"Then what did you say?" Huo Yuan Ze's cold voice sounded in Jiang Xun's ears.
"Of course I said I don't like him ah. I don't know him well. When I was young, I hadn't seen him more than a few times." Jiang Xun's voice was milky when she was asleep without much strength. It felt a little sticky and glutinous.
As Huo Yuan Ze quietly listened to her, the chillness in his eyes gradually dissipated and an imperceptible smile stained his face.
"Uncle Huo can't believe those rumors o~" Jiang Xun hugged him tightly.
"Eh." Huo Yuan Ze's stern expression relaxed a little. He reached out and rubbed her head, "Are you sleepy?"
Jiang Xun suddenly half opened her eyes, "If Uncle Huo wants to do something else, then I won't be sleepy."
Huo Yuan Ze's lower body quickly gave Jiang Xun a response.
After feeling the scorching heat, Jiang Xun lowered her head, somewhat in amazement.
"Ah, it turns out Uncle Huo is that enthusiastic to me, then I won't sleep anymore."
Jiang Xun couldn't help but poke his stomach.
"You're sure?" Huo Yuan Ze grabbed her hand, "You're really not sleeping anymore?"
"I am a little sleepy, but I believe Uncle Huo can refresh me." Jiang Xun smiled charmingly. When she opened her mouth to speak, her pink tongue stuck out, making Huo Yuan Ze grasp her hand harder.
Huo Yuan Ze said, "I won't make you more energetic, I'll only make you tired to the point you won't have any strength left."
Jiang Xun's face instantly turned red. The two blushes contrasted her skin to seem whiter than snow, like a half-open pink rose, which made people want to pluck it.
"Okay."
Jiang Xun replied in a low voice, "Uncle Huo, this is setting a flag. Once you set it, it will only fall."
"What do you mean?" Huo Yuan Ze didn't quite understand this vocabulary.
"It means to say the next sentence, the result is often contrary to expectations, similar to slapping your face with your own words." Jiang Xun earnestly explained to him.
Huo Yuan Ze narrowed his eyes as he uttered in a deep voice in her ear, "Then do you expect me to slap myself or not?"
Jiang Xun blinked. Then, she shook her head with a smile, "I don't know."
"Rest assured."
Huo Yuan Ze domineering held her and covered her delicate lips. Jiang Xun could feel a scorching breath pouncing toward her nose, a possessive kiss with the faint smell of a steady and mature men's cologne. With the back of her head held by Huo Yuan Ze and pressed close to him, she felt hot in her chest while her body also began to boil.
Jiang Xun lazily closed her eyes, while Huo Yuan Ze stared at her expression greedily. The heat over his entire body all rushed to gather in the same place, causing the temperature in the room to gradually rise as well as the touching skin between the two to become hotter.
Huo Yuan Ze felt that every whisper and gasp of Jiang Xun infatuated him. Each time, her tremors could make him crazy.
In front of her, he even seemed to be ten years younger, completely unable to maintain calm and self-composed.
When Huo Yuan Ze left her lips, his gaze tightly locked her face. Only then did he begin to slowly enjoy the spring scenery in front of him.
...
Afterwards, Jiang Xun paid a painful and happy price for her provocation.
Huo Yuan Ze had requested a day off for her to let her rest well at home and forbid her to go out.
In order to keep her obedient, Huo Yuan Ze only went to the company in the morning and came back to accompany her in the afternoon. This was his first break in two years. In the eyes of everyone, he can be said to be a workaholic, who didn't have a romantic relationship or even stray close to women. When he started working, he appeared like a cold robot. His current transformation caused the company to speculate that the Huo Group was going to gain a Madame President. Although Huo Yuan Ze kept it quite concealed, with his recent movement of having Qu Xing Sheng Shi strongly backing Jiang Xun, many people had already guessed that Jiang Xun was Huo Yuan Ze's little girlfriend.
This gossip was also quickly spread to the web.
The hype between Jiang Xun and Luo Chi hadn't faded yet when this news caused another sensation again. Therefore, Jiang Xun's popularity couldn't diminish for a long time. Yet, as soon as Huo Yuan Ze's name was revealed, most people felt Luo Chi had no hope with Jiang Xun.
Compared to Huo Yuan Ze, Luo Chi was still slightly inferior. In financial strength, influence and appearance, Huo Yuan Ze was all better than Luo Chi, only he was indeed on the older side.
A few days later, Luo Chi's manager asked Jiang Xun's manager to pass his thanks to Jiang Xun. Since that night, Huo Yuan Ze did actually let Luo Chi go. Although his male lead role was gone, other endorsements and activities all sent messages to discuss possibly continuing their cooperation.
At first, Luo Chi didn't know why. However, when he accidentally heard his manager calling Jiang Xun's manager, he knew that Jiang Xun had helped.
He immediately announced he was going to find Jiang Xun, but was stopped by his manager.
The manager said, "Why are you going?"
"I'm going to look for her."
"Why are you looking for her? You still think the trouble you caused is not big enough, huh, or do you still think you haven't suffered enough?" The manager was rather infuriated. Luo Chi has always been stable and has a boundless future. The accident this time caused the company to have quite some objections against him. Had it not been for the fact that the two had mutually supported each other to reach their status today, he wouldn't have run around everywhere to help Luo Chi. Instead, he would have given up on him long ago.
Seeing he was still doing something stupid at this time, his face couldn't help but turn cold and his tone wasn't that pleasant either.
"I'm going to ask her a few questions." Luo Chi said in a low tone with unwillingness written on his face.
"Don't you just want to ask if she got together with Huo Yuan Ze willingly? What is your brain filled with? Do you truly think you're doing any good for her?"
Luo Chi went silent and didn't speak.
The manager paused for a while and his speech became milder. "This time President Huo stopped troubling you is because I asked Jiang Xun for help. If you don't want to be in the entertainment industry and want to also drag Jiang Xun into the water, I won't stop you. Her career is currently just starting, do you want her to be canceled as well?"
Luo Chi's face turned ugly as his gaze became complicated.
"She helped you only for you to harm her again?" Luo Chi's manager's counter-question made Luo Chi unable to refute.
...
Jiang Xun didn't know Luo Chi's internal struggles, but she received the system's prompt while lying at home.
"Luo Chi's affection value increased to seventy-eight."
Jiang Xun turned over. Laying down for the whole morning made her lazy. Her being able to reap luck even while lying at home was a very happy thing.
Since Huo Yuan Ze wasn't here and she also happened to be on vacation today, she couldn't be freer.
After Jiang Xun got up and washed up, she heard the phone ring a few times in the bathroom. She wiped her face and hands before walking to the bed and picked up the phone to glance at it.
It was a WeChat from Xue Zhou.
She has already been secretly sending WeChat messages to Xue Zhou for two days behind Huo Yuan Ze's back.
When Jiang Xun was auditioning for the role the other day, she received Xue Zhou's WeChat request to be friend verification on her phone.
Only she saw the message after her audition. Her WeChat account could be found by searching her mobile phone number. Xue Zhou probably knew her phone number, but had never contacted her before.
Jiang Xun thought for a while before allowing it. Following that, Xue Zhou started chatting with her little by little.
Since Jiang Xun can mesmerize the other party face to face, naturally, she wouldn't be bad on the Internet. Moreover, there are some things that are hard to say in-person. Expressed in words, it could be both ambiguous and attractive, which can achieve even better results.
In just two days, Jiang Xun had already received several notifications from the system that Xue Zhou's favorability was slowly increasing.
While Jiang Xun was chatting with him, she gradually changed the previous image of her being that infatuated and dull younger sister in his heart. She became more proactive yet a little bashful. While talking, she hinted her love and yearning from time to time, but never pushed past that last step nor would respond to his message within seconds. Instead, she'll reply occasionally. Only after a long time did she take the initiative to send him a photo to show him what she was doing. Sometimes it was a beautiful posed selfie, other times it was a work photo taken casually.
In short, Xue Zhou seemed to enjoy chatting with her. Otherwise, his favorability value wouldn't continue to increase.
When Xue Zhou asked about the relationship between Jiang Xun and Huo Yuan Ze, Jiang Xun replied frankly. Although she admitted her relationship with Huo Yuan Ze, she didn't completely cut off Xue Zhou's hope. The two remained ambiguous and chatted for a full week. In the meantime, Jiang Xun's previous audition role was set.
The third female supporting character, not the one that her manager has strived for her. Rather, it was a role with more scenes. Jiang Xun's performance on the day of the audition was amazing. If it weren't for the fact that the female lead and the second female lead were already decided, the director probably would have wanted to swap people. Based on the relationship between Jiang Xun and Huo Yuan Ze, with Huo Yuan Ze's one word, the female lead would most likely be replaced by her.
It's just that Jiang Xun didn't take the initiative to ask for it, while Huo Yuan Ze also didn't want Jiang Xun to work too hard, so he also pretended to be ignorant and didn't intervene.
It didn't bother Jiang Xun, because she herself prefers the third female supporting character to the female lead.
Jiang Xun pixelated the script and then sent it to Xue Zhou.
Jiang Xun: Guess what this is?
Xue Zhou replied after a while: A script, you obtained a role?
Jiang Xun: En.
Xue Zhou replied: TV series? Or a movie?
Jiang Xun: TV series, a historical drama.
Jiang Xun also sent an emoji of a discrete observation.
Xue Zhou immediately reacted and sent a voice message in surprise.
"Is it"Immortal Fate of Seven Lives"?"
Xue Zhou's voice changed a little from the phone, gentle and kind, but Jiang Xun only raised her eyebrows lightly.
Jiang Xun: En.
The male lead actor of"Immortal Fate of Seven Lives"has long been released to be Xue Zhou. The female lead was Xie Jia Jia, the most popular female star in the past two years and the second female supporting character was Nie Ying Ying, the actress who was with Xue Zhou in the original plot.
Xue Zhou and Nie Ying Ying were supposed to announce their relationship at a press conference some time ago, but they had quarreled a few days before the ending of that movie, so they didn't make it public. Then, after Xue Zhou's birthday party was over, Xue Zhou broke up like Nie Ying Ying.
Even if Nie Ying Ying was unwilling, she didn't try to retain due to pride. This time, her agreement to play the second female supporting role in this project probably held some intention of getting them back.
Once Xue Zhou learned Jiang Xun was going to enter the same crew with him, he acted extremely happy, causing the text in the dialog box to also become increasingly ambiguous.
As Jiang Xun watched Xue Zhou fall into the trap she set step by step, she thought it was about time to close the net.
She casually said something she wanted to eat. Xue Zhou caught the meaning and asked her out for a meal.
Jiang Xun replied she would think about it. She only agreed when she was ready the next day.
All this was hidden from Huo Yuan Ze. However, on the day of the meeting, Jiang Xun deliberately revealed some flaws, making Huo Yuan Ze aware that something was off.
...
At night, Jiang Xun and Xue Zhou met up in a private room of the restaurant. Halfway through the meal, Jiang Xun received a call from Huo Yuan Ze.
Jiang Xun glanced at Xue Zhou with an awkward expression.
With the phone kept ringing, Xue Zhou also felt a little awkward. Yet, he still politely suggested, "Why don't you answer the phone first?"
Jiang Xun nodded, and then she got up to head to the restroom. Nevertheless, after another two steps, she answered the call and even 'accidentally' pressed the speaker mode.