Xia Qingtian had personally watched Xia Qingtian descend from that Maybach, then deliberately bent down by the car door, saying something ambiguous to the wild man inside.
Shameless slut.
Xia Qingtian sized up Wen Shengsheng, raising an eyebrow slightly, "Your face is really swollen, even the foundation can't cover it. What, are you going to the hospital?"
Upon hearing Xia Qingtian's words, Wen Shengsheng subconsciously turned her head, raising a hand to awkwardly cover her cheek.
"Then hurry up and go, don't delay your treatment," Xia Qingtian stepped aside.
"Hmph!" Wen Shengsheng was indeed going to the hospital. Her face was terribly swollen, and she had to return to Z City tomorrow. She didn't want to appear at the airport with such a face.
This would disappoint her fans who came to see her.
Watching Wen Shengsheng stride past her, Xia Qingtian couldn't resist adding, "Remember to get your brain checked too, in case there's too much water in it, to lower your IQ."
"You!" Wen Shengsheng's feet stopped, and just as she was about to curse Xia Qingtian, she was interrupted by Xia Qingtian's next words.
"Wow! Isn't this the popular idol Wen Shengsheng~" Xia Qingtian said deliberately loudly, "Can you give me an autograph?"
With Xia Qingtian's shout, many people around looked over.
Wen Shengsheng's face immediately turned pale, and the swollen areas became even more obvious.
"Bye-bye~" Xia Qingtian waved with a smile, playfully blinking her eyes.
Wen Shengsheng just glared fiercely at Xia Qingtian, then tucked her neck and fled as if she were running away.
Seeing Wen Shengsheng leave dejectedly, Xia Qingtian let out a soft hum and shrugged as she walked away.
After Xia Qingtian left, a golden-haired head peeked out from beside the Roman column at the hotel entrance. He held a mobile phone in one hand and hugged the Roman column with the other, marveling at Xia Qingtian's retreating figure, "This Xia Qingtian is something else, this little girl has quite powerful methods."
"My nemesis, she's already in the hotel. How about it? Do you want me to book you a room next to hers?" Bai Yuqi said.
"No need, it's already booked," Gu Yaoyang said, sitting in the car, his gaze casually falling on the night view outside the car window.
"You're quick," Bai Yuqi chuckled. "Besides Yu Linwan, this is the first time I've seen you so attentive to a woman. What, are you interested in her? Honestly, I think she's much better than Yu Linwan. At least, to be able to walk out alive from Lei Laosan's hands, I respect her as a warrior!"
Gu Yaoyang was used to Bai Yuqi's flippant talk. He simply ignored the long string of nonsense and continued, "Are there any suspicious people around the hotel?"
"Do I count?" Bai Yuqi turned around after Xia Qingtian's figure had completely disappeared into the elevator, leaning against the Roman column and surveying the surroundings. "For now, it's calm and uneventful."
"Mm, I'll be there soon. You go back to the Bai family first," Gu Yaoyang had a plan in mind.
"Aren't you curious if I managed to get the Twin-Colored Eagle-Headed Pot?" Bai Yuqi couldn't help but ask.
"Is there a need to be curious?" Gu Yaoyang retorted.
There was a long silence on the phone, then Bai Yuqi's exasperated voice came through, "You really are my nemesis, exactly as you said before. Not a bit different."
"17.6 million yuan, exactly," Bai Yuqi said. "Sometimes your foresight scares me, like an old monster."
Upon hearing Bai Yuqi's words, Gu Yaoyang remained silent for a moment before murmuring, "Perhaps I am..."
"Get lost!" Bai Yuqi said impatiently. "My old man wants you to come have tea with him when you have time. I'm hanging up."
After saying that, Bai Yuqi directly hung up the phone. A gust of wind blew, and he instinctively shivered.
Quickly walking towards his flashy red sports car, Bai Yuqi sped away. He still had to go home to claim credit.
After Bai Yuqi drove away, a dark gray private car stopped at the hotel entrance.
The man sitting in the back seat lowered the car window, his eyes sinister. "The woman who ruined our plans, she's staying at this hotel?"
"Yes, she's from Z City, her name is Xia Qingtian," a woman sitting beside him said, her fingertips tapping on the computer keyboard. "She discovered Zhang Yunhe's signature in the painting and stopped the auction."
"Hmph," the man said coldly. "Consider it the Lei family's good luck."
"Then this Xia Qingtian..." the woman turned to look at the man beside her.
"Kill her," the man closed the car window, his expression indifferent. "As a warning."
"Yes."
...
A chill ran down Xia Qingtian's spine, making her shiver as she stepped out of the elevator.
"Is it because I'm under too much psychological pressure?" Xia Qingtian raised her hand to rub her slightly cold neck.
She still remembered the system's options and the so-called rewards.
[Leave C City safely]. Wasn't that saying that if she hadn't chosen this, she definitely wouldn't have left C City safely?
Who would want to harm her?
Wen Shengsheng?
No, no, that Wen Shengsheng shouldn't have that much guts. Just look at her own face.
She couldn't even take care of herself, so how could she come to harm me?
Could it be... the Lei family?
Xia Qingtian couldn't help but think this as she turned a corner, her steps slowing down.
Just then, someone coming around the corner collided with Xia Qingtian head-on.
Xia Qingtian was knocked backward by the impact, her elbow hitting the ground directly, stinging her eyes red.
Fortunately, she instinctively lifted her head, avoiding landing on the back of her head, which would have been more terrible. However, the inertia still caused her head to bump.
For a moment, Xia Qingtian couldn't tell whether the back of her head or her elbow hurt more.
The person who collided with Xia Qingtian also fell, and it seemed their condition wasn't much better than Xia Qingtian's.
After a few seconds, the person got up and helped Xia Qingtian up, "I'm sorry, Qingtian, are you okay?"
Only then did Xia Qingtian see that the person who had bumped into her was her idol – Ling Fenghan.
"I'm fine," Xia Qingtian lightly moved her joints and neck, confirming that she was just a little sore from the fall and not seriously injured, before breathing a sigh of relief.
"I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to, really, I..." Ling Fenghan eagerly wanted to explain, but seemed dazed by the fall himself. His apology was a jumbled mess.
Xia Qingtian looked at the panic on Ling Fenghan's face, then tilted her head to look behind him. No one was there.
But before she fell, she seemed to have seen a blurred figure at the end of this corridor.
She hadn't seen it very clearly, but combining Ling Fenghan's behavior and his flustered state, Xia Qingtian had a guess.
Ling Fenghan's sasaeng fan had found her!
Thinking of this, Xia Qingtian temporarily put her own safety aside and said through gritted teeth, "You, you should send me back to my room. I have a first-aid kit prepared by Xiaoxiao in my room, so I can put some medicine on it."