Spending the Villain’s Money to Extend My Life Chapter 178 - But now… what she got in return were friends who’d talk about how awful she looked beh

Chapter 178 – But now… what she got in return were friends who’d talk about how awful she looked behind her back?! (1)
Chen Kexin had on a swimsuit that exposed her back, but low and behold, she had a couple of pimples on her back.
Chen Kexin, concealer and foundation in hand, seemed to want to cover them up. But, as the pimples were uneven, that wasn’t an easy task.
“Need some help?” asked Gu Shishi after she watched Chen Kexin for a little bit.
Chen Kexin startled and almost dropped her foundation.
When she turned around and saw that it was just Gu Shishi and nobody else, she let out a sigh of relief.
“Oh, it’s you. You scared me.”
After that had slipped out of her, Chen Kexin’s look became complicated all over again.
Why was it that she felt alright when it was Gu Shishi?.....
Would she not be alright if it was anyone else?
Wait. Something wasn’t right here. Wasn’t she friends with the others?
Her relationship with Gu Shishi was just buyer and seller!
But, quickly, she figured out why she felt what she felt.
Gu Shishi pulled out a bottle of hand sanitizer from her purse and disinfected her hands.
She looked at the make up on the table and said to her, “Want me to draw you a plum blossom?”
“Plum, plum blossom?”
Chen Kexin got it now. She felt relieved because Gu Shishi was always calm and never panicked when something happened.
If it was any other one of her girlfriends, they’d just yak.
In fact, she had a pretty good idea what they’d say.
Most likely along the line of “Oh, Keke, what did you eat yesterday that brought this?”, “What brand of body lotion have you been using? It’s kind of oily. You need to switch to a different brand.”, “Ah, you need to go see a doctor for this.”, or “Guess you won’t be able to wear anything that will show your back today. What a bummer.”…. or something equally useless.
They’d only irritate her more.
But now… Gu Shishi wanted to draw her a plum blossom?
“Yeah, the skin on your back is fairly pale. And your swimsuit today is a light yellow color. A plum blossom would complement them very well.”
Having said that, Gu Shishi picked up her bright red lipstick and an earth tone eyeshadow.
“Except that you won’t be able to go into the water today. And don’t have a towel on your back. That’d smear it.”
Chen Kexin thought about it for a little bit. Plum blossoms on her back.
That sounded pretty… so what if she couldn’t go into the water?
She can watch the others play from the shore. She just needed to be pretty.
Plus, it’d be done by Gu Shishi. That’s worth at least tens of thousands of millions. No way she’d put a towel over her back!
She would only be too busy showing it off!
“No problem!” replied Chen Kexin immediately.
“Gu Shishi had enraged Pingting.”
“Hehe, Pingting’s piano is good enough to perform overseas. Who did that Gu Shishi think she is?”
“Speaking of, we should be happy that she is so ignorant. Lucky for us all! We don’t get to hear Pingting’s performance all the time!”
Chen Kexin’s cheeks burned a little. She recognized the voices.
They belonged to a couple of her girlfriends from their WeChat chat group.
She glanced over at Gu Shishi and felt somewhat uncomfortable all of a sudden.
She prayed that the ones standing by the door would leave soon, but they kept on chatting.
“Speaking of, where is Keke? I didn’t see her downstairs.”
“Shhhh… don’t talk too loudly. She had a breakout on her back. It was awful… and she had a backless swimsuit…. I never even think that her back was all that. And now… tsk tsk tsk…”
“For real? Let’s go. Let’s go. Let’s talk downstairs.”
There were three to four dressing rooms on the second floor.
The footsteps resumed and Chen Kexin’s face looked awful.
She never would have thought that her girlfriends from her group would talk about her like that behind her back.
She felt very emotional all of a sudden.
The two years that she had studied abroad, she had kept in touch with all of them.
She thought she had been nice to everyone and that she had a good relationship with everyone.
But now… what she got in return were friends who’d talk about how awful she looked behind her back?!
Chen Kexin clenched her fists.