiding the panic in her eyes. “No, you’re overthinking it.”

But from beside her came a series of muffled laughs, as if someone were trying to hold it in. Zhou Jinsi looked at her helplessly, but the heat in her face was now difficult to dissipate…

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That night, Zhou Jinsi arrived at Shi Hua’s home ten minutes early.

The room was still empty. Although she was used to it, and though Shi Hua never said it, deep down, she longed for company.

So, every week, Shi Hua looked forward to Zhou Jinsi’s arrival. One reason was that she felt an unexpected connection with this teacher and found it easy to talk to her. The second was that the teacher was also a good friend of her sister’s, which added a sense of familiarity.

The tutoring session usually lasted about two hours. By the time Zhou Jinsi had finished going over the key questions from the last monthly exam with her, most of the time had passed.

For the final part of the session, Zhou Jinsi would always prepare a practice test she had written herself. Now, as Shi Hua was focused on doing it, she turned her gaze to Shi Hua’s desk.

From the top of a stack of books, she picked up the second-year high school biology textbook, intending to flip through it casually.

Shi Hua’s notes were very neat. It wasn’t just for show; she would concisely record many things. Halfway through, Zhou Jinsi suddenly saw a few photos tucked inside the page.

Out of curiosity, she picked one up to look at.

In the photo were two girls. The older one looked to be about nine or ten years old. With her exquisite features from a young age, Zhou Jinsi recognized her at a glance. She was holding a two- or three-year-old little girl in her arms.

Reasonably, this should be the two sisters, Shi Qin and Shi Hua.

Zhou Jinsi picked up the remaining few photos and looked at them together. Two of them were family portraits.

Looking at them this way, Shi Hua bore some resemblance to her parents as a child. But Shi Qin, with her outstanding looks, seemed strangely out of place.

“Teacher, I’m done.”
“Oh… okay.”

Zhou Jinsi tucked the photos back in. She had been lost in thought just now and only now realized that the photos were someone’s private belongings. She had looked at them without permission and felt a little ashamed.

“That’s about it for today. I’ll take the test back to grade it. Come find me in the office on Monday to get it.”

Shi Hua agreed, then her gaze shifted to the textbook on the desk that Zhou Jinsi had just picked up. Zhou Jinsi noticed and said with a hint of apology, “I’m sorry, I saw it by accident just now. I didn’t say anything to you.”

“Huh?” Faced with Zhou Jinsi’s apology, Shi Hua seemed a bit stunned. “It’s okay, Teacher. I just tucked them in there before and forgot to take them out.”

“I look at the photos when I’m tired of studying. I still have a photo album in my cabinet.”

Children of this age still love to share, especially with people they consider to be close.

So, without waiting for Zhou Jinsi’s reply, Shi Hua took out the photo album on her own and flipped through it page by page for Zhou Jinsi.

After looking at a few pages, Zhou Jinsi couldn’t help but ask curiously, “Are these all photos of you two when you were little?”

Shi Hua nodded.

“It seems like most of them are of you. Your sister should have been in her teens then.”

Shi Hua looked at the photos in the album and said with a hint of regret, “That’s true… I’ve never seen any photos of my sister when she was little. I’ve looked at all the photos at home, but I just can’t find any.”

Hearing this, a faint doubt also surfaced in Zhou Jinsi’s heart, but she still said, “Maybe they just didn’t take many pictures back then. But you still have a lot of photos left.”

Shi Hua nodded thoughtfully. Then, her clear eyes turned to look at Zhou Jinsi, making the latter freeze.

“What’s wrong?”

Shi Hua said mysteriously in a soft voice, “Teacher, can I ask you a question?”

Zhou Jinsi replied without thinking, “Of course. What question?”

She thought the child’s passion for learning would lead her to ask some difficult academic questions, but instead, the child opened her mouth and said:

“Teacher, what exactly is the relationship between you and my sister?”

“I feel like my sister really likes you, but you seem… not that close to her.”

Ah, the innocence of youth.

Alarm bells went off in Zhou Jinsi’s mind. Although she didn’t know how she had sensed it, she ran through it in her mind several times: she couldn’t let a child discuss matters of sexual orientation too early.

She was silent for a moment before she asked cautiously, “Why… do you think so?”

Shi Hua said with a matter-of-fact expression, “Because she often asks me about you, Teacher. And she’s told me before.”

Zhou Jinsi’s eyebrow twitched. “Told you what?”

“She said she pays attention to you because she likes you, as a friend…”

Zhou Jinsi breathed a sigh of relief. Hearing just the first half of the sentence, her heart had been in her throat.

“Oh, right. My sister also asked me to ask you, if I had the chance, if you like her the way she likes you…”

Zhou Jinsi was completely embarrassed. But Shi Hua’s tone was so innocent that it made it even harder for her to answer.

“Ahem…” Zhou Jinsi hesitated for a long time, but still couldn’t say it.
But Shi Hua looked a little excited. “I know.”

Zhou Jinsi was completely confused. “You know what?”

“My sister said, if you hesitate for a long time when you answer, then that means…”

“You do like her.”

“Because… when people face something they truly like, they are always cautious and dare not express it…”