Forbidden to Flirt and Run 46

Chapter 46 Extra 3

Xu Qingtang finally understood what Gu Yizhi meant by “a little strange.”

Finally, after Tang Gui’s explanation, the misunderstanding was finally cleared up.

It turned out that after Tang’s mom had called Teacher Qi, she had learned that Xu Qingtang was also a homosexual. Seeing how close they usually were, she had naturally thought of this.

Tang’s mom was silent for a long time, and her gaze finally landed on Jiang Wan, who was beside her.

Xu Qingtang felt that this was not a place to stay for long. After greeting Tang’s mom, she and Gu Yizhi left.

On the way back, the wind picked up.

The movie was off, and Xu Qingtang didn’t want to waste this rare free weekend, so she suggested going shopping with Gu Yizhi. In the end, she saw a claw machine on the street. Xu Qingtang decided to redeem herself, but unfortunately, she failed in the end.

“Is it that this machine just can’t catch anything?”

Xu Qingtang tried to make excuses for herself, and then the next second, she watched helplessly as a child caught a Pink Panther.

“…”

Gu Yizhi went along with her words with a straight face. “Yes, it’s the machine’s problem.”

“…”

In the end, Xu Qingtang was no longer obsessed with the claw machine. She was in a playful mood and pulled Gu Yizhi to take a photo booth picture. After the photos were developed, she held them and laughed for a long time.

“Have you ever taken this kind of photo before?”

Gu Yizhi glanced at it. “No.”

Xu Qingtang: “Why?”

Shouldn’t it have been quite popular back then?

Gu Yizhi: “I don’t like it.”

The smile on Xu Qingtang’s face slowly faded. “Ah, then you should have said so earlier. If you don’t like it, I won’t take it. It’s fine.”

Gu Yizhi picked up one of the photos. Xu Qingtang in it was smiling brightly. She also slowly smiled. “But now I quite like it, because you’re also on it.”

“Many things don’t seem that valuable to me, like climbing mountains, like watching the sunrise and sunset, like going out for a walk, and like this.”

“But because of you, they have all been given meaning.”

Xu Qingtang’s heart was stirred by her sudden words, and she couldn’t help but smile again.

“And also—”

She gently kissed Gu Yizhi’s cheek.

“This.”

*

The next day, Tang Gui brought the wedding dress to the theater. The wedding dress was packed in a very exquisite gift box, and the color looked very dreamy.

Tang Gui said, “My mom threw away all my things. If she hadn’t been on the phone with me when it was delivered and knew it was yours, it probably wouldn’t have escaped either.”

It was self-evident what had been thrown away.

Xu Qingtang asked, amused, “What’s wrong? Didn’t your auntie agree?”

“Agree with what? Did she agree with me? She agreed with you,” Tang Gui sighed. “After knowing it wasn’t you, her face fell. I was almost kicked out of the house.”

“Let’s not talk about this.” Tang Gui glanced at her. “Aren’t you going to open it and see?”

Xu Qingtang shook her head. “No, I want to see it with her.”

Tang Gui clicked her tongue and said, “Alright. A wedding dress as a New Year’s gift. How come I didn’t think of that?”

To be more precise, it should be an early New Year’s gift.

On the twenty-ninth of the lunar year, Xu Qingtang and Gu Yizhi went to Teacher Qi’s house together. When they came, the two of them had specially worn a red and a white couple’s outfit. Xu Qingtang had bought it. She felt it had a very atmospheric feel.

When they came, Gu Yizhi had bought many gifts, big and small boxes, all sorts of things.

When the two of them had just arrived, Teacher Qi and Auntie Zhou were washing fruit. There were also two neighbors in the living room. Seeing Gu Yizhi, they all smiled and asked, “Whose daughter is this?”

Teacher Qi smiled. “Mine.”

The neighbor was surprised. “Ah? Teacher Qi, you didn’t…”

Before the neighbor could make up a family ethics drama, Xu Qingtang spoke up. “Auntie, this is my fiancée.”

“Oh, a fiancée. What? A fiancée???”

The neighbor finally left with a horrified expression. But later, as Xu Qingtang and Gu Yizhi came more often, they obviously began to gradually accept this matter, always teasing them with “fiancée” this and “fiancée” that, making Xu Qingtang feel embarrassed.

Of course, that was all later.

It was about time. Teacher Qi and Auntie Zhou began to prepare the New Year’s Eve dinner. Gu Yizhi offered to help, but Teacher Qi said, “No need. You can sit. Qingtang, turn on the TV and watch.”

“Alright.”

Xu Qingtang got up and turned on the TV as instructed. Although it was not yet New Year’s, the programs were all festive and suitable as a background.

She turned her head and saw Gu Yizhi sitting on the sofa, not speaking, not doing anything else, just sitting there quietly.

Xu Qingtang couldn’t help but go forward and tease, “You’re so well-behaved today.”

Gu Yizhi glanced at her. “Hm?”

Xu Qingtang asked in a low voice, “Are you nervous?”

Gu Yizhi was frank. “I’m nervous.”

Now, she couldn’t see where she was nervous at all. Xu Qingtang stared at her soft, red lips, leaned over and kissed her. “Not nervous anymore, right?”

Gu Yizhi smiled. “So bold.”

“What are you afraid of? My mom and the others can’t see.”

Then she turned her head and saw Auntie Zhou walking out of the kitchen, her expression a little complicated. She immediately became as quiet as a chicken, and then Auntie Zhou smiled at them.

Alright, now she was also starting to get nervous.

The reunion dinner was early. At around four o’clock, Xu Qingtang and Gu Yizhi went to wash the dishes together. In the middle of it, she went to the balcony to make a call to her senior apprentice-sister. When she came out, Gu Yizhi and Teacher Qi were chatting about everything under the sun. She didn’t look nervous at all.

Xu Qingtang quietly returned to her room, took out the gift box, and then, while they weren’t paying attention, placed it behind the TV.

Night fell. Teacher Qi and Auntie Zhou went to the neighbor’s house to visit. Xu Qingtang was bored on the sofa, scrolling through Weibo. She didn’t know what she saw, but she suddenly burst into laughter, so much so that she couldn’t straighten her back.

“Hahaha… Gu Yizhi, look, it’s hilarious. How can someone be so stupid, hahaha…”

Xu Qingtang held up her phone screen in front of Gu Yizhi.

On it was a popular news story. Someone in a certain place was proposing. Due to excessive nervousness, he had directly knelt down on both knees and kowtowed.

After laughing, she was choked by her saliva and coughed while holding onto the sofa. Gu Yizhi poured her water and patted her back, helpless and amused. “Be careful.”

Xu Qingtang said, “I can’t help it. It’s too funny. I feel like all my laughter for the day has been used up.”

She finally understood how others felt when she had a social death.

When she had caught her breath, she looked up and found that Gu Yizhi was taking a picture of her with her phone. Xu Qingtang immediately pounced on her, leaning on her shoulder. “Taking a picture of me?”

Gu Yizhi hummed in agreement, saved the picture, and set it as her screen saver. Xu Qingtang protested, “No, this one is not good. The screen saver must be the best-looking one.”

Gu Yizhi smiled. “But I think you were very cute just now.”

How was that cute?

Aesthetics were indeed a very subjective thing. Xu Qingtang said, “No, no. Although a phone is a very personal thing, the screen is still seen by many people. We can’t let others think that you, Gu Yizhi, a great CEO, have a fiancée who is so unphotogenic.”

Gu Yizhi didn’t think there was anything wrong with it, but she still nodded. “Then you can take pictures of me. I’ll change it every day.”

Xu Qingtang: “…Actually, I think the one just now is quite good.”

Gu Yizhi’s photography skills were much more reliable than hers.

Night fell. Teacher Qi and Auntie Zhou came back from next door, and each took out a red envelope, giving one to each of them. Teacher Qi said with a smile, “I should have given it to you on New Year’s, but you’re not in Lin City for the New Year. The time doesn’t matter. The thought is the most important thing.”

That was not wrong at all.

But how could Xu Qingtang be so shameless as to accept Auntie Zhou’s? She tried to refuse, but Auntie Zhou said with a smile, “You’re being polite with me. When you two get married, I won’t have to give it to you anymore.”

The custom in Lin City was that as long as you weren’t married, you could receive red envelopes during the New Year.

The faint red on Xu Qingtang’s face gradually deepened. “The wedding is still a long way off.”

Teacher Qi took a sip of water, sized up Xu Qingtang, and said nonchalantly, “The elders’ thoughts have arrived. What about yours?”

Of course, Xu Qingtang had prepared. She and Gu Yizhi had bought a gift for Teacher Qi a long time ago. Teacher Qi didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. “Who told you about this? Didn’t you prepare a gift for Yizhi? You’ve been so sneaky these past few days. Do you think I didn’t see?”

“Mom, you’re really…” Xu Qingtang smiled embarrassedly and had to take it out from behind the TV, placing it on the table. “I was originally planning to give it to you at night.”

The atmosphere was so good at night. Turn off the lights, light some incense, and whisper some sweet nothings in each other’s ears. The rest…

Ahem. Xu Qingtang opened the gift box with a serious expression. At that moment, the smile on her face that she couldn’t control suddenly became extremely stiff.

The wedding dress was separated by something, and on top of it were all kinds of adult toys…

Gu Yizhi helped her close it with a “thud.”

“…”

Silence is golden.

But the excessive silence made Xu Qingtang feel tormented.

So all the things that had been thrown away had been tidied up and put in here by Tang’s mom…

Xu Qingtang’s vision went black. She grabbed the gift box and Gu Yizhi and fled back to her room in a panic.

Teacher Qi’s embarrassed voice asked, “Where are you going?”

“I, I’m going to look at the moon with Yizhi…”

There was no moon on New Year’s Eve. Xu Qingtang was just talking nonsense. She looked at the light purple, dreamy gift box and really wanted to faint on the spot.

What did she just say?

She understood how others felt when she had a social death?

No, she didn’t!

Facing Gu Yizhi’s gaze, Xu Qingtang wanted to struggle a little. “If I say… this isn’t mine, will you believe me?”

Gu Yizhi: “The wedding dress?”

Xu Qingtang blinked. “How did you know?”

“H&H. She used to be a designer under me. Now she runs a wedding dress studio.”

Xu Qingtang understood. She felt wronged and sighed. “I just wanted to give you a surprise. I didn’t expect…”

Gu Yizhi laughed, pulled Xu Qingtang into her arms, and gently stroked her hair. “Why are you so cute, Xu Tangtang?”

Xu Qingtang buried her head in the side of her neck, smelling the perfume on her. She had been using this perfume since they had first met. She smiled faintly and bit her on the neck. “Because you love me.”

“And because, I love you too.”

Because she was cute, she was so cute.

The room was only lit by a warm orange table lamp. The light spread from the head of the bed, and the two figures were reflected on the wall, embracing for a long, long time…

Forbidden to Flirt and Run – End