CHAPTER 428: CHAPTER 396 ANOTHER INCIDENT ONLINE

Early the next morning.

Qiao Yuxian hadn’t woken up yet when Qiao Weizhou’s call came in.

Qiao Yuxian reached for her phone to take a look. After seeing his name, she paused for two seconds and answered the call.

Once connected, before she could speak, Qiao Weizhou shouted, "Sis! Are you okay?"

Qiao Yuxian was buried in bed, her hair a mess on her face, eyes closed, and said weakly, "I was fine before I answered, but now I can’t say for sure. My ear might be deaf."

Qiao Weizhou was silent for a moment, then softly asked, "Sis, are you alright?"

"I’m fine, I just dreamt of eating a braised pork trotter," Qiao Yuxian said.

Qiao Weizhou: "......"

Gu Yanjing, who had just entered the bedroom, heard what she said and laughed, "Want to eat it?"

Qiao Yuxian opened her eyes, looked at him, and said, "I want to eat braised ribs."

"Okay." Gu Yanjing brushed the hair off her face and said, "Got it."

Qiao Yuxian smiled at him.

On the other end of the line, Qiao Weizhou shouted, "Sis."

"I’m fine." Qiao Yuxian grabbed Gu Yanjing’s hand and sat up, saying, "Wei Jiye must have told you how the matter was resolved."

"He did," Qiao Weizhou said.

Qiao Weizhou was in the practice room all day yesterday, and his phone was with Wei Jiye.

After the incident, Qiao Yuxian called the police, mentioned it to Wei Jiye, but didn’t tell Qiao Weizhou.

This morning when he got his phone, he found out about the matter.

He quickly called to ask Qiao Yuxian.

"Focus on your debut and don’t worry about anything else," Qiao Yuxian said.

"I know," Qiao Weizhou said, "Sis, I’m sorry, I dragged you into this."

"Hm?" Qiao Yuxian asked curiously, "What’s happened?"

"I don’t know." Qiao Weizhou sounded confused, "But Yixing City never liked me, I can’t figure out why. He doesn’t seem to like me."

"Did you offend him?" Qiao Yuxian asked.

"I don’t think so." Since learning about this, Qiao Weizhou has been thinking about whether he’s had any issues with Yixing City, but can’t recall any, "He’s in the film department, always shooting outside, we’ve had no interaction. I can’t think of anything."

"Don’t worry about it," Qiao Yuxian said, "just pretend you don’t know it’s him and wait for the police findings."

"Okay."

After hanging up the phone, Qiao Yuxian lay back down on the bed.

She browsed videos in bed.

Gu Yanjing kissed her and went to the closet.

He had just stood up and taken a few steps when there was a sudden commotion behind him.

Qiao Yuxian was lying comfortably in bed, but after suddenly seeing the time on her phone, she quickly jumped to the side of the bed.

When Gu Yanjing turned around, she was already standing there looking terrified.

Gu Yanjing looked at her.

Qiao Yuxian looked at him, paused for a few seconds, then threw her phone on the bed and ran to the bathroom, yelling as if the world had ended, "Ah—I’m going to be late!!!!!! A hundred bucks!!"

Gu Yanjing’s eyelid twitched from her shouting: "......"

...

Qiao Yuxian woke up a bit late that morning and rushed out of the house, just managing not to be late.

Saving her meager intern salary.

Sitting at her desk, she made a silent resolution to work hard today and preserve what remains of her salary from further deductions.

However, an hour later, she went to the bathroom and realized her period had come.

When she went in, she walked normally.

Coming out, she seemed to drag her spirit along.

Her stomach ached, she felt weak, extremely sleepy.

But because of that vague uncomfortable pain, she couldn’t sleep.

So she sat at her desk, drinking ginger brown sugar water, with a warm patch on, continuing her work.

In this state, others couldn’t detect anything, they only felt she was a worker full of complaints constantly spreading outward.

Scaring those around her from speaking.

But half an hour later, Zhao Meng still approached her and said, "Xian, there’s trouble online again."

Qiao Yuxian turned her head to look at her, exuding a gloomy disinterest in anything: "What’s wrong?"

Zhao Meng looked at her and said, "What’s wrong with you?"

"Nothing. Just my period," Qiao Yuxian said.

"Painful?" Zhao Meng looked at her again, "You never had painful periods before, how come it started now?"

"No idea." Qiao Yuxian said, "Feels like in the past year my immunity has dropped."

"Did you get checked?" Zhao Meng asked.

"Yes." Qiao Yuxian said, "Physically very strong. No problems anywhere."

Zhao Meng thought for a moment and said, "Could it be related to your marriage?"

"What’s marriage got to do with it?" Qiao Yuxian was puzzled.

"Maybe you two have been too active, or maybe too intense, or else..." Zhao Meng left her sentence unfinished.

Qiao Yuxian covered her mouth.

Zhao Meng looked at her, blinking, wondering what was wrong.

Qiao Yuxian stared at her for a while, released her hand and said, "Don’t blame Mr. Gu, it has nothing to do with him."

"Huh?" Zhao Meng’s expression twisted.

How come she defended him after one sentence?

Qiao Yuxian adjusted her frail yet gloomy expression and changed the topic, "What’s happening online? Is it about Qin Xia?"

"No." Zhao Meng still watching her said, "It’s about you?"

"Huh?" Qiao Yuxian frowned.

Zhao Meng handed her phone over saying, "It’s about you and Yixing City."

"Huh?" Qiao Yuxian frowned deeper.

She took the phone for a look.

Just like yesterday.

Yesterday, it was photos of her and Qiao Weizhou, today it’s photos of her and Yixing City.

Saying yesterday she fervently kissed with Qiao Weizhou.

And today saying she flirted in secret backstage with Qiao Weizhou.

Qiao Yuxian stared at those photos as if frozen, her breathing seemed to weaken.

She rested her head, trying to calm down.

Who could this be!

Surely this wasn’t also instigated by Yixing City himself?

Is she really that popular?!

These rumors include her.

Others’ lives matter, but hers don’t seem to?

Just for her to be the subject of fabrications.

Qiao Yuxian leaned against the chair, pressed her fingers to her nose, then picked up the phone, opened the shopping app.

Zhao Meng watched her sequence of actions asking, "What are you doing?"

"Buying an oxygen tank, I can’t take it anymore," Qiao Yuxian weakly said.

Zhao Meng: "......"

Qiao Yuxian browsed for a while, put down the phone, glanced at the computer, continued her work.

Zhao Meng observed her, seeing she truly was working, asked puzzled, "What are you doing?"

"Working." Qiao Yuxian said feebly.

Zhao Meng felt she was shocked, starting to act abnormally. After a pause, she asked again, "Are we just ignoring what’s online?"

"Ignoring," Qiao Yuxian said while typing, "I’ll wait to see what else they can concoct. Anyway, right now, it’s not me who’s most anxious."

Zhao Meng opened her mouth but didn’t speak.

Exactly, right now, Yixing City and Xi Mei are the most anxious.

"Xi Mei is really pitiful," Zhao Meng said, "Qin Xia, Qiao Weizhou, Yixing City. Is someone trying to sabotage Xi Mei?"

Listening to her words, Qiao Yuxian suddenly forcefully pressed the Enter key.

Thinking: It’s not someone trying to sabotage Xi Mei, but trying to sabotage her!

"No problem." Qiao Yuxian said faintly, "If I ignore it, it’s as if it never happened."

Zhao Meng seemed to want to say more.

He Xin walked past her, suddenly gave her a glance.

He Xin didn’t say anything, just that glance meant not to chat during work hours.

Zhao Meng closed her mouth, said nothing more, starting to work diligently.

Qiao Yuxian worked quietly all morning.

At lunchtime, when it was time, she told Zhao Meng and the others, and went upstairs to find Gu Yanjing...