Showbiz Scandal: The Official Announcement of My Ex and Myself-Chapter 353: The Deranged Male Lead and the Tragic Second Male
This shattered, pitiful look was too much for Wei Yaoyao to bear.
That night, he sent several messages to Song Xi, recommending movies, TV shows, and radio dramas.
Wei Yaoyao: [At your age, it’s perfectly normal to be confused about life and emotions. These are meaningful works I’ve carefully selected for you, take a good look.]
Wei Yaoyao: [Forget it, I guess you won’t watch them, let me just briefly tell you about them.]
Wei Yaoyao: [The first movie could simply be titled "The Male and Female Leads Are True Love, The Male Second Lead Can Only Be Trampled". In it, the second male lead gets drunk on love, makes lots of mistakes, and in the end, gets slapped down a mountain by the female lead.]
Wei Yaoyao: [The second TV show could be summarized as "You Love Me, But I Just Don’t Love You and I Even Want To Kill You". Just from the title, you can tell how tragic the second male lead’s fate is, right?]
Wei Yaoyao: [As for the radio drama, without visuals, it’s not as intense, but judging from the tragic tone, apart from the male lead stabbing himself twice, recovering, and living happily with the female lead, the other male characters are all heartbroken by the female lead and then ’chopped’ by the male lead. You know, Yu Xia has a hard heart and Xie Qingci is quite crazy; they could totally do something like this!]
Wei Yaoyao: [In short, love is precious, but life is more valuable. For the sake of happiness, sacrifices must be made.]
He wanted to send a few more lines, but the messages he sent all came back with a red exclamation mark.
Song Xi had blocked him.
The experience of pretending to be a life coach was interrupted, so Wei Yaoyao decided to selectively forward some of the messages to Xie Qingci.
Wei Yaoyao: [See, I’m making amends, right? I’ve worked so hard to ensure your happiness isn’t disturbed, I haven’t worked this hard since school.]
A moment later, Xie Qingci replied with one line.
[Thank you for giving me a new idea.]
Wei Yaoyao: [...]
Wei Yaoyao: [I don’t know which part gave you an idea, but I’m going through the formalities to advise you — selling organs is illegal, don’t harm your body, brother.]
Xie Qingci: [Thanks]
Turning away, Xie Qingci forwarded the video he received to Yu Xia.
Then he quietly waited.
At this time, Yu Xia had just come back from outside.
The gradually rising temperatures in April lent a slight sultriness to the night. She went out for a walk, saw Yuan Wang who was dragged by his dog, and enjoyed the perfect scene, then slowly went back upstairs.
When she received the video, she was quite puzzled, frowning, thinking it might have been sent by mistake.
Xie Qingci never sent her videos or anything, let alone something like "A Romance Drama You Haven’t Seen Before".
With curiosity, she played it, finding the content matched the title perfectly.
The male lead falls in love with the female lead, but the female lead won’t give up the whole forest for one tree. So, she made some mistakes, the male lead says it’s okay on the surface, but secretly stabs himself twice, then does whatever it takes to destroy all male characters around the female lead.
In a word—it’s full of melodrama and clichés.
Why did Xie Qingci send her such a video? What was he trying to say? Was this a warning not to mess around? Or was he saying he’s about to start a new phase of acting pitiful? Like stabbing himself twice and saying, "Loving you leaves the deepest impression on you"?
Late at night, Yu Xia sweated profusely from overthinking.
She cautiously asked: [The video’s well-produced, the soundtrack is just okay. Babe, what do you mean by this?]
Xie Qingci: [Kitten smile.jpg]
Xie Qingci: [After we go public, let’s go see a movie?]
Yu Xia: [...That’s it?]
Xie Qingci: [What else would there be?]
Xie Qingci: [The video was sent to me by Wei Yaoyao, I watched a minute and suddenly thought we should see a movie together.]
Yu Xia seriously typed: [Alright, whatever movie you want to see. By the way, has Wei Yaoyao eaten too much and got bored?]
Xie Qingci: [Possibly?]
Wei Yaoyao, completely unaware he’d been "sold out" again, had gone off to happily play games.
Meanwhile, the sweet couple had switched from messaging to a video call, starting to pick a place for a movie date a few months from now.
Xie Qingci wanted to go to the busiest Universal City, but Yu Xia had been there before and felt the crowd and environment weren’t great.
Besides, she really thought it was too early to be discussing this matter now.
Xie Qingci purposely sighed, sounding regretful as he said, "So you’ve already been there with someone else, while I haven’t even gone to the movies with a girl."
"..." She was a bit overwhelmed by his downcast look in the bedroom light, and impulsively said, "I haven’t watched a movie at home with someone else either."
Xie Qingci slowly lifted his eyes, staring straight at her. Yu Xia felt a bit embarrassed under his direct gaze, then she heard him say:
"Then let’s watch two movies. Within a month of going public, we can see one at a theater. Then, on my birthday, we’ll watch one at home together."
Yu Xia’s heart skipped a beat.
Was this a hint? Bringing up his birthday so suddenly, she couldn’t exactly refuse.
She pretended not to grasp his implication, nodding seriously: "That’s possible, I’ll recommend a foreign art film about humanity and values when the time comes, it’s very interesting."
Xie Qingci smiled softly: "Sure. I’m looking forward to it."
Yu Xia put her phone on a stand, taking a deep breath, and asked about his birthday plans.
"Have you decided how to spend your birthday? Fans will probably plan a celebration for you, you should check online that day to thank them properly, maybe post a photo or record a vlog to give back to them. If the company arranges a birthday concert or something, that could be nice, though a bit exhausting for you."
Xie Qingci shook his head: "There won’t be any major events, I want to spend it with you."
She agreed, bending over and slowly changing her slippers: "Sure, I can make you a mini cake. But what about your parents? Won’t you celebrate with them?"
"They don’t have time to come back. Your birthday is also coming up, is there something specific you want?"
Yu Xia sat in front of the vanity mirror, lazily taking out the hair claw from her hair: "I’ve never been asked like this, what I want isn’t a gift, but a surprise."
Xie Qingci loved watching her perform daily routines in front of him, like taking down her hair, changing clothes, removing makeup, and when she tilted her head to smile at him with her hair down and her chin propped on her hand, she was especially enticing to him.
His voice softened: "What kind of surprise do you want? I’m afraid of getting it wrong."
"That’s something you have to figure out, just like when I prepare a surprise for you, I don’t ask for the direction or category, just patiently wait."
He pressed his lips into a smile: "You’ve prepared a surprise for me?"
"Mm-hmm, a surprise you wouldn’t expect."
