Chapter 152, Part 152 (Second Update)

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Mu Shaoting was a little confused. "What kind of trick is this? He's here to protect Xiaoxi. I was just worried that Xiaoxi would be alone in the dressing room while I was on stage, so I asked him to keep an eye on her for me."

Mu Shaowu: ? ? ?

"So you mean, Li Jing isn't pursuing you, but helping you take care of your child?!"

"Of course!" Mu Shaoting said matter-of-factly. "Don't think of everything as love and romance. They were just trying to help."

Mu Shaowu: ...

Mu Shaowu couldn't help but laugh.

He thought his sister was truly a talented person!

Is Li Jing bored out of his mind? Coming to help her take care of the child?!

Isn't this a case of ulterior motives?

But it doesn't matter, since he's Mu Shaoting's brother, not Li Jing's brother.

Therefore, Mu Shaowu, always eager for drama, said, "Okay, okay, just think of it that way. He's just a good person, kindly helping you take care of your child. He's definitely not pursuing you. If he wanted to, he would have done it already, right?!"

“Yes!” Mu Shaoting didn’t think there was anything wrong with what he said.

Ye Qingxi: ...

Ye Qingxi simply didn't know what to say.

Shut up, Dad!

Why don't you just go back to making movies?

You're just causing trouble at home!

Ye Qingxi took her aunt's hand and said, "Let's go, Aunt."

If he doesn't leave now, Uncle Li will only ever be a driver, bodyguard, or kind-hearted person for the rest of his life!

Mu Shaowu smiled and saw them out, saying, "Good luck in the competition."

After saying that, he glanced at Li Jing sitting in the driver's seat and couldn't help but laugh again.

"Drive carefully," Mu Shaowu said with a smile, "Kind person~"

Li Jing: ? ? ?

Ye Qingxi: ...

"What about him..."

Li Jing turned around, about to ask Mu Shaoting what her brother meant, but saw Mu Shaoting's exquisite makeup and her carefully permed long curly hair tied low on the right side.

She wore a white veiled hat, the veil just covering her eyebrows, like a mist shrouding her eyes, hazy and alluring.

Li Jing was taken aback for a moment, then couldn't help but ask, "You... didn't your brother say anything about you coming out like this?"

This doesn't look like a normal outing at all.

“He already knows.” Mu Shaoting took off her coat, revealing a silver-white cheongsam underneath.

She rarely wore a cheongsam, so much so that Li Jing instantly forgot their conversation and could only stare at her blankly.

Mu Shaoting is good-looking and has a great figure, with long legs, a slim waist, and a curvy figure.

With a figure like that, wearing a cheongsam would actually best accentuate her figure, but Mu Shaoting feels constrained and doesn't like to wear cheongsams most of the time.

She felt that the song she was going to sing would be more suitable to be paired with a cheongsam, so she specially ordered one.

Mu Shaoting waited a while, and seeing that Li Jing didn't speak, she asked in confusion, "Why don't you ask me how he knew?"

Li Jing then seemed to snap out of his daze and looked away. "How did he know?"

Sitting to the side, Ye Qingxi thought: ...Tsk, someone's about to be exposed~

Mu Shaoting, oblivious to everything, muttered to himself, "It's not even trending! Seriously! I even deliberately didn't turn on the TV on Friday, just in case I changed the channel and got caught, but it's already trending. Good grief, they're practically making sure my brother doesn't know!"

Li Jing chuckled, "So he didn't say anything?"

"How could that be? Of course, they gave me a lecture, but thankfully, it was just a few words." Mu Shaoting sighed and leaned back in his chair. "It's good though, this way I can get dressed at home without having to go to the bathroom to change."

Li Jing chuckled, turned around, and couldn't help but glance at her through the rearview mirror.

He saw Mu Shaoting's fair arms, lustrous jade bracelet, and slender, gently swaying waist.

Li Jing quickly looked away, started the car, and stopped looking at the people behind him.

This competition is a round of fifty to thirty.

Instead of having everyone draw lots, the production team had staff assign numbers and systematically arrange the order of appearance.

As the first to win over the audience after Friday's broadcast, Mu Shaoting was specially arranged to be on the middle number 20 this time, so as to keep the audience hooked at the beginning of the show and wake them up in the middle, ensuring the show's maximum profit.

Mu Shaoting didn't care about it and sat in the dressing room watching the other singers perform.

She looked at the other singers, while Yang Yu and He Han looked at her.

Ever since Yang Yu took off his coat after she came in today, he could hardly stop glancing at her.

He had never seen Mu Shaoting wear a cheongsam before, and he never expected her to look so beautiful!

Such a great figure!

Compared to her, He Han was like plain porridge and side dishes, bland and tasteless.

Yang Yu was truly unwilling to accept this!

But no matter how unwilling he was, Mu Shaoting had already eliminated him. Therefore, he grew increasingly disgusted and resentful of Li Jing and Ye Qingxi, who were sitting next to Mu Shaoting.

It's all their fault! They're the ones who caused him to break up with Mu Shaoting!

He will definitely not let them have their way!

They won't let Mu Shaoting get away with it either!

Yang Yu thought about what he had to do today and couldn't help but feel excited.

After No. 18 went on stage, No. 19 and Mu Shaoting got up and went backstage to prepare.

Only Ye Qingxi and Li Jing remained.

The lounge was crowded and noisy, with people chatting amongst themselves. A singer was also practicing his guitar to play it safe. It was at this moment that Li Jing's brother called him.

Li Jing answered the phone and heard his brother say, "Where are you? Why is it so noisy? Go somewhere else."

Having no other choice, Li Jing asked Ye Qingxi, "Baby, I need to go out to answer a phone call. Do you want to come with me?"

Ye Qingxi shook his head. Why should he go out when someone is making a phone call? What if the topic they're discussing is private?

“I want to sit here and wait for my aunt to appear.” He stared at the monitor screen.

"Then you just sit here quietly. I'll be right at the door. If you need anything, just call me, or come out directly."

"Okay," Ye Qingxi replied.

He smiled and said, "Don't worry, Uncle Li Jing. There are so many people here, and I'm just a little kid. If anyone bullies me, the other older brothers and sisters will help me."

That's true. After these few competitions, not only has Mu Shaoting gained a lot of fans, but Ye Qingxi has too.

He was cute, had a good personality, and was the only child among all the adults, so many people unconsciously took a liking to him.

Earlier in the lounge, a family member accompanying someone wanted to smoke. Just as Li Jing stood up to stop him, a man with a tattooed arm walked over and shouted, "There are so many people here, including children. Why are you smoking? Go outside if you want to smoke!"

Others responded in unison.

So much so that the singers accompanying him felt embarrassed.

Li Jing felt a little relieved after thinking about this, and went out with his phone.

He closed the door, leaned against the wall opposite it, and asked his brother, "What's wrong?"

After Yang Yu saw Li Jing leave, he said a few words to He Han and quickly sat down next to Ye Qingxi.

Ye Qingxi glanced at him sideways, thinking to herself that he was really bold. She had been tricked by him last time, and he still dared to get close to him?

Aren't you afraid he'll scheme against you again?

But soon he understood why Yang Yu, knowing full well that there were tigers in the mountains, still chose to venture into his tiger-infested territory.

Therefore, he wanted to use someone else's strength to his advantage, and eliminate Murong Qing, the variable that threatened He Han, by his own hand.

"Have you met Murong Qing?" Yang Yu asked softly.

Ye Qingxi looked at him without saying a word.

Yang Yu laughed. "I've seen it before."

"Oh?" Ye Qingxi smiled. "You've met him before?"

“This week,” Yang Yu said. “I went to a gathering with friends and overheard him telling them that he’s pursuing your aunt. You think he’s so good to your aunt and has written so many songs for her? Of course, it’s because he likes her. So he gives her songs first, and when your aunt becomes famous by singing his songs and can’t live without them, that’s when he will confess to her. Once your aunt rejects him, he will take all his songs away.”

“You don’t understand. These songs are copyrighted. Do you know what copyright is? It means that your aunt can only sing them if Murong Qing is willing. If he is not willing, your aunt cannot sing them. At that time, in order to continue singing, your aunt had no choice but to agree to him and be with him.”

"Ye Qingxi, think about it yourself. If he didn't want to be your aunt's son-in-law, why would he treat her so well? This is all a trap, all a lie to deceive her. If you don't believe me, you can have your aunt ask Murong Qing and see if that's the case!" Yang Yu said in a seemingly serious tone.

Hearing his words, Ye Qingxi thought he was quite clever this time.

If he were truly five years old and not the real Murong Qing, then even if he didn't believe it, he would still cautiously remind Mu Shaoting to be wary of Murong Qing and to avoid using Murong Qing's songs—after all, she's already starting to gain fans and can completely get rid of this unstable factor by choosing other people's songs.

But unfortunately, he wasn't five years old; he was Murong Qing himself. So, Ye Qingxi deliberately replied, "Really? But I don't think so~"

He looked at Yang Yu and said, "I think Uncle Murong Qing is a great guy, and his songs are really good. If he likes my aunt, why did she reject him?"

Yang Yu: ? ? ? !

No?! You weren't like this to me before!

Yang Yu was absolutely furious!

"Of course it's because he's poor! He's only after your aunt's money! You have no idea how poor he looks! His clothes are all tattered!"

Upon hearing this, Ye Qingxi was shocked. "Brother Yang Yu, how can you be so materialistic and snobbish?!"

“Our teacher said that we should look at a person’s heart, not their appearance. Uncle Murong writes such good songs, so he must be a good person. He must also be sincere and genuine towards my aunt, full of selfless and unconditional love! He loves my aunt so much, so I support him and my aunt to be together forever, and hopefully they can be happy for the rest of their lives and never be separated!”

We'll always be one family!

Yang Yu: ? ? ? !!!

What is he saying?!

He supports Murong Qing and Mu Shaoting being together!

Did he say all this to get me to support Murong Qing and Mu Shaoting?!

Yang Yu was so angry that he was almost out of control!

He was about to spread rumors again, but before he could even utter a word, he felt someone grab his collar.

Yang Yu turned around, and Ye Qingxi looked up, only to see that Li Jing had returned at some point.

Li Jing smiled and said, "This seems to be my seat."

Yang Yu: ...

Yang Yu had no choice but to stand up, feeling frustrated.

He looked at the man in front of him, his resentment still lingering. He couldn't help but lean close to Li Jing's ear and mock, "What's the point of you protecting her nephew like this?"

"Isn't she still singing other people's songs and communicating with their souls? Even her nephew supports her being with Murong Qing. What are you? A bodyguard?"

The next second, Yang Yu let out a sharp scream.

He bent over in pain, clutching his abdomen.

He Han quickly ran over and helped her boyfriend up.

"What are you doing?" she glared at Li Jing.

Li Jing released the person and clapped her hands. "Keep an eye on your boyfriend. Don't always try to eat swan meat like a toad. Do you even know if you're good enough for him?"

He Han was stunned for a moment, then angrily let go of her hand, turned around and returned to her seat, her face filled with unconcealed anger.

Yang Yu quickly went to comfort her.

Li Jing smiled and then sat down next to Ye Qingxi.

Ye Qingxi: ...When did he come back?

How much of what he just said did he hear?

The answer to this question came almost instantly.

Because Li Jing smiled and propped his chin up, asking him, "Xiao Xi, is Uncle Li better, or Uncle Murong better?"

Ye Qingxi: ...

Oh no, judging from that tone, they've probably heard quite a bit!

"Do you prefer Uncle Li or Uncle Murong?"

Ye Qingxi: ...Oh, this.

"That nasty uncle just said that you support your aunt and Uncle Murong being together, is that true?"

Ye Qingxi: ...

Ye Qingxi quickly shook her head.

Even if it's true, it's family members together, not couples!

This misunderstanding must not be allowed!

"I think Uncle Li is nice, I like you more, Uncle Li."

"Really?" Li Jing teased him.

Ye Qingxi nodded obediently, her innocent charm undeniable, "More real than real gold~"