"He—he sent me a friend request!"
Author's Note:
Dog: (As if receiving a time bomb) What to do, what to do, what to do!! Will my wife misunderstand me?
Chapter 99
Su Su: ...So annoying, my husband is so clingy.
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Thank you so much for the 10 bottles of hot pot base soup – I promise I'll never change my email address again!
On the first day of 2022, I happily had hot pot! My little angels, eat and drink well too!
#43 I'll let him experience the pipe dream briefly.
When Su Yanxi saw Bie Yunzong in the underground parking lot of the styling studio, she wished she could roll her eyes to the heavens.
"You're happy now that you're here?"
Upon seeing the person, Su Yanxi stopped in her tracks, standing in front of the glass door at the entrance, arms crossed and a look of helplessness on her face.
"Thanks to you, my brother and sister-in-law and I didn't even need to get haircuts, we just washed our hair and came out."
Having visited TOPISUES so many times, Su Yanxi and Cai Yuyan always spent seven or eight hundred thousand yuan before going home. This was the first time they had only washed their hair, paid the minimum spend of 100,000 yuan, and then said they wanted to leave. Su Yanxi felt incredibly embarrassed!
Will the shop assistants look down on other people's daughters-in-law because of their spending power?
Fortunately, the salon manager was kind and said that they could remember the amount and combine the money from this visit with the money when they came back for a facial and haircut next time.
“Wife…” Bie Yunzong called out aggrievedly.
He walked around the Lamborghini, head down, hands clutching his phone, like a schoolchild being punished by the teacher with his homework, and timidly approached Su Yanxi.
"I was also startled when I received that friend request."
"I was afraid you'd misunderstand and think I was up to no good, so I drove over right away. I didn't even dare look at that friend request for long!"
Bie Yunzong turned on his phone, wanting to show the screen to Su Yanxi.
Su Yanxi blocked the attack with her palm, then turned to look at Cai Yuyan: "Brother and sister-in-law, what are your plans? Why don't you stay and finish the projects you need to do?"
"No, no. What's the point of doing a project alone if you're not here to keep me company?" Cai Yuyan said without any concern. "You can come to the styling studio anytime. If it doesn't work out this time, we can reschedule. You should deal with the immediate problem first, so you don't accidentally cause another misunderstanding."
"I won't listen to your crying and wailing when the time comes."
Bie Yunzong was completely confused: "What's wrong, wife, are you crying?"
"No," Su Yanxi denied lightly, giving his brother and sister-in-law a resentful look. He pleaded with his dear sister-in-law with his eyes: Stop undermining me!
The eldest brother and his wife, this couple, one of them loves to undermine Bie Yunzong, and they always exchange a few sarcastic remarks whenever they meet—after all, they are brothers; the other one, his occasional "unintentional remarks" always leave Su Yanxi speechless.
"You drive there."
Don't give in, he just wanted to listen to some gossip from the two people on his right. The Alaskan Malamute tried to keep a low profile, quietly perking up its two soft ears.
Unfortunately, I didn't hear the gossip, and the next second I received a disdainful sidelong glance from my master.
"Didn't you hear me?"
Forced by the overwhelming power, the big dog had no choice but to tuck its tail between its legs and obey.
After the only person on the left walked away, Cai Yuyan asked directly, "What do you plan to do with Qi Xiang'an's friend request?"
Although he asked the question, Cai Yuyan already had a guess in his mind. Based on his understanding of his sister-in-law, Su Yanxi would most likely use the excuse of luring the snake out of its hole to get his brother to accept that friend request.
That's what he's worried about.
"I have my own way of handling this." Knowing that her brother and sister-in-law had read her mind, Su Yanxi smiled vaguely, "Brother and sister-in-law, don't worry. Yunzong and I made up even after such a fierce argument last time, so why would we be afraid of this little squabble?"
"I'm afraid of your mentality!" Cai Yuyan said irritably. "Don't let yourself and Yunzong get hurt while you're playing around. I know very well how meticulous and sensitive you are—Yunzong definitely knows you better than I do."
"Otherwise, he wouldn't have called you immediately and driven all the way to see you. In the end, isn't it just because he was afraid that your sensitive nature would make you overthink things?"
"It's okay, it's okay." Su Yanxi said confidently, repeatedly assuring Cai Yuyan, "Where are you going later, home?"
“I’m not going home. I’m going to visit him at Congrui Company. And while I’m at it, I’ll urge him to finish with your documents.” Cai Yuyan sighed. “Let’s just kill that perennial runner-up. I’m fed up with him jumping around like this for so long.”
After saying goodbye to Cai Yuyan, Su Yanxi turned back and got into Bie Yunzong's sports car.
Bie Yunzong weakly handed over the time bomb-like phone: "Wife, can you handle this for me first..."
Su Yanxi took it speechlessly, unlocked the screen with her face, and started complaining while tapping on WeChat.
"Look at you, so easily frightened by a friend request? I'd like to see what Qi Xiang'an actually wrote."
Ignoring Bie Yunzong's messy chat panel, Su Yanxi clicked into the friend request interface and, sure enough, saw Qi Xiang'an as the latest one.
Qi Xiang'an's contact information is quite long. It reads: [Hello, Young Master Bie! I am actor Qi Xiang'an, currently the lead actor in the drama "Rising Sun". I have some personal matters I would like to ask you. I wonder if you would approve my application?]
Su Yanxi frowned after reading it: "What could he possibly want to 'ask' you about?"
Bie Yunzong spread his hands innocently: "How would I know? There's a director, a screenwriter, and at the very least, a dedicated instructor in the crew. Why would he ask me instead of asking all these other people?"
"He's just looking for an excuse to add you as a friend," Su Yanxi sneered. "He probably already has your WeChat, but he hasn't added you because he's worried about me being with you."
After Su Yanxi misled Qi Xiang'an with her acting, Qi Xiang'an didn't immediately add Bie Yunzong on WeChat—that would make her intentions too obvious, and there was no guarantee that Bie Yunzong and Su Yanxi might get back together.
"He's quite patient. After that greeting in Guangcheng, he waited so long before finding a 'legitimate reason' to add you as a friend. You can also tell that he's very guarded."
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"He's here to replace you." Bie Yunzong started the car. "Wife, you rejected him for me. He's probably full of confidence now, thinking that after we have a fight and fall out, he can take the opportunity to take your place."
"Reject him, and let his fragile heart suffer a severe blow!"
"Why refuse? Fish that bite the hook willingly are rare."
Su Yanxi raised an eyebrow confidently and clicked the pass button.
Seeing his wife's action out of the corner of his eye, Bie Yunzong screamed in shock, "No—no, noooooo!"
The screaming of the stinky dog echoed inside the soundproof supercar. Su Yanxi's head was buzzing from the noise. She rubbed her ears and tossed her phone back in disgust: "It's no use, I've already added you."
Before the car even left the underground parking lot, Bie Yunzong let go of the steering wheel, caught his phone with both hands, and pretended to cry and shed tears in front of his friend list.
"Waaaa, honey, I'm dirty! My contacts are dirty!"
"...Your contact list isn't exactly clean to begin with," Su Yanxi muttered softly, nonchalantly brushing a strand of hair from her forehead. "Here's a task for you: 'build a good relationship' with Qi Xiang'an within a week. When you ask him out and he actually dares to come out and meet you, then you've succeeded."
"What? You want me to go on a date with Qi Xiang'an?" Bie Yunzong's pupils dilated in shock. "No, I absolutely don't want to!"
"Honey, it's one thing for you to suspect me of cheating, but why are you pushing me onto someone else?"
Without saying a word, Su Yanxi smacked Bie Yunzong on the head: "Don't you understand what I mean? I'm making you act!"
"You're playing along with what we did last time, trying your best to lure him into the trap we set for him. What, you really want to go on a date with Qi Xiang'an?"
"No, no, absolutely not!" Bie Yunzong breathed a sigh of relief and slowly started the car. "If it's just acting, that's fine. But I don't have your acting skills. At most, I can just agree with him a few times and make him think he has an opportunity to take advantage of me."
“That’s enough.” Su Yanxi said softly, with great confidence. “He’s so wary, he’ll definitely observe you for a while before taking the opportunity to show you his goodwill.”
"He wants to 'take back what's his,' right? Fine, I'll let him experience it briefly."
Su Yanxi tightened her seatbelt and gave her nemesis husband a confident wink.
"When he's indulging in his pipe dream, floating on air and oblivious to his own limitations, I'll—in an instant—shatter all his delusions."
According to Su Yanxi's prediction, after Qi Xiang'an added Chou Gouzi as a friend, they would definitely exchange pleasantries for four or five days.
Qi Xiang'an is meticulous. Since he was able to hide in the shadows and plot against others before, it shows that Qi Xiang'an is definitely not a straightforward person.
But Su Yanxi never expected that Qi Xiang'an would be so anxious this time!
"Honey, it's only been three days, and Qi Xiang'an—he—he already asked me if I was free to meet up!"
On a leisurely afternoon, Su Yanxi was holding her adorable kitten Nubi and memorizing lines from a new script in her study when Bie Yunzong hurriedly pushed the door open and came in.
"Honey, what should I do? He asked me if I'm free this Friday!"
Su Yanxi put down the script and the cat in surprise, and stood up in confusion: "So fast? It's only been three days, and he can't hold back anymore?"
"Did you say something ambiguous to him, which is why he's so enthusiastic?"
"I didn't!" Bie Yunzong stood up straight and obediently reported to his wife, "I never reply to him with more than four words, and I'm very indifferent!"
"Really?" Su Yanxi narrowed her eyes suspiciously and reached out to ask Bie Yunzong for her phone. "Let me see it."
After assigning tasks to the stinky dog, Su Yanxi had no time to follow up on the progress. Although he hadn't gone out to work these past three days, he still had a lot of big and small things to take care of.
Cheng Zhuo was investigated by the police, and Su Yanxi had to come forward to clarify that the original CP press releases were all issued by Cheng Zhuo's side without his consent and had nothing to do with him. He swiftly and decisively dismantled the "Zhuoxi" CP completely.
The series of ripple effects caused by the change of actors, such as memorizing a new script and getting to know the new actors, have taken up a lot of Su Yanxi's energy. These events have left him completely overwhelmed, and in recent days he hasn't had time to pay attention to Bie Yunzong's progress at all.
"Wait a minute, wait a minute!" Bie Yunzong hurriedly cleared several chat boxes and deleted the anniversary surprises hidden inside.
To prepare a surprise for his wife, Bie Yunzong used his savings to buy four commercial streets for her! After waiting for a long time, the property ownership certificates were finally issued!
What he needs to do now is be careful, patient, and meticulous. If he can just hold on until the night of December 24th, he'll be able to... BOOM!
I surprised my wife and gave her a huge fright!
Just imagining the joy his wife might show made Bie Yunzong feel incredibly happy.
"Alright, alright," after deleting the relevant records, Bie Yunzong handed over the phone again, "Look at it."
Su Yanxi was an extremely perceptive person. These subtle actions would naturally arouse his suspicion.
Having learned from the previous misunderstanding, Su Yanxi was wiser and didn't let his thoughts wander too far. After simply leaving a note to remember, he chose to deal with Qi Xiang'an's matter first.
"All the chances of chatting with Qi Xiang'an are here, right?"
Su Yanxi started reading from the very first message after adding Qi Xiang'an as a friend. She thought things would be normal at first, but to her surprise, Qi Xiang'an was being excessively enthusiastic! From the very first message, he revealed an ambition that was hard to hide or conceal.
"My God, was he really such a talkative person?" Su Yanxi exclaimed in disbelief. "Besides the first thing he said after we added each other as friends, which was asking if I knew a certain screenwriter, what else... what was that all about?"
In terms of the proportion of dialog box colors, only 3% of the dialog boxes sent by Bie Yunzong were green, while the remaining 97% were almost all white boxes sent by Qi Xiang'an.
"You saw my reply, right?" Bie Yunzong was eager to prove his innocence, pointing to the message he had sent and gesturing for his wife to see it. "The longest sentence I've ever said is 'Let's talk later.' The rest of the time I either say 'um' or 'oh.'"
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