After Secretly Marrying the Top Celebrity, I Fell in Love - Chapter 49

“…!” Ye Manqing’s pair of long, narrow, snow-fox eyes suddenly fluttered her long eyelashes, and her face immediately flushed.

“Yanyan,” the woman softly called out Bai Yiyan’s name.

Bai Yiyan looked up, her pair of watery brown pupils gazing quietly at Ye Manqing, and she softly countered with a question.

“Is it not allowed?”

“…Alright.” Ye Manqing nervously swallowed, a beautiful blush spreading across her cheeks, slowly creeping up to her entire earlobe.

Bai Yiyan lowered her eyes, her fair fingertips resting on the warm, smooth button. The button was a bit tight, but thankfully, she finally managed to unfasten it.

Instantly, Ye Manqing’s collarbone, hidden beneath her shirt, was exposed before Bai Yiyan. The pearly-white, sexy collarbone was dusted with a faint layer of sunset light, tempting one to kiss it.

Bai Yiyan changed her sitting posture, moving to straddle Ye Manqing’s thighs. Then, she buried her head and kissed Ye Manqing’s collarbone, her lips moving little by little, her tongue lightly exploring.

“…!” Ye Manqing’s moist eyelashes trembled slightly, and she suddenly tightened her grip on the blanket that had slipped to the side.

A series of dense, close kisses landed on Ye Manqing’s cool white neck.

Ye Manqing cooperated by tilting back her fair, slender swan neck, her back resting against the chair, allowing Bai Yiyan to kiss her sensitive neck bit by bit.

“Yanyan… don’t leave any hickeys.” Ye Manqing breathed raggedly, her voice already hoarse.

Bai Yiyan gave a low “Mhm” with her nose, the kisses very light, gentle like a goose feather brush.

Just as Bai Yiyan was about to undo the third button on the woman’s shirt, the phone, which had dropped onto the carpet sometime earlier, suddenly rang.

The living room was too quiet, making the phone’s ringtone particularly noticeable.

She didn’t want to answer, but for some reason, the caller kept persistently dialing; the moment the ringtone stopped, it immediately started ringing again.

“Yanyan, let me take a call.” Ye Manqing tried hard to steady her erratic breathing, her seductive, shimmering eyes half-closed with arousal.

Bai Yiyan stopped kissing, paused, and immediately got off Ye Manqing.

Before Ye Manqing could answer the phone, Bai Yiyan, her face flushed, bit her lip, and ran off barefoot without even pausing to put on her slippers.

Ye Manqing went to attend a dinner party, and Bai Yiyan stayed at the hotel alone. She had a scene to shoot tomorrow, thankfully in the afternoon, so she could stay overnight and leave tomorrow morning.

Bai Yiyan was a bit bored lounging alone on the sofa, so she took a picture of the sunset with her phone, planning to update her Weibo.

Her Weibo fan count had already reached five million.

However, Bai Yiyan was still the same as before, rarely posting on Weibo. Her fans were all eagerly waiting, but Bai Yiyan was slow to update her Weibo status, let alone post selfies.

Bai Yiyan rested her chin on her hand and thought for a moment, pairing the photo with two simple words: Sunset (rabbit emoji).

After updating her Weibo status, Bai Yiyan casually flipped through Weibo’s trending topics. Unsurprisingly, the top few hot searches were all related to Ye Manqing’s new movie, Dual Role.

After checking the trending topics, Bai Yiyan’s personal Weibo messages had already soared to 99+, all comments from fans. Bai Yiyan did not look at the messages and directly exited Weibo.

Bai Yiyan decided to first contact Xu Xing, wanting to see if she was free to come out for dinner. Just as she sent the WeChat message, Xu Xing immediately called her back.

“You finally came back, why didn’t you let me know in advance so I could pick you up at the airport?” Xu Xing’s familiar voice came through the phone, filled with unrestrained joy.

“It was a last-minute decision, and I have to go back to Hengdian tomorrow,” Bai Yiyan explained.

“That rushed? Can’t you stay for a couple more days?” Xu Xing’s voice on the phone sounded noticeably disappointed.

Bai Yiyan: “I can’t help it, I have a scene tomorrow afternoon.”

Xu Xing sighed helplessly: “True, work comes first.”

“Mhm… What do you want for dinner? I’ll treat our big star~”

Bai Yiyan: “Anything, you decide what you want to eat.”

Xu Xing cleared her throat: “Ahem, where’s your significant other? Does she want to come along?”

Bai Yiyan: “She has a dinner party tonight, she just left.”

Xu Xing: “What a shame, I’ll have to treat her another time then.”

Bai Yiyan: “We’ll treat you another time.”

Xu Xing smiled: “That sounds great!”

The two decided on a dining location while talking on the phone, a conversation that lasted for nearly half an hour.

Under the glow of the streetlights, in the banquet hall where glasses clinked and mingled, the rich aroma of red wine permeated the air, and a soothing cello melody played in the background.

A vintage crystal chandelier in the center of the banquet hall refracted dazzling, brilliant light, illuminating the hall as bright as day.

The banquet was a gathering of celebrities. Popular female stars were all dressed in gorgeous haute couture gowns, a sea of silk and fragrance. The male stars all wore neatly pressed, designer suits, appearing gallant and polite.

Ye Manqing wore an apricot halter-neck backless long dress, the hem trailing to the floor. Her slender, fair fingers delicately held a long-stemmed glass, about two-thirds full of red wine.

Her soft, dark hair was tied into a low bun at the back of her head, making her appear both graceful and cold, radiating an inherent noble aura.

Not far away, Jiang Yiluo, in a black sequined long dress, held a glass of red wine, her indifferent gaze fixed on the most dazzling presence in the crowd: the youngest Grand Slam TV Queen and double film Empress in mainland entertainment.

In such a setting, she should go up and exchange a few polite words; it would be impolite not to.

However, the two had previously fallen out over Fu Yu, even completely severing their relationship on the spot. But so much time had passed since then, it was time to pretend to bury the hatchet, as they were both working in the same mainland entertainment industry and were bound to cross paths.

She was less senior and younger than Ye Manqing. Therefore, it was proper for her to break the silence.

Jiang Yiluo held up her skirt with one hand and a wine glass with the other, walking directly up to Ye Manqing and offering a generous, brilliant smile.

“Teacher Ye, good evening~”

Ye Manqing had already noticed Jiang Yiluo walking towards her, and returned a gentle smile, nodding slightly.

“Good evening.”

Jiang Yiluo raised her glass, making a gesture to clink glasses with Ye Manqing, a charming smile playing on her red lips.

“Teacher Ye, Cheers!”

Ye Manqing also raised her glass, gently clinking it against the glass Jiang Yiluo presented, and said lightly, “Cheers.”

With that, the woman slightly tilted her head back, took a sip of the red wine, the slightly burning spice stimulating her taste buds.

Ye Manqing naturally understood the purpose of the toast and cooperated. To get along in this industry, some unwritten rules must be followed.

Jiang Yiluo took a sip of the wine in her glass and proactively made small talk: “When is Teacher Ye’s new movie premiering? I’d like to go support it too.”

Ye Manqing said faintly: “The 27th of this month.”

Jiang Yiluo feigned surprise, slightly raising her volume: “That soon!”

Ye Manqing: “Mhm.”

Jiang Yiluo’s expression suddenly changed. She took a step forward in her high heels, moving closer to Ye Manqing, and spoke in a low voice that only the two of them could hear: “Is Fu Yu still single?”

“…” Ye Manqing frowned, subtly taking a step back to increase the distance between them, her eyes instantly becoming sharp.

“Miss Jiang, I’m afraid I cannot comment.”

Jiang Yiluo gave a bitter smile, took a gulp of red wine, and shrugged helplessly.

“Teacher Ye, I suddenly remember I have something to attend to.” Jiang Yiluo’s eyes were slightly red, and she said with a forced smile, “Please excuse me.”

Ye Manqing: “Alright.”

Watching Jiang Yiluo’s retreating back, Ye Manqing stood composedly in place. She raised her glass, her red lips touching the rim of the tall glass, and took a small sip of red wine.

Jiang Yiluo left the banquet early, not because she truly had an engagement, but simply because she was in a bad mood. She had always been this casual and unrestrained, no one could control her, neither her agent nor her management company, no one could do anything about her.

Everything was indifferent to her; she didn’t care about being usurped of resources by new company recruits, nor did she care about getting announcements or not. On the surface, Jiang Yiluo was a glamorous superstar, but in reality, her heart had long been dead, and she lived every day in a daze.

Sure enough, as soon as she got into the car, her agent’s call came in.

Jiang Yiluo ignored the continuously ringing phone, letting large tears stream out of her eyes.

All the car windows were rolled down, the cool night wind rushed in, messing up the woman’s meticulously styled curly hair.

A few minutes later, the phone finally stopped ringing.

Jiang Yiluo lowered her eyes, unlocked her phone with her fingerprint, and then directly opened Weibo, switched to her secondary account, and clicked into Fu Yu’s personal Weibo.

Fu Yu had been updating her Weibo relatively frequently lately, but it was all related to her new drama. Every few days, she would post some candid photos from the set. Besides Fu Yu herself, other actors from the cast would also appear in the photos.

For example, the male lead and the second female lead.

Strangely, the fans were not shipping Fu Yu and the male lead, but were instead shipping her with the second female lead.

“Bai Yiyan?” Jiang Yiluo saw the name mentioned in the comment section and couldn’t help but frown.

Could it be… she had a new love interest? And the new love interest was this actress with the surname Bai from the same drama?!

When it came to Fu Yu, Jiang Yiluo would become very paranoid; this was also one of the reasons why they broke up in the first place.

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