Xie Yang found the song that Ge Zhuo was short-listed for this year and listened to it. He said, “He should really be anxious. Just look at the level of this song. Even without me and Xue Xian, he definitely won’t get this year’s award.” 

Qin Cheng found it funny. “Then how do you want to deal with this matter? What if he really buys the prize?”

“Nothing, let him buy it. Then explode that he bought it afterwards, giving him some heat. From now on, start collecting evidence of Ge Zhuo buying the award. If you lack contacts then go to Ji Zehui. He has them.”

Qin Cheng was surprised and asked, “Don’t you want this award? Your shortlisted song is ‘IUD’ and the possibility of winning the award is very high. You might get the best composition in the first year of your debut. Many people don’t even dare to think of this starting point.”

Xie Yang raised his eyebrow and corrected Qin Cheng’s words. “Being the boss of Yang Xing is my starting point. I never paid attention to these things from the beginning. In addition, this year I’m not short of awards.” 

***

At noon, Xie Yang went to Rongding to eat. Halfway through the meal, Feng Qinglin suddenly called. Xie Yang picked up, placed it on speakerphone and asked, “How is it?”

Qiu Xing, who was sitting next to Xie Yang, looked at Xie Yang’s mobile phone and frowned when he saw ‘Feng Qinglin’ flashing on it.

Feng Qinglin’s voice came out. “Where did you get that photograph?” 

“On Weibo. Someone went to M City to travel and ran into Mu Zhouyi.”

“They were really careless.” Feng Qinglin’s tone was unexpectedly calm, with a bit of sarcasm. “The people I found took more detailed photos. They actually stayed in the hotel for a whole day.”

Xie Yang said unceremoniously, “Send me the photos you took.”

“I will give them to you but I hope you don’t publish the photos for now. Feng Qingbai’s fiancée Fang Jia wants to wait to terminate the engagement with Feng Qingbai before revealing the matter.” 

“You got in touch with Fang Jia?”

“Yes, you are right. She is a great ally.”

He was pretty obedient. Xie Yang smiled and hung up at Feng Qinglin’s request.

“Do you get in contact with Qinglin a lot?” 

It was the smell of vinegar.

Xie Yang looked at Qiu Xing. Qiu Xing ignored Xie Yang and drank water. Xie Yang picked up the chopsticks and gave Qiu Xing a piece of candied apple. “Eat more sweets and drink less vinegar. It is better for your health.”

Qiu Xing’s face turned dark and he reached out to angrily press a hand against Xie Yang’s head.

*** 

In the next two days, Qiu Xing avoided Xie Yang’s divorce inquiries with the reasons of ‘too busy’ or ‘not feeling well and don’t want to go out’. On the day that Xie Yang was about to leave, the air pressure around Qiu Xing was low. This didn’t ease until Xie Yang arrived at the airport.

Before getting out of the car, Qiu Xing handed Xie Yang a small bag containing medicine. “Frequent flying to different places will lead to acclimatization symptoms. In the future, you should take less work that requires flying everywhere. Your health is important.”

Xie Yang finally knew why Qiu Xing was in a bad mood no matter how much Xie Yang coaxed him. Xie Yang put away the medicine bag and said, “I will pay attention and promise not to get a high fever again.”

Qiu Xing barely relaxed his eyebrows and touched Xie Yang’s face. Then he suddenly said, “The divorce… we will talk about it when you come back next time.” 

Xie Yang paused before nodding. A few hours later, Xie Yang arrived in W City. Qiu Xing had booked him a presidential suite at a high-end hotel owned by Rongding and sent a driver to pick him up. Xie Yang comfortably arrived at the hotel and started to prepare his styling for tonight’s dinner party.

Qin Cheng told him, “The official awards ceremony will be tomorrow afternoon. Today is the party before the ceremony. There will be many seniors and senior investors in the circle. It is a good time to develop contacts. Ji Zehui and Tong Jian have arrived earlier than you and are staying at another hotel. They will come here to meet you in a while and you will act with them.”

Xie Yang nodded.

“There is also news you might be interested in.” Qin Cheng sat beside Xie Yang and said, “Mu Zhouyi will also attend tonight’s party. She is coming with Yuan Pang.” 

Xie Yang couldn’t help looking over at Qin Cheng and was immediately scolded by the makeup artist. He stopped moving and looked at himself in the makeup mirror as he said, “That is just right. I am curious about the changes in Mu Zhouyi that Shen Yan mentioned.”

He could take the opportunity to try and see what type of effect his ability would have when applied to Mu Zhouyi.

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