Chapter 281 - Autumn Turned To Winter Unknowingly

Translator: Henyee Translations  Editor: Henyee Translations

“You can drop me off at the teahouse after you turn right at the front,” Yan Molun said lightly.

“You’re going to drink tea so late at night?” Changqing was shocked. She couldn’t tell that Yan Molun was such a refined person.

Yan Molun smiled lightly and didn’t speak.

When he arrived at the place, he opened the car door and got out.

After watching her leave, Yan Molun called Song Chuyi, who was all the way in Germany. “We handed the two dogs to her and we didn’t let Lin Yueli get a chance to talk to her.”

“Thanks for the hard work.” Song Chuyi’s voice came over from the other side with a soft laugh.

After Changqing returned to the Yan Household, the first thing she did was give Robben and Lolita a bath.

Dolling the two dogs up prettily was her responsibility.

Auntie Zhang also came over to help. When she saw the two dogs looking so disheveled, she frowned and clicked her tongue. “Men just don’t know how to take care of dogs as well as us women. Look, what have they become?”

Changqing agreed. Indeed, the dogs couldn’t be entrusted to Li Shaobin. If they had been with him for longer, Robben and Lolita would probably look so ugly she wouldn’t be able to recognize them.

After the refreshing bath, she blew the two dogs dry and even sprayed a little perfume on them.

The next day, when Changxin and Lin Yiqin came over for dinner and saw Robben and Lolita jumping around energetically, she asked, “Didn’t you send them away? Why did you summon them back again? Did you make up with Song Chuyi?”

Changqing explained the situation in which Song Chuyi’s mother was unconscious. “I was also… left with no choice but to bring them back.”

Changxin stroked Lolita’s head thoughtfully and lamented suddenly, “I feel that these two dogs are like your children with Song Chuyi. You’re becoming a mom in advance.”

“You’re the one who’s going to become a mom. Hmph. I’m just a pet-lover.” Changqing ignored her and turned away secretly.

However, Changqing didn’t expect Robben and Lolita to be in her house for several months without a single piece of news from their owner.

Autumn turned to winter unknowingly.

The weather got colder day by day. Changqing’s drama also aired in December. Although her scenes as the female lead at the start were pitiful compared to Zhao Zhu, her role was very well-liked by the audience which made her extremely popular.

There were also several directors who sent over their scripts and commercial offers but Changqing rejected all of them, only occasionally appearing as a cameo in some dramas or taking on a few commercials to earn some pocket money. However, Changqing’s fans on Weibo had already increased to more than 10 million.

Lolita, too, grew bigger than before.

Sometimes, when Changqing took them out for a walk, she would attract gazes but everyone only looked and didn’t dare to get close.

It was past 10 at night, at a warm barbequed fish shop.

Ruan Yang glanced at the two large dogs beside her who were wagging their tails and looking over. She sighed gently. “You keep taking these two large dogs with you everywhere—would any man dare to come close to you?”

“Exactly.” Jiang Duoyao quickly nodded. “Exactly. Not to mention just one, but you even take two out. Lolita is almost as big as Robben. She’s exactly like a wolfdog. If I wasn’t friends with you, I wouldn’t dare to come close to you.”

Changqing blinked innocently. “Is she very scary? I find Lolita pretty adorable.”

Jiang Duoyao and Ruan Yang exchanged gazes helplessly.

Changqing pouted. Actually, Changqing got Lolita because she was small and cute back then. She totally didn’t expect Lolita to grow to be so huge. However, it wasn’t very good if she was too small. If Robben pounced on the small Lolita with his big body…

Aiya, no way, that image was too obscene. She shouldn’t let her thoughts run wild.

“Do you still want to look for a partner?” Jiang Duoyao sighed.

“I’m not even divorced; how am I supposed to find one?” Changqing blinked.

“So… you two haven’t been in contact with each other at all?” Ruan Yang asked.

Changqing thought with a frown. “In any case, whenever I update my Weibo, he always comments.”

“I really don’t understand your world.” Jiang Duoyao shook her head. “You two are separated by miles and you don’t even call each other. You wouldn’t even know if he had a woman on the other side, yet here you are, taking care of his dogs like a fool. You can’t even find a match because of these two.”

Changqing, who was picking up some fish with her chopsticks, paused. She seemed to be stunned.

Yeah, does Song Chuyi have a woman there?

Men were too fickle. There were even men who could tell you they loved you one week and the next, they would be married to someone else.

Thinking about that, she suddenly felt as though there was a fishbone stuck in her throat, making her lose her appetite.

Ruan Yang glared at Jiang Duoyao and let out a soft cough. “He’s taking care of his mom in Germany; do you think he went there for a one-night stand or a holiday? Where would he have time to meet other women if he’s just staying at the hospital the whole day?”

“That’s true, but has his Mom regained consciousness yet?” Jiang Duoyao quickly nodded and agreed softly. After that, she glanced at Changqing.

Changqing started to help herself to the fish again but she was frowning slightly. She appeared to be unhappy.

“I’m not sure either…” Changqing shook her head. “I haven’t run into Li Shaobin or Chief Zhan.”

“I think you can give him a call to ask,” Jiang Duoyao said with a smile. “Just ask him when he’s coming back and say that Robben and Lolita are getting bigger and that it’s an inconvenience to you. Tell him to come back and take the dogs back.”

“What if he really takes them away?” Changqing looked at Robben and Lolita reluctantly, simply as though she couldn’t bear to part with her children.

Besides, now that it was winter, Robben and Lolita could finally wear the doggy clothes she bought for them. They were simply kawaii (1. cute in Japanese).

Ruan Yang and Jiang Duoyao exchanged glances once again. It seemed like Changqing could only be with someone who loved animals a lot in the future.

But it would probably be difficult to find a man who could accept two large dogs at the same time.

This Song Chuyi was simply too vicious.

After having the barbequed fish, Changqing was so bloated she felt a little uncomfortable.

She logged in to Weibo and chose a picture she took previously with Ruan Yang and Jiang Duoyao at the barbeque shop and uploaded it with the caption: Stuffed from having too much barbequed fish. How uncomfortable.

After coming out from the shower, she already had thousands of comments.

“Changqing Is My Goddess”: Wow, the three goddesses went for supper again. How blissful.

“Love Like Fire That Shakes The Earth”: Which barbequed fish shop is this? I want to go too, want to go, want to go. Goddess, please tell us where it is.

“Cheese Biscuit”: Goddess, go easy on the food; you seem to have gained a little weight recently.

Changqing read the comments for a while and when she didn’t see a comment from a certain someone, she switched her phone off and went to sleep.

When she used the washroom in the wee hours of the morning, she scrolled through her Weibo once again. She definitely didn’t scroll through Weibo because she wanted to see a comment from a certain someone. She simply wanted to see if there were any explosive news in the middle of the night.

In the end, there was nothing.

After that, she couldn’t fall asleep. She tossed and turned for more than an hour before finally falling asleep.

The next day, when she switched her phone on, she saw a comment from “delicate and beautiful 3”: Told you to not have supper so often. You always don’t listen no matter how many times I tell you.

His comment was drowned out by tens of thousands of comments and no one noticed it.

Changqing dissed him inside: I’m just not going to listen, just not going to listen.

When it was noon, Changqing went to the canteen with Zheng Yan after finishing work.

Zheng Yan said with a smile, “I had dinner with a few hosts last night and we were all talking about you. Now, you’re like the midday sun. Your drama made you so popular—you should take this chance to shoot more dramas. You’re not like the other hosts; you had professional training.”

“It’s too complicated on the production team. I’m not interested and I don’t want to be that popular either.” Changqing seemed frustrated. In the past, when she went shopping, she would basically just need to wear a mask to not be recognized. Now, even with a mask and cap, she would still get recognized and crowded around sometimes. “I’m doing fine as a host.”

“Aye, right, the station spent a large sum of money to buy the copyrights of a new overseas program called Escape, A Chance To Survive and it’s starting soon. I heard they’re going to use a female host this time and it might be between you and Chi Yining,” Zheng Yan said secretively. “This program is different from the ones we’ve had in the past. It received pretty good reviews from the public and there were a lot of people on the internet saying that they look forward to watching the program.”

Changqing nodded. Of course she knew about this program. Boss Feng brought up this program several times during the meetings the past couple of months. “I want to go too but I’m not really confident about it. I heard the program really tests one’s intellect. I won’t pass with my intellect.”

“Then you don’t know the truth; that’s just how the program’s structured. With a bunch of smart people on it, you definitely have to have a couple of not very smart people on it too, right? If everyone was smart, the program would be boring,” Zheng Yan said. “With your dumbness, you’ll definitely become popular. If Chi Yining were to be on it, she would probably just be making exposures here and there, crying and getting sympathy to make it onto the news. The audience would get so sick of it.”

Changqing was a little tempted from her encouragement.

Actually, she was a little bored of just hosting Challenge to the End and also wanted to try something different for a change.

After lunch, Changqing and Zheng Yan were waiting for the elevator to go up.

The elevator was a little slow at this time. Changqing lowered her head and played on her phone. When the elevator opened, Zheng Yan pulled her in.

When the door closed, Changqing lifted her head and she suddenly saw a shrewd man in a black suit standing behind her from the reflection of the elevator mirror in front of her.

She was stunned for a while. Those familiar features reminded her of Song Chuyi. When she regained her senses, those cold eyes were watching her from the mirror’s reflection, chilling her from head to toe.

Changqing shuddered silently. Seeing Song Chulang once again was simply like seeing a madman who had escaped from a mental hospital.

“Changqing, I’m getting off first.” The elevator stopped for a while on the 12th floor and Zheng Yan walked out since they didn’t work on the same floor.

The higher the elevator went up, the fewer people were inside. All of a sudden, there was only Changqing and Song Chulang left.

She shifted to the side a little subconsciously.

Song Chulang watched her gloomily. “It’s been a while.”

Changqing felt goosebumps all over and she stared quietly at a corner, refusing to look at him.

The elevator very quickly chimed on the 18th floor. Changqing got out quickly. Song Chulang used his hand to block the door from closing and said lightly behind her, “You must not have known that my mom woke up a few days ago. Chuyi and Yunyang have been living in Munich in Germany together.”