The Whole World Is Waiting for Them to Divorce [Transmigration Into a Book] - Chapter 10

After leaving the Lu residence, Si Yu found a high-end-looking hair salon and changed the hairstyle that had originally belonged to the female supporting character back into her old style.

Once the styling was done, Tony, the stylist, said to her in an exaggerated tone, “Amazing! This hairstyle suits you so well!”

After switching back to a hairstyle that suited her, Si Yu felt as if her whole body was shining, bling bling. She just was not sure whether Lu Xi would like her after the hairstyle change. After all, her looks and the heroine Liang Yufei’s were two completely different types.

Liang Yufei belonged to the pure, first-love-face type, while Si Yu’s features were bright, bold, and striking. So she decided to greet Lu Xi bare-faced.

Lu Xi did not show joy or anger on her face, so it was very hard for others to detect her emotions. After being stared at by her without blinking for more than ten seconds, Si Yu finally could not help asking, “Does my new hairstyle look good?”

“It looks nice,” Lu Xi said.

Si Yu’s eyes lit up. In her heart, she thought: It wasn’t a waste of the several hours and over a thousand yuan she had spent.

She deliberately lowered her eyes shyly, pinched her voice, and said softly and sweetly, “I made cookies. Do you want some?”

“No.” Lu Xi returned to her cold, unapproachable, and inhumanly indifferent manner.

Si Yu did not get discouraged and said, “Then I’ll put them in the fridge. You can take them yourself when you want to eat. But there aren’t any preservatives in these, so after twenty-four hours, the texture won’t be as good.”

Lu Xi did not have the habit of eating at night and was even less interested in these snacks. But when Si Yu picked up the food container from the coffee table and was about to put it in the fridge, she suddenly remembered what the housekeeper had said. Her thoughts stirred, and she said, “Wait.”

Si Yu turned around and looked at her blankly. “What’s wrong?”

Lu Xi’s clear, cold eyes swept over her clean, makeup-free face and landed on the transparent food container in her hand. “You made them yourself?”

“I learned from Chef Xie.” Chef Xie was the Lu family’s private chef. Whether it was Chinese food, Western food, or pastries, he was highly skilled in everything. Si Yu had pestered him all day and learned how to make cookies, then brought some back with her. She shook the container. “Want to try?”

Cookies of various shapes lay inside the container, and they looked pretty good. Lu Xi did not believe she had this skill.

“Are you afraid I poisoned them?”

“…”

Si Yu opened the food container, picked out a heart-shaped cookie, and held it to her lips.

A faint milky fragrance wafted over. Lu Xi’s eyes shifted slightly, and she said, “I’ll do it my—”

She had not even finished saying “myself.”

Without allowing any protest, Si Yu stuffed the cookie into her mouth.

Lu Xi’s expression changed slightly, but since the thing was already in her mouth, she could not exactly spit it out. After a brief hesitation, she chewed slowly and carefully.

The texture was soft, the sweetness moderate. It was not quite the same as the cookies sold outside.

It actually tasted pretty good.

“Not bad, right?” Si Yu said, as if claiming credit. “Grandma’s teeth aren’t good, and since she’s older, she can’t eat too much sugar, so I specially made them like this. She really liked them.”

Only after swallowing the food in her mouth did Lu Xi remember something. Her brows furrowed slightly. “Did you wash your hands?”

Si Yu looked at the right hand she had used to pick up the cookie and said, “No.”

The corner of Lu Xi’s mouth twitched hard. Through gritted teeth, she said, “Si. Yu.”

“Don’t get worked up, don’t get worked up. Your cold and aloof character setting can’t collapse.” Si Yu, who had excellent foresight, took several steps back and said with a cheeky grin, “I’d just finished showering when you came back. My hands were clean. I was teasing you.”

Lu Xi’s beautiful iceberg face was on the verge of collapse.

To avoid getting hit, Si Yu hugged the food container and swiftly slipped into the kitchen.

Messing with someone felt good in the moment.

Si Yu had a good sleep. She woke up refreshed and clear-headed, changed clothes, and walked out of her room, only to run into Lu Xi.

She squeezed out a smile even brighter than the morning sun and waved in greeting. “Morning.”

Lu Xi looked at her coldly, raised her noble head, and went downstairs first.

Still angry? Si Yu scratched her head.

Auntie Zhao had already prepared breakfast and called them over to eat.

Auntie Zhao pushed the box of cookies in front of Lu Xi and said cheerfully, “Miss Si made these. They’re quite good.”

Lu Xi silently pushed the box aside and served herself a bowl of mushroom chicken congee.

Auntie Zhao looked toward Si Yu with an apologetic expression that seemed to say, “I’m sorry, I already tried my best to promote them.”

Si Yu felt like laughing, but under someone’s low pressure, she could not quite laugh. She said, “She ate some last night. You can keep these for yourself.”

Auntie Zhao sensed that the atmosphere was a little subtle and suspected the two had argued. She wanted to ask but did not dare, so she took the cookie box and went to tidy up the kitchen.

Si Yu knew the other woman was unhappy because of the joke from last night. Attentively, she peeled an egg and placed it in the bowl in front of Lu Xi, saying, “This time, I really washed my hands.”

The congee was very hot, and Lu Xi ate slowly. She glanced at the plump white boiled egg in her bowl, her thin lips pressed into a straight line.

It was just a joke. Was there any need to take it this far? Si Yu found herself rebuffed and began drinking her congee.

Halfway through, she heard Lu Xi say, “Why are you up so early?”

Looks like her anger has passed.

Si Yu secretly rejoiced, but her face remained calm as she said, “To go keep Grandma company.”

Over the past few days, Si Yu had been running to the Lu residence constantly. Lu Xi was already no longer surprised. She took a sip of congee and said casually, “Didn’t you want to find a job?”

Si Yu had not expected her to care about her job search. Suppressing the surprise in her heart, she said, “I’m already looking. I submitted resumes yesterday, and I’m waiting for people to notify me for interviews.”

Lu Xi looked at her expression. She did not seem to be lying, but she still doubted it. “Why did you suddenly want to find work?”

“Ah—” Si Yu let out a long sigh, put down the bowl in her hand, looked straight at her, and said, “Of course it’s for you.”

“For me?”

“To make you look at me in a new light.” Si Yu said, “The old me did nothing all day and knew nothing. I guarded the inheritance my parents left me and idled away my life eating and waiting to die. I was practically useless. Forget you, even I hate that version of myself. Now I’ve thought things through. I want to work hard. I want to prove myself with my own ability. Actually, in the end, it’s for myself, but I still have to thank you properly.”

“Thank me?” Lu Xi did not remember ever helping her.

“It was because you brought up divorce that I thought of changing.” Si Yu’s expression turned solemn. She held Lu Xi’s hand and said with a face full of sincerity, “You were the one who made me completely wake up. You were the one who inspired my fighting spirit. Lu Xi, you are my guiding light, my most important mentor in life, my second parent. Truly, truly, thank you so much!”

After saying that, two moved tears slipped down her clean, makeup-free face.

Lu Xi froze. Only belatedly realizing that her hand had been held, she hurriedly withdrew it, lowered her eyes, and said with some annoyance, “Don’t talk while eating.”

Si Yu was still immersed in the drama she had directed and acted out herself. She looked at Lu Xi mournfully and said, “You were clearly the one who seduced me first.”

“Cough—” Lu Xi choked on a mouthful of hot congee and glared at her. “What nonsense are you saying?”

Si Yu let out an “Ah,” then shamelessly said, “I mean, you were the one who brought up the topic first.”

Lu Xi ground her teeth, deeply regretting that she had spoken too much.

Si Yu was still waiting for her to ask which company she had applied to and what kind of job she wanted to find, but in the end, Lu Xi did not ask.

This personality really was hard to figure out.

Although there had been traces of acting in her performance, everything Si Yu had said just now came from the heart.

Little B had reported the original female supporting character’s assets to her. Aside from an enormous amount of cash she could freely squander, the female supporting character also held fifteen percent of Guangying Entertainment’s shares. In terms of assets, the female supporting character and Lu Xi could be said to be evenly matched, but in terms of ability, they were worlds apart.

Why would Lu Xi, a young, beautiful CEO with both talent and capability, ever fall for such a useless rich young lady?

Lu Xi had not brought up divorce again, likely out of consideration for Old Madam Lu’s illness. But the heroine had already appeared. If one day Lu Xi and the heroine suddenly looked at each other and fell in love, and Lu Xi cast everything aside because she insisted on being with the heroine, then Si Yu would be completely finished.

Si Yu clearly remembered that in the novel, Lu Xi had fallen in love with the heroine at first sight, spent a large sum of money to buy out the heroine’s contract, invested in movies for her, and spoiled her to the heavens. It could truly be called deep affection.

With the heroine, this uncertain factor, present, Si Yu could not just sit around waiting for death.

Her resume had been submitted. She was waiting for results.

Before transmigrating into the book, Si Yu had been an actress, so she sent her resume to Guangying Entertainment’s artist management department.

It was not until Friday that Guangying Entertainment called her, notifying her to come in for an interview next Monday.

Si Yu was still very confident in her acting skills, so she was not worried about the interview at all.

Old Madam Lu had been constantly nagging her to bring her luggage over. Si Yu packed for a while and arrived at the Lu residence when it was almost noon.

When the housekeeper saw her, she said pleasantly, “You’re back? The house is very lively today.”

Thinking of the wary and cold attitude the housekeeper had shown her the first time she came, Si Yu smiled knowingly and instinctively asked, “Are there guests?”

“Yes.” The housekeeper said, “Second Miss is back, and she brought Miss Liang over to play. She said that since the weather is good, she’d learn swimming.”

Liang Yufei???

Si Yu went to the back garden and saw at a glance Lu Wei and Liang Yufei standing by the pool in bikinis.

There was also Lu Xi, tall and upright, dressed in casual clothes.

Lu Wei wanted to pull Liang Yufei into the water. “Try the shallow end first.”

“No, no, no, I’m scared.” Liang Yufei’s small face was deathly pale. In her panic, she hugged Lu Xi’s arm beside her and said, trembling, “I-I-I’d better not go in. I’ll just watch you swim.”

But Lu Wei said, “Are you looking down on my swimming skills and afraid I can’t teach you?”

“I…” Liang Yufei hesitated, looking at Lu Xi.

The sudden physical contact made Lu Xi very uncomfortable. She pulled her hand free and said expressionlessly, “I was only passing by. You two play by yourselves.”

“Sis, don’t go. The weather is so hot. Swimming is great. Come down and play with us,” Lu Wei said, blocking Lu Xi.

The distance was a little far, and Si Yu could not hear what they were saying. She only saw shimmering water and large patches of pale flesh reflecting sunlight.

She narrowed her eyes, watching Liang Yufei puff out her chest while constantly trying to lean closer to Lu Xi, and said unhurriedly to Little B, “I don’t know if I’m overthinking this.”

Little B: “Overthinking what?”

“I’m thinking…” Si Yu touched her chin and said, “This heroine doesn’t seem all that innocent. Don’t you think she’s trying to seduce Lu Xi?”

How could Little B, an artificial intelligence, judge such things? It said stiffly, “Then why aren’t you acting quickly… Where are you going?”

Si Yu rolled up her sleeves and walked back, bold and spirited. “To change into my battle robe.”

Heh. Wasn’t it just seduction? Who didn’t know how!