Showbiz Scandal: The Official Announcement of My Ex and Myself-Chapter 235: Inviting Them to Share the Room Fee

Chapter 235: Chapter 235: Inviting Them to Share the Room Fee

Once she grasped the situation, Yu Xia quickly placated the well-meaning matchmaking aunties with a few words and quietly followed the path Xie Qingci had taken.

He could attract the attention, so she pretended to be a passerby to get the task card. Even if she encountered the pursuers trying to catch him on the way, she would act as if she didn’t see, making it harder for the pursuers to notice her.

He said the pursuers couldn’t outrun him, and told her not to worry.

She cooperated fully, showing no worry at all, strolling as if she were leisurely walking through a park, reaching the area with the horizontal and parallel bars.

A pursuit battle was erupting there.

Two men in suits were chasing a couple who were running frantically, crossing a path, heading toward the crowded statue plaza.

Oh no, in front of the couple was Xie Qingci, who had left them far behind.

She stood on tiptoe watching, seeing Xie Qingci slip into the crowd. Ling Luo, who was about to slow down, was pulled along by her boyfriend Luo Sheng, their focus entirely on following Xie Qingci’s path.

To the pursuers, the three of them were like carrots dangling in front of a donkey. Despite the crowd, which made it easy to lose sight of people in front, they kept irresistibly luring the pursuers deeper, coincidentally giving Yu Xia the chance to sneakily grab the task card.

She quickly ran to the horizontal and parallel bars, found a small colorful flag, and upon pulling it out was handed a task card.

She didn’t look at it immediately but stuffed it into her pocket and started running out.

Utilizing her speed from back in the days when she ran 800 meters, she dashed out of the park, back to where they parked, panting heavily on the small electric scooter, her hands trembling.

She browsed through the task card, her brow slowly furrowing.

[You must double the cash in your hand within twenty hours]

Double? She currently had 148 yuan, meaning she had to earn at least another 148 by 2 PM tomorrow.

Where to earn it? Washing dishes?

She frowned deep in thought, when someone burst out from the park entrance, racing towards her swiftly.

Yu Xia quickly put down the task card, started up the small electric scooter, turned around, and urged as Xie Qingci hopped on:

"Quick, quick, quick! Get on the bike!"

Once he sat down, she revved the scooter forward, leaving a trail of exhaust behind.

She rode the scooter with the fervor of a motorcycle race.

"Don’t go so fast, they’re not catching up!" Xie Qingci gasped for breath, saying.

Yu Xia didn’t listen, fully focused on sprinting.

"Should we slow down just because no one’s chasing us? That kind of thinking is wrong! It doesn’t matter if others chase or not, what can drive you forward is only the belief in your heart!"

Xie Qingci: "..."

Not until they drove away from the vicinity of Qingbo Park, back to the open fields across the way, did her speed finally slow down, and they had time to chat about the task card they grabbed.

"The task is to double our cash within twenty hours. Do you have any ideas?"

Xie Qingci frowned too: "Twenty hours? That’s roughly just tomorrow morning."

"Right, it seems we can only muster up the courage to do odd jobs."

If there were friends around here, they could even play some Mahjong to win it back, but unfortunately.

Xie Qingci immediately added: "Then let me do it."

Yu Xia rolled her eyes: "How could it be only you making money? Otherwise, this money..."

"Sister, stop the scooter!" Xie Qingci suddenly placed both feet on the ground, prompting her to brake quickly, stopping the electric scooter outside a stationery store.

"What are you up to?"

Xie Qingci reached out to her: "I have a money-making idea, could you give me twenty yuan?"

Yu Xia muttered: "What’s the plan? Reselling pinyin books at a markup?"

Although skeptical, she didn’t stop pulling out the money.

The twenty yuan was slapped into his palm, and holding the money, Xie Qingci got off and entered the stationery store.

Yu Xia had to guard the scooter, so she didn’t go in, constantly looking backward, worried the pursuers might catch up.

Soon, Xie Qingci came running back out, a bit embarrassed: "I need ten more yuan."

This time Yu Xia was a bit reluctant to give it.

A kind of frustration akin to a thrifty mom hearing her spendthrift son say he wants to buy an expensive pair of AJ shoes surged up.

"What’s costing thirty yuan as capital? You have to think carefully, if the money doesn’t grow, we’ll be wasting it for nothing."

Xie Qingci hesitated: "I want to sell paintings."

She raised her eyebrows, surprised: "You can paint?"

"Yes, both oil painting and sketching... Sister, I heard you know how to write with small scripts, maybe we can collaborate and sell them at a busier place tomorrow?"

"Where did you hear that? You even know that."

She learned it when shooting a period drama for the first time, almost developing a wrist tendonitis.

She didn’t mean much, just muttered to herself, then thought about it and felt the plan wasn’t bad.

"Alright, but buying pens and paper, thirty yuan won’t be enough."

Xie Qingci hesitated again, not wanting her to toil with him.

"Then just the paintings, you signing on them will be fine."

Yet Yu Xia contemplated, handed him a hundred-yuan bill directly.

"No worries, go buy enough supplies, we will make it back tomorrow."

Once she decided on something, she was decisive and forceful, unwilling to waver due to anything other than her own reluctance.

Xie Qingci, following her words, held the hundred yuan and went back into the store.

He came out with a large bag, and with two pink rectangular little items, he handed them to Yu Xia.

"These are watches, the owner said local students use them during exams."

Yu Xia picked one up, confirming it did show the time, indicating it was already five forty-nine.

"How much are they?"

Xie Qingci attached his to his backpack, saying: "One yuan and fifty cents each."

Quite cheap, just right for broke people like them.

She felt a satisfaction akin to snagging a pair of nine-yuan-and-nine-cent supermarket slippers, energized she restarted the small scooter, cheerfully continuing their journey.

"Suddenly life feels full of hope, light is just ahead! Once we finish some paintings tonight, we can sell them tomorrow in a busier area, isn’t fifty yuan a painting reasonable? It could be used as decoration."

Xie Qingci agreed lightly, though had another opinion about the timing she mentioned.

"Better to paint them tomorrow morning."

"Why?"

Their eyes met in the rearview mirror, Xie Qingci explained: "I invited Luo Sheng and them to chip in for the room cost."

Yu Xia: "Huh?"

"Isn’t it okay? I figured saving a little at a time, if the room cost is sixty to seventy, halving it could save enough for two meals."

Yu Xia felt a bit disorganized.

Originally planning to spend extra to book two rooms, now not only they had to share a room, but with two more people joining?

And those two were a couple, a rightful couple!

She felt Xie Qingci definitely didn’t do it just for the sake of saving money.