Life-Saving Days by the Husky’s Side

The dialogue was cut from their daily life conversation, and every sentence drove home the main point.

At first it was just some pranks, but later on, Song Xiao-Mei actually acted to find a troublemaker to destroy Song Yingshi, an idea which sent chills down people’s spines.

Liang Jingxiu whispered, “This was recorded when you didn’t take them home that day and came to watch the musical with us. Your little sister really can’t see how good you are. If you are even a little better than her, she gets angry.”

Song Yingshi was silent.

Sometimes, she wondered why they held such great malice towards herself. Her mother had already passed away and her grandma was also gone now. How part about her made her so intolerable to them?

Song Xiao-Mei was thrown onstage as the main exhibition and she trembled when she heard up to this part. She exclaimed, “No, no, no, I was just joking around!”

She appeared to realise something and instantly changed her words. “No, no wait, this is fake, I never said these things!”

Song Xiao-Di also recovered from the panic, promptly shouting, “Right, this is all fake, someone must’ve used a modulator!”

What a pity that the people in this room were not fools. They didn’t believe them one bit.

The recording continued, and Madam Song’s voice also made an appearance, educating the twins on how to make Father Song turn against Song Yingshi, because his attitude towards his children was to treat all of them fairly, not favouring one over another. Only when he turns against Song Yingshi will they be able to get more property in the future. Everything in this family should belong to them.

Father Song’s face turned ashen.

The pair of siblings were only in the second grade, and both had an especially smooth progression in the past. After being treated in such a way, they couldn’t hold on anymore and immediately collapsed under pressure, running off the stage.

At this time while their figures disappeared behind the backdrop, they could still hear Song Xiao-Mei screeching, “What the hell is with this recording, why aren’t you stopping it!”

The sound operator squatted in the toilet*, pretending not to hear her.

[T/N: not literally, basically just pretending to be on their phone]

The others also pretended to be deaf and dumb, watching them run out as they quietly stood around.

There was no other reason. The boss of the junior high school told everyone in private that some people wanted to pull something against this pair of twins.

The boss was a person in the rich-kids circle, and for him to specially go about his way to relay this message meant the people behind-the-scenes had quite the status. Besides, this pair of dragon and phoenix siblings were new transfers with only a small broken company back at home. It was easy to choose who to follow. Not to mention, Song Xiao-Mei was too capable of pretending to be innocent and weak. Many girls in her class didn’t like her and were very happy to see her on the receiving end of karma.

So not only the sound operator, but even this play was carefully selected by them in order to move the audience first before ripping off the cover to reveal the true colors of these two kids. Otherwise, what qualifications do a pair of unremarkable siblings have to take the lead when they only just arrived here?

The school leaders were basically required to attend the performances during the campus festival.

The students didn’t care so the teacher could only go and intervene himself, but his path was deliberately blocked by the students and he was delayed for almost a minute before he finally made his way over. When he arrived, almost everything that had to be leaked was leaked. Because it was a conversation that had quick back-and-forth dialogue, one minute revealed many secrets.

The recording was switched off with a press of a button. The auditorium was silent for a moment before exploding into an excited frenzy.

The lady who had held a pleasant conversation with Madam Song spared her no looks. Father Song listened to the surrounding noises and stood up to leave without another word.

Madam Song was originally panicking, but this movement made her freak out even more. She hurriedly chased after him, looked at Father Song’s face, and did not dare to speak or touch him.

While she anxiously followed behind for a while, she thought of her children and ran to the side to call them, but only her son picked up. Her daughter didn’t answer at all. She thought about Father Song’s state and didn’t rush after him, instead going to find her daughter with her son while making a call to Song Yingshi.

Liang Jingxian and Song Yingshi stood next to each other. Seeing the caller ID on her phone, he smiled with squinting eyes and said, “You can scold her, if that’s what you want. But if you want to suppress her, pretend to cry.”

Song Yingshi understood his intentions instantly.

In front of those three people, she has only ever suffered losses. She wanted them to taste their own medicine for once, and chose the latter option without a second thought. She answered the call. “Wei?”

For the first time, Madam Song tore off her amiable disguise in front of her, hissing angrily, “Did you put them up to this?”

Song Yingshi was greatly wronged today and entered her role very quickly, choking out, “I didn’t! Is it true, everything that was said out there? Are you really going to ruin me?”

Madam Song struggled for a while, thinking of having her help them persuade Father Song, and her attitude suddenly went through a sharp 180-degree turn. Unfortunately, after only a few words of explanation, the other side hung up from the deep sorrow she felt. The madam was so angry that she wanted to give this girl a few beatings.

Song Yingshi hung up the phone and looked at Liang Jingxiu.

Liang Jingxiu smiled and said, “Happy?”

Song Yingshi lips moved, unable to hold back, and she finally let out a laugh.

Zhou Li looked at them a little dumbfounded, leaning into Ji Shaoyan’s side, and gossiped in a low whisper, “Egg, don’t you think they’re acting a little ambiguously?”

Either stick with Eggy or go with A-Yan; why do you shout out whatever one-syllable word that comes to your head?

Ji Shaoyan stared at him warmly. “Change the name.”

Zhou Li said, “A-Yan.”

Ji Shaoyan replied “en”, following with, “It’s better for them to be together, lest you constantly keep her in your mind*.”

[T/N: to be concerned about]

Zhou Li said, “I never did that.”

He wanted to defend himself, but then they heard a sharp yell from in front of them, calling Song Yingshi’s name.

Everyone looked up and saw Song Xiao-Mei shoot over. Er-ge had seen her before, but he didn’t expect that she was filled with such malice. Afraid that she would do something, he blocked her with the other little brothers.

Song Xiao-Mei also recognized him and furiously spat, “Get out of the way!”

Er-ge said, “No. If you have something to say, just say it from here.”

Song Xiao-Mei madly pushed him a few times, but her opponent didn’t move at all. When she saw Song Yingshi looking at her with sharp eyes, she stared back coldly, losing even more of her sense of reason. She cursed, “Bitch, seducing men everywhere. Are all these guys the ones that you’ve seduced, did you get into bed with them ah, why are they so protective of you!”

Liang Jingxiu’s expression sank slightly, Song Yingshi was so enraged that he wanted to storm over and slap her, and the little brothers all froze in horror.

Er-ge said, “Fuck, stop screwing around, she is our brother!”

The other little brothers also confirmed, “That’s right, our Dage sees her as a brother, so she is our good brother!”

“Brothers value loyalty above all. If a brother runs into trouble, of course we need to help them!”

Zhou Li: “……”

Song Yingshi: “……”

The others: “……”

“Don’t you guys lie to me!” Song Xiao-Mei’s voice was sharp to the point of sounding detestable. “Even if you guys weren’t, that Dage of yours was seduced by her, what ‘brothers’ bullshit!”

The little brothers were finally provoked. “Piss off, our Dage has a partner!”

The former sister-in-law is the current brother, and the former brother is the current sister-in-law; there is nothing difficult to understand about this!

Song Xiao-Mei couldn’t process these words, dead-set on settling accounts with Song Yingshi.

Seeing that she couldn’t push them away, she began cursing up a storm. The more she scolded, the more disgusting the words grew. When Song Yingshi finally couldn’t hold back the urge to run over, Song Xiao-Mei was suddenly pulled back by someone, and then she just heard a clear ‘pa’. She was slapped in the face.

Father Song originally wanted to find Song Yingshi.

She had come to him with many protests recently, but he didn’t take them seriously. At this moment, the more he thought about it, the more disgusted he felt, and he wanted to find his eldest daughter to apologise. But before he made the call, he heard the ruckus in this area, then the sickening words that poured into his ears. 

He stared down at his youngest daughter and demanded, “Shut up.”

At the same time, Madam Song and Song Xiao-Di also scrambled over.

The two hurriedly ran to Song Xiao-Mei’s side and Madam Song burst into tears, gushing how it was her fault. The scene was very lively.

Although this was a small corner of the auditorium, as soon as the noise began to spread, the crowd around them gradually gathered. They would have to go home to resolve this matter.

Ji Shaoyan was not at all interested in these kinds of affairs brought up by useless parenting. He knows that the moment things go downhill, parents will never want their children to be classmates with such vicious people. The Song siblings were guaranteed to lose their place in Mingying.

He glanced at Zhou Li. “Still want to watch?”

Zhou Li happened to hear Father Song say “let’s go home”, and said, “Don’t want to. Let’s go ba, wander around elsewhere.”

Ji Shaoyan took him by the hand and toured around booths with various specialties.

Halfway through the morning, they had gone to grab a meal, and afterwards they waited for Liang Jingxiu’s ‘big gift’. They haven’t had the time to stroll around the remaining half of the booths. 

Zhou Li’s eyes swept around and said, “We’ve already gone through these ones.”

Ji Shaoyan said, “Some of the more creative classes put up different things in the morning and afternoon.”

Zhou Li was surprised, “Really?”

Ji Shaoyan nodded.

Zhou Li said, “What about your class?”

Ji Shaoyan: “We’ll put up different things tomorrow.”

Zhou Li: “What’re you selling tomorrow?”

“Tomorrow we will sell ornaments.” Ji Shaoyan smiled and said, “It’s all the items stuffed into my desk by others that weren’t taken when I put them around the classroom. Every year, the school festival is our way of cleaning out the room. Because of the low price, everything sells out quickly.” 

Zhou Li was rendered speechless for a few seconds. “Then let’s come out and play again tomorrow.”

Ji Shaoyan was very pleased. “You want to see what other people sent me?”

Zhou Li boasted, “Because I know it’s impossible for them to be more creative than me.”

Ji Shaoyan smiled and before he could speak again, he saw Ji Tianyang appear in front of them.

He was still in his Acting Mode, standing in front of a random booth in his usual relaxed manner, picking up a small box and opening it, then putting it back, then picking up another small box to look at before placing it back in the same way. Seemingly lacking interest, he went over to the next stall. 

Seeing that he seemed to be scrutinising these trinkets, Zhou Li let go of Ji Shaoyan with the intention to head over to say hello.

Ji Shaoyan also felt that Ji Tianyang’s booth-by-booth window shopping was a little too intense so he grabbed Zhou Li before he could leave, wanting to observe a little more.

It’s a pity that Ji Tianyang was too astute and quickly spotted them, making his way over to say hello. “Ge, Zhou-ge.”

Zhou Li smiled and said, “You’re by yourself?”

Ji Tianyang said, “En, I got bored, I just wanted to wander around then go home. I watched the plays in the morning, the one you guys put on was especially fun.”

Zhou Li didn’t want to talk about what he went through that morning and said, “It wasn’t anything special*.”

[T/N: 快别夸了/quickly stop praising; basically, he’s saying “shucks”]

Ji Tianyang said, “No, really, there’s posts about your show all over the forum.”

Zhou Li’s curiosity was piqued. He logged into the forum and checked, finding that apart from the gossipy posts about the Song family, most of them were centred around them, just as expected.

The last scene of him and Ji Shaoyan looking at each other was even photographed. The camera and composition was of good quality, and the picture looked very beautiful. Some brain-dead fans left messages along the lines of “I’m done.”

He studied his photo-self, who was gazing into Ji Shaoyan’s eyes, and was slightly startled.

His eyes were very focused. There was a light sparkle in the depths of his eyes, almost the same as when Ji Shaoyan looked at him.

Seeing him staring at the phone without any other movement, Ji Shaoyan asked, “What did they write?”

Zhou Li showed him the photo and said, “I want to make print a poster and hang it up at home, do you want one?”

Ji Shaoyan went silent for a few seconds. “Sure, give me a copy.”

Zhou Li: “And also your vampire one.”

Ji Shaoyan: “I don’t want that one.”

He paused and looked at Zhou Li with a smile, “But you can print out a photo shoot for me.”

Zhou Li was very happy. “Then let’s take photos of the two of us together.”

Ji Tianyang, who was regarded as a transparent person, stared at them silently, feeling that he should disappear. Thus, he said his goodbyes and promptly turned his head to leave.

Zhou Li was still reading the posts and soon came across a private group. Seeing that they were claiming they had more photos in the group, he pressed to join, and found that the verification information required him to fill in Ji Shaoyan’s birthday. He immediately understood that this was a fan group.

So he applied for a throwaway account, took the name “Xiao Mengmeng”, and used this spare account to join the group.

The verification passed quickly, and the group greeted with scattered flowers*, asking him if he was a follower of Ji-shao. Zhou Li was naturally under no pressure and grinned while typing.

[T/N: like confetti? idk]

Xiao Mengmeng: En, I like Ji-shao the most [happy]

Yan Family No. 1: Hello newcomer, most of the members here are sane fans, our Way is to not destroy other people’s feelings, don’t drag people into quarrels, or else we’ll kick them.

Little Mengmeng: Okay [obedient]

Ji Family No. 2: So many people joined today, they were all attracted by his looks. Husband is truly excellent.

Xiao Mengmeng: He has a partner already, it isn’t good to call him husband ba?

Anonymous: We’re calling him that privately, no need to be so strict.

Guang Nian: I don’t think they’ll last long.

Xiao Mengmeng: But I heard that they’re getting engaged ah.

This one sentence blew all the people in the group out of their hiding places.

Some only regarded Ji Shaoyan as an idol, some were face-cons, and only a few members were secretly in love with Ji Shaoyan, so while the first two were only surprised, the latter group went insane, saying that they didn’t believe anything, jumping up and down and demanding Zhou Li take out the evidence.

Xiao Mengmeng: I heard San-shao say it.

Xiao Mengmeng: How’s this ba, I’ll go and ask him again, on behalf of you guys.

Zhou Li followed through with his promise and opened WeChat, knocking on Zheng San’s profile.

Zhou Li: San-shao, do me a favor.

Zheng San: Tell me.

Zhou Li: I will apply for a throwaway WeChat account in a bit, named Mengmeng. After adding you, we’ll need to spam the screen first with emojis to get rid of the “you are friends” message. Then I’ll call you San-ge, and you call me Meng-mei.

Zheng San: ……

Zhou Li: Then I will ask you if Zhou-shao and Ji-shao are getting engaged, and you say they are planning to.

Zheng San: What the hell?

Zhou Li explained his prank in a few words.

Zheng San felt that his integrity will be lost and his reputation to be ruined, and refused to carry out anything he just said. Zhou Li had no choice but to send another message.

Zhou Li: It seems that it is time to let Xiao-Wen know that you actually care about him.

Zheng San: Come back!

Zhou Li: ?

Zheng San: Are you two really engaged?

Zhou Li: Not clear. Anyway, if anything gets leaked, I’ll take the responsibility and no one will blame you.

Zheng San: Fine ba, add away.

Zhou Li got what he wanted and forged the chat record, then sent a screenshot to the fan group.

The group was instantly thrown into a frying the pot again, and Zhou Li took the opportunity to educate them not to spread rumors of how the couple won’t last in the future. After all, what is the point of deceiving one-self?

The people in the group ignored him and continued to ugly-cry.

Zhou Li glanced over these reactions and found the sane fans to ask for the photos, then switched off his phone, content.

He tagged along with Ji Shaoyan around the school once in its entirely, walking to a popular ice cream stall to rest at the end of the tour.

The stall was put up by the third year high school seniors. They bought two ice cream machines and were very particular about the ingredients. It seemed like they would not make a profit even if they sold out of stock. However, the owners seemed to own both riches and good personalities, so they would be happy if people just ate what they sold.

Ji Shaoyan had Zhou Li sit down nearby as he went to buy him ice cream.

The senior sister who was in charge of watching the booth happened to be a member of the fan group. After handing him two cones, she could not hold back for long and smiled,”I heard that Ji-shao and Zhou-shao are getting engaged, congratulations.”

Ji Shaoyan raised his eyebrow slightly. “Who did you hear this from?”

The senior sister embarrassedly stammered, “Just… heard it through the grapevine.”

The gears in Ji Shaoyan’s brain started turning. “When did you hear about it?”

The senior sister said, “Today.”

Ji Shaoyan smiled and said, “En, thank you.”

He returned to their seat with the cones, handed Zhou Li one, and gazed into the other’s eyes with a soft smile.

Zhou Li said: “What?”

Ji Shaoyan smiled. “It’s nothing. Just, I heard that I’m getting engaged, so I’m a little happy.”

Zhou Li: “……”

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