Chapter 106: Be My Lady Companion!

Within three minutes of Yan Han’s phone call, fully armed personnel arrived to take the robbers away. Chu Luoxi was not surprised, but Bai Yun watched with his mouth hanging open in an "O" shape.

Following this, the great Bai Yun began asking Yan Han increasingly profound and professional questions, enough to leave even Yan Han feeling astonished.

As it turned out, the two became so engrossed in their conversation that Chu Luoxi felt redundant. Wanting to leave but unable to find the right moment to interject, she had no choice but to sit and drink tea. Before she knew it, the entire afternoon had slipped away.

This was exactly how she knew the great Bai Yun to be: once his professional obsession took hold, nothing else existed in his eyes. Whether in her past life or from what she had gathered online in this one, he had always possessed this trait, so she didn't think much of it—it was just his personality.

However, Chu Luoxi hadn't expected Yan Han to be such a workaholic as well. Once the topic shifted to his professional duties, his entire demeanor changed; otherwise, the two would never have hit it off so well. Moreover, Yan Han had a pleasant temperament; as long as it didn't involve classified information, he would explain things to Bai Yun in great detail, often proactively expanding on the subject matter.

"You two keep talking, I'm heading out!" Chu Luoxi was bored to tears. Although the things Yan Han was discussing were interesting, she had played a female soldier in her past life and was already familiar with most of the routine details, so the more she listened, the less interested she became.

"Go, go!" Bai Yun was truly unceremonious, waving a hand without even lifting his head. The look of utter dismissal on his face made Chu Luoxi break into a cold sweat—after all that, she realized she was being treated as an inconvenience!

"Be careful!" Yan Han looked up, smiled at Chu Luoxi, and offered a word of caution.

Chu Luoxi shrugged, nodded, and headed out. With two workaholics in the room, she decided to keep her distance to avoid being a nuisance.

Closing the door softly, Chu Luoxi couldn't help but shake her head with a wry smile. She had seen plenty of workaholics in her previous life—once they got busy, everything else became trivial. Fortunately, it was her; if it had been some other woman, she would have surely thrown a tantrum!

While Chu Luoxi was lamenting the future wife of Bai Yun and Yan Han, her phone rang before she could finish her internal grumbling. She was feeling bored and restless, so she answered quickly.

It was Lan Lun on the line. He didn't say much, only asking where she was, presumably because he had something for her. Chu Luoxi welcomed the call; she rarely found herself with nothing to do, so she was far from annoyed by his interruption.

Early on in her contract, Lan Lun had resolved the lingering issues from the Wang Yanan incident. He hadn't given her any work lately, and both of them tacitly felt no rush, though others—specifically Zhu Xueshuang and Liu Yujia—had brought it up to her several times.

After sending a text to the two engrossed men inside, Chu Luoxi left leisurely. She didn't wait long at the bottom of the teahouse before seeing Lan Lun drive up.

She climbed into the car without hesitation, only then noticing another person in the back seat. She hadn't paid much attention at first: "Eh? Senior Brother Xiao?"

She was briefly stunned. Why was Xiao Jingxuan with Lan Lun? And where was Leng Daji? Even if they were acquaintances, this was a sudden development...

Xiao Jingxuan nodded with a faint, elegant smile: "It is I who have something to ask of you." Seeing Chu Luoxi's confusion, he took the initiative to explain.

"Oh, what is it?" Chu Luoxi asked with interest, her dark eyes darting around to confirm Leng Daji was truly absent. She was interested in anything right now; only when one is bored to the point of agony can one truly appreciate such a distraction!

"The College Student Film Festival is about to begin. If you are free, would you be my partner?" Xiao Jingxuan said casually, as if he were describing something as mundane as drinking water.

Chu Luoxi thought idly that she had been seeing the great Xiao quite often lately, but it was usually over trivial matters. Before she knew Xiao Jingxuan, she never imagined that the great Xiao would run around handling such small tasks personally. For instance, couldn't this have been settled with a single phone call? Why come in person to ask her?

Although there was a sense of being valued, Chu Luoxi couldn't quite fathom it. Was the great Xiao really that free?

"Eh?" Chu Luoxi was surprised, eyeing Xiao Jingxuan with a strange look that made him feel a bit uneasy.

"What, are you busy? Or is there an issue?" Xiao Jingxuan frowned slightly, asking calmly.

"The College Student Film Festival is usually on New Year's Day, and there are no classes, so I'm naturally free. But shouldn't your company have plenty of actresses, Senior Brother?" Chu Luoxi asked, quite puzzled.

Being a partner meant walking the red carpet with Xiao Jingxuan. Given his immense popularity, this was an excellent opportunity for publicity and exposure—something many actresses would kill for.

Usually, such things were pre-arranged. Either the organizers would pair up actors with similar popularity to maximize the heat on the red carpet, or the company would make selections—either pushing newcomers or creating eye-catching pairings to generate buzz. In short, the company wouldn't let good resources go to waste; any high-profile star was a hot commodity that the big boss would never let slip by.

Fengjing Entertainment had achieved an industry feat and was booming, signing many stars and newcomers. There was no reason for Xiao Jingxuan not to pull in one of his own company's actresses instead of being so "generous" to her!

Staring at Chu Luoxi for two seconds, Xiao Jingxuan smiled brilliantly and said gently, "Leng Lu has his own arrangements for the company's people. My partner, I choose myself."

"You choose yourself?" Chu Luoxi blinked. Being the boss meant real freedom. Leng Daji actually let Xiao Jingxuan choose for himself instead of maximizing the company's utility? Tsk tsk, that manager was being far too derelict in his duties.

If Leng Lu knew that this was how Chu Luoxi judged him, he would surely cough up blood and cry injustice. It wasn't that he didn't want to manage Xiao Jingxuan—it was that he couldn't manage him at all!

"Well, will you go?" Xiao Jingxuan asked again.

"I will, why wouldn't I? The College Student Film Festival is a good event." Adhering to the principle that only a fool would turn down a free benefit, Chu Luoxi saw no reason to push away an opportunity delivered to her doorstep.

"That's good!" The great Xiao smiled, and his entire backdrop seemed to instantly become radiant: "I'll have Lan Lun arrange it for you then..."

"I was just about to say..." Lan Lun said while driving. As he spoke, the temperature in the car seemed to drop by a few degrees: "Xiao Xi, you were going to attend the College Student Film Festival anyway. You've been nominated for Best Supporting Actress for your role as Yun Tianxue in 'Long Xiao Tian Xia'."

"Huh, what?" Chu Luoxi was stunned, caught completely off guard.

Although a nomination didn't guarantee a win, being nominated was enough to shock her.