Pampered by My Ex's Cousin

Chapter 461 - 453 Transformation (Part 16)

Suddenly, the doorbell rang. He put down his phone and looked up at Ji Chicheng, who was walking towards him, "It must be Xiang Yiqing. I’ll go get the door."

Ji Chicheng’s slender fingers clutched a wineglass, but he did not respond to Qi Helian’s words. He walked to the spot where Qi Helian had just been sitting, preparing to take a seat, and his gaze inadvertently swept over Qi Helian’s phone screen.

The body that had just started to bend suddenly stiffened.

A shadow crossed his handsome face; the phone screen dimmed a bit. He reached out to tap it, then picked it up.

He looked closely at the photo. In it, the girl had her eyes closed, a look of pleasure on her face, while the foreign man by her side watched her with a smile.

The closeness between them was palpable.

"How many bottles are you planning to drink tonight?"

"Isn’t that up to Young Master Ji’s mood?"

"Young Master Ji, if you keep drinking like this, my collection will really be gone."

As Qi Helian had predicted, the one who knocked on the door was indeed Xiang Yiqing, who was holding two bottles of red wine and chatting and laughing with Qi Helian as they headed towards the sofa.

As they talked, they both looked towards Ji Chicheng and were taken aback by the expression on his face.

They also noticed the phone in Ji Chicheng’s hand at the same time. Qi Helian recognized it as his own, frowned in confusion for a moment, stepped forward, snatched the phone, and glanced at the screen.

His face also stiffened, "Isn’t this..."

He recognized the foreign man in the photo and started to speak, but then, considering Ji Chicheng, he held his words back.

The gloomy look on Ji Chicheng’s face deepened, and he radiated an intimidating aura. Although Qi Helian knew he was usually very rational, he decided to try and console him after some thought, "Hey, she’s signed with a film and television company now, this kind of socializing is normal..."

For an ordinary artist with no backing, it’s really not unusual at all—to dine, accompany drinks, which female artist hasn’t done so?

Otherwise, where would the so-called ’hidden rules’ come from.

As he said this, his own heart began to ache first. He looked down at the phone screen in his hand, his fingers tightening.

She didn’t need to go through all this; she could have avoided it all.

Didn’t they agree that if one day she couldn’t make it in the industry, she would come to him?

"Heh... really?" Ji Chicheng sneered, his tone colder than his face.

Qi Helian grew fearful, "Chicheng, I think you should understand her better than I do. She suddenly broke up with you and left the Ji Family; she must have had her reasons."

"I used to think so."

Ji Chicheng said coldly, as if he was talking both to Qi Helian and to himself.

After speaking, he stepped past Qi Helian.

"Chicheng..."

"Chicheng..."

Seeing Ji Chicheng about to leave, Qi Helian and Xiang Yiqing called out to him in unison, but he paid them no attention.

His aloof figure appeared so indifferent.

...

Early the next morning, Ji Anning was roused by the persistent ringing of the doorbell.

The only person who had ever come here was Wang Zhuoling. When she opened the door, just as she expected, it was Wang Zhuoling.

Wang Zhuoling looked at Ji Anning, who had not yet fully awakened, with a deep gaze and furrowed brows.

Ji Anning felt a bit uneasy under her stare. She arched her eyebrows lightly, "Sister Wang?"

"I think your path to stardom may not be so easy."

Wang Zhuoling retracted her gaze, walked into the house while speaking, and seemed somewhat exhausted.

Ji Anning followed her, asking with confusion, "What happened?"

"The short film ’In the Name of Beauty’ that we almost had clinched the other day—they haven’t come to us in the last couple of days. I went to inquire, and they said they’ve signed someone else."

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