The snow didn't get heavier during the night, nor did it last until eight in the morning as the weather forecast said. It stopped in less than three hours. When the sky brightened in the morning, you could see a thin layer of white gauze covering the outside.
Liu Wangxue and the others slept too late, so no one could get up early. Li Yu even set the alarm to wake her up to make a snowman, but he was working on his graduation project until Tao Huayu and the others came back from the performance. When the alarm went off, he was so sleepy that he turned it off and said he would sleep for a while, but he ended up sleeping until ten o'clock. He opened the curtains and saw that there was not much snow, and his guilt was relieved a little.
Everyone got up at about ten o'clock, and Liu Wangxue received a call from Gu Xuelan not long after he got up.
Gu Xuelan and Liu Nanshan went to sleep right after the New Year's Eve. They didn't know it was snowing outside. When they woke up in the morning, they saw a vast expanse of white outside. They didn't know if it was snowing heavily in the city. They were worried that the roads would be difficult to walk on. They wanted to call Liu Wangxue to ask if it was really snowing heavily. If it was, they should not rush back and wait until the snow on the road was cleared before leaving. But they must have had a lot of fun together at night and must have woken up late, so they called at about ten o'clock.
When Liu Wangxue was talking on the phone, Xu Qingsong went to open the curtains. She followed him to look out the window, leaned in Xu Qingsong's arms and reported the truth to Gu Xuelan.
After hanging up the phone, Xu Qingsong asked her: "Let's go out for dinner first?"
Liu Wangxue didn't want to go out, so she turned around and looked at the entrance: "Isn't check-out at twelve o'clock? There are still so many things to pack."
Xu Qingsong hugged her and said, "Okay, then send them a message and let them know."
Wenxi and the others didn't want to go out, so they called the hotel's internal line in all three rooms and asked for food to be delivered. After eating, everyone packed up their things, went downstairs to check out, and then took the sightseeing bus to the parking lot.
Tao Huayu also bought a lot of things these past two days, mostly for his unborn niece. He carried them in his hands and followed Xu Qingsong: "Please take these back for me."
Xu Qingsong asked him: "Aren't you going back?"
Tao Huayu pointed at Li Yu behind him and said, "I'll send him home first, and then go to the company. I guess I won't be able to go home until the day after tomorrow." He also bought a house in the city, and he usually lives there when he is not at home.
After he said that, Xu Qingsong realized that everyone around him had disappeared. Looking back, Li Yu, Liu Wangxue, Wen Xi, and even Du Yunkai were grabbing snow from other people's cars, making snowballs and throwing them at each other.
Walking to the car, Xu Qingsong took out the key, unlocked it, opened the trunk, put his and Liu Wangxue's suitcases and various bags of things in it, turned around and called Du Yunkai, asking him to come over quickly with the boxes.
Tao Huayu put several shopping bags in his hands into the car: "Fortunately, your car has a lot of space, otherwise it really wouldn't be able to fit all of them." Three carry-on suitcases, a travel bag, and all these shopping bags, and there was still space left after putting them all in.
Xu Qingsong likes large spaces. When he bought it, he thought that if he felt like going on a road trip one day, he could put more things in it.
The four people who were playing in the snow behind walked past them and came towards the parking space. Liu Wangxue stepped forward and put his hand on Xu Qingsong's face.
"Ice to death." Xu Qingsong said this, but did not dodge. He took her hands down and held them in his palms.
Tao Huayu and Li Yu said goodbye to the four of them and continued walking inside. He parked his car a little further inside.
Du Yunkai closed the trunk and the four of them got in the car. Xu Qingsong drove, Liu Wangxue sat in the passenger seat, and Du Yunkai and Wenxi sat in the back seat.
When the car drove out of the parking lot, we saw Jin Zhaofei, Richard and his group, who were pulling suitcases and carrying bags, just getting off the sightseeing bus. The van that would take them back to Taojia Village was the same one they took when they came that day, and it was already waiting in the parking lot.
Xu Qingsong saw a small stall selling hot drinks at the corner of the road, so he lowered the window on Liu Wangxue's side and asked her to buy three bottles, which he shared with the two people in the back seat to warm their hands.
The snow was very light and there was little snow on the road. It all melted after the car went back and forth twice. The problems that Gu Xuelan and Liu Nanshan were worried about did not exist at all.
Not long after the car drove out, Liu Wangxue's phone rang. It was Lan Xiaoxi calling. As soon as Liu Wangxue picked up the phone, she heard her anxious voice: "Sister Xuxu, please check the hot searches! You and Brother Qingsong are both on the hot searches!"
Liu Wangxue thought that she either heard it wrong or Lan Xiaoxi said it wrong. She and Xu Qingsong were just strangers now, so how could she become a hot search topic? She confirmed with Lan Xiaoxi: "What?"
Lan Xiaoxi was obviously the most anxious person. She was so angry about the comments online that she was incoherent: "It's just a celebrity's reputation that has collapsed, and the rubbish company behind her is using you and Brother Qingsong as a sacrifice!"
Liu Wangxue was even more confused after hearing this.
Yue Cheng took the phone from Lan Xiaoxi, comforted her and explained, "It's like this. The female star named Qin Zhihua, at midnight, a paparazzi confirmed the rumor that she was supported by a big boss..."
Yue Cheng and Lan Xiaoxi naturally would not stay up so late. Lan Xiaoxi had to follow the doctor's advice to take care of the pregnancy and could not stay up late, so Yue Cheng took her phone early and went to bed together.
They went to bed early and got up early, waking up at dawn. After breakfast, Lan Xiaoxi opened WB as usual to see if there was any gossip to watch on New Year's Day. When she looked, she found that the term "Qin Zhihua's sponsor" was on the hot search list. Lan Xiaoxi's first reaction was to sneer: "The rumors of sponsorship have been circulating for many years, but there has never been any real evidence. Here it comes again?"
Qin Zhihua is not a big star, not even a first- or second-tier star, but barely a top third-tier star. She debuted at the age of 18 and has been under contract with Six Stone Entertainment. It is unknown how many years she has signed or for some other reason. Nearly ten years have passed, and her contract is still with Six Stone, and there has been no news of a renewal during this period. Her agent has never disclosed any details, and her fans are also unaware of the situation.
Qin Zhihua’s fans once gathered together to fight against her economic team, believing that the economic team was incompetent and unable to provide them with good resources.
When Qin Zhihua made her debut, she played a supporting role in an ancient costume drama - the sword spirit of the male protagonist.
The setting of this character is very likable, with a fierce appearance and a cute inner heart. She has both small feelings and great righteousness. The sword attached to the sword spirit is an ancient artifact. In order to save the people of the world, the sword spirit must be sacrificed to the Locking Demon Tower, and then the sword must be used to suppress it. In the end, the male protagonist searched for other methods but could not find a way, and the sword spirit jumped into the furnace in the tower without hesitation, which became a regret for many people. In addition, the 18-year-old Qin Zhihua looks pure and lovely, and her every move is full of intelligence. As soon as the show was broadcast, her role became a hit.
The lack of long-term vision has always been the shortcoming of Liushi Entertainment. After the role of Qin Zhihua became popular, the scripts they gave her were almost all of this type, and even her personality outside the play was built in this direction. Qin Zhihua's acting skills, which were once praised by some veteran actors, were also worn away in these highly homogenized roles.
She was young at the time and didn’t understand these things. When she played such roles again when she was older, she was criticized by the audience. Only then did she realize that she wanted to change. The management team helped her take on several roles that were suitable for her age, but her acting skills had been stereotyped and it was difficult to change. The effect presented in the drama was a bit hard to describe. Once it was broadcast, it contributed a lot of traffic to the Tucao area of C Station. The ghost pictures and emoticons are still the first choice of major UP hosts.
Therefore, fans would confront her management team and even spared Liushi Entertainment, accusing them of burying a good actor for short-term interests.
Qin Zhihua herself was unwilling to give up, so she signed up for a famous teacher's acting class and practiced hard for half a year. When she returned to the public eye, she finally handed in a satisfactory answer sheet, playing the second female villain in a spy war drama. Her character was smart and agile, ruthless and decisive, and she personally performed many fighting scenes, for which she received a lot of praise from fans.
Although the plot of the drama is a bit ridiculous, Qin Zhihua's acting skills have indeed improved visibly, and she can be considered a successful transformation. After that, she took on several variety shows and her popularity gradually increased. Last year, no, it should be the year before last, she also played a supporting role in the movie "Jade Carver" directed by Meng Huadong. The movie was released during the Spring Festival and has been ranked first at the box office. Qin Zhihua's team sent out a press release about "entering the big screen", and her status also rose with the momentum of the movie and Director Meng.
At that time, the top actress of Liushi Entertainment got married, had a child and announced her retirement from the entertainment industry. Qin Zhihua, the old cash cow who had been reborn, naturally became the next focus of the company's training.
After Qin Zhihua successfully transformed herself, she has been surrounded by rumors. Some marketing accounts would periodically post blurry photos that seemed to be real, or photos taken with a borrowed camera, or photos stolen from her WB of her attending high-class gatherings, and they would solemnly claim that she was able to reach this point today entirely because of the financial sponsor behind her.
Lan Xiaoxi has been hearing about this gossip for a long time. All kinds of rumors sound very plausible, but there is no solid evidence. She is tired of reading them.
Qin Zhihua’s fans naturally wouldn’t believe it. They have seen how hard their sister has worked over the years and they feel pain in their hearts. Whenever such remarks come out, they are the first to refute them.
There were also some black fans who complained that Qin Zhihua was crazy about becoming famous and was using such despicable marketing tricks to gain attention. Some even said something even more unpleasant.
But this time it seemed different. With the keen sense of smell cultivated by years of eating melons, Lan Xiaoxi felt that something was wrong, because this time this term was ranked first in the hot search list: "Before, it was always posted by marketing accounts and never appeared on the hot search list. This time, either someone bought it for her, or it was confirmed!"
Lan Xiaoxi clicked on it and saw that, as expected, there were pictures, facts, and videos. This paparazzi was quite conscientious and only watermarked the pictures and videos, without blurring out the face of the "sponsor".
The netizens who stayed up all night on New Year's Eve and were the first to watch the gossip have already found out the "sponsor", who is Xu Shuo.
That’s right, like Xu Han, he and Xu Qingsong are of the same generation in terms of seniority.
Xu Han is a descendant of the second branch of the Xu family, a few months younger than Xu Qingsong, while Xu Shuo is a descendant of the third branch, a few months older than Xu Qingsong.
When the first branch of the family, Xu Qingsong's great grandfather, left the Xu family with his wife and children, the Xu Group was jointly managed by the second and third branches. They also understood that if the family was divided, the group might also fall. Although they disliked each other, they had to get along with each other. In Xu Han's generation, the group sought transformation, and the struggle between the second and third branches became increasingly fierce.
As you can imagine, Xu Han also contributed to this trending search. He did not hide it and retweeted the paparazzi's Weibo post, @许硕, with the caption "Brother, is this your sister-in-law? When will you marry her? I heard that you seemed hesitant before. Come on, I will send you a trending search. Listen to the voice of the masses and make a choice as soon as possible."
Everyone around them knew that there was no so-called "indecision" at all. Xu Shuo was purely promiscuous. He liked every girl he met and could sleep with another while dating one.
Xu Shuo's parents didn't care about him before, thinking that as a man, a woman is a symbol of his glory, and as long as he doesn't make mistakes at work, it's fine. Now they can't care anymore. In the struggle between the two families, their family needs bargaining chips, so they want to arrange a marriage. The target has been chosen, and the parents of both sides have reached a verbal agreement.
The girl was a finance master who had just returned from a prestigious foreign university. She was annoyed by her parents. After seeing Xu Shuo's photos, she thought he looked good and had a good temperament, so she asked to meet him first. After meeting and chatting, she always felt that something was wrong, so she asked someone to find out privately. After finding out, she felt that her parents were simply trying to harm her. She had education and ability, and was not afraid of the economic sanctions from her family at all. She packed her luggage overnight, bought a plane ticket, and went abroad again.
This deal fell through, so Xu Shuo's parents naturally had to plan for the next one. When Xu Han went home for dinner, he heard his parents say that the other party's family conditions were comparable to Xu's. Xu Han thought, how could this work? If they succeeded, wouldn't his family lose? Absolutely not!
So he thought about how to ruin Xu Shuo's marriage. Not only did he want to ruin it, but he also wanted to make it known to everyone so that he could cut off his retreat. He really hated why he hadn't collected Xu Shuo's dirty laundry before, otherwise he could just pack it up and send it to the girl! Now he could only cram at the last minute and pay someone to take secret photos.
It was so easy to find evidence against Xu Shuo that the private detective only followed him secretly for three days and took pictures of what Xu Han wanted.
During these three days, Xu Shuo went to the crew every night to visit a female star. The crew's shooting location happened to be the one rented when "Early Spring Stream" was filming in Hai City, and there was a hotel nearby.
Xu Han also received the photos and videos sent by the private detective last night. He was partying with a group of friends at the time. He saw the message when he was resting and replied: [Not enough, keep watching]
Unexpectedly, after midnight, a girl brought by a friend posted a few more times on WB and saw the paparazzi's report about "Qin Zhihua's sponsor". The girl also chatted with people around her, which attracted her friend's attention. When she came over to take a look, she saw that the sponsor was Xu Han's cousin! Xu Han was almost furious when he found out, thinking that the private detective had sold these things to the paparazzi on his own initiative. He called the paparazzi and scolded him without giving any explanation. The private detective swore and swore, and only after he asked someone to contact the paparazzi did he prove his innocence.
It turned out that someone tipped this paparazzi off to do the stakeout. He did it for fame, not money. After taking the photo, he did not contact Qin Zhihua's team to negotiate the price, but directly posted it. Not long after it was posted, probably because the person who contacted him paid, "Qin Zhihua's sponsor" soon rushed to the third place on the hot search list.
Xu Han thought, since someone has already posted it, he will just go with the flow and give his cousin a hot search. He has even thought of a title, "Xu Shuo's Wife Selection". (End of this chapter)
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