Schrodinger's Straight Girl
Luo Yang B I B I
In Wen Chu's eyes, Qin Jianshu is elegant, refined, and strikingly beautiful, a rare beauty—albeit a bit aloof. Whenever Qin appears, Wen never hesitates to let her gaze linger a little longer on her, whether at conferences or on campus. A friend once teased, “Since you’re so interested, why not try pursuing her?” Wen laughed it off with a firm refusal: “Who’d be crazy enough to fall for a straight girl, especially one with a fiancé?” Yet, as if fate played its hand, Qin’s engagement fell through in less than six months. Outside a folk-music tavern, Wen finds Qin drunk out of her mind. To her surprise, Qin is a terrible drunk—utterly unaware of her own charm, flirtatious beyond measure, and after accidentally bruising Wen’s lip, she stares back innocently: “Wen Chu, it looks like you’re bleeding here.” * Qin Jianshu long believed herself a staunch advocate of platonic love, imposing strict rules on every boyfriend she had—until they inevitably ended things in frustration, snarling, “You’re not feminine at all.” So, what exactly is femininity? That night, drunk and dazed, she cups Wen’s face and presses close, her voice intoxicatingly alluring: “Tell me, am I not feminine enough?”