Chapter 3 Will she... like me?
Xing Xiaochu has bright eyes. She has beautiful almond-shaped eyes, long eyelashes, fair skin, a small nose and mouth, which makes her look particularly innocent despite her young age.
Now, a child asked Qi Ying about his mother, but Qi Ying couldn't answer.
Her palms began to sweat.
You can't say that this is a game world and your identity is designed by the system, right?
"this……"
Just as Qi Ying was thinking about how to make up a lie to deceive Xing Xiaochu, her cell phone suddenly rang. She quickly took it out and took a look, and found that it was a call from a colleague from the studio.
"Excuse me, I have to take a call first."
Qi Ying stood up and walked to the floor-to-ceiling window and answered the phone.
"Hello, Qi Ying, where are you now?" Xia Ruoxin on the other end of the phone said, "Why is there no one in the studio?"
"Are you in the store?" Qi Ying asked her.
Xia Ruoxin said, "Yes, I'm on the first floor. There's a batch of fabrics, you have to come and take a look. We have to go to the factory soon, so come back quickly."
Qi Ying responded and hung up the phone.
She looked back at Xing Xiaochu who was still looking at her eagerly, coughed lightly, shook her phone and said to her, "Sorry, I have something urgent to do and have to go out. You can use the appliances at home as you like. There are food and drinks in the refrigerator."
Xing Xiaochu opened her mouth, rubbed the corner of her clothes nervously, and asked her: "Then sister...when will you come back?"
Qi Ying said: “Not sure.”
Xing Xiaochu lowered his head.
Qi Ying came over and touched the top of the child's head, then said to her, "I'm going to be busy now. I'll tell you about your mother when I come back."
Xing Xiaochu looked up at her and nodded softly.
Before leaving, Qi Ying entered Xing Xiaochu's fingerprint into the fingerprint lock. After confirming that she was safe at home alone, he took the elevator and left, then exited the game at the stairs on the first floor.
When he returned to the real world, Qi Ying found himself in the bedroom on the second floor. It seemed that the place he returned to each time was not fixed, and he didn't know why.
Qi Ying didn't think too much about it. She quickly went downstairs and saw Xia Ruoxin sitting in the store waiting for her.
"Huh?" Xia Ruoxin saw Qi Ying coming down from upstairs, her eyes widened and she asked, "Why did you come down from upstairs?"
Qi Ying wondered: "Can't I come down from up there?"
Xia Ruoxin said: "I just went upstairs to look for you, and you were obviously not in the room."
Qi Ying was also stunned, and hesitated for two seconds before saying: "You didn't look for me carefully, did you? Okay, let's not talk about this. Didn't you say you were going to the factory? Why don't you hurry up?"
"Oh, right, right!" Xia Ruoxin hurriedly picked up her things, which were some manuscript papers. She followed Qi Ying who was leaving with her bag and muttered, "I just bought two rice balls on the way here. I'll have a quick snack in the car later. We still have to be busy all afternoon. You have to look at this fabric in person!"
He casually stuffed a rice ball in the car, went to the factory and spent the whole afternoon looking at the fabrics, and finally even tried to make a set directly in the factory. By the time Qi Ying was almost done, it was already eight or nine o'clock in the evening.
Xia Ruoxin stood in the open space and looked at Qi Ying's clothes, unable to let go. She took pictures and praised: "Our great designer still makes beautiful clothes. These two pieces of cloth can be cut into such a beautiful skirt. I have to post it on WeChat Moments."
Qi Ying began to pack up, pinched his stiff neck and said: "This is just a prototype. Fortunately, the factory director is willing to let us do it here, otherwise we would have to carry it back again and again."
Xia Ruoxin said, "You don't know how much the factory manager likes your clothes. You can easily make a design and have them sell tens of thousands of pieces. They wish you could make clothes here and sell the draft paper to them."
Qi Ying smiled and said nothing.
After stuffing all the things and fabrics into the car, the two of them hurried back to the city. Qi Ying was very tired today and began to doze off as soon as she got in the car. When she opened her eyes, she found that the scenery on the road had changed.
"Have we entered the city?" Qi Ying asked, yawning.
"Well, I heard on the radio that there was a traffic accident on the road we often took before, and it was blocked for three hours, so I took a detour." Xia Ruoxin said: "Come to think of it, we haven't been here very often. We basically stay in the East District."
Qi Ying looked at the night view of the city outside the car window and nodded: "Yes, this is the old city, and the road is difficult to walk on."
Xia Ruoxin smiled and said, "You're wrong. I heard that a new building complex was built this year, and there is a large shopping mall to match it. The old city will have to be demolished and rebuilt in the future. Look, those buildings over there are newly built. The wedding room of the newlyweds yesterday was here. I heard it's very expensive. A large flat costs at least 2 million."
Qi Ying looked carefully and narrowed his eyes slightly.
Why does she feel that this building looks so familiar?
It seems very similar to her house in the game?
"Impossible..." Qi Ying muttered softly.
Xia Ruoxin wondered: "What's impossible?"
Qi Ying asked her, "What is the name of this community?"
"Jin Yuming City." Xia Ruoxin said.
Qi Ying frowned.
"It's okay." Qi Ying leaned back in his chair and said calmly, "I've only heard of this property before. Let's go home quickly. I'm hungry."
Xia Ruoxin said: "Don't rush back, we'll go have a barbecue later!"
Qi Ying didn't care. She lowered her eyes as she looked at the buildings that were gradually moving away. If the names of the communities were the same, it shouldn't have anything to do with the game, right? However, Qi Ying felt much better after a good sleep, and she started to open her phone to look at the specific game settings.
As soon as the APP was opened, Xia Ruoxin said, "Qi Ying, you are playing games now too?"
"Just for fun." Qi Ying said casually.
The interface on the phone has completely changed. Previously, the dirty Xing Xiaochu was hiding under the eaves crying in the rain, but now, Xing Xiaochu is lying peacefully on the hospital bed, sleeping with his eyes closed, and a bottle of water is hanging on his arm.
Although Xing Xiaochu on the interface looked pitiful, she was completely different from the little girl hiding from the rain before.
There was a feeling that things were getting better and better, which made Qi Ying feel at ease.
She originally thought that once she entered the game she would come to Xing Xiaochu's world, but this time Qi Ying did not go there directly, which gave her a good opportunity to take a look at the specific settings in the game.
Qi Ying's profile in the game is very similar to my own. She is 26 years old, a young fashion designer who opened her own studio to make haute couture clothing. She and Xing Xiaochu's mother were colleagues in the same company. Xing Xiaochu's mother taught her a lot of things and can be regarded as my own enlightenment teacher in the game.
Afterwards, Qi Ying went abroad for further studies and received an email from Xing Xiaochu's mother. In the email, Xing Xiaochu's mother repeatedly mentioned the fact that she was subjected to domestic violence and her underage daughter. It seemed that she had no one to turn to for help in this world and could only complain to her colleagues.
Qi Ying replied to the other party's email in an attempt to comfort her, but he never received a reply. When Qi Ying graduated and returned to China, he heard that Xing Xiaochu's mother had committed suicide, leaving her daughter to live with her alcoholic and domestically violent father.
Qi Ying, who is full of compassion, decides to find the teacher's daughter and train her well on behalf of Xing Xiaochu's mother.
Qi Ying clicked on other interactive interfaces and took a look. On the left were Xing Xiaochu's mood value, health value, and love value, which were respectively lost, malnourished, and slightly favorable.
Qi Ying didn’t quite understand what this love value was.
Let Xing Xiaochu love her like a mother?
It was weird, so she ignored it for now.
Click on the interactive button on the right, and you will see Xing Xiaochu's study status, hobbies, and career plans. They are dropout, daydreaming, and no.
Qi Ying: “…”
It really is a pure white piece of paper, and it all depends on her to cultivate it.
Qi Ying began to worry about how long she could play this game. Perhaps after a couple of days she would lose interest and just let Xing Xiaochu in the game fend for himself.
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Unlike the busy Qi Ying, Xing Xiaochu opened the refrigerator at noon and saw it was filled with various vegetables, fruits, chicken, duck, fish and other kinds of meat. His eyes widened. Xing Xiaochu was surprised but did not dare to touch Qi Ying's things. He just took out a tomato and two eggs and made himself a simple tomato scrambled eggs.
After lunch, Xing Xiaochu took the lilies that Qi Ying gave her to the bathroom. She saw an empty vase on the TV cabinet in the living room, so she decided to wake up the flowers and put them next to the TV cabinet.
But it didn't take long to wake up the girl after eating. It was done in less than an hour. Xing Xiaochu sat back on the soft sofa and began to daydream.
She didn't know when Qi Ying would come back, nor did she know what she should do now.
Xing Xiaochu sat on the sofa in a daze for more than half an hour, staring at the door. Occasionally she walked over and looked outside through the peephole, but the person she was waiting for did not show up. She returned to the sofa in disappointment and began to be dazed again.
Xing Xiaochu also walked around the room. There was no clothes to wash and nothing to clean. The place was so clean and tidy that it seemed like a model house, and Xing Xiaochu was the only thing that could breathe in the model house.
Very lonely.
Xing Xiaochu could only watch the cars speeding past on the road outside the floor-to-ceiling window, not knowing what he should do next.
What is the relationship between Qi Ying and her mother?
Can she take care of herself?
Will she like herself?
Xing Xiaochu thought so and slowly fell asleep on the sofa.
I don't know how long I slept. When Xing Xiaochu woke up, the room was already pitch black. The room was so quiet that it seemed like a pure black hell. Only the neon lights outside the floor-to-ceiling window reminded Xing Xiaochu that he was still living in the real world.
She slowly got up from the sofa, hugged her numb arm and lowered her head in a daze.
What time is it?
Will my sister come back?
Does she also feel that she is a burden and no one wants her anymore?
Xing Xiaochu was sitting on the sofa with her head down, thinking about something, when she suddenly heard a noise outside the door. She immediately stood up and quickly ran to the door.
With a 'click' sound, the door lock was opened. Before Qi Ying could react, she felt a shadow rushing out of the house, and then a warm body threw itself into her arms, knocking her back two steps.
Qi Ying steadied himself and realized that the person hugging him was Xing Xiaochu.
The little girl hugged Qi Ying's waist tightly, buried her face in her chest and didn't say anything. Qi Ying felt a little strange, reached out her hands to hold Xing Xiaochu's face, and saw that the child's eyes were red from crying.
"Sister," Xing Xiaochu said to Qi Ying in a tearful voice, "I thought even you didn't want me anymore..."
The person in his arms was very cold, and Qi Ying couldn't tell for a moment whether she was naturally that cold or was made that cold by the air conditioner.
Xing Xiaochu's eyes were red and tears flowed down the corners of her eyes. She just looked at Qi Ying, with her hands tightly around Qi Ying's waist.
Qi Ying laughed: "I didn't abandon you, I just went out to work."
By the way, I learned about the relationship between myself and Xing Xiaochu's mother.
Qi Ying also discovered that she did not come to this world every time she opened the game. If there was someone around, the mobile game was just a mobile game. Today, she waited until Xia Ruoxin left before opening the game, and she came in all of a sudden.
He was also holding a roast chicken in his hand, looking like he had just returned from work.
Qi Ying raised the roast chicken in his hand and said to Xing Xiaochu, "You haven't had dinner yet, right? I bought you something delicious on the way. Let's go in first."
Go inside and close the door.
Qi Ying went to the kitchen, found a plate and put the roast chicken on it. When she turned around, she saw Xing Xiaochu following her. Wherever she went, Xing Xiaochu followed her, like Qi Ying's little tail.
When Xiaowei saw Qi Ying looking at him, he volunteered, "I can cook, what do you want to eat, sister?"
Qi Ying looked at her and said with a smile, "Do whatever you want. I'll go steam the rice first."
The originally quiet apartment became lively because of Qi Ying's arrival. An unknown variety show was playing on TV. The host and guests were laughing. The lights in the living room and dining room were all on. Even the cold neon lights outside the floor-to-ceiling windows seemed lively at this moment.
Xing Xiaochu can cook. In the past, when she was alone at home and had no money, she often cooked for herself.
Wash the lettuce, cut it and drain the water. Pour a circle of oil in the pot and sauté the chopped garlic. When pouring in the lettuce, there is a sizzling sound, which makes Qi Ying look up for a few more times. Then Xing Xiaochu quickly adds soy sauce and salt, and stir-fries a plate of lettuce.
The shredded pork is marinated with dark soy sauce and starch for ten minutes. First, put the shredded pork into the pan and fry it. Then pour in the green pepper, stir-fry twice, then pour in the prepared light soy sauce and starch water, and fry until cooked.
When Qi Ying changed her clothes and came out of the bedroom, Xing Xiaochu just brought her a bowl of seaweed and shrimp soup.
"Oh, you made all these?" Qi Ying leaned on the back of the chair, looked at the four dishes and one soup on the table and praised Xing Xiaochu: "They look very good. Did you often cook at home before?"
Xing Xiaochu took off her heat-insulating gloves, hummed softly, and pinched the gloves nervously and said, "I don't know if you can get used to it. If it doesn't taste good, tell me and I'll make something else."
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