Chapter 1268: Chapter 1267: Female Lead Announced, Face-Slapping Ensues
"Shi Shi, I’ll find you the best plastic surgeon. It can surely be fixed."
"No need." Xia Shi’s voice was cold.
Plastic surgery isn’t a cure-all. The damage to her face back then was so severe it was almost down to the bone.
Such serious injuries, how could surgery possibly restore them?
Not to mention healing, they couldn’t even make it look less ghastly.
Although when she left back then, all her assets were taken by Qiao Yuchu, leaving her penniless, she still managed to earn some money over the past five years.
She scrimped and saved, hoping to have surgery, at least to be presentable.
But it was useless. She vividly remembered when she went to the plastic surgery hospital; the moment she took off her mask, she nearly scared the surgeon into puking.
They immediately asked her to leave.
Later, she gave up, trying to wear a mask when out to avoid scaring people.
Seeing her resistance, Zhai En didn’t dare to mention the topic again, "If you don’t want to, then don’t. This is good too; at least there are no love rivals, and I won’t have to worry about anyone else trying to steal you from me anymore."
Xia Shi felt a pang of sadness inside.
She used to be quite renowned, a quintessential beauty from the East, and had many suitors abroad.
Back then, they were secretly dating, and seeing many pursuers around her, he’d often complain about having too many rivals and feeling insecure.
Memories surged like a tide, threatening to drown her.
Xia Shi suddenly withdrew her gaze, glanced at his half-finished coffee, and spoke sarcastically.
"Looking at my face, you can still drink that? I thought you’d be sick."
Just as she finished speaking, she saw a woman diagonally opposite cover her mouth, dry heaving.
Her friend hurriedly reached out to pat her back, "What’s wrong?"
The woman pointed in Xia Shi’s direction, "There’s a disfigured woman over there, so ugly it makes me want to puke."
Xia Shi’s eyes dimmed slightly, but her face remained calm.
Zhai En suddenly stood up, slamming the table, "Say that again! Do you have any manners?"
The woman and her friend exchanged a look, then left quickly without finishing their coffee.
Zhai En sat down again, still visibly angry.
Hearing others talk about Zhong Shixia like that only made him feel a burning anger inside.
"Aren’t you mad?"
Xia Shi was a little self-deprecating, "Why be mad? It’s been five years. I’ve gotten used to it."
She raised her head, meeting Zhai En’s gaze directly, "It’s not that others lack manners. It’s just that my face is so terrible it’s beyond what courtesy can bear. That you can drink coffee looking at this face truly surprises me."
"Last night, not only did I kiss this face, but I also slept with it. Do you think I can’t eat while looking at it?"
Zhai En’s words made Xia Shi blush.
Speak properly and don’t be vulgar.
Zhai En suddenly became serious, "Shi Shi, although I don’t think your face is attractive, I don’t mind. If you want surgery, I’ll find you the best plastic surgeon.
If you don’t want it, I don’t care either. Don’t distance yourself from me because of this face."
It was the truth. Xia Shi’s face was too severely damaged. Unless his aesthetic view was distorted, there was no way he’d find it beautiful.
But it didn’t matter to him whether it was beautiful or not.
Xia Shi was left speechless. Was she distancing herself because of her face? Could he stop mixing concepts?
Not wanting to continue the topic, the two fell back into silence.
Zhai En’s phone suddenly dinged. He opened it, "The Weibo post is up."
Xia Shi also took out her phone, and sure enough, the official Weibo of "Intrigue Within" had posted an announcement that Xia Weibao would play the role of the female protagonist Mu Shi.
