The Onion-Cutting Ninja's Secret Crush

127 Let's Leave It at That

Si Yi couldn't help but be afraid that his gaze would give something away. Clearly, while he tried to suppress his feelings for Si Qi, they were still there. And it was in moments like this where he had the most trouble keeping them hidden.

He lowered his gaze again, but there was still a faint smile on his lips when he looked back up at Fan Mei. "As for why he did what he did, I can't speak for him. But maybe he would like to answer that himself."

The other contestants couldn't help but become noisy. Even though among those other forty-four people, not everybody was an avid reader, the name Shi Ru Qiu was one that was fairly well-known so, of course, there would at least be one or two people who recognized it.

Unsurprisingly, one of the people in question was actually Ye Ping. Hearing Si Yi say that, she couldn't help but reach over to the person at the cooking station next to her, grabbing his arm. "Oh, did I just understand this right? One of the other contestants is actually Shi Ru Qiu, that author?"

The man in question looked back at her, not having any idea what she was talking about. Clearly, he was not the kind of person that was interested in reading novels in his spare time. Shi Ru Qiu, the name didn't tell him anything.

Well, Ye Ping was able to be excited for two, and seeing that this person was uneducated, she immediately started to detail to him just what kind of awesome stories Mister Shi was able to write.

At cooking station number fifty-five, Si Qi was actually embarrassed. When it came to writing, his best works were inspired by his own feelings and life. That main series of his, wasn't most of it influenced by his yearning for the person he admired?

Hearing somebody gush about this work, it always gave him a complicated feeling. It was even worse if the recipient of his affection was there to hear those praises and he simply couldn't take it when he had to hear about who that novel's hero should end up with.

He faintly cleared his throat, but Ye Ping's excited chattering on the other side of the studio really made it difficult to be heard by anyone but the people closest to him.

Thankfully, at this point, Fan Mei didn't have the patience to listen to Ye Ping's nonsense. She knew very well who Shi Ru Qiu was. As a reporter, it wasn't wrong to say that she was interested in writing quite a bit.

When it came to somebody like Shi Ru Qiu, she had at least read a couple of his works. In her opinion, he wasn't bad. She couldn't be called a loyal fan, but she would also keep an eye on his new publications, thinking about buying if the plot sounded interesting. Needless to say, she had felt betrayed when this person stepped out to help out Bright Yellow Water.

Yes, she had read his article, feeling that it was really moving. But by the time she realized just who this was about, she had gotten angry. In fact, she had thrown away her phone, not bothering to read the rest.

Why would Shi Ru Qiu get involved? That was something she really couldn't understand.

Her brother, yes, she had a faint guess in her heart just why he was doing this. Even that had seemed a little excessive since she had never seen him do something like that for one of his other customers after all. Thus, she had felt that something had to be wrong and started to look into Bright Yellow Water.

Seeing Ai Gui Jin suddenly emerge to talk about this channel in particular, had moved her to finally write that article for real. Originally, she hadn't even been sure if she should because this channel didn't seem all that interesting. But with not just her brother's wife but also that chef crawling out of the woodwork to help, her suspicions had just seemed to be confirmed. Especially after she finally figured out who that Si Jin was.