After picking up Yan Xi’s phone call, Xie Ning huddled under his covers, dizzy and with a headache, and didn’t clearly hear Yan Xi for a period of time.
He pulled an all-nighter to finish a draft, and the client only responded in the morning. After confirming and finalizing the poster, he fell on his bed and slept like the dead.
The phone rang for a long time. Xie Ning, through his headache, rubbed his head, and when he came to his senses, said “What did you say? Can you say it again?”
Of course Yan Xi repeated it again. “You and Xu Qing broke up?”
“Oh,” Xie Ning replied, “We broke up.”
Yan Xi started to speak, then stopped.
Xie Ning glanced at the clock. It was 7pm. He’d slept the whole day away.
Yan Xi was silent for a long time. “How are you now?”
Xie Ning responded truthfully. “My head hurts a little. This sleep wasn’t very comfortable.”
“My stomach is uncomfortable too.” He hadn’t eaten anything all day, so he was hungry.
Yan Xi sighed. “Don’t think about it, and stay at home. I’ll be over soon.”
What is there to think about? Xie Ning randomly said “Then bring me dinner when you come.”
Xie Ning regained his senses on the bed for a little and crawled out of bed to change his clothes, wash his face, and brush his teeth. On the table next to his computer, there were various drawings messily spread around the desk. He finished cleaning, and went to the kitchen to heat up a cup of milk for himself.
His phone screen lit up, and he saw that he had dozens of missed calls.
Three from Yan Xi, and the rest were from Xu Qing.
Xie Ning took a sip of the hot milk, letting it warm his body up, and without hesitation, blocked Xu Qing.
There were also a couple text messages from Xu Qing.
[I was wrong.]
[Let’s not break up, okay?]
……
No.
Xie Ning cleared out his message inbox, and blocked Xu Qing on all other messaging platforms.
After doing all this, the doorbell rang.
Yan Xi indeed rushed like the wind to come, and brought a very light, white porridge.
The white porridge was so tasteless that Xie Ning said, “You couldn’t bring anything else, and brought such a bland one?”
Yan Xi looked at his expression. “I was afraid you’d have no appetite.”
Xie Ning had an appetite, a great one at that. He put the spoon down and went to the bedroom to grab a coat. “Forget it, let’s go out to eat.”
Yan Xi said, “I ate dinner already.”
“Then stay with me to eat another. Treat it like a midnight snack.”
On the way out, Yan Xi’s phone rang a couple times. He took it out, glanced at the caller ID, and declined the call.
“Who is it?” Xie Ning casually asked.
Yan Xi said, “A stupid cunt.”
Xie Ning said, “Don’t think I didn’t see the caller ID.” He didn’t purposely look at it, but he was all too familiar with the number, and could recognize the string of numbers at a glance. It was Xu Qing’s number.
Yan Xi smiled coldly. “Is he not a stupid cunt?”
Xie Ning thought about it, and couldn’t refute it.
Yan Xi was always biased against Xu Qing. Well, maybe it wasn’t a bias.
He sees Xu Qing as a playboy, carefree and a slacker, and isn’t worthy of Xie Ning at all.
Everyone around Xie Ning, not just Yan Xi, thought so as well.
But the two had been together for four years, and countless people had not been able to separate them, until now…
Whenever Yan Xi thought about it, his chest would hurt with anger. “Xu Qing, this scumbag player, he’s eating from the bowl but keeps looking at the pot! It’s good that you guys broke up; there’s a bunch of people with a crush on you, so there’s no need to hang onto that rotten tree!”
Xie Ning, following him, nodded. “Yes yes yes.”
Yan Xi glanced at him and sighed. “Your personality is just too docile. If it were me, I’d have kicked him farther than eighteen thousand kilometers.”
The personality of this good friend, in nicer words, is “Lets things go easily”, but in harsher words, is “Resigns himself to misfortune”.
Whatever you ask him, he would basically respond with “Whatever works”, “Whatever”, “Okay”, and occasionally, “What does it have to do with me?”
Yan Xi remembers that in college, Xie Ning had many admirers. The flower of the Arts Department confessed to him, saying a bunch of heartfelt and sincere things, and in the end, Xie Ning responded with a line: “Thank you for liking me, and you can like who you want, but what does it matter to me?”
The flower was so angered that she cried on the spot.
Later on, an admirer of the campus flower who was troubled by this event, found Xie Ning to try and reason with him. After he was done cursing, Xie Ning responded, “Does it have anything to do with you?”
If it was only this easy, then it would have been fine. Later on, when Xie Ning and Xu Qing were dating, and Yan Xi mentioned Xu Qing’s womanizing behavior, Xie Ning would also always have an attitude of “What’s it to me?”
When he thought of this, Yan Xi’s heart was troubled.
Xie Ning didn’t think he was docile himself; he just didn’t really care.
In this cold winter, when it was freezing outside, if it wasn’t for his lack of stock at home, Xie Ning wouldn’t have wanted to go out.
Who knew that it would even snow after they finished eating?
Christmas is on Friday, and many of the shops on either side of the street already had Christmas lights and decorations up.
Xie Ning thought of the draft he just finished drawing; it was a Christmas poster for a mobile game. He wasn’t the original artist they decided on, but the company wasn’t satisfied with the poster that the outsourced artist had produced. They floundered for a bit before finding Xie Ning, and gave him double the price for this urgent draft.
In the painting, the silver-ornamented Christmas tree and Santa Claus, with the playful game characters, are just like how the streets will be in a few days.
It’s rare for him to not have urgent work, so Xie Ning didn’t want to return so early and wanted to wander around some more. Yan Xi picked up a call that ended up being from his company, and hurriedly went back.
Xie Ning is different from him; Yan Xi’s family background is well-off, but his individual capability is also strong. After graduating, he started his own business and opened a game company, which can be considered a small achievement.
The streets were too cold, so Xie Ning walked into a shop instead. He regretted not wearing a couple more layers when coming out.
After wandering a couple laps, he finally stopped in front of a claw machine.
There was already someone in front of the claw machine, with their slender hands cupping the joystick. Xie Ning noticed that his sleeve cuffs and watch were not something normal people could afford.
He didn’t know how many coins the person had already put in, but he didn’t get it a single time. Angry, he kicked the claw machine once, complaining, “What is this?”
Xie Ning couldn’t help laughing once.
Hearing the laughter, he turned and glanced at Xie Ning. “What are you laughing at?”
Xie Ning couldn’t clearly see what he looked like, mainly because half his face was covered with a warm-looking scarf.
Xie Ning was a little envious.
Seeing that Xie Ning didn’t say anything, he backed up to give him some room. “You try to get it.”
Xie Ning shook his head. “I don’t have any coins.”
He said impatiently, “I do.”
Xie Ning was still hesitating, but he pulled Xie Ning to the front of the claw machine. “If you can’t grab it, I’ll eat the loss. If you grab a plushie, then it’s yours. That’s okay, right?”
Xie Ning wasn’t very interested in the plushie itself, but he likes the process of grabbing plushies, so he obediently placed his hands on the joystick.
He didn’t grab it the first time, and the man gave a retaliatory smile.
He grabbed it the second time; the claw rose into the air, shook a little, and the plushie fell down.
“What kind of damaged machine is this?” The man was even more upset than Xie Ning.
The third time, there were no more accidents, and the plushie was safely caught. It’s a rabbit.
“I guess you do have some skills.” The man bent over, took the rabbit out, and rubbed it a couple times, handing it to Xie Ning. “It looks pretty similar to you.”
Xie Ning looked at the rabbit, but didn’t see the resemblance.
“There are still some coins left.” The man continued, “You can use it to catch them all.”
Xie Ning had gotten a feel for this game, and caught three more plushies. He picked one randomly and handed it to the man. “I’ll give this to you.”
The man’s eyes showed some disdain, but he still took it. “What is this? A shark?”
“It’s a blue whale,” Xie Ning replied.
“I still have a lot of coins that I haven’t used. Do you still want to catch them?”
“No,” Xie Ning shook his head. “Even if I catch more, I can’t take them back. I have to return.”
The man made an “Oh” sound, and said, “Next time you go out, wear some more clothes.”
Xie Ning was puzzled. “Ah?”
He smiled mercilessly. “You’re so cold, your face is red.”
Xie Ning “......”
“Your ear tips, too,” he said, “Like a rabbit.”
Xie Ning suddenly had nothing to say.
……
When Zhuang Yan returned with a blue whale plushie, Qi Rui suspected that he was having an illusion because of the cold.
This market is one of Qi Rui’s family businesses. He came to conduct an inspection on behalf of the chairman, and brought along his good friend that just returned from overseas.
Halfway through the inspection, Zhuang Yan disappeared somewhere.
“What’s this?” Qi Rui was surprised. “I haven’t seen you in years, and your aesthetic has changed to this?”
Zhuang Yan frowned. “You think it’s ugly too, right?” After a pause, he said, “Someone gave it to me.”
Qi Rui said, “You’ve already wrapped your face like this, and can still attract bees and butterflies. That’s an ability.”
“It’s not like that…” Zhuang Yan was embarrassed to say that the ugly blue whale had cost him 100 coins. “An interesting person gave it to me.”
Qi Rui was curious. “Who was it? A guy or girl? What’d they look like?”
Zhuang Yan: “A guy, he looked…”
Zhuang Yan recalled for a moment. “Pretty good, I guess.”
Qi Rui: “There’s actually a day when you don’t have a harsh tongue?”
Qi Rui is familiar with Zhuang Yan’s conduct. He has high standards and is picky, and is currently in with the entertainment industry. There isn’t a beauty he hasn’t seen.
It is rare for Zhuang Yan to not be annoyed at Qi Rui.
He was still thinking of the person he just met. With a slender body, a good taste in clothes, an exquisite and pretty face, if you put him in the entertainment industry, he’d make people blush by just standing there.
The most important thing was, he was just his taste.
Zhuang Yan had been picky his whole life, and has gotten used to it. When he looks at people, there’s always something that’s off and doesn’t please his eyes, so his heart has never been moved by men or women.
When others asked him what type he likes, he couldn’t answer. But today, after seeing that person, Zhuang Yan suddenly knew that he likes this type.
Especially when he was red from the cold, cute and enticing. Two words inexplicably appeared in Zhuang Yan’s heart.
I want him.
But he can’t say this to Qi Rui, so it’s enough to just think it in his heart. It’s too frivolous if he says it out loud, like he’s cursing someone behind their back.
“Oh, right,” Zhuang Yan said, “I have a suggestion for this market of yours.”
Qi Rui became more spirited, ready to listen to his expert advice. “What suggestion?”
Zhuang Yan: “There aren’t enough claw machines.”
Qi Rui: “???”
Zhuang Yan: “You can add a couple more.”
……
Xie Ning had received a lot of “How are you”’s in the past couple days, and they all came to ask if he and Xu Qing had actually broken up.
Some were concerned for him, and some were only here for gossip. At first, he could manage, but he got annoyed later on.
“Yes, we broke up. Actually broke up. I’m certain. I’m not joking, we won’t get back together.” Xie Ning said this right as he picked up the phone to restrict questions.
Yan Xi was dumbfounded. “What are you talking about?”
“It’s you.” Xie Ning sighed in relief. “It’s nothing. A former class president called me just now, and I accidentally hung up on him. I thought it was him.”
Yan Xi replied, “Right, I got some news from a university classmate.”
Xie Ning: “What is it?”
Yan Xi said, “Zhuang Yan is back in China.”
Xie Ning paused for a moment. “Who’s Zhuang Yan?”
Yan Xi was silent for a few seconds.
“That one, the guy Xu Qing chased for several years, Zhuang Yan.”
Xie Ning rubbed his forehead, and only remembered Zhuang Yan after a while. “Oh, I remember now. Xu Qing’s unattainable white moonlight.”
Yan Xi’s voice came from the other end of the call. “Didn’t those foxy and bitchy friends of his gossip that Xu Qing only dated you because you were only a replacement for Zhuang Yan? Hah, they don’t do anything proper all day, and only know how to talk nonsense.”
Xie Ning said, “It isn’t all nonsense.”
Yan Xi: “Ah?”
Yan Xi, angrily, “That stupid cunt! He dares to use you as a substitute?”
As they were talking, the former class president’s call came in again.
Xie Ning: “I’m getting a call, let’s talk later.”
Yan Xi was still angrily cursing.
After Xie Ning finished the call with the former class president, he thought of what Yan Xi had just said.
Xu Qing’s white moonlight had returned to China.
Oh, but what does it have to do with him?
--------------------------------
Author’s Note: This story has finally started; it’s a sweet cookie, and shouldn’t be too long.
Translator's Notes:
this scumbag player - 渣男 seems to be translated as scumbag most of the time, but player fits better here.
he’s eating from the bowl but keeps looking at the pot - basically means that he's greedy even though he has enough
eighteen thousand kilometers - a saying that just means...very far! let me know if you'd like to know the origins or other meanings~
flower - prettiest/one of the prettiest girls on a university campus
stock - things in general, and in this case, probably meals, since they're going to eat
envious - of the scarf
I'll eat the loss - he says "if you can't catch it, it's mine" (literal translation), but he basically means he'll eat the loss so xie ning has nothing to worry about
attract bees and butterflies - attract...yes. what you're thinking about, probably LOL
What’d they look like? - this was said with the tone of "are they pretty/how good looking are they?"
I want him - 欠操 is the original, so it's two words; also, this can be read as "needs a f*cking". i'm so sorry if you're under 18...
white moonlight - "white moonlight" is a term for someone who's out of your reach, but always in your heart. it's a little long to translate, so i'll probably refer to it as just "white moonlight" from now on, unless i can think of another accurate term for it!
After picking up Yan Xi’s phone call, Xie Ning huddled under his covers, dizzy and with a headache, and didn’t clearly hear Yan Xi for a period of time.
He pulled an all-nighter to finish a draft, and the client only responded in the morning. After confirming and finalizing the poster, he fell on his bed and slept like the dead.
The phone rang for a long time. Xie Ning, through his headache, rubbed his head, and when he came to his senses, said “What did you say? Can you say it again?”
Of course Yan Xi repeated it again. “You and Xu Qing broke up?”
“Oh,” Xie Ning replied, “We broke up.”
Yan Xi started to speak, then stopped.
Xie Ning glanced at the clock. It was 7pm. He’d slept the whole day away.
Yan Xi was silent for a long time. “How are you now?”
Xie Ning responded truthfully. “My head hurts a little. This sleep wasn’t very comfortable.”
“My stomach is uncomfortable too.” He hadn’t eaten anything all day, so he was hungry.
Yan Xi sighed. “Don’t think about it, and stay at home. I’ll be over soon.”
What is there to think about? Xie Ning randomly said “Then bring me dinner when you come.”
Xie Ning regained his senses on the bed for a little and crawled out of bed to change his clothes, wash his face, and brush his teeth. On the table next to his computer, there were various drawings messily spread around the desk. He finished cleaning, and went to the kitchen to heat up a cup of milk for himself.
His phone screen lit up, and he saw that he had dozens of missed calls.
Three from Yan Xi, and the rest were from Xu Qing.
Xie Ning took a sip of the hot milk, letting it warm his body up, and without hesitation, blocked Xu Qing.
There were also a couple text messages from Xu Qing.
[I was wrong.]
[Let’s not break up, okay?]
……
No.
Xie Ning cleared out his message inbox, and blocked Xu Qing on all other messaging platforms.
After doing all this, the doorbell rang.
Yan Xi indeed rushed like the wind to come, and brought a very light, white porridge.
The white porridge was so tasteless that Xie Ning said, “You couldn’t bring anything else, and brought such a bland one?”
Yan Xi looked at his expression. “I was afraid you’d have no appetite.”
Xie Ning had an appetite, a great one at that. He put the spoon down and went to the bedroom to grab a coat. “Forget it, let’s go out to eat.”
Yan Xi said, “I ate dinner already.”
“Then stay with me to eat another. Treat it like a midnight snack.”
On the way out, Yan Xi’s phone rang a couple times. He took it out, glanced at the caller ID, and declined the call.
“Who is it?” Xie Ning casually asked.
Yan Xi said, “A stupid cunt.”
Xie Ning said, “Don’t think I didn’t see the caller ID.” He didn’t purposely look at it, but he was all too familiar with the number, and could recognize the string of numbers at a glance. It was Xu Qing’s number.
Yan Xi smiled coldly. “Is he not a stupid cunt?”
Xie Ning thought about it, and couldn’t refute it.
Yan Xi was always biased against Xu Qing. Well, maybe it wasn’t a bias.
He sees Xu Qing as a playboy, carefree and a slacker, and isn’t worthy of Xie Ning at all.
Everyone around Xie Ning, not just Yan Xi, thought so as well.
But the two had been together for four years, and countless people had not been able to separate them, until now…
Whenever Yan Xi thought about it, his chest would hurt with anger. “Xu Qing, this scumbag player, he’s eating from the bowl but keeps looking at the pot! It’s good that you guys broke up; there’s a bunch of people with a crush on you, so there’s no need to hang onto that rotten tree!”
Xie Ning, following him, nodded. “Yes yes yes.”
Yan Xi glanced at him and sighed. “Your personality is just too docile. If it were me, I’d have kicked him farther than eighteen thousand kilometers.”
The personality of this good friend, in nicer words, is “Lets things go easily”, but in harsher words, is “Resigns himself to misfortune”.
Whatever you ask him, he would basically respond with “Whatever works”, “Whatever”, “Okay”, and occasionally, “What does it have to do with me?”
Yan Xi remembers that in college, Xie Ning had many admirers. The flower of the Arts Department confessed to him, saying a bunch of heartfelt and sincere things, and in the end, Xie Ning responded with a line: “Thank you for liking me, and you can like who you want, but what does it matter to me?”
The flower was so angered that she cried on the spot.
Later on, an admirer of the campus flower who was troubled by this event, found Xie Ning to try and reason with him. After he was done cursing, Xie Ning responded, “Does it have anything to do with you?”
If it was only this easy, then it would have been fine. Later on, when Xie Ning and Xu Qing were dating, and Yan Xi mentioned Xu Qing’s womanizing behavior, Xie Ning would also always have an attitude of “What’s it to me?”
When he thought of this, Yan Xi’s heart was troubled.
Xie Ning didn’t think he was docile himself; he just didn’t really care.
In this cold winter, when it was freezing outside, if it wasn’t for his lack of stock at home, Xie Ning wouldn’t have wanted to go out.
Who knew that it would even snow after they finished eating?
Christmas is on Friday, and many of the shops on either side of the street already had Christmas lights and decorations up.
Xie Ning thought of the draft he just finished drawing; it was a Christmas poster for a mobile game. He wasn’t the original artist they decided on, but the company wasn’t satisfied with the poster that the outsourced artist had produced. They floundered for a bit before finding Xie Ning, and gave him double the price for this urgent draft.
In the painting, the silver-ornamented Christmas tree and Santa Claus, with the playful game characters, are just like how the streets will be in a few days.
It’s rare for him to not have urgent work, so Xie Ning didn’t want to return so early and wanted to wander around some more. Yan Xi picked up a call that ended up being from his company, and hurriedly went back.
Xie Ning is different from him; Yan Xi’s family background is well-off, but his individual capability is also strong. After graduating, he started his own business and opened a game company, which can be considered a small achievement.
The streets were too cold, so Xie Ning walked into a shop instead. He regretted not wearing a couple more layers when coming out.
After wandering a couple laps, he finally stopped in front of a claw machine.
There was already someone in front of the claw machine, with their slender hands cupping the joystick. Xie Ning noticed that his sleeve cuffs and watch were not something normal people could afford.
He didn’t know how many coins the person had already put in, but he didn’t get it a single time. Angry, he kicked the claw machine once, complaining, “What is this?”
Xie Ning couldn’t help laughing once.
Hearing the laughter, he turned and glanced at Xie Ning. “What are you laughing at?”
Xie Ning couldn’t clearly see what he looked like, mainly because half his face was covered with a warm-looking scarf.
Xie Ning was a little envious.
Seeing that Xie Ning didn’t say anything, he backed up to give him some room. “You try to get it.”
Xie Ning shook his head. “I don’t have any coins.”
He said impatiently, “I do.”
Xie Ning was still hesitating, but he pulled Xie Ning to the front of the claw machine. “If you can’t grab it, I’ll eat the loss. If you grab a plushie, then it’s yours. That’s okay, right?”
Xie Ning wasn’t very interested in the plushie itself, but he likes the process of grabbing plushies, so he obediently placed his hands on the joystick.
He didn’t grab it the first time, and the man gave a retaliatory smile.
He grabbed it the second time; the claw rose into the air, shook a little, and the plushie fell down.
“What kind of damaged machine is this?” The man was even more upset than Xie Ning.
The third time, there were no more accidents, and the plushie was safely caught. It’s a rabbit.
“I guess you do have some skills.” The man bent over, took the rabbit out, and rubbed it a couple times, handing it to Xie Ning. “It looks pretty similar to you.”
Xie Ning looked at the rabbit, but didn’t see the resemblance.
“There are still some coins left.” The man continued, “You can use it to catch them all.”
Xie Ning had gotten a feel for this game, and caught three more plushies. He picked one randomly and handed it to the man. “I’ll give this to you.”
The man’s eyes showed some disdain, but he still took it. “What is this? A shark?”
“It’s a blue whale,” Xie Ning replied.
“I still have a lot of coins that I haven’t used. Do you still want to catch them?”
“No,” Xie Ning shook his head. “Even if I catch more, I can’t take them back. I have to return.”
The man made an “Oh” sound, and said, “Next time you go out, wear some more clothes.”
Xie Ning was puzzled. “Ah?”
He smiled mercilessly. “You’re so cold, your face is red.”
Xie Ning “......”
“Your ear tips, too,” he said, “Like a rabbit.”
Xie Ning suddenly had nothing to say.
……
When Zhuang Yan returned with a blue whale plushie, Qi Rui suspected that he was having an illusion because of the cold.
This market is one of Qi Rui’s family businesses. He came to conduct an inspection on behalf of the chairman, and brought along his good friend that just returned from overseas.
Halfway through the inspection, Zhuang Yan disappeared somewhere.
“What’s this?” Qi Rui was surprised. “I haven’t seen you in years, and your aesthetic has changed to this?”
Zhuang Yan frowned. “You think it’s ugly too, right?” After a pause, he said, “Someone gave it to me.”
Qi Rui said, “You’ve already wrapped your face like this, and can still attract bees and butterflies. That’s an ability.”
“It’s not like that…” Zhuang Yan was embarrassed to say that the ugly blue whale had cost him 100 coins. “An interesting person gave it to me.”
Qi Rui was curious. “Who was it? A guy or girl? What’d they look like?”
Zhuang Yan: “A guy, he looked…”
Zhuang Yan recalled for a moment. “Pretty good, I guess.”
Qi Rui: “There’s actually a day when you don’t have a harsh tongue?”
Qi Rui is familiar with Zhuang Yan’s conduct. He has high standards and is picky, and is currently in with the entertainment industry. There isn’t a beauty he hasn’t seen.
It is rare for Zhuang Yan to not be annoyed at Qi Rui.
He was still thinking of the person he just met. With a slender body, a good taste in clothes, an exquisite and pretty face, if you put him in the entertainment industry, he’d make people blush by just standing there.
The most important thing was, he was just his taste.
Zhuang Yan had been picky his whole life, and has gotten used to it. When he looks at people, there’s always something that’s off and doesn’t please his eyes, so his heart has never been moved by men or women.
When others asked him what type he likes, he couldn’t answer. But today, after seeing that person, Zhuang Yan suddenly knew that he likes this type.
Especially when he was red from the cold, cute and enticing. Two words inexplicably appeared in Zhuang Yan’s heart.
I want him.
But he can’t say this to Qi Rui, so it’s enough to just think it in his heart. It’s too frivolous if he says it out loud, like he’s cursing someone behind their back.
“Oh, right,” Zhuang Yan said, “I have a suggestion for this market of yours.”
Qi Rui became more spirited, ready to listen to his expert advice. “What suggestion?”
Zhuang Yan: “There aren’t enough claw machines.”
Qi Rui: “???”
Zhuang Yan: “You can add a couple more.”
……
Xie Ning had received a lot of “How are you”’s in the past couple days, and they all came to ask if he and Xu Qing had actually broken up.
Some were concerned for him, and some were only here for gossip. At first, he could manage, but he got annoyed later on.
“Yes, we broke up. Actually broke up. I’m certain. I’m not joking, we won’t get back together.” Xie Ning said this right as he picked up the phone to restrict questions.
Yan Xi was dumbfounded. “What are you talking about?”
“It’s you.” Xie Ning sighed in relief. “It’s nothing. A former class president called me just now, and I accidentally hung up on him. I thought it was him.”
Yan Xi replied, “Right, I got some news from a university classmate.”
Xie Ning: “What is it?”
Yan Xi said, “Zhuang Yan is back in China.”
Xie Ning paused for a moment. “Who’s Zhuang Yan?”
Yan Xi was silent for a few seconds.
“That one, the guy Xu Qing chased for several years, Zhuang Yan.”
Xie Ning rubbed his forehead, and only remembered Zhuang Yan after a while. “Oh, I remember now. Xu Qing’s unattainable white moonlight.”
Yan Xi’s voice came from the other end of the call. “Didn’t those foxy and bitchy friends of his gossip that Xu Qing only dated you because you were only a replacement for Zhuang Yan? Hah, they don’t do anything proper all day, and only know how to talk nonsense.”
Xie Ning said, “It isn’t all nonsense.”
Yan Xi: “Ah?”
Yan Xi, angrily, “That stupid cunt! He dares to use you as a substitute?”
As they were talking, the former class president’s call came in again.
Xie Ning: “I’m getting a call, let’s talk later.”
Yan Xi was still angrily cursing.
After Xie Ning finished the call with the former class president, he thought of what Yan Xi had just said.
Xu Qing’s white moonlight had returned to China.
Oh, but what does it have to do with him?
--------------------------------
Author’s Note: This story has finally started; it’s a sweet cookie, and shouldn’t be too long.
Translator's Notes:
this scumbag player - 渣男 seems to be translated as scumbag most of the time, but player fits better here.
he’s eating from the bowl but keeps looking at the pot - basically means that he's greedy even though he has enough
eighteen thousand kilometers - a saying that just means...very far! let me know if you'd like to know the origins or other meanings~
flower - prettiest/one of the prettiest girls on a university campus
stock - things in general, and in this case, probably meals, since they're going to eat
envious - of the scarf
I'll eat the loss - he says "if you can't catch it, it's mine" (literal translation), but he basically means he'll eat the loss so xie ning has nothing to worry about
attract bees and butterflies - attract...yes. what you're thinking about, probably LOL
What’d they look like? - this was said with the tone of "are they pretty/how good looking are they?"
I want him - 欠操 is the original, so it's two words; also, this can be read as "needs a f*cking". i'm so sorry if you're under 18...
white moonlight - "white moonlight" is a term for someone who's out of your reach, but always in your heart. it's a little long to translate, so i'll probably refer to it as just "white moonlight" from now on, unless i can think of another accurate term for it!
