Chapter 4 – Leng Junhui, Why Are You Here?

Inside the villa, two people were chasing each other around. One was swinging a golf club, while the other was running so fast he practically left an afterimage behind.

In the end, Leng Junhui was caught by Leng Yan. She grabbed him by the hair and pressed his face against the floor, filling the entire villa with his wails. “Sister! Stop, stop, stop! Let go!!! It hurts!!!”

And so, a golf-club-shaped dent appeared in the floor beside Leng Junhui’s face.

He fell silent.

“Leng Junhui, what are you doing here?” Leng Yan’s tone was far from pleasant. Her memories had merged with those of the Leng Yan from the first timeline.

“My dad and mom have been traveling abroad lately. They told me to come stay with you.” Leng Junhui obediently answered while being pinned to the floor.

“…Do I look like a nanny to you?” Leng Yan’s expression darkened, and the force in her hand increased.

“No, no, no! Sister, you look gentle and beautiful, dignified and… ah… it hurts…” Leng Junhui desperately flattered her, grimacing in pain.

Unfortunately, that tactic was useless against the current Leng Yan.

“How long are you staying?” Leng Yan gripped the golf club, pressing the shaft against Leng Junhui’s neck.

“I… don’t know… I have to wait until they come back…”

“Leng Junhui, He Yinshao isn’t here.”

Of course Leng Yan could see through Leng Junhui’s intentions. His parents weren’t home, and as a pampered young master, he could have simply stayed at his own house and let the servants wait on him. The fact that he had come here clearly meant he was here for someone in particular.

And in the original novel, Leng Junhui was extremely fond of He Yinshao.

“What?!! Where is she?!” Leng Junhui anxiously forced his head up. “Sister, why did you bully her again?!”

“…” Leng Yan couldn’t be bothered explaining anything to Leng Junhui. After all, he was only her uncle’s son, an insignificant character in the story.

Seeing Leng Yan finally put away the golf club, Leng Junhui breathed a sigh of relief. But when she still didn’t answer his question and started heading upstairs, he hurried after her.

“Sister, where’s He Yinshao? If you hate her, you can let me take her back to my place. My family—”

“She moved out. I don’t want to see her.” Leng Yan cut off everything Leng Junhui had been about to say with a single sentence.

Leng Junhui fell silent in surprise. In his impression, even if Leng Yan hated He Yinshao, the most she would do was beat her up to vent her anger. But actually throwing her out… just how much did she have to despise someone to do that…?

He decided he would secretly go find He Yinshao himself. So after looking at Leng Yan’s face, he quickly changed the subject. “Why didn’t you go on that newcomer-training show your dad wanted you to participate in?”

“Didn’t want to.” Leng Yan replied lightly.

The original Leng Yan hadn’t gone because she genuinely didn’t want to. But Leng Yan herself knew the plot. If she went, she would run into He Yinshao, and she had absolutely no desire to have any kind of meeting or encounter with the heroine.

In about a week, He Yinshao would probably be discovered by a talent scout and enter a survival show to become an idol.

“Leng Junhui, He Yinshao isn’t here. Are you still planning to stay?”

“I mainly came to see you, Sister. Hehe. It has nothing to do with anyone else…” Seeing Leng Yan’s expression grow worse and worse, Leng Junhui immediately changed course. “But now that I’ve already seen you, I guess I should get going.”

After returning to her room, Leng Yan thought things over. She didn’t want to see He Yinshao, so she called her assistant and had herself signed up for a travel variety show under another entertainment company—Time Travel Journal.

The moment the other side saw that the message had come from Leng Yan’s assistant, they agreed delightedly without even a second of hesitation. The travel show would begin filming the following week, allowing her to avoid He Yinshao perfectly.

·

He Yinshao moved into the house Leng Yan had bought for her purely so she wouldn’t have to see her.

The house was around two hundred square meters and had everything she could possibly need. There were even some new seasonal clothes hanging in the wardrobe… He Yinshao was somewhat surprised. Compared to the second timeline, Leng Yan seemed to have changed into yet another completely different person in this life, making her impossible to figure out.

What exactly was going on?

She took the new clothes out of the wardrobe and tossed them into the washing machine, then unpacked the ​stolen content​clothes from her suitcase and put them away…

After finishing everything, she lay on the bed and stared at the ceiling, thinking back over everything that had happened across these three lives…

They were completely different…

He Yinshao patted her face, feeling a little tired. Just then, the doorbell rang.

She went to check the security monitor at the entrance.

Leng Junhui?

What was he doing here? He Yinshao opened the door in confusion.

The moment Leng Junhui saw that it really was He Yinshao, a foolishly lovestruck grin immediately appeared on his face. “Hi, Xiao He~”

The door shut again.

“???” Silence separated them by nothing more than a single door.

Leng Junhui’s smile froze on his face. He immediately began knocking anxiously. “Xiao He, open the door! It’s me! I need to talk to you about something.”

The door opened again.

“What do you want?” He Yinshao kept one hand on the doorknob, ready to shut it at any moment.

“Well, my sister doesn’t want to participate in that idol survival show run by my uncle’s company, so I wanted to ask if you’d like to join and compete as an idol?” Leng Junhui couldn’t think of anything else to talk about, so he simply reused the topic that had come up at Leng Yan’s house.

“Leng Yan isn’t participating in the survival show?” He Yinshao immediately caught the key piece of information. “Then what show is she going on?”

“I don’t know. She didn’t mention it to me.” Leng Junhui spread his hands.

He Yinshao fell silent for a while. She chatted with Leng Junhui at the doorway about a few other things before sending him away. After closing the door, she immediately became wary.

Leng Yan wasn’t participating in that survival show, and she had even kicked He Yinshao out… Her way of doing things now no longer followed the original pattern at all.

Did she have memories from rebirth? But if so, why hadn’t she killed her like she had in the second timeline? He Yinshao found Leng Yan increasingly impossible to understand.

He Yinshao had no intention of becoming an idol in this life. She had no backing and could far too easily be shelved by the company. If that hypocrite He Zixuan hadn’t taken an interest in her during her first life and warned those people off, she probably would have been buried long ago. In this life, she wanted nothing to do with that hypocrite.

Still, what Leng Junhui had just said gave He Yinshao an idea.

She could sign with the entertainment company owned by Leng Junhui’s family…

She knew Leng Junhui would come looking for her again. He liked her face. Since that was the case, she might as well make good use of her advantage.

·

“Assistant Luo, send me all the documents the company has handled recently. I want to look through them.” Leng Yan called her assistant. She wanted to take over the company’s affairs as quickly as possible so she wouldn’t expose herself by acting out of character.

“Of course, Miss Leng,” Assistant Luo replied.

He worked quickly, and before long, Leng Yan’s phone had received a large number of documents.

In her original world, Leng Yan had already been a wealthy young lady herself and had even taken over her father’s company. So dealing with the documents in front of her was extremely easy.

Of course, the way she had behaved toward He Yinshao in this third timeline was basically just the same attitude she normally used with her subordinates.