Chapter 47 – Woman, you got my attention

 I was confessed?

    By THE Brother Wolf?

    Little Red Riding Hood froze solid in place for the whole 20 minutes and Brother Wolf, who had “confessed” his true feeling, took the frozen Little Red Riding Hood as a happy fool and went back to the company, satisfied.

    Little Red Riding Hood finally woke up from her shock before she chuckled. Then she covered her mouth and smirked on the spot.

    “Hehehe… He confessed to me. Brother Wolf confessed to me. So, Brother Wolf likes me?” Little Red Riding Hood couldn’t control the smirk forming on the corner of her mouth, “My peach blossom has finally opened.”

 (T/N: Peach blossom means relattionship affair)

    Little Red Riding Hood was thrilled with the confession just now that she couldn’t wait to share it with others. She picked up her handbag and hurried to Bai Xue’s studio.

    Bai Xue’s studio is located around the art park in the west of the city. Most of the people who come and go from that area are famous people involved in the fashion industry, so the security of the park is extremely strict. When Little Red Riding Hood got there, she was blocked at the door, and Bai Xue had to send someone to come out to pick her up.

    “Miss Bai is presenting a design plan to the client inside, you can wait here now.” Assistant Xiao Mei poured a glass of water for Little Red Riding Hood and lead her to the sofa in the living area.

    “Okay, thank you.”

    “You’re welcome, then I’ll go to work first.”

    After Xiao Mei left, Little Red Riding Hood didn’t sit on the sofa instead, she walked around curiously and looked at the layout of the studio. Before she knew Bai Xue from the hospice, designer Bai Xue had always been the goddess of Little Red Riding Hood. So now that she was able to enter the goddess’s studio, Little Red Riding Hood was a little excited.

    Little Red Riding Hood turned around and was staring at the photos on the wall when suddenly she heard a door open loudly.

    “I tell you, I’m not going to make this dress.” Bai Xue came out of the door angrily.

    “Bai Xue, we signed a contract, if you don’t do it, you’re breaching the contract.” A tall woman with red lips walked out behind Bai Xue.

    “I don’t care if I’m breaching the contract or not. Do you think this elder sister can’t pay the liquidated damages?” Bai Xue has never been afraid of anyone since she became ill.

    “Can you actually afford it?” the woman said angrily, “This dress is my engagement dress. If you delay my dress it means you are delaying the marriage between the Du Group and the Qin Group. Do you know how much you have to pay?”

    “Hey, according to what you say, if I don’t make this dress, then you won’t get married?”

    “You…” The woman was choked. Of course that’s not true but she was just so angry.

    “Then I really won’t make this dress. If you can’t do it, just don’t get married.” Bai Xue said cheerfully.

    “You really hate to see me getting married, huh?” The woman seemed to have caught something.

    “Miss Du, are you okay? It’s none of my business whether to like it or not.”

    “Do you think I don’t know? You are a hypocritical woman and are deliberately trying to hook up with my fiancé.”

    “It turned out to be a case of jealousy. Now I see why you are crazy today.”

    “So, you admit it?”

    “I didn’t admit to anything but I guess you still won’t believe it. Even if I did hook up with him, what can you do to me?” Bai Xue said angrily.

    “You… shameless woman.”

    “In public space right now, I think you are the shameless one, Miss Du.”

    After being reminded by Bai Xue, Miss Du realized that there were spectators surrounding them trying to listen to the commotion. If this matter spreads out today and is known by her fiancé, how can she still have a face?

    “Just you wait for my lawyer’s letter.” Miss Du harshly said, slammed the door with her bag, and left.

    “I also have a lawyer on my side. You better be careful when you close that door or I’ll invite Wu Ge here, hum!” Bai Xue, who won the battle, was in a good mood.

    “Clap clap clap!”

    Little Red Riding Hood clapped and walked over with a look of amazement: “Amazing, amazing, amazing.”

    Bai Xue saw Little Red Riding Hood, and raised her eyebrows proudly: “That’s right, since I entered Bianhua, I’ve had many face-slapping situations like this and I’ve never lost once.”

    “Who was that person? Why did she say you robbed her fiancé?” Little Red Riding Hood likes to gossip.

    “The daughter of Du’s Group, Du Pingguo, her fiancé is my ex-boyfriend, Qin Wangzhi, the president of Qin’s Group.” A simple sentence enough to describe the whole situation.

    The two walked to the back room while chatting.

    “Oh, oh, so that’s it.” Little Red Riding Hood immediately understood, “I’ll just say, when I saw President Qin last time, I felt that he was still in love with you.”

    “You don’t have to think too much about that. I don’t talk to Qin Wangzhi for more than five minutes every time we meet, and we never talk about anything other than official business.” Bai Xue said, “I’m Bai Xue, a good horse will never look back.” (t/n: this is an idiom that means a person with ambition will never turn back even if he encounters setbacks after he sets his mind)

    “If the grass is really delicious?”

    “Then don’t eat it!” Bai Xue was not in the mood to continue the topic, but asked in a concerning manner “How is it? Did the blind date go well today?”

    “Uh…” Little Red Riding Hood hesitated for a moment and said, “It should go well.”

    “Something wrong?” Bai Xue asked.

    “There was a little accident in the middle of the date.” Although Little Red Riding Hood said there was an accident but there was an uncontrollable smile on her face.

    “You look like someone in live. Don’t tell me the short amount of time you go on the blind date and you already have a crush on my patient.” Bai Xue said suspiciously.

    “How is it possible.” Little Red Riding Hood quickly denied, “It’s Brother Wolf, I met Brother Wolf.”

    “Brother Wolf? That cafe is not far from the Huihuang Building, so it wouldn’t be strange to meet him. Why? Did Brother Wolf see you during the blind date?”

    ” Mmmm.” Little Red Riding Hood said shyly, “Then… He confessed to me.”

    “Clang!” Bai Xue didn’t hold her phone properly and it fell directly to the ground.

    “You’re also surprised, right?” Little Red Riding Hood said with deep emotion, “I was also shocked at the time. I didn’t expect Brother Wolf to confess to me, hee hee…”

    Little Red Riding Hood couldn’t help covering her mouth while laughing every time she remembered it.

    “You… accept it?” Bai Xue confirmed.

    “Not yet, but… I thought about it carefully, Brother Wolf is pretty good but he barely meets my standard for choosing a mate.” Little Red Riding Hood said shyly. (t/n: sorry but girl wtf)

    “Haha…” Bai Xue picked up the phone and gave Little Red Riding Hood two hahas before saying sarcastically, “Brother Wolf barely met your standard? Brother Lang is the standard for all women in China.”

    “But I didn’t expect him to like me? Suddenly I feel that I’m a little better than him.” (T/n: this girl is delirious mygosh)

    “Ehhh, wake up and step your foot on the ground.” Bai Xue couldn’t care about Little Red Riding Hood’s crazy look.

    “Bai Xue, do you think I should agree?” Little Red Riding Hood looked at Bai Xue with her big eyes shining.

    “Well…” Bai Xue’s expression suddenly became serious, “You really have to think about this matter, seriously.”

    “My mind is in a mess now, I don’t know what to think about?”

    “Remember your terminal illness. Think about the mission you are going to perform, think about how you may fail the mission at any time and just end up dying all of the sudden.” Bai Xue looked at Little Red Riding Hood’s increasingly pale face and continued, “I think you might not be able to bare any children too.”

    When Bai Xue reminded her one by one of her problems, it felt like streaks of lightning shooting directly on Little Red Riding Hood’s forehead, dispersing any lovely scene in her head.

    “I… I almost forgot.” The rational Little Red Riding Hood finally returned, “We are in a special situation.”

    Little Red Riding Hood suddenly looked like a wilted frost-beaten eggplant (t/n: sluggish or has nothing to say). Although Bai Xue understood their circumstances but, she couldn’t bear to look at the current Little Red Riding Hood: “If you really like him, it’s still okay to have a relationship with him. If any big problem happened… just find a reason to break up with him.”

    When she mentioned breaking up, Bai Xue’s expression involuntarily showed a little loneliness.

    “Then don’t I become a scumbag who deceives other people’s feelings?” said Little Red Riding Hood.

    “Yes, you will become a scumbag.” Bai Xue nodded in agreement.

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    Little Red Riding Hood suddenly remembered the scene when she met Bai Xue when she was in the bookstore. At that time Bai Xue cried and said that she was a scumbag. Suddenly, she realized and guessed something: “Then you and President Qin… You are also such a scumbag?”

    “Something like that.” Bai Xue gave a wry smile, stood up and poured two glasses of red wine from the wine cabinet beside her, “Would you like to listen to my story and give you an example.”

    “Mmmm.” Little Red Riding Hood nodded.

    “Actually, the story is very simple. It was about four or five years ago.” Bai Xue recalled, “At that time, I was still studying abroad. During the summer vacation of my junior year, I suddenly felt unwell, so I went to the hospital for a physical examination. “

    “Paramy?” Little Red Riding Hood responded immediately.

    “That’s right, Paramy terminal illness.” Bai Xue continued with a smile, “I’m luckier than you, the doctor said that I have a year and half left. But does it matter whether a year or two years, this terminal illness still can’t be cured. I can’t describe my feeling at that time, but you can understand it anyway.”

    “The most intuitive feeling as a dying person is that you suddenly realize how very little time you have left, but there are many things you still haven’t done yet. I was a little famous in school at that time, and I even got the title of school flower. When I was a freshman and a sophomore, many male classmates were chasing after me. At that time, I was so focused on my studies that I didn’t accept any of them. I refused. There were more and more, and gradually there were no male classmates left who would confess to me.”

    “But I suddenly wanted to fall in love at that time. I’m so beautiful, I can’t just die without falling in love.” Bai Xue smiled, “Then Qin Wangzhi appeared.”

    “Did he confess to you?” asked Little Red Riding Hood.

    “Well, not really. You know, Qin Wang wasn’t as he is right now when we were in college. He was so unsophisticated at that time, so unsophisticated that people couldn’t look directly at him, and he had just a couple of friends. But his grades were very good and the professors liked him very much. They always used him as an example to criticize other students, so, many people hated him. Then one day, he got bullied. Someone wrote a love letter to me under his name, and then took advantage of an open class with the whole students together and they read the letter out loud in public.” When recalling this, Bai Xue suddenly laughed.

    “But you still accept him? In public?” Girls are always excited when they hear this kind of shit.

    “Yeah, all I know was that I was going to die soon, and I just wanted to try falling in love again. He just happened to appear at the right time.” Bai Xue still remembers Qin Wangzhi’s blushing face that time when she publicly confronted him.

~

    “Do you like me?” Bai Xue questioned Qin Wangzhi on the spot in front of hundreds of classmates in the big classroom.

    “…” Qin Wangzhi remained silent.

    “Please say it properly. You have written a love letter, but don’t dare to say it out loud.”

    “The toad wants to eat swan meat.” (t/n: metaphor for people who have no self-knowledge and are bent on finding things that are impossible to obtain)

    There were mocking or booing voices from the classmates around them.

    “It’s okay.” Bai Xue didn’t want to make him anxious and turned around.

    “I like you.” Qin Wangzhi, who was usually mute, suddenly confessed when Bai Xue was about to walk away, “Can you be my girlfriend?”

    “Okay!” Bai Xue has never regretted this answer but she felt guilty for a long time.

~

    “The scene at that time must have been very exciting.” Little Red Riding Hood could almost imagine it and wished that she could be there herself.

    “Yeah, very exciting. And then, we started to fall in love until we broke up.”

    “Break up… you are the one who suggested it?” Little Red Riding Hood asked.

    “It was an agreement. I had already agreed with him that we would break up after college.” Bai Xue said, “I only have one and a half years left and I can only spend a year with him. But until now, I still can’t forget about it. When we broke up, he looked at me like I owed him a lifetime.”

    “So…if I say yes, I’ll hurt him?” Little Red Riding Hood understood.

    “You will hurt yourself too, but that doesn’t matter.” Bai Xue said, “Love is something that is desirable. I don’t regret talking about that love, but I regret hurting him. So Little Red Riding Hood, think clearly and make a decision that you won’t regret.”

    Little Red Riding Hood was confused, hesitant, and annoyed. The always big-hearted woman suddenly hesitated. She sat alone in Bai Xue’s studio and thought for a long time, but in the end, she still felt that she doesn’t have it in her heart to harm anyone.

    Little Red Riding Hood took out her mobile phone and called Brother Wolf.

    “Why do you call me after I get off work? Do you want to invite me to dinner?” Brother Wolf asked.

    “Brother Wolf, I have something to tell you,” said Little Red Riding Hood.

    “Tell me during dinner, where are you, I’ll pick you up.” Brother Wolf saw that Little Red Riding Hood was so active in reciprocating his feeling, so he didn’t mind being a gentleman once.

    “No, I’m afraid I won’t be able to say it face to face.” Little Red Riding Hood quickly refused.

    “You can’t say it?” Brother Wolf asked suspiciously, “What’s the matter?”

    “I…I…” Little Red Riding Hood took a deep breath and finally decided to go straight to the point, “Brother Wolf, thank you for liking me and I’ve thought about it. But I can’t be with you, I’m sorry. After I call you, I will put your phone number and WeChat on the blacklist. We should not contact each other in the future. I wish for you to find a better girl than me. Goodbye!”

    Little Red Riding Hood finished saying what she was about to say like a machine gun, hung up the phone without hearing his response, and then blocked him on all social accounts.

    “…” This is Brother Wolf who was stunned on the spot.

    Crab wants to say, although this sentence is very cliche, at this moment, this is the sentence that can accurately express the emotion of Brother Wolf.

    Good woman, you managed to get my attention.

T/N:

This is just a rambling but the current fiancee of Qin Wangzhi is Du Pingguo. Pingguo here means apple and I just wanna say that Bai Xue’s (aka Snow White) love rival is a girl name Du Apple. lol. What a way to name your characters. Qin Wangzhi just means to gaze at her (loose translation) but is he suppose to be like the prince who gaze at snow white and kiss her later on. Most likely.

On another note, MC in this chapter kinda pissed me off a bit with her delusion lol… but what do I know how falling in love feels like. Overall, poor Du Pingguo, she just want to have a dress but accidentally got involved with her fiancee’s ex. Hahahha