OSTF - 38

Su Mian spoke cautiously.

After all, she felt that being suddenly told she looked like someone else might not be pleasant, but no matter how tactfully she phrased it, the meaning remained the same.

The more she spoke, the more she felt the resemblance.

Chi Suisui stopped what she was doing and said playfully, “Little cotton ball, be more confident. Remove the ‘a bit’ alike.”

As soon as these words came out, Su Mian’s breathing stopped.

Wasn’t this just saying—I am that person, thank you.

As for the “little cotton ball” address at the beginning, it had already been thrown to the back of her mind, outside her range of consideration.

Chi Suisui seemed to feel it wasn’t enough and added, “I already said these are your male god’s wedding candies.”

She said it casually, in the exact same joking tone as usual, making it difficult for Su Mian to distinguish for a moment.

Su Mian still had candy in her mouth.

She chewed mechanically twice, muttering, “My male god’s wedding candy... male god’s wedding candy?”

Chief Chi got engaged yesterday.

God He posted about his fiancée for the first time yesterday.

Chief Chi’s boyfriend is called Xiao He.

The photo on God He’s Weibo looks very much like Chief Chi.

...

Once she summarized, Su Mian suddenly gasped, staring straight at Chi Suisui. “R-really?”

She really ate her male god’s wedding candy!

Su Mian suddenly stood up from her seat.

The movement was too large, and the chair was dragged back a long way, making a loud noise that attracted the attention of her colleagues.

She quickly bent down and sat back down.

“Then what else could it be?” Chi Suisui found her appearance particularly adorable, raising an eyebrow at her across the workspace. “The CP you were shipping didn’t end.”

She also casually mentioned last night’s events.

Su Mian was so shocked that she stammered, “T-then that dessert from before—was it really God He’s?!”

What else had she said at the time? Why was it that they were both eating dessert, but she wasn’t God He’s woman...

Every day in front of Chief Chi, she would drool over her boyfriend.

Every day she had to praise God He a few times.

“...”

Su Mian increasingly felt that Chief Chi’s gaze towards her was teasing. Thinking of those things again, she covered her face and呜呜呜 (wū wū wū - onomatopoeia for sobbing) pretended to cry.

“Isn’t this even better?”

Chi Suisui said, “Close-up observation.”

“Should I even believe it?” Su Mian shook her head like a rattle drum, deeply feeling that the story of the boy who cried wolf was truly an eternal truth.

Chi Suisui saw that she had fallen into her own stage of confusion.

Every little fan probably had to go through such days.

Chi Suisui gave her some time and went to He Xingwang’s Weibo to take a look herself. She had followed him before.

The clarification he had just posted a few minutes ago already had over a thousand comments.

Comparing it with some previous Weibo posts, indeed, news like this had a lot of traffic. No wonder marketing accounts all reposted it.

【The fiancée is so beautiful...】

【God He forced to clarify: This is not my daughter!】

【Can God He please post more photos? I didn’t expect to escape the little child stars in the entertainment industry, but ultimately couldn’t escape the fiancée.】

【A little princess surrounded by stars and the moon.】

The young Chi Suisui was indeed like that.

Even He Xingwang was told by her to run around everywhere, answering a few questions with a sentence, taciturn, but she especially loved to tease him.

Chi Suisui didn’t know what that kind of mentality was back then.

Now the two of them had dramatically become childhood sweethearts, then fiancés, and soon, they would become a real couple.

Chi Suisui propped up half of her face and sighed.

And Su Mian opposite her finally raised her head, not knowing what she had thought of. “My hundred Weibo posts have arrived at the time to be posted.”

She said it heroically.

The flag she had just set up hadn’t even lasted ten minutes before it was about to fall.

Chi Suisui had originally thought she would be sad for a while, but unexpectedly, a few minutes later, Su Mian started to get excited.

“Did God He really give you several cards?”

“So Chief Chi, you and God He knew each other so early.”

“Chief Chi, you were so cute and beautiful when you were little. How could God He post your photo? So many people want to get you.”

Chi Suisui would still answer a few questions at first, but after ten or so questions, she was already expressionless and said something embarrassing.

“I am the woman they cannot obtain.”

She couldn’t even listen to herself after saying that.

Su Mian laughed out loud, just as the director came out. “Su Mian! What are you doing during work hours?!”

The office suddenly fell silent.

Su Mian’s hundred Weibo posts were quickly posted.

After the excitement about God He’s fiancée on Weibo for two days, the heat finally subsided. As for who was really behind it, no one could know yet.

After all, people in the circle wouldn’t tell netizens. The Qi family and the He family’s status were there. Since the two parties involved hadn’t gone public, they wouldn’t go against the grain.

But this didn’t prevent the news of the “fiancée being from a prominent wealthy family” from leaking out.

“I’ve posted fifty Weibo posts,” Su Mian held her phone and looked up. “Someone asked if I was stimulated.”

Of course she was stimulated.

Holding such a big secret and not being able to tell others was killing her.

But she was willing!

Being able to know such a secret, even if it killed her, she wouldn’t care. That’s what Su Mian thought anyway.

Chi Suisui smiled. “You really posted them?”

She went to see what Su Mian had posted.

About fifty new Weibo posts, each one a different rainbow fart, praising her, praising He Xingwang, and praising their CP.

Perhaps because of these Weibo posts, someone contacted Su Mian.

Su Mian was originally a longtime fan of God He and shipped their CP, so someone even notified her that a fan club page for God He’s fiancée had been created. Clicking in, it only had the photo posted by God He.

There were no names or anything else.

Su Mian asked the big fan, “How do you manage this fan club page?”

The big fan was quite calm. “I have a feeling that God He was able to post on Weibo yesterday and today, which has already exceeded his usual frequency. So he will definitely post again in the future.”

Su Mian felt that what she said made a lot of sense.

The fiancée’s fan club page was thus launched with great enthusiasm.

Most of He Xingwang’s fans were career fans. They were happy when he had good results, and as long as his personal life was happy, that was enough for them.

This was probably the benefit of not being a celebrity.

This year’s National Day was the anniversary of the founding of the country, so the entire TV station was working overtime. Zhang Yueran had also returned to work a few days ago.

Originally, she was supposed to reflect for a month, but it was later extended to two months.

Now, two months hadn’t even passed, but there was a shortage of manpower, so they had to let her come back early. Nearly two months had indeed made her a bit more mature.

When she saw Chi Suisui, she sneered inwardly.

Before, Zhang Yueran had thought that God He really liked Chi Suisui, so she posted on Weibo to clarify for her, but unexpectedly, God He got engaged in the blink of an eye.

Without even thinking, she knew that the fiancée wasn’t Chi Suisui.

As for the resemblance that Su Mian could see, she naturally didn’t notice it. She wouldn’t carefully look at Chi Suisui in the first place, and usually, she was so angry that she wouldn’t remember to look closely.

She only glanced at the photo on God He’s Weibo.

“I feel like the way she looks at people now is—” Su Mian tilted her head, searching for a descriptive word. “Creepy.”

It was a completely different feeling from before.

“Haven’t seen her for a few months, maybe she forgot what we look like,” Chi Suisui replied casually while typing.

Just as she was speaking, the door to the director’s office opened.

“Suisui, come here for a moment.”

The eyes of the entire office turned here.

Zhang Yueran had only returned today, and the director called Chi Suisui into the office. It was hard not to overthink it.

Chi Suisui went inside quite calmly.

“Little Chi, I have a difficult task for you here,” the director said with a smile. “Do you know that Zhongyue Technology in Nancheng recently?”

Chi Suisui’s heart stirred. “I’ve heard a little about it.”

“Your task for the next half month is to collect some information about Zhongyue Technology. It would be even better if you could interview the boss himself.”

The director spoke, then added, “Yueran will assist you.”

These words made Chi Suisui raise an eyebrow.

Her conflict with Zhang Yueran could be said to be out in the open. For the director to arrange this, there must be some reason.

Chi Suisui’s expression was indifferent. “Okay.”

Since it was assistance, she would listen to her.

After leaving the office, Chi Suisui returned to her seat. Su Mian asked, “What did the director say? I feel like there’s a problem.”

“Arranged a profile interview.”

“That’s it?”

“It’s quite simple, someone will assist me,” Chi Suisui looked up. “Zhang Yueran will be with me.”

Su Mian’s eyes widened. “Has the director gone mad?”

The last incident was such a big deal. How could he think of putting the two of them together? Even she knew they should be separated, so at least the competition could be normal.

Chi Suisui curled her lips. “Who knows.”

After returning, Zhang Yueran went to the director’s office once, holding a handwritten self-criticism of several thousand words, and her attitude was very good.

As for what the two of them said, no one knew.

A WeChat message popped up on the computer screen.

Zhang Yueran: 【Suisui, happy cooperation.】

They had added each other on WeChat before, but Chi Suisui had never sent her a message, and she was too lazy to even block her.

Chi Suisui narrowed her eyes and replied with an “mm.”

Although it was said to be a profile interview, Chi Suisui didn’t know much about Zhongyue Technology at the moment, so for the next week, she planned to gather information first and then go for the interview.

Making an appointment also took time.

For some unknown reason, Zhongyue Technology didn’t accept interviews.

Chi Suisui didn’t think there was any problem, but since the interview task fell on her, she would do her best to complete it.

But if Zhang Yueran wanted to play any tricks or schemes in it, then don’t blame her for being merciless. The word “loss” didn’t exist in her dictionary.

However, for the time being, Zhang Yueran was still very well-behaved.

She had probably learned her lesson from the previous incident.

A period of time had passed since the engagement, and Chi Suisui had gotten used to it. Her life was no different from usual. Tonight, Qi Churui would be coming home, so she also went home.

It was a good opportunity to ask her dad if he knew anything about Zhongyue Technology.

He Xingwang had been staying at the Bai’an Mansion more often recently. Perhaps his coach, seeing that he was engaged, gave him his evenings off.

Usually during the day, Chi Suisui and He Xingwang would go out together.

Ever since she found out, Su Mian would wait downstairs at the TV station on time every day, just wanting to see what the real person looked like.

He Xingwang had greeted her once.

Making this little cotton ball so excited that she couldn’t tell east from west.

Having not seen him for a while, Qi Churui seemed to have grown taller again. After opening the door, he glanced behind her a few more times.

“Stop looking, He Xingwang isn’t here,” Chi Suisui exposed him.

“Why not?” Qi Churui oh-ed and frowned, asking, “Aren’t you supposed to live together after getting engaged?”

The teenager expressed genuine confusion.

Chi Suisui said, “You only live together after getting married.”

Qi Churui said, “You guys have been living together for several years.”

“So?” Chi Suisui raised an eyebrow. “Churui, if you want him to come, you can call him yourself.”

Qi Churui didn’t speak anymore.

Chi Suisui suspected that he was just talking, but when he actually saw his idol, he would still chicken out, even though he had once said on WeChat that if He Xingwang treated her badly, he would “kill” him.

The two of them went inside together.

Chi Suisui suddenly remembered something. “You told me you had something to say last time, but then you didn’t. A few months have passed, is it over?”

She had almost forgotten to ask.

“Last time’s is over, this time’s isn’t,” Qi Churui said seriously. “I want to talk to Brother Xingwang.”

Chi Suisui turned her head. “What is it?”

Qi Churui said expressionlessly, “Parent-teacher conference.”

Both parents were very busy. Chi Meiyuan had finally made time to go to the parent-teacher conference last semester. This time, Chi Meiyuan was busy with a new piece of music and probably wouldn’t have time.

As for Qi Xincheng, he was even busier.

Chi Suisui nodded. “I can go.”

Qi Churui’s expression was a bit awkward, and he didn’t speak.

“What’s with that expression?” Chi Suisui reached out and pinched him. “It’s just a parent-teacher conference, anyone can go, it’s all the same.”

Qi Churui kept a straight face. “Then I want Brother Xingwang to go.”

Chi Suisui said, “No.”

“But you just said anyone could go,” Qi Churui felt deceived.

“What I said didn’t include He Xingwang,” Chi Suisui picked a fruit from the coffee table. “Has any girl been driven to tears by you recently?”

Qi Churui explained seriously, “I haven’t.”

He felt that their crying had nothing to do with him.

He didn’t want to date, he only wanted to study. He would rather do a few more sets of test papers with that time, the questions were more interesting.

Chi Suisui laughed uncontrollably. “If not, then not.”

She washed her hands, preparing to go upstairs.

“What about the parent-teacher conference?” Qi Churui asked persistently.

Chi Suisui stopped on the stairs, seeing his仰着头 (yǎng zhe tóu - looking up) at her with a strangely pitiful look, she compromised. “I’ll ask. When is it?”

Qi Churui’s eyes lit up, but he still kept a straight face.

His joy, however, couldn’t be concealed.

He suppressed the corners of his lips that wanted to curl up. “Next week.”

Chi Suisui returned to the living room and called He Xingwang in front of Qi Churui. “Can you spare a day next week?”

“Probably not, what’s wrong?”

He had probably just finished training, as the man’s voice was slightly breathless. It was on speakerphone and amplified, so it could be heard clearly.

Her younger brother was beside her, so Chi Suisui had to restrain herself.

Why did He Xingwang’s voice sound better and better after the engagement? She even suspected it was intentional.

“Churui said his parent-teacher conference is next week,” she coughed and moved closer to the phone. “He desperately wants you to go.”

“Sis...” Qi Churui tugged at Chi Suisui’s clothes from the side.

How could she use the words “desperately wants”?

“Churui is beside you?” He Xingwang spoke slowly, his voice deep.

Qi Churui’s eyes drifted over. Perhaps he was too nervous to speak to his idol, and not knowing what he was thinking, he didn’t call out “Brother Xingwang,” but directly called out, “Brother-in-law.”

Both sides fell silent.

He Xingwang’s eyes flickered slightly, and he hummed in agreement. “When is the parent-teacher conference?”

Hearing this question, Qi Churui finally came back to his senses and said nervously, “N-next Friday.”

He Xingwang said, “Okay.”

“Wait.” Chi Suisui couldn’t help it and asked, a little amused, “I remember you just said you didn’t have time?”

“Time can be squeezed out,” He Xingwang said, slowly and deliberately. “Churui’s parent-teacher conference is more important.”

Chi Suisui: “......?”

What a “time can be squeezed out.”