Luo Yize asked Qiao Yinuo about her future plans.
Qiao Yinuo replied, "I'm not working on a new play for now. I've already finished the task of continuing a web drama I took on before. As for the drama *Burning Hearts*, I've already received the corresponding payment."
Luo Yize nodded.
Come to think of it, except for *Burning Hearts* and *Turn Around and Meet Love*, Qiao Yinuo had never experienced life on a film set. Moreover, in these two filming experiences, her idol was in the crew.
The two chatted about some trivial things. After a while, the driver had already parked the car downstairs of the hospital.
Luo Yize sent her special assistant to escort Qiao Yinuo into the car. Watching the car drive Qiao Yinuo out of the hospital, she finally felt relieved.
Because Luo Yize had specifically instructed before that the assistant should watch the car leave the hospital before returning to the ward. At the same time, Luo Yize asked the assistant to tell Qiao Yinuo that she must call Luo Yize to report that she had arrived home safely.
In the car, Qiao Yinuo sat in the back row. She looked at her phone for a while and then put it down. She stared out of the window, muttering to herself.
She remembered when she had just graduated from college and started working. Her mother's earnest instructions were just like Luo Yize's instructions now. In the past, she had to contact her mother when she arrived at work and after getting off work. Now, she had to report her safety to Luo Yize after getting home from the hospital.
That's just how people are. At home, elders always treat you like a child. Outside, especially when two people are in a relationship, it seems as if one's life is restricted by the other.
Moreover, Qiao Yinuo wasn't even in a relationship yet, but she was already being cared about so much by this person. And this person was her idol.
The driver saw Qiao Yinuo in a daze through the rear - view mirror. "Miss Qiao, your boyfriend is really good to you!"
Qiao Yinuo sneered. "We're just ordinary friends."
The driver smiled at her. "I can tell that he's already fallen for you."
Fall for her? It's impossible. How could he fall for a girl like Qiao Yinuo, who was short and naive to the point of being childish and ridiculous?
Qiao Yinuo just smiled and said nothing. The key was that she was only twenty - four years old and had no clear goal when it came to choosing a partner. Anyway, as she always said, she couldn't fall in love with her idol.
"Are you shy?"
"Sir, don't make such a big joke. He couldn't like a girl like me."
"Girls with your personality these days can attract many men's attention. Anyway... I like the way you are."
"Ugh..."
Seeing that the driver was probably in his forties or fifties, and hearing such words from an old man like him, Qiao Yinuo was quite good - tempered. If it were another girl, she would probably think he was being a hooligan and just simply say "Get out!"
Finally, the driver dropped her off at her doorstep. Qiao Yinuo got out of the car, said thank you, and then walked into her home with an umbrella.
When she got home, she changed her shoes and pajamas. The first thing she did was to call Luo Yize.
She picked up the phone, not knowing what to call him at first. If she still called him A Ze, would it be inappropriate? After all, even the driver could tell that Luo Yize liked her. Couldn't she sense it?
If she called him by his full name, Luo Yize, it would be a bit impolite to him. Calling him Teacher was even more inappropriate since he was only twenty - four. Calling him Brother seemed like she was taking advantage of him. So what would that make her?
After much thought, Qiao Yinuo still called out those two words: A Ze.
After that, her second sentence was, "I'm home."
"So soon?" Luo Yize on the phone seemed a bit surprised to hear that Qiao Yinuo had already arrived home.
Moreover, although there were a lot of cars on the road, there was no serious traffic jam.
Qiao Yinuo just let out a soft "um".
Just as Luo Yize was relieved and Qiao Yinuo was about to hang up the phone, she heard his soft and warm voice say, "I'll miss you forever. Will you miss me?"
The way he spoke sounded very much like the lines he said in his drama.
In *Turn Around and Meet Love*, he had said similar lines to the female lead.
Qiao Yinuo was in a real dilemma.
"I think I need to explain this to you clearly."
"Explain what?"
"I think you may have misunderstood something." Qiao Yinuo finally summoned up the courage. "That time in the bar, it was all my fault for drinking too much. That's why what happened in the hotel happened. My original intention was just to have a few drinks with you and have a good time. Who would have thought those boring reporters would create such news?"
There was no response from the other side for a while. It seemed as if he was listening patiently or avoiding something.
Qiao Yinuo continued, "We're just ordinary friends. I'm worried that if... this continues, I'm afraid..."
"Afraid of what?"
"I'm afraid I'll fall in love with you involuntarily."
After Qiao Yinuo said this, she finally let out a sigh of relief. Now, she was mostly waiting for Luo Yize's reply, hoping he would say she was overthinking and not think that she was deliberately rejecting his affection.
Luo Yize pondered for a moment and then laughed. "And then?"
"That's all!"
"Now I can tell you that what happened that night was just a drunken mistake. I didn't even care. Why do you?"
Ah, he finally said it. Qiao Yinuo felt an instant sense of relief.
On the other end of the phone, it seemed as if someone was talking. Presumably, the nurse had come. Luo Yize left a message and then hung up immediately, obviously telling Qiao Yinuo that the nurse had come to give him an injection.
Normally, a neck injury wouldn't necessarily require hospitalization, but he got injured while hanging on a wire during filming and fell quite seriously, so he had to rest in the hospital for a while.
Just as Qiao Yinuo hung up the phone, her mother called.
The purpose of her mother's call was first to tell her that there would be a family dinner with the Hou family that night, and second, to bring her celebrity boyfriend along.
"Mom, don't misunderstand. I've already told you that we're not together."
"So you're not in a relationship? Then what about the news on the Internet?"
"Those are just things deliberately fabricated by reporters for hype. Forget it. I won't explain so much to you..."
That night, in a private room of a Quanjude Roast Duck Restaurant.
Qiao Yinuo, her father, mother, and the Hou Lei's family sat around the table, enjoying their meal.
When Qiao Yinuo met Hou Lei's parents, she found that there were really a lot of coincidences in this world. Hou Lei's father was actually the general director of *Burning Hearts*. When old acquaintances met, the atmosphere immediately became lively.