Foolishly Flirting with the White Moonlight Leads to Being Marked - Chapter 23.2

As Yan Qingqiu read, she immediately connected it to the things she had found in Song Qingre’s room that day. She wished she could give “her” a like. Bravely pursuing love was very good. It was just that the love-letter choice was not good enough. She should have chosen “walking, I think of you; sitting, I think of you.” The later one was truly old-fashioned.

[Later, after their relationship broke apart, Miss Song returned during Qingming Festival to pay respects to her parents. It was also a rainy day. Miss Song was alone and had no umbrella. I took an umbrella out to Miss Song, and surprise flashed in Miss Song’s eyes.

She probably thought the umbrella had been sent by Miss.

Only, at twenty years old, she should have known too. If I did not say anything, then this umbrella had nothing to do with Miss.

I asked whether she was still alone now.

Miss Song froze, then said yes.

I asked her with my eyes why. She said something very artistic.

Sometimes, staking everything on waiting for one person is better than aimlessly trying and making mistakes.

“What if things never get better?”

“Wait to death. Wait until death.”

I understand a little about art. The eighteen years of Miss’s youth created an artist, then used six years to punish that artist.

I understand her art, but I do not understand her as an artist.]

Yan Qingqiu read until her fingers twitched. She blinked twice, and even her lashes became wet. She really should not have read the later update. Being ambushed by angst had struck her too heavily.

She put away her phone and went downstairs. Just in time, the butler was coming upstairs to call her to eat. She coldly glanced sideways at the butler. The butler instantly understood that she had received his document.

Yan Qingqiu hated iron for not becoming steel and pointed at him accusingly. If Song Qingre had not been sitting downstairs, she definitely would have said, “I’m not asking you to write car scenes, but don’t drive a car straight over me and kill me with angst either.”

Yan Qingqiu went to the table to eat. She turned her head to look at Song Qingre. Song Qingre used her chopsticks to pick up a thumb-sized pan-fried bun. As she ate, she asked, “What’s wrong?”

“Nothing.”

Yan Qingqiu washed her hands, then followed along and ate.

Thinking of yesterday’s walk in the rain, Song Qingre’s sentence: “I wanted to walk with you a little longer.”

Was she treating her as “her”?

That made it even more painful…

“Miss?” The butler bent down several times to call her. “What are you thinking about?”

Yan Qingqiu withdrew her gaze. “Nothing.”

She was only thinking for a moment about whether she should return to the martial world, whether she should create a secondary fanwork and in one breath create them all the way onto the bed for several days and nights.

The butler said, “The rain still hasn’t stopped today. Sir told you to stay home for the day and not go out.”

Yan Qingqiu hummed and lowered her head to eat a little. Then she looked at Song Qingre again. Song Qingre sensed her gaze. “What is it?”

Yan Qingqiu suddenly thought of that part from the beginning of the game.

The game had asked whether she wanted to help the beauty on the bed relieve her fever period. She had clicked help, then was directly killed.

Could there be a connection?

After yesterday’s commotion, the maids at home were no longer so afraid of Yan Qingqiu. Although Yan Qingqiu had scolded them a little during the meal about yesterday’s matters, in reality, she had only scolded them and had not punished them. They felt that the little princess only had a hard mouth and soft heart.

That sense of being out of place seemed to have faded quite a bit. Because of Song Qingre carrying her, everyone knew that she had a lively and active personality, and they would also take the initiative to talk to her.

During the first two days after Yan Qingqiu transmigrated here, she had been trembling with caution, frantically sticking to the character setting and bossing everyone around with an air of sweeping through thousands of troops. She found others unpleasant to look at, and others also felt afraid of her, doing everything timidly. Now it was a little better…

Seeing the maids run around for her, she could not help asking the system: [I really haven’t exposed myself, right? Why do I feel like someone has seen through me!]

The system said: [No. But I have already applied for your reward.]

Yan Qingqiu had no resistance toward gifts or money. [What reward? Tell me.]

System: [I can’t show it to you yet, but I guarantee you’ll like it very much. I’ll reveal one plot point to you first. You can meet Fu Ye once.]

Yan Qingqiu did not understand. [Why meet him? I get annoyed just looking at him. Now that my dad is back, if I go meet him, won’t I be courting death?]

System: [That depends on you. It doesn’t matter if you want to let the reward slip past you. We respect the host’s choice~]

That voice sounded so strangely sarcastic.

Meeting Fu Ye once felt strange.

Her differentiation period was clearly about to arrive. Was she supposed to go matchmake the male and female leads?

Surely it could not be that her heat period arrived, she seduced Song Qingre, Song Qingre’s heat period also arrived, and the male and female leads’ harmonious period arrived too, with the two of them all sweet and intimate, sleeping together—while she stood to the side with a knife cutting out her gland, right…

Damn. Was this insane?

Did this trash system even know how much of a masochist it was?!

Yan Qingqiu chose to unilaterally stop communicating with the system.

It was still raining outside, crackling as it washed over the flowers and plants in the courtyard.

The rain did not stop for the whole day. Once the rain stopped and the summer heat dispersed afterward, autumn would officially arrive. The heavier the rain fell, the more tightly the people at home watched her. As long as Yan Qingqiu stood at the door, someone would become nervous.

Yan Qingqiu was terribly bored. She lay on the sofa with her legs crossed, looking at her fingers for a while, then at her toes.

She messaged Su Xingjie and asked how things were going.

Su Xingjie said: [Fu Ye sent his lawyer over today.]

Yan Qingqiu immediately sat up. She had just finished cursing him earlier. She directly sent a voice message. “What is that bitch going to your company for?”

Song Qingre, who was reading in the side hall, turned her head to look at her. Yan Qingqiu lay back down again and typed: [He has nothing to do with your company, right?]

Su Xingjie replied: [He didn’t before. This time, it seems like he’s here to discuss cooperation. I suspect he also had a hand in this matter.]

Yan Qingqiu had a feeling that this plot was forcing her to go meet Fu Ye. If she did not go…

After sending the message, she picked at the corner of her phone. She looked toward Song Qingre, wanting Song Qingre to send her out.

Song Qingre met her gaze. “Are you that bored?”

Yan Qingqiu gave a soft “mm,” looking at her hopefully. “There’s something I really want to handle.”

“What is it? Tell me first. I’ll judge how urgent it is.”

Yan Qingqiu could not tell her properly. Her lips moved, and she looked a little anxious. She looked at Song Qingre, too embarrassed to beg, and her tone softened a little.

“Help me out.”

The person reading paused her fingers. Yan Qingqiu softened her voice again. “I’ll go for a little while and come right back.”

Song Qingre tilted her head and looked at her. Yan Qingqiu lay against the sofa back. Song Qingre closed her book and told the maid, “Report this to Uncle Dong later. I’ll give you half an hour. I’ll send you there, and you have to promise not to get rained on. Call me when you come back. I’ll pick you up.”

Yan Qingqiu immediately nodded. “Thanks.”

Song Qingre did as she said. She took the keys and drove the car out. Yan Qingqiu put on a raincoat, and the maids at home even held an umbrella for her.

After getting into the car, Song Qingre asked her for the address.

“ER Building.”

Song Qingre tapped her fingers against the steering wheel, then adjusted the navigation. Along the way, the car did not drive fast. Yan Qingqiu looked at the city through the curtain of rain.

The atmosphere in the car was slightly silent. Yan Qingqiu asked, “Are you going back later, or going to the company?”

“I’ll stop by the company.”

Feeling that the inside of the car was rather dull, Yan Qingqiu added, “It’s like this… Actually, I asked Uncle Dong for a copy of the examination report.”

The car suddenly stopped. Yan Qingqiu was startled. “What’s wrong?”

“Red light. Keep talking.”

“Isn’t ER in trouble lately? I asked for Xingxing’s examination report and plan to bring it to her.”

“Why not directly forward it to her?”

“I still have something important to tell her.” Yan Qingqiu was a little pleased with herself. “I thought of a way to help her.”

The car started moving again. Song Qingre said, “So smart?”

They did not even know yet if it was feasible, yet she directly praised her. Yan Qingqiu felt a little embarrassed.

When they reached the place, Yan Qingqiu prepared to get out of the car and rush upstairs. Song Qingre said, “Take the raincoat with you. What’s the hurry?”

“All, all right.” Yan Qingqiu rolled up the raincoat and prepared to stuff it into her bag. It would not fit, so she tucked it under her arm and walked inside.

Song Qingre drove back to the studio. She entered her office, opened her computer, and clicked open the email on the screen.

The hospital’s information was currently forwarded to her first. She went through it once, and when she reached the final page showing compatibility, it displayed: “Compatibility exceeds 98%. This Alpha and Omega are not suitable to live together at the same time.”

Song Qingre’s finger pressed down on the mouse. She did not click either the left or right button. She only remained silent, pressing against the screen, her finger landing on the scroll wheel and pushing down hard.

Then: delete.

After that, she organized it properly and resent it to another email address.

Song Qingre called her assistant through the internal line and had her come in. “Sorry to trouble you, but please make a trip to the hospital for me.”

Xiao Fu asked, “What needs to be done?”

Song Qingre said, “Test pheromone compatibility.”

The assistant did not really understand, but she did not ask much. She was just about to say that getting results would take two or three days when Song Qingre sent her two files. Inside were the pheromone data of one Alpha and one Omega. She looked at them. The information for this Alpha did not show Song Qingre’s name.

“Get the result to me as soon as possible.”

“All right.”

The assistant glanced one more time. The smile between her boss’s brows had cooled, but she was also very restrained, no longer cold as unrestrainedly as before.

·

Yan Qingqiu successfully met Su Xingjie at ER. Su Xingjie took her to the office. Yan Qingqiu directly said, “I have an idea. I don’t know if you’re willing to try it.”

Su Xingjie looked at her. “What idea?”

Yan Qingqiu took out the examination report the butler had given her today from her bag and handed it over. “Post this examination report on your official Weibo to prove you didn’t take drugs.”

Su Xingjie took it and looked. She said, “I thought of this too, but it’s useless. Outside, everyone believes I knew she was taking drugs and was helping her cover it up. Back then, I threw a lot of resources at her, practically wishing I could personally carry her onto the international runway.” When she spoke up to here, Su Xingjie became very angry. “She’s actually this useless. Why didn’t she just drug herself to death? I sent this kind of person onto the international runway. Someone like her living is an embarrassment to me and to the country.”

Only then did Yan Qingqiu realize the importance of the problem. Being disgraced internationally meant that if ER wanted to make money in the future, it would probably have to do so while bearing infamy.

“I have another idea. I don’t know if you can try it,” Yan Qingqiu said.

“Tell me.” Su Xingjie was now willing to try anything.

Yan Qingqiu said, “Here’s the thing. Why don’t you directly conduct a major cleansing inside the company? Arrange a round of physical examinations. Anyone whose examination is unqualified gets fired. Isn’t the internet saying you haven’t responded for a long time? Explain it back this way, and also clean out all the models in your company.”

Su Xingjie’s eyes brightened slightly. This was a method. “Then I need to calculate the penalty fees…”

“That’s even easier. The examination reports will already be in your hands. If they don’t part ways peacefully, release them directly. Slap their faces one by one and directly destroy their domestic market. For now, stabilize things first and don’t leak anything. The models definitely won’t know you’re going to be this ruthless.”

The more Su Xingjie listened, the more shocked she became. “Qiu-bao, you’re too smart.”

Yan Qingqiu felt rather embarrassed. These were all ideas she had from reading gossip. Those companies that hid and covered things up were truly boring. If she were the boss, she would simply kick them all out of the company and state publicly: my company does not want this kind of scum.

“You can even be a little more vicious. Since they don’t cherish the future you gave them, you don’t need to worry about them either. After finding out, directly withdraw their resources and promote other people. Establish ER’s threshold. When you can’t hold on anymore, you can also sell misery online, saying that kicking out so many models is also cutting off your own flesh with pain. Netizens will definitely support you.”

Su Xingjie nodded and quickly made a call. Soon, Qiangwei came in holding a laptop and said softly, “Domestically, there are already campaigns organizing people to cut up our clothes. Some celebrities are posting on Weibo that they’re withdrawing cooperation, without even contacting us first. The Fu family’s people are here. They’re artists under their family.”

ER was currently a major brand domestically, but not to the point where no one could afford it. Its main ready-to-wear market was still domestic.

Su Xingjie gave Qiangwei the examination report Yan Qingqiu brought. “Post this online later. Then have all the models go to the big show stage on the ninth floor and wait for me. Remember, after I call the people in, you post the Weibo.”

Qiangwei nodded.

Su Xingjie asked Yan Qingqiu, “Do you want to watch?”

Yan Qingqiu wanted to go watch the excitement, but after weighing it, she decided against it. Her dad was currently at a crucial moment. A starving camel was still bigger than a horse. At a time like this, she should not make enemies. She shook her head. “I’ll wait here for you to come back.”

Su Xingjie stood up. “Thank you, Qiu-bao.”

“It’s fine. Solve it first. I’m not sure if this method is feasible either.” Yan Qingqiu smiled at her. Su Xingjie left with Qiangwei. The moment she came out of the room, Su Xingjie’s expression changed. Stern and fierce, she acted swiftly and decisively. “Later, lock the door tightly for me.”

The models were not all stupid either. At a time like this, some would definitely be afraid of being used as targets and would refuse to cooperate. But without real evidence, Su Xingjie could not control them. What if they simply did not want to be used as scapegoats? If she had no proof and said something online, she would be turned into a sieve.

If Su Xingjie was going to do this, she had to do it flawlessly.

Yan Qingqiu kept checking the time on her phone, afraid she would go over time. When she saw that half an hour had passed, she messaged Su Xingjie, saying she was preparing to go back.

Su Xingjie said she would come send her off and told her to wait.

Hearing footsteps outside, Yan Qingqiu came out of Su Xingjie’s office. She did not see Su Xingjie first. She saw Fu Ye first.

She instinctively stepped back, widening the distance between them.

Fu Ye was panting. He directly took one step closer, his tone heavy. “Let’s talk.”

“What is there to talk about?” Yan Qingqiu did not understand. “I don’t like you.”

Fu Ye’s appearance was sudden, but his purpose was very clear. His eyes darkened, blocking her path. He said, “Yes. Back then, I was the one who liked you first and wrote letters to you. But later, you were too unreasonable, so I never felt anything. Now I’ve thought it through. The person I like most is you.”

“Ah? What did you say?”

Yan Qingqiu was shocked. The male lead had liked her first?

And even wrote her letters?

That was not right.

Fu Ye was still speaking. “You’ve become better now. I… I admit I’ve fallen for you. If you still have feelings for me, I’ll settle down from now on.”

He behaved very sincerely, as if a prodigal son was returning.

Yan Qingqiu looked at him and felt utterly speechless. She organized her words several times before finally speaking. “Sorry, but I’m even more unreasonable now. Actually, I understand people like you too well. It’s only because I don’t like you anymore and don’t pursue you anymore that you feel I’ve changed and want to recover your self-esteem. Once I go back to pursuing you like a moth to a flame, you’ll start saying again, ‘Why are you so unreasonable?’”

Her sentence-by-sentence rebuttal left Fu Ye unable to speak. It was as if she had seen through the essence of love. Fu Ye completely could not understand. In the past, she only knew how to cling to him, making all kinds of trouble, often morally blackmailing him with things like “if you won’t be with me, I’ll die.” Now, she could actually say something so thoroughly awakened.

He was very shocked, and at the same time, he thought of his friend’s words. If she truly no longer loves you and has let go, forget seeing through love—even your DNA will be seen through by her.

Fu Ye’s tone was gentle as he tried to hold Yan Qingqiu’s hand. Yan Qingqiu dodged very quickly and circled around him to leave. Fu Ye grabbed her hand. Yan Qingqiu screamed and desperately patted her clothes. He said, “I won’t say that about you anymore… Let’s get married. I’ll give you a sense of security. Is that okay?”

Yan Qingqiu nearly laughed herself to death because of him. She was too lazy to keep entangling with Fu Ye. Just then, Su Xingjie also came over. Seeing Fu Ye, Su Xingjie was also angry and prepared to call security.

At ER’s crucial moment, Yan Qingqiu did not want to make the matter bigger. She turned and pulled Su Xingjie’s wrist. “Xingxing, let’s go. Seeing him ruins my appetite. And he even wants to marry me.”

Fu Ye did not really want to let her leave. In a few steps, he passed her and reached out to brace against the wall, looking as if he were doing a wall slam. Yan Qingqiu cursed him as lowly, but he did not care. He also felt he was lowly.

“Yan Qingqiu, do you still not know that your dad owes me one hundred million? Your family is almost bankrupt. I’ll just say it directly. Today, apart from terminating the contract, I came to ER to find you.”

To be accurate, Yan Fu had hidden her too well, and Fu Ye could not see her at all. Yan Fu would rather go bankrupt than let Yan Qingqiu come apologize, so he could only appear himself.

“What?”

Yan Qingqiu stopped and looked up at him. “What did you do now?”

Fu Ye smiled. “Wasn’t this something you told me to do?”

Fu Ye did not understand. What was going on? Did Yan Qingqiu not hate her dad the most? Every day, she complained, and sometimes directly cursed her dad to die. Now she was acting like a filial daughter with a loving father?

Suspicion gradually appeared in his eyes. Yan Qingqiu also could not hold her expression. She? What “she”?

It could not be that “she” had begged Fu Ye to give one hundred million, right?

Very soon, Fu Ye’s words confirmed this problem.

“Back then, you were the one who told me to invest one hundred million in your dad and take some shares. You said your dad’s operations would definitely run into problems, and I could directly buy your dad’s company at a low price.”

Yan Qingqiu was dumbfounded.

What kind of useless daughter had done this?

Although Yan Corporation’s operations were far worse than before, at the very least, it was still a domestic brand. It carried sentiment and had its own business model. “She” had wanted to drive her dad to death.

Fu Ye also noticed that something was off. Yan Qingqiu’s confusion did not seem fake. He said, “Why do I feel like you’ve become a different person? You don’t remember many things from before?”

Yan Qingqiu had been shocked by “her” actions and had lost composure for a moment. She slowly came back to herself and said, “It’s not that I don’t remember. I just didn’t expect you to take it seriously. At that time, my dad really needed money, so I said that to you. How could I possibly want to make my dad go bankrupt?”

Fu Ye firmly shook his head. “You said you wanted your dad to go bankrupt. You didn’t only say it to me.” Fu Ye recalled the previous scene. Yan Qingqiu had been very serious when discussing this matter with him. Fu Ye had even been amazed by her viciousness. He had been worn down by her daily pestering until he could not stand it anymore. Thinking that it was not bad for the Fu family either, he did as she said and invested one hundred million.

He asked repeatedly, more suspicious each time. “Why do you seem like a different person? Why don’t you remember anything?”

Even the system in Yan Qingqiu’s mind reminded her that revealing her identity would directly count as mission failure.

Cold sweat came out on Yan Qingqiu. She hardened her heart and directly threw a tantrum, acting as hard as she could. “Right, right, right. I did say that. But I was just angry. I didn’t actually want my dad to go bankrupt. What about you? Just because I ignored you, you directly wanted my whole family to die, and you even targeted my friend. You’re even more disgusting and vicious. Disgusting! Either restore the funds now, or get lost. I get annoyed just looking at you.”

Clearly, Fu Ye was unwilling to restore the funds. He said, “I think you should properly take our relationship seriously. If we’re still together, I’ll give that one hundred million without hesitation. But if we aren’t together, I don’t think the Yan family’s bankruptcy has anything to do with me.”

“Think about it properly. Stop throwing tantrums. You should learn to grow up. Of course, during this time, I’ve also thought a lot. In the past, I truly didn’t like you. Now, I feel I can try to tolerate you and consider you more. Make up with me.”

He felt he was already very humble. But as he spoke, he felt Yan Qingqiu’s expression grow worse and worse.

Yan Qingqiu’s fingers clenched into fists.

Suddenly, Fu Ye frowned. He smelled a very rich Omega fragrance. It seemed to be drifting from Yan Qingqiu. This fragrance seemed to want to crush him.

In an instant, sweat broke out over his body.

He looked at Su Xingjie beside her. If he remembered correctly, Su Xingjie was a high-level Omega. She seemed to have a compound scent, mainly a very rich, desire-stirring tuberose.

But the scent he smelled this time was a little intense.

It was like some kind of seductive, stimulating fragrance.

Like holding a mouthful of explosive chili. The nasal cavity and throat were both burned spicy, yet it carried an indescribable sweetness, like the compound fragrance only a high-level Omega could have.

He looked toward Su Xingjie, his eyes complicated.

Su Xingjie keenly noticed that he was savoring pheromones and asked, “What are you trying to do?”

Yan Qingqiu moved in front of Su Xingjie and shielded her. As expected, he was a scumbag. One second ago, he said he loved her, and the next second, he showed a jackal-wolf-tiger-leopard gaze toward her good friend. She directly pushed Fu Ye.

“I’m warning you. If you dare have designs on Xingxing, I won’t just knock your dog head crooked. I’ll chop your head off and feed it to the dogs.”

Fu Ye retreated several steps and felt that the fragrance had become even stronger. He looked at Yan Qingqiu and selectively released a thread of pheromone. Very quickly, both Su Xingjie and Yan Qingqiu smelled it.

Su Xingjie reacted very quickly and grabbed Yan Qingqiu’s arm hard.

Yan Qingqiu felt the back of her neck heat up rapidly. It welcomed this pheromone that came so swiftly. Yes, her gland liked this scent.