Helping My Ex-Wife Find Love Every Day - Chapter 10

Mei Kaixuan was puzzled. He didn’t seem to recall knowing this woman. Such a beautiful face—he would definitely remember if he had seen it. However, that air of nobility felt quite familiar.

He narrowed his eyes, his pupils darting left and right, deep in thought.

Yao Xiangyi curled one side of her lip, saying disdainfully, “Manager Mei, you have a short memory.”

Mei Kaixuan’s eyes suddenly darkened: “…CEO Yao?”

Yao Xiangyi returned a smile.

Mei Kaixuan’s legs instantly froze. Although Tianji Pictures and Jinghong Entertainment were sworn enemies, as a mere manager, he was only a small pawn. He had no standing to boast and holler in front of the opposing general.

He took off his glasses, put on a cautious and nervous expression, and raised his voice: “It’s CEO Yao! I didn’t recognize a person of your stature. Please forgive me.”

Qiu Qing Shi scoffed, admiring how quickly his face changed—faster than turning a book page. It’s a pity he isn’t an actor.

Mei Kaixuan was the epitome of flexibility. He compensated with a forced smile: “Actress Qiu, I apologize for the fright. My artist is young and inexperienced. She hasn’t seen much of the world and offended you. I apologize to you on her behalf.”

After speaking, he genuinely bowed and scraped, his attitude so sincere it was almost touching. But he couldn’t move Qiu Qing Shi or Yao Xiangyi, who knew his true nature.

However, he didn’t expect their forgiveness. He had seen the Weibo post. The “female paparazzo” in the photo was wearing a black casual outfit, which was the exact same style as the one Qiu Qing Shi was wearing.

The moment he drove in and saw Qiu Qing Shi, he knew she was the “female paparazzo.”

He was both surprised and delighted.

An immediate plan formed in his mind.

Being “beaten” meant Bai Meng Zhao was the victim, the weaker party. Society always sympathized with the weak and despised the strong. Recently, Bai Meng Zhao had been thoroughly slammed by haters. He could use this incident to generate a wave of publicity, garnering sympathy points for Bai Meng Zhao and helping to whitewash her image.

Qiu Qing Shi knew he loved to play the pig to eat the tiger and didn’t want to waste her breath on him. She looked straight ahead and said airily, “Manager Mei, you’ve gone to a lot of trouble coming here so late. Your artist really needs better management. The entertainment industry is a deep pool. You can’t just act according to your whims and desires.”

“Yes, yes, you’re right. I will definitely talk to her properly when I get back.”

“Alright, go in and check on that young lady. Although she struck first, my excessive self-defense was also wrong. Please comfort her for me.”

As she spoke, she rolled up the car window, blocking Mei Kaixuan’s sickening face.

Yao Xiangyi immediately turned the car key and started the engine.

Mei Kaixuan was eager: “Yes, yes, yes, it was all a misunderstanding. Let’s shake hands and forget about it.”

Yao Xiangyi honked the horn, signaling him not to block the way.

The smile on Mei Kaixuan’s face was beginning to slip. He stepped back a few paces. The moment the Maybach drove out of sight, a murderous glare shot out of his eyes.

By the time they arrived home, dawn was breaking, with a hint of white in the eastern sky.

Aunt Mi was used to sleeping and waking early. She was skillfully busy preparing breakfast in the kitchen. When the preparation was almost done, she checked the time and went to knock on the door of the master bedroom. After only two knocks, however, she heard movement behind her.

The two people who should have been sleeping in the bedroom were instead entering the house from outside, looking exhausted, and changing their shoes in the foyer.

She asked, “Where did you go so early in the morning?”

Yao Xiangyi gave a perfunctory answer: “Morning run.”

Life lies in movement—this was an excellent display of attention to health. Aunt Mi happily patted Yao Xiangyi’s arm and generously gave her a word of encouragement, hoping she would keep up the good work tomorrow morning.

Fearing her nagging would be endless, Yao Xiangyi personally escorted her back to the kitchen, then pulled Qiu Qing Shi and ran away.

Qiu Qing Shi had only two days free. According to her schedule, she was supposed to fly to France this morning to sign a contract with C-House Jewelry as their global brand ambassador.

To secure this honor, many female stars had competed fiercely, fighting tooth and nail.

As a top-tier celebrity, Qiu Qing Shi had focused solely on acting for four years, with scandals and negative news being nipped in the bud. Just as she was about to achieve this final goal, an unwelcome Bai Meng Zhao appeared, and she even ended up hitting the girl.

Failing at the critical moment was not Su Ti La’s style. She decided not to accompany Qiu Qing Shi to France. Her top priority was to hold down the fort.

She calculated that the flight from Hai Shi to Paris, France, would take nearly thirteen hours. Including Qiu Qing Shi’s rest time upon arrival, it would take at least a day and a night.

In other words, Qiu Qing Shi could only officially sign with C-House Jewelry the day after tomorrow at the earliest. She needed to resolve this matter within twenty-four hours.

She stood by the floor-to-ceiling window on the twentieth floor of Jinghong Tower, sipping a cup of steaming coffee. The air outside the window was cool, but her heart was pounding like a drum, and the blood throughout her body was boiling like water on a stove.

The Head of Public Relations department found her by following the aroma of the coffee: “Sister Su, it’s dawn. The first peak of online traffic is coming. We can start anytime.”

Su Ti La drank the coffee in one gulp, looking at the manager’s reflection in the window glass: “Everything is ready?”

“According to your instructions, everything is ready, and all staff have arrived.”

A slight excitement flowed from Su Ti La’s eyebrows. She turned, handed him the coffee cup, and walked with sharp, clanking steps on her high heels toward the Public Relations Department.

At that moment, Qiu Qing Shi, surrounded by her assistant and bodyguards, had already bid farewell to the fans who had come to see her off and boarded the flight to Paris, France.

While waiting for takeoff, she had a nagging feeling that she had forgotten something.

After a moment of thought, she slapped her forehead.

Hiss, she forgot to visit the Old Man (her father-in-law)!

She called Yao Xiangyi, instructing her to visit the old family residence on her behalf to greet the Old Man, adding at the end: “Behave yourself these few days, and keep your distance from Bai Meng Zhao!”

Yao Xiangyi was catching up on sleep in the back seat of the car. She glanced at the driver who was focused on the road, trying to keep her voice down: “Stop overthinking. I really haven’t been fooling around outside.”

Qiu Qing Shi: “Hehe.”

Yao Xiangyi pressed her throbbing temples, coaxing her like a child: “Fine, fine, I promise I won’t go anywhere except for business engagements.”

She couldn’t be unkind to someone being so nice. Qiu Qing Shi’s tone softened a bit: “Remember to miss me.”

“I’m missing you right now.”

“How much?”

“Very, very much.”

Qiu Qing Shi was greatly pleased by Yao Xiangyi’s rare sweet talk and said, somewhat elatedly: “I’ll be back as soon as the contract is signed. Remember to apply the medicine to your ear, three times a day.”

Yao Xiangyi subconsciously touched her earlobe: “Got it.”

Good behavior must be rewarded. Qiu Qing Shi immediately made a kissing sound, mwah, as a virtual kiss.

This made Yao Xiangyi chuckle with laughter.

Qiu Qing Shi negotiated: “You kiss me too.”

Yao Xiangyi, unable to drop her tyrant CEO persona, flatly refused.

Qiu Qing Shi let out a “tsk,” attempting to reason with her, but the plane’s announcement rang out at an inopportune moment, signaling that the plane was about to take off. She had no choice but to let it go awkwardly: “I’ll deal with you when I get back!”

With that, she hung up the phone before Yao Xiangyi could reply.

Yao Xiangyi, who was left with the short end of the stick: “…………”

Sleeping in the car was uncomfortable, and Qiu Qing Shi’s call had chased away most of her sleep. She planned to catch a quick nap in the office once she got to the company.

Suddenly, her phone received a Weibo notification: Qiu Qing Shi assaults rising star Bai Meng Zhao at a night market.

Yao Xiangyi’s brow furrowed abruptly. She sat up straight.

She clicked on the notification, and the page jumped to Weibo, where various marketing accounts were reposting a video posted by a paparazzo.

The video was short, about one minute long, capturing the scene through a dense crowd of Qiu Qing Shi and Bai Meng Zhao being escorted into a police car. Following the police car was a Maybach 65s.

Netizens weren’t stupid. They could immediately tell the car was extremely valuable. A quick search showed the price was nearly twenty million RMB, and it was a global limited edition of only ten cars.

The license plate was not censored, and Yao Xiangyi’s name was dug up in the time it takes to eat a quick breakfast.

Anyone who had gossiped about the entertainment industry had definitely heard this name—the big boss of Jinghong Entertainment.

The general public, with years of experience in consuming gossip, vaguely felt that things were not simple.

Immediately, someone else broke the news that the “female paparazzo” was Qiu Qing Shi. The reason given was that the baseball cap, mask, and black casual tracksuit Qiu Qing Shi wore had been seen in multiple public settings. Thoughtfully, they attached photos as evidence.

Photo 1: Qiu Qing Shi wearing the baseball cap at the airport.

Photo 2: Qiu Qing Shi waving to fans from her nanny van, with the mask hanging on her left ear.

Photo 3: Qiu Qing Shi being followed by paparazzi while shopping with her best friend, wearing the black tracksuit.

Photo 4…

Photo 5…

With the help of netizens’ gossip power, this Weibo post’s shares broke through three hundred thousand in less than half an hour.

The topic #QiuQingShiAssaultsBaiMengZhao# had a purplish-red “EXPLOSIVE” tag attached to it, firmly holding the number one spot on the hot search.

It was also number one on the topic list, with 899,000 discussions and 400 million reads.

The second trending topic was last night’s #BaiMengZhaoBeatenByPaparazzo#, also marked with an “EXPLOSIVE” tag.

Yao Xiangyi clicked into it and found that the comments were full of netizens cursing the female paparazzo’s shameless actions. If you’re going to secretly take photos, just crouch in the corner and take them. What right do you have to physically assault someone!

Simply morally corrupt!

She should be cursed, no, cursed to death!

This is too much bullying!

Anger causes people to lose their minds. Driven by a sense of righteousness, everyone transformed into moral guardians, looking down on all creation from the moral high ground.

They spewed the most vicious language in the world, unaware of the ugly face they themselves were making at that moment, as if the person who was beaten wasn’t Bai Meng Zhao, but themselves.

The incident escalated, affecting the entire paparazzo circle.

Some even brought up an interview with a female star from a few years ago. In the interview, the star cried heartbreakingly into the camera, pleading, “Can you please leave me alone and stop taking candid photos of me? I’m truly so exhausted from work every day.”

The female star’s fans felt the pain in their hearts and joined this grand event of cursing paparazzi.

The comment sections of well-known paparazzo accounts were successively taken over.

Even celebrities who had suffered under paparazzi in the past posted to vent their grievances, successfully pushing the controversy to a new high.

Consequently, everyone suddenly felt sorry for the victim, Bai Meng Zhao, calling her “Sister, be strong,” “Sister, keep going,” and “Sister, tomorrow will be better,” completely forgetting that they were slamming her just yesterday.

They also called on relevant departments to rectify the chaos in the paparazzo industry.

Only when the news broke that the female paparazzo was Qiu Qing Shi did the condemnation abruptly cease.

Because netizens were completely bewildered.

What is going on? How could the icy, regal goddess Qiu Qing Shi hit someone!

Every year brings big gossip, but this year’s is especially massive.

[The female paparazzo in the video must be Qiu Qing Shi. That hat and clothes are all luxury goods, worth half my yearly salary. Which paparazzo company has such good pay and benefits? I want to join too.]

[The main thing is the figure and presence. Qiu Qing Shi is 169 cm tall. When she stands in a crowd, she’s like a towering beauty. What paparazzo looks like that? If I had that body, I’d be crazy to be a paparazzo. I’d go be a trainee at an entertainment company.]

[And also, the Maybach belongs to Yao Xiangyi. She must have been there too. Otherwise, why would she be driving behind the police car? She was going after Qiu Qing Shi, of course. That’s ironclad proof [dog head] [dog head]]

[I want to ask what deep-seated hatred exists between Actress Qiu and Bai Meng Zhao that requires physical force to resolve. Tsk, tsk, tsk. It turns out the Ice Mountain persona was just company packaging. In her bones, she’s a street fighter.]

[I’m not a fan, but I really can’t stand this. It’s wrong for Qiu Qing Shi to bully a junior based on her status. She hasn’t even apologized after all this time. Is having a background so great? She pretends to be from a wealthy family all the time, acting superior. Who doesn’t know she’s a nouveau riche’s daughter [eye roll] [eye roll]? I’ve officially become a hater.]

The next second, Weibo crashed!