After Breaking Up With the Scheming Bad Woman 107

Chapter 107: How Could I Bear to?

With less than three weeks until the “Four Seasons Have Silk Season” show, the entire company was almost entirely focused on this matter.

The design department vlog that Huai Xing had recorded on Friday was edited by the marketing department staff, who worked overtime, and was released on various platforms on Sunday night. At first, the data was not particularly outstanding, and many people were not patient enough to watch until the end. They only caught a glimpse of Huai Xing’s very memorable beauty at the beginning and left comments like “the boss is beautiful” in the comments section.

It wasn’t until a lesbian blogger with a large number of fans passed by and, after watching the whole thing, said that she was shipping them, and directly located the last three minutes, begging everyone to watch.

Under her call, the number of viewers indeed increased.

Then everyone expressed that they were shipping them, and it was widely announced that there was new food to eat here.

Mainly because it was really impossible not to ship them.

The younger-looking president kept a safe distance from the other designers, but there was no such concept when she entered the director’s office. She stood by Director Chu’s side, her arm naturally resting on the chair, as if she were hugging the other person.

Not only were they very close, but their gazes also seemed to be glued to each other’s faces with 502 glue.

They were always looking at each other’s eyes, with obvious smiles on their faces.

[Why did it end at Director Chu’s answer? What about the rest? @Silk Season, please continue my new food, thanks.]

[Who is more important? Is it President Huai? I’ll ship them first as I pass by…]

[I don’t have to be a lesbian, but President Huai and Director Chu must be!!!]

[Mommy… Mommy…]

…

The video fermented for two days and became a hot topic. On Wednesday morning, when Huai Xing was in a meeting, she was flipping through the comments sections of various platforms on her tablet and was a little surprised to hear the marketing department talk about the relevant data.

“The number of views on Douyin has exceeded two million, and the number of views on Xiaohongshu has exceeded…”

“An additional twenty-six thousand people have booked the live broadcast of the big show, and the number of reads of the ‘Four Seasons Have Silk Season’ topic has increased…”

After finishing the report on the compiled data, the head of the marketing department gave her own boss a faint smile. “President Huai, our strategy has no problems at all.”

Lu Xianyue gave a thumbs up. “It has to be President Huai!”

Huai Xing glanced at her, not knowing what to say for a moment.

Looking at some of the bold comments in the comments section that said “these two have definitely kissed,” the hickey hidden under her clothes suddenly felt a little itchy.

“President Huai,” the head of the department asked at the right time. “When is the second video? The form I gave you last week listed today’s visit to the model practice room, right?”

Huai Xing nodded. “Yes.”

The head of the department rubbed her hands and tried hard to hold back her laughter. “Director Chu can also go.”

“She was going to go anyway.”

The head of the department: “Then we’ll be waiting for your video.”

After the meeting, Lu Xianyue was flipping through the comments section and left the meeting room one after the other with Huai Xing.

She was overjoyed at the side, nudged Huai Xing’s arm with her elbow, and said in a low voice, “The comment that said you two have kissed is quite divine. The netizens have sharp eyes… they can even see that.”

“They’re not sharp enough.”

“What do you mean?” Lu Xianyue chased after Huai Xing into her office and pressed.

Huai Xing got herself a glass of water and nonchalantly threw out a question. “Do you still remember the picture you told me about at the seaside in Nancheng before?”

“The one with over ten million likes that many people use as a wallpaper?”

“It’s me and her,” Huai Xing said, holding a water glass and standing by the window. She recalled, “It was taken on June 6th, 2020. We were both on a business trip to Nancheng that time, and we watched the sunrise together on the day I returned to Jingcheng.”

Lu Xianyue almost couldn’t hold her phone and her eyes widened.

This time it was her turn to be surprised. After adjusting for a few seconds, she opened an app to search for the picture, and then stood next to Huai Xing, holding her phone and comparing. “My god, no wonder you said you hadn’t seen the post back then. It turns out you were the one involved. What post would you need to see? You could just look at the original.” She put down her phone and remembered. “Wait, we met in June of ’20, and this photo was also taken in June…”

Huai Xing’s expression was very calm on the surface, but her voice was a little lower. “The photo was also taken on the last day before we separated.”

Hearing this, Lu Xianyue was silent. After a while, she patted Huai Xing’s shoulder. “I’m going back to my office.” She raised a smile. “Remember to give the netizens new food.”

“…”

As soon as she left, Huai Xing sat down in her chair.

There was an office calendar on the desk. She stared at today’s date until her eyes were dry and sore, and only then did she retract her gaze.

…

At two in the afternoon, the sun was at its peak.

Huai Xing came to the design director’s office with a pocket camera. Before she could knock, Chu Wantang opened the door from the inside first, showed her a dimple, and called her, “President Huai.”

Huai Xing was carrying a camera, her eyes curving.

She cleared her throat, deliberately hiding the smile in her words, and called out in a serious manner, “Director Chu.” She said, “Let’s go. Let’s go and visit the model practice room.”

Chu Wantang: “Mm.”

She very naturally took Huai Xing’s bag and held it in her hand. The other few designers were also a little stunned.

Huai Xing didn’t care about these people. She just held the not-so-heavy camera and chatted with Chu Wantang about work as they went downstairs.

The sun was scorching. Before they had even left the main entrance on the first floor, Chu Wantang opened an umbrella and covered them under it. Huai Xing had the two of them appear in the frame and began to introduce the work environment of “Silk Season.”

Chu Wantang looked at their shadows, which were covered by the umbrella, and then at the serious appearance of the person at her side. The dimples on her lips appeared again.

Huai Xing turned the camera and just happened to capture it. She asked, “What is Director Chu smiling about?”

Chu Wantang raised an eyebrow. “President Huai, it’s because I was born with a smiling lip.”

Huai Xing: “…Be serious, Chu Ruan Tang.”

“It’s fine as long as you don’t cut it in like last time.”

“That’s fine too.”

The person driving today was Uncle Tai’s wife, who was usually called Auntie Xiang.

She had been sitting in the driver’s seat early, and the air conditioner was on in the car, and the temperature was just right.

Chu Wantang put away her umbrella and sat on Huai Xing’s left.

And the camera was no longer aimed at anywhere else, but was directly at the two of them.

Huai Xing had put a lot of effort into this big show. At this moment, she was talking about the models again. “The model selection for the big show has gone through several rounds. Apart from the model agencies in Haicheng, there are also…”

The car drove out of the parking lot, and the tree-lined road outside cast a mottled light and shadow on them.

Chu Wantang kept a little distance from Huai Xing.

She propped her head on her hand, her posture lazy, her gaze on Huai Xing’s profile, and she would occasionally cooperate with Huai Xing’s interaction.

Huai Xing’s brow bone was like the distant mountains she had seen in Yunqi Yuan. When her brow lifted slightly, it was as if a mountain breeze were blowing. The curve from the bridge of her nose to the tip of her nose was smooth, not sharp, with a sense of ink and wash. Her upper lip was small and straight, and the curve of her lower lip was full…

They were very kissable lips.

These past two days, she had really liked to hold Huai Xing’s lower lip and bite it lightly, like holding a dewy rose petal, with an endless coolness and fragrance. When she let go, it would be a watery crimson.

And Huai Xing would push her shoulder. “You can’t bite it swollen, Chu Chu.”

“I didn’t,” Chu Wantang replied, and then she went to kiss her. “How could I bear to?”

Thinking of this, Chu Wantang’s long lashes fluttered twice, and she collected her wandering thoughts.

Her throat moved twice, and she opened the mineral water bottle she had prepared in her bag and timely handed it to Huai Xing. “Have some water, Xingxing.”

Huai Xing took the water and tilted her head back slightly to drink two mouthfuls. She was really a little thirsty from talking.

She handed the water bottle back, and Chu Wantang did not avoid it, but drank from the same bottle. When she tightened the cap, the corners of her lips were curved.

Huai Xing looked at her like this, thinking whether she should also cut this part out before she handed the video to the marketing department.

Chu Wantang met her gaze, as if she were a little puzzled, and asked softly, “What’s wrong?”

Huai Xing shook her head. “Nothing. I’ve said about enough. I’ll turn off the camera first.”

She looked at the distance displayed on the navigation in front of her, moved a lot to the left, and leaned against Chu Wantang’s body. “Jiejie…”

Chu Wantang held her hand and asked softly, “Is your waist sore?”

“…Not really,” Huai Xing said, looking at the eyes that were so close. “At the meeting this morning, the marketing department reported the data results of the last vlog.”

Chu Wantang: “How was it?”

“It was very good,” Huai Xing said, playing with Chu Wantang’s slender fingers. This morning, before she had fully woken up, they had been inside her body.

She pinched her pink fingertips, her ears a little red. “The number of topic clicks has increased a lot, and the number of live broadcast bookings has also increased by more than twenty thousand… It’s just that some of the netizens in the comments section were too unrestrained, saying that we’ve definitely kissed.”

When she said this, because Auntie Xiang was present, Huai Xing’s voice was very low.

But it still entered Chu Wantang’s ears without a single word being missed.

Chu Wantang couldn’t stop laughing. “Is it that obvious?”

Huai Xing raised her hand and covered her mouth.

This way, the smile in her eyes was even more pronounced, and her picturesque features seemed to be dyed with the sunlight outside the window.

Chu Wantang pecked her palm, her gaze gentle. She pressed down on her wrist and said softly, “Actually, I didn’t really look forward to getting off work before. I felt that work could give me the most direct feedback. I really liked work. It wasn’t until you came to Jingcheng that I thought of you at home, and I really wanted to get off work early and go home to see you.”

She asked, “After so many years, I’m still looking forward to getting off work. Can I get off work after we finish filming the vlog today?”

“Almost.”

“Then let’s start a little earlier than usual, okay?”

Huai Xing broke free from her embrace, looked elsewhere, and muttered, “I don’t understand.”

Chu Wantang: “I was just saying that it’s good to get off work early to rest.” She squeezed Huai Xing’s hand. “Don’t get the wrong idea.”

Huai Xing: “Hmph.”

She would be a fool to believe that.

Finally, they arrived at their destination.

Huai Xing held the camera again and returned to her serious surface. “We’re at the model practice room now…”

Chu Wantang was at the side, holding their bags, her heart a soft mess, and she followed her in.

Under the set theme, each season had about 10 sets of clothes. To avoid the process being delayed by the same model changing clothes frequently, the number of models was around 30.

The practice room was divided into several areas, such as the basic training area, the physical fitness and flexibility training area, the styling and camera sense training area…

Now, there were corresponding models training in each area. The camera first captured Wan Yi, who was acting as a teacher. As the stabilizing force of this big show, she did not have to participate in the daily training, but she couldn’t stay idle and also wanted to contribute her own strength, so she simply became a training teacher.

The practice room was filled with rhythmic music. When Wan Yi saw the two of them, she called for a pause and let everyone rest.

She ran over to greet them. “Xingxing, Wantang.” She looked at the camera. “Are you filming a work vlog?”

“Yes, Teacher Wan,” Huai Xing said with a smile. “We’re here to visit the class. Director Chu will take a look at some of the on-body effects in a while.”

“Aren’t you afraid of leaking it in advance?”

“There will be mosaic processing.”

Chu Wantang was like an assistant. “Please introduce the current training situation, Teacher Wan.”

Wan Yi still had that fairy-like appearance on the surface. She said, “The core of the practice room is to simulate a runway scene and optimize the details through repeated training. This is also something that every model has to go through…”

After a while of back-and-forth communication, Chu Wantang’s phone rang, and she went to the side to answer.

Some of the models did not want to miss the opportunity to be on camera and very enthusiastically participated, sharing their current training experience and their expectations for the big show with the netizens on the other side of the camera.

Huai Xing was a little distracted in the middle. She looked at Chu Wantang in the corner and could see that Chu Wantang’s brows were slightly furrowed.

A few minutes later, Chu Wantang hung up the phone, her expression as usual.

Just as the interaction came to an end, the models who had changed their clothes were in the T-stage practice room, and they were about to go over and take a look.

Huai Xing turned off the camera and was about to ask if something had happened to Chu Wantang.

It was not often that she saw the usually at-ease Chu Wantang frown.

Chu Wantang was afraid that she would be tired from holding the camera for too long, so she took it herself and said to her, “I just got a call from my grandfather. He asked if I could go back to Jingcheng this weekend. My grandmother’s condition is not very clear, and he also said that he wanted you to go with me. Last time, after the Lu family’s old matriarch’s birthday banquet, he went back and told my grandmother about meeting you. My grandmother wanted to see you at that time, but the timing was not right.”

Huai Xing: “Go back on Friday night and come back on Sunday?”

“We can also go back early. We don’t have to stay there all the time,” Chu Wantang said, pressing her lips together. “It was only after I knew about our mothers’ past that I started to have more frequent contact with the Chu family. I’m not very familiar with my grandmother and grandfather…”

The Xu family felt that her surname was Chu and that she was a girl, so they had not liked her since she was a child.

After Chu Lingyi had had a big fight with the Chu family when she was seven, she had also rarely taken her back to the Chu family.

The family ties on both sides were very weak.

Huai Xing couldn’t help but raise her hand to stroke her furrowed brow. “I’ll go with you, Jiejie. Don’t frown.”

At the side, Wan Yi “tsked” and sang softly, “I should be at the bottom of the car~~~”

Chu Wantang: “You sing so badly. Pay for the damage to my ears.”

Wan Yi was speechless. “Crazy!”

Huai Xing looked at them “arguing” and laughed.

Such opportunities would become fewer and fewer in the future. She froze the frame with her eyes.