After Being Scummed – Chapter 68

by Little Panda

Awooo, doggy is shocked!

The two embraced in the car for a good while, telling each other of their longing and feeding the driver, Xiang Qiu, a huge basin of dog food, before finally heading to the private kitchen restaurant that had been booked beforehand.

After arriving at the restaurant, Yin Bai told Xiang Qiu to go order and have a meal herself, then led Zuo Jingyou towards the previously booked private room.

After the two were seated, the waiter began to serve the dishes according to the order. This private kitchen specialized in Sichuan cuisine¹, which, according to Zhang Yu, tasted very authentic. Yin Bai had ordered dishes suited to Zuo Jingyou’s taste based on Zhang Yu’s recommendation.

When those plates full of red chili peppers were placed on the table, Zuo Jingyou looked at Yin Bai in astonishment: “You ordered these dishes, can you eat them yourself?”

Don’t end up gulping down water after you’re done eating, panting like a little puppy, sihasiha².

Yin Bai pointed to the warm water placed to the side, smiling as she said to Zuo Jingyou: “It’s okay, I have this. As long as it’s something Teacher Zuo can eat, I can eat it!”

Zuo Jingyou sighed, looking at her with a sense of helplessness: “Being able to eat and liking to eat are two different things. Yin Bai, you don’t have to accommodate me so much. I can also get used to the flavors of Haicheng.”

Yin Bai didn’t feel this was an accommodation.

She picked up a portion of food for Zuo Jingyou with her chopsticks, placed it in her bowl, and said with a smile: “I’m treating Teacher Zuo to a meal, so of course we have to eat Teacher Zuo’s favorite dishes! When Teacher Zuo treats me in return next time, just treat me to my favorite, and that will be fine!”

Zuo Jingyou looked at her softly: “Treat you to sweet and sour pork ribs³?”

Yin Bai said with a grin: “Nope!”

“If not sweet and sour pork ribs, then what could it be?” In her memory, Yin Bai didn’t seem to show a particularly obvious liking for any food.

Yin Bai’s eyes curved, and she looked at Zuo Jingyou with extreme playfulness, saying in a tiny voice: “My favorite thing to eat is, of course, Teacher Zuo!”

Oh, so this eat was not that eat.

No matter how mature and calm Zuo Jingyou was, she couldn’t help but blush slightly. She shot Yin Bai an angry⁴ look and said with some shy annoyance: “Improper!”

Yin Bai replied with a beaming smile: “I was never a proper person to begin with, I have no need for propriety!”

Yin Bai had gained the upper hand verbally, and Zuo Jingyou couldn’t be bothered to argue with her. The two continued to chat about daily life, and soon, because Yin Bai couldn’t handle the spiciness, even when rinsing the food in water, she began to stick out her tongue and pant, sihasiha, just like a little puppy.

Watching her continuously gulp down water, looking like she was afraid of the spice yet still wanted to eat, Zuo Jingyou’s heart ached, and she also found it a bit funny: “See, I told you you couldn’t eat it. This tongue of yours can’t take it the moment it touches spice, let alone this level of spiciness.”

Zuo Jingyou sighed, asked the waiter to bring a glass of milk, and said helplessly: “In the future, let’s not eat things that are so spicy. The two of us can find a middle ground.”

Yin Bai drank the water in small sips, the tip of her nose red and her eyes watery as she looked at Zuo Jingyou: “I didn’t expect it to be this spicy either…”

Helpless, Zuo Jingyou flicked her on the forehead with a bent finger: “Alright, if you can’t eat it, then don’t. I’ll take you to eat something else in a bit.”

Yin Bai shook her head and said: “There are still non-spicy dishes, I’ll just add another dish.”

In the end, Yin Bai still surrendered to the chili peppers and chose to give up.

After the meal was finished, Zuo Jingyou had enjoyed herself, but Yin Bai was still clamoring about how spicy it was after they left.

Seeing her like this, Zuo Jingyou had Xiang Qiu buy a few cartons of yogurt and fed them to Yin Bai on the road.

In the spacious back seat, Yin Bai tore open the yogurt carton, placing the thick, milky liquid to her lips, trying to drive away that fiery sensation.

Sitting beside her, Zuo Jingyou looked at the milk stain on the corner of Yin Bai’s mouth and found it very comical and amusing.

She reached out her hand, like a gentle mother, and wiped the milk stain from the corner of Yin Bai’s mouth, saying helplessly: “How are you just like Tongtong, getting it everywhere when you drink.”

Yin Bai looked up, not understanding, her pair of beautiful gray-blue eyes shining in the dark night like those of a fawn. The neon lights from outside reflected in her pupils, projecting a kind of worldly-unaware purity.

Zuo Jingyou’s heartbeat skipped half a beat. She pressed her thumb against the corner of Yin Bai’s lips, her fingertip stroking back and forth across her soft lip, gazing at her in the dim back seat, her eyes holding an unspeakable, dark light.

Yin Bai raised her eyes to meet Zuo Jingyou’s gaze, understood the emotion contained in her eyes, and her own heart began to beat faster. She stuck out the tip of her tongue, licked Zuo Jingyou’s fingertip, and called out in a low voice: “Teacher Zuo?”

“Hm?”

Zuo Jingyou caressed her lips, her gaze deep and calm.

Yin Bai was most unable to resist this appearance of hers, always gazing at herself so gently, her eyes full of tenderness and love. In Zuo Jingyou’s eyes, Yin Bai felt she was completely enveloped.

All of her emotions and little willful moments were held within Zuo Jingyou’s gaze, tolerated and cherished by her.

The moment she was being looked at by Zuo Jingyou, she felt as if she had returned to a person’s most initial, most primitive place.

She seemed to have been taken into Zuo Jingyou’s body.

Yin Bai gave her a deep look, then raised her hand and drank the yogurt in her hand in one go. A moment later, with a milk stain on the corner of her mouth, she kissed Zuo Jingyou.

The partition in the back seat rose silently, blocking out all the noisy sounds. Neon lights shone in continuously through the car window as the car moved at a steady speed, illuminating Yin Bai’s overly pale face in flashes of light and shadow. Under the cutting of the light, her face, whose lines were already sharp, had the cold feeling of a marble statue.

Zuo Jingyou was held in her arms, looking up at her face, when she suddenly felt a subtle pain on her neck.

She thought in a daze, is Yin Bai a puppy, or a vampire?

One is cute, the other is handsome and beautiful… but no matter which one, they both have one thing in common: they like to bite people.

The night wind gradually deepened. In the cold winter night, the car was steaming with a warm and harmonious atmosphere. The excessively high temperature made the ears of Xiang Qiu, who was driving in the front row, turn red.

She drove the car out from the most prosperous city center area, circled the brilliantly lit coastline a few times, and then drove Yin Bai and Zuo Jingyou back to the hotel.

After escorting Yin Bai and Zuo Jingyou back to the booked suite, Xiang Qiu, who had gained much experience, fled in a panic without choosing her path⁵.

Zuo Jingyou watched Xiang Qiu’s hastily departing back, then turned her head to look at Yin Bai and said with extreme helplessness: “Teacher Yin, you’ve scared the child…”

She really hadn’t expected Yin Bai to be so bold as to dare to do anything.

Yin Bai, leaning on her cane, spread her hands with extreme innocence and said: “This can’t be blamed on me. Besides, she’s a young person in her twenties, not a small child anymore.”

“Young people should have the composure of young people.”

Zuo Jingyou glanced at her, a faint smile on her lips.

She thought to herself, when you’re calling yourself a little kid every day, how come you don’t remember that you’re an adult?

Yin Bai reached out and tugged her sleeve, saying excitedly: “Teacher Zuo, Teacher Zuo, let’s take a bath together today!”

Zuo Jingyou nodded and said very indulgently: “Okay.”

And so, after using up the energy from dinner, Yin Bai was helped into the bathroom by Zuo Jingyou.

The hotel’s bathtub was very large. Zuo Jingyou, feeling lazy all over, soaked in the hot water, leaning against the edge of the tub, exposing her back and waist for Yin Bai to massage for her.

The comfortable force on her waist temporarily relieved the pain in Zuo Jingyou’s body.

Feeling the comfort in her waist, Zuo Jingyou couldn’t help but think of the craziness in the car earlier. She thought of how skilled Yin Bai looked, and a faint sense of indignation grew in her heart.

Zuo Jingyou bit her lip lightly, hesitating for a good while before leaning on the edge of the tub and pretending to say nonchalantly: “Why are you so skilled… Did you used to… in the car… with Xiao Nian… very often?”

The moment Yin Bai heard this name, alarm bells rang wildly in her mind. She shook her head fiercely, flinging her hair like a rattle drum as she denied it: “No, no, nothing of the sort…”

“I’ve only ever done it with you!”

Zuo Jingyou turned her head, looking at Yin Bai with great suspicion: “Really never?”

Yin Bai nodded vigorously: “That’s right, never!”

Even if she had in the past, she would never say it in front of Zuo Jingyou! Wasn’t that just courting death?

“Alright.” Zuo Jingyou sighed, biting her lip and saying helplessly: “Forget it, it’s nothing. It was me who was too petty.”

After all, who doesn’t have a past.

Seeing the alarm was canceled, Yin Bai let out a long sigh of relief. She smiled, reached out to pull Zuo Jingyou into her arms, and said with a grin: “It’s not that Teacher Zuo is petty, it’s that Teacher Zuo loves me too much.”

“Sometimes when I think about Teacher Zuo having had a past with someone else, I also feel very upset.”

“Ah, not just that. When I see Teacher Zuo’s old movies, hugging or kissing someone else, or even having bed scenes, I get very, very jealous!”

“But as soon as I think that Teacher Zuo loves me, and only loves me, I become completely calm.”

Hearing this, Zuo Jingyou felt a little more at ease. She looked up, asking Yin Bai: “Really?”

Yin Bai nodded emphatically, speaking with great sincerity: “Of course it’s really like that. With Teacher Zuo’s love, I can resolve many things.”

Zuo Jingyou thought for a while, seemingly lost in thought. Yin Bai, who was holding her, saw that she was no longer pursuing the past and began to change the subject: “By the way, Teacher Zuo, aren’t you picking a script recently? I found a good one today and think you could give it a try. I’ll send the script to your email, what do you think?”

Originally, Zuo Jingyou was still thinking about how to bring up this topic, but Yin Bai had walked right into it herself. Zuo Jingyou thought, if not now, then when?

She pursed her lips into a smile, looked up at Yin Bai, and said: “I already have a script in hand. The story is good, and the crew members are also very outstanding.”

Yin Bai’s eyes lit up at once: “What kind of script, tell me about it?”

Zuo Jingyou’s lips curved up. Her fingertips brushed over Yin Bai’s shoulder, seemingly there but not, as she said: “A story about a young woman and a streetwalker…”

“The role I want to take is that of the streetwalker.”

Yin Bai’s eyes instantly widened: “Street! Walker!”

Zuo Jingyou looked at her expression and nodded with a smile: “That’s right. Why, do you think it’s not suitable? Although there will be quite a few intimate scenes, because the partner is female, I can accept it.”

“By the way…” Zuo Jingyou raised her hand, hooked Yin Bai’s chin, and said in a very flirtatious manner: “The actress playing opposite me is someone you are also very familiar with…”

Yin Bai was still immersed in the emotion that her girlfriend was going to act opposite someone else, and the doggy was not happy at all.

She blinked her eyes, swallowed the jealousy in her throat, and said sourly: “Who is that woman?”

Who is she! Who is it! Which seductive vixen is going to be all lovey-dovey with her girlfriend!

Zuo Jingyou’s lips curved into a smile. She caressed Yin Bai’s lips with her fingertip and said with extreme charm: “My dear~ of course it’s your ex-girlfriend~ Teacher Xiao Nian~”

Yin Bai’s brain instantly short-circuited…

LP: This chapter made me laugh so hard!

Re-translated on July 27, 2025

Footnotes

川菜 | chuān cài | A style of Chinese cuisine originating from Sichuan Province. It is famous for its bold, pungent, and spicy flavors, resulting from the liberal use of garlic, chili peppers, and the unique Sichuan peppercorn, which creates a “numbing” sensation (麻辣 | má là).
斯哈斯哈 | sī hā sī hā | An onomatopoeia for the sound of panting or breathing heavily, often used to describe someone’s reaction to eating very spicy or hot food.
糖醋小排 | táng cù xiǎo pái | A popular Shanghainese dish of pork ribs cooked in a sweet and sour sauce. It is known for its rich flavor and tender texture.
嗔 | chēn | To show anger or displeasure, but often in a coquettish, pouting, or non-serious manner.
慌不择路 | huāng bù zé lù | A Chinese idiom (chengyu) meaning to flee in such a panic that one doesn’t pay attention to the path they are taking. It describes a state of extreme haste and desperation.

4 Comments

KAT

Feb 5, '24 at 5:53 PM

which seductive sl*t? why, who else? it’s your EX! LMAOOO

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KAT

Feb 5, '24 at 4:53 AM

which seductive sl*t? why, who else? it’s your EX! LMAOOO

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meizi

Dec 6, '23 at 5:42 AM

aaaaaahhh can’t wait to see Yin Bai’s reaction in the next chapter 😂

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meizi

Dec 5, '23 at 4:42 PM

aaaaaahhh can’t wait to see Yin Bai’s reaction in the next chapter 😂

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