Li Lian laughed and continued. "Zhuang Han Wu finished his surgery? That's great! How is he now? It had been years since I met that adorable kid!"
Zhuang Xuan wrinkled his upper lips and sneered. "That brat enrolled back to his high school, but... Hey- I'm the one who was greeting you here, how come you only put attention to my younger brother!"
Li Lian shrugged her shoulder and patted his back. "Aiya! I haven't finished my words, how come you're so sensitive?"
Feeling teased, Zhuang Xuan scoffed. "Yes. Yes. Yes. I am very sensitive- anyone knew that I'm sensitive!"
"Pfft-" Li Lian burst into a burst of laughter. "So, how are you, my friend?"
Zhuang Xuan proudly ascended his broad shoulder and spoke. "Well, I've been very well! I've even started my own company last year!"
"Wow! Congratulation, congratulation, congratulation! Good things should be said three times!" Li Lian clapped her hand. "So now, you're a CEO too? Hahaha, with many good-looking CEOs, around me- you all could perfectly become light novel's main lover..." Li Lian gave her own tsukkomis.
"Many CEOs?" Zhuan Xuan lifted his eyebrow in question.
Realizing what she said, Li Lian's palm itched to slap her own mouth. "Yes- Well, just a moment ago I met a CEO- hahaha..." She dryly laughed.
"Ah" Although Zhuang Xuan noticed something from her words, because he was talking with Li Lian, he didn't pursue much and shrugged off the matter aside. "How are you, then? How was everything?"
Li Lian curled her lips to a snicker and answer with a satisfied smile. "Everything is well!"
Zhuang Xuan saw her cheerful smile and spoke in a mumble. "That's great- I'm glad... That you're alive-" Zhuang Xuan spoke at the end of his sentence with tears glazing his eyes.
Li Lian's eyelashes shadowed her eyes and deepened the brown color in a few darker hues. All this time, she had thought that other than her adopted family, no one would weep on her death. However, after meeting Zhuang Xuan now, she realized that perhaps that day at least one person cried for her.
Knowing that Li Lian's heart softened for a few millimeters.
"Speaking about that... Zhuang Xuan, how come you know that I'm here?" Li Lian queried.
Zhuang Xuan stuttered. "H- Huh? Well, I asked someone... Anyway, that's not important- Lian- Lian, there's something I want to ask you... Did you-"
Before Zhuang Xuan finished his words, he flinched and looked back at a man with a cold expression who was glaring at his back.
"Ah-" Li Lian was about to call Li Jun Wei when she noticed that there were too many eyes on the scene.
Li Jun Wei cast a sideways glance at Zhuang Xuan and stopped in front of Li Lian before greeting her. "Ms. Yue."
Li Lian smiled. "CEO Li, good evening."
Zhuang Xuan noticed Li Jun Wei's eyes that were fixed at Li Lian and spoke in a hushed voice. "Lian- Lian, do you know who this is?"
Li Jun Wei gave a look as he heard the nickname that Zhuang Xuan use to call Li Lian.
"This's the CEO of Li Corporation, my boss. Of course, I know him." Li Lian brushed off Zhuang Xuan's question easily.
Zhuang Xuan gave a long 'oh', but then spoke again. "Why is he keep on standing here?"
Li Lian squinted her eyes and scratched her head. She was very bad at lying, now that she was faced with such a direct question, Li Lian's brain almost freeze. "I have a meeting with him-"
Zhuang Xuan lifted his brows. "A meeting with the CEO of Li Corporation? What kind of meeting?"
"Well, a business meeting." Li Lian stated as though she was saying the obvious.
Zhuang Xuan was a very skepticism person and his question could never die with such an ambiguous answer. Just as he was about to protest, his phone rang loudly.
Zhuang Xuan took his phone and placed it to his ears. It was a phone call from his mother. As he received a word from his mother, Zhuang Xuan exclaimed in surprise. "Xiao Wu is in the hospital again?"
Li Lian looked at his expression in worry. As soon as Zhuang Xuan ended his call, he glared once at Li Jun Wei before evading his eyes entirely toward Li Lian. "Lian- Lian, I'm sorry, but I'm going first. Xiao Wu is in the hospital. This is my phone number, I have something important to talk to you later. Don't forget to call me!" Zhuang Xuan gave a name card on her hand.
"Alright, take care." Li Lian nodded and saw him leaving in haste toward his car.
Leaving both of them alone, Li Lian glanced at Li Jun Wei with an adorable smile. "I won the audition! As expected whenever I'm with you, my bad luck always becomes better! "
Li Jun Wei's eyes softened. His works behind the scene to make the girl happy seemed to worked very well. " That's great, I know you would win. Congratulation. I've booked a restaurant, let's go."
"Okay." Receiving a congratulation that she had anticipated from the afternoon made her giggled. Li Jun Wei led her to the car and opened the car door first for Li Lian to enter before him.
Inside the car, Li Lian looked at her phone for a moment and saw Xie Hue Lin's music video that was uploaded faster than the awaited day for her debut. The reason for this must have been because of the videos of the audition that Li Lian posted a few hours ago.
Many people have sided with Li Lian and agreed that she should have become the person who won the competition and started to claim Xie Hue Lin for using her background to force through.
However, Xie Hue Lin wasn't a normal villainess. She would never do anything that could degrade her fame at any risk. Not soon after Li Lian released the audition video, Xie Hue Lin's crew deleted all the sources and bribed the gossips tabloid writers so they wouldn't release any gossips of the videos.
But that wasn't enough. Some of the fans that wanted to support her turned their back out of shame. For this, there was only one step left for Xie Hue Lin to recover her broken fame. She altered the netizen's view from the news by uploading her music video.