Quite awkward

Chapter 179 The Truth About Bridesmaids

Thursday, just as the sky was getting light.

Zhang Pei personally drove to pick up Qi Yu to go to the studio to shoot a fashion magazine.

He turned his head and glanced at her casually, his tone gentle and full of concern.

"Did you have insomnia last night? You haven't been in a good mood recently. Did I assign you too much work?"

After fastening his seat belt, Qi Yu put his bag on his lap, lowered his brows, and shook his head in denial.

“It’s not because of work.”

After Muchenan left that night, she was so anxious that she couldn't sleep the whole night. The next morning, she had to rush to another place to do pre-release promotion work for the movie "Lotus Seed Heart". She spent the next few days in a daze.

Zhang Pei was puzzled and asked casually while starting the car.

“Why is that?”

Qi Yu turned his head to look out the car window, sighed to himself, and told the truth.

"My second brother is going to the United States soon, and I'm a little bit..."

Her voice suddenly stopped. It was difficult to describe her specific mood, and she was unable to confide her inner entanglements to Zhang Pei.

Zhang Pei tilted his head, smiled, and shrugged his shoulders, thinking it was a big deal.

"What's the big deal? I can take you to America to see him later. His house there is like a maze, very large, with a lot of rooms. The distance is not as far as you think. It only takes a dozen hours by plane and you can get there in a short sleep."

For the first time, Qi Yu openly expressed her reluctance to leave Muchenan in front of her acquaintances. She lowered her head and murmured, "This is different. He will settle down there in the future. It will be difficult for him to return to Linjiang."

Zhang Pei had no idea about the complicated thoughts of the woman around him, and he still acted as if he didn't care.

"Oh, I met your second brother a few days ago. I thought he seemed quite calm and nothing happened. After all, this was his family's arrangement, and we outsiders can't say anything."

The sun is shining and the road is smooth.

Qi Yu sat quietly in the car without saying a word, and the emotion in his eyes grew colder.

She sank into her chair, looking depressed and listless.

……

After arriving at the shooting location, Zhang Pei and Qi Yu walked into the studio together under the guidance of the staff.

"This time, the makeup and shooting are from the same team. I don't know their professionalism, but if you have any opinions during the cooperation process, you can directly raise them." Zhang Pei explained as he walked.

Qi Yu nodded in response.

At this time, Xiao He appeared and handed her a cup of American coffee.

"I'll take you to put on makeup."

Zhang Pei raised his chin and urged the two to hurry up, while he turned around to chat with the editor-in-chief of the fashion magazine.

……

Qi Yu changed her clothes, sat in the dressing room, drank half a cup of coffee, and waited for the makeup artist to come and do her makeup.

Xiao He put her hands on her hips and explained, "The makeup artist came just now, but she didn't bring any makeup brushes, so she had to place an order on the food delivery platform. She must have gone downstairs to pick it up."

Qi Yu understood, put down his coffee, and looked at his phone. There was a message from his elder brother on WeChat.

She just glanced at it but didn't reply.

The next moment, the makeup artist rushed in and began to apologize verbally.

“I’m sorry I’m late.”

Qi Yu raised her eyes and looked at the makeup artist in the clean and bright mirror. She immediately turned her head back, her head a little confused.

The makeup artist noticed the cold look in Qi Yu's eyes, and she deliberately broke the stiff atmosphere and laughed a few times.

"Oh, Qi Yu, you won't blame me, right?"

The makeup artist knew in advance that the person he would be serving was Qi Yu, but Qi Yu did not know who the makeup artist was that day.

Qi Yu came back to his senses from his daze, raised the corners of his lips slightly, and gave a friendly smile.

"There's still plenty of time. I'm not in a hurry."

The makeup artist came over, placed the makeup brushes on the table, and asked specifically, "You still remember me?"

"Lin...Lin Yue, Sister Nianhan's cousin."

Lin Yue clapped her hands exaggeratedly and took over the conversation: "We only met once at Brother Mu's wedding. I didn't expect that such a big star would still remember me."

When talking about the wedding, Qi Yu's eyelashes fluttered twice and her face looked a little unnatural.

She replied softly, "I had just graduated and wasn't a star yet. Besides, I was just your bridesmaid, but then... a lot of unpleasant things happened."

Halfway through her words, she paused slightly, her voice growing weaker and weaker, and her mind couldn't help but recall some of the tragic details that happened at her eldest brother's wedding.

Lin Yue is a straightforward person, he just crossed his arms and reflected on himself.

"It's all my fault for being young and willful. Otherwise, the wedding would have gone smoothly and there wouldn't have been so many problems. Even though it's been almost two years, I really regret it. Now my cousin doesn't even talk to me anymore."

Qi Yu thought silently for a few seconds, then asked in a roundabout way, "Why would I blame you? It's clearly all my fault."

Before this, she had always firmly believed that it was Muchen'an who secretly planned and instructed Lin Yue to pretend to be sick before the wedding, and used this as an excuse to force her to be the bridesmaid at her eldest brother's wedding in order to humiliate her.

Lin Yue touched his nose, looking extremely awkward.

"Before the wedding, my cousin asked me to be a bridesmaid, and I agreed without hesitation. Later, my boyfriend found out that the best man was Muchenan. You should remember that there are some interactions between bridesmaids and best men at weddings. Muchenan is tall, handsome, and rich. My boyfriend got jealous and threw a tantrum. I didn't want this to affect our relationship, so I got carried away and pretended to be sick on the wedding day. So, I had to ask you to be a bridesmaid at short notice. Later, because of this incident, I was scolded by my family."

Qi Yu's expression froze.

Because of this misunderstanding, she once treated Mu Chenan coldly, and her heart was filled with estrangement and resentment.

And now, by chance, she accidentally learned the truth about the replacement of bridesmaids that year.

For a moment, she was so surprised that she was speechless.

Although the two of them were at loggerheads and disliked each other at the time, Muchenan did not deliberately target her at the wedding.

All of this was her own unilateral imagination.

It turned out that she had misunderstood Muchenan all along.

"You, are you very familiar with Mu Chenan?" Qi Yu looked up and asked curiously.

Hearing this question, Lin Yue curled her lips and said, "It's all thanks to my cousin that I have the opportunity to talk to such an unattainable man. Last year, when I learned that my cousin was divorced, I went to him to settle the score with him. In the end, he humiliated me instead. Now I feel very embarrassed when I think about it."

last year?

Qi Yu recalled that perhaps it was the time when she took the initiative to go to the Mu Group that she accidentally ran into Mu Chenan and Lin Yue talking in the corner.

Her hands hanging at her sides suddenly clenched into fists, her fingertips digging into her palms, and she felt a burst of tingling pain.

My already fluttering heart seemed to be tightened by a force, and then suddenly shattered like glass.

Pieces of broken glass cannot piece together her complete heart.

It turned out that she had so many misunderstandings about Muchenan.

Xiao He, who was standing by, couldn't help but check the time and couldn't help but interrupt their conversation.

"It's time to put on makeup. Let's talk later."

Qi Yu sat up straight with her back straight to make it easier for Lin Yue to do her makeup and hair style.

She looked at herself in the mirror, with an extremely melancholy and heavy emotion between her brows.

The words Muchenan said before he left that night kept circling in her mind. She closed her eyes to hide the bitterness in her eyes, and her mind gradually returned to normal.

After finishing work today, she must go to Mu Chenan to explain everything clearly.