Chapter 76 - Your Husband Got Beaten Up 4
Chapter 76: Your Husband Got Beaten Up 4
“… For myself.” Changqing blinked.
Shen Lu didn’t say anything else after hearing that.
Changqing left the ward and headed to Song Chuyi’s office immediately. When she reached that floor, she suddenly saw a young woman in a nurse’s hat exiting on tiptoe.
She was dumbfounded, and a hit of discomfort arose in her heart. Could it be that Song Chuyi was messing around in his office?
She turned, wanting to leave but changed her mind after thinking that she could possibly find some clues and expose his true self as a hypocrite then reprimand him severely, throwing the supper in his face, so to speak.
Therefore, she went over on her tiptoes too and opened his office door. There was no one inside but there were three sets of supper placed on his table.
Changqing was dumbfounded, and she opened them up to take a look. One set of Cantonese dim sum, one set of bird’s nest dessert and a set of extremely flavorful prawns. One look and she could tell they were delivered by three different people.
This.. was too sumptuous.
Changqing looked at the pathetic porridge in her hand, feeling both angry and annoyed.
“What are you doing here?” The door was suddenly pushed open. Song Chuyi looked at her face full of astonishment.
Changqing snorted coldly. “My father was afraid you would be hungry and forced me to send you supper. Looks like it wasn’t necessary. Dr. Song, you’re really popular. There are so many women sending you supper—it’s just like a Manchu Han imperial feast.”
Song Chuyi took a look at the supper on the table and glanced at what she was carrying in her hands again. He raised his brows in understanding. “There are many people who have a crush on me at the hospital. I told them many times, but I can’t do anything about it.”
Changqing looked at his calm appearance and couldn’t help but feel angry. “Are you boasting to me right now? Fine, there are many people crushing on you. Looks like I don’t have to worry about being forced by my father to send you supper in the future.”
After saying that, she walked towards the door.
Song Chuyi held on to her wrist.
“What are you doing?” She stared at him.
“I went to the hospital in the middle of the night to buy your medicine yesterday and didn’t even have a good rest. Is this how you treat your savior?” Song Chuyi stared at her with calm eyes.
Changqing snorted and refused to look at him.
Song Chuyi took a step forward and threw all the suppers on his table into the dustbin.
Changqing was dumbfounded. “Why did you throw all of them away?”
“In case someone gets angry.” Song Chuyi smiled and gazed at her with gentle eyes.
“I wasn’t angry,” Changqing said quickly.
“I didn’t say it was you,” he said.
Changqing almost wanted to bite her tongue off.
“Let’s see what you brought.” Song Chuyi took the box of supper from her hand.
Changqing’s face flushed red from nervousness. Compared to the supper just now, her porridge seemed too low quality.
“Oh, yam porridge. It’s quite good, good for the stomach.” The pleasant fragrance wafted out when Song Chuyi opened it and he started tasting it.
Changqing pouted. “It’s not better than bird’s nest.”
“I don’t like to drink bird’s nest; I prefer porridge usually.” He was really hungry and couldn’t be bothered with being refined as he took big gulps.
Changqing felt her heart burning ineffably. Lowering her head, she took out a packet of tissues from her bag and passed it to him. “Why are you done with your surgery so quickly? My sis said it might last till 11 or 12 o’clock.”
“The surgery went smoothly so it ended early.” Song Chuyi’s spoon stopped moving. He asked, “How’s your stomach feeling today? Is it still unwell?”
Changqing shook her head. “Your medicine was quite effective. It stopped hurting today.”
“However, you still have to take note to eat blander food.” Song Chuyi looked up. “When are you leaving tomorrow?”
“In the morning.” Changqing felt a little awkward with such a conversation. “Are you not going back to sleep today?”
“Mm.” He pinched the space between his brows, exhibiting the exhaustion in his eyes.
The atmosphere suddenly quieted down. Changqing grew nervous. “Then… I’ll be off first. I still have to get up early.”
“Alright.” He didn’t urge her to stay, only calling her back when she turned around.
Changqing turned back and saw him opening his drawer and taking out a white box. He passed it to her. “Insect repellent. There’s quite a lot of mosquitoes at De Qin Monastery this season, so bring it with you.”
Changqing opened her eyes wide and stared at him blankly.
She stayed motionless for around five seconds before accepting the box.
“… Thanks, I’ll… be off.” Changqing’s gaze met his and she quickly lowered her head and turned to leave.
She had only been to his office twice. Previously, she floated out after he forced a kiss on her. This time, she wasn’t kissed but she had a similar feeling of floating out.
In the car, Changqing studied the insect repellent in her hand. The box was new, and it wasn’t opened before.
Did he buy it especially for me?
This thought flashed past and she felt a little shy, her heart thumping wildly. She looked at the hospital garden with flowers in full bloom and she sighed silently. Spring had really arrived. What about her spring? It should be arriving soon too.
Because of a box of insect repellent, Changqing didn’t have a good night’s rest.
She was very tired but every time she turned, her mind would be filled with Song Chuyi’s face.
The next day, Changqing woke up at six. Yan Lei was shocked to see her when he saw her as he was getting ready for his morning jog. “What made you wake up so early?”
“I was excited just thinking about the shoot.” Changqing hugged his arm. Her smiling face was like a flower.
“In a good mood?” Yan Lei could tell.
At 10 in the morning, the production crew came to pick her up.
There were many people seated in the car. The first person Changqing saw was Guan Ying. She was wearing sunglasses and waving at her.
Changqing sat next to her and was astonished. “Xiaoying, your face looked quite haggard.”
“Mm.” Guan Ying turned her head to look at her clear eyes, and her gaze looked complicated. “I broke up with Fu Yu.”
Changqing was shocked. “How?”
Guan Ying looked agonized, and she stayed silent.
Changqing pursued softly, “Why did you break up? Was there a misunderstanding? If there was a misunderstanding, you have to explain it. Don’t break up just like that.”
“Changqing, you should know why I got with Fu Yu.” Guan Ying turned to look out of the window. The trees on both sides moved back continuously. The corners of her lips filled with wretchedness. “We just had things we each needed. Someone of my status would never have the right to have a say in a relationship like this.”
Changqing was in a daze. If Guan Ying had broken up with anyone else, she wouldn’t be shocked. After all, in this industry, there were too many people who were like that, but the person in question was Fu Yu. Could Fu Yu also be like those bosses who made use of their status to coerce their employees into unspoken rules?
She would rather believe that the person she used to like was at least sincere and liked Guan Ying before they got together and didn’t get with her out of a bodily primal need.
Two hours later, the production crew’s car entered a vineyard near De Qin Monastery.
All the stories in the script began in this vineyard.
Changqing and Guan Ying played a pair of sisters from the same father and different mothers. They grew up in this yard ever since they were young and after that, they met the male lead Ke Yongyuan, who was there to acquire the yard.
In the first scene, Guan Ying and Changqing were still close sisters and it wasn’t a difficult scene.
In the evening, they smoothly finished filming two scenes. When they finished, Changqing realized Fu Yu was standing at the side with a cigarette between his fingers. There was a group of people crowded around him, yet he still stood out.
Guan Ying also saw him. She followed Fu Yu’s gaze which fell on Changqing. She looked down.
Fu Yu walked over and Changqing smiled at him. “CEO Fu.”
Director Su laughed and said, “Guan Ying and Changqing are indeed graduates from a professional film and performance college. Their acting is very good and they could get into the scene fairly quickly. I thought we would only be able to finish one scene this afternoon, but we managed to finish two scenes smoothly in the end. The chosen actors this time are great—better than those celebrities who cost a lot yet don’t have any acting skills.”
Fu Yu nodded. “I’m only here to take a look. It was quite a good take.”
Director Su was astonished. “CEO Fu, do you want to eat here tonight? I can arrange for a table in town.”
“There’s no need. It’s too inconvenient here. I still have a meeting at night, so you guys eat on your own.” Fu Yu waved towards Changqing. “Come here for a moment.”
With the entire casts’ gaze upon her, Changqing felt awkward but still followed Fu Yu to the carpark.
Fu Yu tilted his head, looked at her outfit and smiled, “Your outfit today looks like a high school student. It reminds me of some things back from when we were in Yangzhou.”
“I also remembered some things from the past today.” Changqing gazed at the handsome and mature man under the setting sun with mixed emotions.
“Oh, what were they?” Fu Yu’s eyes brightened with additional interest.
“I remember when I was in high school, there was a boy who kept bullying me and after you found out about it, you waited for him at the school entrance one day after school to beat him up. At that time, you were a very incredible and kind person in my eyes.” Changqing kicked the pebbles underneath her feet. “Of course, we haven’t seen each other for such a long time. People do change…”
“Changqing, just be straightforward if you have anything to say.” Fu Yu was very smart and got straight to the point.
Changqing clenched her teeth. “Brother Fu Yu, why did you break up with Guan Ying? Perhaps I’m not in the position to ask, but Guan Ying is my friend. I want to understand. Was it because you were together and now you’re tired of her?”
“This is how you think of me?” Fu Yu still had a smile but deep within, his eyes were cold. “What did Guan Ying tell you?”
“Guan Ying only told me you two broke up.” Changqing looked straight into his eyes. “I also only asked her because she didn’t look fine.”
Fu Yu pondered for a while and asked, “Changqing, do you know this friend of yours very well?”
“What do you mean?” Changqing was angry.
“She didn’t love me at all; she might not have even liked me.” Fu Yu’s tone was ever so calm and he was also very clear in his thoughts. “If you really knew your friend very well, you should understand the reason she got close to me. I gave her what she wanted—isn’t that enough? Or do you think I still have to take care of the woman who used me for the rest of my life or even marry her?”
Changqing was suddenly speechless. Indeed, she clearly understood Guan Ying’s motives in getting close to him.
“Don’t tell me you didn’t feel anything for her at all?” After thinking for a while, she asked from another perspective.
“No.” Fu Yu had an apathetic look in his eyes at the mention of this relationship. “I can even tell you the reason I was willing to let her get close to me was because of another motive. Guan Ying’s original managing company, Zheng Yu, was my acquisition target.”
Changqing was in a daze. She thought about what Zuo Qian told her not long ago, that Zheng Yu Media had been acquired by Shang Wei Corporation by force. Guan Ying also became an artist under Shang Wei because of this. “But Guan Ying was only an artist under Zheng Yu Corporation. How could she help you?”