You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 90 Part 2

Translated by Team DHH at http://dhh-workshop.blogspot.com.



You’re Beautiful When You Smile
Chapter 90 Part 2

Tong Yao nervously stared at her friend, Jinyang, as she lowered her head to get closer to the camera, giving herself a close-up: [I know you all are especially interested in me and have a lot of opinions about me. I’ve seen all those sincere wishes on Weibo. First of all, I have to reply to Rainbow Team, those Roger Vivier shoes aren’t fake. They are all from brand boutiques at various locations that I carried back home with my own hard working hands-- --Furthermore, don’t just bother with those small items. Look at this.]

She dangled a Maserati car key which she just pulled out of her pocket in front of the camera.

Then she used her long, lean fingertips to pick up Ai Jia’s chin and kissed him on the side of his cheek: [Our Ai Jia gave me this on double 11 last year as my anniversary gift. Aren’t you all happy now?][1]

The color drained from Ai Jia’s face.

Tong Yao’s face turned to the same color as Ai Jia.

Other people would avoid being involved in such a public opinion storm. But Tong Yao’s undaunted friend went head-on to meet the storm and in the meantime, even pulled public opinion towards a new direction-- --

Tong Yao had to take her hat off to her.

Tong Yao used one hand to support her forehead as she watched her best friend deliberately complicate the situation. After she was satisfied with what she wanted to achieve, she grabbed the car key in her hand and said: “Carry on, guys.” She stuffed Ah Mao back to its cat nest and headed out on her high heels without looking back-- --

Ai Jia was left in front of the camera in a daze and tried to fruitlessly explain: [You guys, don’t listen to her. Do you know how much that car costs? I can’t afford to buy it for her even if you sell me for it! She’s just having some fun……]

It was a futile attempt.

After Jinyang left the club next door, Tong Yao logged on to Tieba and found there were indeed some retards who believed what she had said: [Damn, big gossip! Ai Jia’s girlfriend admitted herself that Ai Jia had bought her a Maserati!]

Most of the comments underneath were excited about the news. There were only a few who doubted it: “Usually, professional league players earn on average between 20K to 80K a month. That car key looks like the newest Ghibli series, same as Lu Sicheng’s. How could Ai Jia afford to buy it?” But these kind of sensible voices were soon buried under the ocean of craziness……

Some people even laughed at Jinyang as a dork who could only make things worse for herself.

Tong Yao sighed. She quietly changed her WeChat note on Jinyang’s account to “Night time angler - the crazy fisherman” to show her respect.

……

Tong Yao tossed and turned in bed till after 1 am and still couldn’t fall asleep. Her brain was busy with all sorts of thoughts. She thought about Jinyang and Ai Jia, as well as herself and Lu Sicheng. At some point, she even thought maybe she had committed an inexcusable sin-- --When it was closed to 1:30 am, her cell phone lit up. Lu Sicheng who was still playing downstairs sent a WeChat message asking her whether she had gone to sleep yet.

Tong Yao hesitated for a moment then sent him an emoji with the caption: Not yet.

A few minutes later, someone knocked on her door. Tong Yao jumped off the bed and ran over to open the door with her slippers on. She opened the door ajar and Lu Sicheng stuffed a bottle of water through the opening.

Tong Yao: “? ? ?”

“I told them that you asked me to bring some water to you.” As he was talking, Lu Sicheng squeezed into Tong Yao’s room through the crack in the door. He didn’t close the door but lowered his voice to ask Tong Yao, who was currently looking up at him: “Why aren’t you asleep yet?”

Tong Yao was staring at him with her big round eyes. Lu Sicheng lifted his hand, he was actually thinking of embracing Tong Yao in his arms-- --But he didn’t do it after a short hesitation as if he was afraid of scaring her away. He didn’t want to get fired while still on his probation period. His big hand finally landed on her head and he ruffled her hair……

“That chat you had with the ad next door tonight got screenshotted and put online by someone.” Tong Yao used both hands to grab his hand to prevent him from messing up her hair. Yet she didn’t let go of his hand, despite having pulled it down from her head. “Now it seems that everyone knows that the clubs are reshaping how they manage their players. It’s said that even the management at Qing Dynasty has made major shake ups as well……”

“Oh.” Lu Sicheng casually leaned against the door frame and held Tong Yao’s hand. He kept squeezing Tong Yao’s palm and the back of her hand as if he was addicted to her hand. Then he indifferently said: “Isn’t that a good thing?”

“What’s so good about it!”

Tong Yao pulled back her hand, now a little red from the squeezing.

“Why isn’t it good?”

Lu Sicheng lazily grabbed Tong Yao’s hand back.

“It’s gone a bit too far.” Tong Yao made a hmph sound through her nose: “Now they even want to interfere with players who have normal relationships. They said that Jinyang lives off Ai Jia and hangs out at the base all the time keeping Ai Jia from his training. A living example of a tramp!”

“Doesn’t your friend have the same car as mine?” Lu Sicheng stopped squeezing Tong Yao’s hand and lifted his eyelids to glance at her: “Ai Jia’s yearly pay can only pay for the maintenance and gas.”

“They don’t know that!”

“...............................They don’t know that but I know it.” Lu Sicheng frustratedly said: “Why are you huffing and puffing at me for?”



[1]: November 11th (11/11) is like the Chinese equivalent of Cyber Monday.

Translated by Team DHH at http://dhh-workshop.blogspot.com.