After Secretly Marrying the Top Celebrity, I Fell in Love - Chapter 42

The distance between the two of them was already very close.

Ye Manqing took a step forward, closing in on Bai Yiyan, shortening the distance between them to mere millimeters.

Their breaths mingled, a shallow, winding circulation, indistinguishable from one another.

Ye Manqing didn’t kiss her right away, although she deeply wanted to. However, at this moment, she needed to slowly build the sweet atmosphere.

“Yanyan, I missed you.” Ye Manqing’s deep, tea-colored eyes gazed at Bai Yiyan, speaking with utter tenderness.

This simple “I missed you” surpassed a thousand love confessions.

“…” Bai Yiyan’s heart trembled. Meeting Ye Manqing’s direct gaze, her cheeks instantly flushed hot, the warmth spreading to her earlobes.

She tilted her head and leaned in, pressing her lips against Ye Manqing’s.

Her hands climbed onto Ye Manqing’s shoulders, finding the most comfortable brace. A slight probe of her tongue easily slipped into the woman’s slightly parted mouth.

“…!” Ye Manqing’s red lips parted slightly, caught off guard by Bai Yiyan’s initiative in the kiss. Her heart pounded erratically.

The woman gently closed her eyes, her long, raven-feather lashes falling down, casting beautiful silhouettes on her cool, pale eyelids.

Beside their ears, their breathing gradually grew heavier, punctuated by the occasional sound of intimate saliva exchange.

The kiss lasted for a long time until Bai Yiyan began to gasp for air. She reluctantly pushed Ye Manqing away, ending the lingering, passionate deep kiss.

“Teacher Ye…” Bai Yiyan panted slightly, lifting a pair of sparkling, water-filled eyes to look at Ye Manqing.

“You’re tired today, let’s go to bed early.”

Ye Manqing reached out, cupping Bai Yiyan’s cheeks. Her slender, snow-fox eyes were slightly red, and a glint of moisture shone in their depths.

“I’m not tired.”

With that, before Bai Yiyan could say anything more, Ye Manqing leaned in, lightly sucking on Bai Yiyan’s lips, consuming her with infatuation.

“…” Bai Yiyan cooperatively closed her eyes, her moisture-tinged, long eyelashes fluttering gently.

A vibrant blush, like spring peach blossoms, gradually climbed up Bai Yiyan’s fair neck. The veins beneath her cool, white skin were slightly prominent due to arousal.

After showering, Bai Yiyan sat cross-legged on the large hotel bed, dressed in a champagne-colored silk pajama set. Her waist-length hair was spread out, and she wore a light pink headband.

With her eyes lowered, Bai Yiyan occasionally flipped through the script, planning to review the lines she had long since memorized before going to sleep.

Bai Yiyan was reading so intently that she didn’t notice when Ye Manqing came out of the bathroom.

“Not sleepy? Still looking at the script.” Ye Manqing, clad in a white bathrobe, walked straight to the edge of the bed and sat down.

“A little.” Bai Yiyan answered truthfully. She was a bit sleepy, but not overwhelmingly so.

“Did you check the trending topics?” Ye Manqing asked.

“What trending topics?” A trace of confusion flickered in Bai Yiyan’s brown eyes as she countered the question.

Ye Manqing: “The trending topic about the costume photos.”

Bai Yiyan shook her head: “I didn’t look.”

Ye Manqing: “Aren’t you concerned?”

Bai Yiyan answered without hesitation: “Not very concerned.”

Ye Manqing: “Don’t you want to see? This is the first time you’ve been on a trending topic list.”

“…!” Bai Yiyan’s lips, which were slightly swollen from the kiss, silently parted and closed. She closed the script in her hand and casually placed it on the large bed.

Ye Manqing was closer to the bedside table. She reached out, picked up her phone from the table, and handed it to Bai Yiyan.

“Here.”

Bai Yiyan took the phone, instinctively saying “Thank you.” After unlocking the phone with her fingerprint, she went straight to Weibo.

Upon opening Weibo, before she even had a chance to check the trending list, the message tab at the bottom displayed “99+” messages, and the “Me” tab on the far right also showed “99+”.

“…” Bai Yiyan was stunned, seeing so many message notifications for the first time.

She casually clicked on the “Me” tab in the lower right corner, entering her Weibo main page, where her fan count prominently displayed one hundred thousand.

In just one hour, Bai Yiyan’s Weibo followers had skyrocketed from a mere few dozen to one hundred thousand!

Without guessing, it must be related to the costume photos released by the official Weibo tonight.

At ten o’clock tonight, exactly one hour ago, the official Weibo for Nine Heavens had posted a microblog about the actors’ costume photos and tagged every actor. Subsequently, everyone followed suit and posted their own costume photos on their personal Weibo accounts.

Bai Yiyan did the same, a simple text accompanied by one of her costume photos. After sending the microblog, Bai Yiyan hadn’t paid any further attention and hadn’t logged back into Weibo.

Until Ye Manqing’s reminder just now.

Right! And a trending topic related to her?!

Bai Yiyan backed out of her main Weibo page and clicked on the Weibo trending topics list. Sure enough, she saw her name in the fourth position on the hot search.

#NineHeavensSecondFemaleLeadBaiYiyan#

The top three trending topics were: #NineHeavensReleasesCostumePhotos#, #FuYuZhouWenkaiReunite#, #SpecialGuestStarringYeManqing#

This was the first time Bai Yiyan had been on a trending topic list, and it was also the first time her name and Ye Manqing’s name had appeared close together on Weibo.

Her fingertip paused, and Bai Yiyan clicked on this seemingly hot topic entry.

Bai Yiyan read through the comments with a nervous heart. Fortunately, the netizens’ comments were mostly friendly and fair, with no excessive or extreme remarks.

【I’ve never heard the name “Bai Yiyan” before, but the name is genuinely lovely, and she’s so beautiful!】

【Such an incredible face, I hope her acting skills are also good, or it would be a waste of such a beautiful face.】

【I hope she’s not another flower vase (cry-laugh emoji)】

【A flower vase?! This is Zhang Mingxiu’s drama! Would he let a flower vase play the second female lead? That’s simply unheard of!】

【If the second female lead truly is a flower vase, I’ll give everyone a performance of washing my hair while standing on my head!!】

In Bai Yiyan’s view, as long as it wasn’t unwarranted personal attacks, she could accept it all—accepting all the vast netizens’ evaluations of her, and any negative speculations born of not knowing her.

Suddenly, Ye Manqing’s familiar, gentle voice reached her ears.

“Yanyan, don’t take the netizens’ evaluations too much to heart.”

“They don’t know you yet.”

Bai Yiyan moved her gaze from the phone, meeting Ye Manqing’s look of concern. The corner of her lips curved into a slight smile, giving Ye Manqing a reassuring look.

“Mhm, I know.”

Ye Manqing carefully studied Bai Yiyan’s eyes, seriously discerning the emotion conveyed when she said that, checking if she was pretending not to care just to comfort her in return.

The answer was: No.

Ye Manqing suddenly thought of something and decided to start another conversation topic. That was the matter of whether Bai Yiyan needed an assistant and a dedicated car.

Ye Manqing reached out and gently held one of Bai Yiyan’s hands. She spoke warmly: “Yanyan, there’s something I want to discuss with you.”

Bai Yiyan paused, then nodded: “Teacher Ye, tell me.”

Ye Manqing got straight to the point: “I think you need an assistant. Also, you need a car for getting around.”

Bai Yiyan had never considered this issue because she felt she didn’t need an assistant, let alone a car. The hotel wasn’t far from the filming location, and transportation was very convenient.

Bai Yiyan expressed her thoughts: “Teacher Ye, I don’t need an assistant. As for a car, the hotel isn’t far from the set, so taking the bus or riding a bike is very convenient.”

“What you say makes sense.” Ye Manqing looked at Bai Yiyan with an approving gaze, then suddenly changed the subject, “Before you become famous, it’s indeed convenient for you to take the bus or ride a bike. But you’ve seen it, in just one hour, your Weibo followers have jumped by one hundred thousand.”

“At this rate, it’ll be easy for your Weibo followers to surpass one million. Later, as the filming of Nine Heavens progresses, the official Weibo will also irregularly release some behind-the-scenes footage to build hype.”

“Do you think you’ll still be able to enter and exit public places as easily as an ordinary person?”

You are bound to become a huge star, a brilliant and dazzling current-generation superstar!

Bai Yiyan pursed her lips, remaining silent: “…”

Ye Manqing lightly stroked the back of Bai Yiyan’s fair hand with her thumb. Her tone suddenly became a little helpless, and she said softly: “Yanyan, you always keep things very clearly separate with me.”

There was no hint of blame, only helplessness.

Ye Manqing: “To put my mind at ease, I’ll help you find an assistant. As for a car, I have many cars under my name; I’ll choose the most low-key one for you.”

Bai Yiyan hesitated for a moment, then asserted: “Then the assistant’s salary will be paid by me.”

Ye Manqing: “Okay.”

With that, the woman opened her arms and gently pulled Bai Yiyan into her embrace, tenderly stroking Bai Yiyan’s head, and saying in a low voice: “Yanyan, I am your wife.”

“…!” Bai Yiyan’s pair of graceful phoenix eyes suddenly widened, and her heart pounded rapidly.

Ye Manqing continued softly: “Yanyan, everything I have is yours. There’s no need for you to keep things so separate with me. Money is merely external to me.”

Only you are the most cherished and precious treasure of my life.

Bai Yiyan’s long eyelashes lowered, and she comfortably rested her chin on Ye Manqing’s shoulder. Fatigue gradually crept into her eyelids.

Outside the French window, a light, drizzling rain had begun at some point. The rainwater slowly moistened the clean glass, and the sense of rain silently spread.

On a rainy day, with the person she thought about day and night right beside her, tonight was certain to be exceptionally restful.

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