Chapter 1727: Chapter 1135
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"Everything you just said, I’ve already thought about." Zhao Bingbing lowered her eyes. "But I don’t want to back down. I don’t want to spend my whole life living in her shadow."
Chuxia let out a sigh. "You’ve already thought it through, and you still insist on going to her side. Then let me ask you: all those things your brother is worried about, have you thought about them? Even if you don’t care about your own life or death, what about your family?
If something really happens to you, the ones who’ll be the most heartbroken will be your parents and your brother. Especially your mom—she agreed to cooperate with you, and in the end you get into trouble. Do you think she’ll ever be able to feel happy again for the rest of her life?"
"This..." Zhao Bingbing rubbed her head, annoyed. "I really haven’t thought about that. But..." She frowned at Chuxia. "In your heart, do you also think I’m that useless?"
Chuxia looked at her seriously. "I don’t think you’re useless. I just think your personality is very upright and straightforward. If you go over there with anger in you, and someone who’s really scheming wants to set you up, you simply won’t be able to avoid it.
Even though none of us can be sure whether Zhao Weiwei would do something that ruthless, nobody wants to take that kind of risk, using their life as the price to test it. That cost is way too high.
Bingbing, if I didn’t see you as a friend, I wouldn’t have come today, and I wouldn’t say these things. Because I know right now you especially hate it when people don’t go along with you.
No matter what I say, you’ll feel like I’m just talking without feeling any pain myself. But I can’t stay away just because I’m afraid you’ll misunderstand me. Because we are friends!"
Chuxia deliberately emphasized twice that the two of them were friends, hoping that Zhao Bingbing could think about this in a rational way and make the right decision.
Although she herself couldn’t be sure which choice was really the right one—after all, everything being talked about now was just speculation. When it came to the actual situation, Zhao Bingbing might not be that reckless, and Zhao Weiwei might not be that vicious.
Sure enough, the impatience and anger on Zhao Bingbing’s face slowly faded. After a long moment, she finally raised her head and looked seriously at Chuxia. "If I say I can keep myself from acting on impulse and just focus on doing my work, only hoping to get everyone’s approval, would you believe me?"
"If that’s the result of careful thought, then I believe you." Chuxia also stared at her with a serious expression. "But if you want me to help you persuade your family, I can’t."
"I understand. In a place like that, nobody can give a hundred-percent guarantee of their own safety. No matter what causes the danger, when the time comes my family will vent their anger on you..." At this point, Zhao Bingbing suddenly smacked her forehead. "Crap, I’m the one who egged you on to go. If something happens to you, the Zhou family members will want to eat me alive, won’t they?"
Then she quickly spat a few times in succession. "Listen to me talking such nonsense. With your great Division Commander over there, how could you possibly get into trouble? If anyone does, it won’t be you. Ptui, ptui, ptui, what I just said was childish babble, doesn’t count, doesn’t count..."
"Relax. Even if something really happens to me, the Zhou family members won’t blame you, because I never discussed it with them. It was Zhou Mikang who talked to them..." Chuxia spread her hands. "So your worrying is completely unnecessary."
"Really?" Zhao Bingbing’s eyes instantly went wide. "Your husband actually agreed to help you talk your family into it? Shouldn’t he be stopping you? You two seem pretty loving as a couple—it’s not just for show, is it?
I’m really not trying to badmouth your marriage. It’s just, you’re now the mom of two one-year-old kids. Even if your husband is dying to have you by his side, he still has no reason to say yes, right?
Most importantly, no matter how you put it, it’s not safe where he is. Even if he sticks by your side every day, he still can’t guarantee your safety. How could he agree so easily?"
"Because I talked him into it." Chuxia rolled her eyes at her. "You think he agreed just because I casually mentioned it? Do you have any idea how much saliva I wasted? And besides, as long as I made it clear that I know there’s a Fox Spirit around him, that I’m insanely jealous, that it’s affecting my mood and my life, then even if he was unwilling, he had no choice but to agree."
"Oh, I see." Zhao Bingbing looked full of envy. "If only I had a husband to help me too. Looks like I really need to hurry up and find one. At the very least, when something comes up, I’d have someone to stand shoulder to shoulder with me. Unlike my dad and my brother, who just treat me like a silly kid with no brains. It’s really bad for my self-esteem."
"You’ve still decided to go, haven’t you?" Chuxia looked at her seriously and asked.
"Yes." Zhao Bingbing nodded. "I can’t spend my whole life under my father’s and brother’s protection. I want to be their pride too. I also hope that one day I’ll be capable enough to shield my family from the wind and rain.
This time is my chance to train myself—both externally and internally. If I can’t control my emotions and end up falling for Zhao Weiwei’s trap, then that just means it’s my fate.
Don’t worry, I won’t drag you into it. I’ll explain my thoughts to them myself. I want to join the medical team, really not to settle scores with Zhao Weiwei. I just hope that I can stand just as tall as she does.
If I don’t go, by the time she comes back I’ll definitely be miles behind her, so, to avoid spending my whole life regretting that I can never catch up, I have to force myself to accept everything.
This "everything" includes my attitude toward Zhao Weiwei, and also how I perform at work. I absolutely won’t be like before, never fighting, never competing, just letting her walk all over me."
"Since you’ve already thought it through, I won’t try to stop you. I’ll head home then..." Chuxia stood up and waved a little fist at her. "Go for it, wish you instant success!"
"Don’t rush off, stay for dinner." Zhao Bingbing hurriedly got out of bed. "I don’t need to pretend anymore. If I spell out what I’m thinking and they still don’t agree, then I’ll give up. For me, my family really is the most important. I don’t want them living in pain their whole lives, especially my mom."
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Right now, Chuxia was super regretful she’d stayed for dinner. Turns out Zhao Jian hadn’t been lying when he said Madam Zhao’s cooking was bad, and it wasn’t just him being polite. These dishes were truly awful!
The problem was, she couldn’t pull a face like it was inedible, so she could only lower her head and silently count rice grains. It wasn’t that she was ill‑mannered, it was really that the taste in her mouth was about to drive her insane.
How could anyone manage to cook food this "delicious"? What a genius!!!
"Stop eating." Zhao Jian snatched the chopsticks from Chuxia’s hand. "I’ll walk you home. Aside from our own family, no one else can ’enjoy’ my mom’s cooking."
"What do you mean?" Zhao Bingbing widened her eyes and stared at her brother in surprise. "Mom’s cooking is great. How can you talk like that, bro?"
Chuxia: "..."
She really admired Zhao Bingbing’s taste buds. Take the plate of tomato and scrambled eggs in front of her—this dish, for anyone who isn’t a professional chef, usually comes out more or less the same.
But somehow Madam Zhao had managed to turn it into a plate of tooth‑achingly sour tomato eggs. Judging by her palate, there had to be vinegar in there. She knew plenty of people liked adding vinegar when stir‑frying, but this was the first time she’d seen someone put vinegar in tomato and egg!
"Big Brother Zhao, I think the food’s not bad. Let me just finish this bowl of rice." As a polite kid, Chuxia couldn’t just get up and leave the moment Zhao Jian said something. Seeing Madam Zhao’s flushed cheeks and hopeful gaze, she couldn’t just walk out either.
Come to think of it, she’d always wondered who Zhao Bingbing took after in terms of personality. Now she understood—they were basically cast from the same mold as Madam Zhao, whether in looks or in how they did things...
After painfully completing her "mission," Chuxia put down her chopsticks and firmly refused to take another bite. Given her appetite, she’d only hit about thirty percent full. Ideally, dinner should be seventy percent. As for the remaining forty percent, she’d just wait till she got home. If she forced herself to eat that extra forty percent here, her teeth might not know where they’d end up.
"Your Auntie Zhao’s from Shanxi, she loves vinegar. You probably aren’t used to this kind of flavor, right?" Father Zhao smiled at Chuxia. "But I’ve gotten used to it. If I don’t eat your Auntie Zhao’s cooking one day, it’s like I haven’t eaten at all."
Now this is true marital bliss!
To be able to lie with a straight face at this level was really something! She just didn’t buy that Father Zhao was telling the truth. Based on how Zhao Jian had described his dad, she still didn’t buy it!
"They didn’t keep you for dinner?" Seeing her daughter going at her food with gusto after coming home, Zhao Yulan asked in puzzlement, "From the way Xiao Zhao looks, he doesn’t seem like someone with no manners. Even if he’s clueless, his parents wouldn’t be that rude, right? And Bingbing, there’s no way she’d let you leave without eating, would she?"
"Ma, if I tell you I already ate, would you believe me?" Chuxia pulled a long face. "All of Auntie Zhao’s dishes had vinegar in them, and that much too. I really couldn’t ’enjoy’ it, so after symbolically eating a bit, I hurriedly put my chopsticks down."
"She put vinegar in every dish?" Zhao Yulan said in confusion. "Even things like tomatoes?"
"Ma, you’re really smart. How did you know Auntie Zhao put vinegar in her tomato stir‑fry?" Chuxia shuddered as she spoke. "Just thinking of that whole table of dishes is like a nightmare. I seriously feel for Zhao Bingbing now, being able to treat food like that as a delicacy. Tsk tsk..."
"You eat something often enough and you really do start to think it’s tasty." Zhao Yulan couldn’t help laughing. "But tomatoes with vinegar tasting good...that I really can’t imagine."
Not long after she went back to her room, Chuxia got a call from Zhao Bingbing: "Chuxia, my dad and my brother agreed to let me join the medical team too. When the time comes, we can go together fair and square!" (To be continued. If you like this work, you’re welcome to come to Qidian (qidian.com) to cast recommendation votes and monthly tickets. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users, please go to m.qidian.com to read.)
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