Ch. 114 - Refuse Freebies
"Be a tailor? But I don't have any clients."
"You have me," Liu Qingqing immediately said.
"You can alter my cosplay costumes. I really, really, really think you did a great job!"
This is an angel sent from heaven to save her. She can't miss this opportunity.
Lu Xing was taken aback for a moment.
Huh?
Really a tailor?
"Don't worry," Liu Qingqing winked at Lu Xing.
"I won't let our junior work for free. Rejecting freebies starts with me!"
(TL: A humorous parody of common Chinese public service announcement slogans like "Protect the environment, start with me.")
Rejecting freebies?
Good, good, good!
Just for that sentence, he really likes this senior sister!
I really hope all my clients have this kind of awareness!
"Then, Senior Sister, do you need any other clothes altered?"
The newly appointed Master Tailor Lu was trying to show off his skills.
Liu Qingqing thought for a moment.
"Not for now, but there's a comic-con later, and I haven't thought of what to cosplay."
She sat on the sofa, turned her head to look at Lu Xing's eyes seriously, and asked.
"Junior Brother, do you have any favorite 2D characters?"
Hmm?
Lu Xing was shocked.
What does this mean?
Whatever character he likes, this senior sister can cosplay as that character?
Holy crap!
If he were really an otaku, then having a cosplayer girlfriend would be a dream come true, right?
A new feeling every day, a new wife every day!
Lu Xing thought for a moment, racking his brains to search for the pitifully few female characters in his memory.
Oh, oh, oh!
I got it!
"That one, that one..."
Lu Xing clapped his hands excitedly. Liu Qingqing also got excited.
What, what, say it!
Lu Xing finally remembered: "Tom's dream cat!"
Huh?
Dream cat???
Liu Qingqing was stunned, her sweet face full of daze.
"Can I be a person?"
Liu Qingqing tried to put forward her own opinion.
How could she cosplay as a cat!
Lu Xing asked very sincerely, "You can't?"
Liu Qingqing was silent for a moment, then said softly, "I can."
Hahaha.
Lu Xing couldn't help but laugh in his heart. This senior sister was really so easy to bully!
As expected.
That "cute aggression" is really based on something.
When you see a cute little animal, you want to sit on it and kill it. When you see a cute person, you want to bully them until they cry.
So fun!
...
This senior sister is so thoughtful.
Upon learning that Lu Xing hadn't eaten, she really tied on an apron and went to cook.
"Junior Brother, do you have any dietary restrictions?"
"The sewing kit is in the second drawer. Just put it back when you're done."
Lu Xing fumbled for the drawer where the sewing kit was originally and replied casually.
"I have no dietary restrictions. As long as you don't make potato stir-fried with ginger, it's completely OK."
The psychological scar Song Junzhu had left him last time was too damn strong!
Hahaha.
The senior sister's cheerful laughter came from the kitchen.
Sigh.
This senior sister is really fun.
Lu Xing counted to the second drawer, then pulled it open. The next second, he froze.
Excuse me...
What are those round things? Is that handcuff a cosplay prop? What are those collars for...
Lu Xing's brain overloaded and directly crashed.
And at this time...
Liu Qingqing, having not heard any movement from the living room for a long time, suddenly jolted.
Wait.
It's the second drawer from the left. He didn't start counting from the right, did he?!
Liu Qingqing quickly rushed out of the kitchen.
When she saw that Lu Xing had discovered those things, her scalp went numb, and she stood there, stunned!
It's over.
Liu Qingqing suddenly felt a huge black curtain fall from the sky, covering her tightly, robbing her of her breath and sight. Her whole body became an immovable statue.
What would the junior say? Would he think it's disgusting? Would he think she's promiscuous? Or would he just storm off?
Cough.
Lu Xing nonchalantly pushed the drawer back in, then counted to the second drawer from the left, pulled it open, and put the sewing kit inside.
As for why he was so calm...
Heh.
Are you kidding me!
The senior sister is wearing an apron and holding a kitchen knife.
Does he dare to move?
Lu Xing calmly stood up and looked at the senior sister... and her kitchen knife with a smile.
Alright.
Senior Sister, for the sake of my life, I'll give you a free spiritual spa.
"What's wrong, Senior Sister?"
"You saw it." Liu Qingqing's sweet face was so tense there was not a single trace of expression.
Lu Xing let out a light laugh. "Yes, I saw it. So what?"
"You..."
Lu Xing's reply was so frank that Liu Qingqing didn't know how to respond at all.
"Senior Sister, you seem very nervous."
Lu Xing slowly walked forward, held the senior sister's wrist, and slowly took the kitchen knife into his own hand.
Phew–
Don't be nervous, don't be nervous. God of Stars, you can do it.
Only after the kitchen knife was completely in his own hand did the stone hanging in Lu Xing's heart finally settle down.
"Senior Sister, what are you thinking?"
Looking at the nervous Liu Qingqing in front of him, whose whole body was as stiff as a sculpture, Lu Xing let out a laugh.
"Are you thinking that I'll laugh out loud at how disgusting your desires are?"
"Or are you thinking that I'll use this to threaten you and say the classic line, 'Senior Sister, you wouldn't want others to know...'"
Liu Qingqing looked at Lu Xing with astonishment.
Lu Xing walked to the kitchen, picked up the kitchen knife, and began to chop the potatoes on the cutting board.
Sigh.
Potatoes are truly something that is delicious no matter how you cook them. Potato-ism!
(TL: A pun, with 'potato' replacing 'Buddha'.)
Liu Qingqing stood at the kitchen door, staring at Lu Xing's back. After a moment of silence, she said.
"I'm disgusting."
"You're not disgusting."
"I'm disgusting. I have desires."
"Everyone has desires."
Lu Xing washed, chopped, and stir-fried the vegetables like flowing water, without any pause. He said seriously.
"For everyone, the expression of desire is different. It could be sexual desire, it could be appetite, it could be the desire for money, it could be the desire for power. Why is it that when a person has the desire for money and power, you can say that this person is very motivated? To artificially stipulate which desire is high-class and which is low-class is very ridiculous."
Lu Xing picked up a chopstick of food and brought it to Liu Qingqing's mouth.
"See if it's salty enough."
Liu Qingqing was stunned by his words. Her thin, soft, and tender lips parted slightly and she took a bite. "
a little bland."
Lu Xing nodded, added a little salt, and continued.
"Senior Sister, don't be too hard on yourself."
When a person has the thought, "I'm disgusting," it's usually because this person is too kind.
After all, a self-centered person would never think they are disgusting.
Internal conflict, internal conflict.
In the end, you'll wear yourself out.
A big reason why scourges last for a thousand years is because those scourges are always externally draining others, right?
"Happiness is rare."
Lu Xing said slowly.
"To have a way to make yourself happy is already not easy."
A person like this senior sister, who says "I am disgusting", not "the desire is disgusting"...
This represents that her degree of self-loathing is already very high.
And when a person's degree of self-loathing is too high, they will often resort to extreme means to harm themselves, and finally inevitably slide into the abyss of destruction.
Then, Lu Xing suddenly thought.
This senior sister hates herself so much.
Then her love for cosplay, is it a real passion, or is it because when she cosplays as others, she can temporarily escape her own shell?
The dish was cooked. Lu Xing turned off the fire and poured the dish into a plate.
"We all hate ourselves since we were young, but we never learned how to forgive ourselves."
After plating, Lu Xing walked up to the senior sister with his hands behind his back.
"Ta-da!"
A round little tomato appeared in Lu Xing's hand. He squinted his eyes and said with a happy smile.
"Senior Sister."
"When you have this thought of calling yourself disgusting again, how about you go to the pier and have some french fries?"
Liu Qingqing was silent for a long time, then said.
"This is clearly a small tomato."
"Ah~~~ okay." Lu Xing said innocently, "Then Senior Sister should still go to the vegetable garden and have some small tomatoes."
Liu Qingqing held Lu Xing's wrist, lowered her head, and took the small tomato from his hand with her mouth.
With a light bite...
The sweet and sour juice of the small tomato filled her mouth. Liu Qingqing's mood suddenly improved a lot.
She thought.
Heaven had really sent an angel to save her.
As the senior sister reached out her hand, Lu Xing saw the decorative silk ribbon tightly tied on her wrist.
Under the ribbon should be knife marks, right?
Sigh.
A good deed a day. As expected of me.
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