After Being Scummed – Chapter 94
by Little PandaExtra Chapter Two: Wedding 1
Let’s get married!
Ever since Yin Bai proposed with a high profile at the awards ceremony, every time the media saw Zuo Jingyou, they had a new question: When are Teacher Zuo and Director Yin getting married?
Zuo Jingyou would always answer smilingly: “If we get married, we will definitely send everyone invitations.”
Dragging on and on just like this, in the blink of an eye it was July, and 《Give Me a Hug》, which Zuo Jingyou and Xiao Nian co-starred in, was officially released.
As soon as the movie was released, it detonated the topic because of the Red and White Rose CP. For the entire summer vacation slot1, Weibo was practically slaughtered by this CP2. Whether it was hot search topics or the CP super topic, Zuo Jingyou and Xiao Nian occupied the number one spot in popularity.
The Red and White Rose’s CP fans were as lively as if they were celebrating the New Year, beating gongs and drums and singing joyfully, producing grain3 everywhere.
Especially on a certain day when Xiao Nian was being interviewed and mentioned Zuo Jingyou’s comforting of her during that one bed scene, the CP party went completely crazy.
Sometimes the CP party is just like this, completely disregarding any objective facts, only seeing the affection that they see in their own eyes, and they can ship4 anything.
After this interview, some among them even said with certainty that the Red and White Rose cherish one another as kindred spirits, and that maybe they couldn’t control their feelings in the movie!
There were also comments saying: “Every time Xiao Nian gets into character, it’s very hard for her to get out of it, so she must have fallen in love with Teacher Zuo in the movie!”
“Zuo Jingyou’s heart was moved too, ah, if her heart wasn’t moved, how could she go and comfort her current partner’s ex?”
They spoke with such conviction, causing Yin Bai, who was watching from outside the screen, to fly into a rage, her jealousy soaring to the heavens!
What do you mean they’re real? Xiao Nian has a wife, and Teacher Zuo has her, has her, okay!
She is the one who is Teacher Zuo’s little rose, is her little prince, little fox!
Xiao Nian and her are just colleagues!
What Red and White Rose, it looks so devilishly5 infuriating! She isn’t that Zhang Wuji6, that indecisive dead straight guy7 who wants both of them; she loves Zuo Jingyou very much, okay!
No way, she can’t stand this anger! Marriage! Must get married!
Yin Bai thought hatefully, and that very night, she took out the anger she had suffered from the netizens and the randomly eaten flying vinegar8 on Zuo Jingyou.
Zuo Jingyou was tormented by her for a whole night, and at past three in the morning, she was still lying prone on the bed, saying very drowsily to Yin Bai behind her: “How can you be so restless tonight?”
“Didn’t you say a while ago that you were getting old and couldn’t take it? This time… why has it gone on until the middle of the night again…”
Yin Bai lay on top of her, nibbling her ear and saying, muttering: “I said I can’t take it9, I didn’t say I can’t attack10, ah!”
“Beg me, or else tonight won’t be over!”
Zuo Jingyou, with her waist collapsed, compromised for the sake of the situation: “I’m begging you… Xiao Bai… my good Xiao Bai… darling… mmm… I’m begging you… I’m so sleepy… let me sleep, okay?”
Yin Bai thought to herself that she had tormented her enough, and only then did she take a bite of her shoulder and say reluctantly: “Okay, okay, I’ll let you go…”
Although she said that, her hands were still relentless. After Zuo Jingyou had completely blossomed, she finally turned her over, kissed her lips, and said: “Teacher Zuo, you’re so delicate now, oh, you begged for mercy before even seven times tonight!”
Zuo Jingyou lay on the bed, her whole person like a flower that had blossomed to its peak, her entire being exuding a kind of mature fragrance that smelled impossibly good.
Yin Bai sniffed the scent on her body and felt that she herself was about to get drunk.
Zuo Jingyou was also hazy from intoxication, and she reached out to push away the person on her chest, chiding her: “You come and try, I’m afraid you would be even more delicate than me.”
“I don’t want to, I just like it when Teacher Zuo is delicate.” Yin Bai said this, pressed her body forward, kissed Zuo Jingyou, and said to her as if acting spoiled: “Teacher Zuo, Teacher Zuo, can I ask you for something, okay?”
“Hmm? Ask me for what? What pillow wind11 are you trying to blow now, my little cutie.”
Zuo Jingyou reached out, pinched Yin Bai’s nose, and smiled at her with great indulgence.
Yin Bai bit her lip, nipped at her like a little kitten, and said softly: “I want… Teacher Zuo to hold a wedding with me, okay.”
Hearing the two words “wedding,” Zuo Jingyou, whose mind was originally still a bit muddled, instantly became clear-headed.
She propped herself up, her gaze fixed intently on Yin Bai: “Wedding? Yin Bai, are you serious?”
“You want to marry me?”
Yin Bai bit her lip and said, very unhappily: “I’ve already proposed to you, how can you still think I’m not serious!”
Zuo Jingyou blinked and said: “But didn’t you think getting married was very troublesome before?”
“That was then, this is now! I now feel that I need this official proof!” Yin Bai said, and with an aowu sound, she bit Zuo Jingyou’s shoulder and said indignantly: “If we don’t get married, they won’t know who your little goblin12 is!”
Zuo Jingyou let out a puchi laugh, raised her hand to rub her head and said: “Even if we don’t get married, everyone knows you are my little cutie!”
She reached out to wrap her arms around Yin Bai’s waist, looked up at her and said: “However, a wedding, well, it’s not entirely out of the question.”
“I also really want to wear a wedding dress with you, so we can seriously consider where to hold the wedding.”
Yin Bai’s eyes lit up, and she excitedly hugged Zuo Jingyou, saying: “Really?”
Zuo Jingyou raised her hand, tracing her eyebrows and eyes, and said: “Darling, of all the things I have promised you, which time was it false?”
“As long as it’s something I promise you, it will always be true.”
Hearing this sweet talk, Yin Bai was very moved in her heart, and that night, she moved Zuo Jingyou’s bedtime from three in the morning to half past four in the morning.
When she woke up the next day, it was already late in the afternoon.
After all, she had been tormented for a whole night, and when Zuo Jingyou woke up, she still felt that she hadn’t had enough sleep.
Because of Yin Bai’s antics, Zuo Jingyou also felt that her waist was particularly sore, and that afternoon she lay prone on the bed, not wanting to do anything.
Yin Bai also knew she had gone too far. After Zuo Jingyou got up, she was attentive in feeding her, and also attentive in pinching her shoulders and rubbing her waist, serving her until she was comfortable.
Seeing that Zuo Jingyou was finally a bit better, Yin Bai finally worked up the courage, and said very attentively while kneading Zuo Jingyou’s waist: “Teacher Zuo, Teacher Zuo, how do you want to take the wedding photos?”
Zuo Jingyou was lying on the bed, her head pillowed on her arms, her eyes comfortably closed, enjoying Yin Bai’s service. Hearing Yin Bai say this, she smiled with her eyes slightly narrowed and said: “I haven’t thought about it, hey… do you have any ideas?”
Yin Bai immediately perked up. She straightened her back and, like someone reciting a menu13, said to Zuo Jingyou, chattering: “I had Jin Xiangyu investigate it today. We’ll hire the world’s most famous wedding photography team, take my private jet, and go to every place with beautiful scenery to shoot a set, how about it?”
“And then, the wedding will be held on a cruise ship, we’ll have a wedding at sea, and make it incredibly beautiful!”
“Because the surface of the sea is like the sky, don’t you think having a wedding at sea is especially romantic?”
Zuo Jingyou turned her head, looked towards Yin Bai, and nodded in agreement, saying: “It sounds very romantic. After all, my previous wedding was held on land; holding it at sea seems like a very good feeling.”
Yin Bai felt as if she had been choked. She kneaded Zuo Jingyou’s waist forcefully and said hatefully: “Then we’ll also hold a wedding on land, the scale must be grand, it must be romantic, it must be better than your last one!”
“So that for the rest of your life, you can only remember the feeling of marrying me!”
Yin Bai gave a cold snort, with a flavor of gritting her teeth.
Zuo Jingyou thought she looked incredibly cute like this. She propped herself up from the bed with her arms and, like a beautiful-woman snake14, looked up and kissed Yin Bai, saying with a smile: “Why are you even eating this vinegar? Eating flying vinegar randomly every day, be careful you don’t become a pickled white radish15, oh.”
Yin Bai snorted and said with some self-abandonment: “I’m already a pickled white radish now, and the kind that’s been pickled until it’s crunchy-crisp!”
Zuo Jingyou smiled faintly, tilted her head up and bit her soft lips, kissing her meticulously for a good while.
Yin Bai was kissed by her until her whole body went soft, and only after a good while did she say, muttering: “Okay okay, let me temporarily stop thinking about your glamorous sluts16, let’s talk about our wedding.”
Zuo Jingyou nodded: “Mhm, the wedding… must be romantic, at sea…”
“Right, in short, that’s the general idea. For the specifics, we’ll find a professional team to do the planning, let them perfect it, and it shouldn’t be the type that’s too tacky.”
Zuo Jingyou said okay, and Yin Bai chattered on again, saying that they should go to Iceland to take wedding photos during the winter when there are auroras.
After all was said and done, Yin Bai was surprised to find that to check off so many places, it would take a very long time to finish taking the wedding photos.
After she finished counting, she looked at Zuo Jingyou in shock: “Then Teacher Zuo, it will take at least a year to take the wedding photos, hey, when can we get married?”
Good heavens, wasn’t her initial goal to get married quickly and declare her sovereignty?
Zuo Jingyou propped up her chin and looked at Yin Bai faintly, saying to her in a soft voice: “Then let’s not worry about these things for now, how about we prepare the wedding first?”
“We’ll first go to a few of the most beautiful places in the world for the current season to take a few sets of wedding photos, and then hold the wedding, what do you think?”
Yin Bai was stunned for a moment, then said, chattering: “Oh, right! We can do it like this first, take a few sets first, and then we’ll hold the wedding. Then I’ll go contact the wedding company this afternoon and have them send a representative over to discuss the project with me?”
“Wedding, wedding…” Yin Bai’s mind was spinning rapidly, and she began to think about this and that again: “The wedding will be held at sea, this season is just right… no, don’t we also need to prepare a marital home for the wedding? Ah, I also need to prepare a prenuptial property agreement, and purchase a marital home…”
“Zuo Jingyou, what kind of house do you like, a Chinese-style garden or a Western-style courtyard? Oh, right, and the betrothal gift…”
Seeing her starting to ramble on again, Zuo Jingyou immediately grabbed her hand and called out: “Yin Bai…”
Yin Bai came back to her senses and looked at her excitedly and carefully: “Mhm? What’s wrong, Zuo Jingyou?”
Zuo Jingyou gave her a gentle look and said with a smile: “We are just holding a wedding. Let’s not consider getting a marriage license, prenuptial property, a marital home, and all those things for now. We can not get married, just hold a wedding.”
“I just want a wedding with you, so right now the wedding is the most important thing…”
“First, find someone to draw up a plan, and then we’ll go pick out wedding dresses together, how about that?”
Yin Bai slapped her forehead in a moment of sudden realization: “Oh, right, I almost forgot about the wedding dresses!”
She took Zuo Jingyou’s hand, her eyes sparkling, and said: “Then let’s go pick out wedding dresses right now!”
Zuo Jingyou looked at her excited expression, feeling a bit helpless. Ai, young people… why are they so eager to get married!
But from this point of view, her Yin Bai was indeed very cute.
The author has something to say:
You don’t have to get married, but you must have a wedding!
LP: Re-translated on September 11, 2025
Footnotes
- 暑假档 (shǔjià dàng): Refers to the summer vacation period (typically July-August) which is a peak season for movie releases and television shows, similar to the “summer blockbuster season” in the West.
- 屠榜 (túbǎng): Literally “to butcher the charts/rankings.” It is internet slang for completely dominating a list, such as trending topics, search rankings, or music charts, leaving no room for others.
- 产粮 (chǎnliáng): Literally “to produce grain/food.” In fandom slang, this means to create fan content, such as fanfiction, fan art, fan videos, etc., for a particular ship or series. The content is the “food” that sustains the fandom.
- 磕 (kē): Literally “to knock” or “to crack (seeds with one’s teeth).” In modern internet slang, it means to be obsessed with and actively follow or “ship” a romantic pairing (CP). The act of enjoying content about the pairing is referred to as “磕.”
- 鬼 (guǐ): Literally “ghost” or “devil.” In some informal contexts, it can be used as an adverb to mean “very,” “damn,” or “terribly,” adding a strong, often negative, emphasis.
- 张无忌 (Zhāng Wújì): The protagonist of the wuxia novel “The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber” (倚天屠龙记) by Jin Yong (金庸). He is famously indecisive and entangled in relationships with multiple women, making him a popular archetype for an emotionally wavering man.
- 死直男 (sǐ zhínán): A slang term literally meaning “dead straight man.” It describes a heterosexual man who is stereotypically clueless, insensitive, or completely oblivious when it comes to women’s feelings, romance, or subtleties in communication.
- 飞醋 (fēicù): Literally “flying vinegar.” A slang term for jealousy, specifically jealousy that is unwarranted, baseless, or directed at someone or something completely unrelated to the actual relationship. It implies getting jealous over trivial matters. The term “eat vinegar” (吃醋 chīcù) is the standard expression for jealousy in Chinese.
- 受 (shòu): Literally “to receive.” In the context of same-sex relationships in Chinese online fiction (known as Danmei for BL and Baihe for GL), this is slang for the receptive partner, or “bottom.” The phrase here, “受不住” (shòu bu zhù), literally means “can’t take it/receive it.”
- 攻 (gōng): Literally “to attack.” In the context of same-sex relationships in Chinese online fiction, this is slang for the active partner, or “top.” The phrase here, “攻不住” (gōng bu zhù), literally means “can’t attack,” creating a pun with the previous phrase.
- 枕头风 (zhěntou fēng): Literally “pillow wind.” An idiom that refers to the influence a wife or bed partner exerts on their spouse through intimate conversations in bed, i.e., “pillow talk.” It often carries a slightly negative connotation of using this intimacy to manipulate or sway decisions.
- 小妖精 (xiǎo yāojing): Literally “little goblin” or “little seductress.” While it can be an insult, in an intimate or romantic context, it is often used as a flirtatious and affectionate term of endearment for someone who is captivating, charming, and a little mischievous.
- 报菜名 (bào càimíng): Literally “to announce dish names.” It is a famous routine in traditional Chinese comedic crosstalk (相声 xiàngsheng) where the performer recites a long, rhyming list of dishes at high speed. The phrase is now used metaphorically to describe someone speaking very quickly and listing many items in a row.
- 美女蛇 (měinǚ shé): Literally “beautiful-woman snake.” It refers to a femme fatale, a beautiful but dangerous woman who is likened to a seductive snake spirit or demon from folklore.
- 腌白萝卜 (yān bái luóbo): Literally “pickled white radish (daikon).” In this context, it’s a playful metaphor. Since “eating vinegar” (吃醋 chīcù) means being jealous, becoming a “pickled” radish implies being so soaked in jealousy (vinegar) that one’s entire being is defined by it.
- 妖艳贱货 (yāoyànjiànhuò): A very strong and vulgar insult that literally translates to “glamorous, slutty goods.” It is used to describe someone, usually a woman, as being ostentatiously seductive and of low character. In modern usage, especially among friends or in a joking manner, it can be used ironically or hyperbolically to mean something like “seductive minxes” or “those damn homewreckers.”
yin bai is definitely the kind of person to have an itinerary planned down to the minute
yin bai is definitely the kind of person to have an itinerary planned down to the minute