After I Transmigrated into the Novel, I made the Heroine Fall for Me - Chapter 19

The sudden embrace, the warmth and firmness of the skin beneath her palm, made Fang Qingying’s heart skip a beat, leaving her unsure how to react.

There was no such memory in the original owner’s past, which left Fang Qingying feeling utterly at a loss. She didn’t know how to respond without arousing Fang Qingyu’s suspicion.

“With your brother here, are you still afraid?” Fang Qingyu asked worriedly after receiving no reply from her for a long while.

Had they really grown so distant after just half a year apart?

“N-no, it’s not that,” Fang Qingying shook her head, lowering her voice. “I just haven’t figured out how to explain it to Xiaoxiao.”

How could she possibly tell Fang Qingyu that she was simply clueless about how to handle the situation, which was why she had reacted so slowly?

“Just tell her the truth. I’m sure Gu Shengxiao wouldn’t believe those tabloid rumors,” Fang Qingyu coaxed her patiently, just like he had when they were children.

Young Fang Qingying had been a delicate flower, bursting into tears at the slightest bump or scrape, and only gentle coaxing could calm her down.

Yet sometimes, she was surprisingly strong-willed small in stature but big in personality, the perfect description for her.

However, Fang Qingyu suddenly recalled her recent erratic behavior her arrogance, her unreasonable tantrums. Sometimes, the way she looked at others was downright condescending, as if she were staring down at ants.

The psychologist had suggested that Fang Qingying might have developed a dissociative identity.

Her extreme sensitivity had made her anxious about everything, and over time, it had triggered a state of mental dissociation. Under intense stress, a new personality, one that embodied her deepest desires had emerged.

“Mhm, mhm,” Fang Qingying nodded in agreement while quietly extricating herself from his embrace.

A brief hug was fine, but anything longer felt awkward.

At 22, she was already a grown woman. Being held by a tall man even if he was her blood-related brother felt strange to her.

Besides, she wasn’t the original owner. Deep down, she couldn’t fully accept that she was truly Fang Qingying.

“Brother, it’s getting late. I want to sleep,” Fang Qingying said, subtly taking a step back, putting three or four paces between them before looking up.

Her meaning was clear, she wanted Fang Qingyu to leave and stop lingering outside her door.

“Rest well, sweet dreams,” Fang Qingyu said understandingly, picking up his glass.

With that, he headed downstairs.

“Goodnight, brother,” Fang Qingying waved, watching his retreating figure before closing the door.

Yet despite sending Fang Qingyu away, she felt no trace of sleepiness. Staring at her phone, the last message on the chat screen was Gu Shengxiao’s reply: “Goodnight.”

Hesitantly, she typed out line after line, only to delete them all in frustration.

Fang Qingying felt that no words could capture her current emotions. Maybe she should just go see Gu Shengxiao tomorrow?

But she was torn she had promised to spend two days with her parents. If she went to find Gu Shengxiao now, wouldn’t that make her a liar?

Torn by these conflicting thoughts, Fang Qingying eventually succumbed to sleep’s call. Her phone slipped to the side of the bed as she drifted into a deep slumber.

Unbeknownst to her, her back-and-forth typing and deleting had kept someone else awake the entire night.

“Shengxiao, did you go thieving last night?” Yu Lu came to pick her up for the film set but was startled by the dark circles under her eyes, comparable to a panda’s.

Gu Shengxiao had fair, porcelain-like skin, so any dark circles stood out even more prominently than on most people.

“No,” Gu Shengxiao replied coldly, ruffling her hair. She couldn’t very well admit that she’d stayed up all night waiting for Fang Qingying to message her, could she?

Mostly, it was because Fang Qingying’s status had kept showing “typing” that she’d mistakenly assumed there was something important she wanted to say.

“Oh?” Yu Lu gave her a skeptical glance before suddenly recalling something. “Shengxiao, have you seen the trending topic on Weibo?”

“I saw it,” Gu Shengxiao answered indifferently. Not only had she read the article, but she’d also with reddened ears and a blank expression saved the high-definition photos from it.

The reason she’d done so, she told herself, was entirely because the photos were just too good. It definitely wasn’t because of the pink, lovey-dovey atmosphere in some of them, and certainly not because of the one that looked like they were kissing.

“Don’t you have anything to say about it?” Yu Lu opened the car door for her, cautiously probing her reaction.

If Gu Shengxiao disliked it, she’d have PR suppress the trending topic today. But if she liked it, well, then she’d have PR start marketing their ship.

Yu Lu felt that, in a way, she could still guess what was going on in Gu Shengxiao’s head.

“It’s fine,” Gu Shengxiao said as she settled into the back seat, her gaze unconsciously drifting outside.

To Yu Lu, this scene gave off the illusion of someone covering their ears while stealing a bell obviously fond but pretending not to care. She found it quite novel. At the very least, the Gu Shengxiao she knew had never shown such an expression before.

To others, Gu Shengxiao was the epitome of a flawless goddess. Wherever she went, light seemed to follow.

There was nothing she couldn’t do. Just hearing her name put people at ease, and she herself was outstanding in every way.

Gu Shengxiao was the “other people’s child” everyone talked about someone enviable from childhood to adulthood.

When someone is only slightly better than you, you might resent them. But when they’re dozens or hundreds of times better, you can only admire them, idolize them.

Clearly, Gu Shengxiao was that kind of person.

Seeing her display such an expression for the first time gave Yu Lu the illusion that “so she’s human after all.”

“What are you laughing at?” Gu Shengxiao shot a puzzled glance at Yu Lu, who was supposed to be driving but was instead stifling giggles.

Yu Lu’s heart skipped a beat she hadn’t realized she’d laughed out loud while lost in thought.

She quickly shook her head. “Nothing, nothing. So, Shengxiao, we’re just letting this play out? Not doing anything about it?”

Even though she already had an idea, she still wanted to confirm Gu Shengxiao’s stance.

Gu Shengxiao replied impassively, “The crew needs publicity.”

In other words, there was no need to address the fabricated rumors. As for being taken advantage of, if not for fear of startling Fang Qingying, Gu Shengxiao would’ve loved to post on Weibo: “I was the one who wanted to take advantage of her.”

Of course, if she tried to post that, Yu Lu would be the first to stop her.

The thought of Yu Lu’s reaction gave her a headache.

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