Chapter 26: That’s When They Realize
Zhou Shiqing held the makeup brush in his hand, and his posture actually looked quite professional.
But the blush powder on his makeup brush was way too much, wasn’t it? Shake some off!
With this brush stroke, it’s going to turn into a monkey’s butt!
Xuan Xia couldn’t help but take a step back, inwardly wanting to shout: Don’t come over!
Zhou Shiqing saw her retreat, his eyebrow arching, as if inquiring or provoking.
Xuan Xia decided to save herself, just lifting her hand to take the makeup brush from him when the photographer nearby slapped his forehead and came up with a bad idea.
“Why don’t you two teachers shoot with makeup as the theme?”
Every pair of partners has a theme when filming duo promotional photos, and Xuan Xia and Zhou Shiqing’s original theme was Shengyang.
Xuan Xia didn’t know how exactly to create this Shengyang; it was probably the work of the post-production Photoshop artist.
But now they were changing it just like that.
Zhou Shiqing actually agreed!
Xuan Xia didn’t really want to agree, but it seemed she had no say.
So next…
Photographer: “You two teachers can freestyle. Good. Good~”
The camera’s flash clicked away.
Zhou Shiqing: “Why are you dodging?”
Xuan Xia: “Teacher Zhou, actually I think I can do it myself.”
Zhou Shiqing: “You don’t trust me?”
Xuan Xia: “…” Figure it out yourself.
Photographer: “Good, good, you two teachers can make bigger movements, don’t stay so far apart, get closer.”
Finally done shooting, Xuan Xia quickly ran off to change clothes.
While walking quickly, she said to Yang Wanxiu with a feeling: “I think Daji must have been pretty tired dealing with King Zhou.”
What makeup theme? It was basically her fleeing, him chasing, her unable to escape even with wings—a weird play theme.
Yang Wanxiu: “Huh?”
When changing out of the dress, Xuan Xia felt it was a pity; she was quite satisfied with the skirt and thought she could take some nice atmosphere photos, but Zhou Shiqing derailed the whole thing.
She couldn’t help but think angrily that no wonder his love path was difficult, a lonely widowed fate!
After changing clothes, she was about to ask Yang Wanxiu for makeup remover wipes, but when she unconsciously glanced in the mirror while speaking, the words she wanted to say stopped at her lips.
Unexpectedly, Zhou Shiqing’s blush brush didn’t turn her into a monkey butt; the blush was applied just right.
A touch of light flying clouds, just like a girl’s shy blush.
It actually matched the skirt she wore earlier perfectly.
Yang Wanxiu came over holding a whole pack of makeup remover wipes, admiring it with Xuan Xia: “This looks pretty good.”
Xuan Xia hummed in agreement, took the makeup remover wipes from her hand, and slowly wiped off the makeup in front of the mirror.
Yang Wanxiu felt it was a pity watching her remove it, but after a moment, she suddenly remembered something she needed to say.
“By the way, Xiaxia, your mobile phone kept getting calls earlier.”
During filming, Xuan Xia had given her phone to Yang Wanxiu to hold.
Yang Wanxiu handed the mobile phone back to Xuan Xia and continued reporting: “It kept ringing, so I answered for you. It was your mom calling.” At this point, she hesitated to continue.
Xuan Xia continued removing her makeup with one hand and took the mobile phone with the other, swiping the screen to open the call log.
Hearing this, she asked lightly: “Mm, what did she say to you?”
Yang Wanxiu didn’t know how to put it, pondered for a while before saying: “Actually, I’m not too sure what she was saying either. She seemed really angry. She said you didn’t notify her about the inheritance, and that you colluded with some lawyer.”
“Also, she didn’t know about your signing contract.”
Yang Wanxiu didn’t understand the other matters, but it was unbelievable to her that they didn’t know Xuan Xia had already signed with Xiangyun. Such a big deal, and Xuan Xia didn’t tell her family?
“Ah, your mom said to call her back when you’re done.”
“Oh.” Xuan Xia responded casually. After checking the call log, she opened the messages.
Wen Xizhi had also sent her quite a few messages.
It seemed the three of them had only just realized she had inherited the inheritance; Mu Hailu and Xuan Jixing were of course furious, and Wen Xizhi messaged to tell her that the couple was very angry, of course also thinking to persuade her to hand over the inheritance to appease the couple.
Xuan Xia curled her lips in a smile, finding Wen Xizhi truly ridiculous.
Hand over the inheritance? In her dreams!
After reading the messages, Xuan Xia put away her mobile phone, turned to Yang Wanxiu with a smile: “In the future, if these names call again, you don’t need to answer for me.”
“Oh, okay.”
Xuan Xia finished packing up and started asking about Ji Ziyao’s whereabouts, whether they could go back.
Yang Wanxiu said: “Brother Ji is in a meeting with Zhou Shiqing’s agent. Do you want to find him? He’s in the coffee shop downstairs.”
Xuan Xia thought since their agents were meeting, she wouldn’t interfere.
But she had nowhere else to go.
Yang Wanxiu offered a second option: “Or do you want to go back to the car and wait?”
This option was good.
Xuan Xia immediately chose to wait in the car.
Yang Wanxiu nodded and said: “Then I’ll contact the driver.”
She quickly contacted the driver, asked where the car was parked, and led Xuan Xia to the garage to find it.
Yang Wanxiu wasn’t unfamiliar with this platform building; she had accompanied previous artists here before, and led Xuan Xia familiarly to the garage, quickly finding the gray-black business car.
After getting in the car, Xuan Xia reopened her mobile phone and contacted Lawyer Fang.
Lawyer Fang had also just called her, but Yang Wanxiu had answered Mu Hailu’s call instead.
As soon as the call connected, Lawyer Fang sighed to Xuan Xia: “Miss Xuan, sorry about that. I didn’t know your family… your parents called me, saying they wanted to receive Old Mr. Xuan’s inheritance and asking how to do it. I just told the truth.”
Unexpectedly, the couple didn’t even know the inheritance had already been received; not only that, they yelled at him, saying they didn’t agree and demanding he handle it again.
Lawyer Fang hadn’t seen such weirdos in a long time; he communicated patiently for a while with good temper, but they still wouldn’t budge.
Later, probably realizing communication with him was useless, they threatened to complain about him and hung up.
Lawyer Fang thought things might be bad, so he quickly called Xuan Xia. The call didn’t connect, and later it showed busy, so Lawyer Fang stopped calling.
After hearing Lawyer Fang’s account, Xuan Xia sincerely said: “Sorry, Lawyer Fang. I should be the one apologizing for getting you involved.”
“What are you saying? I’m the lawyer responsible for handling this. How is it getting me involved?” Lawyer Fang, with decades of experience, was long open-minded and didn’t take the Xuan family couple’s attitude to heart at all.
He just felt that the couple definitely wouldn’t accept the current result, even though the legal process was complete. He didn’t know what the couple would do next or if Xuan Xia would be in trouble.
“Thanks, Lawyer Fang. If they contact you again later, let me know.”
“Sure.”
They spoke a few more sentences before ending the call.
