Chapter 54: Chapter 54 Don’t you think we’re too close?
“Mr. Ji, soone visited the house yesterday, and they seed quite familiar with Miss Lin.”
The housekeeper had been holding back all day, but ultimately couldn’t resist; she still reported the situation to Ji Zeqiu.
Mr. Ji was so good to his employees, he paid her such a high salary, and he was out there working diligently to shoot films and make money to provide for the family. If she kept this from him, she wouldn’t be able to live with herself.
Ji Zeqiu, who was shooting a film, seed very busy and didn’t reply until an hour later.
“What guest?”
Upon reading the ssage, Ji Zeqiu was also sowhat puzzled.
Lin Xu had been living in the apartnt for about a month now, and he hadn’t heard her ntion any friends. He even suspected that this woman didn’t have any friends at all.
Suddenly, he rembered that yesterday was Lin Xu’s hospital discharge day.
Could it be soone visiting her?
Thinking of Lin Xu’s discharge, Ji Zeqiu’s mood beca complicated.
Lin Xu was injured while saving him. Logically, he should have visited her once she was discharged, or at the very least, he should have helped her with the discharge process and taken her ho.
But instead, she mocked him, and in a fit of anger, he didn’t even want to go to the hospital.
Couldn’t that woman speak more nicely? How was he behaving like a simp! Were there any simps as handso as him?
Ji Zeqiu thought angrily, then the housekeeper’s ssage ca again.
“It was a man, tall and handso, I rember Miss Lin seed to call him sothing with ‘Yang’.”
Ting Yang?!
Ji Zeqiu imdiately thought of him.
Had Ting Yang found out about Lin Xu getting hurt?
But if he knew since yesterday, why hasn’t he co to question him until now? It seed his feelings for Lin Xu weren’t that deep.
Ji Zeqiu snorted coldly, then suddenly realized sothing and quickly sent a ssage to the housekeeper.
“Rember this man, if he cos again, chase him out with a broomstick!!!”
As if Ting Yang would be allowed in his house!
The housekeeper received Ji Zeqiu’s ssage, full of rage and capped with three exclamation points, and hurriedly agreed.
With her around, nobody would even think about stealing Miss Lin away!
Having received the housekeeper’s assurance, Ji Zeqiu finally felt at ease, picked up the script again to study it but then saw his agent rushing over.
“Brother Zhao, what’s the hurry?”
His agent caught his breath twice, “Just got the notice, the new script we signed last week is changing the male lead.”
Ji Zeqiu was to play the male lead in that drama; saying they were changing the male lead ant they were planning to replace him, didn’t it?
Back when he was a newcor, without power or connections, it was common for his roles to be taken over. But ever since he beca a top star, this hadn’t happened again.
No one dared to offend a first-line artist, nor did anyone dare to ss with Xie’s.
Yet, unexpectedly, soone now dared to so brazenly snatch his role?
“Who is replacing ?” Ji Zeqiu’s face turned cold.
“It’s…” The agent sneakily glanced at him, hesitating, “It’s an entertainnt company under Ji’s.”
Ji’s.
Ting Yang.
Ji Zeqiu imdiately thought of him; his contract was already signed, and changing the actor at this ti, it was hard to believe Ting Yang wasn’t behind it.
He furiously pulled out his phone and dialed a number, “Ting Yang, what are you doing with your pathetic company, stealing my role!”
Although Ji Group does have a subsidiary in the film and entertainnt industry, that’s not the main focus of Ji Group, and there aren’t many top artists in the company. It wasn’t worth Ting Yang spending a lot of money just to take a role.
The mont the call connected, Ji Zeqiu cursed aloud.
“I’m willing,” Ji Tingyang said indifferently.
“…Are you sick?!” Ji Zeqiu grimaced, managing to squeeze out a sentence.
“Film sets are so dangerous, you should call Lin Xu to visit less.” Ji Tingyang’s bland tone concealed a trace of displeasure.
Ji Zeqiu was taken aback, “You knew?”
“If you let her get hurt again, next ti it won’t be as simple as snatching a role,” Ji Tingyang said before hanging up the phone, with no intention of further indulging in brotherly affection.
Ji Zeqiu, annoyed, scratched his head, ssing up his handso hairstyle.
He knew it. How co Ji Tingyang showed no reaction when he found out Lin Xu was injured? He had been scheming behind his back all along.
He hadn’t even started to take revenge on Ji Tingyang, yet Ji Tingyang had beaten him to it.
With a mindset bent on revenge, Ji Zeqiu sent him a ssage.
Zeqiu: [This is blatant jealousy, jealous that Lin Xu protects , loves more than you!]
The sentence was sowhat dazzling.
Just yesterday, Ji Tingyang had even thought of bringing Lin Xu back to the villa because of this idea.
But mother had said, her favorite person was him, not Ji Zeqiu.
Saving Ji Zeqiu was only because of that bit of blood relation.
He certainly wasn’t angry.
Ji Tingyang replied with the word “Childish” and turned off his phone, continuing with his work.
Ji Zeqiu sent many more provocative ssages, but received no reply from Ji Tingyang for a long ti, as if punching into cotton, making him feel powerless.
That’s when he stopped his torrent of cold jeers and hot jibes.
However, not even half a day passed before his agent looked at the phone and delivered more bad news, “That secondary male role with Director Chen, it’s been snatched up by soone from Ji’s.”
Ji Zeqiu clenched his teeth in fury and sent a voice ssage to Ji Tingyang, “You bastard!”
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Lin Xu was bored in her apartnt, with injuries on her face not yet healed, preventing her from going for beauty treatnts, so she went to the mall to buy so clothes.
The weather was fickle; one minute it was clear skies and the next a torrential downpour.
Lin Xu raised her bag over her head to shield herself from the rain and headed toward the mall entrance with her head down.
After only a few steps, she bumped into a body, stumbled, and sat down on the wet ground.
The heavy rain imdiately soaked through her clothes.
“Are you okay?”
A large black umbrella landed over her, shielding her from the pouring rain.
Lin Xu looked up to see Xie Changyan watching her with a smile in his eyes.
“Miss Lin, we et again. It seems every ti I see you, you’re sowhat disheveled.”
It was the man who looked like her husband.
Lin Xu was startled until he extended his hand to her. Only then did she snap back to reality and took his hand.
His hand was well-defined and sturdy, with a gentle force lifting her off the ground.
She was led forward a few steps, and a fresh pine scent mixed with a man’s fragrance entered her nostrils.
Lin Xu looked dazed, her heart skipping a beat.
“Miss Lin, don’t you think… we’re a little too close?” Xie Changyan raised his eyebrows, his deep voice drawing out a lengthy tone, teasing her.
Lin Xu sharply regained her senses, quickly stepping back two paces, releasing his hand that she still held and saying an embarrassed apology, then hastily thanked him for his help just now.
The palm of his hand still retained the warm, delicate touch, and Xie Changyan, his deep eyes slightly downcast, smoothed his palm nonchalantly, as if to rub away that uncomfortable sensation.
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