Chapter 116: Xiao Jiang Zai 23333
Shen Xiumo huffed again and added, “Illegitimate sons are always after the family fortune.”
Thinking this, Shen Xiumo felt a little better.
Xu Mocun continued to pour cold water on him. “Even if Huo Qingyan’s dad really has an illegitimate son, could that son ever beat Huo Qingyan?”
Shen Xiumo: “…”
He was tired. He didn’t want to argue anymore. He wanted to destroy the world.
The theme for the final episode of Are You Happy After the Divorce? was:
—Are you happy now?
This episode’s theme fit the show’s name perfectly.
But the live comments were flooded with talk about Huo Qingyan:
[Just came from Weibo after checking the trending topics!]
[Me too, me too, just finished reading about what happened with Huo Qingyan’s parents.]
[Falling from their own hotel… doesn’t feel like an accident.]
[I feel like Su Su might know something. He looks so somber.]
[Stop with the conspiracy theories. His good friend’s parents passed away, it’d be weird if he wasn’t somber.]
[Agreed…]
The topics in this episode were relatively heavy, all of them controversial questions.
The last question was: Would you get married again?
Tang Juanzi was the first to answer. “Yes, I still really believe in love.”
In the comments, Tang Juanzi’s fans wrote: “Just like Juanzi, I believe in love!”
Other netizens: “Gag.”
Dong Xinyue: “It depends on fate.” A safe and standard answer.
Jiang Su, however, considered it seriously for a moment before saying, “I haven’t thought about it for the time being.”
Fu Jin, naturally, wouldn’t let him off that easily. “Why not?”
Jiang Su gave a very serious answer. “Marriage is a complicated thing, and right now, I just want to focus on my acting.”
Fu Jin, not getting the sharp retort he expected: “…” This felt weirdly unfamiliar.
This was the calmest of the five episodes.
With the show wrapping up perfectly, the happiest person had to be Shen Xiumo.
As soon as filming ended, Shen Xiumo shouted, “Let’s all go for a late-night snack later, my treat!”
The others replied, “Thank you, President Shen.”
Shen Xiumo turned to Jiang Su. “Want to come?”
Jiang Su politely declined. “I’ll pass. I’m a bit tired today.”
“Well…” Shen Xiumo mulled it over. “How about we go to Huo Qingyan’s parents’ funeral together another day?”
Jiang Su paused for a moment, then nodded.
Huo Zhenheng had been a prominent figure in life, so naturally, many people were waiting to pay their respects.
But there was no way Huo Qingyan would hold a funeral for Huo Zhenheng.
Huo Qingyan only held a funeral for Duan Zhixi, and he only invited Jiang Su.
The day of Duan Zhixi’s burial was overcast, and the temperature had dropped sharply.
Jiang Su stood to the side, watching Huo Qingyan kowtow before Duan Zhixi’s grave.
Five years ago, when Huo Qingyan returned, it coincided with the death of Jiang Su’s mother from illness.
Huo Qingyan had also attended the burial of Jiang Su’s mother.
At the end of that funeral, Huo Qingyan had asked him, “Are you okay?”
Jiang Su didn’t speak. Huo Qingyan stared at him for a long while before taking him back to the company.
Back then, Huo Qingyan had just returned and was living at the office every day.
After taking him to the company, Huo Qingyan remained busy with work, but he would wake him up in the morning and call him for lunch.
At night, when Jiang Su couldn’t sleep, Huo Qingyan would get up and work overtime at his desk, while Jiang Su sat nearby playing games.
Huo Qingyan was a man of few words with a strange temper. He didn’t know how to communicate with people, nor did he know how to comfort or listen.
But it was this very person who had once made Jiang Su feel warmth and solace.
Feelings were a messy account, impossible to balance.
Huo Qingyan’s voice suddenly broke the silence.
“Jiang Su, do you think… my mother was truly happy?”
Jiang Su snapped back to the present. “If I were her, I would be truly happy.”
To be free herself, and to have eliminated a future worry for her son—of course, she would be happy.
Although the method she chose was extreme, Jiang Su felt that Auntie Duan would never have resorted to such means unless she truly couldn’t go on living.
Huo Qingyan slowly stood up.
“I heard you’re joining the film crew at the studio city tomorrow?”
“How did you know?” He was indeed scheduled to join the cast of Crime and Fiend tomorrow.
Huo Qingyan just smiled at him. “Have a smooth shoot.”
Jiang Su remembered that Huo Qingyan was the main investor for this drama. With filming officially starting, the production team would certainly have notified him.
But he also noticed that Huo Qingyan was getting better with words these days.
The old Huo Qingyan would never have been able to say things like “Have a smooth shoot” or “I hope your show has a perfect finale.”
Jiang Su sized up Huo Qingyan. “Are you really okay?”
“I couldn’t be better.” Huo Qingyan spoke with a smile, looking calm and peaceful.
A smile on a normal person’s face is a common thing. But Huo Qingyan was not someone who smiled often.
Jiang Su still found it strange. He had felt this strangeness from Huo Qingyan even before Auntie Duan passed away, and it was even stronger now.
Yet, Huo Qingyan’s expression seemed flawless, not like he was faking it.
Jiang Su nodded. “That’s good, then.”
Jiang Su officially joined the cast, and Crime and Fiend held its opening ceremony.
The Crime and Fiend crew posted a group photo on their official Weibo account.
Huo Qingyan liked the post.
And then he was trending again: #HuoQingyanLikesCrimeAndFiendOpeningCeremonyWeibo
The “YanSu” CP fans flocked to the scene.
Huo Qingyan hadn’t expected that just liking a post could make him a trending topic.
Jiang Su had told him before that he didn’t want to attract too much attention because of him.
Zhou Fu came in to deliver some documents and saw Huo Qingyan frowning at his computer. He glanced over and noticed it was the Weibo interface.
Zhou Fu already knew about Huo Qingyan trending for liking the Crime and Fiend post and instantly understood what was troubling him.
He cleverly suggested, “President Huo, you could register a side account.”
Huo Qingyan was puzzled. “A side account?”
Zhou Fu: “…” How could he forget that President Huo was an overbearing CEO with no personal life?
“It means registering a new Weibo account with a random name. No one will know it’s you. You can use it to curse people out, like posts, or declare your love, whatever you want!”
After hearing this, Huo Qingyan had a complicated expression. “Is there anything else?”
Zhou Fu shook his head.
H Huo Qingyan: “Then you may leave.”
Zhou Fu: “Yes, sir.”
As soon as Zhou Fu left, Huo Qingyan started registering a new Weibo account.
When choosing a username, he stared at the screen for a moment, then typed three characters: Xiao Jiang Zai.
After pressing confirm, a message appeared: Nickname unavailable.
The system then recommended several nicknames: XiaoJiangZai23333, XiaoJiangZaiHHHH…
Huo Qingyan chose the first one without a second thought.
The first thing he did after successfully registering the account was to follow Jiang Su.
Among Jiang Su’s fans, eight out of ten had “Xiao Jiang Zai” in their usernames.
So the username “XiaoJiangZai23333” seemed perfectly ordinary and wouldn’t attract any attention at all.
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