She had to get back to the heated room quickly.
Meng Lingyao watched Xu Qingqing's back disappear from sight. Then she looked dejectedly at the bag in her hand.
If she had known that apologizing would be so easy, she wouldn't have put it off for so long!
After returning to the company, Meng Lingyao posted a handwritten letter online to apologize to the entire crew and the female staff. The whole letter was full of sobs and tears.
However, some righteous netizens dug out that Meng Lingyao had copied the self - criticism online. Another round of quarrels ensued...
But this had nothing to do with Xu Qingqing. Xu Qingqing asked Lu Chuanbai to withdraw the warning to Meng Lingyao and continued to focus on the wedding.
Xu Qingqing started writing the invitations in advance. Besides inviting family and friends, she also had to invite Lu Chuanbai's business partners, more than a hundred in total.
Xu Qingqing wrote until her hand cramped. Coupled with the chill she caught during the day, she kept sneezing.
The considerate Lu Chuanbai made ginger soup for Xu Qingqing and put it where she could easily reach it.
Lu Chuanbai's big hand covered Xu Qingqing's cold little hand. His tone was full of concern and a hint of reproach as he held her hand against his chest to warm it.
"Don't write so many. I'll just have someone print them out."
"No." Xu Qingqing pulled her hand out and held the ginger soup to drink. Her tone was firm.
"You've taken care of other wedding arrangements. I should at least do something within my ability."
"Do you want to do something more valuable?"
Lu Chuanbai propped his hand on the edge of Xu Qingqing's desk. His eyes were full of smiles.
Xu Qingqing's eyes lit up. She gulped down the spicy ginger soup in one go and eagerly asked Lu Chuanbai, "What is it?"
Lu Chuanbai bent down and whispered something in Xu Qingqing's ear. The expectation on Xu Qingqing's face disappeared completely. She raised her hand and punched Lu Chuanbai in the chest.
Xu Qingqing glared at Lu Chuanbai angrily. Her brows showed a bit of shyness, and her voice was coquettish and urgent.
"You bastard! You're always thinking about that kind of thing!"
"I want to do something meaningful, not what you're thinking!"
Lu Chuanbai sat on the chair and pulled Xu Qingqing into his arms. He looked very innocent and shifted the blame to the two children.
"Yiyi and An'an want a younger brother or sister. I'm just relaying their wishes to you."
"Nonsense."
Xu Qingqing didn't believe that Xu Yiyi and Xu An'an would want a younger brother or sister. She reached out and pinched Lu Chuanbai's ear, gently tugging at his earlobe.
"It was clearly your own idea. Don't shift the blame to the kids."
Lu Chuanbai hugged Xu Qingqing with a naughty look on his face. He bent down and smelled the fragrance on Xu Qingqing, spouting a lot of useless nonsense.
"I was just worried that you'd get tired."
"There's no such way to solve the problem."
Xu Qingqing rolled her eyes at Lu Chuanbai angrily and then got out of his arms. She continued to lie on the table and write the invitations.
"Each of these invitations represents my feelings. I'm going to finish writing them all."
"Okay. Then I'll accompany you."
Lu Chuanbai lay beside Xu Qingqing, looking at her as she smoothly wrote the elegant characters.
Now Lu Chuanbai had let down his guard. His hair was no longer neatly fixed with hair wax, and he was wearing loose pajamas.
The orange light shone on his handsome face, gilding it. His skin was so good that even Xu Qingqing, a woman, felt jealous.
Xu Qingqing used her left hand to pinch Lu Chuanbai's cheek while writing with her right.
"How can your skin be so good? Do you often go to a beauty salon?"
"I'm just born this way." Lu Chuanbai's tone was a bit proud.
His eyes were big and round when he opened them wide. Because he had just taken a shower, his eyelids were red, looking like a big puppy with wet eyes.
"Pfft." Xu Qingqing scoffed and continued to write the invitations seriously.
"The wedding dress designer I made an appointment with has arrived. Let's go for measurements tomorrow."
Lu Chuanbai rested his chin on the back of his hand and looked up at Xu Qingqing's delicate face.
"We can just buy a wedding dress from a bridal shop. Why do we have to invite a designer specifically?"
Xu Qingqing pursed her lips. She thought Lu Chuanbai was being too particular.
"That's not okay." Lu Chuanbai protested loudly.
"A wedding only happens once in a lifetime. Of course, we have to treat it well. Your attitude is too perfunctory."
"Okay, okay, okay."
Xu Qingqing was defeated by Lu Chuanbai's attitude. She glanced at Lu Chuanbai's pouting face out of the corner of her eye.
He looked more like a big golden retriever angry at its owner.
Thinking of this, the smile on Xu Qingqing's lips couldn't help but rise.
Lu Chuanbai quietly accompanied Xu Qingqing to finish writing half of the invitations. Then he pulled her to go to bed quickly because they had to get up early the next day to try on wedding dresses.
The kindergarten was on holiday. Xu Yiyi was going to the filming set to shoot a movie. When Xu An'an heard that Xu Qingqing was going to try on wedding dresses, she also wanted to go.
"Brother isn't at home. I'll be so bored alone. Mom, take me with you to try on wedding dresses."
Xu An'an stood on the dining chair, holding Xu Qingqing's shoulder and pleading.
"I also want to wear a wedding dress and marry the person I like."
As Xu An'an said this, she covered her chin with her hands, her eyes twinkling with stars.
Lu Chuanbai, who was drinking milk, heard that Xu An'an, who had just started kindergarten, was already thinking about wearing a wedding dress and getting married. Alarm bells went off in his heart. He put down the milk cup unhappily.
The milk cup hit the table heavily.
Seeing Lu Chuanbai's angry and depressed look, Xu Qingqing deliberately smiled and asked Xu An'an, "An'an, do you have a crush on a boy in kindergarten?"
Hearing Xu Qingqing's question, Xu An'an sat down shyly and posed like a lady.
She paid attention to her appearance when talking about the boy, which showed that she really liked him.
"Of course. He's very handsome and extremely smart."
Lu Chuanbai was even more unhappy after hearing this. He couldn't even eat the sandwich in his hand.
Lu Chuanbai always had the feeling that the precious cabbage he had painstakingly raised was about to be eaten by a wild boar.
"An'an, this is just admiration for him, not love. Do you understand?"
Lu Chuanbai seriously corrected Xu An'an.
Compared to love, he could barely accept admiration.
But Xu An'an didn't understand her father's painstaking efforts and loudly retorted.
"Dad, I really like him. He brings my favorite chocolates for me every day."
"We've also made an agreement that I'll marry him when I grow up and be his bride."
Hearing this, Lu Chuanbai immediately grasped the handle of Xu An'an's crush on the little boy. He was very childish.
"I knew it. That's why you've been complaining about toothache these days when you got home."
"I've already controlled the amount of candy you eat at home. I didn't expect you to secretly eat more in kindergarten."
Xu An'an didn't expect that she had accidentally let it slip while refuting Lu Chuanbai. She exclaimed and covered her mouth, gobbling up the sandwich, trying to cover up the matter.
"Toothache is an old problem of mine. It'll hurt even if I don't eat candy."