Another wave of rhythm
After two days of closed shooting, Bing Jie discovered that Xuan Jiazhuo had not come to the set in the past few days, and the person following Qi Jixin was the assistant whose face he was familiar with but whose name he did not know.
Although their rooms were right next to each other, Bing Jie had thought deeply about it that night and finally came to the conclusion that he should keep his distance from Qi Jixin and restrain himself until the filming was over and she figured it out. If she decided to leave him, he would never try to keep her.
After all, the further away from him, the safer she would be.
Therefore, they both slept separately for the past two nights and never slept together again, but they ate three meals a day together.
"What's your agent been up to lately? Why isn't she here?" Bing Jie was helping her pick up some food, and the topic of conversation turned to Xuan Jiazhuo. Qi Jixin let out a short "ah" before explaining, "She went to our high school reunion. I have work to do right now, and my status is special. If I went, I'd probably be the subject of eight hundred scandals, so I simply didn't go."
Bing Jie knew that the two of them were high school classmates. He also knew that Qi Jixin never liked to attend class reunions, so he nodded and didn't ask any more questions.
But the two people who were having lunch never expected that after just a normal greeting, they would hear bad news about the greeting in the evening. It was widely reported on the Internet that Qi Jixin's agent was involved in organized crime and had close contacts with a man who was suspected to be a local gang boss.
Qi Jixin left the filming a little later than Bing Jie because she had to reshoot some scenes. As soon as she came off the camera, she noticed Bing Jie staring at his phone with a frown on his face. She went over to him and asked him what was wrong.
Bing Jie showed her his phone. Qi Jixin scratched her head in confusion. "No, what's going on here? What's the media saying about the man and woman behind these photos? Could it be that they were called in to see Sister Zhuo and the others dating?"
That being said, Qi Jixin was still a little upset. She knew exactly why Sister Zhuo was going to network. It wasn't some kind of class reunion; it was just a gathering of evil forces...
But being photographed by the media would be very annoying. Qi Jixin was worried that any disturbance would disturb Bing Jie's parents. If the child was moved, she would really be unable to sit still.
"Just contact the company to clarify—"
"No, I can't wait until then. I can do it myself." Without waiting for Bing Jie to finish, Qi Jixin turned around and asked the assistant for a cell phone, and quickly contacted Sister Zhuo.
Since there was no reply to her messages, Qi Jixin could only call one after another. Bing Jie did not leave, nor did he get closer, but just watched her from a distance.
After more than a dozen calls, the call was finally connected.
"Hello……"
"Sister Zhuo, the media took pictures of you hugging someone, and now they're all over the internet!"
Qi Jixin spoke very fast, but the reaction on the other end was even faster. Sister Zhuo woke up in a second and shouted "Ah?" in a very loud voice. Qi Jixin immediately put the phone away, but his ears were still buzzing from the yelling.
"Damn it, I've been meeting so many people these past two days. I was really careless and that's why someone took this photo." Xuan Jiazhuo punched the pillow, then immediately calmed down and started to clarify, but the most important thing right now was -
"Will those haters you mentioned who are watching you use this rumor to find out where you're going on vacation?"
Qi Jixin bit her lip as she looked at the news on the tablet in her hand. After a moment, she said, "Probably not. It feels like this wave of rhythm is directed at you, but in fact, it is still to discredit me. They just want to throw dirty water on me."
Those people behind the scenes wanted to tarnish her reputation. Besides, Qi Jixin thought that most people would not be able to imagine the plan behind her.
It would be most appropriate for Sister Zhuo to post the clarification herself. Qi Jixin only reposted one comment after she posted on Weibo, saying that there were many hidden talents in their high school and that a class reunion could be misunderstood as a gay reunion.
After finishing everything, Qi Jixin went to find Bing Jie and told him that everything was fine on her side. However, she keenly noticed that the anxiety seemed to have shifted to Bing Jie, who was holding his cell phone, not knowing what he was waiting for.
After work, the two of them went back to their residence together. Bing Jie looked at his mobile phone from time to time along the way. He had to chat with Qi Jixin while paying attention to text messages.
Just this morning, he sent several groups of people to look for places where his parents might be able to foster their children. At noon, he suddenly had an idea and remembered a couple who had long severed ties with his parents - his grandparents.
It's hard to explain the grudges and hatreds of the older generation. Bing Jie only remembers that he was taught not to go to his grandparents' house or call them grandpa and grandma from a young age. But in fact, Bing Jie had a good relationship with them, which his parents didn't know.
Bing Jie went there once after he became an adult, bringing Qi Jixin with him. His original intention was to get the approval of his partner from the two elders who loved him so much, but the two elders disliked her very much. Ultimately, they valued matching social status more, and even addressed Qi Jixin as an actor from their era...
Bing Jie was very angry at that time. Qi Jixin stopped him from arguing with the two old people, but she was not someone to be trifled with. She kept calling them old things, which made the two old people so angry that they took heart-saving pills.
The meeting was not very pleasant, but it did not affect the relationship between the young couple. Qi Jixin even sighed at the time that the two old guys lived in a good area and they also wanted to live there in the future. She also threatened to live next to the two old stubborn people and make them annoyed every day.
Bing Jie contacted Meng Jingxuan and asked him to run errands for him to visit his grandparents' house. After all, most people couldn't enter where his grandparents lived. He figured there should be some news by then, and the more he waited, the more anxious he became.
Having just rejected Qi Jixin's invitation to have a midnight snack, Bing Jie was waiting anxiously in the room.
[Meng Jingxuan: Oh, your grandparents insisted on having me stay for dinner. They were so enthusiastic that I didn’t even have time to pick up my phone to send you a message.]
[Meng Jingxuan: The two elders still have the same opinion of her... you know. And there's no sign of any children at home.]
[Meng Jingxuan: Say that, it's unpleasant. I've been like a conman raiding your house, touring every room. You really don't have any children.]
Meng Jingxuan had originally made an appointment with some people to drink and have fun, but when he saw Bing Jie say that their child was still alive, he, as an uncle, could no longer sit still and rushed over to help verify it.
Unfortunately, nothing was found.
His hopes were dashed and Bing Jie could not hide his disappointment. He replied to the message and then lay on the bed, staring at the ceiling, his brain working frantically, analyzing where his parents would put the child.
To blackmail him, they certainly wouldn't just pick a random place. Although he had already sent people to follow his parents, Bing Jie knew too well that his parents wouldn't leave such a loophole for him to discover...
Everything enters a vicious circle again.
He smiled bitterly, thinking that he was now busy with the child's affairs, which made him unable to care about the pain of separation from Qi Jixin. Perhaps he was also trying to numb himself.
If Qi Jixin decided to leave him after that vacation, Bing Jie thought, then things wouldn't be so troublesome. He could go back and compromise with his parents, and then take the child with him...
No, I can't compromise.
This plan couldn't even convince him now. Bing Jie sat up abruptly in bed, clenching his fists. The source of the tragedy four years ago was that he wasn't strong enough to challenge his parents. He then struggled for four years just to be independent.
Then we must never compromise and go back to the way things were.
Just at this moment, there was a knock on the door. Bing Jie blinked, adjusted his expression, and went to open the door. The person who came was as he expected, Qi Jixin.
"After all, you stayed up late filming, and I felt that you would still be hungry if you didn't have a midnight snack, so I brought you a piece of cake." She smiled and held up the cake in her hand to show him. Bing Jie took the cake with one hand and held her into the house with the other.
"I was thinking of going downstairs to find you. I'm indeed a little hungry."
He was not hungry, but he had figured it out. Blind compromise would only bring false peace. He had always just wanted to be with the person he loved, and he would never give in on this point.
After realizing this, Bing Jie stopped avoiding Qi Jixin and went downstairs to find her. Although they were about to part, what he had to do was cherish every second of the present.
As for the child, he would try his best to find him and would not let his parents' conspiracy succeed.
Qi Jixin could sense that he was not in a good mood, so she had to come to find him no matter what. Just now, downstairs, she put herself in his shoes and thought about it. She felt that Bing Jie must be suffering right now. She was undecided, and her future with him was bleak. Now, there was the issue of having a child to bother him...
She felt that she had to do something to secretly comfort him.
The late-night snack downstairs wasn't very rich. Although Bing Jie didn't like cake, compared to Qi Jixin's fat-reduced salad, cake was still the most suitable thing to bring to Bing Jie. Qi Jixin watched him unwrap the food with his fork, symbolically took two bites, and then slowly put the fork down before asking him to feed her a bite.
"Are you not full downstairs?" Although he said so, Bing Jie did not stop his hands. He served her a small piece of cake with fruit cream, held it under the fork in one hand and brought it to her mouth.
Qi Jixin took a bite of cake with great satisfaction, then said, "Did you forget? My dinner and midnight snack are all vegetable salads. They're called salads, but there's no salad dressing. I feel like I'll moo after eating all those vegetables."
Bing Jie was amused and laughed out loud. After he had laughed enough, he fed her another bite of cake, thinking to himself, how could he have forgotten this? Some time ago, when they had dinner together, she often ate her own food. After all, her food was really too little and tasteless.
Seeing that the cake was almost finished, Qi Jixin urged him to eat a few more bites. Bing Jie was puzzled, so she explained that this way she would not feel as much psychological burden, because at least the cake would be eaten by two people, not just her.
"Okay, okay, this is a moral victory, right?" Bing Jie obeyed and took two more bites. After he finally finished the triangle cake, Qi Jixin said mysteriously, "I find that I like you more and more."
After seeing the joy in Bing Jie's eyes, she pretended to be annoyed and said, "Oh, I've been thinking about it. I'm going on vacation after the filming is over. If I don't see you--" She paused here deliberately, and Bing Jie asked again.
"Will you miss me then?"
"Of course I miss you. I went on vacation just to miss you." She leaned in and kissed Bing Jie. When they separated but were only inches apart, she looked up at him and said with a smile, "I also miss you secretly feeding me."
Bing Jie didn't answer anything, he just leaned over and returned a kiss.
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