XingYue I Thought You Were Coming Here To Get A Room With Me#
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The company’s promotion had been very effective these past few days. Even though the show’s recording hadn’t begun yet, just the short clips filmed during training had already drawn considerable buzz for the program.
Next month, when formal recording started, they would all have to relocate to another city to compete.
Xing Yue was still worrying about this. The other city was a fair distance from Mo City. Having Bu Yao travel back and forth daily wouldn’t leave nearly enough time. Yet if she took Bu Yao with her, what would happen to Bu Yao’s work in Mo City?
She was in the training room, attending class, when Luo Zhi walked in with a middle-aged woman. Xing Yue recognized the person at a glance.
“Xing Yue, come out for a moment.” Luo Zhi’s expression was complicated as she typed a message to someone on her phone.
Xing Yue stepped out of the classroom and only then saw the two uniformed police officers following behind the elderly woman.
“Jiang Yue’s assistant has gone missing. Please cooperate with a simple investigation.” At this moment, Luo Zhi hadn’t yet mentioned that the police had come due to an accusation by Jiang Yue.
She merely relayed it in as calm a tone as possible, but after years of floating in the entertainment world, she clearly sensed something was amiss.
The word “missing” made Xing Yue’s heart clench. Thinking it was just a routine inquiry, she saw the somewhat familiar face and called out in a low voice, “Aunt Ming.”
Ming Shushan was He Zhiwen’s mother. Before their breakup, He Zhiwen had often brought Xing Yue home for meals. They weren’t strangers. Contact had only been cut off after the split.
Upon seeing Xing Yue come out, Ming Shushan suddenly dropped to her knees. Wrinkled hands trembling uncontrollably, she spoke, “I know you hate me for tearing you two apart back then. Whatever revenge you want, take it out on me. Come at me. These old bones aren’t worth much. Zhi Zhi is the only daughter our family has. If anything happens to her, I won’t go on living either. Where did you take her? Tell me. Tell me…”
The two officers quickly helped Ming Shushan up. “Ma’am, please don’t do this. We will definitely help you find your person.”
People from the entire company rushed over to spectate. Hearing the elderly woman’s tearful accusations, their gazes naturally fell upon Xing Yue.
Past affairs were being dug up. Xing Yue’s eyes flickered with displeasure, her brows knitting slightly. “Aunt Ming, He Zhiwen and I dated freely and broke up peacefully. There’s no such thing as hatred on either side.”
Revenge was even more out of the question.
And both she and He Zhiwen were adults. During the breakup period, Xing Yue had indeed been upset for some time, but not to the point of life or death, nor to the extreme lengths seen in TV dramas.
At this moment, a police officer produced an exceptionally luxurious and exquisite envelope, along with retrieved text message records. “Miss Xing, on the night of June 11th, were you with He Zhiwen? This letter—her relatives claim you delivered it to her. Did you engage in some sort of transaction?”
Xing Yue glanced at the letter, which she had never seen before. The envelope even bore a red embossed design. Ripples of shock stirred in her eyes; her previously impassive expression underwent a subtle change.
“I was indeed with her that night, but not in any transaction like you mentioned.”
“Please answer me: was this letter delivered to He Zhiwen by you?” The officer on the left gave his colleague a meaningful look.
Before Xing Yue could even deny it, she was taken away by the police, told she had to go to the station for questioning.
At the police station, Jiang Yue was already sitting there, seemingly having been questioned for some time as well.
“The letter wasn’t from me. After we met that night, I went straight home. Didn’t she come to the company for several days after that anyway?” Xing Yue couldn’t figure it out. What connection did these two events have?
It had been half a month since that night she met He Zhiwen.
“We currently suspect that, due to personal grievances with He Zhiwen, you have a motive for the crime.”
Xing Yue’s expression remained unchanged. Her voice was calm. “I’m sorry, but Teacher He and I have no personal grievances.”
“He Zhiwen went missing on the night of the 26th. Before she disappeared, someone said she went looking for you. Where were you on the 26th? What were you doing? Who were you with?”
Hearing this line of questioning, Xing Yue finally shifted her gaze to Jiang Yue.
According to surveillance footage, on the 26th, He Zhiwen and Jiang Yue had crossed city lines to their hometown to see the snake eggs. Midway, He Zhiwen said she was going to find Xing Yue, got out of the car on a small side road, and never returned.
The road where she got off was a rural lane, and as luck would have it, there were no surveillance cameras there. Now everything rested entirely on Jiang Yue’s word alone. The police were simply following procedure in their questioning.
“In my room. I didn’t go out.” Xing Yue couldn’t tell for a moment whether He Zhiwen had really gone looking for her or if someone was lying. “I was with my girlfriend.”
The police produced that red letter again. “What about the night of the 11th? What did you two talk about when you met?”
Xing Yue’s fingers curled tightly, yet her expression remained composed. “We hadn’t seen each other in a long time. She asked me out to eat. It happened to be a heavy downpour, and all the shops were closed. We didn’t end up eating. We each went home.”
Bu Yao arrived after receiving the news. Seeing Xing Yue being interrogated like that, her brows knitted with irritation. She walked over and embraced Xing Yue. “Are you sure you want to focus on an irrelevant party? Delay for a few more days, and there might not even be a fingernail left of He Zhiwen.”
Xing Yue tugged at Bu Yao, signaling her not to speak recklessly.
Sure enough, those words agitated Ming Shushan all over again. She was practically ready to hang herself right there in the station, weeping and wailing, clutching Xing Yue and refusing to let go, convinced that Xing Yue had abducted her daughter.
The main reason Xing Yue was listed as a key person of interest was that both He Zhiwen’s biological mother and her wife had directed their suspicion at Xing Yue.
“Miss Bu, we’re just following standard procedure…” The officer had a headache.
Jiang Yue had reported that He Zhiwen was a Spirit Snake. The higher-ups had already dispatched personnel to form a task force specifically to investigate this matter.
The nation gave Spirit Snakes top-priority protection and key attention. While the case would not be made public, perpetrators of trafficking or killing Spirit Snakes were always targeted with the utmost severity. Once evidence linked Xing Yue to it, she would face extremely serious criminal penalties—even lethal injection.
Bu Yao knew this all too well, which was why her reaction was so strong. She stood beside Xing Yue, holding her tightly, refusing to let go.
The police made a request. “Miss Xing, we need to access your vehicle’s surveillance footage.”
At this, Xing Yue hesitated briefly, but still nodded.
The surveillance footage showed the night of the 11th. He Zhiwen got into Xing Yue’s car. Their exchange was extremely clear, with the backdrop of a violent storm raging outside the vehicle.
It was obvious that night He Zhiwen had sought Xing Yue’s help and was refused. Not only that, Xing Yue had also said something insulting to He Zhiwen.
—【Is that so? Seeking me out for nostalgia late at night, and even setting the location at a hotel. I thought you were coming to get a room with me. I even brought my ID. 】
As soon as these words were spoken, even before the footage finished playing, Jiang Yue sneered from the side. “Teacher Xing, and here you said you had no personal grievances? It looks to me like you clearly wanted to rekindle old passions with my wife. She turned you down, and in your anger from humiliation, you devised an elaborate plan and took her away.”
Xing Yue didn’t respond. She didn’t even bother to refute her. She instinctively looked up at Bu Yao, wanting to explain something.
The woman who had just been shielding Xing Yue, after hearing those words spoken in the recording, stared fixedly at the screen. Her cool, gorgeous face was utterly devoid of life, filled entirely with terrifying fury.
She pushed Xing Yue away and strode out swiftly—arriving in a hurry, leaving in a hurry.
Xing Yue immediately rose to chase after her but was stopped by the police.
They watched over ten more minutes of footage. Aside from a minor argument, there was no mention of the letter, nor any mention of a transaction.
Based on this alone, at most it could prove that Xing Yue and He Zhiwen’s relationship was indeed not very peaceful, but it couldn’t prove that Xing Yue had taken He Zhiwen away. However, since the leads of the case couldn’t be separated from Xing Yue, she remained a key focus.
“Miss Xing, during this period, please do not leave the city. Otherwise, we are authorized to arrest you.” The officer explained the implications to Xing Yue.
After being questioned the entire day, Xing Yue was utterly exhausted, body and mind. She was just about to head back to the company when she glanced at the various news notifications popping up on her phone. They were all hashtags bearing her full name.
XingYue I Thought You Were Coming Here To Get A Room With Me#
Xing Yue Ex-Girlfriend#
Redefining A Peaceful Breakup Xing Yue#
They didn’t mention He Zhiwen’s disappearance at all. They only featured the audio clip of Xing Yue’s words in the car. And as it happened, Xing Yue was a slightly famous cover singer. Her voice was highly recognizable. It instantly sparked heated discussion and climbed onto the Hot Search.
The one who released the audio was very cunning, knowing the nation had special protections for Spirit Snakes. These major bloggers’ articles didn’t mention He Zhiwen by name once, substituting “ex-girlfriend” in every instance, and made no reference to the disappearance, perfectly evading the risk of having their hashtags blown up.
This twisted the narrative so that netizens, ignorant of the full context, received an entirely different picture: Xing Yue meeting her married ex-girlfriend late at night, passionately inviting her to get a room, and turning hostile after being rejected.
Now Xing Yue couldn’t even return to the company. She covered her face with both hands, sat in silence for a moment, and then went home.
Shortly after arriving home, her phone’s ringtone blared nonstop. Xing Yue saw her mother was calling and, without a second thought, hung up.
【Where are you? 】 She typed out a message to Bu Yao on her phone. Before she could send it, she looked up and saw Bu Yao descending the stairs, standing on the steps, watching her.
A clarity lit up Xing Yue’s eyes, and she finally felt a shred of comfort in her heart. “I thought you…”
She had thought Bu Yao wouldn’t want to see her anymore.
The spot where Bu Yao stood was considerably higher than Xing Yue’s level. Her face bore no good will. “If He Zhiwen hadn’t rejected you that night, would you have tumbled into bed with her?”
Bu Yao had held back outside, enduring it all day. Now, her chest was full of ignited fury, ready to explode at a single spark.
Xing Yue explained, “What I said was out of anger. Yes, I was angered by He Zhiwen’s purpose in seeking me out, but I never intended to get a room with her.”
Nor was it He Zhiwen rejecting her; she was the one who had rejected He Zhiwen.
Including her pretending to kiss He Zhiwen under the streetlight—that too was born from her anger, wanting to mock this woman. She admitted there had been an element of anger from humiliation at the time, but it was nothing like what Bu Yao thought.
Bu Yao laughed coldly. “Now that He Zhiwen is missing, we only have your word for it.”
Xing Yue’s face changed. “What do you mean? Even you suspect her disappearance is connected to me?”
She was already exhausted from being questioned all day. Thinking about the spectacle-seeking eyes of those at the company, Ming Shushan’s unwavering conviction, and the ignorant condemnation online—she was wound tighter than a spring.
“So what if I did want to get a room with her that night? What were we to each other back then?” In her frustration and despair, since Bu Yao was so determined to pronounce her guilty, Xing Yue simply went along with it.
At that time, they hadn’t been dating yet. What standing did Bu Yao have to judge her?
The woman took two steps down, drawing close to Xing Yue’s face. “Say what you just said again.”
She was like a proud peacock, a stark contrast to Xing Yue’s current disheveled state.
Xing Yue was like a wretched, stray dog, kicked countless times by people on the street. After finally finding a single, magnificently radiant piece of jewelry she treasured more than anything, she adored it with all her might. But no matter how much she cherished it, this ruby wasn’t something she could claim as her own just by wagging her tail.
