Tang Yingxia stood there as if struked by lightning. Lu Zhenqiu had already walked into the hall. Tang Yingxia phone beeped and she lowered her head and saw a message from Yu Wen: [Are you okay? What's happened?]
Her throat was dry, and her chest was stuffed with oppression. Just a second ago, she impulsively went to find Lu Zhenqiu. Yu Wen's message was like cold water, pouring her head to toe to calm her down.
It is not possible to let people know that they are dating, consider the current situation.
At least for now.
Tang Yingxia sent a message to Yu Wen that it was all right, clutching her mobile phone tightly. She caught a glimpse of everyone at that table standing up, and after a while, everyone came out. Lu Yan said: "It's getting late, let's leave."
Others also almost chatted finished and had no objection. Yu Wen stood beside Tang Yingxia, Lu Yan asked: "Xia Shen, are you sending Wen Wen back?"
Tang Yingxia nodded: "Yes."
Her face was a little pale, but it was dark and no one noticed. The group of people walked out grandly. Yu Wen and Tang Yingxia got into the taxi. As soon as they sat down, Yu Wen asked, "What happened just now?"
Tang Yingxia's lips trembled. "It's okay."
Yu Wen turned her head to look at her. Part of the reason why she was choose Tang Yingxia among the many others was her selfishness. Tang Yingxia has been in this sector for a long time and has a wide network of contacts, a solid foundation, and many readers. In Baihe, her status of the sector is second to Jin Shuilan.
Jin Shuilan has reached the level where she can't get close even with money. Tang Yingxia is different. Baihe Film and Television has just developed, and many capitalists are waiting to see. It is a wise choice for her to sign Tang Yingxia currently.
Of course, there are also some reasons. She has a good impression of Tang Yingxia, so she took the initiative to create some small ambiguities.
When she first met Tang Yingxia, she didn't know that Tang Yingxia had a girlfriend.
After a meeting, she saw Tang Yingxia answering Lu Zhenqiu's phone call and asked, but Tang Yingxia never made it public.
Gradually, she didn't take Lu Zhenqiu seriously.
Regardless of whether they break up or not, Lu Zhenqiu is a shameful existence to her.
Yu Wen leaned next to Tang Yingxia, patted her on the shoulder, and asked worriedly: "Xia Shen, is your girlfriend angry?"
"Did she see us eating together and misunderstood the situation?"
When she spoke, her breath spread beside Tang Yingxia's ears, bringing with it the slightly tipsy smell of wine, Tang Yingxia turned around, suppressed her emotions and said, "It's okay."
Yu Wen felt a little apologetic: "Let me explain it to her..."
Tang Yingxia said, "No need, I will talk to her. "
In her opinion, Lu Zhenqiu was just angry for a moment. Then she realised that Lu Zhenqiu had sent her a message yesterday saying that Maomao went missing, and she did not return to help look for it which caused her to be emotional. It must be so.
After finding the point of conflict, Tang Yingxia became less impatient. She said to Yu Wen: "I drank a lot tonight, you can go back and have a good rest."
Yu Wen smiled sweetly at her: "Yeah, okay."
She didn't finish her sentence. She said reassuringly: "Then give me a call when you get home."
Tang Yingxia nodded and waved at Yu Wen at the gate of the estate.
Instead of going back to the house in the city centre, she asked the driver to drive directly to where Lu Zhenqiu lived, and stopped halfway there to buy a bouquet.
When they first started dating, she urged Lu Zhenqiu to move in with her. Lu Zhenqiu felt that the progress was too fast and did not agree. Two months later, Tang Yingxia began to participate in scriptwriting. Video conferences were required oftenly, and it was inconvenient for the two to live together. They were more like dating online. In the past two years, Tang Yingxia has developed rapidly. From being not so popular to one of the best in the sector. At first, she thought about publicising their relationship. She wanted to wait for Lu Zhenqiu's birthday to give her a surprise. They were officially together in the summer. Lu Zhenqiu’s birthday is at the beginning of winter, on November 1st. It’s very easy to remember. She often said that her family gave her the wrong name. She should be called Zhendong. At that time, Tang Yingxia felt that Lu Zhenqiu was very cute when she said that.
However, Lu Zhenqiu's birthday had not yet arrived, and Tang Yingxia's opportunity came first. The film and television rights negotiations went very smoothly. Later, with the cooperation of publicity, Jin Shuilan's Baihe drama became a hit, and fans were eagerly waiting for more Baihe dramas to appear. The time and place were right. All the conditions were right and Tang Yingxia's success was expected.
She enjoyed all the sudden auras and countless gazes, and her single character became a joke for readers. Gradually, she no longer wanted to mention the matter of publicising their relationship, and sometimes she would play this joke with readers.
Lu Zhenqiu had never had any objections, and Tang Yingxia had taken it for granted. She completely forgot that being in a relationship was normal.
If Lu Zhenqiu hadn't suddenly broken up today, Tang Yingxia would never have thought of Lu Zhenqiu's grievance.
Tang Yingxia stood in the elevator and wanted to tell Lu Zhenqiu later that she had nothing to do with Yu Wen. When her two movies and TV shows were finalized, she would openly talk about their relationship.
Soon, the elevator arrived. Tang Yingxia stood at the door holding flowers. She didn't call Lu Zhenqiu. She wanted to give her a surprise. Tang Yingxia rang the doorbell. The expected response did not happen. She frowned.
Lu Zhenqiu still hadn't come back?
Then Tang Yingxia looked at her watch. It was almost nine o'clock. Is she still eating there?
Tang Yingxia had an inexplicable feeling in her heart. She took out the key from her bag and opened the door. It was dark inside. She turned on the light and looked at the two rooms. She felt something was wrong. Then she immediately realized that Lu Zhenqiu was gone!
Because Mao Mao is not here anymore!
Tang Yingxia panicked. When she put down the flowers, she saw a key on the coffee table. It was the key she gave to Lu Zhenqiu. In addition to the key, there was also an envelope. Tang Yingxia's face turned pale, and she opened the envelope. She saw a few red notes stuffed inside, and a sticky note: [Rent, thank you.]
It's Lu Zhenqiu's handwriting! Tang Yingxia hurriedly took out her mobile phone from her bag and called Lu Zhenqiu.
No one answered her calls. Then she realized that maybe she didn't want to answer her call. She had no choice but to find WeChat and send a message. There was a huge red exclamation mark![1]
Lu Zhenqiu deleted her?
Tang Yingxia found it unbelievable and panicked even more. Outside the restaurant, when Lu Zhenqiu said that they broke up, she did not feel anything about it. But now she realized that Lu Zhenqiu was not just a whim, but was telling the truth.
She wants to break up!
How could it be?
Tang Yingxia immediately found a mutual friend between the two, but neither of them knew where Lu Zhenqiu had went.
Tang Yingxia gritted her teeth and finally called Hua Luo. Hua Luo had just finished taking a bath and was chatting with Lu Zhenqiu about the automatic jacuzzi with great envy.
Tang Yingxia called in. Her hands trembled and she almost dropped the phone in the pool. Tang Yingxia asked straight to the point: "Hua Luo, where is Qiu Qiu?" Hua Luo wrapped herself in a bath towel and wiped her wet hair. When she heard the question, she picked up her ears and asked, "Who is it? Who is Qiu Qiu? Isn't your new wife Yu Wen?"
Tang Yingxia said: "Yu Wen and I are just friends..."
"Oh, y’all are friends. What kind of friend? Friends who hug and touch each other?" Hua Luo laughed angrily, and she said: "Tang Yingxia, although I write novels and my achievements are not as good as yours, but as a human being, I have the most basic conscience. I don’t need to say more about how Qiu Qiu has treated you in the past two years. What about you? When you were ambiguous with Yu Wen, you didn’t care at all. You didn't consider about her feelings, so why are you comimg here and asking me so hypocritically? Or did you feel anxious just because Qiu Qiu ram away?”
She is so cheap!
Tang Yingxia was speechless: "I..."
Hua Luo interrupted her again: "Actually, you should be lucky that you met Qiu Qiu. If I was the one in this situation and you were having sex with other women outside, I could beat you up and tear off all your skin!"
After saying that, she hung up the phone, feeling relieved.
The resentment of the whole night was finally vented. Hua Luo held her cell phone and sent a message to Lu Zhenqiu: [Did you use that bathtub tonight?]
Lu Zhenqiu was drinking water. She swallowed it before responding to Hua Luo: [No.]
Hua Luo held her phone in her arms. She originally wanted to tell Lu Zhenqiu about Tang Yingxia's call just now, but after thinking about it for a while, she didn't send it. She typed: [Why did you not use it? You don't know how envious I am! Next time when Teacher Jin is not at home, call me!]
Lu Zhenqiu pursed her lips: [What do you say, it seems that you are having an affair with me.]
Hua Luo: [It's not an affair with you, but my little lover, jacuzzi! ]
Lu Zhenqiu shook her head lightly, and Hua Luo sent another message: [Has Sanshui not replied to you yet?]
Sanshui is currently the largest live broadcast platform. They invited her two years ago, but she went to Tang Yingxia's friend platform at that time and rejected Sanshui. When she was looking for a platform this time, a friend who often played games with her said she could help recommend her to Sanshui, Lu Zhenqiu sent her resume and information. It's been almost a week and yet she received no reply.
Lu Zhenqiu typed: [Don't worry, let’s wait.]
Hua Luo admired Lu Zhenqiu's patience and forbearance. She didn't scold Tang Yingxia today. If it were her today, it would be a problem whether Tang Yingxia could leave the hotel safely, but Lu Zhenqiu still worried about her image.
After breaking up and saving face for her ex-girlfriend, Hua Luo felt that Lu Zhenqiu was gentle to the bottom of her heart. Lu Zhenqiu looked at the message from Hua Luo.
There was a knock on the door of the room. She looked up, put down her phone, walked over, and opened the door. Jin Shuilan held the fruit plate and asked, "Do you want to eat some fruit?"
"Okay, thank you." Lu Zhenqiu laughed. When she walked out of the room, she wanted to shut Maomao in.
She had just arrived, and was afraid that Jin Shuilan wouldn't adapt to the situation, so Maomao hadn't been able to leave the room yet.
Jin Shuilan looked at her room and said, "Let Maomao out."
Lu Zhenqiu turned and opened the door. Maomao walked out with its tail swinging and rubbing against Lu Zhenqiu.
Lu Zhenqiu touched its head and said, "Teacher Jin said that you come out too."
Maomao can understand people's words. When Maomao heard this, it walked up to Jin Shuilan obediently and rubbed its head against Jin Shuilan's waist.
Jin Shuilan laughed and said, "Very well-behaved."
Lu Zhenqiu talks a lot when the topic is about dogs. She said, "Well, Maomao has always been very good. When it was brought to my house when it was a child, it could understand what we said..."
Jin Shuilan raised her eyes to look at Lu Zhenqiu and listened to her without saying a word.
The two walked from the door to the sofa and sat down. The TV was on. Lu Zhenqiu said, "Teacher Jin also likes to watch costume dramas?" [2]
"I like it." Jin Shuilan said, "This is my favourite TV series recently. Do you want to watch it together. "
Lu Zhenqiu asked: "Which TV series?"
Jin Shuilan picked up a piece of apple from the fruit plate and said calmly: "Chen Shimei's biography."
Lu Zhenqiu stopped chewing for two seconds when she heard the name, Jin Shuilan sighed: "This Chen Shimei[3] is so heartless”
After she finished speaking, she tilted her head and asked, "Zhenqiu, do you think so?" The apple chunks got stuck in her throat, and the secreted juice made Lu Zhenqiu choke, so she swallowed it hard, her voice tightened: "Well, yes."
Author says:
Tang Yingxia: Are you scolding me?
Jin Shuilan: You are not worthy.
Tang Yingxia: ...
[1] A feature of WeChat where once you delete the person, he or she would be unable to send a message and a red exclamation mark would appear.
[2] Drama based or adapted with a background of ancient china
[3] Chen Shimei is a negative character as is usually synonymous to heartless men in Chinese culture