From the man behind the football king to the football king.

When Liu Yimei was reading the news, her cell phone rang.

"Where are you, Liu Yimei?"

"The waiting hall..."

"Come out quickly! I'll be waiting for you in the parking lot!"

Liu Yimei hung up the phone and shrugged. It seemed that her mother was really impatient. She didn't know how fast she was going from home to the West Station, and she didn't know how many red lights she ran...

When she finally met her mother, Liu Lili noticed the image on her phone screen.

"The latest?" she asked, pointing at her phone.

Liu Yimei nodded.

Liu Lili snatched the newspaper and only glanced at the front page before she sat down in the driver's seat. The phone slipped from her hand, and the scene of Liu Yimei and Bruno kissing gave her a deep stimulation.

"Are you okay, Mom?" Liu Yimei asked hurriedly with concern.

Liu Lili just waved her hand and said weakly: "Let's go, Liu Yimei. Let's go home..."

Liu Yimei secretly stuck out her tongue, turned around and opened the back door of the car.

It seems that her mother was hit hard... But she will have to see this scene sooner or later, so she might as well start to prepare herself mentally!

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Liu Lili parked the car at the door and said to her daughter, "You go up first. I'll be back after I park the car. Don't go anywhere. Wait for me in your room."

Liu Yimei stuck out her tongue, she knew she couldn't escape it.

She jumped out of the car with her backpack and just crossed the lawn in front of the house when she saw flashes of light all around her.

She knew that those were reporters waiting near her home. Maybe they had been lying in ambush here since the day she ran away from home, or maybe they had just read the report and came over to interview her.

She was not unfamiliar with this scene, and she did not make a fuss about it. She knew that the media was like this, and once there was gossip, it was like a group of sharks smelling blood.

Not only did she not block it, she also put on sunglasses to cover her face, which was useless. She was already at the door of her own home. If she covered her face, wouldn't others know who she was?

She waved and greeted the photographers generously.

"Hi, guys!" She gave her signature sweet smile.

When the reporters saw that Liu Yimei's attitude seemed very good, they all thought that there was a chance for an interview and they squeezed forward to hand her the microphone.

Liu Lili had just parked the car in the garage when she hurried downstairs. She saw her silly daughter greeting the reporters so heartlessly that she couldn't help but groan, "Oh! God!"

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The next moment, Liu Lili appeared between her daughter and the reporters, opened her arms to block them, and shouted, "No! No! Not today! We don't accept any form of interview!"

The reporters were relentless and asked loudly, "Ms. Liu Lili, I remember you once said that your daughter was recuperating at home because of illness. So what do you think of the report this morning? They said that a woman who looks like your daughter is dating a man. Do you think she is just a resemblance?"

"Sorry! I have nothing to say now!" Liu Lili frowned and tried to block the camera lens.

"Liu Yimei! Liu Yimei! Do you admit that the woman in the report is you? And who is that man? He looks like a Westerner..."

Liu Lili was afraid of what Liu Yimei would say, so she quickly pulled her behind her and pushed her towards the door.

"Liu Yimei! Please answer my question!"

"Ms. Liu Lili, I think this concerns Liu Yimei's reputation. Aren't you willing to work hard for your daughter's innocence?"

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After Liu Lili pushed Liu Yimei into the door, she turned around and said to the group of reporters who were almost at the door: "If you don't leave here, I will call the police!"

After saying that, he ignored the reporters, slipped into the room, and slammed the door shut as if in protest.

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The door separated Liu Yimei and her daughter from the reporters.

Liu Yimei threw herself on the sofa in the living room without any image, and said proudly: "Oh! Looks like I'm going to be on the hot search again, Mom. Look, I didn't appear on those shitty talk shows, but I still became a hot topic."

"Watch your words and don't use bad words!" Liu Lili was so angry at the reporters that her tone was not so polite when she spoke to her daughter.

She pointed at the sofa and motioned Liu Yimei to sit down.

Liu Yimei sat up straight and gave her mother a sweet smile, looking just like the good girl she used to be.

But at this moment, Liu Lili felt that this was not the smile of her familiar daughter, but rather a smug show-off after some evil scheme had succeeded.

She said angrily, "Now tell me, when did you start planning this...running away from home?"

"It's a vacation, a vacation, hehe!" Liu Yimei, who had spent two wonderful nights with Bruno, was in a good mood now. Facing her mother's questioning, she could even laugh.

"Don't nitpick!" Liu Lili stood in front of Liu Yime with her hands on her hips, leaning over to look at her.

Liu Yimei shrugged and spread her hands: "Well, it started from the time you arranged those talk shows for me."

"If you don't like it, you can tell me, Liu Yimei. You can't embarrass me in this way..."

"I expressed my dissatisfaction to you, but is it useful? You always tell me: 'It's good for me to participate in such a program.' I don't know what the benefit is. I am already famous enough. I don't need to accept invitations without being picky, right?"

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Liu Lili couldn't find a reason to refute for a while. She was stunned for a moment, waved her hand and said, "Let's not talk about this for now. Tell me that the person in the photo in the newspaper is not you, right?"

As a mother, she still had a glimmer of hope in her heart.

But her precious daughter ruthlessly defeated her. Liu Yimei said, "I don't want to lie to you, Mom. It was definitely me."

"Oh..." Liu Lili let out a painful groan and her body swayed.

Liu Yimei quickly stood up and supported her mother, and asked worriedly, "Are you okay?"

"Do I look fine?" Liu Lili glared at Liu Yimei.

Liu Yimei stuck out her tongue.

"Sit down." Liu Lili asked Liu Yimei to sit down again, and then she pulled a chair over and sat opposite Liu Yimei, as if she was interrogating a prisoner.

"How long have you known that man? Don't tell me you met him by chance on the street. Hollywood screenwriters have told enough nonsense stories like this. Don't use them to fool me again."

Liu Yimei knew that her mother would know about her relationship with Bruno sooner or later, because she liked Bruno and Bruno also liked her. If nothing unexpected happened, they would be together for a long time and might even consider getting married and having children. It was impossible for her mother to be completely in the dark about this process.

"Yes... for two and a half years."

Liu Yimei's answer surprised Liu Lili. Two and a half years? Wasn't her daughter still with the Korean man at that time? How did she know this man? Where did they meet? Did her daughter break up with the Korean man because of this man?

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Just as Liu Lili was daydreaming, she suddenly felt that the man with her daughter looked familiar.

"Wait... let me think... is it him? Oh my god..."

Although Liu Lili is not a qualified football fan and does not pay special attention to football matches, football is the world's number one sport, and reports about football are everywhere on the Internet. What's more, the World Cup has just ended. As the core of the champion Portugal and the number one contributor to the championship, even in China, reports about Bruno are endless. Naturally, Liu Lili has also seen a lot of reports about Bruno inadvertently.

Liu Lili's mind was a little confused. She had never thought that her daughter would have any contact with such a person.

After all, her daughter basically lives in China. Although she filmed a Hollywood movie in the past one or two years, she has not spent much time living abroad.

Although that man is a superstar, he lives on the other side of the continent and is from a completely different world from his daughter.

"You know what kind of football players in the country are like! There are not many good ones. I don't agree with you being with him!" Liu Lili still found it difficult to accept her daughter's feelings, and said with some specious arguments.

"He's different. Over the years, I haven't seen many negative reports about him. And from what I know, he has a very good personality. Although he's a superstar, he doesn't have any male chauvinism at all..."

"You are from two completely different worlds. He is in the UK and you are in China, a huge distance between you two... Have you forgotten the lesson from the past, Liu Yimei..." Liu Lili wanted to remind her daughter.

"Do you wish my influence to be limited to my own country, mother?"

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Liu Lili didn't know what to say when her daughter asked her this question.

She found that she couldn't win the argument with her daughter. She didn't know whether it was because everything she said was correct or because she was good at making excuses.

Liu Lili waved her hand again and asked, "What is your relationship with him now?"

She would rather her daughter just have a one-night stand with the other person and go their separate ways after tonight. But judging from her daughter's previous answer, this possibility is really too young...

"I read the media reports at the airport. They called him my 'underground lover' or 'rumored boyfriend'." Liu Yimei said with a smile, "What they said was almost the same, but I want to clear his name. He is my boyfriend."

Liu Yimei felt that it was not necessarily a bad thing for the media to expose her relationship with Bruno. At least she could use this opportunity to make her mother admit the fact that she was dating Bruno. When she had holidays in the future, she could go to see him openly instead of being sneaky like she did this time.