Chapter 143: The Man She Married Is Reliable
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
The live-stream had already ended by the time they finished their plaza dance.
Meng Chuyuan came back and saw that the lights in Qi Yan’s room were still on. The door and windows to her room were tightly shut.
She rested in the hall for a while. Just as she was about to take a shower, Meng Chuyuan heard someone knocking on the door from outside the courtyard, so she turned the corner and went to the main door.
The recording had already ended, and Meng Chuyuan did not know who was knocking on the door.
She walked out curiously and opened the latch. Then, she saw Qi Zhen standing at the door, looking travel-worn. There was a black suitcase beside him.
Qi Zhen thought that the person opening the door was Qi Yan. He looked up and was about to speak, but when he saw Meng Chuyuan, he swallowed the words he was about to say.
He smiled gently. “Sister Meng, why are you here?”
Meng Chuyuan raised her eyebrows slightly and said to him, “Unfortunately, I live here.”
When he was free, he had been watching the live-stream. Naturally, he knew that Meng Chuyuan and Qi Yan already lived together, but he did not expect Meng Chuyuan to be the person to open the door for him.
Qi Zhen came in with his luggage and asked curiously, “Where’s my sister?” “In her room.” Meng Chuyuan looked back and pointed at Qi Yan’s room.
“My sister must have caused you trouble in the two days I wasn’t around, right?”
The issue regarding Qi Yan finding her own place to stay had been on the trending searches for the entire day. The netizens felt that her actions were a little extreme. She did not take the production team and the other guests seriously.
If the director had not deliberately arranged for the competition that night, Qi Yan might not have had a way to harmoniously resolve the situation. Meng Chuyuan looked at him with a fake smile and reminded him gently, “I’m not on the same team as her so you’d have to ask somebody else about the trouble she’s caused.”
In any case, no matter how much trouble Qi Yan caused, it would not affect Meng Chuyuan. Other than being in the same variety show, the two of them basically did not interact much.
After Meng Chuyuan locked the door, she turned around and said to him, “There’s an empty room next to your sister’s.”
“Okay.”
Hearing conversation outside, Qi Yan curiously leaned against her door, listening in on the commotion outside.
Meng Chuyuan took a quick glance of the surroundings and said softly, “If there’s nothing else, I’ll go back to my room first.”
Meng Chuyuan could see the haggardness on Qi Zhen’s face. She thought that since he had rushed over overnight after filming, he probably did not want to make much small talk with her.
After Meng Chuyuan returned to her room, Qi Zhen carried his luggage and walked towards the unlit room.
When he passed by Qi Yan’s room, the door suddenly opened from the inside.
Qi Yan leaned against the door and a trace of disdain appeared on her lips. She said sarcastically, “So you still know to come back?”
Qi Zhen was forced to stop. He turned his head and looked at Qi Yan.
“I haven’t seen you for a few days, but that treacherous face of yours hasn’t changed at all.”
Qi Yan snorted coldly and did not bother to talk to him.
On the other hand, Meng Chuyuan was tidying up her clothes when she realized that her ring was not on her hand.
In the morning, when she was making pottery, she was afraid of dirtying it, so she took off the ring and put it in her bag. Then, she forgot to put it back on again.
Meng Chuyuan scanned the room and could not find the bag she had carried today.
She thought about it carefully. When she came back just now, she had gone to the main hall and placed the bag on the sofa.
Meng Chuyuan opened the door and was about to take her bag when two figures suddenly entered her sight.
Qi Yan’s door was open and Qi Zhen happened to be there too.
Because the two of them were standing face to face and the light on the eaves was not particularly strong, Meng Chuyuan could not see their faces.
Qi Zhen was in a deadlock with her for a while and took the initiative to break the silence. “If there’s nothing else, I’m going back to my room to rest.”
Before he left, Qi Yan even mocked, “You’ve been doing well recently, your mother didn’t use dirty methods to exchange for sponsors, did she?”
At the mention of his mother, Qi Zhen subconsciously clenched his fists.
He gritted his teeth and looked at her coldly. “Don’t drag my mother into everything.”
“How can that do? After all, that’s how she became famous when she was young.”
“You can dislike my mother, but there’s no need to slander her like this.” After saying that, Qi Zhen pulled his luggage and walked right past her.
When Qi Yan saw him giving her attitude just now, she was so angry that she laughed. After a while, she closed the door.
“…” Meng Chuyuan knew that it was impolite to eavesdrop on others, but the courtyard was too quiet. They seemed to be speaking right by her ear.
She was a little anxious and wanted to go to the main hall to get her bag. She stood at her door for a while in the cold wind.
She thought that the two of them would not chat for long and expected them to disperse soon.
She did not expect to hear such a conversation while standing by her door.
Meng Chuyuan’s eyes were wide with confusion.
Weren’t they siblings?
Why were they making a distinction, saying ‘your mom’ and ‘my mom’…
Hearing the latter part, Meng Chuyuan seemed to have guessed something.
The family relationship between these two was quite complicated.
Meng Chuyuan shrugged and muttered, “They really aren’t treating me as an outsider.”
They weren’t even wary of their surroundings, especially when Qi Yan closed the door at the end. It was as if she wanted everybody to know that she was upset.
After watching their door close, Meng Chuyuan swaggered out. She took her bag in the main hall, took out the ring, and put it on.
The more she looked at the diamond ring, the more comfortable she felt. For some reason, she had a good impression of the Lu family. “Lu Qingye’s family is still the most reliable.”
There was no familial feud, nor was there a vicious mother-in-law. She had become a family with them so easily.
The next day
Lu Qingye, who was in a foreign country, woke up early in the morning and looked at the snow-covered scenery outside the window. He felt much better.
He slept for an extra half an hour today. Perhaps because his schedule for the past two days was more relaxed, he had begun to loosen up as well.
In the morning, he went downstairs to exercise and then ate in the hotel restaurant. He did not usually have the habit of coming down to eat. Once he got dressed he would head straight to work.
When the waiters and other tourists in the lobby saw Lu Qingye wearing a black windbreaker with his tall figure and handsome face, they couldn’t help but look at him.
He had to make a trip out of town later, so he didn’t plan to go to the office this morning.
Lu Qingye sat in a corner of the restaurant to eat. There was a laptop on the table as he worked and ate at the same time.
From time to time, the hotel staff would take the initiative to ask him if he needed to order any more food or if he needed other services. In fact, their goal was to get a closer look at him.
Later, they had begun to approach him more frequently and Lu Jinsen also noticed this.
He took a casual sip of coffee, then closed his computer and left the restaurant.
As it had been snowing recently and the road conditions were not particularly good, his assistant was still on the way to pick him up.
After leaving the restaurant, Lu Qingye stood at the entrance of the hotel and waited quietly. About two to three minutes later, his assistant hurriedly appeared. “CEO Lu, I’m sorry I’m late.”
