Chapter 252

Other co-dubbing artist—Qin Zhixiu

The entire night was spent almost entirely in the constant laughter of everyone: Liang Shanbo, who was oily-tongued, with every note taking seven or eight turns, a veritable fool-playing rogue; Ma Wencai, who was deeply moving, sometimes domineering and sometimes childish; Yinxin, who cursed with a smile, crying and laughing at the same time; the page boy Si Jiu, who was more majestic and steady than his master; and Qin Zhixiu, who was arguing with himself, playing the role of Zhu’s father one moment and Zhu’s mother the next...

"Rest early." Placing the hot milk on Qin Zhixiu’s bedside table, He Lele smiled.

Qin Zhixiu pulled He Lele over to lean against the headboard with him. He Lele looked down at the small photo album in his hand; a small stack of albums already contained half a book of photos. The first page had two group photos. One was a group photo after they had all made dumplings in the apartment, and the other was a Polaroid taken after the dubbing ended tonight.

Gazing at Qin Zhixiu’s soft, water-like, flawless face in the photo, she gently leaned her head against his shoulder. In the drawer of the bedside cabinet was a photo frame. Many times when she walked into his room, she had seen him holding that frame, his gaze hollow to the point of heartache. Inside that frame was a group photo of his and Du Wei’s families.

"Xiu..."

Qin Zhixiu flipped to the second page. It was the photo of her and Qin Zhixiu napping that was on Mu Wei’s phone. The photos after that were life photos of her and the others in the apartment—she didn't even know when he had taken them!

Lightly sniffing her hair, he slowly lowered his head to kiss her ear and the side of her neck.

As long as she was there, his world was entirely at peace.

At dawn, the ringtone sounded. He Lele habitually turned off the phone and got up, only to feel something was wrong after being pulled back for a deep kiss by Qin Zhixiu—the sound just now didn't seem like an alarm.

Picking up the phone again, before she could open the call log, the ringtone sounded again.

Looking at the number, He Lele couldn't help but frown. Not wanting the ringtone to disturb Qin Zhixiu, she answered the call and got up to walk out of the room.

"Hello?"

"...Sing a song for me to hear." A low, hoarse, magnetic male voice, hiding a trace of fatigue.

"..." He Lele looked at the time and bit her lip hesitantly.

"Don't make me say it a second time."

He Lele hung up the call directly. Her eyes gazed at the phone screen for a long while, the depths of her eyes flickering slightly, and she added the number to her blacklist.

"Beep, beep, beep, beep..."

Listening to the monotonous system sound on the phone, in the darkness, Shentu Mo slowly opened his black eyes.

Writer’s Note:

Long time no see... Group hug! Sorry to have kept everyone waiting for so long...

☆, (8 Fresh Coins) Chapter 278: Two Men

Pouring the burnt eggs into the kitchen waste bin, He Lele stared at the eggs for a long while before packing up the trash bag and going out to throw it away.

She had hung up on Shentu Mo, and even dragged his number into the blacklist!

Could she say that her legs went weak just thinking about what she had done?

The memory that man left on her body was so profound that just thinking of his name would cause it to pour out like a flood. Before deciding to return to the apartment, she had thought about how she should act when she saw Shentu Mo—ignore him, completely ignore him! She was no longer an administrator, no longer had any obligations to him. All she had was the anger and disgust after being deceived and toyed with!

For the others, at least she could find some reasons to deceive herself, saying she forgave them because of this or that, rather than because she was self-deprecatingly a "Saint White Lotus." But for Shentu Mo, she believed that even a Saint White Lotus couldn't find a single reason to forgive him!

She had gathered all her spirit, waiting to "pass by like strangers" with him, but he hadn't returned to the apartment at all. Later, when they met by chance at the airport, it was the first time she hadn't felt nervous or uneasy after seeing Shentu Mo, and she had perfectly completed her "ignore" plan. She thought she had finally made some progress and grown a bit, but now it seemed that the reason she could be surprisingly calm then was only because... Ruan Lin was by her side.

Heh... right, what was she afraid of? Even if she was still cowardly, still so useless, at least now she wasn't alone; she had them.

Having left the wings of her parents and walked out of Lingyu’s company, she still had people she could rely on, people willing to love her. What else was worth her fear?

Shentu Mo?

Let him stay in the blacklist!

She hadn't just hung up on him; she had even cursed him and hit him! And wasn't she still living just fine now? Sing a song for him? In the next life!

After finishing breakfast, He Lele took Qingya to the new studio. Although much of the dubbing work involved confidentiality, her work today didn't matter, and besides, Qingya’s natural innocence truly made men, women, old, and young instinctively like her and treat her well. By the end of the morning, Qingya, who had been a bit shy in front of strangers, had already gotten familiar with several people, chatting and laughing like old friends.

She liked Qingya like this, and she also liked the atmospheric and untamed Qingfeng, and liked the enthusiastic and generous Lingyu even more. She was grateful for their friendship, which also allowed her... to gradually like herself.

"Lele, begging for comfort, begging for head pats, begging for consolation!" On the other end of the phone, Ren Lingyu acted like a spoiled child, half-dead.

He Lele couldn't help but laugh. "It’s only just after the beginning of the year-end; you still have at least a month of overtime to go, and you’re already failing?"

"Please don't say it!" Ren Lingyu hummed and pretended to cry. "I don't care! Begging for consolation! I want delicious food! Lots and lots of delicious food!"

"Bring more! I’m also begging for consolation!" "Same here, same here!" Ren Lingyu’s seniors, hearing Lingyu complaining, jokingly chimed in loudly from the side.

"Lele, I’ve been kidnapped! Hurry and bring delicious food to ransom me!"

Hanging up the phone, He Lele couldn't stop her smile. After explaining the situation to Rong Qingya, she prepared to go buy the food that Ren Lingyu loved most. But just as she sat in the driver’s seat, she thought of a... problem she couldn't help but consider.

Would she... run into L?

L...