QTMWSFC Chapter 33

As soon as Xia Qingmeng entered the company’s main lobby, this was the chaotic scene she saw.

She honestly didn’t understand why Yin Xinya kept clinging to Xu Xinghe. Apart from a classmate relationship, they had no other relationship. And of course, by now even this layer of a classmate relationship had worn thin.

But Xu Xinghe had told her: don’t go near that crazy woman or you’ll end up unlucky. She had just made some good food today and wanted to bring Xu Xinghe lunch. She had no intention of stirring up trouble. Over the years, she had deliberately practiced her cooking skills and actually found some joy in it.

So Xia Qingmeng actively kept her distance, not wanting to cross paths with Yin Xinya.

When Yin Xinya saw Xia Qingmeng, her eyes turned red with jealousy. She recognized that Xia Qingmeng was wearing the latest T family dress, and the bag in her hand was also a limited edition! Why did this woman have to show up in front of her all dressed up like that? She was doing it on purpose!

“Xia Qingmeng! Don’t be so smug! Do you really think Xu Xinghe really loves you? You’re just a stand-in! You’ll be nothing but my stand-in for your entire life! Do you know who Xu Xinghe’s first love is? It’s me! I am his first love! I am the one he will never forget!” Yin Xinya screamed at her hysterically.

Xia Qingmeng gave her a strange look and decided to ignore her.

One of the security guards blocking Yin Xinya couldn’t stand it anymore and snapped back at her. “Give it a rest. If she really were your stand-in, why would our Chairman Xu give up on you, the original, and insist on marrying a stand-in instead?”

The receptionist silently gave the security guy a thumbs-up. Well said!

Yin Xinya was probably triggered by this and started exposing herself: “Xia Qingmeng! Do you know where those scandals about you came from? They were all posted by me, hahaha! Do you really think Xu Xinghe cares about you? If he did, with the Xu family’s power, how could those scandals have ever come out? He’s been lying to you! He’s a liar through and through!”

Xia Qingmeng’s grip on her lunchbox tightened. Fuming, she slammed the lunchbox down on the front desk. “Watch this for me.”

The receptionist nodded. Then she saw Xia Qingmeng walk up to Yin Xinya, her expression filled with anger. “He has never been a liar! Stop spreading rumors maliciously! Yin Xinya, my patience has its limits!”

“Its limits? Everything I said is the truth! If you don’t believe me, go ask him yourself! Let’s see what he tells you!” Yin Xinya let out two dry hollow laughs, mocking Xia Qingmeng for being too naive.

Xia Qingmeng took a deep breath, tried to calm herself, and stared back at her and replied, “Actually, I’ve known for a long time that you deliberately released those scandals about me. But I should thank you. Otherwise, I wouldn’t have the chance to be with him. Do you know why he agreed to join that variety show with me in the first place?”

How could Yin Xinya bear to hear such words? It struck her right where it hurt. She covered her head and screamed, “Ah, ah, ah!” refusing to listen. She even reached out to push Xia Qingmeng.

Yin Xinya shoved her hard. Caught off guard and off balance, Xia Qingmeng stumbled back two steps.

Everyone around instinctively tensed up.

“Yin Xinya, I suggest you don’t go too far!” Xu Xinghe tightly wrapped his arm around Xia Qingmeng, his expression extremely cold.

Xia Qingmeng looked up at him, a bit surprised. “Why did you come down?”

“I see that you haven’t come up for so long, so I came down to find you.” Xu Xinghe shot a cold glance at Yin Xinya. “I didn’t expect to come down and see this. Miss Yin, do you have nothing better to do today than come to my place and cause trouble again?”

Yin Xinya’s face turned pale. Then she covered her face and wept, sobbing pitifully as if she had suffered some great injustice. “Brother Xu, you used to like me the most, didn’t you? Have you forgotten all of that?”

Xu Xinghe gave her no face at all. “Xiao He, contact the company’s legal department and just call the police. This lady seems to have severe delusions. If she doesn’t care about her own reputation, our company still cares about its image. Look at this scene, what is it supposed to be?”

The young man called “Xiao He” responded crisply and immediately made the call.

Yin Xinya suddenly panicked. “You… you can’t just call the police like that! You can’t do this!”

Xia Qingmeng was no pushover either. She said angrily, “Yin Xinya, this isn’t the first or second time you’ve come here to harass us. We all have evidence. Whether the police were called without cause is for them to decide.”

Xu Xinghe picked up the lunchbox from the front desk and pulled Xia Qingmeng upstairs. Originally, he was still thinking about letting Yin Xinya fend for herself. But since she kept coming to bother him, fine. He’d deal with her once and for all. Sending her away to settle down might be best. Otherwise, it would be really annoying!

Not long after, Yin Xinya was taken away by a group of people in uniform, crying and screaming.

She both regretted it and couldn’t understand. She had just been causing a scene like she always did, so why was she now facing jail time?

It wasn’t until a pile of old and new grievances was stacked against her that Yin Xinya finally realized. She and Xu Xinghe could never go back to the way things were!

She couldn’t help but think back to their school days. Back then, he had crossed an entire teaching building just to deliver notes to her. He would never look at her with that cold expression. In those days, he had even smiled at her gently.

Who was it back then who said that Xu Xinghe had a secret crush on her?

She could no longer remember. But that belief had taken root in her heart from that moment on and had stayed there until now.

No… perhaps it had changed now.

He personally sent her in, and she finally woke up. He no longer liked her. Perhaps he had never liked her, even in their school days. She had just been deluding herself all along.

As for how Yin Xinya fared, Xu Xinghe didn’t care. He was currently eating. The food his wife had brought was simply delicious!

Xia Qingmeng propped her chin on her hand and watched him eat, her sparkling eyes curving into crescent moons. “How’s my cooking now? Pretty good, right?”

Xu Xinghe immediately gave his approval. “Yes! Very delicious! But you don’t have to learn it specifically. There are people at home who cook.”

Xia Qingmeng just smiled cheerfully. “I want to! I find cooking really fun now. Le Le and Yao Yao also like the food I make!”

Xu Xinghe teased her, “They’re still so young. Do they even know what tastes good?”

Xia Qingmeng pouted. “You’re trying to bring me down on purpose!”

“No, no, it really is delicious,” Xu Xinghe quickly denied. Xia Qingmeng’s cooking now was completely incomparable to the period when she only knew how to make diet meals.

“By the way, have Le Le and Yao Yao been good at home recently? Do they still trouble you often?” Xu Xinghe didn’t believe for a second that those two little ones behaved all the time. They always loved to disturb him late at night and destroy his and Qingmeng’s married life.

Xia Qingmeng covered her mouth and giggled softly. “I think they’ve been quite good. They’re not too noisy. By the way, I recently took on a new script.”

“Where will it be filmed?” Xu Xinghe perked up.

“Hmm… we might have to be apart for a while…” Xia Qingmeng leaned closer and gave him a kiss as compensation.

“That’s simple. You’ll have to work a little harder these next few nights to ease my longing,” Xu Xinghe said with a wicked smile and kissed her back.

Xia Qingmeng: I only wanted to bring him lunch. In the end, I became the lunch instead…

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In this life, Xia Qingmeng achieved her dreams of winning both Best Actress and Best TV Actress. She continued to act at a pace of one to two projects per year, never stopping her career.

Later, she gradually retired from acting and moved behind the camera. She personally directed many films that received widespread praise. Although one person’s strength was limited, she wanted to do her best to change the overly impetuous film and television industry, even just a little.

Xu Xinghe led the Xu Group to collaborate with the country many times and made outstanding contributions to both technological development and society as a whole.

Although Chu Xiuwen had seized control of the Chu Corporation, the early internal conflicts had been severe, causing him to miss the best time for development. The Chu Corporation was no longer comparable to the Xu Corporation. No matter how much effort Chu Xiuwen poured in, he could never catch up for the rest of his life.

Without the so-called female lead’s halo and luck to support her, Yin Xinya was merely an extremely ordinary person. When she finally finished serving her sentence and saw the light of day again, passing by the Xu Group’s skyscraper, she could only lower her head and slip away, terrified that someone there would recognize her.

As Xia Qingmeng and Xu Xinghe grew older, they handed over their work to their two children and went off to travel and enjoy mountains and rivers.

Due to old injuries from her early acting days, Xia Qingmeng passed away before Xu Xinghe. She didn’t want to lie in a cold hospital bed. She preferred to sit in the small garden she had carefully tended and leave this world under the warm sun.

Xu Xinghe agreed to her request.

Xia Qingmeng left with a smile. She said that in this lifetime, meeting Xu Xinghe was the greatest luck of her life.

The moment she stopped breathing, Xu Xinghe called out to 0250 and left this small world.

Even though their two children were no longer young, seeing their parents holding each other as they fell into eternal slumber, they couldn’t help but cry their hearts out.

But they knew their parents were happy…