Chapter 53. I heard that you are useless at singing and dancing? (16)

Shi Jiu told Qiao Qiao not to take too long to decide, and he ended up deciding really quickly.

At three o'clock in the morning, Shi Jiu was sound asleep.

In the darkness, a mobile phone suddenly made a piercing sound.

Shi Jiu woke up suddenly, the phone had been ringing for a minute and then hung up automatically, but it immediately started to ring again.

Shi Jiu: "..." 

Damn it, which bastard was it calling in the middle of the night!

She grabbed the phone and had a look.

The bastard was Qiao Qiao.

"Hello…"

 Qiao Qiao's voice sounded very excited.

"Sister, are you asleep?"

Shi Jiu: "..." 

At this point, do you think I'm still sleeping?, she thought.

"Sister, this script is good, I like it so much! I want to accept it!" "

“Yes, yes, but this drama is aimed at winning prizes. In other aspects... the box office may not be ideal. You should think carefully about it." She explained.

"Well, this story is really good, I like it very much. I hope that sister will take me to the audition." 

"Okay. If you’ve already thought it through."

“…”

"Qiao Qiao, let me also tell you something."

"What?"

"Next time you call, pick a more reasonable time to call. Don’t call when it's in the middle of the night. Your sister can't handle it. If you do it a few more times, I'll deduct your salary." 

"Ahem… Sorry sister, I'm just so excited, this story is really good. I even cried twice. Good dramas can’t be found easily, I’m afraid I won’t get my turn if I say it late.” 

This was still not a valid reason to call her in the middle of the night.

Shi Jiu stared at the ceiling blankly as she lay in bed.

"I'm afraid it will affect my life. I'm fine. I'll hang up. Don't tell me if you have something to do. I don't have time."

After leaving these words, Shi Jiu hung up the phone. To be on the safe side, she also turned off her mobile phone.

Even the arrival of the Heavenly King Lao Tzu* couldn’t stop her from continuing to sleep.

So sleepy… It's all that bastard's fault.

The next day, Shi Jiu went to the company with a pair of panda eyes.

She was woken up by that phone call from Qiao Qiao last night, but even after the phone was turned off, she still couldn't fall back asleep. She kept her eyes closed and tried to sleep, but she just couldn't.

Finally, she turned her phone back on, and then listened to an English class and Math class for an hour.

Afterwhich, she finally fell back asleep successfully. 

As a result, she had just fallen asleep when the alarm clock rang.

Seeing the dark circles under her eyes, Qiao Qiao felt guilty. He ran to the breakfast stall on the lower levels of the company and bought two eggs, saying that he would give them to her for her eyes.**

Shi Jiu: "..."

Shi Jiu took the eggs, but she didn't use them for her eyes, she was going to eat them instead.

Applying eggs to the eyes may not necessarily eliminate dark circles, so she would rather just eat them to make it worth its value.

She was in such a hurry this morning that she didn't even have time to eat breakfast.

"Sister, do you think I'm playing the lead role or the second lead?"

Shi Jiu peeled the eggshell, glanced at him and sighed.

Her sigh was purely a sigh, but Qiao Qiao misunderstood it.

"Could it be that I can only act as the third male lead?"

Shi Jiu paused for a while before turning her head to look at him.

"Sister, don't stare at me like this. I'm scared. Could it be that I can't even act as one of the male leads? If not, the male lead's father will be fine too. I really like this script..." 

Shi Jiu sighed heavily, handed him the other egg, and signaled him to peel it.

Qiao Qiao took the egg, "Sister, what do you mean by that?"

"Peel it quickly, and I'll tell you when it's done."

Shi Jiu didn't know if the egg was boiled well or not. She peeled it very hard, and the place where she peeled it was bumpy.

Her breakfast preparations were only half finished now.

In order to have breakfast earlier, Shi Jiu unceremoniously ordered Qiao Qiao to assist.

Qiao Qiao blinked, not quite understanding what his question had to do with the egg, but he still peeled it for her honestly.

He peeled it very quickly, and in the blink of an eye, an egg with no bumps or pits appeared in his hand.

He handed the peeled egg to Shi Jiu.

Seeing the white, tender and smooth egg in Qiao Qiao's hand, Shi Jiu fell into deep thought.

It must not be from the same pot of eggs. Otherwise, how could hers be so ugly and Qiao Qiao's so pretty?

*[Editor note: SD here. I googled “Heavenly King Lao Tzu” and this should be referring to Daode Tianzun (Chinese: 道德天尊; lit. 'The Heavenly Lord of Dao and its Virtue') also known as Taishang Laojun (Chinese: 太上老君; lit. 'The Supreme Venerable Sovereign') and Taiqing (太清, lit. the Grand Pure One) which is one of the Three Pure Ones, the highest divinities of Taoism. One of his incarnations was Laozi (Chinese: 老子), whose name is sometimes romanized as Lao Tzu, who is famous for being the author of the Tao Te Ching (simplified Chinese: 道德经; traditional Chinese: 道德經). This has been your historical fact of the day.]

**[SD again. Apparently you can apply egg whites to remove eye bags/dark circles. It’s an actual thing. I didn’t know this.]