Still Have This Side – Chapter 46

Come keep me company.

Yi Wanyue stands alone by the wall, without speaking a word.

When she realizes she is comparing herself to Qi Ling, a deathly silence surges over her.

This kind of complicated feeling is something she has never experienced before.

She has never been someone who cares about appearance; good or bad, it’s all just a shell, nothing special. But today, she becomes competitive with Qi Ling over this matter.

Why?

She hasn’t yet heard Qiu Baiyu personally admit it, hasn’t yet seen Qiu Baiyu’s expression, so why does her heart start to feel sour?

Suddenly, she remembers the words Lan Xin said—

Liking is a kind of feeling where you hope for the other’s well-being while also hoping to become special in their heart.

Liking is the pursuit of uniqueness.

So now she is… pursuing a unique place in Qiu Baiyu’s heart?

On the other side, Qiu Baiyu does not know Yi Wanyue has already arrived; she is still trying to find a way to persuade Qi Ling, hoping to help Qi Ling change the fate of sharp opposition with Yi Wanyue.

But this is only their first meeting, and to be heart-to-heart and full of earnest advice at the first meeting is too strange. Qi Ling may not even listen—who would listen to a stranger’s words?

After thinking it over, Qiu Baiyu boldly extends her phone: “Miss Qi, could you leave a contact method?”

First, leave a contact method for convenient follow-up actions.

Yi Wanyue remains silent.

She asks Qi Ling for a contact method.

Qi Ling asks, “Why do you want a contact method?”

Qiu Baiyu, face unchanged, says: “Miss Qi is very interesting, so I want to make friends with you and often contact in the future when free.”

Yi Wanyue: “…”

She says she is interesting and wants to make friends with her.

Qi Ling flicked her hair: “I know, being interesting is one of my many merits.

“But I am very busy, and don’t have much time to make friends.”

It’s a joke, just because someone asks for her phone number, should she give it?

Where would she put her big star’s dignity then?

The more Qi Ling thought about it, the more conceited she became.

Qiu Baiyu quietly looked at her, and after two seconds said: “Add it, you will need me.”

Qi Ling didn’t understand: “Need you for what?”

Qiu Baiyu replied: “In matters concerning Jiang Shen.”

Without hesitation, Qi Ling said: “My phone number is…”

Qiu Baiyu, with no expression, saved Qi Ling’s number.

If the situation were not special, she would absolutely not use that scumbag Jiang as an excuse.

Qi Ling saw her finish saving the number and probed, “Hey, about his matters, will you really help me? You won’t be… doing a reverse ‘help’ on me, will you?”

She and Qiu Baiyu had just met, and their understanding of each other was still not enough.

Qiu Baiyu, as the woman who once loved Jiang Shen the most, what exactly was she willing to help her with?

She must not let her make a fool of herself in front of Jiang Shen!

Qiu Baiyu raised her eyes: “Rest assured, I absolutely will not harm you.”

As she spoke, her face was calm and composed, her eyes without waves or ripples, not a single trace of lying.

She looked very serious, very reliable.

Qi Ling believed her, inexplicably feeling she was worthy of trust.

“You are quite a good person.”

Qi Ling looked at her.

“If you really help me, I will definitely invite you for a drink!”

The keyword “drink” appeared, and in Qiu Baiyu’s heart, alarm bells rang loudly. She immediately wanted to refuse this way of thanks.

But someone else’s voice was faster than hers—

“Drinking alcohol is not necessary; invite something else instead.”

Accompanied by light, slow footsteps, Yi Wanyue came to Qiu Baiyu’s side, glanced at her, and then steadily looked at Qi Ling with a half-smile.

“Our Baiyu does not drink alcohol.”

Yi Wanyue’s sudden appearance left Qiu Baiyu momentarily dumbfounded.

She turned back to glance at the corner behind her—ah, so she came from this side.

Qi Ling obviously did not expect Yi Wanyue to appear so suddenly.

She couldn’t help but look her up and down.

There is one thing she must admit: “You look—cough—you actually look quite good.”

As soon as Qiu Baiyu heard this slip of the tongue, she knew that she must have also investigated Yi Wanyue thoroughly.

Yi Wanyue politely smiled: “Thank you for the compliment.”

Qi Ling’s eyes rolled around once, since Jiang Shen’s beloved person was right in front of her, and Qiu Baiyu said she didn’t like Jiang Shen, she must ask properly!

She opened her mouth: “You—”

“Qi Ling!”

Suddenly, her manager’s anxious voice came from behind.

“I wondered why you were taking so long in the restroom, and you were here!

“We must go, there’s still another schedule!”

Qi Ling closed her mouth again and sighed helplessly: “A big beauty is always busy.”

She looked at Qiu Baiyu’s phone: “Since you have my contact information, let’s meet again next time.”

Before leaving, she gave Yi Wanyue a deep look, then followed her manager without turning back.

Qiu Baiyu and Yi Wanyue stood in place watching her leave.

The next second, Qiu Baiyu felt her hand gently held by someone.

She unconsciously looked at Yi Wanyue, and their eyes met.

“I heard you all talking.”

“Really, when did you arrive?”

“Um… I arrived from when she asked if you really didn’t like Jiang Shen.”

“Then why didn’t you come out?”

“Didn’t want to disturb your conversation, wanted to listen more.”

Such honest eavesdropping behavior.

Qiu Baiyu had no objections either.

She saw a small white spot on Yi Wanyue’s hair, raised her hand to help remove it, saying, “Okay, listen as you please.”

As if whatever she did was okay.

As long as it was Yi Wanyue, then anything was fine.

Yi Wanyue realized this, and her five fingers quietly slipped through hers, gently clasping.

“I heard her ask you if she is the most beautiful person you have seen.

“Then is she the most beautiful person you have seen?”

Qiu Baiyu was a bit surprised to hear this question from Yi Wanyue’s mouth: “Why are you also curious about this?”

Yi Wanyue smiled: “Just suddenly curious, want to hear your answer.”

Her answer?

Isn’t it very obvious?

Qiu Baiyu said, “The most beautiful person I have seen is you, it always has been you.”

In the novel setting, Qi Ling has beauty equal to Yi Wanyue, but everyone has their own aesthetics, so to her, Yi Wanyue is the most beautiful one.

Always.

She didn’t refute Qi Ling just now because she wanted to give her some face.

Qi Ling loves her own appearance the most and sees Yi Wanyue as a rival in love. If someone were to say “you are not as beautiful as Yi Wanyue” at this time, that would simply be adding fuel to the fire.

Yi Wanyue received her answer and smiled very satisfactorily.

At the same time, she quietly tightened her grip on her hand, as if wanting to keep her by her side forever.

“I am very happy I am still first in your heart.”

“You certainly are first in my heart,” Qiu Baiyu did not break away, instead calmly returned the hold on her hand, “Having already met Qi Ling, we should also leave.”

Yi Wanyue agreed.

They turned back and walked side by side along the road Yi Wanyue had come from, chatting as they went.

“Weren’t you going to meet those two teachers? Did you meet them?”

“Yes, I met them and exchanged contact information. They said I can reach out anytime if there’s anything I don’t understand.”

“Great—oh, by the way, where’s your assistant?”

“I asked her to go to the parking lot to wait for us first, I came to find you.”

“Then let’s go quickly, so she doesn’t have to wait long.”

“Okay.”

Qiu Baiyu finished speaking and led her forward.

Yi Wanyue quietly followed by her side, sometimes looking at their clasped hands, sometimes looking at her.

Then she once again quietly tightened her hand.

She wanted her to stay by her side.

She wanted to always be the most special one in her heart.

She thought, indeed, she liked her, without a doubt.

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Unique Dream, the last room on the second floor.

Outside, the stars filled the sky, and inside the room, the light gently fell on Yi Wanyue.

Fiery red light dotted the cigarette between her fingers, the gently exhaled white mist blurred half of her eyes, along with the small black mole once caressed and praised by Qiu Baiyu.

She was a bit irritable.

Not because she wanted to compete, but because of Qiu Baiyu, and also because she had seen her own heart clearly.

She was also pursuing the unique position in Qiu Baiyu’s heart.

Previously, she mistakenly thought she was not pursuing Qiu Baiyu’s unique place in her heart because she knew how special she was to Qiu Baiyu.

Just having the same system, no one could compare to her.

Because she was too clear on this point, she instead overlooked it, so at that time, she didn’t care, didn’t place it in her heart, even became self-righteous, thinking she wasn’t pursuing a special place in Qiu Baiyu’s heart.

Until Qi Ling appeared.

Until another kind of special feeling emerged in her heart in a very childish way.

She wanted to be unique in every aspect of Qiu Baiyu’s heart.

But she didn’t know how to handle this liking.

She didn’t know how Qiu Baiyu would think after knowing, whether she would be unable to accept it.

If she had to give up immediately, she felt quite unwilling.

Why should she give up?

She hadn’t even tried to pursue Qiu Baiyu.

Not even trying and talking about giving up, that wasn’t the style of their Yi family.

But what should she do…

She originally thought she would never encounter love in this life, that a “romantic line” would not appear again, but that she would focus on her career, shine in the piano world, and complete the agreement with the system.

But Qiu Baiyu’s arrival disrupted her plans.

Qiu Baiyu is an outsider, and at the same time a new beginning, another choice.

She chose this “choice.”

She likes this choice.

Even… even feels fortunate that this choice is Qiu Baiyu.

Fortunately, it is Qiu Baiyu.

It’s really good that it’s Qiu Baiyu.

Her Baiyu is such a good person; how could anyone in the world not like her?

But she didn’t know what to do, she didn’t know…

At this moment, the phone next to the wine glass lit up.

A message came in.

It was Qiu Baiyu.

[Qiu Baiyu]: What are you doing?

A most ordinary greeting.

Yi Wanyue looked at this sentence, her thumb slightly moved, as if to touch the screen but touched nothing.

After a few seconds—

[At Unique Dream drinking, just me alone.

[Want to come?

[Come accompany me.]

She didn’t know what to do, but she still couldn’t control the desire to see her.

Want to see the one she likes.

Very soon, Qiu Baiyu replied: [Wait for me to come over.]

Just four words, joy appeared on her face.

Yi Wanyue extended her hand, the fire in the glass ashtray extinguished.

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