Showbiz Scandal: The Official Announcement of My Ex and Myself-Chapter 403: Are You Trying to Get Me Drunk?

Chapter 403: Chapter 403: Are You Trying to Get Me Drunk?

The waiter choked.

Thankfully, the crowd wasn’t the only ones feeling like they stepped into the pages of a romance novel. Xie Qingci was obviously playing out the role of the male lead, handing the rose to Yu Xia.

"This rose is quite vibrant. Sister, do you like it?"

Yu Xia: "...It’s okay."

She stopped her banter, accepted the rose, and sniffed it.

"Smells nice."

Exactly, this is the right reaction for a female lead receiving a rose. The waiter breathed a sigh of relief and left quietly at Xie Qingci’s signal.

Once outside, he flailed his arms behind the door, then squeezed into a group of colleagues to be interrogated.

"So what’s the scoop? Was it really Yu Xia and Xie Qingci?"

"Really! So handsome! Yu Xia is so pretty, she literally glows!"

"And can you believe it? Xie Qingci called her ’sister’! Never noticed on the show, but hearing him say it now, it definitely has an ambiguous undertone!"

"So, is it true that Xie Qingci can’t hold his liquor? They say Yu Xia isn’t a lightweight. Could it end with Yu Xia having to support him out and then—"

"And then they’d head back to their love nest together, ahhh!"

Inside the room.

As soon as the waiter left, Xie Qingci’s questions took a different turn.

"You said it was okay, that sounds reluctant. You don’t like the roses I gave you..."

It wasn’t even a question, more like he was staring down at the bowl and chopsticks, his tone quite despondent, the epitome of forlornness.

As if she was not rejecting a rose, but a myriad of his affections.

Ugh, a bit too cheesy.

She quickly poured a glass of red wine and offered it to him.

"No more words, it’s all in the wine."

Xie Qingci: "..."

He maintained his lowered gaze on her, slowly drinking the wine she offered, watching her the whole time.

Yu Xia’s mind was still uneasy when he swallowed the wine and asked with subtle implication, "Are you trying to get me drunk?"

Although he only asked that question, Yu Xia subconsciously filled in the next part in her mind — what do you plan to do with me?

From his look, it wasn’t an accusation, rather... perhaps an opportunistic allure?

She remained silent for a moment, withdrew her hand, and took a sip of wine herself.

Xie Qingci’s eyelashes fluttered slightly as he nonchalantly said, "I’d like some more."

"It’s not finished, pour it yourself."

"I just want to drink from your glass."

After saying that, he took action himself, grabbing her wrist and placing his well-defined fingers around the edge of her glass, turning it in a circle.

His thin lips touched the faint lipstick mark left there, and the deep, luscious red wine fluid slid into his lips.

Yu Xia once again personally experienced what it means to be visually parched and breathless.

But she quickly composed herself and seriously informed him, "We are in a proper place having a proper meal."

She was a proper person too.

Xie Qingci nodded, "So you’re planning to get me drunk and take me home. I don’t mind, you can just say it."

"... Even dinner can’t shut you up."

He chuckled and served her a small bowl of crab roe tofu pudding.

It had been over two months since they went public, yet their time together out in the open was only a few days.

So when Yu Xia looked at the smile on his face, she felt a bit dazed—did going public make Xie Qingci smile more than before?

It was just going public, not their first day together, could it really make such a big difference?

Returning from the restaurant, Xie Qingci nonchalantly followed her into her home.

The phrase "returning to the love nest together" was indeed factual; he seemed to have completely forgotten his own home was in the same neighborhood.

Seeing his natural demeanor, Yu Xia couldn’t help but ask, "Do you want to move in? I feel like it’s a bit..." too fast.

"It’s not that I want to, I already have." Xie Qingci opened the bedroom door, revealing a huge suitcase inside.

Yu Xia was slightly stunned. 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝕨𝕖𝗯𝚗𝚘𝕧𝕖𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝕞

The bedroom’s lighting cast a blurred halo on his hair and skin; even though she couldn’t see clearly, she felt he was definitely happy, perhaps with a nervous uncertainty about her words?

She tried to speak tactfully, "We just went public, immediately moving from dating to cohabitation, people might think... hey hey hey, put me down!"

Xie Qingci lifted her into his arms, looking up at her expressionlessly, "Continue what you were saying, I’m listening."

This wasn’t the reaction of someone seriously listening; it was more like he’d bite her if she said something wrong.

His tight expression made her laugh as she smoothly switched her speech:

"Of course, what others think doesn’t matter at all. Your happiness is what matters most, and I warmly welcome your presence."

Xie Qingci was satisfied, adjusted her a bit higher, and said, "Kiss me."

That kiss was something else; taking advantage of the slight tipsiness, he quickly transitioned the battleground from the empty living room to more familiar territory.

The rich aroma of red wine lingered everywhere; the sofa, tables and chairs, walls, floor-to-ceiling windows, bathroom, eventually returning to the warm bed.

Yu Xia’s soul, which was still wandering on barren plains, fully returned to its place.

By early morning, she was like a fish sunning on a beach, weakly tugging at Xie Qingci’s hair, struggling against the intense drowsiness, yet squeezing in a question.

"You seem particularly, particularly excited, why? It’s just an announcement."

Nowadays many celebrities prefer to keep their relationships under wraps, quietly getting married and having kids isn’t unheard of, since everyone dislikes making things widely known. Netizens would form good or bad speculations about them.

But he was different; he wanted everyone to know they were in love.

Some people think this way mostly to boast, but Xie Qingci wasn’t like that.

Perhaps his previous hidden romance had affected him?

She groggily pondered these thoughts.

Gently stroking her back, entwined together, he softly answered by her ear:

"Because I want everyone to know you are mine, so no matter what happens in the future, our names will always be linked in some way, whenever they think of you, they’ll think of me."

Rather than like before, where their love was more intense than anyone’s, yet in others’ understanding, they had no relation.

In the list of her ex-boyfriends, even her rumored flames, his name never appeared.

His classmates discussing the superstar on the mall poster beside him had no idea that just the day before, he shared intimacy with that very superstar.

He was done with the days of underground relationships hidden from the light; he was impatient to let everyone know just how much they loved each other.

From now on, when people mention Yu Xia, they would inevitably think of her possessive boyfriend named Xie Qingci, when they mention Xie Qingci, they’d exchange knowing glances, raising eyebrows and hollering her name.

They were entwined together, not just for their own knowledge, but everyone had to be aware of this fact.