A Faceful Of Lovey-Dovey PDA - Chapter 10

As for this idiotic, lunatic childhood friend of hers, Su Qin truly had no strength left to roast her. She slapped Lin Xueyin on the butt. “Let’s go.”

“Go where?” Lin Xueyin stopped singing. Su Qin smiled and shook her head. “Weren’t you making a fuss about wanting ice cream? I’ll take you to eat some.”

“Ah? You’re that nice?” Lin Xueyin grew excited and happily bounced over to grab Su Qin’s arm.

Nice? Su Qin looked from afar at Chu Mei, who was still playing basketball. She had originally wanted to treat Chu Mei to it, but since the beauty already had an appointment, Su Qin would not force her to make things difficult for herself.

Eating the sweet, delicious ice cream, Lin Xueyin felt as if the sweetness had turned the whole world blue. In that instant, it was as though she possessed everything.

Su Qin looked at her in amusement. “Isn’t your family loaded? Eating one ice cream makes you this happy?”

Lin Xueyin rolled her eyes at her. “Please don’t mention that. Right now, I almost wish I’d been born in a slum.”

“Why?” Su Qin looked at her curiously. Lin Xueyin bit into the ice cream. “Ai, don’t you think Sister Fang is ignoring me because of the difference in our family backgrounds?”

Su Qin thought for a moment. “You’re overthinking it.”

“I’m overthinking it?” If these words had come from Chu Mei’s mouth, Lin Xueyin would definitely have looked down on her. But since it was Su Qin who said it, that was naturally a different matter.

“Then tell me why, Ah Qin.” Lin Xueyin hugged one of her arms and coquettishly rested her head against Su Qin’s shoulder. After a moment of silence, Su Qin said calmly, “Probably because you’re too ugly.”

Lin Xueyin: “…………………………………………………………”

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High school coursework was much more intense than middle school. While everyone else was busy studying, Chu Mei and Lin Xueyin were busy with different things: one was busy growing taller, and the other was busy becoming beautiful.

Chu Mei’s method was much simpler and more direct. Day after day, she ran in the morning and played basketball. Whenever she got tired or annoyed, she would go look at Su Qin’s gentle smile, and every troubling thing would be tossed to the back of her mind. All that remained was persistence.

Lin Xueyin, on the other hand, suffered much more. Not only did she begin vision correction, she also got braces. And as if rain had to fall through a leaking roof all night, during that period, she also developed the acne that every young girl secretly feared.

Her youth was practically spent under Su Qin’s words: “too ugly.”

Unlike Lin Xueyin’s “too ugly,” Su Qin and Sister Fang grew and developed normally, remaining genuine beauties in the making. Chu Mei became the one who changed the most. Whether it was because of running or something else, she grew more and more outstanding. Her figure became like that of a fitness athlete. At such a young age, not only was she already curvy in all the right places, but her voice also began turning soft and coy, carrying a bit of charm. Her nose was no longer the pig nose Su Qin had mocked. It had started showing signs of becoming tall and straight, and her eyes had also become more lively. This could be seen from the growing number of pursuers gathering around her.

Unfortunately, aside from becoming a little prettier in appearance, Chu Mei had not changed at all in any other way. As usual, she clung to Su Qin every day, calling “Ah Qin” all day long. Even when she went to the bathroom, she had to hold Su Qin’s hand. In their grade, she was famously known as Su Qin’s little shadow.

During that period, Meteor Garden began sweeping through the streets and alleys, and everyone was fascinated by F4’s handsomeness. Lin Xueyin also took advantage of the trend and called Sister Fang, Chu Mei, Su Qin, and herself “W4.” What she had in mind was the “Mighty Four,” but later, Chu Mei mercilessly mocked her and said she might as well have named them the WC Four.

Aside from idol dramas becoming popular, tattoos also gradually began to be loved by ignorant, restless teenage boys and girls back then. Chu Mei’s wild, restless nature egged her on to go get one. However, she did not dare tattoo it on her body for fear of her parents discovering it, so she simply got it on her ankle.

The tattoo artist was a young woman. She wore earrings and a nose ring and asked, “Little sister, what design do you want?”

Chu Mei handed the photo she had prepared in her arms to the tattoo artist. “I’ll just get something simple.”

Usually, the girls who came here either tattooed flowers or names. When the tattoo artist looked at the photo of Chu Mei and Su Qin together, her whole person was stunned.

Chu Mei patted her chest, extremely generous. “Don’t worry and just tattoo it. I won’t refuse to pay you. Don’t worry.”

The tattoo artist was amused by the little girl. “There’s no problem on my end. I’m just afraid you won’t be able to endure it.”

Chu Mei laughed as soon as she heard this. “I know tattoos hurt a lot, but I won’t be scared. Ever since I was little, I’ve been especially good at enduring pain. Don’t worry.”

“All right.” The tattoo artist nodded helplessly and agreed. When she made the first stroke, Chu Mei’s earth-shaking scream filled the entire room.

“Ahhhhh—too painful—hey, hey, hey—don’t—hey, hey, hey, I don’t want it anymore!”

“…”

Ten minutes later.

Chu Mei looked at the tattoo artist with tears in her eyes. “Why don’t I just tattoo a name instead? It hurts so much. I can’t take it. You don’t know this, but ever since I was little, I’ve been afraid of pain. Whenever my class got injections, I was always the last one.”

“…”

After a moment of silence, the tattoo artist asked, “Then what characters do you want?”

Chu Mei thought about it. “Forget it. I’ll just tattoo letters. Chinese characters have too many strokes. I can’t take it. Let me think. Su Qin, Ah Qin, AQ? No, why does A have so many strokes? SQ, right, I’ll get SQ!”

Amid Chu Mei’s ghostly wails and wolf-like howls, a distorted “SQ” was printed onto her ankle. Because Chu Mei struggled, the Q was not tattooed properly. The downward stroke beneath the O ended up a little too high.

That night, Chu Mei limped home. At home, Su Qin was twirling a pen and looking at her coldly.

“Where did you go?”

Although she was not very old, Su Qin already carried the air of the head of the household. Her voice was icy and filled with authority.

Chu Mei pursed her lips. “Don’t even mention it. I went to sacrifice myself for you.”

“What do you mean, sacrifice yourself for me? You didn’t do your homework again? How many times have I told you?” Su Qin grew angry the moment she saw her like this. “Taking the university entrance exam and taking the high school entrance exam are two completely different concepts. Do you still think you can rely on your little clever tricks and easily get into university?”

Chu Mei’s ankle was faintly burning and heating up. She took off her jacket and walked toward the bathroom.

Su Qin was extremely furious at her for acting as if she had not heard a thing. “Now you don’t even listen to me anymore? Don’t you want to go to the same university as me?”

Cold sweat began forming on the tip of Chu Mei’s nose. She crouched down, touched her ankle, and said weakly, “Ah Qin, it hurts.”

“…”

Su Qin, who had been pure-hearted and desireless for ten years, was actually shaken into the first ripple of desire in her life by that one sentence from Chu Mei. She froze for a long time before finally reacting. “What happened to you?”

Her voice was very low, and her face was a little red. Chu Mei deliberately showed off to her. “I got a tattoo.”

“What?!” Su Qin’s brief flutter instantly disappeared. Chu Mei looked at her sweetly. “That’s right. Hurry and come look.”

“Are you crazy? You actually learned that delinquent stuff from Sister Fang?” In the eyes of Su Qin, the good student and good girl, tattoos belonged to idle, delinquent girls hanging around society.

Chu Mei’s eyes carried a smile. “Come on. Look clearly at what I tattooed before you get angry.”

Suppressing the surging anger in her heart, Su Qin walked over. She bent down and rolled up Chu Mei’s pant leg.

Chu Mei looked at her proudly, ready to receive praise.

Su Qin stared at those distorted letters for a long time, then asked in disbelief and through gritted teeth, “Chu Mei, are you sick? Why the hell did you get SB tattooed on yourself for no reason???!!!”