Su Qingtang tried to yawn as discreetly as she could but she had no idea the iceberg seated opposite her had caught it. With an aggrieved look on her face as if she had been bullied, she stands behind her stepmother who looked positively furious.
She casually snuck glances at the male lead as she snickered inwardly. He leaned on the chair languidly. His position the epitome of confidence and arrogance from his bones. He was gorgeously cold from his well sculpted face to his long legs. He had the face of a devil with dark eyes which seemed to see everything in a glance. Su Qingtang wanted to see him lose is composure, the composure that seemed to put him on a pedestal too far for mortals to reach. Why? 'Cuz he made me suicide for nothing!
"Lu Yexuan! Explain yourself. " Mother Lu yelled at her son, who sat there with an indifferent expression as if everything that was happening was just a show, he had no relation to which only served to anger his mother to the point where she had to sit down and try to regulate her breath.
"I do not have any illicit relation with my assistant-" Lu Yexuan tried to explain but was cut off by Jiang Shu who pointed accusingly at him. His eyes held a cold glint and his jaw twitched. He was fuming and Su Qingtang took it all in stride. Her eyes shone as she watched him.
"Are you calling our families Qing-er a liar?" She fumed. Both women, Mother Lu and Jiang Shu stared at Lu Yexuan and waited for his reply.
The major henpecked Father Lu stared at his eldest son with sympathy in his eyes as he offered the angered Mother Lu a glass of water. Su Qingtang saw this and covered her laughter with a cough.
Mother Lu and Jiang Shu had been childhood best friends and protected each other fiercely. Jiang Shu had always wanted a girl and when she found out that after she had her son, she couldn't have more children she was devastated. When she married Father Su and then gained a cute daughter she was overjoyed. Naturally, her equally girl-less best friend would also like the little Su Qingtang as well and so the little Su became fiercely protected by two powerful mother hens even though she never realized it. The two women took her rejection as being tsundere and loved her even more fiercely.
The said assistant cleared his throat. "Umm... Madams I'm not sure you realize that I'm a man."
The scene goes quiet as the women look at him uncomprehendingly. Finally, realization struck as the light in their eyes fade. Su Qingtang looked at the dramatic women with amusement dancing in her eyes. Wait for it-
Mother Lu's expression goes strange. "Son... You're not that? Are you?"
Lu Yexuan goes green while his assistant looks mortified. Su Qingtang could hold back no longer, she started having a coughing fit with tears streaming down her cheeks as she tried to hold back her laughter.
"Don't cry Qing-er. There are better men in the world who are just waiting for an amazing girl like our Qing-er" Mother Lu tried to comfort the 'crying' Su Qingtang.
The system watched dumbfoundedly. Out of which eye does she see a heart broken Su Qingtang? She's obviously laughing, ok?
Su Qingtang hugged Mother Lu and buried her face into her chest as she laughed silently, leaving only her shaking shoulders in sight. Madam Lu smiles as she wordlessly showed off the fact that her family's Qing-er hugged her. Earning a hateful glare from Jiang Shu who was jealous that Su Qingtang hadn't hugged herself {JS}. To vent her anger, she turned and glared at the assistant who had 'wrecked' her daughters' home by 'seducing' his boss.
The two fathers who had been busy playing dead throughout the entire time looked at the confused man had unknowingly been K.Oed with sympathy. The system lit a few candles for the assistant silently before he turned to speak to the host.
"Host, are you sure you want to start this life by offending the Male lead?"
"Offend who? Even if I offend him what can he do but swallow his grievances? I have the two most powerful thighs within my grasp!" Su Qingtang boasted proudly. "Who told him to be greedy and to not be happy with the female lead? Causing me to commit suicide in vain? Humph! All I need for him is to dislike me so that the female lead doesn't hound me so I can live my life in peace. All he now has to do is to have enough sense to not pull the stupid cliched 'Woman, you have attracted my attention' stunt and we'll be fine."
Su Qingtang who had unknowingly jinxed herself happily continued wallowing in the male lead's misfortune.
After a while she gradually calmed down and looked over at Jiang Shu with tears in her eyes but refusing to let them fall and immediately Jiang Shu's heart immediately went out to her daughter and her anger dissipated.
"Mom… I believe brother Lu but why would Meishi lie?" Su Qingtang asks, her eyebrows furrowed in confusion.
"Host what are you doing?" Weren't you framing Lu Yexuan a while ago?" The system asked as he like everyone in the room was confused.
"Never bite off more than you can chew. I'm already satisfied from seeing Lu Yexuan getting the 'gay' card from his mother. I can't afford to completely get on his bad side. Its best to wrap up this entire situation while conveniently getting rid of a thorn in my flesh." Su Qingtang conveniently taught the system. It was never good to be too arrogant.
"Song Meishi?" asked a doubtful Jiang Shu.
Song Meishi. The original hosts 'best friend' who personally delivered the original to her death. She was the perfect white lotus who cared for everyone her meticulous care for everyone winning the hearts of many. She almost fooled the old fox Su Qingtang too. Except for the one thing she couldn't hide. Her love for the male lead. This pure love which bore dark fruit in the heart of Song Meishi turning the pure and kind girl jealous and scheming. Her change wasn't overnight, it was gradual, and it hurt many people and devastated the Su family. Su Qingtang wouldn't have that.
Su Qingtang would never let anything happen to the only people who ever loved her.