Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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Ever since Zu Qi came to this world, he had never seen the original owner’s family, let alone received any calls or text messages from them. If it weren’t for the original owner still saving some text messages on his phone, Zu Qi would have almost thought that the original owner was a helpless orphan.
As the saying went, people didn’t come to the Three Treasures Hall for anything. Zu Qi didn’t believe that the original owner’s brother contacted him after disappearing for so long, just to say Happy New Year.
He slowly clicked into the WeChat interface, and soon found Zu Zhou’s name among the newly received messages, followed by abbreviated New Year’s greetings.
When he clicked on it again, he saw that it was really a blessing message that could be seen online at any time. It didn’t add any content, and it looked more like a group message.
It seemed that Zu Zhou was not as bad as he thought.
Zu Qi breathed a sigh of relief and shrugged self-deprecatingly. He suddenly felt that he was too incompetent. Unfortunately, he met a few weirdos, so he thought that most people in this world were weird.
Maybe Zu Zhou accidentally checked his name into the list when he sent out a group message. Zu Qi thought for a while but still didn’t reply. He was about to exit the interface when he saw that there were many words of blessing under it that almost took up the entire screen of the mobile phone.
Zu Zhou: Are you there?
Zu Qi: “…”
The slap in the face came so fast, like a tornado, and he seemed to have set up a huge Flag…
So Zu Qi silently took back the words he just used to praise Zu Zhou, and he quietly stared at the phone for a while, then finally, he decisively turned off his cell phone, picked up Xue Wanwan and went to bed.
….
Zu Qi didn’t take this episode seriously and continued to do whatever he had to do.
However, in his spare time, he once clicked into Zu Zhou’s circle of friends. He wanted to take a peek at Zu Zhou’s recent life, but he didn’t know that what he would see was two horizontal lines and a dot in the middle.
——Obviously, Zu Zhou had hidden him.
Zu Qi was stunned for a long time before silently withdrawing from Zu Zhou’s circle of friends that had no content. Originally, he didn’t feel deeply about Zu Zhou’s behavior, but if he changed his mind and thought about it from the perspective of the original owner, he was indeed a little angry.
After the original owner gave up on going to college and entered the entertainment industry directly, he made a lot of money. The money was rarely used on himself, and most of it was used to support his parents and ancestors.
Neither the original owner’s parents nor Zu Zhou had serious jobs. They made a living by playing mahjong. When they won money, they squandered it. When they lost money, they tried every means to find the original owner. So much so that the original owner filmed so many scenes but he didn’t even have a house. In fact, he couldn’t even afford the down payment for a ten-square-meter house.
The original owner devoted so much to his original family, but what he got was the indifference and harsh curses from his family after they couldn’t get money from him… Sometimes Zu Qi would think that the original owner’s depravity might have something to do with his original family.
But Zu Qi was not the real “Zu Qi” after all. He didn’t know how to face the original owner’s family, so he could only choose to escape as much as possible.
The following days were still very fulfilling.
Xue Jue took Xue Wanwan back on the fourth day of the Lunar New Year. Zu Qi then devoted himself wholeheartedly to the intense filming. Except for the whole crew’s sympathy for him that had quickly turned into envy, there was not much change in other aspects.
In the blink of an eye, it was mid-March and the crew had finished filming. After everyone had a howling meal, they packed up and left the hotel.
Duan Kai had already contacted the company to arrange for a nanny car to pick him up. They first sent Zu Qi’s luggage back to Xue’s house, and then returned to the company together to wait for Mr. Wang’s summons in the office.
After waiting for about ten minutes, Mr. Wang, who was still in the meeting, did not come. Instead, Liu Huishan, who had not been seen for a long time, opened the door of the office alone. Her eyes swept over the three people sitting on the sofa and immediately focused on Zu Qi.
Liu Huishan’s eyes lit up, and she smiled as brightly as a flower. She then hurried over to greet him as if she were seeing a relative: “Qi Qi, are you finishing filming or are you coming back from leave?”
“We just finished filming yesterday.” Zu Qi smiled.
They were far apart just now, so he hadn’t noticed yet. Now that they were face to face, Zu Qi could see clearly that Liu Huishan seemed much more beautiful than the last time they met.
She was not young anymore, and her original skin condition was far from as supple and shiny as that of a young girl. No matter how well-maintained she was, you could see the fine crow’s feet at the corners of her eyes as long as she smiled.
However, today’s Liu Huishan seemed to be a different person, she seemed radiant and even looked several years younger than before. Even if Zu Qi was at such a close distance, he could not find the wrinkles and chloasma on her skin like before.
Liu Huishan and Zu Qi chatted for a while, and then she pretended to casually ask about the Apples’ secondary sales time.
“…”
Although Zu Qi had long expected that Liu Huishan would change the topic to apples, seeing with his own eyes that the other party was clearly in a hurry and pretending to be calm, he couldn’t help but want to laugh.
Liu Huishan said: “Do you remember Liu Jing?”
Zu Qi certainly remembered. The reason why his official website received widespread publicity as soon as it was launched was largely because Liu Jing reposted his Weibo post.
After all, Liu Jing was the editor-in-chief of a well-known magazine, and there were countless celebrities who wanted to have a good relationship with her. Once she took the lead in promoting it, many celebrities would act as facilitators to connect with Liu Jing.
Although Liu Jing’s attitude towards the original owner was not good before, she really tried her best to help when she asked for help from him now.
“The acne on her face is all gone. She used to see so many doctors without any effect. Now after eating the apples you sold, you can’t even see the acne marks.” Liu Huishan said in surprise, “She divorced her ex-husband for so long, but her ex-husband didn’t even call her. Now that he saw her like this, he ran like a dog to get back together with her.”
Zu Qi had heard about Liu Jing’s divorce from Weng Yuxiang, but he didn’t expect that there would be such a thing later.
He couldn’t help but asked curiously: “Did Editor Liu agree?”
“If she had agreed to get back together with that scumb*g, then my friendship with her would surely have come to an end.” Liu Huishan rolled her eyes and said with a smile, “She is good-looking and rich, so why can’t she find someone else? Her current boyfriend is seven years younger than her, and his conditions are far better than those of that scumb*g.”
After Kang Qinghua and Liu Jing divorced, he got only one property from Liu Jing. This property was not much, but it was enough for him and his new girlfriend to spend for a lot of time.
It was a pity that now, Kang Qinghua’s money had been used up by his lavish girlfriend, and his pitiful fixed salary could not support his girlfriend’s strong desire to shop.
After owing nearly 100,000 in credit cards and other foreign debts, Kang Qinghua’s beautiful girlfriend, who had always been kept in the palm of his hand, belittled him from head to toe, then she patted her butt and left.
Kang Qinghua, who was desperate, was almost driven to a dead end by his creditors. In despair, he thought of Liu Jing. Liu Jing used to love him to death, and he had heard that she had even been depressed for several days after the divorce.
So he thought, if he went back to Liu Jing now and said some sweet words, Liu Jing would probably forgive him based on her feelings for him, right?
Kang Qinghua couldn’t help but feel nauseous just thinking about Liu Jing’s pitted face. He did some mental construction for himself for a long time before deciding to go directly to block people outside Liu Jing’s community.
That afternoon, Kang Qinghua was dressed in a lead-gray suit and tie, then looking very handsome, he stood there holding a bouquet of delicate roses in his hand.
After waiting for nearly two hours, Kang Qinghua finally saw a familiar license plate number appear in his sight. He immediately stopped Liu Jing’s car and watched the driver’s window slowly roll down. Kang Qinghua was stunned on the spot.
The beautifully dressed woman with light makeup in front of him was actually his ex-wife who had been as ugly as a toad?!
Kang Qinghua couldn’t believe what he saw, but he had to force himself to believe it.
However, before he could be happy, he looked past the unhappy Liu Jing and saw the handsome young man sitting in the passenger seat.
Kang Qinghua froze on the spot. After a while, he raised his hand at Liu Jing’s impatient urging and pointed at the young man tremblingly. His voice was filled with uncontrollable anger and jealousy as he asked: “Who is he?”
Liu Jing sneered and said angrily: “What? You can find a new girlfriend, but I can’t find a new boyfriend?”
After saying that, the young man smiled slightly at Kang Qinghua, and raised his eyebrows indifferently, the intention of the demonstration was unspoken.
Kang Qinghua’s face turned livid with anger. He threw the roses to the ground angrily, stamped his feet several times, and then pointed at Liu Jing, who was smiling but not smiling: “You are really awesome. We have only been divorced for a little time, and you already found a new love.”
Liu Jing looked at the furious Kang Qinghua with disdain, and suddenly felt that Weng Yuxiang was right. Once you got rid of your previous feelings, you would realize that you were really blind before.
Kang Qinghua was old and ordinary. He ate soft food but still showed off his machismo…
Anyone who loved such a man was welcome to him.
After trying to pass again and again, Liu Jing didn’t look at Kang Qinghua again but called the security guard not far away to drive Kang Qinghua away.
After that, Kang Qinghua, who had calmed down, tried every means to contact Liu Jing and tried to use sweet words to save his previous marriage, but Liu Jing refused to respond to either hard or soft words, and made Kang Qinghua embarrassed every time.
Gradually, Kang Qinghua completely disappeared from Liu Jing’s life.
After listening to Liu Huishan’s story, Zu Qi couldn’t help sighing, and at the same time thought of Weng Yuxiang and Xue Yanjing.
When Xue Jue visited the crew not long ago, Zu Qi heard him talk about Xue Yanjing’s bigamy with Weng Yuxiang, and how he returned home again and again to play love cards with Weng Yuxiang.
Although Xue Jue did not want Weng Yuxiang and Xue Yanjing to remarry, this was a private matter between their husband and wife. As the only son, Xue Jue could only make suggestions to Weng Yuxiang.
Fortunately, Weng Yuxiang had already given up on Xue Yanjing. Faced with Xue Yanjing’s reluctance and intention to reminisce about the past, she didn’t respond to him even a word. Instead, she invited her friends to drink tea and have beauty treatments and enjoyed life to the fullest.
Zu Qi and Liu Huishan chatted a few more words, and Mr. Wang came belatedly. As soon as he entered the office, he threw several scripts on the table for Zu Qi to choose from.
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