There’re Always Paranoid Thoughts to Monopolize Me - Extra 8.2

Qin Yan, who didn’t have such violent emotional fluctuations apart from her unpleasant expression, was left behind. She followed with a vacant gaze for a few steps, suddenly stopped, and turned to look at the girl who hadn’t spoken since Huo Zhonglou entered the hall.

“You… no, what exactly is your relationship with him?”

Qin Ke and Huo Zhonglou’s figures paused simultaneously.

Huo Zhonglou opened his mouth to speak, but saw the girl standing in front of the sofa smile with curved eyes.

“To sum it up…”

She suddenly turned back, without warning bent down, hooked the mask with her hand, and brazenly and loudly kissed Huo Zhonglou on the mouth.

The mask was put back, and the girl straightened up and turned back.

“It’s the kind of relationship you just saw.”

“—I knew you seduced him!”

Qin Yan glared at Qin Ke with red eyes full of unwillingness.

But before she could struggle further, she was “invited” back to her room by the bodyguards.

Qin Ke withdrew her gaze, looking down, and saw the man sitting on the sofa slightly stiff, looking at her with complex and suppressed eyes.

“What’s wrong?”

Qin Ke blinked in confusion, really not understanding the source of this person’s deeply resentful look.

Huo Zhonglou remained silent for a few seconds, then asked in a hoarse voice. “What were you doing just now?”

Qin Ke blinked again.

Only this time, she couldn’t help but smile.

“Hmm…consider it a declaration of ownership?”

“……”

“Not satisfied?”

Qin Ke discovered that the little bit of mischievousness in her bones seemed to have been completely brought out by Huo Zhonglou in this state. She couldn’t help but tease this slightly stiff man with a smile—

“If you’re not satisfied, should I let you kiss me back?”

“…!”

****

The three members of the Qin family signed a debt agreement and were sent back to Qian City, heavily in debt. Without the mess they had created, the Huo family finally quieted down.

As the originally planned wedding date approached, Qin Ke thought she and Huo Zhonglou would naturally replace the original plan and get married, but she didn’t expect…

“Cancelled?”

Qin Ke looked at Huo Jingyan in bewilderment.

Huo Jingyan’s eyes revealed helplessness.

“It was Young Master Zhonglou’s personal decision yesterday.”

“…”

It took Qin Ke more than ten seconds to find her voice again.

“Where is he now?”

At this mention, Huo Jingyan’s gaze flickered.

“Young Master Zhonglou should be across the ocean by now.”

Qin Ke: “…?”

Qin Ke: “Did he run away from the wedding because I scared him??”

Hearing Qin Ke’s joking tone born from extreme anger, Huo Jingyan said helplessly. “Miss Qin Ke, Young Master Zhonglou might just need to make more preparations—after all, you two haven’t known each other for long, getting married immediately might be a bit rushed.”

Qin Ke: “…”

Counting just this lifetime, she and Huo Zhonglou had known each other for nearly ten years—if this was still considered short, then few couples in this world could get married.

Qin Ke naturally could tell this was an excuse, but since Huo Jingyan refused to disclose more, she couldn’t press further and could only suppress her feelings.

Qin Ke knew well.

To truly eliminate her regrets and obsessions from this life, the wedding was just a formality. Essentially, she had to make Huo Zhonglou accept her, accept himself, and accept their relationship without any reservations.

…Forced love is not sweet.

Qin Ke comforted herself this way, to dispel the thought in her heart of chasing across the ocean to bring him back.

However, what she absolutely didn’t expect was that once Huo Zhonglou left, he disappeared for six months, with no news during this period, and even Huo Jingyan refused to reveal anything to her.

Qin Ke had no choice but to wait.

However, during these six months of waiting, she wasn’t exactly idle, but was busy with scattered work for six months.

—

In this life, during middle school, she was tricked by Qin Yan into changing her high school entrance exam preferences, entering an arts high school, and later was chosen by a talent scout, signing with a medium-sized entertainment company to become a contracted artist.

However, as Yin Chuanfang had said before, she was just a nobody without background or connections, not good at handling interpersonal relationships or currying favor, and apart from dancing, she didn’t have particularly outstanding performance abilities.

So after a few years in the industry, she was still an unknown figure.

However, because of her dance specialty, she had gotten a few opportunities as a dance double in TV dramas and movies—and thus had brief collaborations with many big-name stars in the entertainment circle.

This opportunity was also like that.

And coincidentally, she knew her collaboration partner this time.

—

Qi Tian.

The little starlet she had met at the “Genius Academic Show” who had been promoted by Song Qingzhuo.

However, without the “accident” of Qin Ke, Qi Tian in this life had obviously thrived, and was now barely considered a quasi-first-tier popular actress.

This time, she had somehow managed to secure the female lead role in a drama adapted from a Jinjiang novel.

Qin Ke had been in the production for nearly two months, witnessing this person’s bad nature in all aspects.

Fortunately, at the end of this month, she finally endured until her last scene.

—

After this contract ended, she would receive a considerable payment. This payment would be enough for her to independently solve her consumption problems for a long time, without needing to rely on the Huo family.

Qin Ke felt that after receiving this payment, she really needed to take a good rest to compensate for the mental damage she had suffered in the production crew these two months.

With this mindset, Qin Ke stopped the driver.

“I’ll get off here.”

The driver smiled bitterly and helplessly, looking at Qin Ke through the rearview mirror.

“Miss Qin Ke, Butler Huo told me to take you to the entrance of the film and TV city. You do this every time, if Butler Huo finds out, he will surely blame me.”

Qin Ke waved her hand.

“I won’t. Even if he really wants to blame someone, just tell him to find me,” Qin Ke paused, “Besides, it’s not that I’m making things difficult for you, it’s just that this car is too eye-catching.”

—

Sitting in a top-of-the-line Rolls-Royce to play a small stand-in role in the crew, if any colleague in the crew really discovered it, Qin Ke estimated that she wouldn’t even be able to keep this small job.

Qin Ke snuck out of the car when no one was paying attention. After watching the car leave, she finally breathed a sigh of relief and walked towards the film and television shooting base.

If it wasn’t for the fact that there wasn’t even a bus stop near the Huo family’s old mansion, she wouldn’t have had to go through such a risky situation.

…

After entering the crew, Qin Ke found that the atmosphere within the group was particularly lively today.

It seemed that something she didn’t know about had happened.

Qin Ke pulled aside a new friend she had made in the crew and asked.

The other person looked at Qin Ke in surprise.

“Haven’t you heard yet? The crew seems to have a new investor, bringing in a considerable amount of funds – you know how tight the previous budgets were, now that this big investor has arrived, they’re overjoyed.”

The person paused, then lowered their voice and said,

“The producer went to pick up the person early this morning, saying that everyone in the group should get excited, we must show our vitality to the new investor – we can’t be lifeless.”

“… I see.”

Qin Ke smiled.

“And haven’t you noticed? Even that Miss Qi who is always late without fail has arrived early today – she doesn’t even have any scenes this morning, yet she’s over there posing and preening…”

This person pursed their lips, revealing contempt in their eyes.

“I think she’s clearly planning to seduce the new investor.”

“Alright, stop gossiping,”

Qin Ke said with a smile, giving her a gentle push.

“Shouldn’t you be getting ready for makeup? Be careful, or the makeup artist will scold you again later.”

For stand-ins or extras like Qin Ke, there was naturally no dedicated makeup room – as the stand-in for the female lead, Qin Ke’s treatment was slightly better, but it only meant she didn’t have to make do with an outdoor chair.

She was squeezed into the same small makeup room with the supporting actors in the drama.

The door of the makeup room was pushed open, and when a slight hubbub and a crowd of people swarming in like stars surrounding the moon entered, Qin Ke had just finished her eye makeup.

“This is our deputy makeup room, let me show you around.”

“…”

The flattering voice of the crew’s producer came through. The makeup artist withdrew her hand, and Qin Ke could finally move.

She looked up, and then froze.

In the makeup mirror, standing behind her in the somewhat blurry makeup light, that face…

” –Huo Jun!?”

Qin Ke called out involuntarily.

The next moment, she heard the man laugh hoarsely.

“So you still recognize me.”

“I’m Huo Zhonglou.”