After Transmigrating as the Vicious Female Supporting Character, I Ran Away While Pregnant - Chapter 17

“Little Uncle Guan? Little Uncle Guan doesn’t have a daddy or mommy either.”

Talking about such a heavy topic with a child was obviously somewhat inappropriate. Mo Yueshuang gently patted Li Ran’s back. “Ranran, be good. It’s very late today. Let’s sleep first, okay?”

“Okay.”

Mo Yueshuang softly hummed a lullaby to coax Li Ran to sleep.

The little one in her arms had already fallen into a sweet sleep, but Mo Yueshuang’s mind was disturbed by her thoughts. Li Sheng’s figure kept appearing in her mind.

Li Sheng, who had suddenly appeared in the parking lot and saved her. Li Sheng, who had held the manuscript during the production crew’s audition and had been meticulous. Li Sheng, who had seriously chosen vegetables in the supermarket.

Although she was not very willing, for the sake of her daughter, she could do anything.

A solemn, unsmiling single mother, yet she had raised her child to be so adorable and considerate.

“Li Sheng.”

At some unknown point, Mo Yueshuang entered a dream. She only remembered that this night, she seemed to have been bewitched. Before falling asleep, her mind had been full of Li Sheng, and after entering her dream, Li Sheng was everywhere too.

At this moment, however, Li Sheng had not fallen asleep. She stood at the doorway of Ranran’s room for a while, then went directly to the study.

Li Sheng carefully sorted through everything that had happened when she first came to this world.

At that time, having just survived disaster, she had not thought too much about it. The newly rising female star Mo Yueshuang, real estate magnate Ji Ruodong, Li Sheng who had been confined and educated by her parents after willfully and recklessly confessing her love to Ji Ruodong, and the four great families of F Province.

This information told her that the place she was currently in should be a novel she had once read by chance in her previous life.

There were not many books she could read while living in the apocalypse, and this domineering CEO abusive romance novel left behind from before the apocalypse was one of the few entertainment novels Li Sheng had read in her leisure time. Because of this, she remembered it somewhat clearly.

It was also at that time that she knew she might have been reborn into a novel by some strange twist of fate. According to the plot in the novel, the child in her belly should have belonged to the male lead, Ji Ruodong.

But now, Ranran’s inexplicable resemblance to Mo Yueshuang was a suspicious point. When she met Ji Ruodong during the day today, the attitude Ji Ruodong displayed was vastly different from the domineering CEO male lead in her memory. Moreover, the novel had said that Ji Ruodong knew about the female supporting character Li Sheng scheming against him five years ago. When he saw Li Sheng’s child, he also immediately realized that the child was his.

But the Ji Ruodong she had met today gave her the feeling that he did not know about what had happened back then.

Mo Yueshuang liked Ranran very much. If things really continued according to the original work, then after she died in the future, Mo Yueshuang would also treat Ranran kindly… right?

Li Sheng leaned back against the chair, but this thought flashed by and vanished quickly. Soon, she smiled mockingly and thought to herself, who would die was not certain yet.

Li Sheng had had enough of being a lab rat. Her own life should be held in her own hands. If this world really did have some mysterious power controlling everything, then she would destroy those things and carve out a path of survival for herself.

If she was not the one personally taking care of Ranran, then no matter who it was, she would not feel at ease.

Li Sheng made a phone call.

Guan Tai, who had just finished arranging the bodyguards, was about to rest when he received Li Sheng’s call. After answering, before he could even praise his own shrewdness and competence, he received a new task.

“What? Help you arrange a meeting with Ji Ruodong?!” Guan Tai was so frightened that he nearly jumped off the bed. “Li Sheng, don’t tell me you still haven’t given up?”

“Don’t ask so much. Help me get a meeting with him. As soon as possible.”

Li Sheng hung up the phone. Guan Tai had a mouthful of old blood stuck in his throat, but he swallowed it back down.

It really was Li Sheng moving her mouth while Guan Tai ran until his legs broke. Early the next morning, Li Sheng received a reply.

“Two in the afternoon, at Guoshang. Li Sheng, don’t act recklessly. You’ve left home now and you have a child with you, so you must be steady.” Guan Tai kindly reminded her, then added, “After lunch, I’ll ask the production crew for leave and come over to help you look after Ranran.”

As usual, when Li Sheng was away, Guan Tai would come help her take care of Ranran. But today, Li Sheng refused.

“No need. Miss Mo is resting today, and she has already agreed to stay and keep Ranran company. I’ll be home before dark. Focus on your work.”

…

A little after one in the afternoon, Li Sheng was already waiting at the agreed location.

Out of courtesy, Ji Ruodong arrived half an hour early, so he did not make Li Sheng wait long.

“Sorry, sorry. There was traffic on the road, so I came late.”

“It isn’t the agreed time yet.” Li Sheng said this in an icy tone, like a narration.

The soft and adorable little sister from next door had become like this because of his momentary negligence back then. Ji Ruodong felt guilty and distressed.

He sat down opposite Li Sheng and tried his best to pretend that nothing had happened, as if they were still the big brother and little sister who used to play together many years ago.

But very obviously, Li Sheng no longer accepted this.

Li Sheng stated her purpose straightforwardly. “President Ji, I came because I want to understand what happened five years ago.”

Here it comes! It really was about what happened five years ago. The hand Ji Ruodong used to hold the menu trembled, but he quickly acted as if nothing was wrong and put the menu down.

“Shengsheng, it’s been five years. Some things from the past should be left in the past. If you have any grievances, Brother Ruodong will help you get justice.”

Ji Ruodong’s tone was gentle and calm, but the final sentence carried a ruthless aura.

Li Sheng felt nothing. “President Ji, I think you misunderstood. I came to understand whether, five years ago, you stayed behind as I designed.”

Ji Ruodong paused. Suddenly, he could not quite understand what Li Sheng was saying.

“Five years ago? You mean the matter where you schemed against me at the hotel?”

“Mm.”

When Ji Ruodong spoke of this, he was still somewhat embarrassed. Looking at Li Sheng again, however, her expression did not change. That “mm” was answered openly and calmly.

“I didn’t stay…”

Ji Ruodong’s face grew worse and worse. Li Sheng had suddenly asked him this. Could it be that Li Sheng had mistaken the person who hurt her five years ago for him? Could Li Sheng think that child was his?

“Li Sheng, listen to me.” Ji Ruodong took a deep breath and prepared himself mentally. When he saw Li Sheng’s cold and clear eyes looking straight at him, Ji Ruodong suddenly found it hard to speak. The truth was often so hurtful. The little sister before him had already suffered so much unfair treatment. Did he really have to tear open the scars of the past and make her face her own bloody wounds once again?

Ji Ruodong hesitated. Li Sheng still looked as if she did not care. She picked up the clear tea in front of her and took a small sip. When she put down the teacup, Ji Ruodong still showed no sign of speaking, so Li Sheng could only urge him. “President Ji, what do you want to say?”

“Shengsheng, five years ago, after I learned of your plan, I didn’t stay behind as you expected. After you entered the hotel room and drank that glass of wine, I left. I…”

“Mm?”

“I left two bodyguards there to protect you, but I didn’t expect them to be knocked unconscious, and you disappeared too. So, that day, nothing happened between us. But…”

Ji Ruodong lowered his head and haltingly told her everything that had happened back then.

When they were still young, he had once carried Li Sheng on his back and sent her to kindergarten. Back then, when Li Sheng got out of school, she would ask the housekeeper to bring her to the gate of his school and wait for him to finish class.

For families like theirs, the thing they lacked least was probably siblings. But most of them were either half-siblings from the same father and different mothers, or from the same mother and different fathers. Back then, when they were young, everyone had envied him for having such an adorable little girl by his side.

Later, after he graduated from university and took over the family business, Li Sheng was still in high school. The little sister from next door was still a younger sister in his heart, but the feelings of a young girl had already begun to bloom. Li Sheng pursued him relentlessly, gradually becoming a joke in the circle.