Chapter 50
"...Wait a minute, why are you asking these questions? Do you have someone you like again?"
Ranlong was puzzled: "Huh? What do you mean by 'again'?"
She accidentally recalled the gossip she had heard outside, and the love-hate relationship with the director... Sister Hou quickly corrected herself: "Ahaha...slip, slip of the tongue."
The topic ends here.
After Sister Hou found out that Ranlong had dug up her past, she changed the subject. As for her own things, she refused to hand them over at all.
She really can't be friends with such a person.
On their way back, they passed by a small stand selling perfume and could smell the pungent odor coming from the cheap bottles and jars from afar.
Under normal circumstances, Ranlong would definitely stay away from him.
"Would you please stay, ladies? Would you like to see our new perfume?"
The stall owner greeted them warmly. Sister Hou was about to wave her hand to refuse when she saw Ranlong nodded and walked towards the stall.
Sister Hou, who was following behind her, was baffled. The strong smell of mixed chemicals made her want to sneeze. The neatly stacked perfume bottles were mostly imitations of big-name brands, their shoddy workmanship evident to the naked eye.
Although Ran Long wasn't much into perfume, she couldn't have failed to spot such an obvious dud. She was about to become famous, so even if she was short of money, she shouldn't have been looking for perfume in this place, right?
Ranlong glanced around and frowned, looking dissatisfied.
Sister Hou noticed something and was about to pull her away when she heard her ask, "Do you have mint flavor?"
The stall owner smiled and said, "We have several mint-flavored ones! This 'Mint Morning' is the best-selling one. The top note is lemon clover, which is very refreshing and invigorating when you first spray it. The middle note is mint leaves and rosemary, which is cool and slightly spicy. If you prefer a more niche scent, then I recommend it..."
"I want a mint top note, mint middle note, and mint base note. Do you have it?" Ranlong interrupted the stall owner and put forward his simple and clear demand.
Sister Hou was puzzled when she heard this. How come Ranlong also has his own catnip?
"Of course, of course!" The stall owner, hearing the deal was about to close, didn't care how bizarre the customer's request was, and hurriedly found a plain blue bottle. "This is it. No fancy stuff, just the purest mint product."
The stall owner sprayed the perfume onto the perfume test paper. Ranlang took it, but then remembered that it was inconvenient for him to smell the perfume or take it off while he was wearing a mask.
So she turned her gaze to Sister Hou who was standing beside her.
Sister Hou was very confused: "You buy perfume and I try it?"
"You try."
Ranlong ignored the unwillingness written on Sister Hou's face and directly put the perfume test paper under her nose.
The sudden pungent smell made Sister Hou sneeze wildly, followed by a bout of dry heaves.
Just as the stall owner was looking at the food but smiling awkwardly, I heard Ranlong say, "This bottle is it. I'll buy it."
"Bought it?" Even the stall owner couldn't believe it.
"Just this bottle?" Sister Hou no longer knew what Ranlong was going on about.
"Yes. Where is the payment code?"
35 yuan for a 50ml bottle of perfume is very cheap for perfume, but it seems like a sucker for cheap perfume.
On the way back, Sister Hou couldn't help but ask her, "Why did you buy this perfume?"
Ranlong fiddled with the perfume bottle for a long time before he suddenly stammered, "I don't know either."
After being speechless for a while, Sister Hou began to count on her fingers the people Ran Long had recently come into contact with, to see which unlucky guy had a grudge against her and would be poisoned to death soon.
The filming for the next two days lasted from early morning until the moon was high in the sky. Once we were busy, the bottle of perfume we brought back from the night market was thrown into a corner and forgotten.
It was not until Ranlong saw Qiu An and Yuan Chengyin running into the small classroom that she remembered the bottle of mint perfume again.
After returning to the hotel, Ranlong sprayed a few drops of perfume on herself. She didn't knock on Qiu An's room door until her nose got used to the smell.
As soon as the door opened, Qiu An's tears fell.
"What's that smell? Is that your perfume?" she asked.
"Yeah, it smells pretty good, doesn't it? I bought it when I was shopping at the night market with Sister Hou."
After that, there was a moment of silence. After a long while, Ranlong finally remembered to ask, "Why are you crying?"
Qiu An saw through Ran Long's thoughts at a glance, wiped away her tears, and asked her, "What's the matter with you coming to see me?"
"Oh, you haven't returned the coat I gave you last time, right?"
Qiu An brought her a coat while crying. Ranlong took the coat and couldn't think of any excuse to stay here, so he went back silently.
Although the effect was good, it lasted too short a time. She was unwilling to give up.
So she brought perfume to the set the next day. In order not to delay the filming, she sprayed the perfume on herself after Qiu An's scene was finished.
She deliberately moved closer to Qiu An, but this time, Qiu An just looked at her calmly without shedding a single tear.
Weird, is it too little spray?
Ranlong raised his arm and smelled it. The perfume accumulated on his wrist rushed into his nose, irritating him so much that he sneezed several times in a row.
The sound engineer was recording the ambient sound when Yuan Chengyin came over with a scowl and gave her a slap on the forehead.
Ranlong covered his forehead and thought quietly: This woman is so heartless when it comes to work and has such a bad temper. I don’t know what Qiu An likes about her.
When it was time to eat lunch, Ranlong wanted to harass Qiu An again.
She lifted the car curtain to check the enemy situation, but saw Qiu An peeling a pill and swallowing it. Only then did she realize that Qiu An had no reaction to her mint perfume because he had taken allergy medicine.
So she knocked on the car window, lowered it, and said to the person inside, "Medicine is three-quarters toxic. I won't spray anymore, and you don't need to take medicine either."
Ranlong turned around and threw the bottle of perfume, which had only been sprayed twice, into the trash can.
Just like what she told Sister Hou that day, she didn't know why she did this.
It seems that in elementary school, middle school and high school, there are always some boys who like to tease girls for fun and enjoy watching them make fools of themselves and get angry.
The purpose? Just to get the girls' attention.
Because he couldn't make a basketball shot, his grades weren't improving, he had no pocket money, and he wasn't good-looking. With no charm to show for it, he resorted to some pathetic and dirty tricks.
Ranlong wanted to tell Qiu An, don’t act opposite Yuan Chengyin, because she is a layman and she can’t act at all.
But she was the one who first approached Yuan Chengyin to act opposite her, she was the one who said Qiu An was unreasonable, and she was the one who instigated Qiu An to seduce Yuan Chengyin. How could she say this?
Even if she said it, how could Qiu An agree to her?
As night fell, Ranlong dragged his exhausted body back to the hotel. The bad thing about summer is that you will sweat all over if you move around outdoors.
Why can’t we invent a purification function for the air conditioner, which can cool people down and clean them at the same time? This way, we don’t have to run to the bathroom every day to take a shower, wash our hair, and then do the damn blow-drying, which takes so much time.
While I was bored and watching a video of blow-drying my hair, a small black bottle caught my eye.
It was the hair mask that Joan had left in her bathroom.
I forgot to return it the first night, and then I took its existence for granted.
She also had an excuse to find Qiu An.
Qiu An also made her a promise.
Don't worry about the three rotten melons and two broken dates that Yuan Chengyin got.
But since when did she need Qiu An so much?
Did she vaguely realize that there might have been a misunderstanding? And then she discovered that Qiu An was actually a good person?
And since when did she start looking for excuses when she saw Qiu An?
It seemed like Qiu An always came to see her, they ate together, acted together, and stared at each other.
Then why hasn't she come these days?
Is it because she didn't continue that day, or because she really did it that day?
Never mind. I don't understand. It's like when we were in school, everyone thought math problems were hard, but even the hardest problems had solutions.
Unlike Chinese reading questions, the Chinese teacher cannot figure out what the people in the passage are thinking unless he or she reverses the thinking based on the answers.
"You left your hair mask at my place, I'm going to return it to you."
"Thanks."
Qiu An took the hair mask, without closing the door or seeing him off, as if waiting for Ranlong to continue.
If she hadn't encouraged him like that, Ranlong might have gone back home.
Ranlong moved his lips but couldn't say anything, so he walked straight into the door.
Qiu An seemed to have anticipated this and made way for her in advance.
After Qiu An closed the door and put the hair mask in place, Ranlong swallowed several times. Just as he was about to speak, he saw a few small toys on the table, which were obviously bought from a street stall.
These fancy things looked out of place in her clean and uncluttered room. Even a little weird.
"What are these?" Ranlong asked.
"I bought these toys while visiting the night market with Director Yuan a few days ago."
"With Yuan Chengyin?"
"Well, you and Sister Hou went shopping, so I have no choice but to look for Yuan Chengyin."
Ranlong felt a little regretful about rejecting Qiu An that day. But when she looked at the strange things on the table, she couldn't seem to regret it.
"The toys you bought?"
"Um."
"Are you giving it to someone?"
"No."
Seeing Ranlong's confusion, Qiu An took the initiative to act as a tour guide in the toy museum and explained things in detail to Ranlong, a child who had never seen the world.
She picked up a flat pufferfish and pressed and pinched its forehead, and the pufferfish swelled up like a balloon.
A round ball was handed to Ranlong. She looked around and found a small sealing plug on the pufferfish's tail. After pulling it out, the pufferfish quickly deflated and escaped from her hand under the force.
“…”
Then, Qiu An picked up a toy shaped like a landmine and placed it directly into Ranlong's hand. There was a button on the top of the mine. Ranlong stretched out his index finger and pressed it, and there was a bang. He pressed it again, and there was another bang.
“…”
Qiu An picked up the last green snake, placed it in Ranlong's hand, and guided Ranlong to bend its trunk. Suddenly, the snake began to twist wildly, and then burst into extremely noisy music.
“…”
Qiu An's taste in toys is becoming more and more sophisticated.
Fortunately, she had no money at that time, otherwise, Qiu An might have filled their small rental house with these unfortunate things.
"Why, did you buy these toys because you saw that it was hard for the people selling them to make a living at night?"
"No. I just like these."
There was a moment of silence. What had Ranlong originally planned to do here?
Qiu An put away the toys he had played with and placed them neatly on the table.
Ranlong stared at the toys, and the more he looked, the more he felt something was wrong.
Is Qiu An using these toys to tease her?
A puffed-up pufferfish, a landmine that explodes when pressed, and a snake that squeaks when pinched.
Ranlong is a snake.
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