After Transmigrating as the Vicious Female Supporting Character, I Ran Away While Pregnant - Chapter 28.1

The convoy drove in neat rows toward the mountains. Ranran sat by the window, her lively eyes gazing outside.

“Mommy, are there monsters here?”

Li Sheng smiled and touched her little head. “There are no monsters here. Even if there were, there’s no need to be afraid. Mommy is here.”

“Mommy, Ranran is sleepy.”

Li Sheng picked her up and settled her on her lap. Ranran found a comfortable position in Li Sheng’s arms and fell asleep.

Bai Qin, who was sitting beside them, looked at Ranran sleeping peacefully and comfortably with her eyes closed. She said enviously, “Li Sheng, you’re really happy. You have such a cute little precious daughter like Ranran.”

“Mm. Ranran and I have each other. We’re both very happy.” Li Sheng was very happy, and anyone could see her joy.

Li Sheng even brought her child along for location shooting. Thinking of how their own children were either being cared for by the elderly at home or by hired nannies, quite a few people felt some envy and jealousy in their hearts. Some even felt resentment.

Once resentment appeared, gossip naturally increased. Because the road into the mountains was difficult to travel, to avoid trouble, aside from settling the few big-name leads properly, everyone else simply went wherever there was space.

By coincidence, Xie Shixian was arranged in the car with several extras. At present, she was still considered a newcomer and did not have much popularity or heat. These people did not take her seriously. Gathered together, they did not need to be mindful of her and began chatting freely.

“Bringing a child along when going out. How funny. Is she here to work or here for an outing?”

“Say a little less.”

“Why should I say less? Everyone is working in the crew. Why does she get special treatment?”

“I think you’re the one with a problem in your head. She was invited back from overseas with a lot of money. What are you? Aren’t you always begging the group leader to find work for you? The level is different, understand?”

“Tch, what overseas returnee? I think she’s just an improper little enchantress. It’s been so long, and I’ve never seen her do anything proper. Every day, she comes to the crew and then leaves. She’s even more annoying than that Mo Yueshuang.”

Suddenly hearing Mo Yueshuang’s name, Xie Shixian’s slightly closed eyes slowly opened. Her gaze swept over these people. “You’re disturbing my rest. My scene is the first one today. If I don’t perform well later, don’t blame me for saying a few extra words to the director.”

“I…” Someone with a hot temper almost wanted to grab Xie Shixian, but was stopped.

That person lowered their voice and said to their extra companion, “Are you stupid? She’s Da Yi’s newly promoted top artist. She’s not someone we can compare to.”

Everyone had seen Xie Shixian’s performance. During this time on the crew, the director praised her the most. He even looked as if he was afraid of designating her as his regular female lead.

“Hmph.” What was there to be angry about? When I become popular, I’ll make you regret it.

All kinds of anger surged outward along the way. Finally, they arrived at the filming location. Li Sheng carefully got out of the car while holding Ranran. Bai Qin came over and asked softly, “No need to wake her?”

“No need. Last night, when she knew we were coming out, she was so excited she barely slept. Let her catch up on sleep now.”

As soon as Li Sheng finished speaking, Ranran woke up.

She opened her hazy sleepy eyes and raised her hand, wanting to rub them. But she quickly remembered that she could not rub her eyes with her hands. She reached her little hand into her pocket, found a clean handkerchief, and wiped them for herself.

“Mommy, are we here?”

“Mm, we’re here.” Li Sheng put Ranran down on the ground and held the little one’s hand. Ranran leaned her small body against Li Sheng’s leg. “Mommy, where is Auntie Mo?”

She just woke up and she’s looking for Auntie Mo. Little brat!

“She’s in another car. We’ll go ahead and look for her.”

Li Sheng was about to take Ranran over when, coincidentally, Mo Yueshuang came over herself. She arrived in front of Li Sheng with a string of keys. “The program team rented houses nearby. We’ll live together.”

“Mm?” Li Sheng had thought they would be sleeping in tents.

“How can houses be rented here?” Bai Qin, who was following beside them, asked curiously. Mo Yueshuang often went to different sets before and understood these things, so she explained, “They’re houses belonging to local villagers. Although they’re not as comfortable as hotels, they’re much better than tents. After a busy day, at least there’ll be a bed.”

“But the houses here don’t look too sturdy. The director had people choose some better ones and arranged those of us with heavier roles inside the houses. The rest of the people will make do outside in tents.”

Bai Qin nodded in understanding. “No wonder I saw a car carrying a whole load of tents and small single beds.”

Mo Yueshuang nodded. “The small single beds are for inside the houses. The villagers here don’t let outsiders sleep on their beds, so the beds and some large furniture from the house have all been moved away, leaving only the empty shell for us. Time is tight, and every day the crew is running burns money. The director’s meaning is that we’ll tidy up and settle in this morning, then start filming in the afternoon.”

“I didn’t expect being an actor to be this hard. We rushed here nonstop all the way, and there isn’t even time to rest and catch our breath.”

Bai Qin scratched her head and laughed at herself. “I made the profession of acting seem too simple. I thought all we had to do was stand glamorous and bright under the spotlight, accepting other people’s admiration and cheers.”

“No profession is easy,” Mo Yueshuang said. “Let’s not talk too much. Let’s go look at the house first. You and Xie Shixian will live together. It’s next door to us. The director arranged it, so you can also look after each other.”

Bai Qin happily stepped forward and hugged Mo Yueshuang’s arm. “That’s great, Sister Yueshuang. I was afraid I’d be assigned alone to some isolated corner.”

Mo Yueshuang looked at Li Sheng with some guilt. Seeing that Li Sheng had no reaction, she tugged at Li Sheng’s clothes. “Bring Ranran and let’s go.”

Li Sheng responded, picked up Ranran, and followed.

When they arrived, Bai Qin stared wide-eyed, temporarily finding it hard to accept. “So this kind of house really exists. Every time I watched TV, I thought it was a set built for filming.”

“Eldest Miss, stop just looking. Hurry and carry your luggage inside to arrange things.”

Li Sheng urged her. Bai Qin smiled. “No rush, no rush. I’ll first watch how you arrange things. I don’t know how to do this either.”

Mo Yueshuang came from a poor background. It could be said that the place where she grew up as a child was even worse than this. Right now, she quickly cleaned the floor, then fetched a basin of water and wiped the places that needed cleaning.

Li Sheng also rolled up her sleeves and helped. Even little Ranran used her little handkerchief to wipe the three small stools the villagers had left behind.

Bai Qin stared at the little handkerchief in Ranran’s hand, looking carefully, then looking even more carefully. “Wow! If I remember correctly, that’s a custom-made handkerchief from Sishi, more than four thousand each. Other people use it as decoration, and some people who like them buy them for collection. You’re using it as a rag?!”

Ranran looked up with the dirty handkerchief in her hand, her face full of confusion and bewilderment.

Ranran lowered her head and looked at the handkerchief. Mommy said handkerchiefs were for wiping things. She was not wrong.

“Handkerchiefs are used to wipe things,” Ranran explained.

Bai Qin nodded. “I know, but how many people use this kind of handkerchief to wipe things like you?”

Bai Qin looked at Li Sheng. Li Sheng did not look distressed at all. She even looked at her with a posture that was even more as-if-it-were-only-natural, glancing at Ranran and then at the handkerchief.

To be honest, in Li Sheng’s world, her understanding of money was not complete. In her previous life, when she was young, she could not come into contact with money. Later, what she came into contact with were crystal cores.

The apocalypse was also a world where strength reigned supreme. If there were some things one liked, one simply took them. For the strong, the whole world belonged to them. For example, Di Xue later did not have a single crystal core on her, but she never lacked anything she wanted.

After arriving in this world, Li Sheng came into contact with money, but every month, she received seven huge sums transferred to her. They should be pocket money for a junior from Old Master Li, Father Li, Mother Li, Li Junhao, and the Li clan. Another was her dividend from the Li family’s shares, and the final smaller one was what she herself earned.

All of this added together was money she and Ranran could not finish spending over several lifetimes.

Seeing that both mother and daughter had such a matter-of-course attitude, Bai Qin could not help holding her forehead. “Evil capitalists.”

Mo Yueshuang smiled. She had seen Ranran use this kind of handkerchief many times, each time in a different style, as if she had never reused one. She did not know whether, for Li Sheng, these counted as disposable items like tissues.

Ranran’s handkerchief was dirty after wiping. She carried it over to Li Sheng. “Mommy, wash hands.”

Li Sheng took her to wash her hands and washed that handkerchief as well. After bringing it back, she casually placed it on the windowsill. From now on, this would be their rag.

“Bai Qin, you should also hurry and tidy up. You and Miss Xie are living together, and her first scene is this afternoon. She must be anxious to get settled.”

Li Sheng urged Bai Qin. Bai Qin’s attention also shifted from the handkerchief to the fact that she had not yet tidied up.

“Then I’m leaving. Once I’m done tidying, I’ll come back and find you.” Bai Qin dragged her suitcase and left. Li Sheng watched her back and said with some worry, “I don’t know if it’ll be okay for them to live together. Bai Jing asked me to help take good care of her sister.”

Mo Yueshuang once again looked at Li Sheng guiltily. Li Sheng did not notice. Instead, Ranran curiously asked, “Auntie Mo, why do you keep staring at Mommy?”

“Sorry, Li Sheng.” Mo Yueshuang suddenly apologized. Li Sheng looked at her without understanding. “What’s wrong?”

“Actually, the director team’s arrangement was for Bai Qin to live with you, and for me to live with Xie Shixian.”

Mo Yueshuang lowered her head. She deliberately suppressed her panic and tried to keep her tone calm and steady. “But I…”

Mo Yueshuang wanted to tell Li Sheng that it was because she wanted to live together with her that she went to the director to change the arrangement. But saying this to Li Sheng so suddenly seemed inappropriate no matter how she phrased it.

Ranran happily threw herself over and hugged Mo Yueshuang’s leg. “Auntie Mo wanted to live with Ranran, right?”

Mo Yueshuang lowered her head and looked at Ranran hanging onto her leg. Little treasure, you really are a little angel!

Mo Yueshuang picked her up. “I wanted to be with Ranran. Ranran is so cute.”

Ranran was very happy. Li Sheng did not have any extra thoughts. Anyway, Bai Qin was right next door, so looking after her would be very convenient. Moreover, they were all in the same crew. Bai Qin was already this old and was not the kind of person with no sense of propriety. With Xie Shixian accompanying her, there probably would not be any trouble.

“Mm. There’s no need to say sorry for this kind of thing.” Li Sheng said it very seriously. Mo Yueshuang believed her, and after believing her, her heart was filled with sweet warmth.

Their housing arrangement had been changed without permission, yet Li Sheng was not angry. Could she guess that Li Sheng also wanted to live together with her?

Mo Yueshuang felt that ever since she discovered she liked Li Sheng, her imagination regarding everything related to Li Sheng opened wildly and quickly. Not even a wild horse could keep up with her train of thought.

“Everything is almost tidied up now. We’re just waiting for the crew to bring the small single beds over.”

Li Sheng opened her luggage. “I brought a four-piece bedding set, but I only prepared mine and Ranran’s. Did you bring one?”

“Oh, yes. Every time I go out, I bring one. I don’t like the colors and styles of hotel duvet covers.” Mo Yueshuang smiled.

Li Sheng nodded. “Ranran doesn’t like hotel duvet covers either.”

Genes really are powerful, huh. Even this is the same. Tch.

Li Sheng thought sourly, while her hands sped up as she took out and tidied up her and Ranran’s bedding.

Not long after, the crew delivered the items. Li Sheng quickly made the beds, her movements fast and neat. Mo Yueshuang watched with a little surprise.

Li Sheng stared at the three small beds, then finally pushed hers and Ranran’s beds together. “Ranran is still small. On such a small bed, she could easily roll off. It’s better if she sleeps together with me.”

Even when two small beds were pushed together, they still looked small. Mo Yueshuang suggested, “How about pushing my bed over too? Let Ranran sleep in the middle. That way, she definitely won’t fall.”

“Okay.” As long as it concerned Ranran, everything was easy to discuss for Li Sheng.

After everything here was tidied, Li Sheng brought Ranran and Mo Yueshuang to check on Bai Qin.

They saw her lying on the bed in a flustered mess, her upper body hidden inside the duvet cover. Inside, she was working herself half to death, pulling the quilt around. The quilt had already been twisted into a ball inside the cover. She had used quite a lot of strength, but no matter how one looked at it, all of it was wasted effort.

Mo Yueshuang could not help stepping forward to help. In just a few moves, she smoothed everything out.

“Amazing. I didn’t expect the great film empress to know how to do this too.” Bai Qin panted slightly. This thing really was troublesome. “It’s too hard. Once I put it in, I couldn’t tell east, west, north, or south anymore. I fumbled around inside for ages and couldn’t find the opposite corners.”

Mo Yueshuang smiled and told her some little tricks. Bai Qin listened, very embarrassed. “When I was little, my mom was at home. When I was studying, there was my sister. Later, after graduating, I thought I could leave home and be independent, but my sister and my mom hired me a living auntie. I’m almost being raised into a useless person.”

Bai Qin’s gaze fell on Li Sheng. “I say, Rich Tycoon Li, can you do it?”

“Mm.”

Bai Qin was used to people being cold and indifferent to her, because her sister was often that kind of person. But this was the first time she had encountered someone like Li Sheng, who was cold and indifferent yet also a little annoying.

Bai Qin huffed. “I don’t believe it. I’m going to take a look.”

Since Bai Qin wanted to go, Li Sheng would let this child see that not everyone was like her, unable to do even this kind of small thing.

So she brought Bai Qin over. What Bai Qin saw was three small beds pushed together, with the quilts folded properly and neatly into tofu blocks on top.

At first, Mo Yueshuang had only tidied hers casually. But seeing that Li Sheng and Ranran’s quilts were folded so neatly, she was too embarrassed to tidy hers casually, so she spent a little effort and learned from Li Sheng, folding her quilt like that too.

Bai Qin turned back and looked at Li Sheng. “Did you come here for military training?!”

“Am I stronger than you?” Li Sheng raised her chin slightly, insisting that Bai Qin admit defeat.

Bai Qin really was convinced. “Stronger than me. Any one of you three, taken alone, is stronger than me.”

Bai Qin outwardly admitted defeat, but inside, she still felt somewhat uncomfortable. She did not want to admit that once she left home, left her parents, and left her sister, she would become a useless person who could do nothing.

Xie Shixian had just put down her luggage and left. Her bed was not arranged yet. Bai Qin wanted to go back and take out her own quilt to practice again. When Xie Shixian finished filming in the afternoon, Bai Qin would help her make the bed. At that time, Xie Shixian would definitely be very moved and would also think her life skills were very strong.

“I’ll go back and practice some more. Xie Shixian looks like a pampered eldest young lady at first glance. She definitely can’t do this kind of thing as well as me. When the time comes, maybe she’ll have to ask me for help.”

Li Sheng did not understand what Bai Qin’s move meant. After Bai Qin left, Mo Yueshuang saw Li Sheng’s confused face and lightly laughed as she explained, “She’s still young. A child’s competitive spirit.”

Everything here was tidied. Li Sheng held Ranran and went to the crew to collect beef and lamb, then brought Ranran to find a place to prepare barbecue.

There was still quite a bit of gossip about Li Sheng, but Li Sheng automatically ignored all of it. Only when a few remarks involved Ranran did Li Sheng sweep a glance over as soon as she heard them, frightening the other party so much their calves trembled and they could not say even half a word.

“Mommy, is the grilled meat ready?”

Ranran liked eating. She stared at the grilled meat without blinking. When she asked Li Sheng, her heart was full of expectation.

Li Sheng used a small knife to cut into the meat and check it, then said to Ranran, “It’s almost ready. Let’s grill it a little longer. Ranran, go call Auntie Mo to come eat together.”

Hearing that she had to call Mo Yueshuang, Ranran immediately stood up and said confidently, “Mommy, don’t worry. I’ll go find Auntie Mo.”

Very quickly, she came back holding Mo Yueshuang’s hand.

Everyone else on the crew was busy, while over here, barbecue and drinks were fully prepared. Quite a few people were starting work on empty stomachs and would have to make do with instant noodles later. Seeing Li Sheng like this, they inevitably felt jealous and envious.

Mo Yueshuang stayed close beside Li Sheng. “The whole crew is busy, and only we’re eating and drinking. Is that all right?”

Li Sheng did not want to deal with these so-called social niceties, but they were eating enthusiastically here while others were still working hard. It was indeed not very good.

Li Sheng stood up. “Everyone, hurry up and finish what you’re doing. If the meat gets overcooked later, it won’t taste good.”

Hearing Li Sheng’s words, she was going to treat the whole crew. The director smiled and asked, “What, we get a share too? I thought the three of you were eating alone.”

“We’re all working in the same crew, so everyone is a colleague. Director, what are you saying? You make it sound like I’m very stingy. Everyone, move faster. After eating, we can start work.”

Li Sheng’s favorability in the crew shot up. Those who had said bad things about her now came over with red faces, repeatedly saying thank you. Li Sheng did not have much emotional change. Although she had not prepared that much, many local villagers here raised cattle, sheep, pigs, and ducks. If Ranran wanted to eat more, they could simply buy some from the villagers.

At noon, Ranran ate and drank her fill. She walked around the crew a few times to digest, then came back and sat close beside Li Sheng. Not long after, she became sleepy.

Li Sheng carried her back to the little house, and Mo Yueshuang followed as well.

Looking at Ranran, who was already sleeping sweetly on the bed, Mo Yueshuang asked Li Sheng, “Have you never planned to find Ranran another father?”

Li Sheng suddenly froze, raised her head, looked at Mo Yueshuang, and asked in confusion, “Why would I find her a father?”

Mo Yueshuang realized she had asked a stupid question. Her original intention had been to know whether Li Sheng had any plans to find a partner, and she really should not have used Ranran as the entry point to ask.

Mo Yueshuang directly asked Li Sheng, “Then do you have someone you like?”

“No.”

“Do you not plan to find someone?” Mo Yueshuang chatted with her casually like a friend, but only she herself knew how much courage she gathered for every question, and how much reason she needed to restrain herself from joy or sorrow each time she listened to Li Sheng’s answer.

“I don’t plan to. Ranran and I are doing quite well as two people. Why find another person to partner up with? How troublesome. When I cook, I’d have to prepare one more portion.” Li Sheng frowned. “Do you know how many books I read and how much I learned to raise Ranran?”

“Mm?”

“From when I found out I was pregnant until now. What negative effects a pregnant woman’s emotions have on the child, dietary knowledge for pregnant women, cultivating parent-child relationships after pregnancy. How to establish an equal relationship with a child, how to give a child love on a spiritual level, respecting a child’s thoughts, not spoiling or overindulging. Learning how to cultivate a child’s character, learning how to cultivate a child’s spirit. While bringing a child into this world, you also have to carefully enter the child’s world. You must always pay attention to the child’s mental health.”

“If another person joins our world, will she love Ranran as much as I do? Can she do all the things I’ve done? I don’t want Ranran to suffer any grievances because of me.”

Li Sheng’s brows were tightly furrowed. She sighed again. “I don’t know how to love someone. If you knew my past, you would understand that for the word love to appear in my world is truly a very miraculous thing.”

“And I wouldn’t accept it with a heart full of joy. Instead, I would be frightened and run away.”

“Do you know how much betrayal originates from love? Do you know how many sharp blades are stabbed into bodies by the people closest to them? Do you know how much fear I have toward a relationship?”

She still could not let go of everything from her previous life. Li Sheng looked at Ranran, her brows and eyes gentle. “Mo Yueshuang.”

“Mm?”

“Thank you.” Li Sheng was very grateful to Mo Yueshuang. If not for her, Ranran would not have appeared.