Starlight Has No Past - Chapter 26 Part 1

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

Starlight Has No Past

Chapter 26 Part 1

On the evening they finished filming at the village, Gu Jin came to hand Ye Qiao a letter.

He came to Ye Qiao’s room by himself and handed her a vanilla envelope rather solemnly:
“Your family asked me to hand this to you. I didn’t have a chance to give it to you earlier.”

He had found Ye Qiao packing, putting her medicine bag and clothing into a little suitcase.
She didn’t have much to pack, but quietly folded her clothes over and over again. It reminded
Gu Jin when she would give him the silent treatment whenever they had a fight and wait for
him to apologize first. He would patiently wait till she couldn’t take it anymore and slapped
the door to go out so he would pay attention to her.

This time, however, despite waiting quietly, she spoke first, indifference in her voice:
“Just put it there.”

Gu Jin wasn’t prepared for that, but being always loyal to her father and stepmother, he
insisted: “Ms. Cheng hopes that you can open it with your own hands. You know the reason
that she didn’t mail it to you is that she’s worried that you won’t look at it.”

Ye Qiao put the clothes down and laughed, teasingly: “Do you have some sort of special
affection to anyone with the last name Cheng? Cheng Su’s only 37, not that much older
than you. Are you considering her too?”

Gu Jin frowned, but remained calm: “Qiaoqiao, you’ve gone too far.”

“Have I?” Ye Qiao grew bored of poking him.  She sat down on her bed: “Then let me have it.”

Gu Jin considerately unwinded the string sealing the opening, then handed it over. He stood
right in front of her, having no intention to leave just yet.

Ye Qiao treated him as if he were a plant and pulled out a stack of papers from the envelope.
Her eyes jumped to the dark bold word on the first page-----Will. She stuffed the papers back
into the envelope out of reflex.

Gu Jin asked: “What’s wrong?”

Ye Qiao tried to recollect herself and mocked him: “Aren’t you afraid that others will notice
that you’ve stayed in my room for such a long time? I don’t mind the gossip but it probably
won’t be good if Cheng Jiang hears about it?”

All of her sneering didn’t phase Gu Jin. He ignored her and continued: “You don’t have to
try to infuriate me. Your father has asked me to take good care of you and I won’t go back
on my own word.”

Ye Qiao couldn’t help but laugh: “Then, have you taken good care of me?”

She found it rather funny for someone who had betrayed their love to swear that he would
keep his promises. Maybe, it hadn’t been love between them in the first place.

Gu Jin didn’t answer and Ye Qiao grew tired of seeing him. She thought she was over her
disappointment in him but now she realized that underneath it all, there was resentment.
She couldn’t wait to sweep this person out of her world. Without paying any more attention
to him, she jerked the papers out of the envelope and looked over the various listings on
the papers. The focal point she had grasped was----- even if Cheng Su would have any
more children with her father, all of her father’s inheritance would go to her; even
Cheng Su herself wouldn’t get a penny out of it.

What was this? Was she declaring her loyalty to the love between them, that she wasn’t
staying with her father because of his fame and wealth? Was she using this declaration
as her asset to be proud and take the moral high ground in front of Ye Qiao?

So many thoughts flew through her brain that she became confused by it all. She was
abhorrent, but didn’t know who she was loathing. She was in denial, but didn’t know why.

Gu Jin stepped forward and called her name. His voice was buried by all the ideas
clamoring inside her brain.

Ye Qiao blocked Gu Jin’s hand as it reached over to her: “Your mission is completed.
You can leave now.”

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