Chapter 132

Chapter 132

#Confirmed! Mu Xia = Xie Qiyan#

#CEO of Xie Corporation Turns Into a Relationship Blogger#

#Those Dreamy High-Society Romances#

Netizens: So, may we ask, who is Xiao Wanzi?

Netizens didn’t know. But netizens did have keyboards-

1L: A high-society romance between equals? No need to guess. She has to be some wealthy family’s heiress!

2L: Or a dazzling actress. And if she’s neither, then she must be a breathtaking beauty!

3L: Someone who can drag an untouchable flower on a snowy peak like Xie Qiyan down from his altar has to be either a fairy or a goddess.

4L: Leaving aside her identity and looks, any girl Teacher Mu Xia likes this much must be very adorable.

5L: Everyone’s discussing who Xiao Wanzi is and what Xiao Wanzi looks like. Am I the only one curious about what Teacher Mu Xia looks like?

…

A new topic lit a new torch, and the flames spread before anyone could react. Quite a few curious netizens had already started digging through financial news and finance media interviews.

Unfortunately, they came in high spirits and left disappointed.

A helpful netizen waved a sleeve and said-

[Everyone can go home. This CEO of Xie Corporation has never once shown his face in front of the media since returning to the country last summer to take over Xie Corporation. He’s hidden away even more tightly than a canary kept by some wealthy Big Shot.]

After searching the entire internet, no one could find a single photo of Xie Qiyan.

All they could find were Xie Qiyan’s hair-raising deeds.

Everyone said Xie Qiyan was ruthless and cold-blooded, with no regard for sentiment. Yet someone lived in the heart of a man like that. For that person, he had opened a dedicated Weibo account, openly recording his love for them and giving all the softness in his heart to one person.

Everyone said rich people knew how to play around. But Xie Qiyan was devoted to only one person.

On Xie Qiyan’s Weibo, every word, every punctuation mark, every picture radiated an ardent love for his girlfriend.

Muxia Wanzi was already a hot topic in its own right. Now it was tied to Xie Qiyan, to Xie Corporation, and then to the Four Great Families of Beicheng.

First, he became the devoted lover of high society.

Then netizens made a summary, declaring that the heads of the Four Great Families of Beicheng were all hopeless romantics.

The last high-society romance that had the entire internet collectively shipping until it became a household topic was Lu Beiting of the Lu Family and the current Best Actress Nan Qiyue.

Shipping was one thing, but the direction of online chatter always changed quickly. In the end, the discussion somehow turned to the fact that only the Head of the Jiang Family was still missing a girlfriend.

Some sharp-eyed netizen carefully analyzed Jiang Baichuan’s comment and finally came to a conclusion-

[If he doesn’t have a girlfriend, why would he ask Xie Qiyan for a necklace?]

And so, netizens got to enjoy a fresh new piece of gossip.

Xie Qiyan had never expected that he, a businessman, would one day make the entertainment chart headlines.

Perhaps to split the firepower, or perhaps because his pride wouldn’t allow people to say he didn’t have a girlfriend, Jiang Baichuan used his yellow-V verified main Weibo account that very night to post an official announcement-

[Jiang Baichuan V: Not single. I have a girlfriend.]

The netizens erupted in a chorus of shocked “Ah?”s.

When Yun Li saw the Weibo post, she was at the Interstellar Bay Hotel. Night had draped itself over the cold city. Wearing the coat Jiang Baichuan had left there, she stood by the floor-to-ceiling window and looked down over the city.

So it turned out a person really could fall in love with a city because of one person.

To her, Beicheng was filled with too many terrible memories. She had once tried to escape, but Yun Meilan was here, and she couldn’t get away.

Until Jiang Baichuan appeared.

Perhaps, just as he had said, the fate between them had begun as early as their teenage years. If not for that incident, she would never have transferred schools in high school.

If she had not transferred back then, perhaps there would have been more intersections between her and him.

But there were no ifs.

Fortunately, that time in Nancheng, fate allowed them to meet again.
Jiang Baichuan had said she was unforgettable at a glance. But wasn’t the same true for her?

A love of beauty was human nature.

With a face like Jiang Baichuan’s, anyone who saw him would remember what he looked like.

But compared to his looks, what left the deepest impression on Yun Li was Jiang Baichuan’s voice.

She had never told anyone that she liked his voice.

It was like an early summer breeze, still carrying the lingering charm of spring, wrapped in summer’s crystalline clarity.

At first, it had only been appreciation.

Until he confessed his feelings again and again. Until she realized he was serious. Until he kept appearing at her side. Until her heartbeat went into disarray.

On the sofa, her phone screen lit up, then went dark. The call rang, stopped, and rang again. Yun Li turned back, wiped her damp eyes, and as if she had confirmed something and strengthened a certain resolve, walked over and answered the call that had come in countless times.

“Mom, I love him.”

The other end fell silent.

Yun Li repeated, “I only love him.”

Yun Meilan’s emotions did not seem as explosive as before, but it was still a long while before she spoke. “Come back first. We’ll talk when you’re home.”

“Come back for what? So you can lock me in my room again, the way you did when you suspected me of puppy love with a male classmate when I was little?” Yun Li’s voice was extremely faint. Suddenly, she let out a soft laugh. “Mom, either I don’t marry at all, or he’s the only man I’ll marry.”

Before she fell for Jiang Baichuan, she had no desire for dating or marriage.

If Yun Meilan told her to marry, then she would marry. Either way, it was only two people making do and living together. Whether there was love or not did not matter.

But now, she was certain she wanted Jiang Baichuan.

She wanted to be with him, wanted to love him, wanted to build a home with him.

–

For the past two days, the entertainment trending charts had been completely dominated by Xie Qiyan and Jiang Baichuan. Everyone in the circle was offering their congratulations, especially the Qu Family and Lu Family, who interacted with them more often. They were all older than him, and, following Old Master Jiang’s lead, worried about his marriage together. Anyone who saw Jiang Baichuan had to ask when he was going to bring her home.

All the pressure landed squarely on Jiang Baichuan.

Xie Qiyan, on the other hand, had boarded a flight to the UK first thing in the morning.

In the past two days, plenty of media outlets had wanted to interview Xie Qiyan. The threshold of the Xie Corporation Building was practically being trampled flat. There had been many before as well, but lately there were especially many.

Rejecting interview requests was usually Huo Yang’s job, but recently, even he could not handle them all. Even after being turned down, plenty of media reporters still kept pushing forward, scrambling for a chance to interview him.

“How many followers has President Xie gained?” Yu Fei asked.

“Almost five million,” Huo Yang said coolly.

In just two and a half days, his account had gone from an initial two thousand followers to five million, and the number was still climbing nonstop.

As for how high it would climb, it was still hard to say.

After Mu Xia’s alternate identity was exposed, many people in the illustrious family circle who wanted to curry favor with Xie Qiyan had followed the account.

Xie Qiyan was the CEO of Xie Corporation, a rising star in the industry, and a capitalist. On top of that, with Yuexia Entertainment’s recent listing and Xie Corporation’s beginning expansion into the entertainment and film industry, all sorts of big and small figures in show business had also followed him.

Even several members of the Qu Family, Lu Family, and Jiang family had followed him, claiming they were fans of Mu Xia.

Netizens following the gossip joined in one after another.

At this rate, breaking ten million followers was only a matter of time.

Yu Fei folded his arms and sighed. “If these netizens knew what our President Xie looked like, they’d probably hammer sparks out of their keyboards, desperately shouting for him to debut on the spot.”

Huo Yang did not speak, which counted as agreement.

But what Huo Yang cared about even more was Xie Qiyan’s current trip.

This time, when their President Xie went to the UK, he had not brought either of them. Most likely, personal matters outweighed business.

As a secretary, his instincts told him that Xie Qiyan would not return empty-handed.

“Executive Assistant Yu,” Huo Yang called out, his tone leisurely. “Get ready to collect a bonus.”

Yu Fei: “???”

Was there really such a good thing?