"Virtue."
Shangguan Wan'er chided with her mouth, but her legs resignedly moved towards the kitchen.
Thus, when a certain movie star, who had not even had a sip of water after finishing the press conference and rushing back without stopping, pushed open the still unrepaired grand door.
He saw two women sitting at the dining table under the bright sunlight.
One was eating with a beaming smile, while the other quietly watched and occasionally thoughtfully wiped away crumbs and oil stains from the former's mouth with a tissue.
This beautiful scene of peaceful years was incredibly glaring in the movie star's eyes.
He narrowed his eyes slightly, then took out his phone and typed a string of words with a few taps.
Only after receiving the "ok" reply from the other side did he stride into the house with his long legs.
However, upon seeing the movie star walking towards her, Lin Jingxing immediately bristled.
"No, Big Brother, you held a press conference dressed like this this morning?"
It wasn't that Lin Jingxing was making a fuss, but rather that Gu Qing was currently dressed scantily. There were several obvious scratch marks on her exposed chest, and a large area of purple bruising on her neck.
Coupled with her slightly narrowed eyes and a contented, lingering expression.
Any adult would know what this person did last night!
And this person had the audacity to show up to a press conference looking like this?
What was he announcing?
How comfortably his kidneys had been "used" last night?
Growing more indignant the more she thought about it, Lin Jingxing stopped eating and directly pulled out her phone.
As expected, she was trending again.
No, to be precise, she had never stopped trending!
#Breaking! Movie Star Gu Qing Holds Press Conference#
#Movie Star Gu Qing Publicly Admits Love Relationship with Non-Celebrity Civilian at Press Conference#
#Lin Shen Lin Jingxing#
#Movie Star Gu Qing Press Conference Photos Leak, Confirms Cohabitation with Lin Shen#
#Movie Star Gu Qing's Secret Marriage Confirmed, Partner is Non-Celebrity Civilian, Lin Shen, Who Recently Became Popular Through a Variety Show#
#Movie Star Gu Qing's Shotgun Wedding#
#Movie Star Gu Qing Secretly Married with Child#
Looking at the increasingly absurd trending topics, Lin Jingxing could only feel speechless.
Cohabitation was one thing, after all, she was weak-willed and had indeed gotten involved with that male vixen.
But marriage and children? What was that about?
When did she become a mother painlessly?
Lin Jingxing irritably ran a hand through her hair, her gaze falling on her "good son" who walked in afterward. She couldn't help but loudly question him:
"I say, you're his agent, the third young master of Ye Group. How could you just let him act so recklessly?
Where's the public relations? Spend money to remove the trending topics!
If these groundless and unscrupulous media continue to fabricate things like this, my son will be as old as you are!"
Ye Yunzhou, upon hearing this, instead began to cry with grievance:
"My dear mother, do you think I didn't want to stop him?
But my dear father is absolutely determined to announce your existence to the world, thereby declaring his claim and legally staying by your side!
And spend money to remove trending topics?
Dear mother, you have no idea!
The reason those trending topics are becoming more and more outrageous is entirely because my dear father personally paid to hire internet trolls to boost them!
A dignified movie star hiring internet trolls to buy trending topics?
If this got out, it would be enough to provide a whole year's worth of jokes for the entertainment industry!"
Ye Yunzhou, who had suddenly transformed into a filial son, seemed to have finally found someone to confide in and poured out his woes:
"You all can never imagine, he was afraid the hickeys on his neck weren't obvious enough, so before going on stage, he asked the makeup artist to add some color to them!
Following that, a perfectly good press conference was turned into a large-scale public display of affection by him!
Now, the whole world knows you two have a thing going on!"
After listening to Ye Yunzhou's lengthy rambling, Lin Jingxing actually calmed down.
She stared at the person in front of her with an unreadable expression and asked in confusion:
"Was it worth it?"
As a public figure, every move and gesture would be magnified. Such a high-profile public declaration of a relationship, even for a movie star primarily focusing on the big screen, would inevitably affect his career.
However, Gu Qing replied with two words without any hesitation:
"Worth it."
"Forget it, as long as you're happy."
After saying that, Lin Jingxing got up and returned to her room.
In fact, regarding Gu Qing, besides the physical aspect, she felt more of a sense of helplessness.
Their becoming husband and wife in Little Ge'er's world was purely accidental.
And due to her God-like perspective, she had always regarded him as an NPC who triggered a certain key plot point and happened to have an appearance that perfectly matched her aesthetic, which was why she had been so unrestrained in teasing him.
Who knew it would backfire, and he wasn't an NPC at all!
Now that he had found her, she felt a little guilty.
After all, she had recited many love poems and snuggled in his bed quite a bit.
But if she were to elevate her appreciation of his looks to romantic love, it would be too far-fetched.
Otherwise, should she repay his affection with her body?
Having reached the above conclusion, Lin Jingxing continued to bury herself in her revenge plan.
The most direct and effective way to make the male and female leads turn against each other was through third-party intervention.
According to the laws of Mary Sue CEO novels, any male who interacted with the female lead would develop admiration for her due to the protagonist's halo.
If not, the female lead, who considered herself the purest and kindest in the world, would automatically imagine that the male had a good impression of her.
And as a novel with over a million characters, countless male supporting roles appeared.
Therefore, what she needed to do was collect evidence of the female lead's intimacy with other men, categorize and organize them by alphabetical order, and then package them to be sent to the male lead, whose head was covered in a vast expanse of Hulunbuir grassland.
Of course, as a handsome and wealthy CEO, the male lead also had his fair share of admirers, including some who actively threw themselves at him.
Although the male lead's setting was to be devoted to the female lead, it seemed that even this devotion had its exceptions.
Lin Jingxing, after hacking into a five-star hotel's surveillance system, unexpectedly discovered that.
The male lead, Lin Yue, had been drugged at a banquet a year ago and ended up in bed with an intern secretary.
After waking up, the male lead was greatly dejected, feeling that he had wronged the female lead.
While searching for the mastermind who dared to scheme against him, he tacitly allowed the female lead to go on a trip to relax with her male best friend.
Coincidentally, at that time, the mask epidemic broke out, and the female lead and her male best friend were quarantined abroad, where they stayed for three years.
Although they were separated by distance, neither the male nor the female lead was idle.
Unable to find the mastermind, the male lead took his frustration out on the intern secretary, and as he continued to vent, they ended up in bed again.
As a result, three years later, he had a love child with the intern secretary running around.
As for the female lead, there wasn't much going on with her male best friend. However, thanks to her protagonist's halo, the female lead met a handsome Chinese-American man abroad.
Unlike the male lead, who was already middle-aged and consistently played the CEO role, the Chinese-American man was young and romantic, capable of being both gentle and cool, and quickly captured the female lead's heart. Then, everything that should have happened and shouldn't have happened did.
After collecting and organizing all the evidence, Lin Jingxing felt that she no longer believed in love.