Lin Jingxing stared at the unbelievably handsome movie star for a good few minutes before calling out,
“Sister Wan'er, Actor Gu said he wants to help you with your luggage!”
The next moment, Gu Qing cleanly put down the suitcase in his hand.
“Actor Gu, didn’t you come specifically to help Sister Wan'er carry her luggage?”
Looking at the woman with a gentle smile, pretending to be oblivious, Gu Qing was so amused he laughed.
“That’s right, I don’t have any property in Tianshui City.
But now the show is indefinitely suspended, and all the five-star hotels are fully booked. So I was hoping that based on our time as classmates, Mr. Lin would take me in for a while.
Of course, I won’t be eating and staying for free. I’ll pay three times the market rate for rent.”
Surprised that the other party would use such a flimsy excuse as all five-star hotels being fully booked, Lin Jingxing refused without a second thought,
“My humble abode is too small, I’m afraid it cannot accommodate a distinguished guest like yourself, Actor Gu.”
“I can pay more rent.”
“Actor Gu, it’s not about the money.
Because a quarter of an hour ago, I already promised Sister Wan’er that she could stay at my place.
And my place is small, only two rooms, so…”
At the end, Lin Jingxing spread his hands, his reasoning impeccable.
But the movie star Gu Qing smiled dismissively,
“It’s fine, I’m not that picky about my living environment. If there’s no bedroom, I can sleep in the living room.”
“Actor Gu, it’s not very appropriate for a man and a woman to be alone…”
“How can it be just a man and a woman? Isn’t Miss Shangguan also here?
Of course, if Mr. Lin wants to do something to me alone, that’s also an option.”
“Uh—”
The warm breath on his ear, coupled with certain inappropriate images playing in his mind, made Lin Jingxing feel like he had hoisted himself by his own petard.
Fortunately, Shangguan Wan'er walked out from the dorm entrance at this moment.
Lin Jingxing, as if seeing a savior, rushed forward two steps at a time, familiarly linking arms with her and walking ahead.
As for the lone luggage forgotten on the spot, it was picked up by the movie star Gu Qing.
Immediately after, the three of them took Actor Gu Qing’s multi-million dollar luxury car to Lin Jingxing’s modest house, worth less than a million.
Lin Jingxing, who couldn’t get rid of him no matter what, wondered if all movie stars had such thick skin. He looked at the paltry one-meter-sixty sofa in his living room and suggested that he and Shangguan Wan'er share a room, giving the other one to Gu Qing.
Unexpectedly, this suggestion was strongly opposed by both Gu Qing and Shangguan Wan'er.
Thus, the original arrangement remained.
Shangguan Wan'er went to tidy up the room, and Gu Qing had his agent Ye Yunzhou deliver a pile of meat, eggs, vegetables, and fresh fruit.
“I say, my great ancestor Gu, what madness has possessed you?
You’re telling me to book out all the five-star hotels in Tianshui City, and then you come to this dilapidated place that smells of poverty…”
Before Ye Yunzhou’s complaints were finished, he felt a lightness in his hand as two large bags of goods were taken.
He didn’t have time to marvel that the prodigy he’d mentored had finally learned to care for others.
The next moment, the door in front of him slammed shut with a ‘bang,’ missing his nose.
???
As a top agent in the industry and the third young master of the Ye family, Ye Yunzhou was not one to be trifled with.
If he couldn’t call the wind and rain, he was at least someone with a reputation.
Only this Gu Qing!
He treated him as a errand boy every day, not only ordering him around but also discarding him after use!
Bah, bah, bah, he wasn’t a donkey!
Growing more indignant, Ye Yunzhou, consumed by curiosity, raised his hand and knocked on the door.
A moment later, the door opened again.
However, it was not Gu Qing who opened it, but a woman.
And a woman with a cool demeanor and unparalleled beauty!
“Are you Shangguan Wan’er?”
Ye Yunzhou, having worked in the entertainment industry for years, directly stated her name and then wore an expression of understanding.
“Tsk, tsk. I always thought Gu Qing was ascetic and gay. Turns out he’s been keeping a mistress in secret!
No wonder he, who never participates in variety shows, proactively asked me to take on the gig for ‘Hello, Eighteen!’
It was all so he could stand openly with his little darling!”
Ye Yunzhou chattered on, but Shangguan Wan'er didn’t even spare him a glance. Seeing that he was the movie star Gu Qing’s agent, she simply returned to her room.
At this moment, Lin Jingxing, dressed in loungewear, walked out of his room.
Ye Yunzhou exclaimed in surprise!
He walked up to Gu Qing, who was organizing the ingredients, nudged him with his elbow, and teased him slyly,
“Wow, big brother, you truly are a silent dragon, a hidden tiger!
You’re hiding not just one mistress!
Come, come, tell your brother your experience of enjoying the blessings of multiple women!”
Perhaps Ye Yunzhou was too noisy, Gu Qing stopped what he was doing and cast a cold, unfeeling gaze at him.
“Either come help out, or get lost.”
“Alrighty then!”
In order to get the juicy gossip firsthand, Ye Yunzhou, who had never done any manual labor, rolled up his sleeves and started helping.
However, after he dropped and broke two bowls and sent three eggs flying, Gu Qing kicked him out of the kitchen.
Forty minutes later.
Looking at the four dishes and one soup, all fragrant and appealing, placed on the dining table, Ye Yunzhou, whose stomach was rumbling with hunger, exclaimed in wonder as if he had discovered a new continent,
“Great Actor Gu, your cooking skills are impressive!”
Saying that, he reached out to grab a piece, but Gu Qing unceremoniously slapped his hand away.
“This isn’t made for you. If you want to eat, order takeout.”
“Don’t be like that!
Given our relationship, which is even closer than that of brothers, you should at least serve me two bowls of rice!”
Too lazy to bother with Ye Yunzhou, Gu Qing walked to Lin Jingxing’s door and gently knocked.
Inside the room.
Lin Jingxing, having bought all the undervalued shares of the Lin Group that were being sold, was admiring his “achievements.”
As she had predicted, although Lin Yuyan was the daughter of the male and female protagonists, she had not inherited their protagonist’s halo.
If she hadn’t deliberately targeted her, perhaps Lin Yuyan, under the protection of the protagonists, could have lived a life of privilege and ease.
Unfortunately, she, who had returned from Nirvana, would not, and would certainly not allow Lin Yuyan, this outwardly fragile but inwardly carnivorous flower, to have an easy time!
However, it was strange that she had only found videos of Lin Yuyan bullying her classmates.
The final video, which was enough to send Lin Yuyan straight to jail, was not made by her.
As the saying goes, when a wall crumbles, everyone pushes.
Could it be that Lin Yuyan’s enemies took the opportunity to add insult to injury?
But from the situation in the video, Lin Yuyan and the others should have been in some luxurious club at the time.
Such places generally paid great attention to protecting customer privacy, and it was unlikely, nor should it be, that there would be cameras in the private rooms.
Unless…
It was a secret recording?