Starlight Has No Past
Chapter 35 Part 3
Ye Qiao unlocked the door and was stunned.
The man at the door gently smiled at her, despite the fact that his clothes were soaked through. It was Zhou Tingsheng.
He was still wearing the same clothes, now half dry and half wet. There were two boxes of mooncakes in his hand. The mooncakes were from a famous bakery with a hundred year history. It was usually very difficult to get their mooncakes this time of the year, Ye Qiao wondered how he acquired them, especially at this time of the day..
Ye Qiao hastily pushed Zhou Tingsheng out of the doorway. It was completely dark by now. Zhou Tingsheng leaned against the wall and prepared to be interrogated: “What are you doing here?”
Zhou Tingsheng raised the boxes in his hand up: “To deliver mooncakes to you.”
Ye Qiao grit her teeth: “I didn’t ask about that.”
He played dumb: “Then what are you asking?”
Ye Qiao gave up: “Where did you get the mooncakes?”
Zhou Tingsheng answered honestly this time: “I got them from home. My mom used to love their mooncakes. My family always orders mooncakes from them every year.”
Ye Qiao didn’t know what else to say. She touched his wet shoulder and frowned: “Then why didn’t you change your clothes at home?”
Zhou Tingsheng smiled: “I forgot.”
Ye Zhiliang looked at the door and wondered aloud: “What’s going on? Why hasn’t she invited the guest in. Instead she walked out herself.”
Ye Qiao’s aunt had sharp eyes and already noticed the young man at the door. She turned to question Qianxi: “What’s going on? Do you know who that is?”
Qianxi recoiled in her chair with an innocent expression and used both of her hands to cover her mouth: “I don’t know, I don’t know! I won’t tell you even if I have to die!”
The old lady turned to face her and slowly said: “Xixi, be a good girl and tell grandma who’s outside?”
“......” Qianxi couldn’t take the pressure from being stared at by several pairs of eyes and finally confessed: “I’m not exactly sure. I only took a glance at him and he looks familiar. He’s probably her…...boyfriend?”
She was telling the truth when she said ‘probably.’ All she knew was that this man seemed to have a relationship with her cousin and that her cousin seemed to have met someone she liked lately. She drew her conclusion simply based on these two points.
The older generation in the room, however, all overlooked the word ‘probably'. Ye Zhiliang sternly scolded her: “Why haven’t you told us that your cousin has a boyfriend?”
Qianxi: “......” She thought: What does that have anything to do with me! I won’t tell you about my boyfriend myself!
Qianxi’s mother asked again: “If that’s her boyfriend, why isn’t he coming with your cousin?”
Qianxi: “Ah……” How would she know!
The old lady sighed: “Qiaoqiao can be sulky sometimes and always needs others to sweet-talk her. He’s already come here, invite him in, hurry.”
Qianxi: “Urr......” She was amazed at her family's imagination.
Before Qianxi could say anything, her father already went over to open the door.
The porch lights came on. The two people in the dark outside the door were at a loss of what to do.
Ye Zhiliang noticed Ye Qiao’s uneasiness on her stern face and took it as the sign that she was giving the man a difficult time. Ye Zhiliang amiably said: “Why are you talking with the guest here? It’s raining outside, invite your friend in already.”
Translated by Team DHH at http://dhh-workshop.blogspot.com.
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