The Ex-Girlfriend of a Wealthy Young Man (22)

Lu Qi took her time and arrived late. The moment she walked in, she looked around to see where Tang Guo was.

The person who accompanied Lu Qi to the competition venue was still none other than Leng Ziyue.

When Leng Ziyue saw Tang Guo, he couldn't help but remember everything he'd seen back at the villa last night and how he'd felt.

Every time he saw Tang Guo now, a voice would involuntarily pop into his mind. This was his father's woman, the woman who would get between the sheets with his father every night.

What a tight, stifling feeling in his chest!

Tang Guo felt two pairs of eyes on her, and she lifted her head slightly to flash a sweet smile at the two people staring at her peculiarly.

Lu Qi shook her clenched fists and then walked over to the seat next to Tang Guo.

"Tang Guo, you look very well-prepared. Are you very confident about this competition?" Lu Qi was very pretty to start with, and she looked even prettier when she smiled. She went on to say, "You're pretty good at singing, and your voice is beautiful. Are you confident you'll win first place?"

Tang Guo didn't answer Lu Qi's question. Instead, she threw Lu Qi's question back at her. "Are you confident?"

Lu Qi flashed a superficial smile and said, "I believe all my efforts will pay off today. Naturally, I'm confident I'll take first place. Tang Guo, you might be a very outstanding singer, but I'm not too bad myself."

"Oh…" Tang Guo drawled purposefully. The crowd thought that she had conceded defeat, but what she said the next moment was so startling that everyone shook from the shock.

Tang Guo rested her chin on her hands and lifted her gaze slightly before saying, "You can forget about it. First place is mine. Although you've worked hard for a long time just to realize your achievement today, you seem to be pretty unlucky, yeah? Why did you have to run into me?"

"If I'm not in the picture, what you envisioned can still be realized," Tang Guo said with a sweet smile. This gave people the impression that she was merely expressing what she felt in her heart at that moment, as opposed to having some hidden agenda. She didn't give the slightest indication that she had bad intentions. She went on to say, "But you don't have to be disappointed. Though you're two years older than me, you're still very young. There are plenty of opportunities for you."

This was a blow to Lu Qi!

The other contestants looked at one another. They all noticed that the smile that was originally on Lu Qi's pretty face was gone because Tang Guo had made her angry.

Lu Qi's chest rose and fell several times before she took a deep, long breath and finally calmed down.

"Don't be so full of yourself," Lu Qi said. She could no longer pretend to be gracious and continued, "So you won't feel so hurt when reality slaps you in the face later."

The others could also see that these two women weren't easy to handle, so they didn't want to get involved. It didn't take too much thought to realize that in this round of quarterfinals, so long as there were no unforeseen circumstances, the first and second place would go to Lu Qi and Tang Guo.

As for who was first, that would depend on who was the better singer.

At this time, the backstage host seemed to have found some topic to talk about.

Filled with anticipation, he wasted no time in walking over to Lu Qi and Tang Guo, and for the moment, the camera was focused on the two of them.

"Lu Qi, Tang Guo, did something unpleasant happen between the two of you?" The host was filled with enthusiasm as he asked with gusto, "Or is it because the two of you are competing against each other, so you don't see eye to eye?"

It was also because they were newbies that the backstage host dared to ask such a question. His intention was to create more buzz about them so that by the time the show was screened on TV, it would become much more popular.

He and the producers didn't care about how this affected the two of them. As long as the ratings of their program went up, nothing else really mattered.

Lu Qi flashed a big-hearted smile and said, "No, we are very close to each other. There's no such thing as unhappiness between us. However, we are competing against each other, so in the eyes of outsiders, it probably seems like we're in a tit-for-tat relationship. But that's far from the truth. The competition between us is really just a singing competition. There're no personal grievances involved. Besides, there's no grudge between me and Tang Guo. I really like her."

"Tang Guo, is that so?"

Tang Guo nodded and said, "She's right."

Lu Qi breathed a sigh of relief. However, the next thing Tang Guo said made her so angry that she felt suffocated.