Chapter 61 So Many Honey
In the evening, a few people gathered together for a barbecue.
There's one more person.
Liang Qiqi.
Jiang Qingying glanced at Lu Jinyuan, who happened to be looking at her too. The two exchanged a knowing smile.
This person arrived really fast!
Lin Tingwan wasn't familiar with Liang Qiqi, but she was only slightly surprised. She was more curious about why he was here, so she turned to look for Nan Chun and found her staring blankly at Liang Qiqi. She had a feeling something was wrong.
Then they saw Liang Qiqi greet the group and walk straight to Nan Chun. The two of them looked at each other silently without saying anything.
Later, Jiang Qingying couldn't hold back any longer. She gave Lin Tingwan a look, and the two of them, one on each side, carried Nan Chun away.
In Nan Chun's room.
Jiang Qingying made Nan Chun sit down, placed her hand on her shoulder, and asked with a slightly sharp look in her eyes, "Tell me quickly, what's going on between you and Liang Qiqi?"
“Exactly.” Lin Tingwan pressed down on Nan Chun’s other shoulder, revealing her tiger teeth in a cute but fierce way. “Confess and you’ll be treated leniently; resist and you’ll be punished severely!”
Seeing the two of them, Nan Chun couldn't help but burst into laughter, finally recovering from her shock.
Jiang Qingying said anxiously, "Stop laughing and tell me quickly."
Lin Tingwan nodded vigorously: "That's right, that's right."
Nan Chun sighed, her delicate features turning serious. She pondered for a while but couldn't come up with a solution. Then, she turned her attention to Jiang Qingying: "Shouldn't you know very well? Without Lu Jinyuan, would Liang Qiqi have been able to come here?"
Jiang Qingying, with her upright character, had nothing to fear. "I don't know. I asked Lu Jinyuan, and he wasn't quite sure either. The gist of it is that you two are together."
Lin Tingwan took a deep breath in horror, "Nan Chun Chun! You're in a relationship and you didn't even tell your girlfriends!"
Nan Chun frowned, but despite her helplessness, she managed to grasp the key point and correct her: "I didn't date him."
The two listened, stunned, and exchanged a glance.
Jiang Qingying tentatively asked, "...Friends with benefits?"
"Holy crap!" Lin Tingwan exclaimed in surprise.
Nan Chun thought about it and felt that it seemed to be true, so she nodded.
Jiang Qingying, perhaps having seen her share of grand occasions, also needed time to process this. "How long ago?" she asked, pausing for two seconds. "It couldn't have been back when he and you first collaborated on a film..."
If the two had a connection when Nan Chun filmed her first movie, and Nan Chun has been in the industry for six or seven years, and their collaboration was about three years ago, then it's amazing that they kept it a secret from their sister for so long.
"What are you thinking about?" Nan Chun chuckled, her cheeks flushing red, and answered cautiously, "About two years."
"That's immoral!" Lin Tingwan scolded her lightly. "You've been hiding it for so long."
Nan Chun gently rubbed her cheek. "It's not like we're dating. You don't have to make your friends-with-benefits relationship public."
Lin Tingwan: "..."
Jiang Qingying: "......"
"What happened between you? Why is he chasing you all the way here?" Jiang Qingying remained clear-headed.
Nan Chun felt a lump in her throat. She glanced at Jiang Qingying, then shifted her gaze to Lin Tingwan. It seemed she had no choice but to speak up.
"He really wants to come."
"Wow!" Lin Tingwan hugged Nan Chun's shoulders and exclaimed excitedly, "He's fallen in love with you?"
Nan Chun felt his blood rush to his head, his face flushed red, and he stammered, his hands trembling as he frantically tried to put them down, "I...he...shouldn't be that bad, right?"
Jiang Qingying sat to the side, arms crossed, and said slowly, "Why not?"
Nan Chun lowered her eyes, looking as if she was unwilling to admit it.
The room was quiet for a while.
Lin Tingwan shook Nan Chun's arm, making her look up at her: "Do you like him?"
"What kind of liking?" Nan Chun asked subconsciously, then realized what she meant and shook her head, saying hesitantly, "I can't say."
She paused for a few seconds, then said in a low voice, "Actually, I don't dare. Have you forgotten? I'm engaged to the second young master of the Liang family, who is Liang Qiqi's younger brother."
Only then did Jiang Qingying remember that Nan Chun and Liang Yuanbei had gotten engaged two years ago. This was a decision made unilaterally by both sets of parents. Nan Chun and Liang Yuanbei both disagreed, and the two families made a verbal engagement. It was not widely known, and very few people knew about it. Moreover, the two usually kept their distance from each other, and the engagement was repeatedly postponed by the two of them. Therefore, no one had any idea that they were connected.
Even Jiang Qingying and Lin Tingwan, who were best friends, had almost forgotten about it.
Lin Tingwan: "So... you only got involved with Liang Qiqi because of the engagement?"
Nan Chun laughed and gently pushed her head. "Why did you use the word 'flirt'?"
“Isn’t that right?” Lin Tingwan analyzed, “Liang Qiqi and his brother have always been at odds, everyone knows that. You don’t want to fulfill your engagement with Liang Yuanbei, so you’ve set your sights on Liang Qiqi. That’s not unreasonable, after all, Liang Qiqi is much more handsome than Liang Yuanbei.”
Nan Chun carefully considered her words and found them to make a lot of sense.
"So what do you plan to do?" Jiang Qingying asked.
Nan Chun, resigned to her fate, said, "I don't know."
Jiang Qingying patted her head and comforted her, "Then calm down by yourself for a while. Wanwan and I are going out."
Lin Tingwan comforted her, "Don't think too much about it. Come out and eat after we've finished grilling the food."
"Okay." Nan Chun forced a smile. "I'll be right there after I get ready."
Jiang Qingying and Lin Tingwan were about to leave when they opened the door and saw Liang Qiqi leaning against it. The group stared at each other for a moment.
"Can I go in?" Liang Qiqi asked.
Jiang Qingying and Lin Tingwan turned to look at Nan Chun, and the group exchanged glances.
Jiang Qingying: Do you want to see him? If not, I'll kick him out.
Lin Tingwan: Why don't we talk to him? I think it's quite necessary.
Nan Chun's face paled slightly, and she nodded expressionlessly.
Jiang Qingying and Lin Tingwan then gave the space to the two of them.
No one knows what the two talked about or did in the room.
All that was known was that they had almost finished grilling their food before the two of them leisurely strolled over. Nan Chun walked briskly ahead, while Liang Qiqi followed behind, hands in his pockets, looking quite pleased with himself.
Jiang Qingying glanced at Nan Chun and noticed that her lipstick had faded quite a bit and there was a hickey on her collarbone. She coughed lightly, "Um...should we cover up the mark?"
Nan Chun looked down and realized she couldn't see anything. She took out her phone's camera and saw that she hadn't seen anything yet. She glared at Liang Qiqi in exasperation.
Lin Tingwan joked, "Is this a deal?"
"No comment." Nan Chun gritted her teeth.
Jiang Qingying smiled and said, "I was going to find you a few male models, but now you don't need to."
Nan Chun pretended to be heartbroken, blaming a certain man for everything: "That hateful Liang Qiqi."
Just as Jiang Qingying was about to say something, a skewer of grilled chicken wings suddenly appeared in front of her. She looked up at the man holding the chicken wings, then took them without hesitation, saying, "Thank you for your hard work."
Lu Jinyuan smiled and reminded her, "Don't eat too much."
"Okay." Jiang Qingying replied good-naturedly, took a bite, and said with disdain, "Did you not put honey on it? It's not sweet at all."
Lu Jinyuan advised, "It's not advisable to eat too many sweets during pregnancy. You've already eaten a lot of desserts today."
Jiang Qingying handed the chicken wings back to him, and said in a huff, "Then I won't eat them."
Lu Jinyuan looked at the chicken wings in his hand, then gave her a deep look before turning back to add honey. A few minutes later, he returned and handed her the prepared chicken wings, his tone gentle yet tinged with helpless indulgence, "It's done. Eat up."
Jiang Qingying took a bite from his hand, and only after finding it satisfactory did she take it back and continue eating.
To prevent her from eating too much barbecue, Lu Jinyuan went to get her something else to eat. Jiang Qingying's mind was only on the skewer of chicken wings in her hand. As she ate, she noticed two ambiguous gazes on her. Looking up, she saw Nan Chun and Lin Tingwan staring at her with smiles.
"What's wrong?" she asked.
Nan Chun put on an acting act, pretending to say, "Oh, I also want to add lots and lots of honey."
Lin Tingwan chimed in, "I'll add more for you, I'll add more, the kind that's so sweet it'll make your heart ache."
Jiang Qingying was speechless with exasperation.
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