Chapter 61
The next day, as soon as the alarm clock rang, Xia Linxia opened her eyes irritably. Seeing that it was not yet dawn outside, she grunted, reached for her phone on the bedside table, but couldn't find it for a long time. Just as she propped herself up, she saw a hand flash before her eyes, pick up her phone, and turn off the broadcast gymnastics ringtone.
“I don’t have the energy to do exercises,” Xia Linxia mumbled.
“Mm, no exercises today.” Ji Fengxue put down the phone and rubbed her head, handing her a warm towel. “Wipe your face and wake up.”
Xia Linxia didn’t want to move and slumped back down. Then she heard Ji Fengxue sigh as if helpless and personally wipe her face.
She felt like she was going to be useless; it felt so good to be served.
Ji Fengxue put down the towel and pulled her hand to get up. She couldn’t budge her, so she resorted to a drastic measure: “Believe it or not, I’ll call your brother?”
Xia Linxia jumped off the bed immediately, tidied her messy hair, and gritted her teeth, “You win!”
She half-closed her eyes, groggily stumbling into the bathroom to brush her teeth and wash her face. Someone knocked on the door. She thought it was Xiang Huaimeng or Chen Nian, but to her surprise, it was an unfamiliar girl.
The girl’s voice was sweet and warm, with a hint of closeness, and she said with a smile, “Teacher Ji, I saw you hadn’t left yet, so I was afraid you’d oversleep.”
The girl’s name was Le Qingyi. She was a senior in college and had previously played a supporting role in a web drama, but she won the role of a maid through her own merit.
Ji Fengxue smiled and said, “Thank you for the reminder. Are you leaving?”
“Mm-hmm. Oh, right, this is pickled vegetables made by my mother. Try some. I was too busy the other day and couldn’t find a chance to give it to you.” After speaking, the girl checked the time and looked up to find Xia Linxia had come out at some point, standing behind Ji Fengxue, squinting at her with unfriendly eyes.
She quickly bowed. “Sorry to disturb you. I’m your fan. Um, I’ll go to the set to wait for you.” Then she scurried away and disappeared.
Ji Fengxue closed the door and turned around, seeing Xia Linxia’s displeased expression. She asked, “Morning grumpiness?”
“Hmph!”
“What’s wrong?”
“She’s clearly talking to you!” Xia Linxia said with her mouth full of foam, ran back to the bathroom, rinsed her mouth quickly, and then loudly reprimanded, “She’s clearly playing my maid, why isn’t she friendly to me at all? Instead, she’s chatting and laughing with you, and even came to wake you up early in the morning!”
Her words were fierce and her accusations were forceful.
Ji Fengxue blinked, her eyes filled with fleeting smiles. She said innocently, “You’re so fierce.”
“Hoh, you’re fierce already?” Xia Linxia poked her forehead impatiently. “Have you forgotten how you hung yourself on Xiao Yuran’s tree?!”
“I haven’t forgotten.”
Xia Linxia was stunned.
“I didn’t die, someone saved me,” Ji Fengxue said.
“Who?” Xia Linxia asked subconsciously.
Ji Fengxue glanced at her, lowered her head, and suppressed a smile. “It’s nothing. That girl is my junior, she just treats me as an idol.”
“Junior? You even know that?” Xia Linxia frowned. “I didn’t know, why do you know?”
“We chatted yesterday.”
“When did you chat?”
“Yesterday.”
“What did you chat about?”
Ji Fengxue looked at her with a smile. “What, are you jealous?”
Xia Linxia’s eyelashes trembled slightly. “Jealous of what nonsense. Forget it, do whatever you want, it’s none of my business.”
On the way to the set, Chen Nian clearly felt the atmosphere was wrong. Xia Linxia turned around, looking like she didn’t want to talk to anyone, while Ji Fengxue’s lips were curved up to an annoying degree.
After getting out of the car, she pulled Ji Fengxue aside and whispered, “You didn’t force yourself on her, did you?”
Ji Fengxue looked at her in surprise. “How can your little brain be filled with such good ideas? Is there anything else? Tell me.”
Chen Nian: “You are a devil who eats people without spitting out bones.”
Ji Fengxue: “You’re too kind.”
Meanwhile, Xiang Huaimeng also asked Xia Linxia, “Are you crazy? Did you take your medicine?”
“Get lost,” Xia Linxia gave her a sideways glance.
“Then why were you so fierce to Teacher Ji?” Xiang Huaimeng asked indignantly.
Xia Linxia asked without looking back, “How is she now?”
Xiang Huaimeng turned to look at Ji Fengxue not far away. “She’s very beautiful. She’s so beautiful even without makeup. This isn’t just God bestowing food, it’s a full course banquet!”
Xia Linxia was speechless. Just because of that fleeting glimpse yesterday, Xiang Huaimeng had actually deified Ji Fengxue. She gave this traitorous agent a rap on the head and gritted her teeth, lowering her voice to ask, “I’m asking about her mood!”
“Her mood…” Xiang Huaimeng looked again and reported, “She’s in a very good mood.”
Xia Linxia: “…”
Good for you, Ji Fengxue! You’re so happy when a young girl knocks on your door!
In a flash, she remembered what the other person had said earlier.
What did she mean someone saved her from the crooked tree?
Could it be that she had fallen for someone else?
“Do you think…” Xia Linxia suppressed the indescribable thoughts in her heart and whispered into Xiang Huaimeng’s ear, “Does Ji Fengxue like me?”
“Dream on,” Xiang Huaimeng rolled her eyes back at her. “She’s a fairy. Would she like a boisterous little wildcat like you? Don’t even think about it. Teacher Ji belongs to everyone!”
Xia Linxia was furious, but upon careful consideration, it really wasn’t likely. Ji Fengxue had once said that she wasn’t her type, and that she liked gentle and sweet types like Xiao Yuran. So who did she actually like?
At this moment, a figure flashed before her eyes. Le Qingyi, whom she had just seen, went straight to Ji Fengxue and handed her a small notebook.
She couldn’t hear what they were saying, but the smiles on their faces were too dazzling. After a few words, Le Qingyi ran back to the set, and Ji Fengxue looked down at the notebook and smiled.
Xia Linxia’s heart skipped a beat, and her gaze followed Le Qingyi’s figure. This pure and sweet appearance, wasn’t it Xiao Yuran 2.0?!
Her mood suddenly soured. She was absentmindedly dragged to put on makeup and change clothes, staring blankly at the camera. After one take, Ji Fengxue’s face darkened. She walked over and pinched her face, “Xiaxia, snap out of it. We’re filming.”
Xia Linxia touched her slightly sore cheek, repeatedly apologized to the director, and then put away her inexplicable thoughts to focus on the scene.
Because the beauty chose Lu Ke, the “man” with a meager purse, it aroused the dissatisfaction of others, and they immediately started arguing. Cheng Youwei silently threw a few people out. It was unclear whose subordinates rushed forward and accidentally injured Mihuan, cutting her white arm, and blood seeped out, merging with the red gauze.
Lu Ke was shocked and quickly called out to Cheng Youwei, then took Mihuan upstairs to stop the bleeding and bandage the wound.
The maid got gauze from the old madam and then ran out to find a doctor. Cheng Youwei was dealing with the miscellaneous matters downstairs, and there were only two people in the room upstairs. Lu Ke poured powder on the wound, tore off a strip of cloth, and skillfully bandaged her.
Mihuan looked at her seriously, smiled, and said without any panic, “Young master is so kind.”
Lu Ke said without looking up, “What young master? Didn’t you realize I’m a woman?”
Just now, when the other party rushed up and hugged her, she clearly felt this woman secretly pinch her chest.
“That girl is really kind. Since I’ve chosen you, I’m yours tonight. You can do whatever you want to me,” Mihuan said, her injured hand still caressing her cheek, coquettishly and charmingly.
Lu Ke helplessly turned her face away. “Don’t move. How old are you?”
In the following time, Mihuan told her about her tragic past. Lu Ke felt unbearable that such a young woman would be so eloquent and debase herself in such a place, so she said, “I’ll buy your freedom. You can be my maid.”
“No,” Mihuan refused directly. “Can your maid earn a thousand gold in one night?”
“…” Okay, this is a woman who is willing to fall.
“Unless…” Mihuan leaned forward and hooked her chin, her face slightly close, her smile like a flower, her breath like orchid, “You marry me.”
“What a joke.” Lu Ke tightened her grip, and the bandage was quickly tied into a dead knot. She stood up righteously and said, “You are a woman, and I am also a woman. How can there be marriage?”
“Why not?” Mihuan bent her long legs and lay on the bed, her red lips slightly curved, but there was no smile in her eyes. “Can’t women like women?”
Lu Ke was stunned and looked back at her in surprise, unable to speak for a moment.
Because this line was not in the script, it was added by Ji Fengxue at the last minute.
Xia Linxia didn’t hear the director call “cut.” Seeing that Ji Fengxue was still lying there, looking at her meaningfully, she didn’t know who she was talking to. She calmed herself down and quickly continued, “It’s not impossible. But you don’t understand the concept of a lifetime commitment with one person at all. Why don’t you be my maid first, and I’ll hire a tutor for you?”
Mihuan chuckled softly and hurriedly. “You’re so kind to me, and you don’t want my body. What do you want?”
Of course, it’s your beauty, Lu Ke thought.
A fugitive, while fleeing for his life, still remembers to go to a brothel. There must be something that makes him linger, and what else can a brothel offer besides beauties?
If Mihuan were brought by her side, perhaps she could lure the snake out of its hole. Of course, with Mihuan’s “experienced” identity, she might have even seen the criminal before.
Regardless of which possibility, keeping this woman by her side and under strict supervision was the best solution.
“Cut.”
Xia Linxia breathed a sigh of relief. She finally finished filming. Her gaze subconsciously fell on the person on the carved bed. The other person was lowering her head and gathering her outer clothes, revealing a large expanse of fair skin on her chest. She couldn’t help but wonder if Lu Ke would like this woman?
At this moment, she saw Le Qingyi behind the director and walked over. She stood by and watched the playback for a while, but her eyes kept darting to the side.
Le Qingyi didn’t notice her small movements. She was staring intently at the playback screen. Suddenly, she heard a leisurely voice next to her say, “What are you looking at? So happy?”
“I’m watching Senior Sister and Teacher Xia. Wow, they’re amazing! Their on-the-spot reactions are so good!” After Le Qingyi spoke, she realized the voice sounded familiar. She turned to look at Xia Linxia, and her face immediately turned red. “Teacher Xia, Teacher Xia.”
Teacher Xia!
How nice this address sounded!
Xia Linxia immediately felt like she was walking on cotton. She tried her best to suppress her wildly upturned lips. “Oh? You think it’s very good?”
“Yes! Especially Senior Sister, her acting is incredible. It makes my phantom limbs hard!” Le Qingyi couldn’t stop talking about the acting, her expression extremely excited.
Xia Linxia’s lips twitched. She pretended to be like a sister and put her arm around her shoulder, walking out.
Chen Lianjie, sitting in his chair, finally had some peace and quiet. He suspected he couldn’t keep up with the rhythm. What are phantom limbs? And they got hard? What are these young people thinking nowadays!
Le Qingyi didn’t expect such intimate contact from Xia Linxia. Her heart was beating so fast that it felt like it was about to jump out. She stammered, “Teacher Xia, what are you doing?”
Xia Linxia led her to a corner, looked around, and unexpectedly met Ji Fengxue’s gaze from a distance. The other party’s eyes sharpened. She immediately turned her head back, intending to get to the bottom of this on the spot. “I’m asking you, what did you give Lao Ji this morning? It wasn’t a love letter, was it?”
“Of course not!” Le Qingyi said blankly, then shyly, “It’s just a character analysis. Last time, when Senior Sister was teaching you how to get into character, I overheard it and went to Senior Sister for guidance. She told me to write a character analysis for her to see.”
It sounded perfectly fine.
“Do you like your Senior Sister a lot?” Xia Linxia asked again.
“I like her a lot!” Le Qingyi’s face flushed with excitement. “My Senior Sister and I are from the same hometown. She’s been my idol since middle school! Then I vowed to become an excellent actress like her and bring glory to our hometown!”
Xia Linxia’s mouth twitched. She felt that this woman wasn’t quite like Xiao Yuran 2.0, but to prevent any future problems, she pretended to be stern. “Alright, admiration is admiration, but don’t fall in love with her.”
Le Qingyi’s eyes widened, and her lips suddenly curved into a somewhat evil smile. “I understand. You’re afraid I’ll snatch Senior Sister from you!”
“Shut up!” Xia Linxia frantically covered her mouth. “It’s not me, it’s not me, I’m just afraid you’ll get hurt!”
“Mmm mmm mmm…”
In the distance, Ji Fengxue saw the two of them suddenly start playing around and felt a hint of displeasure. No, it was a lot of displeasure. She strode towards them.
“Teacher Xia, Xiaxia, listen to me, mmm.” Le Qingyi broke free from her hand and giggled after regaining her freedom, playfully bumping Xia Linxia’s shoulder. “Can I call you Xiaxia? Although you are my senior and my idol, I really want to call you Xiaxia to your face.”
Xia Linxia looked at her in surprise.
Le Qingyi clenched her fists excitedly. “Xiaxia, don’t worry, Summer CP is the best! I’m firmly for Summer CP!”
Xia Linxia: “?”
“Xiaxia, you might not know this, but I actually have another identity.” Le Qingyi’s soul, which she had been hiding since joining the crew, finally dared to peek out in front of her idols. “I like to edit videos when I have nothing to do…”
“You are…” Xia Linxia suddenly thought of someone.
“Yes, I’m the UP host whose video you liked! Xiangfeng Yixia is me!”
Upon hearing this, Ji Fengxue, who was behind her, paused her steps. Her gaze lingered on Le Qingyi’s face for a moment, and she immediately had a new idea, her lips couldn’t help but curve.
“It’s you?!” Xia Linxia’s pupils trembled. It took her a long time to regain her senses. She dazedly patted her shoulder. “You edited it very well, you’re a divine scissorhand.”
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