Chapter 12 You May As Well Hook Up With Ou Yanxi

• Qi Yushi was eating breakfast alone when Butler Shen approached her. “Mrs Zhan, the chauffeur is awaiting you.” he respectfully informed.
• Qi Yushi was stunned: “Chauffeur?”
• Butler Shen sensed Qi Yushi’s fluster. “Does Mrs Zhan have any questions?” he asked.
• “Why do I have a chauffeur?”
• “Young Master Zhan arranged a chauffeur for you because it takes half an hour to get to the city from here, the upper east region.” he explained. “He believed that it would be more convenient for you.”
• Qi Yushi was dumbfounded - I’m just going to work, why the big spectacle? Not like I’m Zhan Senyu.
• “Don’t tell me that the chauffeur would be waiting in the car for me the entire time that I am at work?” Qi Yushi clarified. Surely not, that would be so absurd!
• Butler Shen bowed respectfully. “He will do according to what Mrs Zhan requests.”
• Qi Yushi shook her hand. “No, he doesn’t have to - knowing that there is someone waiting outside for me makes me feel stressed.” I’m no Zhan Senyu - I can’t make him do that for me.
• Butler Shen looked conflicted - Qi Yushi realised that she was making things difficult for him. After all, he’s merely carrying out Zhan Senyu’s orders - I shouldn’t make his job harder for him. She immediately said: “I can drive, let me drive. There’s no need for a chauffeur, I don’t want to trouble him.”
• Seeing her resolve, Butler Shen handed her a pair of car keys. “These are the keys to the car that Young Master Zhan had prepared for you.” he informed.
• Qi Yushi noticed the Lamborghini logo on the car keys - she was so shocked that she nearly hurled the keys away.
• “N-No, I can’t drive this car.”
• “Does Mrs Zhan not like Lamborghinis?” Butler Shen queried curiously. “There are many other cars in the garage, please feel free to choose another one.”
• Qi Yushi felt like crying - Butler Shen had completely misunderstood what I meant! I’m just a small, third grade celebrity...if I were to drive a Lamborghini to work, what would the people at work think?
• She did not even have to visit the garage to know that it must be filled with all luxury cars - after all, they all belonged to Zhan Senyu.
• “Are they any, you know, cheaper and more typical cars?”
• Butler Shen thought about it, before he tentatively informed: “While Young Master Zhan may not have any cars which fit Mrs Zhan’s requirements, I believe that Young Master Ou has a Jeep Grand Cherokee parked in the garage. Would Mrs Zhan prefer to drive that one instead?”
• How can he make it sound as though a Jeep Grand Cherokee were a “cheap, more typical” car!
• But then again, it’s definitely better to take a Jeep Grand Cherokee than a Lamborghini...Qi Yushi immediately agreed, taking the keys to the Jeep Grand Cherokee without hesitation.
• To think that the cheapest car in Zhan Senyu’s garage was the best car that Qi Yushi had ever driven - this is ridiculous!
• As she interacted with Zhan Senyu more and more, Qi Yushi came to wonder...
• ...just what kind of person is he?
• My “fake husband” is truly a remarkable person - have I misunderstood him?
• Qi Yushi worked at Xinghui Media - while it was just a medium-sized entertainment company in City A, she had no doubt clinched valuable opportunities under them. She had been scouted and signed on by the company before she had graduated, and had been working under them ever since.
• After she had parked the car, Qi Yushi fished out her phone to realise that she had countless missed calls.
• Qi Yushi’s heart sank when she read the caller ID - Yu Shanshan, her roommate. I haven’t been back for two consecutive nights - she must be worried sick!
• She immediately called back - her roommate picked up at just one ring.
• “Qi Yushi, you’re getting bolder and bolder! Forget that you didn’t come back the night of the wine party, but how could you not come back yesterday night either! Where the heck have you been! You didn't give me a call, do you know how worried I’ve been!” Yu Shanshan shouted into the receiver.
• “Shanshan, please don’t be mad.” Qi Yushi had to comfort her roommate - she’s behaving like that because she’s worried about me. “I...Something happened to me...it’s complicated…”
• “Qi Yushi! You didn’t hook up with that bastard Cen Ziming did you?!”
• Hearing Qi Yushi swallow on the other end, Yu Shanshan immediately knew that her roommate was hiding something from her - after all, they had already known each other for seven or eight years and understood each other like the back of their hands. She knew how badly Cen Ziming had hurt her friend.
• Qi Yushi could not help but feel her heart tighten at that name. “No, it’s nothing to do with him.” she said. “It’s...it’s something else. I can’t tell you everything now, but I’ll tell you over dinner tonight, alright?”
• I can’t explain everything clearly to her now…I need to talk to her face to face.
• “Do you know that I had nearly reported you missing! I don’t care, it’s your treat tonight.”
• Aware of Yu Shanshan’s concern for her, Qi Yushi relented. “Fine, it’s my treat. I’ll pick you up after work.”
• “Pick me up? Yushi, since when did you get a car?!”
• Ah, it’s a long story…”I’ll tell you tonight.” Qi Yushi replied.
• Reluctantly agreeing, the two engaged in some idle talk before finally hanging up.
• Qi Yushi walked into the office. The receptionist saw her walking in and greeted her. “Miss Qi, long time no see.”
• Qi Yushi smiled and nodded in acknowledgement - indeed, it has been a while since I’d stepped foot into the office. They artists did not follow a daily attendance check in card system - how could they when they were so busy scurrying about in the day?
• In fact, Qi Yushi did not usually come into the office - she had only come in today because her agent, Danni, had told her that there was a new script to review.
• When she reached the third floor, where Danni’s office was located, she knocked on the door. “Come in.” she said.
• Qi Yushi walked in to find two tall and beautiful girls standing inside. Upon seeing her enter, the girls scanned her up and down before turning their heads back.
• Feeling a little uncomfortable at the attention, Qi Yushi turned towards her agent. “Danni, let me see the script.” she said.
• Danni nodded his head. She then turned to the two girls, telling them: “You may leave first. I will inform you if there is any news.”
• The two girls nodded their heads. One of the girls looked unhappy - perhaps because they had been asked to leave when Qi Yushi entered the room. Feeling dissatisfied, she purposely rammed her shoulder into Qi Yushi’s on her way out.
• Had Zhan Senyu been present, he would have recognised this girl as the petite model named Feifei from the day before.
• Qi Yushi was shoved two steps back - but Feifei had already walked out the door by the time she had wanted to give her a piece of her mind. She frowned at Danni: “Who does she think she is? What an ill-mannered person.”
• Danni fiddled with a frame. “She’s a model who wants to switch careers to be an actress - don’t belittle her. She’s now Ou Yanxi’s favourite pet, you know.”
• “Ou Yanxi? Who?”
• “My god, how can you not know Ou Yanxi? He’s the Young Master of the Ou Business Empire - do you have any idea how much he had spent on that model for her to enter the company? His sole requirement for her is to be the number one here.”
• “Three million?”
• “My god, no - thirty million! Do you really think that Young Master Ou is that cheap?” Danni spat bitterly. “As people in the entertainment industry, don’t we frequently mingle with people like them? How can you have not a single clue about the Young Masters of City A? Even if you bumped into Zhan Senyu, I bet that you wouldn’t recognise him.”
• Hearing Zhan Senyu’s name momentarily stunned Qi Yushi.
• “Is Zhan Senyu powerful?” Qi Yushi couldn’t help but ask - aside from knowing that he’s loaded, I know nothing about him.
• Danni rolled his eyes. “Powerful is an understatement - he’s the heir of the L.N. Group, so mighty that if he were to stomp his foot, the whole City A would shake. But don’t even think about hooking him in - he hates women to the core. If you want, you should try hooking up with Ou Yanxi - maybe he’ll find you once he’s bored with this model.”
• Danni would probably lose his mind if I told him that I’m the “wife” of Zhan Senyu now.
• Qi Yushi blanched at Danni in disdain. “Hey now, aren’t we a professional entertainment company? How could you say something like that?
• Danni sneered in a flamboyant fashion.
• “Are you still belittling them? You’ve been in industry for so long, yet you’ve never played a leading role! You’re not special - the entertainment circle isn’t short of beauties, you know, if you’re not willing to take necessary special steps, why would people want you?”
• Qi Yushi could not be bothered to further argue with Danni over such a trivial matter.
• Thinking that Qi Yushi could no longer argue, Danni smirked in satisfaction. She then threw a script onto the table. “Here you go, do you know how much trouble it was to get you this script to “The Swordsman”? Make sure to do your best in the auditions.”