The Host Has Fallen for the Second Female Lead Again - Chapter 18

Zhuo Xi didn’t return until the afternoon of the next day, a clear sign she had a wild night.

She still had a smile on her face when she saw Ji Mingxiao. “I’m so sorry, I drank too much last night and slept until noon at Xiaoxiao’s place. I made you worry. Have you eaten?”

Her expression was so natural that there was no hint of any reluctance.

It must have been so difficult for her to keep this up for three years.

“I have,” Ji Mingxiao nodded, her expression also very natural. “I have to go on a business trip for a few days.”

“Huh?” Zhuo Xi was stunned. She frowned, looking a little unhappy. “How come our timing is always so bad? We finally made some time for each other.”

“I know, but I have to go on this trip myself,” Ji Mingxiao sighed. “I can’t help it. I’m trying to land a public service advertisement project.”

“Okay, you go and do what you need to. It’s fine,” Zhuo Xi said obediently.

Ji Mingxiao looked at her, wondering if Zhuo Xi was secretly laughing.

The person who had been passing messages to Zhuo Xi from the secretary’s office had been fired by Ji Mingxiao on a pretext that no one could find fault with. Now, her secretary’s office was as impenetrable as a fortress.

Now, if Zhuo Xi wanted to know anything, she had to ask Ji Mingxiao.

She had offered Tang Can many benefits, but Tang Can had refused them all and even sent screenshots of the conversations to Ji Mingxiao.

Having Tang Can, the class monitor, on her side was a great help.

Ji Mingxiao’s flight was early the next morning, and the thoughtful Zhuo Xi woke up at five to prepare breakfast, acting like a good homemaker.

When Ji Mingxiao was leaving, Zhuo Xi saw her to the villa’s entrance and stood there, smiling as she watched her leave.

Ji Mingxiao got into the car, glanced at Zhuo Xi standing at the door, and then looked away.

She curved her lips into a sarcastic smile.

Honestly, she was curious about who sent her the video, but she asked Tang Can to investigate, and they found nothing.

Ji Mingxiao remembered the people who were with Zhuo Xi at the time. They were all close with Zhuo Xi; otherwise, they wouldn’t have said such things so casually.

Especially for someone as careful as Zhuo Xi.

She wondered if Zhuo Xi had considered the possibility of being betrayed by her friends.

At the airport, Ji Mingxiao spotted Xi Ruan with her suitcase right away.

The first time they met was at an airport.

Ji Mingxiao decided to make the airport their second place of destiny, with the first being the elevator.

The two fated people were on the same flight, and while they were both in first class, their seats weren’t next to each other.

But Ji Mingxiao was shameless enough to switch seats with someone.

Xi Ruan was silent when she saw Ji Mingxiao. “What a coincidence.”

“A coincidence,” Ji Mingxiao said, leaning against her chair and looking at Xi Ruan again. “You’re flying first class now?”

“Thanks to you.”

Ji Mingxiao’s lips curved into a smile. When she saw Xi Ruan, she remembered something else.

Zhuo Xi found it disgusting that girls liked girls. After three years, she still found it disgusting, and even more so.

What about Xi Ruan? She didn’t think much of it when she saw others because, to her, this was just a virtual world. Other people’s lives and things in books had nothing to do with her.

The world she and Ruan Shaojia were in was also one that was a bit demanding of homosexuals.

Ji Mingxiao had liked Ruan Shaojia since junior high, but the other person…

She had forgotten herself.

Ji Mingxiao’s eyes darkened slightly.

“What’s wrong?” Xi Ruan felt like something was off with Ji Mingxiao today.

Ji Mingxiao blinked and smiled again. “Nothing.”

She wanted to ask directly but decided against it.

She couldn’t rush.

What if Xi Ruan found out how she felt and got scared and hid from her?

It was already hard enough to find her.

It was better to wait, wait until they met in the system space.

“By the way, are you going to be on business trips for the next month?” Xi Ruan asked, a hint of mischief in her eyes.

“I’m thinking about it,” Ji Mingxiao said, leaning against her chair and sipping her tea. “Why?”

The smile on Xi Ruan’s face grew. “So, when should I get ready to watch the show?”

“After the trending search.”

Xi Ruan propped up her chin. “Sigh, I used to be a spectator, and now I’m the one in the middle of the drama. I’m a little unaccustomed to it.”

“You’ll get used to it later.”

“You must make that woman suffer. Lord knows I get sick to my stomach every time I see those saintly scenarios,” Xi Ruan said with a shiver.

“Don’t worry, I will.”

“Right, you’re not a good person either.”

Ji Mingxiao: …

“Why am I not a good person?”

“I’m going to sleep!” Xi Ruan interrupted Ji Mingxiao, put on her eye mask, and looked like she didn’t want to talk anymore.

Xi Ruan fell asleep quickly. Ji Mingxiao turned her head and looked at her profile. She looked very obedient and cute when she slept. Ji Mingxiao wanted to reach out and touch her, but she didn’t dare. Ji Mingxiao yawned and finally closed her eyes and fell asleep.

Even though it was just their seats, it was still considered sleeping together.

Ji Mingxiao comforted herself with this thought.

Three hours later, the plane landed.

Ji Mingxiao followed behind Xi Ruan as they got off the plane, but they walked separately to avoid causing her any trouble.

Because of the previous emoji incident, many more people now recognized Ji Mingxiao.

For the next twenty-plus days, Ji Mingxiao was constantly flying all over the place.

When Ji Zhanhan found out, he sent Ji Mingxiao a string of “hahahas.”

She didn’t reply in a happy mood.

Zhuo Xi began promoting the TV series early, and Ji Mingxiao returned home to organize the evidence she had found and decide which to release first and which to release later.

So far, Zhuo Xi has been involved with nine men. Two of them have girlfriends, and four are married, one of whose wives is a famous, fierce “mother tigress” from a wealthy family.

There is solid evidence in the form of surveillance footage for all nine men.

There were twenty-three men that Zhuo Xi had tried to hook up with but failed, with Ji Zhanhan and Ji Zhanyue as typical examples.

She hadn’t counted before, but now she realized there were so many people.

A true player.

Casting a wide net to catch the big fish.

Zhuo Xi’s surveillance footage, combined with the phone calls Ji Mingxiao recorded, would make the experience more satisfying.

Finally, there were the things Fu Youzheng left behind and the evidence of Zhuo Xi using a body double.

Looking at the files on the computer, Ji Mingxiao curved her lips.

Yuxiao was scheduled to air on June 9th, with eight episodes released per week, just in time for the end of the college entrance exams and the start of summer vacation. This was a carefully chosen auspicious date.

Ji Mingxiao had calculated that Zhuo Xi’s “green tea” persona as the female protagonist would fully erupt around the middle of the summer vacation.

She was waiting for a summer of drama.

Ji Mingxiao also had Wu Duo arrange an interview for Zhuo Xi, where she was asked about love.

It has to be said that Zhuo Xi dug a hole for herself to please Ji Mingxiao.

This is what she said at the time:

“I hope the first person I meet in my life is the person I’ll be with until the end.”

“I like gentle people who are good to me. I also have a bit of a girly personality, and I hope he can dote on me.”

“I have a respectful attitude toward all feelings. Love is just love, and there’s no difference between heterosexual and homosexual love. I also hope the public doesn’t look at them with strange eyes.”

Ji Mingxiao almost laughed out loud when she saw that interview. The interview and the previously secretly filmed video would make for a much more delicious story.

This scandal, if all goes well, should dominate the trending topics for the entire summer.

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