"How long have you been married?"
Yu Ting, who had no affection for Zhou Chengyan, coldly replied: "No comment."
"How did you two meet? Was it a lightning marriage?"
"No comment."
"Young, and yet already a young wife."
Slap.
Yu Ting’s hand, ready to slap Zhou Chengyan, was caught in mid-air, and his laughter became even more unrestrained.
Seeing this made Yu Ting even more unhappy. She swung her other hand out, the strike quick and fierce.
Zhou Chengyan tilted his head slightly, only his cheek brushed by the blow. He then caught both of Yu Ting’s hands, quickly retreating, and teased with a smile, "So violent. Can your husband tolerate you?"
Enough, enough. If they came to blows, the game would be over.
Having released Yu Ting’s struggling hands and seeing the woman’s fiery rage, Zhou Chengyan returned to his seat, maintaining a safe distance from Yu Ting.
"This is the first time I’ve seen a man who talks so much. Try it again." Yu Ting sat up straighter in her chair, her expression hard and threatening, nothing like what one would expect from a businesswoman.
"No more, no more." Zhou Chengyan replied with a smile, his arms raised in surrender, not a shred of apology visible in his laughing face. "Don’t hit me again, it wouldn’t look good. If others see, they might think we’re flirting."
Even while he was saying this, he was plotting in his mind.
Yu Ting didn’t say another word, and the two of them fell silent. The seemingly endless silence moved Zhou Chengyan to step outside for a smoke.
As people walked by stirring the wind, Zhou Chengyan walked out, a cigarette in his mouth, one hand holding a lighter, and the other hand shielding the flame.
Zhou Chengyan stared at the red flame, lost in thought. 𝒻𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝘯𝘰𝑣ℯ𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝘮
Smoke seeped out from the ignited cigarette.
Although smoking was strictly prohibited on set, nobody dared to stop Zhou Chengyan this time.
So Zhou Chengyan savored his cigarette, with one hand in his pocket and the other hanging at his side, strolling aimlessly.
With each puff of cigarette smoke, the turbulent feelings aroused by the video clip gradually settled.
Zhou Chengyan looked through the smoke, recalling the past.
He walked from a place where smoking was forbidden to a place where it was allowed. It was nothing more, Zhou Chengyan just felt that places with a lot of people were noisy.
Gradually, he reached the emergency exit, carrying a cigarette in his mouth. The exit was in an obscure location, with few people around. The door was ajar.
"We did it, we did it, 750,000 yuan. Those idiots actually fell for it." The excited voice of a man filtered out through the doorway, his hand cupped over the receiver, making his words somewhat muffled.
Zhou Chengyan, the first to notice the noise, quietly approached and saw a man hiding through the glass door. Wasn’t he the fifth dream-chaser from earlier?
Upon this realization, Zhou Chengyan didn’t leave. He took the cigarette from his mouth, placed it between his fingers, and stared through the glass.
"No one suspected me, it was so smooth. Anything would go as long as I made it sound tragic. Really, believe me, oh my God, 750,000 yuan. I made 750,000 yuan in six minutes, this is faster than robbery."
"Those capitalists are so stupid, they believed my outrageous lies. How could there possibly be such tragic and melodramatic events in the world?"
"If it were me, I would have packed up and left already. Give the child to the woman, considering it five years of legalized prostitution."
Snort.
Zhou Chengyan, who heard all of the man’s words, abruptly changed his expression. As he put the cigarette back into his mouth, he swung the door open, creaking loudly.
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