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"Stop applying it. If you keep going, people will call the police and say you're eating a child."
As soon as Chi Yueshan entered the restroom, she saw Xia Yeshuang standing elegantly in front of the sink, holding a lipstick and mechanically dragging it across her lips.
It didn't look like she was touching up her makeup; it looked like an internal struggle she couldn't resolve.
Chi Yueshan spoke, and Zhao Yeye acted. Zhao Yeye stepped forward and snatched the lipstick from Xia Yeshuang's hand, refusing to let her torture herself any longer.
Even with the lipstick gone, Xia Yeshuang only froze for a second. Her hand lingered in the air for a long time before slowly dropping to her side.
Zhao Yeye was anxious.
She had already taken the thing away; why hadn't "Little Goldie" snapped back to life and tried to hit her?
"What on earth is wrong? Who made you angry? Talk to me."
Xia Yeshuang remained silent, her head bowed as her gaze drifted aimlessly across the white porcelain sink.
Chi Yueshan didn't rush to speak. She observed for a moment before stroking Xia Yeshuang's back and asking softly:
"Did you run into that person?"
Back in New York, although they had both ended up drunk, they both remembered that the other was nursing a broken heart.
Chi Yueshan hadn't known Xia Yeshuang for long, but this girl was just too easy to read.
She was reckless, but her greatest strength was her sincerity.
In a very short time, Chi Yueshan had figured out Xia Yeshuang's thoughts and knew she was in love with someone she couldn't have.
To make the normally energetic girl so listless, Chi Yueshan couldn't think of any reason other than a run-in with that man.
Plop.
Xia Yeshuang's head stayed down, and a tear splashed into the reflective sink, mirroring her red eyes.
Chi Yueshan let out a breath of relief.
She had guessed right.
The problem wasn't having a problem; the problem was not knowing what it was.
"Sister Chi..."
Xia Yeshuang choked on her words.
"He brought his girlfriend to the audience to watch the show, and I... hic... I still had to sing for the two of them on stage."
Chi Yueshan was stunned.
She imagined the scene. It was incredibly cruel.
"What?!"
Zhao Yeye was instantly enraged. She slammed her hand on the sink, the pain making her wince, but she forced herself to keep her "tough" expression.
With eyes full of tears and a voice full of conviction, she shouted:
"That gold digger! He actually had the nerve to bring someone to the show?!"
Xia Yeshuang didn't move, silently letting the tears fall. The plop, plop sound of the droplets echoed in the quiet room.
Chi Yueshan frowned.
She couldn't solve this kind of emotional mess. Her own heart was still a disaster.
Xia Yeshuang sobbed, thinking of Lu Xing's cold attitude now compared to how he used to be.
Under the weight of that contrast, she finally broke down. She burst into loud wailing, startling Zhao Yeye so much that she rushed to the door to make sure no one was listening.
"Clearly, I was the one who met Lu Xing first! I was so good to him... I just started the wrong way. I shouldn't have hired him, but I didn't expect that I would fall for him along the way, waaaaah!"
"If I hadn't hired him, if we hadn't spent so much time together, how could I have fallen for him..."
Xia Yeshuang looked up and roughly wiped her eyes, her palms soaked with tears. She had never looked so pathetic.
Thinking of the scene in the audience, she buried her face in Chi Yueshan's chest and sobbed:
"I don't want to like Lu Xing anymore. I hate him! He's not good to me at all!"
Wait.
Lu Xing?
Chi Yueshan's hand froze in mid-air. All the comforting words she had prepared were choked back by that name.
As the girl in her arms trembled with grief, Chi Yueshan's thoughts drifted.
If she had thought it was just a common name at first, Xia Yeshuang's mention of hiring and contracts shattered every illusion.
Chi Yueshan closed her eyes. Everything is determined by fate; nothing is up to us.
She couldn't even control her own heart. How could she blame anyone else?
She had been about to tell Xia Yeshuang that there were billions of men in the world and she could find someone better.
But the person was Lu Xing.
Chi Yueshan tugged at the corners of her mouth in a self-deprecating way, but she couldn't manage a smile. The comfort she wanted to give was stuck in her throat.
Even she had fallen for him, so how could a girl like Xia Yeshuang, experiencing her first love, be expected to resist?
But she found one small comfort. Based on what she knew of Lu Xing, that wasn't a girlfriend; it was a client.
It had to be another client.
"Aiya, Shuangshuang, don't be sad. A three-legged toad is hard to find, but two-legged men are everywhere!"
(TL: Part of an idiom used to tell someone that men are replaceable.)
Seeing her cry so miserably, Zhao Yeye's heart ached. She quickly tried to distract her.
"Just now, I saw several handsome guys in the audience!"
"And didn't the 'old man' say he wanted to set you up on a blind date? He secretly sent me a photo of CEO Wen's nephew from a candid angle. I just saw a guy in the audience who looked exactly like the photo!"
"I think the old man has good taste. If it doesn't work out with your guy, let's have him arrange some dates for you. You'll definitely find someone a thousand times better than that Lu Xing!"
Wait.
CEO Wen's nephew?
Xia Yeshuang suddenly stopped crying and snapped her head up.
Her "iron head" collided directly with Chi Yueshan's chin.
Chi Yueshan clutched her jaw in pain, hopping back and forth.
"Ah! I'm sorry, I'm sorry, Sister Chi!"
Xia Yeshuang felt extremely guilty, but she still turned urgently to Zhao Yeye:
"Let me see the photo!"
A moment later...
Looking at the photo of Lu Xing, Xia Yeshuang gritted her teeth.
"I'm going to duel that old man!!!"
He should introduce people when it's appropriate, but he introduces them blindly when he shouldn't!
Chi Yueshan held her chin and leaned over to look at the photo. She said in shock:
"Your blind date is Lu Xing?"
Xia Yeshuang suddenly looked up at Chi Yueshan.
"Do you know him?"
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