PSMD – Chapter 132

Regarding the boyfriend Qu Yan mentioned, Qiu Yang had an impression. This was the only boyfriend of Qu Yan’s that Qiu Yang had officially met in the past four years.

They used to be close, so it was normal for Qu Yan to have a meal with her boyfriend, but they hadn’t met many times in total.

Apart from shaking hands the first time they met, Qiu Yang and that person had no other interaction.

She didn’t know about the incident Qu Yan was talking about. Hearing Qu Yan bring it up now, she only felt it was absurd and speechless.

“So?”

“What does that have to do with me?”

Qu Yan slowly nodded. “Indeed, it has nothing to do with you, but… but…” She couldn’t maintain her composure from before and became agitated. “Why? How many times did you meet him? How many words did you exchange? I liked him so, so much, but his heart was stolen by you. He’d get distracted when he was on a date with me, and even when he saw the letters QY, he thought of you.”

Qu Yan’s voice wasn’t low. Some people nearby heard her and cast curious glances.

Okay, another melodramatic scene of two women fighting over a man.

Qiu Yang was annoyed by the barrage of questions, but she put on her usual smile. She raised an eyebrow. “You ask me why? What else could it be? It’s nothing more than me being better looking than you, right? And younger.”

Qiu Yang rarely had moments like this, and she didn’t like saying provocative things, but she knew this was the answer in Qu Yan’s heart.

The onlookers nearby heard Qiu Yang’s words, compared the two, and then quietly agreed with what Qiu Yang said.

But at the same time, they thought this ‘mistress’ was incredibly arrogant.

Qu Yan seemed to have regained a bit of calm. She heard every single word Qiu Yang said clearly, not missing a single one.

The waiter brought two more dishes. Qiu Yang held her chopsticks but didn’t move.

“Why aren’t you talking?” Qiu Yang had taken the upper hand. She let out a scoff. “If it weren’t for today, I wouldn’t have known you’ve been jealous of me for so long.”

Qu Yan smiled as she looked at her. “Yes, I am jealous of you. Unlike me, who has to do everything perfectly to gain others’ liking and respect, you don’t need to. You just smile like you did just now, and people find you cute and want to be friends with you.”

“I seem to have to work much harder than you to get the same things.”

Qiu Yang didn’t want to hear this anymore, so she waved her hand. “I refuse to be blamed.”

“Aren’t I speaking the truth?” Qu Yan showed a slightly exaggerated expression, then mockingly curled her lips.

Qiu Yang furrowed her brows. “Don’t you think you’re being ridiculous? I was closest to you from the moment I joined the company. I told you I like women. Not only did I not know your trash boyfriend had feelings for me, even if I had known, I wouldn’t have had any feelings for him. You treat him like a treasure and think I stole him. Have you ever considered that to me, he means absolutely nothing?”

The surrounding crowd: ???

How is the plot getting weirder and weirder? It seems a bit different from the plot they imagined.

The waiter serving the dishes pricked up their ears but couldn’t linger.

Qiu Yang’s words continued, her gaze fixed on Qu Yan. “Your biggest problem is that you don’t trust me. In reality, I’m not more popular than you. Don’t you know how many people I got to know when I came to the company? What gives you the right to slander me? You work hard, and I don’t?”

“Qu Yan, even if you can’t stand me anymore, can you at least be reasonable?”

“You talk as if you’re so pitiful. Who was it who sent flowers to my girlfriend to create a misunderstanding? Who instigated Peng Kaimiao to pursue me? Who exploited my trust and made me tell her everything? And who wanted to create a lifelong psychological trauma for me?”

“It was you, don’t you know?”

Qiu Yang’s outburst left everyone around confused. They exchanged glances with their companions, then secretly showed expressions of contempt towards Qu Yan.

But was this really not a prank video shoot? Like they were deliberately acting in front of other customers, and then afterwards they’d come up and say it was all for a video, asking for permission to post it online.

But they didn’t see a camera on site.

Could there be a hidden camera?

Qiu Yang didn’t know what the people around her were thinking. She only felt a surge of relief in her heart now. She looked at the silent Qu Yan, her brows furrowing. “Oh, right, there’s one more charge against you. That is, you teamed up with Tao Sixian for profit. It’s truly laughable. I was completely betrayed by the sister I trusted. I told you first that I was sick, and that night she knew.”

“Qu Yan, why are you so… cruel?”

“When you were doing these things, did you also reminisce about our past like you are today?”

Qiu Yang’s eyes couldn’t help but feel a little sore. Sitting across from her was one of the people she had trusted the most.

But she had also been hurt completely.

Qu Yan put down her chopsticks, her gaze shifting from blankness to clarity. “I did reminisce. The more I reminisced, the more you disgusted me.”

“You’re the one who acts so aloof, and you’re the one who’s surrounded by people. I truly feel disgusted.”

“But it doesn’t matter. We won’t have any more contact in the future. I’ll delete and block you right now.”

Qiu Yang’s emotions were no longer fluctuating much. The villains she had encountered before were superficial; after interacting with them, you’d want to keep your distance. It was backstabbers like Qu Yan who were truly disheartening. She watched Qu Yan’s fingers slide across her phone screen, and another thought came to mind. Her gaze couldn’t help but sharpen. “I missed one thing just now. You also leaked Director Shen’s phone number.”

“Yes, I leaked it.”

“I earned a few hundred yuan in tips from that over those two days. Thank her. I used that money to buy shoes for my younger brother.”

Qu Yan said this and took another sip of her drink.

Qiu Yang didn’t want to waste any more words on her. She picked up the water on the table and splashed it towards her. The moment she put the cup down, she stood up.

She hadn’t touched a bite of the food on the table. She had no appetite, and she still couldn’t help but let herself get angry.

Shen Ningruo was the person she cared about most.

She looked at Qu Yan’s distress, ultimately said nothing, and turned to leave.

She got the answer she wanted, she knew why Qu Yan had treated her that way, but it also brought her unhappiness.

Shen Ningruo was waiting outside the door, though she hadn’t told Qiu Yang. The moment Qiu Yang came out and saw her, she was a bit stunned, then walked over and hugged Shen Ningruo.

Shen Ningruo stroked her back. “Let’s get in the car first.”

“Okay.”

The car was parked nearby. Shen Ningruo led Qiu Yang the whole way. She opened the passenger door for Qiu Yang, then leaned over to buckle her seatbelt before walking around the front of the car to get into the driver’s seat.

She didn’t rush to buckle her own seatbelt. Instead, she leaned her upper body slightly and cupped Qiu Yang’s face.

She was very worried. “Xiao Yang, are you okay?”

“Not very.” Qiu Yang blinked after saying this. The next second, her eyes turned red. She took a deep breath and took her phone out of her bag.

The recording was still ongoing. She pressed the stop button, opened the newly generated audio file, took out her earphones from her bag, and put them on Shen Ningruo.

Shen Ningruo knew what she meant. She wanted to calm down, so she let Shen Ningruo listen to the recording of the scene.

Qiu Yang’s head rested against the car window, her eyes closed. Her left hand was holding Shen Ningruo’s right hand, the warmth in their palms so real, transmitting comfort and energy to her.

The car was silent, but outside the window, there was a flow of traffic and people.

Shen Ningruo listened to the recording.

There was some background noise, but she could still clearly hear the conversation between Qiu Yang and Qu Yan.

The reason why Qu Yan sent her flowers was also explained today—

She wanted to create a misunderstanding between her and Qiu Yang.

If she hadn’t known back then that Qiu Yang had already seen that bouquet, then after receiving the flowers and seeing the card, the signature “QY” would definitely have been automatically assumed to be Qiu Yang. She would have talked about it with Qiu Yang, or perhaps not, but she would have taken a picture and sent it out, which Qiu Yang would see, causing a misunderstanding.

The method wasn’t clever, perhaps it was just a test. The key point was that Qiu Yang was in the phase of being hurt by Tao Sixian and valued trust highly.

Wasn’t it?