After Transmigrating as the Vicious Female Supporting Character, I Ran Away While Pregnant - Chapter 19
The proprietress moved very quickly. In a short while, she brought up two stir-fried dishes. She smiled and said, “Eat more. Your work is too tiring and too hard. When you first came here back then, you were so energetic.”
“Thank you, Auntie Liu.” Bai Jing’s cold and aloof temperament had been formed over a long period of working in that high-pressure environment, and from the exhaustion of communicating with patients’ families. In truth, she was only a little quiet.
Bai Jing took off her glasses and rubbed the space between her brows. “There are many people doing parentage tests now, but I’ve never met anyone like you.”
After Bai Jing finished speaking, their gazes met, and suddenly, both of them laughed at the same time.
As the child’s mother, Li Sheng had brought the hair of another man and woman to do a parentage test for her own daughter. This matter was actually rather interesting, though on closer thought, it was also full of bitterness.
Li Sheng knew that Bai Jing had misunderstood, but for this kind of matter, rather than explaining it with a bunch of unbelievable words, it was better to let the misunderstanding continue and simply laugh.
“Let’s not talk about that.” Bai Jing picked up the chopsticks. “Auntie Liu and Uncle Liu’s cooking skills are both very good. Try some.”
Li Sheng ate a little. Bai Jing indeed had not overpraised them. The taste of these two stir-fried dishes was indeed good.
What Bai Jing had brought was baijiu. She drank quite a lot. She still looked to be in good condition, but her gaze had gradually begun to scatter.
“Hua Country people like handling matters at the dining table. One cup can dissolve hatred, and one cup can also make friends. We’ve already clinked glasses, so does that mean we count as friends?”
Li Sheng nodded. She was still a little unused to this alcohol, but if she carefully savored it, it had its own unique flavor.
That night, Li Sheng did not go back. She stayed overnight at a nearby hotel and only drove back the next morning after sobering up.
As soon as she returned home, she received Guan Tai’s complaints. “If you weren’t coming back at night, you should’ve told me earlier. Because of you, I didn’t get your call until almost midnight. I didn’t have time to clean up a room and slept on the sofa all night. Now my waist aches, my back hurts, and all my limbs are numb.”
“Sorry.” Li Sheng raised her hand and placed it on Guan Tai’s shoulder. She used some strength to pat him. “Thank you.”
“All right, with our friendship, saying these things is too distant. Ranran talked to Miranda on the phone for too long last night and is still sleeping now. Go in quietly. Don’t wake the child.”
Guan Tai still had things to handle at the production crew. Now that Li Sheng was back, he was anxious to leave.
Mo Yueshuang was at the set shooting an advertisement endorsement. When she arrived in the morning, nothing seemed wrong. It was only close to noon that Mo Yueshuang realized the staff on set were looking at her strangely.
Chen Yue went to prepare lunch for Mo Yueshuang. Along the way, she heard all kinds of messy whispers.
“Is the news real or fake?”
“Mo Yueshuang’s older brother from her hometown personally exposed it. He posted a half-hour-long video accusing Mo Yueshuang of being unfilial. I heard her mother is still lying in a hospital bed waiting for medical fees.”
“The news is fake, right? A person should have at least some conscience. Mo Yueshuang doesn’t seem like someone that cruel.”
“How many people in this circle can really be clean? We don’t know whether Mo Yueshuang is kindhearted or not, but her brother said it himself. Could it still be fake?”
“Wasn’t this news exposed a few years ago? It caused a huge uproar back then too. They also said that after Mo Yueshuang became successful, she didn’t support her parents, and she didn’t acknowledge the brothers and sisters at home. Her younger brother had a fever when he was little, and it burned his brain. In order to treat him, the whole family sold what houses and fields they could and rented out what they could. Their life was miserable.”
“No matter whether there’s exaggeration or not, what status does Mo Yueshuang have now? She’s a first-line actress in Hua Country and the almost-confirmed female lead of Director Wen’s international blockbuster. Her family is so poor, yet she won’t help them at all. She really has no conscience.”
“I absolutely don’t agree. Maybe someone saw that she became popular and deliberately tripped her up. It’s not like we haven’t seen this kind of thing before.”
Chen Yue knew the inside story. Hearing those words along the way made her so angry her teeth itched. She clenched her fists and suppressed her anger. Her boss was such a good person. How could that group of vampires from the Mo family have no humanity at all? Did they have to force her boss onto a dead end before they were satisfied?
Mo Yueshuang looked at the news online and roughly understood what was going on.
“Spend money to suppress the trending search, then contact Mo Haogui. Bring hired fighters with you. Contact the Mo family’s side as well. Make sure to find reliable people. This matter cannot be allowed to blow up.” Mo Yueshuang put down her phone and softly gave Chen Yue instructions, as if she were merely chatting casually.
Chen Yue sighed heavily. “Boss, when will these days ever end? There’s still one year left on your contract, and things are already like heaven and hell now.”
“All right, stop complaining. Hurry and make the arrangements.”
Mo Yueshuang also did not want to endure being slaughtered by others. Previously, Mo Haogui had come to make trouble, but the next day, he had been sent into the station. Before she could make a move, she received news from Ji Ruodong again.
Ji Ruodong wanted to use Mo Haogui to deal with her, so he definitely would not let her easily hurt Mo Haogui. But now Ji Ruodong had let her go, and Mo Haogui was already useless to Ji Ruodong.
She could not deal with Ji Ruodong, and she could not deal with the company either. But if she hardened her heart and spent more money, she could still settle the Mo family.
Mo Yueshuang’s condition today was very poor. Only when she returned home at night and took a hot bath did she slowly relax a little. But after night fell, she was frightened in her dreams again.
She could endure these small black materials and little scandals. After all, most of them were distortions of the truth and fabrications. But that day five years ago had become the nightmare of her life.
She had been drugged and sent to a hotel. After finally escaping the tiger’s mouth, she had entered the wolf’s den instead. Drugged and unclear-headed, she could not remember who the other person was. She only vaguely noticed that a piercing light had lit up in the room. She guessed that what happened that day must have been filmed. She simply did not know why the other party had held such a huge leverage over her for five years and still had not exposed it.
What was the other party’s goal?
…
Li Sheng was staying in the toy room. Ranran was kneeling on the floor and playing with her toys. Looking at all kinds of toys piled up throughout the room, Li Sheng could not help smiling. They had only been back for a few short days, yet they had already bought so many. Several nearby toy stores had already become familiar with her.
Ranran played very seriously. Li Sheng sat leaning against the wall and casually picked up the child’s guitar toy placed there as a prop. Li Sheng casually plucked the strings a few times, and a crisp, distant, melodious sound came out.
Li Sheng liked this kind of peace. It was just that some changes had occurred in these peaceful days. If Ranran and Ji Ruodong were not blood-related, then the novel plot she knew had already changed long ago.
Although she already had some guesses in her heart about Ranran’s background, it was still difficult for her to make up her mind to believe them. She also could not understand why she and Mo Yueshuang would have a child together.
Could it be that she had physically transmigrated over, and then with Mo Yueshuang…? And in the end, they had Ranran? But if it really was physical transmigration, there should be an ability-user totem on her body.
It also could not be ruled out that the original female supporting character Li Sheng had some kind of special interest and had once had a secret xx transaction with the female lead, Mo Yueshuang? And finally, through some mysterious and unclear means, they had a child?
But Mo Yueshuang did not seem to have any impression of her. They had not known each other at all before this.
Forget it. She would think about these messy things again after the results came out in half a month.
For now, Li Sheng only wanted to properly accompany Ranran.
At night, when Li Sheng was about to fall asleep, there was a burst of frantic knocking outside her door, along with Ranran’s crying. Li Sheng immediately woke up and opened the bedroom door. She saw Ranran standing at the doorway, hugging her beloved little tablet, crying with snot and tears all over her face.
Li Sheng hugged her heartachingly. “What’s wrong, what’s wrong? Ranran, don’t cry. Did you have a nightmare?”
“Mommy, Auntie Mo is being bullied.”
In Li Sheng’s arms, Ranran held up the tablet for Li Sheng to see. Ranran only recognized some foreign words, and she could barely recognize a few dozen Hua Country characters, so the tablet Li Sheng bought for her was specially customized. Every message on it could be read aloud by voice.
Ranran tapped the small speaker to play it, and strings of messages insulting Mo Yueshuang entered Li Sheng’s ears.
“Ranran, Auntie Mo’s workplace is very special. In that place, being misunderstood is common, and being scolded and wronged is also common. Ranran, don’t cry first. Calm down properly, okay?”
Ranran was very sensible, but she was still a child after all.
“Mommy! They’re bullying Auntie Mo. Wuwu…”
The scolding online was indeed very excessive. Li Sheng knew the original plot of the novel, so she naturally knew what an odd and awful family the Mo family was. Now that she saw that it was Mo Yueshuang’s older brother, Mo Haogui, personally exposing the material, she understood that this was the Mo family failing to suck blood and now choosing mutual destruction.
“Ranran, stop crying, okay?”
“Mommy, Auntie Mo must be very sad right now. Auntie Mo is going to cry.”
Ranran was not wrong. Mo Yueshuang was indeed very sad right now. Although she had not reached the point of crying, the internal and external pressure over the past five years had often left her mental state on the verge of collapse. She had just taken sleeping pills and was now lying in bed waiting for the medicine to take effect. Only if she slept properly could she better deal with work tomorrow.
Although she had made up her mind to deal with Mo Haogui, she was still using methods within the bounds of the law. Mo Haogui would not accept soft or hard approaches, oil or salt. Even after he was beaten in the end, he still refused to relent, determined to destroy her. The Mo family even went before the media to cry and accuse Mo Yueshuang of being heartless and an ungrateful wolf. They even dragged over her foolish younger brother, who was already in his twenties yet still had snot and drool running down his face. “Mo Yueshuang is cruel! She’s just a shameless, heartless wolf! We raised her until she was this big, and now her old mother is so sick in the hospital she’s about to die. After all these years, she hasn’t even come to see her once. Although Little Bao is a fool, if not for her back then, our family’s Little Bao would have recovered long ago.”
Mo Yueshuang looked at the nauseating Mo family on the phone screen. “If not for her back then, Little Bao would have recovered long ago.” They were probably talking about how they had wanted to keep her there to marry Mo Zongcai for good luck, only for her to escape.
Tired. Every bone and every wisp of her soul was tired.
Being in endless darkness, when could she walk toward the light? These days—when would they finally end? How could she stop being in so much pain?
Mo Yueshuang drifted in a daze, weaving and struggling through various thoughts before falling asleep.
For these few days, Mo Yueshuang no longer went out. In any case, the endorsement shoot from yesterday had been completed. Her other work had all been postponed because of her current black material issue. Now, she only needed to rest properly at home and wait for Chen Yue to calm the scandal down before she could appear again.
Mo Yueshuang was practicing yoga at home when she suddenly felt something was wrong, as if someone were watching her from the dark. Very soon, she went and stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window and saw two figures in the opposite apartment hurriedly hiding behind the wall.
Mo Yueshuang sighed and lowered the curtains, then turned on all the lights inside the house.
No longer in the mood to continue practicing yoga, she simply lay down on the floor and slept.
For four days in a row, Mo Yueshuang lived at home without knowing the passage of time. Chen Yue was so busy that she had not had time to come see her. Mo Yueshuang was grateful that she had brought some vegetables back from Li Sheng’s place, so at least she would not starve to death at home.
Although she had no appetite at all, thinking of Li Sheng’s instructions before she left—not to waste food and to make sure to eat it soon—Mo Yueshuang smiled, struggled to get up, made some plain boiled vegetables, and forced herself to eat them.
At dawn that day, after drinking a little wine and before she had time to fall asleep, Mo Yueshuang received a call from Chen Yue.
“Boss! The trending search has been suppressed. Those few media outlets that reported nonsense also issued statements and apologized. Even your brother stopped speaking out. The Mo family has also changed their story and said they took money from black-hearted media and deliberately came to smear you. Online, there are also posts saying that you were adopted by the Mo family but left the Mo family when you were young. These have already been confirmed. The Mo family has completely disappeared from public view.”
Mo Yueshuang was somewhat dazed. She raised her hand and scratched her messy hair. Only after quite a while did she come back to herself. “Who did it?”
“I’m not sure either. These past few days, when I negotiated with them, each of them was so arrogant and domineering. They were all asking for outrageous amounts, wanting nothing more than to swallow us alive and strip us bare. I thought we’d have to pay a huge price to calm this matter down. I didn’t expect that when I checked, it had already been resolved.”
“I thought, Boss, that you had found someone to handle it. I didn’t expect you didn’t know about it either.”
“Boss, do you think it could have been the company?”
“It couldn’t be the company.” Mo Yueshuang was very clear about the company’s attitude toward her, as well as how they were currently shelving her.
“Forget it, Boss. No matter who helped, it’s good that this matter has been calmed down. Several media outlets apologized at the same time, and the matter hasn’t developed to an uncontrollable point. According to the original plan, there’s still a variety show today.”
“Phoenix Reigns promotion?” Mo Yueshuang vaguely remembered it. This drama had been filmed last year and had already passed the review by radio and television authorities, so it could be broadcast.
In a few days, it would be the premiere of Phoenix Reigns. Now, the director’s team had arranged for several leading actors to participate in a variety show for temporary promotion.
“All right, I know. Come pick me up in the morning.”
Mo Yueshuang logged into her Weibo alternate account and saw that the online winds regarding her had indeed changed. Only then did she let out a sigh of relief.
From two in the morning to seven in the morning, a short five hours, it was nevertheless the most comfortable sleep Mo Yueshuang had had in these five days.
Author’s Note:
Mo Yueshuang: Where were you when I was being smeared black as a honeycomb coal briquette?
Li Sheng: At home coaxing the child. Yours, biologically! What? Do you have an opinion?
Mo Yueshuang: No, no opinion.
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