After the True Heiress Travels Back
Chapter 262: Ming Yan, Are You Interested in Her?

Chapter 262: Chapter 262: Ming Yan, Are You Interested in Her?

As she spoke, she wanted to walk over to Shi Yaoguang to see for herself, but was promptly stopped by Xu Qian, "Don’t go over there."

An Siqi showed her discontent, "Why can’t I go over? If I don’t go, how will I know how well she has embroidered?"

Xu Qian gave her a meaningful look, "If you want to know how well she has embroidered, you can see from here."

"Hm?"

An Siqi subconsciously followed the direction Xu Qian was pointing and saw in the picture Si Yaoguang had embroidered auspicious clouds shimmering with flowing light, and she was immediately dumbfounded.

"This, this is her embroidery?"

Seeing her incredulous expression, Ming Yan, who had finished embroidering, directly fired off mockery, "Of course it’s her embroidery. Could it possibly be yours?"

"You don’t even consider if you are at the same level? It’s one thing for fairy sister to be beautiful, but her embroidery skills are so incredible, it’s like heaven and earth compared to you, a world of difference~"

An Siqi, looking at his smug expression, glared at him, "What are you so proud of? It’s not like you’re the one who can embroider."

"Of course, I’m proud," Ming Yan said, then answered for himself with a nod, "That’s right, a person like you wouldn’t understand."

"Not everyone is capable of sharing in the glory."

An Siqi clenched her teeth, about to retort, when she saw Shi Yaoguang stand up with the handkerchief.

As soon as she finished embroidering the handkerchief, an Embroiderer Lady eagerly went up to look at it.

After looking, the Embroiderer Lady couldn’t help but ask, "Miss Shi, have you studied embroidery before?"

"Um, I’ve learned some basics," Shi Yaoguang said modestly.

Upon hearing this, the Embroiderer Lady waved her hands repeatedly, "If this is what you call basics, then what have we become with all our hard practice?"

"Um..." Shi Yaoguang pondered for a moment, then said, "Perhaps this is the result of decades of learning I did in my dreams."

The Embroiderer Lady couldn’t help but laugh out loud, "Miss Shi, you really are joking."

"These embroidery skills, it’s one-third talent and two-thirds hard work. What you practice in dreams, how could that count?"

Seeing she didn’t believe her, Shi Yaoguang could only show a regretful expression, "Then just think of me as being exceptionally talented."

The Embroiderer Lady actually agreed with that.

An Siqi, listening to their conversation, why would she need to say anything more?

Her face was already swollen from the metaphorical slapping.

Comparing the precise recording of Shi Yaoguang’s embroidery process by the camera to the handkerchief in her hand, she truly couldn’t bear to present it.

Originally, when she claimed her own embroidery work was crude, she was speaking ironically.

Now, she truly detested it.

She wished she could tear up her own gardenia flower embroidery on the spot to destroy the evidence.

Too bad, Shi Yaoguang wasn’t about to let her off the hook.

"Miss An, weren’t we supposed to have a contest? Where’s your work?"

Everyone’s eyes suddenly fixed on her, and she felt her face burning.

Looking into Shi Yaoguang’s eyes, they were filled with resentment, "You did this on purpose just to make a fool out of me, didn’t you?"

"Ah?" Shi Yaoguang blinked innocently, "Did I?"

"You did!" An Siqi’s face twisted with anger, "You did this on purpose just to embarrass me, didn’t you? You knew how to embroider but didn’t say it sooner, you intentionally wanted to show off!"

Shi Yaoguang tilted her head, looking very obedient, "I didn’t say I could embroider, but I also didn’t say I couldn’t, did I? It was you who kept saying I couldn’t, wasn’t it?"

"You’re just twisting words!" An Siqi was still very angry.

Ming Yan was too lazy to indulge her petulance, "Who’s twisting words? Don’t you have any idea in your heart? Stop blabbering here, if you don’t want to continue you can get lost, no one begged you to come."

An Siqi didn’t dare to confront Ming Yan directly, so she changed her target.

Thinking of Shi Yaoguang’s embroidery skills and how even Gu Xiu couldn’t trouble her, she must be the same with velvet embroidery, so she couldn’t compete with her in velvet embroidery.

Thinking this, she simply avoided competing in handmade cheongsam making as well and requested to compete in lantern crafting skills.

Shi Yaoguang agreed, although she had never made lanterns before, she... had been a carpenter.

Once acquainted, it all comes together; that’s just the reason.

They later tried Cao Sugong inkstick crafting and Jiading Bamboo Carving.

Without surprise, An Siqi lost thoroughly.

Shi Yaoguang had effortlessly stolen the spotlight.

An Siqi, unable to contain her irritation, finally brought out her ace in the hole.

Zhou Huchen’s brush-making skills!

Brush-making!

She had learned it specifically from following a certain tycoon.

Because that tycoon had a particular fondness for ancient poetry silence...

Of course, it was just for showing off.

To get closer to him, she had painstakingly learned the art of brush-making.

She refused to believe it, that Shi Yaoguang could beat her in making brushes!

When the show aired, she was determined to find a way to win more attention in this regard.

In fact...

She was thinking too much.

Shi Yaoguang once again mercilessly crushed her.

Regain her pride?

Ha, nonexistent.

Now, it wasn’t just An Siqi, even the way others looked at her had changed.

Where on earth did this freak come from?

How could she possibly know how to do everything?

That is, except for Ming Yan, who never stopped with the flattery.

"Sister must really be a fairy descended to earth, right? Although fairies are beautiful, I don’t wish for Sister to be a fairy, what should I do?"

"If she’s a fairy, she’ll have to return to heaven someday, right? If Sister is gone, the world would be missing some color..."

"Sister is really amazing, to be able to do it just by looking!"

...

The behind-the-scenes footage was dominated by Ming Yan’s endless flattery.

Ming Yan didn’t feel ashamed watching the playback, but Shi Yaoguang felt embarrassed for him.

"Ming Yan, tone it down a bit."

Wen Helun tugged at Ming Yan’s sleeve and whispered a reminder, "You’re so enthusiastic, people who don’t know better might think you’re interested in Miss Shi."

Ming Yan, upon hearing this, seemed like he was frightened.

"I’m interested in her? You, you better not talk nonsense!"

Wen Helun was somewhat puzzled, "What’s the matter with you?"

He had merely mentioned whether Ming Yan was interested in Shi Yaoguang, did he need such an exaggerated reaction?

Seeing him like this, he looked as though... he was scared by something.

Ming Yan flipped his hair, his tone inexplicably tinged with a hint of world-weariness, "Naive boy, you don’t get it!"

"Huh?" Wen Helun genuinely didn’t understand.

He didn’t know what Ming Yan meant.

Ming Yan sighed, "This is probably the worry of an adult, although I don’t want to, but... that’s how cruel the world is, and I can’t do anything about it."

Wen Helun: "..."

He looked at him as though he was looking at an idiot, "Don’t tell me your brain has gone fuzzy."

"Not at all." Ming Yan said, shaking his head, "You’ll understand in the future, this is all for the sake of living."

Wen Helun: "..."

Sorry, but he still didn’t get it.

Ming Yan’s riddle was truly bizarre.

Wen Helun internally criticized him for a while, and his curiosity about Shi Yaoguang grew even stronger.