And even if they did bring one, they wouldn't use their personal phone, only a public phone.
Zhou Cheng's public cell phone is full of work contacts. The people in the entertainment industry who added him on WeChat were actually adding him on their work accounts.
Besides family members, the only person associated with the private account is Hsu Chao-ti.
Qiao Nansheng: "Tsk~ You're rich."
"It's alright." Zhou Cheng smiled slightly. "It's only a few hundred million."
He added in his mind: No, actually it's only a few hundred billion.
Xingji Entertainment ranks first in annual revenue among all listed companies in China. The top 100 companies all have annual net revenue of over one billion yuan, let alone the number one.
However, she didn't know that he was the person behind Xingji Entertainment, and Zhou Cheng had no intention of telling her.
He was telling her about the money he had earned as an actor over the past few years.
Upon hearing his words, Qiao Nansheng exclaimed: "Why do I feel like hitting him?!"
This guy is totally flaunting his wealth!!
When Sheng Zhuo arrived, he noticed the strange atmosphere in the private room. He looked at Zhou Cheng, then at Qiao Nansheng, puzzled: "Brother Cheng, Madam, what's going on here...?"
"Let's eat," Zhou Cheng interrupted him. "Take me to the airport first, then take her back."
Sheng Zhuo nodded: "Okay."
Qiao Nansheng frowned: "Can't I just take a taxi back myself?"
Zhou Cheng: "Taking a taxi is not safe. I'm worried something might happen to you."
Upon hearing this, Qiao Nansheng immediately thought of the time she was drugged. She pursed her lips slightly but didn't say anything more.
After finishing lunch around 1 p.m., the three of them paid and left the restaurant.
Sheng Zhuo first took Zhou Cheng to several events before driving Qiao Nansheng home.
...
During the time they spent having lunch and going home, Weibo exploded.
A netizen who visited their idol in Hengdian took pictures of Zhou Cheng walking around the city and posted them online. Qiao Nansheng was walking beside him and was naturally also in the picture. Then, someone posted pictures of them walking closely and talking on Weibo.
Because of the angle and height difference, it looked especially like Zhou Cheng was kissing her.
[Tangtang Doesn't Want to Write: Holy crap! What did I just see? Is that Zhou Cheng?]
[Upstairs, go update: Waaaaah, yes, as an eight-year fan, I'm not exaggerating when I say I'd recognize Cheng Ge even if he were ashes, but who's that woman next to him? Cheng Ge's new assistant?]
Zhou Cheng's female assistant was slightly chubby, while Qiao Nansheng was very thin. So when they saw the woman next to Zhou Cheng in the photo, some of his fans thought she was a newly hired assistant.
[No work on Monday: But why don't you look like an assistant to me? And it looks like Cheng is kissing her... Is this a film set? Is Cheng filming a kissing scene?]
[Seventeen Little Cuties: I don't know, I haven't heard of it, and I didn't see any cameras nearby.]
[Li Bai's sly performance: Onlookers at the scene said it wasn't a film shoot; your Cheng Ge seemed to be talking to that woman, not kissing as the person upstairs said.]
[Cheng Ge's first wife: It definitely wasn't kissing! My brother said he would tell everyone if he was in a relationship. He didn't kiss anyone who wasn't his girlfriend. Please don't spread rumors, thank you!!]
[Shiro and Nozomi shippers: Am I the only one whose attention is drawn to how pretty this girl is?]
[Ruanruan: Waaaaah, me too! This girl looks familiar, she was trending on social media a while back, the one with the viral video of her rescuing a child.]
[Nineteen years old this year: Yes, yes, that's her! I was wondering why she looked so familiar.]
[I really hate doing homework: So, does this girl actually know Brother Cheng? Judging by her amazing rescue skills, is she perhaps a bodyguard hired by Brother Cheng? Did she just happen to witness it that day and show off her skills?]
[Going up the mountain to fight the tiger: It's not impossible... but for some reason, I always feel that this woman doesn't look like Brother Cheng's assistant. Brother Cheng kept his distance when talking to Little Fatty before, never getting this close.]
[I really love oranges: The person upstairs, please don't stir up trouble. It's just an assistant, thank you.]
[Under the Lemon Tree, You and Me: It's true what they say, good-looking people always hang out with other good-looking people, while ugly people hang out with other ugly people. I'm crying.]
...
After arriving at the airport, Zhou Cheng went through the check-in process. When he reached the waiting area, it wasn't boarding time yet, so he had to wait a while. He found a secluded spot to sit down and just as he took out his phone to text Qiao Nansheng, a message from Xiang Fei popped up—
Xiang Fei: Brother Cheng, did you go to Hengdian today?
Z: Hmm, what's wrong?
Xiang Fei: Sure enough. Look at Weibo, someone posted photos of you going in and out of Hengdian, and your wife was in the photos too. Some people suspect she's your assistant, others suspect she's your girlfriend…
While Xiang Fei was texting him, he was also contacting Weibo administrators to reduce the trending topics.
Although there wasn't a barrage of insults under that Weibo post, maintaining that level of popularity on the trending topics list wasn't a good thing.
Upon seeing this, Zhou Cheng's brow furrowed slightly.
He replied to Xiang Fei with a "hello," then logged out of WeChat and went to Weibo. As soon as he logged on, he received a push notification from Sina Weibo—the headline "Suspected Zhou Cheng's Girlfriend Exposed" caught his eye.
His lips twitched, and he thought to himself: What nonsense about girlfriend, why not just say she's my wife?
Zhou Cheng smirked and clicked to see what was going on. The post was from a marketing account with eight million followers.
The photos were stolen by the marketing account from the blogger who first posted the photos of him entering and leaving Hengdian. Because the marketing account is controlled by a team and has many followers, the reposting immediately attracted a lot of traffic.
When Zhou Cheng clicked in, he saw that there were already 20,000 comments below.
The top few comments were all from his fans, and each of them spoke politely, asking people not to spread rumors. No one cursed anyone after seeing a woman next to him.
This is the quality of "city fans"—they don't casually hurl insults before they've even figured out right from wrong.
Of course, there were also some haters mixed in, pretending to be "Cheng fans" to hurl insults and bring him negative attention, but none of them caused much of a stir.
Clicking into the comments section of the haters, I found that the posts were filled with gentle words from the "City Fans" telling the haters to behave themselves.
Zhou Cheng glanced at the comments casually and reported the most liked comments from trolls who were criticizing Qiao Nansheng.
As I was about to log off, I suddenly remembered that I hadn't posted on Weibo in a long time, and my Weibo message bar was full of people urging me to update. So I took out an old photo from my phone and posted it.
—ZC Zhoucheng: Winter is here, everyone please keep warm and take good care of yourselves. [Image]
The photo only shows his profile; he is dressed casually in a white t-shirt and shorts, sitting on a double swing in the villa garden reading a book.
The warm sunlight filtered through the grapevines and shone on him, adding a touch of dreaminess and unreality to his appearance.
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