Entertainment: I am the peak

Chapter 353 Acknowledging the Relationship
On the evening of August 25, Liu Yifei was photographed holding a birthday party with her staff and friends at the rooftop garden restaurant of a luxury hotel.

The paparazzi were unable to enter the party venue, but they did manage to photograph Huang Xiaoming, Yang Mi, Zhu Yawen, Fan Bingbing, Century Autumn CEO Cao Ping, and Autumn Pictures CEO Zhang Zhao entering and leaving the hotel, presumably to celebrate Liu Yifei's birthday.

Entertainment reporters hoped to photograph the mysterious man who was seen shopping arm-in-arm with Liu Yifei a few days ago, but since he's called a mysterious man, even if they managed to get a picture, they wouldn't be able to identify him.

Before the party started, Liu Yifei posted a series of photos of herself holding flowers on Weibo to celebrate her birthday.

"Sisi, if you're in a relationship, change your profile picture to this." This fan persisted, and ever since the photos of her being hugged by a mysterious man were leaked, she had been trying to get confirmation from Liu Yifei in this way. But after so many days, Liu Yifei had not responded to her.

This made her feel that Liu Yifei was not in a relationship and was still the ethereal Little Dragon Girl in her heart.

The birthday party went on until the early hours of the morning. Liu Yifei's face was flushed, her mouth was slurred, and she became bolder, shouting that she wanted to get Li Qiutang drunk.

"What good would it do you to get me drunk? If you get me drunk, no one will take you home." Given Liu Yifei's capacity for alcohol, it's practically impossible for her to get him drunk.

Huang Xiaoming chimed in, "You don't understand. If a man doesn't get drunk, a woman has no chance. She only has a chance if she gets you drunk."

"Is it true that men don't have a chance if women don't get drunk?"

"A meaning."

Li Qiutang said, "That's how Yang Ying managed to win you over, isn't it?"

Huang Xiaoming was speechless for a moment, but then glanced at Qin Lan, who was also attending the party not far away.

"You're really annoying." Huang Xiaoming ignored Li Qiutang and walked away.

Slightly tipsy, Liu Yifei was very bold. Even at this hour, those still at the scene were all her longtime friends, and she let loose even more.

Nodding and swaying to the music is a piece of cake.

"If I say I'm going to get you drunk, then I'm going to get you drunk." Liu Yifei walked towards Li Qiutang with an impolite expression.

"What do you want to do? I'm warning you, this is broad daylight."

Shu Chang, who never misses a good show, said, "It's already evening, so it's not broad daylight."

Li Qiutang said fiercely to Shu Chang, "Wait till you start dating someone, then I'll see what I do to you."

Liu Yifei had the desire to be a scoundrel, but not the guts to do so. She said she would get Li Qiutang drunk, but in reality, she just drank a toast with her boyfriend amidst everyone's cheers.

Yang Mi was disappointed: "I thought I was going to have to feed him the wine mouth-to-mouth, this is no fun."

Zhu Yawen pushed Li Qiutang forward, saying, "Here, take this, you do it."

"Hey, you surnamed Zhu, you've gone a bit too far," Li Qiutang retorted.

Luo Jin said, "Even Yifei has no objections, so what are you saying? Yifei, are you going to give way or not?"

Liu Yifei laughed and said, "I don't care. Men don't lose out in this kind of thing."

Yang Mi steeled her resolve and shouted, "You think I really wouldn't dare, do you!" As she spoke, she took a step closer to Li Qiutang.

"Oh--"

This startled Li Qiutang. Such things are best left as jokes: "Don't be silly."

Yang Mi immediately went along with it: "See, it was him who refused."

"You changed your mind way too quickly," everyone laughed at her.

"I don't care. If the person in charge doesn't agree, I'm not going to bother."

However, Yang Mi was still forced to drink a whole bottle before she was let go.

This is only because Li Qiutang is the host today; otherwise, at a different time and place, they would never dare to make such a joke with Li Qiutang.

However, they dared to make jokes about Huang Xiaoming.

While playing the game, Huang Xiaoming was asked to dance a close dance with Qin Lan.

Huang Xiaoming said, "I can't, I'm very clumsy."

But Liu Yifei said, "Who really wants to see you dance? They want you to be able to."

Qin Lan was quite generous: "It's okay if you don't know how, I do."

Li Qiutang added, "I've never seen you so hesitant on set. Hurry up, I'll play some music for you guys."

Even if Huang Xiaoming couldn't dance cheek-to-cheek, he must have seen it before and tried to imitate and cooperate with the music.

The close-up dance was sexy and alluring, with obvious provocative undertones. It could be said that, aside from not kissing on stage, the physical contact between the two was the most intimate thing they could do while clothed. This elicited screams from the audience.

Even Liu Yifei whispered to Li Qiutang after seeing this, "How could they break up? It's so strange."

"I do not know either."

After the dance, Huang Xiaoming's face turned red first.

Li Qiutang said to him meaningfully, "Do you regret it now?"

"Go to hell," Qin Lan cursed first.

"Okay, okay, I won't say anything more." Li Qiutang obediently shut up.

The party lasted until after 2 a.m.

Liu Yifei wanted Shu Chang to go home with her, but Shu Chang teased, "You're just pretending. You think you can make me go with you today?"

Liu Yifei punched Shu Chang, who said, "Go on, you've been working outside for so long, and he's arranged this party for you. Spend some time with him."

After everyone left, Liu Yifei didn't go home, but instead went back to Li Qiutang's apartment.

Liu Yifei had a lot of fun tonight, and she's still unable to sleep now that she's back; she's very excited.

"Still drinking?" Li Qiutang asked when she saw Liu Yifei open another bottle of red wine.

"Have a drink, I'm happy today." Liu Yifei handed over a cup.

The two nestled together, slowly drinking and talking.

"Close your eyes," Liu Yifei said.

"What's going on now?"

"Close your eyes," Liu Yifei insisted.

Two seconds after Li Qiutang closed his eyes, Liu Yifei kissed him.

The wine flowed from Liu Yifei's mouth into Li Qiutang's mouth.

Li Qiutang put his arm around Liu Yifei's waist, responding to her enthusiasm.

“Let’s go inside.” Li Qiutang said as they parted ways.

But Liu Yifei said, "Right here."

The next day, the sun was still scorching.

When Liu Yifei got up, Li Qiutang was still asleep.

"Why didn't you sleep a little longer?" According to Liu Yifei's habit, she wouldn't get up until noon.

"I promised Yang Mi I'd go shopping with her today. I won't have breakfast with you." Liu Yifei finished getting dressed.

"Where are my underwear?!"

"You didn't shower last night, so take a shower this morning and change into a new one."

Li Qiutang staggered into the bathroom.

Before leaving, Liu Yifei touched up her makeup outside the shower room and said to Li Qiutang inside, "I forgot to tell you, Shu Chang is going to act with Xiaoming in her next drama. It's a TV series he invested in called 'The Glamorous Imperial Concubine,' and it starts filming in November."

Li Qiutang responded, indicating that she understood.

Shu Chang won't just pursue film as her career path; she has to excel in both film and television. Apart from Liu Yifei, her peers like Yang Mi, Tang Yan, and Liu Shishi have all had an incredibly heavy workload in recent years, practically living on set year-round.

If Shu Chang wants to regain popularity, she needs not only quality but also quantity.

Huang Xiaoming is certainly an insider of Li Qiutang's circle, so it's perfectly normal for Huang Xiaoming to give the role to Shu Chang.

"I'm leaving." The voice came, the door opened and closed, and Liu Yifei left.

That afternoon, some fans discovered that Liu Yifei had indeed changed her Weibo profile picture to a photo provided to her by netizens.

They weren't changed that morning!
Liu Yifei's fan group immediately went wild!

(End of this chapter)