Chapter 64 Chapter 64 The Scam is Established
Seeing him like this, Ji Hanxi couldn't help but sigh inwardly. Would someone truly seriously injured say such words? And to act like this, wouldn't that seem a bit too contrived?
She concluded that Vivienne's injuries were probably not as serious as expected.
"The sunshine outside is so nice..." He lay on the hospital bed, tilted his head slightly, looked out the window, and recited a line that appears in countless TV dramas and novels.
“…”
After saying this, he turned his eyes to her, which seemed to contain a desire to go out.
"Want to go out?" she asked him.
"Hmm..." he replied, his voice soft, probably because he was weak. "Is that okay?"
"Sure, let your assistant come and help you. You can go out anytime you want." Ji Hanxi knew that he wanted her to help him, so she said this on purpose.
"..." He frowned slightly and said sullenly, "Forget it, I won't go out."
"Why don't you go out again?"
"People like me don't deserve to see the sun. I'd rather die."
"..." Why is he so gloomy? He keeps talking about death and cursing himself.
Ji Hanxi turned to look outside. It was indeed sunny and spring-like. The temperature in April was just the right temperature, neither too hot nor too cold. Sitting in the hallway, a gentle breeze blew away the odor of disinfectant.
"Let me help you out," she said.
She was really kind and helpful in helping the patient go for a walk, but she didn't say that because she wanted to go out herself.
"Okay." Vivienne was not surprised by her sudden change. She lowered her eyebrows and smiled, as if she saw all her little thoughts and ideas.
Vivienne, who was being supported, looked frail and sickly. As they passed the door, the assistant seemed to want to lend a hand, but a glance from Vivienne caused the assistant to withdraw his hand and retreat.
There was a long wooden bench in the hospital corridor, which was rather cold and hard. Vivienne asked her assistant to lay out two cushions before taking Ji Hanxi to sit on it.
After making sure that Vivienne was sitting safely in the chair, Ji Hanxi withdrew his hand and no longer had any physical contact with her.
Vivienne looked at her hand that was quickly withdrawn without saying anything, but her eyes lingered on her fingertips for a moment, and then on her arm for a moment, wondering what she was thinking.
There are many green plants in the hospital's interior park. At this time of year, the temperature is just right and the plants are full of vitality. They continue to extend upwards, giving off a strong sense of vitality.
The sunlight didn't shine directly on them, but instead reflected a little residual heat and warmth elsewhere. A gentle breeze blew their long hair, tangling dark brown with white and gold, a clear distinction between black and white, yet an inextricable entanglement.
Ji Hanxi looked up at the moving clouds in the sky, while Vivienne tilted her head to look at her tangled long hair. She looked for a long time, then slowly moved her gaze from her hair to her face, and kept looking at her.
She noticed his gaze, turned to look at him, frowned slightly and asked, "What are you looking at?"
Vivienne didn't answer the question, but whispered, "It feels so good right now..."
"Where is good?"
"The sky is nice, the clouds are nice, the wind is nice, and..." His eyes swept around and finally fell on her, but he didn't continue with the rest of the words.
Ji Hanxi seemed to understand what he meant. She said nothing, lowered her head, looked at the ground and the surface of her shoes.
Flowers falling in the garden, clouds rolling and unrolling, everything is self-evident...
The two of them sat there for an unknown amount of time, and before they knew it, night had quietly fallen. Ji Hanxi was still in school, living on campus from Monday to Friday, and staying in a guesthouse on Saturdays and Sundays to facilitate filming.
Now that the crew has stopped working and there is no need for filming, Ji Hanxi is still living outside. Since he had applied to the counselor before, he will not be urged if he does not go home at night.
She really liked the environment under the corridor at night, which was more peaceful and quiet than during the day. Although there was no warm sunshine, the cool breeze at this time of year was very comfortable.
The weather was fine during the day, and at night the sky was exceptionally clear. The moon was bright in the sky, and the stars were shining brightly, like pure black velvet studded with diamonds of all sizes, twinkling one by one.
Ji Hanxi sat on the bench and Vivienne sat next to her.
He brushed his legs and whispered, "Do you want to lie down and rest for a while?"
Of course he wanted her to lie on his lap, but he also knew that she would not do that given her personality.
But this time he miscalculated. Ji Hanxi leaned over and gently rested her head on his legs, with her soft, thick black hair spread out.
The moment she leaned over, she could clearly feel his surprise and the stagnation of his breathing. He didn't dare to move and let her rest her head on him, for fear that if he moved she would be startled and fly away like a butterfly.
Ji Hanxi rested her head on his legs, looking at the starry sky outside. Perhaps because of the lower perspective, the eaves and corridors obstructed her view less, and the view was open, so she could see more stars.
She didn't quite recognize these stars, couldn't name them, and didn't even understand how they formed a constellation. She just felt that these stars were so bright and so close, as if they were within her reach.
She stretched out her hand and gently grasped, trying to catch the stars, but she caught nothing. It looked so close, but in reality it was very far away, so far away that she could not even grasp it.
Vivienne also stretched out her hand, reaching for the brightest star, but she did not try to grab it. She just brushed it away, as if brushing it away as if facing something she didn't like.
"Do you want to catch stars too?" she asked him.
"No," he looked down at her and said seriously, "I don't want to catch stars at all. Compared to stars, I want to catch happiness more."
Ji Hanxi lay on his legs, without saying a word, but just withdrew her gaze from the galaxy.
His slender fingers gently picked up her hair and combed it carefully. He said, "I'm very happy these days. Happiness seems to be within reach..."
She still didn't speak. Vivienne's actions made her scalp itchy and a little sleepy.
"I know I'm a very bad person, and I often do things that make you hate me, but I always want you to look at me more... When you look at me more, you feel unsatisfied. I am always greedy, always insatiable, and want too much..."
What he said was rambling, gentle and slow, and to Ji Hanxi's ears it sounded like hypnotic music.
She rubbed him gently with sleepy eyes, as if in response to what he said.
Looking at her like this, he couldn't help but lower his brows and smile, and smoothed back the scattered hair on her forehead.
During the two months in the hospital, the two of them got along extremely well. Although Vivienne looked frail and sickly every day, and although Ji Hanxi would deliberately put on airs because he disliked him, their overall interaction was lively and joyful, and the days no longer seemed so boring.
After the hospitalization, the two returned to filming and the overall shooting went extremely smoothly.
After filming the last scene, Ji Hanxi said to Nanzhi, "Sister Nanzhi, my final exams are coming up soon. I'll be busy reviewing recently, so I might not be able to reply to your message in time."
"It's okay, just study hard. Besides, I won't bother you by sending you messages. Summer vacation will start after the exams, so we can plan to go out and play together again."
"Yeah, thank you Sister Nanzhi for understanding me."
While the two of them were talking, Vivienne was right beside them, listening to every word they said.
He tilted his head slightly, looked at her, and said nothing.
Ji Hanxi felt Vivienne's gaze. She knew that after hearing these words, he would probably not come to disturb her during the final exams.
Back at the office, Vivienne maintained her arrogant demeanor, albeit in a more cheerful mood. Her sarcasm was even more pointed, and her Weibo posts were even more cryptic and difficult to understand. Fans even suspected that these bizarre and incoherent comments were a sign of some kind of mental illness.
In the past, I just flaunted my wealth and cursed them, but now what are they posting? What does "so cute" mean? What does "want to..." mean? What does "eat it up" mean? What does "grass, cao ...
Furthermore, Vivienne has rarely posted any private photos of herself on Weibo recently, aside from the obligatory makeup videos and behind-the-scenes footage. She seems quite reluctant to share them with them. What's going on? Shouldn't a beauty blogger share her beauty photos? Why is she hiding them? Vivienne is really getting out of control!
Sitting in her office on the 13th floor, Vivienne was admiring her newly arrived luxury goods. She had taken a few photos and wanted to send them to Ji Hanxi so she could choose the styles she liked.
But before sending the message, I suddenly remembered what she said before. She had a final exam and she needed to review well. I shouldn't send her a message to disturb her.
Vivienne had no choice but to hold back.
Their relationship had finally taken a step forward, and he didn't want to ruin it because of this little thing.
Although both parties tacitly agreed not to explicitly state the nature of their relationship, it was already ambiguous to such an extent that even without saying it, both parties could understand.
And when she was looking at the stars in the hospital corridor, she rested her head on his legs and rubbed them gently. How could that not be considered a response?
In short, Vivienne's heart is now filled with joy and happiness.
There are more and more luxury items in his office, and the original shelves are no longer enough, so he needs to buy new facilities.
The assistant directed the workers to move things in, and sometimes he would lend a hand if the items were too heavy. When moving a floor-standing clothes hanger, the assistant lost his grip and accidentally let the hanger fall to the ground, hitting a corner of Vivienne's most cherished carpet.
The assistant watched this happen, opened his mouth in horror and tried to reach out to save the situation, but it was too late.
He grimaced, looking at the bruised carpet, then cautiously turned his head to look at Vivienne.
Vivienne was sitting in her seat, glancing down at him condescendingly. She also noticed the carpet that had been hit, and her brows furrowed slightly.
The assistant thought, it’s all over, I’m going to be scolded to death!
Then Vivienne just said coldly: "Hurry up and move your things. Don't think you can delay time by showing a bitter and resentful face."
"Okay, okay, OK." The assistant quickly helped move things again.
He wondered inwardly, thankfully, why didn't Vivienne scold him? Was it because she hadn't seen it? Or was she just in a good mood? Regardless, he had escaped a disaster.
Vivienne was looking at WeChat, looking at the chat interface with Ji Hanxi. Although he didn't send any messages, she felt very happy just by looking at it.
At this moment, suddenly, a message popped up on the other side:
"Do you think you will be happy?"
Vivienne was stunned when she saw the message. It had been so long since she'd sent a message, so what did this all of a sudden mean? Almost instantly, she felt a surge of foreboding.
He reached out and sent her a question mark.
However, the reply I got was a red exclamation mark and "The other party has enabled friend verification, and you are not his (her) friend yet. Please send a friend verification request first. You can chat only after the other party passes the verification."
He thought he understood what this sentence meant. Did he think he could be happy? No...
The assistant who had just finished moving things came back and saw Vivienne holding a cell phone, his face suddenly changed, and he couldn't help but ask, "Teacher Vivienne, what's wrong with you?"
Vivienne slowly raised her head and looked at him. "You just hit my carpet 0.5cm, didn't you? You're dead."
"..." The assistant burst into tears. He had thought the matter was over. He had asked about the situation out of kindness, so why was it brought up again? It turned out that Vivienne had seen the carpet being knocked. It turned out that he couldn't escape the scolding after all. But hearing Vivienne say "dead" seemed like a more severe punishment than a scolding.
While the assistant was trembling with fear waiting for the punishment, Vivienne ignored him and walked into the elevator and rushed downstairs.
Nanzhi, who was chatting about gossip in the office, suddenly felt a tornado coming and everyone was almost blown away.
Everyone turned around and saw Vivienne standing at the door. The air pressure was so cold that it could freeze everyone to death.
The crowd that was originally laughing and joking now fell silent, not daring to say a word.
What was going on? Although everyone knew Vivienne was vicious, mean, and arrogant, and usually acted superior, she had never felt so cold. And it was cold and sharp, like a cold weapon that had been sealed for years in the ice and snow, and could kill anyone who approached her.
He walked straight to Nanzhi and said, "Give me the phone."
"Ah? Ah..." Although Nanzhi didn't know what he was going to do, she was frightened by his aura and handed over her phone obediently. At his request, she unlocked it and opened WeChat.
Vivienne typed a few words on her phone, but deleted them one by one before sending them. Then she returned the phone to Nanzhi and said, "Send her a message and ask her where she is now."
"Ah?" Nanzhi was a little confused. Ever since Ji Hanxi was busy reviewing and couldn't come to the company, Vivienne hadn't been to the content department. Why was she suddenly asked to send this kind of message to Ji Hanxi just after she arrived?
Although Nanzhi was puzzled, she still sent a message:
"Did you finish your exam, honey?"
"Where are you now?"
Vivienne looked at her screen page and saw that it could be sent normally and was not blocked or deleted. This meant that he was most likely the only one who was deleted.
The other party quickly replied:
"I'm playing outside, Nanzhi-sister."
"Don't worry about me."
Perhaps she had realized that something was wrong, so she didn't tell the specific address at all, but just gave such a vague answer.
"Ask again." Vivienne said again.
Nanzhi had no choice but to send another message:
"Where the hell are you, baby?"
"I wanted to ask you out."
The other side is still vague:
"Wait until next time."
"I have something else to do."
"I'll go get busy first."
It seemed that she really had something to do. She didn't reply to the message afterwards. She might have guessed who really wanted to know where she was, so she didn't want to reply at all.
Nanzhi looked at Vivienne, who looked gloomy and lost in thought, and could only smile awkwardly. "She's on summer vacation now after her exams. She's probably traveling and will be back to school soon. Why is Teacher Vivienne suddenly asking about her? And... don't you have her WeChat? Why don't you message her yourself?"
This sentence seemed to hit Vivienne's sore spot. He glanced at the still lit phone screen and said nothing.
After he left the content department office, the people who had just scattered in panic gathered together again to discuss what Vivienne was doing wrong.
Vivienne was standing on the corridor, looking at her phone and said: Do you think you can be happy?
Suddenly I understood her purpose. She was seeking revenge, real revenge.
He had cheated on her during winter vacation, so she had to cheat back. The lie of "equal pursuit" was just a deception, just to make him let down his guard. When he thought that the cheating was just that, the revenge was just that, she could carry out her real deception...
When did the true deception begin? Was it with the Miaojiang script? Was it when she ran to him in the mall, facing harassment? Was it with her feather-light kiss after a drunken moment? Or was it even earlier? Was it something she had been planning when she drafted the agreement and stayed in the content department?
In fact, if you think about these things carefully, you will vaguely find something wrong, but he has always been conceited, thinking that he knows her very well, that he knows everything she thinks and feels, and that the lie she gave about "equal pursuit" is just a cowardly deception and revenge.
Only now did he realize that she was even more vindictive and clear-cut than he had imagined. He couldn't help but chuckle, a mixture of mockery of his own miscalculation and a fondness for her actions, especially since she truly made him feel like he was part of the conspiracy. He really liked her.
She hated him and could have taken a large sum of money and left, but she stayed in the content department and gave him the opportunity. She could have rejected the script with two intimate scenes, but she still accepted it.
Especially in the Miaojiang script, she was so obvious about it, but he was so sure she had no plan and never thought about it in detail. During the filming, she was so obedient, even the small counterattacks were insignificant. It turned out that she was deliberately doing it to get close to him, to let his guard down, to let him indulge...
In the hospital, their intimate interactions and time together made him think that their relationship would take a step forward and that he was about to find happiness. But she suddenly punctured the bubble, dealt him a severe blow, and told him that it was all fake and that he would not be happy.
Compared to the stars, happiness is even more illusory.
He felt like laughing now, and he also thought she was cute. The fact that she was able to successfully deceive him made him like her even more.
The most urgent thing was to find her quickly. His heart was filled with joy, almost bursting with joy. He couldn't bear not seeing her for a moment. She was really becoming more and more attractive to him, so attractive! He wanted to cling to her like a ghost, to coil around her like a snake. He couldn't be separated from her! He had to see her now!
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Ji Hanxi sat in the corridor of the hospital, quietly looking at the green plants. The buzzing of cicadas made her head dizzy, but she felt that she had never been so conscious at any time.
In fact, she randomly arrived in a city a week ago.
Her contract with the company had just expired, her current film had just finished filming, final exams were over, and it was summer vacation, so she told her parents she was traveling. She had everything mapped out, everything planned out with absolute clarity.
I found a city to stay in for a few days, blocked and deleted Vivienne, and completely lost contact with her.
She knew that he was definitely capable of finding her, and she just needed a few days of cooling off to think carefully about this relationship and let all her emotions return to the freezing point.
But for some reason, she would still return to the familiar place, her thoughts swirling. She thought about many things, and the more she thought, the harder it was to calm down... So many days of getting along, such intimate interactions, it was originally a layout she deliberately catered to, but the person in charge is the one who is confused, the person in charge is the one who is confused, he is in the game, and she is also in the game...
I looked down at my phone. I had already blocked all his accounts on various platforms, but I couldn't help but want to check them out. I wanted to see what he was posting. I wanted to see what he was doing.
Want to see if he was deceived?
After much hesitation, she considered using a second account to spy on his Weibo, but as she was about to do it, she felt like a complete loser. How could she possibly keep thinking about him? Regardless of whether he had been deceived or not, she had already put in all her effort and had been planning this from the beginning. If it didn't work, it would be her fault, nothing to say.
She put away her phone and wanted to stroll around and relax, but there seemed to be a familiar figure not far away.
Her heart skipped a beat and she looked at him in a daze.
The familiar blonde hair, the familiar beauty, the familiar luxury goods, he was someone she wanted to stay away from completely, but she couldn't help but get close to him.
It was unknown how long the other person had been there, or how long he had been looking at her. It seemed as if he had been observing her silently...
Ji Hanxi had been sitting here for nearly half an hour before finally noticing the other person's presence.
When he saw her gaze on him, he stopped stopping and slowly walked towards her.
As he walked over, Ji Hanxi carefully observed his expression, carefully observing every change and every emotion.
Finally, she said what she had always wanted to say:
"I succeeded, I tricked you."
She raised her head slightly and said this with pride. If she were a cat, her tail would definitely be raised to the sky.
She originally thought that she would not succeed because Vivienne knew her too well, so she did not have high expectations for this scam, but his expression told her that she succeeded!
"When Vivienne thought she was about to find happiness, she told her that everything was fake, a lie, and that she would never be happy."
She actually succeeded in such a childish and crude scam.
"Yes, you succeeded." He walked up to her, looked at her, and said softly. His fingers stroked her cheek with tenderness and affection. "If you hadn't cried, you might have been more successful."
At this moment, Ji Hanxi finally noticed that the other person's fingertips were stained with wetness, which were the tears on her face.
She smiled proudly while shedding tears. In fact, she didn't really succeed in deceiving him. Her real success was that she abandoned him completely and mercilessly after deceiving him.
However, she went around in circles and ended up back where she was.
She said to him stubbornly, "I tricked you into thinking my scam was perfect and completely successful, but suddenly I realized it wasn't perfect and didn't work. How can this not be considered another kind of perfection and success?"
Her words made him laugh. He touched her face again, wiping away the tears. "Yes, you're right. Your deception is perfect."
Ji Hanxi approached him, looked at him straight in the eye, then put her arms around his neck, stood on tiptoes, and gently bit the place where the kiss mark was left before.
It was a bite that was neither light nor heavy, and it didn't hurt at all. It left a mark, but no real injury.
After biting it, she looked at him, seeming a little proud.
Vivienne lowered her head and leaned forward—
When she thought he was going to bite back and closed her eyes in fear, a warm kiss fell on her cheek, on the traces of her tears...
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