After Transmigrating Into An Eighteenth-Tier Alpha, I Married The Best Actress - Chapter 16

On the way back to the hotel, Yin Lingzhu kept thinking about Yan Si’s words: I like you.

She shamefully discovered that her heart was beating so uselessly.

Lying on the bed, she covered her eyes with her hand.

What right did Yan Si have to say she liked her?

This past year, Yan Si had given her endless waiting and a body full of wounds.

Yin Lingzhu thought back to the scene when she first met Yan Si.

The fluorescent lights in the hospital had been bright enough to sting the eyes. Yan Si had pushed the door open and entered, and what she opened was not only the door to the hospital room, but also the door to Yin Lingzhu’s heart.

Light had poured down from above her, tracing along the outline of her body and drawing a sacred glow around her.

The Yan Si Yin Lingzhu saw in that moment had not seemed like someone from the mortal world.

Yin Lingzhu shook her head, wiping that image away.

She forced herself not to think about Yan Si.

Yan Si saying she liked her was simply unbelievable.

The corners of Yin Lingzhu’s eyes were red. Of course she had hoped Yan Si could like her.

But Yan Si’s behavior over the past year had made her understand just how unrealistic that was.

Yan Si was stingy enough that she would not even give Yin Lingzhu the smile she showed the public.

What right did Yan Si have to say she liked her?

At this moment, Yin Lingzhu found Yan Si’s words utterly laughable.

Her fingertip touched the corner of her eye, and she felt her own tears.

Including the year she had spent here, she had lived for a total of twenty-five years, and she had never been this humble before.

Perhaps they should never have met in the first place.

Yan Si had only used her. Why should she stay obsessed and refuse to wake up?

Yin Lingzhu wiped away the tears at the corners of her eyes and could not help mocking herself for being so foolish.

Yin Lingzhu pulled the blanket over herself. Gradually, her consciousness grew hazy, and she fell asleep.

On the other side, Yan Si returned to Apartment 2316 distractedly.

This apartment was in the city center, and the security was also extremely good.

Sometimes, when she was filming and did not want to stay in a hotel, she would come to this apartment.

But ever since she had given the apartment to Yin Lingzhu, the number of times she had come here could be counted on one hand.

Yan Si’s pale, scallion-white fingertips searched along the wall. After confirming the position, she pressed the switch.

Following her movement, the pitch-black apartment instantly lit up.

Light scattered freely over every corner.

Yan Si had never spent much thought decorating the room. The living room light was a glaring white.

Yan Si sat down on the sofa, her gaze sweeping inch by inch over every piece of furniture.

The room had been tidied very neatly by Yin Lingzhu, without the slightest trace of change.

Nor was there the slightest sense of life.

She remembered that Yin Lingzhu had once told her she wanted to redecorate the room.

But Yan Si had been afraid Yin Lingzhu would discover the surveillance cameras she had hidden in the apartment, so she had not agreed.

Yan Si took out that divorce agreement. She had never once thought that Yin Lingzhu would sign it.

Her fingers brushed over the place where Yin Lingzhu had written her name.

Then, as if making a ruthless decision, she tore the divorce agreement apart like a madwoman. The scraps scattered through the room like snowflakes.

A stubborn obsession showed in Yan Si’s eyes. As long as she did not agree, then they were not considered divorced.

What Yin Lingzhu did not know was that when Yin Lingzhu fell in love with Yan Si at first sight, Yan Si had also fallen in love with Yin Lingzhu at first sight.

On the way to the hospital, Yan Si had been very impatient.

But when she pushed open the hospital room door and noticed the person lying on the bed, her heart also gave a violent jump.

When her eyes met Yin Lingzhu’s, she could clearly see the undisguised love in Yin Lingzhu’s gaze.

It was so straightforward that Yan Si wanted to escape.

Having reached the position of Best Actress, Yan Si had held fan meetings and seen fans who were wildly in love with her.

But no matter which fan it was, none of their gazes had ever made her want to hide the way Yin Lingzhu’s did.

It was like someone who had lived in darkness for a long time accidentally seeing sunlight—longing for it, yet afraid.

To Yan Si, Yin Lingzhu’s gaze was like that ray of sunlight.

Yan Si could hardly withstand it.

So she put on her most practiced smile and stretched out her hand to Yin Lingzhu.

Yan Si saw Yin Lingzhu’s face flush red all the way down to her neck.

The moment she was marked by Yin Lingzhu, Yan Si felt the pain at the back of her neck.

But more than that insignificant pain, what she felt was satisfaction from the depths of her heart.

In truth, she had really thought about living properly with Yin Lingzhu.

She had already planned it out: first, let Yin Lingzhu live in the apartment for a while; after she finished filming the drama in her hands, she would take Yin Lingzhu back to the ancestral home to meet her mother.

But that day, while she was filming, she noticed someone. On that person’s phone was a photo of Yin Lingzhu and the phone’s owner.

In the photo, Yin Lingzhu had her arm intimately around the person beside her and was smiling brilliantly.

Yan Si knew that person. At a birthday banquet once, she had gone in her father’s place, and the two of them had met.

At that time, Yan Si had already made up her mind to fight for the family property, so she had tried to make connections with powerful people at all kinds of occasions.

Yan Si had exchanged business cards with her.

Ming Qingyun.

Afterward, Yan Si had looked into Ming Qingyun’s background. She truly lived up to the saying: starting from nothing and rising rapidly.

For the first time on a set, Yan Si took the initiative to speak to someone else.

She asked Ming Qingyun if she was Yin Lingzhu’s fan.

She knew Yin Lingzhu belonged to an entertainment company.

Ming Qingyun had invested in this drama and had come today to inspect things. She was dressed in a proper black suit and looked solemn and unsmiling.

Hearing Yan Si ask her a question, she shook her head.

“No. She’s my girlfriend.”

When she said this, a smile appeared on her face.

Yan Si did not know how to answer after hearing this. She nodded stiffly, nearly unable to maintain even her smile.

She exchanged a few casual words, then found an excuse to return to her dressing room.

After Yan Si entered the room, she locked the door behind her.

Through the mirror, she met her own eyes and could see the inferiority hidden deep within them.

That night, she had originally planned to ask Yin Lingzhu about the photo she saw during the day, and about the matter of a girlfriend.

But Yan Si saw Yin Lingzhu walk out of the neighbor’s apartment, her clothes half-draped over her body.

Yan Si did not know how to open her mouth and ask Yin Lingzhu.

The next day.

When Yin Lingzhu had just gotten up, she touched her eyes. They were swollen again. She had no choice but to apply a wet towel over them.

She thought helplessly that recently, every time she encountered Yan Si, she ended up crying.

When Yin Lingzhu arrived at the company, she found that there was already someone in the studio.

She picked up her phone and checked the time. Seven-thirty.

She had thought she would be the first one. It seemed there were people even more hardworking.

“Good morning, Captain.” Wan Miaoyin greeted her with a smile.

Yin Lingzhu politely returned a good morning.

Wan Miaoyin kept trying to find topics to talk about, but because Yin Lingzhu was thinking about how to divide the lyrics, her responses sounded somewhat perfunctory.

After Kong Murui arrived, all three of them were present.

After discussing it, they determined the lyric distribution, and the three of them began targeted practice on their own parts.

In the blink of an eye, the day of the competition arrived.

Because the contestants taking part in the competition were basically amateurs, the three of them entered the finals without any problems.

The program focused on authenticity. Whatever news there was, the contestants and the audience would learn it at the same time.

Yin Lingzhu heard that a special guest judge had come, but she did not pay much attention to it.

After stepping onto the stage, Yin Lingzhu bowed toward the judges’ seats.

When she straightened up and saw Yan Si sitting in the special guest judge’s seat, she was somewhat shocked.

Yan Si was a Best Actress. What was she doing running over to a singing program?