Title: The OOC Villainess and the White Moonlight Heroine are BFFs
Translator: Little Bamboo Spirit
Chapter 17 - White moonlight, I didn't expect you… okay, fine, those parts are the most eye-catching (2)
Perhaps, it was because Ye Xiang wasn't a shady nightclub. So even though pole dancing was an elegantly sultry activity, the stage was located relatively further inside. Under the dim lighting, the dancers were preparing.
Since they entered the nightclub, Jiang Shuyao had a death grip on Yue Xia. Even after they sat down, Jiang Shuyao was still looking around and wasn't her usual calm self. "This place is different from what I imagined."
Yue Xia finally had time to breathe. "What did you imagine it would be like?"
"I always thought that in a nightclub…" Jiang Shuyao softly lowered her voice, "people will do that."
Yue Xia also lowered her voice. "That's illegal. People that do that will be arrested."
Jiang Shuyao: "Oh…"
She had lived a sheltered life and been a good girl since childhood. Everything about this setting was very novel to her, and she looked around with interest. Her pure temperament was very alluring.
When Yue Xia returned to her seat at top speed after going to the bathroom, there were two glasses of wine on Shuyao's table.
Yue Xia carefully questioned, "You didn't drink any of that, did you?"
"No." Jiang Shuyao shook her head and quietly said, "I saw on the news that someone put drugs in the wine…"
Yue Xia agreed, "Indeed, you have to be vigilant."
Jiang Shuyao: "What if they kidnap me and sell my kidneys?"
Yue Xia: "..." Her waryness was good, but it was totally in the wrong direction! How outdated was the fake news she was watching?!
Moreover, they were in an old-fashioned romance novel. Shuyao's worries were unlikely to happen, but there would definitely be a little fool that would spill the drink on someone, which would be the catalyst to a touching romance story.
While Jiang Shuyao was appreciating pole dancing with a serious look, Yue Xia asked the system: [Is Shi Qingyin here?]
[He's drinking away his sorrows in Room 101. In half an hour, his father will come to take him back home.]
The system started to half-heartedly go through with the motions. It didn't bother with taking out an excerpt from the novel to show Yue Xia. [His dad will probably say something along the lines of "behaving like this over a meme woman is an embarrassment to the Shi's".]
Yue Xia was a bit curious. [What was Shi Qingyin's reaction in the novel?]
The system: [He reflected all night and felt that his father was right.]
Yue Xia: [...]
Those two might as well pack up their bags and launch themselves into space. It could be considered their contribution to the global environmental initiative.
This show really was an annual pole dancing extravaganza. The dancers were masters of their performance art. They wore the same masks and only had on black pants. Their movements showed off their muscles.
Yue Xia took a look and saw that the seats were packed. There were slightly more men than women in the audience. She said to Jiang Shuyao, "That one's dance is good."
"Which one?" Jiang Shuyao looked over to where she was pointing. She was a bit perplexed. "The brown one?"
Yue Xia: "?"
Where was she getting brown from?
The system slowly came back online. [Without other identifiers, those parts are indeed the most eye-catching.]
Yue Xia: "Huh?"
Immediately after, she saw the system circling two things and fell silent.
White moonlight, I didn't expect you… okay, fine, those parts are the most eye-catching.
As they happily talked about what they liked about pole dancing show, Yue Xia suddenly heard the system say in a strange voice: [Anomaly detected.]
Yue Xia: [What's wrong?]
[Something went wrong.] The system's mechanical voice dropped. [In the novel, Father Shi was supposed to come. But now, Shi Yunjian, Shi Qingyin's older brother, is here.]
[An older brother is like a father. It's more or less the same.] Yue Xia furrowed her brow. [That should be okay, right?]
The system: [I don't have any character information about him. He doesn't exist in the plot.]
Yue Xia held her cup of milk in a daze: [...?]
Why did a mystery suddenly appear?
While she was still lost in her thoughts, she heard Shi Qingyin's panting voice coming from behind her.
"Ge, can you save some face for me in front of outsiders-"
She instinctively turned to look. She was startled to see a tall figure silently standing in the aisle behind her. How long had he been standing there? Her hand shook, and the cup of warm milk spilled onto the man's collar with perfect accuracy.
In novels, falling into cliche situations was inevitable. As it turned out, she was that idiot.
Yue Xia blankly looked up and met Shi Yunjian's gaze.
His facial features were similar to Shi Qingyin's, but his were more three-dimension and sharper. His irises were a light brown, and he gave off a cold feeling. From this angle, he gave off the feeling of unreasonableness.
Yue Xia instinctively looked down. Shi Yunjian's shirt was still buttoned in the summer. Even so, she could see his muscles under his wet shirt.
Cough
She heard a deliberate cough. She blinked and saw him calmly turn his face, but that ended up revealing the redness at the base of his ear.
Huh, he's blushing.
"Yue Xia?!" Shi Qingyin came over with his brow tightly furrowed. He stunk of alcohol. "Why are you here?!"
Faced with his accusatory attitude, Yue Xia tossed back a "none of your business" while thinking that it was fortunate that Jiang Shuyao had gone to the bathroom.
Even though Shi Qingyin had drunk himself to a stuporous state, he still had the free time to nag. "Do you feel proud of yourself? Do you think you have a chance now? You and her aren't the same. Shuyao can't bear to be apart from me."
Yue Xia: "Ah, sure, sure."
Shi Qingyin: "Stop doing these pointless things. It'll only make people disgusted with you."
Yue Xia: "Oh, yeah, sure, sure."
She automatically treated Shi Qingyin's voice as background noise. She was somewhat annoyed as she tried to figure out what to do next. This was her first time accidentally spilling something on someone. What should she say? That she'll pay for his dry cleaning? Or would it be better to wipe off the milk? Anyways, it was best to say sorry first.
"I'm sorry."
Shi Yunjian nodded in response.
The pacing on the two sides were a bit inconsistent. Shi Qingyin was still continuing with words of, "she must have secretly cried because she couldn't see me", "she must be feeling worse than me", and so on. As a result, when he was halfway through with being overly sentimental, he saw Jiang Shuyao coming out of the bathroom with a happy face. She was even swinging her arms.
Shi Qingyin: "..."
What? Was he hallucinating?
He stiffly patted his face. His vision went dark, and he took a few steps back. He thought that he must be dreaming. "I must be seeing things."
Next to him.
Yue Xia: "How are you?"
Shi Yunjian: "Mhm."
Yue Xia stretched out her wily hand. "Let me wipe that for you…"
Shi Yunjian: "?!"
He gulped and promptly picked up Shi Qingyin, who was still muttering to himself. Shi Yunjian's steady steps didn't entirely hide that he was in a rush to leave. "Excuse me."
"Wait, I'm not done talking." Shi Qingyin reacted. Just as he was about to sternly question, he was dragged away by Shi Yunjian. On the way out, his head hit a decoration, and he fell unconscious for real.
Yue Xia watched them quickly disappear.
She said in a low-pitched voice: [System, that "bug" is quite good-looking.]