Chapter 229

After withdrawing the last bit of money from the card, taking the kitten to get its vaccines, and buying "her" belongings, He Lele looked at the balance in her wallet; it was probably enough for a week's worth of groceries. Fortunately, the money from her voice-acting part-time job would arrive at the end of the month. If she were alone, she was confident she could hold out until payday, but adding Qin Zhixiu and the kitten... it seemed she would have to find another daily-paid part-time job.

Because she needed to check the text materials for next month's voice-acting tasks, after the two of them and the cat had lunch, He Lele carried her laptop to the campus to use the Wi-Fi. Perhaps because the place she found was too remote and the signal was poor, the internet speed was very slow. While waiting for her email to open, He Lele's gaze naturally drifted toward the person and the cat beside her.

On the bench, Qin Zhixiu was wearing student-style sportswear, his hat brim pulled low and wearing a mask, looking somewhat strange, but the snow-white kitten was playing between his hands and on his knees, and the two were even flirting with their eyes from time to time. The kitten's milky, delicate cries, Qin Zhixiu's relaxed, magnetic low laughter. Such a warm and sunny scene made one feel that life was so beautiful and happy just by looking at it...

"Are you done?" Qin Zhixiu tilted his head to look at her, and the kitten tilted its head too, very in sync.

"Ah? Oh! Not yet." He Lele hurriedly returned her focus to the email.

The sunlight spread over her fair and pink skin, as if it were glowing with a hazy halo, occasionally flashing with a few dazzling, fine fragments of light. Her always peaceful and calm star-like eyes were focused on the computer screen, her delicate brows moving slightly, as if she had encountered a problem that needed careful consideration.

"What's wrong?" Qin Zhixiu asked subconsciously. He used to... never care about what happened to others, except for Du Wei. Because—no one would care about his concern.

He Lele thought for a moment and turned the screen toward him. The company for her part-time job had recently taken on an imported animation dubbing project and was looking for voice actors. They said her vocal timbre was very suitable for a character in it and asked if she was interested in trying. When she was looking for a part-time job, because she was afraid of encountering scammers, she had only looked at local part-time jobs. Perhaps it was precisely because it was local that the company thought of giving her this opportunity.

"Not bad! Go and try it!"

"But I, for animation dubbing or something—" She had watched some tutorials, but the distance between pure theory and practice was usually not close!

Qin Zhixiu held the kitten in his arms with one hand and pulled He Lele up with the other. "Let's go."

Half an hour later, He Lele paid the taxi fare with a bitter smile; two days' worth of grocery money was gone.

Qin Zhixiu brought her to the same place where she had recorded songs twice before. After asking the receptionist at the building's service desk to make a call, that small-mustached recording engineer took them up, and then—

Cramming-style intensive training!

By the time He Lele walked out of the building in the evening and was hit by the cold wind, she finally felt a bit better.

"Little girl is not bad! You have quite a bit of talent; it would be even better if you could let go a bit more." The middle-aged female teacher who had taught her intensively for nearly seven hours pinched her cheek and smiled.

"Tha, thank you, Teacher Ou." He Lele was once again caught off guard. Because in the recording studio, this Teacher Ou was practically Spartan in her education, her whole face like a door god. She hadn't expected her to be... so kind outside the studio.

"Alright, if you have any questions, come find me anytime. You didn't drive here? Where's Jiejie? Jiejie has been running here diligently for the past two days; why didn't he come with you today?"

He Lele was stunned. That's right, with Qin Zhixiu coming out like this, Jiejie would definitely receive the news.

Qin Zhixiu smiled and looked behind He Lele.

Beside the square pillar behind her, Jiejie was wearing an off-white trench coat, leaning against the pillar in a way that was both dashing and decadent, exhaling blue smoke. Seeing He Lele turn to look at him, he stared at her for a while before pressing out the cigarette butt on the top of the trash can and raising his hand to greet Teacher Ou.

As soon as Teacher Ou saw the strange expression on He Lele's face, she tactfully slipped away, leaving He Lele swallowing her saliva in confusion.

Jiejie curled the corners of his mouth, leaned over, and took a greedy deep breath near He Lele's neck, scaring her into taking a step back and looking at him vigilantly, not knowing what he was going to do again.

After a long while, Jiejie finally tilted his head back slightly and exhaled that breath. "Let's go, let's go get a late-night snack."

Get, get a late-night snack? He Lele was dumbfounded.

Yes, a late-night snack, and it was at the night market eating grilled skewers!

He Lele's heart was about to pop out, but the idol didn't seem nervous at all, eating happily at the open-air food stall. And the manager, who should have been ordering the idol to pay attention to his image, safety, and influence, was actually having a leisurely time teasing the cat there! He even took the liberty of naming the kitten—Red Bean? Bean your head! It's a white cat, okay! Is he colorblind?

"Have an opinion?" Jiejie squinted at her while holding a cigarette in his mouth, taking out a lighter to light it, looking as rascal-like as possible. If it were before, his handsome look while smoking was well-known in the entertainment circles. Even women who didn't like their male companions smoking had to admit that Young Master Ji's movements while smoking were elegant and full of style, handsome enough to make women's hearts melt and legs go weak. But now, his look—at most, he was just a slightly more handsome local ruffian, completely unrelated to elegance or style.

Yet, it was this kind of Jiejie that made He Lele feel very uneasy.

Author's Note:

Something came up today~~~ The second update will be late~~ Girls, sleep early~~ Watch it tomorrow morning~~ It's cold, so rest early~~

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☆, (8 Fresh Coins) Chapter 200: Cooperating to Film

"It, it's a white cat." He Lele argued in a low voice.

"Then call it White Bean?" Jiejie's tone rose slightly at the end of the sentence.

"Heh..." Qin Zhixiu laughed.

"You kid, do you know where your car is now?" Jiejie put the lighter on the cigarette pack on the table, took a puff of his cigarette, and asked Qin Zhixiu with annoyance.

He had been busy and hadn't paid attention to him for the past few days. This morning, he checked the location of the tracker, and the cigarette in his mouth almost fell out—Southern Vietnam! Qin Zhixiu's passport was with him, but the car was in Vietnam!

"I thought you had been sold, and I almost called the police. But then I thought, if someone kidnapped you, they might serve you good food and drink for a few days and end up being sold by you instead. By then, it would be hard to say who the police would catch. You kid are something; you didn't even want the car!" He had known Qin kid treasured his motorcycle, which was why he installed the tracker in the car. Now it seemed it would be safer to implant it directly into his body! No, perhaps... it should be implanted into someone else's body.

Glancing sideways at the little woman eating a hot dog sausage in small bites, her pink mouth opening and closing... Jiejie's lower abdomen tightened. He took a fierce puff of his cigarette, then threw it on the ground and crushed it, eating the grilled skewers as if venting.

As the three were eating, the two tables next to them started arguing for some reason. It was normal for some people to get drunk and cause trouble at night food stalls, and ordinary people would consciously stay far away when they encountered it. The three of them tacitly picked up the plates in front of them, preparing to change tables. Sure enough, just as the three had left, a figure was pushed and knocked over their original table.

Jiejie was stroking the cat's fur while eating skewers, watching the fun, when he suddenly remembered something. He reached into his pocket, then looked at the table that had been knocked over on the ground—

Putting "Red Bean" into He Lele's arms, Jiejie strode toward the "war zone."