Showbiz Scandal: The Official Announcement of My Ex and Myself-Chapter 199: Yu Xia, Why Are You Always So Heartless
"Do you know how I spent this New Year?"
After the Spring Festival Gala ended, it was already half-past one. He thought about going home to wait for her return, planning to send her a "Happy New Year" message first, worrying she might be upset about the delay.
Wanting to cheer her up, he even asked a staff member for a tiger plush toy, intending to take a photo with it to send to her.
However, when he opened his phone, the first thing he saw was a message from Song Xi about the latest rumors concerning Yu Xia.
Someone posted a photo on social media showing Yu Xia, her brother, her nephew, and also Xi Heng. The four of them stood together, talking and laughing like a close-knit family, with Yu Xia looking down, smiling gently in an unbelievable way.
He had never seen her smile like that.
The person who posted the photo enthusiastically expressed their approval of Yu Xia and Xi Heng’s relationship, mentioning how they were each other’s first love, and that since Xi Heng and Yu Heng are friends, Yu Heng would definitely wish for them to get back together.
In any case, though the rumors didn’t spread widely, they were made more irritating by marketing accounts, and even more so by the message that Song Xi sent along with it.
[Did you see that? He is the one she truly likes. Back then, they were almost at the point of marriage. To you, she was just playing around. You didn’t really believe she liked you that much, did you?]
He hadn’t slept for twenty hours straight because of this performance, and after seeing Song Xi’s message, he felt dizzy and heard a ringing in his ears, standing dazedly at the backstage exit for a long time.
It wasn’t that he wasn’t afraid; he was always afraid, afraid that Yu Xia was just playing around again this time.
He wanted to call her to question her, to rush back to find her, so she would deny those claims and say she actually liked him.
But he himself wasn’t confident, how much did she like him?
Could it measure up to how much she liked her family? Her manager? Her assistant? Or even her past affection for Xi Heng?
Or was her liking towards him so shallow it didn’t even compare to her fondness for stray cats and dogs on the street?
He stood in the wind until Mr. Yang tapped him on the shoulder, reminding him of a team New Year’s interview later, bringing him back to his senses, though his hands and feet were already frozen numb.
Mr. Yang said he could get a few hours of sleep in the car; the interview was at eight. But he just couldn’t sleep, staying wide awake until eight came, when he saw Song Xi appear in his sight.
Song Xi was smiling at him, a mocking smile.
The New Year’s interview barely went through, and once he calmed down, he wanted to call Yu Xia, only to find his phone had somehow already turned off.
Song Xi walked up beside him after the others had left, leaned in and said to him:
"How about it, a New Year’s surprise? I know more details, want to hear?"
He didn’t respond, allowing Song Xi to speak on his own.
"They were first loves, I heard their relationship was particularly good. Their families also have partnerships, spending holidays together. That Mr. Xi even invested in a couple of shows for Yu Xia."
"Did you take a good look at that photo, zoom in perhaps? She looks genuinely happy smiling at Xi Heng, now that is what you call liking someone. As for what she told you about liking you, it’s worthless, you are nothing but a transition after her breakup with Xi Heng, just like Yu Zhi, nothing special."
"Care to guess what they’re doing together now? They’re surely talking and laughing, occasionally being teased by family members as a perfect match. They talk about past times, recent times, but never about you. They might even be drunk by now, kissing..."
He couldn’t listen any further and punched Song Xi in the face, with Wei Yaoyao and a few managers loudly trying to stop them from behind.
When they were pulled apart, Song Xi still wore that mocking smile, wiping away blood from the corner of his mouth, looking at him as though he were a pathetic dog that fell into water.
He stared at him intently; Mr. Yang said he wasn’t in the right state and urged him to go home and rest.
Then he returned to Yu Xia’s doorstep, standing until now.
Awaiting confirmation of her and Xi Heng’s "good relationship."
Xie Qingci stepped closer to her and asked again, "Do you know how I spent it, Yu Xia?"
He seemed close to tears, not knowing if the redness in his eyes was due to tears or simply the result of staying up too long.
Yu Xia was momentarily stunned by his appearance, unable to find words; after a pause of five or six seconds, she tentatively reached out for him.
"What’s wrong with you? Did Song Xi say something? There’s really nothing between me and Xi Heng. Yes, we were together before, but that was several years ago. He’s just my brother’s business partner now, it truly was just a coincidence this time..."
As soon as her hand touched his sleeve, he avoided her contact the next second.
"Let me be alone for a bit," he said with restraint.
She fixed her eyes on him as her mouth slowly pressed into a line.
"Fine, go cool off in the bathroom."
Saying that, she walked around him and began packing.
Xie Qingci stood there, listening to the sounds of her picking up and putting down things, then laughed self-deprecatingly after a long pause.
"Yu Xia, why do you always have to be so heartless?"
She approaches him, then leaves him, and even getting back together was only her offhand response to his pitiful pleas. Regardless of what happened, she was always the composed and unaffected one.
Just like Song Xi said, this wasn’t genuine affection; she really was just "playing around," not even worth getting angry over.
After he said that, Yu Xia abruptly turned and threw a box of cookies at his back with a ’thump’, almost knocking him off balance.
"Xie Qingci, are you crazy, going mad during the holidays?! If you think there’s something between Xi Heng and me, I already explained, there’s no way! No fucking way! You’re the only one I’m coming back to fill that void! What more do you want me to say, that I’ll never get involved with another man again?!"
"I am heartless, am I? If I were heartless, would I rush back to find you today? Would I hold back my dizziness and try to reason with you kindly? I should just have let you get lost! You decide whatever you want is what it is, you believe whatever others say instead of listening to my explanations, it’s just about you not trusting me, so why are you even here looking for me?!"
She stood up and started pushing him out with a cold face, not even looking at him.
"Get out! Come back and talk if you’ve thought it through, if you want to break up, then break up, if I ever soften, I wouldn’t call myself Yu Xia! Don’t act insane in front of me! Get out!"
The anger in her voice gradually turned into tears.
A sharp pain flashed through Xie Qingci’s head. He couldn’t make out anything else she said, except for the words "break up" and that tearful "get out," which cut through his chaotic thoughts like a knife.
He grabbed Yu Xia’s hand, pushing her back against the door, panting heavily as he slipped his hand under her clothes, frantically asking in a fit of madness:
"You want to break up with me again? Leave me again?"
"Why do you have the right to tell me to get out? Once I’m gone, someone else will come in, right? Dream on, Yu Xia, dream on! You can only be mine! You can’t get rid of me!"
Beneath his coat, the new clothes purchased by Yue Ling were pulled out of shape, and buttons scattered everywhere.
