Chapter 121: Chapter 121: The 9 PM Phone Call
Ou Linlin took a drag, flipped over, and leaned back next to the fountain.
Her long hair fell into the fountain as she laughed, tears streaming down her face, “Sun Nan Jue, that bastard, flirting with another woman right in front of …”
“Damn!” Ye Shu’s temper flared instantly, “I’ll go find him!”
“Find what? He already told that for soone like —’a woman whose red lips have been tasted by thousands’—it’s my blessing to have been with him.”
“Ridiculous! Does he not realize how many holes he’s dug himself into?” Ye Shu was already feeling choked up with frustration today, and now seeing her best friend being mistreated by Sun Nan Jue, her fury erupted.
Ou Linlin giggled, tears rolling down her cheeks.
Suddenly, she flipped over and clung to Ye Shu’s slender waist, burying her face in her thigh, sobbing uncontrollably, “Ye Shu, once a person has stains, do they lose the right to be redeed?”
“Fool, how could that be? Others might not understand you, but don’t I know you well? You were forced into that lifestyle back then, and you never sold your body after that.”
But that’s just how it is in this circle; once you have an inglorious past, people will latch onto it and blow it out of proportion.
That’s why Ou Linlin beca known among the Jin City people as an actress who slept her way up.
No matter how hard Ou Linlin worked, no one acknowledged her efforts; what they saw was just the ten years when she had been kept.
Ye Shu lovingly stroked Ou Linlin’s hair, soothing her.
“But he doesn’t understand, he, just like everyone else, despises and undervalues . Heh, I was foolish to think that loving him was enough. But I realized, it’s not about whether you love him; he won’t necessarily reciprocate. To him, I’m just a woman he can casually play with…”
Ou Linlin cried while muttering to herself.
Ye Shu stayed with her by the fountain for an hour, until she fell asleep.
Ye Shu, gritting her teeth, carried her to a taxi and sent her ho, settling her in.
Even though Ou Linlin was asleep, she kept murmuring Sun Nan Jue’s na, deeply hooked on him.
Without a word, Ye Shu tucked her in, and then noticed a scrapbook on Ou Linlin’s desk.
The cover was a photo of Sun Nan Jue from three years earlier when he had won the Aska Award for Best Director.
Curious, Ye Shu opened the cover and found it was filled with pictures of Sun Nan Jue.
From the Best New Director award Sun Nan Jue won ten years ago, all the way to becoming a global top director.
She had cut out his award-winning monts from magazines and pasted them into the scrapbook.
Next to them were annotations.
— The first ti I saw you, I knew my world could also be filled with sunshine.
— Today you won the Best Director Award, and I beca an actress, I feel I’ve moved one step closer to you.
— Today your film got an Oscar nomination, and I played the third female lead, we’ve co another step closer.
…
Densely packed, filled with girlish sentints and heartfelt emotions, they made Ye Shu’s nose tingle.
Ou Linlin, this foolish woman, appeared utterly carefree on the surface as if she didn’t care about anything, but inside she was nothing but pure.
She loved Sun Nan Jue to the marrow of her bones, debasing herself to the dust, and yet Sun Nan Jue was completely oblivious, and worse, hurt her with cruel words!
Ye Shu closed the scrapbook, determined to settle accounts with Sun Nan Jue, but just then Guan Jiu called.
Ye Shu frowned, raising her wrist to check her watch; it was precisely nine o’clock at night.
Her heart skipped a beat—Sheng Shaochen had a habit of expecting her to be ho by nine o’clock at night.
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