As She Wished - Chapter 14

Fu Jing froze, then hurriedly explained, “She wasn’t hitting on me! She said it was rare to meet someone with such fate, so we should get to know each other and become friends… Anyway, she isn’t a bad person, so I added her.”

It was not like she could say to her senior: Sorry, I don’t make friends.

Gu Qingci asked, “Do you know her?”

Fu Jing hesitated and thought about it. “Not exactly… I guess I just met her?”

“Oh. So you know she isn’t a bad person right after meeting her.”

“…”

“Do you think she’s very pretty?”

“…”

Seeing that Fu Jing did not speak,

Gu Qingci raised her brows, nodded lightly, and changed to an understanding tone. “Looks like you do think she’s very pretty.”

Fu Jing: “…”

Gu Qingci finished the wine in her glass and waited. Seeing that Fu Jing still did not make a sound,

she asked, “Why aren’t you speaking?”

“I can’t refute it,” Fu Jing said in an especially serious expression, muttering softly. “She really is pretty.”

Gu Qingci: “…”

“Fine. She’s pretty.”

Receiving this answer, Gu Qingci nodded slightly again, looking as though she did not care at all. The teasing smile in her eyes had already quietly faded away. Her expression was calm, and her pitch-black eyes were bright.

Her gaze swept over Fu Jing, but she said nothing else.

“…”

Such a fierce look.

Fu Jing shrank her neck and hurriedly moved closer to coax her, murmuring, “But no matter how pretty other people are, I don’t like them. Sister, I only like you.”

Only like you…

Only…

The corners of Gu Qingci’s lips moved slightly, and a hint of satisfaction seemed to appear in her eyes before she quickly returned to calm. She lowered her eyes and glanced at her phone. It was already quite late. “Kid, are you hungry?”

“Mm.” Fu Jing nodded, her eyes expectant.

Gu Qingci looked at her for two seconds, then curved her lips and smiled. “If you’re hungry, go home early and eat something.”

She stood up, looking ready to leave.

“Eh?” Fu Jing hurriedly reached out and grabbed her sleeve. As if acting shamelessly, she said in a firm tone, “Since you already asked, and you heard me say I’m hungry, you definitely have to take me to eat something!”

“What do you want to eat?”

“I want to eat food you personally cook.” Her tone was decisive.

“…”

“Then,” Gu Qingci paused, “go home and sleep early. Maybe it’ll happen in your dreams.”

Fu Jing blinked and quickly compromised after judging the situation. “I was joking with you… How about some oden from the convenience store by the door? Or that fast-food place not far ahead?”

“Are you discussing where to eat late-night snacks?” Tao Xian suddenly appeared behind her. She placed a bottle of wine on the bar counter, then turned around and joined their conversation. “Take me with you. I’m about to starve to death!”

“…Okay, fine.”

Fu Jing wanted to exclude her and was a little unwilling.

Tao Xian understood the moment she saw Fu Jing’s expression. She raised her brows and reached out forcefully to pinch the soft flesh of Fu Jing’s cheek. “What, you’re not happy about it? Do you know how important it is to have someone like me responsible for the atmosphere when eating with Gu Qingci? You little heartless thing! And to think Sister usually dotes on you so much!”

Fu Jing could not help shrinking back, trying to dodge several times, but she still failed to escape Tao Xian’s hand.

With her face being pinched, her voice was muffled. “Sister Anjiu, I was wrong… Spare me. I’ll treat you to something delicious…”

Gu Qingci spoke. “Stop messing with her.”

A few calm, lowered words.

Tao Xian immediately withdrew her hand by reflex. Then she realized what had happened and furrowed her brows in confusion.

What, she was already starting to protect her own???

“…”

—

The three of them arrived at a nearby Western-style fast-food restaurant.

Tao Xian had a slight obsession with cleanliness. As soon as she sat down, she picked up the dark green utensil basket on the table, stood up, and went to the self-service counter not far away to rinse and scald the utensils with hot water. She tossed out, “Remember to order me a pasta.”

The waiter quickly came over to take their order.

Gu Qingci casually ordered a pasta as well. Fu Jing did not even flip through the menu in her hand before immediately smiling and saying, “I’ll have the same.”

The restaurant was warmer than outside.

Fu Jing took off the thin cardigan she was wearing and stuffed it behind her, her eyes staring at Gu Qingci in front of her without blinking.

She asked curiously, “Sister, do you usually just stay at home and play?”

Gu Qingci: “…”

She had not asked Tao Xian how she had described her to Fu Jing.

Although she could guess that Tao Xian had said nothing.

Gu Qingci did not answer, and Fu Jing automatically interpreted this silence as her feeling a little embarrassed about not working. She hurriedly smiled sweetly, as intimate and considerate as a little padded jacket. “It’s okay. Everyone has a lifestyle they like. Sister, do you live alone?”

This time, Gu Qingci gave a hum of agreement.

Fu Jing immediately clapped her hands. “That’s great. Why don’t you live with me? You can choose the house, you can choose the address, anything you like is fine. I want to support you!”

Tao Xian, who had just returned, happened to catch this earth-shattering statement.

She was carrying three glasses filled with water, and her hands trembled several times. Thankfully, she did not spill them.

“…”

Gu Qingci lifted her long lashes slightly and looked at Fu Jing in front of her, whose face was full of innocence, as if she had merely said she wanted to treat Gu Qingci to a meal. Then Gu Qingci shifted her gaze and glanced at Tao Xian, who was watching the show.

She leaned back, a smile on her lips, and asked as if very interested, “You want to support me? In what capacity, and for what purpose?”

“In… in the capacity and purpose of making you happy.”

Fu Jing spoke sincerely.

“All right.” Gu Qingci gazed at her for a few seconds, the curve of her lips unchanged, and continued asking, “Then how long do you plan to support me?”

“A lifetime.” A decisive answer given without any thought.

Fu Jing had always followed her heart.

She even added, “It won’t change until the day I die. If I die first, I’ll make proper arrangements for you too.”

This sentence came out exceptionally smoothly.

It was almost as if it were a long-cherished wish hidden in her heart for many years, spoken out without thinking.

Tao Xian secretly clicked her tongue as she listened. She felt that what Fu Jing said was sincere, simple, and moving, yet also extremely awkward and strange. Who talked about keeping someone when confessing? And when talking about keeping someone, who brought up what would happen after death?

In short, it was odd.

But Tao Xian did not make a sound.

She sat down in slow motion, lowering her presence as much as possible, and casually pulled out a napkin to wipe the water droplets from the knife and fork. Looking at Gu Qingci, her eyes could not hide the smile of someone watching a show at close range.

“Wild thoughts.” Gu Qingci remained unmoved as she picked up her glass. After a pause, she added lightly, “Irresponsible words.”

Fu Jing also picked up her glass.

She gave a small hum and muttered, “Wild… thoughts? Irresponsible words…”

Fu Jing took a sip of water, then silently glanced at her and said, “I think there’s nothing wrong with starting like that first.”

Her ending tone floated lightly.

Gu Qingci’s brow twitched, and the movement of lifting her glass to drink paused.

She had really underestimated her…

Tao Xian pieced it together. Fu Jing’s seemingly casual way of splitting Gu Qingci’s words was full of meaning. She had deliberately broken the sentence into: Why do you want to mess around? You want to be irresponsible—

And she even said there was nothing wrong with starting like that first?!

“…”

Such an old rogue energy.

Tao Xian immediately clapped. The more she thought about it, the more she felt Fu Jing had twisted Gu Qingci’s words too brilliantly. She laughed until she could not help pounding her thigh with her hand and praising her. “…A little literary genius!”

Hearing that phrase,

Fu Jing’s smile stiffened. After a few seconds, she continued smiling foolishly as if nothing had happened. “Mm. My elementary school teachers said that about me too.”

Tao Xian was very interested. “Really? Tell me the details.”

“There was a Chinese exam once. The essay I wrote spread through all the offices. The teachers praised me for being talented after reading it! Then everyone called me a literary genius.”

Fu Jing was not lying, but she had hidden a very large part of the truth.

The essay topic for that Chinese exam had been friendship, so she wrote about her Chinese teacher and math teacher—the deep friendship these two middle-aged male teachers had formed after many years of studying together at a normal college.

The entire essay was more than five hundred words, written in ornate language. Fu Jing herself felt it was especially literary.

She had even used many famous and not-so-famous idioms and allusions. For example: Liang and Zhu studying together, endless descendants, a perfect pair joining hearts and virtues, and so on.

Who knew that after the two people involved saw it, their old faces instantly darkened like the bottom of a pot that had not been scrubbed for hundreds of years. They practically fought to drag Fu Jing into the office and take turns criticizing and educating her.

At that time, Fu Jing had truly been scolded terribly by them.

She had been too young and ignorant. Thinking it over herself, she even felt especially wronged, so with a bit of a desire to appeal the injustice, she took the exam paper to the Chinese teacher from the next class.

Then this essay rapidly spread through several offices, large and small.

After reading it, the teachers all laughed themselves crazy.