My Superstar Wife Is So Popular
Chapter 97 - 96: Bad Woman 1.0

Chapter 97: Chapter 96: Bad Woman 1.0

She seized on the key point in Lin Ruochun’s words, "When exactly at noon?"

"Don’t you know when you sent the text message yourself?"

Seeing Lin Ruochun act as if nothing could affect her, Wen Qiao’s temper flared up. She slapped the back of her head, "Just say it if I ask you, do I need to ask if I already knew?"

Lin Ruochun’s eyes widened in disbelief as she looked at Wen Qiao. No one had ever dared to hit her since she was young.

"What are you looking at? Speak up, or I’ll hit you again."

Wen Qiao wasn’t afraid of her at all, and even waved her arm as if to say if Lin Ruochun uttered another unnecessary word, that slap would land on her head once more.

Lin Ruochun pursed her lips, reluctantly saying, "After the lunch boxes were distributed at noon."

Hearing this timing, Wen Qiao frowned and seemed deep in thought.

Lin Ruochun, seeing her silent, thought she was feeling guilty and immediately clamored, "Why are you not talking now, guilty, huh?"

Wen Qiao glanced at her sideways and moved her lips to mutter, "Idiot."

Lin Ruochun, unwilling to be insulted, was about to retort when Wen Qiao cut her off, "I was barely a few bites into my lunch when I was called away to shoot a scene. When would I have had the time to send you a message?"

"Who knows if you were slacking off or not." Lin Ruochun felt Wen Qiao was making excuses, "Wait and see, I’ll find the evidence to show you."

She wanted to take out her phone to show Wen Qiao the message she had sent to herself, but after searching and not finding it, she realized her phone had been stolen right before she fell into the lake.

Seeing her reaction, Wen Qiao almost understood what had happened.

"If you don’t believe me, go ask the director. I was shooting right under his watch. Go and ask if I had time to slack off," Wen Qiao tugged at her wet, clingy clothes. "Besides, I ask you to come out, and you just come out? You have no sense of caution at all, serves you right for falling into the lake."

"You!"

Lin Ruochun wanted to argue back but realized that Wen Qiao was right—she truly had her guard down, having actually gone to the meeting after seeing the text message that evening.

Although summer was in full swing, the lake water was still cold. The evening breeze made their wet clothes stick to their skin, causing an involuntary shiver.

"Let’s go, head back."

Wen Qiao stood up from the grass and kicked Lin Ruochun’s leg with the tip of her foot, "Can you get up?"

"Who do you think you’re looking down on?" Lin Ruochun huffed, and swiftly climbed up from the grass.

"Still able to argue with me, seems like you weren’t too scared."

"...."

Wen Qiao walked ahead while Lin Ruochun followed behind. The two of them walked one in front of the other, neither initiating conversation.

After an indeterminate amount of time, Lin Ruochun softly called out, "Hey," to which Wen Qiao turned back, "What is it?"

"That..." Lin Ruochun fidgeted with her shirt hem, seeming to struggle to speak, and stuttered without being able to utter a complete sentence.

Wen Qiao grew impatient, "What do you want to say?"

Lin Ruochun’s voice was as soft as a mosquito, "It’s just... thank you."

Wen Qiao seemed not to have expected her gratitude and was stunned for a few seconds.

Lin Ruochun, noticing her surprise, glared at her, "What are you looking at? Didn’t hear clearly, or what? I won’t repeat it if you didn’t."

Wen Qiao snapped back to reality and scoffed softly, "You’re welcome. Even if the person who fell in tonight was someone unimportant, I wouldn’t have just stood by, so don’t feel too grateful to me."