Chapter 467: Number one paparazzi in Xiahai
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
It was already late at night when Xiao Luo returned to Xingyue Bay after having a simple meal by himself. He placed the box that contained the jade bracelet on his bedside table. He just couldn’t tell what was going on in his heart. Both Su Li and Ji Siying seemed to be in his heart. He was feeling confused as they continued to linger in his heart, and he couldn’t erase the thought of them.
After entering the bathroom, he took off his clothes and showered in cold water. He tried his best to suppress these disturbing emotions he was feeling.
After hearing the sound of the door opening, he turned off the shower, wrapped himself in a bath towel, and walked out. As he exited the bathroom door, he saw Su Li, who happened to be walking into the hall at the exact moment.
The woman was dressed in a light blue lapel tunic dress. As soon as she saw that Xiao Luo was only wrapped up in a bath towel, her face turned red with a look of awkwardness.
“Why are you coming in again without ringing the doorbell at all?” Xiao Luo asked, speechless. It seemed like it was useless reminding her, for no matter how many times he said it, she’d still come in unannounced.
Su Li came back to her senses, calmed herself down, and asked, “Then why don’t you reset the pa.s.sword on the door lock instead?”
“I’m way too lazy to do it,” Xiao Luo replied.
“Well, I’m used to just coming in without ringing the doorbell,” Su Li said.
Not knowing to laugh or to cry, Xiao Luo waved his hands: “Alright, it’s up to you.”
After he said that, he turned around, walked into the kitchen, and poured a gla.s.s of water.
Su Li had a frown on her face. “Aren’t you going to ask me about what is going on?” she asked.
“Nah, I’m too lazy to ask.”
Xiao Luo took a sip of water. Being wrapped in just a bath towel and having a conversation with a woman seemed to be nothing to him at all. He didn’t feel uncomfortable at all and took it for granted. This was his residence, after all. Surely, he could wear whatever he felt like wearing.
After hearing that, Su Li bit her lips angrily. She had an overwhelming urge to rush forward and bite down hard on Xiao Luo’s shoulders.
But eventually, she held back and walked over to pour herself a gla.s.s of water instead, acting as if this was her house as well. After a moment of silence, she said, “The press conference is going to take place tomorrow, do you think this entire situation is going to get better or do you think it is going to become worse?”
Xiao Luo was a little surprised. To think that this woman was asking him for his opinion! It was as if the sun was going to rise from the west.
He thought about it briefly then said, “As long as you can convince and make your fans believe that you’re not married, I’m sure this public relations crisis will naturally go away really quickly.”
Su Li looked at him mockingly with her bright-looking eyes. “All of you people say the exact same thing,” she said.
“Is that not going to be the case?” Xiao Luo said, laughing.
“Maybe, you could all be right.”
Su Li sighed and put the cup down. “Tomorrow, I’ll have to leave Su Xiaobei in your care for the whole afternoon,” she said.
“Alright,” Xiao Luo replied, nodding his head.
Su Li pursed her pink lips and said, “Right, I’m sure you know that Jia Zhengyi has already made a public apology to me on Weibo?”
Xiao Luo avoided eye contact, drank a sip of water, and said, “Hmm, yeah, I just went online and saw it.”
“Why do you think he decided to apologize to me?” Su Li asked.
“It’s not like I am him, there’s no way I would know,” Xiao Luo said, calming himself down.
Su Li furrowed her eyebrows. She agreed with him and wondered why she asked him such a foolish question. It’s not like this guy had anything to do with the reason why Jia Zhengyi decided to make a public apology, right?
“That’s all then, you rest early, good night!”
Her tone wasn’t too cold, and she left the apartment immediately after saying that.
Good night?
Xiao Luo was amazed. Was this something Su Li would say?
This woman was certainly acting rather odd today. Somehow, she didn’t seem so distant, like she was a thousand miles away. Her behavior was a lot more civil today.
Suddenly, Su Li twisted her leg, struggled to maintain her balance, and was about to fall to the floor.
Xiao Luo reacted in that instant and dashed over like a gust of wind. He held on to her with his right arm around her slender waist. But as he held on to her, the bath towel he wrapped around his waist started slipping off.
It was as if time has slowed down as they both stared at the bath towel as it slowly fell onto the floor.
Her pupils dilated, and with a horrified look on her face, she instantly turned red, screaming and trying to cover her eyes.
Xiao Luo’s face turned red as well, but he handled the matter much better. He coughed a little, trying to appear calm, and said, “What are you screaming for? If it wasn’t for the fact that you slipped and were about to fall, the bath towel wouldn’t have slipped off.”
He only said this to lighten the situation, but it had the reverse effect on Su Li.
“You pervert!”
She started scolding him without any restraint, ignoring her demeanor as a cultured woman.
She then turned around and left in a hurry, feeling so embarra.s.sed that she wished she could find a hole and jump into it.
Oh my G.o.d!
The more she thought about it, the more she cringed, and it drove her crazy. After closing the door, she leaned her back against it. She was panting and in a stupor like a flower deer after experiencing some kind of shock. Her heart started thumping really quickly, and she was almost hyperventilating.
“What the heck are you screaming for? Am I not the one who is naked here?”
Xiao Luo muttered to himself as he walked back, grabbed the bath towel, and wrapped it around his body once again. Then, to be safe on the safe side, he decided to put on his pajamas. G.o.d knows if that woman was going to come in without knocking on the door again.
…
In the middle of the night, Xiao Luo woke up, startled by a phone call.
After taking a look at the incoming call, he noticed it was Su Li.
“What’s the matter?” he asked immediately after picking up the call.
“You better not come to my place for the next couple of days. There is someone secretly taking pictures from the opposite building. If you come to my place, they’ll surely be able to photograph you,” Su Li said.
Xiao Luo furrowed his eyebrows: “Is it the paparazzi?”
“Mm-hmm,” Su Li responded.
“This is an invasion of privacy. I should think the police can take care of it,” Xiao Luo suggested.
“If calling the police is of any use, I would have done it a long time ago. The guy opposite is Zhuo Wei, the number one paparazzi in Xiahai. Their network is really wide, and they have a dark background,” Su Li replied.
“Oh, I see,” Xiao Luo said.
“Don’t come over here for the next few days. If they somehow take a picture of you, the public is going to push you into a corner as well,” Su Li said.
“Okay, I got it.”
After putting down the phone, Xiao Luo got up, changed his clothes, and prepared to leave his house.
He was keen to know just who this number one paparazzi in Xiahai was…
He couldn’t see the other building from his own apartment, but since he had lived in this area for quite some time now, he was quite familiar with the general layout of the entire Xingyue Bay. Photographers could only take pictures of Su Li’s apartment from the office building that was being rented. It was roughly two to three hundred meters away from Xingyue Bay.