I Refused to Be a Substitute, and Shot to Fame on a Variety Show With My Mother-In-Law

104 Pei Jingzhou: You’re very important!

He forcefully suppressed this urge. When he returned to his room, he could not fall asleep. He stayed by Li Xiwu’s bed all night and called Chen Xin at dawn to ask him to drive over. After that, he went out the door and sat in the car, waiting patiently.

Li Xiwu studied Pei Jingzhou’s face intently and called out, “Fourth Brother.” Pei Jingzhou came back to his senses and looked at her. Li Xiwu asked calmly, “What were you thinking at the moment the car hit?”

Pei Jingzhou looked into Li Xiwu’s eyes and replied, “I’m thinking about what you want to eat tonight. I’ll take you out to eat or cook for you.”

Li Xiwu choked on a laugh. “Don’t you think it’s not worth it?”

Pei Jingzhou reached out and wrapped his arm around her lower back, pulling her closer to him. “Do you not know how important you are?”

Li Xiwu’s breath caught. Was she the important one? Or was ‘she’ important? She had always been able to differentiate between herself and the ‘she’ in his heart. The one who could not differentiate them was Pei Jingzhou. Did he completely treat her as ‘her’ by doing this for her?

Thinking of this, Li Xiwu was surprisingly calm.

That was the end of the topic. Li Xiwu had more important things to do next. She raised her hand to check her wristwatch. There were still ten minutes before the live broadcast. There was still time to rush back. She stood up. “Fourth Brother, I have to go back to Fu Town.”

Pei Jingzhou sat still and only nodded.

Li Xiwu’s gaze landed on his arm. She couldn’t help but remind him, “Your hand injury is quite serious. Watch your work and rest.”

Pei Jingzhou looked at her, his expression as if he did not hear clearly. “What?”

Li Xiwu said, “You hurt your hand, not your ear.”

Pei Jingzhou smiled. “My hand is injured, but it seems to have pulled the nerves in front of my ears. It more or less affected me.”

Li Xiwu: “…”

In the past, Li Xiwu would not have fallen for it. She knew that this was his trick. Now, seeing that his hand was injured for her, Li Xiwu reluctantly accommodated him. She sat down and leaned close to him. “Today is the last day of the second episode. I’ll go back to Lake Lu tonight.”

Pei Jingzhou’s eyes suddenly darkened.

Li Xiwu smiled. “What a pity. Fourth Brother’s hand was injured.” With that, she started to get up.

Pei Jingzhou grabbed her wrist and pulled her back easily. “Are you leaving just like that?”

Li Xiwu raised her eyebrows. “Huh?”

Pei Jingzhou said, “You came here specially to ask about my arrangements. Do you have anything else to say?”

Li Xiwu asked, “What does Fourth Brother want to hear?”

Pei Jingzhou said, “You know what I like to hear.”

“That’s unfortunate. I don’t know.” She nimbly withdrew her hand from his, but didn’t immediately stand up to leave. Instead, she reached out and pinched Pei Jingzhou’s face. “I’ll handle the matters in the afternoon. Fourth Brother, return to Lake Lu to recuperate early. I’ll try to come back as soon as possible.”

Pei Jingzhou often pinched Li Xiwu’s face in the past like this. Of course he didn’t use any strength. It was just a gentle pinch on her cheek, like he was teasing her. Now, Li Xiwu had ‘taken advantage’ of Pei Jingzhou and used the small actions he liked to do to her previously on him.

Pei Jingzhou smiled faintly. “Have you become bold?”

Li Xiwu didn’t think much of it. “So this is how it feels to pinch a human face.”

Li Xiwu was satisfied that she had teased him. However, Pei Jingzhou could not bear to let her go. He wanted to press her down and cuddle with her. When he hugged her waist, he sighed. “If I had known earlier, I would have coaxed you back to Lake Lu.”

There were two meanings to that statement. She knew them both.

…

Li Xiwu came out of the president’s office.

Wang Kaiheng, who was in the secretary’s seat, suddenly stood up. “Mrs. Pei!”

Li Xiwu was not in a hurry to leave. Instead, she walked up to Wang Kaiheng. “Tell President Pei to get off work at four sharp. Tell him I said so.”

This was easy! Wang Kaiheng nodded in agreement. “Don’t worry, Mrs. Pei. I’ll definitely tell him.”

Li Xiwu reminded him, “Call me if he doesn’t listen.”

Wang Kaiheng tried his best to suppress the smile on his lips. “Okay, Mrs. Pei.” After agreeing, he asked, “Is Mrs. Pei coming to pick up President Pei tonight?”

This time, it was Li Xiwu’s turn to become speechless. After a few seconds of silence, she answered, “Yes.”

Wang Kaiheng said, “Okay, Mrs. Pei. I’ll inform President Pei.”

Li Xiwu was speechless once again. Before she left, she reminded him, “Prepare a light lunch for him.”

Wang Kaiheng could barely suppress his smile. “We’ll definitely do as Mrs. Pei instructed.”

Li Xiwu pursed her lips. She recalled that every time she came to the Pei Corporation, it was always with the formation of the legal wife. Of course, be it the Pei Corporation or R.E. As long as it was an employee who often appeared beside Pei Jingzhou, they all knew her and had never mistaken her for someone else.

It seemed to be a secret marriage, but it was not entirely a secret marriage. For example, after Pei Jingzhou appeared on this variety show recently, their relationship was no longer a secret marriage.

Thinking that there was still a tough battle ahead, Li Xiwu sighed and went downstairs to drive away from the Pei Corporation.

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Back in Fu Town.

Li Xiwu parked the car and walked into the inn while looking at her phone.

Currently, the heated discussion on Weibo is almost over. There were no relevant entries on the trending searches. It was only by manual search that the relevant public opinion appeared. A photo of Chi Xu waking up in the hospital and being interviewed by an entertainment reporter in the ward with a neck brace appeared in front of Li Xiwu.

Chi Xu looked very miserable.

[They suppressed the trending searches just like that. Is this the power of capital? How can a corporate executive be so capable?]

[Chi Xu is really miserable!!]

[Although the cause of this matter is Zheng Yuehua’s fault, Li Xiwu’s husband’s revenge is too terrifying. He drove into someone? It refreshed my worldview.]

[Help! I was crazily CPing Li Xiwu and her husband yesterday, but my house collapsed today?]

[Chi Xu looks so pitiful. His neck can’t move at all. It’s not easy to expose this matter under such pressure.]

[Xie Wen is probably the most devastated now. She treated Li Xiwu as her best life mentor, but her life mentor’s husband drove his car and hit her husband.]

[F*ck! Wave after wave of things have happened. Don’t ruin my appetizer variety show.]

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[Is Mother-in-Law Joy still live-streaming? Will Li Xiwu still appear on camera?]

[The power of capital is too strong. It’s gone before the trending searches are stable. Forget it, I’ll wait for today’s live broadcast.]

[I’m standing neutrally until now, waiting for Li Xiwu to refute the rumors.]

…

Because it had decreased in popularity, there were not many comments.

However, almost all these comments were sympathetic with Chi Xu’s current encounter. Some netizens were still very rational and maintained a wait-and-see attitude. The police had yet to announce the exact reason for the car accident. Netizens also wanted to know if Li Xiwu would refute the rumors next.

After all, the favorable impression Li Xiwu had accumulated on the show over the past few days was more than the disgust of this incident.

Li Xiwu turned off her phone and went in. Just as she reached the threshold, she heard the conversation between Han Qianye and Min Hanrong.

From the conversation, Min Hanrong should also be watching the show on the front line. As she spoke, Min Hanrong began to insult Han Qianye. Her tone was extremely uncomfortable.

Han Qianye ignored her at first, but later, she got angry and asked inexplicably, “I heard that your husband is the richest man in Hong Kong?”

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