Across Deep Space: Four Men and a Play

With Xia Jiumeng's company, Qi Yu had a rare good sleep without any dreams. He was still a little dazed until Xia Jiumeng woke him up.

"What's wrong? I'm so sleepy~"

"Master Painter Qi, if you don't get up, we won't even be able to enter the venue soon."

"Besides, your palms are so sweaty." Xia Jiumeng pulled up their holding left hand.

"It's okay to sweat, do you still dislike me?" Qi Yu grabbed her hand and spoke angrily.

"Haha, don't dare."

"But you'd better get up. Assistant Tang has already made several calls." Xia Jiumeng said, pointing at Qi Yu's phone which was vibrating again.

"Humph, Old Tang is really annoying."

Qi Yu said he was disgusted, but he still got up and went to the terrace to answer the phone.

Xia Jiumeng put down her book, said goodbye, and went to wash up and change into her dress.

*

Two hours later.

After checking the invitation letter with the waiter, Qi Yu brought Xia Jiumeng in. As soon as they entered the hall, the whole hall became quiet.

"So handsome, whose young master is this?"

"I don't know, but the girl next to him is wearing a beautiful dress. I want it so much."

"I like that skirt too. Hey Qianyi, do you know them?"

A girl suddenly turned around and asked the girl next to her who had an indifferent expression.

Qianyi glanced at Qi Yu and said calmly, "He's just a painter."

The other girls immediately lost interest in Qi Yu.

He is quite handsome, but unfortunately his status is not good.

They are all daughters of powerful families, and they look down on a small painter.

"He's quite my type." A woman with long black wavy hair suddenly spoke, looking at Qi Yu with lustful eyes.

"Ouyang Yan, you'd better behave yourself recently. The matter with the Hunter Association in North Film City is not over yet."

The innocent-looking girl standing next to Ouyang Yan warned with disgust.

"That's not my fault. Who knew that guy was so tough?"

"He's just a powerless painter. Even if something happens to him, no one will bother me."

Ouyang Yan looked at Qi Yu with a determined look.

"Oh, to be invited by the Master, do you really think you don't have any strength?"

"Ouyang Su, stop meddling in my affairs. Use this time to care for your mother who is in the hospital bed."

Ouyang Yan sneered at her and walked towards Qi Yu with the wine glass on the tray of a passing waiter.

She must get what she likes.

Ouyang Su's face turned pale. Was Ouyang Yan threatening her with her mother?

Seeing this, the others didn't want to be involved and quietly walked away.

Ouyang Su looked at Ouyang Yan who was walking towards Qi Yu with resentment in his eyes.

She met him unexpectedly and met a pair of deep eyes.

Is she the painter's female companion?

Did she see her eyes? Ouyang Su panicked subconsciously.

But she froze when she saw her silent lip movements.

That woman was inviting her to 'chat'?

What does she want to do?

Meanwhile, Qi Yu was irritably facing the woman who was pestering him and said coldly, "Sister, I have no curiosity about your identity. Please move away."

"You're blocking my female companion's path."

Ouyang Yan's face turned pale when he called her "big sister".

"You're just a painting seller. You're honored that I like you, and you actually speak to me like that?"

"I'm sorry, I, a painting seller, don't want you to like me, and I don't like you either."

"You are so ugly."

Xia Jiumeng was trying to hold back her laughter like crazy.

The little fish can be very scary when it becomes venomous.

It's specifically designed to poke people's lungs.

Although this elder sister looks a bit old, she is not ugly.

"You..." Ouyang Yan had never met a man who dared to speak to her like that.

Even the son of the president of the Northern Film City Hunter Association had never been so presumptuous towards her!

"You've piqued my interest." Suddenly, Ouyang Yan curled her lips and looked at him, "I'll make you submit."

After she finished speaking, she looked at Xia Jiumeng with contempt and turned away arrogantly.

Xia Jiumeng was speechless.

No, are you sick?

Just go away, why are you looking at me?

[Master, she's considering you as her rival!] Xiao Qi's voice echoed in her mind.

【Are you done with your work?】I even had time to take a peek.

[Uh, not yet... not yet...] Xiao Qi felt a little guilty. He would never say that he was working while playing!

【Work hard.】

[Master, look what I found for you?] Xiao Qi tried to divert Xia Jiumeng's attention.

【What?】Xia Jiumeng was transferred to.

[Master, the woman who just blocked my way is the daughter of Lancheng Pharmaceutical Company, the largest city in the north.]

[No wonder he's so tough! ]

[Her company controls the production of a large number of Evol supplements and other expensive medicines! Moreover, even the medicines in Rinku City are imported under their umbrella.]

Where there is consumption, there is demand. As a major manufacturer of evol supplementary potions, they can be said to have both power and influence.

[Pharmacy company?]

Xia Jiumeng's eyes unexpectedly met a pair of resentful eyes.

Her gaze...was directed at the woman who was harassing them?

Do these two people have a grudge?

[Xiao Qi, check that woman.] Xia Jiumeng said to Xiao Qi in her mind.

[Okay, Master, I found it.]

[What a huge melon! Master, would you like to hear it?]

【explain. 】

[Hey, Master, the one in front of you is called Ouyang Yan, the second daughter of Lancheng Pharmaceutical, and the one you just stared at is the eldest daughter of Lancheng Pharmaceutical.]

Xia Jiumeng raised her eyebrows. Why did the family look at each other like that?

Xiao Qi seemed to understand Xia Jiu's curiosity and continued, "But this second young lady was brought back by the chairman of Lancheng Pharmaceutical a few years ago. It is said that she is the daughter of his first love."

[Xiu'er, doesn't the chairman's wife care? ]

What woman couldn't stand it if her husband brought home his first love's child to raise?

[Unfortunately, the chairman's wife became a vegetable after a car accident a week before Ouyang Yan brought her back.]

Xia Jiumeng shouted "6", she didn't believe there was no trick here.

The eldest daughter of the Ouyang family is Ouyang Su, the daughter of the chairman's wife. She has been investigating her mother's car accident, but has been inexplicably obstructed. Furthermore, Ouyang Yan's deliberate and unintentional framing has now earned her the chairman's dislike. Not only has she lost her pocket money, but she's also been restricted from going out to a certain extent.

[This time, it was Mr. Da's invitation that brought the two of them here.]

[Mr. Big?] It was the first time Xia Jiumeng heard such a title.

[Master, I can't find any information about this great gentleman.]

Can't Xiao Qi find it? It seems that this master's identity is very mysterious.

[It's okay, if you can't find anything, forget it.]

Xia Jiumeng narrowed her eyes as she looked at the arrogant woman in front of her. She even dared to set her sights on her man. She really wanted to die, but there was someone who wanted her dead more than her.

Xia Jiumeng looked into Ouyang Su's eyes and silently said "Let's chat". Seeing her stunned and hurried away, she withdrew her gaze.

She believed Ouyang Su would come to find her.

Qi Yu muttered in annoyance that Xia Jiumeng was sick and pulled her away.

If they don't leave now, what if another lunatic comes to disturb them?

He said he didn't like this kind of place anymore.

"Okay, you look so angry."

Xia Jiumeng looked at Qi Yu's puffed cheeks with amusement and couldn't help but poke them.

"You're still laughing! As my personal bodyguard and my female companion, you're not even angry when someone harasses me, and you're actually laughing at me!"

Qi Yu became even angrier after being poked by her.