After Being Blackened All Over the Internet, I Ruled the Military Variety Shows
Chapter 558 - 548: Sleet and Falling Snow

Chapter 558: Chapter 548: Sleet and Falling Snow

Cheng Qian got up to leave after achieving his goal.

Han Jiaojiao clutched the card in her hand, sweating before picking up the phone on the table to examine the card under its light.

The black and gold design was high-end and luxurious, but it couldn’t change the fact that it was a room card for one of the rooms in the club.

After memorizing the room number and putting the card away, she noticed the message Pei Xinyuan had sent her more than ten minutes ago.

She tightened her grip before starting to type, "I’ll be filming all night, not going back, don’t wait for me, sleep early."

After sending the message, Han Jiaojiao took a deep breath.

Originally, she and Pei Xinyuan shared everything with each other, seeking refuge together in this vast film city.

But now she couldn’t even count how many lies she had told as if she could never return to the past!

The gathering didn’t end until the early hours of the morning. Han Jiaojiao saw Mr. Bai being surrounded as he left the private room, so she quickly grabbed her bag and phone to follow.

However, while trying to dodge people and head to the room on the card, she got lost in the club’s labyrinthian corridors, and when she finally found the room, she only took a moment to smooth her hair before swiping the card to enter.

Only a few spotlights were lit in the spacious luxurious room. She held her breath and tip-toed carefully further inside, about to pass through the small outer living area, when the bathroom door opened from the inside.

She quickly turned her head to look and saw Mr. Bai in a bathrobe, looking at her with a somewhat surprised expression.

She instantly became nervous, "Mr. Bai, I, I am..."

"Did Cheng Qian give you the room card?"

"Y-Yes."

"Oh, I see, come in."

Han Jiaojiao patted her flushed face and followed, silently comforting herself.

This Mr. Bai had a decent build and a proper appearance, courteous and seemingly with a good temper.

After all, it didn’t seem like she was at a loss.

But this self-comfort shattered when he opened the inner room door, revealing two pairs of eyes looking at her from inside.

What was more overwhelming was Mr. Bai’s words: "She’s here, take a look. I think she’s not bad."

In the dead of night, three men, all in bathrobes, gazed at her as if appraising an object.

Han Jiaojiao froze, unable to move.

What did Cheng Qian take her for!

Seeing she wasn’t moving, the two men simply got up and walked over, prompting Han Jiaojiao to pinch herself hard, the pain finally bringing her voice back. She took several steps back and hastily explained, "S-Sorry, I must’ve gone to the wrong room. I’m leaving, leaving now!"

Saying that, she turned to bolt towards the door.

Even though she had compromised some of her principles to achieve fame, she couldn’t do something that crossed such a line!

Even Mr. Bai hadn’t expected the duck voluntarily walking into the trap to suddenly try to fly away. In the brief moment of his surprise, she had already dashed to the door, reaching to open it.

He chased her unhurriedly, "Miss, it’s not fair of you to act like this. I can guess why you came here. Are you sure you want to give up this opportunity, no, all future opportunities? Trust me, I definitely have that power."

Han Jiaojiao turned a deaf ear and reached to twist the door handle.

Finding it wouldn’t turn, in desperation, she lifted her foot to kick.

The noise finally changed the expression on Mr. Bai’s face behind her; the previously gentle mask dropped as he reached to grab Han Jiaojiao’s hair and drag her back, "Ungrateful child, don’t blame me for being rough with you later!"

...

The club was lively all night long. Even when fine sleet started falling in the middle of the night, it didn’t affect the all-night revelry of those in the perpetually climate-controlled indoors.

Until a loud crash sounded, followed by a luxury car’s alarm going off, triggering the lights and alarms of other cars.

Soon, the club’s revelry was put on pause.

Not long after, the sounds of police sirens and ambulances almost simultaneously blared.

Pei Xinyuan didn’t sleep well, exhausted from chaotic dreams. When she opened her eyes and reached for her phone on the bedside table, it wasn’t even 3 a.m.

Yet she couldn’t fall back asleep at all.

So she threw off the covers to get up, pulling open the curtains to see occasional sparkling sights under the streetlights outside, "It’s snowing!"

Before she could open the window to catch the season’s first snowflake in the Imperial City, her phone, tossed aside in the covers, suddenly rang.

"Who could be calling me at this hour?"

Walking back, she saw the note displayed on the screen, and for some reason, her heart suddenly skipped a beat. Coming to her senses, she had already answered the call and put the phone to her ear.

"Jiaojiao, why so late..."

But the voice that came through was a strange woman’s, interrupting her with a tone carrying a barely discernible sympathy, "We traced your number as the last contact from Han Jiaojiao’s phone. You’re her good friend, right? She fell from a building and is now in emergency care at the Imperial City Third Hospital. Could you come over if it’s convenient?"

Pei Xinyuan didn’t even know how she left the rental apartment.

When she came to her senses, she was already standing under a streetlight with her phone, hailing a cab.

She was still wearing the furry pajamas she and Han Jiaojiao bought together not long ago, cotton slippers on her feet, and she didn’t even think to bring an umbrella.

Snowflakes landed on her face and body, instantly melting into water. Late-night cabs were hard to find, and soon the fuzz on her pajamas was wet and hung heavily in clumps.

When a cab finally passed, Pei Xinyuan touched her hair and pajamas; the ends were already hard and frozen.

The cab driver was a middle-aged woman with graying hair. Seeing Pei Xinyuan’s appearance, taking a cab in the middle of the night to a hospital, she immediately felt sympathy, passing a pack of tissues from the side while driving, "Miss, dry your hair, you might catch a cold this way."

Pei Xinyuan thanked her, pulling out tissues mechanically to wipe her hair and the melting snow water on her clothes from the heater.

The driver didn’t say more, just tried to drive as smoothly and quickly as possible to get her to her destination.

Watching her get out and sprint toward the hospital emergency entrance, the driver suddenly remembered, smacking her forehead, "Hey, isn’t that someone who was live-streaming just a few days ago? What was her name? Turns out it’s this young lady! Even as a big star, facing troubles, she’s just as disheveled as anyone!"

A sigh dissipated into the wind.

The hospital emergency room is constantly busy, day or night.

But tonight was especially different.

In addition to the few waiting family members of patients, there were also two police officers in uniform at the emergency room entrance.

Pei Xinyuan, clad in her wet pajamas, tissue remnants still in her hair, and cotton slippers, leaving wet footprints with each step, jogged up to the police officers.

"How is Jiaojiao?"

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