Just Want to Look at You.
When Qi Song came out of the audition room, the gazes of all the waiting people outside swept over with a swish, trying to probe the audition results from her expression.
Only Yu Luo was completely unaware, still staring at her phone screen, lost in thought.
“Jiejie?”
Qi Song moved close to Yu Luo’s side and took her hand.
She felt that Yu Luo’s palm was a bit cold, and had even broken out in a thin layer of cold sweat.
Lowering her gaze to follow Yu Luo’s line of sight, she saw that her phone screen was displaying a news story about a smuggling case concerning the 「Pheromone Scent-Inducing Factor」.
This scent-inducing factor could fundamentally change a person’s pheromone scent, and before it was regulated, it had been used by some people who were dissatisfied with their own pheromone scent.
But because it causes various kinds of harm to the human body, and because this substance has not yet been thoroughly researched with existing scientific technology, it was ultimately classified as a prohibited drug in the country. Currently, this smuggling chain in the news has been strictly tracked down and sealed off.
Before Qi Song could ponder it further, Yu Luo had already come back to her senses. She casually exited the news page on her phone, turned off the screen, and raised her head to say to Qi Song with a normal expression:
“Is it over? Then let’s go home, okay?”
She looked as if she had just been inadvertently lost in thought a moment ago.
Qi Song paused slightly, looked at Yu Luo carefully for a few moments, and only after confirming that nothing was wrong with her did she take her hand and lead her outside.
“Why are your hands covered in cold sweat?” She wrapped Yu Luo’s hand in her palm to warm it. “Could it be that the sickness from a few days ago hasn’t completely healed yet.”
“Maybe the window in the waiting room wasn’t closed, and the wind was a bit strong,” Yu Luo explained.
Hearing this, Qi Song’s heart was slightly put at ease.
She first put her own hat on Yu Luo, then moved from Yu Luo’s left side to stand on her right, shielding the woman from the biting autumn wind blowing from outside.
“Is Jiejie not curious about my audition result at all?” she asked casually.
Yu Luo slowly curved her lips: “Looking at you, I can tell the result wasn’t bad.”
Qi Song blinked.
How did Yu Luo tell? She clearly felt that her face was a picture of calm, and when she came out from the audition just now, the people in the waiting room should not have been able to get any information from her expression either.
As if seeing through her thoughts, Yu Luo said unhurriedly: “On the surface, you’re steady and stable, but in reality, the little puppy tail is already wagging smugly.”
“……” Qi Song let out a light laugh and took the opportunity to share, “Director Li said it’s me.”
As she said this, a hint of profound meaning flashed through her eyes.
Just now, after she finished performing in the audition room, Director Li said to her bluntly:
“Xiao Qi, the last time you came to interview, it was as if you had changed souls. Your spiritual energy was dim, and your whole person was a bit wooden. But in today’s performance, you seem to have found that feeling from when you filmed your debut work again. I am very much looking forward to collaborating with you and hope you can continue to maintain this state.”
After a pause, she teased: “Could it be because of the nourishment of love, perhaps? I watched the variety show you two participated in; the baby is very cute, you know.”
This statement stirred a strange feeling in Qi Song’s heart.
Was it because everything had gone wrong for her in the past two years and she was destitute, to the point that her spiritual energy was depleted, giving Director Li the illusion that she had 「changed souls」, or was there another reason?
Unable to think of an answer for the time being, Qi Song placed this matter in the bottom of her heart.
“Speaking of which, this is the second time you and Li Zhen1 have competed for a role from Director Li,” Yu Luo said. “Since Director Li has already decided on you, then he has been defeated again.”
She said slowly: “When recording the next episode of the variety show, he probably won’t be able to force a fake smile at you anymore.”
Qi Song remembered that Yu Luo had said before that Li Zhen bullied her; perhaps it was related to the competition for the first audition.
She said casually: “Li Zhen came to audition too?”
“He was sitting not far from me just now,” Yu Luo said. “A crowd of Omegas were surrounding him, being extremely ostentatious. You didn’t see?”
Qi Song said as if it were a matter of course: “I only look at you; I can’t even be bothered to pay attention to the surroundings.”
Yu Luo lightly raised an eyebrow and asked, knowing the answer: “Is that so?”
Qi Song sincerely nodded her head: “Because I just want to look at you.”
After a few seconds of silence, Yu Luo replied nonchalantly: “Oh, got it.”
“Such a nonchalant appearance.” Qi Song huffed a laugh, reached out to hug her from behind, and nuzzled her shoulder. “You clearly like it that my eyes only have you in them, that I only think of you wherever I go. On the surface, your mouth says 「got it」 to me, but what you actually want to say is 「you have to be like this next time, too」.”
Being thoroughly exposed, Yu Luo’s cheeks grew slightly hot, but the tone in her clear and cold voice was still calm:
“Qi Song, you were supposed to only look at me in the first place.”
She was not greedy for love; she only needed one portion. But this portion had to be sincere and passionate enough, enough to burn away all the insecurity in her heart. It had to be unreserved favoritism, an always-unwavering choice, to have a heart and eyes full of only her, to be absolutely loyal.
One bit less was not enough.
And Qi Song loved her just like this, and what she presented to her was even more intense than that, for several years as if it were a single day.
Therefore, she spoke as if it were a matter of course, speaking with calm composure. Just like a master who has tamed and raised a puppy, she had a natural confidence and sense of security in the other’s obedience.
Qi Song paused slightly, then slowly began to smile.
She hugged the person a little tighter, and said willingly and obediently: “Everything Jiejie says is right.”
In the bleak autumn wind, the two of them walked a few steps clingingly and then stopped for a while, to the extent that Li Zhen, who was in line behind them, had already finished his audition and come out of the building.
He was surrounded by a group of 「staff members」, but these 「staff members」 were, without exception, handsome young male Omegas.
After walking past the corner, he saw the two people stuck together up ahead and sneered disdainfully.
“Their child is already so old, and they still aren’t sick of it… Who are they acting for? I don’t believe these two don’t have their own fun on the side.”
As he spoke, his hand kneaded the waist of a certain 「staff member」 beside him a couple of times.
After finishing the audition just now, Director Li did not seem very satisfied with him; his expression was indifferent, and he couldn’t be bothered to say more than a few words.
Thinking of this, he became even more annoyed in his heart and walked towards the car with the group of male Omegas, “Let’s go play something stimulating tonight…”
This place was Li He’s company, which had always had excellent privacy, with layers of security for entry and exit. Therefore, Li Zhen did not notice the two dark figures holding cameras who were always following not far behind him.
“You dare touch my Omega.” One of the dark figures spat hatefully, “You’re finished.”
The weather was getting colder and colder. As late autumn approached, the nighttime temperature in B City had already dropped to three or four degrees.
The fifth episode of 《Happy Moments》 would be recorded at a hot spring villa in the suburbs of B City.
On the way to the recording location, it happened to be when the second episode of the show was airing. The production team specially arranged for it to be played on the in-car screen to record the guests’ reactions as they watched.
Qi Song was a little unwilling to watch.
When recording the second episode, she was busy eating her own vinegar2, and also busy eating Tang Yu’s vinegar, and furthermore, had not yet realized her feelings for Yu Luo.
Her whole person had soured into a foolish and unbearable lemon.
Seeing herself on the screen being tit-for-tat with Tang Yu, appearing extremely amusing under the production team’s editing techniques, to the point that Yu Luo’s eyes and brows curved as she watched.
Seeing the bullet comments floating by filled with mocking laughter taking pleasure in her misfortune.
The past was not something she could bear to look back on. Qi Song silently shifted her gaze to the window, pretending her back was sore and her legs were weak, busy resting.
“Hurry up and come watch with me.” Yu Luo did not let her go, beckoning to her with a finger, a faint smile on her face. “Wife.”
Qi Song paused slightly.
Ever since she had come to terms with her own feelings, the two’s interactions had rapidly warmed up, already returning to the feeling of when they were in love before.
And the word 「Wife」 had once symbolized and emphasized that contractual relationship of pretending to be a wife-wife couple. Thus, during this recent period, they had almost never called each other by this title on the show.
But at this very moment, Qi Song’s heartbeat suddenly accelerated at those two long-unheard words.
Instantly, her back was no longer sore, her legs were no longer weak, and she was no longer avoiding it; she obediently moved closer to watch the variety show with Yu Luo.
“Wife.” She leaned on Yu Luo’s shoulder and called out softly.
Lowering her gaze to see the smile lifting the corners of Qi Song’s lips, a gentle and soft light rippled in Yu Luo’s eyes as she made a “Mm” sound.
The instant Yu Luo responded, Qi Song’s thoughts drifted to how she should propose, where to go for their honeymoon after getting married, where to settle down and live in retirement after growing old, and where to be buried together after death.
For many of these questions, she almost didn’t need to think much, as the answers naturally emerged in her mind.
Numerous details surged forth, so specific it was as if she had seriously thought about and planned them, or had even personally experienced them—just as if she had really had a perfect marriage with Yu Luo.
Qi Song’s thoughts diverged, and her heart filled with warmth from her thinking. When she came back to her senses, her gaze happened to meet that of her own self from the second episode on the screen in front of them, and she couldn’t help but be slightly stunned.
The hot blood in her heart instantly turned cold.
This fool who couldn’t even see her own heart clearly for half the day still wants to marry Jiejie?
After arriving at the hot spring villa, the production team had everyone change their clothes first, and then go soak in the hot springs together to drive away the chill.
Just as Yu Luo had said, with the ill feeling from being defeated again at the audition yesterday in his heart, Li Zhen couldn’t even keep up the pretense anymore.
When meeting and greeting the guests, he 「unintentionally」 skipped over Qi Song’s family.
After changing clothes, and since it wasn’t time yet, Li Zhen went to a corner to call his agent to discuss whether to fight for a 「friendly guest appearance」 in Director Li’s new drama.
“To put it nicely, it’s a friendly guest appearance; to put it bluntly, it’s playing a supporting role3 for Qi Song,” Li Zhen said angrily. “I, a newly-crowned Film Emperor, need to condescend4 like this?”
Although he said that, both he and his agent knew perfectly well—the film festival that had earned him the title of Film Emperor had very low value and recognition, and it was only because another actor had withdrawn from the list of candidates at the last minute that he had been lucky enough to be chosen.
Catching sight of Qi Song passing by out of the corner of his eye, as indignation filled Li Zhen’s heart, he couldn’t help but say in a low, insinuating voice: “Some people are glamorous on the surface, but behind the scenes, who knows if they’ve climbed into the director’s bed. The director is almost fifty, and she still has to serve him with all her might…”
After hanging up the phone, he met Yu Luo’s distant and cold gaze, and his heart couldn’t help but shrink.
Yu Luo nonchalantly withdrew her gaze and said to Qi Song in a voice that was neither loud nor soft: “Some people’s business with Director Jiang, they think no incriminating evidence has fallen into others’ hands, I suppose…”
Hearing this, Li Zhen’s pupils shrank abruptly, and his face turned deathly pale.
He took a few steps closer to Yu Luo, wanting to ask about this clearly, only to see Qi Song step forward to block Yu Luo and say coldly: “Stay away from my Wife, you scared her.”
Coincidentally, a few guests came over from not far away and called out a greeting.
Due to the presence of others, Li Zhen could not conveniently speak with the two of them anymore. But the matter of 「Director Jiang」 that Yu Luo had mentioned churned in his heart, making it difficult for him to be at peace.
His whole person was plunged into a kind of panic.
Yu Luo took everything in with her eyes and, with calm composure, tilted her head and blinked at Qi Song:
“How is this person so easy to trap? At the industry banquet last time, I felt the atmosphere between him and Director Jiang was off. I just bluffed him casually a moment ago, I didn’t expect to actually trick him into revealing he has something going on with Director Jiang.”
That appearance of hers—innocent on the surface, but in reality full of black water5 and waiting to watch a good show—was reflected in Qi Song’s eyes.
Looking at her, she only felt she was extremely cute.
Qi Song smiled, lowered her head to touch Yu Luo’s cheek, and said in a low voice: “Jiejie is so smart.”
After waiting for a moment, the guests arrived one after another.
Xiao Hua’s family was the last to arrive at the designated hot spring pool.
Seeing that everyone was waiting, Xiao Hua said apologetically: “Sorry, everyone, I was delayed by changing clothes just now.”
“Originally, I had planned to dress a bit more conservatively like last time at the seaside,” she lowered her gaze to look at her exposed abdomen and said magnanimously, “but after thinking about it, I felt that there’s nothing wrong with revealing this scar; there’s no need to hide it.”
Once these words were spoken, everyone was stunned for a moment before reacting.
“So you also had a C-section?” Ren Zhi said.
Xiao Hua replied: “That’s right. Jiang-jie too?”
Jiang Yin nodded somewhat shyly.
“So Wife, you see, don’t think the scar is ugly. It’s clearly very great and also very beautiful; there’s no need to always be thinking of hiding it.”
Ren Zhi took the opportunity to say this, as it was evident that Jiang Yin was usually somewhat bothered by that scar.
As they were all families with children, once they started chatting about childbirth, they couldn’t quite stop.
Seeing that Yu Luo’s family had not really participated in this topic, Xiao Hua asked curiously:
“Teacher Yu, did you also have a C-section?”
Qi Song felt a bit of moisture seep out in her hand.
——It wasn’t hers; it was Yu Luo’s palm breaking out in a cold sweat.
Her heart instantly tightened.
Afterwards, she saw Yu Luo nod with a calm and composed expression, “Mm.”
Xiao Hua’s eyes lit up slightly, “What a coincidence.”
For a time, the topic on the scene shifted to the various hardships of C-sections.
“For the scar from my C-section, I ran all over B City,” Xiao Hua said. “The doctors all say it’s impossible to completely remove the scar; at most, you can try to make the mark a little bit lighter.”
Jiang Yin nodded: “That’s right, saying a scar can be completely removed is just a deceptive advertising gimmick.”
Yu Luo did not say a word and did not participate in this discussion.
As her gaze deepened, and it was unknown what she was pondering, Qi Song’s heart beat very fast.
——During their intimate moments in this period of time, she had seen and kissed every part of Yu Luo’s body; she was confident that she knew every inch of the other’s skin.
But Yu Luo’s lower abdomen had no marks at all; it was a stretch of flawless white jade.
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