The Whole World Wants Them to Get a Divorce - Chapter 19.1

Outside, the sky was dim, and inside, a pin drop could be heard.

The person pressing down on her had a frighteningly high body temperature. Those two lips were like fire, lightly brushing against her chin and igniting a spark. A strange tingling sensation spread throughout her body. Si Yu’s body stiffened, and the two hands she had put out to push her away fell softly onto her shoulders and stayed there.

Lu Xi thought her threat had worked. She slowly got up from Si Yu and, feeling dizzy, walked outside one step at a time.

When the scorching temperature suddenly pulled away, Si Yu’s mind returned to her. She quickly got up to help her.

Her arm was grabbed. A confused Lu Xi turned her head and looked at her for a few seconds. Her lips parted slightly, but she didn’t say anything.

Si Yu helped her back to the bedroom. She left her on the bed, covered her with a blanket, and quickly went out of the room.

The first floor was pitch black.

Aunt Zhao was already asleep. Si Yu looked for a long time before she found the first-aid kit. She quietly returned to the room and saw that Lu Xi was asleep again with her eyes closed.

She tried to wake her up. “First, let’s take your temperature.”

Lu Xi must have heard her. Her eyebrows furrowed slightly, and her eyelids moved, but she didn’t open her eyes.

Si Yu decided to go for it. She lifted the blanket and tried to unbutton her shirt.

A scalding hot hand suddenly grabbed hers, wrapping it like a ball of fire.

Lu Xi opened her eyes alertly. The deep pond in them had become a clear spring. She was a little more lucid. She looked at Si Yu’s hand, which was moving toward her chest. Her voice was slightly hoarse. “What are you doing?”

Her grip wasn’t strong. Si Yu could have easily broken free with a slight struggle, but she saw how tense her jaw was. She suddenly had a mischievous idea to tease her.

What does a seemingly serious person look like when they’re flustered?

Teasing a pure, white flower on a mountain peak sounds quite fun.

Si Yu put on a lecherous expression and said in a sleazy voice, “What else would I be doing? Of course, I’m going to molest you! Come here, beautiful. Don’t be scared. Your bro will take good care of you.”

Lu Xi slowly blinked. She watched Si Yu approach her without moving.

There was only a fist-sized distance between their faces. Lu Xi was still unmoved, even as they were about to kiss.

Si Yu’s ears, however, were turning red.

It wasn’t that she wasn’t trying. It was that this person couldn’t be teased!

Lu Xi didn’t panic at all. She was as calm as a heterosexual person.

Or she was just frigid.

Si Yu remembered that the novel was very clean. It was said that the website was so strict that all intimate actions below the neck would be locked. So, the author even glossed over the two female leads kissing and didn’t write anything about explicit scenes.

Because of the fever, Lu Xi’s cold eyes had a little more warmth in them, but her gaze was still direct and piercing, as if she could see through people’s minds.

Si Yu shook her head, trying to get rid of all the messy thoughts in her mind.

A person is sick. This is no time for jokes!

Si Yu broke free from her hand. She said seriously, “I want to take your temperature. If you don’t want to put it under your arm, you can put it in your mouth.”

Lu Xi looked at the thermometer in her hand. She was probably thinking if it had been disinfected and if it was clean enough to put in her mouth. After a few seconds of internal struggle, she started to unbutton her shirt.

She didn’t have much strength in her hands, and the buttons were tight. She fumbled with them for a long time without success.

Si Yu was getting anxious. She really wanted to just rip her clothes off.

Ahem.

After about two minutes, Lu Xi finally unbuttoned the top two buttons.

Si Yu put the thermometer in her hand, not forgetting to tease her with words. “Hold it and don’t fall asleep yet. Otherwise, I’ll have to molest you again.”

Lu Xi’s eye twitched. She said with a disgusted look, “You’re giving me a headache.”

Si Yu: “…”

Okay, fine. She wouldn’t make a sound. She was the patient, and what she said goes.

Si Yu looked at her phone to check the time. After five minutes, she had her take out the thermometer. It read 38.5 degrees Celsius.

She really did have a fever.

Si Yu helped her prop up her pillow and had her lean against her. She broke a fever-reducing pill in half, took a sip of the lukewarm water from the nightstand, and handed it to her mouth, coaxing her like a child. “Take the medicine and go to sleep. You’ll be better tomorrow. Be a good girl, ah.”

Lu Xi pursed her lips and looked up at her.

“Open your mouth.” Si Yu thought she hated taking medicine, just like her. She softened her tone. “After you finish, big sis will buy you some candy.”

Lu Xi’s eye twitched again. She drank the water from Si Yu’s hand and swallowed the pill. She took a breath and said, “I’m older than you.”

She’s this sick, and she still has the energy to argue about who’s older?

Si Yu didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. She helped her lie down, covered her with the blanket, and said easily, “Okay, okay, you’re older. Now, little sis, go to sleep.”

The warm yellow light from the floor lamp fell on the woman’s stunning face, making it look full and radiant. Her almond eyes were slightly curved, and they seemed to have stars twinkling in them.

Maybe it was because of the lighting, but Lu Xi suddenly realized that Si Yu was more beautiful today than usual.

She was already beautiful, but Lu Xi had never looked at her face so closely and carefully.

Si Yu didn’t know what she was thinking. She saw that Lu Xi was staring at her with her eyes open. She touched her face and gave a playful smile. “If you don’t go to sleep, I’m going to kiss you.”

Lu Xi: “…”

Lu Xi slept soundly that night. When her alarm clock woke her up in the morning, her fever was gone. But she had been drinking last night, so her head was still a little dizzy, and her body was weak.

She felt sticky all over. Lu Xi took a shower and felt much better afterward.

She changed her clothes and walked out of the room. She stopped when she passed Si Yu’s room.

Last night, she was in a daze from her fever, but she still remembered Si Yu wiping the sweat off her, helping her drink water.

Half-asleep, she vaguely heard Si Yu mumbling by her bed. “Her eyelashes are fake, right? How can they be so long? I’ll pull one out to measure the length. She probably won’t get mad, right?”

Then Lu Xi felt someone tug on her eyelid.

She then heard her talking to herself again. “Forget it. If I wake her up, she’ll threaten to divorce me again.”

That mouth was chattering for a long time. It was really annoying.

But even though it was annoying, it was very hypnotic. Lu Xi fell into a deep sleep, and she didn’t know if Si Yu ended up pulling her eyelashes out.

Lu Xi also didn’t know when she went back to her own room. She didn’t want to disturb her in case she hadn’t gotten enough sleep. She turned and went downstairs.

But she saw Si Yu sitting at the dining table eating breakfast. Lu Xi was stunned.

“Morning,” Si Yu said when she heard footsteps. She turned around and smiled at her. “Feeling better?”

Lu Xi’s face returned to normal. She grunted and walked over unhurriedly, sitting down across from her.

She looked up and saw the dark circles under Si Yu’s eyes. Lu Xi was stunned again. “You didn’t sleep?” she said.

Si Yu took a sip of hot porridge. “I slept for a little while, then I woke up because I was hungry,” she said nonchalantly.

Lu Xi saw that her complexion was not as good as yesterday’s. She thought about the tender care she received last night. A barrier in her heart slowly opened. “Thank you,” she said in a low voice.

“Hey, I’m your wife. It’s my job to take care of you. What are you saying thank you for?” Si Yu’s tone was cheerful. She saw that she wasn’t moving. “I guessed you wouldn’t have much of an appetite, so I made some light pork porridge. It’s not hot anymore. Eat up.”

There were some greens in the pork porridge, and it looked very appetizing. Lu Xi thought Aunt Zhao had made it. She asked, “You made this?”

“Yeah,” Si Yu said. “When I woke up, Auntie was still asleep. I was starving, so I made it myself.”

This was the second time Lu Xi had heard about her cooking, after the biscuits.

This time, Lu Xi didn’t doubt her. She saw how much Si Yu was enjoying the food. She wasn’t hungry at all, but now she was. She served herself a bowl.

The porridge was just the right consistency, and the temperature was perfect. The aroma of the pork had completely blended into the soft, glutinous rice, making her mouth water. With one spoonful, she felt her whole body become warm.

“Is it salty enough?” Si Yu asked her.

Lu Xi nodded. She took a few more spoonfuls, stopped, and looked at her. “You know how to do a lot of things.”

Si Yu said lightly, “It’s nothing. Making porridge is the easiest. I can also cook. I’ll make you a meal sometime.”

Lu Xi didn’t say anything.

Si Yu took a sip of porridge. She saw that Lu Xi was looking at her. She took another sip and saw that she was still looking.

“Why are you looking at me like that?”

Lu Xi’s eyes were slightly lowered, a thoughtful expression on her face.

Si Yu was getting uncomfortable with her gaze. She put her bowl down, winked at her, and said with a playful smile, “Is it because I’m so pretty?”

“…”

“Or did you suddenly realize how wonderful and capable I am, and now you’re falling for me?”

Falling for her? What does that feel like?

Lu Xi didn’t know. She only knew that Si Yu’s eyes were beautiful. Even though she didn’t get enough sleep, they were still very bright, clear, and transparent.

They were so clean, yet they were like a whirlpool that could suck a person in.

After two seconds of staring, Lu Xi calmly lowered her head. Her voice was unreadable. “How do you know how to act?”

This topic change was more abrupt than the spoon in her hand…

Having failed to flirt with her again, Si Yu wasn’t discouraged. She stirred the porridge in her bowl with her spoon. “I used to study acting,” she said.

What kind of natural-born acting genius? That’s nonsense. It might fool others, but Si Yu thought a shrewd person like Lu Xi wouldn’t be easy to fool. It was better to just tell the truth.

Lu Xi looked up at her again. Her gaze circled her face, as if she was trying to find something.

This time, Si Yu didn’t try to flirt with her. She simply rested her chin in her hands and let her look at her.

This made Lu Xi uncomfortable. She looked away and continued to eat her porridge nonchalantly, but she was deep in thought.

Although she wasn’t a professional, Lu Xi was the head of an entertainment company. She was invited to movie premieres all the time. She knew which movies were good and which actors were good. Si Yu’s acting was excellent. It was obvious that she had a strong acting background. That’s why she suspected that Si Yu had secretly taken acting classes.

But when she had studied acting and for how long, Lu Xi didn’t know.

Lu Xi was increasingly realizing that she knew very little about Si Yu. She used to think Si Yu was a spoiled, useless woman. But now, Si Yu kept challenging and changing her perception, giving her surprises from time to time.

It was like accidentally opening a bottle of aged wine. You had to let it breathe to taste its true flavor.

The two of them finished breakfast in silence.

Si Yu thought Lu Xi would stay home and rest since she was sick, but this workaholic didn’t care. After breakfast, she went to work again.

Before she left, Si Yu didn’t forget her lovelorn persona. She followed Lu Xi to the door and said with a worried face, “Your fever just broke, and you probably don’t have a lot of strength. Do you want me to drive you to the company?”

Lu Xi seemed used to her demeanor. “No, thanks. I’m not that weak,” she said without giving her face.

Si Yu stood on her tiptoes and pretended to straighten Lu Xi’s collar. She said softly, “Don’t work too hard. I’ll be heartbroken if you get sick.”

“Si Yu,” Lu Xi suddenly said her name seriously.

“Huh?”

Lu Xi looked into her eyes and said each word clearly. “Let’s put the divorce on hold for now. So there’s no need to act in front of me.”

“…”

After Lu Xi left, Si Yu anxiously bit her nails. She asked Little B, “Did she figure something out?”

Little B: “Figure what out?”

Si Yu: “…”

Forget it. What’s there to talk about with a heartless robot?

Si Yu had tried to act in front of Lu Xi several times, and she had been called out every time. So Si Yu suspected that Lu Xi had figured out that she wasn’t the original female supporting character.

But she quickly dismissed that thought. Transmigration was a fantastical and bizarre concept. A normal person wouldn’t think of something like that. If Lu Xi knew the truth, she wouldn’t be so calm.

Si Yu felt relieved. She cleaned up the dishes and went back to her room to read the script.

Your Smile was a romantic drama set in a school and a workplace. Liang Yufei was the female lead.

The drama was adapted from a very popular novel. It had a large fan base. After the drama’s official Weibo account announced the start of filming, most of the fans praised Liang Yufei for looking very similar to the female lead in the novel. The drama was a huge success when it aired. Liang Yufei became even more famous and earned the nickname “Nation’s First Love” because of it.

This drama was also the beginning of the relationship between the original female protagonist and Lu Xi. Because of this drama, the later “damsel in distress” incident happened, and the two fell in love.

All in all, this drama was the starting point of Liang Yufei and Lu Xi’s relationship and a major turning point in Liang Yufei’s acting career. It was very important to Liang Yufei.

After learning that the original protagonist was also a transmigrator, Si Yu had to take this drama seriously. She didn’t care if Liang Yufei became famous. She was worried about Liang Yufei and Lu Xi’s romance. Will it follow the novel’s plotline?

Absolutely not.