Strike Back, Proud Goddess! Novel - Chapter 438: Her Heart Ached for Him

Chapter 438: Her Heart Ached for Him

Translator: Henyee  Editor: Henyee

Although Tang Xi made every set of clothes with herself as the model, she never thought of walking the runway with these clothes on. However, she might be able to do that with the identity of the president of the Empire Group, Tang Xi.

She couldn’t connect Tang Xi and Xiao Rou. Otherwise, people may doubt why Tang Xi transferred her properties to Xiao Rou, and… she wanted people to gradually forget Tang Xi who had already perished, so she had to carefully think about whether she should show up in The Queen’s fashion show with the identity of Tang Xi.

On the way back to the hotel, Tang Xi remained silent. Qiao Liang knew she was worrying about the model that would wear the last featured dress, so he didn’t speak to her but began to read emails with his laptop.

Just as Chu Ling said, he was very busy. Sometimes, he was so busy that he almost wanted to clone himself. However, he still tried to make time to accompany her, to make up to her for his past mistake.

Tang Xi had wanted to ask Qiao Liang for his opinion, but when she saw Qiao Liang was busy doing his job, she recalled what Chu Ling just said and didn’t disturb him. Then she decided not to think about the model thing anymore, and rested her chin on her hand and watched Qiao Liang working.

Chu Ling said he was very busy, which reminded her. Now she remembered he often got up at midnight… even Jing said that Qiao Liang didn’t even sleep when she was not around. Qiao Liang was a workaholic who hardly took rest and would keep working consecutively for dozens of hours. Common people may not be able to bear his workload.

With this in mind, Tang Xi gazed at Qiao Liang’s face only to find he had two big dark circles… She felt her heart ache for him…

Now she just wanted to ask him to go to sleep as soon as possible, but then she told herself that no, you can’t do this. If you stop Qiao Liang from working now, he will stay up late to finish his work after you fall asleep this night. So she just gazed at him with loving eyes.

Noticing her gaze, Qiao Liang said in a low voice, “I’ll finish this soon. Play on your own…”

The corner of Tang Xi’s eyes twitched. Play on her own? She was not a kid, okay? She took a glance at his laptop’s screen only to find his email box was full of unread emails. She said with a smile, “Okay, I won’t disturb you. I want to sleep for a while. Wake me up when we arrive at the hotel. I’ve been sleepy since I was woken up by Director Ning.”

Qiao Liang grunted in response, rubbed at her hair and then continued to do his job.

Along the way, Tang Xi listened to the sound of Qiao Liang typing on the keyboard; it was like listening to a music piece that was composed by him and she found this sound to be very pleasant. She didn’t fall asleep, so when the car arrived at the hotel, she jumped up and got out of the car. Seeing her movement, Qiao Liang raised his eyebrows. Tang Xi held the car door and blinked at him. “Come on, get out of the car.”

Qiao Liang snapped shut the computer and got out of the car. Tang Xi smiled at him, took his arm and walked towards the hotel.

“Qiao Liang!”

The two of them had only just walked two steps when Xiao Jing and Ning Yan, who had also just arrived at the hotel,spotted them. They called Qiao Liang’s name and the latter raised his eyebrows and turned around, saying, “You came back really fast.”

Ning Yan laughed, walked up to him and patted his shoulder. “That’s because your men worked efficiently! I have to say I admire your men’s abilities.”

Qiao Liang looked at the hand on his shoulder and took a cold glance at Ning Yan who drew back his hand awkwardly and pretended to be doing stretching exercises as he said, “Those people have confessed and we’ve released the evidence that we got from the two women on social media. Now the stupid netizens are apologizing to me, and of course, also to our little fairy.”

Tang Xi smiled. “Thanks, Director Ning.”

Ning Yan waved and said, “You should thank your boyfriend. If it hadn’t been him, this matter wouldn’t have been able to be solved so easily. It would take me at least a week to solve it. Then your fashion show would be ruined. Now we have proven we are innocent and the netizens know we were set up. Soon they will dig out who is behind this plot. I have faith in the netizens who can be really efficient sometimes, although they can also be really stupid sometimes.”

The corner of Tang Xi’s eyes twitched. She turned her eyes to Ning Yan. “Director Ning, not all netizens were fooled by those guys. As far as I know, many netizens have been believing you are innocent.”

“But there are also many keyboard warriors!” Ning Yan said coldly, “Those who have been believing I’m innocent are all my cute little fans, understood?”

Tang Xi, “…” Okay, you’re right.

Xiao Jing walked up to Tang Xi and asked her, “How was the show field?”

Although Xiao Jing had made it clear that he went to Paris in order to accompany his sister and be on vacation, Qiao Liang still ordered him to make an inspection tour to the Qiao’s International Group’s branch office in Paris after Xiao Jing only stayed in the hotel for two days. Therefore he didn’t have time to see Tang Xi’s show field…

He felt a bit guilty.

Thinking of the stage that was almost perfect as laid out by Chu Ling, Tang Xi smiled. “It’s awesome! It’s almost perfect. You will be startled when you see the stage. At least I haven’t seen any brand’s show field being so creative.”

Xiao Jing nodded, rubbed at Tang Xi’s hair and took a look at Qiao Liang. “Let’s go to have lunch together?”

They went to the dining hall of the hotel, and randomly ordered some dishes. Xiao Jing chatted with Qiao Liang casually and reported to him about the performance of their branch office in Paris, while Ning Yan was talking about the promotion clip to Tang Xi. Tang Xi logged in The Queen’s Microblog account only to find the latest post she released had been forwarded over sixty thousand times. She said with a smile, “Director Ning, you’re really influential in the entertainment circle. My latest post has been forwarded over sixty thousand times. It seems that The Queen is going to make a hit.”

Ning Yan gave a smug smile. “Sure, I’m very influential in this circle. Otherwise, my movies wouldn’t be so popular. That’s because of my great box office appeal.”

Tang Xi smiled and didn’t speak. Ning Yan had box office appeal indeed, but the key was that his movies were of good quality.