Sweet slice-of-life love story: Wife, Let's love again
Chapter 273 - 269: It’s Time to Show the Real Strength

Chapter 273: Chapter 269: It’s Time to Show the Real Strength

"Scumbags!"

Sun Wen scrolled through his social media feed and stumbled upon a newly posted picture by Qin Guanglin, furiously typing three words as a comment.

After leaving the comment, he stared at the photo for a while before suddenly going back to the home screen and opening his chat app, scrolling through his moments.

He stopped at a photo from July 2013.

Two people holding hands, two movie tickets, the same setup. Sun Wen took a deep breath, looked up, and chuckled.

In a month, his girlfriend would be married.

Time flies.

He pondered quietly for a moment, then swept across the screen and started deleting moments from his social media—posts and photos, anything related to them both—he cleared it all out. Then he opened up the battered laptop on his desk and began sifting through his files.

An hour later, he looked at the screen displaying a selection of a dozen or so photos, smiled gently, and dragged the mouse to copy them to his USB drive. He then unplugged the USB and turned to go downstairs.

...

"Hehehe."

Xiao Yu sat by the riverbank, fishing rod propped at his side, looking at Qin Guanglin’s photo on his phone and also saw Sun Wen’s comment. He couldn’t help but laugh.

Back then, he had watched Qin Guanglin and Sun Wen show off, and now it was his turn.

It was satisfying.

Satisfying as it was, he still felt the need to curse.

"Scumbags!"

He sent the same three words, aligning his comment with Sun Wen’s, while Zhou Nan looked on, frowning, "What are you laughing at like an idiot?"

"Oh, nothing." Xiao Yu smiled and moved his phone closer to her face to show her Qin Guanglin’s photo, then suggested, "Why don’t we go watch a movie too?"

"Who’s this Lin?"

"A friend, you don’t know her."

"Oh."

Zhou Nan turned and glanced at the motionless fishing rods that had been quiet for more than two hours, stood up with a pout, and said, "We should have gone to do something else a long time ago. Fishing for what... You bought that fish last time, didn’t you?"

"What do you mean bought? I worked hard to catch it!"

"Tch."

"You don’t believe me?" This challenge ignited Xiao Yu’s temper, and he sat back down on the stool, rolling up his sleeves.

"Wait and see! Today I definitely have to catch one to show you!"

...

"How about it? Does it feel any different watching it a second time?"

The instigator, Qin Guanglin, led He Fang out of the theater with the dispersing crowd and asked her with a sideways glance.

"What feeling could it possibly give? I’ve watched it so many times I’ve lost count."

He Fang felt at ease. The first and second times, or even the fourth and fifth times, might have brought a twinge of sadness, but by the seventh or eighth, there were hardly any ripples left in her emotions.

Moreover, a movie is just fiction; she had lived through the real thing.

"So you’ve seen it many times too... It’s a pity that classics are becoming so rare. There’s nothing left to do but rewatch old films." Qin Guanglin looked back at the cinema hall with regret. To a movie lover, the dwindling number of good films was like a reader facing a drought of good books.

Riding the escalator downstairs, the outside sky had already dimmed a bit, approaching dinner time. The vegetarian restaurant He Fang had chosen was not very crowded.

Nowadays, few people liked to eat strictly vegetarian. Most only came to try it occasionally, so naturally, the business wasn’t booming.

The restaurant’s interior was simple and clean, with wooden tables and chairs, giving off an antique vibe along with the soft music playing in the background—reminiscent of chanting, not too loud, it involuntarily relaxed the mind and quieted the heart.

Qin Guanglin and He Fang sat in the corner and ordered their food. The owner greeted them before turning with the menu to slip into the kitchen. Moments later, she came out and settled at the bar, waiting for the next table of guests.

"Hey, look, someone’s sour, hahaha."

"Immature much?"

He Fang rolled her eyes at him, looking at the row of comments in her social media friend circle, feeling too powerless to mock.

What terrible taste.

"You don’t get it," Qin Guanglin was as delighted as a dog’s tail wagging, nearly married, it was time to show off his girlfriend to that bunch of friends. Let them know such a person existed so next year when he got married, it wouldn’t be a surprise: Eh, how did this guy get married without making a sound?

Well, feeding the dogs was incidental, the important thing was to share the joy with close friends and family—

As he scrolled, Qin Guanglin’s fingers paused. What business did Xiao Yu have joining in the fuss?

"Where’s your girlfriend?" he texted Xiao Yu.

Xiao Yu: "She’s with me fishing."

Qin Guanglin: "Fishing in the middle of the night?"

Xiao Yu: "I have to show off my strength."

Qin Guanglin: "Since when did you have any strength?"

Xiao Yu didn’t reply. Qin Guanglin put away his phone and looked at He Fang, "Do you like fishing?"

The idea of fishing with his girlfriend like Xiao Yu was doing seemed quite appealing, and he felt a bit eager to try.

"Not really."

"Oh..."

"Sister He!"

A voice full of surprise rang out, and Qin Guanglin turned his head, the girl who he nearly mistook for a man once, was standing at the door and joyfully greeting He Fang.

"Xiaoqing?" He Fang was also a bit surprised, "Are you here to eat?" She glanced at Gu Xiaoqing who was alone, hesitated, and then invited, "By yourself? Come over and join us."

As they grew more familiar, her impression of Gu Xiaoqing had become quite positive, she felt like another version of herself... or more like a sister, sometimes sharing fresh news on Weixun too.

"Ah..."

Gu Xiaoqing hesitated at seeing Qin Guanglin seated so robustly, "...Is it okay?"

"Of course, come sit." He Fang scooted over to make room and beckoned Gu Xiaoqing, saying, "This is Xiaoqing, the one you’ve seen before, had dinner with me after the signing event... This is my boyfriend, Qin Guanglin."

"Hello."

"Hello."

Qin Guanglin nodded politely, and the restaurant owner moved quickly, coming over with the menu to add dishes for everyone.

"How did you end up here... out shopping by yourself?"

After ordering, He Fang seemed to forget about her boyfriend for a moment and eagerly struck up a conversation with Gu Xiaoqing, holding her hand.

"Yeah, I came to see ’A Chinese Odyssey’... After watching it, I wanted to have dinner and didn’t expect to bump into Sister He!" Gu Xiaoqing looked very happy.

A day spent freely shopping, watching a movie, and eating alone, and then unexpectedly meeting He Fang at the end, it really was a delightful surprise.

He Fang was even more delighted and pulled out her ticket stub, saying, "We just watched it too... which theater were you in?"

"The same one as you... Ah, we watched the same screening!"

Qin Guanglin silently watched the two chat animatedly, feeling a sense of abandonment with his phone in hand.

Empty, lonely, cold.

To think that He Fang could run into a fan just by going for a stroll, she really did seem to have a bit of fame...

"Ah? It’s him?" Gu Xiaoqing covered her mouth in shock, looking at Qin Guanglin in disbelief.

"What?" Qin Guanglin was confused, having spaced out and not caught what the two were discussing.

"She’s a big fan of your public account," He Fang explained from the side.

"Uh... Thanks."

Qin Guanglin felt awkward. This person was his fan?

He had fans too?!

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