I Am Rich

29

Guan Zhiyi just arrived not long ago. She came back because she felt guilty in her heart after reading those comments on the Internet.

"Why didn't you call me?"Qi Chengyan stared down at her.

Guan Zhiyi hesitated and said a little embarrassed: "I wonder if you have seen the news on the Internet?"

Qi Chengyan frowned: "I saw it, you didn't..."

"I'm sorry." Before he finished his sentence, he heard Guan Zhiyi speak in a low voice.

Qi Chengyan froze: "What?"

Guan Zhiyi: "Sister Yun said that someone might have seen the right moment to throw dirty water on me. I also don't know how I got you involved in the scolding, but those comments on the Internet are quite unpleasant, please don't take them to heart."

Qi Chengyan's throat was stifled. He stared at her silently for a long time before asking, "Does it hurt?"

"Ah?"

Qi Chengyan pulled her wrist, by now, the scrape on her hand had already formed a thin layer of scab.

Qi Chengyan was dissatisfied: "Why didn't Liu Yun bring you to take care of it?"

Guan Zhiyi reacted and pulled her hand back: "It's not like that, I was in a hurry to find you, so she sent me here directly."

Qi Chengyan did not say anything, pulling her towards home. It's already late now, Elder Qi is resting upstairs, and there was no one else at home. Qi Chengyan took her to sit down in the small hall and brought the medicine box to apply her palm with medicine.

He sat in front of her, his eyes lowered, his expression looked a little cold. Guan Zhiyi stole a glance at him: "That, the things on the Internet…"

"You don't have to worry about it, I will let someone handle them."

"Even so, a lot of people have already found out about your information, your photos are now spreading on the internet."

Qi Chengyan frowned: "My information was not specifically hidden in the first place. Guan Zhiyi, It's your situation that's worth worrying about now. Why do you care so much about me?"

He called her by her full name, and his tone was a bit heavy.

Guan Zhiyi felt that he was a little angry, she drew back her hand and said in a low voice, "But I'm used to it, while you're not ......"

Qi Chengyan paused, raised his eyes to look at her, his heart felt an obscure anger,"You can get used to it, but I can't handle it? Why, do you think I'm not as strong as you?"

"No, it's because I'm upset. Others can scold me, but they can't scold you!" Guan Zhiyi's eyes sank and said stubbornly, "How can they make things up about you, when they don't even know anything."

Qi Chengyan opened his mouth, suddenly did not know what to say, he felt his heart becoming soft and in a complete shambles. He was helpless.

She herself has been scolded until like this, yet she still worried about him?

"And I really don't think it's a big deal."Guan Zhiyi added,"I was a little sad at first, I thought it was not easy for everyone to finally like me, but now suddenly...... however this is also very normal, to do this profession you must have this sort of awareness. Moreover, I still have people who support me, they are always there for me."

The girl's eyes were sincere, she obviously was not telling lies. Qi Chengyan sighed lightly, somewhat helpless.

She can accept it? Why did he feel that he couldn't accept it at all.

"Hiss... it hurts." Guan Zhiyi reached out and held Qi Chengyan's wrist.

Qi Chengyan came back to his senses, then realized that he had used force and the cotton swab had touched her wound.

He quickly withdrew his strength, "I'm sorry."

Guan Zhiyi tilted her head and looked at him, "Don't worry, I'm a celebrity, it's normal to be scolded. But if your family sees this news, will they be angry?"

Qi Chengyan casually flicked her forehead: "It's news about you and me, Grandpa will know what's going on at first glance. But you, you have to worry about how to explain this to your father and your brother first."

"I have nothing to explain to them either." Guan Zhiyi leaned slightly and stared at him. "You think, I hooked up with you, and you kept me as a mistress. Is this... credible." 

Her eyes were crystal clear, and her expression was also joking. But he doesn't know why, Qi Chengyan can't look straight at her at that moment. The weird thought that he had vaguely suppressed in his heart made him feel self-conscious and withdrew his eyes.

He looked down at her palm, faintly said, "It will eventually be bad for your reputation."

"True or false, in this circle this type of news is too many ah." Guan Zhiyi leaned back and said, "I just need to be myself."

Qi Chengyan: "I'll have people to suppress the hot search and the company side will also do a good job at clarification, So don't worry."

"I know, but then again, how do we obtain credibility for this clarification?"

Qi Chengyan thought about it, this gossip is surely spreading from inside the company, and everyone on the Internet also knew this fact. So if he want Guan Zhiyi to completely get rid of this bad label, he indeed can't just rely on a single document draft.

"Leave the clarification to me, don't think too much today, go back and get a good night's sleep."

Guan Zhiyi nodded, but didn't get up.

Qi Chengyan took the antiseptic back to the medicine box and turned his head to look at her again, "What's wrong?"

"It seems like I haven't seen you for a long time." Guan Zhiyi stared at him and suddenly felt a little aggrieved.

"Aren't you busy filming, who can meet you.

"But I'm filming in the city, I still occasionally have time." Guan Zhiyi stretched out her hand and shook his sleeves."So next time I return to the set, can I call you when I want to eat with you?" 

Qi Chengyan subconsciously wanted to say yes, but when he saw her clear and trusting eyes. Suddenly something came to his mind, so he didn't say anything.

"Is it okay? I feel like I won't be able to see you for a long time once I'm filming." Guan Zhiyi puffed out her cheeks and persistently shook his hand, "I miss you so much after not seeing you for so long, brother don't you miss me?"

When she said that burst of grievance, she seemed to be more unhappy than when she knew that she was scolded online. Qi Chengyan looked at her, his heart rapidly softened.

He was a little helpless: "Okay, why does it sound like I refuse to eat with you."

Guan Zhiyi immediately said, "But the one who answered all the calls I made to you before is your assistant, and he always said that you were very busy. So I thought that you ought to not come out for a meal, okay?"

Qi Chengyan didn't answer immediately.

Because at that time he was deliberately drifting apart from her, so he didn't call back.

"I was too busy then," he said.

"I guess so." Guan Zhiyi didn't doubt him and said without hesitation,"Then you have to call back next time. If it is possible, I'll come to you secretly."

"Secretly?"

"Of course we can't make a fuss about it, the gossip on the internet will not be good."

Qi Chengyan remembered those remarks about mistress and coughed lightly.

"Then it's settled ah, I'm going home first." Guan Zhiyi got up and prepared to walk towards the door, but after a few steps, she suddenly turned back again.

Qi Chengyan looked at her, "What--"

Before the words could be asked, the person in front of him had already pounced towards him, again with the same careless attitude as before, wrapping her arms around him and embracing him fully.

Qi Chengyan was knocked back a step and flimsily held her shoulders.

"Thank you for not blaming me for the scandal." Guan Zhiyi hugged him vigorously, and after a few seconds, she raised her eyes, a sly flash passed under her eyes. Then, before he could react she stood on tiptoe and said in his ear, "Brother, I know you're the best for me."

It was so close that the hot air sprayed behind his ear.

Qi Chengyan was stunned for a moment, her breath seemed to have swept past him, causing a layer of ripples from behind his ears to his neck. He felt like something in his chest was being fiercely tugged all at once, he was caught off guard by his palpitation**.

(**feelings or sensations that your heart is pounding or racing.)

"You ......"

"I will remember it. I'll buy you a lot of delicious food from now on." Guan Zhiyi let go of him, smiling brightly, "Okay, I'm really leaving, bye."

She waved her hand at him and turned to walk out the door.

Her back disappeared in the doorway.

Qi Chengyan stood in the same place, looking at the direction of her disappearance in astonishment. Her temperature and smell still seemed to remain on his body, shallow and faint, destroying his heart and mind.

After a long time, Qi Chengyan's eyebrows wrinkled fiercely, and a feeling of horror suddenly spread across the limbs.

What was his reaction just now?

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After Guan Zhiyi came out of Qi's house, her bright smile was immediately gone. She turned a corner to make sure that Qi Chengyan would not see her, and then she leaned her back against a wall.

She came to him today because of things on the Internet, and only after seeing him did she feel relieved. Then, because she hasn't seen him for a long time, she suddenly had the temporary intention to ...... tease him.

She thought that he would not have any special reaction just by hugging him, because she felt that she had done this action too many times. So when she hugged him, she approached his ears almost intimately, deliberately speaking ambiguously in the most sensitive places.

But can he feel anything?

Guan Zhiyi took a deep breath with some lingering fear. She wanted to make him feel different, but she didn't know whether what she was doing was the right thing.

She learned these tricks from her previous silly white dramas, so the quality is not really guaranteed ......

"Haa...it should be okay, right?"

"What's okay?" Suddenly, a voice came from in front of her.

Guan Zhiyi was startled, when she looked up, she saw Guan Yuanbai appear in front of her. She immediately stood up straight. "Brother? When did you come?"

"I came back when I received a call from Cheng Yan not long ago. Why are you standing here?"

Guan Zhiyi felt guilty after being spotted by Guan Yuanbai,"I, I ah, I just came out from Brother Chengyan house."

Guan Yuanbai came forward, pulled her hand and looked at it. There was medicine on the palm of her hand, but he was even more frightened by the sight of it because of the red potion. Guan Yuanbai frowned, a storm was brewing under his eyes.

Guan Zhiyi drew back her hand and put it behind her back: "So you also know about that news."

"I saw it."

"Oh."

"Does it hurt?"

"Hands? It doesn't hurt anymore…"

Guan Yuanbai: "What about the brain?"

"What?"

"Does your brain hurt?"

The corners of Guan Zhiyi's mouth twitched slightly: "My brain...why does it have to be hurt?"

"That's right." Guan Yuanbai said indifferently, "You have no brains at all, how can it be hurt."

"..."

Guan Yuanbai let go of her hand, "Go home."

"What about you?"

"I'm going to find Cheng Yan," Guan Yuanbai glanced at her, "To see how to handle a fool's affair."