30 Chapter 30 : Big Trouble (1/2)

Ever since that lunch time with Hongqi and Attorney Go three days ago, Xiulan allotted a lot of time researching about music shows and award nights. She even had to watch videos and check on each artist's fan club activity and social media accounts. By doing this, she can gather a lot of information about the events that are happening this coming days.

To her amazement, that stupid husband of hers was always the highlight of each event. It's like it won't be complete without him. He has tons of very handsome pictures and a lot of women swoon over him. Even famous celebrities would try to take a glimpse or interact with him. It cringes her so much.

Now that she remembered what Attorney Go said during lunch, Hongqi was always with a famous actress in red carpets. She even saw photos of his past lovers and flings with him on the red carpet.

The most liked red carpet photo of him was with Gong Yuming. It was last year and they were attending a drama and movie awards night which Gong Yuming won an award as best rookie actress. He looked very different before. He obviously has that snobby and snobbish aura. Very very very different in what he displays now.

It makes Xiulan question the universe why the heck she got entangled with him. Also, it has now enlightened her that Hongqi was definitely an actor as well. Such a good actor in front of everyone, he should also win an award! ”How can someone change so fast in just a span of months? Of course it's all for his immaculate image.” she amusingly asked and answered herself.

She diverted her attention back to the real issue and quickly ping Secretary Dandan to notify her if her honey-buttered chicken and bibimbap she ordered online has arrived. She'll be skipping gym again tonight and will work until midnight. She will need this to fuel her brain.

Now that she has a lot of clues to use. It fired up her more to finish this problem as soon as possible. She can now try tracking their whereabouts this week. She's been researching a lot and the files that the university sent to her apartment were very helpful. She gathered more clues and these are events, the personal data that the terrorists used were now being used to book tickets for concerts, awards night, group blind date parties and fan meetings of idols.

Also the resources that Dejiang gave to Xiulan were very helpful. The list of IP address from the online casino are now being monitored by her AI. Xiulan can now compare which one is the true user or if it's the terrorist. Before, she was so stressed that she doesn't know which of these events bookings were from the real person or from the terrorist. Now that she can determine which one is the real person, this issue is now easy for her. It's been such a hectic charity work for Xiulan but this it was not a simple matter that anyone can ignore.

Xiulan massages her temples and brought out her White Flower oil to relieve the incoming headache. She has done so much work for the country and now she must work on her company matters.

While she was typing seriously, Secretary Dandan went inside her office to bring the food Xiulan ordered and also brought a blue catalog envelope.

”What's that?” Xiulan quickly asked as soon as her eyes saw the blue envelope.

”Boss, according to the courier it contains concert tickets. It's quite thick. Are you going to attend a lot of shows? I never thought that you will be interested. It might be the influence of your husband.” Secretary Dandan smilingly said and handed her the envelope.

”Uhh… yes.” Xiulan was unsure with her response. Just to be safe, she just went with a white lie.

”I'll just put the food here.” Secretary Dandan put the food on top of the coffee table and then eventually left.

Xiulan checked the tickets she bought and the soonest event will happen this weekend, in two days. This will be the very first time that she'll attend a music award concert with mixed artists as performers. She attended a few concerts of her favorite bands during her youth but this time it's a catastrophe of major trending bands and singers that she's not familiar with.

Xiulan scrunched her nose. Sudden realization of the effort she has done for this national issue was very extreme. To think it was just charity work, and add that she'll never get a public recognition. All the credit will go to her alumni and for some reason she's okay with everything!

”Why the hell am I working so hard?” She unbelievably asked herself.

Xiulan deeply sighed. Out of frustration, she laid her head on her office chair's headrest and closed her eyes. She doesn't understand her resolves as well. Was she really that kind and obedient? Or she was just stupid and easily manipulated?

”Ahh… my head hurts.” She sorrowfully mumbled. After a few minutes, her stomach loudly gurgle. She remembered that her food was already inside her office. She dashed towards the where her food was and stressfully devoured her honey buttered chicken.

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After two days, Xiulan grumbled as she saw the long queue going to the entrance of the big dome. The first music and awards event she'll be attending is the Dragon Music Awards and she was not ready that there will be thousands of people attending this show. She really did not expect this and now she's being squished with the rest of the crowd.

If ever the terrorist suddenly attacks this place, it'll be over for all of them. She wanted to bitterly laugh but she's being squished by a group of fangirls who seems to be in their early 20s with a red bandana on their heads written with 'I♥AndyGao'. Her disguised flu mask and cap almost flew away from all the mess that was happening. It's not even starting yet but the crowd is so wild already!

”Who the hell is Andy Gao?” Xiulan contemptuously asked herself. She was already annoyed how she's being squished and dragged by the crowd. Add the never ending yelling of these fangirls. She's really pissed off now. Her hatred was now directed to the poor Andy Gao.

”Whoever he was, he sure has a lot of annoying fans. Ugh. So annoying.” Xiulan hatefully mumbled to herself. She was really getting old. She used to be okay with crowds like this. But now, she really hates it!

After all the difficulties in finding her seat and getting mauled by fangirls, she can finally lay her butt on a chair. She quickly removed her flu mask and drank some water then wore the flu mask again. It was such an excruciating activity for her. Why the hell is she even doing this?

Xiulan noticed that there were still a lot of vacant chairs near her area. According to her research, most of the time fan groups or fan clubs would booked an entire block so that their idol could easily spot them and their idol would feel their intense support.

Now that she thought of that, she suddenly feels nervous. What if this seat was part of a fan group?

”Holy shit.” Xiulan gasped as she saw the Andy Gao fangirls again and they were all going to her direction. She quickly secured her cap and flu mask again just in case.

Good thing the fangirls ignored her and most of them paid attention to their leader who kept giving orders and spicy words to the group.

”As you saw in the red carpet awhile ago, Andy Gao came in with Gong Yuming. I really don't understand why Hongqi's artists are still associating themselves with that harlot. But anyway, we are here for Andy Gao and Xing Hongqi. Whenever they appear on the tv screen or on stage, we will scream loudly. Understand?” The leader spicily said. Xiulan almost jumped out of her seat when she heard Hongqi's name.

”Damn, are they also Hongqi's fans? This is not good.” Xiulan nervously thought.

Xiulan carefully looked at the rest of her surrounding and the girls. They all have the Andy Gao bandana and not one Hongqi on them. ”Who the hell is this Andy Gao and why of all people he's associated with my haughty husband.”Xiulan stressed inside her mind.

She quickly took out her phone and search Andy Gao on Weibo. She almost screech when she saw that he's the famous rookie singer/actor of Xing Royalties Entertainment's (XRE).

Why did she not saw him before when she was researching.

”Ah… what a bad timing…” Xiulan unhappily whispered. She must be extra careful or else she'll be the trending topic tomorrow.

The vacant seats are almost occupied and after 10 minutes the show will start. Since Xiulan was seated at the far back of the block so that there won't be any annoying people looking at her device's screen. She carefully took the tablet from her bag so she can use the CCTV mobile hacker and start her magic.

Xiulan was able to connect to dome's CCTV server using the dome's wifi and her little magic captures all the footages on her tablet. She almost wanted to cheer and praise how good and talented she was. (lol)

She could have waited outside instead and hack but the best spot and the greatest signal of the dome's wifi was inside so she must come inside the dome and blend with the fans.

The show has finally started and the first performer was a rookie male group that has been trending in Weibo since this morning. The fans went wild and even some Andy Gao fans almost scream but their leader sharply glared at them. This Andy Gao fan leader is an extremist and a killjoy. Xiulan wanted to scream at this leader and tell her that let her members enjoy the moment. But she must be lowkey tonight so she just ignored the poor moment.

While more groups are performing, Xiulan busied herself looking at the footages if there were suspicious activities or people when suddenly the topic of the two girls beside her caught her attention.

”I was late awhile ago. Is it true that Andy's partner in the red carpet was Gong Yuming? Then what about the great Xing Hongqi? Oh my God this is too juicy!” the girl with huge eyes excitedly asked.

”Yes. It caused a big uproar awhile ago and the reporters kept on asking their relationship. It was so annoying, to be honest. While Hongqi's partner was a famous Korean actress, Park Mi-young. I heard that there will be a collaboration between XRE and Park Mi-young's agency. Park Mi-young was nominated for Best Foreign Actress since her drama was a hit in China.” The girl with glasses explained. The huge-eyed girl slapped the glasses girl's arm when she heard the juicy news.

”Wow! I can't believe Hongqi managed to booked Park Mi-young! I love her in Romance In Busan!” the huge-eyed girls exclaimed.

”Booked?” the glasses girl confusedly and innocently asked.