As She Wished (GL) - Chapter 12
Fu Jing was completely stunned.
“What did you just say?” Gu Qingci lowered her eyes, then slowly raised her hand to fasten her cuff, feigning confusion in her tone. “It seems you said that for the next month, I could order you around as I please, you’d listen to everything I say, and if I told you to go east, you absolutely wouldn’t look west, is that right?”
Fu Jing: “…”
To remember it so clearly, and then ask a rhetorical question.
“Mm,” Fu Jing swallowed and nodded. “You, you can say anything.”
Gu Qingci rested her elbow on the marble countertop, leaning slightly forward, a playful curve to her lips. “I might make many demands that will make things difficult for you.”
Fu Jing pursed her lips.
“Regretting it?” Gu Qingci assessed her expression. The urge to tease her surfaced again, and the smile on her lips deepened. “Then why don’t you try to act cute?”
Fu Jing’s mind was filled with the dimple that appeared on Gu Qingci’s cheek. She nodded, but then hesitated. “How do I act cute?”
Gu Qingci tilted her head and glanced amusedly at Tao Xian, who was trying hard to act like invisible air and watch the show.
Tao Xian pretended not to understand Gu Qingci’s hint for her to leave, and even proactively taught Fu Jing: “It’s simple. The secret to acting cute is to use repetitive words. For example, ‘Sister, I really want you to eat-eat with me, sleep-sleep~'”
Gu Qingci: “…”
Fu Jing: “…”
Fu Jing’s eyes were bewildered. After pondering for a few seconds, she suddenly clenched her fist and hit her palm: “Got it!”
She turned to look at Gu Qingci.
Blinking, she said with immense enthusiasm, “Sister, I really want to buy you a bag-bag~”
Tao Xian had just elegantly raised her glass and taken a sip of wine. Hearing this attempt at cuteness, she couldn’t hold it in and spat the wine back into her highball glass: “…”
Gu Qingci: “…”
Fu Jing: “…”
She used repetitive words, so why were they reacting like this???
Fu Jing felt so innocent, and a little defeated in her self-esteem.
After a pause, she couldn’t help but reach out and lightly pinch the hem of Gu Qingci’s suit jacket, quietly saying, “Sister, I don’t know how to act cute… You should just make other demands.”
Her voice had a hint of aggrieved hum and a nasal tone, a sweet, delicate, slightly coquettish way of speaking often associated with pampered girls.
Her fair face was flushed red.
Tao Xian, listening from the sidelines, felt her whole body go limp. She secretly clicked her tongue, thinking, *the innocent, unaware cuteness of a shy girl—its destructive power is no joke.*
She glanced at the expression of the *transcendent immortal* beside her.
The immortal remained impassive.
Fu Jing quietly added, “As long as you don’t forbid me from getting close to you, anything else is fine.”
“…”
Gu Qingci was silent for a few seconds. She suddenly looked slightly away, then stood up and said coolly, “Tao Xian, you be the designated driver.”
With that, she walked straight towards the door.
Tao Xian quickly followed. After thinking for a moment, she turned her head and quickly told Fu Jing, “I heard that the temperature around an iceberg drops significantly before it melts. It’s true after all!”
Fu Jing: “…”
She completely didn’t understand what that meant.
••••
Fu Jing felt that Gu Qingci had suddenly become exceptionally cold towards her.
After much effort, she finally got Gu Qingci’s WeChat through Tao Xian. Then she waited anxiously for most of the day before seeing her accept her friend request.
But the messages she sent received no response at all.
Gu Qingci’s profile picture was a blank white image, her signature was empty, and her Moments were even more desolate. It was as if she had added a zombie account that should have been deactivated long ago.
Fu Jing hung her head in dejection.
She sighed for the third time when Qin Ziqin finally reluctantly put her phone away. “Alright, there’s always a way!”
Qin Ziqin thought for a moment: “How about this, you describe to me exactly what kind of person she is, and I’ll analyze it for you in detail.”
“Oh.” Fu Jing thought for a bit, then said earnestly, “Her eyes are big, her skin is fair, she’s super beautiful…”
Before she finished speaking, she met Qin Ziqin’s gaze, which was filled with disdain and contempt.
Fu Jing hesitated, then changed her words, trying to sound more refined, “It’s, how do you say it… *skin like congealed fat, so delicate it could be broken by a puff of air*?”
Qin Ziqin quickly waved her hand: “Alright, alright, I get it.”
Then she suddenly remembered something. “When I was washing duck bl00d the day before yesterday, it felt exactly as you described: slippery but not greasy, delicate enough to break with a puff of air. Wow, I almost didn’t have the heart to slice it and put it in the pot.”
Fu Jing: “…………”
Fu Jing: “You can insult literature all you want, but you cannot insult my beloved!”
“Anyway, you just think she’s especially beautiful and gentle and considerate,” Qin Ziqin spread her hands helplessly. “There’s no useful reference information at all. From what you’ve told me, I can only sense she’s a particularly aloof beauty.”
“She is aloof,” Fu Jing nodded. “But I think she’s very good to me.”
“…”
Countless words of complaint instantly welled up to Qin Ziqin’s lips, so many that she choked. For a long while, she couldn’t utter a single word. She raised her hands in surrender: “Okay, then.”
Fu Jing had an idea: “The people at the bar told me that a common way to pursue beautiful women is to send gifts. But yesterday, when I said I wanted to buy her a bag, her expression wasn’t very good… She definitely doesn’t like bags! Come with me to the mall to pick out something else.”
“Sending gifts, that’s an old trick for tycoons,” Qin Ziqin rarely agreed. “It’s a tried-and-true method that’s been passed down through the ages. Especially effective against nightclub regulars.”
The two searched the map, and took a bus to the nearby most high-end department store.
It was filled with various well-known luxury brand counters.
Fu Jing hadn’t really frequented malls. She eagerly pulled Qin Ziqin into a luxury store that everyone had heard of, and she started Browse the ready-to-wear section.
She saw a garment that looked like both a cape and a raincoat, with a novel appearance.
Fu Jing curiously asked about the price.
The sales associate, with a professional fake smile, clearly replied: “Fifty-eight thousand yuan.”
Fu Jing: “…………”
She looked utterly astonished, as if she’d seen a ghost in broad daylight. She retracted her hand and whispered to the raincoat, “I am disrespectful.”
Qin Ziqin, seeing her acting like a complete country bumpkin, found it particularly amusing. She walked a few steps closer and quietly asked, “You still think fifty-eight thousand yuan is expensive?”
“Compared to my financial resources, it’s not expensive,” Fu Jing took a deep breath to adjust her emotions, frowning and speaking with a tone of profound distress, “But as someone who studies materials, I simply cannot, in good conscience, spend more than twenty yuan on this kind of casually stitched polyester.”
The sales associate standing not far away heard her boastful yet stingy remarks, and her expression was utterly disdainful.
Qin Ziqin glanced over and immediately said, gloating, “See? The sales associate is rolling her eyes at you.”
Her words were neither too loud nor too soft, just the right volume for others to hear.
As she looked up, there was a subtle, somewhat unapproachable sharpness in her gaze.
The sales associate’s gaze met hers, and reflexively, she reined in her contemptuous expression, forcing a smile as she said, “You can look even if you don’t buy.”
“You can only look? Can’t you even try it on?” Qin Ziqin pressed, pursuing the question.
Fu Jing hurriedly tugged at her sleeve, lowering her voice. “Why are you being so fierce to her? Let’s just leave quickly if we’re not buying.”
Qin Ziqin nodded, looking very unconcerned.
The two left the store.
Qin Ziqin mumbled, “When was I fierce to her? Also, aren’t you a physics student?”
Fu Jing said, full of conviction, “Physics means you have to learn everything.”
She looked back at the store behind them, hesitatingly asking, “Can I just go to the bank and buy her gold bars? She can display them for appreciation and sell them for food.”
Qin Ziqin rubbed her forehead, sighing, “For a first gift, can’t you just buy her a high-end lipstick? Do you really have to throw money around? Are you really that rich?”
Fu Jing thought for a moment, then answered the last simple question first: “I’m really very rich.”
“…”
Many things in the world are too unpredictable. Fu Jing had diligently saved money for so many years, and finally, she found a place where she wanted to spend. Yet, all the money she had spent over half a month was returned.
And Tao Xian even gave her a very decent part-time salary.
She also earned an hourly fee for substituting for Jiang Jianhua’s classes.
Taking classes at school in the morning was earning money, and entertaining at the bar at night was still earning money…
Fu Jing usually immersed herself in her studies, her parents covered her living expenses, and her hobby was financial management.
She truly had no opportunity to spend money.
Now, this little dragon, who had fallen in love with a beautiful princess, desperately wanted to offer up the gold, silver, and jewels she had painstakingly accumulated and collected in her cave over the years. To exchange them for fine clothes, delicious food, luxurious carriages, and splendid horses, all to win the beauty’s favor.
Qin Ziqin gave one last reminder: “If you spend money so carelessly, won’t your family get angry if they find out?”
Fu Jing was stunned. “I don’t think they will.”
••••
Before leaving the mall, Fu Jing still obediently bought a high-end lipstick and a luxury plush keychain worth a few thousand yuan. Qin Ziqin told her to give these two items first, and then decide the next step based on Gu Qingci’s expression and reaction.
Back home, Fu Jing called her mother.
The call was quickly answered.
“Hello.” The strong wind blurred the woman’s words. “What is it, Nannan?”
“Mom, are you busy?”
“…Not busy, go ahead and talk.”
There were sounds of many vehicles passing.
Fu Jing took off her shoes, went into her study, pulled out her laptop to check emails, and said in a casual tone, “Mom, if I became someone who spends money lavishly, would you be angry?”
“Did you buy anything? Do you have enough money?” Two questions came one after another.
But without waiting for Fu Jing’s answer, the woman on the other end of the phone said, “Your dad promised to buy you a sports car on your college graduation day, but you didn’t want it. Go and get that three to five million yuan and spend it.”
Fu Jing sat down, hearing the whooshing wind and the noise from near the train station growing louder on the other end.
She smiled, opened her email, and said while looking, “Mom, I have plenty of money, I just wanted to ask…”
“Go ask your dad for the money, be good, I can’t talk right now,” someone nearby called her. “Mom’s busy here, hanging up.”
“Oh,” Fu Jing quickly responded, “Okay…”
Before she could finish her “Goodbye, Mom,” she already heard the dial tone after the call disconnected.
Fu Jing paused, then habitually placed her phone aside. She opened her paper and started revising.
Her expression was serious and focused.
She had grown up; she no longer had the leisure to feel casually lost like when she was little. There were too many things in this world that could trouble her now, for instance, this diligently prepared paper that had been rejected, with revision suggestions that practically demanded she scrap it all and rewrite it.