Distance Formula - Chapter 35

Bai Biqing felt the other woman might have actually gone mad. The Alpha had directly grabbed her and started rubbing against her face, even smearing saliva on her. The Beta clenched her fists and yanked the person off, pinning her back against the tabletop. She wiped her face with utter disgust: “Are you sick, Xu Qi? What kind of fit are you throwing?”

Xu Qi batted her eyelashes at her, feigning coquettishness: “I missed you—”

“Believe it or not, I can make it so you don’t leave this place alive.” Bai Biqing expressionlessly pulled out a chopstick and planted it forcefully right next to Xu Qi’s ear.

The Alpha reflexively shrank back. She looked toward Su Shang, who was already dying of laughter, for help: “Su Shang!”

Su Shang was still laughing; she clutched her stomach and patted Bai Biqing’s shoulder, advising: “Alright, alright. Didn’t Xu Qi just miss you too much? We’re all friends, let go, let go.”

Bai Biqing was only playing around to begin with. She released her grip and pulled out a tissue, but she still felt something was off. She took out her phone to check; Su Yanshi had not sent her a message.

Her fingertips paused for a moment before she typed: “Have you eaten breakfast?”

Su Yanshi did not reply.

“Hey! What are you doing? Eat!” Xu Qi tapped the table, looking at her with dissatisfaction.

The Beta rolled her eyes at her: “It’s nine o’clock. Asking about breakfast isn’t too late. Have you ever seen someone eat such heavy dishes so early in the morning?”

Su Shang retorted from the side: “What are you talking about? This is called going against the grain—it’s for health preservation.”

She ladled a bowl of light soup and placed it in front of Bai Biqing: “Try it. This is a specialty of this place.”

The Beta had no appetite. She looked at her phone irritably, muttering: “Health preservation? This is more like ‘life preservation.'”

Su Shang hissed and gave her a glare. The Omega lowered her head to eat and very naturally opened her Moments. Under the post she had just made, there was a like.

—From Su Yanshi.

She instantly felt at ease and exchanged a meaningful look with Xu Qi.

Bai Biqing frowned as she watched them trade glances, feeling that something bad was bound to happen.

She looked down at her phone, which remained a black screen, and a flicker of displeasure flashed across her brow.

Su Yanshi had arrived at the film set long ago, and her hair and makeup were already finished.

She had no appetite to eat, so she just sat blankly in the lounge. Hu Liyang came to find her with the script to run lines, and seeing her like this, she laughed: “What’s with you today? Why so dejected? Where’s Teacher Baishi?”

Su Yanshi sat up straight and let out a breath: “She took the day off for some business.”

“Oh—” Hu Liyang dragged out the end of the word, looking at her with an ambiguous gaze. “I get it, I totally get it.”

Su Yanshi: “…”

“Let’s go over the script. You’re quite important in this scene.”

Su Yanshi had no objections. She pulled out her script, which was covered in dense annotations.

This scene was the one with the most prominent emotional transition for Bai Yunyan; she had to perform it well.

As it approached nine in the morning, Su Yanshi sat to the side, waiting for all the equipment to be set up. Just before putting her phone away, she saw an update in her Moments—it was posted by Su Shang.

She didn’t even need to click on it to recognize it was Bai Biqing.

Su Yanshi’s breathing suddenly became ragged. Seeing that they were almost ready to start, the Alpha gritted her teeth and clicked in. She saw a striking-looking Alpha kiss Bai Biqing, and the Beta didn’t seem to mind at all.

Was it because they were old acquaintances that she acted like this? Or was it that the other person actually liked Bai Biqing?

For a moment, she didn’t dare think deeper, only feeling a dense, stinging pain in her stomach.

Su Yanshi immediately turned off her phone. She flipped it face-down just as they were calling her to start filming.

She stood up, a trace of confusion flashing in her eyes. After hesitating for a few seconds, she turned the phone back on to leave a “like” before walking away.

Director Liu, holding the walkie-talkie, felt that Su Yanshi’s state was quite good today.

“—Action!”

Bai Yunyan and Jiang Yin had left. Her luggage wasn’t exactly light. Jiang Yin had found someone to secure a rental house overnight; the rent wasn’t expensive, and they hailed a taxi.

Watching the heavy traffic on the road, Bai Yunyan felt in a daze as if she had lost touch with society.

Jiang Yin leaned against her shoulder, sensing her mood, and asked: “What’s wrong?”

“Nothing. It just feels a bit unfamiliar.” Bai Yunyan showed a faint smile, but there was an undetectable exhaustion in her eyes.

The house wasn’t too close to the busy market area; it was in the style of a standalone shop. The two of them moved the luggage down bit by bit. Jiang Yin was very excited, constantly muttering: “A new future, a new day.”

“This house is so big! Not bad, not bad.”

“Let me think, how should we decorate it?”

Jiang Yin spent a long time fussing about but didn’t hear Bai Yunyan’s footsteps. She turned back in confusion to look; the other woman was standing by the roadside, standing still, and no one knew what she was thinking.

She suddenly had a feeling—it seemed Bai Yunyan had become out of place with them.

“Bai Yunyan.”

She called her softly.

Bai Yunyan seemed to snap awake. Her fingers suddenly gripped her suitcase tightly. Countless cars sped past in front of her like phantoms—ungraspable, untouchable.

Su Yanshi stood there in a daze, tears falling unconsciously.