Xiao Qifeng and Lu Wanzheng sat very close together on the sofa. Only Xu Jingxing stood foolishly by the window, exposed to the cold wind.
Xiao Qifeng held Lu Wanzheng's hand very gently, as if he were squeezing a toy.
“Alright, I’ll go find someone to do the paternity test between Wan Zheng and Wang Kun first. I’ll go find Wang Kun and ask him for clarification once the results are out.” Xu Jingxing straightened up from the wall and walked to the sofa. He picked up his suit jacket, tucked it into his arm, and casually rubbed Lu Wan Zheng’s head. “I’m leaving. I won’t stay for dinner.”
Upon hearing this, Lu Wanzheng muttered, "I wasn't planning on inviting you to stay for dinner anyway."
“Hey,” Xu Jingxing raised his little fist, pretending to threaten her, “Say it again louder, you’ve got some nerve, haven’t you? You dare not let me stay for dinner.”
Xiao Qifeng walked up to Xu Jingxing with a dashing air, shielding Lu Wanzheng behind him. "Wanzheng has work this afternoon and needs to eat quickly. She can't eat slowly with you."
His subtext was that Xu Jingxing was wasting his time having dinner with Lu Wanzheng and that it would interfere with Lu Wanzheng's work. This was essentially a way of telling Xu Jingxing to leave.
Xu Jingxing stared at Xiao Qifeng. This man had been so polite to him before, but how long had it been? He had already shown his true colors.
Does he not know how to act? Doesn't he know how to hide his feelings? Although he has already agreed, it doesn't mean he won't go back on his word. Being so rude to him, be careful he doesn't lock up Lu Wanzheng's household registration book and make him bow his head and apologize in front of him.
Of course, this was just Xu Jingxing's casual thought. In his eyes, Xiao Qifeng was a good person, someone he could entrust his life to.
Xu Jingxing raised an eyebrow, looking somewhat arrogant. He shifted his gaze from Xiao Qifeng to Lu Wanzheng behind him, glanced at her, then gave a cool head shake and walked out of the hotel without looking back. He had been busy all morning, and the company was waiting for him to take care of things.
First came the sound of the door opening, followed by the sound of it closing; the person who didn't belong here had left.
Seeing that Xu Jingxing had finally left, Xiao Qifeng turned around and hugged Lu Wanzheng in her arms. Her eyes darkened. "Don't worry, I like you as a person, not because you are someone's daughter. My parents won't care about that either, so don't feel burdened by it."
Upon hearing this, Lu Wanzheng smiled brightly and nodded. Xiao Qifeng hugged her for a while before loosening his grip slightly. She looked down and could see his clear, bright eyes. He suddenly felt a little thirsty, and his Adam's apple bobbed up and down. He slowly leaned down, wanting to get closer to her.
Lu Wanzheng realized Xiao Qifeng's intention. She placed her hand on Xiao Qifeng's chest and gently pushed him. "I was just telling Lao Xu that he would affect my work later, but I feel like you are the one affecting my work now."
She's going out later, and if she goes out with a red face or swollen lips, people will see her and gossip about her.
Having failed to achieve his goal, Xiao Qifeng felt a little empty inside and harbored some resentment towards Lu Wanzheng's work, wondering when she would finally finish this assignment.
Xiao Qifeng took a deep breath, his gaze deep and thoughtful. He looked away from Lu Wanzheng's amber eyes and led her out to eat.
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Wang Xiyou was dragging three suitcases, holding the handles of two small suitcases in one hand and the handle of a larger suitcase in the other. Walking was extremely difficult, and it took her more than half an hour to finally leave the villa complex.
She stood by the roadside, placing her suitcase beside her, before finally having the chance to take out her phone to call a taxi. She had some money left, enough to sustain her for a while, but it wasn't a long-term solution, and she had to find another way.
However, she needed to find a place to store her luggage.
She found a hotel she was familiar with, barely qualifying as a five-star hotel, but because of this, the hotel cost was still very high, and making ends meet became an urgent matter.
She picked up a hair clip at the front desk, and with the help of the hotel staff, she followed them to her room. The hotel staff carried her luggage into the room and politely left, closing the door behind them.
Wang Xiyou's suitcase was placed in front of the bed. This room was a standard double room, not a suite. There were two small sofas and a table next to the window, and the lighting was quite good.
The reason I chose this room is because it's the cheapest of all the single-occupancy rooms.
She sat on one of the small sofas, her eyes fixed on the suitcase beside the bed. Instead of unpacking her things, she took out her phone and dialed all the numbers, including her former agent and Qian Kong. However, they had already given up on Wang Xiyou after what had happened before and didn't answer her calls at all. Undeterred, Wang Xiyou continued to call them, and after a while, both of them blocked her number.
Now that Wang Xiyou's backers are gone, they are not afraid of being retaliated against by Wang Xiyou. However, because of their past friendship, the two of them have gained a lot of benefits from Wang Xiyou, so Qian Kong did not post the previous incident online to clear her name. As for the agent, she was in the wrong first, and she would not step on her because of Wang Xiyou's misfortune.
Seeing that neither of them answered, she had no choice but to give up and instead call Su Xiuyi.
Unlike Qian Kong and her agent, Su Xiuyi didn't ignore her call. Instead, she answered quickly, "Miss Wang?" She changed her previous form of address. Now that Wang Xiyou was no longer her employer, she didn't need to follow the humiliating way she used to address him.
Wang Xiyou: "Xiao Su, do you have any extra rooms? I'd like to stay at your place for a few days." Wang Xiyou's words seemed very humble, but her tone did have a hint of command and arrogance.
Su Xiuyi raised an eyebrow. This young lady is now a stray dog, yet her tone is still so arrogant. She has no sense of self-awareness in asking for help. Does she really think she is still a young lady?
"Ms. Wang, I'm sorry, I'm currently living in a rented apartment. Several people live in the same apartment, each with their own room, so it's quite a mixed bunch. If you'd like to come and stay with me, I can help you contact the landlord here."
Moreover, I'm currently unemployed and have no source of income; I'm not even sure how long I can stay in this place.
Su Xiuyi is currently sitting in a chair in a work area. If Wang Xiyou were here, he would definitely feel that the furnishings here are very familiar, almost exactly the same as the Wang's Entertainment of the past.
Her situation was not as she claimed. She was not kicked out of the company because of Wang Xiyou. On the contrary, she was kept on, and the higher-ups reassigned her to a star position. She was still an assistant. The former Wang's Entertainment had now become Qianyu Entertainment, and she had become a staff member of Qianyu Entertainment.
In addition, the artist this time has a much milder temper than Wang Xiyou.
As a token of gratitude, Su Xiuyi secretly placed something she had hidden for a long time on Xu Jingxing's desk. She knew who Xu Jingxing was and believed that this thing of hers would definitely be of help to Lu Wanzheng.
Wang Xiyou imagined Su Xiuyi's living environment: a large group of people crammed into one house, each with only a small room that could barely fit a bed, and no toilet in the room. The residents had to share a dirty public toilet.
Just thinking about it made her not want to think about it anymore. She would never go to a place like that in her entire life.
"No need, I just wanted to ask." After saying that, she immediately hung up the phone. She stared blankly at her phone. Who else could she contact at this point?
There's new information circulating online about the Wang family and Wang Xiyou. A passerby photographed Wang Xiyou pushing three suitcases into a hotel, leading some to speculate that the online reports are 99% true, and that the reality might be even more tragic than what's being said online. It's believed that the Wang family has gone bankrupt, their house has been taken away, and Wang Xiyou is left with nothing but his belongings and staying in a hotel.
A slender figure pushing three suitcases; his back view looked somewhat... lonely and melancholy.
Her family members have all been arrested, leaving her all alone. She must be feeling very lonely.
This dire situation has become a topic of conversation among many netizens.
Many people say that the Wang family has brought this upon themselves, while others say that if the parents are both murderers, what about Wang Xiyou? Has she done anything illegal or disorderly?
Then people started digging into Wang Xiyou's past experiences in the entertainment industry. After sorting through the information, many people suddenly discovered that whenever someone directly or indirectly affected or hindered Wang Xiyou, that person would soon run into trouble. Of course, this only applies to people who are not famous or whose fame is less than Wang Xiyou's. After all, those who are famous are not so easy to bring down.
Many netizens started to speculate about conspiracy theories.
Although Wang Xiyou is in a terrible situation, she still has some die-hard fans who are fighting against netizens and defending her, saying that those things are just coincidences and trying their best to distance themselves from Wang Xiyou.
Wang Xiyou didn't go online, but she could guess what people were saying about her family online, and she didn't want to see any of that awful news.
She placed her phone on the small table, leaned back against the sofa, tilted her head back, closed her eyes, and completely relaxed.
At this moment, she didn't know what she could do, so she could only sit on the sofa aimlessly.
Now, whenever she closes her eyes, all she sees in her mind is the scene of her parents being taken away that morning. She will probably never forget this scene for the rest of her life. Her parents' heads were covered by black covers, so she couldn't see their expressions at all, but she knew they must have been filled with despair.
Then Xu Jingxing came to her house, seized the house and the company, and kicked her out. How could she swallow this humiliation and this insult?
She was determined to make Lu Wanzheng pay for today's humiliation a hundredfold. Since her family was being criticized, Lu Wanzheng was not going to escape either. She had given Xu Jingxing a chance, but he had used the law against her. So she would do the same as Xu Jingxing and put Lu Wanzheng's story online, so that she would also be talked about and everyone would know that Lu Wanzheng was actually a bastard, a bastard whose father was unknown and whose mother was unfaithful.
As expected of a five-star hotel, even the most basic room has very soft sofas that are very comfortable to sit on.
Wang Xiyou sat on the sofa for quite a while. After some time, she got hungry. She checked the time and it was almost 2 o'clock. At this time, the restaurant was practically empty. If she wanted to go out to eat, she wouldn't attract much attention. But she didn't want to leave the room at all. She felt that as soon as she stepped out, everyone, even the waiters, would look at her with disapproval. So she decided to order takeout.
After ordering her food, she waited quietly in her room. About half an hour later, her phone rang. She thought the food was arriving and was a little surprised that the delivery was so fast.
When she picked up her phone, she saw that it wasn't an unknown number, but a familiar one, so she immediately answered it.
"Xiyou, I've heard about what happened in your family. Where are you now?"
Yan Qianxiao's voice came from the other end of the phone.
Hearing his voice, the pent-up grievances she had suppressed all day suddenly welled up in her heart. Her throat tightened, and she began to sob. Since the Wang and Yan families broke off their engagement, Yan Qianxiao had basically not contacted her again. Moreover, she had heard that the Yan family had quickly found Yan Qianxiao another fiancée of equal social standing. Furthermore, this fiancée's family background was even better and more established than the Wang family's. She had also heard that Yan's parents were even more satisfied with this new future daughter-in-law.
In short, all of this made Wang Xiyou feel that Yan Qianxiao was getting further and further away from her.
She choked back tears as she gave Yan Qianxiao her address, “Brother Xiao, my parents have been arrested. I’m all alone in this hotel, with no one to rely on. Please take me home.”
After learning Wang Xiyou's location, Yan Qianxiao immediately called a driver to take him there. He comforted Wang Xiyou, saying, "Don't worry, I'll come to you right now. I'll be there soon. Just wait for me in the room."
Bring Wang Xiyou home? How could that be possible? His new fiancée, although from a prestigious family and a young lady from a wealthy family, has the temper of a spoiled princess. If she knew he had brought his ex-fiancée home, his family would definitely be thrown into chaos, and in the end, the Yan family's fate would probably not be much better than the Wang family's.
“Okay, Brother Xiao, I’ll wait for you in the room,” Wang Xiyou said, eagerly anticipating the moment. “Why haven’t you contacted me lately? Have you found a new fiancée and forgotten about me? Is your fiancée prettier than me?”
Yan Qianxiao: "I was locked up at home by my parents before. They kept an eye on me, and I couldn't contact you. Recently, their control over me has eased up, so I came to find you. Do you think I've forgotten you? I think about you all the time."
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