The Whole World Is Waiting for Them to Divorce [Transmigration Into a Book] - Chapter 26

A date???

The sun must have been too bright and dazzling, making her old eyes blur.

Si Yu rubbed her eyes, wishing she could stuff the phone screen straight into them as she looked hard.

Against the white chat background lay two perfectly standard black Songti characters, clear in black and white: date!

It had been a week since she joined the crew. Aside from that first video call, Si Yu and Lu Xi had not interacted at all. Someone had said she looked “unbearable,” and Si Yu had been brooding over it ever since. She thought that after that video call, their relationship had become a little strained. She was busy filming, so matters of love and romance had temporarily been set aside. Before she could figure out how to ease things, Lu Xi caught her completely off guard.

Si Yu found it unbelievable and quickly typed out another line: “Was your account hacked?”

If it wasn’t hacked, then could it be because her playing hard to get last time had worked, and Lu Xi could no longer hold back and wanted to take the initiative???

A cheerful ringtone sounded.

Lu Xi directly called her.

Si Yu reflexively pressed the screen against her chest to keep others from seeing, then avoided Zhu Qi and Xiao Xia and went somewhere with no one around.

The cicadas in the trees were chirping happily.

Si Yu adjusted her mood and pressed accept. “Hmph, you heartless thing. You only call me after so long! I thought you’d forgotten all about me!”

“…” The person on the other end seemed to have been frightened. After a pause, she said coldly, “Sorry, I called the wrong number. Bye.”

“No, no, no, you didn’t! It’s me!” Seeing that Lu Xi was about to hang up, Si Yu withdrew her act and changed back to her normal voice, knowingly asking, “Why are you looking for me?”

“Today is Qixi. I’m asking you on a date.”

Si Yu dug at her ear in disbelief.

Lu Xi thought she was hesitating and said, “You don’t want to go on a date with me?”

That clear, crisp voice came through the electric current, sounding somewhat gentler than usual. Si Yu felt her ear itch a little.

The wind sent a leaf falling, drifting past before her eyes.

Si Yu blinked. Her heart began pounding, and the patches of light scattered between the tree shadows reflected in her sparkling eyes.

She pressed a hand over her chest and said without hesitation, “I want to!”

Heaven knew how long she had waited for this moment!

If tasks were divided by difficulty, Si Yu felt Lu Xi should be placed in the purgatory level.

This ten-thousand-year-old unmelted iceberg was truly too hard to flirt with. During this period, Si Yu had used every trick she had, yet she had not been able to make the other party melt even a little. Several times, she had wanted to give up.

Hearing Lu Xi personally say the word “date,” she nearly shed moved tears.

The heavens had shown their power. Once filming was finished and she went back, she would definitely burn incense properly!

“If you want to, ask for leave,” Lu Xi interrupted her thoughts and said straightforwardly. “Tonight at seven, at XX Restaurant. I’ll send you the address in a bit.”

Si Yu wiped at the nonexistent tears in the corners of her eyes, then paused when she heard this. “You’re in H City? You even booked the date location this quickly?”

Lu Xi gave an “Mm.”

The tips of Si Yu’s ears reddened slightly. Biting her lower lip, she said reservedly, “Why are you so impatient? Seriously, you didn’t even tell me before coming. I haven’t prepared myself yet.”

“What preparation does a date need?” Lu Xi did not understand her logic and said lightly, “There are many things at the company. If Grandma hadn’t insisted, I wouldn’t have come.”

Si Yu’s expression froze, and her throat tightened. “Grandma told you to come date me?”

“Grandma hoped I would come. I didn’t want her to be sad.”

“…”

An iceberg was still an iceberg. The heavens had not shown their power either.

Everything was an illusion.

The hot wind brushed across her face. The hot blood in Si Yu’s body cooled little by little. She tightened her grip on the phone and said dryly, “Oh.”

Lu Xi still had not realized she had said the wrong thing and said, “Grandma dotes on you so much. You probably don’t want her to be sad either.”

“Mm.”

“So tonight, ask the director for—”

“I can’t ask for leave.” Si Yu interrupted her, her voice utterly emotionless. “Tonight, I have two night scenes to film, and one of them is even a group scene. If I ask for leave, they won’t be able to film. Forget the date. You should go back. Don’t worry, if Grandma asks, I’ll tell her you came and that we also went on a date. I won’t make things difficult for you, and I won’t let Grandma be disappointed either.”

“…”

Si Yu exhaled the murky breath trapped in her chest, then said, “The director is calling me over to film. If there’s nothing else, I’ll hang up first. Bye.”

“…”

With a beep beside her ear, the call was hung up.

Lu Xi was slightly surprised.

She had originally wanted to say that if today did not work, then tomorrow would be fine, but Si Yu did not wait for her to speak.

“President Lu.” Chen Yan had booked the restaurant and seats and came over to confirm a few details with Lu Xi. “The restaurant is asking whether you’ll prepare the flowers yourself, or whether you want them to help prepare them.”

Lu Xi looked at the darkened phone screen, then at the exquisite jewelry box beside her hand. After a brief pause, she said, “No need to prepare them. Cancel it.”

“Cancel it?” Chen Yan was surprised. Then, with a turn of thought, she said, “Miss Si couldn’t ask for leave?”

“She said it would be hard to ask for leave. And…” Lu Xi said with some uncertainty, “She didn’t seem very happy. She hung up on me.”

Someone actually dared hang up on President Lu??? Chen Yan was stunned.

Originally, as an assistant, she should not interfere in her boss’s private matters. But Chen Yan thought about how, at noon today, Lu Xi had hurriedly made her go with her to the mall to buy a gift, then after buying it, had rushed over travel-worn and dusty, as if wanting to give Si Yu a Valentine’s Day surprise. In the end, now the date was ruined, and she had made the person angry too?

Guangying’s CEO, who was usually calm, composed, high above others, and adored by many, looked as if she had encountered some insurmountable difficulty. Her brows were tightly furrowed, and she seemed slightly haggard.

Chen Yan cautiously asked, “Why is Miss Si unhappy?”

Lu Xi rubbed her brow and sighed softly. “I don’t know.”

Why did she not know again…

Even if Si Yu could not ask for leave and could not go on the date, considering that Lu Xi had put aside work to come here especially and had even brought her a carefully chosen gift, Si Yu should not have been unhappy!

If Chen Yan had a boyfriend and the other party did this for her, she would definitely be overjoyed.

Chen Yan could not understand why Si Yu was unhappy. Seeing Lu Xi look so conflicted, she, following the principle of helping her boss solve problems, asked again, “How did you say it to her just now?”

Lu Xi told her almost word for word the contents of her call with Si Yu.

Chen Yan: “……………………”

“Why do you have that expression?”

Because it really was hard to describe…

Chen Yan straightened her expression and said seriously, “President Lu, if I’m not mistaken, Miss Si should be angry with you.”

“Why?”

You’re still asking why???

Chen Yan held back the urge to complain and tried to phrase it tactfully. “Miss Si was probably very much looking forward to going on a date with you. Since she couldn’t ask for leave, she must have been very disappointed. You just needed to coax her a little, or give her the gift. Why did you tell her that Old Madam Lu asked you to come date her? This kind of straight-man-style answer isn’t romantic at all. Miss Si would feel that you don’t care about her, so of course she’d feel uncomfortable.”

Any woman would feel uncomfortable, right? Chen Yan secretly added inwardly, then continued, “President Lu, chasing someone like this isn’t right.”

Lu Xi was focused in thought when the corner of her eye twitched. She blurted out, “Who said I’m chasing her?”

If it wasn’t chasing someone, then why put this much care into picking a gift, and why rush over in such a hurry for a date? Chen Yan was puzzled.

“I thought you liked Miss Si,” Chen Yan said weakly, yet fearlessly, voicing the thought that had been buried in her heart for a long time.

Lu Xi: “…”

The first time she ran into Si Yu in the elevator, Lu Xi had taken the initiative to ask Si Yu a question and had even personally gone to watch Si Yu’s interview. Back then, Chen Yan had already felt that something was going on between them.

That time Chen Yan accompanied Lu Xi to the dance room to see the trainees, and Lu Xi saw Si Yu practicing dance with that group of fresh-faced young hunks. Lu Xi turned and left, then returned with a gloomy face. No matter how Chen Yan looked at it, it seemed like jealousy.

Si Yu was slandered because of smoking, and Lu Xi unprecedentedly asked her for the Weibo account and password…

As an onlooker, Chen Yan felt all of Lu Xi’s reactions toward Si Yu came from liking her.

Lu Xi had left her work behind and flown over to find Si Yu for a date. If this wasn’t chasing someone, could it be that she had already caught her? Or did they have an even more intimate relationship?

Thinking of how Si Yu had once walked out of the Lu family villa carrying her suitcase, Chen Yan did not dare continue thinking.

Lu Xi frowned. “You’re overthinking. I don’t feel anything for her.”

Chen Yan: “…”

Chen Yan felt her brain was not enough. “Then… Miss Si…”

“She likes me.” Lu Xi’s expression became somewhat meaningful. After a pause, she said, “She said she loves me and can’t live without me.”

Chen Yan: “…”

After receiving that call, Si Yu felt inexplicably irritated. She could not calm down enough to read the script at all. Her mind was full of what Lu Xi had said over the phone.

She had thought Lu Xi had finally come to her senses and come to ask her on a date. She had even briefly imagined the two of them wearing beautiful formalwear, sitting in a high-end Western restaurant, listening to romantic violin music and gazing affectionately at each other by candlelight…

Date, my ass.

Si Yu was not angry. She felt she had no standing to be angry.

Both of them had impure motives. Lu Xi was doing it to please Grandma, and Si Yu was doing it to win Lu Xi over. They were equally matched, and neither had the right to accuse the other.

She should thank Lu Xi for saying it directly. At the very least, she would not have to indulge in wishful thinking and believe it was her own charm that had melted that iceberg.

Refusing the date and hanging up on Lu Xi was not because she wanted to make trouble. It was just that she suddenly felt very tired and did not want to keep acting to deceive others, nor did she want to keep wronging herself.

She felt a little dispirited and a little restless. The two emotions squeezed violently inside her chest.

Before she could throw off these negative emotions, the director called her over to film.

Chen Shuang during her high school days was a female delinquent. Every day, she was either talking back to teachers, tearing into other female delinquents, or going with the male lead Zhang Yang to participate in group fights.

Today, Si Yu seemed to be venting. She acted with more investment than the past few days. When the director called for a break, she still had not pulled herself out of character.

Xiao Xia, who came over to hand her water, was startled by her. “X-Xiao Yu, are you okay?”

“I’m fine.” Si Yu hid away the hostility on her face, took the water, and drank a sip.

The staff began handing out dinner. Si Yu had no appetite, so she picked up her phone to check the time.

Past six. Less than an hour away from the date time Lu Xi had mentioned.

Si Yu smiled coldly, put her phone back into her bag, and covered her face with the script to doze.

In a haze, Xiao Xia patted her arm.

The script slipped down. Si Yu failed to catch it. She opened her eyes and saw Liang Yufei walking toward her.

Because she needed to lose weight, Liang Yufei had cut out dinner. Holding her script, she walked over with a smile and said, “Si Yu, do you have time? I want to run lines with you.”

Liang Yufei loathed Si Yu very much. Since joining the crew, she had never taken the initiative to ask Si Yu to rehearse. It was just that the director had said the next scene would be very hard to act, with many lines and great emotional fluctuation, and told her to first properly rehearse with Si Yu.

To maintain the original heroine’s friendly and kind persona, even if Liang Yufei was unwilling, she still came over on her own.

Liang Yufei knew Si Yu hated her too. If Si Yu rejected her, that would be perfect! Not only would she not have to pretend and rehearse with this woman, she could also use it to make a fuss, letting everyone know Si Yu was actually someone difficult to get along with, making everyone hate her!

Unfortunately, her wishful thinking was wrong.

Si Yu picked up the script, shook the dust off it, and said simply, “Sure.”

Liang Yufei’s smile froze.

As a professional actress, Si Yu never brought personal emotions into work. She generously accepted Liang Yufei’s invitation.

The others had not finished eating yet. Si Yu pointed with her chin at a shady spot. “It’s a little noisy here. Let’s go over there.”

Liang Yufei had schemes in her heart. Once they had walked far enough and she was sure no one could hear them, she said, “Today is Valentine’s Day. Why didn’t Lu Xi have someone send you flowers?”

Si Yu was flipping through the script. She lifted her eyes and looked at Liang Yufei with a smile that was not quite a smile. “We’re already an old married couple. What flowers? I’m someone who loves money more. She transferred me five hundred twenty thousand in one go. You understand what that means, right? Hah, just a little red packet. You don’t need to be jealous.”

Liang Yufei’s mouth twitched fiercely. “Why don’t you just say she transferred you five million two hundred thousand!”

Si Yu rolled her eyes. “Transfer limits, you idiot.”

“You!” Provoked by her, Liang Yufei forgot to disguise herself. In any case, no one else could hear them. She said in embarrassed anger, “Stop bragging. You and Lu Xi are married by agreement. She doesn’t like you at all! One day, she’ll divorce you. Don’t even dream of tying her down. She doesn’t belong to you at all!”

Si Yu lifted the ends of her eyes and looked at her, saying unhurriedly, “If she doesn’t belong to me, does she belong to you?”

She was mine to begin with. You vicious female supporting character, don’t even dream of stealing her from me! Liang Yufei screamed and shouted madly in her heart.

Si Yu watched Liang Yufei’s pure, harmless face slowly twist. She gave a gloomy laugh, and before Liang Yufei could react, she gripped her shoulder and pushed her against a tree trunk.

“What do you want to do?” Liang Yufei’s beautiful face lost color. Instinctively, she wanted to push Si Yu away, but Si Yu’s two slender arms were like iron bars. She could not push her off at all!

“Afraid I’ll hit you?” Si Yu coldly watched her struggle uselessly.

A layer of sweat broke out on Liang Yufei’s forehead, cold and heat intertwined.

Thinking of how Si Yu’s character setting was a vicious female supporting character who had plotted many times to kill the heroine, Liang Yufei was truly afraid. Her heart panicked badly, and her eyes darted around. Only when she caught sight of the crowd eating in the rest area did she regain a little confidence and say in a trembling voice, “With so many people watching, I don’t believe you dare!”

Si Yu indeed did not dare, so she only wanted to scare her.

But only scaring her still did not feel satisfying enough. It was not enough to ease the two conflicting emotions in her heart.

Si Yu leaned forward and said by her ear, “Don’t you just like Lu Xi?”

Liang Yufei’s eyes flickered wildly, and she stammered, “You… Don’t talk nonsense.”

“Why are you still refusing to admit it? You had Lu Wei encourage Lu Xi to divorce me. You want to marry Lu Xi. I’ve known all this for a long time.” Watching Liang Yufei’s body tense nervously, Si Yu smiled wickedly, stretched out a finger, lifted her chin, and said like a rogue, “I suddenly realized you’re actually pretty.”

Liang Yufei wanted to slap her hand away, but Si Yu gripped her chin hard.

Liang Yufei hissed in pain. Worried this vicious woman might pull out a knife at any moment and slash her face, she was so anxious her voice rose. “If you still don’t let go, I’m going to call someone!”

“Shh—” Si Yu leaned forward and said softly, “Don’t be noisy. Let me take a good look.”

“…”

After examining her for several seconds, Si Yu smiled in satisfaction and said, “You really are pretty. Pretty enough to move my heart.”

Move her heart???!!!

Liang Yufei’s pupils widened slightly.

“Why don’t I just divorce Lu Xi and keep you instead?” Si Yu said to herself. “I hold fifteen percent of Guangying’s shares, and there are still several hundred million in my bank cards. If you want to act, I’ll give you resources. If there are no resources, I’ll invest in something for you to film. Lu Xi’s assets are about the same as mine. She’s only a tiny bit prettier than me. What’s the use of being that beautiful? She’s cold and boring. You might as well follow me.”

Liang Yufei froze completely. It took her a long time to digest the meaning of Si Yu’s words, and she murmured, “You want to keep me?”

Si Yu threw her a flirtatious wink and blew air by her ear, tempting her. “That’s right. I’ll keep you. Be my lover. As long as you obediently listen, I can give you whatever you want. Consider it?”

Liang Yufei unconsciously swallowed.

If she had not read the novel and known that Si Yu was a vicious female supporting character rotten from bones to skin, someone who wished she could grind the heroine’s bones to dust, Liang Yufei really would have fallen for it.

This woman was not only vicious. She was insane too!

Liang Yufei used all the strength she had to push her away. Her face was flushed red as she gritted her teeth. “In your dreams!”

Si Yu crossed her arms and smiled coldly, hitting the nail on the head. “You hesitated just now. Do you dare say you weren’t tempted?”

“…” Having her inner thoughts exposed, Liang Yufei’s face filled with embarrassment, and for a moment, she was speechless.

When Lu Xi arrived at the filming site, she just happened to see Si Yu pressing Liang Yufei against a tree trunk. Their bodies were very close, as if they were saying something private.

The sky was clear for thousands of miles, and the setting sun was sinking west.

Lu Xi stopped beneath a camphor tree. Above her, the branches and leaves were dense and oily green.

Qian Lei was the first to discover Lu Xi. He patted the grass off his pants and quickly walked over, surprised. “President Lu, are you here to visit the set?”

Lu Xi moved her gaze away from those two people who were pressed together too ambiguously, looked at Qian Lei, and said faintly, “I came to take a look.”

A peerlessly beautiful woman like Lu Xi, Guangying’s CEO, and also the investor—her arrival caused a commotion at once. A group of people eagerly gathered around her.

Lu Xi disliked dealing with this kind of scene most. She rubbed her forehead and said, “Go on with your work. Don’t delay filming. There’s no need to mind me.”

Qian Lei had dealt with her several times before and knew she disliked polite formalities. He said, “We’re about to start filming. You can sit beside me and watch later.”

Lu Xi nodded slightly and subconsciously looked toward Si Yu’s side.

Qian Lei also looked over there and called loudly, “Si Yu, Yufei, stop rehearsing and come over!”

Only when Si Yu walked closer did she see Lu Xi. She froze, then looked away without showing anything.

Seeing Si Yu deliberately circle around her and leave, Lu Xi’s lips moved, then closed again.

Liang Yufei was still immersed in the shame and anger of being toyed with by Si Yu. Her gaze was fixed tightly on Si Yu’s back, and in her heart, she had silently cut her to pieces several hundred times. When she unexpectedly ran into Lu Xi, her heartbeat skipped half a beat, and she cried out, “Lu Xi!”

Lu Xi looked at her expressionlessly and nodded.

Liang Yufei discovered that she had not corrected her form of address and was overjoyed, wanting to say a few more words to her.

“Yufei, come over quickly. I’m explaining the scene to you!” Qian Lei called her over.

Liang Yufei could only suppress the emotions rippling in her heart, sweetly smile and wave at Lu Xi, then bounce over to the filming area.

Lu Xi had finally come!

With Lu Xi watching from the side, and acting opposite Si Yu no less, Liang Yufei did not dare relax. She brought out one hundred twenty percent of her focus, and when the director called action, she completely integrated herself into the role.

After filming so many scenes, Liang Yufei had never taken anything so seriously. Although the natural, smooth acting skills had been given to her by the original heroine, she still wanted to perform well. She wanted Lu Xi to see the shining points on her body!

Today was not only Qixi, but also the day Liang Yufei had been yearning for and anticipating for a long time.

In the novel, Lu Xi had also visited the set today, then saved the heroine, who was nearly hit by equipment, and fell for her. From that moment, the two people’s romance line began!

Liang Yufei had waited from daytime until dusk, thinking Lu Xi would not come. In the end, Lu Xi really did appear just like the novel’s plot development!

Her chance had finally arrived!!!

Si Yu and Liang Yufei’s scene was intensely conflict-filled. The two of them had many lines, and to achieve a better visual effect, Qian Lei required a single continuous take.

This scene was very difficult to act. Qian Lei thought it would take a dozen or more takes, but unexpectedly, both actresses performed very well today, and after only four takes, they achieved the effect he wanted. He excitedly stood up and said, “Very good! Actors, rest for ten minutes. Prepare to change locations.”

After saying that, Qian Lei turned to Lu Xi. “President Lu, we’re filming a night scene later. I need to go over and guide them in setting up the equipment.”

“Go ahead.” Lu Xi stood up, caught Si Yu’s figure among the crowd, and started walking.

“Lu Xi.” Liang Yufei intercepted Lu Xi’s path. Her head lowered slightly, her face shy, and she said softly, “I want to say a few words to you. Can we go over there?”

Lu Xi’s gaze followed Si Yu’s figure from beginning to end. “Sorry, I still have something to do.”

“Eh, Lu Xi—”

Lu Xi did not even look at her.

“Si Yu.”

That cold, familiar voice came from behind. Si Yu’s spine stiffened, and she slowly turned around. “Hello, President Lu.”

“…I have something I want to say to you. Let’s go over there.” Lu Xi pointed toward the place Liang Yufei had just mentioned. There were not many people over there, making it suitable for talking.

Si Yu hesitated for a moment, then smiled. “Sure.”

The two walked beneath the camera crane.

The surroundings were noisy and chaotic, but this one spot was so quiet that it seemed they could hear each other’s breathing.

Heat flowed between their bodies, and the atmosphere felt a little stifling.

Si Yu had thought Lu Xi had gone back long ago. She had not expected her to come to the filming site.

They had not argued over the phone, but the conversation could not be considered pleasant. There was an indescribable awkwardness in Si Yu’s heart. Avoiding Lu Xi’s gaze, she looked elsewhere. “What do you want to say?”

Lu Xi lowered her eyes to look at her. “I’m sorry.”

Si Yu thought she had heard wrong and turned her head toward Lu Xi. She opened her mouth, just about to speak, when she saw something flying straight toward the back of Lu Xi’s head. Her expression changed drastically.

“Careful!”

Si Yu pounced toward her.

“Dong—” A heavy object smashed down without missing.

Si Yu’s vision went black.

One second before fainting, Si Yu only had time to ask Little B in her head: “I saved the beauty like a hero. Do you think she’ll be hopelessly in love with me from now on?”