As expected, Xia Duoduo’s Weibo and WeChat have completely crashed.

However, she didn’t have time to look at those messages. She directly dialed Jin Xu’s number, wanting to ask him what he was thinking, announcing he had a girlfriend when his career was at its peak—was he courting disaster?

Beep beep beep...

The call went unanswered after several attempts.

Xia Duoduo quickly dialed Jin Xu’s agent’s number, but the line was constantly busy. In hindsight, it made sense; Brother Lu, the agent, was probably overwhelmed right now.

Xia Duoduo remembered Jin Xu mentioned he would be recording a TV show today. She skipped breakfast, quickly dressed, and rushed out the door.

She drove straight to the TV station entrance.

By then, numerous media reporters had already arrived, armed with cameras, filling the entrance completely, ready to ambush.

Xia Duoduo lowered the brim of her baseball cap, pulled up her collar to cover her face, leaving only her eyes exposed, hoping to sneak in through the side door unnoticed.

"Excuse me, could you please show your work badge?" A security guard suddenly stepped out, blocking her path.

"I-I forgot my work badge. Please let me in first," Xia Duoduo’s heart sank, quickly explaining with a smile.

She didn’t have any work badge!

"No way, it’s the rule. Without a work badge, you can’t enter... Hey, stop right there!" Before the guard finished speaking, Xia Duoduo rushed past him, taking advantage of his unpreparedness. 𝗳𝐫𝚎𝗲𝚠𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝘃𝚎𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝗺

The guard chased after her, but Xia Duoduo ran straight to a stairwell and hid behind the door, her heart pounding.

After a while, the guard entered.

The stairway was dimly lit. Xia Duoduo held her breath and stayed quiet, clearly observing the guard’s reaction through the door gap. Seeing him glance around the stairs and then head upwards, she secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Once the stairway was completely quiet, Xia Duoduo snuck out to find Jin Xu’s recording studio.

To avoid being noticed, she kept her head down, walking quickly, unexpectedly bumping into a man approaching her.

"Sorry, sorry..."

At that moment, Xia Duoduo was anxious, desperate to find Jin Xu, she didn’t even look up, apologized and tried to slip past.

Instead, the man called out to her with a sinister tone, "Stop!"

Xia Duoduo was startled.

Why did that voice sound so familiar?

She instinctively turned her head and was almost scared to the point of collapse.

It was Xiao Zhen!

What a narrow escape this was!

The last time, at the gym with Ji Wei, they embarrassed Xiao Zhen. If he recognized her now, pleading wouldn’t help!

Xia Duoduo nervously swallowed and instinctively pulled up her collar higher, pretending not to know him and said, "Excuse me, sir, is there anything else you need?"

"You just knocked off a button from my suit. What should we do about that?"

Xiao Zhen turned around, eyeing her dangerously.

Xia Duoduo glanced at the golden button on the ground for a few seconds.

Was it really her who knocked it off?

Suspicious as she was, Xia Duoduo didn’t hesitate to pick it up, smiling apologetically, "Sewing it back on should do, right? I honestly didn’t mean it. I’ll cover the cost of sewing the button!"

She then pulled out two hundred yuan bills from her pocket, along with the button, and handed them to Xiao Zhen.

Xiao Zhen continued to scrutinize her.

He was convinced the way this woman spoke felt very familiar, definitely someone he’d seen before.