Chapter 174: 174 is incredibly explosive Chapter 174: 174 is incredibly explosive “Chen Xu.”
Chen Ziqi woke up, and it was already past ten o’clock; she had woken up from hunger. After calling out and hearing no response, she reluctantly got out of bed.
After changing her clothes, she opened her door and saw that the door to the room opposite was open, but nobody was there. She scratched her head and went downstairs in her slippers.
“Where’s Chen Xu?” She ran into Aunt Zhang at the staircase and asked.
Aunt Zhang said, “He went out early in the morning, seems like he went to look at houses, the one that Aunt Zhou recomnded.”
“Oh.” Chen Ziqi yawned a long yawn, turning to Aunt Zhou in the kitchen, “Aunt Zhou, could you make a bowl of noodles, please? I’m so hungry.”
“Alrighty,” Aunt Zhou responded.
After freshening up and eating a bowl of noodles, Chen Ziqi felt revitalized. She took out her phone and sent Chen Xu a WeChat ssage, asking how the house he was looking at turned out.
A while later, Chen Xu sent her so photos of the house. It looked pretty nice; at least, it was much better than living in the loft here.
After eleven, more custors ca in, so Chen Ziqi slipped back to her room to play with her phone for a while. Feeling bored, she ssaged Chen Xu, “Hey, lend your computer for a bit, don’t worry, I won’t delete any of that weird stuff you have on there.”
“Go ahead,” ca Chen Xu’s succinct reply.
Chen Ziqi, with a can of drink in hand, ran to Chen Xu’s room, turned on the computer, and logged on to a video website. Just as she was about to click on the TV drama she was following, suddenly, she saw a large banner ad on the hopage, “Exclusive reveal: Bai Jinxuan’s mysterious boyfriend.”
“Co on, not this hype again. Can they ever stop?”
Despite her words, she couldn’t suppress her curiosity and clicked on the video. Besides, as a young person, if you didn’t keep up with major entertainnt news, how could you gossip with others?
She found her earbuds, put them on, adjusted the volu, leaned back in the chair, beverage in hand, sipping through the straw while watching the gossip.
The interview started with a reporter asking, “May I ask, the last ti you ntioned you already have soone you like, is it true?”
She thought to herself that the reporter was surely there to stir trouble, who would ask such a question right off the bat?
To her, this was all staged, and it was quite a risky move—one that could easily backfire.
For a traffic-grabbing idol, romance was a sensitive topic.
Among her classmates, there were so who were fans of celebrities, so she understood their ntality quite well. If their idol started dating soone, it’s bound to be a huge blow to them; it wouldn’t be strange for them to go from fans to haters overnight.
She couldn’t understand why soone like Bai Jinxuan, a top-tier idol at the height of popularity with no signs of fading, would stir up romance rumors. What was she after?
It didn’t make sense.
As she pondered, she heard Bai Jinxuan answer in the interview, “It’s true.”
“Cough…”
Chen Ziqi nearly spat out the drink in her mouth upon hearing this, she quickly swallowed, and in doing so, inhaled so into her windpipe, coughing until tears nearly ca out.
She hurriedly set her drink on the table and, grasping the armrest of the chair, gasped for air before staring in amazent at the computer screen.
“I didn’t mishear, did I? She just admitted it outright.”
Before she could collect her thoughts, the reporter asked an even more explosive question, “Can you tell us who he is?”
Chen Ziqi held her breath in anticipation.
Then Bai Jinxuan said, “I can’t tell you his na; he’s just an ordinary person, and I don’t want his life to be disturbed.”
Right, that’s more like it. She had scared for a mont; I thought she was actually going to confess to soone publicly.
The thought that it turned out exactly as she expected crossed her mind.
Bai Jinxuan’s voice continued to co through the earbuds, “Actually, I’m doing this interview today because I have sothing I want to say to him. I know you can see this interview. Do you rember you once asked what I would do if everything went back to normal? I said then, for you, I’d be willing to beco an ordinary person again.”
“You said you needed ti to think. In the end, you left. Now, I don’t know where you are, I don’t even know if you’re dead or alive. I’m scared, scared that I might never see… see you again.”
Chen Ziqi watched Bai Jinxuan in the video, her mouth gradually opening wider.
“Please co and find , at the very… least, let know that you… are still alive. I can’t live… can’t live in a world without you…”
The video ended, freezing on her tear-stained face, so desolate, so sad.
Chen Ziqi was stunned; such acting could easily overshadow all the young actors in the country.
After a while, she sort of understood; this was a well-planned large-scale acting audition showcase.
Was she planning to change her image?
Various thoughts filled her mind, and she excitedly opened Weibo, where nearly all the topics she saw were dominated by Bai Jinxuan’s public confession.
She also logged into online forums, clicking on posts with many replies; indeed, the forums were in an uproar. She read through the comnts, fascinated.
As a bystander, getting to savor such a major piece of gossip was like celebrating a festival.
She spent the entire afternoon like this.
It wasn’t until she heard footsteps outside the door that she turned to see Chen Xu entering, hands full of shopping bags, and whistling as he walked in.
“Why did you buy so many clothes?”
Chen Ziqi saw the bags he was carrying, all filled with clothes and shoes, at least a dozen in total, and her eyes suddenly widened, “Did you win the lottery?”
Other aspects aside, Chen Xu had always been very frugal with money.
In her opinion, he was stingy.
Aside from the ti he bought so expensive clothes when he was making things official with Yang Jinxia, his everyday clothes, pants, and even shoes usually didn’t cost more than one hundred yuan.
Now, he had suddenly bought so many clothes in one go, and although the brands weren’t internationally famous, they must have totaled up to two thousand yuan.
This was too abnormal.
Chen Xu didn’t respond to her and took out the clothes, placing them in a bucket, getting ready to wash them later.
“I know now.”
Chen Ziqi saw the expression on his face and quickly understood, “It’s for Sister Xiyun, haha, you finally got it.”
“Kids shouldn’t ask too many questions.”
Chen Xu got serious, “I’ve seen the house, it’s really nice, I’ve signed the contract and got the keys. We’ll move there tomorrow.”
“Great, great.”
Chen Ziqi was very happy. Although it was lively living here, it wasn’t very convenient. She had to run downstairs to use the restroom in the middle of the night. When the noodle shop was crowded during the day, it could be a bit noisy. Moving to a quieter place was definitely better.
“The family was in a rush to go abroad, they arranged to et early in the morning, I knocked on your door but you didn’t respond, so I went by myself.”
Chen Ziqi was puzzled, “You knocked on my door? I didn’t know that.”
“Alright, wait till you get up tomorrow, I’ll bring you over to take a look. Also, I bought so cherries on the way, go wash them and eat.”
Chen Ziqi imdiately stood up and asked, “Where are they?”
“Hanging on your door handle.”
Upon hearing this, Chen Ziqi hurriedly ran out.
Chen Xu walked up to the wardrobe, saw that all the clothes were neatly folded, touched them with his hand, and a smile appeared on his face. He hadn’t expected that he would end up together with Luo Xiyun.
With Luo Xiyun’s personality, her saying those words that morning ant she was planning to seriously date him.
He could even guess why she made that request; she was worried that he was with her just out of desire.
Her thoughts were simple; sotis they were transparent at a glance.
He felt good about this, at least it wasn’t so tiring to be together.
Suddenly, he couldn’t wait to see her. He looked at the ti; it was already past four. He took out his phone, ready to call her and invite her for dinner.
He had already decided where to go.
They would go to the restaurant where they first stayed together in their dreams. There were many mories of theirs there.
“Chen Xu, you should have so too.”
Chen Ziqi ca over with a plate, freshly-washed cherries on it. She sat down in front of the computer and said, “By the way, your idol is making big news again, you must not have seen it.”
“What idol?” Chen Xu was about to call Luo Xiyun when he paused and looked up, “Are you talking about Bai Jinxuan?”
“Yeah, it’s explosive news,” Chen Ziqi said enthusiastically.
Chen Xu gripped his phone tight, looking sowhat uneasy, “What, what did she say?”
“Co here, I’ll play it for you,” Chen Ziqi said, clicking on a video, and turning on the speakers on either side of the monitor, adjusting the volu.
She found a high-definition video source from a post, and now it was playing full screen, the clear quality was just like watching a movie.
From the speakers ca the questions asked by the reporters and Bai Jinxuan’s responses.
“It’s true.”
“I can’t tell you his na, he’s just an ordinary person, I don’t want his life to be disturbed.”
“Actually, I decided to give this interview today because I have sothing I want to say to him.”
“I know you can see this interview. Rember you once asked what if everything goes back to normal? I said then, for you, I’m willing to beco an ordinary person again.”
“You said you needed ti to think. In the end, you still left. Now, I don’t know where you are, I don’t even know if you’re dead or alive. I’m frightened, I’m afraid I’ll never… never see you again.”
“Please, co find , at least…let know you’re…still alive. I can’t… I can’t live in a world without you…”
…
At the last sentence, Chen Xu’s heart felt like it had been punched, his head buzzed, he stepped back and slumped to the ground, as if all his strength had been sapped from him, sitting down powerlessly.
He stared blankly at Bai Jinxuan in the video, and did not shift his gaze even as her image disappeared.
It was as if he had rembered a lot, and yet as if he hadn’t thought of anything, totally dazed.
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