My Wife Became a Top Star After I Came Back from Quick Transmigration - Chapter 38

Lin Mo wasn’t angry about being tricked by Qiu Mingyi. She had heard a saying: jealousy makes people unrecognizable.

It seemed that even Senior Qiu was no exception.

Besides, Lin Mo had successfully gotten her first kiss today, so she was a winner in front of Qiu Mingyi and could be understanding.

Anyway, the future was still far away, so there was no rush for the website.

The two of them, with different emotions, arrived back at the store. By this time, Qi You Shan and Yun Yue had already finished making dinner.

Since they had a lot of time today, the two of them made a good amount of food. Everyone couldn’t help but praise them. If Qi You Shan had a tail, it would have been wagging so fast that it would have left afterimages.

Because the weather had gotten cooler, everyone discussed it and decided to work together to move the tables outside to eat.

The courtyard at night was quiet and empty. Probably due to fans who were unwilling to leave, there would occasionally be the sound of footsteps passing by the door, and sometimes a faint sound of conversation.

But soon, it would return to silence.

Everyone happily moved the food out, and a group of people sat around the table. Someone found some wine from who knows where, and everyone’s glass was filled.

Zhuo Zitao raised her glass and said, “Come on, let’s have a toast. To celebrate our meeting, may our friendship last forever!!!”

So, a group of people all stood up and raised their glasses.

Although it had only been six days, and the time they had spent together was short, humans were strange like that. Some friends felt like old acquaintances from the moment they met.

This gathering was different from the one on the first day. The first day’s dinner was more for a period of adjustment and for everyone to get to know each other.

Today, it felt more like a casual chat between friends. This realization made the dinner more comfortable.

It would be boring to just eat, so the interesting people couldn’t help but talk about interesting things.

Qi You Shan was indeed like a husky, complaining, “After we formed the group, we got a script for a magical world. The seven members of our group had seven different colors of hair.”

Jiang Lun instinctively replied, “The Calabash Brothers?”

Qiu Mingyi: “Hahahaha.”

Zhuo Zitao: “Ah hahahaha, oh my goodness!”

Jiang Lun’s spontaneous words made everyone laugh out loud. Yun Yue covered her face, not understanding why she had to bring up such a cringy experience.

“It was way more awesome than the Calabash Brothers. We used magic to protect world peace.” After saying that, Qi You Shan couldn’t help but burst into laughter herself.

Qiu Mingyi slapped the table and asked, “Are you a demon?”

Everyone was laughing so hard that they were doubled over. Qi You Shan still felt it wasn’t enough and explained in more detail, “When we just debuted, it was good enough to even get a script. What’s wrong with a magical world? A magical world is great! And let me tell you, during the audition, there were no sound effects or special effects. We had to perform everything ourselves. When I auditioned for a magic attack, I had to imagine the special effects and my opponent myself, and then I would voice it out: ‘BIU~BIUBIUBIU.'”

She herself fell silent after saying that… The people on set who heard her burst into a roar of laughter.

Jiang Lun laughed so hard he slapped the table. “You are so funny. You’re killing me, hahahaha.”

Zhuo Zitao even spun in a circle while laughing and patted Yun Yue. “She’s so funny, why aren’t you laughing?”

Yun Yue’s mouth twitched. Why should she laugh? They had gone to the audition together.

Qiu Mingyi also asked Jiang Lun, “What about you? Have you ever auditioned for a magic show?”

Jiang Lun’s mouth twitched. “I was at my peak when I debuted.”

Qiu Mingyi raised an eyebrow. “Oh? That impressive?”

Wu Qingqing scoffed. “Of course he was at his peak. He forgot the lyrics at a concert and made up the whole thing on the spot. He became famous overnight!”

“Hahahaha,” Qiu Mingyi laughed out loud.

Jiang Lun struggled to defend himself. “I’m amazing for having a concert right after my debut.”

Wu Qingqing was merciless. “You were just there to warm up the crowd.”

Unexpectedly, Jiang Lun wasn’t angry at all when he heard that. Instead, he was very pleasantly surprised. “Were you already following me back then? I’m so honored, Qingqing.”

Wu Qingqing’s face flushed. She scolded him, “Don’t flatter yourself. I saw it from the couple fan’s side. I wasn’t following you.”

Zhuo Zitao said, “Oh~ So you’re even following the couple fans’ videos now?”

Wu Qingqing felt like everyone was a genius and didn’t dare to speak. “…”

After teasing Wu Qingqing, Zhuo Zitao excitedly looked at Su Qixi. “What about you?”

Su Qixi raised her head proudly. “I don’t think I have any funny stories.” Su Qixi’s debut work was very good, and her public image had always been very dignified. Therefore, from a camera perspective, there weren’t many funny stories about her.

Not to mention TV dramas, even in variety shows, few people were willing to joke with her. So, in most cases, Su Qixi would be very serious until the end of the recording.

Zhuo Zitao didn’t believe it. There was no one who didn’t make a mistake.

She turned to ask Lin Mo, “Tell us, you must know.”

Lin Mo was helpless. She turned to look at Su Qixi. Zhuo Zitao quickly blocked them and said to Lin Mo, “Hurry up and tell us. Don’t exchange silent glances.”

Lin Mo began to think for a moment, then slowly opened her mouth and said, “We once bought a second-hand scooter together. Because we needed it for school during the day, we usually charged it after our evening classes. I usually cook at home, so I would go upstairs first. She was responsible for charging it.”

“Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.” The few listeners nodded, looking curious.

Lin Mo clenched her fist and covered her mouth to hide her smile. She continued, “Because our apartment complex was old, the charging station was added later. There were no lights there, but you needed to scan a QR code to pay. So, every time she charged it, she would find a way to light up the area. After a while, she secretly put a candle there.”

Qi You Shan was confused. “Can’t you just tap the screen to light up the QR code?”

When it came to this, Lin Mo explained, “That phone was not very good. At the time, WeChat didn’t have that function because of the system version.”

Su Qixi seemed to have just remembered this incident. Her cheeks immediately flushed, and she covered her mouth with her hands, her eyes watery.

Zhuo Zitao didn’t react for a moment. “If that’s the case, what’s wrong with putting a candle there?”

She couldn’t see, so she bought a candle to light up the QR code to scan! It was a perfect process!

Zhuo Zitao didn’t understand, and the others were also a little confused for a moment, looking at Lin Mo. What was wrong with that?

Su Qixi saw that everyone had the same reaction as her, and she wasn’t as embarrassed anymore. But she still looked resigned as she took over Lin Mo’s story and explained, “Until one day, Lin Mo came downstairs to find me. I told her I hadn’t scanned the code yet. At that time, I was using my phone’s flashlight to look for the candle, and then I saw her… turn on the motorcycle’s headlight. She took out her phone and scanned the code. I was holding the candle I found, and at that moment, I suddenly had a realization…”

Su Qixi also didn’t know why a person could have such a mental short circuit sometimes.

“Hahahahaha.”

“Hahahahahahaha.”

Everyone started laughing again. Zhuo Zitao laughed so hard that she fell into Qiu Mingyi’s arms.

Lin Mo sighed. “What I don’t understand is, you went out to buy a candle, so why didn’t you buy a flashlight?”

“Huh?” Su Qixi was even more shocked. She looked at Lin Mo blankly and finally said, “At that time, it was probably… because I was being cheap?”

“Hahahahaha…” The crowd laughed again, then they fell onto the table, their stomachs hurting from laughing.

Lin Mo also couldn’t help but smile. “Yeah, you were very frugal back then.” Lin Mo didn’t argue with her. She smiled and let her get away with it.

In this joyful atmosphere, Wu Qingqing caught the key point and asked innocently, “You two lived together? When? In high school?”

Su Qixi: “…” See? You can’t just chat casually, right? As soon as you chat, everything gets exposed.

Everyone looked at Su Qixi with a meaningful, smiling expression. Su Qixi could only cover her face and say, “We just lived together. Don’t think about it too much.”

Everyone laughed again. The laughter spread from the courtyard, along with the faint light that was secretly peeking over the wall. With a slight drunkenness, they revealed a little of their past lives’ wonderful stories.

The faint laughter continued, and it brought the few of them closer together without them even realizing it.

Until 10 p.m., looking at the messy table, Zhuo Zitao waved her hand. “We’ll clean it up tomorrow.”

Qiu Mingyi replied loudly, “We’ll do what my wife says.”

So, a group of drunks all staggered away.

Lin Mo couldn’t help but laugh, but she still shook her head and followed them upstairs. The group was all stumbling, holding onto the handrail to get back to their rooms.

Su Qixi was also very drunk. She followed Lin Mo, holding her hand, and muttered, “You told them about my embarrassing story. I have no face to show anyone. I’m so sad. You have to take responsibility. Lin Mo, you have to support me!”

Lin Mo didn’t argue with a drunk person. She just nodded “Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.”

After she got Su Qixi to her room, Su Qixi wouldn’t let her go. She pulled Lin Mo to sit on the bed, then pounced on her and hugged her waist, whining, “Lin Mo, I want a kiss.”

Lin Mo sighed. Alcohol always easily aroused a person’s emotions, especially when she was this drunk. The risk of this kiss was too great.

“Be good. We can kiss tomorrow when you’re sober.”

“You don’t want to~” Su Qixi scrambled up, looked at Lin Mo, her dark eyes full of a sense of grievance.

“I do, but tomorrow we…”

She had only said half of her sentence, with the rest still stuck in her throat, when Su Qixi pounced on her and pinned Lin Mo to the bed, chewing on her face. She had no skill at all, relying completely on instinct, smearing Lin Mo’s face with saliva. Then she sat up and sobbed, “Lin Mo’s kissing is so comfortable, but I can’t! I’m so useless, wuwuwuwu…”

Lin Mo: “…”

In the middle of her crying, Su Qixi’s phone in her pocket rang. Su Qixi still knew to answer the phone.

She sniffled, sobbed, and answered the call. She even thoughtfully put it on speakerphone.

“Lin Mo rejected Feng Ye. Today, I saw you two disappear from the cameras for an hour. What did you two go do?” Xiong Jingjing’s voice came clearly from the other end of the phone. Just by listening, you could tell she was unhappy.

Su Qixi was too drunk to think, so at this moment, she said very proudly and without any hesitation, “We were kissing.”

Xiong Jingjing: “???” You kissed for an hour? Is Lin Mo even good enough for that?

When she said that, Su Qixi giggled and praised her. “Lin Mo’s kissing skills are so good!”

Xiong Jingjing: “???”

Su Qixi swayed, but she still remembered to show off. “It was so comfortable when she kissed me! I felt like I was melting!”

Her voice was slurred with drunkenness, intermittent, weak, and yet charming and alluring.

Xiong Jingjing heard that something was off, but at this moment, she was more dissatisfied with Lin Mo, so her voice carried a hint of disdain. “What now? Sugar-coated words plus a boost in skills, is that it?”

Su Qixi gave a giggle, hiccupped, and said something completely unrelated. “I like Lin Mo, I like her!!! I’m going to spend money on her!!!”

Xiong Jingjing was dumbfounded again. “What nonsense are you talking about! Do you want to be on the trending search?”

Su Qixi raised both hands and shouted loudly, “I’m not afraid, and I won’t regret it!” After shouting, she plopped down and fell asleep. The phone in her hand fell onto the bed. Lin Mo placed the unconscious Su Qixi properly and even covered her with the blanket.

And the phone that had fallen on the bed kept broadcasting Xiong Jingjing’s concerned voice. “…Hello? Hello hello!!! Are you okay? It’ll take me a long time to drive there now! Just say something! Should I call an ambulance?”

However, the sleeping Su Qixi naturally wouldn’t answer her. Xiong Jingjing’s voice became even more anxious.

“Hey, Su Qixi, wake up! Hello, hello, hello.”

They say children are like their parents. Su Qixi and her agent were somewhat similar in their nagging.

Lin Mo couldn’t help but smile. She reached out and picked up the phone.

Although she knew Xiong Jingjing didn’t like her, she was grateful to her. Lin Mo picked up the phone and replied for Su Qixi, “Hello.”

The voice on the other end of the phone suddenly changed. The clear voice made it very easy to guess who it was.

Xiong Jingjing was stunned. “Why are you in Qixi’s room?”

Lin Mo: “We had a party tonight. I’m just taking her back to her room.”

Xiong Jingjing paused. She was concerned at first, but she quickly became angry and scolded her. “Don’t you dare take advantage of her when she’s in a vulnerable state, I’m warning you. Su Qixi may be naive, but the fact that you abandoned her is a fact. And now you’re back talking about undying love. Only a fool would believe that. I’m telling you, you’d better be smart. I’ll help you pay off your debt and give you another sum of money. You’d better disappear from Su Qixi’s life for good.”

Lin Mo found this funny. “You’re saying that! If I wanted to scam someone, I could just scam her. Why would I need to go through you?”

Xiong Jingjing was furious. “Oh, you! You’re clearly up to no good.”

Lin Mo admitted it calmly. “I do want to abduct her, so I guess you could say I’m up to no good.”

Xiong Jingjing almost fainted from anger. She cursed, “Don’t go too far.”

Lin Mo: “Don’t worry! As long as Xiao Xi doesn’t think it’s too much, it’s fine.”

Xiong Jingjing took a deep breath, trying to suppress her anger. She thought that smart people were easy to talk to, so she softened her tone and changed the topic. “Then let’s talk about your current relationship with Qixi. How are you going to handle it?”

Lin Mo said, “From the moment I picked up her call on the live stream, you should have known that I came back with a purpose.”

Xiong Jingjing had never seen such a shameless person who would say it so directly. She really wanted to crawl through the phone signal and fight her!

“Don’t be in such a hurry. Although I have a purpose, it doesn’t mean I’ll hurt her.”

What a joke! Xiong Jingjing didn’t believe it. “Your current situation will hurt her as soon as it gets out. It doesn’t have much to do with what you want.”

“I know. That’s why I haven’t officially gotten together with her until today. If it gets out, she can quickly pull away. And until I’ve sorted out my own matters, at the very least in front of the cameras, I won’t go too far.”

“You won’t go too far?” Does that mean she will go too far?

Xiong Jingjing knew she was far away and couldn’t do anything about it. But she didn’t want Lin Mo to have an easy time, and she didn’t know what kind of trouble to cause her.

Xiong Jingjing: “…So, why did you answer this call today?”

Lin Mo reached out and gently brushed the hair that had fallen on Su Qixi’s face. “It’s been 8 years. I used to be her only one. But now, there are many people in her life. She cares about what you think. Even though she didn’t say it, I know. Sister Xiong, I can promise you that I won’t do anything reckless until I’ve sorted out my own matters. But if I do, can you give her your blessing?”

Xiong Jingjing: “Why should I? I don’t even believe you.”

When she heard this question, Lin Mo’s eyebrows became serious, and then she said with a powerful voice, “Because I want to be with Su Qixi. I want to be with a carefree Su Qixi.”

“If she hopes for your blessing, then I…”

“I will do my best to win your approval. This is why I answered this call today…”

Lin Mo’s voice was already clear, and when she spoke, it was filled with a confidence that made it impossible to doubt her determination.

Most importantly, she didn’t just cut Su Qixi off from the people around her. Instead, she accepted everything that appeared in Su Qixi’s life during her 8-year absence.

Xiong Jingjing didn’t know what to say, but she had to admit that Lin Mo’s words had indeed made her heart waver.

It was a shame she didn’t know if she could hold on until tomorrow, because Li Xinling was arriving.