The Green Tea Supporting Girl Is Still Playing Her Role Today (GL) - Chapter 52

Chapter 52

Fang Ningshu made a phone call to security, and the security guard soon came over and said to Manager Qin, “President Xie is resting inside. You should receive your guests somewhere else.”

“Oh, so it’s President Xie.” Manager Qin did not have time to think more and quickly took the guests to his own office.

After a while, Xie Zhifei cautiously poked her head out. She turned back and waved to Wen Pinghan, said goodbye, and then swiftly slipped out the door. She pretended to be serious as she walked outside.

“Afei, is there something wrong with your body?” As soon as they got in the car, Xie Hongxu asked worriedly. “First you were in a hurry to urinate, and now you’ve been in the bathroom for almost half an hour.”

“No, I just had something come up temporarily that delayed me. I’m sorry to keep you waiting so long.” Xie Zhifei apologized.

“As long as you’re okay.”

When the car passed by the Gu family home, Xie Zhifei saw Wang Wan trimming flowers in the courtyard. She smiled and called Xie Hongxu to look together. “She must have gotten into trouble again.”

Xie Hongxu also laughed. “This girl never gives anyone a day of peace.”

After dinner, Xie Zhifei was chatting with her dad when suddenly a burst of hurried footsteps came from outside.

“Uncle Xie, have you seen Wang Wan?” Gu Zhizhang hurried in and only then noticed Xie Zhifei was there too. “Afei, you’re here as well.”

“Yes, what happened to Wang Wan? We saw her in the courtyard when we came back.” Xie Zhifei said.

“She ran away from home.” Gu Zhizhang frowned.

“You have experience with this. Ask her classmates and friends.” Xie Zhifei said.

Gu Zhizhang: “I’ve asked them all. No one knows where she is.”

“That’s strange. She used to run to those people’s homes before… Wait, did you call Fang Ningshu?” Xie Zhifei suddenly asked.

“No way?” Gu Zhizhang incredulously opened his phone. He did not know what he thought of, but he looked up at her, and everything was clear without words.

“Okay, I’ll ask.” Xie Zhifei called Fang Ningshu. “Hello, are you home?”

“I just drove back. What’s up?” Fang Ningshu asked.

Xie Zhifei: “Wang Wan ran away from home. We suspect she went to your place.”

“How is that possible? She… Okay, I see her.” Fang Ningshu held the phone and stood in the corridor, looking at the person hugging their knees and sitting at her doorstep.

Wang Wan heard the voice and lifted her head, smiling at her.

“Let Gu Zhizhang come pick her up.” After Fang Ningshu said that to the other side, she hung up the phone, took a deep breath, walked to the door, lowered her eyelids, and stared at her. “What are you doing running here?”

“My brother yelled at me. I don’t want to see him anymore.” Wang Wan said aggrievedly.

Fang Ningshu: “What did he yell at you for?”

“…I reported to Aunt about Wen Pinghan, and he overheard it.” Wang Wan’s voice got smaller and smaller.

“Serves you right.” Fang Ningshu’s voice was slightly cool. “You clearly know your brother likes her, yet you went behind his back to investigate Wen Pinghan for your aunt. Are you deliberately courting death?”

Wang Wan’s head drooped again. She mumbled, “But… Aunt told me to do it. I had no choice. I could only listen to her.”

Fang Ningshu did not want to say more to her. After she opened the door, the other person crawled in like a… turtle.

Fang Ningshu: “?”

“My legs are numb, and my butt hurts. I can’t stand up.” Wang Wan gave an embarrassed smile, crawled to the carpet, and then slowly propped herself up using the coffee table to sit.

Fang Ningshu took a sip of water and then took out her computer to work.

“Shu-jie, have you eaten? Why aren’t you making dinner yet?”

“I don’t cook.” Fang Ningshu said without lifting her head.

“Ah? Didn’t you say before that if I had time, I could come to your place to play, and you’d make me dinner?”

“I lied to you. It was just a pretense.”

“…” Wang Wan held it in for a long time before muttering, “With acting skills this good, why not go conquer Hollywood?”

“Too far. Don’t want to go.”

“…”

After a while, the doorbell finally rang. Fang Ningshu put down her computer and went to open the door. Gu Zhizhang and Xie Zhifei stood at the door.

She glanced at Gu Zhizhang, turned her head to Xie Zhifei, and said, “Take her away.”

Gu Zhizhang stepped aside, strode into the room, and said in a deep voice, “Come home with me.”

“I don’t want to go back.”

“What does it look like staying here? We can talk about whatever it is when we get home.” Gu Zhizhang said through gritted teeth.

Wang Wan pouted. “You just told me to get out of the Gu family!”

Gu Zhizhang took a heavy breath. “Fine, you get out. You get out, okay?”

“I don’t want you to get out! That’s your home, not mine!” Wang Wan said angrily, and then regretted it herself.

Disappointment filled Gu Zhizhang’s eyes. “Fine, then stay outside!” After saying that, he walked away without a care.

Fang Ningshu and Xie Zhifei exchanged a glance. After a long moment, she asked, “He just left like that?”

Xie Zhifei walked to the door and looked out. “It seems so…”

“Then what about this mess? He’s not taking her back?” Fang Ningshu pointed at Wang Wan.

Xie Zhifei: “Based on the current situation, it seems that way…”

“Fvck!”

Xie Zhifei and Wang Wan both looked at her in surprise, struck by an unprecedented shock.

“Sorry, I lost my composure.” Fang Ningshu calmed down in a second and said, “I don’t want to have any more unnecessary contact with the Gu family.”

“I understand.”

Both of them turned their gazes to Wang Wan at the same time, but Wang Wan was clearly still immersed in the shock of Fang Ningshu swearing just now. She stared at her with her mouth agape. “Shu-jie, you just—”

“Yes, I swore.”

“That was so cool!”

“…”

“It’s the first time I’ve seen you lose your temper. Before, you always had a smiling face, though now that I think about it, most of them were fake smiles…”

At that moment, Xie Zhifei received a text from Gu Zhizhang. She turned to Fang Ningshu and said, “Gu Zhizhang says if Wang Wan insists on staying here, he’ll pay for living expenses and food.”

Without another word, Fang Ningshu started packing her luggage. “Fine, let her stay here. I’ll go stay at a hotel.”

“Don’t, Shu-jie, Shu-jie, don’t go…” Wang Wan hurried to stop her. Seeing that she was determined to leave, she quickly said, “Okay, okay, I’ll go. I’ll go.”

Only then did Fang Ningshu stop. She said, “I’ve been very busy lately and don’t have time to take care of you. Go find your friends.”

Wang Wan nodded repeatedly and turned to walk outside.

Seeing that the matter was finally settled, Xie Zhifei left too, and on the way out, she reminded Fang Ningshu again. “You’re home now, so relax a bit. There’s no life in the house at all. The kitchen has never been used, right?”

“Are you looking for a cook who can make meals, or an assistant who can share your burdens?”

“I’ll take my leave!”

Xie Zhifei went downstairs and saw Wang Wan squatting at the entrance of the building like an abandoned cat. She walked up and asked, “Why haven’t you left yet? You’re not planning to spend the night here, are you?”

“None of your business.” Wang Wan said sulkily.

“Don’t you have a lot of friends and classmates? Why not go to them?”

“I’ve been abroad for several years. We’ve grown apart long ago.” Wang Wan said in a muffled voice.

“Then you could go to a hotel.”

“I just don’t want to go to a hotel. I want to stay here. Is that not okay?”

“Can you stop acting like a clingy bug? Fang Ningshu has her own things now and no longer works for your Gu family.” Xie Zhifei said.

Tears streamed down Wang Wan’s face. She turned her head away to avoid looking at her.

“…”

Xie Zhifei strode away and got in the car.

A moment later, the car backed up again. The window rolled down, and Xie Zhifei said through gritted teeth, “Get in the car!”

Wang Wan picked up her bag and dawdled before getting in the car. She sat beside her and cried nonstop. “Cousin will never like me again, wuwuwu. Shu-jie too, wuwuwuwuwu.”

“Why exactly did you run away from home?”

Wang Wan sobbed. “Because Cousin found out I was investigating Wen Pinghan.”

“Fvck, get out of the car!”

“Wuwuwuwuwu.”

After she cried enough, Wang Wan asked hoarsely, “Why haven’t you kicked me out yet?”

“What’s meant to come will come eventually.” Xie Zhifei said, pressing her temple.

In the original plot, there was also a scene where Gu’s mother ordered Wang Wan to investigate Wen Pinghan’s background, which led to Gu’s mother returning directly to the country to stop Gu Zhizhang’s romance. But later, Wang Wan became Wen Pinghan’s friend and spoke up for her several times in front of Gu’s mother.

But now, even if Gu’s mother returned to the country, she could not stop anything, since the romance was not even a shadow yet.

It was just that having one’s privacy secretly investigated made one angry, that was all.

With that in mind, she called Wen Pinghan and said, “Sister, what are you doing?”

“Watching a variety show. What’s up?”

“Let me tell you something.”

“Okay, what is it?” Wen Pinghan sat up from the sofa and listened intently to what came next.

Xie Zhifei directly turned on speakerphone and read, “Wang Wan, female, twenty-two years old, father died early, mother remarried, sent to live with the Gu family at age eleven, eccentric personality, annoying, willing to do anything to please Gu’s mother, such as…”

“Hey—!” Wang Wan shouted. “What are you saying?!”

“Just reporting your background to Sister.” Xie Zhifei replied.

“Who told you to say these things about me!?”

“When you secretly investigated someone else’s background, why didn’t you think about your own being dug up by others?” Xie Zhifei asked.

Wang Wan opened her mouth but could not find a reason to retort. After a long moment, she said fiercely, “But I didn’t say it to her face!”

“The result is the same.” Xie Zhifei turned her head to continue the call. “Sister, did you hear that?”

“I heard it. Can I beat her up?” Wen Pinghan asked.

“You can. If you beat her crippled, I’ll take responsibility.” Xie Zhifei said seriously.

“Hey!!!” Wang Wan shouted until her voice was even hoarser, but unfortunately, she had cried all her tears dry and could not cry anymore. She could only rage helplessly.

“What all did she find out? Do you know?” Wen Pinghan asked.

“I don’t know. She didn’t say.”

There was silence on the other end for half a minute before Wen Pinghan’s voice came, very soft and faint. “Can you not ask about it?”

“I won’t ask.” Xie Zhifei said.

“Thank you.” Wen Pinghan breathed a sigh of relief.

She was not afraid of Wang Wan investigating or of Gu Zhizhang or Gu’s mother finding out. She was just afraid of Xie Zhifei knowing about those annoying pasts.

After hanging up, Xie Zhifei fell silent, and even Wang Wan, who had wanted to vent her anger, was forced to quiet down.

“Hey, why aren’t you talking?” After a long time, Wang Wan could not help asking. She did not know if it was an illusion, but when Xie Zhifei looked over, there were complex emotions in her eyes, and she seemed to read a trace of… pity from that gaze?

Wang Wan shivered and thought to herself, you just revealed my background, and now you’re pitying me? Hmph! As if I’d care!

The two rode in silence all the way home. Xie Zhifei pointed to the guest room for her and then turned to walk out.

“Hey, where are you going?”

“None of your business.” Xie Zhifei threw that line back at her and pulled the front door shut.

“Hmph, better if you stay out of my sight.” Wang Wan shook her fist at the tightly closed door.

*

The car drove to the bottom of the apartment building. Xie Zhifei glanced at the time; it was already very late. What reason could she use to explain showing up here in the middle of the night?

She sat in the car for a while, told the driver to wait for her here, then got out and went to a nearby convenience store to buy two bottles of beer. After drinking them, she came to Wen Pinghan’s door and rang the doorbell.

“It’s so late. Why did you come over?” Wen Pinghan opened the door in surprise.

“Hic.” Xie Zhifei opened her mouth and breathed out at her, spraying her face with the smell of alcohol.

“Why did you go drinking? Can you still walk?” Wen Pinghan asked.

Xie Zhifei’s eyebrows rose slightly, and then she shook her head.

The next moment, Wen Pinghan put her arm around her waist and pulled her into the room.

Hehehe!

There was an unexpected bonus!

“Drink some water.” Wen Pinghan poured her a cup of hot water.

Xie Zhifei held the cup, her hands trembling.

Seeing this, Wen Pinghan took her cup, sat beside her, and fed her the water.

Hehehe!

After drinking the water, Wen Pinghan muttered, “Weren’t you pretty sober when we talked on the phone just now? Why did you suddenly go drinking?”

Xie Zhifei was afraid she could not fake being drunk well, so she simply reduced how much she spoke. She hugged her tightly and only said the key points. “Head… dizzy…”

“Rest for a bit.” Wen Pinghan held her shoulders and patted her gently.

Xie Zhifei was afraid she would laugh too happily and give herself away, so she closed her eyes and hugged the person tighter and tighter. Fortunately, the other did not find it awkward and push her away.

Wen Pinghan lowered her gaze and stared at the crown of her head for a long time, then looked at her pointed chin. She resisted the urge to stroke her cheek, turned her head, and looked out the window for a while.

At this moment, the person in her arms became a bit restless, wriggled a few times, and pressed her cheek to her neck. The friction of skin made her body tremble slightly, and her ears turned red. Fortunately, the other was looking down and could not see her state at the moment.

After discovering that Wen Pinghan still did not push her away, Xie Zhifei grew bolder, lightly brushing her lips over her neck as if kissing it, while also glad she could use being drunk as an excuse to cover her flushed face.

She did not know how much time passed before Wen Pinghan softly asked, “Are you asleep?”

“Mmm…” Xie Zhifei rubbed her eyes, pretending to just wake up, and asked groggily, “What time is it?”

“Almost twelve-thirty.”

“So late?!” Xie Zhifei startled, then let out two soft, weak whimpers. “I have to go back.”

“Is the driver still downstairs?”

“Yes.”

“I’ll walk you down.” Wen Pinghan held her waist as they walked out, and even made an excuse. “You’re drunk and might trip.”

“Okay~ Thank you, Sister~” Xie Zhifei half-closed her eyes and continued to pretend to be drunk. Her heart bloomed with joy.

Wen Pinghan sent her to the car and told the driver she was drunk, so drive slowly.

The driver was puzzled: drunk from just one or two cans of beer? How was that possible!

Just as he was about to ask, the seatback suddenly got kicked. Xie Zhifei stretched out her foot as if having a drunken fit, then lazily pulled it back.

The driver: “…”

The driver: “Don’t worry, Miss Wen. I’ll definitely get her home safely. Sigh, President Xie gets like this when she’s drunk; she insists on coming to see you. You must be a very important person to her.”

Wen Pinghan smiled faintly. “Be safe on the road.”

After the car drove out of the neighborhood, the driver quietly called out, “President Xie?”

Xie Zhifei sat up straight away and steadily gave a thumbs-up. “Well done. Raise in pay.”

The driver: “Hehehe!”