Qiu Baiyu was also caught off guard.
Qiu Baiyu and Yi Wanyue had a great celebration at the Unique Dream Bar.
The time for parting soon arrived.
Considering that Yi Wanyue had drunk alcohol, Qiu Baiyu willingly offered to be her substitute driver and take her home.
Yi Wanyue did not refuse.
The two of them got into Qiu Baiyu’s car and drove off.
Qiu Baiyu still remembered the way to Yi Wanyue’s home very clearly.
She also needed to bring Qiu Zimin over for a one-on-one piano lesson on the weekend.
In the blink of an eye, they arrived at Yi Wanyue’s home.
Safe and sound, they reached their destination smoothly.
Qiu Baiyu parked the car at the entrance of the community and watched Yi Wanyue get out of the car.
She saw Yi Wanyue close the car door, then bend down, her arm resting on the wide-open car window. The gentle light inside the car cast a glow on Yi Wanyue’s face, her features beautifully crafted like a deity’s masterpiece.
“Let’s meet again next time.”
Qiu Baiyu heard these words and couldn’t help but smile: “Alright, let’s meet again next time.”
Yi Wanyue did not hurry to leave.
The cool night breeze gently blew her slightly curled temples, and a glimmer of light in her eyes was like the brilliant stars in the sky.
“Don’t be too sad,” she suddenly said, “you still have other friends, like me.”
Qiu Baiyu felt a shock upon hearing this, as the warmth suddenly melted her heart.
It turns out Yi Wanyue was still thinking about this matter.
Their heroine is indeed kind and considerate.
“Thank you,” Qiu Baiyu said, “with Miss Yi’s words, I feel reassured.”
Yi Wanyue smiled with her eyes bent, casually patting the window edge: “Be careful on the road, send me a message when you get home.
“Leaving now, bye-bye.”
“Bye-bye.”
Qiu Baiyu stood still, watching her leave.
Only after her figure disappeared into the night did she drive home.
On the way home, Qiu Baiyu didn’t forget to review whether she said anything wrong tonight that she shouldn’t have.
She should not have.
Even regarding the matter of friends, she didn’t reveal any flaws.
The original owner was seriously love-struck, growing more distant from friends after marriage.
She originally didn’t have many close friends, and marriage made it worse. Her loving grandmother also passed away, and it seemed her life only had Jiang Shen left.
Therefore, after Qiu Baiyu crossed over, until now, she hadn’t met any friends concerned about the original owner’s life coming to visit, so naturally, she didn’t need to worry about being exposed in front of Yi Wanyue.
With her review complete, Qiu Baiyu felt relieved and returned home with a light heart.
Yi Wanyue opened her home door, and the room was bright inside.
The lights were always on, as if someone was always at home.
Without changing her expression, she changed into rabbit slippers, entered the room, and said, “I’m back.”
A woman then walked out of the side bedroom, holding a water cup.
The woman was beautifully mature, wearing loose, comfortable shorts pajamas, with straight and long legs, and shoulder-length short hair that was refreshing and elegant.
When she walked out in another pair of rabbit slippers, her presence seemed to be two meters eight.
“You’re back.”
“Went to drink alcohol?” the woman asked.
“Mm, drank a little,” Yi Wanyue said, tying up her hair, and asked back, “Did you finish work? Have you eaten?”
“I’ve eaten, just finished— you didn’t drive after drinking, did you?”
“Rest assured, sister, a friend drove me back.”
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Yi Aiyun, holding a water cup, gently nodded: “Good.”
She asked again: “This friend is the Miss Qiu you mentioned, right?”
Yi Wanyue went into the kitchen to pour herself a glass of water: “It’s her.”
Yi Aiyun had been staying with her for the past few days, so she naturally knew that she went out to meet a friend today.
She knew well that her sister was focused on work and didn’t like being disturbed while working, not even to have a meal together. So she went out herself to eat with Qiu Baiyu and Qiu Zimin.
Her sister is an adult and can manage her own meals.
Yi Aiyun walked to the kitchen bar and sat down, looking at her sister’s back, and asked: “What do you think of Miss Qiu, she didn’t give you a hard time, did she?”
She also knew some matters.
For example, the relationship between her sister, Qiu Baiyu, and Jiang Shen.
Yi Wanyue picked up her water and turned toward the bar: “No.”
Thinking of how Qiu Baiyu was worried she wouldn’t earn money, the smile in her eyes seemed to fall into the glass, gently and softly rippling out: “She is a very good person, very interesting.”
Yi Aiyun nodded reassuringly, then handed her own empty cup to her: “Help me pour a warm cup.”
“In such hot weather, still drinking warm? Period?”
“No, don’t worry, just quickly pour.”
“Our President Yi is still so health-conscious, huh…”
Yi Wanyue sighed while honestly going to help her sister pour water.
Yi Aiyun watched her sister’s figure as she turned to pour water, and continued: “In short, it’s good that Miss Qiu has no hostility towards you.”
Yi Wanyue finished pouring the water, handed the cup back to her sister, and said: “I believe she has completely let go of Jiang Shen to embrace a new life, and we will also become very good friends.
“Alright, I’m going to take a bath.”
Yi Aiyun nodded in agreement, turned, and returned to her own room.
Yi Wanyue also went back to her room to prepare for a bath.
Before bathing, she first flipped through her phone to check unread messages.
Tonight, she had been chatting with Qiu Baiyu, and both were very happy chatting, so she basically didn’t look at her phone, which means she might have missed someone’s message.
Sure enough, there were several message notifications.
One of them was from Jiang Shen.
He invited her to go out for dinner.
Unfortunately, she didn’t see it and also didn’t reply.
Not that it was unfortunate.
She didn’t want to go anyway; going out with Qiu Baiyu was more interesting.
But out of politeness, she still replied: [Sorry, I was at a gathering with friends tonight and didn’t see the message.]
Jiang Shen seemed to be waiting for her, and as soon as he received her message, he immediately replied: [No problem, then next time.]
He quickly sent another message: [Do I know that friend? If I do, maybe we can all have a meal together next time.]
He had crossed the line.
But he couldn’t help wanting to know the answer.
Because he was worried the person might be male and that Yi Wanyue’s heart might already belong to someone.
Please let it be a female…
[You know.]
Yi Wanyue sent the answer.
[It’s Baiyu.]
Jiang Shen: “…?”
Baiyu?
Qiu Baiyu?!
An unexpected answer.
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Last time when he informed Qiu Baiyu about the divorce, he wanted to ask—
When did the two of them become friends behind his back???
[Let’s skip the meal together.]
After Yi Wanyue finished replying with this last sentence, she put down her phone and took her pajamas to go bathe.
Having a meal together is not going to happen.
Qiu Baiyu didn’t seem like she wanted to have a meal with him.
She respects her friend’s opinion—and her own opinion as well.
Days passed one by one, and in the blink of an eye, more than half a month went by.
Away from the Jiang family, Qiu Baiyu and Qiu Zimin lived calm, plain, and harmonious days.
Life, after all, is truly about simplicity.
However, this week suddenly became a bit different.
Yi Wanyue said she temporarily could not teach Qiu Zimin to play the piano.
In two weeks, a very important piano competition will be held in the city, and Yi Wanyue is one of the participants.
For the competition, she needs to stay home and focus on practicing piano, thus pausing the lessons, and will continue teaching Qiu Zimin after the competition ends.
Qiu Baiyu knows she needs to compete, so she naturally won’t force her to give Qiu Zimin lessons, and even encouraged her over the phone.
Yi Wanyue is a talented and hardworking person, and she believes she can win a big prize this time.
Qiu Zimin knows auntie is going to participate in the competition and is very understanding, not urging auntie to teach her, nor running to disturb auntie.
During this time, she will focus on her Sanda classes.
Oh right, and there’s also her newly added interest and hobby—bullet journaling Goo Card.1
This has recently become very popular among the girls in their class, and Qiao Mingxue is also into it.
Seeing how interesting it looked, she decisively joined in.
For this, she even had Qiu Baiyu buy her a phone.
She wanted to see how others were doing it, learn more, and having a phone would be more convenient.
Qiu Baiyu didn’t quite understand.
To her, bullet journaling meant using stickers and diaries, and the other involved sticking stickers on small white tiles; in general, both couldn’t do without stickers.
But since the child liked it, it was a good opportunity to train her aesthetic sense, so she didn’t stop her, only advising her to ensure proper ventilation when doing crafts.
There are still three days left until Yi Wanyue’s competition.
Qiu Zimin suddenly really wanted to watch Yi Wanyue’s competition to cheer her on.
But unfortunately, on the day of Yi Wanyue’s competition, she has to attend class.
The child immediately lost her dream, and her eyes lost their spark.
She really wants to watch Auntie Wanyue’s competition…
Qiu Baiyu patted her dejected little head and said it’s okay, she would go watch for her.
If conditions allow, she will take more photos to bring back for her to see.
She actually also really wants to see Yi Wanyue’s appearance during the competition—if she can get a ticket.
Perhaps she should be a bit more direct… ask Yi Wanyue if she has a ticket?
The next day, after three in the afternoon, Qiu Baiyu drove to Qiu Zimin’s favorite dessert shop.
Before going out today, Qiu Zimin said she wanted to eat caramel pudding cake after school in the afternoon, and she agreed.
Qiu Zimin rarely makes demands, so it’s rare for her to be proactive.
And since just waiting to collect rent while idle is still being idle, going out of the way to buy a cake for the child is nothing significant. As long as the child is happy, that’s all that matters.
After buying the caramel pudding cake, Qiu Baiyu walked out of the dessert shop, her gaze unconsciously casting toward the direction of Unique Dream bar.
Thinking of Unique Dream’s special drinks, her legs were already quite honestly stepping toward Unique Dream.
At this time, she didn’t know if they were open…
“Unique Dream is open for business…”
A white sign hung at the door.
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Qiu Baiyu felt a sudden surprise, not expecting them to be open at this time.
She immediately pushed the door open and went in.
With cake and drinks, it’s double the happiness!
Three o’clock in the afternoon is still too early, with basically no one coming to the bar.
Inside the store, it was empty and desolate, far from the customer flow it sees at night.
This is also normal; who would come to drink at three in the afternoon?
Qiu Baiyu walked directly toward the bar counter, unintentionally locking eyes with the woman seated in the booth.
After clearly seeing the other’s face, her steps suddenly halted, and her eyes widened.
She saw the elegant, sometimes delicate and pitiful “white moonlight” female lead, now wearing a bright red dress and sitting in the booth, with a slender cigarette held between her fingers.
Smoke blurred the woman’s face, but only her beautiful eyes and red lips were clear, their beauty full of aggressiveness.
But at this moment, her expression was full of surprise.
The two of them locked eyes, and the air suddenly became very silent.
Yi Wanyue did not expect Qiu Baiyu to come at this time, caught off guard.
Qiu Baiyu was also caught off guard.
She heard herself speaking, her voice a bit bewildered, a bit confused, and a bit dazed:
“You also… smoke?”
