Kiss of Venus: Chapter 5

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At that time, Li Shen gave Yu Wan the QR code of his own WeChat and she foolishly scanned it. Thinking to here, his lips unknowingly hooked up. Realizing the smile playing on his lips, Li Shen quickly suppressed it and stood up, “I have a show tomorrow, I will go back first.”

Wu Mian replied, “En, drive safely.”

“Got it.” Li Shen walked away, without looking back at the wedding venue. 

Yu Wan, who has been awake since the early morning finally took a taxi home after the wedding ended. Her whole body is filled with exhaustion, and worst of all, her stomach is also aching. 

Yu Wan has always had a bad stomach and can easily get a stomachache from eating cold food. She had worked really hard tonight and she ate ice cream on a near-empty stomach so the retribution will come soon. 

She found her usual stomach medicine and swallowed it down with warm water. The medicine was very effective and the discomfort gradually disappeared. However, Yu Wan’s brain remained awake and couldn’t fall asleep. On her way home, she had searched up Li Shen on the internet and he indeed served as a soldier for two years. His Baike profile wrote “Li Shen, graduated from A City Conservatory, served two years in the army during college. After retiring, participated in the singing competition 《Heavenly Voice》, won the championship, and became a star.”

Every detail of Li Shen at the banquet magnified and replayed in her head in slow motion. Yu Wan tossed and turned the entire night, unable to fall asleep. Annoyed, she got up and pulled out a box of lady cigarettes from her luggage which she hadn't fully unpacked. 

The box is a baby pink color and the cigarette has a light and delicate strawberry flavor. Yu Wan only smokes this brand of cigarettes. 

Yu Wan walked out to the balcony, lit it up, and slowly took a puff. She learned how to smoke in her third year of high school. Because of her mother’s controlling manner, all her pressure accumulated in her third year. So, she chose to smoke as a way to vent. 

Yu Wan felt she was too terrified to confront her mother head-on so she could only express her dissatisfaction through smoking. She didn’t dare to let her mother find out. 

Later she met Li Shen. Li Shen also doesn’t like her smoking. He bitterly told her smoking is harmful to her health and even showed her pictures of the damaging effects it has on the lungs to disgust her. 

Originally, Yu Wan only occasionally smoke, but because Li Shen doesn’t like it, she smoked even less. How many months has it been since her last smoke?

Out the window, the sky was filled with darkness except for the direction of Lize Park where rows of light lined the lake. Yu Wan’s cigarette had already lit halfway. She put it out and went back inside. 

She slept poorly the entire night but there are some who fared worse than her. 

For example, Li Shen who ended up on the hot search very early in the morning. 

“Yu Wan! Yu Wan!” Zhao Xin stomped her high-heel clad feet on the floor and turned her office chair toward Yu Wan, “Quickly go on Weibo! Li Shen is on the hot search!”

Yu Wan blanked and quickly opened Weibo, “What happened? Is it serious?”

“Not serious. Only his car hit the tree but the person is fine.”

Yu Wan frowned, “He wasn’t drunk driving right?”

At the wedding last night, if the atmosphere is good, then it wouldn’t be wrong to drink a few. 

“No!” Zhao Xin immediately defended her idol, “He is not that type of person! The report wrote, Li Shen took an alcohol test and he passed!” 

To an artist, drinking and not drinking are two different news. The latter is a traffic accident while the former is a crime.

While Yu Wan calmed down, another question popped in her head. Since he didn’t drink, why did he hit a tree?

Li Shen’s agent, Chi Lu, was also asking the same question. While she was asleep, she suddenly received a call from Li Shen at the police station. She immediately got scared awake and when she finally picked him up, he said nothing. 

Chi Lu let him calm down first and went to make something for him to eat. Just as she put the dish on the table, she saw him leaning on the sofa with a slender lady cigarette in his mouth. 

The cigarette is not lit up but Chi Lu still furrows her brow. She put down the food and walked over, “What’s the matter, didn’t I say you can’t smoke? Do you still want your throat?”

She raised her hand, intending to take it away but he dodged, “I’m only holding it in my mouth, I’m not inhaling it.”

Chi Lu snorted, “You and I both know there isn’t any difference.”

Li Shen, “.....”


He took out the cigarette from his mouth and put it in the pink box on the table. 

Chi Lu looked down at the cigarette pack. From the first day she met Li Shen, he always had this pack with him. It’s not surprising that men smoke. Many people in the entertainment circle smoke but the pack of cigarettes he is carrying is marketed towards women, pink and strawberry flavored. 

However, as he said, he only holds it in his mouth never igniting it. At least, not in front of Chi Lu. 

After he put down the smoke, Chi Li didn’t mention it again. She looked at Li Shen and asked about the car accident again, “How did you hit the tree?”

This time, Li Shen didn’t stay silent. He scoffed and said, “I stooped so low”

Isn’t he stooping low? How else would his thought be filled with Yu Wan after the wedding?

Chi Lu pursed her lips. She only took Li Shen under her care for half a year but she is already aware of his temper. Knowing that she can’t get any answers from him, she didn’t bother to press on, “Fortunately you are fine and didn’t drink. Otherwise, today’s hot search would be very lively. Don’t give the reporters something to write about.”

“I know. Did you say I have to go to the TV station rehearse this afternoon?”

Chi Lu looked at him and smiled, “You remember? If you do bad on it, then don’t think about performing at tonight’s New Year’s Eve concert.”

“Don’t be so serious.” Li Shen took the chopsticks and sat down at the table, ready to eat breakfast. Chi Lu gave him a brief rundown of the day’s schedule and had his assistant come over since she had other things to deal with. On her way out, she gave Wu Mian a call. 

The call was picked up right away and Wu Mian’s voice sounded, “Great Agent Chi, what are you looking for me for? Li Shen’s crash is not related to me.”

“I’m not asking you about this.” Chi Lu said, “What happened to Li Shen at the wedding last night?”

Wu Mian was quiet for a while before he said, “There is no big deal. Just, we met a wedding planner from President Wei’s company called Yu Wan.”

“Yu Wan?”

“What, you know her?”

“No. That’s all, goodbye.” Chi Lu hung up after she finished speaking as the car drove past an intersection. The wrinkle between her brows did not smoothen out. 

She doesn’t know this Yu Wan but she heard Li Shen say this name when he was sleeping.

Chi Lu had been faintly aware that there is a woman in his heart. She doesn’t know if that person is Yu Wan but if it is, then she has too much influence over Li Shen. She can’t let her get too close to him. 

Yu Wan didn’t know that she had been blacklisted by Li Shen’s agent. At this time, she and Zhou Xiaoning are discussing what to eat at tonight’s hotpot.

Today is new year’s eve, the last day of the year. Zhou Xiaoning this workaholic finally took a vacation and invited Yu Wan out for hotpot. 

“Okay, I’ll buy the ingredients after I get off work.” 

Yu Wan laughed, “No, I already say I will be treating. I will buy the food, you’re only responsible for eating.” 

“Haha, then you buy the food, I’ll buy the alcohol.” 

“Don’t.” Yu Wan stopped her, “I got a stomachache last night, let’s not drink tonight.” 

Zhou Xiaoning frowned, “What’s wrong? Did you eat something upsetting at the wedding last night?”

She and Yu Wan were classmates in college so she knows she has a weak stomach especially when it comes to cold food.

Yu Wan denied, “No, just a little tired. Let’s drink milk instead!” 

“.......All right, see you tonight.”

After hanging up, Yu Wan remembered what Li Shen said last night. You can’t eat cold food.

She couldn’t help but think that Li Shen still cares for her. But his blatant disregard and insipid attitude when he faced her is like….he has completely let her go.

Yu Wan laughed at herself and returned to her seat to continue working. 

Today, Wei Shao let them get off work early as well as take a day off on New Year’s Day. Yu Wan, who felt like she had long been exploited by the capitalist economy was moved by this gesture. She went home with the groceries she bought and prepared everything in advance as she waits for Zhou Xiaoning to arrive. 

Zhou Xiaoning arrived at seven o’clock but didn’t bother coming empty-handed as she handed a bag of drinks and snacks to Yu Wan. When Yu Wan saw her, all the negative emotions in her heart disappeared. On New Year’s Eve, having a good girlfriend keeping company, eating, and drinking is better than having any man around. 

Of course, on New Year’s Eve, most TV stations would have their new year's program playing. Every year, Yu Wan would tune in to the ABA TV channel and this year is no different. 

The singers on the TV changed one after another. Yu Wan and Zhou Xiao Ning didn’t pay much attention to it. They only used it as background music to their conversation until the host on the stage announced, “Li Shen–––––!”

“Pu, cough, cough.” The milk sputtered out of Zhou Xiaoning’s mouth. She rushed to find the remote to change the channel. 

Yu Wan who was sitting in front of her ate a piece of beef and said, “Don’t bother, I already saw him yesterday.”

Zhou Xiaoning froze and probed, “Where? Online?”

“Mr. Guo Gai’s wedding.”

“.....” Zhou Xiaoning didn’t know what to say for a while. She knew everything about Yu Wan and Li Shen’s relationship from beginning to end. The moment she found out Li Shen is participating in 《Heavenly Voice》, she knew Yu Wan would be unhappy. 

The two suddenly fell silent. It seemed that the sound coming from the TV is even louder. Under the scream of a thousand girls, Li Shen stepped out onto the stage.

In the end, he is also no longer the boy who only sang for her. 

The author has something to say: Everyone, trust me, this is truly a sweet story. [Hide face] The most angsty parts of the story are the first few chapters. Everything down the road is cute and sweet just like when Professor Qi [and Yang Wei] remarried [doge]

Also, smoking is bad for health, please do not imitate it!

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