Pretending To Be Affectionate [Transmigration] - Chapter 35

Ling Yu had never been this angry in her life.

“Prostitution fee?” What the heck.

Gu Qing, that woman, really had the guts to say that! So righteous, not feeling an ounce of shame.

From now on, Ling Yu unilaterally declared that she would only obey Gu Qing when it came to shamelessness.

She had thought that what happened that day was at least a consensual one-night stand, but how did it turn into the essence of hiring a hooker?

Fine, if Gu Qing wanted to pay, that was okay, but what did she mean by using the Jiang Wei case as the fee?

Was she looking down on her?

Ling Yu asked herself if she could handle it without Gu Qing. Without her, she would end up with a mutual defeat.

A few days ago, Ling Yu had even specifically borrowed a public relations team from Old Mr. Xu.

In case Jiang Wei managed to turn the case around, Ling Yu was prepared to go all out, even if it meant a lose-lose situation, to make Jiang Wei famous worldwide.

So, who was Jiang Wei to be considered her prostitution fee?

Ling Yu scoffed, “Who are you insulting?”

She raised her hand to remove Gu Qing’s cold fingers from her eyes and looked at Gu Qing with a half-smile. “So Lawyer Gu is this stingy. If you’re going to pay a fee, you should look at the actual situation. With a face like mine, this skin… my chest is also pretty good to touch. I saw you touch it many times that day. If you’re charging by the number of times, isn’t what you’re offering not enough?”

Gu Qing’s gaze lingered on Ling Yu’s chest, shamelessly looking at it twice more.

Then she gave a faint smile, as if she was acknowledging that Ling Yu was out of her mind from the blow.

She gave her a polite, farewell smile, as if she were a stranger.

Then she slowly pulled her gaze back, stepped away, turned, and left.

The hospital’s metal door handle was pulled open by Gu Qing. The wind blew her long, flowing hair, and it seemed like in the next second, she would once again merge into the night.

“Wait.” Ling Yu called out from behind her.

Gu Qing’s footsteps paused. Her patience seemed to have run out. She turned her head, unable to bear it any longer. “Is it fun to keep chasing me and not letting go? Ling Yu.”

“I’ve seen too many people like you. It’s disgusting.”

Ling Yu had long since stopped feeling anything about Gu Qing’s malicious words.

The prostitution fee and not showering after sex bothered her more than Gu Qing’s crazy insults.

She raised her eyelids, the smile in her eyes half-fading, as she stared at the two long, straight legs beneath Gu Qing’s tight-fitting skirt.

She suddenly scoffed, “It is pretty disgusting. With someone as disgusting as me, both of your legs got wet. It must be inconvenient for you to walk out like this.”

While speaking, Ling Yu took a pack of wet wipes from her pocket and tossed it into Gu Qing’s arms.

Gu Qing didn’t catch it. With a “thud,” the wet wipes fell to the ground.

She furrowed her eyebrows. The features on her usually cold and indifferent face were sharply defined.

Under Ling Yu’s shameless gaze, Gu Qing’s expression didn’t change as she brought her legs together. She then walked over the wet wipes in her high heels, grinding them fiercely under her feet.

“Ling Yu, the way you are right now, you’re no different from a pervert.”

Ling Yu laughed in anger. She was telling the truth; Gu Qing’s legs were indeed wet.

But what if it wasn’t because of her?

Anyone who was insulted with such humiliating words over and over again would get angry.

What’s more, the death of her great-grandmother tonight made Ling Yu’s body feel like it was covered in sharp thorns. She looked at Gu Qing like a hedgehog, challenging her: “Same goes for you.”

Gu Qing didn’t say anything. Facing Ling Yu’s provocation, she felt a sense of powerlessness and absurd frustration.

She helplessly looked away, her gaze lost in the vast night.

Even she didn’t realize that she had already said those malicious words many times before.

Repeating them wasn’t for Ling Yu’s benefit, but to sever the useless urges in her own heart.

A person’s life has many paths. For Gu Qing, since Gu Hongwei died, there was only one path left in her world: a path of revenge covered in thorns.

More than a decade ago, after the intricate drug den was destroyed, the core members of the organization were all unharmed.

Gu Qing knew that her chances against them were unknown. The power she currently controlled was barely enough to deal with just the Jiang family after so many years of building it up.

What ability did she have to deal with the ridiculous and confusing night with Ling Yu?

Gu Qing suppressed the useless, inexplicable emotions in her heart, took a deep look at Ling Yu, and then walked away on her slender legs.

Suddenly, her back felt a sharp pain, followed by the “thud” of a high heel hitting the ground.

Ling Yu limped on one leg, watching her shoe fall from Gu Qing’s back and hit the ground. She raised her eyelids and looked at Gu Qing: “Your body is more honest than your words. Take back your prostitution fee. I have my own way to deal with Jiang Wei.”

As soon as she said this, the emotions on Gu Qing’s face instantly disappeared.

She turned her head, her soulless blue eyes scanning Ling Yu. Her gaze was heavy, without anger or reproach, just like when she had faced Gu Ting’s craziness a moment ago. Her eyes held nothing.

“What ability do you have?”

“With the original photos you have that have already fallen into Jiang Boquan’s hands?”

Gu Qing’s tone was full of ridicule.

Ling Yu lifted her eyelids. She knew that once Li Juan gave false testimony in court, the lawsuit would be lost.

She couldn’t take Jiang Wei’s life, but with the photos she had, she could at least make him famous worldwide.

Knowing it was one thing, but at this moment, Gu Qing’s condescending, interrogative demeanor completely enraged Ling Yu. She smiled and stubbornly retorted, “What’s wrong with the law not being fair and public opinion working alongside it?”

“Damaging yourself a thousand times to harm the enemy once?” Gu Qing’s lips curled absurdly. “Ling Yu, can you stop being so childish?”

“How much do you know about Jiang Boquan? How much do you know about his connections? You don’t know anything, so why are you acting so tough?”

Gu Qing’s three questions in a row gave Ling Yu no chance to breathe.

She stared at Ling Yu with a sharp gaze: “Do you think the Jiang Wei case was won because of me? To be honest, anyone who took on this case could have won. Do you know why Jiang Boquan came to Yuncheng? He has connections with the entire court system in Yuncheng. Why do you think Jiang Wei, with solid evidence of his crimes, was so easily bailed out and appeared in court? It wasn’t money. It was a network of connections you couldn’t even dream of!”

Ling Yu stared blankly at Gu Qing. She was silent for a full thirty seconds.

Her dark eyes stared back at the cold woman standing there like a high and mighty queen, looking down on everything.

Even though she looked fierce and unfeminine.

Ling Yu had to admit that everything she said was true. And it seemed that since Gu Qing said she had a way, she really did have a way.

She was cold, heartless, crazy, and stingy, but her ability was undeniable.

Ling Yu had planned for the worst. She was going to rely on the Xu family’s influence to push public opinion to a climax. But after that, she would, as Gu Qing said, harm herself a thousand times to harm the enemy once.

And she might not even be able to beat Jiang Wei with Gu Qing’s strategic help.

Ling Yu thought about it rationally and clearly.

“So…” Ling Yu’s tone changed. She looked up and stared at Gu Qing for a while.

She asked calmly, “Can I trust you?”

Ling Yu’s tone changed too quickly. One second it was a tense standoff, and the next, her eyes were suddenly clear.

“Sister, can I trust you?”

Gu Qing really hadn’t expected Ling Yu to have such a thick skin. When she looked into her rich and beautiful eyes, it made her remember the scene from that night when their bodies were intertwined.

Gu Qing squinted.

“Help me just this once, okay?”

Ling Yu repeated, sounding uneasy. When she was begging, the sharp edges in her clear eyes disappeared. Her curled eyelashes twitched nervously, and a faint light flickered in her eyes, jumping with a myriad of sparkling lights.

Gu Qing glanced at her and quickly looked away. She reached up to tuck a strand of her long, curly hair behind her ear, as if to hide her lack of composure.

She said in a low voice, “I already promised. This is your prostitution fee.”

Ling Yu’s expression froze:….

There it was again.

What the heck.

Despite her internal rejection, Ling Yu maintained her smile. She nodded brightly and praised her without a change in expression, “Yes, yes, yes, I definitely believe you. With your intelligence, it’s more than enough to take down a Jiang Wei. After all, you’re such an excellent people’s lawyer. I thank you on behalf of everyone.”

Half of Gu Qing’s face was hidden in the shadows. She squinted at Ling Yu.

Her pale lips turned up slightly. She asked with an unclear meaning, “Thank me?”

Ling Yu nodded.

“I’ll give you a chance,” Gu Qing’s gaze was fixed on Ling Yu’s lips, which were turning purple from the cold. She took off her coat and tossed it into Ling Yu’s arms: “Go wash this for me later.”

Ling Yu: …

008: [Ahhh, so cool, so flirtatious.]

Ling Yu: [Are you an idiot?]

008: [Boo-hoo, Host, don’t say that. It’s because I have eyes that can find sweetness. No matter how I look at it, I feel like the female lead gave you the coat because she was worried you were cold.]

Ling Yu: [I suggest you blind yourself to cure your delusion.]

Ling Yu didn’t sleep a wink all night. Because they had to send the old lady’s body to the crematorium, all the younger relatives stayed there, waiting for the staff to start work the next day to cremate the body.

In the middle of the night, Gu Qing’s coat actually came in handy.

When Xu Miao got a down jacket from the logistics staff and handed it to Ling Yu, she looked at the coat on her with suspicion: “This coat looks a bit familiar. Hmm? I feel like I’ve seen it somewhere.”

Ling Yu nonchalantly said, “It’s Fang Jia’s.”

Xu Miao looked at the size of the coat and thought of Fang Jia’s figure. She exclaimed, “No way. That old hag is no longer wearing big, flashy clothes and has switched to cool colors?”

Ling Yu nodded: “Right? I thought it was weird too. Maybe after eating too much rich food, she wanted some simple, bland food. It’s not strange for her to change her fashion style.”

Xu Miao made a sound and was about to speak.

“Yuyu, when did I change my fashion style? How come I don’t know?”

Fang Jia pulled her fuzzy, fox-colored coat around her and stood behind the two of them.

She didn’t know how much she had heard. Her weather-beaten eyes scrutinized the coat in Ling Yu’s hands.

A moment later, she casually looked away and said to Ling Yu, “The temperature has dropped quite a bit in the middle of the night. Hurry up and put on the cotton jacket your sister has.”

While speaking, she bent down as if to take the coat from Ling Yu’s hands.

Ling Yu suddenly shifted her elbow, casually draped Gu Qing’s dirty coat over the back of the chair, and smiled at Fang Jia.

“Aunt Fang, why did you come?”

Fang Jia’s gaze was still on the coat: “I was worried about you, so I came.”

“Yuyu, this coat…” Fang Jia squinted. “It looks like my friend’s coat…”

Ling Yu wasn’t embarrassed by the blatant lie.

She didn’t want to mention her recent conflicts with Gu Qing to anyone, so she said perfunctorily, “Really? I thought it was yours?”

That was her way of saying she wasn’t going to explain anymore.

Fang Jia’s eyelashes fluttered. She wisely didn’t press the matter. She gave Ling Yu a hand warmer and, amid Xu Miao’s murmurs, she pulled out her phone from her handbag without a change in expression.

She sent a text message to Gu Qing: [Xiao Gu, do you remember that little thing from my family I told you about before?]

Lawyer Gu, a professional: [?]

[Isn’t it a coincidence? She’s interning at your law firm.]

[Please take care of her for me.]

[Oh, right. Her name is Ling Yu.]

Fang Jia squinted, staring at the chat interface.

Her eyes held a deep sense of a test. Ten minutes later.

Lawyer Gu, a professional: [No.]

Fang Jia: [Why?]

Lawyer Gu, a professional: [HR will send out a termination notice tomorrow. She’s been asked to leave.]

Fang Jia’s tense expression suddenly relaxed. She wore a teasing smile: [What’s going on? Are you guys openly bullying my person?]

Lawyer Gu, a professional: [Your person. smile.jpq]