Lu Zhenqiu had just woken up and her phone was vibrating with a beeping sound.
She glanced at the screen and saw a screenshot from her friend. It was about her girlfriend, Tang Yingxia.
Three minutes ago, Tang Yingxia told everyone in their close friends group chat that Yu Wen's new book would be releasing soon, asked if they could promote it.
Lu Zhenqiu entered the group chat and scrolled up. She didn't manage to see this message but saw Tang Yingxia's records of deleted messages.
There were also some chat records by others.
[? ? ? ]
[Xia Xia, did you send it in the wrong group?]
Tang Yingxia then quickly deleted her messages and replied with a smile emoji in the group chat.
Lu Zhenqqiu looked at the smile emoji and pursed her lips. Every breath she took hurt. Her brain, which had just woken up from her sleep suddenly cleared up. A breath was stuck in her throat, like a lump. The rims of her eyes were gradually turning red, her eyes turned hot, and her vision started to blur.
She closed her eyes, put down her phone, and bit her lip after a few seconds. She added Tang Yingxia's reader's group using the burner account she had just created yesterday.
Tang Yingxia is her girlfriend. They have been in a relationship, that was not known to the public, for more than two years, but rarely see each other. They live in different places, and every time the holidays are approaching, there are always various reasons for which they cannot meet up.
As for why they have not made it public, it is all because Tang Yingxia said that she does not like too many readers to pay attention to her private life and get judged.
Lu Zhenqiu respects her decisions, so she has not made it public.
Is this really the case, now?
Beep——
She joined the group chat.
Lu Zhenqiu had the illusion that she was in another world. She used to be Tang Yingxia's group chat administrator. After dating Tang Yingxia, she left the group chat to avoid suspicion. When she left the group, there were only 500 people. Now it has 2,000 people. It is very lively.
[Scattering some flowers to welcome you! Hello, newcomer post your photos and voice!]
The welcome was much quicker and livelier than before. Lu Zhenqiu replied with an emoji and scrolled up the chat records.
Although there were lots of messages, she easily found the message three minutes ago.
Sheng Xia[1]: @Everyone, Yu Wen has started writing a new novel, please help to publicize it [Blow Kiss][2].
[Xia Wen[3] SZD[4]! Xia Wen SZD! Sisters! It's real!]
[I have sweets[5] to eat! I will promote it now! Love Xia Xia loves Wen Wen!]
[The two chefs[6] are ecstatic! Today is another day to eat sweets!]
After scrolling through several messages, a familiar avatar appeared.
Yu Wen: [Everyone, don't talk nonsense, it's not happening.]
When did she join the group? Tang Yingxia didn't even say anything about it.
Lu Zhenqiu bit her lip, a hole in her heart was torn open, blood flowed out and the pain caused her to curl up. The screen gradually blurred.
Her arrival at the group chat was just a trivial matter, and all the readers began to happily discuss the Xia Wen CP.
Only Lu Zhenqiu read these words repeatedly.
Suddenly she felt disgusted!
She threw off the blanket and ran barefoot to the bathroom, lifting the toilet lid and vomiting in darkness. Tang Yingxia's message in the group chat emerged in her brain.
Sheng Xia: [Yes, don't talk nonsense. What should I do if Yu Wen cannot find a wife and blame it on me if someone misunderstood it?]
Lu Zhenqiu felt like vomiting out her organs.
She sat by the toilet, with her back against the porcelain tiles, a cold feeling touched her heart from her back and it was very chilly.
Lu Zhenqiu stood up and washed her face. When she heard the phone ringing on the bed, she walked over, and the screen flashed Tang Yingxia's name. She didn't answer it and put it aside.
She stood up and turned on the computer. When she waited for the computer to turn on, she changed her clothes and put on light makeup. Her hair was loose and hanging behind her back. Her facial features were delicate and beautiful, and her eyelashes were naturally long and thick. Curled, fair skin, pale pink lipstick.
When entering the live broadcast room, a message popped up at the bottom: [Aren’t you gonna rest today?]
Lu Zhenqiu replied to Hua Luo: [It's the last day, I just to persevere for one more day before it’s over.]
Hua Luo: [Did you see the message I sent you?]
Lu Zhenqiu: [Yeah.]
It was Hua Luo who first discovered that something was wrong between Tang Yingxia and Yu Wen.
They were both authors of the same website. Tang Yingxia had been writing novels for seven or eight years and her popularity was not that high. In the past two years, Baihe[7] could be adapted into a drama. An investor took a fancy to Tang Yingxia's novels and even bought two of them consecutively, and the results were good after it aired, causing Tang Yingxia to become popular.
Now she is recognized as a well-respected author in the circle.
As for Yu Wen, she is a newcomer who has just written novels in the past two years, she is very smart. Lu Zhenqiu, who does not write novels, has been amwayed several times, but at that time, she never thought that she would be close friends with Tang Yingxia.
The two were mutual on Weibo three months ago. Not long after, Hua Luo sent her a message, asking her to pay attention to Tang Yingxia and Yu Wen as they \were too close. At that time, she was too busy switching platforms. By the time she was not busy, she had seen many readers shipping them.
Hua Luo: [Qiu Qiu, do you know who invested in Tang Yingxia's novels?]
Lu Zhenqiu frowned: [Who is it?]
Hua Luo: [No way? Tang Yingxia didn't tell you?]
Lu Zhenqiu had a bad premonition in her heart, and her stomach was turbulent again after vomiting.
She hadn't eaten full meals for the entire day for several days. She recently weighed herself and her weight had plummeted.
Seeing that she didn't reply, Hua Luo sent: [It's Yu Wen's company, I thought Tang Yingxia told you.]
Tang Yingxia did not tell her about this matter.
Lu Zhenqiu clenched her phone tightly, closed her eyes lightly to adjust her breathing.
After a while, she replied: [No.]
Hua Luo typed a lot of words but deleted them. She finally asked: [What about her relationship with Yu Wen, did you ask her?]
Lu Zhenqiu's fingertips which were typing turned white: [No.]
Hua Luo: [Do you still believe in Tang Yingxia's nonsense?]
What do you mean by you don’t want your readers to know that you are in a relationship, don't want too many people to pay attention to your private life, don't want to be criticized. Acting like an actor, its just being in a relationship.
Hua Luo could not understand at all.
But that was before, what's going on with Yu Wen now?
Is there no need to cover up??
Lu Zhenqiu didn't reply.
She stared at the computer for a long time. After a while, her phone beeped twice. She turned and saw the message from Tang Yingxia: [Honey, are you awake?]
She held her phone in her hand, dazed for a moment.
There was some noise at the door. Lu Zhenqiu looked over and saw a golden retriever sitting there. Seeing Lu Zhenqiu looking over, the golden retriever walked over wagging its tail and leaned against Lu Zhenqiu, as if it knew that Lu Zhenqiu was in a bad mood.
Lu Zhenqiu patted the dog's head, her voice hoarse: "Maomao, go play." Maomao barked twice and stayed close to her.
Fans came in one after another in the live broadcast. This is a small platform; A friend of Tang Yingxia was in charge of the entertainment section. At that time, the platform had just started. It focused on the game section and spent a lot of money to buy several well-known live streamers contracts. On the entertainment side There were no people, so Lu Zhenqiu was recruited.
Later, something happened to the platform and those game live streamers took their fans to another platform.
The platform that had just started, collapsed. However, Lu Zhenqiu never left because of Tang Yingxia's friend, this year the contract expired, and the platform was unable to renew it, so Lu Zhenqiu found another platform in advance.
Although the platform was small, Lu Zhenqiu still had some fans. These fans screamed with joy when they saw Lu Zhenqiu stream!
[Qiu Qiu! Don't you have a cold? Why are you still streaming?]
Lu Zhenqiu really had a cold these past two days. She just had a lunch break and couldn't sleep, so she might as well just get up and start a stream.
Anyway, it's her last day.
She smiled lightly and explained in the stream. Most of ger fans felt worried about her health, and a few of them were asking: [Qiu Qiu, which platform are you going?]
Lu Zhenqiu smiled: "It's not completely decided yet." The fans knew what the correct thing to do, so they changed the topic.
Lu Zhenqiu usually sings, but her throat has been hurting these past two days, so she just started chatting with the fans.
They talked about the recent Baihe drama, which is an adaptation of Tang Yingxia's novel.
[I really like the casting! I like novels too! Qiu Qiu have you ever heard of Sheng Xia?]
Lu Zhenqiu paused to drink water. There were already fans sending messages in the chat.
[They must have known each other; Qiu Qiu and Xia Xia had even collaborated before!]
[Yes! Qiu Qiu has dubbed a radio drama for Xia Xia's novel!]
Lu Zhenqiu lowered her eyes and took a sip of warm water. The viewers in the chat were already chatting. She said nothing, but just looked at the chat and saw that they had changed from the new drama to Tang Yingxia to Tang Yingxia and Yu Wen.
[Wen Wen is very special to Xia Xia, and this time she also helped to promote her new novel.]
[I also think Xia Xia and Wen Wen CP is so great, they are so sweet.]
A drop of hot oil fell into Lu Zhenqiu's heart, burning holes one after another in her heart. Her face turned pale, and her hands clenched the cup tightly. She told her viewers that she was not feeling well and then turned off the stream.
Messages from Hua Luo followed: [Qiu Qiu, are you okay?]
Lu Zhenqiu felt dizzy. She wanted to text back to Hua Luo that she was fine, however, her fingers pressed into the chat with Tang Yingxia.
She thought for a few seconds and sent Tang Yingxia: [Tang Yingxia, Maomao is missing.]
Tang Yingxia was chatting with Yu Wen about the new novel when she saw Lu Zhenqiu's avatar popped up and frowned for a few seconds: [How did it go missing?]
Lu Zhenqiu stared at her phone, her eyesight was dead serious, her hands which were typing was heavy: [I just opened the door to retrieve a parcel and Maomao rushed out of the door.]
Will Tang Yingxia discover such a lame lie? Maomao has such a docile personality and will never act recklessly. Moreover, the delivery company in this area will never deliver upstairs. It was Tang Yingxia who told her about that.
But Tang Yingxia didn't notice. Tang Yingxia sent: [Have you gone downstairs to look for it? It must be downstairs. It can't run far. You can look for it downstairs.]
Not a single call came in. Lu Zhenqiu's breath stopped, and her throat was bitter and astringent. She typed: [Got it.]
As soon as she sent it, she saw a Weibo message notification popped up.
Yu Wen: I have released a new book. I hope you will like it. Finally, I would like to thank Xia Shen for helping me revise my novel many times in the middle of the night. When the new book makes money, I will treat you to a hot spring @Sheng Xia.
Lu Zhenqiu clicked on the comment and saw a familiar and dazzling name. Sheng Xia: Get your swimsuit ready @Yu Wen.
The comment was sent a minute ago.
A minute ago, she just told Tang Yingxia that the Maomao had gone missing
Lu Zhenqiu's only thoughts were shattered. She curled up on the sofa and held the phone to her chest. The pain was so painful that she couldn't make a sound.
Until night, Tang Yingxia did not send a message to Lu Zhenqiu, nor did she ask about the Maomao. Whether it came back or not, Lu Zhenqiu leaned on the sofa and leaned towards Maomao.
After thinking for a long time, she finally sent a message to Hua Luo.
Lu Zhenqiu: [Are you there?]
Hua Luo: [I’m thereeee, what's wrong?]
Lu Zhenqiu: [Last time you said that a friend wanted to rent out a house. Has the house been rented out?]
Hua Luo: [Let me ask about it.]
Hua Luo found Jin Shuilan in her contacts, licked her lips nervously, gotten her words together and sent it out.
Jin Shuilan sat in front of the window and lowered her head to read the script. A pair of gold-rimmed glasses hung on the bridge of her nose. The crystal lamp hit the side of her face, making her chiseled and sharp features. The screen of her mobile phone lit up.
Jin Shuilan took off her glasses and pinched the bridge of her nose. She picked up the phone with one hand and saw a message: [Teacher Jin, you mentioned in the moments[8] that you have a house for rent. Has it been rented out yet?]
[1] Tang Yingxia’s author name
[2] Emoji
[3] Ship name of Tang Yingxia and YuWen
[4] A short form for my ship is real in Chinese SZD=是真的=It is real
[5] Proof that the ship is real, used when it is very sweet when you look at it.
[6] Fans who create fan content
[7] English name for girlxgirl百合
[8] A space where your mutual friends can see your posts