Begging the Female Lead to Let Me, a Salted Fish, Go (GL) - Chapter 17
“Hmm… You got out of your junior’s car, and you’re wearing… your phone is different too!” Chen Chen looked at Shen Ying from head to toe, and finally asked with a confused expression, “Are you and your junior… are you in that kind of relationship?”
“Cough, cough, cough!” Gong Zhi, who was drinking tea, choked and started coughing. She patted her chest, feeling very uncomfortable. Shen Ying quickly got up and gently patted Gong Zhi’s back. Gong Zhi’s eyes watered from the coughing, and she kept waving her hands.
The commotion was so loud that it attracted the attention of others.
“Little sister!”
Gong Yi’s voice came from a distance.
Gong Zhi was startled and stopped coughing, only to hiccup instead.
[My brother? Am I hallucinating?]
She turned her head and saw Gong Yi walking toward her with a hurried pace, his handsome face showing concern.
Gong Yi walked quickly and came up to Gong Zhi. “Are you okay? Are you feeling bad?”
Gong Zhi had choked pretty hard. Her eyes were teary, and her whole face was red. She looked quite pitiful and called out softly, “Brother.”
The siblings had been in a bit of an argument over Shen Ying, but Gong Zhi was his sister whom he had watched grow up. Seeing her eyes red from coughing and her pitiful expression, Gong Yi also panicked a little.
Gong Yi quickly took out a handkerchief to wipe away Gong Zhi’s tears and comforted her. “It’s okay, it’s okay. Are you still feeling bad? Or did someone bully you?”
When he said “bully,” Gong Yi looked angrily at the two people in front of Gong Zhi. He first looked at Chen Chen, who was wide-eyed and covering her mouth with an excited expression. He had seen that look many times, so he quickly looked away.
He turned his head and looked at Shen Ying. But on that familiar face, there was none of the timidity and low self-esteem he had seen before. Instead, it was calm. This gave him a strange sense of frustration and unwillingness. He frowned. “It’s you? What did you do? If something happened to my sister…”
Gong Zhi grabbed Gong Yi’s hand and shook her head at him.
Shen Ying lowered her eyes. She looked at Gong Zhi wiping away her tears. For a moment, she didn’t know if Gong Zhi had really choked or if she was pretending, just like how the Gong Zhi from her past life would smile at her but scheme behind her back.
[Darkness meter: 97]
The darkness meter!
Gong Zhi suddenly jumped up. She grabbed Shen Ying’s hand, gave it a reassuring squeeze, and sniffled. Her throat was still a little raw, which made the corners of her eyes red.
But now was not the time to think about herself!
Gong Zhi suppressed her discomfort and looked at her brother. “Brother, I’m fine. I just choked. Shen Ying was helping me just now… By the way, why are you here?”
[Is this the plot again, the influence of fate?]
Gong Zhi felt a little annoyed. It was a kind of unwillingness to be constrained.
Gong Yi finally turned to look at Gong Zhi, his lips pursed. “I came to find you. Mom and Dad decided to come back unexpectedly and will be home tonight… You have to come home with me.”
It turns out I was the clown. If she hadn’t followed them, Chen Chen wouldn’t have seen Gong Yi. For a moment, Gong Zhi wanted to go back in time and beat up her confident self.
As for Zhang Shan “betraying” her whereabouts, she would have to lecture him.
Gong Zhi nodded and turned to Shen Ying. “Then I’ll go back first. You… hmm, you should go home early.”
She looked at Shen Ying with a bit of unease, afraid that Shen Ying’s darkness meter would jump again. She didn’t have many points to spare. It would be best for Shen Ying to go home early and not interact with other people.
Shen Ying quietly looked at Gong Zhi for a moment, then gently patted Gong Zhi’s back and asked softly, “Are you still uncomfortable?”
Gong Zhi shook her head.
Shen Ying’s expression relaxed a little. “Okay, your own matters are more important. You should go.”
Gong Yi pulled Gong Zhi over and glanced at Shen Ying again. He seemed to realize he had misunderstood her, but he couldn’t bring himself to apologize. He just nodded at Shen Ying. “Thank you for taking care of my sister. If you ever need anything, you can come to me for help.”
Shen Ying’s face was tight, and she didn’t reply.
Gong Yi huffed and pulled Gong Zhi away.
Gong Zhi turned her head and saw that Shen Ying had sat down again, but the excitement, surprise, and jealousy on Chen Chen’s face were all directed at Shen Ying.
Gong Zhi knew that the threads of fate had begun to move. Chen Chen’s jealousy of Shen Ying had finally surfaced.