Chapter 15

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I discovered that I can schedule chapters… what a relief.

On October 15, the day before Professor Xing’s recital, Jiang Ci calibrated the piano in the Grand Theater.

The next day, Lu Xingxue did not mention her birthday but sent a congratulatory flower basket to Professor Xing.

Jiang Ci went to the theater very early. After Professor Xing finished the rehearsal, she double-checked the piano to make sure there were no problems.

At 7:30 in the evening, the concert officially began.

Jiang Ci was in the front row of the auditorium on standby for any issues, while Ms. Xing sitting next to her stared at Professor Xing playing on stage. Professor Xing was dressed in formal attire. Although his hair was half white, his back was straight. Ms. Xing whispered to Jiang Ci, “So handsome.”

After decades of marriage, even though Ms. Xing has listened to innumerable performances, she still maintained her initial admiration.

Jiang Ci: “Mother, did Professor Xing fascinate you like this?”

Ms. Xing smiled and covered her face.

Jiang Ci flipped her wrist and looked at the time. It was still early, just after eight.

The concert lasted more than two hours. In recent years, Professor Xing has rarely performed, so after the final piece, he bowed several times, and the applause from the audience lasted for a long time.

Ms. Xing, who was surrounded by enthusiastic applause, wiped the corner of her eyes, and said to Jiang Ci: “Lao Xing is going to play an encore.”

Professor Xing really sat back down on the piano bench.

Jiang Ci looked at her watch and saw that it was almost ten.

Professor Xing improvised two more pieces, and the concert finally ended successfully. The audience left the scene still wanting more, but Ms. Xing took Jiang Ci backstage together.

Professor Xing was very excited. First, he embraced Ms. Xing vigorously, thanked her for so many years of company and support, and shook hands with Jiang Ci, and kindly invited her to stay and participate in the celebration.

Jiang Ci had not yet expressed her opinion, Master Xing watched her hesitance: “Xiao Jiang, do you have anything to do next?”

Professor Xing asked Ms. Xing: “Did I say something wrong?”

Ms. Xing smiled: “This girl, I have watched her check the time again and again. If you have somewhere else to go, then go quickly, I hope we didn’t delay you.”

How many times have you watched the time? Ms. Xing didn’t say anything, Jiang Ci didn’t even notice it.

In the face of Ms. Xing’s smile, Jiang Ci confessed openly: “There are indeed other arrangements. I will not attend the celebration. Professor Xing, congratulations, the performance was really very successful.”

There was no cell service inside the theater, so as soon as Jiang Ci left the building, all the delayed information from the past few hours bombarded her phone. Jiang Ci stopped a cab and got in before starting to check.

It was almost all from Huo Zhenzhen. The little 38 in the red bubble proved how desperately she must have been trying to contact her. In the message preview window it read: Sister, why are you so good for TAT.

Jiang Ci looked up with an inexplicable urgency and asked the driver: “Master, I’m in a hurry, can we hurry up?”

The driver said, “It’s all blocked in front of you. Look around. There are several streets blocked, so the traffic in this area is basically a standstill. There were some performances in the Grand Theater tonight, but it will stop soon.”

In the face of such a situation, urging was of no avail, so Jiang Ci had to read Huo Zhenzhen’s message.

Huo Zhenzhen sent about a dozen photos of Lu Xingxue.

Jiang Ci opened them one by one.

Looking at the background of the photos, it should be an open-air private party.

Lu Xingxue’s bangs were all stroked up, and her black hair was neatly tied behind her head. She wore dangling gem earrings, bright red lipstick, and her superior collarbone was visible. Jiang Ci’s eyes wandered down the deep purple V-shaped low-cut long dress and watched it pinch out at the waist.

In the first few photos, the sky was dim. Her skin was porcelain-white and her makeup was beautiful. Everything around her was bleak and pale. Only she was breathtakingly beautiful.

The next few photos are lit, and colorful spotlights divide the colored blocks. She was standing under the wall of light tubes, and someone was toasting to her. She raised her glass, seeming to find that the camera was shooting her, tilted her head slightly, and glanced casually.

Many idioms flashed through Jiang Ci’s mind for an instant.

[Huo Zhenzhen: What kind of A-degree smashing stunner is fucking fucking fucking…]

[Huo Zhenzhen: Watch me perform a scream: ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

[Huo Zhenzhen: Your President Lu’s birthday is today? I’ve never seen live photos on the social accounts of so many fashion and entertainment circles.]

【Huo Zhenzhen: Is this still the gentle and kind Lu I knew before! !! 】

【Huo Zhenzhen: Immortal Contrast Fuck Fuck Fuck Fucked Fuck】

……

[Huo Zhenzhen: Ah-Ci, your product, with so many heavyweights, I am blinded. 】

【Huo Zhenzhen: The boss can really call the wind and call the rain! !! 】

【Huo Zhenzhen: Fuck, fuck, fuck…]

【Huo Zhenzhen: My dear, how many good things has our Lu given you? If you can’t put the jewelry box down, I’m still empty here, good sisters and wealthy, together to be the most expensive girl in the whole street! !! 】

[Huo Zhenzhen: Sister, why are you so good for TAT]

Jiang Ci looked all the way down and almost didn’t recognize the word “Fuck”.

Lu Xingxue was having a birthday party? It’s still such a big event, I must have a good time.

The driver who observes the road back and forth: “I want to take a shortcut. I don’t know how long this block has been blocked.”

Jiang Ci: “I’m not in a hurry, please drive slowly.”

Driver: “…” That’s not what you said just now.

Jiang Ci replied to Huo Zhenzhen: “Are you thirsty? Drink some water.”

Huo Zhen Zhen returned in seconds: “[Shy]”

The information was not enough to reflect her mood, Huo Zhenzhen couldn’t wait to call Jiang Ci’s phone, very excited: “Baby, I want to have an adult conversation with you!!!”

Jiang Ci: “I am in a taxi, it is not convenient.”

“…” Huo Zhenzhen: “I thought you wouldn’t believe in it, why did you go at night?”

Jiang Ci: “Work, there is no signal in the theater.”

Huo Zhenzhen was silent for two seconds before bursting out a cheer: “So you are going to rush over to meet our President Lu now!? Me, me, me, I, I can have this honor, can I go with you?”

Jiang Ci: “…I’m going home.”

Huo Zhenzhen: “Which home should you go back to? You have to celebrate her birthday! You are her wife! How can you be absent from this kind of occasion!? Why do you want to go home?”

Jiang Ci endured the urge to roll her eyes to the roof: “Because she didn’t invite me.”

Huo Zhenzhen: “…”

It was almost eleven o’clock when she got home. Unsurprisingly, there were no lights in the whole house. Jiang Ci entered the room, the sensor light turned on, and it was quiet all around. She stood there for a few minutes and lifted her foot upstairs.

Speaking seriously, she did not have a precedent for Lu Xingxue’s birthday celebration.

Although they live together, they always live their own lives. They never get involved in each other’s life and social life, and they have only become a little familiar with each other in the past two months.

Jiang Ci went up to the third floor, and suddenly there was a movement of the door opening and closing downstairs. It was very clear in the silent night, Jiang Ci stopped at the landing.

Lu Xingxue poured herself a glass of water and drank it while going upstairs. When she reached the landing on the third floor, she looked up and saw Jiang Ci holding the handrail, looking down at her condescendingly.

Lu Xingxue’s eyebrows bent as if seeing Jiang Ci was a happy thing: “I thought you hadn’t come home yet.”

She lifted the skirt, quickly climbed the stairs, and talked to Jiang Ci face to face.

The person I saw in the photo not long ago is now standing in front of my eyes.

Because of drinking wine, her cheeks were dyed red, making the skin transparent and white.

She was not a flat character, and the three-dimensional visual effect was even more shocking. It was no wonder that Huo Zhenzhen turned into a screaming chicken tonight. Such a Lu Xingxue was really beautiful Ah.

Jiang Ci looked at her in this way, but was inexplicably uncomfortable, with a cold tone: “The birthday party is over so early?”

Lu Xingxue was taken by many people to take pictures tonight. It was not surprising that Jiang Ci would know: “I came back early.”

She held Jiang Ci’s hand with interest: “I have something for you to see.”

Lu Xingxue’s palms were warm and dry. Jiang Ci looked at the hands of the two clasped, some of them couldn’t keep up with the rhythm: “…What are you looking at?”

Lu Xingxue kept walking under her feet, leading Jiang Ci to her room: “I went to my grandfather’s visit today. I promised you to introduce Lu Xingxue who is friends with the sleepy bug to you…. do you remember?”

So I came back from the birthday party early, just for this?

Jiang Ci’s little temper of unknown origin went out at once.

She rarely comes to Lu Xingxue’s room. The space was very large, but there was no extra decoration. The color was cool, and the light was warm when the light was turned on, which makes the room a lot warmer.

Lu Xingxue turned on the projector, raised her head, and smiled at Jiang Ci: “It will be done soon.”

When the first photo appeared on the screen, Lu Xingxue turned off the lights.

The young Lu Xingxue, wearing a soft gauze sun hat, small skirt, white socks, may have just been able to walk, a young woman was holding her, the big and small smiles on the photo are very bright.

The soft sofa sank down, and Lu Xingxue sat over. While taking the earrings, she introduced to Jiang Ci: “This is my mother.”

Jiang Ci said: “Your mom is very beautiful.”

The slideshow paused on each photo for a long time. Jiang Ci looked at it again and found that Lu Xingxue’s facial features and her mother were almost carved out of the same mold, and subconsciously added: “You and she grew very much alike.”

This sentence drew Lu Xingxue’s low smile.

Jiang Ci turned her head in confusion, the light source of the projection was concentrated on the screen, and Lu Xingxue’s expression could not be seen clearly. Lu Xingxue’s voice came into her ears so clearly in the dim room: “Are you complimenting me?”

“…” The earlobe seemed to be bitten by this question, and Jiang Ci looked back at the curtain again.

No response, Lu Xingxue poked her arm and asked: “Is it?”

Jiang Ci: “……”

Lu Xingxue dragged the tone: “Is it right?”

Jiang Ci turned her face obliquely, her chin lifted slightly, watching Lu Xingxue.

She was careful not to answer, but in her slightly curved eyes, a smile overflowed.

Lu Xingxue smiled and sighed towards these radiant eyes, “…Isn’t it?”

For the first time, she spoke to her in such a helpless and spoiled tone.

The room was dark, only each other.

Jiang Ci’s face was hot after a “pat”: “Lu Xingxue, have you drunk a lot of alcohol?”

Lu Xingxue: “A little bit.” She gestured with her fingertips, indicating that she really only drank this~ a little bit.

Jiang Ci: “Isn’t it.”

Lu Xingxue wondered: “Then do you smell that I have a strong smell of alcohol?”

Jiang Ci: “You can’t smell it yourself?”

Lu Xingxue shook her head and leaned forward.

This action of her was sudden, Jiang Ci didn’t even react, and the two of them were already facing each other.

Lu Xingxue asked: “Is there?”

Jiang Ci: “………………”

Lu Xingxue breathed fiercely. At such a close distance, Jiang Ci did not smell multiple alcoholic tastes, only a touch of tobacco and a very mixed smell of perfume poured into the tip of the nose.

I don’t know how many people she was close to at the party to achieve this smell.

Jiang Ci pulled a little distance away, looked straight into the other’s eyes, and said without changing her face: “Yes.”

Lu Xingxue: “…”

Lu Xingxue slowly chuckled, “Okay, I’m going to take a bath.”

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