The Whole World Wants Them to Get a Divorce - Chapter 26.1

A date???

The sun must have been too bright and too hot, making her eyes blurry.

Si Yu rubbed her eyes, wishing she could shove the phone screen into them to get a better look.

On the white chat background, two perfectly black Songti font words stood out: 约会 – date.

It had been a week since she joined the crew, and Si Yu and Lu Xi hadn’t had any communication since their first video call. The fact that someone had called her “unwatchable” had been bothering Si Yu. She felt that their relationship had become a little strained after that video call. She was busy filming and had put her love life aside for now. She hadn’t even thought about how to fix things yet, and now Lu Xi had caught her completely off guard.

Si Yu couldn’t believe it. She quickly typed another line of text: “Did you get hacked?”

If she didn’t get hacked, could it be that her little trick of playing hard to get actually worked, and Lu Xi couldn’t hold it in anymore and was trying to take charge?

Her phone’s cheerful ringtone started.

Lu Xi was calling her directly.

Si Yu instinctively pressed the screen against her chest so no one would see it. She avoided Zhu Qi and Xia Xia and went to a secluded spot.

The cicadas in the trees were chirping loudly.

Si Yu adjusted her emotions and answered the call. “Hmph, you ghost, it’s been so long since you called me! I thought you had forgotten about me!”

“…” The person on the other end of the line was probably taken aback. There was a pause, and then a cold voice said, “I’m sorry, I dialed the wrong number. Goodbye.”

“No, no, no, it’s me!” Seeing that the call was about to be hung up, Si Yu dropped the act and returned to her normal voice. She asked knowingly, “What do you want?”

“It’s Qixi Festival today. I’m calling to ask you on a date.”

Si Yu incredulously dug at her ears.

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

Her clear, crisp voice came through the phone, sounding a little softer than usual. Si Yu’s ears felt a little itchy.

A leaf fell from a tree, floating past her eyes.

Si Yu blinked. Her heart started to pound. The scattered light between the tree shadows reflected in her sparkling eyes.

She clutched her chest and said without thinking, “I do!”

God knows how long I’ve been waiting for this moment!

If she were to rank her tasks, Si Yu would classify Lu Xi as a hell-level mission.

This eternal iceberg was so hard to handle. In the past few days, Si Yu had used all her tricks, but she couldn’t get her to melt at all. She had wanted to give up so many times.

Hearing Lu Xi say the word “date” with her own mouth, she was so touched that she almost cried.

The heavens are listening! When the show is done filming, I’m going to go back and burn some incense for sure!

“If you want to, then ask for time off,” Lu Xi interrupted her thoughts and said bluntly. “Tonight at 7 PM at Restaurant XX. I’ll send you the address later.”

Si Yu wiped away the non-existent tears from the corner of her eyes. She was stunned. “You’re in City H? And you’ve already booked the date location so quickly?”

Lu Xi hummed in agreement.

The tips of Si Yu’s ears turned red. She bit her lip and said coyly, “Why are you so impatient? You didn’t even tell me you were coming. I’m not ready yet.”

“What do you need to prepare for a date?” Lu Xi didn’t understand her logic. She said matter-of-factly, “I have a lot of work at the company. If Grandma hadn’t insisted, I wouldn’t have come.”

Si Yu’s expression froze. Her throat tightened. “Grandma told you to come on a date with me?” she asked.

“Grandma wanted me to come, and I didn’t want her to be sad.”

“…”

The iceberg is still an iceberg. The heavens were not listening after all.

It was all a misconception.

A hot breeze blew across her face. The enthusiasm in Si Yu’s body cooled down bit by bit. She tightened her grip on her phone and said dryly, “Oh.”

Lu Xi hadn’t realized that she had said the wrong thing. “Grandma loves you so much. You probably don’t want her to be sad, right?” she asked.

“Yeah.”

“So, tonight, you should ask the director for…”

“I can’t,” Si Yu interrupted her. Her voice was emotionless. “We have two night scenes tonight, and one of them is a group scene. If I take a day off, they won’t be able to film. Let’s just forget about the date. You should go back. Don’t worry, if Grandma asks, I’ll tell her you came and that we went on a date. I won’t make things difficult for you, and I won’t let Grandma down.”

“…”

Si Yu let out the trapped breath in her chest. “The director is calling me to film. I’m hanging up now if you don’t have anything else to say. Bye,” she said.

“…”

A “beep” was heard. The call was disconnected.

Lu Xi was slightly surprised.

She had wanted to say, if not tonight, then tomorrow, but Si Yu didn’t wait for her to finish.

“Ms. Lu,” Chen Yan said. She had already booked the restaurant and the reservation. She came over to confirm some details with Lu Xi. “The restaurant asked if you want to prepare the flowers yourself or if you want them to prepare them for you?” she asked.

Lu Xi looked at her now-dark phone screen, then at the beautiful jewelry box next to her. She thought for a moment. “No need to prepare anything. Cancel it,” she said.

“Cancel it?” Chen Yan was surprised. She thought for a moment. “Si Yu couldn’t get the night off?” she asked.

“She said she couldn’t get a night off. And…” Lu Xi said, not too sure herself, “She seemed unhappy and hung up on me.”

Someone actually dared to hang up on Ms. Lu? Chen Yan was shocked.

As an assistant, she shouldn’t be asking about her boss’s personal life, but Chen Yan remembered how rushed Lu Xi was this afternoon, making her go with her to the mall to buy gifts. Then, she hurried over, looking a little flustered, as if she wanted to give Si Yu a Valentine’s Day surprise. But now, the date was off, and she had also made Si Yu mad?

The usually calm, composed, and highly sought-after CEO of Guangying looked like she had encountered an insurmountable problem. Her eyebrows were furrowed, and she looked a little tired.

Chen Yan asked carefully, “Why was Si Yu unhappy?”

Lu Xi rubbed her forehead and sighed softly. “I don’t know,” she said.

How do you not know again?

Even if she couldn’t get the night off and couldn’t go on the date, Si Yu shouldn’t have been unhappy, considering that Lu Xi had left her work and came all this way just to give her a carefully chosen gift!

If Chen Yan had a boyfriend who did that for her, she would be overjoyed.

Chen Yan couldn’t understand why Si Yu was unhappy. Lu Xi looked conflicted. In an effort to solve her boss’s problem, she asked again, “What did you say to her just now?”

Lu Xi repeated almost every single word of her conversation with Si Yu.

Chen Yan: “…”

“Why do you have that expression?”

Because it’s just so hard to say…

Chen Yan composed herself. “Ms. Lu, if I’m not mistaken, Si Yu is probably mad at you,” she said.

“Why?”

You’re still asking why?

Chen Yan held back her desire to complain and chose her words carefully. “Si Yu probably really wanted to go on a date with you. She must have been disappointed that she couldn’t get the night off. All you had to do was comfort her or give her the gift. Why would you tell her that the old woman was the one who made you come on a date with her? That’s a very ‘straight man’ thing to say and not romantic at all. Si Yu would think you don’t care about her, and she would definitely feel bad,” she said.

Any girl would feel bad, Chen Yan thought to herself. She added, “Ms. Lu, this isn’t how you pursue someone.”

Lu Xi was lost in thought. Her eyelids twitched. “Who said I’m pursuing her?” she blurted out.

If you’re not pursuing her, why would you put so much effort into choosing a gift and rushing over to go on a date? Chen Yan was confused.

“I thought you liked Si Yu,” Chen Yan said weakly and courageously, finally saying the words that had been in her heart for a long time.

Lu Xi: “…”

The first time she saw Si Yu in the elevator, Lu Xi had been the one to ask her a question. She had also personally gone to watch Si Yu’s audition. Chen Yan had a feeling that something was going on between them.

The last time Chen Yan accompanied Lu Xi to the dance studio to watch the trainees, Lu Xi saw Si Yu practicing with a bunch of young male trainees. She turned around and left, looking upset. It seemed like she was jealous.

Lu Xi had even asked her for her Weibo username and password when Si Yu was slandered for smoking…

As an outsider, Chen Yan felt that Lu Xi’s every reaction to Si Yu was because she liked her.

Lu Xi had left her work to go on a date with Si Yu. If she wasn’t pursuing her, did that mean they were already together? Or was there a more intimate relationship between them?

Thinking about the last time she saw Si Yu walking out of the Lu family’s villa with her luggage, Chen Yan didn’t dare to think any further.

Lu Xi frowned. “You’re thinking too much. I don’t have any feelings for her,” she said.

Chen Yan: “…”

Chen Yan felt like her brain was short-circuiting. “Then… Si Yu…” she said.

“She likes me,” Lu Xi said with a complicated expression. After a pause, she added, “She said she loves me and can’t live without me.”

Chen Yan: “…”