Is Xie Yanli even a normal man? Faced with such a sweet and soft fairy wife in his bed, he just gives up like that? Didn't he even try to persist a little and coax her?!

Qin Fan took a deep breath and rolled over with the blanket, her back to him.

Huffy, she tossed and turned for half the night before finally drifting off into a groggy sleep at some unknown hour.

The next day, sunlight pierced through the floor-to-ceiling windows and fell evenly on Qin Fan's sleeping face. She whimpered with her eyes closed and slowly sat up.

The thin blanket slid smoothly down her silky skin.

Qin Fan's stretch paused—

She looked down at her fair, beautiful, and perfectly curved yet completely naked body, and was shocked.

Damn it!

Where was the shirt she was wearing?!

Her legal bedmate next to her was, as usual, gone. Qin Fan pounded the bed. It was obvious who the culprit was!

Qin Fan thought about how a certain man had so obediently gone to sleep last night. She never would have expected him to pull such a sneaky trick while she was still asleep in the morning.

The fairy is very angry, and the consequences will be severe.

However, Qin Fan's anger lasted only until she went downstairs.

Because—

As soon as Qin Fan reached the living room, she was warmly greeted by the butler: "Madam, the master had all the new items from B Brand's next season sent over in advance. They have been placed in your walk-in closet."

Qin Fan's slight annoyance from being tricked early in the morning was instantly resolved after receiving the richly illustrated brochure for the new collection from the butler.

For a woman, there's nothing that a set of jewelry, a dress, a bag, or a pair of shoes can't heal. If it can't be healed, then just get a hundred more of each.

Flipping through the brochure, the corners of Qin Fan's lips curled up—

That dog of a man knows what's good for him.

Originally, Qin Fan planned to forgive him just like that.

Who knew that she wouldn't see that dog of a man's face again for the entire month leading up to her joining the cast of Feng Hua.

The international collaboration that Xie Yanli had been busy with recently had reached its final stages, requiring him to personally fly abroad to oversee the situation.

During this time, Qin Fan was busy poring over her script, honing her acting skills.

If it weren't for the occasional gifts from Xie Yanli that she received from the butler, and their chat history on her phone which was cleaner than his face, there were moments when she truly suspected she might have been widowed.

According to Pei Feng's usual filming habits, before the official start of shooting for Feng Hua, there would be a week of script reading.

On the day of the script reading, Qin Fan saw a figure in the conference hall who shouldn't have been there.

Qin Yuzhi was truly a lingering ghost.

Xiao Tu whispered in Qin Fan's ear, "Here she comes, here she comes, Sister Fanfan. She's not here to steal the female lead role from you again, is she?"

Qin Fan gave her a cold look for a second, then casually found a seat. With so many actors and staff members around, even someone as arrogant as Qin Yuzhi wouldn't dare to snatch the female lead role here.

After all, she still had to maintain her image as a pure goddess.

Qin Yuzhi sat down next to her, acting as if she were very familiar with Qin Fan. "Fanfan, I got the role of the third female lead. We'll be seeing each other day and night on set from now on."

The third female lead?

This was the role Qin Fan had initially competed for—the male lead's White Moonlight, whose character type clashed with the female lead.

Qin Fan was completely uninterested. "Oh, congratulations then?"

Seeing that Qin Fan couldn't be bothered with her, Qin Yuzhi wasn't angry.

Because she knew that soon, Qin Fan wouldn't be able to smile.

She flipped open a page of the script she had received in advance. "Seeing this White Moonlight character, I was suddenly reminded of something."

"Did you know President Xie also had a White Moonlight back in his school days? After she went abroad, President Xie still couldn't forget her. The string of black Buddhist beads on his wrist, which he never takes off, is said to be a gift from that White Moonlight."

Qin Fan's fingertips, which were on the script, suddenly froze.

Not because of the White Moonlight, but because of that string of Buddhist beads.

She glanced indifferently at Qin Yuzhi, who was excitedly talking about Xie Yanli's White Moonlight. "How many times have you even seen him? How do you know he never takes off those beads?"

At home, she rarely saw Xie Yanli wear them.

Qin Yuzhi was at a loss for words.

She really hadn't seen Xie Yanli that many times.

Her gaze swept over Qin Fan's face, which was exquisite and beautiful even without makeup. She forced herself to remain calm, but the smile on her lips stiffened considerably. "Don't be so naive. President Xie will never truly fall in love with another woman. The reason I was unwilling to marry him back then was precisely because I knew he had a White Moonlight hidden in his heart for many years. Otherwise, how would it have been your turn to marry him?"

"I know my own limits. I could never win against that woman, Cheng Xi."

Qin Fan lowered her lashes and suddenly let out a sneer. "Stop flattering yourself. You think you're in any position to be picky about Xie Yanli?"

Qin Yuzhi: "..."

Choking on her words several times in a row, she took a deep breath to keep from losing control in front of so many people. Finally, she threw out a parting shot, "I was just giving you a kind reminder. It's fine if you don't believe me."

Qin Yuzhi, being kind?

Qin Fan might as well believe that this dog of a man, Xie Yanli, could turn into an absolute sweetheart.

Both were equally impossible.

When she saw Jiang Rong in the nanny van, Qin Fan boarded the car suspiciously. "Weren't you supposed to be negotiating a new endorsement deal today?"

Jiang Rong waited for Qin Fan to sit down before personally handing her a cup of coffee. "It's done. I came to pick you up."

Qin Fan's red lips touched the rim of the cup as she took a small sip. "Didn't you say coffee affects figure management?"

As a female star with self-discipline, even though the steaming coffee was tempting, Qin Fan only took a sip and didn't drink any more.

Jiang Rong cleared her throat. "Drinking it occasionally can help regulate your mood."

"My mood is just fine," Qin Fan said, baffled. "It doesn't need regulating."

Jiang Rong silently handed over a tablet. "Soon, it won't be."

Qin Fan took it instinctively—

Jiang Rong was muttering in her ear, "You must stay calm. You know how the news likes to exaggerate things. It's probably not what it looks like."

"Think carefully, have you and President Xie had any misunderstandings recently?"

Qin Fan looked at the news headline displayed on the screen:

【Business World's Bodhisattva Xie Yanli Personally Welcomes Socialite Cheng Xi's Return to the Country. An Affectionate Gaze at the Airport Sparks Rumors of a Rekindled Fairy-Tale Romance.】

Even more eye-catching was the accompanying photo—

A proper and noble man was gazing at a woman in a moon-white long dress who exuded an air of gentle, aloof pride. The man, who was usually stern and unsmiling, actually had a faint curve to his thin lips, as if he were smiling.

Qin Fan suddenly thought about Xie Yanli's behavior recently.

No sign of him, but a constant stream of gifts.

Weren't these the signs of a man about to cheat???