Jin Kang was puzzled by what she thought was an exaggerated reaction by her friend so she bent down and picked her phone for her. "You know, normally I would mock you for replacing the 'F' word with fruit when you swear but today I won't. You are going to be a mommy after all so you must curb your language."
She held the phone out to Alix and pointed to it with her face.
"Mmm, take your phone. It's already old, just replace it already. Look at all these cracks. How can the wife of a respectable man be walking around with such a shabby phone?"
Alix grabbed Jin Kang by the shoulders and shook her roughly.
"Jin Jin, shut up for a minute."
"Okay okay, take it easy. I am holding my car key in my hand." Alix said loudly.
"Forget the car key, this is false news. I am not pregnant, I swear, I am not pregnant." Alix shouted.
One of the teachers was passing by and she heard the words through the open office door. She had a smile on her face and her hand was raised.
Both Alix and Jin Kang guessed that she was about to say congratulations.
"I am not pregnant, really, I am not pregnant." Alix repeated loudly.
The teacher bowed her head, smiled nervously and walked backwards, leaving Alix and Jin Kang to look at each other again.
"Calm down, explain slowly." Jin Kang told Alix.
She was panicking unnecessarily. If she was not pregnant, a simple explanation would make it all go away.
Alix's phone rung, and when she looked at it, she noticed that it was her mother-in-law.
"Excuse me." she pushed Jin Knag out of her office, closed the door and took a deep breath. Then, she picked the call, and tried to sound as calm as possible.
"Mother-in-law." she said softly.
"Eh, Alix, dear....." her mother-in-law's voice, sounding tentative from the other end of the call was heard.
"Mother-in-law, I am not pregnant. It's all false news. I don't know who the close sources to me or Caishen that are sharing false news are."
The close source claim was on the article of a blogger who specified that she was three weeks pregnant.
"Of course I know that dear. You and Caishen have not had any interactions with each other before the wedding as far as I know. Don't worry, I will deal with this issue personally and clarify the matter.
But, I noticed that you two were standing next to the doors leading to obstetrics and gynecology. I am just calling to tell you that I am so happy because you are both taking the issue of having children seriously.
By the smile on your face I take it that you got positive news from the check up. I will share this news with the elders, they will be very pleased.
Dear, thank you so much for doing our Zhang family such a big favor. We will finally have good news to look forward to after a very heartbreaking year."
Initially, the phone call was moving in a positive direction that made Alix happy but the more Yura talked, the more skewed the conversation became.
When did they visit a gynecologist? What check up did she have?
"Mother," Alix called desperately.
"Oh, I have to go. Your grandfather is calling me now, I guess he has heard about the rumors spreading online. I will explain everything on your behalf."
Yura hung up on a puzzled Alix.
"Ho, from the frying pan into the fire." her system said.
What was worse here, the rumor of the pregnancy or the assumption by her in-laws that she and Caishen were thinking about children?
Alix sagged in her chair and lazily dug around in one of the drawers of her desk. She got a chocolate, unwrapped it and tossed it in her mouth.
Eating something sweet usually energized her and allowed her to think more clearly.
Her phone rung again, and she looked at it. The sweet chocolate in her mouth lost it's flavor pretty quickly when she saw the name of the caller.
With anger boiling in her like hot water in a pan, she picked it up.
"Hey, Wei Tao, stop calling me. You bastard, stop fuck, ___fruiting calling me. What exactly do you want to talk about now?
If you wanted to talk you should have called me months ago, not now that I am married to a man ten times better than you are. Go fruit yourself you ass."
She hung up and tossed the phone on the table. I think it's time to change my number, she thought.
She had barely caught her breath when the phone rung again.
Aah, this weasel really wants to me show him just how ruthless my mouth can be, she thought.
"Hey, how many times do I have to say it for you to get it through your small brain? Stop calling me or I will report you to the police for stalking. Seriously, you have lost it if you think that I will spare even one second on you.
I have already said it, go fruit yourself. I Lin Alix want nothing to do with a gigolo like you. If you think I don't know how many old women are funding your current life style and career think again.
One more time, call me once more and I will end your career."
She hung up and then made a post on her weibo account whose name she had changed the previously night.
The song bird lives: [I am not pregnant but thank you for your well wishes.]
She switched off her phone again. When composing or playing music, one needed a clear head.
The person Alix had just accused of being sponsored by old women was staring at his phone, very baffled. Did she know that she was talking to him?
Caishen looked at Biming who had just heard every word his wife had shouted at him.
Confused, he asked his PA, "Biming, what does fruiting oneself mean?"
"I will search for the answer on the internet straight away. Perhaps it's a slang we are not familiar with." Biming suggested.
In a daze, Caishen looked at the phone again and said, "She called me a gigolo and and a stalker."
Biming laughed softly and then straightened his face when Caishen looked at him.
"I don't think she was referring to you CEO. She has probably been on the receiving end of many phone calls since this ridiculous news broke.
She did start the call complaining about repeating herself and telling someone to stop calling her. This means this individual had been calling her continuously for a while now. That does not sound like you CEO. She also mentioned someone's life style and career being sponsored by the means of being a gigolo. I suspect that it could be her ex-boyfriend, the actor."
Caishen suddenly sulked and looked at hi computer.
"Whatever, just correct the narrative. I have work to do."
Biming twisted his lips around for a while, then he smiled when Caishen gave him that you are irritating me by being here glare.