After A Secret Marriage Agreement With A Rival Omega - Chapter 70

Chapter 70

◎ “A blind box without a purpose is a surprise.” ◎

Manwen burst out laughing when she saw Sheng Ruxi’s expression freeze for a moment. It turned out that the award-winning actress, who was so good at acting, also had moments when she couldn’t control her facial expression.

With one look, she knew who was calling.

Manwen quietly backed away, giving Sheng Ruxi space to talk to Jian Jixing.

Sheng Ruxi was as if she had just woken up and pressed the answer button.

Before she could speak, she heard the sound of a door closing on the other end. It seemed like Jian Jixing had changed locations, and then Jian Jixing was the first to speak: “I saw your live broadcast.”

“I know you did.”

Listening to the slightly joyful tone at the end of her voice, Jian Jixing could picture Sheng Ruxi’s lips curling up.

The person in charge in the conference room was about to run out. Yi Yueyang’s report wasn’t over yet, so why did she stop listening? Gu Shengci knew who she was calling and signaled for her assistant to stop the person in charge.

“It’s a break. Don’t disturb her,” Gu Shengci said concisely.

Jian Jixing leaned against the end of the long corridor, looking at the city’s traffic below the tall buildings. The fatigue from the long meeting disappeared at this moment.

Ask her for pointers on bed scenes?

She had a lot of guts.

“How was the movie I directed? Do you still think it’s not good or that you don’t understand it?”

Sheng Ruxi had already heard the teasing in Jian Jixing’s tone, but she couldn’t get angry. Only a little stubbornness remained: “It was a bit obscure.”

Jian Jixing replied: “You didn’t think it was obscure when you were watching the bed scene.”

How did she know she had watched it several times?! The moment Sheng Ruxi heard this, a suspicious look fell on Manwen. Manwen quickly waved her hands to prove her innocence.

Sheng Ruxi: “What kind of person do you take me for?”

Jian Jixing chuckled and silently tightened her grip on the edge of her phone: “Then why do you want to ask me for pointers on bed scenes?”

Sheng Ruxi naturally couldn’t tell her the real reason. She only said: “I’ve never filmed one before. Just in case, I want to learn.”

There was silence on the other end of the phone.

She could only hear breathing, but Sheng Ruxi immediately felt Jian Jixing’s change in mood.

Hmm? She was starting to care? Was she concerned that she might film a bed scene?

Jian Jixing’s hand rested on the railing. After a while, she slowly let out a breath she had been holding in: “Sheng Ruxi, do you want to film a bed scene?”

When Jian Jixing said her name, the three words were especially heavy, and for some reason, they had a clear possessiveness.

She just didn’t know if this possessiveness was physiological or because of her personal unhappiness.

“What’s wrong, Director Jian?” Sheng Ruxi didn’t directly answer Jian Jixing’s question. Instead, she said in a relaxed tone: “Many times, these kinds of bed scenes can also add to the beauty of a film, just like in your film. They’re not just for expressing lust.”

Jian Jixing was displeased. She instinctively didn’t want Sheng Ruxi to film one, but she had to admit that Sheng Ruxi’s point was correct. She was silent for a moment, weighing her thoughts, and then said: “My film was for expressing lust.”

“Many films aren’t!”

Jian Jixing’s face turned cold, and so did her voice. It was faintly pale: “It wouldn’t be good.”

“Are you talking about me?” Sheng Ruxi felt it was unbelievable. How could a person be so direct in their rejection? Her voice rose. “You don’t get to decide.” This really triggered her competitive spirit again.

Unexpectedly, the other side said in a low voice: “I’m talking about me. It wouldn’t be good if I shot it.”

“Director Jian, if you say that, your fans will be sad. This movie Moss has provided content for countless review accounts,” Sheng Ruxi said calmly. “The intimate scenes in it are often brought up. They say you’re good at filming them and that you have experience.”

Not only that, Sheng Ruxi had specifically looked at the relevant review sections. Fans would come back to rewatch it every so often, saying it was new every time they watched it.

And there was one question that couldn’t be avoided: How much did an alpha director who could film bed scenes so beautifully actually know about it?

Sheng Ruxi was currently exploring the answer to this question.

“You know best whether I have experience or not,” Jian Jixing took a deep breath. She noticed that Sheng Ruxi was a little worked up and changed her tone. “I haven’t had any with anyone else. No one can do it while throwing up.”

Sheng Ruxi: “So I don’t need to learn from you.”

“Then who else do you want to learn from?” Jian Jixing’s voice became low again. After she said it, she felt it was wrong. “If you really want to film it…”

Her words suddenly stopped. She didn’t know what she was thinking of, and then she said “never mind.”

Sheng Ruxi scoffed. She thought Jian Jixing was going to say things like “don’t film it” again. She remembered the message Jian Jixing had sent her and knew her face was red. Thankfully, Jian Jixing couldn’t see it now and couldn’t come back. She could flirt with Jian Jixing however she wanted to on her end of the phone.

“Even if I wanted you to teach me face to face, you can’t do that now, can you?” Sheng Ruxi fiddled with her earring. “You sent me so many gifts. Someone who didn’t know would think you bullied me last night.”

“How could I dare? Don’t you like them?”

“I like them, but they’re too much. They’re not creative.”

“I thought you only liked shiny things, and those haute couture outfits. I sent them over so you wouldn’t have to use my car to pick them up again,” Jian Jixing glanced in the direction of the conference room and made a decision in her heart. “Then what do you need? Do you want flowers?”

Sheng Ruxi had already changed her posture and was comfortably leaning on a soft pillow, propping up her chin as she talked on the phone.

Manwen wasn’t standing close, but she could still hear what Sheng Ruxi was saying. She was surprised at how quickly Sheng Ruxi and Director Jian’s conversation was jumping from topic to topic. It seemed that no matter what she said, the person on the other end could respond.

How amazing. What a perfect couple for marriage. Director Jian, you have to work hard! Manwen shouted in her heart.

This sentence was a response to what she had said in the live broadcast, “don’t send gifts, don’t send flowers.” Sheng Ruxi understood. She actually knew the meaning behind every word Jian Jixing said, but for her to ask about sending flowers when she was going to send them anyway, there was no surprise at all.

“No, thank you,” Sheng Ruxi scoffed softly. “They’re not what I need.”

If she were to say what she wanted most right now, it would be for Jian Jixing to appear in front of her.

“Your thoughts are a little hard to guess,” Jian Jixing replied unhurriedly. Sheng Ruxi said: “Then you’re going to retreat?”

She thought Jian Jixing wouldn’t say anything else, but before she hung up, Sheng Ruxi heard Jian Jixing say in a low voice: “Naturally, I’m going to face the difficulty head-on.”

It was a good thing the answer wasn’t wrong. Before Jian Jixing ended the call, she heard Sheng Ruxi’s joyful laughter.

This was the motivation for her to continue to finish her work.

Jian Jixing calculated the time to see if she could make it back, so when she was asked to go to the film set, she gladly went.

The studio area was naturally in the film and television city, which was convenient for her to go back and find Sheng Ruxi.

The temperature in Shanmi in the afternoon was on the low side. The morning sun was suddenly hidden behind the clouds. There were many staff members in the studio. Jian Jixing was surrounded by many people, but her expression remained indifferent.

She looked down at her phone from time to time. Manwen told her that Sheng Ruxi was still watching a movie, had a small lunch and some snacks, and was now sleeping.

The people around her kept talking, their minds full of commercial development. Jian Jixing felt bored at times. When she thought that she would have to continue this kind of presentation until she decided on the lead actor, her head ached.

Jian Jixing had never felt that her job was so dull. The film career she loved so much was now not even as important as a single strand of Sheng Ruxi’s hair.

By almost five o’clock, Jian Jixing’s work for this phase was nearing its end. Manwen told her that Sheng Ruxi was still in bed.

Jian Jixing had a sudden thought: 【Let me see】

She thought it would be a video of Sheng Ruxi looking sleepy, but what she received was a ten-second video.

Sheng Ruxi had fallen asleep on the sofa. She had gotten sleepy from watching the movie and had fallen asleep. At this moment, she was being woken up, but she wasn’t sober. Her eyes were unfocused, and her hair was a mess, flying all over the place. She wasn’t as delicate as she usually was.

The un-delicate Sheng Ruxi, however, had a natural childishness to her, like a marshmallow. Both her body and her expression made people feel soft.

Manwen’s voice was heard: “Miss Sheng, it’s time to get up. Don’t be a bed hog.”

Sheng Ruxi grabbed the blanket she was wrapped in and buried her face in it, making a sad whimpering sound. Then she said with both pain and distress: “Afternoon naps are so comfortable.”

At this moment, Jian Jixing was a little envious of Manwen. She had asked Manwen to keep an eye on what Sheng Ruxi was doing, but it turned out Manwen was the one who was enjoying herself.

This didn’t work. It had become a kind of reward, and Jian Jixing wanted it too.

“Shall we go for dinner?”

Sheng Ruxi didn’t lift her face: “I don’t want to… I won’t eat, right? Celebrities don’t eat dinner.”

“There’s a very nice sky restaurant near the film and television city. Many celebrities have been there before, and it’s very private,” Manwen suggested. “Director Jian said that you would like the style.”

Sheng Ruxi grabbed her hair and slowly woke up from her dazed state. “Where’s Jian Jixing?”

“Director Jian is still meeting with the investment company. She should still be busy.”

“She’s so busy,” Sheng Ruxi had been comfortably watching movies in the room all day without any interruptions. Aside from not being able to see Jian Jixing, she was in a very content state.

She actually felt indifferent about this kind of restaurant, but she still asked another question: “Has Jian Jixing been there?”

Manwen nodded: “Yes. Director Jian said the food there is very good.”

That meant that the restaurant was to Jian Jixing’s liking, right? Sheng Ruxi became a little interested. For the sake of Jian Jixing’s hard work all day, she would be magnanimous.

She would go to dinner and pack a portion for Jian Jixing to send over.

She couldn’t wait to see Jian Jixing be so touched.

She finally started getting ready. She put on some light makeup and some lipstick. Manwen was already silently admiring her from behind. How could someone look so beautiful without makeup…?

Since she had to go out, Sheng Ruxi was never sloppy about what she wore. Manwen reminded her that the temperature had been dropping since the afternoon. Sheng Ruxi put on an olive green oversized coat, paired it with a pair of blue straight-leg pants, and dark brown mid-heeled boots.

She changed her earrings to big hoops and put on sunglasses as usual. The whole outfit on Sheng Ruxi looked very high-end.

“Miss Sheng, I think you’d look beautiful even in a sack,” Manwen was once again shocked by Sheng Ruxi’s taste in clothes. “Do you want to tie up your hair?”

Sheng Ruxi nodded. She wanted to wear a baseball cap to make her style a little more relaxed.

She didn’t like wearing them, but she found that Jian Jixing seemed to be used to wearing them, so she also wanted to try the same item as Jian Jixing.

She chose to wear a different baseball cap from the same brand that Jian Jixing liked and tied her slightly wavy hair into a low ponytail.

Sheng Ruxi came out of the elevator behind the hotel. Before she could cover her hat a little, she saw Jian Jixing, with the setting sun and neon lights as her backdrop, slowly rolling down her car window.

In the elevator, Sheng Ruxi was still thinking about what dishes to order for Jian Jixing and whether she should try them first. When she went downstairs, Manwen said it would be a while, and she thought Manwen would be driving her.

When she saw Jian Jixing, she realized that Manwen and Jian Jixing were in cahoots all along!

The moment Jian Jixing opened the car door, Sheng Ruxi met her gaze. The steps she was taking to walk out actually paused.

Jian Jixing was wearing all black. Today, she wasn’t wearing a hat. She looked over in the midst of a bunch of colorful neon lights, and Sheng Ruxi was the only one who saw the gentleness in her.

Seeing Sheng Ruxi’s footsteps stop, Jian Jixing took the initiative to walk towards her, one step at a time. When she got to her, Jian Jixing curled her lips and naturally reached out her fingers to adjust Sheng Ruxi’s hat.

“Get in the car.”

A sudden thought flashed through Sheng Ruxi’s mind—Jian Jixing came back just like that. She wasn’t really going to practice the theory of filming a bed scene with her, was she?

She opened the car door, and there was a large bouquet of fresh roses on the passenger seat. In the middle of the bouquet, there was an exquisite small gift box.

“I asked you about sending flowers, but can this little thing in the middle be a surprise?”

Sheng Ruxi got in the car, picked up the flowers, and realized that they were the same kind as the bouquet Jian Jixing had sent during the live broadcast. She didn’t know what was in the box. Sheng Ruxi picked it up. Without opening it, she turned to ask: “Why did you come over?”

“I just had some time,” Jian Jixing lightly brushed over her work. There was a faint smile on her face. “I was afraid you would think I was going to retreat.”

Sheng Ruxi had talked to Manwen a lot in the afternoon and knew that Jian Jixing hadn’t been having an easy time. It wasn’t as simple as she said. Since she came back from the hospital, Jian Jixing had been working non-stop. It was a lie that she just had some time. The truth was that she had squeezed out time to be with her.

She even drove to pick her up herself.

All these things made it very hard not to be moved.

Jian Jixing was still amazing. She so easily took the lead in their relationship. It was too easy for her to steal one’s heart.

Sheng Ruxi’s heart felt a little sour. While her heart was beating fast, she was also a little sad for some reason. She lowered her eyes to look at the blooming roses. When she spoke again, her voice was a little muffled: “I didn’t tell you to come back.”

“Yeah, I came on my own,” Jian Jixing wasn’t angry at all and didn’t feel like she was tolerating anything. She said unhurriedly: “Shall we go?”

Sheng Ruxi: “What if I say no?”

“I’ll think of another way to make you want to go to dinner with me.”

Sheng Ruxi felt a little itchy and looked up to ask: “Why don’t you argue with me now? Don’t you think I have a bad temper anymore?”

Jian Jixing smiled: “It’s okay if you do. I feel like being with you is like opening a blind box.”

Including Sheng Ruxi’s temper, her occasional sensitivities, and even her clever sarcasm, they were all like blind boxes.

Sheng Ruxi didn’t understand Jian Jixing’s metaphor and glared at her: “Disappointed?”

“A blind box without a purpose is a surprise,” Jian Jixing’s tone was slow, with a relaxed gentleness. “One surprise after another.”