Love Affairs in Melbourne-Chapter 168 - 165: Solution

"If it can be cleared up, it can be cleared up; if it can’t, it can’t, regardless of whether you hug or not.

Since the hug was in public, the hug isn’t the key, the key is trust.

If I had seen it, my first reaction would certainly be that you two are having an affair.

But if you tell me you’re not, I would choose to believe you," Bao Bao said pointedly.

Yan Yan suddenly had an epiphany.

She didn’t need to sneak into the back kitchen of Bao Bao’s café the moment she came in, making it look as if she was hiding something.

Why should she feel guilty for something she hasn’t done?

When she was single, it wasn’t shameful to have suitors.

Yan Yan almost didn’t recognize herself.

"Bao Ka, you should study philosophy," Yan Yan said with a smile as she came out of the back kitchen.

Being targeted by several people about this matter was something Yan Yan had often faced before, but being pursued by several men at once was new to her, and she had no experience in dealing with it.

Even when she was at Xiamen University, Yan Yan had always rejected suitors one by one.

She had never confronted two boys at the same time.

Yan Yan came out of the back kitchen.

"I’ve scavenged lots of food from Bao Bao’s place, look, there are two big bags. Let’s eat a bit here, and later you can be the strong man and help me carry them to the car," Yan Yan said as soon as she came out, looking to recruit Qi Yi to help.

"Do I look like a strong man to you?" Qi Yi asked gently.

"You, you look skinny in clothes, but have muscles without, one hundred percent, no-fake-exchange strong man," Yan Yan said, stepping back and scanning him up and down before speaking.

"You know about the muscles under my clothes?" Qi Yi asked with interest.

"Of course, who else’s boyfriend would I be?" Yan Yan boasted confidently.

"Do you still get motion sickness?" Qi Yi took Yan Yan’s hand.

"Yes, really bad, so bad. Can you go with me to buy some medicine, and then we can set off, okay?" Yan Yan asked Qi Yi.

Without waiting for Qi Yi’s response, Yan Yan started pulling him outside.

"Everyone have a little food first, Qi Yi and I just had brunch. We’re going to buy some medicine close by. We’ll be back soon," Yan Yan told her friends and family.

Leaving Bao Bao’s shop, Qi Yi asked Yan Yan, "When did I ever know you got motion sickness?"

"Sometimes I do, sometimes I don’t," Yan Yan replied to Qi Yi’s question with a cartoon-like voice, blatantly coquettish.

"So, you get sick when you want to, and not when you don’t want to?" Qi Yi reached out and touched Yan Yan’s head, completely defenseless against the cute voice that suddenly came out of her mouth.

"Ah, you’ve caught me, am I not timing my sickness perfectly?" Yan Yan said and then proceeded to "faint" against Qi Yi’s body.

"In public, you should be a bit more mindful of the impact," Qi Yi mimicked the way Yan Yan had spoken earlier.

"No, I won’t. I don’t see the public, only Qi Yi," Yan Yan said, although she still stood up straight on her own.

"Don’t you think that this deliberately cute act looks a bit guilty?" Qi Yi finally got to the point.

"Just a bit? I’m clearly so guilty, it’s unbearable~" Yan Yan ’confessed without being pressed.’

"You’re feeling guilty, huh? Looks like grandpa here has to bring out the family discipline," Qi Yi said with a stern face.

"Ah? Family discipline? May I timidly ask, what exactly is our family’s discipline?" Yan Yan looked genuinely apprehensive.

"You’ll find out when I bring it out, but before I invoke the family discipline. Do you have anything you’d like to say in your defense?" Qi Yi gave Yan Yan a chance to confess and receive leniency.

"I did have something before, but now I don’t," Yan Yan reverted to her usual expression.

"Why?" Qi Yi was a bit puzzled.

"Because, compared to defending myself, I think I’m more interested in our family’s discipline," Yan Yan quickly laughed playfully again.

"You’re really not planning to defend yourself?" Qi Yi sought confirmation from Yan Yan.

"Right, I don’t have anything to defend myself for," Yan Yan smiled in response.

"You’re not going to explain to me what’s up with your Brother Pili?" Qi Yi couldn’t help but indulge his curiosity.

"Nope, aren’t we all just waiting to accept the family discipline here? What’s the point of explaining?" Yan Yan countered righteously.

"That’s true, good then," Qi Yi really didn’t ask any further.

Arriving at the drugstore, Qi Yi went to buy motion sickness medicine.

"You seriously buying it? I’m not actually carsick!" Yan Yan had only wanted to lure Qi Yi out for a walk.

"Of course, I need to buy it. What if someone else gets carsick later and asks you for medicine? How are you going to conjure it up?" Qi Yi didn’t like Yan Yan’s logic to have any significant flaws.

"After I’ve swallowed it, what is there to conjure up?" Yan Yan asked Qi Yi.

"Is motion sickness medicine sold singly? I’ve actually never bought any," Qi Yi asked Yan Yan.

"Ugh, actually, I’ve never bought it either; maybe we should just buy a box to see how many there are inside," Yan Yan didn’t stop Qi Yi from purchasing the medicine anymore.

Qi Yi bought the medicine and found that it came in individual packages, with a total of six pills inside.

He took one for himself and handed the box with the remaining individually wrapped pills to Yan Yan.

"Grandpa~ Grandpa~" Yan Yan called out to Qi Yi, drawing out her words.

"What’s wrong?" Qi Yi looked into Yan Yan’s eyes, his gaze inquiring.

"What are you taking motion sickness medicine for?" Yan Yan asked Qi Yi, a tad curious.

"I’m afraid that when you pretend to be asleep later, I’ll get so angry over something that It’ll knock me out. So I’d better have a pill ready at hand, just in case." Qi Yi felt he couldn’t let Yan Yan actually eat any motion sickness medicine for real— if they were doing the whole act, he had to take one first.

"In that case~ I suddenly don’t want to pretend to be asleep anymore. Help me think of another solution," Yan Yan was starting to get used to dumping her problems on Qi Yi.

"Just get your senior brother to come over later, and the three of us can have a chat," Qi Yi quickly found a solution.

"Wouldn’t that just frustrate him to death?" Yan Yan had never really seen Qi Yi be so scheming before.

"You, me, your Senior Brother Lei, if one of us is bound to be frustrated, I think it’s better that he is," to have his girlfriend hugged by someone else and not have any thoughts about it, that would be the real surprise for Qi Yi.

"Xiao Qizi, shouldn’t you at least try to look a little more graceful as the victor?" Yan Yan found Qi Yi’s pettiness rather adorable.

"The victor, so that means your senior brother pursued you but didn’t succeed, right?" from the word "victor," Qi Yi deduced "the past" between Yan Yan and Lei Pili.

"Do you really need to count on your fingers and predict even this kind of thing?" Yan Yan was surprised by Qi Yi’s deductive abilities.

"Do I even need to count? The fact that your senior brother likes you is clearly written all over his face," Qi Yi stated the fact he had observed.

"You can see his expression?" Yan Yan didn’t notice Qi Yi ever seriously looking at Lei Pili.

"Sure, It’s just that I didn’t get to see your expression when you were being hugged." Qi Yi had been watching Lei Pili very intently at that time, almost to the point of pushing him away directly.