That night, Su Xiaofei received a video call from Lu Qingfeng after her shower, just as she was getting ready to retire for the night.
As soon as she clicked the accept button, she saw Lu Qingfeng also ready for bed with a familiar scene behind him. So he really did stay in their home while she wasn't around to accompany her mother.
"Did something happen?" He asked as soon as he saw her. "You don't seem in a good mood today. Did that person you mentioned before do something to you?"
Su Xiaofei blinked, before realizing that Lu Qingfeng could understand her better than anyone else even if she didn't say anything.
"Well… he did try to assault me, but Zhang Lan was there to teach him a lesson." She replied, knowing that it would be pointless to hide that information from him as the possibility of the Zhang sisters already relaying the details to him was quite high.
She could see his expression hardened, indicating that he wasn't pleased with what happened.
"Are you sure you are alright?" Lu Qingfeng hated that he wasn't with her personally to keep her safe. It was a good thing that he could rely on the Zhang siblings to look after her.
"Yep. Not a single strand of my hair has been touched by him." She assured him.
"Good." Lu Qingfeng nodded, "I don't want to hear that you've been harmed while you're away from us. So what happened?"
Su Xiaofei then proceeded to share to him the details of the commotion during Tang Liyan's photoshoot that morning and how they managed to fire the rest of the crew later on.
"Does that mean you won't be able to come home as scheduled?" Lu Qingfeng asked her. "I just returned and yet, you aren't here with me."
"I expect that it would be delayed for a day or two, but that depends on how soon Bellissima could replace the rest of the crew." She replied, a slight smile appearing on her lips as she thought that it was a good feeling to know that someone's waiting for her back home.
In her previous life, after Lu Qingfeng had fallen into a coma and her mother's death, Su Xiaofei felt more alone than ever. She couldn't even get in touch with Xi Qian as she had moved away and lived quite a distance from Qiying City after marrying Mo Yuchen.
"It's only a few days of delay, I'm sure I'll be home before you know it. I'm just worried about Mama." She sighed. "I have this nagging feeling that she isn't telling me something."
"Perhaps Aunty Qing isn't ready to tell you herself and didn't mean to make you worry. Do you want me to ask her instead?"
"No." Su Xiaofei declined his offer. "If what you said is right, then I should wait till Mama tells me herself. It must be something serious and she didn't want me to worry."
"I see." Lu Qingfeng nodded. "I'll keep an eye on her just in case. If it's serious, then Aunty Qing would have no choice but to tell you what's going on sooner or later."
"Thank you." Su Xiaofei felt really happy to have someone like Lu Qingfeng in her life. She was thankful that she hadn't lost her chance to be with him in this lifetime.
"There's no need to thank me, Feifei. Aunty Qing isn't a stranger to me anyway, and I care about the people you love." Lu Qingfeng assured her, wanting nothing more but for her to be happy and content this time around.
"By the way, I already talked to Song Yiran about us wanting to buy shares from Golden Star, but he said it would be better if the Mo family can't trace it back to us."
"Then what do we do?" Su Xiaofei had already expected that devouring Golden Star Entertainment from the inside wouldn't be easy. Even if she had achieved her one hundred million target, there was no assurance that she would succeed.
"We are thinking of starting a new company from scratch and getting a proxy to represent us." He replied, "but Feifei, it would be expensive as we have to make it look like it's a real company and not just a shell company."
Su Xiaofei flopped on her bed and turned to look at the monitor of her laptop.
"There goes my money." She grunted. What's the point of going through the pain of saving all that money if she could lose it even before getting what she wanted? Su Xiaofei supposed that it was a reasonable exchange for what she wished to realise her goal.
"I know a better way to grow your money." Her boyfriend suddenly said with a teasing tone that Su Xiaofei didn't miss.
"Oh? Then Mr. Lu, do you mind sharing with me what it is?" She raised a slender brow.
"You know what it is." Lu Qingfeng gave her a grin. "You only need to accept your fate a little earlier, Miss Su."
Su Xiaofei scoffed at that and rolled her eyes. She knew that this was his attempt to calm her down and make her forget her worries.
"Mr. Lu, don't you know? Patience is a virtue. You have waited years for me and now I'm already your fiancée. Why are you rushing me to become Mrs. Lu this early?"
"Why not? It's my dream to marry you. Of course, I can't wait for that day to come." Lu Qingfeng said in defense. He had missed his chance to be with her twice, so it's only natural that he was on guard this time.
There's no way he would allow another man to take her away again. Like Mo Yuchen said before, his logical mind was almost non existing when it came to Su Xiaofei.. Even if the whole world hated her, he would become her world and love her with all he had.
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