Showbiz Scandal: The Official Announcement of My Ex and Myself

The power of this chili was too fierce. During the time Xie Qingci looked up, she had turned into a face flushed, eyes filled with tears, sticking out her tongue searching for water.

Xie Qingci opened his mouth to comfort her but couldn’t help laughing first.

"Is it really that spicy?"

Yu Xia was almost knocked out by the spiciness, and upon hearing this, she picked up a chili, stood up, and pinched his mouth to feed it to him.

"You can’t understand with words alone, try it, and you’ll know, bite into it."

Then both of them turned into red-faced monkeys.

Yu Xia reached out to touch his face, which was scorching hot to the touch.

"Is it that spicy? Want some water?"

Xie Qingci lightly tapped her wrist with his chin and slightly opened his mouth.

His face flushed, eyes brimming with tears from the spiciness, and a tremblingly opened mouth made him look irresistibly tempting.

Yu Xia fed him water in that pose, watching him unable to swallow in time, the corners of his mouth wet with driblets appearing pitiful, she couldn’t help licking her lips.

Everyone present could feel it, as if at the next moment, a lecherous ghost would suddenly appear. The staff quickly jumped in to interrupt her unsound thoughts.

"Are you alright?"

Yu Xia snapped out of it, held the water cup, and sat back: "I’m okay. But you wouldn’t know unless you tried it, the chili peppers sold in this town are that spicy when bitten.

Need to think of a way to buy some and take them back.

Struggling to quell the spiciness, the two continued to eat, and after finishing the meal, the staff, seeing the good weather, initiated a random interview.

"By now, you should be quite familiar with the format of the show. Unlike other dating shows, have you considered facing any issues while on the show? Because most newly dating couples actually have some problems."

Yu Xia nodded: "I was worried too, after all, not everyone will like us or the way we interact. Plus, there’s a rumor circulating online that dating variety shows have a fatal curse, participants usually end up breaking up."

Staff: "Then why participate in the first place?"

Why else, because you’re offering too much?

Thinking this, she glanced at Xie Qingci.

"Because he really wanted to come. We both have filming commitments; after getting together, we actually don’t have much time to spend with each other, he thought by joining this show at least we would have a whole month together every day."

So, the staff naturally turned to Xie Qingci: "Did you consider that going on the show might cause problems in your relationship? Like currently, Zhou Yu and Liu Yicheng are having major issues, which are also quite controversial online."

Xie Qingci: "The relationship won’t have issues, but there’s a possibility of audience controversy."

"Why are you so sure? You don’t think you’ll have conflicts?"

Xie Qingci, with a calm expression, stated boldly: "Because I like her, like her a lot, incredibly so. People who put their heart into it wouldn’t let a little problem break the relationship."

Yu Xia awkwardly coughed once.

The staff showed an aunt-like smile and asked again: "So if, if you guys had an argument or disagreement, during the tri-daily house change, would you sulk and choose someone else?"

Xie Qingci didn’t hesitate: "Impossible."

He also replied for Yu Xia: "She wouldn’t either."

It’s not a matter of ’wouldn’t’ but ’impossible’.

The staff pressed on: "Why say so?"

Xie Qingci stared at them: "Impossible means impossible."

Yu Xia stepped in, offering a more persuasive explanation:

"If we argue, it’s possible to talk with others or deliberately converse, but staying in the same room with someone else for three days, that’s not possible. If you’re in a relationship, would you stay with another gender for three days? Such behavior is foolish, a mere fight could develop into an unremovably prickly thorn."

No one explicitly states who the conversation’s silly target is; everyone knew it internally.

They were merely discussing program questions matter-of-factly, with no intention of targeting anyone specifically, Yu Xia was open about it.

However, speak of the devil, and the devil appears.

Lan Hui came running to tell them that Qian Ling and Ling Yan were having a loud argument in the middle of the road, Ling Yan was even thinking about quitting the program.

Yu Xia and Xie Qingci sauntered over, Ling Yan was crying and packing her things, appearing really like she was about to leave with her suitcase.

Qian Ling sat in someone else’s courtyard, legs apart, hands in his hair, lost in thought.

This time, it was Lin Shuangyin who was comforting Ling Yan, Zhou Yu, and Zheng Jinjin stood nearby, not coming close.

Liu Yicheng, being Ling Yan’s co-tentant, stood opposite staring at Zhou Yu, without seeming to intervene.

The scene was chaotic; Yu Xia went in, seeing Lin Shuangyin growing impatient with the comforting, she spoke kindly and consoled her a little.

"Stop crying, you just aren’t living together this time, pass the next test, and you can live together again. Solving the problem will do better than tears."

Who knew when Ling Yan lost her temper, she started attacking indiscriminately, throwing a clothing item into her luggage while tearfully making remarks obviously aimed at Yu Xia.

"Easy for you to say, of course, you can with your good relationship, we can’t compare to you, if he was like your Xie Qingci, I’d also not..."

"You can shut up," Yu Xia kicked her luggage, the scraping sound against the ground was teeth-jarring.

Ling Yan kept her head down, still packing her clothes without a word. The others stood at attention, nervously watching them.

Yu Xia deliberately waited a moment, not hearing an apology, then chuckled and said:

"It seems like I’m also at fault, yet if I am, it’s because I didn’t pray to Nuwa to make both of you more devoted in this Earthly Realm so you wouldn’t pine after others now.

If all you do is cry and find excuses in others, yet are stuck with a love-drunk mindset, how should I advise you? Isn’t solving the problem the best way? Or can you cry a river to drown Qian Ling and be done with it?"

Qian Ling: "..."

Ling Yan remained silent, like an unrepentant silent elm ignoring education.

The others didn’t speak either, held down by her presence.

But Xie Qingci brought out a chair for her to sit. Once seated, her authoritative and unyielding presence, forbidding any contest, grew stronger.

"If you want to leave, sure, pay the penalty to the show quickly, so they can find someone else soon, and Qian Ling might have a new prospect in no time.

Ling Yan cried harder upon hearing this, yet for some strange reason, kept silent, head bowed, clutching her clothes and silently shedding tears, her purple attire soon dyed deeply.

Yu Xia didn’t want to continue talking to her and stood to leave this suffocating room filled with Ling Yan’s sobs.

Nearing the door, she turned back one more time.

The others, ready to leave too, stayed put silently following along to see Ling Yan.

Yu Xia, her eyelids half-lowered, observed her coldly and said, "Also, I better not hear the name Xie Qingci come out of your mouth again."