Chapter 9: It's this damn man again (1)

"I regret not berating that bastard more that night…" As he spoke, Chen Enci pulled out his phone, looked earnestly at Lu Xing, and asked, "What do you think of the phrase 'I am the father your male idols will never have'?"

"Or maybe, 'I am the father your male idols will never get into bed with'..."

Lu Xing was so shocked that she nearly fell off the car seat. She rushed to snatch the phone from Chen Enci's fingertips, fearing that he would recklessly broadcast these thoughts in a massive social media meltdown the next second. "Oh God, I beg you to calm down. If you continue like this, both of us will lose our jobs…"

Chen Enci's face was cold as ice, he hummed in response but said nothing.

Upon arriving at the front entrance of Feng Fashion Magazine, the staff immediately greeted them. "Teacher Chen Enci, please this way… also, there's something I need to apologize for in advance. We only have one private makeup room, and it's currently in use. So, you might have to use the public makeup room…"

With the staff continually apologizing, Chen Enci and Lu Xing followed him to the makeup area.

The public makeup room was next to the private one. As they passed by, Lu Xing asked casually, "Didn't they say they were only shooting our group this afternoon? Was somebody added at the last minute? Who was it? I didn't hear about any other celebrities coming to shoot today."

As the staff member gestured them forward, he replied, "The person who came isn't from the entertainment industry. It's the founder of Milky Way Group, Mr. Qin Jie, who's here for a business magazine cover shoot…"

Upon hearing this, Chen Enci, who had just calmed down in the car, couldn't help but let out an expletive: "Fuck!"

As the word left his mouth, they happened to be right in front of the private makeup room.

The door to the private makeup room coincidentally opened.

Out stepped Qin Jie, dressed in a black suit, his arrival marked first by the expletive and then by: "It's this fucking bastard again!"

Qin Jie instinctively halted his steps.

The staff member leading Chen Enci to the public makeup room, who had been walking ahead, turned around in surprise when he noticed Qin Jie, stammering out, "Mr...Mr. Qin…"

At this, Chen Enci, who had been ready to unleash a torrent of abuse on Qin Jie, abruptly held back his words and looked up.

In that moment, the world seemed to fall into a silent mode, so calm you could hear a pin drop.

Lu Xing was the first to snap back to reality. Her initial reaction was to grab Chen Enci's hand, fearing that in his rage, he would throw his bag and phone at Qin Jie, causing another scandal that would infuriate both the public and the heavens.

But as she moved to do so, she realized it was unnecessary.

Chen Enci was calm, a kind of calm that she had never seen before in all the years she'd known him. Or perhaps, it was indifference.

Lu Xing was surprised for a moment, then turned to look at Qin Jie who was not too far off.

The man, who looked much better in person than in the viral pictures, was even more indifferent than Chen Enci.

Lu Xing suddenly felt a chill in the air, thinking that the atmosphere would have been better if Chen Enci had gone through with her initial fear — of throwing his bag and phone at Qin Jie's face.