Starlight Has No Past - Chapter 36 Part 3

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



Starlight Has No Past
Chapter 36 Part 3

Noticing that Zhou Tingsheng hadn’t moved for a bit, Ye Qiao began to worry that she might have hurt his feelings. She slowly turned over to face him: “Actually……” and she forgot what she was going to say.
His gaze was like a cozy fire, instantly melting her heart. The uneasiness suddenly dissipated, like a drizzling sky that suddenly cleared up, letting the gentle moonlight shine down.
It was the best moonlight of the year.

Zhou Tingsheng quietly held his tender gaze at her fair and dewy face, lush and long eyelashes, and clear eyes. She shyly stared back. Everything looked just right to him. He reached over to pull her hair up; his fingertips trebled from the beating of his heart. He gently called her name: “Qiaoqiao.”

Warmth suddenly filled her heart and swelled till it overflowed to the rest of her body drying her suddenly tightened throat. She used to dislike people calling her Qiaoqiao, because only her close family use it. When people other than her family called her by that name, it would rouse a feeling of repulsion. But when he called her with his deep, tender voice, though it felt a little strange yet it also strangely felt right.

She gave light nasal sound: “En.”
His voice seemed to shake: “Let’s find a time to go to my home for dinner.”

Ye Qiao held her silence for a long time. She was well aware of the meaning behind his invitation, but she felt that if she agreed, it seemed too easy, that they weren’t taking it seriously. Ye Qiao felt a little regret that it seemed more difficult to act reserved given the way they used to interact between each other. She also still had lingering concerns about his promiscuous behavior. But she was a fatalistic person and found it difficult to make it harder for others, she decided to follow her own heart.

Zhou Tingsheng could tell from Ye Qiao’s expression that she had agreed. He had been anxiously waiting for her answer and it wasn’t easy for him to release his facial muscles to break into a smile: “Then the 15th next month?”
Ye Qiao pouted: “I have work on the 15th.”
“Then the 16th.”
“The 16th is work too.”
Zhou Tingsheng smiled bitterly: “You’re turning me down?”
Ye Qiao frustratedly said: “I really have to work those days.”
“Then you pick a day.”
Ye Qiao replied without thinking: “I only have time these couple of days.”
Zhou Tingsheng didn’t know what to think and fixed his gaze on her face to make sure she wasn’t joking: “Qiaoqiao.”

“En?”
“......” Zhou Tingsheng was quiet for quite a long time as if he’d lost the ability to express himself. His long arm reached over to hug Ye Qiao’s waist, smelling her familiar fragrance, and gave a deep breath of relief.
Circling by his arm, Ye Qiao suddenly said: “Zhou Tingsheng.”
“En?”
It was hard for her to say it. Ye Qiao stammered: “That day…...I didn’t……”

Though she had nothing to hide, some of the words were still hard for her to utter even if she prefaced each word with “no” and “never”, as if those negations weren’t enough to wipe clean the filthiness of each word.
Zhou Tingsheng understood and tightened his grip around her: “I know.”

Sometimes, the unspoken misunderstanding that entangled two people could be unravelled simply by one sentence. Grudges stemming from mistrust and past sins didn’t seem to matter at this moment. Ye Qiao discovered right then that she actually could be someone who lived for today.

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