ISWMQ – Chapter 119

Rong Guang’s mouth fell open. Listening to the voice that was still broadcasting nonstop from her phone, she finally put down her bowl and chopsticks, snatched her phone back, and said, her entire body radiating embarrassment, “This was an accident…”

Chu Feiliang’s hand made a soft grasping motion, looking with a hint of regret as the phone was taken away by Rong Guang. “What kind of accident?” she asked.

Rong Guang stammered, not knowing how to explain.

How could she explain? This was just too embarrassing.

Getting caught by Chu Feiliang secretly looking at her gossip and rumors…

Rong Guang finally exited the video page, then glanced at the pop-up window that hadn’t disappeared from her phone screen. She started to shift the blame, saying, “It just popped up on my phone by itself…”

“Oh, the phone did it by itself?” Chu Feiliang’s expression was a half-smile, her face full of playful teasing.

Rong Guang was a little mortified, but she was the one who had been caught red-handed. She shouldn’t have been lazy and failed to delete it just now. If she had cleared all these pop-ups at once, wouldn’t all this trouble have been avoided?

Watching Rong Guang start to delete the pop-ups, Chu Feiliang leisurely ate her food and said, “Why do I hear Lulu saying that we’re in the era of big data now?”

Rong Guang couldn’t multitask. The small ads wouldn’t go away, so she had already started deleting apps from her phone.

Hearing this, she hastily looked up from her busy task and said very distractedly, “Yeah, right, it’s the era of big data now…”

“So…” Chu Feiliang held her chopsticks in her mouth, looking at Rong Guang who had walked right into her trap without even realizing it, and slowly broke into a smile. “It would only show content related to me on your phone if you searched for it first. If you weren’t constantly searching my name on your phone, how would so much stuff pop up?”

Rong Guang’s hand, in the middle of deleting an app, paused. She looked up, dejected, and said, “I wasn’t deliberately looking at this gossip…”

“Mm,” Chu Feiliang nodded magnanimously, waved her hand, and said, “Go ahead and look, I don’t mind. It’s not like I have anything to hide. If you see anything you don’t understand, remember to come and ask me anytime.”

Rong Guang’s face belatedly turned a little red.

Then her gaze, after lingering on her phone for a moment, slowly shifted to Chu Feiliang’s waist.

Although there was central air conditioning in the room, it was still winter after all. It would be cold wearing just a tank top, so Chu Feiliang had a thin blanket draped over her, which happened to cover her upper body completely, so Rong Guang couldn’t see anything.

She still remembered Chu Feiliang’s abs, and of course, she also remembered…

The picture of Chu Feiliang’s round belly.

Then she said in a small voice, “Can, can I see your stomach…?”

Chu Feiliang was taken aback, thinking she had misheard. “See my stomach?”

Rong Guang nodded shyly.

Chu Feiliang was silent for a moment.

Then she glanced at Rong Guang’s phone, put down her bowl and chopsticks, her expression turning a little serious as she said, “You believed it too?”

Rong Guang was a bit baffled by her sudden question and subconsciously asked back, “Believe what?”

Chu Feiliang took a deep breath.

Then she lifted the shawl from her body.

Rong Guang watched her suddenly straighten her posture and felt like Chu Feiliang had… also sucked in her stomach…?

Chu Feiliang grabbed Rong Guang’s hand and said, “You feel it.”

Rong Guang’s hand rested on her stomach, carefully touching a spot without scars. “Feel, feel for what…?”

“Feel if there’s a baby.” Chu Feiliang frowned, then pointed a finger to accuse Rong Guang’s phone. “Don’t look at this kind of messy news in the future. None of it is true. See, I never believe it.”

Rong Guang felt like her brain was about to run away from home.

Her fingertips could still feel the delicate, soft skin of Chu Feiliang and the rise and fall of her abdomen, but what Chu Feiliang was saying…

Rong Guang very naturally interpreted the information that was most useful to her.

Her eyes lit up as she said, “Sister, do you usually search for information about me too?”

Chu Feiliang nodded, admitting it generously. “Of course.”

Then she looked at Rong Guang and said, “Don’t you look at mine too?”

Rong Guang stopped being secretive and nodded. “Mmm… I still want to look. I always want to know more about you… I want to see everything, even the behind-the-scenes footage.”

Chu Feiliang’s lips curled. She finally moved Rong Guang’s hand from her stomach and placed it in her own palm, then clasped their hands together. “The feeling is mutual. Me too.”

The atmosphere between the two finally became tender for a while.

Chu Feiliang suddenly said out of the blue, “So why did you want to see my stomach just now?”

Rong Guang froze, wondering blankly how the topic had circled back again.

But she still answered obediently and truthfully, “I actually guessed that you had just eaten and gone for a walk… Wasn’t that picture taken when you were video-chatting with me before… The background is even that promotional poster in the hallway downstairs…”

A question mark slowly appeared over Chu Feiliang’s head, making her look surprisingly cute. Rong Guang’s hands itched, wanting to pull this version of Chu Feiliang into her arms and cuddle her.

She moved a little closer to Chu Feiliang, and said with a cheeky, slightly embarrassed expression, “I… I just wanted to see if you’d gotten a little fatter…”

The breath Chu Feiliang had just let out was held in again. Sucking in her stomach, she resolutely denied it, saying very crisply, “I haven’t.”

Rong Guang blinked. “You have, haven’t you…?”

Chu Feiliang stared at Rong Guang for a while.

Then she let out her breath and said, “Alright, I have. I’ve gained a few pounds—but my stomach isn’t usually this bloated. It’s just because I’m full right now.”

“Mmm.” Rong Guang nodded up and down, her gaze falling on Chu Feiliang’s lower abdomen.

Having just eaten, Chu Feiliang’s stomach was round and full. It was clear she had eaten a lot.

If she was eating a lot, then Rong Guang could rest assured.

It would be great if Chu Feiliang could also develop the double chin that Rong Guang had spent years feeding her to get in her past life.

Rong Guang was getting eager. It was just the right time, winter, the season for fattening up. She began to ponder how to get Chu Feiliang to eat more.

Chu Feiliang finally caught on.

Then she looked at Rong Guang and said, “I know what you’re thinking.”

Rong Guang looked at her expectantly and said, “Can I?”

“No.” Chu Feiliang refused mercilessly. “The Lover is about to start filming. The setting and costumes are all for summer. If I gain ten-something pounds by then, will I still look good on camera?”

“You will.” Rong Guang thought about it. Given Chu Feiliang’s current height, her weight had just barely broken the ninety-pound mark. Overall, she didn’t look like she had much flesh on her.

What’s more, her stomach was said to have puffed up like a small ball, but that was mainly because she was sitting on the sofa right now.

The moment she stood up, the little belly would instantly disappear.

Chu Feiliang would still be beautiful even if she gained another twenty-something pounds.

“Only you would like that,” Chu Feiliang chuckled lightly, then thought for a moment and said, “After we finish filming The Lover, I’ll start my vacation… You can feed me whatever you want then.”

Rong Guang paused, her eyes shining. “After The Lover is finished, the company also wants me to settle down for a year before I start filming again. In that year, after I finish my junior year courses, I won’t have much to do—senior year is basically internships, so I won’t need to report to school much!”

Chu Feiliang smiled and nodded. “Mmm, I already knew your schedule. I looked it over myself.”

Rong Guang was too excited to know what to say.

At her current age, school was an indispensable requirement.

Although a graduation certificate and a bachelor’s degree didn’t have much practical meaning for her, they were absolutely something she couldn’t do without.

Studying again could certainly smooth over many of her past academic regrets, but Rong Guang knew clearly in her heart what she wanted to cherish the most.

“Don’t think so much,” Chu Feiliang said. “You’ll have plenty of time to make delicious food then, as long as you don’t get tired of it yourself.”

She couldn’t wait!

Rong Guang took Chu Feiliang’s hand and swung it up and down excitedly a few times.

This familiar action made Chu Feiliang pause for a moment. When she came back to her senses, she smiled and led Rong Guang to the balcony, saying, “The medicine is in the storage cabinet on the balcony. You can apply it for me… Your touch made it start hurting again.”

Rong Guang paused, then went to get the medicine, muttering in a low voice, “I didn’t touch you forcefully…”

“Then use a little force next time.” Chu Feiliang lay prone on the lounge chair, lifting her tank top again to reveal her smooth waist. She smiled and looked back, saying, “So you can find the right amount of force, and you’ll know how much to use in the future.”

How did she get led astray by her again…

Rong Guang felt a little like laughing. The moment the cotton swab in her hand touched the ointment, the entire balcony was suddenly covered by an intense white light. It flashed three times in less than a second, and then there was silence again.

Rong Guang froze, subconsciously looking towards the window where the curtains weren’t drawn.

Chu Feiliang lay there quietly and said, “It’s the traffic violation camera outside—continue applying the medicine.”

Rong Guang steadied her breathing and gently touched the cotton swab to Chu Feiliang’s waist, saying in a small voice, “What if it’s the paparazzi…”

Chu Feiliang opened her eyes and said, “So what if it is? Am I afraid of them?”

Then she turned her head, looked at Rong Guang’s furrowed brows, and put a hand on her hip in mock anger. “Are you that afraid of being photographed spending a spring night in the same room with me?”

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