"You told me to confront her, but you couldn't help at all. Stop stirring things up in the future." Tang Wenya got angry as soon as she heard this and retorted to the system, "If you're so good, you do it."
The system is there to assist the female protagonist, not to lead her.
But what does it do? It just stirs up trouble.
"I'll go then." The system quickly searched and said, "Strike the snake at its vital point, and you have to hit the sore spot when you're going to argue with someone. Gao Yang just came to see Xiao Tingshen and told him about the storm at sea. Tell Xu Qingning about it. As long as she's worried about Zhao Jingyu, we've won."
Zhao Jingyu's ship has indeed encountered storms these past two days.
Moreover, everyone on the ship is currently battling the wind and waves, and the situation is quite serious.
“Sister, I don’t want to argue with you today. We’re sisters, but there’s something I need to tell you. Zhao Jingyu’s ship encountered a storm at sea, and there’s still no news of him.” Tang Wenya then remembered what Gao Yang had told Xiao Tingshen about this, and looked at Xu Qingning with schadenfreude. “If you don’t believe me, you can ask Wang Yaqiang and Liu Dawei.”
"It's normal to encounter storms at sea, you don't need to tell me that." Xu Qingning didn't believe Tang Wenya's words at all, and didn't want to talk to her about these irrelevant things. She picked up the basin, turned around and left.
“Sister, I’m telling the truth.” Tang Wenya called out to her, her tone becoming sincere. “We may argue and fight, but I wouldn’t lie about something like this. If you don’t believe me, you can go to the company tomorrow and ask around. Something really did happen at sea. I’m doing this for your own good.”
"Sister, if you really care about me, you should keep it from me, shouldn't you?" Xu Qingning sneered. "Anyway, we're enemies for life, so let's just be open about it and stop playing these tricks."
"I've been playing my cards right all along!" Tang Wenya washed her hands, dried them with a towel, and said lightly, "I've said it before, I'm the female lead, and you're just a cannon fodder supporting character. Even if you win over Luo Yao, so what? That's just an insignificant side story. Don't think that just because you have an advantage for a moment, you can control the plot. At least, you can't control the plot on Zhao Jingyu's side."
"Just focus on being the leading lady; our business is none of your concern." Xu Qingning walked away without looking back.
The main storyline has long since fallen apart.
If even the female lead, Tang Wenya, can't control it, how could she possibly control it?
Besides, why would she want to control the plot?
For her, the hidden plot was her biggest advantage, but Tang Wenya was unaware of the surprises it held.
At nine o'clock in the evening, Wu Yong brought Luo Yao over. Luo Yao didn't have much luggage, just two small bags containing some clothes and daily necessities.
Yang Yuelan had already cleared two empty spaces in the wardrobe for her to put her luggage in, and said warmly to Luo Yao, "The kang is spacious, you can stay in the same room with me. The bedding is all newly made, I've made it for you."
"Thank you, Auntie." Luo Yao looked at the neatly arranged bedding and felt very touched. Although she didn't want to move in, she had no choice but to stay.
Yang Yuelan prepared separate bedding for Luo Yao and let her sleep on the other side of the kang (a heated brick bed).
After lying down, both of them felt a little awkward.
Yang Yuelan didn't know what to say, and Luo Yao was too embarrassed to speak. After a while, she fell into a deep sleep.
Xu Qingning, however, suffered from insomnia.
I tossed and turned, unable to sleep.
The moment I closed my eyes, all I could see was the roaring sea and the rocking deck. Had Zhao Jingyu's ship really encountered a storm?
No, it won't happen.
How can we believe Tang Wenya's words?
The moonlight, bright and clear, dappled through the new yellow-green curtains. She stretched out her hand, watching the moonlight dance on it, and silently prayed, "He'll be alright..."
Perhaps her emotions affected the baby, because the little one in her belly kicked her without hesitation, so decisively and powerfully.
Xu Qingning subconsciously touched her belly, comforting the little one: "Your dad will be alright, he will definitely come back safely."
During the days he was at sea, she ate and slept without a care in the world, and didn't think about him much.
To her, Zhao Jingyu was simply the monthly salary she received, the voice on the other end of the phone, the strong handwriting on the letter, and the father of the child in her womb.
She was the only one who didn't treat him as her husband.
If she considers him her man, how could she not miss him?
She hadn't thought about him at all during the long time he'd been gone.
On the contrary, I felt great having a bed all to myself.
But he always treated her as his wife. Even during the time he was at home, his care and tolerance for her were still vivid in his mind.
As she thought about it, she remembered his warm embrace and his passionate kisses, and her face involuntarily flushed.
In fact, the only tender moment between the two described in the book was only briefly mentioned, and she had no memory of it.
That intense feeling of suffocation was all in her own imagination.
When she first approached him, the characteristics she described about him were things she had read about in a book, not things she had actually seen with her own eyes.
After she married him, she slept in the same bed with him for so many days, yet she didn't notice the black mole on his chest, let alone whether he had a red mole on his buttocks.
She couldn't bear to look at him... Besides, he didn't sleep naked.
After tossing and turning for a while, Xu Qingning finally fell into a deep sleep.
In her dream, Zhao Jingyu returned and hugged her as soon as he entered the door. She looked up at him and finally breathed a sigh of relief, saying happily, "You're finally back."
"I came back because I missed you." Zhao Jingyu lowered his head and kissed her. She hesitated for a moment, but still responded passionately. It was good that he was back.
She felt happy and safe being held by him.
The next second, Zhao Jingyu pushed her away: "I should go."
"You're leaving so soon after you get back?" Xu Qingning asked, puzzled, and held onto him tightly. "I'm due to give birth in a little over three months. You can't leave. You have to stay with me. I only feel safe when you're here."
“I’ll come back when you give birth.” Zhao Jingyu’s gaze towards her instantly turned unfamiliar, cold and indifferent. “Anyway, you don’t treat me as your man. I’m just the father of your child.”
In the next scene, Zhao Jingyu disappears.
"Zhao Jingyu..." Xu Qingning ran, searching everywhere for him, "Zhao Jingyu, come back!"
She woke up in a panic.
She woke up to find it was just a dream. Thank goodness, it was just a dream!
It was already broad daylight when she heard Yang Yuelan and Luo Yao talking on the kang (a heated brick bed). Her mood calmed down, and she got dressed and took a washbasin to the public water pool to wash up.
Just then, she saw Tang Wenya and Chen Meili walk out of Zhang Guoshi's house. The two of them had no expression on their faces as they pushed their bicycles past her.
When the two saw Xu Qingning, neither of them spoke, and they both looked very downcast.
Xu Qingning had heard Wang Cuifen say that Xiao Yaodong had Tang Wenya lead Chen Meili to apologize to Zhang Guoshi.
It seems the two of them went to apologize.
Once they were out of the alley, Tang Wenya comforted Chen Meili: "Alright, this matter is over. In the future, when you see those old ladies, don't say a word."
"I know." Chen Meili felt angry thinking about how she had just humbly apologized to the old ladies. She said, "I will never come to your tenement again."
Tang Wenya's lips twitched, but she didn't say anything.
If she doesn't want to come, she doesn't want to come; no one asked her to come.
System: "Master, you've won this time. I see your luck hasn't weakened; it's still the same as yesterday."
"You mean, Xu Qingning was worried about Zhao Jingyu last night?" Tang Wenya was secretly delighted.
"It should be." The system couldn't retrieve information about Xu Qingning's side, but it could see Tang Wenya's luck. "In the past, every time you clashed with Xu Qingning, your luck would be a little weaker, but not this time."
"Oh dear, I thought she didn't care about anything!" Tang Wenya was in a great mood. "Turns out she has a weakness too. What, has she fallen for Zhao Jingyu?"
System: "Master, I can't find Xu Qingning's thoughts, but judging from your luck, she has taken a liking to Zhao Jingyu."
"It's like finding a needle in a haystack, only to have it fall into my lap effortlessly." Tang Wenya seemed to see the light at the end of the tunnel and laughed, "I still had my trump card up my sleeve, and she already showed a weakness. It seems she's not so great after all!"
System: "Master, is the ultimate move you mentioned Wu Huihui?"
“I had Chen Meili inquire about it. Last time, Wu Huihui was kicked out of her home by Xu Qingning. Wu Huihui also said that she didn’t want to go to Xu Qingning’s house.” Tang Wenya felt more at ease than ever before. “Now that Zhao Jingyu is in trouble, Wu Huihui has come in handy. She won’t let go of this opportunity to watch the show.”
The system understood instantly: "Got it, let's do it that way!"
Upon hearing the news of Zhao Jingyu's accident, Wu Huihui immediately rode her bicycle to the tenement without saying a word.
"When did this happen?" Yang Yuelan's legs went weak upon hearing this, and her voice trembled. "How come we haven't heard about it?"
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