Chapter 7

Although Zhu Xinyue had expected this, she still couldn’t help but smile when she saw Ji Linyu’s “No need” message.

I kept grinding my back molars.

This big boss is really hard to approach.

Talking about money hurts feelings, not to mention that they have no feelings to talk about, so there is no need to think about adjusting the profit sharing.

Zhu Xinyue curled her lips and looked at the room full of luxury shopping bags. On the bed, on the stool at the end of the bed, and on the sofa, were all her “trophies” for the day.

Maybe she was used to being poor, so now that she is rich, she buys things like a nouveau riche. However, she feels guilty every time she swipes her card to pay.

Zhu Xinyue was waiting for Zhu Shilang to come to her and ask her why she spent so much money, but Zhu Shilang didn’t say a word and even modified the contract for her.

Money… Feelings…

Zhu Xinyue closed her eyes, put her phone on the dressing table next to her, leaned her head against the chair back, and took a deep breath.

A huge sense of emptiness and loneliness overwhelmed her.

It seemed as if there was an unfillable hole in her heart. She couldn’t tell how or when the hole was formed. It was just there, and when the wind blew, it made a whimpering sound, as if someone was crying.

The phone vibrated and buzzed on the table.

Zhu Xinyue opened her eyes and picked up her cell phone.

[Internet celebrity-Li Zi: I heard you are going to sign with Jinhuan? ]

[Internet celebrity-Li Zi: (Video)]

[Internet celebrity-Li Zi: You probably don’t want this video to be exposed, right? ]

[Internet celebrity-Li Zi: I’m waiting for you in the White Mist Club. ]

Zhu Xinyue clicked on the video, and it was the video of her mistaking Ji Qingyuan for someone else and confessing her love to Ji Linyu at Ji Qingyuan’s celebration party that day.

The camera has good pixels, and the woman in the red dress in the video can be recognized as her at a glance.

She slowly approached Ji Linyu. Before confessing her love, she stood behind him blankly, as if cheering herself up and preparing herself mentally. Only when she saw him getting ready to leave did she muster up the courage to confess her love to Ji Linyu – she played the role of a young girl in love to the fullest.

This shaky handheld camera seems to be expressing the nervousness of confession, and the two people in the center of the screen are so beautiful that at first glance you would think it was an idol drama.

Zhu Xinyue watched the video several times with great interest, then she remembered that this “Li Zi” was the internet celebrity with smoky makeup who persuaded her to confess her love to Ji Qingyuan that day.

After the original owner came to Tianze City, she introduced herself to the young actors and internet celebrities who interacted with her as “Ji Qingyuan and I are childhood sweethearts.” But when others asked her to produce evidence, the original owner found that she and Ji Qingyuan did not even have a single intimate photo together.

Everyone she knew laughed at her behind her back for trying to take advantage of Ji Qingyuan’s fame. At the celebration party that day, when those people called Zhu Xinyue, they were all teasing, and when they saw her, they would say “Hey, isn’t this Qingyuan’s childhood sweetheart?”

The original owner didn’t think there was anything wrong with it, but Ji Qingyuan would correct him with a smile, saying “We are friends who grew up together.”

After all, the term “childhood sweethearts” is somewhat ambiguous.

Zhu Xinyue remembered that in the novel, after the confession video was exposed, it did cause considerable trouble to both of them.

But it is likely that Li Zi did not use the video to threaten the original owner, but instead exposed it directly.

According to Zhu Xinyue’s analysis, Li Zi in the novel should have sold the video to the paparazzi, or to Ji Qingyuan’s rival.

Now Zhu Xinyue confessed to the wrong person and couldn’t hurt Ji Qingyuan, but the scandal between the big boss and the artist employee who is about to debut is enough to attract attention.

Zhu Xinyue merged the chat records and forwarded them to Ji Linyu.

[Zhu Xinyue: Brother Linyu, I don’t think I can make my debut. I’m sorry for causing you trouble…]

[Zhu Xinyue: Cats are crying.jpg]

Ji Linyu was sitting on the plane, about to turn his phone to flight mode, when he received a message from Zhu Xinyue – someone was threatening her with a video of her confessing to him.

He opened the conversation input box, replied to the message, turned off his phone and waited for the plane to take off.

In fact, Zhu Xinyue’s move was just to report to the big boss and let him be prepared for the crisis public relations. After all, he was also one of the parties involved in the confession video and had no intention of getting any useful response from Ji Linyu.

Zhu Xinyue raised her eyebrows in surprise when she received the message from Ji Linyu.

[Ji Linyu: If you are bullied, bully back. ]

These words… made her more confident. Zhu Xinyue smiled, got up, changed her clothes, and went to the appointment.

White Mist Club.

When Zhu Xinyue arrived, it was already an hour later.

It was drizzling outside, but luckily she brought a long-handled umbrella with her.

The staff standing at the door saw Zhu Xinyue looking up at the club’s sign, recognized her, and stepped forward, “Miss Zhu, this way please. Do you need me to hold your umbrella for you?”

“No need.” Zhu Xinyue smiled politely, “I’ll just say a few words and then leave.”

The staff dutifully led the way for her.

Finally, they stopped at the door of a box.

The staff opened the door for her. There was a screen between the door and the dining table, and the voices inside poured out from the open door.

“Jinhuan really signs anyone. I can’t finish talking about all the negative information about her in a day.”

“That’s right! Why was she able to sign Jinhuan? Could it be because of her face?”

“Her nose is so high, it must have been plastic surgery!”

“Her chin is padded!”

…

Zhu Xinyue stood in the corridor and did not go in. Instead, she took out her cell phone and called Li Zi.

A cell phone rang in the room.

The voices on the other side of the screen suddenly fell silent.

Li Zi, wearing smoky makeup, answered the phone.

Zhu Xinyue: “I’m at the door.”

Her voice came from the phone and the door at the same time. The people in the room stopped breathing and looked at each other.

Li Zi hung up the phone, stood up and walked out. After walking around the screen, she met Zhu Xinyue’s calm eyes – she looked at her as if she was a stranger.

Li Zi gritted her teeth secretly. She admitted that she was jealous of Zhu Xinyue. Who knew that she was really Ji Qingyuan’s childhood sweetheart and actually relied on Ji Qingyuan to get in touch with the Jinhuan Group.

Your own failure is terrible, but your friend’s success is even more heartbreaking!

“What are you going to do with that video?” Zhu Xinyue asked her calmly.

Li Zi clutched her phone and said, “As long as you don’t sign a contract with Jinhuan and don’t debut, I will never make this video public.”

“So this is what you’re doing.” Just be sure you’re not here to ask for money.

Zhu Xinyue looked at her deeply. The girl in front of her was wearing heavy makeup, and it was difficult to tell her original age. However, her eyes with flying eyeliner were very sharp, filled with resentment and jealousy.

Li Zi was confused. Shouldn’t she be angry, reveal an ugly and hideous face, and fight with herself?

Zhu Xinyue lowered her head and sighed, “After I came to Tianze City, you brought me into the circle and introduced me to the work of extras. I have always been grateful to you. We are on different tracks. Your achievements in self-media are very impressive, and your future development will not be worse than entering the entertainment industry. I thought that after I debuted, we could still be as good as we are now.

“If I become famous, you will become famous. Interacting with you on social media platforms can make fans exclaim in delight, and also attract a wave of CP fans. They can dig up the friendship you showed me when I was still a star before my debut. By then, you will get more attention and your image will be more solid.”

Li Zi was stunned. Her attitude towards Zhu Xinyue changed from tense to gradually relaxed, and her eyes were not as sharp as before.

“I……”

“Actually, I didn’t care whether you would make this video public or not. I was just worried that you would be used as a pawn. After all, besides me, the other person in the video is Ji Linyu, the boss of Jinhuan Group. Netizens have sharp eyes, and even if you blur your face, someone will recognize you.

“I don’t care that much about reputation. Who can curse me when the network cable is unplugged? I just like someone and I haven’t broken any law. But Ji Linyu is different. His image represents the image of Jinhuan Group. If you mess with him, you mess with Jinhuan.”

Zhu Xinyue patted Li Zi’s shoulder.

He asked her to “bully” her back and use his name to scare the little girl. It should be okay, right?

The rain outside was getting heavier. The cold raindrops drifted into the corridor and fell on Li Zi’s face and bare arms. She seemed to wake up all of a sudden.

Yes, it would be of no benefit to her to be at odds with Zhu Xinyue. Only cooperation and mutual benefit can achieve a win-win situation. Why was she so blinded by jealousy?

“Xinyue, I only sent this video to you.” Li Zi immediately changed her attitude and began to show her loyalty.

Zhu Xinyue pinched her palms to prevent herself from laughing out loud.

She lowered her head and adjusted her expression.

“I know, you don’t have to explain to me.” Zhu Xinyue brought out what Ji Linyu had said to her.

This sentence greatly calmed Li Zi’s anxiety, but at the same time, it was like riding a roller coaster, and Li Zi’s heart was hanging again.

Why no explanation?!

Could it be that…

“I believe you.” Zhu Xinyue raised her head with a gentle smile on her face. “Do you remember that I once gave you a lipstick?”

Li Zi nodded and said with a wry smile: “I accidentally took your lipstick by mistake and it only scratched my hand, and you gave it to me. I thought you disliked me.”

Don’t “think”, this is the fact

The original owner didn’t like to use things that had been used by others, especially cosmetics.

But Zhu Xinyue wouldn’t say that.

“No.” Zhu Xinyue shook her head gently, “I only share cosmetics with people I consider to be friends. I regard you as my friend, so I trust you. As long as you say you have not sent it to others, then you have not sent it to others. So you don’t have to explain to me.”

Li Zi’s heart ached bitterly.

Damn her! Zhu Xinyue trusted her so much, but she actually backstabbed her friend! She almost believed others and sold the video to the paparazzi!

“I, I’ll delete the video right now.” Li Zi took out her cell phone and deleted the video from all locations, including the backup.

She took out a memory card and handed it to Zhu Xinyue.

“Now, this memory card is the only one in the world that contains that video.” Li Zi didn’t say anything and slapped the memory card directly into Zhu Xinyue’s palm.

Zhu Xinyue clutched the memory card and said softly, “You are such a simple girl.”

Li Zi glanced into the closed box and said angrily, “Yes. But I will never be fooled by them again!”

Zhu Xinyue smiled, with a half sincere and half hypocritical social mask of an adult on her face.

“It’s time for a midnight snack. Do you want to go to a food stall with me to eat crayfish? It’s my treat.”

Li Zi looked at her gentle and tolerant smile, and felt sad. Despite how she treated her, she still put aside the past and treated her as a friend.

She is such a nice person!

After finishing the socializing with Li Zi at the food stall, Zhu Xinyue saw that it was getting a little late, so she prepared to go home while the rain outside was not heavy, with just a few cool drizzles.

Li Zi drank a little too much at the food stall, so Zhu Xinyue took a taxi to drop her off at the community. She waited for her family to pick her up before she went out – this was also something she learned from Ji Linyu.

If you want to be a good person, you must be a good person to the end.

The mobile phone map shows that this place is only a few kilometers away from Lishan.

It was getting dark and there were few cars on the road. It was difficult to get a taxi at this time and place. The nearest car that could take her orders would take ten minutes to arrive, and she also had to consider the safety of taking a taxi alone.

Zhu Xinyue simply picked up a shared bicycle on the side of the road and rode back slowly, just as a way to digest her meal.

A black long-handled umbrella hung in front of the bicycle, bumping against her knees from time to time. The street lights flew over her head like golden birds, and the only sound in the quiet night was the whistling wind.

Zhu Xinyue was enjoying this moment of leisure. When her bicycle turned a corner, she caught a glimpse of a familiar black car in front of her, with its hazard lights on, parked on the side of the road.

Zhu Xinyue glanced at the man standing next to the car and unconsciously took another look at him. The tall figure was like an afterimage imprinted in her eyes.

She quickly looked away because the bicycle turned quickly and left both the person and the bicycle behind. She didn’t see the specific appearance of the figure, but her heart was beating inexplicably.

Click.

The falling raindrops hit the back of her hand, splashing water.

Raindrops as big as beans fell down with a crackling sound.

The car on the way back to Lishan broke down. Ji Linyu stood next to the car, one hand in his pocket, replying to messages on his mobile phone.

The raindrops fell onto the screen and flowed across the phone screen.

Ji Linyu’s thumb wiped across the wet screen, the phone returned to the previous interface, and he accidentally opened Zhu Xinyue’s chat window.

Staying on the last message he sent her.

I don’t know if she bullied her back.

“Mr. Ji, the rain seems to be getting heavier. Would you please get in the car and wait?” The driver was checking the problems with the car and leaned over to talk to Ji Linyu.

Ji Linyu did not get into the car to wait, but took out an umbrella from the car and stood outside to hold it for the driver.

“Thank you for your hard work.” The umbrella was tilted, just enough to cover the driver’s body.

Ji Linyu held an umbrella for the driver, expecting that he would get wet in the rain, but the rain stopped as soon as it hit his shoulders.

On a quiet rainy night, the only sound you can hear is the sound of raindrops hitting the umbrella.

Ji Linyu seemed to have sensed something. As soon as he turned around, he saw the girl who was trying hard to hold the umbrella high, her heart and eyes full of him.

Zhu Xinyue curled her eyes at him with a sweet smile.

“Brother Linyu, what a coincidence.”