Showbiz Scandal: The Official Announcement of My Ex and Myself-Chapter 232: My Dear Brother~

Walking forward from the small hotel for about ten minutes, there is a cluster of small factories. The roads around are quite tidy and spacious, almost as good as the city center.

A bit further ahead are the fields reaching out to the outskirts, where Hai City’s low mountains connect. This area hasn’t been developed, and Xie Qingci says he can see a field of rapeseed without flowers from a distance.

Qingbo Park is across from that field. According to a local auntie, you can take the only bus there from the end of the factory road.

Though the distance isn’t particularly far, solely relying on walking is very time-consuming and physically demanding.

After passing a large factory, Yu Xia gulped down water twice and squatted on the ground exhausted.

"Hold on, I need a two-minute break."

Xie Qingci looked at her worriedly, "Are you still able to walk? I can carry you."

She just shook her head, leaning on her knees and staring blankly ahead.

"It’s only the first day. How are we supposed to get through the next few days? We don’t have fast means of transportation, and public transit makes us easily spotted. Are we really going to take the risk of being caught by using public transport and play a game of extreme evasion with the pursuers?"

Xie Qingci didn’t seem tired yet; he squatted beside her and gently said, "I noticed there’s a car wash that might need some odd jobs and a parcel station where we can help pack parcels. I’ll go earn some money so we can take a taxi to the mission station."

Yu Xia said listlessly, "It’s not that easy. We can’t work long because of the risk of pursuers. We might not manage half an hour, and the only advantage we can offer is bringing in some fans, but there’s no one here, so how does that benefit anyone?"

After saying that, she continued to gloomily stare at the cars passing by in a daze.

Xie Qingci said again, "Then how about finding a restaurant near the park to help deliver meals? I..."

Before he could finish, Yu Xia suddenly jumped to her feet.

He stood up with her, seeing her suddenly become full of energy. Following her gaze to a car parked on the factory roadside, he asked, "What’s going on?"

Yu Xia was almost jumping with excitement, her eyes tearing up as she exclaimed, "We’re about to have money!"

Xie Qingci: "?"

Yu Xia led him to sneak up to a black car, circling to the passenger side and peering inside through the window.

Xie Qingci found this behavior very odd. She seemed like a desperate criminal about to break the car to steal parts to sell.

"Sis, you know it’s better to earn money legitimately. Besides, there are cameras filming us."

"Shh, don’t say anything."

She slid down next to the car door, pulling him down too, listening intently to the voices that were getting closer.

Until someone unlocked the car and got in, she rose slowly towards the window with bright eyes, like a mushroom growing out of the ground.

Then she gingerly knocked on the car window.

Xie Qingci could only see the vague silhouette inside turning around in surprise, and then the car window quickly rolled down.

Yu Xia beamed a huge smile at the handsome CEO in the driver’s seat, warmly and emotionally addressing him, "My dear brother~"

Yu Heng: "..."

Xie Qingci: "..."

Yu Heng’s sharp gaze swept over the two of them before he calmly glanced at the new drone, asking her, "What are you doing here?"

Yu Xia clung to the car window and wailed, "Brother! I’m suffering!"

"... Act normal."

"I’m on a reality show, wandered to this place, can’t eat enough or stay warm, and have nowhere to live. I only have 48 bucks on me to last five days! Five days! I’ll be starved into beef jerky by then!"

Yu Heng glanced at the silent Xie Qingci behind her, somehow feeling like a miserably married sister returning to her family because her husband is too poor to live with, yet she refuses to divorce and brings him along to sponge off her family too.

"Just tell me, how much do you need?" Yu Heng took out his wallet, counted the bills inside, and pulled them all out, "I only have six hundred, is that enough?"

"Boo hoo, I love you so much, brother!" Her upper body leaned into the car, grabbing the six hundred bucks, her hands trembling, "You’re the best brother in the whole wide world!"

Yu Heng: "At least say your thanks with your head up, facing me?"

Yu Xia stashed away the money, continuing to fawn over the car window with a pitiful expression.

"Brother, I sincerely thank you. You have no idea, this show requires me to wander for five days. It’s just the first day, and my feet are already blistered! We still have to go to a faraway place to complete tasks and can’t be recognized! How are we supposed to survive?"

Yu Heng pinched his brow, unemotionally questioning, "Anything else you’d like?"

Yu Xia blinked, holding up one finger: "Brother, I really want... a car."

Xie Qingci: ... Isn’t that asking a bit too much?

Yu Heng wasn’t too surprised, just said, "There’s no car dealership nearby, how will you buy one?"

Yu Xia scratched the car door innocently with her finger, "Brother, you’re mistaken. I’m not talking about your car, but one that’s suitable for two people to ride, commonly known as—a small electric scooter."

... Turns out he was overthinking it.

Yu Heng remembered there was a small electric bike shop nearby. He glanced at Xie Qingci, then decisively opened the right passenger door, "Get in. Let your partner sit in the back."

The partner in love, or rather, the accomplice in scamming his money.

Yu Xia obediently got in, and Xie Qingci quietly took a seat in the back.

On the storage compartment between the driver’s seat and the front passenger seat were two boxes of strawberries. Yu Xia naturally opened one, ate one, and handed it to the back for Xie Qingci.

"Quite sweet, thank you, brother."

Yu Heng: "Take them, take them all."

The invasion resembled locusts passing.

Yu Xia chuckled and placed the box below in her arms as well.

"Brother, you’re really nice."

A couple of sweet words, and Yu Heng handed over a bank card from his wallet.

"Can you use a bank card? Take it."

The silent drone speaker suddenly voiced the official rules: "You cannot use bank cards, credit cards, or cash gifts exceeding one hundred dollars, and cash gifting can only occur once."

Yu Xia paused for a moment: "What does that mean?"

Xie Qingci in the back seat explained, "We can only borrow this once and only ask for a hundred dollars. Even if we meet acquaintances later, they can only give us items and not engage in monetary transactions."

Yu Heng: "Return the money."

"..." Yu Xia reluctantly took out five hundred bucks but didn’t put it back in his wallet.

"I won’t give back the money. What’s in my hands is mine. How about this, brother, after buying the electric bike, you hold onto this five hundred bucks and take us to the market! We’ll buy as much as we can, considering it a charitable donation of living supplies from you. How about that?"

Yu Heng looked straight ahead, turned the steering wheel to the right, and spoke in a composed manner, "I never liked to force others."

Yu Xia: "That’s okay, I do!"

Xie Qingci almost burst out laughing.