Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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There was an endless stream of news on Weibo’s hot searches every day. Zu Qi browsed around and soon saw a familiar name on it.
——Shi Hao.
Since the last time Xue Jue found someone to expose the recording of the conversation between Shi Hao and Chen Meixin on the Internet, the two of them had not appeared in the public eye for a long time.
Just when everyone was about to forget about them, Shi Hao suddenly appeared again and started vigorously promoting the new movie he had directed on Weibo.
Fans swarmed into Shi Hao’s Weibo and found out that the campus love movie directed by Shi Hao last year was about to be released, and he and the leading actors were working hard to promote it all over the country.
As a well-known new director who became famous overnight in China, every movie directed by Shi Hao had a certain amount of traffic. If the previous incident hadn’t happened and ruined Shi Hao’s reputation completely, maybe this campus love movie would have already gained enough popularity.
It was a pity that a piece of mouse excrement ruined a nice pot of porridge. Some of Shi Hao’s personal affairs caused the entire crew to hide, waiting for the limelight to recede before they dared to come out and dance.
However, netizens were not fish with only seven seconds of memory, and they did not buy into Shi Hao and the entire crew.
For a time, the comment section of Shi Hao’s latest Weibo was filled with sarcastic comments.
[Have you apologized to Zu Qi? Have you apologized to Zu Qi? Have you apologized to Zu Qi? Important things need to be said three times!!!]
[It is impossible to apologize. I will never apologize in this life. Anyway, netizens are forgetful and will continue to do whatever they are supposed to do after a while and I will make a lot of money. [dog head]]
[Brother Hao, sister-in-law, is it fun?]
[Any cat or dog can be a director these days. There are unwritten rules, there are no rules, and there is no need to interfere in other people’s marriages. Just these three reasons can make you boycott Shi Hao for the rest of your life! [Smile][Smile]]
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The comments became more and more scolding, and some people even dug out the skin-flashing posts posted by the marketing account in the past two years. Although the posts had been deleted, many netizens still had screenshots.
The post used various tools to analyze the unspoken deeds of Shi Hao. Naturally, it also revealed the short-term relationship between Shi Hao and the original owner, so the victim image of the original owner emerged again.
A group of people shouted that they felt sorry for Zu Qi, and they flocked to Zu Qi’s Weibo to comfort him. The content of the conversation turned into urging Zu Qi to quickly put the Meditation powder on the shelves again.
Zu Qi: “…”
So the final focus was on the wild chrysanthemum powder, and the distress they felt before was just a foreshadowing.
What made Zu Qi feel funny was that in the past, whenever Shi Hao made some noise on Weibo, Tang Moning would be like a dog smelling something fishy, retweeting it immediately and interacting affectionately.
However, this time, Tang Moning did not make any move. Many netizens posted malicious comments on Shi Hao’s Weibo about Tang Moning, but without exception, Tang Moning ignored him.
It seemed that this dog-boy couple really had a falling out.
Zu Qi was in a happy mood and stood up to pick up the script on the coffee table and read it for a while, but his eyes were suddenly attracted by a bag of fruit placed by Xiaoya next to the script.
That was the fruit given to him by the Three Lucky Treasures last night. He put it aside and forgot about its existence.
Zu Qi put down the script, opened the bag and took a look, and found that it was filled with red apples, and each fruit was plump and bright in color, looking even better than what Zu Qi had seen in a boutique supermarket.
Were there apples growing in his space?
Zu Qi felt more and more incredible. He picked up an apple on the surface and immediately smelled a strange fruity aroma. This smell was not strong, but it penetrated into Zu Qi’s brain like vitality.
For some reason, Zu Qi, who had eaten enough in the morning, suddenly felt hungry, so he took two apples to the bathroom to wash them off and finished them not long after sitting back on the sofa.
The apple tasted even better than Zu Qi had imagined. It was very crisp and sweet. It was far more delicious than the ordinary apples he had eaten before.
After just reading the script for half an hour, Zu Qi ate three more apples.
The more Zu Qi ate, the more he liked it, and he began to think about using food in exchange for fruits from the Three Lucky Treasures in the future. The three little boys complained to Zu Qi last night that there were too many fruit trees around their house, and they could not pick them all. It was a pity that it fell to the ground and rotted away.
In the afternoon, Weng Yuxiang, who had nothing to do, liked to sit in the small garden in the front yard, eat cakes and drink tea, bask in the sun, read a book, etc., and live a very leisurely life.
Weng Yuxiang was born in a scholarly family. Both her ancestors and her father were academic masters. She worked as a teacher in a key university before marrying Xue Yanjing. After getting married, she quit her job to focus on being a full-time housewife.
Although Weng Yuxiang had a gentle temper and was easy to get along with, she didn’t like to interact with neighbors or other rich ladies. Zu Qi stayed at Xue’s house for a week and did not see any of Weng Yuxiang’s friends come to visit her.
Zu Qi took three apples to Xiaoya, asked Xiaoya to wash and peel them, then cut them into thumb-sized cubes, and then walked to the small garden with the fruit plate.
Before he even got close, Zu Qi heard a faint sound of crying, accompanied by a woman’s choked voice: “I have paid so much for this family, but I didn’t expect him to be so wolf-hearted, just for an unknown young woman of untraceable origin, he doesn’t even want his wife and son.”
Weng Yuxiang was silent for a long time and sighed and advised: “If you can keep him, you can’t keep his heart. Since he has taken the initiative to propose a divorce, just divorce. You can find a better man with your conditions.”
“But I’m not willing to accept it!” the woman cried, “Why should I make concessions? I earned the money, I bought the house, and it will be my pain in the end. We have to live and die, and that bitch couple will live in my house and live openly as a couple.”
Weng Yuxiang said sharply: “But if you continue to hang on to this marriage that exists in name only, you and your children will be the ones who are seriously injured in the end.”
“…” The woman’s sobs stopped abruptly. After a while, she gritted her teeth in embarrassment and said, “So none of the men in this world are good, they are all thinking animals with their lower bodies. Kang Qinghua said that my face is full of acne. As if he’s good-looking, and he doesn’t even use a mirror to see what he looks like, and he has the nerve to dislike the acne on my face…”
As she spoke, the woman became sad again, “Didn’t Xiao Gao introduce me to a beauty hospital?? I went there more than ten times last month, not to mention that there was no effect at all. I suspect that the acne I broke out with not long ago was because those women applied messy things on me. My face was ruined. How can I see people again in the future?!”
Facing the woman who was crying even harder than before, Weng Yuxiang sighed helplessly and didn’t know how to persuade her.
The next second, Weng Yuxiang suddenly caught a glimpse of Zu Qi holding a fruit plate from her peripheral vision and saw him standing not far away with an awkward expression, neither advancing nor retreating.
Weng Yuxiang quickly pulled a tissue and stuffed it into the woman’s hand, signaling her to quickly wipe away her tears. Then she stood up and walked over to take the fruit plate from Zu Qi’s hand.
“You didn’t even say a word when you came. Aren’t you tired just standing there?” Weng Yuxiang glared at Zu Qi in annoyance and distress.
“I saw you guys chatting, I’m sorry to bother you.” Zu Qi smiled and sat down next to Weng Yuxiang, turning his head to meet the woman’s raised face.
Half a minute ago, Zu Qi heard a woman say that her face was full of acne, and thought it was just the acne that was more obvious. Now when he saw it, the woman’s words were indeed not adulterated at all.
She really had acne all over her face… the emphasis was it was really all over her face.
Even the tip of her nose had a big, shiny pimple, not to mention the condition of the rest of her face. It would not be an exaggeration to describe it as “horrible”.
In order to avoid embarrassment, Zu Qi just glanced lightly and looked away, as if he didn’t see anything.
“This is Aunt Liu Jing, a friend of mine for many years.” Weng Yuxiang introduced, then turned to Liu Jing and said, “He is Zu Qi, maybe you have met him before.”
Liu Jing glanced at Zu Qi, and her expression suddenly changed. It became a bit hard to describe.
She was the editor-in-chief of a well-known fashion magazine. Not only did she have a lot of resources in her hands, but the magazine she founded had always been the number one in sales in the country. First- and second-tier celebrities in the industry regarded being on the cover of her magazine as a status symbol.
Zu Qi became an instant hit when he debuted. In order to strike while the iron was hot, the agency tried every means to invite Liu Jing to interview him.
It was a pity that Liu Jing, who was used to seeing big scenes, looked down on the new young actors, and had always rejected Zu Qi’s team.
Even more than a year later, when Liu Jing mentioned Zu Qi to her friends, she shook her head.
She thought that Zu Qi was too impetuous, wanted to take off before he could walk, and was ready to take shortcuts as soon as he stepped into the entertainment industry. Such a person would not be popular for long.
Liu Jing had long heard the rumors that Zu Qi had climbed into the Xue family. Now that she saw it with her own eyes, she couldn’t help but feel embarrassed. She forced a smile twice, shook her head and said, “The entertainment industry is so big, not everyone knows each other, let alone I who only has half a foot in the entertainment industry.”
Zu Qi had seen Liu Jing’s name in the novel and only knew that she was a big shot in the fashion industry. He didn’t know the history between the original owner and Liu Jing, so he laughed and pushed the fruit plate in Liu Jing’s direction, and lightly skipped the previous topic.
“Aunt Liu, these apples are delicious, try them.”
Liu Jing had smelled a fresh fruity aroma just now, but because Zu Qi didn’t say anything, she couldn’t pick them up and eat them without permission.
After being greeted by Zu Qi, Liu Jing was no longer polite. She picked up a small fork and stuffed two pieces of apples into her mouth. Then her eyes lit up, and her whole person seemed to become brighter.
“It’s delicious.” Liu Jing said, she had never eaten such delicious fruit.
Weng Yuxiang smiled gently and pushed the fruit plate in front of Liu Jing: “If it’s delicious, eat more.”
Liu Jing originally wanted to complain to Weng Yuxiang about her unfortunate marriage and the stubborn acne on her face, but the bitter water was not poured out, instead she went back with a stomach full of apples.
Seeing the apples on her coffee table, Liu Jing suddenly felt that her behavior at the Xue family was too funny, as if she had never eaten apples in eight hundred years.
Liu Jing picked up the same red apple and smelled it. There was no pleasant fragrance, nor did it make her want to eat it.
The Xue family’s apples were still delicious. If she had known better, she would have shown some shamelessness and asked Zu Qi for some.
Liu Jing scratched her hair and thought in annoyance. At this moment, she suddenly felt an overwhelming pain in her stomach. By the time she reacted, her body had already reflexively rushed to the bathroom.
No one had ever known that Liu Jing had been constipated for half a year and had seen doctors many times without success.
However, this time, Liu Jing sat on the toilet for almost two hours before walking out of the bathroom exhausted. Her legs were almost numb from sitting, but her body felt relaxed as never before, as if all the waste materials were expelled from her body at once.
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