Chapter 3
I Am the Little Green Plum in the story of the Heroine from Heaven (ILGPSHH)
Translated by: Peri
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When she was young, Chacha would often grab her mother's hand and ask her where her father went.
Why do other children have fathers, but she didn’t?
However, every time she asked, her mother would become very sad. Gradually Cha Cha just stopped asking.
The fat boy who threw stones at them was the only child of the landlord and he was the only one in the entire Kerry Lane who failed to pass High School.
The fatty was accustomed to being lawless and domineering at home with his family and bullied people every day.
Cha Cha was not afraid of him and tried to frighten him seriously, "Your mother is here."
The fatty turned his head and looked back subconsciously but felt embarrassed after being deceived. He grinned fiercely at her and like a dog who couldn't spit out ivory. He kept repeating, "Bastard child! Bastard child! Bastard child!"
( TN: 狗嘴吐不出象牙- dog can't spit out Ivory is a metaphor for bad people who can't say good things.)
Although Chacha has a good personality, she doesn't want to put up with the brat. She said, "If you scold me again, I'll tell your mother about you taking the bottom rank in the test this week and tampering with the test scores."
The fatty believed her bluff making his mouth crooked! He thought Cha Cha is really bad!
Shen Zhi, who was standing still clenched his fists. His face looked paler than usual. This was not the first time he heard this kind of ridicule. He had heard a lot of things that were even worse than this before.
But he didn't want Cha Cha to hear it.
Shen Zhi held Chacha's wrist, while the other white and slender hand took her school bag and passed it back to her, "You go home first and ignore him."
Chacha looked down at his finger which was so beautiful.
The nails were neatly trimmed. His thumbs were thin and white while the joints looked distinct.
Cha Cha took the schoolbag as she stood on tiptoe to look up at him. Her voice was soft and sweet, "A Zhi, don't take this nasty fat boy’s words to heart."
Shen Zhi's cold eyes seemed to soften a lot and his icy heart gradually became calm. He rubbed Chacha's little head, "Well, our sister Chacha should also cover her ears and shouldn’t listen."
Cha Cha's cheeks grew hot as if they were being burned. She blushed with shyness.
As the boy said that, he really stretched out his hands and covered her ears.
The temperature of his palm was cold and his movements were gentle and natural. Although he touched her ears for less than three seconds, Cha Cha still felt the tenderness of the teenager.
Her ears instantly burned red like a mimosa that was about to bury herself with leaves. She buried her head down while her heartbeat accelerated, "I'm going home, see you tomorrow."
Shen Zhi took his gaze back from her back as he locked the bicycle and was about to enter the house.
However, Fatty hated Shenzhi more than Chacha because his mother would grab his ears and berate him about how good Shenzhi's grades are. Shenzhi, a child of someone else's family had suffered more in comparison.
The fatty refused to give up and continued to curse, "Your mother doesn't know which wild man gave birth to you! You are the dirtiest child here. Even your mother thinks you are dirty."
Shen Zhi lowered his eyelids as he restrained his emotions and pretend not to hear anything. He shut him down and continued to ignore him.
The fat boy provoked him nonstop as he slammed stones towards his calf, "No one likes a freak wild child."
Shen Zhi's footsteps halted a bit, but he still continued to ignore him.
The fat boy with a domineering personality added, "You and Chacha are both fatherless freaks, so disgusting."
Shen Zhi turned his head and raised his eyelashes. His dark eyes were deep deciding that he will no longer restrain and forbear. He bent down and squatted as he picked a stone from the ground. Because of the excessive force from his thin wrist, several veins and blood vessels were revealed under his pale skin.
The young man raised his eyes and casted his icy gaze at the Fatty. The stone in his hand hit his thigh precisely. His eyes looked cold and sharp, "Don't speak ill of her."
The fat boy yelled in pain but was stunned by his gloomy eyes and cold tone.
Wei Nuo shut his mouth.
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Chacha threw herself into the bedroom, but the temperature of her cheeks still remained heated. She reached out and touched the place where she had been touched by Shen Zhi. Her ears could feel the lingering fresh smell of the teenager and his temperature.
Her heartbeat was still fast.
Bang, bang, bang.
As if a deer had bumped into her heart. Cha Cha rolled around the bed. Her white face blushed from suffocation. When her heartbeat calmed down, she lifted the quilt and got out of bed to do homework.
She sat at the desk and opened the Chinese exercise book, holding the newly bought pen with her white fingers. Unconsciously, Cha Cha wrote Shen Zhi's name on the Chinese exercise book stroke by stroke.
She tore off the paper in a panic and crumpled it into a ball. After a few seconds, she slowly unfolded a crumpled ball of paper. She looked down at the stubborn name and giggled.
It wasn't until she heard the quarrel in the living room that Cha Cha clamped the crumpled paper in her pink diary.
Cha Cha opened the door to see an unexpected guest arrive home.
It was Fatty's mother, their landlord.
Fatty’s mom is a shrew and calculating middle-aged woman who likes bullying the weak but fears the strong. She was naturally not afraid of the widowed pair of mother and daughter.
She reprimanded righteously, "Qingying, let me tell you that children can't just show good grades without being concerned about their character."
The fatty’s mother pushed her son out and rolled up his trousers. There was an extra wound on the white thigh. Her voice was extremely high, "Can you see what your daughter has done to my son!? "
Chu Qingying turned around and asked Chacha, "Have you beaten him?"
Chacha shook his head, “I didn’t.”
Chu Qingying stroked her daughter's hair, "You heard it too, it wasn't my daughter who did it."
The fatty’s mother decided that Chacha had done it and snorted before aggressively saying, "Who could have done it if it wasn’t her!? Do you see how you frightened my son? Can you afford to pay for him?"
Of course, she knew there was another culprit such as Shin Zhi but she was being stubborn.
After all, Shen Zhi's mother was also a shrew who acts shady if provoked. So she chose to pinch Chu Qingying who’s a soft persimmon.
The fatty’s mother held on to her, stared at Chacha with cold eyes, and said very rudely, “Your daughter really needs to be taught well, otherwise she would be too uncivilized."
The reason why she can be so rampant is that there were no men or relatives in Cha Cha’s family, just a single mother with a troublesome daughter. They had no connections and no money. Of course, she can bully them as much as she wanted.
Chu Qingying could stomach being wronged, but could not tolerate other people saying bad things about her daughter.
This is her precious baby girl whom she held in the palm of her hands, so she cannot tolerate others slandering her.
Chu Qingying's face became cold and in a rare show of bravery, "Fatty’s mom, don't go too far. Now that every house had installed surveillance cameras, whether my daughter had beaten your son or not, you can just watch the surveillance."
She clenched her fists and said with a serious face, “If you deliberately slander my daughter and accuse her of such ugly words, don't blame me for reporting you for disturbance and provocation."
"My daughter didn’t bully anyone."
Fatty’s mom was taken aback by her words for a few seconds. Then her mouth stiffly said, "Who wronged you?! What a joke."
Chacha stood up, "Auntie, I didn't beat him, but he called me a wild child without a father."
Chu Qingying's hands trembled after hearing her daughter's words. She pointed to the door to tell them to get out.
Fatty’s mother protected her son. She looked distressed as she blurted out, “My son is right, isn't your daughter a wild child without a father?"
Chu Qingying rudely pushed them out of the house as she took hold of a broom. Then she stepped forward towards the mother and son and started to fight, "Go! Get out of here. Don't step into my house ever again."
Although the fatty’s mother was wrong from the start, she still scolded, "Who do you think you are being so stingy."
Fatty’s mom endured her anger for a while with the thought that the flower shop Chu Qingying opened was not doing well. Maybe it would close down in two days. Let’s see if she could still act so tough.
She sighed twice, “Poor bitter woman. Pretending to be noble, just wait for bad luck for a lifetime."
After Chu Qingying closed the door, she was trembling all over. Her eyes were red as she held her daughter. Her tears flowed uncontrollably and spoke in a crying voice, “Chacha, it's Mother who is sorry to you."
She choked, "But Chacha is not a wild child without a father, you know?"
Cha Cha wiped away the tears on her face, "Mom, don't cry."
Chu Qingying stared at her daughter. When she ran away from that man, she didn't know she was pregnant.
She was tired of living a life without freedom and being confined inside that house.
She was too depressed. Day after day, year after year, she lived under his control.
She can only listen to him, can only look at him, and can only obey wearing the clothes he had prepared for her.
She was a canary he raised and not his wife.
She planned for a long time before she escaped from the cage of the man in the Jiang family who can cover the sky with one hand.
Chu Qingying used to be a very weak woman. Someone who had never experienced hardships, but it was because of her daughter that she mustered up the courage to live a good life.
Her daughter was well-behaved, sensible, and so cute.
The only thing she feels guilty about is not giving her daughter a complete family and childhood.
When her daughter was four or five years old and was still a little soft dumpling, she always looked at her with a pair of dark round eyes as she asked, “Mommy, why doesn't Chacha have a father?"
Every single time, it would pierce Chu Qingying's heart. Her tears would flow into her heart and she would feel the urge to bring her daughter back to him.
Afterward, Chacha stopped asking again for fear that she would be sad and would just hide from her mom if she was being bullied.
Chu Qingying touched her daughter's profile, "Okay, I won't cry anymore. What do you want to eat tonight, Chacha?"
Cha Cha licked the corners of her lips, "Mom, I want to eat cake."
Chu Qingying said yes.
After a while, Chacha said anxiously, “Mom, don't put yellow peaches in the cake, I don't want yellow peaches."
Chu Qingying was amused as she nodded.
In this regard, her daughter was very much like that man who doesn't eat yellow peaches and is very picky.
Chacha left a piece of cake in the evening, put it on her small printed plate, and took it back to her room.
The balcony of Chacha and Shen Zhi's room happened to be connected. She stood on the balcony holding a small plate whispering Shen Zhi's name.
After a few seconds, the floor-to-ceiling windows on the balcony were opened. The teenager in pajamas stood in the moonlight more beautiful than the bright night.
Chacha tried to stretch out her shorthand and was full of joy when she saw him, "A Zhi, I treat you to a cake!"
She picked out many strawberries and mangoes to put in the cake.
Shen Zhi didn't eat dinner since he didn't feel the hunger, but when he caught a glimpse of the cake she brought over, his hungry stomach started to hurt.
He swallowed his throat, took the cake she handed over, pinched her spoon with his thumb, and took a small bite. The cake melted in his mouth. It tasted soft and the sweetness was just right.
He ate a small piece without notice.
Cha Cha felt that Shen Zhi even eats better than others. He looked refined and gentle, like a nobleman.
She was also happy to see that Shen Zhi had finished the cake.
She leaned her waist against the railing and looked at him with a smile when she said, "A Zhi, the fatty on the other side was beaten up by someone. I don't know which strong man did a good job without leaving his name."
Shen Zhi listened to her quietly, “Yeah."
The girl had a tender face, a fair skin, and her loose hair rested lazily on her neck. Her smile was pure and lovely which seems sweeter than the cake he had just eaten.
Shen Zhi silently looked away. Out of the corner of his eye, he noticed the girl stepping on the tiled floor barefoot. He said, “Chacha, it's cold. Don't always go barefoot and put on your shoes."
Chacha said, “My rabbit slippers have not been dried yet."
Shen Zhi was silent for a few seconds, then returned to the room and handed his simple pair of white slippers, “Wear mine first."
Cha Cha took it with a red face, even if it was a bit big on her feet, she couldn't bear to take it off.
They said good night to each other. Then each went back to the room to sleep.
The first-year Junior High courses were not difficult for Chacha. She did very well and ranked in the top ten.
Seemingly well-behaved, but a little rebellious. After class, she would complain to her classmates about the teacher assigning too much homework.
After the math class, Chacha returned from the cafeteria. Chen Xinyi stopped her and said, "Chacha, the school grass came to Junior High this morning."
Cha Cha bit the straw and drank the sweet soy milk, "Oh."
Chen Xinyi was very curious, “I stayed in the corridor outside our classroom for a few minutes and chatted with the head teacher for a bit. The school grass is so handsome, tall, thin, and white. To add to that, his family background is not bad."
Chacha agreed with what Chen Xinyi said, “He’s really handsome."
Chen Xinyi sighed, “A former High School Senior said that Jiang Zhou was like an indifferent flower of High Mountains, but it doesn't look like it."
Cha Cha said solemnly, “There’s no such thing as a cold man in this world. It's just that the person he warms up to is not you. "
The school grass came to the Junior High School for the past two days which circulated rumors.
Jiang Ruan from the class next door didn’t know if it was intentional or not. She took her little follower and blocked Chacha’s way in the corridor. Folding both of her hands as she sneered and said, “Fatherless children are lacking education and don’t look at themselves. Such a pity."
Chacha pretended not to hear. The best way to face the enemy is to ignore and piss her off.
Jiang Ruan was so angry with her. She stomped her feet hard as she angrily chased after her. She tried reaching out to push Cha Cha.
However, Cha Cha ducked sideways.
Jiang Ruan grabbed the air and hit the door directly. She ends up with a big lump on her forehead. She cried with pain and went to the office to tell the teacher in tears.
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In the Jiang family.
Jiang Chengzhou received a photo from the Private Detective. The picture showed the woman he loved deeply and the daughter he had never seen before.
Jiang Chengzhou's fingers gently stroked the person in the photo, then his eyes darkened.
Over the past ten years, Chu Qingying has not changed much.
He loved this woman so much and he never thought she would run away from him by feigning her death.
Jiang Chengzhou's gaze slowly shifted to the girl's face. She had a white and tender face with eyebrows resembling her mother. She was very cute, smiling brightly with two pigtails and wearing a hat with rabbit ears and a strap printed with a little fox.
This was his daughter.
Jiang Chengzhou's eyes were about to melt. There was tenderness in the eyes of this cold and ruthless man which hadn’t been there for a long time.
He is bound to win.
Chu Qingying and their daughter will be brought back.
His daughter shouldn’t live a hard life. He will spoil her like a princess and the moon and stars will be offered to her on a silver platter.
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Translator's note:
Not good, the Dad is a Yandere 😯
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