Showbiz Scandal: The Official Announcement of My Ex and Myself-Chapter 373: Not Sweet Enough

In a certain sense, Xie Qingci is a person who does what he says.

He said he wanted to eat fruit, so he went out and bought a box of it, all sorts. Yu Xia suspected he had bought a little bit of every type available in the supermarket.

After bringing the fruit back, he stayed on the sofa and wanted her to feed him.

Yu Xia sat nearby, ignoring him, and picked some fruits she liked to eat and went to the kitchen to wash them clean.

This season offers a wide variety of naturally grown fruits, plus the ones produced in greenhouses, there must be over a dozen types.

She picked a cherry to eat, a tiny red one so tender that it would burst with a touch. The loquat with a five-star shine looked sweet, along with strawberries, yellow peaches, and sugar-heart apples. Besides these, he bought the most grapes and their relatives.

Things like lady finger grapes, green grapes, black grapes, milk grapes, sunshine muscat, and several other boxes.

This way of buying fruit she had never tried before, so engrossed in eating that she left Xie Qingci aside and ate by herself for quite a while.

Xie Qingci grew bored waiting, lying on the sofa watching her wistfully.

"I want some too."

She didn’t even lift her head: "Get it yourself, didn’t grow hands?"

"..." He gazed at the ceiling, his tone light and airy, "Too sour. Originally, I thought you’d be concerned about my health and would think of some way to help me overlook the sourness, but it looks like you’re just using me and then tossing me aside, not caring if I live or die."

The more Yu Xia listened, the more she wanted to laugh, almost spitting out the cherry she was eating.

She picked a cherry with a green stem, leaned over him, and fed it to him.

"Come on, come on, eat."

He allowed the cherry to touch his lips but didn’t eat it, even turning his head to avoid it: "I don’t want to eat it this way, sour."

... What a fussy person.

Yu Xia gently touched his lips with the cherry again, coaxing, "Isn’t this a nice way to eat? In ancient times, feeding services were like this; you hold the cherry, and I pluck off the stem—what a beautiful scene?"

Just thinking about it feels intense.

He still refused, giving her a sidelong glance: "I want a different method, not sweet enough."

Yu Xia rolled her eyes at him, giving him an extra look. If it weren’t for that pretty face, she’d definitely tell him off for being so pretentious.

She removed the cherry’s stem, gently held it, and leaned in to kiss him.

This time he was obedient, lying still and letting her kiss him. After swallowing the cherry, he spat out the pit, relishing the taste contentedly as he licked the corner of his mouth.

Once finished, he still wanted more and made a request: "Let’s have grapes, seedless ones."

"You’re really pushing the limits," she fake-smiled, picked a few seedless grapes, and fed them to him in the same manner.

After feeding him, before he could swallow them all, she pinched his cheeks, forcing him to open his mouth. The grape juice that hadn’t been swallowed yet dribbled down to his chin.

Xie Qingci watched her, not even asking why, slowly licking the juice from the corner of his lips in front of her.

How can one stand this?!

Yu Xia grabbed his face and leaned in to bite him.

Forget about the fruit, let’s deal with this nuisance first. Someone like him would wreak havoc outside; she felt compelled to slay the demon and exorcise the ghost. 𝚏𝕣𝐞𝗲𝐰𝕖𝐛𝐧𝕠𝕧𝚎𝚕.𝐜𝚘𝗺

If it wouldn’t ruin the mood, she’d want to pin him down and shout, "You wretched demon!"

Life was too chaotic, and when it finally returned to normal, she found her perception of time passing in the outside world had become a bit dull.

He Ci came over to drag her out for an early summer outing photoshoot for the fans, chattering on the way.

"I think you look a bit dazed, is your body still okay? Just saying, I wouldn’t want to hear any explosive news from the paparazzi about a celebrity surnamed Yu ending up in the hospital from playing with her sugar daddy."

"You can pretend you didn’t hear me; I didn’t expect you to answer. This isn’t a taboo subject, everyone has some sort of private life, right? But I have to say, Xie Qingci is too clingy. I fear you’ll be calcium deficient before you’re thirty!"

"Alright, alright, I won’t mention that anymore, okay? Let’s talk about something else. Let me think, what’s the official stuff, oh right, while you guys were having fun, ’Different Paths’ kept climbing the rank charts, and now both the buzz and search heat are the top for TV dramas."

Finally avoiding a certain topic, Yu Xia could now join in the conversation.

"I watched an episode on the first day; the comments were all fans promoting how good it was. I didn’t see any reactions from strangers; how’s the organic word-of-mouth?"

He Ci nodded confidently: "There’s a lot; this drama is quite satisfying and addictive to watch. Look, the person next to you is still watching it now."

Still watching now? Yu Xia reflexively asked: "Is it seven o’clock?"

He Ci looked at her speechlessly: "You’ve mixed up day and night, right? It’s just noon now."

"..." She awkwardly smoothed her hair, turned to look at Mei, "Are you watching yesterday’s?"

Mei lifted her head from the screen: "Yes, yes, yesterday’s two episodes had scenes where you wore the battle suit and scolded people, it was so awesome, worth watching over and over!"

"Battle suit?" She often scolded people in that series and wasn’t sure which scene Mei meant, so she leaned over to take a look.

Mei handed her the phone, pointing: "This outfit, sis, you look so dashing in professional wear! And wearing yoga clothes, absolutely stunning, perfectly showing off your figure!"

It was a double-breasted women’s suit, not a skirt outfit, but pants, black ones, paired with sky-high heels. Without saying a word, it exuded an overwhelming aura.

Yu Xia: "This outfit? It’s okay, you know, in this series, I wore no less than fifty outfits."

Mei thought for a moment: "Yeah, and each one looked great, especially that one... oh, sis, does Xie Qingci know about the scenes with that new actor?"

He Ci casually asked: "What scenes?"

Mei looked full of gossip: "The emotional story that involved high heels versus sneakers."

He Ci understood: "Then Xie Qingci must not be able to watch this series at all? Alas, we’ve lost a quality viewer."

Yu Xia couldn’t be bothered to pay attention to them.

Reaching their destination, He Ci laid out the picnic mat under a big tree, set up the decorations, and Mei adjusted the camera to follow Yu Xia for shooting.

She didn’t need to intentionally pose, just needed to be accustomed to the camera’s presence. Walking from the car, using her hand to softly shade her eyes from the sun, she walked over to the tree and placed the fruit she had brought on the picnic mat to invite everyone to eat.

Xie Qingci bought too much fruit; she couldn’t finish it in two days, so she brought it along in case it spoiled if left lying around.

Today, she wore a light yellow, buttonless, thin knit sweater outdoors, with a low ponytail, no makeup. Holding her hand against the sun, she tilted her head to look into the distance, making Mei shout with excitement.

"Just like that, just like that! Your skin is so fair it’s almost translucent, absolutely beautiful!"

"Yes, yes, this angle is perfect, sis, you look like a fairy!"

He Ci instructed her: "What fairy, what fairy, you better capture photos where her strong aura is evident, you understand? To promote alongside the series!"

Mei was too busy snapping madly to answer him, then suddenly exclaimed, "Ah," took down the lens to check, zoomed in with the lens again, and then hesitantly said:

"Sis, the back of your neck..."