Chapter 54: Husband Coming to Visit

The audition was over and the results were going to be announced the next day.

Xia Yanxi had her hand wrapped around Xu Lingwei’s. The two were going to return to their hostel. When they came out of the auditioning hall, Bai Wenxuan came running from behind, calling out to Xia Yanxi before he grabbed hold of her hand.

“Yanxi, I want to have a word with you. Alone.” Bai Wenxuan said.

When the two were headed out, Xia Yanxi was all smiles. Her expression changed immediately, like the storm after the silence, when Bai Wenxuan called her name.

“Young master Bai can say whatever he wants. I do not have the time to waste on you, or be with you alone.”

Bai Wenxuan was taken aback. He did not expect such a blatant rejection. He held himself back, holding back all the rage and pain in him as he spoke, “It’s about the audition…”

Xia Yanxi interjected before he could finish his sentence.

“Bai Wenxuan, are you going to blackmail me with the role? Or perhaps you’re trying to win me back with it. Just stop. Honestly, with beauty alone, I can easily get the role. However!” Xia Yanxi paused, holding up a finger to his face.

“If it has nothing to do with my talents, I will never take up a role that only relied on my beauty!”

She was done talking. She grabbed the stunned Xu Lingwei and ran off before granting a window of opportunity for Bai Wenxuan to say something. Bai Wenxuan gritted his teeth. His hands clenched into fists as the fleeting figure of Xia Yanxi disappeared from his sight.

Gu Yanyan was not far away when the short exchange happened. A smile arched across her face as she took out her phone and began to tap on it with vigor.

“Xia Yanxi is trying to court your fiance. She’s even going as far as trying to offer her body for a role in school. Shiyu, you might want to have a talk with your husband-to-be. Do not let that vixen get what she wants!”

The message was composed and sent to Huo Shiyu. Gu Yanyan smiled happily as she twirled her long hair that draped down to her lower chest. Her eyes glinted with schemes and plots. Of all who had taken part in the audition, the only one that was a threat to her was Xia Yanxi. If Bai Wenxuan were to fail her, the rest will chime in and follow his decision. He was the investor to the movie, and none would be willing to lose him.

***

Qiao Yanli had Song Lin drive past the school and head directly to the woman’s hostel lobby. Alone, he went in and headed to the management office to talk to the manager. According to her, Xia Yanxi had not been in the hostel for more than two weeks.

Her given hostel room was small, but it was more than enough to house a girl. The issued single bed bedsheet was azure blue. Sitting on top of the neatly arranged pillow was an aged cotton doll.

He picked up the doll and played with it. A smile, followed by a light chuckle, was let out. He had not expected a woman of twenty years of age to still own a bedside doll.

***

Xia Yanxi and Xu Lingwei noticed the expensive Bentley parked outside the lobby when they arrived at the hostel. As soon as she saw the make and the number plate, her heart sank before it tightened. If she were right, that would be the same car she had gotten into that eventful night.

“Yanxi? What’s wrong with you?”

Seeing as how colors were fading from her face, Xu Lingwei quickly turned back. She traced her line of sight and saw how the woman was eyeing the car with such a laser-focused pair of eyes.

“Do you know the owner?”

She paced toward the driver. The window of the driver seat was only lowered by two inches. Even so, she saw the driver’s face and could not recognize him.

“No, I don’t.”

Even if she did not know who the driver was, it could be one of Qiao Yanli’s colleagues who was driving the car. Xia Yanxi assumed that her husband was only an assistant CEO and could never afford or even have the privilege to be driven around in a Bentley, an incredibly rare car where only a few were made.

“Heh. Here I am thinking that you have a visitor! I must say, that car sure looks elegant,” Xu Lingwei said.

“I wonder when will we be able to own such a car?” she added as she tried to get closer to the Bentley.

Xia Yanxi scoffed as she pulled her closer and playfully pinched her cheeks.

“If you want, you can always find a rich husband and marry him! You’re so cute and cuddly, I’m sure you can find one easily!”

Xu Lingwei squirmed a little before she freed herself from Xia Yanxi.

“You meanie! Just because you’re already married… Don’t tease me like that… By the way, when will you introduce me to your husband? I want to tell him just how naughty his wife is! How much this lovely wife of his has been bullying me!”