Showbiz Scandal: The Official Announcement of My Ex and Myself-Chapter 324: Mei Yangyang with Hyperthyroidism
Yu Xia replied with a polite smile and had a brief exchange with him.
"No problem, it’s just part of my job after signing the contract. Do you have anything else? We’re about to leave."
Probably because of the surgery on his face, Pei Lu’s smile wasn’t as natural as before. He shook his head, saying he had no more business.
But just as they were about to turn and leave, Pei Lu suddenly seemed to remember something and hurriedly called out to her.
"Yu Xia, actually, it’s not just me who wants to thank you for your care back then, Song Xi feels the same. He’s still hoping you’d call him, muttering your name even when he was hospitalized from exhaustion last time."
A few friends around exchanged gossiping, shocked looks at Yu Xia, their expressions seemed to say—
No wonder it’s you, Yu Xia, that talent show wasn’t selecting singing and dancing artists, it was you choosing consorts, right?!
Yu Xia turned around, raising an eyebrow at Pei Lu.
"Has Song Xi been driven mad by your company?"
Pei Lu: "..."
She asked again, "Have you gone crazy too? There’s a difference between talking and talking sense. Actually, I was just about to say, if I had known you would be like this, I shouldn’t have criticized you back then. I should have praised and supported you, letting you fly high, so we wouldn’t share the same world, and my eyes would be much more comfortable."
Pei Lu’s expression twisted.
Yu Xia didn’t intend to say more and left him with two final sentences: "If it’s Song Xi who asked you to say this, let him come say it to my face. If you made it up yourself, don’t worry, I’ll be sure to tell both of your agents."
Having said that, she turned and left.
Everyone got into their respective cars, and one friend, paralleling her, poked their head out the window, nodding chin at her.
"Someone’s taking photos secretly."
Having been a celebrity for a while, she’s highly sensitive to cameras.
Yu Xia didn’t mind: "It’s not like I’m the only one out partying, what should I be afraid of."
Friend: "... A whole group out partying should be more worrisome... Wait, what am I even saying, we’re not out partying!"
Yu Xia also leaned out the window to speak to her: "Then what are you afraid of?"
"I’m worried about you, I feel like you and that... internet celebrity? that got photographed, maybe the paparazzi will trim us out and claim you two are dating, then he’ll use it to ride the wave to fame."
Yu Xia was still quite confident in the paparazzi and netizens in this regard.
"Anyone with a brain wouldn’t believe in such bizarre rumors, I’m not blind."
Besides, there’s Xie Qingci, with his super sentimental confessions, why would she turn to be with a plastic surgery-brained fool? Even if the mountains crumble and earth meets the sky, her taste wouldn’t be that twisted.
She drove off first, stopping midway to buy a hot dog, considering the strong smell, she ate it right outside the store before getting back in the car.
As she opened the car door, her phone started buzzing incessantly.
She grabbed a tissue to wipe her mouth, answering the call while touching up her lipstick in the mirror.
"What’s up?"
Xie Qingci’s voice came through the phone, tinged with a smile and accompanied by a tender effect.
"Haven’t you gone home yet?"
Like a worried wife, unable to sleep until the family head returns, timidly asking over the phone.
Yu Xia was amused by her own imagination, her hand shook and the lipstick went outside the lines.
"Tsk."
"Sis?"
She wiped off the lipstick and replied, "Not yet, just finished dinner with some friends, still on the road."
"Where? Want me to come pick you up?"
"Should I call the paparazzi? If you really want to know where I’ve been, just wait for their scoop. They might even report on the brand of hot dog I just bought within half an hour." She put away the mirror and merged back into traffic.
Xie Qingci: "I just want to see you."
"Sweetie, it’s been less than twelve hours since we last saw each other." Plus, they’d been together for several days before today!
She wasn’t quite eager to see him again anytime soon.
"And," she emphasized, "tomorrow’s the next episode."
Xie Qingci sighed on the other end.
"Guess I’ll have to settle for less. Would a video call work?"
"...Is that settling for less, really?"
"Fine, fine!"
Xie Qingci "saw her home" safely through the screen, then requested to extend the video call time, promising not to chat excessively, allowing her to do her own thing.
Yu Xia called him boring, but she agreed anyway.
So, the two of them did their own things on either side of the screen, not talking much, not even a sound from Xie Qingci. If she hadn’t seen his face on the screen occasionally, she would have thought the call was disconnected.
Yu Xia, wearing a face mask, moved closer to the phone, startling him, then laughed and asked him, "Don’t you really find this boring? Not talking or looking at each other, just listening to my washing face sound."
"Not at all. The house is too quiet, I just want to hear your voice."
Yu Xia: "Forget it, no matter how pitiful you are, I’m not coming over."
"..." Xie Qingci leaned closer to the screen, "I’m just stating the current situation."
"Ever heard of the boy-who-cried-wolf story? Play the pity card too much and you tend to be misunderstood."
She took advantage of the mask time to pull out the script, continuing from where she left off last time.
The phone was placed on the stand next to the table, with only her forehead and eyes visible in the video.
Xie Qingci, out of nowhere, who had been expressionless just moments ago, suddenly seemed entertained and laughed twice inexplicably.
Yu Xia peeked up watching the video, asked, "What are you laughing at?"
"I just want to laugh. Where did you guys eat today? Was it good?"
She glanced sideways at the phone, drawling, "At a restaurant, had fish, it was delicious."
Then she recalled encountering the idiot Pei Lu while leaving. 𝐟𝕣𝕖𝐞𝐰𝕖𝚋𝐧𝗼𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝗰𝐨𝐦
"Hey, guess who I bumped into at the restaurant?"
Xie Qingci raised a brow, pondered, then said, "Can’t guess, who?"
"Pei Lu. Guess what he said to me?"
Xie Qingci: "Said it’s been a long time?"
"No," she leaned closer, only her eyes visible in the video, making an eerie face, "He said, such a rare and beautiful, good and honest fairy woman, still has someone checking in on her."
"..." Guess whether he believes it or not?
Initially curious about what Pei Lu said, he suddenly lost interest. After all, she was just using this as one of their little jokes, the actual content didn’t matter, assuming it wasn’t anything meaningful anyway.
His speechless expression was too obvious, Yu Xia held her face, trying hard not to laugh.
"I’m telling you, he had plastic surgery, smiles like a hyperthyroidism-afflicted Pleasant goat."
Xie Qingci once again: "..."
That description was quite novel.
He replied, "I know, Wei Yaoyao and their team ran into him while recording songs a few days ago."
Wei Yaoyao’s description was also quite novel— "He looks like a bum with empty pockets, pretending to be a squire returning home to trace his roots."
The two bizarre yet vivid metaphors quickly helped Xie Qingci visualize Pei Lu’s appearance, making him chuckle just a bit.
