Starlight Has No Past - Chapter 38 Part 3

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



Starlight Has No Past
Chapter 38 Part 3

They were near their apartment. Zhou Tingsheng asked: “Are you hungry? What do want to eat tonight?”
“I don’t feel like eating out tonight.” Ye Qiao had been in the car for most of the day and was rather exhausted. “Isn’t there a supermarket at the front? Buy some groceries there and go back and cook for me…...I’ve known you for so long and have only had one meal of dog food at your place.”
Zhou Tingsheng couldn’t stop laughing. He boasted that the dog food he made couldn’t be found anywhere else and she was the only person who had tasted it. Ye Qiao slapped him.
Even though there wasn’t any force behind the slap, Zhou Tingsheng still got off the car in frustration: “Can’t you change this habit?”
Ye Qiao held her head up, her way of saying no, and complained about his inconsistency: “Didn’t you say you don’t care.”
Zhou Tingsheng couldn’t argue since he had made the promise.

After they walked into the supermarket, Ye Qiao suddenly thought about something and asked him: “You’ve been out of town for so long, where are Desa and Ophelia?”
“Rest assured, they won’t go hungry.” Zhou Tingsheng looked down to pick out a fish. “When I was in Yang City, I let Wuzi help take care of them. This time, I left in a hurry and I put them at a friend’s place in G City.”
“What friend?” She found it difficult to believe that Zhou Tingsheng had friends in this city. He always seemed to be by himself.
Zhou Tingsheng hesitated for a moment before answering: “It’s a student sponsored by the Zhou family. She happens to live here and likes to keep pets very much. So I left them with her.”

Ye Qiao picked out a bream and let the fishmonger weigh it: “It’s quite a lot of trouble to keep two pets. Did her parents agree to it?”
Zhou Tingsheng took the wrapped fish, now with a price tag, and put it into the shopping cart: “Both of her parents have passed away. She lives by herself.”
Ye Qiao paused a moment: “That’s a pity.”
“En.” Zhou Tingsheng perfunctorily answered as if he didn’t want to continue the topic: “What else do you want to eat?”

Ye Qiao looked around: “Buy some vegetables. No point buying meat since you can’t eat it.”
“It’s alright. I’ll watch you eat.” A smile began to spread across his face. Both of them were trying to accommodate the other. In the end, the only meat they brought back was all seafood. After the supermarket, she also went to the neighboring mall to buy a new cell phone and a new wallet. Then they went to get a sim card from the telecom center for the new phone before they returned home with a handful of bags.

When they were back at their floor, Ye Qiao changed the security password on her door back to  the same one as Zhou Tingsheng’s. Afterwards, she found it to be rather unnecessary and pretentiously announced: “Why don’t I just move in with you. We can spare one apartment.”
Zhou Tingsheng certainly had no objection to it. But Ye Qiao quickly changed her mind.
But to make dinner, she still had to go to his place since Ye Qiao only used her kitchen to cook frozen food. Zhou Tingsheng brought all the groceries to his apartment and storing them in his refrigerator. Ye Qiao on the other hand picked up a bunch of packages from the doorman. She sat in his living room, opening the packages one by one. In the middle of it, she went to take her new phone out of the box and inserted the sim card. As soon as she got on WeChat, several hundreds of messages jumped out.

The most recent one was from Wen Shaoqian. After the incident on the ship, she was surprised he could still calmly apologize to her and express his sincerity to continue being friends with her. Ye Qiao brushed it aside, not responding to it.
What followed were well wishes for the Autumn Festival from Zheng Xishuo and other friends. She selectively sent a few of them responses. Finally, she clicked open Shen Ting’s message. It was about things she had to be careful of the ending scene of <The Watcher> and that she had to go to film the next day in G City. It was a scene with fire, Ye Qiao mindfully paid extra attention to the details and reread the message before replying: “Got it.”

It was because of this scene that she had come back to G City. She couldn’t keep her promise to go to Zhou Tingsheng’s family gathering.
Ye Qiao felt sorry about it and turned to look at the man who was busy in the open kitchen. He had casually rolled up his shirt sleeves and was cutting the potato into perfectly sized strips. As if he had sensed her gaze, he turned all of a sudden and smiled at her.
His eyes were sparkling like the bright and tranquil Milky Way; she felt like turning herself into a star and placing herself in that Milky Way forever.

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