Showbiz Scandal: The Official Announcement of My Ex and Myself-Chapter 267: I Still Underestimated You

When Yu Xia entered Xie Qingci’s room, she felt a bit embarrassed.

It was like stepping into the boudoir of her object of affection.

She raked her hair and tried to find something to say, "I wonder what’s happening outside. The pursuers aren’t still waiting around the hotel, are they? What did you order? Is it spicy? If it is, I’ll bring that bottle of milk over."

Xie Qingci closed the door behind her and said, "It’s not spicy, just plain porridge with small dishes. After eating too much meat and fish, it’s better to have something light for dinner."

"..." Why did this feel like there was an implication here?

"Haha, you’re right." She sat down on the sofa somewhat awkwardly, watching him open the takeaway boxes.

It really was plain porridge with side dishes: two servings of tomato and lean pork porridge, and three servings of simple stir-fried vegetables—shredded potatoes, broccoli, and snow peas. There were only two specks of minced garlic in the dishes; nothing else.

The similarity to the food she usually had under He Ci’s watchful eye was over 98%.

"Very nice, I should eat less, otherwise if I gain weight after the show, my agent will scold me when I get back." She pretended to say seriously.

Xie Qingci smiled and agreed with a "yes."

A gentle, polite, and peaceful fresh sea breeze seemed to blow over.

Yu Xia’s hand holding the chopsticks trembled slightly.

She firmly believed in the principle that if nothing unusual happens, there’s always something big brewing, suspecting that Xie Qingci was about to make some major move.

"Eat up. The ceasefire time will be over soon. Then we can hear about the other teams’ situations. Right now, we just need to avoid the pursuers, rest until tomorrow afternoon, and then move on." Xie Qingci spoke in his usual tone.

"Aren’t we going earlier?" She casually asked him a question.

He shook his head: "It doesn’t matter who sets off the flag, the key is the points. If any other team is about to surpass our points, we can leave earlier. Besides, if we reach the endpoint too soon, we’d have to spend money to find a place to stay... What’s wrong? Isn’t it tasty?"

Yu Xia was taken aback, offering a simple explanation for her leisurely pace in biting a strip of shredded potato: "No, maybe I ate too much for lunch, and now I’m not that hungry. It’s fine, don’t worry about me."

Xie Qingci nodded, reaching his chopsticks towards the box of broccoli she clearly didn’t favor.

They rarely ate alone together, and both unconsciously slowed their pace.

Yu Xia ate the green snow peas, sitting bent over on the sofa. Fed up with it, she simply sat cross-legged on the floor.

Xie Qingci handed her a cushion: "You can use this; the floor is cold."

She knelt to arrange the cushion, her hair swaying, revealing her dainty ears as she tilted her head.

Xie Qingci looked over at her adjusting her position, his eyes appeared soft, but the tenderness quickly disappeared behind his lowered eyelids.

At six o’clock, the drone reported punctually.

"18:00 ceasefire time! Current situation: Four teams have been captured, three teams remain safe. Yu Xia and Xie Qingci’s team has completed the third station task. Ling Luo and Luo Sheng’s team completed the card drawing task, drawing the Fast Forward Card, and will be escorted to the endpoint by the production team at eight tomorrow. The end flag is ready. Good luck!"

Yu Xia looked up in surprise: "They drew the Fast Forward Card, huh? How could bathing a turtle give them the Fast Forward Card?"

That’s some good luck.

"They probably had a tough time and could only rely on luck, but their luck was excellent." Xie Qingci said, continuing his meal.

Discussing things while eating gave him a warm feeling already of being settled down.

"We shouldn’t reach the endpoint too late either, let’s head out tomorrow morning?" Yu Xia took another snow pea and munched on it.

He nodded and said, "Okay."

After finishing their meal, they had nothing more to say, and Yu Xia returned to the next room.

From the afternoon onwards, this was probably the most relaxing time in the past three days—no need to think about tasks, no running around, no fear of being caught, with food to eat and a place to stay, it was as if they were not on a show.

Except she had to prepare to deal with her boyfriend’s clinginess.

Yu Xia looked around the room, turned off the glaring main light, leaving a circle of small lights, making the living room look like a proposal scene.

Then she wondered when Xie Qingci would come, how she should calm and explain when he did, and if he refused to listen and acted all upset and fragile, how she could cuddle him and coax him.

To make things go even more smoothly, she even moved a pillow from the suite, planning to place it under her back when the time comes, so Xie Qingci could lie in her arms for a long time without feeling too tired.

The preparations were very thorough; saying it was painstaking wouldn’t be wrong.

However, Xie Qingci didn’t come.

Not all night.

In the morning, Yu Xia sat on the toilet, her chin propped in heavy contemplation—

She had really misunderstood Xie Qingci.

The younger brother was actually a very good-tempered and straightforward person; logically, he could have been jealous and threw a fit, but this time he didn’t. Why is that?

It was because he got too scared after going crazy last time!

He surely thought she didn’t like him getting jealous for no reason, so he held it in even though it was tough, trying hard to act calm, but he might have spent the entire night crying in his room!

She knew it—the entire time they were eating last night, he only took broccoli in front of him, not daring to extend his chopsticks towards her direction, this was discomfort, this was endurance! Why didn’t she notice sooner?!

Of course, there’s also another possibility.

That Xie Qingci didn’t really mind much because she explained herself clearly last time, and there was nothing between her and Xi Heng, and yesterday she behaved normally around Xi Heng without making any fuss. 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝙬𝙚𝓫𝒏𝓸𝓿𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝙤𝓶

He grew up, learned to control his emotions, and viewed her relationships with others from a normal perspective.

This was a good thing; how could she think of him like before? It would be an insult to him! She should be grateful!

"Sigh," she stood up, looking at herself in the mirror, frowning, "Yu Xia, you should have a mindset of viewing him with fresh eyes after a few days, not always think of him with outdated ideas."

After freshening up, she walked out of the room and happened to meet Xie Qingci coming out with a large backpack.

They both looked up and made eye contact, Yu Xia gave him a reassuring look.

Xie Qingci: "?"

"What’s up, sis?" He couldn’t help but ask.

Yu Xia shook her head, walking ahead with her hands behind her back, exuding a sense of a great person’s melancholy yet determination.

"Let’s go, embrace the new day."

Xie Qingci watched her walk for two steps, then said, "Sis, you’re going the wrong way, we came up from the left yesterday."

Yu Xia paused, then backed up with her hands still behind her.

"Take two—let’s go, embrace the new day."

He laughed, going along with her play: "Alright, let’s embrace the new day."

They carefully sneaked out under the shelter of the car body straight to the parking lot.

The endpoint was at the playground in the grass skiing area, located on the outskirts. It wasn’t too far from here, but walking or biking wouldn’t be feasible.

They planned to take a taxi, hoping to reach the endpoint earlier than Ling Luo and the others before eight.