Showbiz Scandal: The Official Announcement of My Ex and Myself-Chapter 159: I Really Like Him, Like Him a Lot

Chapter 159: Chapter 159: I Really Like Him, Like Him a Lot

Yu Heng was interrupted by his son and couldn’t decide which problem to start criticizing.

In the end, he decided to focus on criticizing Yu Xia.

"If you’re going to date, then date properly. Why are you being so secretive? Afraid I’ll find out?"

Yu Xia scratched her face: "I just saw you like this and got a little nervous, wasn’t planning to hide it."

Xie Qingci glanced at her.

He didn’t believe her nonsense about not planning to hide it.

Coincidentally, Yu Heng didn’t believe it either.

In his view, if it was a normal relationship, why would they secretly live together right when Xie Qingci was gaining popularity in his career?

Seeing Xie Qingci in loungewear, acting like he lives here, it’s obvious he moved in a long time ago.

And, when Yu Xia rushed to open the door in a hurry, she looked like a guilty libertine who had just wronged a virgin, with concern written all over her face. 𝓯𝙧𝓮𝓮𝒘𝓮𝙗𝙣𝒐𝒗𝒆𝓵.𝓬𝓸𝒎

Is this what a normal relationship looks like?

It wasn’t like this when she dated the previous two people, such a huge difference in attitude, maybe there really is something shady between them.

It must be this Xie Qingci corrupting his sister.

He suppressed his anger and set down his chopsticks: "Let’s eat first."

After enduring Xie Qingci during lunch, Yu Heng coldly asked him to leave temporarily.

In his heart, he felt this guy was not serious, and since it’s not a serious relationship, he saw no reason to tolerate him in their family.

So he spoke without reservation, like a boss addressing an employee with three consecutive months of performance decline, with a formidable aura that was quite intimidating.

Xie Qingci pressed his lips tightly, didn’t speak rashly, and waited for two seconds until Yu Xia defended him as expected.

"Brother," Yu Xia looked a bit disgruntled too, "I already said it’s a normal relationship. Your impolite manner is very rude."

Yu Heng sneered: "I’m not..."

"Big brother," Xie Qingci calmly spoke, "Yu Xia and I have been together for over a year."

Yu Heng frowned, yet to express dissatisfaction about being called ’big brother’, when Yue Ling abruptly asked, "I remember you said you were twenty on the show a year ago..."

"Eighteen."

Yu Heng suddenly lifted his head to look at Yu Xia, his well-maintained handsome face was contorting.

"Yu! Xia! You hooked up with someone just of adult age?!"

Yu Xia: "..."

She indeed seemed like a libertine with a bad reputation, entangled with someone she shouldn’t, needing her brother to clean up her mess.

Damn it.

She covered her face and collapsed onto the table, pretending to be dead.

Yu Yue was startled by his dad’s sudden roar, hands gripping the table, cautiously scooted next to her, bending over to see her face.

"Aunt, turns out you’re worse than me. I’ve only dated a few girlfriends."

"...Little brat, shut up."

At this moment, Xie Qingci spoke again, facing Yu Heng’s rage with steady composure.

"No need to scold her, I just want to say we are indeed in a proper relationship. We broke up for a while before, got back together only after I debuted, hasn’t even been two months in full."

"Currently we haven’t announced our relationship to everyone, not out of fear or avoiding secrecy, we just think the timing isn’t great. Once our relationship won’t affect her career, we’ll disclose it ourselves."

Yu Heng remained icy-faced, eyes resembling Yu Xia’s, sharply staring at him: "So what? Even a public announcement has to be split into multiple steps, should I praise your maturity?"

Towards his sister’s boyfriend, he’s never held back from judging with the most critical perspective.

Xie Qingci fell silent for a moment, then spoke again: "I’ve just entered this industry, can’t prove my ability for now. But since I took this step for her, I can tread every ensuing step. I’ll expedite my transition, won’t let work burden her..."

"Alright."

Yu Xia lifted her head, eyes slightly red.

Xie Qingci’s words, mildly pale, each as he uttered them consumed his ego.

If it weren’t for her, stepping into this entertainment circle, sitting here he would have been praised by every parent, not nitpicked by her brother.

"Brother, I really like him, really like him a lot."

Originally, she wanted to recount how they met and broke up, now express Xie Qingci’s merit and his affection for her, but at the brink of speech, only this sentence remained.

Xie Qingci hadn’t anticipated she’d say that, his lowered eyelashes quivering lightly.

Yu Heng watched her.

Her red-eyed appearance, just like in high school quarreling with classmates, having nightmares, scolding him for snacks, watching him marry Yue Ling, a pitiable look.

They’re dependent siblings, back then any injustice she’d return home and complain to him, eyes red on the verge of tears.

Younger still, she’d drag a pillow into his room at night, camp out, claim to supervise him sleeping, back when he was busily founding the company, often ignoring rest.

But since he married Yue Ling, she no longer clung like that.

Later Yu Yue was born, although she got along well with Yue Ling, rarely coming home, buying things whenever she did, seemingly fearing her frequent visits would disrupt their marriage.

He saw it, Yue Ling saw it, couldn’t persuade her, resorted to inviting her for meals, calling her home.

In retrospect, Yu Heng nearly forgot, the last time he saw her with red eyes was years ago.

His heart ached.

"If you like him, then date, but why cry?"

Then he looked at Xie Qingci, his tone slightly gentler now, but only to a degree of politeness: "Men’s professed affection isn’t worth much, I’ll temporarily trust you. But according to your industry rules, breakups are rarely pretty, I hope it won’t come to that."

Xie Qingci nodded, speaking blandly like stating facts: "We won’t break up."

"..." Yu Heng was stuck, he was supposed to say break up gracefully, not bless them with an eternal union.

But his heart was already sore, no mood to repeat.

"Yet," he shifted topics, this time absolutely serious, "no living together. Dating isn’t marriage, living together is improper."

Yu Xia: "...Brother, isn’t that a double standard? Wasn’t it different when you pursued sister-in-law?"

Yu Heng was caught off guard being rebutted, looked to his wife for support, only to see Yue Ling’s tearful countenance.

"Xiaxia, is he truly so affectionate?"

Clearly moved by her own imagined profound love story, her eyes towards Xie Qingci even showed pity.

Yu Heng: "..."

He was about to suffocate.

A glance at his carefree son fiddling with a Rubik’s cube - more suffocation.

His wife’s steadfast view on love is that lifelong loyalty for one, often moved by romance, yet how come his son is a rampant playboy dating three girlfriends at once?