Pei Fei recently held a small solo concert in Rong City, which achieved better results than she had imagined. Her brother really did spare no effort to fund the event, and a small solo concert was turned into a large-scale concert by famous artists.
"Pei Fei, you look so beautiful when you play the piano! I saw the male reporters sitting next to me, their eyes were wide open!" Zheng Qing bit her orange juice straw with envy in her eyes, "Your dress is so beautiful! Is it the haute couture of the season?"
Pei Fei was a little absent-minded. The recital was quite successful, but she couldn't muster up the energy at all. She said weakly, "Yes, my brother contacted the brand to customize it for me."
"Your brother is so nice!"
When Pei Shi was mentioned, Pei Fei's face turned ugly: "Don't mention him."
Seeing that Pei Fei didn't want to talk more, Zheng Qing wisely changed the topic. The two chatted about recent gossip, and Zheng Qing cleverly turned to her comics: "By the way, my new comic has been published, but I don't know if it's a coincidence or something else, it coincides with the release of Bai Tao's new single volume. Her studio has been spending a lot of money on marketing and promotion. I'm really worried that I can't compete with her..."
Pei Fei was not in high spirits at first, but when she heard Bai Tao, she immediately perked up: "I'll promote your new book! I just held a solo concert, and it's very popular on Weibo. My brother also bought me a lot of marketing promotion materials. The traffic is just right. Come, let's take a photo together, and I'll promote you on Weibo! Hurry and push Bai Tao off the sales list!"
Zheng Qing looked flattered. After thanking him, she sighed, "My new book is actually the one with a pianist heroine. I asked you for advice on many details of playing the piano. You also helped me promote it. I must thank you very much."
After Pei Fei and Zheng Qing took a photo together, she immediately posted on Weibo, asking Zheng Qing: "Do you have a physical copy of the comic? Give me one. My brother has arranged a few interviews for me, and I will use your book to appear on camera."
Zheng Qing smiled shyly: "I have a book I want to give you."
Zheng Qing took out the comics from her bag, and then she looked at Pei Fei considerately: "Why are you drinking coffee on an empty stomach? Can I order a cake for you? This shop is famous for its cakes..."
"Don't!" Pei Fei's face twisted when she mentioned the cake. "Don't mention cake to me. My brother has gone crazy recently! After celebrating Bai Tao's birthday at the beach, he comes to my place to make cakes every day!"
"Isn't this great? Your brother is so nice to you. He knows you like it, so he makes cakes for you every day."
"What a bullshit!" Pei Fei was so angry, "What he made is not edible, and he uses me as a test field every day!"
Pei Fei couldn't stand it any longer when talking about this: "My brother is a guy who has hardly ever been in the kitchen in his life. How can you expect him to make anything? The first time he made it, the eggshells were all in the cake base. The second time, the flour wasn't stirred. He didn't even know there was a mixer for making cakes! The third time was even worse. I don't know how he set the baking time. The outer layer was burnt, but the inside was still a big wet lump..."
Zheng Qing smiled and said, "Brother Pei Shi is so cute. Men who love baking are usually very gentle at heart."
"It's OK." Pei Fei said sympathetically, "I don't know why he suddenly fell in love with baking. He comes home every day to bake for me. Although my birthday is not until two months later, I am touched that he prepares it so early. But I can't keep eating such failed products..."
"Fortunately, after I ate six dark cuisine cakes in a row, he finally baked a good one yesterday! Even the icing was perfect! It's in the refrigerator now, and I can eat it when I get home tonight."
But Pei Fei was only happy for a few seconds, her face fell again: "It's a pity for my brother, such a beautiful flower, how could he be stuck in Bai Tao's pile of cow dung."
Zheng Qing asked casually, "Are they really that close now?"
"Good! So good that I'm almost sick of it! Bai Tao was so proud of herself after returning from the island, and she was even more arrogant when she saw me. As for my brother, he almost had a harmonious sex life written on his face. Anyway, I'm so annoyed when I see the two of them. Logically, they have been married for almost a year, so they should be like an old married couple, but no matter how you look at them, they give people the atmosphere of a couple..."
Pei Fei felt bad when she talked about this: "Anyway, my brother must have gone crazy. Zhong Xiao even reminisced about the past like that on the variety show, and he was just short of naming people and asking them to identify him. When you told me about this last time, I told my brother, but he didn't even react. I'm really impressed! Why didn't I realize that my brother was so magnanimous and tolerant before?"
Zheng Qing took a sip of her drink and lowered her eyes: "Do you still want them to divorce now?"
“I even think about it in my dreams at night!”
"Didn't you say before that your brother definitely wouldn't like her? Could it be that your brother has some unspeakable secret that prevents him from getting a divorce?"
"My brother doesn't look like he has any unspeakable secrets. Alas! People in the situation can't see clearly. It takes pressure from the outside world to make my brother sober up and divorce..."
Zheng Qing bit the straw twice: "I'm sorry, Feifei, it's all my fault."
"Um?"
"It was because I told you that your boyfriend was having an affair with a mistress in the studio, but I didn't explain clearly that it was a female model, that you impulsively beat Bai Tao, and that's why you two became enemies, and why she still holds a grudge against you today. In order to get revenge on you, she even approached Brother Pei Shi, and when she failed, I thought she had given up, but I didn't expect her to be so petty and mean. After all these years, she still brought disaster to Brother Pei Shi and your family..."
Zheng Qing said this with a shameful and sad expression: "Really, it's all my fault. It's all my fault. If it wasn't me, Bai Tao wouldn't have hated you. Now Brother Pei Shi must have been deceived by her. He used to be so good to you and me, but since he married Bai Tao, he has never contacted me again and has become completely estranged. Now he's also... "
"Don't worry, I will help you keep an eye on Bai Tao. Recently, my studio seems to have found something, but it's not confirmed yet, so I won't tell you for the time being. But if it's true..." Zheng Qing bit the straw and smiled slightly, "Then Bai Tao will be defeated..."
Pei Fei didn't pay much attention to Zheng Qing's words: "It's not your fault." She patted Zheng Qing's hand soothingly, "It's mainly because Bai Tao, that little bitch, is strong in fighting. I don't know where her charm comes from. My brother suddenly treats her like this, and Zhong Xiao went on the show and said that he couldn't forget her for many years? What's wrong with these men? Really..."
Pei Fei scolded Bai Tao again, then she realized that Zheng Qing opposite her was a little absent-minded and kept looking to the side. She followed Zheng Qing's gaze and found out the reason.
Pei Fei frowned. Why was Zhong Xiao here
Zheng Qing noticed Pei Fei's gaze and finally turned her head away, her voice a little unnatural: "That's Zhong Xiao, right? She's actually quite good-looking. I thought she was photoshopped in the variety show."
Pei Fei sneered: "Bai Tao is not blind, the face of a male mistress and a husband is acceptable."
It was also a coincidence that Zhong Xiao walked towards Pei Fei's table at this moment: "Excuse me, do you have cash? I was just drinking coffee here and parked my car outside. The parking lot only accepts cash. I can add WeChat to transfer the money..."
Zhong Xiao just said this, looked up and was also stunned: "Pei Fei? Why are you here?" He glanced at Zheng Qing, "Who is..."
Pei Fei curled her lips: "My friend."
Pei Fei had no good impression of Zhong Xiao and had no intention of lending him money. Instead, Zheng Qing took out her wallet and asked, "How much cash do you want? I just happened to bring it today..."
Zhong Xiao gave a gentlemanly smile, then borrowed money from Zheng Qing and added her on WeChat to repay the money.
As soon as Zhong Xiao left, Pei Fei saw Zheng Qing searching for Zhong Xiao on her phone. She yawned, "There's nothing to check about him. He's everywhere in variety shows, a passionate guy. Some of his words really give me goosebumps."
Pei Fei looked at the time: "It's getting late, I'm leaving first."
She was still waiting to go home to take out the cake made by Pei Shi from the refrigerator. The refrigeration time was just right, and it should be the best time to enjoy it.
But when Pei Fei returned home excitedly, she did not get to eat the cake made by her brother that she had been longing for. The cake that was supposed to be in the refrigerator was missing!
*****
Pei Fei didn't know that in a villa on the other side of the city, Bai Tao was staring at the cake and exclaiming—
"Honey! Did you make this yourself? It's so beautiful!"
Pei Shi nodded reservedly: "Yes." He pursed his lips and said calmly, "Because I wanted to give you a surprise, I went to the old villa to do it."
"Why don't you show me how to do it yourself!"
"Because this is my first time making this, I'm afraid it won't be done well, so I'll make it in advance. If you want to see it made by yourself, you can choose another one. I can make it for you next weekend."
Originally, he could have bought a ready-made handmade custom cake, but Pei Shi felt that people should abide by the spirit of the contract. Since he had promised Bai Tao to make it for her personally, he should naturally keep his promise. After all, he was the founder of a company that was about to go public, and it would be bad for his reputation if he broke his promise.
Pei Shi is very calm now. After failing many times in a row, he is sure that he has mastered the correct way to make cakes. In the future, no matter what Bai Tao asks him to do by himself, he doesn't need to worry.
After returning from the island, Bai Tao was obviously a little more clingy. They agreed that they must have more sense of ritual between husband and wife in the future, so before he went to work in the morning, he had to give her a farewell kiss.
The separation of rooms and floors was naturally abolished. Bai Tao was very merciful that night and said Pei Shi could sleep in her room. However, she changed her mind the next morning with a dark face and held her waist to drive Pei Shi out again. Pei Shi had to sigh that women were really troublesome and fickle.
Fortunately, at this moment, Bai Tao was very excited about the cake in front of her, and her eyes were sparkling. Then she glanced at Pei Shi, as if she was struggling. After a moment, she said with a sense of heroic sacrifice: "Tonight, I will reward you by sleeping with me!"
*****
Pei Shi was full of energy after returning from the island, but Bai Tao was just the opposite. She felt that she had really used up three months' supply with Pei Shi...
She thought it would be best for her to go out for a while, take a rest, and then come back to continue "working". Maybe it was because of the bond between sisters, but at this moment, Yu Guo called her -
"Bai Tao, are you going to a hot spring this weekend? It's that hot spring hotel you and I have mentioned several times, the one that is hard to book. I asked a proxy photographer to book it for me!"
Bai Tao's eyes lit up, of course she wanted to go!
But just as the words of promise came to her lips, Bai Tao looked at herself in the mirror and swallowed them: "No! I'm not free this weekend!"
“Why?”
Bai Tao curled her lips and forced a smile, "You have to accompany your husband! Single dogs like you won't understand!"
Finally, after being scolded by Yu Guo, Bai Tao hung up the phone. Then she sat on the sofa with chest tightness and shortness of breath, staring at herself in the mirror.
Pei Shi was standing not far away, and heard the conversation between her and Yu Guo clearly. The man glanced at her and said, "If you want to go so much, just go. You don't have to make time to spend the weekend with me."
Bai Tao felt so wronged: "How can I go?" She pulled down her collar, revealing the scars on her neck. "You have to wear a swimsuit to take a hot spring bath, but even if I risk being laughed at by Yu Guo, I still wear that old-fashioned one-piece swimsuit. I'm covered in this now... How can I meet people?"
Pei Shi stopped talking.
What a rubbish man, don’t you even try to coax him
Isn’t he the one who caused me to be unable to go to the hot spring
Bai Tao was a little angry: "Why don't you say something? It's all your fault. I can't even go to the hot spring..."
"What do you want me to say?" Pei Shi said calmly, "Are you saying that you won't do this anymore?"
Before Bai Tao could even open her mouth, the man continued, "But I don't think it's necessary to say something that's obviously a lie."
He glanced at Bai Tao, then looked away, and said calmly as if he was describing the company's performance: "Because it will be like this in the future."
Bai Tao was about to get angry when she heard Pei Shi continue, "If you want to take a hot spring bath, I can take you there next time, a private one."
The man coughed and seemed to understand the bigger picture: "Don't always look for Yu Guo for everything. You are married, but she is not. If I remember correctly, she is still single, right? If you always pull her along, how can she have the chance to meet someone else? How can she get rid of being single?"
"… "
How can someone talk about possessiveness in such a high-sounding way
Although there was no hot spring bath, Bai Tao was still very happy that Pei Shi brought her a cake made by hand as promised after working overtime for many days. She couldn't help but walk to the cake again, took countless photos from various angles, and uploaded them to Weibo.
"Some people are just stumbling blocks in their sugar control business. They even use their own custom homemade bait. However, eating a little sweet food in autumn and winter is not a crime, right? I hope each of you will have a sweet autumn and winter."
Not long after the Weibo post was published, as expected, there were a bunch of people wailing and eating dog food below.
Bai Tao was very satisfied. Just as she put down her phone, she suddenly remembered something. She glanced at Pei Shi, then leaned forward tenderly and said, "Honey, the cake you made is so big, how can the two of us finish it? How about this, let's call Feifei? Didn't she just hold a solo concert a few days ago? Let's celebrate with her?"
What a joke. Now that she and Pei Shi have reconciled and are in a sweet relationship, and have overcome the problem of Zhong Xiao, and her eldest brother's woman's throne is completely secure, how can she go out at night in a splendid dress? Of course, she must show off in front of Pei Fei! This is the necessary pomp for the eldest brother's woman!
Trash Pei Fei, I will let her see that no matter how she jumps up and down, Pei Shi still loves me as always! In front of me, she can only kneel down and call me sister-in-law!
"No need for that." Pei Shi's face was a little unnatural. "Fei Fei lives in the old villa where I used to live. It's a long drive from here. Forget it."
"How can that be possible, husband? If my parents-in-law remember correctly, they haven't returned from their world trip yet, right? Think about it, you and I are eating cake together sweetly, while Feifei is alone and can't sleep until dawn. It's such a big villa, and there's a forest park behind it. It's so desolate. Although we are married, we should give Feifei a little more love, right?"
After that, Bai Tao picked up her phone and called Pei Fei. She said gently in a particularly virtuous tone: "Fei Fei, I'm your sister-in-law. Your brother asked you to come to our house for dinner tonight. I have been thinking about you since we got married. It's been a long time since we last met. I miss you very much. Come on, see you tonight. Your sister-in-law will be waiting for you at home."
Pei Fei angrily cursed at the other end of the phone: "Bai Tao? Are you still pretending? Sister-in-law? Who do you think you are? I came when you called me? You..."
Bai Tao was not angry at all. She hung up the phone gracefully, gave Pei Shi a sensible smile, and then kept smiling as she picked up the phone again and sent a text message to Pei Fei -
"Pei Fei, if you don't come you're a dog, and you'll have to avoid me from now on. Besides, it's good that you don't come tonight. I think the night is long, and tonight is just right for making a baby with your brother. Let's meet again at the full moon banquet in a year."
…
"I'll tell her about her attitude next time." Pei Fei's voice was loud enough for Pei Shi to hear clearly. He glanced at Bai Tao and said, "There's no need to call her in the future. She won't come. I don't want her to come either."
Bai Tao looked up from her phone and smiled charmingly at Pei Shi: "No, husband, she will definitely come."
*****
How could Pei Fei not go
She stared at Bai Tao's message, so angry that she wanted to vomit blood. What's going on? Are you trying to keep your brother hanging? Are you still thinking about the mother's status being elevated by her son? Are you still thinking about having a baby tonight? Dream on!
She said something today about disrupting Bai Tao's plan to have a baby.
An hour later, Pei Fei appeared at the door of the villa, panting.
Bai Tao welcomed her into the house with a gentle and pleasant face, and asked her about her well-being in a dignified manner in front of her brother. As soon as her brother turned his head, Bai Tao rolled her eyes at Pei Fei without any concealment.
Pei Fei originally thought that this was the worst situation today, but when she saw the cake on the table, she felt terrible.
Isn't that the cake that was originally in my refrigerator and disappeared? !
Bai Tao leaned against her brother in a pretentious manner, took his arm, and smiled in an intimate and pretentious manner: "Fei Fei, this is the cake your brother made for me. I specially asked you to come and eat it this time, mainly to celebrate my birthday. I said I wanted to wish for good luck and also to celebrate your successful performance."
This bitchy tone, implying that she was just a side hint and a pretentious show-off, but what Pei Fei was concerned about at this moment was not these, but the anger of being deceived!
When Pei Shi came to the old villa every day to make cakes for him to be a guinea pig, he didn't say that! He clearly said he wanted to make a cake for himself!
It turns out that I am just a poison tester, and Bai Tao is the one who picks the fruits of success!
Pei Fei almost went crazy: "Brother!"
As a result, when he glanced at Pei Shi, his brother looked calm and composed: "Don't call me, it's a long way to go, and you must be hungry when you come here. Let's not chat for now, let's cut the cake."
"… "
Bai Tao pretended to suddenly remember something and said, "Oh, honey, even if we want to celebrate my birthday, we have to sing the birthday song first." She said tenderly, "How about you sing for me and Feifei accompany me?"
After saying that, Bai Tao gave Pei Fei a pretentious look: "Fei Fei, although everyone says that you play the piano well, I have never heard it once. How about you just play a song for me on the spot?"
What was he thinking about as an internationally renowned emerging pianist playing Happy Birthday to Bai Tao
Pei Fei was building up his emotions and was about to lose his temper when he was stopped by Pei Shi. Not only did he not refute Bai Tao's proposal, he was even quite calm.
He glanced at Pei Fei and said, "Go ahead."
"?"
"Happy Birthday song, it's very simple, just play it." He pursed his lips, "Or you can sing to her and I'll play the piano."
When given a multiple-choice question with two choices, people usually subconsciously follow this line of thought. Pei Fei is no exception. After thinking about it, she feels that it would be better to play the piano. It would be easier to let Bai Tao die than to let her sing a birthday song for her.
Therefore, when Pei Fei came to her senses, she was already sitting in front of the piano. Bai Tao lit the heart-shaped candles and turned off the lights. Her brother actually hummed the birthday song softly along with her piano playing. Bai Tao clasped her hands together, closed her eyes and prayed with this background music.
Then she opened her eyes, and before blowing out the candles, she suddenly leaned over to Pei Shi and kissed him.
Bai Tao has been very pretentious since Pei Fei came, but at this moment she was not pretending. The heart-shaped candle was still burning. Under the flickering candlelight, Bai Tao looked at Pei with very gentle eyes, without any whitewashing. Pei Fei even saw a bit of shyness and timidity in her eyes...
The woman looked at Pei Shi again before looking away. Her voice was so soft that it was almost drowned out by Pei Fei's piano playing.
"Hubby, thank you for spending my birthday with me. I'm very happy."
Pei Shi was stunned for a moment, then looked away somewhat unnaturally: "As long as you are happy."
…
What a shameless pair of dogs!
This was the first impression that came to Pei Fei's mind at the moment. Although it was not appropriate to say this about her brother, but...
Why are we singing Happy Birthday? Why not sing Lang Li Ge Lang
Pei Fei had a feeling that she was clearly there, yet she seemed to be absent.
She was really panicked this time, so much so that when Bai Tao turned on the lights again and started cutting the cake, she was still a little absent-minded.
Finished.
This was the only thought in Pei Fei's mind.
Although I don't know what happened, they seemed to be serious about it.
Bai Tao might really have to be his sister-in-law for the rest of her life, stepping on his head and bullying him.
This realization hit Pei Fei so hard that he had no intention of fighting in the second half and was brutally slaughtered by Bai Tao in front of him.
"Fei Fei, have you used the hair growth essence I recommended to you last time? Why is your hair still a little thin? How about I ask you for two more folk remedies to try? The temperature has dropped recently, and your head must be very cold. Sister-in-law, I will buy you a hat next time."
"… "
"And the suitcase you left behind last time, what was in it? Oh, balloons and streamers, right? It's a pity that your brother and I can't use it. At most, we can use it for the baby's full moon banquet in the future, or leave it for you to use at your wedding in the future. But these things have a shelf life, and I don't know if you can get married before the expiration date..."
"… "
…
Today, Pei Fei completely surrendered, and although Bai Tao was a little surprised that she withdrew from the exciting battlefield so easily, the joy of winning was enormous. Bai Tao felt that she was simply the most powerful person in the world, and the word "big brother's woman" was not enough to describe her. She should be the big sister, and Pei Shi should be the big sister's man!