I woke up to find I have a child Ch.18

Chapter 18: Beautiful and irresistibly tempting

In the photo, Chi Qiu is holding a makeup brush in her left hand, and her right hand is tightly wrapped around Han Feixu’s neck. Their faces were practically touching. Chi Qiu was making a wacky expression while smiling and Han Feixu looked slightly surprised. When Chi Qiu pressed the shutter, the corners of Han Feixu’s mouth remained slightly raised. So from the perspective of this photo, people would assume she was in a good mood. Even though Chi Qiu had ambushed her with a sudden photo and she was surprised, she was “pleasantly” surprised instead of frightened. 

The Webio hot search’s clickbait title did not lie, the photo was indeed rather intimate and the two of them seemed to be rather close with each other. 

Chi Qiu’s caption is: Everyone give a comment, out of us two, which one is cuter? 

After the old lady who was beaten up made a statement some time ago, Han Feixu has gained the nickname of a “cute passerby”. Chi Qiu’s words showed that not only has she been paying attention to the current situation of the Internet, but also doesn’t mind Han Feixu using this situation to her advantage. 

These two days, the Chi Qiu vs. Shi Xi fans have been fighting, the Chi Qiu vs. Han Feixu fans have been tearing at each other’s throats, and the Shi Xi vs. Han Feixu fans have been beating each other up. All in all, the fans have been fighting among each other and Shi Xi’s fans have received the worst of the beatings. 

Based on this, everyone had thought that if Chi Qiu and Han Fiexu were to meet, they would most definitely meet as enemies. Who would have thought that the two acted as if nothing happened and were even friendly enough to take a selfie together?

The world of the melon seed-eating masses was in a riot. 

My family lives on the Loess Plateau: “The two of them are together???? Are they friends????”

Empire’s Girl: “I just knew that this piece of gossip was not over yet! Help me up, I can still eat more of these tasty melon seeds!” 

Lord of the East’s Valiant Horse: “What is this?! What is going on?! These few days I’ve been fighting while neglecting my sleep and forgetting to eat, but you two were secretly communicating with each other the whole time????”

Maple Syrup Jam: “Mama, I’ve taken damage…..”

I lay on Chi Qiu’s bed: “If Qiu-bao* had known about Han Feixu since the very beginning, then Han Feixu suddenly appearing at the scene of the mistress beating people up is not as simple as it seems. We know that the mistress was there that day waiting for Stinky Xi, and Han Feixu just “happened” to be nearby. Maybe she was there to help our Qiu-bao catch the little traitor. After all, Han Feixu had changed so much and just returned home, almost no one would recognize her…help! I can’t hold back the conspiracies my brain is calculating anymore!” (T/N*: bao, means ‘baby’ or ‘darling’ and is usually used in the term ‘baobei’ which means ‘my treasure.’ If you add it at the end of the name, it is a way to show friendly affection.) 

Chi Qiu is much more popular than Han Feixu, so even if she randomly posts something on Weibo, there would be at least 10000 comments in just a blink of an eye. 

Meanwhile, Ye Mingxin blankly read the energetic discussion in the comments section. 

Lan Zhu was sitting next to her and was sorting out some things for her. She also saw the hot search list and seeing that Ye Mingxin’s face was not very good, she quickly tried to lighten the mood, “Didn’t Han Feixu say she was going to shoot an internet web show today? She was actually able to meet Chi Qiu. I can see that her luck at bumping into celebrities is pretty good. In high school she was able to bump into you, in college it was Lin Yi, and I heard that when she went overseas she bumped into the actor for Iron Man. Now I can see her luck has grown even more powerful. The moment she runs outside she bumps into the scene of Shi Xi cheating on his wife, and then bumped into Shi Xi’s wife later. You tell me, just what kind of luck is this?” 

Lan Zhu’s pitch continued to rise and she sounded quite envious. Ye Mingxin looked up and glanced at her lightly, “Do you want this kind of luck too?” 

“….I do not.” Lan Zhu immediately shook her head. Her desire to survive was too strong to say yes. 

Ye Mingxin stopped torturing her poor assistant and turned her gaze back to her phone as she stared at the selfie for a long time. She comforted herself silently in her heart. What is this, this is nothing! There are hundreds of photos of her and Han Feixu being even more intimate than this. Of course she’s not jealous. 

Yup, not jealous at all. 

Just that this photo burns the eyes and she suddenly has a strong desire to hire a hacker to hack into Chi Qiu’s Weibo. 

Meanwhile, Chi Qiu, who had no idea that her Weibo barely survived entering the gates of hell, was recording the show with Han Feixu and Gao Changxiu. 

All three of them are professional actors….well, two of them are and the third one is trying hard to pretend to be one. 

However, Han Feixu noticed that in front of the camera, she was very comfortable and not nervous at all. She would talk naturally and never stumbled over her words. When the host asked her questions, she made eye contact without breaking it and when answering the questions, she looked at the camera and spoke from her heart. Even if there were dozens of people moving around behind the camera, she still performed perfectly. 

Han Feixu thought that the reason why she was not nervous was because of all those orchestral competitions she competed in year round where she had to perform in front of large crowds. In actual fact, the reason she was not nervous was because this was her body’s muscle memory. Her body has long grown used to standing in front of the camera. 

The director did not lie, he indeed only asked questions about their debut and nothing else. However, there were subtle pitfalls and traps in each question so that if you didn’t pay attention, you might say something that will easily be misunderstood by audiences who don’t know any better. 

Before the show, Han Feixu had already watched the movies Liang Zhu had given her. After watching it, she was very pleased.

She learned that she is such a good actress. 

Han Feixu’s original goal was to get admitted into Yang Yin* then go abroad to study with her aunt. When she discovered that her career had drastically changed she was a little worried, and she was afraid that the previous her (the one who did not lose all her memories) had not succeeded in this line of work. (T/N: 中央音乐学院 or Yang Yin for short is known as the Central Conservatory of Music in China. It is the leading music college in China, like the Juilliard of China.) 

Those movies she watched completely dispelled all of her doubts. She was only 18 years old when she filmed 《Blossoming Dreams》. At the time, she had only studied the basics from the teaching materials of the acting department and she hadn’t really studied the art of acting at all. However, even with minimal experience, she had performed really well. She played her role well, her every laugh, cry, smile, was just like a real songstress. 

There was this one scene at the end when the songstress she played had lost her voice and couldn’t sing anymore. When she said goodbye to Bai Jinglan (the other main lead) at the train station, Bai Jinglan had turned back three times and saw the same flower-like smile on Fan Rumeng’s face. 

When Bai Jinglan finally left, Fan Rumen turned around and then quietly walked into the crowd. Her face was dripping with tears as she cried silently. Bai Jinglan was moving forward to pursue her dreams, but Fan Rumeng’s dreams were over and her life was finished. 

When Han Feixu saw this scene, she was so moved that she cried. She was a little bit speechless afterward by the fact that her own acting had made herself cry. 

But wasn’t this proof that her acting was very good? 

Liang Zhu said that when Han Feixu played this role, she only ate 600 calories worth of food every day, exercised for at least four hours a day and sang for another four hours. She apparently had even read autobiographies/diaries of prostitutes from the Republic of China era and historical reports of that era just to better integrate into her role. 

When other actors try to immerse themselves in their role, they will write little stories and backgrounds about their characters. Han Feixu also wrote something similar, but she went beyond that and wrote stories about the character’s entire family, starting from the character’s grandparents. She created different personalities for each character, writing down little details and making up stories about their rough lives. After creating these stories, she then thought about how they impacted her character,Fan Rumeng. 

In the end, her superior acting allowed her to win that year’s Hundred Flowers Award for “Best Newcomer” and the Golden Horse Award for “Best Actress”. 

People thought that Han Feixu was really talented, that she must be a genius in acting, and because of her good luck, she just happened to be picked for Dugu Yuehua’s movie for her debut film, but no one knows how much work she actually put in to play this role. 

When the host asked questions about this film, Han Feixu answered truthfully from the answers she prepared beforehand. If she didn’t know the answer, she would give them an ambiguous answer. 

After the show was over, everyone said their goodbyes and Gao Changxiu was the first to leave because he had other work lined up. In the dressing room, only Chi Qiu and Han Feixu were left. After they had finished tidying up and were making their way out of the door, Chi Qiu suddenly turned around. 

“I have watched both your movies before. Do you want to know what type of impression you left on me?” 

Chi Qiu smiled mischievously, “A very beautiful and irresistibly tempting person.” 

Han Feixu’s eyes widened slightly, but Chi Qiu turned around without waiting for her answer. Every step she took was full of self-confidence and that confident aura of hers reminded Han Feixu of a supermodel on a runway. 

She stood there frozen for a while and then turned her head and asked Zhong Yuanyuan, “What did she mean by that?” 

Zhong Yuanyuan: “….” Perhaps, maybe, possibly, she wants to fall in love again*? (T/N: term used here was “second spring” (第二春) which means to fall in love for the second time) 

But Chi Qiu moved on a little too fast!

After Chi Qiu had spoken, Han Feixu’s heartbeat had accelerated by half a minute, but after Chi Qiu had left, she calmed down and thought about what her mother had said before. The people in the entertainment circle are all very open and direct. It was normal for them to say such ridiculous things. If that’s the case, then she should probably quickly get used to it. After all, when in Rome, do what the Romans do. 

However, it never occurred to her that Chi Qiu might actually be interested in her… = =

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She arrived home before 7 and was greeted by Yiyi who was picked up by Auntie Li, the housekeeper, earlier. The child was now being picked up everyday by the bodyguard or the housekeeper and sometimes even picked up by Assistant Zhu. Han Feixu didn’t like this, but since Ye Mingxin and her are both public figures, they could not go pick up Yiyi by themselves. 

And Yiyi was already accustomed to this, and the child was so sensible that it pulled on people’s heartstrings. 

After putting Yiyi to sleep, Han Feixu sat beside her on the bed and looked at her child for a long time. It was such a hard thing to imagine that this big of a child was born from her body. There were no traces of pregnancy left on her body, and she didn’t know how it felt to be pregnant. She had no idea what it felt like to have a baby at all. 

But she knows she must have worried a lot. Even now, when looking at Yiyi, she always felt a sense of worry even though she had no idea what she was worrying about. 

Her heart felt conflicted and at the same time also full. While watching her daughter sleep, she suddenly smiled. She didn’t know that the smile on her face right now was so tender and so gentle. 

She stayed in Yiyi’s room for a few minutes before suddenly having her thoughts interrupted by a unfamiliar voice downstairs. Han Fiexu turned her head and listened to the strange sound. She then went out and stood at the top of the stairs as she looked down. 

Auntie Li had already come out to greet the person and accepted the things in the woman’s hand while saying repeatedly, “Why are you here now? If you had told me earlier, I would have picked you up and saved you the trouble!” 

The woman opposite of her was over forty years old. She was dressed like a noblewoman and she smiled as she said, “Just felt like coming on a whim. I wanted to see my granddaughter. I just called Feixu earlier but perhaps she doesn’t have her phone with her because she didn’t pick up. Li-jie, where is she? Has she not come back yet?” 

Han Feixu froze and then hurriedly returned to her room. There were three missed calls on her phone and the name of the contact was–––Mom. 

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Author’s notes: 

Chi Qiu is not a rival, she is just too reckless = = 

She is also a bottom, and two bottoms together will never result in a good thing~

Forgot to say this earlier, but the bottom and top is decided in terms of personality and not based on sex per se. All CPs in this novel are switches, in a way. 

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T/N: 

Short transition chapter today. Going into the first main plot of the story after this. Chapters after this will be 6000+ characters long, so I might change the schedule to once every two weeks while focusing on pumping out chapters for TTMANS. We’ll see.

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