Green Tea Beauty

      Lu Chi stood in front of the window on the second floor, staring at the private car slowly driving into the courtyard. Lin Shi Cha got out of the car and held Lin Bai Su's hand. The two were talking and laughing, with smiles on their faces.

     "If there’s anything you want to eat tonight, go to the kitchen and tell Auntie." Lin Shi Cha's voice vaguely came over.

     Looking up, she saw Lu Chi standing at the stairs. "Why did you come back so late today?"

     Lin Shi Cha expressed her helplessness, "Su Su suddenly wanted to eat the ice cream from Cheng Xi Bai Cao Hui. I had Xiao Si to wait in line for such a long time and it was so hot." As she spoke, she fanned herself with her hand.

     "Then you can't eat any other cold food today, or I'm afraid you'll get a stomachache." Lu Chi said gently, reaching out to take over Lin Shi Cha's bag, "Tired?"

     "How is it possible?" Lin Shi Cha acted exaggerated, but seemingly appeared to enjoy Lu Chi's care. She blinked her eyes and showed a sweet smile, "Ah Chi is the hard-working one..." She changed the topic, "I heard the company hired a female secretary, looking quite beautiful."

     Lu Chi arched his brows, "Jealous?"

     "I’m not." Lin Shi Cha flattened the corners of his lips and snorted, "I'm going to take a shower."

     Obviously she was jealous yet she still pretended not to care. Otherwise, how would she know about the secretary in the afternoon when she just started working earlier today?

     Lu Chi wasn’t unhappy with Lin Shi Cha's surveillance. On the contrary he was very happy. This showed that Lin Shi Cha cared about him.

     Her husband is the president of a large company, so it's normal for her to put a few people in the company to silently observe whether he has any ambiguous relationship with the female employees.

     Lu Chi, who was innately somewhat abnormal, wasn’t bothered about Lin Shi Cha's distrust of him.

     Lin Bai Su was very happy to see Lu Chi, "Uncle, why are you home so early today?"

     Lu Chi directly picked up Lin Bai Su. Knocking him on his head, he casually said, "What did you call me?" Lin Bai Su pouted, "Daddy, but my surname is not Lu."

     Lu Chi smiled, "Little wise guy, sooner or later your surname will be Lu." Lin Shi Cha kept disagreeing with Lin Bai Su's change of surname, saying that she wanted to wait for the birth of a child between them.

     As soon as she acted coquettish, Lu Chi couldn’t keep his stance.

     Lin Bai Su gave Lu Chi a peck, "Daddy, I left one of the ice creams that Uncle Xiao Si lined up to buy just now in the car. I’ll give it to you?" The little guy's eyes were shining brightly.

     "Okay." Lu Chi happily enjoyed the time between them father and son.

     There was a small refrigerator in the car, so the ice cream hadn’t melted the slightest.

     In the bathroom on the second floor, Lin Shi Cha was lying in the bathtub with her phone in one hand. When she relaxed, her usually gentle and amiable eyebrows were a bit sharp, especially when her eyebrows were raised. The indifference from the corners of her eyes made her whole face appear cold.

     A text from Tu Yue Ran popped up on the phone screen: Why did you help me?

     Lin Shi Cha typed and responded with her fair, slender fingers: Is there a reason needed to help others? I know Miss Tu holds no malicious intent.

     Tu Yue Ran: Nice try, I don't believe there’s still a real white lotus woman alive in this world.

     Lin Shi Cha deliberately paused for a while before replying: Xu Lie and Ah Chi have a close relationship, and Miss Tu is also his fiancée's cousin; If something happens to you, I'm afraid it will affect their brotherhood.

     Without talking about anything realistic, how could Tu Yue Ran believe that she sincerely helped her? People ah, are all like this.

     Sure enough, although Tu Yue Ran was a little annoyed, she believed it: I don’t need your concern! These are all done by me, I won’t implicate my sister and brother-in-law.

     What's more, Heir Hong Ran’s mind is quite open. At most, the two of them might have some rifts and won't start a fight. Perhaps Xu Lie might even apologize to Lu Chi.

     After a while, Tu Yue Ran spoke:

     —What did Big Brother Chi tell you? You actually didn't get angry.

     In response, Lin Shi Cha raised the corners of her lips and eyebrows, but she chose not to text back.

     On the other side, Tu Yue was so angry that she threw herself into her soft bed. She held up her phone to stare at Lin Shi Cha's profile picture, gritting her teeth with hatred.

    Opening her own emoji collection, she stabbed the screen and sent more than twenty emoticons of the ‘cat punching a sandbag’.

     "Ignoring me... ignoring me... ignoring me... Are you trying to piss me off?" Tu Yue Ran muttered, so angry that her eyes turned red.

     Right after sending those, Tu Yue Ran reacted and covered her head with a slap. Then, she curled up into a ball: "Oh, Tu Yue Ran, you're so childish!"

     Once she finished regretting, she sat upright with a kip-up. "What kind of bewitching soup did that little b*tch drug my Big Brother Chi with!!!!" Can she share some with her? She also wants to use it on Big Brother Chi… …

     Sure enough, two days later, Lu Chi's blows followed one after another. Tu Yue Ran knew Lu Chi liked to settle his scores, but she didn't care. Instead, she foolishly held her cheeks: “Big Brother Chi punches of love.”

     Tu Duo grabbed her ear and scolded: "Are you stupid? You? He doesn't like you at all!"

     Tu Yue Ran confidently retorted: "Big Brother Chi didn't say he doesn't like me, so he must like me!"

     "He even hit you."

     "Then why did he hit me and not others? He still likes me!"

     Tu Duo roared: "Scram!!"

     Why is my younger sister like those stinky men who can't understand human words? Where did this logic of self-indulgence and sentimentality come from?

     There was another round of negotiations between Xu Lie and Lu Chi.

     Before she knew it, it was Lin Bai Su's sixth birthday, which was on June twenty-seventh. This was a date that made people think too much.

     Lin Shi Cha is in a state of amnesia and can’t remember Lin Bai Su’s birthday, while Lin Bai Su was too young to know what a birthday is. Yet, according to him, every time he eats cakes, it’s summer, so June Lu Chi decided on June twenty-seventh himself.

     This was just a vague date.

     Gu Jing Ting also knew this.

     Lin Bai Su's birthday party was a big occasion and all his classmates from the school could come. With the school Lin Bai Su studied at, it can be seen what the levels of people who could come from Lu Chi's identity.

     Some people were gossiping, discussing how Lu Chi pampered even that dead weight that much, whereas many people also jest at him, but no one dared to say anything in front of him. After all, their lives were more important.

     Gu Jing Ting stood in front of the huge floor-to-ceiling windows, looking casually at the ant-sized vehicles driving on the road below. With the lights on, they all appeared like fireflies.

     Leaning back slightly against the desk, he rhythmically tapped the table with his fingers as the time passed bit by bit. Suddenly, he spoke to the people behind him, "Let's start, go collect Lin Bai Su's blood." Lu Chi attaches this much importance to Lin Bai Su, he must know whether the little boy is his seed.

     "Yes."

     After that sound, the office returned to silence and the lighting was dim.

     Lin Shi Cha sat in front of the dressing table and put on her earrings with one hand, while she looked at herself in the mirror with a focused pleasant gaze. When the people next to her flattered her, she only smiled.

     Moving her eyes slightly, she picked up that camellia ring and suddenly smiled.

     Lin Bai Su knocked on the door before entering. He raised his eyes to meet Lin Shi Cha's, the meaning in their eyes could only be understood by one another.

     "Arrived?" Lin Shi Cha smiled.

     This word held double meaning.

     Lin Bai Su raised his cute smiling face, "En, hurry up, Mommy."

     Another double meaning.

     The others tacitly understood their places and dispersed one after another, saying they were going to wait for her outside.

     Lu Chi's celebration of Lin Bai Su's birthday will definitely make Gu Jing Ting unhappy, because he thinks Lin Bai Su is his child. Although he hasn’t confirmed it yet, through the probing he did toward Lin Shi Cha and Lin Bai Su, he learned some clues. Therefore, he felt this probability was quite high.

     So at the birthday party, he decided to go for a paternity test.

     This is inevitable.

     Lin Shi Cha was able to anticipate Gu Jing Ting's move, thus she was always on guard, only now she accelerated the plan.

     Everything was already arranged and ready to be implemented.

     The opponent moved swiftly. Soon, on an outing, Lin Bai Su fell and scraped his knee. Xiao Si hurriedly took him to a nearby hospital for bandages. Don't blame him for making a fuss, he was afraid Lu Chi would lose his temper.

     The eyes of the man who worked for Gu Jing Ting flickered as he called to report the situation. That afternoon, Gu Jing Ting went to the hospital for blood collection.

     "Report back when the result comes out." After leaving this sentence, Gu Jing Ting went back to work.

     The results don’t even need to be looked at, the child was definitely not Gu Jing Ting’s. However, Lin Shi Cha couldn’t let the real result be sent to Gu Jing Ting.

     Xiao Tao, a nurse in the department, glanced at the two blood samples submitted, and said to Xiao Li, who was busy, "Hey, Xiao Li, didn’t you go on a blind date last night? What did you think of the other person?"

     Xiao Li and Xiao Tao usually have a good relationship, and would talk about their troubles to each other. Xiao Tao knew about Xiao Li’s constant blind dates, so Xiao Li didn't shy away from it: "Sigh, don't mention it, he was the densest man, so repulsive."

     The two talked while working.

     "Who is doing the paternity test again?" After talking for a long time, she got to the point.

     Xiao Li twitched her lips: "Who knows which rich family this person is? He urged me so hard and even gave me this much to have me watch over this to prevent someone from tampering with it. If you ask me, it is paranoia disorder. ’ She gestured with her fingers.

     Xiao Tao pretended to be shocked: "Wow, treat me out then."

     "Of course haha." Xiao Li was also happy, after all, this was a windfall.

     Xiao Tao feign taking an inadvertent glance at the two blood samples. She had to find a chance to tamper with it. Doing it on the inspection report would be discovered sooner or later, so it would be safer to do it directly in the extract.

     That five million wasn’t for free.

     Thinking of this, Xiao Tao squinted her eyes happily.

     Two days later, Lin Shi Cha received a text message from Xiao Tao: It's done.

     Lin Shi Cha had to see the report after it came out before paying Xiao Tao the final payment. She had already paid a deposit of one million beforehand.

     The entire paternity test process took five working days. When the deadline was reached, Lin Shi Cha paid off the remaining balance with satisfaction.

     Although she didn't know how to tamper with the blood samples, Xiao Tao studied genetics, so it was very simple for her.

     Money can even order ghosts around, let alone a normal person whose monthly salary is only a little more than three thousand yuan. Five million, to them, was a sky-high price.

     "My child? Eh?"

     In the dark, Lin Shi Cha was pressed into the narrow space. Both of them were out of breath when she pushed the man's chest: "What kind of daydream did you have? You and I only did it that one time five or six years ago, do you really think you would hit the target in one shot? Bah." She responded coldly.

     "The paternity test is already out and you’re still pretending, Lin Shi Cha." Gu Jing Ting narrowed his eyes and tugged Lin Shi Cha's hair with his hands. Lin Shi Cha was forced to raise her head, revealing her graceful neck for him to taste.

     "Paternity test?"

     Lin Shi Cha was stunned for a moment, then came her anger. Without even thinking about it, she slapped his face and pushed him back: "You bastard, beast! Get off!"

     "It’s not like I hurt him, why the uneasiness?" Gu Jing Ting replied lightly with no intention of getting up. He wasn’t bothered about the pain from Lin Shi Cha scratching and pinching at his good-looking face, "Don’t want to do it anymore?"

     "You think I want you?"

     Seeing Lin Shi Cha was truly angry, Gu Jing Ting finally coaxed her. "Why are you angry? Let’s just consider it my fault, hmm? I’m just anxious. You make my son call Lu Chi's father every day, how else do you want me to react?"





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Notes:
kip-up (鲤鱼打挺): a handspring back to an upright position.
Lu Chi's blows (陆迟的打击): I thought this was metaphorically, but later on, Tu Duo brings up how Lu Chi hit Tu Yue Ran again. So maybe Lu Chi did actually… ?