Orange
A senior colleague from the company was joining a film crew for six months. Everything was arranged, except for her little cat, which couldn’t travel long distances or be boarded at a pet shop for a long time, for fear the little thing would get depressed. She discussed it with Qi Ke and arranged to have it sent to the Sweet Day dorm for six months.
For this, Sweet Day held another meeting.
Qi Ke voted in favor: “Although we’re also busy, the little cat is quite pitiful. Our dorm is big, and we have the means to keep it. When we’re out, we can pay the company’s cleaning lady to come and feed the cat.”
Chengzhi nodded. “Mm, I agree.”
Meng Ying nodded. “Mm, that makes sense.”
Zhong Yi nodded. “Mm, I agree with both hands and both feet.”
Song Yushi, who had been pulled into the meeting, asked, “Everyone agrees?”
The members of Sweet Day nodded gravely, then all became vigilant. “Captain, you’re not going to object, are you?”
Song Yushi was speechless for a moment before saying helplessly, “So if everyone agrees, what’s the point of this meeting?”
The members of Sweet Day: “…”
That’s right!
Song Yushi put her head in her hand. “What are you all standing around for? Go get the cat.”
And so, this Golden Shaded cat named Orange was brought into the Sweet Day dorm. The Golden Shaded was very well-raised, with chubby cheeks, a round little body, but it was a bit scared of people, hissing at anyone who came near.
The senior colleague said goodbye reluctantly. “Baby, please don’t forget me. If they’re not good to you, I’ll go from a passerby to an anti-fan!”
All of Sweet Day: “???”
Get lost, you noble passerby!
After the senior colleague left, Orange took a nap in the carrier before beginning to patrol the Sweet Day dorm with a cat’s gait. The members, afraid of scaring it, pretended not to care, sitting on the living room sofa and watching TV distractedly while following it with their peripheral vision. The power of a cat was too great; even Song Yushi was captivated.
Only Qi Ke thought, it’s not my cat, even if we build a good relationship, it’ll leave eventually. I might as well take advantage of no one paying attention to flirt with the little Captain.
A hook of the little finger, a poke on the slender waist, a scratch on the palm.
Suddenly, there was a weight on her leg.
Qi Ke: “???”
The others: “!!!”
Only Orange remained unfazed, its expression as calm as ever. It stood up, its front two paws resting on Qi Ke’s shirt, and rubbed its fluffy little face against Qi Ke’s.
Purr, purr.
Qi Ke: “?”
Was she just hit on by a cat?
The other three: “!”
Damn it! We’re drooling with envy.
Song Yushi: “…”
Why do I feel like I’ve been cuckolded?
In short, Orange was just this kind of unconventional little cat. It ignored the women who adored it and only had eyes for Qi Ke, who didn’t care much for it, looking every bit like an overbearing CEO thinking, “Woman, you are the most refreshingly unconventional, I like you.” Whenever it saw Qi Ke, it would cling to her in various ways.
That night, Orange was once again eyeing them covetously from under the bed.
Song Yushi: “…Maybe I should go sleep on the small bed.”
“Don’t go!” Qi Ke quickly wrapped her arms around Song Yushi’s waist. “It’s been so long since we’ve done it. Look how nice the atmosphere is tonight, I’m all ready!”
Song Yushi glanced at Orange. “In front of it?”
Qi Ke: “…”
That would indeed be a bit explosive.
Qi Ke thought for a moment and said, “How about this, I’ll go take a shower first. It will definitely slip away when it sees I’m not here. After all, the canned food and everything is with Zhong Yi and Chengzhi.”
Song Yushi thought about it. Feasible.
Qi Ke slipped into the bathroom, the sound of water drizzling.
She didn’t know that after she left, Orange didn’t run off. Instead, it pushed its luck and jumped onto the bed. After rolling around a few times, it came face to face with Song Yushi.
Orange: “Meow~”
Song Yushi stared at it expressionlessly for a good while before finally speaking, “She’s my girlfriend.”
Orange: “Meow~?”
Song Yushi pursed her lips and added in a small voice, “She’s mine.”
Concert
As winter was about to end, Song Yushi and Qi Ke went to a concert.
It was a 50,000-seat venue, an open-air stadium, with a fine rain falling from the sky. This kind of concert was all about the atmosphere; sitting in the front row, you couldn’t really feel it. So Qi Ke bought the cheapest tickets in the highest section.
After all the lights in the venue went down, the centrally controlled light sticks lit up, like countless shining stars, illuminating the entire stage.
Amidst the magnificent stage design, a lift slowly rose, and the lead singer of the band appeared in the center of the stage holding an umbrella. He opened his mouth, and the first note landed.
“We’ll hold a concert here in the future too,” Qi Ke shouted in Song Yushi’s ear. “No, on an even bigger stage.”
The sound system was too loud, and Song Yushi didn’t hear clearly. She gave her a questioning look. “What did you say?”
Qi Ke leaned over and kissed her.
Song Yushi was startled and looked around. Seeing that everyone was jumping around with the lead singer and no one had noticed the two of them, who were bundled up tightly, she finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Then, she glared at Qi Ke. “Stop messing around.”
Qi Ke gestured for her to look at her phone.
Song Yushi took out her phone. Qi Ke’s message was at the top: I said—
【We’ll hold a concert here in the future too.】
【An even bigger stage.】
【I want to hold your hand openly on stage, sing ‘I Love You’, sing that we want to be together, sing all the sweet songs about love.】
Song Yushi looked down at the messages for a while.
Qi Ke’s phone lit up.
Baby: The fans will assassinate you on the spot.
Qi Ke: “…”
Where’s the romance!!!
She turned her head, and her Baby had already stood up, as high as the rest of the audience, her eyes curved into crescents like the moon, hiding a clear sweetness, singing a song about a grand, earth-shattering love.
This band’s concerts sometimes had a small event in the middle, depending on luck.
Song Yushi and Qi Ke were very lucky; they encountered it on their very first time. The lead singer signaled for all the lights in the venue to go down, even turning off the centrally controlled light sticks.
The whole venue fell silent.
“Now, please take out your phone, call the person you like, and I’ll dedicate a song, ‘Tenderness,’ to them.”
The lights of the mobile phones lit up.
Like a dim, boundless river of stars, floating in the cold rain, carrying a weak electric current, heading towards the person they liked.
Only in one particular spot.
A phone’s ringtone suddenly rang out.
Those nearby all turned to look.
Song Yushi almost threw away the suddenly ringing phone. The screen flashed with a name: Qi Ke.
Song Yushi looked at Qi Ke.
Qi Ke was well-disguised, with only her beautiful eyes showing. She wore exquisite eye makeup, which shone at her in the dim light, encouraging her to answer.
A long finger pressed on the screen, sliding to answer.
“Walking in the wind today the sun / is suddenly so gentle / The tenderness of the sky and the tenderness of the earth / like you holding me…”
Before he could sing “I give you freedom,” the call was hung up.
Qi Ke held Song Yushi’s hand, and together they waved the support sticks in their hands, watching countless colorful balloons fly into the air. Amidst the singing, she said, “I will never give you freedom.”
-She loved her, but freedom was something she could not give.
Song Yushi smiled.
What a coincidence, neither could she.
The Truth is Real
As everyone knows, a series of songs such as “The Truth is Real,” “The Truth is Fake,” “Hard to Let Go,” “Not a Lover,” “Mercury Records,” and so on, can be found in abundance for any CP on a certain video site. As long as it’s a CP, it has to have these few songs.
There were thousands of internal CPs in Sweet Day, and even more similar videos.
Qi Ke and Meng Ying, Meng Ying and Chengzhi, Chengzhi and Zhong Yi, Zhong Yi and Qi Ke, and so on. And as their Captain, Song Yushi also had a CP-oriented video, with Qi Ke.
【Song Yushi x Qi Ke, The Truth is Fake.】
It was edited by a solo stan to stab the hearts of the few CP fans. The reason was still that Ferris wheel incident, which had attracted seven or eight shippers. The solo stan was afraid of being associated with Qi Ke’s side and took an unconventional approach, editing a video of the two not getting along.
The three hundred Qi Yu CP fans on the entire internet whispered in their shipper group.
【The way this video is edited, I think it’s even better for shipping. How are solo stans so good at shipping? I’ve scoured all of Sweet Day’s group variety shows and couldn’t find so many shots of them together. Where did they get all this material?】
【I declare, this is the best video in the Qi Yu circle, bar none.】
【Well, we have to admit it’s the best, because there are no other video edits in the Qi Yu circle.】
【Fuck! So sad! The Captain and the main vocalist are obviously a good match, why is no one shipping them? Mangosteen Entertainment can die. They officially break up ships every day. If they’re officially broken up, it must be real!】
【Look at this line of lyrics: ‘The youth you loved was all a lie, the story you wrote was a lie.’ Heh, thanks for that. Our faves aren’t youths, they’re young women. Everyone in our circle is useless, no one writes stories.】
【Those who hear will be saddened, those who listen will weep. #The World’s Most Tragic Qi Yu CP Fans#】
【I don’t care, Qi Yu must get married!】
This video was reposted by many ruthless shippers, most of them with heartless comments like “Do these two even know each other?” “The fans hate each other this much, it must be true love,” “What common ground could a rich young lady and a commoner captain have,” “Just casually shipping,” “As an ‘all Ke’ shipper, I accept all.” Eventually, it was reposted to Qi Ke’s side account homepage.
Qi Ke: “…………”
She was still in the Captain’s bed!!!
Two minutes later, Song Yushi came out of the shower. Not seeing Qi Ke on the bed, she was stunned for a moment, then she heard the clattering of a keyboard from by the window.
Song Yushi walked over while drying her hair. “What are you doing?”
“Ah, you’re done showering?” Qi Ke looked back at her, her hands flying across the keyboard, before she finally answered, “Editing a video.”
Song Yushi asked, “What video?”
Qi Ke pressed the enter key, and a series of clear photos of the two of them appeared on the video’s timeline. They were all airport photos of Song Yushi and Qi Ke. Although the two were far apart, if you blurred out the people in the middle, they looked quite intimate.
Qi Ke said, “A CP video of the two of us.”
Song Yushi: “…”
So, have things really become this desperate?
She wanted to crush her spirit, but seeing her so enthusiastic, she couldn’t bear to. She had to change the subject. “We have a CP fan site now?”
Qi Ke shook her head. “I hired them.”
Song Yushi: “?”
Qi Ke: “A professional photographer. I told her to only take pictures of the two of us together. The closer we are, the more money she gets. Although we’re always miles apart to avoid suspicion, a professional photographer is just that good…”
Song Yushi: “…”
This is too sad, please stop talking.
Since Qi Ke wanted to edit, Song Yushi let her be. She even provided two or three short videos of their interactions that she had saved from somewhere, said to have been posted by group fans as evidence that everyone in Sweet Day really had a good relationship.
There were no schedules the next day. Qi Ke worked hard all night and posted the video on a certain video site.
The tags were plentiful: #QiYu#, #Qiyu#, #SweetDay#, #sweetday#
Song Yushi yawned. “Why didn’t you tag our individual names?”
Qi Ke said seriously, “Because I don’t want to be hunted down by both sides’ solo stans.”
Song Yushi: “…”
It was really too hard for the main characters to ship their own CP.
After the video was posted, there were few viewers and only a pitiful few bullet comments. There were even many non-fans who had mistakenly entered while searching for a method to pray for rain, who were stunned after watching: It’s actually kind of sweet?
Later, the description of the Qi Yu CP Super Topic became: Qi Ke x Song Yushi, it is only because of her that she is complete, with anyone else the ending is lost.
After the official announcement, it was changed to: Qi Ke x Song Yushi, a moment’s heartbeat is a forever heartbeat.
In truth, the separation was fake.
In truth, the love was real.
