Chapter 56: Go Too Far And You’ll End Up In Jail
On the flight back to Jiangshi, Xuan Xia kept trying to mentally draft her words, thinking about how to ask Daoist Master Qin.
But none of the drafts were very satisfactory.
Simple questions were naturally easy to ask, but simple questions weren’t what she really wanted to ask.
The questions she wanted to ask, she couldn’t justify to herself why she had to ask them.
She couldn’t just rush up to him and expose all her secrets, right?
Xuan Xia decided to think it over more carefully; anyway, she wasn’t planning to ask him right away.
Back in Jiangshi, after Xuan Xia got off the plane and connected to the internet, she received several voice messages from Qu Xingxuan in a row.
This kid didn’t know why he loved sending voice messages so much.
Qu Xingxuan: “Aah, I finally remembered. No wonder you looked familiar; I saw your photo online. And the one we met today, you both participated in the same program.”
Xuan Xia thought to herself, oh, so her cover was blown.
Qu Xingxuan: “Let me tell you, there are tons of your GIFs online these past couple of days. Um, I think you look better in the online photos.”
Xuan Xia: “…”
Qu Xingxuan: “Hey hey hey, when are you free? Sign something for me. I don’t have a celebrity autograph yet.”
Qu Xingxuan: “Hey hey hey, during summer vacation, are you really inviting me to play at Changsheng Temple? Don’t stand me up. I’ll go as soon as vacation starts.”
Qu Xingxuan: “Are you still on the plane? When you land, remember to reply to me.”
Others compliment people by saying they look better in person than in photos, but he said she didn’t look as good as her online photos! And he still wanted her autograph? Dream on!
So Xuan Xia skipped the autograph topic entirely and directly replied to the summer vacation invitation: “Changsheng Temple is right there; it’s not going anywhere. Don’t worry, I won’t stand you up.”
After sending the message, she didn’t get a reply from Qu Xingxuan for a long time.
He was probably still doing homework, so Xuan Xia ignored it and took a car back to the hotel to rest.
Yang Wanxiu had extended her hotel room for a week, so until the exams ended, she didn’t have to go back to school to stay in the dormitory.
Xuan Xia thought this was fine; there were so many annoying people at school, but staying at the hotel was much more comfortable.
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But reality told Xuan Xia that people she could easily avoid when she wanted to during normal times were impossible to avoid during exam week.
Xuan Xia had thought she might run into Qin Yi first, then maybe Ji Weiyi, but she didn’t expect to run into Yu Lanlan first.
And the other party actually wanted to entertain her clothes with food scraps.
Luckily, Xuan Xia had sharp eyes and dodged at the critical moment.
Yu Lanlan, who failed to hit her target, actually looked full of regret.
Seeing this, Yan Xiaowen was the first to lose her temper: “Yu Lanlan, are you sick or something!”
She was the one who suggested going to the school cafeteria to eat, but they ended up running into the crazy Yu Lanlan like this; Yan Xiaowen regretted it immensely—she should’ve just ordered takeout.
Normally, Yu Lanlan would immediately start arguing with Yan Xiaowen, but today she unusually just glanced at Yan Xiaowen and ignored her, keeping her gaze fixed on Xuan Xia.
Xuan Xia also went cold-faced, staring back at her, and said coolly: “Your facial wounds haven’t healed yet, and you’re already eager to get more injuries?”
The wounds on Yu Lanlan’s face were currently scabbing over, at their ugliest stage; every time she looked in the mirror, she hated Xuan Xia venomously, and now being deliberately reminded by Xuan Xia, resentment surged instantly.
She shouldn’t have thrown it at her body; she should’ve smashed it right at her face.
“Don’t get smug.” Yu Lanlan squeezed out through gritted teeth.
Xuan Xia really wanted to ask her, which eye of hers saw her looking smug?
Besides, what was she smug about?
And Yu Lanlan’s next words made Xuan Xia understand something.
“Someone like you doesn’t deserve to stand with Zhou Shiqing!”
Xuan Xia had been cold-faced, but hearing this, she couldn’t help but chuckle.
“Ah, I remember now, you’re Zhou Shiqing’s fan, right?”
“Ah, I remember too. Seems like you’re a wife fan.” Yan Xiaowen added from the side.
Xuan Xia asked: “Does it hurt a lot? So much that you’ve already started slandering me online?”
Yu Lanlan bit her lip hard, looking like she was grinding her teeth, but actually it was a sign of guilt.
These past few days, she had indeed spared no effort to smear Xuan Xia online, but…
“But did it work?” Xuan Xia deliberately voiced the result.
Yu Lanlan glared fiercely at Xuan Xia; if glares could turn into flying knives, thousands would already be shooting toward Xuan Xia.
But she wasn’t planning to admit defeat. “Just wait. Someone like you thinks you can become famous by clinging to Zhou Shiqing? Everything you’ve done will be exposed, and you’ll be hounded out of the industry, reviled forever!”
Xuan Xia restrained her expression, turning cold again. “Someone like me? What am I like? I don’t viciously compete with my best friend, and I don’t spread rumors or sling mud online. Compared to someone like you, I’d say I’m pretty upright and noble.”
“For someone like you to have the nerve to bark in front of me, how could I possibly be reviled forever!”
Every word stabbed at Yu Lanlan’s heart.
“Don’t get cocky with me! Soon you’ll see our fighting power.”
Xuan Xia tried to hold back, but couldn’t, and softly muttered two words: “Idiot.”
“I’ll spread your deeds all over the internet; just you wait!” Yu Lanlan yelled in fury.
Xuan Xia could tell it was mostly bluster, so she wasn’t afraid at all.
“You want to promote me across the whole net? There’s such a good thing? Then I’ll thank you in advance for the exposure. The harder you try, the more likely I am to go viral.”
“Hahaha, so stupid.” Yan Xiaowen couldn’t help laughing.
After laughing, Yan Xiaowen remembered something and said gloatingly: “Xia Xia, you don’t know yet, right? Someone’s completely fallen out with her dorm mates; apparently her roommates don’t want to share a dormitory with her anymore, so next semester she’ll have to switch dorms.”
Xuan Xia said “oh,” “I wonder which classmates will be so unlucky next semester.”
Yu Lanlan clenched her fists tightly.
This was exactly why she hated Xuan Xia even more; if she hadn’t stirred things up, with Ji Weiyi’s brain, she never would’ve noticed.
Now she and Ji Weiyi had completely fallen out, and she no longer had any legitimate excuse to get close to Qin Yi!
And meanwhile, Xuan Xia was going to film a dating show with her idol!
How could Yu Lanlan not hate her to the point of wanting to vent!
“Classmates, classmates, don’t fight over small things.” The cafeteria auntie noticed the mess here, hurried over to clean up, thinking they were quarreling over the spilled meal, and tried to mediate kindly.
Xuan Xia withdrew her line of sight from Yu Lanlan’s clenched fists and smiled back: “Auntie, we’re not fighting.”
Then she pulled Yan Xiaowen back a step, not to obstruct the auntie from cleaning the floor.
With the distance created, Xuan Xia felt she should still give Yu Lanlan a kind warning.
“Yu Lanlan, don’t go too far in your behavior. Whether in real life or online, going overboard will land you in jail.” Pausing, Xuan Xia added, “Don’t be the first rival fan I send to jail.”
“By then, I won’t care about any classmate sentiments!”
