IHWL – Chapter 91

Chapter 91: Long-Distance Relationship

    With a sharp maneuver, Dean Zhang easily stripped Su Jishi off her vest. It really made her sigh —— Old but still spicy.

    The matter had already reached this point, so Su Jishi was also unwilling to continue pretending. She scratched her messy hair, and without vacillating on her decision, she told him about her identity swapping with her sister.

    The dean was dumbfounded and gave her thumb’s up: “You young people are really good at playing.”

    Su Jishi sighed: “The entertainment industry is too deep. We could only resort to that.”

    She said, “I hope you’ll keep my secret. Now that everything is back on track, my sister continues to be a starlet, and I’m here studying, which, to be honest, could have been kept a secret if you hadn’t happened to come into contact with me.”

    However, Dean Zhang did not think so.

    “You are still too young. If you had reached my age, you would have known that there is no secret in this world that would never be revealed.” Dean Zhang laughed at her lack of thoroughness, shaking his head and saying, “I was sent to the exchange today, and someone else may be sent next tomorrow… Even if you don’t do research at school, and go to the Arctic Circle to study the polar regions, there is also a Chinese scientific research team there, right?”

    Su Jishi said, “But I’ve never been found before.”

    “Before is before, now is now. Before, you two sisters were parallel lines without intersections. Now that you have, things are different.”

    Dean Zhang had pointed as far as he could, and the rest was for Su Jishi to figure out by herself.

    The next day, Dean Zhang followed the delegation to Lin City.

    Su Jishi was freed for a while. She should have been working on her dissertation, but she was distracted by Dean Zhang’s advice.

    She tried to work hard on her thesis, and finally finished it before the deadline.

    By the time she sat on her defense desk, she barely slept more than three hours in a row for several days.

    At the end of the defense, Su Jishi returned to her dormitory, turned off her phone and threw away her computer, and fell asleep. When she opened her eyes again, it was already the next afternoon —— She had slept for more than 20 hours.

    She got up from the bed with dishevelled hair and ate a good meal before she opened her phone that was flooded with messages in a daze. There were messages from friends and relatives asking about the results of her defense, as well as emails from the school notifying her.

    Su Jishi thought for a while, and the first phone call was made to her sister.

    Su Jinqing was filming a movie, and her phone was in Lin Yan’s hand. Since she returned to China, Lin Yan also followed back and stayed beside her as a bodyguard. He sported a cold demeanor and never smiled. With just a sweeping glance, be it paparazzis or overzealous fans, no one dared to approach. His majesty just shook the four corners.

    An incident happened recently —— When Su Jinqing went to Shanghai to shoot, she was surrounded by wild fans. More than 50 people rushed down from three Wuling Hongguang((a vehicle brand))! The more people gathered, the more frenzied the fans were. They stuck all kinds of cameras and selfie sticks towards Su Jinqing’s face. However, Su Su Jinqing was wearing high heels and had trouble dodging. She took off her high heels and carried them in her hands, intending to escape barefoot, only to have Lin Yan suddenly pick her up!

    She let out a shriek, and the fans around her were also confused. Lin Yan took advantage of their confusion, let her lie on his shoulders, and carried her on a two-kilometer run, losing all those frenzied fans!

    Because Su Jinqing was wearing a short skirt that day, Lin Yan was afraid she would appear naked, so he held her with one arm and kept the other hand on her thighs, pressing her skirt in place.

    The picture was captured on film and uploaded to major social media. Some people praised Su Jin’s bodyguard as manly or a Bursting Alpha. Others scolded him for intentionally mooching. Of course, more people came forward to accuse the overzealous fans’ shamelessness … In short, fans and anti-fans started a fan war, causing Su Jin’s name to hang on the hot search for several days.

    However, the entertainment industry had always been like this. When there are no hot topics, you must stir some up.

    Fang Xie sent out an announcement notice on the studio’s official account, warning overzealous fans not to intrude too much into their artist’s life. When the heat dissipated, Su Jinqing could finally enjoy a few days of peace and quietly filmed scenes.

    When Su Jishi’s call came through, Su Jinqing was in front of the camera and acting with someone.

    Her contract was about to expire, and she had no intention of renewing it. The agency was keeping the news tightly under wraps, trying to squeeze more oil out of her before her contract expired.

    Consequently, she has been busy every day recently. She was working on three dramas. Not only was she slandered behind her back by other actors in the same cast, but she also had to endure the mockery of her haters.

    If not for Fang Xie’s best efforts to protect her, the agency would have taken on two more variety shows!

    Seeing that her sister was so busy, Su Jishi didn’t waste time and simply informed her that she passed her defense. Her graduation ceremony was only half a month later, so she also asked her if she had time to participate.

    Su Jinqing’s smile dimmed for a moment. She replied softly, “…I’m sorry.”

    “……” Su Jishi understood tactfully that her sister was unable to leave, but this was to be expected. Noticing her sad frown, Su Jishi coaxed her, “It’s okay. When the time comes, I’ll let Mu Xiulun hold up his phone and live stream for you.”

    The sisters gossiped for a while, before a staff came to rush Su Jinqing to another scene. They could only hastily end the call and agree  to talk again the next week.

    The sister ranked first, so President Mu could only be condemned to the second rank.

    Hence, Su Jishi made another call to Mu Xiulun. It was just that Mu Xiulun was in a meeting and hung up on her twice in a row.

    Half an hour later, Mu Xiulun called back.

    Su Jishi just finished taking a shower and was only wrapped in a bathrobe, dripping wet. Her breasts were half exposed in the light, the globes full and round.

    The video was connected, and the scenery that greeted the man at the other end of the screen immediately tightened his throat. Everything that he wanted to say was all forgotten.

    Su Jishi laughed at him: “Why are you pretending? It’s not like you haven’t seen them before.”

    “I really haven’t seen them.”

    Su Jishi said, “Mr. Mu, need I remind you? —— Someone chased me for thousands of miles to some small hotel in Xinjiang without a star rating. When you saw me then, I was wearing a bathrobe, wasn’t I?”

    It was there that Su Jishi exposed the goods for inspection. After the inspection, she felt that the goods were good, so she pushed the boat along the water and didn’t leave the goods behind.

    A certain man who was treated as a goods said hoarsely: “…I really do not remember. They were all deleted clean.”

    Su Jishi asked suspiciously, “…Who deleted them?”

    “I didn’t know it was deleted either,” Mu Xiulun said lightly, “Anyway, I can’t recall you wearing a bathrobe. Why don’t you stand up and take a turn so I can see more and jog my memory?”

    So Su Jishi posed several times in her bathrobe.

    Some with her puffy chest half exposed, and some with her long legs raised high. Finally, she turned her back, untied the belt, and let the bathrobe slide down her shoulders inch by inch, eventually following the curve of her body and falling to the floor.

    A vivid painting unfolded in front of Mu Xiulun’s eyes, but the two of them were separated by a distance of 108,000 miles. He could only see and in no way could swallow.

    He gradually felt parched.

    The air conditioning in the office wasn’t enough. He unbuttoned his collar and pulled his tie loose with sparks of fire gradually igniting in his eyes.

    Su Jishi had no idea what it meant by knowing when to stop. Since Mu Xiulun wanted to see, let him see enough.

    She walked around the room so graciously that Mu Xiulun couldn’t stand it anymore and knocked on the table, reminding her gruffly, “Put your clothes on.”

    Su Jishi looked at him with her chin high and retorted, “I’m in my own room. If you don’t like to watch, you can turn the video off.”

    Can Mu Xiulun not like to watch her?

    Mu Xiulun could only curse himself inwardly. He deserved it. He just had to provoke this queen.

    Su Jishi had enough cooling. With her toes hooked, she picked up a shirt from the sofa and casually slipped it on.

    The shirt was extraordinarily wide, several sizes larger than her figure. When the hemline dropped, it directly covered her thighs, but when she walked, it ambiguously outlined the curve of her buttocks.

    Mu Xiulun was stunned and was somewhat lost for words: “…You took my shirt?”

    Su Jishi deliberately reasoned, “Who asked you to have none of my pajamas in your apartment? I left with what’s at hand.”

    She said it with a straight face.

    Of course, Mu Xiulun also found nothing wrong with her argument. He even felt that she did wonderful, superb. It was just that taking a shirt was too little. If she took a tie with her, it would have been even better.

    The two were separated by the time difference. The sun on Su Jishi’s side had already set, but Mu Xiulun was still working at his desk.

    Su Jishi told him about her successful defense and the date of her graduation ceremony.

    Mu Xiulun had long promised Su Jishi that when she graduated, he would personally be there to watch the ceremony. For this reason, he specially vacated his work around July.

    The two continued chatting. However, Su Jishi’s shirt was too baggy on her. The hem loosened underneath, and the girl’s torso was exposed provocatively, attracting the man’s attention all the time.

    Mu Xiulun wanted to talk about business, but before he could string a couple of sentences, a capering monkey kept jumping around his mind.

    Su Jishi feigned ignorance to his reaction and deliberately talked randomly about some non-nutritious topics with him.

    All of a sudden, her eyebrows wrinkled on the screen, and her expression went stiff. 

    Mu Xiulun immediately dumped those tempting thoughts and asked her what happened.

    Su Jishi didn’t bother to reply, and instead pursed her lips. She picked up her phone and quickly operated it. Two fingers leapt on the screen, and it looked like she was replying to some email.

    After replying to the email, Su Jishi’s face became even worse.

    “…Anything that can go wrong will indeed go wrong,” Su Jishi said with a headache.

    Mu Xiulun: “What happened?”

    Su Jishi: “I told you, right? Before Dean Zhang left, he told me not to take chances and be careful, lest my identity will be exposed. I didn’t take it to heart at that time…” She laughed bitterly and said, I’m afraid I’m really going to be exposed this time!

    “What’s going on?”

    Su Jishi said with a sore head, “Just now, my mentor sent me an email, saying that since my defense is over, and I have nothing to do, I will be sent to Yellowstone Park to take a ‘treasure’ —— A week later, the Institute of Geology of the Chinese Academy of Geosciences has organize a group of outstanding students for a field trip out in Yellowstone.”