The Green Tea Supporting Girl Is Still Playing Her Role Today (GL) - Chapter 63

Chapter 63

After hanging up the phone, Wen Pinghan gave an awkward smile.

At that moment, Xie Zhifei’s phone rang too.

“Ah Fei, where are you? Come over quickly; I want to introduce you to a few of my friends,” Xie Hongxu said over the phone.

Xie Zhifei knew the main event had arrived. She said she would be right over and then hung up the phone.

“Go on, good luck,” Wen Pinghan encouraged her.

“Then what about you, Sis?”

“I’m going back to continue celebrating Lin Zhimin’s birthday.” Wen Pinghan smiled, raised her hand to adjust the brooch on her dress, and said with a laugh, “You look so beautiful today, really, especially beautiful.”

Xie Zhifei could not help but feel proud: “So, am I likable?”

“Yes.” Wen Pinghan nodded.

“Likable to you?” Xie Zhifei pressed her luck and asked.

Wen Pinghan raised her eyes and smiled slowly: “Yes, who would not like you? Go on now; do not keep everyone waiting.”

“Okay, then I will head over first.” Xie Zhifei picked up her skirt and walked ahead.

Wen Pinghan followed behind, her hand lightly placed at the small of Xie Zhifei’s back, supporting her gently. After they left the conservatory, the two walked together toward the main hall.

But Xie Zhifei was going to meet the guests, while she was going back.

As she walked out of the hall’s entrance, she turned her head for a glance. She saw Xie Zhifei beside Xie Hongxu, greeting that circle of uncles and elders. Her lips curved into a smile, and then she went to find Wang Wan’s car.

Two people sat in the car. Fang Ningshu sat quietly in the driver’s seat, holding a box of tissues in her hand. Wang Wan sat in the passenger seat, constantly pulling out tissues and then wiping her tears.

When she arrived, Fang Ningshu opened the car door and got out: “You two go back first. Just now, she bumped into her aunt and got scolded by her aunt again. But before that, what happened between her and Gu Zhizhang?”

“She did not tell you?” Wen Pinghan wondered.

“No.”

“Then forget it; it was nothing that made anyone happy anyway.” Wen Pinghan got into the car and then said, “By the way, she got taken by Chairman Xie to meet guests. You should hurry over.”

Fang Ningshu nodded: “Okay, drive safely.”

Wen Pinghan drove the car out of the villa. After a while, while waiting at a red light at the intersection, she turned her head and asked: “Shall I drop you home?”

“I am not going back.” Wang Wan asked glumly, “Where are you going?”

“Singing.”

“That works; I will go too.”

“…… You said two hours ago that singing was boring, and besides, I am going to a colleague’s birthday party.”

“A birthday party, huh? Sounds lively; I will go too.”

“…… No, you do not even know her.”

“I can get to know her and then we will be friends.”

Wen Pinghan had no choice but to call Lin Zhimin and say she wanted to bring a friend along. Lin Zhimin agreed right away and even urged them to hurry.

But when she saw Wang Wan in person, Lin Zhimin’s jaw nearly dropped to the floor. She pulled Wen Pinghan aside and whispered: “Is not that the person who has a grudge against you? Why did you bring her here?”

“Yes, it is complicated; just think of her as someone who came to mooch drinks.”

“Reincarnated drunkard?” Lin Zhimin turned back to look at Wang Wan sitting alone in the corner, downing one drink after another. Then she walked over and said with a smile, “Beauty, since you are here, how about singing a song?”

Wang Wan looked up at her: “Sure.”

“What do you want to sing? I will pick it for you.”

“How about ‘Better to Shamelessly Cling to Life Than to Die Well’?”

“…… There is no such song.”

“Then pick ‘This Fucked-Up World’.”

“That one is not here either.”

“Then what songs do you have here!”

“We have ‘Happy Birthday’.” Wen Pinghan walked over, picked the song for her, and shoved the microphone into her hand: “Sing.”

Wang Wan sang and sang until she started crying. Everyone else was dumbfounded, and Lin Zhimin whispered: “People who do not know would think she came to wail at my funeral.”

After one song ended, Wang Wan suddenly got excited and ordered more than a dozen in a row. She finally found one she knew, and Lin Zhimin hurried over to sing it with her.

The group came out of the KTV, and everyone’s voices were hoarse.

“Mommy, that girl is fierce; she actually dueled us on the high notes.” Lin Zhimin’s voice had turned into a duck’s quack.

Wang Wan was no better off; she said in a breathy voice: “Who told you to suddenly blast those high notes?”

“That chorus was meant to go up to the high notes anyway.”

“Whatever, whatever; let’s go eat. It is on me. Order whatever you want!” Wang Wan said generously.

Lin Zhimin: “No way; it is my birthday today, so I am treating!”

“I said it is on me, so it is on me! Come on, five-star buffet!” Wang Wan pointed happily at the hotel across the street. Everyone else got excited, and Lin Zhimin immediately grabbed her hand: “Rich sis, count me in!”

Everyone happily ate the buffet. Lin Zhimin and Wang Wan hit it off and chatted away, while Wen Pinghan kept checking the messages on her phone.

Wen Pinghan: [Have you eaten?]

Xie Zhifei: [The banquet just started.]

Xie Zhifei: [Picture]

Wen Pinghan also took a photo of the food in front of her and sent it: [Wang Wan is treating.]

Xie Zhifei: [Next time, I will treat you!]

Wen Pinghan: [Sure, I will wait. [Grinning]]

Xie Zhifei: [Yes yes! [Rose]]

“What are you smiling about? Your mouth is split like that?” Wang Wan suddenly leaned over and asked.

“Nothing.” Wen Pinghan put away her phone and started peeling shrimp. Suddenly she asked, “By the way, you said most people in your circle have arranged marriages, so is the Xie family like that too?”

“Of course.” Wang Wan said casually, “Xie Zhifei has known since she was little what kind of family she would marry into, so she set her sights on my cousin early on. And do you think Uncle Xie would marry his precious daughter to some poor boy?”

Wen Pinghan frowned slightly and lost her appetite, so she put the peeled shrimp into Wang Wan’s bowl.

“For me?!” Wang Wan looked at her in surprise and said after a long moment, “You are the second person to peel shrimp for me; the first was my aunt.”

“Do not look like you are about to die from being touched. I just do not want to eat it,” Wen Pinghan said.

“……” Wang Wan swallowed her emotion back down.

“But speaking of which, a few days ago, I overheard my aunt telling Uncle Xie about wanting to become in-laws.” Wang Wan said again.

Wen Pinghan looked at her in surprise: “And then?”

“Uncle Xie refused, so I guess he has a better choice.”

“Li Hongyan?” Wen Pinghan asked.

“Possible. Today he even specially took Xie Zhifei to the Li family banquet; maybe he has that idea in mind.” Wang Wan ate the shrimp and said, “Do you have any appetite left? If not, peel two more for me.”

“……”

After the meal, everyone thanked Wang Wan profusely before they all parted ways.

Wen Pinghan turned to look at Wang Wan: “Are you not going back yet?”

“I do not want to go back.” Wang Wan looked down and poked at the ground with her high heel.

“Then where do you live?”

Wang Wan suddenly looked at her with sparkling eyes.

“……”

Wen Pinghan opened the door to her home: “You sleep on the sofa.”

“Why? Do you not even have an extra bed?”

“No, I am poor; the sofa is the only option. Will you stay or not?” Wen Pinghan asked.

Wang Wan circled the sofa a few times with a complicated expression and then settled down on it grudgingly.

At ten thirty, Wen Pinghan finished her shower and lay in bed watching a variety show when her phone rang. She immediately tossed aside the iPad and quickly picked up the call: “Hello, are you home?”

“Yes, just got back. What about Sis?”

“I already showered and am ready for bed.”

“That sounds nice. I am exhausted; I smiled all day, and my cheeks hurt.” Xie Zhifei let out a long sigh toward the ceiling.

Wen Pinghan pictured her like that and teased: “Come over, and I will rub them for you.”

“Really? Then I am coming right now!”

“Hey, wait; I was joking. Wang Wan is staying over here.”

“You two are getting close fast, huh? Will she replace me tomorrow?” Xie Zhifei asked sourly.

“How could that happen?”

“Anything is possible, unless……”

“Unless what?” Wen Pinghan asked slowly.

“Unless I am your most important person!”

“Ah Fei, who are you talking to on the phone?” Xie Hongxu suddenly called out. “Come here; I need to talk to you.”

“Okay, in a bit.” Xie Zhifei responded.

“You go take care of business first,” Wen Pinghan said.

“Okay, then I will go now. We will chat more later!”

When she came out of the study after talking business with Xie Hongxu, she opened her phone and saw that Wen Pinghan had sent her a message more than ten minutes earlier.

[You are.]

Xie Zhifei stared at those two words and suddenly felt enveloped in immense joy.

“Aaaaaaaaaah!”

“What is wrong? What happened?” Xie Hongxu rushed out of the study, startled.

“Nothing; I am just so happy!” Xie Zhifei happily threw her arms around Xie Hongxu. “Dad, I am so happy!”

“You are this happy just because I am taking you to a private banquet tomorrow?” Xie Hongxu laughed.

Xie Zhifei’s smile fell: “We are not talking about the same thing. Whatever; I am not telling you. I am going back to my room—aaaaah!”

In the two days of holiday after New Year’s Day, Xie Zhifei got dragged by Xie Hongxu to various social events and stayed busy nonstop.

Meanwhile, Wen Pinghan finally had some downtime. Every day, she stayed home cooking a bit, watching shows, and following videos to do yoga.

“Your life is so boring.” Wang Wan sat on the sofa munching an apple as she watched Wen Pinghan do yoga. “Not a single bit of variety.”

“Shut up; when are you going back exactly?”

Wang Wan answered irrelevantly: “Are you starting work tomorrow?”

“Yes.”

“Is work fun?”

“Not fun.”

“Then why go?”

“If I do not go, I will starve to death.”

Wang Wan took several bites of the apple. When she saw Wen Pinghan finish yoga and then pick up a book to read, she asked curiously: “Do you ever feel like your days are empty?”

“It is okay; when I get busy, I do not think about all that stuff. You, though—you are too idle. You are idling yourself into issues, stirring up trouble where there is none.”

Wang Wan choked: “I am mad, but I also think you are right. Oh, by the way, I just ordered a washing machine.”

“Another one?!” Wen Pinghan was utterly speechless.

Wang Wan had stayed for two days, complaining about this being old and that being broken. She replaced the fridge, microwave, and oven with new ones. The newly arrived robot vacuum was still working, and now a washing machine was on its way too.

“You really are a big philanthropist.”

“Just think of it as my rent,” Wang Wan said indifferently.

Wen Pinghan thought for a moment and then suddenly said: “I know why you like Fang Ningshu so much.”

Wang Wan turned her head to look at her.

“Is it that whenever someone is even a little nice to you, you feel endlessly grateful? When you got in trouble, your cousin had no time to handle it, and you were afraid your aunt would scold you, so you could only turn to Fang Ningshu to fix it. You must have relied on her a lot before, right?”

Wang Wan tossed the apple core away and said glumly: “I used to think she would always stay in the Gu family. I never imagined she would leave one day too. And the next one to leave will be me.”

Wen Pinghan sighed and patted her shoulder: “Leaving might just be a kind of growth too.”

At those words, Wang Wan looked at her in surprise, and her heart did not feel quite so heavy anymore.

“Is everyone destined to leave in the end?”

“Only because of leaving do we have meetings.” Wen Pinghan smiled. “I left the place I hated and then met the person I like.”

Wang Wan pondered that for a while before suddenly reacting: “The person you like? Who?! Please do not say it is my cousin; Aunt really would skin you alive!”

“It is not; your cousin is nothing.” Wen Pinghan spat in disgust.

“Hey, do not say that to my face; he is my cousin……”

“He is nothing; do you not want to curse him out?”

“……”

After the holiday ended, it was time to get back to work. Early in the morning, Wen Pinghan went to the new office, but Xie Zhifei did not show up.

Fang Ningshu said she had gone to headquarters for a shareholders’ meeting and would return in the afternoon. Then she took them around to get familiar with the office layout on that floor.

At noon, while eating in the office, Xie Zhifei’s call came in suddenly. She picked it up right away.

“Sis, I will be back at the company soon.”

“Okay, are things at headquarters done?”

“Yes, I am out eating with Dad right now. Once we finish, I can head back. Hehe, are you getting used to the new office?”

“It is great; I like it a lot.” Wen Pinghan looked up and could see the marketing manager’s office right in front of her to the side. Unfortunately, it was empty at the moment, but she would see her soon enough.

Just thinking about how she could look at her like this every day from now on made the smile on her lips impossible to suppress.

“That is good, as long as you like it.” Xie Zhifei chuckled. “Okay, no more talk; I am going to eat. The sooner I finish, the sooner I can come back.”

“Yes, okay.”

After the call ended, Wen Pinghan still held her phone lingeringly. At that moment, Wang Wan sent her a video.

Wang Wan: [Eating out and ran into Xie Zhifei. Look what I discovered again!]

Wang Wan: [Video]

Wang Wan: [Twisting around like a pretzel; she must be talking to the person she likes!]

Wen Pinghan opened the video and saw Xie Zhifei leaning against a pillar on the phone, twisting her legs one moment and covering her face the next, giggling nonstop.

Wen Pinghan: [When was this filmed?]

Wang Wan: [Just now, maybe a minute ago.]

Wen Pinghan slowly set her phone down on the table, pinched her thigh, and felt the pain. Then she suddenly laughed once, and the smile grew deeper and deeper. An unprecedented sense of pleasure enveloped her and lingered for a long time.

Sure enough, that annoying ghost was herself.