Part 2 of Chapter 48
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Do You Still Hate Her? 38 – Absurd Romance Compilation
As soon as she walked over, she heard the boy say, “Why did you add his WeChat?”
The girl replied, “I told you, I added him and then deleted him!”
It seemed like they were constantly repeating these two sentences, arguing in circles without getting to the point.
“So why did you add ‘him’ on WeChat?”
The boy said, “Yeah, why?”
The girl began, “Well, it’s because…”
But she suddenly paused in the middle of her sentence and, together with the boy, looked towards the source of the voice.
The girl was somewhat incredulous: “Shang… Shang Lu?”
“It doesn’t matter who I am,” Shang Lu took a bite of the grilled sausage in her hand, squeezed in beside the girl, and said thoughtfully, “I feel like both of you are upset. Neither of you wants to argue with each other, right?”
“Of course not, who likes to argue?” The girl’s eyes turned red as she spoke.
“I don’t want to either,” the boy added, his lips tightly pressed as if he would burst into tears the next second.
“If you don’t want to argue, why don’t you just talk it out? Both of you shouldn’t always yell at each other; it’s scary to listen to,” Shang Lu said, taking a bottle of yogurt from her pocket, taking a sip, and then looking at the girl, asking, “So, who is he?”
The girl looked even more helpless, tears streaming down her face. She said, “I don’t know him; he just stopped me at the door. I added him, but I deleted him quickly. I don’t understand why he wanted to argue with me over such a small matter.”
Seeing the girl cry, the boy’s resolve also weakened instantly, but he still said, “Then why did you add him in the first place?”
Shang Lu no longer pressed the girl for answers and instead placed a fisherman’s hat on the girl’s head, adjusting the hat to cover half of the girl’s face. Then, she handed a tissue to the girl.
With the fisherman’s hat covering half of the girl’s face, she couldn’t hold back her tears any longer and began to explain the reason, “He… He looked really fierce, and I was afraid to refuse him because he might get angry. So, I added him. He saw me accept his friend request right in front of him, and as soon as he left, I wanted to delete him. But then you came… *sniff*…”
The boy immediately felt remorseful and said, “Why didn’t you just tell me about it?”
The girl cried even harder, saying, “But thinking about that person makes me scared… You look angry too, and I didn’t want to say anything… *sniff*…”
“It’s my fault, it’s all my fault,” the boy quickly admitted his mistake, walked over, squatted beside the girl, and comforted her emotions. He promised to be more careful next time.
Shang Lu sat there feeling like a third wheel.
So she stood up, glanced at the young couple, then at the live camera, and thoughtfully remarked, “Romance, variety show.”
[I can’t believe I understand what Shang Lu means! This couple is the real love, while Shang Lu and the others are just a variety show, hahaha.]
[Kind-hearted Citizen Xiao Shang is online to mediate disputes.]
The young couple quickly reconciled.
Then they found that Shang Lu was still here.
The girl instantly pulled her hat down a bit, seeming a bit embarrassed.
Shang Lu smiled and said, “It’s okay. I find your love very beautiful. It’s not a big deal. In the future, when you encounter problems, communicate well. Both of you should avoid speaking with each other in a quarrelsome tone, especially since you like each other. It can hurt the relationship.”
Both of them nodded repeatedly, promising to be more careful in the future.
After speaking, Shang Lu reached out and took the small sun badge from the girl’s fisherman hat and put it in her pocket. “The hat is for you, but this badge was a gift from a friend, so I’ll take it. Goodbye, and I wish you both happiness.”
[Wuwuwu, I also want Lulu to give me a hat.]
[Suddenly had a hallucination of Shang Lu as a relationship counselor.]
[I get it, Shang Lu’s real talent is mediating arguments, haha.]
[And specifically mediating for couples 👍🏻]
A comment raised a question.
[Has Shang Lu ever been in a relationship? I haven’t seen much about her love life online (except for her ex-fiancé).]
The internet immediately started speculating, and surprisingly, everyone seemed to agree that Shang Lu probably hadn’t been in a relationship.
Because—
[Shang Lu’s taste, I can’t imagine who she would date.]
[How should I put it, often only those who don’t date much are good at mediating. Those who understand, understand.]
[I can vouch for this. I’ve been single since birth, but I solve all my friends’ relationship problems. Sigh, it’s tiring.]
On her way out of the cafeteria, Shang Lu encountered familiar faces, but the situation was completely baffling to her.
Song Zeqian sat on a bench, with a cold expression.
And Lin Yanyan was sitting on the ground beside him, seemingly… howling at the sky? In a state of complete disregard for the people around her.
Shang Lu recalled that if she wasn’t mistaken, Lin Yanyan’s character card draw should have been [Reliable], right?
Adult sitting on the ground in such painful state doesn’t seem to have anything to do with being [Reliable], no matter how Shang Lu looked at it.
Shang Lu, puzzled, approached and used her eyes to ask Song Zeqian : What’s going on?
Song Zeqian didn’t respond to Shang Lu but directly said to Lin Yanyan, “Get up.”
Upon hearing Song Zeqian’s words, Lin Yanyan immediately stood up from the ground, and the painful expression on her face disappeared in an instant.
When she saw Shang Lu, she even said happily, “Lulu, you’re here!”
Seeing that Shang Lu came alone, Song Zeqian asked directly, “Did you eliminate Ye Lu?”
Shang Lu : “Yes.”
“As expected.” Song Zeqian said this and then looked at Lin Yanyan with a hint of disdain in his eyes. “I haven’t seen such a terrible acting in a long time.”
Lin Yanyan : 🥺
Lin Yanyan was both angry and upset but dared not retort, so she could only grab Shang Lu’s sleeve in grievance.
Shang Lu : “?”
Shang Lu didn’t understand and asked, “Aren’t you two on a date? Why suddenly start acting training?”
“As a qualified boyfriend, when my girlfriend delays the entire crew’s progress, it’s necessary for me to help her with some extra training,” Song Zeqian said, taking off his sunglasses and putting them in his pocket. Then, he opened the script in his hand and flipped through it. “Adjust in three minutes, and then start again.”
Shang Lu still didn’t quite understand what was going on and looked at Lin Yanyan.
Lin Yanyan explained with a wince, “I had a scene last week… I’ve been doing poorly, and the director wasn’t satisfied. Then, we were just taking a walk on the playground when we ran into the director. What’s even more coincidental is that our director turns out to be Song Zeqian’s junior, and they talked about this. So, Song Zeqian started this.”
Lin Yanyan really couldn’t understand why the world was so small. How could the director of her crew know Song Zeqian?
It was the weekend, and she was supposed to be happily filming the variety show. Why did she suddenly start acting classes? She felt so wronged!
But because her persona was [Reliable], the restrictions imposed on her were that she couldn’t go against any requests from her ‘partner,’ so she was forced to start acting training.
Lin Yanyan looked at Shang Lu, hoping Shang Lu could help her.
After some thought, Shang Lu reached out to Song Zeqian and said, “Let me take a look at the script.”
After saying that, Shang Lu looked at Lin Yanyan and comforted her, “It’s okay, you’ll definitely do well.”
Lin Yanyan : “???”
Is this what she meant? She didn’t want to learn acting right now; she just wanted to quickly finish this part!
But as she watched Shang Lu and Song Zeqian huddle together to discuss the script, Lin Yanyan bit her lip and looked even more helpless.
Oh no, she forgot.
Lulu is also a very serious actress 😭
I kinda ship song and lin ahhh~~