Showbiz Scandal: The Official Announcement of My Ex and Myself-Chapter 237: After All, That’s Yu Xia

Although I don’t have a domineering brother like that, Ling Luo thinks she’s found a great way to avoid suffering from their practice.

"Let’s find some friends tomorrow and ask them for some help, or directly have them drive us to the task destination! Sigh, why didn’t I think of this sooner? Otherwise, we wouldn’t have had to spend dozens of bucks on a taxi today."

Yu Xia looked at them as if they were nouveau riche: "You took a taxi to get here?"

Luo Sheng sighed, nodded, and said: "We originally planned to take the bus, but fans followed us and exposed us. The pursuers almost caught us with their car. We finally shook them off, but after walking for half an hour, we were exhausted and even went the wrong way. So, we decided to take a taxi. Anyway, a hundred bucks won’t cut it, we definitely need to earn more."

Ling Luo pitifully said, "We haven’t even had a meal yet. We were chased all afternoon, it was already 2 o’clock by the time we escaped, and we just had fried noodles at the roadside for 15 bucks! I even fell while running!"

Poor thing, her palm was almost scraped.

Yu Xia took her hand, blew on it, found it soft, and even gave it a little squeeze.

Xie Qingci glanced down at their clasped hands and placed a bowl between them.

"Let’s find some firewood to burn, I’ll look for stones."

Yu Xia had to let go of her hand, seeing Luo Sheng tenderly kiss Ling Luo’s wound, she cringed for two seconds, then turned to look for firewood.

She worked quickly, even carefully breaking all the sticks and stacking them neatly beside the "stove" Xie Qingci set up.

Xie Qingci raised the stainless steel bowl with two stones, adjusted its balance while half-squatting, his sleeves rolled up halfway, cuffed at the elbow, revealing his lean arm with prominent veins.

He looked very focused, his hair falling down and covering his eyes slightly, not bothering to fix it. His chiseled profile and slightly pursed lips added a hint of nonchalance in the flickering flames.

Ling Luo took another look, moved closer to Yu Xia, and asked her, "Your journey seems easier, right?"

With a car and food, Xie Qingci looked quite capable and reliable too.

Yu Xia was staring at a vegetable plant, wondering if she could pluck some leaves to eat. After hearing her question, she replied simply, "It’s okay, the beginning was hard too."

"Where did you get these dumplings? Did you buy a lot of food? How much money do you have left?"

Yu Xia: "My brother sponsored it, everything is sponsored by my brother. By the way, the dumplings cost five bucks. Can you accept that? If not, we’ll eat secretly later to avoid making you feel bad."

Ling Luo: "...We can."

Luo Sheng helped find a lot of firewood and squatted beside the stainless steel bowl, watching the water slowly boil.

He watched as Xie Qingci took out disposable chopsticks, paper cups, and napkins from the bag, expressing his amazement:

"Your equipment is really complete, did you prepare for a famine escape?"

This can’t be called escaping for life anymore. It’s like escaping to the south with the entire family when the homeland harvest yields nothing.

Xie Qingci handed them paper cups, opened a pair of disposable chopsticks, and prepared to cook the dumplings.

The first step to cooking dumplings is to call your sister.

"Sister, stop picking. How many dumplings should I cook?"

Yu Xia clapped her hands and stood up, Ling Luo asked in surprise, "He calls you sister?"

"Yeah," she said nonchalantly, "it’s easier that way, just two words."

She walked over quickly and took over the household authority, asking Ling Luo, "How many will you eat?"

"Ten, twenty or so? Do you have that many?"

Yu Xia patted the back of Xie Qingci’s hand, and he picked up some dumplings and put them in the boiling water.

"Today being the first day, we’ll offer you a friendship price, thirty cents each. If you order more than nineteen, you get a discount of one buck, ordering over twenty-one adds a buck. How many do you want?"

Luo Sheng: "...Twenty?"

She nodded in satisfaction: "Great, we just happened to bring twenty extra."

Luo Sheng and Ling Luo: "..."

Perhaps this is the method of a black-hearted landlord controlling market transactions.

Xie Qingci obediently cooked the dumplings, as the stainless steel bowl wasn’t too big, and couldn’t cook them all at once. He cooked one batch, then started on the next.

The first batch went to Yu Xia and Ling Luo, each holding a bowl, Yu Xia holding a paper cup, though Ling Luo eyed another bowl greedily, Xie Qingci showed no intention of letting her use it.

Yu Xia, being somewhat oblivious, didn’t notice these details, eagerly took out a small bottle of vinaigrette, poured some on the dumplings, and the aroma made her squint.

After half a day of hunger and the subconscious knowledge of needing to be frugal, a bowl of fragrant dumplings was delightful.

Ling Luo eyed it greedily too, added some vinaigrette to her cup, then decided to feed the first dumpling lovingly to Luo Sheng.

"Baby, you have the first one."

Yu Xia was shocked by this term of endearment, causing her hand to tremble, and the dumpling she intended to only take a nibble of ended up in her mouth entirely, burning her painfully, unsure where to spit it out.

Xie Qingci, quick on his feet, reached out to her mouth, urging her intently: "Spit it out, quick!"

Without thinking, Yu Xia spit it out.

Ling Luo and Luo Sheng stared at them in shock, or rather, at Xie Qingci in shock.

Yu Xia was dumbfounded, staring at him too.

He really wasn’t shy!?

Realizing what happened, she quickly told him to throw the dumpling away, then awkwardly laughed, thanking "little brother".

Luo Sheng and Ling Luo, also realizing, clumsily echoed something incoherent: "You...uh...haha, Xie Qingci sure reacted quickly, huh."

Xie Qingci looked down, wiped his hands with a napkin, then retreated to the side silently. 𝙛𝒓𝒆𝙚𝒘𝒆𝓫𝙣𝓸𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝒄𝒐𝓶

He seemed quite at a loss.

After one or two seconds of silence, the bullet chat boomed again.

[Whoa, did I see that right? Xie Qingci directly caught what Yu Xia spit out with his hand?]

[Even Yu Xia was shocked, and Xie Qingci looks so embarrassed, does he... like Yu Xia?]

[Previously on the subway, he wanted to reach for Yu Xia but hesitated! Also bought sweet potatoes! Bloody hell! He must like Yu Xia!]

[I knew something wasn’t normal with those three!]

[Making a fuss over nothing, lots of people like Yu Xia, every collaboration increases the number/typed this with trembling hands.jpg]

[Young people can’t hide their feelings when they like someone, they expose themselves all the time, even their gaze is filled with longing]

[This little brother is so damn charming, why do I like this version of Xie Qingci even more!]

[No! No, little brother! How long have you debuted? Your task now is to focus on your career!]

[Even if it’s true, even if it’s a secret crush... okay, maybe now a public one, but they might not end up together, does he not realize it but the company surely does?]

[So the little brother is doomed to one-sided love? Can only suppress himself while on the show, not even being allowed to look a bit more? So tragic]

[After all, it’s Yu Xia we’re talking about here]