Chapter 92: Quarrel Part 2

A new WeChat message popped up. The driver had sent Ye Qingying back and said it was too late, so Ye Qingying wanted her to stay there. She asked if that was okay.

Lin Shixia replied for her.

-Little Light: Lock the door when you rest. Ye Qingying is the type to force a kiss in the middle of the night.

-Aunt Huang: She won’t. [Smile].

After washing up, Gu Liuguang prepared to get into bed and saw Lin Shixia getting ready to leave. She propped herself up in surprise. “Where are you going?”

Lin Shixia hesitated in place for a moment before smiling. “Back to film. There’s a night scene.”

Gu Liuguang hesitated too. She felt sorry for Lin Shixia but also thought being dedicated was proper.

Seeing the hesitation on her face satisfied Lin Shixia completely. Her smile brightened even more as she reassured Gu Liuguang in turn. “I said when I took leave that I’d be back. I’m not tired now. Full of energy.”

Gu Liuguang was still hesitating when the System suddenly spoke: [She’s not lying. I’ve checked—her physical stats are stronger than average.]

Gu Liuguang said, “Alright then.”

Lin Shixia turned and left. As she closed the door, Gu Liuguang faintly heard her singing.

“She really loves acting. Heading back so late and still in such a good mood.” Gu Liuguang remarked.

System: [Is that so?] Why did it feel like Lin Shixia had other reasons?

Gu Liuguang scrolled through Weibo a bit more, checking the post where she’d shown off her girlfriend.

The alt account she’d used for lurking had been followed by Lin Shixia’s main, drawing traffic and gaining fans. After renaming it, her own fans migrated over too. With no photos, it had already hit 230,000 followers.

To ride the hype, she’d posted a photo of Night Moon Garden that afternoon—the iconic flower vine waterfall covering half the villa wall. With her and the System’s joint editing, it looked nearly photorealistic.

The fruit of their labor, yet the comments were only at two hundred.

For the girlfriend-reveal post, Lin Shixia had wanted a hand-holding photo, but Gu Liuguang had firmly refused.

Fans were like detectives. Lin Shixia’s hands had been praised before—long and straight, with a red mole on the inner side of her middle finger, which fans had slyly called sexy.

She’d be crazy to post a hand-holding pic.

Finally, with Lin Shixia silently sporting red eyes, they compromised and posted a photo of the flower sea that she had taken for Gu Liuguang. The caption was a somewhat literary romantic line: Having the person you like by your side turns any moment into a flower sea. Single no more~ [kiss].

It was a very insincere, very perfunctory sentence, but Lin Shixia was extremely satisfied. Her face immediately brightened, and her smile was so captivating that it made one want to kiss her.

Gu Liuguang had only just had the thought, but Lin Shixia pinned her to the sofa and kissed her for a good while. Gu Liuguang anxiously said she needed to go take a shower before Lin Shixia finally let her go.

Now, the comments on this Weibo post had already surpassed eight thousand and were still steadily climbing.

She puzzledly tapped into the comments—

[This really isn’t implying something? This is 100% her being together with Lin Shixia!]

[Wracked my brains for ages and still can’t figure it out—why pick a photo taken by Lin Shixia specifically to show off your relationship?]

[How do you all know it was Lin Shixia who took it?]

-Reply: [Go check Lin Shixia’s Weibo yourselves. They definitely took it together.]

[Sister-in-law couldn’t hold back anymore, huh?]

[Little Light, spill it!! Who exactly took this photo!!]

Down in the comments, her fans and Lin Shixia’s fans were clashing. One side accused her of shamelessly riding on the coattails, while the other refused to believe she was dating anyone and tearfully argued with the opponents.

She had only scrolled for less than a minute when Gu Liuguang wanted to delete the Weibo post entirely. But thinking about how Lin Shixia would throw a tantrum again if she did, she silently gave up on the idea.

In the end, she picked one comment to reply to.

[Little Light: Everyone, don’t overthink it. I just felt this photo matched my mood at the time perfectly. Please don’t drag Teacher Lin into this anymore (heart).]

Weibo was way too much trouble. Gu Liuguang closed the app and thus missed the Hot Search tail end, where a joking entry had popped up—

Lin Shixia’s Crush Is Single No More, And It’s Not Me [Clown]

Clicking into the Hot Search revealed a frenzy of Lin Shixia’s fans playing memes, along with ex-fans who had quit and were now stomping back. Clearly, they had accepted it faster than the people involved and even screenshotted moments of the two “exchanging flirtatious glances” to prove there was definitely something between them.

Before dawn even broke, the Hot Search heat died down. But one Super Topic quietly came into being.

Over the next three days, Gu Liuguang busied herself filming at Night Moon. Before, she had treated it as a dull chore and a tool for gaining popularity. But once she immersed herself in the actual shooting, she gradually felt the charm of photography, as well as the emotions of the Mountain Villa itself.

On the final evening at Night Moon, Gu Liuguang was still editing videos. She had just blocked Ye Qingying’s alt account and finished updating Gu Shuang on her recent video progress. Now, she leaned back in her recliner, looking somewhat fatigued.

The wind from the terrace blew in, lifting her skirt hem up to her waist. Her long hair billowed back in relentless waves.

With no one around to talk to, Gu Liuguang chatted with the System. She wondered if, upon returning to her own world, she would become a photographer.

System: 【I don’t know, but what I can confirm is that you must be very rich.】

Gu Liuguang burst out laughing. A brilliant smile lit up her exquisite features, like a gentle water lily blooming in the mountain breeze under the intoxicated night—no one there to witness it.

Night Moon was simply too vast, with far too many spots to film. In the end, Gu Liuguang didn’t finish shooting everything. She figured she should leave some as Easter eggs for the next person lucky enough to visit Night Moon.

It was also a way to lighten her workload.

The System reasonably suspected the last reason was the real one.

Aunt Huang drove her back to the Downtown Apartment. On the way, Aunt Huang was still helping to explain that Ye Qingying wasn’t usually like that and hoped she wouldn’t misunderstand her too deeply.

Gu Liuguang played games in the back seat. The person in charge of the platform collaboration she had talked with recommended some PC games to her, suggesting she try similar mobile games first to get familiar.

Gu Liuguang gave a casual “oh” without much thought. “Aunt Huang, what did she say to you?”

Aunt Huang spoke in a warm, gentle tone: “She transferred me ten thousand yuan.”

Gu Liuguang looked up at her in surprise, then hurried back to controlling her character on screen, her eyes nearly overwhelmed. “What does that mean?”

Aunt Huang thought she hadn’t heard clearly: “Miss Ye transferred me ten thousand yuan and asked me to say some good things about her in front of you.”

Gu Liuguang’s character died completely. She force-quit the game outright and focused on chatting with Aunt Huang: “Aunt Huang, she asked you to say good things, so why did you tell me she transferred you money?”

Aunt Huang remained unhurried. At a red light, she pulled out her phone, operated it for a bit, and smiled brightly: “I’ll split it with you half-and-half. That way, I’ve completed the task, and you’ve got the full story—deal?”

“This is Ye Qingying’s money,” Aunt Huang emphasized, then chuckled. “Spending her money… there’s something a bit… satisfying about it.”

Gu Liuguang got it immediately. She accepted the transfer without hesitation, then wired money to her little sister and blocked Ye Qingying’s newly created alt account on the spot.

She messaged Lin Shixia to complain: How does Ye Qingying have so many alt accounts?

Can one person really have ten WeChat accounts under real-name registration?

Lin Shixia didn’t reply since she was filming, but Gu Shuang’s message popped up, asking if Ye Qingying had been harassing her.

Gu Liuguang casually mentioned the alt account issue, which naturally reminded her of what Gu Shuang had said about waiting for her crush to break up.

Gu Shuang wouldn’t have a bunch of alts too, would she?

-Shuang: Thanks for the trouble.

-Little Light: …It’s nothing. I just block them anyway.

-Shuang: Remember to save screenshots as evidence, in case they’re useful for a lawsuit or compensation claim later.

Gu Liuguang’s eyes widened. This could count as evidence?

As if reading her mind, another message came through.

-Shuang: The internet isn’t a lawless place. Prolonged, persistent harassment is illegal.

Gu Liuguang took a deep breath. Gu Shuang always managed to broaden her horizons. Though she had no intention of tangling too much with Ye Qingying, she could always give her some trouble if needed. As the future antagonist, who knew when these might come in handy?

Taking screenshots wasn’t any trouble anyway.

After Aunt Huang dropped her off at the Downtown Apartment, Gu Liuguang truly felt like she hadn’t been home in ages.

The moment she thought of it as “home,” Gu Liuguang felt a strange sensation in her body—her heart felt… comfortably at ease.

For convenience, Lin Shixia had rented an apartment for Aunt Huang in the same complex building, just with simpler renovations.

Aunt Huang parked in the underground garage, and the two took the elevator up. As Gu Liuguang pressed the floor button, she remembered how she rarely went out even normally. With streaming ahead, she’d probably go out even less.

So she told Aunt Huang ahead of time that she could go shopping whenever she had free time.

Aunt Huang smiled and nodded, saying that was fine.

The elevator fell quiet. Gu Liuguang watched the numbers climb and suddenly remembered something. She spoke up: “Aunt Huang, do you know if any frequent guests at Night Moon have the surname Lin?”

Aunt Huang paused, puzzled. “Surname Lin?”

Gu Liuguang nodded. “That evening when Ye Qingying came, I overheard the butler and staff. Ye Qingying asked the butler whether they should listen to someone surnamed Ye or surnamed Lin.”

Aunt Huang immediately tensed up and hurriedly explained: “Miss Gu, you absolutely can’t believe what Miss Ye says. Night Moon has already been transferred to you—we of course listen to you.”

She was Night Moon’s assigned driver, after all. Such a great job—she couldn’t let rumors cost her it.

Gu Liuguang: “Aunt Huang, that’s not what I was asking.”

“Not that?” Aunt Huang relaxed, her face lighting up with a smile again. “What does Miss Gu want to know then?”

Gu Liuguang suddenly felt like dropping it. Asking about this didn’t really mean anything anyway—she never thought of Night Moon as hers to begin with.

But Aunt Huang seemed to catch on to her words and said with a beaming smile: “There are plenty of guests surnamed Lin. The two most famous ones—Miss Gu actually knows both.”

Gu Liuguang’s eyes widened: “Me? Two?”