Jin Ke’er quickly opened her eyes.
The cold, hard feeling of the tablet told her that, even though Su Li seemed so close before her eyes, she was actually out of reach.
There was simply no way for her to touch Su Li, not even a little.
Su Li’s face was youthful and soft, bouncy like jelly.
But the feedback from the tablet was icy cold.
She stared at the content playing on the tablet, not wanting to miss a single detail.
Yet the girl standing beside Su Li was especially irritating in her eyes.
Quechao. That was clearly supposed to be her place, but it had been taken over by that girl.
So hateful!
Especially when she heard Su Li’s charming voice, it made her feel as if a fire was raging inside.
No wonder……
No wonder when she finished her deal with Su Li back then, Su Rui turned and left without a trace of reluctance.
Turns out, the next one had already been lined up in advance!
She wanted to throw the tablet in her hand and smash it to pieces, unwilling to see Su Li’s intimate expression with anyone else, but she managed to restrain that urge once again.
Since she couldn’t change what had already happened, she might as well try to accept it.
Jin Ke’er imagined that the person kissing Su Li in the video was herself, and sure enough, she felt a little better inside.
“Miss, we’ve already found the information on the person who made a deal with Su Li.”
Just as Jin Ke’er was lost in her fantasy, the voice of her butler, Lan Yinyun, came from the room.
Jin Ke’er was a little displeased that her fantasy was interrupted, but she still stuffed the tablet into her skirt.
Listening to Su Li’s voice coming from inside her skirt, it was as if Su Li was serving her instead, and then she started flipping through the information on her new rival.
“A young singer who rose to fame?”
Jin Ke’er was full of disdain. If she wanted to, she could make anyone, even someone with no background or foundation at all, into an internet sensation.
Just a lucky upstart, and she dares to compete with me?
Jin Ke’er was filled with dissatisfaction.
At the same time, she felt sorry for Su Li. Sure enough, after leaving her, Su Li only met trash.
All sorts of weirdos could get close to Su Li now.
If things went on a little longer, maybe Su Li would have fallen so far as to become an object any man could claim.
In the end, she and Su Li really weren’t from the same world……
But that didn’t stop her from making good use of Su Li and having a little fun.
After all, even if Su Li was a little useless, she could still be used to vent her emotions.
“Yinyun, I need a more stimulating treatment plan.”
“Help me ask if these machines and such can be shipped to the Domestic Market, I want to return home for treatment.”
“Money is not an issue.”
A sickly flush appeared on Jin Ke’er’s cheeks, her voice trembling a little, but she still gave Lan Yinyun her orders with clear logic.
Just an upstart, she didn’t care at all.
As for whether a more intense plan would bring some side effects to her body, she didn’t care either.
Money could fix anything.
And Su Li was the best medicine in the world.
She just wanted to return to the Domestic Market as soon as possible!
……
Time rewinds to Monday afternoon.
Chi Qingya had just finished attending the Afternoon Tea Meeting held by her Dormitory.
There was nothing special about the Afternoon Tea Meeting. After the girls finished taking photos, they started eating Sufulei and drinking Xinbake.
After that, everyone just played on their own phones.
Occasionally, someone would remember something and mention Su Li to her.
Chi Qingya didn’t know why, but whenever she heard the girls mention Su Li, she felt an inexplicable irritation.
Seeing her lack of interest, everyone dropped the topic and went back to scrolling on their phones.
After leaving the Dormitory, Chi Qingya checked her phone— no one had sent her a transfer.
She ate something casually in the school cafeteria, but didn’t really have much appetite.
She had specially ordered her favorite dishes, hoping to cheer herself up, but couldn’t muster any enthusiasm.
Su Li had cooked this dish before, but somehow it never tasted as good as Su Li’s.
Walking home, the events of the day replayed in Chi Qingya’s mind.
This was not a happy day.
It felt like nothing had gone right since morning.
No, not since this morning— ever since Su Li left, everything seemed to go against her.
Had she really been too harsh on Su Li before?
Was Su Li actually pretty good to her?
Chi Qingya pondered seriously, but she didn’t think she had made Su Li do too much.
On the contrary, she had provided Su Li with food and a place to stay.
Relatively speaking, she hadn’t made Su Li do that much.
A few decades ago, her grandparents had struggled just to fill their bellies.
Let alone now, when they could eat three full meals a day and never worry about sleeping rough.
Su Li only tidied up the room a little, and made her a meal while she was at it.
Besides, when cooking, didn’t Su Li also get to eat?
Chi Qingya couldn’t figure it out, couldn’t understand where things had gone wrong.
Dragging her tired body home, she opened the door and was immediately hit by a strange smell.
There were even more little things flying around than yesterday— she could see them in the moonlight without even turning on the lights.
The cream cake was slumped on the table like a melting pile of snow, the pink frosting a messy blob.
Green mold spots sprouted from the cake base, like a layer of damp tea leaves had been sprinkled over it.
Getting closer, she could smell a sour stench, as if someone had poured expired yogurt over rotten fruit.
The Mango skin was covered with blackish-brown spots, yellow-brown juice oozed from the cracks, pooling into a sticky mess at the bottom of the plate.
The flesh had turned into a semi-transparent jelly, with a dozen fruit flies circling around it. Looking closely, she could even see maggots wriggling, like tiny white sesame seeds.
A gray-white film of oil had formed on the surface of the Rib Soup, the Silver Ear had swelled up and turned sticky, like toilet paper left to soak.
Fungal threads hung from the handle of the soup spoon like spiderwebs, the rim of the bowl was crawling with fuzzy mold spots, and it all smelled like rotten eggs mixed with rust.
The Baguette was as hard as a cement stick, crumbling black and gray bits when she tried to break it.
Dark red liquid seeped from the cracks, staining the wrapping paper with map-shaped blotches.
Blue-green spots were embedded in the moldy crumb, as if someone had stuffed a wad of rotting cotton inside.
Chi Qingya couldn’t take it anymore. The nauseating scene from yesterday flashed in her mind again.
She stood there, dazed— how long had it been since Su Li left, and her home was already like this?
Did she really not have the ability to live on her own?