She fell in love with Lin Leyao.
As they spent more time together, she developed feelings for Lin Leyao.
Her previous thought was that she had saved me, so I should be good to her.
But now, I like her, and I want to be good to her.
Author's Note:
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Chapter 49
"What's wrong?"
Seeing Xin Ying staring blankly into space, seemingly lost in thought, she was completely bewildered.
Lin Leyao walked up to her and looked at her with a puzzled expression.
Lin Leyao's voice brought Xin Ying back to her senses instantly. Looking at the puzzled expression on Lin Leyao's face, who was so close to her, Xin Ying's eyes softened, and she smiled and said, "It's nothing."
Lin Leyao stared intently at Xin Ying's face for a long time before suppressing her doubts and slowly straightening up.
Xin Ying got up from the sofa and faced Lin Leyao.
Lin Leyao blinked, feeling that Xin Ying was acting strangely tonight. Just as she was about to say something, she saw Xin Ying make a move.
Xin Ying took off a necklace from her neck. Looking at the pendant, Lin Leyao immediately realized, "Is this the ring I gave you?"
Xin Ying nodded, took off the ring, placed it in Lin Leyao's hand, and said, "Put it on for me."
Lin Leyao blinked, took a moment to process it, and seeing the serious expression on Xin Ying's face, Lin Leyao didn't say anything more, and slipped the ring onto the ring finger of Xin Ying's left hand.
Lin Leyao also took off the ring she always wore around her neck.
Xin Ying held Lin Leyao's ring and examined it carefully for a long time. Her previously scattered gaze slowly focused, and Xin Ying showed an unusual firmness. She solemnly slipped the seemingly inconspicuous ring onto Lin Leyao's finger.
On an ordinary evening, the two exchanged rings in a bright and clean living room.
The exchange of rings was brief. After Xin Ying put the ring on Lin Leyao's finger and withdrew her hand, the two remained silent for a moment.
They didn't know why, but when they gave each other the rings, neither of them felt much emotional. However, when they put the rings on each other's fingers just now, they had a completely different feeling than when they received the rings before.
Standing opposite, Lin Leyao kept rubbing her face, and Xin Ying's cheeks were also getting hot.
After hesitating for a while, Lin Leyao said softly, "I might not be able to wear it all the time because of filming and attending events."
Xin Ying quickly replied, "It's okay, I'll wear it all the time, even when I'm sleeping or showering, I'll wear it every day to make up for the time I haven't worn it."
Lin Leyao's ear tips instantly turned red, and Xin Ying also felt her whole face burning.
Xin Ying touched her burning cheeks, her lips opening and closing several times before she finally managed to say, "It's already one o'clock, let's wash up and go to sleep."
Lin Leyao quietly let out a breath and nodded, "Okay."
The following day, at S City Airport.
Xin Ying drove to the airport and accompanied Lin Leyao into the airport.
Lin Leyao rushed back to the film studio this morning. She had already taken a shower at 2 a.m. last night and only slept for two hours at home before getting up to rush to the airport.
In the morning, Lin Leyao was not fully awake after washing up.
Xin Ying rarely saw Lin Leyao like this. After seeing Lin Leyao come out of the washroom, she leaned close to Lin Leyao and stared at her for a long time.
Then she said, "So this is how puffy a beautiful female celebrity's eyelids can be when she wakes up in the morning."
One sentence successfully made Lin Leyao laugh: "Even beautiful female celebrities poop! Who told this female celebrity not to cultivate enough, she hasn't cultivated herself into a fairy yet!"
Xin Ying smiled too.
Xin Ying's words in the morning successfully woke Lin Leyao, who was still half asleep, up with a smile.
The two arrived at the airport, but because they were in a public place, they did not engage in any intimate behavior.
Xin Ying reminded her, "Wear more clothes when you get back so you don't catch a cold. I'll come to see you on set next weekend, Christmas."
Lin Leyao quickly boarded the plane to the film studio. Xin Ying watched the time outside. When it was time for Lin Leyao's plane to take off, Xin Ying watched the plane take off and then started the car and drove away from the airport.
An hour later, photos of the two at the airport that day were posted online.
Although both of them wore masks when they went out, Lin Leyao took off her mask when going through the ticket check, which allowed many people to recognize her.
Xin Ying was different; she never took off her mask. However, because many idols were taking flights at this airport today, there were many fansites and photographers there. These people were very knowledgeable about current online trends and were also very good at recognizing people.
One of the fansite admins recognized Xin Ying and, thinking it was a waste not to take pictures, took many photos of Xin Ying and shared them on her Weibo.
However, the photos of the two at the airport were taken by different people, and no one took a picture of them together, so it didn't cause a big stir online.
The fans were the happiest when this photo appeared on the internet.
Since Xin Ying gained popularity on the internet, she has attracted many fans, who quickly created a super topic for her.
When Xin Ying heard these things from Kong Anqing, she thought it was strange that young people nowadays would fall in love with someone based on just a few photos.
After she found out, she stopped paying attention to these things.
The fan site admin who took her airport photos has hundreds of thousands of followers on Weibo and is very popular in the fan community, with many young people following her.
After she shared the photos on Weibo, many people forwarded them.
Although Xin Ying doesn't trend on social media as often these days, her popularity hasn't completely subsided.
When Xin Ying last officially announced her marriage, everyone initially discussed it intensely, but now they've gradually forgotten about it. However, with the release of these photos, many people have brought up Xin Ying's marriage again.
The ring Xin Ying was wearing was clearly photographed, and many fans in the entertainment industry started to investigate. However, the ring was too plain. The brand logo on this type of ring is on the inner circle, and you can't tell what brand it is from the outside.
Someone gave her a nickname—Lin Leyao from the amateur circle.
Lin Leyao's ring has never been discovered.
Some people say it's a ring from one brand today, and another brand tomorrow; everyone online with any connection to the fashion industry has guessed it.
There are two Weibo accounts that provide fashion tips for female celebrities, and both of them shared the brand of Lin Leyao's ring. However, the two accounts guessed different brands, which prompted many netizens to urge them to expose each other's misconceptions. Because of this, the accounts started fighting online, even revealing each other's past misdeeds, providing a good show for onlookers.
At this time, many of Lin Leyao's haters criticized her, saying that she earned so much money but was stingy and bought such a cheap brand ring. They then dug up Lin Leyao's past scandals and started spreading rumors about her again.
However, after seeing Xin Ying's ring today, everyone's attention has been focused on who Xin Ying's wife is.
Xin Ying is not in the entertainment industry, so there is no need for her to hide her marriage. Therefore, her wife is very likely someone who frequently appears around her.
The first person everyone guessed was Xu Hong. It's no secret that Xu Hong is from the Xu family; she's also a costume designer, frequently designing costumes for film crews, and has a considerable following online. Xu Hong had previously shared photos of herself with Xin Ying online, but at that time, people didn't know Xin Ying's family background and simply saw her as an ordinary beautiful woman, so it didn't generate much discussion online.
However, in the past few days, a resourceful netizen dug up a photo of them together on Xu Hong's Weibo. In addition, Xu Hong once said on Weibo that her other half is the same gender as her, so everyone guessed that Xin Ying's wife is her.
Even before this speculation was definitively proven, some unscrupulous marketing accounts posted on Weibo that Xu Hong was Xin Ying's wife.
Xu Hong rushed to the comments section to debunk the claim.
Xu Hong: [I'm not.]
Xu Hong also added an emoji, which was a picture of a puppy peeing on a toy. Xu Hong captioned the toy in the picture with the words "Xin Ying".
Seeing Xu Hong's debunking comment and this meme, netizens burst into laughter and no longer believed she was Xin Ying's wife.
While these things were happening on the internet, other things were also happening.
There are many types of celebrity fans. Some are girlfriend fans, some are mother fans, and some are idol fans. There are also some fans who only like this celebrity, but they are happy to create pairings and ship their favorite celebrities with other celebrities.
For Lin Leyao's fans, because of the past incident with Lin Jiashu, they no longer ship her with male celebrities, but she has many pairings with female celebrities.
The most talked-about person in the fan community recently is Liu Fang.
However, among these people, a few started pairing Lin Leyao and Xin Ying together.
They photoshopped several pictures of the two of them together and shared them on Weibo.
This action naturally drew criticism from die-hard fans.
[Do you guys even consider Lin Leyao a human being? Can't you live without shipping her with other people?]
[Two people who are completely unrelated, don't even know each other, and yet you two are actually getting together!]
Since they dared to create pairings and ship couples within the fandom, they naturally received a lot of criticism. These fans were fearless and even released a photoshopped image.
In the picture, both Xin Ying and Lin Leyao are wearing rings. The blogger photoshopped wedding dresses onto them and added several large fluorescent words to the picture.
We're getting married today!
Of course, some of Xin Ying's fans also noticed this. Some of these fans used to be rivals of Lin Leyao, and although they have switched to being Xin Ying's fans, they still don't like Lin Leyao.
Therefore, upon seeing this photoshopped image, people went on a rampage of criticism in the comments section.
[How disgusting! Does Lin Leyao have no suitors? She's always eyeing other women! First Liu Fang, then Xin Ying, what's wrong? Is she just after rich guys?]
Lin Leyao's fans, who edited the photos, can tolerate being scolded by their own fans, but they can't help but be scolded by outsiders.
They immediately unleashed a barrage of attacks.
[Who do you think you are? Who are you to Xin Ying? Do you even know who you are, barking like a dog? You could spend your whole life trying and you probably wouldn't even see Xin Ying's face, but everyone who sees my sister's face is fooled, she's a sure thing. Xin Ying might have already fallen for my sister! If you insult my sister again, they'll do it ten more times tomorrow!]
Lin Leyao and Xin Ying were unaware of these events happening online.
After seeing Lin Leyao off, Xin Ying returned to the company. Two hours later, Lin Leyao also returned to the film and television city.
Life on set was quite peaceful after that. In fact, apart from sometimes filming all night to meet deadlines, life on set was mostly about working regular hours.
These past few days, Lin Leyao has been wearing a ring whenever she's not filming.
Xiaomi noticed this too. One day after filming, she asked Lin Leyao curiously, "Sister Leyao, what brand is this ring you're wearing?"
Upon hearing Xiaomi's words, Lin Leyao took off the ring and looked at the patterns on the inner circle.
But after looking at it for a long time, apart from recognizing the first one as a dot and the last one as a cross, I really couldn't recognize the pattern in the middle.
Neither of them could guess what brand it was.
That evening, Lin Leyao messaged Xin Ying, asking, "What brand is the ring you gave me?"