Chapter 281: Hua Wenyin
Translator: Dragon Boat Translation
Editor: Dragon Boat Translation
Xie Yunzhou returned to his room and sat in front of his desk, deep in thought.
He didn’t hear wrongly. The foreigner called out ‘Hua Wenyin’ to Shi Xi just now.
Hua Wenyin was President Hua’s daughter. How could the foreigner call her wrongly?
Xie Yunzhou vaguely felt that there was something…
His cell phone suddenly rang, interrupting Xie Yunzhou’s train of thought.
It was a work call.
Xie Yunzhou threw himself into his work and temporarily put this matter on hold.
..
In the afternoon.
Shi Xi was sound asleep when Tao Yuxuan called out to her.
“What’s the matter?” Shi Xi sat up and yawned. “The door isn’t locked. Come in.”
Ever since she had trouble with her legs, Shi Xi rarely locked the door.
Tao Yuxuan was dressed in a flamboyant manner and was dazzling. She pushed the door open and entered. The light on her body seemed to be even more dazzling than the lights. “Since we have nothing to do, let’s go to the fourth floor to have tea!”
Shi Xi covered her head with the blanket and said, “I’m not going. I want to continue sleeping.”
Tao Yuxuan pulled up Shi Xi’s blanket. “You’ve slept too much in the afternoon. You won’t be able to sleep at night. Come and have tea with me~~~”
“Afternoon tea is the royal black tea and royal dim sum of A Country. They are all top-notch tea artists and desserts that Leng Qiankun poached from the royal family of A Country!”
Shi Xi sat up. “Is it good?”
Tao Yuxuan paused and said, “The last time I came here, I was on a diet and didn’t eat a bite.”
Shi Xi hesitated.
“But I think the royal food must be delicious,” Tao Yuxuan said.
Shi Xi thought about it and agreed. She stood up and said, “Then let’s go take a look.”
When Tao Yuxuan pushed Shi Xi into the fourth floor, she deliberately waited at the door to touch up her makeup.
Shi Xi: “…You’re here to meet that prince of the royal family, right?”
Seeing that Tao Yuxuan was dressed so solemnly and even carried her favorite bag, Shi Xi knew that Tao Yuxuan was definitely not just here for afternoon tea.
Tao Yuxuan chuckled. “It’s normal to be a little curious about the crown prince of another country!”
“He’s a prince, he doesn’t have political power,” Shi Xi corrected her.
“It’s almost the same, almost the same,” Tao Yuxuan said perfunctorily.
“It’s almost the same, you should read fewer novels!”
But with that said, Shi Xi also wanted to meet this prince of the royal family.
The appearance of the people of the royal family should not be bad.
After pushing the door open and entering, the two saw that the restaurant was full of people. Each of them was dressed in resplendent and dazzling clothes.
Tao Yuxuan was surprised. She deliberately left and looked at the signboard outside.
It was indeed a VIP restaurant!
Why were there so many people?
There were two restaurants on the cruise ship. One was an ordinary restaurant and the other was a VIP restaurant. VIP guests were free to enter the restaurant.
However, ordinary tourists could only enter an ordinary restaurant. If they wanted to enter the VIP restaurant, they would have to pay extra.
Looking at the situation before them, other than the VIP guests, the ordinary tourists had also come up.
Looking at half of the foreigners inside, Tao Yuxuan said speechlessly, “Who among them is the prince?”
Shi Xi said, “It seems that they all heard that the prince is here, so they came to meet him.”
After all, they had specially introduced something like the ‘royal afternoon tea’ today.
Shi Xi thought to herself, this Leng Qiankun really knew how to make money.
“Then what should we do? There’s no place to sit.” Tao Yuxuan swept her gaze around and realized that there were still people waiting in line.
“Let’s go to the ordinary restaurant downstairs,” Shi Xi said.
Tao Yuxuan said weakly, “What are we going there for?”
Shi Xi said, “We’re already here. Aren’t we going to eat something?”
“I’m not going to eat, I’m not hungry.” Tao Yuxuan, who had rushed over excitedly for afternoon tea, had already turned into a frosted eggplant.
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Chapter 282: You Like Fishing? Why Haven’t I Heard of It Before?
Translator: Dragon Boat Translation
Editor: Dragon Boat Translation
Shi Xi: “Then I’ll go eat by myself?”
She was really hungry.
Tao Yuxuan wheeled Shi Xi’s wheelchair and sighed, “I’ll accompany you.”
The guests had all gone to the VIP restaurant on the fourth floor, so the ordinary restaurant on the third floor seemed much more empty.
Shi Xi picked a seat by the window and said, “Two cups of milk tea, one serving of tiramisu and mousse cake, and one serving of pudding.”
Tao Yuxuan said, “I have no appetite.”
Shi Xi said, “Don’t worry, I can finish them all.”
Tao Yuxuan leaned on the table and asked, “Xi Xi, do you really think that the prince of the royal family will be on this cruise ship?”
“Hmm?” Shi Xi flipped through the cruise ship index on the table and looked up in confusion.
“Could it be that Leng Qiankun just released a smoke bomb and wants to sell his royal afternoon tea?” Tao Yuxuan had already tried to figure out Leng Qiankun’s intentions from a business perspective.
It had to be said that she had made great progress.
Shi Xi smiled and said, “Then why don’t you just ask Leng Qiankun directly?”
“He might lie to me too!” Tao Yuxuan looked at Shi Xi and urged, “Ask Leng Qiankun for a photo of the royal prince! With the photo, it will be easier to find them!”
Shi Xi was still looking at the introduction of the cruise ship and said, “Why don’t you ask him?”
Tao Yuxuan said coquettishly, “He likes you, so he will definitely listen to everything you say! He doesn’t like.”
Shi Xi said, “It’s precisely because he likes me that I can’t ask him for help so righteously.”
Coincidentally, the waiter brought the dishes up, and Shi Xi said, “Drink your afternoon tea properly. Don’t mention this again!”
Tao Yuxuan zipped up her mouth.
Shi Xi drank a mouthful of milk tea and scooped up some pudding.
Although it was an ordinary restaurant, the food it made was very delicious.
“Are you really not eating?” Shi Xi asked when she saw that Tao Yuxuan was not moving.
Tao Yuxuan zipped up her mouth and started eating the mousse cake.
“The prince is upstairs, drinking royal black tea and eating royal desserts.” Tao Yuxuan looked at the dishes in front of her and said helplessly, “We can only drink milk tea and eat pudding.”
“It’s already good enough to have some to eat,” Shi Xi said.
“Maybe the prince is also drinking milk tea and eating pudding!” a cheerful voice interrupted.
The two looked toward the source of the voice.
The foreign man who spoke had blond hair and blue eyes. He had been sitting by the side, quietly drinking milk tea.
Tao Yuxuan looked up and down at this foreigner. He was wearing an ordinary white short-sleeved shirt, loose pants, and gray slippers. It was obvious that he was an ordinary tourist.
“He’s a prince. Why would he eat these?” Tao Yuxuan guessed. “There are so many people upstairs. He might be in his room and doesn’t dare to come out.”
Ryan thought to himself. He had indeed been hiding in his room in the morning and did not dare to come out.
Shi Xi looked at the introduction on the cruise book and said, “I see that there are places for fishing on the cruise. Let’s go fishing later.”
Tao Yuxuan was slightly surprised. “You like fishing? Why haven’t I heard of it before?”
Shi Xi smiled. “Because my legs used to be fine and I could jump up and down.”
Now, she could only sit. Other than fishing on the cruise ship, there was nothing else that was suitable for her.
“Fishing on the cruise ship feels pretty good.” Tao Yuxuan immediately began to imagine. “If we can catch lobsters, we can take them directly to the kitchen and have them cook for us.”
Shi Xi: “…”
Tao Yuxuan glanced at Shi Xi and remembered that she was allergic to seafood, so she said, “Cook them for me.”
“We might not be able to catch them. Let’s go take a look.” Shi Xi put down the milk tea cup.
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Chapter 283: Then Your Skills Are Not Good Enough
Translator: Dragon Boat Translation
Editor: Dragon Boat Translation
When the two of them reached the fishing area, they realized that they were not fishing in the sea.
Instead, there was a large fish tank with a fishing rod outside.
Shi Xi: “…”
Tao Yuxuan: “…”
“Since we’re already here, let’s try fishing.” Shi Xi took a fishing rod and realized that there was no hook on the other end of the fishing line. “Hm? Is this fishing rod broken?”
“No, it’s meant to be like this.” A staff member at the side said, “Just use the fishing line to tie the bait.”
“If that’s the case, the fish will eat the bait and run away. You won’t be able to catch the fish,” Shi Xi said.
The staff member said, “It’s possible.”
Tao Yuxuan asked while tying the bait, “What if you can’t catch the fish?”
The staff member replied, “Then it’s because your skills aren’t good enough.”
Tao Yuxuan: “…”
However, the two of them just wanted to find a place to sit down, so they put the bait in and looked at the fish in the tank to see when they would take the bait.
Tao Yuxuan stared at her bait. Just as it was about to be bitten by the fish, a voice suddenly sounded.
“What a coincidence, we ran into you again.”
The fish was scared away and hid in the coral at the bottom of the fish tank, refusing to come out.
Tao Yuxuan looked at the instigator and recognized him as the foreigner who had hit on her in the restaurant. She said, “You heard that we were coming to fish, so you followed us on purpose, right?”
Ryan scratched his head. “There are too many people in other places.”
They all wanted to run into the prince of the royal family by chance.
Moreover, he had heard that the two of them wanted to meet the prince of the royal family, so he had allowed them to pay their respects properly.
He did not expect Tao Yuxuan to be so disrespectful to him.
Ryan looked at Shi Xi.
Shi Xi probed, “Hello? Do you want to fish?”
Ryan took the fishing rod from Shi Xi’s hand.
Tao Yuxuan said lazily, “Don’t bother trying to strike up a conversation. My heart is only for the prince.”
Shi Xi: “You said earlier that you came here to find a suitable marriage partner.”
Tao Yuxuan was at a loss for words.
“By the way, my name is Ryan.” After Ryan introduced himself, he asked, “You are Shi Xi, right?”
Shi Xi smiled faintly. “Yes, it’s me. I didn’t expect you to know me.”
She was too popular.
Ryan smiled and said, “Beautiful looks are popular throughout the world.”
“She’s not something you can dream of.” Tao Yuxuan interrupted, “Xi Xi, let’s change to another place to play.”
From Tao Yuxuan’s point of view, someone had interrupted their free time.
Shi Xi did not have the ability to say no.
She was in a wheelchair. Wherever Tao Yuxuan pushed her, she would go.
“Let’s go to the chess room on the second floor and play some mahjong,” Tao Yuxuan suggested.
“Ah? I don’t know how to do that,” Shi Xi whispered. “It’s not good to gamble, right?”
“Don’t worry. It’s just entertainment. It’s very small,” Tao Yuxuan whispered. “Or we can go sing. There’s an entertainment room below.”
Shi Xi nodded. “Alright.”
Tao Yuxuan pushed Shi Xi down. She suddenly felt as if she had reached the second floor, or as if she had gone down another floor?
However, they were already approaching the entertainment room.
Just as they were about to enter, the black-shirted bodyguard at the door stopped them.
“Sorry, this place is not open to the public.”
Tao Yuxuan smiled disdainfully and said arrogantly, “We are VIP guests. Why can’t we enter? Move aside!”
Shi Xi: “…”
This friend of hers had a bad temper.
Shi Xi took out her room card and said with a smile, “Hello, we are tourists who live on the sixth floor.”
The bodyguard in black hesitated for a moment and said, “Please come in.”
Just as Tao Yuxuan was about to push Shi Xi in, a foreigner came out from inside.
It was the foreigner that Shi Xi had bumped into earlier.
“Wait.”
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Chapter 284: Keep An Eye On Our Actions
Translator: Dragon Boat Translation
Editor: Dragon Boat Translation
“Wait a minute,” Shi Xi said to Tao Yuxuan, “I’m suddenly a little hungry. Let’s go upstairs and eat something.”
Tao Yuxuan was surprised. “Didn’t you just finish a cake, five pudding, and a cup of milk tea?”
Shi Xi: “…I’m hungry again.”
Tao Yuxuan was a little confused, but she still pushed Shi Xi back. “You have quite a big appetite now.”
The foreigner who came out of the room walked in the same direction as the two of them. He kept staring at Shi Xi’s face and looked at it carefully, looking a little puzzled.
Shi Xi asked, “You know me?”
The foreigner was about forty years old and looked ordinary. He smiled and said, “You look very similar to a friend of mine.”
Tao Yuxuan was speechless. “Uncle, how old are you? Why are you still trying to hit on a little girl?”
The foreigner looked at Shi Xi and said seriously, “…You two really look alike.”
“Foreigners look at us easterners like this,” Tao Yuxuan said. “I see that you foreigners look similar too.”
“My name is Keane,” Keane said with a smile. “Shall we go eat something together?”
He had heard the two of them say that they were going to eat.
Shi Xi declined politely. “Sorry, we’re not hungry. We’re not going to the restaurant.”
Keane: ???
Tao Yuxuan also decided to stay away from this strange uncle. She pushed Shi Xi to the deck and whispered, “Eh? This is only the first floor? Then we were on the lower first floor just now?”
“Yeah, that’s the casino on the cruise ship, so I told you not to go in,” Shi Xi said in a low voice. “The foreigner we met just now has a gun on his waist.”
Tao Yuxuan was silent for a moment before she said, “I said he’s old. He won’t be angry, right?”
Shi Xi said, “If he’s angry, so be it. We won’t see him again anyway.”
Tao Yuxuan: “…”
The two of them were drinking tea on the deck.
Not long after, Leng Qiankun came over to accompany the two of them.
“I’m sorry. There are some things that need to be dealt with. I’ve neglected the two distinguished guests,” Leng Qiankun apologized and sat next to the two of them.
Tao Yuxuan looked at her fingernails and said, “Since you’ve neglected us, how are you going to compensate us?”
Leng Qiankun clapped his hands.
The waiter immediately brought over a dessert rack with beautiful and exquisite donuts and cream cakes on it.
Then, he poured the two of them a rich and fragrant royal black tea.
“I heard that you went to the restaurant and afternoon tea just now and couldn’t find a seat. I specially prepared a serving for you,” Leng Qiankun said.
“You’ve been watching our movements.” Shi Xi picked up a donut.
Leng Qiankun explained, “Your legs aren’t convenient, so I asked the crew to take care of you.”
Tao Yuxuan said, “He meant well.”
“I heard that you met a foreign man with a gun?” Leng Qiankun asked.
Shi Xi nodded. “I saw him just now. He should have gone to the restaurant.”
“Before he boarded the ship, he was checked. He’s not allowed to bring any dangerous goods.” Leng Qiankun frowned and took out his phone. “I’ll get someone to check on him right away.”
Tao Yuxuan looked at Shi Xi. “Could it be that you made a mistake? That foreign uncle looks ordinary. He doesn’t look like he has a gun.”
Shi Xi: “There’s no way I could be wrong.”
Leng Qiankun nodded. “The Prince of A Country is also on the cruise ship. I should be more careful.”
Speaking of the prince…
Tao Yuxuan whispered, “Where is that whatever prince? Bring him out so that we can meet him!”
Leng Qiankun said, “He will appear at the banquet tonight.”
“Tsk, do you really think that you are a prince and want to hold a banquet to select a bride?” Tao Yuxuan said disdainfully.
Shi Xi corrected her, “He is a prince to begin with.”
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Chapter 285: Beauty Trap
Translator: Dragon Boat Translation
Editor: Dragon Boat Translation
According to Leng Qiankun, the prince would ask the girl he liked to dance at the banquet.
“Cinderella in real life?” Tao Yuxuan asked, “Will she marry him and become the princess consort?”
“It’s just for fun. How can it be settled so easily?” Shi Xi held her chin. “Do I have to attend the banquet tonight?”
“Come with me!” Tao Yuxuan said to Shi Xi. “I’ll push you!”
Shi Xi: …She was in an electric wheelchair. She didn’t need to be pushed!
“There will be a few small events at the banquet. There will be gifts. If you like it, you can join in the fun.” Leng Qiankun smiled. “Pretty girls are welcome at the banquet.”
Although it was a compliment, Leng Qiankun only looked at Shi Xi.
Shi Xi did not notice it at all.
She only felt that the wind on the deck was too noisy.
Shi Xi hugged her shoulders. “It’s a little cold. I’ll go back first.”
“I’ll send you back.” Tao Yu stood up and pushed Shi Xi’s wheelchair.
Leng Qiankun stayed on the deck.
When Shi Xi went up the stairs, she saw Leng Qiankun walking to the bow of the ship to chat with Ryan.
They knew each other?
Doubts flashed across Shi Xi’s mind.
In just a second, Shi Xi did not probe further.
So what if they knew each other? What did it have to do with her?
*
When she returned to her room, Shi Xi received a call from Director Yan.
“Shi Xi.” Director Yan’s voice was very calm. “You can stand on one leg now, right?”
Shi Xi stood up on one leg, picked up the water bottle on the table, and said, “Yes, why?”
Director Yan said, “The scenes for you have been changed. As long as you can stand, you can continue filming. If there are martial arts scenes, you can use a stunt double. How about that?”
Shi Xi gulped down half a bottle of water and said, “I don’t have any problems, but I’m going to join the crew next month.”
“You can ask my manager, Han Chuan, to see if he agrees.”
Director Yan said, “Han Chuan said that as long as you agree to come back, he can make your other show start later.”
Shi Xi: ?!
Even this could work?
Shi Xi hesitated.
Director Yan threw out another temptation. “As long as you come back, I’ll add more scenes for you.”
“This isn’t a question of adding more scenes–”
“Add love scenes with Chu Yuan,” Director Yan added.
Chu Yuan, who was beside Director Yan, gave him a sidelong glance.
Shi Xi didn’t say anything.
It was a love scene with Chu Yuan!
“Director Yan, I don’t have that kind of intention toward Senior Chu Yuan,” Shi Xi returned to her senses and said righteously.
Director Yan said, “I’ll let you and Chu Yuan sing the ending song of the album.”
Shi Xi asked, “Whose ending song was it originally?”
“It was originally yours alone.” Director Yan looked at Chu Yuan beside him and said, “I’ll change it to a two-person song for you. I’ll also shoot a music video for you guys.”
Director Yan was ready to carry out his beauty trap.
Chu Yuan had nothing to say.
“There’s no need. It’s my solo song. I can sing it myself.” Shi Xi closed the bottle cap and said, “I promise to go back. I’m still outside today. Wait for me to return to the production team tomorrow afternoon.”
Director Yan heaved a sigh of relief. “Okay, I’ll get Chu Yuan to pick you up tomorrow afternoon. I’ll bring you straight to dinner before you return to the production team.”
Shi Xi: ???
“Director Yan, I really don’t have any improper thoughts toward Senior Chu Yuan!” Shi Xi tried her best to explain.
She only felt that Chu Yuan’s handsome acting skills were good and his personality was gentle.
“It’s fine. He’s fine on the production team anyway,” Director Yan said with disdain.
Chu Yuan: ??!
He was the male lead after all, a three-time Best Actor.
But now, he had to be reduced to the driver of a second-rate starlet.
And he was despised by the director.
Shi Xi: “Okay, then I’ll thank Senior Chu Yuan in advance.”