There was silence on the other end of the receiver for a long time, and then Pei Hanzhou's voice came uncertainly:
"……What did you say?"
She thought that this call might be very sudden for him, although it had been brewing in her mind for a long time.
She was not surprised, and her body was not surprised either. It was as if she understood that things would eventually come to this point after the deviation. She didn't even choke when she blurted it out.
Lin Luosang covered the receiver and coughed twice to clear the fatigue and hoarseness in his voice. Not wanting to seem too unreasonable, he repeated the story as calmly as possible.
"I said, I want to talk to you about divorce."
"Are you serious?"
His breathing seemed to be very steady, with the sense of proportion of someone who has always stood on the edge of a knife and remained calm in the face of danger, but there was also a bit of emotion in it that she could not identify.
She could even imagine his appearance at the moment. He must be frowning slightly, approaching her with a questioning tone, his voice even colder than before: "Why do you want a divorce all of a sudden?"
"Are you busy right now?" Lin Luosang listened to his foreign language conversation, curled the corners of his lips indifferently, and said softly, "Let's talk about it when we meet. You should work hard first, and I won't disturb you..."
He gritted his teeth and asked back, "How can I work like this?"
"It's not a big deal." She pursed her lips. "Just think about it after you finish your own business."
The topic was difficult to talk about, and she didn't know how to resist the man's pressing questions, so she could only quickly hang up after she finished speaking.
For a long time after the call ended, she just sat in the spacious and dark bedroom, thinking about nothing, as if she was thinking about a lot, but also as if she was thinking about nothing.
She was in a mess, unable to think clearly. She opened WeChat and asked Sheng Qianye and Ji Ning: "Are you asleep?"
It was past two in the morning, and I wondered how many she could find.
Ten minutes later, Ji Ning replied: [Just finished work, what's up?]
Lin Luosang: [Nothing, just asking where you are.]
Ji Ning: [I'm still in Y City, Qianye is gone.]
She fell back onto her pillow, her friend's reply giving her a sense of security: [Where is the hotel? Can you take me in tonight?]
Ji Ning quickly sent an address and asked: [Why are you suddenly not sleeping at home? ]
[Something unexpected happened. I'll tell you later.]
Ji Ning sent a little bear OK emoji and said: [My skin is different from yours, remember to bring your skincare products and clothes.]
Lin Luosang finally felt relieved and replied: [Yes.]
After a while, Ji Ning sent another message: [There's a car here, I'll pick you up, it's late.]
Ji Ning didn't expect that the address she sent was at home. He was surprised when he got out of the car to pick her up: "I thought there was something wrong at home and you couldn't get in, so you came to sleep with me."
He leaned over and glanced behind her a few times: "What's going on? Where's Pei Hanzhou?"
"He's not at home," Lin Luosang said, "and I just told him about the divorce."
Since they have already mentioned divorce, it would be better to move out. Moreover, she just had such a long dream, and she also wants to change the environment to divert her attention.
She was rolling a large box in her hand, and she and Ji Ning were walking away in the night.
When they reached the car door, Ji Ning finally reacted and turned to look at her in shock: "What did you just say? Divorce??"
"No way, it's only been a short time, why are you so fast?"
"I was just a little bit carried away," Lin Luosang calmed his chaotic mind. "It's very strange. I know what I'm doing and I have my expectations, but now I can't figure it out..."
Moreover, the dream was so realistic that her stress response had already made all the decisions for her.
"It's evening now. You should get some rest first," Ji Ning said, knowing full well that this was not the right time to discuss the mysteries of the human world. "Come on, get in the car."
"Do you think I'm away from—" Lin Luosang had just uttered five words when he opened the car door and was stunned to see the man in the passenger seat.
"this……"
Ji Shiyan turned around and nodded to her, his eyes sweeping over the large box in her hand: "Do you want to put it in the trunk?"
"No, no," she quickly shook her head twice and looked at Ji Ning, "Driver...what..."
Why did Ji Dingliu come over here so late at night to be her driver? Is this appropriate?
Ji Ning touched his nose, a little confused, and whispered, "I was just looking for the driver and he saw me. He said he couldn't sleep and came out to drive."
Lin Luosang:?
Do you believe this reason?
"How did he see you looking for a driver?"
Ji Ning replied: "Well, isn't he the producer of my new play? We occasionally run into each other on the set."
Lin Luosang opened his lips to say something, but then he thought that he hadn't figured out his feelings yet, so he shouldn't get involved with others. So he nodded and touched Ji Ning's head lovingly.
Forty-five minutes later, the ride driven by Yuki Toyou ended and the two were dropped off at the hotel entrance.
After thanking them, they got out of the car.
There were not many people on the street at this moment, it was empty and cold. She and Ji Ning hunched their shoulders and bought two bags of hot milk at the convenience store before returning to their room.
After taking off her outermost down jacket and sweater, Lin Luosang was left with only a set of pajamas. She lay down peacefully on Ji Ning's big bed.
Ji Ning looked at her pajamas and frowned again: "Did you take a shower in advance because you were coming here, or did you already have a nap?"
"I slept," she said. "It was so cold in the afternoon that I fell asleep in bed."
After taking a shower, Ji Ning, smelling of lemon, crawled into the bed. Lin Luosang moved twice to make room.
Ji Ning rubbed his eyes and guessed, "You had a nightmare, didn't you?"
Lin Luosang glanced sideways.
Ji Ning understood Wansui and said, "I would also want to change my sleeping place if I had a nightmare."
Ji Ning tucked her quilt in, and his gentle voice covered her with the dimmed lights: "Don't worry, I won't ask any questions. Go to sleep."
…
Lin Luosang thought he couldn't sleep, but he got tired while joking with Ji Ning. They both tilted their heads and fell asleep.
She woke up at 11 o'clock the next morning and urgently remembered that she had an event to attend.
Ji Ning, who had just woken up, had a head of fluffy, messy yet smooth long hair. He looked at her blankly: "You mean... you have to find a dress to wear within half an hour?"
Lin Luosang nodded, feeling it was ridiculous. "It's definitely too late to buy it. I'll ask my agent to help me borrow it."
"Don't you have a wardrobe at home?" Ji Ning used his fingers to smooth his hair. "Are you going to cut off all ties with that family right after the divorce? Not to mention that it was just mentioned last night, even if the divorce procedures were completed, Pei Hanzhou wouldn't do anything to you if you wanted to wear them, right? Those skirts were custom-made for your figure, and no one else can wear them."
After a brief pause, Lin Luosang pondered and said, "I have to adapt to life without him in advance."
…
There was a brief silence in the room. Ji Ning stopped yawning in the middle of the yawn and just stared at her motionlessly.
After a while, Ji Ning stood up, as if he was in a hurry to say something, but his feet were frozen when he stepped on the ground. He went back to look for his slippers: "It's so early in the morning, don't be so sad all of a sudden."
Ji Ning walked up to her and carefully raised his eyelids: "Is there no room for change?"
"Who knows?"
Even she herself couldn't predict what would happen in the future.
Lin Luosang patted her head and said, "I'm fine, don't worry. Tell Qianye, don't worry either. I'm leaving now. I'll call you if I need anything."
"Well, be safe. Has the agent arrived?"
"Downstairs."
"Okay, once you're safely there, send a message in the group chat. If you can't borrow a dress, I'll ask for you!"
She smiled and said, "I know."
Lin Luosang successfully reunited with the agency team and immediately told them that he wanted to borrow a dress.
There was a grand ceremony tonight. Although the awards ceremony was broadcast live in the evening, the red carpet had to be walked in the afternoon. She had to enter the venue early, and the flight would take a while to get there.
In other words, not a few hours left.
Yue Hui didn't know her situation, but after looking at her expression, he wisely didn't ask any more questions and used all the resources at hand to contact the costume designer.
The time was too short and there were not many nearby costume designers that could be contacted. The only one happened to have a studio in Y City at the moment, so Yue Hui drove there quickly.
The costume designer was startled when he saw Lin Luosang, and subconsciously wanted to refuse: "Ah Xu didn't tell me before that he wanted to lend it to Lin Luosang! What's this? One of his haute couture pieces is worth an entire wardrobe of mine. How dare I show off my skills in front of you? Come on, Brother Hui, please stop embarrassing me!"
"No," Yue Hui explained, "This is truly a special situation. I'd be incredibly grateful if you could help me. How could that be considered showing off your skills before an expert? If you didn't help, things would be truly difficult."
"Seriously?" The costume designer frowned. "This isn't the main studio, just a small sub-division. Several expensive dresses were borrowed a few days ago, so the rest are..."
"It really doesn't matter," Lin Luosang smiled, dispelling the other party's doubts. "I don't care about these things. I'm going to walk the red carpet in a few hours. Resolving the urgent matter is the most important thing."
The costume designer looked at Lin Luosang for a long time before opening the wardrobe with embarrassment: "Okay, but I don't think any of the dresses in the room are suitable for you."
Yue Hui put his arm around the costume designer's shoulder and said, "Ah Xu just told me that you have everything here, and you wouldn't be afraid even if a god came."
"You believe that nonsense?" The costume designer was speechless. "Look, I'm completely helpless now that this real god has arrived. No one would have thought that Lin Luosang would come to borrow clothes from me."
The costume designer's occupational disease struck, and he sighed twice as he watched Lin Luosang's back as she selected clothes. "She has such a great temperament. I feel like ordinary dresses are an insult to such a good figure."
Finally, Lin Luosang picked out a simple black skirt with tassels and angled edges. After trying it on casually, she put two safety pins on the back of the slightly larger waist, and it looked fine.
The dress designer adjusted the pins for her and shook her head, "It feels like the value of this dress has increased since you put it on."
"This is the first time I've seen someone wear clothes worth thousands of dollars like they're haute couture."
Yue Hui raised his eyebrows proudly: "You can talk."
"Tell the truth."
The problem with the dress was finally solved smoothly. Lin Luosang quickly flew to W City and stepped onto the red carpet just as everyone was entering.
The flash lights were still flashing wildly as she walked out of the car. It was the peak period of the fashion show, and many female artists were walking on the red carpet. When she stepped onto the stairs, she heard a cry of surprise from beside her, and then she looked back hesitantly.
She lifted the hem of her skirt and saw a familiar dress style. She looked at the one she was wearing and finally confirmed it vaguely.
She wore the same clothes as a female artist.
Wearing the same clothes on the red carpet is indeed a cliché and a topic that the public likes to talk about. There is a saying in the circle that "wearing the same clothes is not scary, but whoever is ugly will be embarrassed."
What's more, Lin Luosang has been the envy of everyone on the red carpet in recent months. He wears high-end fashion clothes worth hundreds of millions of dollars as if they were free, attracting a lot of attention. Today's wearing the same clothes seems particularly dramatic.
She actually didn't care. After all, her dress had been trending on the internet too many times, and her obsession with it had long faded. She just thought it looked good, but she didn't realize that gossip forums and Weibo were going crazy discussing it.
[Report!! Lin Luosang and Rong Yue actually wore the same clothes today!!!]
The responses were varied:
[Who is Rong Yue? I've never heard of her.]
[A little unknown in a girl group, not even an 18th-tier star, how can the current girl group players be so rich? ]
[That's not right. I just did a search, and this skirt is only a few thousand yuan...]
Is this true? Has Lin Luosang fallen to this point? She flopped before the show even finished recording? It can't be that serious, right? Or does her husband no longer want to sponsor her?
The last reply opened up new avenues for bored surfers, and the topic quickly became a trending topic on Weibo. Everyone started to speculate freely, and if their writing skills weren't limited, they could even compile a world-famous book:
[I heard Pei Hanzhou is abroad. The two haven't seen each other much lately. Also, do you remember someone posted a picture of Pei Hanzhou and a doll costume a while ago? So, he's found a new love, right?]
[Hahahaha, Pei Hanzhou and the one with the doll costume are really good at it. Do they think they can openly have an affair by covering the woman's head? Even some resourceful netizens could take a picture of it, right? But he's a boss, not an artist. It's none of our business if he has three wives and four concubines. It's a matter of willingness, so Lin Luosang can't be unaware of it, right?]
[Someone has already said that Pei Hanzhou was framed by Lin Luosang for marriage. Pei Hanzhou actually hates her very much, so they should have gone their separate ways a long time ago. Isn't Lin Luosang also entangled with Duan Qing? What man would like a woman to cheat on him?]
[SRDS, I'm not a fan of Lin Luosang, but the rumors about her and Duan Qing have been cleared up a long time ago, right?]
I'm still inclined to believe that their marriage is broken on the surface. Wasn't Lin Luosang spotted by some strolling geese last night dragging a large suitcase out of Pei Hanzhou's villa?... It's terrifying to think about it. How big of a fight must they have had for four numbers to fall off their dress?
[They're getting divorced, right? Haha ...? I don't think she's that rich, is she?]
[Uh, but she really is rich. Even without Pei Hanzhou, she's still wealthy. Now she's considered a second-tier singer, and her commercial performances and endorsement fees are very high...]
[Off topic, the angle where she's standing on the stairs and looking down is so beautiful. No matter what people say, no one can stop me from admiring her.]
[Bringing the topic back to the point, I still want to say that paying someone for something really does have an expiration date. Lin Luosang has been too popular lately, with her variety show endorsements and her beauty blossoming. Usually, when things reach their peak, they're bound to backfire. Wait, the fun is just beginning.]
[I don't know if anyone understands me, but I think the robot was Pei Hanzhou's breakup gift to Lin Luosang. It caused such a big stir back then, and Lin Luosang never directly addressed it. I guess she was just trying to pretend she had a good relationship with her husband, but she failed.]
[You're overthinking it. There's no point in breaking up if there's no real love. Just forget about it if our interests are broken.]
The trending search quickly rose to the top, and Yue Hui ran over tremblingly to ask Lin Luosang if he wanted to refute the rumor. Lin Luosang closed his eyes and shook his head, saying no.
There were already a lot of media outlets at the ceremony that night, and when they saw such a big news story, they were all overjoyed and happily started writing articles - Lin Luosang and Pei Hanzhou's marriage was changing, this would be a hot topic with huge traffic and a lot of attention, and the year-end KPI would be saved!
Some media even broke through the barriers and rushed into Lin Luosang's lounge without fear of death.
At that time, Lin Luosang was wiping the glitter off her eyes. The makeup artist had applied too much glitter on her lower eyelids today. She accidentally rubbed her eyes and the glitter fell in. She had to find a way to clean it up.
Before she could move, she was startled when she saw the new entertainment reporter rushing in.
Yue Hui immediately jumped up from the sofa: "Who is this person? What are you doing? Don't you know that this is the artist lounge? Get out now!"
The reporter had originally just wanted to see if he could stumble upon something, but he hadn't expected Lin Luosang's eyes to turn red. Thinking there might be some good news, he took the risk and held the microphone right under her nose. "Excuse me, why are you wearing an out-of-season dress today? There are rumors that your marriage to Pei Hanzhou is in trouble. Is that true?"
"Where did this psychopath come from?!" Yue Hui jumped up and wanted to kick him, "Is this your fucking interview time? Who are you from? Do you know the rules?"
"Did you cry?!" The new entertainment reporter pointed at the tear stains at the corners of Lin Luosang's eyes and took two photos with his phone. "Who was more to blame for this quarrel?!"
Lin Luosang was baffled and didn't know how to explain that it was just the eye drops left over from the artificial tears he had just put in.
Just as he was about to ask the third question, Yue Hui grabbed the reporter by the collar and said, "Are you going to stop this? If you keep making trouble, I'll hire security. Do you want to be sued?!"
"What are you so arrogant about? The person involved hasn't said anything yet! This matter has become such a big deal, everyone knows it, and you are still pretending nothing happened. Aren't you bored?" This entertainment reporter was really bold, fearless like a newborn calf. When Yue Hui grabbed his collar, he got angry and said, "If you have the guts, sue me. Without Pei Hanzhou's support, how can you still be so domineering?"
Yue Hui: "How the hell is that called being domineering? I'll beat you up so hard you'll be left with nothing but fists and you'll know what being domineering is all about!"
The two began arguing in the lounge, and a growing number of entertainment reporters gathered at the door to watch. Seeing that Lin Luosang and her team hadn't said a word from beginning to end, they felt even more confident that the matter was settled. Some had already prepared templates, written their stories, and sent them out. [Lin Luosang appeared on the red carpet today wearing only a thousand-dollar dress. Has her net worth plummeted, or is there something else going on? She remained silent on divorce rumors, leading netizens to comment: "She's lost her wealthy wife persona. Even paying for her husband won't win back his love."]
Just as several press releases were being sent out, a voice came from behind: "What are you arguing about?"
Everyone felt that the voice was strange yet familiar. They turned around hesitantly and were shocked when they saw it clearly.
Pei Hanzhou had his own aura, and they tactfully made way for him after he just glanced at them coldly.
The man was holding a long gift box. He pushed through the crowd and walked to Lin Luosang's side before opening the lid. He pushed the skirt he had auctioned in front of her and asked with a frown, "Why didn't you tell me that you sold the skirt?"
A rustling sound came from the entertainment reporters: "This... isn't this the one that sold for a whopping seven figures at the auction this morning? Did Pei Hanzhou buy it?"
Everyone looked at each other, feeling that something was wrong with the script. Pei Hanzhou pulled Lin Luosang's wrist again, signaling them to leave first.
Lin Luosang hadn't expected him to suddenly appear here. He opened his lips and was about to say something, but when he heard the man speak, he was caught off guard by the huge number of entertainment reporters waiting to watch the excitement.
"I've considered the divorce you mentioned yesterday."
"I disagree."
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