DTBS - Chapter 53

Chapter 53: Fierce Cat Roar

"Miss Qin," Tao Qiuyun had just walked out of Fang Yu's office when she saw Qin Qingshang pulling the little cat around, examining her. She walked over and said with a light chuckle, "Don't worry, Qinqin is fine."

"Laugh, laugh, laugh!" Seeing the scar on her face, Qin Qingshang felt a surge of anger, but upon seeing Tao Qiuyun's smile, her attitude softened. After all, she was injured because of her. Thinking of this, Qin Qingshang reached out and gently touched the area around her wound, unconsciously showing a hint of distress. "CEO Tao, does it hurt?"

Tao Qiuyun was slightly taken aback. She subconsciously wanted to say "it doesn't hurt," but seeing her expression, what came out was, "It hurts a lot…"

Tao Aiqin: "…"

System: "I clearly gave her medicine!"

Good heavens, you have two faces!

"However," Tao Qiuyun's eyes flickered as she met the gaze of the woman before her, "Miss Qin, please allow me to explain that my face came into contact with your hand because you actively touched me… Hiss!"

As soon as Qin Qingshang heard her opening sentence structure, it sounded familiar. When she heard the part about herself touching her, she couldn't help but reflexively want to clench her fist, but unexpectedly touched her wound. She quickly said,

"Sorry! CEO Tao, I was too rough!"

"The reason is that you actively touched me, does this reason pass?" Tao Qiuyun stubbornly completed her explanation task.

Unfortunately, the task reward was gaining the cat's anger value X1.

Qin Qingshang: "…"

Why didn't it hurt you so much you couldn't speak!

Damn it! Tao Qiuyun, she's really infuriating!

This explanation! This damned explanation again!

The dart thrown by Cat Qin ultimately turned into a boomerang and hit herself…

The cat was wronged.

"It passes." Qin Qingshang practically gritted her teeth as she said these two words.

She glared fiercely at Tao Qiuyun, then her peripheral vision caught sight of Fang Yu in his police uniform, and she immediately switched to her professional mode. "Hello, is there a first-aid kit here? I'd like to simply treat her wound."

Hearing this, Tao Qiuyun was secretly glad she hadn't had time to treat the wound yet, and also found the "Evil Cat Roars" from just now quite cute, adding a few more smiles to her face.

Fang Yu saw the joy on Tao Qiuyun's face, feeling like a friend had force-fed him a mouthful of dog food. "I'll get it for you, Miss Qin."

Tao Aiqin watched the show from the side, secretly sharing her discovery with the System: "Explanation? What explanation? Could it be that they even made an agreement to 'apply for permission to touch me'?"

System: "Perhaps?"

Tao Aiqin fell silent for a moment, then sighed again, "This female lead is really high-level!"

While Fang Yu went to get the first-aid kit, Qin Qingshang looked at Tao Qiuyun and asked, "CEO Tao, can you tell me what happened?"

"Qinqin and I bought… a puzzle, and when we returned to the hotel room, we found your door was ajar," Tao Qiuyun omitted the snacks and continued, "I suspected someone had broken in, so I had Qinqin wait outside while I went in to check the situation."

She paused, "Then I saw that person rummaging around…"

"CEO Tao, you said you wouldn't lie to me." Qin Qingshang looked at her, her eyes deep. "In my opinion, CEO Tao, you are rational and smart. You would choose to call the police if Jiang Lihe followed you. Why, in this matter, did you choose to clash with the thief? I thought you would immediately run away."

"Why do you think I didn't run?" Tao Qiuyun pursed her lips.

"Knowing whether you ran or not isn't that necessary. The most important point is," Qin Qingshang took a step closer to her, seemingly wanting to see the emotions in her eyes clearly, "The police said you wouldn't let me see that thief, why?"

"I…"

"I want to hear the truth, CEO Tao, are you going to lie to me?"

"I think what I said at the time was that I wouldn't intentionally deceive you, Miss Qin," Tao Qiuyun lowered her gaze, avoiding her eyes. "Now, it's deception with a reason."

"You even had Executive Assistant Wang buy me the same clothes." Qin Qingshang leaned closer.

Tao Qiuyun looked at Wang Huai, and the serious Executive Assistant Wang immediately turned his head to tease Qinqin.

"It was a sasaeng, wasn't it?" Qin Qingshang asked her. "Did that person do something very excessive? Or say something very excessive, which is why you didn't want me to see him."

"What sasaeng?" Tao Qiuyun frowned.

"They are extreme fans who want to deeply intrude into a celebrity's private life." Qin Qingshang's face showed a hint of disgust. "I've received many ambiguous and suggestive courtship letters before, and some people have even followed me in their cars, not Jiang Lihe, of course."

"That's not a fan," Tao Qiuyun shook her head, her gaze slightly cold. "That's a pervert."

"Right," Qin Qingshang strongly agreed, "Sasaengs aren't fans, they're perverts!"

"If this happens again in the future, call the police immediately." Tao Qiuyun reminded her.

"So, CEO Tao," Qin Qingshang brought the topic back, "Why didn't you call the police at the time?"

"I wanted to observe the situation first," Tao Qiuyun looked at her. "I was afraid that if I misunderstood, it would cause you trouble or other negative impacts."

Qin Qingshang was startled.

The woman's lips opened and closed, her clear voice continuing, "But, when I saw the clothes scattered on the ground and his actions, it was hard for me to control my emotions. I know that being purely dominated by anger is a very degenerate and irresponsible behavior, but…"

"At that moment, I couldn't convince myself to be a calm and polite person."

Qin Qingshang looked at Tao Qiuyun before her. The woman's proper and beautiful face held an expression that was hard to read. Those words just now, like pearls dropping onto a jade plate, struck her heart one by one, word by word.

Her heart rate suddenly quickened, which made Qin Qingshang feel a little dazed…

Oh no, I stayed up too late, I'm actually experiencing symptoms of arrhythmia!

"Then, then you can't fight someone with a knife!" The cat changed the subject. "It's very dangerous."

"I was overconfident," Tao Qiuyun lowered her head. "Next time, I'll knock them out first."

Qin Qingshang: "…" No, is that what I meant?

Tao Aiqin was very impressed. "Sys, did the main system reply to you? I really want to know the plot of that Yuri novel now. Will it talk about my CEO mom's past in detail?"

System: "No, the main system hasn't read the email yet."

Tao Aiqin: "Sigh, it's frustrating, it's making me itch!"

"Hello, I suggest you just hold it in~" The System finally found a chance to mock her.

"Thanks, please kindly roll away." Tao Aiqin chose to directly curse.

"I'm telling you not to be so impulsive!" Qin Qingshang stared at her, a little helpless. "What if something happened to you, you… what would Qinqin do?"

"Nothing will happen to me, I used to…" Saying this, Tao Qiuyun paused and didn't continue.

"What did you used to do?" The cat was curious.

"You used to…" Tao Qiuyun thought for a few seconds, then chose to be honest: "Actually, you've seen me fight."

"Ah? Really?" The cat was shocked.

Tao Aiqin was also surprised. "Wait! Since my CEO mom is the female lead of a Yuri novel, that means she likes women! She's even seen the female lead before… Sys, I suddenly thought of an extremely terrifying possibility."

System was curious: "What? What possibility?"

The more Tao Aiqin thought about it, the more she felt her idea was correct: "Look, she said at the time that she only kissed the female lead once, and the female lead couldn't possibly get pregnant, right?"

"What does that mean?" The System didn't understand.

"It means she had intimate contact with the female lead many years ago! Think back, what was the situation the first time she met Chang Suiyou? Wasn't it like the first time they met?"

"If it was the first meeting, then of course it was the first time they met." The System was speechless, thinking she was talking nonsense.

"Stupid!" Tao Aiqin thought the System was an AI idiot. "It was the first time she met Chang Suiyou, which means she knew Qin Qingshang before Chang Suiyou. Didn't we discuss before that Chang Suiyou's smile is a bit like Qin Qingshang's?"

"Uh… are you saying?"

"I suspect that in that Yuri novel, Tao Qiuyun actually liked Qin Qingshang, but because the Qin Qingshang written by the author is the female lead of this romance novel, she wouldn't have any interaction with Tao Qiuyun in the main text. But she could become the White Moonlight or Red Rose of the female lead in another Yuri novel!"

"Ah, this…" The System was shocked.

"I suspect that Yuri novel is actually a stand-in literature!" Tao Aiqin's eyes were bright. "Look, my villain mom hasn't looked for Qin Qingshang for many years. I guess she didn't even know her name back then. The plot of that Yuri novel should be like this, listen and see if my analysis makes sense."

"Tao Qiuyun and Qin Qingshang met and got to know each other many years ago. She fell in love with Qin Qingshang but couldn't forget her because she didn't know her identity. Until one day, she met Chang Suiyou, whose smile was similar to Qin Qingshang's."

"Years of suppression and emotional outburst prompted her to keep Chang Suiyou. As for why I say 'keep', I'm basing it on the novel author's ideas. Look at her romance novels, they're all old-fashioned domineering CEO stand-in White Moonlight stories. I guess the Yuri plot won't be much better, the routine is probably similar."

"Didn't my Auntie Xiang have an engagement with Tao Qiuyun before? Maybe she was the villainous fiancée in that Yuri novel! Although the author ended the book poorly, only writing that Qin Qingshang ended up with Jiang Lihe, in that book, Tao Qiuyun, upon hearing this news, must have been very disappointed."

"Look at the result of her anger today, you know her character setting might be that kind of refined yet unhinged type, with a wolf hidden inside. CEO Tao, in a state of rage, couldn't suppress her true nature. She started tormenting Chang Suiyou physically and emotionally. After a good amount of struggle, she finally had a sudden realization and became devoted to Chang Suiyou, the stand-in took the lead, Happy End!"

System: "Here, take the pen, you write it."

Tao Aiqin took a deep breath and looked at the woman beside her: "But, in my eyes, Tao Qiuyun, she's very good… Sure enough, you can't trust the character settings of that crappy author!"

System loudly said: "Wake up! All that plot was made up by you!"

Fang Yu came over with the medical kit and placed it on the table nearby. "Sorry, I took a while to find it."

"Thank you, Captain Fang." Tao Qiuyun thanked him.

Qin Qingshang stepped forward and rummaged through the box. "Should I do a simple disinfection first?"

"Whatever works," Tao Qiuyun stood beside her, her gentle gaze following her. "Do you need alcohol?"

"No, the concentration is too high, I'm afraid you can't handle it." Qin Qingshang's hand had just touched the alcohol when her movements suddenly paused. Some images appeared in her mind…

"Need, need wine!" The girl in a crop top threw herself onto the bar, staring at the woman wiping glasses in front of her, her Chinese a little jumbled: "Need, need the strongest wine!"

The woman behind the bar was tall, with black hair pinned up, revealing a slender neck. Her eyes were so clear that nothing seemed to enter them, and she carried an aura completely different from the bar.

"Boss!" The cat slapped the table. "Pay attention to me!"

"Not the boss," the woman put down the wine glass in her hand and looked at her. "What do you want? Miss."

"Wine! Strong wine!" The half-drunk cat spoke fiercely.

"The concentration is too high, I'm afraid you can't handle it." The woman's voice was indifferent.

"Are you looking down on me, me! My classmate said you sent me a fruit platter, you're interested in me, said you'd give me whatever I want."

"…What type of wine do you want to drink? Do you want to order from the menu or should I mix one for you?"

"I want the last one you mixed!" Her eyes were bright, and her heavy makeup couldn't hide her charm. She said coquettishly, "Don't fob me off with non-alcoholic juice, I'll check, and I'll complain about you then!"

After saying the threatening words, she saw the woman in front of her take out many bottles, and also some sweet-looking fresh cream, mixing them into a shaker and starting to shake.

Ice and liquid collided in the shaker, making a pleasant sound. The girl's body swayed slightly, and her head bobbed, as if she was trying hard to maintain balance.

But she felt her consciousness was still clear, because she saw the woman's eyes, she seemed to be watching her the whole time.

This female bartender's movements were skilled. After mixing the drink, she picked up an empty glass and made an orange sugar rim on it. The small knife in her fingers was nimble, she made a hollowed-out heart from lemon peel and placed it aside, then poured the drink from the shaker into the glass at a steady and gentle speed.

She cut a cherry and placed it on the rim of the glass, hung the heart-shaped lemon slice, and finally placed the drink in front of the girl.

The pure white liquid settled at the bottom, the upper layer of the drink was like pink cherry blossoms covering snow, the orange sugar rim on the edge was like winter sunlight, combined with the hollowed-out heart and the bright red cherry inside, it was as if the other person was handing her their sincere heart.

There was a hint of a smile in the woman's eyes, and her voice was no longer as cold as before.

She saw the letters on her name tag when she leaned closer: QY

And she heard her words:

"Your drink…"

"Sweet Heart."

The memory stopped abruptly here. Qin Qingshang came back to her senses, looking blankly at Tao Qiuyun in front of her, feeling like a lost little deer in her heart. "CEO Tao, you…"

"What?"

"You before…"

The woman lowered her head, feeling her face slightly warm. She was a little embarrassed: "It's just, back at the bar, why did you call me… sweetheart."

Tao Qiuyun was startled, then smiled. "Miss Qin, do you remember?"

Seeing that Qin Qingshang didn't respond, Tao Qiuyun paused for a few seconds before continuing:

"I didn't call you sweetheart to tease you, but because the name of that drink is Sweet Heart."

The little deer in her heart hit a tree.

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