Chapter 152: Joy for Some, Sorrow for Others

Chapter 152 -133: Joy for Some, Sorrow for Others

‘Does she have any shame? Flaunting her relationship with my ex-husband like this. Isn’t she afraid of becoming a laughingstock?’

As Wang Meng watched Yan Li’s face turn from livid to deathly pale, she didn’t even dare to breathe.

She lowered her head, stealing a glance at Yan Li out of the corner of her eye, her face etched with anxiety.

Yan Li took a long moment to recover before narrowing her eyes and leaning back in her chair.

She looked at Wang Meng pensively. “The livestream already has thirty thousand viewers. Tell me… how many of them are from our company? How many know that Xiao Ran is my ex-husband?”

‘If everyone finds out, what will they think?’

‘What will they take me for? A joke?’

‘It’s one thing for them to be together, but to flaunt their love on a livestream? Aren’t they just pushing my buttons?!’

Wang Meng was stumped by Yan Li’s questions. She swallowed hard and hurriedly tried to reassure her. “I doubt anyone from our company is watching. After all, everyone’s busy with work…”

Even as she said it, she didn’t believe her own words.

It’s always been true: good news never gets out the door, but bad news travels a thousand miles!

This sort of thing might not spread elsewhere, but in a densely populated place like an office, if one person finds out, soon it’ll be a hundred, then two hundred. It wouldn’t even take an afternoon—the entire company would know for sure!

Yan Li gave a bitter smile. She placed her hands on the desk and looked at Wang Meng with a helpless expression. “Then how do you think I found out?”

‘Someone already knows!’

‘Before the night is over, I’ll be a complete joke!’

‘I’m the head of a company! How am I supposed to lead anyone with a straight face after this?!’

At a loss for what to say, Wang Meng didn’t know how to console Yan Li. She stammered, “Pres-President Yan…”

Her face grim, Yan Li snatched the phone from her desk and decisively called Yan Xici.

‘A livestream like this is just grinding my reputation into the dust!’

Her objective was clear: she wanted her sister to end the livestream at once!

‘The fewer people who know, the better!’

Unfortunately, the phone was in Xu Cheng’s hands. It was his first time seeing a stream with so many viewers.

He was high on the excitement and, fearing the call would interrupt the stream, quickly rejected it.

‘Even if God himself showed up today, this livestream has to go on!’

‘After all, I’m the one benefiting from all this publicity!’

The oblivious girl was busy clutching the reins, her back straight, earnestly savoring this happy moment with her Brother Xiao Ran.

Her limpid eyes were brimming with adoration.

Watching the livestream continue on her screen and listening to the busy signal in her ear, Yan Li could no longer contain her suppressed rage.

‘She didn’t even answer the phone!’

‘What is that supposed to mean?’

‘I already agreed to them being together, so why has no one spared a single thought for me through all of this?’

‘Are they trying to drive me into a corner?!!!’

She quickly opened her contacts and called Xiao Ran.

‘I don’t care which one of them does it, but this livestream has to stop. Now!’

‘So many people know Xiao Ran was my husband. For him to be so publicly online with my sister now… what is this, if not a deliberate attempt to ruin me?’

‘They might not care about their reputations, but I still care about mine!’

Unfortunately, Xiao Ran didn’t answer the phone either.

It wasn’t intentional. The fifteen-minute horseback riding session was just coming to an end.

They had reached the end of the riding track.

Afraid that Yan Xici might fall off the horse, Xiao Ran simply stood below with his arms outstretched, ready to catch her.

‘That way, if she falls, I can catch her!’

The lights hit his face, making his already chiseled features look even more handsome.

The sight made Yan Xici’s heart melt.

Her long eyelashes fluttered, and her face was filled with happiness.

She carefully gripped the reins, shifted into a slight standing position, and then lifted her left leg slightly, swinging it gracefully over the horse’s back.

Then, opening her arms wide, she leaped toward Xiao Ran below.

He felt her warm, petite body land in his arms.

Xiao Ran was taken aback for a moment. ‘Good grief, she’s really not afraid of falling, is she?’

‘Does she trust me this much?’

He set the girl on the ground and gave her head an affectionate ruffle.

“Alright, no more messing around!”

The girl pouted, clearly not having had her fill of being held.

‘Happy times are always so fleeting. It’s really true. I didn’t even get to feel his heartbeat before we were forced apart. So heartless…’

The two of them were so lovey-dovey that you could practically smell the sickeningly sweet scent of new love through the screen.

The viewers couldn’t help but exclaim that this wasn’t a livestream, it was a TV drama—and a romance one at that.

This is so good!!!

Female viewers, in particular, started spamming again: “My taste is trash and I am LIVING for this!”

…

Listening to the busy signal, watching the sweet scene on the video, and seeing all the supportive scrolling comments, Yan Li felt like she was about to snap. She was grinding her molars so hard she thought they would shatter.

‘Those two have really gone too far!’

She bit her lip and dialed her mother’s number.

‘If I can’t get through to them, I’ll let Mom do the talking!’

‘This livestream has to stop today!!!!’

‘So many people know that Xiao Ran and I were married. As he and Yan Xici get more famous, that whole affair will definitely be dug up and twisted into something unrecognizable!’