Chapter 169: You Really Are Multitalented!

Chapter 169: You Really Are Multitalented!

Out in the corridor, Song Xuan froze in the middle of her call.

A young woman’s voice!

And she said Senior Wu was in the shower?!

Song Xuan’s imagination filled in the rest at once, and she hurried to explain. “Um… I’m sorry… I’m calling Senior Wu because… um… please don’t misunderstand. You’re Senior Wu’s girlfriend, aren’t you? I…”

Song Xuan was terrified of being misunderstood. She had no wish to come between anyone.

Li Ruobing’s habitual speaking voice was simply that cold, so Song Xuan assumed she had been misread—and it made her nervous too.

“If you need something, say it. I’ll pass it on.” Li Ruobing stood by the window, speaking in her ordinary voice, which was to say still as cold as ever.

“Um… it’s about the song… Oh, and I have to apologize to Senior Wu first. I misunderstood him yesterday…” Song Xuan did not quite know how to put it, and her nerves left her stumbling over the words.

“The song… apologize? For what?” Li Ruobing frowned slightly. She had no idea what game Wu Chen had been running on Song Xuan.

“It’s…” Song Xuan began, then stopped.

Something felt wrong.

This woman, who seemed to be Wu Chen’s girlfriend, apparently had no idea what her boyfriend had done yesterday?

He had failed to sell the song, released it himself, and watched it explode—and she knew nothing?

“You are Senior Wu Chen’s girlfriend, aren’t you?” Song Xuan asked again, having thought it over. She had not gotten a clear answer the first time.

“Yes! What of it?” Li Ruobing was still frowning.

“Nothing. I only wanted to be sure. Then how could you… not know…” Song Xuan kept it vague. She was being very careful. If this really was Wu Chen’s girlfriend, she certainly owed her an explanation. If it was not, she would never casually reveal anything concerning Wu Chen. That was the most elementary courtesy.

“Know what? What is it that I don’t know?” Li Ruobing’s frown deepened.

“You really don’t know? Are you really Wu Chen’s girlfriend?” Song Xuan was genuinely suspicious now.

For an ordinary person, the explosion of “Antidote for the Soul” was the sort of thing that changed a life. And his girlfriend did not know? Did not know how it had come about?

Song Xuan had heard about Wu Chen’s family circumstances.

Yesterday afternoon, after the two of them parted, she had gone back to the recording studio. Later, chatting in her class group about buying songs, she had mentioned in passing that someone had fooled her again.

She had not said which song. She had only said the man quoted a hundred thousand yuan, and then asked whether anyone in the group knew Wu Chen.

Nobody knew him personally, but they were all Donghai University students, so of course some had heard of him. They said Wu Chen really had just graduated from Donghai University, that his family circumstances were ordinary, and that asking a hundred thousand meant he had gone out of his mind for money—that sort of thing.

“You doubt me?” Li Ruobing was almost angry enough to laugh.

She had been in a foul mood all day, and from Song Xuan’s first words on the phone that voice had given her the distinct impression of some seductive little fox.

Why did she have to sound so sweet, so syrupy?

And yesterday Wu Chen had said Song Xuan was prettier than Li Ruobing, gentler than her, and so on…

“It isn’t exactly doubt… it’s just that if you’re Wu Chen’s girlfriend and you don’t know, that’s rather strange.” Song Xuan phrased it delicately, but what she meant was doubt.

“Wait there!” Li Ruobing said decisively.

She turned and walked briskly to the bathroom door, heels clicking, and called inside. “Darling!”

The rush of water stopped at once. Wu Chen had shut off the faucet.

“What is it?” he called back.

“When will you be done?” she asked.

“Soon.”

“Nothing. Just asking.”

Phone still in hand, Li Ruobing walked back to the window. Behind her the water started up again.

“Hear that?” she said when she reached the glass.

“I…