She could have slept through the entire day if it was not for the call. She and Stanley Batton had just fallen asleep at dawn. Exhaustion pulsed through her veins the moment she opened her eyes. Her sleep-deprived brain was going in circles, and her limbs were all numb. Using her last bit of energy, she reached for her phone on the bedside table and stole a glance at the time before answering the call. “Boss? I thought we were going to have lunch together at the base before training? Why aren’t you here yet? The food is ready, and we’re all waiting for you.” Team QPG’s president, Michael Gabriel’s voice rang in her right ear, shaking her out of her drowsiness. Only then did Xyla Quest remember that she had indeed promised her team members that she would go over for lunch with them before starting the training this afternoon.In the end, because of Stanley…She turned around and glowered at the culprit, who was currently sleeping with his back to her. Furious with his inco
Xyla Quest looked in the mirror and rolled her eyes at him once more. “Well, what do you think?” “What?” Stanley Batton’s eyes widened, attentive, and brimming with curiosity. “Thanks to somebody, I’m in a hurry now, so I don’t have time to dry my hair,” blurted Xyla grumpily.“Oh.” “Oh? What do you mean by ‘oh’? Isn’t this your fault?” The more Xyla thought about it, the angrier she got. She could not stop mumbling, “It’s all because of you, bastard.”He had wasted that one hour. If she had got out of bed one hour earlier, she would have done putting on her makeup, dressing up, and even finishing her lunch right now. In the mirror, the man’s soft lips stretched into a doting smile as he gazed at her. When Xyla lifted her head, she met his smiling eyes. A strange tingling sensation ran down her spine instantaneously. There was only a white towel wrapped around his waist. Water beads were sliding down his chest, over the scratches she left behind, adding a tinge of se
Unfortunately, she was in a hurry right now. She had no time to enjoy this kind of romance. To not hurt his feelings, Xyla Quest chose a lipstick and placed it in his palm. “I’ll do the brows myself, but you can help me to put on lipstick later.” Putting on lipstick was easy. Probably everyone with hands had no problem doing it. There were a lot of men using lipsticks or even live-selling lipsticks on the internet nowadays. She believed that applying lipstick was not a difficult task for Stanley Batton. “Okay.” Stanley returned the eyebrow pencil to her. Letting out a sigh of relief, Xyla turned back to the mirror and quickly drew her brows.Meanwhile, Stanley leaned against the dressing table and opened the lipstick cap, playing it with his fingers while observing it. “Is this color nice?” Xyla asked. “Aren’t all the lipsticks the same?” Things men would never understand x1… “To be frank, I really can’t understand you girls. Why are you all wasting money on the s
Xyla Quest soon lost herself as his fingers curled around hers. Her heart pounded in her chest, and her cheeks were hot. It was the last bit of rationality in her mind that made her shrink away from his grasp. She pushed him away with all her strength, panting, “Stanley Batton, if you try to touch me again, I’m not going to talk to you for the next three days. No, five days! No, six days!”“I won’t do it anymore, honey.” Stanley Batton comforted her with a good-natured look, though the mischief in his gaze had given him away. Xyla immediately fled from the room, running away from him as fast as she could. ***When Xyla arrived at Team QPG’s base, she found that Alex was there too. Professional gamers like them had, more or less, crossed paths with one another during the tournaments. Moreover, Alex and her team members had a meal together before. Xyla could see that they were all getting along well. Alex was currently sitting on the couch, happily chatting with the boys. A
“My favorite contestants are all around Xyla, and they seem to adore her. I’m absolutely jealous.”“Why is Xyla so lucky? Everyone is so nice to her…”“Not only is she surrounded by celebrity friends, but she also has a pretty good professional gaming team. On top of that, she has a lot of money. Xyla really is living the dream…”“With her looks, she would become very popular in the entertainment industry.”Xyla Quest briefly skimmed through the comments. After browsing other trending topics, she began to focus on eating the hotpot.After the meal, Xyla returned home along with the rest.When she entered the living room, her phone started to ring.A shocking message appeared on the screen—“Josh Batton exposed for doing drugs and hiring a prostitute!”At that moment, Xyla couldn’t believe what she was seeing.In fact, she refused even to trust a single word about this rumor.Now, people in entertainment would do anything to defame others!After opening the post, various dis
“He even claims that he didn’t do drugs at all, and he suspects that the woman must have put the bag of drugs under his couch when he wasn’t paying attention…“It was clear that the woman came prepared because she brought those tools along.“President Xyla, this is a coordinated attack. Someone must have carefully planned this to drag Josh down.“Josh has gotten too popular in the past few years. He’s dominated the entire entertainment industry by at least two-thirds of the figurative pie. Naturally, there are a lot of people who wish him dead.” Georgie Clementine sounded unusually serious.“Also, the woman had barely been there for a minute when the cops barged through the door…” Georgie added.After hearing all this, Xyla Quest became extremely mad.Ever since she stepped into the entertainment industry, she had heard of many incidents like this.The entertainment industry was a dark place.As long as you were famous, there would be people who want to defame you. That was bec
Number seven trending topic, ‘#Josh Batton has poor taste# Shocking!’Number eight trending topic, ‘#Josh Batton’s company makes an announcement# Shocking!’This was the first time in Xyla Quest’s life that she saw such a spectacle on the list of trending topics.Not only were the eight most trending topics all about the same person, but there was the word ‘shocking’ behind each title.Josh Batton’s fans and onlookers were engaged in fierce arguments on each topic.“I’m just an onlooker, and I just want to say that Josh’s fans are really hopeless. Do you still believe that Josh is innocent? Anyway, Josh has a really poor taste in women. That prostitute is so ugly.”“I believe in Josh, no matter what. Didn’t you see his company’s announcement? He’s innocent.”“I don’t want to be Josh’s fan anymore. All his fans are idiots. Do you really think his company would admit he was wrong?”“Whenever celebrities are exposed for doing such things, their companies would always deny at first
“But what does this have anything to do with Josh Batton? Did Josh ask that teacher to do such a thing?”“I think Josh is quite innocent, right? How would he have known his fan would do such a thing?”“Isn’t it his fault for not guiding his fans? If he did, would his fans act so stupidly?”“Beep, beep, beep…” Right then, Xyla Quest received another phone call from Georgie Clementine.Georgie said some comforting things to calm Xyla down.After that, Georgie told Xyla that she didn’t have to worry. Georgie would take care of everything, and she’d keep an eye on everyone who criticized her and the company’s public relations department.Xyla said a few words to Georgie before hanging up.Xyla knew how capable her company’s public relations department and Georgie was.Hence, she didn’t feel worried about these things.After putting her phone down, Xyla looked at Stanley. “Don’t pay too much attention to the comments on the internet. It’ll only ruin your mood.”Stanley muttered an