On the Wedding Night, I Transmigrated to After the Divorce – Chapter 21
by Little PandaJust Like a Hallucination
Fu Yunqing came to hate her as well.
“Then go order a drink, and then go ahead and call.” Lu Yu pulled her hand free.
“No,” Yu Yan said, shaking her head with regret. She still knew her boundaries. “She already has a wife.”
“You can’t call someone jiejie just because she has a wife?” Lu Yu didn’t quite understand β she called people jie1 at work all the time.
Yu Yan rolled her eyes. “You have no idea what jiejie2 means in the lesbian circle, you big niece3!” Oh wait β Lu Yu wasn’t exactly straight either. She still had that female teacher she loved from afar.
“So she’s not your girlfriend?” Jiang Xuan seized the key point, asking with a wicked grin.
“Why would you think she’s my girlfriend?” Yu Yan asked, surprised. Lu Yu looked surprised too.
“At first glance you looked like a good match. Real CP chemistry4.”
“That’s seeing things completely wrong! We’re just good friends.”
“Hahaha, so what’s your type then?”
“Well⦔ Yu Yan glanced toward the bar again. “Of course, someone like her.”
“Who doesn’t like a jie like Ran-jie? But heavenly dishes5 like Ran-jie usually have wives already. Can’t get in line.” She turned. “What do you think of my friend?”
“Hm?” Before Yu Yan could process what she meant, Jiang Xuan tugged at the sleeve of her companion, who had been silently drinking, and said, “She’s pretty nice too. Super devoted to her partner.”
The companion was shy, gripping her phone, not quite daring to look at Yu Yan β a little awkward, very green. She looked like a student too, wearing black-frame glasses and trendy clothes, a thick silver chain around her neck. Yu Yan curved her lips slightly. “Hi there.”
“Hello. I was watching you just nowβ¦ can I add your WeChat?”
“Sure.” She wasn’t exactly Yu Yan’s type, but it felt rude to refuse when they were all drinking together. Yu Yan pulled out her phone. “You scan me, or should I scan you?”
“I’ll scan you,” she said quickly.
Yu Yan brought up her QR code and held out her phone. The other girl scanned it with a beep of success. Yu Yan took her phone back β and an accidental glance up made her pupils contract violently.
These past days, Yu Yan’s perception of everything around her had felt unreal, as if she were soberly living through a dream, unable to adapt. Everything in the dream was contradictory and taken for granted β including the woman who now appeared before her: Fu Yunqing.
Two women in suits walked down the staircase from the second floor. That face β so familiar it felt like yesterday, yet so strange it genuinely seemed three years distant β appeared without warning, impossibly real. Yu Yan’s heart skipped a beat.
Fu Yunqing spotted Yu Yan before Yu Yan spotted her. Her footsteps on the stairs froze. Her grip tightened on the railing.
In her shock, Yu Yan couldn’t read the complex emotions beneath the woman’s furrowed brow β the same surprise, shadowed with something dark. The woman descending with her noticed her strange reaction. “Someone you know?”
“β¦No.” Fu Yunqing composed herself, averting her gaze as if nothing had happened. “Mistake.”
The people seated nearby looked over in equal shock. Jiang Xuan whispered, “Boss Yu!”
“I knew if Ran-jie was here, Boss Yu would be too. Who’s that beside her? So beautiful. Were they talking business upstairs? Of course beauties hang out with beauties.”
Lu Yu’s shock was different from their beauty-obsessed fascination. She looked at Yu Yan with surprise. “That’s not your⦔
Yu Yan murmured, dazed, “Fuβ¦ Fu-jiejie⦔
Fu Yunqing only paused to look at her β just that one glance β then turned away as if nothing had happened, even coldly, and walked with Yu Ting toward the bar.
The live singer had finished warming up the crowd and started singing. Lyrical music flowed like water through every corner of the bar. Yu Yan stared, lost, at Fu Yunqing’s retreating back. The woman seemed to have already discarded the brief interruption, standing at the bar now, chatting with a faint smile with the two owners.
“Cold” was a word that should never describe the way Fu Yunqing looked at Yu Yan. It was unimaginable, even unacceptable. In Yu Yan’s memory, Fu Yunqing had been so doting, so gentle with her β and though they hadn’t been together long, that gentleness had spanned the blank three years of Yu Yan’s missing memories. So to be on the receiving end of “cold” now left her feeling hollowed out, her heart missing a piece, her breath catching.
Why?
She realized that she and Fu Yunqing were truly divorced.
Because of the evil her mother had done β did Fu Yunqing hate her along with it?
“Want to sit down for a couple of drinks? My treat.” Yu Ting leaned against the bar. Noticing Fu Yunqing’s frequent glances toward somewhere, she extended an invitation out of curiosity.
Fu Yunqing curved her lips slightly. “No. I have things to do. Leaving early.”
“Then we’ll head out together. Tingting and I were just about to go.” Ran Ling stepped out from behind the bar. Yu Ting took her hand.
Not drinking, Fu Yunqing had no reason to linger. She seemed to endure something as she frowned and nodded, rising to leave.
The wind was strong outside at night. As soon as she pushed open the glass door, her long hair was blown into disarray β like her thoughts. Fu Yunqing lifted a hand to smooth her hair, raised her eyes, and saw her driver standing beside the car, ready to open the door at any moment. Then she would leave. The moment would pass so quickly she wouldn’t be able to tell if it had been real or a hallucination.
Yu Ting went to get the car. Ran Ling stood with Fu Yunqing in the wind, studying her strange expression with some curiosity. A pity she couldn’t stay longer. “Yunqing, see you next time. Say hello to Granny for me.”
“All right.”
Fu Yunqing started walking too. She didn’t turn back. After two steps, she heard someone call from behind β
“Fu-jiejie!”
Footnotes
- 'Jie' (big sister) is used in modern Chinese internet slang to describe a woman who is cool, mature, capable, and charismatic.
- 'Jiejie' (older sister) in the lesbian circle (jΔ«quΔn) carries a specific weight β it refers to a cool, mature, desirable woman, often with connotations of attraction and respect. It's distinct from the casual workplace use of the term.
- 'DΓ zhΓnΗ' (big niece) is modern Chinese internet slang for a woman who is completely clueless about relationships and romantic dynamics, often missing obvious hints or advances.
- 'CP gΗn' refers to the feeling or sense that two people have romantic chemistry and would make a good couple. 'CP' comes from English 'coupling,' and 'gΗn' means feeling or sense.
- 'TiΔncΓ i' (heavenly dish) is modern slang for an ideal partner.
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