Chapter 0157 – What to do if you are misunderstood – Absolute Returns

by GreatBrother(위대한 다오 형제)

This servant, what a self-made friend. We’ve only met twice and he’s so close to me.

"Can I sit here?"

She nodded.

"Today, I must treat you to noodles."

"What do you mean?"

"Last time, you left in such a hurry that you forgot to pay, and I paid for it all."

Qin Xia Ling, froze, she carefully recalled, the second time, she did forget to pay, she was too angry, and directly left. The first time, was it the same?

She had never eaten a bully meal since she was a child, and this was a huge shame for her. Her face, slightly reddened. This man, always making a fool out of her.

Could it be that he appeared in my dream just to remind me to pay back the money?

She originally wanted to give him a head start, but to her surprise, I got the jump on her.

"How much? I forget."

"No, you next time, just treat me to two bowls of noodles."

Is he trying to use this opportunity to get close to me? This honest-looking guy, he’s not a playboy, is he?

"You wish!"

She had seen too many, men who wanted to climb up the ranks of the powerful, and she knew their tactics like the back of her hand long ago.

"Today, it’s my treat, so order whatever you want."

"No, I don’t feel like eating today."

This servant, how dare he reject her? She felt that she was like a maid, being called around by me. She ordered a pot of wine and said:

"I want a drink."

She drank two glasses of wine in a row and then, blurted out what happened that day.

"That day, I was really angry, I was going to introduce you to my friend, but you beat me to it and said you were his senior. I felt that you were cheating on my friend, so I was very angry."

Why is she explaining herself to me?

That’s the kind of personality she has. Even if she knows, it’s useless to explain.

She looked me in the eye.

The look in my eyes, so at odds with who I am. My eyes, calm and deep and inscrutable, like her late father and like her grandfather.

I asked calmly:

"Why do you, uh, care so much about this?"

In her mind she said, I don’t know why I care so much.

"I don’t want to be misunderstood."

"You’re afraid people will get the wrong idea that you despise servants?"

"Yeah, I’m not that kind of guy."

"So what if I’m misunderstood?"

"I don’t like it."

"Have you ever thought that this way of yours will, on the contrary, make others think that you despise servants even more?"

Qin Xiaoling, was instantly enraged.

"What do you mean?"

"Servants, too, are human beings, they have their own thoughts, they just don’t say them out loud. If you start out, looking down on servants, they will look down on you."

"Are you saying that my good intentions are not as good as those who despise their servants?"

"That’s not what I’m saying, I’m just asking you, are you really doing this for someone else? Or for yourself?"

"!"

Qin Xia Ling, froze.

"Of course, if you’re just doing it for your own peace of mind, there’s nothing wrong with that. But you’d better not show it, or we’ll be embarrassed too. We’ll think: so, having dinner with us is such a difficult thing for her, so, she has to be so careful not to hurt us. We’ll think too much, we’ll ramble on, all of this, just to put you at ease."

Qin Xia Ling, speechless, her face, reddened. She had never thought about these questions, she didn’t know, what to say.

She felt aggrieved, she felt angry, and she knew that when she got home she would regret it, and she would say, "I should have, at that moment, answered him like that!"

Could it be, that he appeared in my dream to tell me, these truths?

Once again she began to blame herself.

"I’m so selfish."

She was, for now, still thinking only of herself, and she wanted to comfort her wounded pride with the words of this servant.

"How dare you, a servant, lecture me? Do you know that it’s your honor to dine with me?"

She said coldly, then, adding:

"Is that what you’re trying to say?"

"Yes, that’s what I would think if I were you. Most people here, think that way. So, you should think that way too, and not think too much, or you’ll get hurt."

Qin Xia Ling, looking at me, suddenly stood up and said:

"I prefer not to! Who are you to lecture me? You’re a little servant!"

She has finally learned, to express her true thoughts.

"I’ll admit it, and, you’re like that, it’s cute. You should take off your mask and live your true self."

"Shut up! You servant!"

She left the inn in a rage.

Xu Dalong, immediately ran over and sat across from me, he should have been at the stairway, peeking at us.

He picked up the wine that Qin Xia Ling, had left over and drank it all in one go, saying:

"Love, always ends in tragedy."

I knew that he was trying to comfort me, but I didn’t take it to heart as I chuckled:

"Love, how can it be that easy? Even in the same organization, it’s hard to find true love, you should know that well, right?"

Xu Dalong, once pursued a senior sister of the Yellow Spring Pavilion, but in the end, it ended without any success.

"Can you, please, not mention the pot calling the kettle black? I have a lot of admirers too!"

I looked at Xu Da Long and smiled.

Xu Da Long, if you want to fall in love, go ahead and do it, I don’t have time to fall in love. If I start to fall in love, Flower Wreckless, will definitely say: How dare you fall in love in front of me? My fate, is already doomed, love, for me, is a luxury. I now, don’t even have the time to feel my heartbeat.

"Investigator Xu, let’s go cultivate."

"Good! We losers can only work hard to cultivate!"

"Who’s a loser!"

I stood up and suddenly realized that Qin Xia Ling, again, had forgotten to pay.

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