Chapter 44

Chapter 44 – Sweet

The celebrities’ Weibo were mostly usually posted by their PRs – they were under the scanners of countless eyes, a single misuse of a word could lead to a lot of issues.

There were plenty of incidents in which the celebrities accidentally liked all sorts of gossip, but which ones were really an accident and which were intentionally attempting to start something weren’t known by any but the celebrity in question.

Su Yi’s usual Weibo is also taken care of by the company. Especially since Wu Xue knew what she was like, she really wasn’t assured enough to let her post her own Weibo. But how could Wu Xue control her for when she did want to she would still go and post some.

Wu Xue couldn’t help scolding her in her heart, this celebrity of mine, really doesn’t let people rest easy!

Su Yi was at the moment leaning into Chu Ying’s shoulder, playing.

Chu Ying shifted his gaze from the folder he was perusing; in these two hours, he had gotten used to doing work to the background music of Anipop.

“Why are you sneezing again?” he said with a frown, about to touch her forehead again.

Su Yi joined another few blocks, vanishing them, and mumbled. “I really am better, it must be some hater scolding me.”

She had just finished speaking when the game page disappeared, and Wu Xue’s incoming call was displayed on the screen.

“Disembarking?”

“I just reached.” Wu Xue sounded tired. “Could you not let me spend two days in peace and focus on your relationship.”

“Aren’t I focusing on it?” Su Yi was confused and thought carefully before confirming that she really didn’t do anything today. “What did I do again?”

“What do you think?”

“I really don’t know, I spent the whole day today in the hotel,” Su Yi said with uncertainty, then glanced at the curtains. “And the curtains were closed tightly, really.”

“... Even if you didn’t close them tight no one would dare photograph Chu Ying.” Wu Xue stopped beating around the bush with her. “Why would you go involve yourself in Wu Ke and Tu Jinglan’s mess for nothing?”

Su Yi felt wronged. “Who got involved with them?”

“You...” Wu Xue paused halfway and only continued after a long while. “Do you know you used your account to like the post for the scandal about them?”

Su Yi was silent for a moment. “... Really?”

Her friend had always been willing to own up to what she did. Hearing her tone, Wu Xue frowned and sounded even more disgusted. “It really was a mistake?”

Su Yi tried to put it on her. “Perhaps it’s you who accidentally clicked it when seeing that post.”

“Who goes around Weibo using an account with over a couple million fans?”

“... Then why not just un-like it.”

“It’s been two hours, how would you do that?”

Su Yi tsked. Although she really wanted to like and reblog that post, if she did that it would drag her into the mess and in the future, any scandal about them would include her name – just thinking about that annoyed her.

But hearing that she had already liked it for two hours, Su Yi at once decided to go through with it.

“I’ve already liked it, I won’t “unlike” even if I die!” She sat up straight. “Don’t sneak into my account and undo it for me, that would make me appear especially cowardly!”

Wu Xue felt that this conversation could not continue, besides the taxi was already arriving at the hospital. “All right I won’t continue arguing over this, we’ll talk about this when I return to Shanghai, I still have things to settle here.”

After hanging up, Su Yi laid back down.

Chu Ying side-eyed her. “What is it?”

Su Yi shifted her phone and met his eyes. “... When looking through the entertainment news I accidentally liked it.”

“What’s wrong with that?”

“Nothing much.” Su Yi opened Weibo and took a look. As expected, the bunch of paid posters and media accounts made sure to @ her when they posted the news. “It’s just that in my main page everyone can see that I liked that post ...”

These media taglines were really something.

Things like “Su Yi liked it with her verified account”, “Su Yi is stirring the waters”, “Su Yi unveils what’s going on in the entertainment industry” started coming out – towards the end there was even a media house that pointed out they were in the same crew and came up with a couple thousand words describing the love-hate triangle between the three of them on the spot.

Her face was as wrinkled as a bittergourd.

Chu Ying found it funny, and reached out to smooth the furrow between her brows. “You’ve already liked it, stop thinking about it.”

“You have no idea these media keep spouting nonsense.” She turned the phone around and shook it in front of him, then turned it back and looked at the comments. “My fans are behaving like my parents, telling me to not cause trouble in the comments ...”

After Chu Ying took over the company the first industry he expanded into was the entertainment industry. Before, they had only bothered with investing. Now they had bought a few companies and merged them, planning to become part of the circle.

From the data, he actually couldn’t find himself liking this industry filled with hidden, unspoken rules. But after getting to know Su Yi, he had for some reason found it just a little bit interesting.

“It’s okay.” He pinched her ear. “You do whatever you want to.”

Su Yi smiled. “You’d back me?”

“Yeah.” Chu Ying’s hand moved down. “And I’ll help you massage too.”

Su Yi was afraid of tickles and moved away laughing, abashed enough to go red. “Captain Ying, you’re insinuating we do this in broad daylight?”

Hearing this ‘Captain’, Chu Ying’s heart skipped. He pulled out his hand and continued looking through his document.

After staying in the hotel for the whole day, at night, when he was showering, the doorbell rang.

The guy didn’t say anything more, striding into the bathroom.

The two once again kissed long and hard. His hand moved from up to down- slowly, carefully skipping around and stroking.

Su Yi leant against the wall. Not long after, her whole body was as soft as a puddle, her weight completely carried by the wall and the guy’s hand supporting her.

Her face reddened. She was about to reach out to turn the water off – right now she was really turned on and just wanted to get straight to the main course, she didn’t want to dilly-dally in the washroom.

She didn’t expect the other to suddenly reach between her knees. Before she could react, she was completely suspended.

She at once was too scared to move, automatically putting her arms around his neck. “Put... put me down.”

Chu Ying sucked on her lips again. “Teasing me for so long, finally you know to be scared?”

“I’m not scared.” Su YI’s face was red, but she still struggled to stand her ground. “I’m just worried that you won’t be able to handle it-”

All right.

Her words had completely enraged Captain Ying.

In no time, Su Yi tasted the fruit she sowed- pressed onto the wall while they messed about for more than half an hour. She had no anchor point, just like a small boat that met a huge wave in the deep seas; all she could do was let the wave take her anywhere and everywhere.

There were still tears on her face as she leant on his shoulder, shaking her head and mumbling incoherently, subconsciously.

After the storm Su Yi had lost her energy. The guy, on the other hand, was completely refreshed, easily carrying her to bed.

“In the bathroom earlier, what did you say I was?” There was teasing in his voice, and his hand was still roaming freely.

Su Yi had learnt her lesson and daren’t provoke him. She randomly came up with some idioms. “I said that you’ve gone through a hundred battles and are invincible.”

“I am invincible.” Chu Ying smiled and bit her on the tip of her ear. “But I haven’t gone through a hundred battles.” He whispered. “Just you.”

For a few moments, Su Yi fell silent, she was seriously touched. Then she caught the errant hand that was going everywhere.

“I have filming tomorrow.” She put her hand on his waist and let it droop there, waving it a few times. “I raise my flag in surrender.”

Chu Ying was clearly not satisfied, but he wasn’t rushed about it either. He put her hand aside, got up and turned off the light, then pulled her into his embrace.

“Go to sleep.”

......

At night, the phone beside the bed rang loudly enough to shake the sky.

When Su Yi opened her eyes, the guy beside her had already gotten up and hung up for her. She looked up. It seemed like her phone was the one that rang.

She laid back, asking blearily, “Who is it?”

“An unknown number,” Chu Ying said.

Just when he said that the phone rang again.

Su Yi rubbed against his leg. “Help me pick up, it might be something to do with work.”

Chu Ying picked up and listened for a few seconds.

Su YI asked, “Who is it, what are they saying?”

“It seems to be your agent’s fiancé,” Chu Ying said. “Saying that she’s cheating on him.”

Su Yi was silent for a while before slowly opening her eyes. She took the phone over and said ‘Wei’*.

[Wei is a filler usually used to call someone else.]

Liu Minghao sounded extremely harried. “Is it Little Yi? I’m Liu Minghao, this time you really must help me, Wu Xue is cheating on me! I saw with my own eyes that she went to a hotel with a guy.”

Su Yi’s eyebrow quirked up, and she took barely two seconds to think through this before lowering her voice and saying, “You got the wrong number.”

Chu Ying laughed softly beside her.

“What?” The other paused, possibly to check the phone number. “That can’t be the case ...”

Pa-da!

Su Yi hurriedly hung up.

The corner of Chu Ying’s lips curved slightly. “What is it, covering for your friend?”

“Yeah.” Su Yi admitted it readily, putting the phone on the table. “Not that I don’t believe him, it’s that I believe my best friend.”

Early the next morning, just when she woke up she received a message from Wu Xue.

【Wu Xue: I’ve cheated.】

...

Su Yi felt her cheeks to be a little swollen.

edited by larkspur as usual!!!

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