24 The Party (1/2)

Xu Jing was so touched by his wife's concern that he accepted the invitation readily.

After the incident with the nasty surprise of the movie trailer, Xu Jing had made it a point to avoid searching up or looking at videos or news related to the movie, Bringing the Nation's Husband Home. See no evil, speak no evil and do no evil was his policy. The fact that Joann seldom talked about her work with Xu Jing made that easy for him.

Therefore, it was not until they arrived at the party and his wife went to greet the host that Xu Jing realized the man of the hour was his wife's on screen lover. Neither of the main cast thought this was something to be awkward about so it would be socially unacceptable for Xu Jing to turn his nose up at Lee Mu even though his greatest desire then was to punch the man's face in.

On top of that, the rational part of Xu Jing's brain said the man has technically done nothing wrong. He was an actor, playing a role that was assigned to him. One could not fault the man for doing his job, right?

However, the biggest reason Xu Jing did not concern himself that much with Lee Mu was because he had a bigger fish to fry that night.

Before agreeing to the party, he should have known Qing Qing would be invited on the account that she was also part of the cast. Xu Jing had not seen the woman since the ”accident” that happened few months back and he would not have any regret if that was the last they had seen each other.

After extricating herself from the slightly drunk Lee Mu, Joann turned to find for herself and Xu Jing a place to sit. Qing Qing spotted her from afar and the young woman waved excitedly at her. Joann smiled in return before pulling Xu Jing along with her, saying, ”It looks like Qing Qing has reserved for us some seats. Such a considerate girl, wouldn't you agree?”

Joann did not receive a response from Xu Jing and she did not notice the weird expression on her husband's face when she asked the question.

”Sister Joann!” Qing Qing greeted her with good cheer before turning to face Xu Jing, ”And Brother Xu Jing is here as well!”

”Qing Qing, have you been here long? How is the party? And thank you for saving the seats for us.” Joann naturally took the seat next to Qing Qing and even though Xu Jing wished to have any other seat in the room other than the one so close to the young woman, he had to settle beside Joann.

Xu Jing merely smiled at Qing Qing in terms of greeting before turning his face away. An imperceptible impish smile appeared on the young woman's face.

This meant that Joann was bookended on both sides by two individuals who had hidden great secrets from her and even though she was the main subject for which said secrets revolved around, she was clueless about everything.

In any case, it was going to be an interesting party.