Chapter 63: I’m Really Not the Female Lead of a Novel (X) p2
“Hmph, so high and mighty. Isn’t she just clinging to the big thigh of the Xue family?”
In Sun County, after Zhao Mei had sent many messages and received no reply, she also realized that her cousin was not in front of her phone at this time.
She felt that Zhao He’s busy look was all an act, just to show off her studies at a prestigious university.
“Are you still on the computer? Meimei, didn’t I just ask you to hang the clothes from the washing machine? What are you still doing?”
Her mother’s impatient voice urged from outside the room.
Zhao Mei’s face was full of annoyance. She quickly uploaded the chapter she had just written to the internet and looked at the data displayed in the author’s article backstage, as if it were predicting that if she wanted to make a living with words in this life, it would be a fool’s dream.
“Meimei? Are you not listening? Do you believe I’ll smash your computer? How can a university student still be so addicted to the internet?”
“I know!” Zhao Mei raised her voice, her frustration spraying out from the door of her room.
She looked at the article data in front of her, her heart filled with anger.
What kind of prestigious university’s literature department? Her writing revision skills are so poor, she can’t even help a little.
Zhao Mei thought that her cousin either didn’t want to help her sincerely, or she herself didn’t have much talent. To be able to meet someone like Xue Jiming, it was just a stroke of luck during the college entrance examination.
If she hadn’t performed poorly back then…
Perhaps the person who could meet Xue Jiming today would be her.
Thinking of the family’s clothes in the washing machine outside, her heart was filled with another wave of annoyance.
She had heard that in those rich people’s homes, they all hired maids to do the housework.
Another impatient call came from outside.
Zhao Mei did not dare to stay in front of the computer any longer. She quickly saved and shut down the computer and got up. Thinking of the stories she had heard about the rich people in the capital, her heart was even more resentful.
If she had had the good fortune to meet the System, the System would have given her a table-pounding sticker to express her current state:
“[If I were rich, would I still be this shitty?].jpg”
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Hua Baihe didn’t know that her and her little brother’s life was being envied to the point of madness by the little villain of this world.
She was expressionlessly watching Jiang Xue peel a tangerine for her.
The green outer peel was peeled off, and the pulp inside was still covered with white fibrous tissue. The white hairs looked quite fuzzy, but it didn’t matter when you ate them.
But who knows where Jiang Xue’s obsessive-compulsive disorder came from, but she had to peel off every single white hair on it. As a result, she had been seriously peeling a tangerine in her room for fifteen minutes, and Hua Baihe, who was waiting for her service, was left out in the cold like she was air.
Hua Baihe just didn’t understand:
Is this tangerine prettier than her?
The entire time, this person didn’t even give her a sidelong glance.
Hua Baihe was very confused about her intermittent attacks of love.
If Jiang Xue knew what she was thinking, she would definitely shout that she was innocent. Because at this moment, she obviously couldn’t pull the person over for some misdeeds. Xue Ling’s body was too fragile, and it simply couldn’t withstand the various tricks in her mind.
She could only take care of her little by little, and raise Xue Ling to be a little healthier.
Before that, she planned to restrain her thoughts.
Thinking of this, let alone getting close, she didn’t even dare to look at Hua Baihe for long, for fear that her thoughts would not be restrained, as if as long as she didn’t look, didn’t touch, didn’t think…
She wouldn’t know how smooth that person’s skin was.
She wouldn’t know how soft her lips were.
She wouldn’t know how pleasant her low moans of endurance were.
Jiang Xue’s hand paused for a moment. This piece of pulp no longer had any extra hairs for her to peel. It was clean on top, and you could almost see the semi-transparent pulp texture inside.
She lowered her eyes, divided the pulp in half, and then placed one half back on the table, with a napkin underneath. She held the other half in her hand and then peeled off a small, crescent-shaped piece from the top.
After she had finished her habitual actions, she realized that it was not appropriate for her to personally feed this to someone.
So Jiang Xue opened her hand to Hua Baihe—
She handed her the larger piece and only kept a small piece for herself.
Hua Baihe, who had thought she would be fed: “…”
She took the large piece of tangerine with some speechlessness and watched as Jiang Xue put the remaining piece into her own mouth.
Jiang Xue was a little embarrassed at being watched by her, as if she were greedy. She had peeled a tangerine for Hua Baihe, but in the end, she had not forgotten to keep a piece for herself.
In a moment of desperation, she said, “Hmm… Sister Ling, I tried it for you. This tangerine is really sweet.”
Hua Baihe: “…”
Alright, as long as you’re happy.
She was so angered by Jiang Xue’s scholarly mode without her glasses that she didn’t want to talk to her. She just buried her head and peeled the tangerine piece by piece, tasting the sweet juice as it spread on her tongue.
Jiang Xue sensed the inexplicable depression on her and, worried that she would be chased out, she temporarily thought of an excuse, saying that she wanted to ask Hua Baihe to finish her book, and added, “I won’t leave. I’ll just read it here.”
Hua Baihe held back the urge to roll her eyes at her. She didn’t understand what was wrong with this person who, in a beautiful scene, under a flower and the moon, didn’t pull her partner to do what lovers do, but instead pulled her partner to read a book together.
She held her breath for a long time before she squeezed out a word to Jiang Xue:
“Oh.”
The System was laughing crazily in her mind.
It was happy to see Hua Baihe being frustrated. As long as Hua Baihe’s private life was not a smooth road, it was very happy.
Hua Baihe, hearing its laughter, felt that she had been provoked.
She was eating the tangerine pulp in her mouth absentmindedly, glancing at the person who was seriously standing in front of her bookshelf, browsing the titles on the bookshelf. She suddenly mentioned:
“I remember you wear glasses when you go out. Put them on when you’re reading. Don’t come to my house a few times and go back with your myopia worsened by five hundred degrees.”
Jiang Xue with her glasses on, and Jiang Xue now, were almost two different people.
Hua Baihe’s words were a crazy hint to her:
Fuck me! Right now!
Hearing her words, Jiang Xue’s fingers were still on the spine of a thick book. Her figure was obviously stiff for a long time. After a long while, she turned her head and asked her:
“Are you sure?”
Hua Baihe put on a puzzled expression, as if she were saying to her:
I’m just suggesting you wear your glasses. Why are you so strange?
Only the System knew that she was nodding desperately in her heart:
Sure, sure! A thousand times sure!
Please, please, let your second personality out to play with me!
Jiang Xue looked at her for a few seconds, slowly withdrew her hand from the bookshelf, and turned to walk towards her in two steps, suddenly shortening the distance between their gazes.
Hua Baihe subconsciously shrank back into her chair, and even closed her eyes as if she were frightened.
The correct translation of this action was only two words:
Kiss me.
The emotion in Jiang Xue’s eyes was a little unstable. It was obvious that she had been attracted by her formless seduction.
But she took a few deep breaths and forcefully held it in. She just raised her hand and tapped Hua Baihe’s lips with her fingertip. The force was not light or heavy, and there was a hint of forbearance in it.
She leaned close to Hua Baihe’s neck and whispered:
“Sister Ling, are you inviting me?”
After she said this, her slightly heavy breath sprayed down, all of it landing on Hua Baihe’s neck.
Before Hua Baihe could open her mouth, she continued in a very fast tone, “Do you know what I become when I put on my glasses?”
“I don’t know the rules. I only want to follow the desires of my heart. Like just now, when I was peeling a tangerine for you, I would never be so tactless as to just hand you the tangerine. I would peel it piece by piece and feed it into your mouth.”
“Of course, if you’re happy eating it, I might not only feed it into this mouth, but also… here.”
She raised her hand and pressed on the thin blanket covering Hua Baihe’s legs, just following the curve of her legs and just happened to get stuck in a naturally falling curve.
Hua Baihe was so teased by her low voice that she couldn’t help but want to clamp her legs together.
Although there was no feeling in her legs, just watching the other party’s actions made her mind wander, so much so that she had the illusion that her thighs were a little itchy.
Her heart was beating with excitement, and she almost blurted out:
You stand here and don’t move. I’ll go and buy you another bag of tangerines!
Then, let the other party feed them all to her.
She could feed them however she wanted.
At the end of her words, Jiang Xue swallowed her saliva, finding that even such a brazen fantasy couldn’t settle the restlessness in her chest.. She had to stand up and let out a long breath.
Then she turned around and went back to the bookshelf.
She casually took out a book from it, pulled out the chair in front of the desk, and sat down, as if reading a book for a while longer could stop the amorous thoughts in her heart.
Hua Baihe, who had been dry-flirted with by her: “…”
All talk and no action?
She angrily spat at the System, saying, “Where did this giant of thought, dwarf of action come from?”
Hey! She was so angry!
Hua Baihe was very angry. She was so angry that after she finished eating the one in her hand, she also rolled her wheelchair to the side of the desk, and independently peeled all the remaining tangerines in the fruit plate, and did not give Jiang Xue a single piece to eat.
During this process, the only sounds in the entire room were the light flipping of book pages and the occasional faint sound of tangerine peels being torn.
After she finished eating the tangerines, Hua Baihe’s gaze floated to Jiang Xue, filled with a lot of unspoken sorrow.
On the surface, Jiang Xue seemed to have no feeling, but her heart was in a mess.
She was worried that she would not be able to find an excuse to stay.
After all, what if Xue Ling agreed to lend her the book and let her leave with it?
While she was in a state of anxiety, someone next to her slowly said:
“How long are you going to read like this?”
Sure enough!
Jiang Xue’s heart skipped a beat. She put down her book and sprang up from her chair. She looked around and suddenly asked, “Does Sister Ling have a study here? I suddenly want to practice calligraphy now.”
After saying that, she licked her lower lip again and asked carefully, “Is that okay?”
Hua Baihe was stunned by her hobby of practicing calligraphy at her partner’s house. She had never seen such an innocent move. After a long while, she replied sarcastically:
“Sure.”
Then the two of them moved from the bedroom to the study.
Although Hua Baihe had never touched the four treasures of the study since she had come to this world, all the necessary equipment in the study was complete. When the family was buying these items for Xue Jiming and Xue Cheng, someone would also specially buy a set for her.
When Hua Baihe was extremely bored, she would take a brush and the small booklets she had collected and draw a little…
Spring palace pictures.
Of course, at most, she would just draw some simple sketches, and she would usually destroy the evidence after she was done.
Because Xue Jiming’s study was often cleaned by Liu Lu, which made him often unable to find things, he would borrow them from Hua Baihe when he needed them in a hurry.
Recently, because of their harmonious sibling relationship, there were still some words that Xue Jiming had practiced when he wanted to calm his mind on Hua Baihe’s desk.
While Jiang Xue was grinding the ink on the side, Hua Baihe was flipping through Xue Jiming’s calligraphy.
Because these were all discarded draft papers, when she called for someone to tidy up the study later, she could have the maids throw away all these drafts.
But Hua Baihe clearly had a spirit of self-entertainment.
She took a thin wolf hair brush, dipped it in some cinnabar, and wanted to correct Xue Jiming’s “calligraphy homework,” or to mark some “afterthoughts” on the side.
On one piece of paper, the practice was a sentence: “Hoeing the rice at noon.”
Hua Baihe thought for a moment and added a sentence below:
“What did noon do wrong?”
Then she flipped to the next page.
Compared to her mischief, Jiang Xue on the side was much more serious.
She held her breath as she held the brush and chose a rather large wolf hair brush. A magnificent character immediately appeared on the entire paper:
Patience.
She took a breath and looked at the calligraphic character that had been written in one go on the paper. She felt that the restlessness in her heart had really calmed down a lot.
A hundred patience becomes steel, and lust is a knife on the head.
She must endure. She would wait until Xue Ling’s body was a little better.
Jiang Xue kept telling herself this.
Just then, a “Hmm?” sounded from the side.
It turned out that Hua Baihe had leaned her head over to look at her calligraphy.
Jiang Xue had an indifferent look on her face, but in her heart, she was a little expectant of her comments on her calligraphy.
But unexpectedly, Hua Baihe asked very quickly:
“I thought you were going to write it upside down?”
Jiang Xue: “…”
Jiang Xue: “???”
She was a little dazed by this question. After a long while, she replied, “Why would I write it upside down?”
Hua Baihe glanced at her calmly and said:
“Because when you were reading just now, you were holding it upside down, and you read it like that for half an hour.”
As she spoke, she curled her lips, a hint of a smile in her eyes that made one’s teeth itch.
“I thought you had some special ability, like reading books upside down, or writing upside down.”
Jiang Xue: “…”
For some reason, she felt that the other party was in a very bad mood right now, so she was deliberately trying to anger her.
She squinted at Hua Baihe and did not say anything.
Hua Baihe had angered her once and was satisfied. She continued to look down at the draft in her hand and did not notice that Jiang Xue’s gaze had still not been withdrawn from her.
The next page had four characters:
Buddha said, all living beings suffer.
Hua Baihe took her brush and wrote a sentence:
“And I can be sweet or salty.”
Jiang Xue: “…”
Her throat couldn’t help but move again.
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Author’s Note:
Jiang Xue: “It’s indeed quite sweet.”
Jiang Xue: “And it’s indeed, a little salty.”