Chapter 2 (Minor Revision) Why did my legs suddenly get shorter...?
Wow, this guy has a great physique, tall, broad-shouldered, and long-legged. In her professional opinion, his proportions are almost perfect.
With fingers clicking the mouse rapidly, the image was magnified countless times, and the face was still incredibly striking, completely withstanding the high-definition lens with almost no flaws.
She absolutely loves editing photos of these incredibly handsome guys! Not only are they pleasing to the eye, but they also require almost no editing; the raw photos are already stunning. At most, she just needs to make minor adjustments to the color temperature before submitting the photos.
At 1:30 a.m., Yu Yue, sitting in front of the computer screen, felt no longer dizzy, sleepy, or with sore eyes; even her cold had cleared up.
She has worked at the company for over a year and has worked with countless celebrities and models, but she has never been amazed by anyone.
Yu Yue suddenly understood why the other person's photo caption was simply "handsome." It was because this person's handsomeness was universally appealing. Even if you might not like him, you had to admit he was handsome.
Tsk tsk tsk, look at that pretty face, that high nose bridge, those handsome yet unruly eyebrows and eyes, that mischievous upturned thin lips, that roguish yet elegant air…
Wait, something seems off?
Why does he look so familiar? She doesn't know him at all; he must be a newcomer who just debuted.
Yu Yue leaned closer to the computer and carefully examined it with her eyes, which were several hundred degrees nearsighted...
Holy crap!! Isn't that Xin Xiaoqi, the annoying kid from junior high who always bullied her and picked on her mistakes?!
Although she hadn't seen him since he transferred schools, Yu Yue didn't know what he looked like now. But she could vaguely see his teenage appearance in his features, especially that goofy air about him—she could recognize him even if he were ashes!
The glasses on her nose clattered off, and Yu Yue quickly raised her hand to push them back up.
On the screen, the arrogant and handsome guy had a slight smile on his lips, seemingly mocking her infatuation earlier.
The handsome face that was once thought to be breathtakingly handsome has now become repulsive.
When did this guy become a celebrity?!
Yu Yue was incredulous and quickly opened a webpage to search for information.
Wow, when she typed in the three characters 'Xin Xiaoqi', the search interface popped up instantly:
Do you want to search for the new male actor Xin Qi?
Yu Yue glanced at the photo and confirmed it was true. This guy had changed his stage name sometime during the day and had actually become a star.
So she clicked on the keyword 'Xinqi' and started searching.
She just debuted this year and filmed a web series with a name she'd never heard of before. However, she gained some popularity and recognition because of a niche variety show.
The personal information and photos matched perfectly; this new actor was none other than the 'Xin Xiaoqi' she knew!
Yu Yue: ……
Yu Yue: !!!
No wonder, no wonder! She's usually too busy to watch variety shows, so naturally she didn't know that guy had become a celebrity! A celebrity!!
At that moment, she longed to stand up, step onto a chair, and scream out the window.
No one, no one could understand how she felt at that moment.
Suddenly, Yu Yue grabbed her phone and stood up, then sat down again. She stood up and sat down repeatedly, before finally plopping back down in front of the computer.
Unfortunately, it was already late at night and everyone was asleep, otherwise she really wanted to find someone to vent to; she just had to get it off her chest. Yu Yue glanced at her phone's chat interface, hesitated for a long time, and then put it down.
Her gaze returned to the computer screen, where the man was still looking at her with a smirk.
Yu Yue had a sudden thought. She picked up the mouse, and with a flick of her wrist, shortened those unsightly long legs by half.
Hmph, let you be so cocky.
Yu Yue felt relieved and glanced at the time, only to realize with surprise that it was already 1:45.
So she quickly saved the image to her desktop and then reopened the original image to seriously start editing it.
It has to be said that although that guy is annoying, his looks and physique are absolutely top-notch. He hardly needs any editing to produce a picture.
So Yu Yue finished her work in less than five minutes and completed her overtime tasks for the day. Before she could even wait for all the pictures to be transferred to the hard drive, she was already exhausted and lay down on the bed.
The clock struck two in the morning, the night grew dark, and she soon fell into a deep sleep.
Yu Yue didn't sleep well that night.
In her dream, she was constantly being chased and frantically running away. No matter how fast she ran, the other person was always right behind her.
The streets were pitch black, her heart screamed with anxiety, and suddenly a steep, treacherous path appeared, with almost no way out. Fortunately, at the end of the street ahead was a familiar place: the slightly dilapidated teaching building of Z City Experimental High School.
That was a past she didn't want to return to: a middle school in a third- or fourth-tier city, left-behind children, an ordinary girl desperately trying to get into a better place.
The dark shadow behind her pursued relentlessly, constantly hurling countless unedited images at her, sharp as if they would sever the back of her neck at any moment.
Yu Yue didn't have time to think and ran as fast as she could towards the school.
Just as she finally managed to escape to school and run into the classroom, the person who had been chasing her also rushed in. The teachers and students in the classroom were indifferent and went about their own business, ignoring her completely, while she was hit on the forehead by a photograph that shot out from the sky.
In a flash, she saw clearly that the photo showed a strikingly handsome face.
Xin! Xiao! Qi!
Yu Yue woke up with a start, her eyes snapping open. It was already bright outside. Despite having slept all night, she felt aches and weakness all over her body, as if she had actually been through a real-life battle royale.
My cold from last night not only didn't get better, it actually felt worse.
Yu Yue opened the bedside drawer, where an electronic thermometer was placed, and took her temperature.
—38.6°C.
Goodness, her hunch was right.
"You have a fever?" Huang Jiayan appeared at her doorway at some point, looking at the thermometer in her hand and asking, "What's your temperature?"
"38.6 degrees, almost 39 degrees."
"It looks like you won't be able to go to the company today." Although it was another early morning on a weekend, Huang Jiayan was in a good mood. Lately, she was in high spirits because of some good news, and she didn't mind showing some sympathy for the other person. She said, "Give me your things. I'll go to the company for you before the moving company arrives."
Having to go to the company early on Saturday morning is not a pleasant thing. Upon hearing this, Yu Yue immediately expressed her gratitude, saying, "Thank you, Xiao Yan, you are such a kind person."
"You're only finding out now?" Huang Jiayan snorted, swaying her hips as she walked in and familiarly went to the desk.
"The computer is still on, thank you for your help. Could you also ask for leave for me?" Yu Yue took a fever reducer, then lay back down on the bed and drifted off to sleep.
"Okay." Huang Jiayan glanced at her and bent down to operate the computer.
Just as Yu Yue said, the computer was still on. She moved the mouse, and the screen lit up, displaying a dialog box indicating that the transfer had been successful.
Huang Jiayan clicked "Confirm" and was about to eject the hard drive and unplug the connection cable when she inadvertently saw a photo on the desktop named "Big Idiot".
She paused for a moment, then clicked on it as if by some strange impulse, and found that it looked like the red carpet photos of the celebrities from the brand promotion event last night.
Without thinking twice, I simply dragged it into the hard drive.
...
Downstairs in the residential complex, a brand-new navy blue convertible sports car was parked next to the green belt, attracting passersby to stop and watch.
Huang Jiayan, wearing high heels, bent down to open the car door and got into the car under the watchful eyes of the elderly people walking their dogs in the morning.
"Darling, you look so beautiful today." The man in the driver's seat looked the woman beside him up and down, who had dressed up specially for him, and couldn't help but praise her with satisfaction in his eyes.
The man, around forty years old, wore a khaki stand-up collar polo shirt, sunglasses, and a silver mechanical watch gleaming with rhinestones—the look of a successful businessman.
Unfortunately... Huang Jiayan glanced at the other's head with some disdain. The sparse hair, which had been carefully groomed, was stubbornly sticking to the scalp, defending its owner's desolate territory.
"When am I not beautiful?" Huang Jiayan curled her red lips and casually handed over a hard drive.
"What is this?" the man asked, frowning.
"The photos from last night are fixed. Take them to the company later," Huang Jiayan said. "Yu Yue is sick and probably won't be able to go to the company."
The reason she was willing to help today was because she had an appointment this morning, and she could just have her boss bring it to the company.
That's right, Huang Jiayan was sitting in the car of her company boss, Wei Zixiang.
“You two seem to have a pretty good relationship.” Wei Zixiang raised an eyebrow, took the hard drive, and put it in his bag.
As the company owner, he certainly knew his employees, let alone a young and beautiful girl.
"Of course." Huang Jiayan raised her hand and tucked her hair behind her ear, smiling. "Besides, this is an important client of the company, how can we neglect them?"
“You are naturally beautiful and kind-hearted.” Wei Zixiang smiled as well, and then raised his chubby little finger to lightly scratch the tip of the woman’s nose, which earned him a shy and angry glare from her.
"Alright, let's hurry up, or we'll be late," Huang Jiayan urged.
"Okay, my honey baby." Someone said in a cheesy, cloying way, and started the sports car.
Soon, the car arrived at the company building.
"You go ahead, I won't go."
"OK, wait for my baby."
Wei Zixiang opened the car door and went upstairs. He hurriedly pushed open the company gate, threw the hard drive in his hand to the bewildered supervisor, and then hurriedly left and returned to his car.
"Alright, let's go. I've made a reservation at a nice Cantonese dim sum restaurant. Now's the perfect time to go."
"Okay, whatever you say." Huang Jiayan replied with a smile.
Upstairs, in the photography studio.
"Where is General Manager Wei?" Someone came running at the sound of the voice.
"Let's go," the supervisor said, connecting the hard drive in his hand to the computer.
"You just arrived and already left?" the other person asked, surprised.
"Yes, he just tossed me a hard drive and left. Did you need to see the boss?" The supervisor had already opened the hard drive, clicked on the files, and was somewhat surprised to find it contained the event photos from last night. "It's done so quickly..."
As he spoke, he pushed the hard drive out and tossed it to the person next to him, "Old Chen, you've come at the right time. Help me send it to the brand, so I don't have to keep chasing after them."
“Okay, I’ll take care of it right away,” the man called Old Chen replied.
...
Yu Yue slept until 1 p.m., unaware of when Huang Jiayan returned or left, or even when the moving company came to move her things.
As she ate instant noodles after getting up, she looked at her phone and a group message popped up from someone named 'Five Salted Fish'.
[Darling: My fellow fish, I've been dumped again, damn it!]
[Meiyuyu: Hahaha, out with the old, in with the new!]
[Handsome Fish: Congratulations!]
Lazy Fish: Congratulations!
Yu Yue couldn't help but smile. Lin Shiya, that little rich girl, had broken up with her boyfriend again, and it hadn't even been two months.
So she quickly typed in the group:
[Leyuyu: Just recording my 36th heartbreak / smile]
【Darling: Break up! I want to break up with all of you! Hmph, chatting in the group is not as good as admiring handsome guys】
[Leyuyu: What handsome guys could there be? /doge]
Just as Yu Yue finished typing that line, a photo popped up in the group chat.
In the photo, the man sits lazily on a leather sofa, wearing a black and white suit, with his hair slicked back and a few loose strands of hair casually falling across his brow, adding to his relaxed and casual demeanor.
In stark contrast, the other person's long, narrow, and arrogant eyes revealed aggression, like a leopard taking a break during its hunt, its eyes half-closed, casually glancing at the person outside the screen, dangerous yet elegant.
Yu Yue's heart skipped a beat, and she saw the group chat suddenly become lively.
[Handsome Fish: Holy crap, so handsome! Absolutely gorgeous!]
[Lazy Fish: Holy crap, this is amazing! Those legs must be eight meters long! And that face... When did the entertainment industry produce someone this handsome?]
[Meiyuyu: Who is this? Even I think he's handsome. Which celebrity is he?]
Mei Yuyu is a model who has worked with and seen countless handsome men. Anyone who can catch her eye is definitely a very high compliment.
Sure enough, the other people in the group, despite their different tastes, were all attracted and kept refreshing the screen.
[Darling: Hehe, my new love, isn't he handsome?!]
[Darling: His name is Xin Qi, you can search for him yourselves, he's a newbie/smug]
Yu Yue: ……
really.
She knew it.
What's so handsome about Xin Xiaoqi?
However, just as she was silently slurping her instant noodles, another picture popped up in the group chat, making her jump up immediately.
[Lazy Fish: Wait a minute, I just searched for his latest photos, and his legs suddenly look so short?]
The person in the photo still has a handsome face, but his legs are much shorter, turning him from a nine-head-tall figure into a five-five-body proportion.
Yu Yue was stunned. Wasn't this the picture she had hastily photoshopped last night? Why was it in the official picture?!
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