Mr Carlos Huo, She's Your Wife

Before grabbing her chopsticks, Debbie called Carlos. Just as she guessed, he was too busy to come back for dinner. Despite feeling a jolt of loneliness, she understood why. He had already abandoned his schedule to pick her up from the Southon Village. Earlier, he had received quite a few business calls, even in the car. All his time was devoted to either flirting with her or dealing with work.

After reminding Carlos of his meal, Debbie hung up and dug into her dinner.

She had to admit one thing—without Carlos at the table, she was free to do anything she wanted. She liked to play on her phone, but Carlos rarely let her do anything other than eat and talk to him. And he did precious little of the latter. Sometimes, there was little to talk about, especially with a man of few words. And she did love to mess around with her phone...

Debbie had just opened her Weibo app when her phone suddenly rang. It was Kasie calling.

After quickly swallowing down a mouthful of tasty soup, she answered in a happy tone, "Hi, Kasie!"

"Debbie! Did you see the top trending topic on Weibo?" Kasie was obviously excited, and her words came out in a rapid-fire jumble.

"Not yet. I just sat down for dinner. I was about to get on Weibo when you called. Something happened?"

"Yeah. Your husband made the headlines again! Carlos seems to have become a newsmaker. I don't know what you did to him, but it's almost like he's craving the limelight now. He used to issue takedown notices for stories about him, but not anymore."

'Made the headlines?' Debbie tensed up. "What did he do this time? Anything happened to him?"

"Well, you'd better read the news yourself. You're involved. You'd probably know better than I would." Kasie had scarcely finished her sentence before she hung up the phone immediately. Debbie had no chance to say a word.

With a torrent of doubts flooding her mind, Debbie clicked the hot topics list on Weibo. The topic "Carlos Huo is married" ranked first. The story had gone viral—a lot of people had seen this, and the number kept ticking upwards.

'Carlos Huo is married? Has our marriage gone public?' Debbie thought.

Her heart jumped into her throat. Losing her appetite, she put down her chopsticks and glued her eyes to the headline for several minutes.

After a long pause, she took a deep breath and mustered the courage to click the title. There were a few photos posted at the end of the article. Instead of reading the article, she took a quick look at the photos first.

ceremony this afternoon. He was holding a trophy with

trophy. It was

moment he left the venue after the award ceremony. He was surrounded by a throng of reporters; his face

one was

down and saw a few click-bait headlines. "Better put a

Huo sports a wedding ring at the First

thrust of the article was about how

the award ceremony. Even after the event, Carlos didn't answer any of the reporters' questions, but he didn't deny the allegations

account and the ZL Group's official account. Some of his crazy fans were heartbroken, while some blessed his marriage with the

They figured that Debbie was probably Mr. Huo's wife, and left comments to that effect. Tons of reporters wanted to interview the students of the Economics and Management School, but they couldn't, because the school was on winter vacation

of these comments began to disappear. It seemed like someone had them

more than the last time. This was the second time people had gotten a look at his private life. It seemed that people were hungry for this. There were already more than five

that he did have a huge fan base. He might be more

thought was interrupted by Carlos' call. As soon as the

"You read the news?"

"Hmm..."

asked. He wouldn't mind announcing their marriage to the whole world. He wanted everyone to know that Debbie was his beloved wife.

about the viral posts. They were understaffed for that sort of thing, so the phone lines

netizens would be following his life this

question. 'Shouldn't his PR department be doing damage control?' she wondered.

that they hadn't announced their marriage. "Do you think

spreading on Weibo, she knew Carlos couldn't keep silent anymore. He had to post something. "Then tell everyone you are married. But

a damn what anyone else thought. They had nothing to do

need the added stress and attention. School was hard enough, and with tons of