The two didn't hug for too long. After all, people were coming and going around them, and their embrace was quite noticeable, though not entirely uncommon.
Both were quite happy after a day of playing.
In the evening, Ye Zhi, back at the villa, took a hot shower. When she came out, she noticed several missed calls on her phone, all from Zhan Ruoqing.
Ye Zhi, a little surprised, called back. "Ruoqing, what's wrong?"
"Ye Zhi, your relationship has been exposed!" Zhan Ruoqing said gossipy.
"I wasn't keeping our relationship a secret either..." Ye Zhi was confused. Suddenly, she seemed to think of something and exclaimed in shock, "Wait! You don't mean... the fact that I'm dating Qi Xuan has been leaked online, do you?"
"What else could it be?" Zhan Ruoqing said speechlessly. "I already know you two are together. If someone else told me this, why would I be calling you?"
"What do you mean 'together'..." Ye Zhi helplessly touched her forehead. "How did this suddenly get onto the internet? I'm not in the entertainment industry. Who's so bored to expose my private life..."
"It's because you and Qi Xuan went to the amusement park together today. Your appearances are too high, and some passerby took photos of you two. That person looked at it more and more and thought you looked very much like the CEO Ye from Taoxun, so they posted the photos online, asking for help to see if it was really you." Zhan Ruoqing explained.
Ye Zhi: ...
This was truly an undeserved misfortune. She had even changed her style today, wearing a more sweet-looking makeup, precisely because she was worried people would recognize her at a glance.
Now, it seemed to have been completely useless!
"But don't worry, most people think it's probably not you," Zhan Ruoqing said with a giggle. "They all think that if it were really you, you'd have a bunch of young men around you. Just one boyfriend doesn't fit your identity at all."
Ye Zhi: ...
What kind of misunderstanding did netizens have about her? She was, at most, a CEO, not a president, nor an empress!
"Ye Zhi, do you want to come forward and clarify?" Zhan Ruoqing asked curiously.
"Forget it, I won't bother. Let them guess whatever they want; it's hard to clarify this," Ye Zhi thought.
"That's true," Zhan Ruoqing agreed. "Whether you clarify that it's you or clarify that it's not you, it feels a bit strange."
After chatting for a few more sentences, they hung up.
Ye Zhi opened her phone and browsed the comments online.
The situation was similar to what Zhan Ruoqing had described. Although most people thought the woman in the photo looked too much like Ye Zhi, they believed she was just a woman who looked very much like Ye Zhi.
Of course, there were some excessive comments saying she must have had plastic surgery based on Ye Zhi's face. There were also some friendly comments saying that she and Qi Xuan had such high颜值, and they suggested the two of them should debut right away. xxs
Ye Zhi yawned. She had played all day. Although she was happy, she was also quite tired, so she closed her phone and went straight to sleep.
She didn't care much about this matter. However, Cen Ya, who had also seen this trending topic, was not in a good mood.
Cen Ya was currently accompanying Ou Minghan in the hospital. Since they had returned to the capital, Ou Minghan had been hospitalized for his injuries.
Cen Ya came to the hospital to accompany him every day, and sometimes, at Ou Minghan's request, she would stay overnight at the hospital. Originally, Ni Na was very dissatisfied with Ou Minghan and demanded that she stay away from him. But now, Ni Na no longer objected, having completely accepted their relationship.
Ou Minghan, seeing Cen Ya constantly looking at her phone and ignoring him, was immediately dissatisfied.
"Yaya," Ou Minghan called out, "I'm thirsty..."
Cen Ya continued to look at her phone, seemingly not hearing him at all.
Ou Minghan became even more displeased. If it were usual, Cen Ya would have been busy serving him. How could she be ignoring his request now?
"Yaya!" Ou Minghan raised his voice and said with dissatisfaction, "If you don't want to accompany me, then go back! I know my injuries are quite serious, and the doctor says recovery will be difficult. It's understandable that you dislike me because of this. After all, you can dump me and find someone better than me at any time..."
"Minghan, what are you talking about!" Cen Ya came back to her senses, saying somewhat helplessly, "I was just a little distracted by a trending topic related to Ye Zhi..."
"Ye Zhi?" Ou Minghan's expression immediately tensed. "What did she do now?"
"She..." Cen Ya said somewhat unwillingly, "She seems to really be dating Qi Xuan..."
"Impossible!" Before he could finish, Ou Minghan interrupted her rudely. "Qi Xuan is just Ye Zhi's investor. They have no other relationship. The Qi family would never look down on her! Have you forgotten that they had rumors before, and Qi Xuan specifically debunked them?!"
"But the Qi family didn't debunk it this time," Cen Ya frowned displeasedly. "Even Shuangshuang said that it seems like they really are together."
"Then how does Lin Shuangshuang know?" Ou Minghan said disdainfully.
"A friend of her friend is related to Zhang Danni's cousin, and the news seems to have come from Zhang Danni," Cen Ya explained.
Ou Minghan's face immediately turned grim. The name Zhang Danni brought up many unpleasant memories.
"Ye Zhi personally sent Zhang Danni to the police station," Ou Minghan sneered. "Their relationship was so bad, how could she possibly know Ye Zhi's news?"
Cen Ya fell silent. She had thought the same thing before, but...
Ou Minghan continued disdainfully, "Besides, if they were really together, why have they never appeared in public at the same time?"
Cen Ya silently handed him her phone.
Ou Minghan swept his gaze across the phone screen impatiently, and the next moment, his eyes widened in shock.
Those netizens were unsure if the person in the photo was Ye Zhi, mainly because they hadn't expected Ye Zhi to queue up at an amusement park like an ordinary person, without using money or status to carve out any special privileges for herself.
But Ou Minghan and Cen Ya were different. To them, Ye Zhi was definitely a person who had left an indelible mark on them, someone they could not forget. They recognized at a glance that the person in the photo was indeed Ye Zhi herself. The man beside her was undoubtedly Qi Xuan.
Moreover, Ye Zhi and Qi Xuan in the photos looked intimate. They had been holding hands the entire time, and they appeared to be chatting and laughing, which made it impossible for them to continue deceiving themselves by saying Ye Zhi and Qi Xuan were not together.
"Hmph! This must be Ye Zhi's scheme... No, her open ploy!" Ou Minghan was furious.