A Pair of Evil Women's Love - Chapter 40
Chapter 40: [VIP]
“Hey…” Fu Haitang held onto the door frame, trying to explain. “You know, right? If I didn’t pretend to hit you back then, our relationship would have been exposed, and then we would have lost our sponsor!”
Fu Yilan finished filling the bathtub, turned around, and pointed at Fu Haitang. “Turn around.”
Fu Haitang: “…”
Fu Haitang turned her back. “Are you going to take a bath? Did you even listen to my explanation?”
The sound of water reached her ears. Fu Haitang carefully turned around, but before she could see anything, Fu Yilan scolded her.
Fu Haitang: “…”
Fu Yilan: “Come here.”
Fu Haitang: “Do you need me to close my eyes?”
This person would always snap back at any opportunity. Fu Yilan gritted her teeth. “No!”
Fu Haitang raised an eyebrow, walked behind Fu Yilan, and helped support her waist.
Fu Yilan carefully stepped into the bathtub and then said, “Help me tie this leather whip to the side here. I’ll put my foot on it, and then I can use my own strength to take a bath.”
Fu Haitang looked at the leather whip and then at Fu Yilan, surprised. “That’s it?”
“That’s it.” Fu Yilan nodded, tightening the towel around her body. “You can go now. Thanks.”
Fu Haitang: “…”
Something was not right. Fu Haitang bit her lip. “I’m not leaving!”
“I’m going to take a bath.” Fu Yilan took off her clothes, only a bathrobe covering her. She held the tied whip and truly no longer needed Fu Haitang’s help or leverage.
Her heart, which had been anxious the whole way home, now felt empty. Being treated coldly like a stranger after returning home was worse than being confronted!
Fu Haitang: “You… why aren’t you questioning me for raising my hand to hit you?”
“Didn’t you explain that it was so Gu Jingjing wouldn’t find out?” Fu Yilan asked curiously.
Fu Haitang: “It’s… it’s true! That’s what I was thinking!”
Fu Yilan nodded. “So I don’t mind. I accept that reason!”
Fu Haitang: “……..”
“You!” Fu Haitang felt a lump in her throat. “You can hit me, scold me, or boss me around!”
Fu Yilan looked a little strange. “Why? We’re just partners. Why would I hit you or scold you? You’re letting me live here. I should be thanking you!”
Fu Haitang: “…”
“I’ll help you take a bath!” Fu Haitang said.
Fu Yilan’s expression changed to one of urgency. “No need. I can do it myself.”
Fu Haitang stubbornly tried to pull off Fu Yilan’s bathrobe. “I’ll help you!”
“No, no…” Their hands went back and forth, pulling and twisting the bathrobe’s belt. In the end, Fu Yilan was no match for Fu Haitang. “Let go of me!”
Fu Haitang: “I won’t!”
“You’re harassing me!” Fu Yilan said angrily.
Fu Haitang chuckled. “I’m clearly just helping you. We’re both omegas. Why are you so flustered?”
Fu Yilan: “…”
The belt was pulled away, and the two sides of the robe were about to fall open. Fu Yilan had no way to avoid it. In a moment of desperation, she raised her hand and slapped Fu Haitang across the face!
“…”
The bathroom suddenly fell silent.
Fu Yilan’s hand froze in mid-air.
Fu Haitang was also stunned, covering her face without a word.
Fu Yilan: “…”
The robe slipped. Fu Yilan reached out to hold it in place. “I’m sorry, uh…”
“No! No, no, no!” Fu Haitang immediately raised her hand to stop Fu Yilan. “No need to apologize! Hahaha!”
Fu Yilan: “…”
This person got hit, and she seemed to be in a better mood?
“Are you okay?” Fu Yilan looked at Fu Haitang with suspicion. “Doesn’t your face hurt?”
“It hurts!” Fu Haitang blinked her phoenix eyes. “It does. A slap on the left, a slap on the right. Now both sides of my face hurt symmetrically.”
Fu Yilan swallowed the words “you moron,” reminding herself to be a well-mannered person, and then turned her head away.
Fu Haitang: “But you hit me, and I’m happy.”
Fu Yilan turned her face back. “What?”
“You hit me, and I’m happy!” Fu Haitang repeated her words.
Fu Yilan: “…You’re crazy! Get out, I’m taking a bath!”
“I’m not leaving.” Fu Haitang was still being difficult.
Fu Yilan: “You…”
“Hit me,” Fu Haitang said.
Fu Yilan: “…”
She’d never seen someone so deliberately provocative. Fu Yilan gritted her teeth and sat down with her back to Fu Haitang. She had spent the whole day at the TV station, singing, dividing lyrics, and arguing with trainees about music scores. She was physically and mentally exhausted and couldn’t wait to wash away the fatigue.
Fu Yilan took a step back and gave her back to Fu Haitang. “Help me wash my hair and back.”
“Okay!” Fu Haitang was extra happy to be given a task. She brought over a stool and quickly and decisively removed the handle from the leather whip. Fu Yilan wanted to scold her but held back, closing her eyes in frustration.
Fortunately, Fu Haitang’s movements were gentle and slow. The massage of her fingertips on her scalp was very comfortable. She gradually let down her guard and felt herself getting drowsy under her hands.
Fu Yilan’s hair was thick and dark, with a naturally smooth texture. Fu Haitang’s fingers ran through her hair, and the strands flowed through her hands, tickling her fingers. Fu Haitang crumpled and washed it, but as soon as she let go, the hair straightened out and lay flat again.
“So beautiful.” Fu Haitang sighed, but then, she winced.
Fu Yilan heard her say “so beautiful” and discreetly folded the two sides of her bathrobe closer together.
Fu Haitang: “…”
Fu Haitang’s eyes darted around, suppressing a smile, and she said deliberately, “The texture is so nice.”
Fu Yilan’s brows twitched.
Fu Haitang then said, “It’s so smooth~”
Fu Yilan felt a little uncomfortable, and her eyebrows knitted together in frustration.
Fu Haitang combed through the knotted parts of her hair. “The more I touch it, the more I want to touch it.”
Fu Yilan squeezed her legs together. A familiar feeling surfaced in her mind. She suppressed the restlessness, not wanting to let Fu Haitang get her way.
“I don’t know what you’re talking about,” Fu Yilan answered coldly.
“That’s the point,” Fu Haitang thought. “The more she doesn’t understand, the more fun this is!” A mischievous idea came to her, and she took the opportunity to touch Fu Yilan’s flushed earlobe.
A jolt like an electric shock. Fu Yilan reacted instinctively, and her wet hand slapped Fu Haitang’s hand.
It was a warning, hoping the other person would be smart enough to back off.
“It doesn’t hurt at all,” Fu Haitang said.
She was clearly not backing off. Fu Yilan finally couldn’t hold it in. She opened her eyes and met the other person’s gaze, her lips moving. “You’re so annoying.”
Fu Haitang’s eyes curved, and she leaned in to look at Fu Yilan. Suddenly, she kissed Fu Yilan’s forehead.
The sudden intimacy made Fu Yilan close her eyes instinctively. When she came to her senses, her brow bone was also kissed. Fu Haitang stopped her movements, observing Fu Yilan’s expression. If she had refused, she would have opened her eyes and glared at her fiercely.
But the omega didn’t. She had given up or was using self-deception, which was more accurate. She tacitly allowed Fu Haitang’s advances.
Then came the bridge of her nose, the tip of her nose, and her lips. A sucking sound was heard. Fu Yilan’s posture of tilting her head back exposed too many weak points. She reached out to grab something, but the leather whip she had been using for support had long since been removed by Fu Haitang.
She grabbed at the air, only catching the other person’s shoulder. She used some force, which only served to pull Fu Haitang deeper, and the kiss became more intense.
Pheromones overflowed.
Fu Yilan hadn’t expected things to develop this far. She suddenly pushed Fu Haitang away, but she forgot that she was lying in the bathtub, with one foot unable to reach the ground and the other resting on the edge of the tub.
The force she used to push Fu Haitang came back to her. She plunged into the water with a splash.
“Your parents were lost in a shipwreck…” The moment she entered the water, the nightmarish voice from the past came rushing back. Fu Yilan’s eyes opened in terror, and she flailed her arms and kicked her legs in the bathtub!
“Fu Yilan!” Fu Haitang was terrified! In just a few seconds, she almost saw someone drown in the bathtub!
“Fu Yilan!”
“What’s wrong?”
“Look at me, look at me!”
Fu Yilan’s unfocused eyes suddenly refocused. She looked at Fu Haitang, panicked and scared, and hugged her tightly.
Fu Haitang froze.
The towel had completely fallen off, but the trembling, delicate body in her arms didn’t inspire a single lustful thought.
Fu Yilan was terrified. Fu Haitang raised her hand and gently stroked her back. “It’s okay, it’s okay. I’m here… Lanylan… I’m here…”
“I’m sleepy,” Fu Yilan’s voice was hoarse. “Please, carry me back to the room.”
…
“What happened?” Ji Xiaotong peeked into the second bedroom and asked in a low voice. “How is Lanylan?”
Fu Haitang and Ji Xiaotong both knew about Fu Yilan’s trauma, but neither of them brought it up. Fu Haitang gestured for Ji Xiaotong to be quiet. “She’s already asleep after taking her medicine. Don’t talk about it.”
Ji Xiaotong nodded, making a zipping motion over her mouth.
The trauma was hard to deal with. Fu Haitang shrugged, opened her laptop, and started working overtime.
Ji Xiaotong: “You’re still working overtime? It’s almost two in the morning!”
Fu Haitang looked up and scanned Ji Xiaotong. She had used her authority at the station today to take control of the external social media accounts of the individual trainees. Of course, she couldn’t take control of the ones with company affiliations. But her goal was achieved. She successfully got her hands on Fu Yilan’s Weibo account.
Fu Yilan was too busy and wouldn’t have time to manage it herself. She would do it for her to save her from hiring an assistant.
“She followed so many random people?”
Fu Haitang rubbed her brow. She blocked all the trash marketing accounts and then grouped the trolls. She also noted down some “official accounts” whose identities needed verification. When she had time, she would contact them one by one to confirm their authenticity and see if there were any collaboration opportunities.
Ji Xiaotong opened a bag of chips. “You have so much to do.”
Fu Haitang looked up and swept her gaze over Ji Xiaotong. “For people without a company, a collaboration opportunity might be hidden in these junk messages. Similarly, a fleeting artist must cherish every opportunity.”
“If there’s a good opportunity in these junk messages, it could be Fu Yilan’s path after the group show ends,” Fu Haitang said.
Ji Xiaotong said “oh,” and then found it strange. “But Lanylan is already famous. Will she still be short on opportunities after the show ends?”
“Have you never heard the saying, ‘For a girl group in the mainland entertainment industry, debut is their peak’?” Fu Haitang said. “The opportunity for a newcomer to make a name for herself and the opportunity for an old artist to become popular again are different. The first thing a group has to face is transformation.”
Fu Haitang finished organizing all the information at 4 AM. She put her private email on Fu Yilan’s Weibo homepage and identified herself as her assistant. In the future, any collaboration inquiries would come to her first.
Finally, it was done. She could sleep for three hours.
Fu Haitang stumbled back into her room. In the last moment before she closed her eyes, all she could see were various data and documents.
…
The next day, Fu Haitang and Fu Yilan rode in the same BMW to the TV station’s underground parking lot. They entered the station half an hour apart. Ji Xiaotong helped Fu Yilan go to work, while Fu Haitang finished her weekly report in the car.
Today was busy and the workload was not light. Advertisers were coming to collaborate. Ren Qing was in charge of deciding which ones to accept, and Fu Haitang would coordinate the ad content and filming.
But.
Fu Haitang looked at the stack of ad contracts. The content ranged from food, clothing, and housing to cooking oil, rice, and even health supplements?
This clearly did not fit the market positioning of “Group Show 07.”
“Director Ren, aren’t these ads inappropriate?” Fu Haitang raised an objection.
Ren Qing raised an eyebrow, took a sip of her coffee, and asked, “How is it inappropriate? These extra ads can bring tens of millions of yuan in revenue to the station. Isn’t that a good thing?”
Fu Haitang took a deep breath. “I think it’s better to only have one exclusive ad for broadcast content. Designated ads for one person, like website splash screens and non-member ads, are also more suitable for clothing.”
“As for these,” Fu Haitang took out a thick stack of irrelevant ads from the file and threw them on the table. “It would be better to throw them in the shredder.”
“Fu Haitang!” Ren Qing was furious. “Don’t think you can boss me around just because you’ve been promoted to a deputy manager! You don’t want the show to take ads? Do you want the whole department to starve!”
Fu Haitang straightened her back. “Broadcast content should have a maximum of three ads. As for sponsorships, anything is fine as long as they can afford the sponsorship fee. I don’t have a problem with a ten-minute sponsored broadcast, but these health products are a no-go. This is my bottom line!”
“Get out!” Ren Qing was furious. Fu Haitang and the documents were thrown out of the manager’s office.
The planning team: “…”
The advertising department: “…”
Everyone on the 23rd floor witnessed Fu Haitang’s embarrassment.
Fu Haitang sniffled, went back to her desk, and started to verify the sponsor information one by one. Negotiating the sponsorship fee was also a technical skill. Who paid more and whose sponsorship message came first was also very important. This was not a job one person could easily do alone.
Fu Haitang hadn’t communicated with the advertisers yet. After organizing the categories, she took the contracts and went to the advertising department. If Ren Qing wouldn’t help her negotiate, she would find someone else. It wasn’t like she couldn’t secure a few ads when “Group Show 07” was on the rise.
Sini’s mouth dropped open as she watched Fu Haitang’s retreating figure. “She’s crazy. She’s so bold she’s actually taking on hundreds of millions of yuan worth of ads by herself!”
(You didn’t come to the practice room today?) Fu Yilan messaged her in the evening.
Fu Haitang had been working nonstop all day. By the time she saw the message, it had been ten minutes. (What happened?)
Fu Yilan: (You don’t know?)
(No, I don’t.) Fu Haitang unscrewed a bottle of water. The next second, she saw the reply and spit out a mouthful of water.
(Lin Meixue and Lin Meilin were caught kissing.)
(Ren Qing wants to expel them.)
“I thought their relationship was just for publicity?!” Fu Haitang’s eyes widened. “It was real?”
This was bad.
Lin Meixue and Lin Meilin were very popular and were also popular contestants for making it into the group. Although they were not related, they looked similar, making them a rare “twin” duo in the entertainment industry.
“I can’t let Ren Qing get away with this.”
Although Fu Yilan was popular, portraying the whole group was definitely the focus of the later stages of the show!
If a few excellent people were kicked out, how would the show go on?
Fu Yilan’s message came again: (Lin Meixue told me that if you can’t keep them, they’ll expose what happened between us.)
Fu Haitang’s foot slipped, and she almost fell!
Who else knew about her and Fu Yilan’s relationship!
…
“I sent the message,” Fu Yilan said, putting her phone away and looking at the two people in front of her. “What was the secret you two told me about?”
Lin Meixue and Lin Meilin exchanged glances, chuckled, and rubbed their hands together. “We’ll tell you how omegas can satisfy each other!”
Fu Yilan: “…………”
“You don’t want to know? Your next heat cycle is only about ten days away, isn’t it?” Lin Meixue said. “This is a secret that Meilin and I have been studying for years!”
Fu Yilan: “…”
She didn’t want to talk.