Marry a female star at a bargain price

Chapter 310, Chapter 311: The young couple enjoying the gossip from the front lines.
I got home and had dinner.

Lin Xiao chatted with his wife and finally confirmed that "Little Apple" had really become a hit, and it was a positive kind of hit, not the kind of negative hit that everyone was criticizing.

He made this determination because Mashan County is, after all, just a small county town and cannot represent the vast middle-aged and elderly population.

In particular, now everyone in the county knows that the original singer of "Little Apple" lives in the county.

Based on the principles of supporting one's own people and riding the wave of popularity.

Ignoring the online criticism and uproar, they quickly added the song to the square dance playlist, and it spread rapidly throughout the county.

That's perfectly reasonable.

Therefore, the popularity in the county town is nothing; Lin Xiao needs to know whether this song is currently very popular nationwide.

He was too lazy to search online because the information online was self-contained.

Many times, he didn't know whether he should believe it or not.

So it's more reliable to ask your wife.

Han Xixi's answer was just as he had guessed and expected: This song is now a nationwide hit, and the melody resounding in shops and squares of all sizes in Mashan County is not just the spontaneous support of the elderly for the original singer, but a wave of enthusiasm that has spread all the way from first-tier, second-tier, and third-tier cities.

This song is really popular now.

It has not only reached major offline stores but also squares where middle-aged women dance.

It even garnered reposts and comments from some musicians, who meticulously analyzed the song's lyrics and melody using incomprehensible language, praising it as something mystical and profound.

Ultimately, the goal is to achieve the effect that "this song looks very ordinary, simple, and catchy, but it actually hides a secret that most people can't see the mystery of."

These comments were posted.

These music experts not only successfully capitalized on the trending topic, but also managed to contradict the netizens' fierce criticism, highlighting their professionalism as musicians!
This is a win-win situation and something to celebrate.

Whether the song is genuinely good or not is irrelevant; they don't care.

The important thing is that this song has now gone from being criticized to becoming popular, and it has become a hit everywhere. No matter how hard you try to criticize it for being bad, it won't work. No one will praise you for being "the only one who is sober in a world of drunks." People will only say that you are trying to attract attention and are pretentious.

After all, if you don't like something, there are plenty of other people who do, and what most people like is a good thing.

As the saying goes, he who wins the hearts of the people wins the world!
Lin Xiao quickly understood this principle and immediately felt extremely embarrassed: So, this is what they mean by having great Confucian scholars to debate the classics for me?

He could not laugh or cry.

Xi Xi watched him laugh and laughed along, saying, "Brother, you're so happy that 'Little Apple' became a hit? I thought you really didn't care!"

Lin Xiao pretended to be serious: "Sigh, of course I didn't care when I was being scolded, but now that so many people are praising me, of course I'm happy. Who doesn't want to be praised? Don't you think so?"

Xi Xi chuckled and pursed her lips, finding it impossible to refute this viewpoint.

After all, these are heartfelt, truthful words.

"By the way, brother, I have some big gossip, do you want to hear it?" Xixi suddenly asked, her eyes sparkling.

"Big gossip? What?"

"Hmm, you're so curious~~"

Xi Xi looked at her husband's face, which had been so serious just moments before, and immediately showed a curious and expectant look. She felt very satisfied and amused.

Lin Xiao, having been teased, immediately perked up.

"Will you tell me or not?"

"I won't tell!" Xixi retorted playfully. "You're a town mayor, and now the hottest singer in the country, you're a big shot! How can you be so gossipy? That's not good, not good!"

"What town mayor, what singer!"

Lin Xiao smiled mischievously, "I'm at home right now, in my room with my wife. Right now, I'm just a man, an ordinary man enjoying the pleasures of the bedroom..."

He stretched out his two paws, making a lewd, manipulative gesture: "If you don't talk, don't blame me for being impolite~~"

After saying that, it scratched at Xixi with both paws.

Xixi was tickled so badly that she immediately lay down on the ground and burst into laughter. Before long, tears were streaming down her face from laughing.

Lin Xiao still wouldn't let go, and even straddled her, but he held on tightly around the waist so as not to hurt her.

"Will you talk or not?!"

"I said I said..."

Xixi had been making a fuss so much that her cheeks were flushed, her hair was disheveled, and she felt weak all over.

Faced with this scene, Lin Xiao, who was sitting in a daze, was suddenly overwhelmed and even forgot what he had been asking earlier.

He bent down, his knees on the floor, and his mouth moved toward his wife's neck.

A faint fragrance of gardenias immediately filled the nostrils, making one even more mesmerized.

Lin Xiao was completely captivated.

However, before he could take advantage of her a little more, his wife grabbed his chin with both hands and lifted his lustful head up.

"What...what are you doing?!"

"That's a good question. Of course, it's about doing what husband and wife should do!" Lin Xiao said, revealing a standard villainous smirk.

Xi Xi was completely speechless.

If I had known that arguing with my husband would lead to this self-inflicted trap, I would never have initiated it.

"You...you're planning to expand again?"

"Yes, my little cream puff!"

"Uh……"

Xi Xi felt nauseous. "You, you, can you please stop calling me by that nickname? It's so cheesy!"

Lin Xiao laughed too, lifting a lock of his wife's long hair that was spread on the ground and playing with it, saying, "If not this, what should I call you? How about I call you my little cutie?"

Xi Xi was so speechless that she rolled her eyes.

"Although I am indeed quite cute..."

"Heh, you're really not being polite!" Lin Xiao laughed.

"Of course!! Hey, can you let me finish what I'm saying?"

"Say it, say it!"

"Although I am indeed quite cute, there are definitely people in this family who are cuter than me, so it would be a bit humiliating and presumptuous of me to use this nickname!" Xixi said helplessly.

Lin Xiao looked completely bewildered: "There's someone cuter than my wife? Who is it?"

Before he could finish speaking, his wife angrily flicked him on the forehead.

"Ow!"

Lin Xiao winced in pain and immediately sat up straight.

Xi Xi was still lying on the floor, laughing loudly, her body trembling provocatively.

"You scoundrel, how dare you ask anyone? Do you even remember that you're a father?"

"Oh...ah...oh..."

Lin Xiao was stunned for a while before he realized that the person his wife was talking about was his biological daughter, Lin Xiaoxi.

That makes sense.

Indeed, when it comes to cuteness, no one in this family can compare to this chubby little girl, and no one on the entire planet Earth can compare!

Lin Xiao was convinced and kept rubbing his forehead: "Hey Han Xixi, how come you have such a strong grip now? I even said you were cute!"

Xi Xi sat up from the ground with an indignant look on her face and straightened her clothes: "Do you know that your daughter is only six months old and already weighs 15 pounds, more than twice the weight she was at birth? I hold a 15-pound little chubby baby at home every day, how can my arm strength not develop?!"

The more she spoke, the angrier she became, and her eyes were full of questioning as she looked at Lin Xiao, clearly complaining: I don't know which bastard created this chubby little girl.

Sensing the anger, Lin Xiao immediately dared not accuse anyone and could only force a smile and force a smile.

"Your grip strength is great, so you'll be able to hold the microphone more steadily when you sing on stage, right?"

"Hmph, you're such a smooth talker, you can even make the dead sound alive!" Xixi couldn't help but laugh.

Lin Xiao's smile grew even more obsequious: "This isn't just being eloquent, it's being factual, right..."

As he spoke, he leered at me and started touching me inappropriately, wanting to continue the "development" process.

Xixi quickly took two steps back to avoid it.

"You...you...are you still going to listen to gossip?"

"Oh dear! I forgot about that!"

Lin Xiao slapped his forehead. "But if I forgot, I forgot. I'm not in a hurry. Let's focus on development first..."

Xi Xi was speechless and helpless.

He took two steps back and said with a worried look, "You, as the older brother, are really something! Your own brother is suffering out there, and you don't care!"

Upon hearing this, Lin Xiao immediately calmed down.

"Lin Yu?"

"Yes, it's Xiaoyu!"

"He's suffering out there? What do you mean?"

Lin Xiao immediately tensed up, "What happened? Didn't he go on a trip to Jingzhou with Liang Tian and a few classmates...? Did something happen to him?"

Xi Xi quickly waved her hand: "No, no, nothing happened. Don't worry, they're fine!"

Lin Xiao thought about it and realized it was impossible.

A few recent high school graduates, living in the capital city of Jingzhou, with plenty of money on them—what could possibly happen to them?

"Then what do you mean by saying he's suffering outside?" Lin Xiao became even more curious.

"Suffering isn't just about physical suffering; it can also be about mental suffering!"

"In your heart?"

Lin Xiao became increasingly confused. "What do you mean?"

Seeing her husband's reaction, Xixi stopped being coy and finally said seriously, "This afternoon, Liang Tian called me and said... someone confessed to her!"

Lin Xiao should have been happy to hear this, but considering the context, he couldn't feel happy at all.

Because he knew that the person confessing his feelings was definitely not his younger brother, Lin Yu.

The couple clearly understood Lin Yu's feelings for Liang Tian, ​​but they couldn't figure out Liang Tian's feelings for Lin Yu. They didn't know whether the girl liked Lin Yu or not.

If they like it, then of course everyone will be happy, and the two families will become even closer.

If you don't like it, it's not a big deal. It's just innocent ambiguity between teenagers, and there's no need to pursue any outcome.

At the age of seventeen or eighteen, unrequited love can be a beautiful and dreamy experience.

They see through it but don't say anything, and they have no intention of interfering at all.

But now, the latest news about Xixi is that Liang Tian has been confessed to and Lin Yu has suffered heartbreak... There's more to this than meets the eye!
"Who confessed to your sister?" Lin Xiao asked.

"You know him, Qin Jiapeng!"

"Qin Jiapeng?!"

Lin Xiao was genuinely startled, and it took him a while to realize the name.

He suddenly burst into laughter without any apparent reason.

Qin Jiapeng is the son of Qin Zhenggang, the mayor of Chaobai Town. He is a mischievous and rebellious academic prodigy.

Lin Xiao remembered that when Qin Zhenggang fell into the water and was hospitalized, the kid had a girlfriend. It seemed that he and his girlfriend had just met Liang Tian and Lin Yu around that time, and the group of young men became good friends.

How did this guy end up confessing his feelings to Liang Tian?
This plot twist is truly unexpected; even my wife herself wouldn't believe it!

He laughed so hard he almost fell over.

Xi Xi looked completely bewildered and couldn't help but push him, angrily saying, "Are you even a brother? Your brother's crush got confessed to by his friend first, and you're still laughing here... Is this how you act as a brother?"

Lin Xiao laughed so hard he almost choked, and he couldn't stand up even after waving his hands for a long time. This was definitely today's laugh worthy moment!

Xi Xi looked on with a helpless expression, but in the end, she couldn't help but laugh along.

The couple were practically reincarnations of a vicious older brother and sister-in-law.

After a long while, Lin Xiao finally caught his breath and said, "I'm not laughing at Lin Yu, I think this is a good thing!"

Xi Xi immediately frowned, completely bewildered.

"Good news? You...you don't want Liang Tian and Lin Yu to get together?"

"Yeah, it doesn't matter!"

"Whatever?!" Xi Xi's voice immediately rose an octave.

"Hey, don't get excited!"

Lin Xiao sighed and pulled his wife to sit on the rocking chair on the balcony. He said seriously, "They're only eighteen years old, just graduated from high school. There are a million possibilities for their future. Do you think it's possible for them to find a life partner at this age?"

This angle was quite unusual, and Xixi immediately tilted her head and fell silent.

Thinking about it, it does seem to be true.

Most people can't even grow old with their partner and stay married, let alone meet the love of their life before going to college.

Even childhood sweetheart romance novels wouldn't dare write a plot like this.

After all, childhood sweethearts are usually used to highlight the unexpected arrival of someone else; their only purpose is to serve as cannon fodder and fill in the plot.

As a member of the family of both her brother-in-law and cousin, Xixi naturally fell for the budding romance between them as soon as she noticed it.

But if we step outside this relationship and look at the two boys again, we will find that they are actually incompatible in every way, from their personalities to their backgrounds.

It was just an accident that the two of them met.

The source of the unexpected was her whirlwind marriage to Lin Xiao, which was quite a coincidence.

In retrospect, it was the butterfly flapping its wings that knocked down the dominoes, causing all of this to happen.

However, both things that should have happened and things that shouldn't have happened did happen.

The probability of Lin Xiao and Han Xixi developing a real-life romance is already one in ten thousand. If this butterfly effect were to create another perfect couple, that would be far too absurd.

After thinking about all this, Xixi quickly accepted her husband's explanation.

That is, these two young people don't necessarily have to decide their future at the age of 18; there are many, many possibilities for their lives.

Once she broke free from those preconceived expectations, Xixi felt much more relaxed about the matter.

"You're right, I really did get too into character!"

So, relax!

Lin Xiao put his arm around his wife's shoulder and laughed, "Besides, even if Lin Yu and Liang Tian really do have a mutual crush, with Lin Yu's blockhead, do you expect him to confess to Tian Tian? Humph, just you wait, we might not even see it when our hair turns white!"

Xi Xi frowned again.

I wanted to scold him; how could he insult his own brother like that?

But then I thought about my brother-in-law's taciturn nature, and I realized, well... my husband is right!
"So you mean that Qin Jiapeng's confession to Tiantian might actually put Xiaoyu in a difficult position?"

"I don't know either, let's hope so!"

Lin Xiao shrugged, looking relaxed, seemingly unconcerned about the plot development and final outcome of this chaotic battle of teenage romance.

Xixi, however, couldn't help but show concern.

After all, one of them was his cousin, and the other was his brother-in-law.

If she had to choose sides, she would naturally side with her family, since she had nothing better to do anyway.

"Aren't you afraid that Liang Tian will accept Qin Jiapeng's confession?"

"You're so scared!"

Lin Xiao had an expression that said, "If Liang Tian really wanted to agree, she wouldn't have called you to complain!"

Xi Xi looked unconvinced: "How do you know she came to complain, and not to share good news with me?"

Lin Xiao laughed and said, "Come on, Liang Tian and Qin Jiapeng have only met a few times, and when they met, that guy already had a girlfriend! With Tian Tian's personality, she's easygoing and straightforward. It's hard to say whether she likes Lin Yu or not, but she definitely wouldn't like someone who just dumped his ex-girlfriend and found a new one. Am I right?"

Xi Xi nodded, admiring her husband's ability to judge people, and feeling a little proud.

"You're right, Xixi really doesn't have feelings for Qin Jiapeng! She called me because she felt awkward!"

"Awkward? Awkward about what?"

Lin Xiao was puzzled. "If she doesn't like Qin Jiapeng, she can just refuse him on her own. She's not the kind of person who's coy and hesitant!"

Xi Xi sighed and said, "She rejected me to my face, but there's something you don't know... Qin Jiapeng also got into Jingzhou University, and he's in the same university as Tian Tian!"

"what?!"

This news truly shocked Lin Xiao.

Xi Xi nodded, telling him he hadn't misheard.

Lin Xiao was speechless; this was truly absurd.

He wanted to express his doubts, after all, as far as he knew, Qin Jiapeng's grades were quite good, and he would have no problem getting into a 985 university if he performed normally, while Liang Tian's grades were very average. Logically speaking, it was impossible for her to get into the same school as Qin Jiapeng. If anyone was going to get into a university, it would be more likely that she would get into the same university as Lin Yu.

But he quickly realized that this method of judging schools by their grades was really naive.

Liang Tian is a native of Jingzhou.

To apply to universities in Jingzhou, she would need to add at least 100 points to her score to be comparable to students from Nanzhou Province.

With that in mind, it makes perfect sense that she and Qin Jiapeng ended up in the same school.

Lin Yu, although he performed well in the college entrance examination, traveled a long way to apply to Jingzhou, but ended up only getting into an ordinary 211 university, which was dozens of kilometers away from Liang Tian's school.

This is really difficult!

Although Liang Tian doesn't like Qin Jiapeng now, she can't resist the advantage of being close to him, and Qin Jiapeng is also good-looking with a roguish charm that attracts young girls.

If he really pursues Liang Tian relentlessly, it's hard to guarantee that this unsuspecting rich girl won't fall for him!
Lin Xiao's expression immediately turned serious.

He wasn't feeling sorry for his younger brother losing to someone else; he simply had already come to regard Liang Tian as a younger sister and didn't want her to be taken advantage of by such a slut!

"Hey, this brat's pretty shrewd. He must have found out which school Sweetie wanted to attend before applying to the same one as her. He's got ulterior motives!"

Lin Xiao was so angry he stood with his hands on his hips. "That little brat! I thought he was a pretty upright guy before, but I never expected him to be so cunning! Damn it, I should have known better than to save his dad. I'm going to have a serious talk with Old Qin about this. No family would do something like this..."

Lin Xiao was furious.

Now it was Xixi's turn to tease him, chuckling, "Didn't you just criticize me for being too into the role? Now it's you who's being too into the role, isn't it? You're about to go to someone's dad to complain about him?"

Lin Xiao, realizing he was in the wrong, immediately started making things up: "I'm not just getting into character, I just don't want our girl to be fooled by this bad boy! Think about it, this guy dumped his ex-girlfriend before the college entrance exam, got into a good university in Jingzhou, and then confessed to your sister, this pretty, lively, and rich native of Jingzhou... Is he really that into Tian Tian? He's clearly scheming to climb the social ladder, his goal is to leave this small place, Anyang County, and settle down in a first-tier city!"

This interpretation was truly baffling to Xixi, and terrifying upon closer examination.

"Aren't you... overinterpreting this?"

Xi Xi refused to believe it. "You just said it yourself, Tian Tian is pretty and lively. What boy wouldn't be attracted to a girl like that? Your brother can be attracted, but other boys aren't allowed to be? I think Qin Jiapeng genuinely likes Tian Tian, ​​that's why he confessed. It's not as sinister as you think!"

Lin Xiao shrugged: "Let's hope so!"

This attitude, however, made Xixi increasingly uneasy.

After all, she had never met Qin Jiapeng and couldn't judge what kind of person he was, or whether he was really as mature beyond his years and scheming as her husband, single-mindedly thinking about flying to Jingzhou to become a "phoenix man" (a man from a poor background who achieves success).

If it's just a confession of love between teenagers, then there's nothing wrong with it.

She even praised the boy for his bravery.

But if he really had ulterior motives and was only after his cousin's household registration and family background, wanting to use her to escape this impoverished little county town.

As the older cousin, I absolutely cannot sit idly by. I must remind my younger sister, and it would even be necessary to tell my aunt and uncle that the cabbages they have painstakingly grown for eighteen years have already been started to be eaten by others.

Xixi thought about it very seriously.

Seeing this, Lin Xiao quickly laughed and said, "Oh, I was just saying it casually, don't take it to heart. Your sister is so clever, she can see through people's intentions. If Qin Jiapeng were really that cunning, she wouldn't be friends with him, let alone invite him to Jingzhou for a trip. Besides, she didn't accept Qin Jiapeng's confession, so at least she doesn't have to worry about him for the time being, right?"

After such reassurance, Xixi finally calmed down a bit.

Lin Xiao still wanted to continue developing the business, but his wife had completely lost interest. After thinking it over, he decided to call Liang Tian back to get a detailed understanding of the situation, so that he could know his enemy and himself and be victorious in every battle.

Lin Xiao tried to pull him back for a long time but couldn't.

In the end, all I could do was advise her not to let these baseless speculations slip out, lest they affect the children's friendship.

Xixi readily agreed and went to the balcony to make a phone call.

Lin Xiao had no choice but to change into his workout clothes and running shoes and go for a run.

The couple were both busy with their own things, and they completely forgot about the main character from the beginning, forgetting that at this moment there was someone who was very hurt, extremely hurt, and desperately needed comfort.

Lin Yu: No, really nobody cares about me?!
(End of this chapter)