HuaYu14: Female celebrities are going too fast.

To mimic a bare face, Bai Mengyan went through the entire process on her own face: sunscreen, primer, foundation... and so on.

Girls find putting on makeup a real hassle, unlike boys who only need 5 minutes to get from bed to leaving the house.

Even more outrageous are those where someone is in bed one second, and the moment you open the door, they appear outside.

It took Bai Mengyan half an hour to finish her "no-makeup" makeup. She picked up her phone and saw Zhou Xun's message, then replied:

[Ten minutes left.]

A woman's ten minutes isn't ten minutes, it's one hundred and forty minutes. After Zhou Xun replied with an "okay," he stopped sending messages to urge Bai Mengyan.

Say too much, or you'll get beaten up.

Sure enough, after Bai Mengyan finished her makeup, she stood in front of the wardrobe and stared blankly.

Looking at the neatly hung clothes inside, her gaze swept from left to right, and then from right to left.

After scanning for more than ten minutes, she took out the off-white knit sweater and light blue jeans.

It wasn't a particularly special option, yet it took her more than ten minutes to choose. That's just how women are...

She turned around in front of the mirror and nodded in satisfaction.

This outfit is really pretty.

Winning over Zhou Xun is not a problem...

"What are you talking about?" Bai Mengyan patted her cheeks. "What are you thinking about?"

After Bai Mengyan changed her clothes, A Shuang, with her hair all messy, walked into Bai Mengyan's room and squinted at her:

"This set is good."

After saying that, she yawned and drifted into the bathroom.

Bai Mengyan finished dressing and started packing again: earphones, power bank, ID card...

"Um, I don't think I need my ID card..." she said, putting her ID card back.

Finally, she looked at the alarm that Ah Shuang had given her and installed it anyway.

It wasn't that she didn't trust Zhou Xun, but rather that she wanted to put A Shuang at ease.

Being away from home, it's not easy to have a friend who truly cares about you, and she didn't want to let Ah Shuang down.

After tidying up, Bai Mengyan came out of the room and went to the shoe cabinet to change her shoes.

Ah Shuang lay on the sofa and glanced at Bai Mengyan:

"position."

"It's been sent."

"Alarm."

"I brought it."

Send me a message every half hour, not text, but voice. I need to hear you speak to make sure you're safe.

Bai Mengyan glanced back at her, thinking, "You're exaggerating. Is Zhou Xun really going to eat her?"

But seeing Ah Shuang's serious expression, she swallowed back the words she was about to say and nodded:

"Okay, I'm leaving."

"Wait a moment."

Bai Mengyan turned to Ah Shuang and smiled, "My 'Mother,' is there anything else you need to tell me?"

Ah Shuang stood up from the sofa, walked over to her, reached out and straightened the collar of her cardigan, then patted her shoulder:

"Go ahead. If he's a jerk, come back and tell me, and I'll throw paint on his doorstep. If he's a good guy—"

She paused, then smiled: "If he's a good person, then go for it."

"Why are you rinsing?" Bai Mengyan rolled her eyes at her. "I'm leaving."

After going downstairs, I waited for the car at the entrance of the residential area.

It's 9:30 now, a 20-minute drive, so meeting at 10:00 will be perfect.

She habitually opened Weibo to see today's posts.

The first item on the homepage is a promotional material posted by the official Weibo account of "God of War": a countdown poster for the press conference that reads "Fifteen days until the premiere press conference," accompanied by a collage of stills of the cast.

She found Zhou Xun in that puzzle.

In the photo, he is wearing silver-white armor, his profile is sharply angled by the light, and his eyes are cold.

He was completely different from the handsome boy who usually wore a hoodie and had a smile in his eyes.

They're both handsome.

Bai Mengyan stared at the photo for several seconds, then silently saved it.

The car arrived, she put away her phone, and got in.

Once in the car, he opened his chat with Zhou Xun:

I'm on the bus.

The other party replied instantly: [Okay, let me know when you arrive.]

Bai Mengyan's lips unconsciously curved into a smile as she read the message that was replied to instantly.

The car was driving at a moderate speed on the elevated highway in the JA district. Bai Mengyan leaned against the car window and swiped her finger across the screen twice.

She pulled out the photos she had secretly taken of Zhou Xun while they were having barbecue, looked at them for a few seconds, then locked the screen and put her phone back on her lap.

Twenty minutes later, the car stopped, and the driver said something habitually:

"Miss, we've arrived. Please take your belongings and be careful of oncoming traffic when you open the door."

Bai Mengyan held her bag and looked out the window at the entrance of the residential complex:

"Master, is this it?"

The driver glanced at Bai Mengyan in the rearview mirror and casually remarked, "Oh, this is it. It's a well-known upscale residential area in JA District."

Bai Mengyan nodded gently, paid the fare, and got out of the car, somewhat dazed.

She originally thought that the place Zhou Xun mentioned was just a slightly larger ordinary apartment.

Shanghai is already a city where land is incredibly valuable, and large apartments in good locations are already quite expensive.

In her mind, Zhou Xun was just a newcomer to the entertainment industry, and the friends she knew should be in similar circumstances to him.

So when Zhou Xun sent her the location, she didn't bother to check it at all.

But standing here in person, she realized that reality was completely different from what she had imagined.

After all, would a low-end residential area have handsome guards on duty?

Bai Mengyan stomped her feet twice to appear calmer.

Since we're already here, we should at least see what a high-end residential area looks like.

She took a breath and opened Zhou Xun's chat window:

I've arrived at the entrance of the residential area.

Zhou Xun replied less than five seconds after the message was sent:

[Wait for me at the door, I'll come down to get you.]

After reading the message, Bai Mengyan started checking the local housing prices.

You won't believe it until you check: it costs 100,000 yuan per square meter.

She gasped, "My entire year's salary couldn't even buy one square meter of housing!"

After waiting for about three minutes, Zhou Xun came out from inside.

Today he was wearing a dark gray hooded sweatshirt, and his small face was clean and fair, like a little puppy.

"Have you been waiting long?" Zhou Xun walked over, swiped his hand on the access control, and the iron door clicked open.

"Just arrived," Bai Mengyan said.

"Let's go." Zhou Xun gestured for them to proceed.

Bai Mengyan held onto the strap of the knitted bag and bent over slightly as she went in, as if bowing.

Zhou Xun led the way, and Bai Mengyan followed behind, looking around like a curious child.

"What are you looking at?" Zhou Xun asked, turning around.

"I just want to see how this neighborhood, which costs 100,000 yuan per square meter, is different from the neighborhood I live in."

"What's the difference?"

"It's not much different." Bai Mengyan tugged at her bag strap. "It's just a bit cleaner than my neighborhood, has more greenery, better park facilities, and a free swimming pool..."

"Okay, I can't go on," she pouted. "I'm just a little envious."

Is it a little bit, or a billion bits? Zhou Xun smiled but didn't reply.

Three minutes later, the two entered the room.

The door slammed shut with a click.

Zhou Xun turned to look at Bai Mengyan, all his puppy-like charm gone, replaced by a wolfhound that had spotted a lamb:

"You came all alone, aren't you afraid I'll eat you?"

Bai Mengyan froze, her body stiffened, and she gripped the bag strap tightly with both hands.