After Transmigrating Into An Eighteenth-Tier Alpha, I Married The Best Actress - Chapter 8

Yin Lingzhu did not speak again. She quietly looked around Ji Jingrong’s room, envy appearing in her eyes.

Ji Jingrong’s room had basically not changed. Cute plushies could still be seen everywhere, and even the necessities of daily life were decorated with cat and dog stickers.

Compared with Ji Jingrong’s room, Yin Lingzhu’s apartment looked as if it had only just been renovated, without the slightest trace of life.

The only place with any sense of living in it was the kitchen Yin Lingzhu had always been using.

“Are you still making dinner for her tonight?” Just as Yin Lingzhu thought of the kitchen, she heard Ji Jingrong ask her.

“Mm. She might come back tonight.” Yin Lingzhu nodded.

Ji Jingrong looked at her with exasperation, disappointed that she could not make her stronger, and could not help complaining, “In this past year, how many meals have you made for her? But how many times has she eaten them?”

“How many times has she even come back?”

Yin Lingzhu listened quietly and answered silently in her heart.

Ten times.

“Forget it. Your birthday is coming in a few days. What gift do you want?” Seeing Yin Lingzhu lower her head, Ji Jingrong could not help softening her voice as she asked.

Yin Lingzhu shook her head and picked up Tiantian, who had been nestled beside her leg. “I don’t know either.”

After coming here for so long, the only thing she wanted was Yan Si.

“On your birthday, your company just happens to be holding a concert. They’re still recruiting singers right now. You can take part.” Ji Jingrong’s expression grew excited.

She picked up her phone and started checking, wanting to see if she had remembered wrong.

“Don’t you like being on stage?” Ji Jingrong’s hands did not slow, and she continued persuading her.

Yin Lingzhu’s hand paused in the middle of petting the cat. “How did you know?”

She did not think she had ever said that she liked the stage.

Ji Jingrong was still looking for that piece of information. “I went to watch your performance. Back then, the light in your eyes was even more dazzling than the stage.”

After realizing what she had said, Ji Jingrong’s fingers paused, and she could not help secretly glancing at Yin Lingzhu.

At that moment, Yin Lingzhu was immersed in her memories and did not notice Ji Jingrong’s movements.

She had indeed once taken part in a concert. It had been a very small one.

She and four other people had formed a group. The five of them had sung with all their strength onstage, while there had been fewer than fifty people in the audience.

Yin Lingzhu had originally done it to complete a company assignment, but while she was singing, someone in the audience suddenly shouted, “Zhuzi!!”

Only after confirming it again and again could Yin Lingzhu be certain that the voice was calling her.

From the stage, she could see that person shouting with all her might, holding up her light board.

For some reason, she seemed to be infected by that girl, and she sang even harder, throwing herself fully into the stage.

After the concert ended, Yin Lingzhu specially went to find that girl.

Facing her, the girl’s entire face turned bright red. She could barely speak properly, and in her excitement, she only managed to say one sentence.

“I-I’ll always support you!”

After saying that, the girl ran away.

It was also in that moment that Yin Lingzhu fell in love with the stage. She had never performed onstage before, so she had never experienced that feeling.

The feeling of someone loving you wholeheartedly, without holding anything back.

But after that, she never went onstage again.

She had thought she no longer cared, but after Ji Jingrong said this today, she realized she still did.

“That concert was so small. How did you know about it?” After her memories ended, Yin Lingzhu remembered this question.

Ji Jingrong had already thought of an excuse. “As your friend, of course I had to go support you.”

When Ji Jingrong said it, her expression was utterly natural, but only she knew how unnatural the word “friend” sounded when she said it.

“I still won’t participate in this concert.” Although Yin Lingzhu was tempted, she still refused.

Before Ji Jingrong could feel confused, Yin Lingzhu spoke first.

“On my birthday, she might come.” Yin Lingzhu’s tone was full of uncertainty and a little anticipation.

Ji Jingrong quietly looked at her without making a sound, heartache hidden in her eyes.

It was already night. The lights in the room were on, and bright light shone over Yin Lingzhu, yet it could not dispel her loneliness at this moment.

“It’s getting late. I should go make dinner.” Yin Lingzhu held the cat in her arms and stood up.

Yin Lingzhu walked to the door and smiled faintly at Ji Jingrong. “Thank you for teaching me how to cook these past few months.”

Ji Jingrong only had time to say “you’re welcome” before she saw Yin Lingzhu’s slightly thin figure disappear behind the door.

Only then did she dare to fully release the emotions she had been hiding.

Love surged in Ji Jingrong’s eyes, only to be forcibly pressed down by its owner.

She knew that now was not the time. Yin Lingzhu was married.

At the same time, Ji Jingrong also knew that before long, she would be able to pursue her openly.

She sat down in the spot where Yin Lingzhu had just been sitting. It seemed as if Yin Lingzhu’s scent still lingered there.

Yin Lingzhu returned to her own apartment and gently set Tiantian down from her arms.

She filled Tiantian’s bowl with cat food, added a little chondroitin to it, then went to the kitchen to get busy with tonight’s dinner.

For Yan Si’s sake, she had trained her cooking skills to perfection.

Before cooking, Yin Lingzhu sent Yan Si a message.

While cooking, she kept her phone within sight.

Yin Lingzhu plated the finished dishes.

Throughout the entire process, there was not a single message on her phone.

Yin Lingzhu scrolled through their chat history. The whole screen was green, without a single white message.

She stared dazedly at Yan Si’s chat background. The photo on it was one Yin Lingzhu had specially found.

In the picture, Yan Si’s brows and eyes were gentle, the corners of her mouth curved upward. Her hair was clipped up with a shark clip, and she was wearing a khaki trench coat, her body turned sideways toward the camera.

Looking at that faint smile, Yin Lingzhu felt happiness rise in her heart without realizing it.

The next morning.

Yin Lingzhu arrived at Yan Si’s company. It was her first time taking the initiative to look for Yan Si, and also her first time coming to Yan Si’s workplace.

As one of the company’s top artists, Yan Si had her own office.

Yin Lingzhu sat outside and waited.

She stared eagerly at that door, hoping Yan Si would finish work a little sooner.

Under her longing gaze, a woman came out whose neck was clearly marked with lipstick prints.

The woman was wearing a long bright-red dress and had golden hair curled into big waves. Paired with her delicate makeup, it outlined her curvy figure, and her whole body exuded a seductive air.

The neckline of her dress was a little wrinkled, and it was slit from the thigh, but the wrinkles at the hem of the dress were even more obvious.

Yin Lingzhu recognized her. She was a popular female star named Si Xin, who had exploded in popularity after acting in a modern drama.

But why had she come out of Yan Si’s room?

Yin Lingzhu was thinking in a daze, yet she sharply noticed Si Xin’s gaze glance in her direction.

Before she could figure out the reason, she saw Yan Si come out as well.

There was obvious lipstick on Yan Si’s lips, and it was clear it had not been applied by herself.

It looked more like someone had kissed it onto her.

Yin Lingzhu was shocked by her own thought, finding it somewhat unbelievable.

But her mind happened to be uncontrollable, and she could not help thinking of Si Xin, who had just come out.

There were also lip prints on her neck, and they seemed to be the same color as the lipstick on Yan Si’s lips.

Yin Lingzhu’s open mouth froze in an instant. She did not know what to say to Yan Si.

She had clearly thought everything through last night, but now, her mind was still completely blank.

When Yan Si saw Yin Lingzhu, she frowned. “Why did you come here?”

“The day after tomorrow is my birthday. Could you come home?” Yin Lingzhu asked.

“Mm. I know. Go back.” Yan Si nodded. There was no emotion in her eyes.

She was wearing a black suit, looking extremely cold and aloof.

Looking at her, Yin Lingzhu felt a wave of sorrow rise in her heart. It seemed she could not warm Yan Si’s heart after all.

“If there’s nothing else, you can leave.” Yan Si’s voice sounded again.

Her attitude toward Yin Lingzhu was unspeakably cold. It was not like how one treated a wife. It was more like how one treated a stranger.

In truth, Yin Lingzhu still had questions she wanted to ask her.

Why did Si Xin come out of your office?

Why is the lipstick on your mouth the same shade as hers?

What happened to the obvious wrinkles on her dress?

Yin Lingzhu wanted to ask Yan Si this whole string of questions.

She stared into Yan Si’s eyes. In those eyes, it seemed there was no trace of her existence at all.

Yin Lingzhu shook her head again and silently left the company.

In truth, she already had an answer to these questions in her heart, but she stubbornly refused to think about that answer.

Perhaps it was a coincidence. Perhaps the lipstick shades just happened to be the same. Perhaps Si Xin had left in a hurry today and just happened not to have fixed her dress properly.

On the way home, Yin Lingzhu’s mind kept finding excuses for Yan Si.

By the time she returned home, she was still carrying the groceries she had bought. She did not even know when she had bought them.

Yin Lingzhu placed the groceries in the kitchen, then began looking for Tiantian around the apartment.

Tiantian had been brought back by Yan Si during one of the times she came home.

Yan Si had said she had bought it especially for her.

From then on, Yin Lingzhu had cherished the fold-eared cat dearly, and because of it, she had even learned how to make cat meals.

Most of the time, Yin Lingzhu personally made meals for Tiantian. Only when Tiantian had to take chondroitin would she feed it cat food.

“Tiantian, come out. Mama will give you a cat treat.” Yin Lingzhu held a cat treat in her hand and kept making noise with it, tempting the little cat.

“Meow~~~” Tiantian let out a meow.

Yin Lingzhu carefully distinguished the sound and found that it had come from Yan Si’s bedroom.

Yan Si’s bedroom.

She had only entered Yan Si’s bedroom once, when she marked Yan Si for the first time.

At other times, she had never gone in. She could also sense that Yan Si did not want her to enter.

For a moment, Yin Lingzhu was in a difficult position.

Just when Yin Lingzhu had no solution, Tiantian suddenly squeezed out through the crack in the door.

Yan Si had not locked the door.

“You little thing, why are you so naughty?” Yin Lingzhu hurriedly squeezed out a little cat treat and placed it on her fingertip.

Tiantian’s head kept nudging forward, and Yin Lingzhu’s heart was unconsciously melted by its cuteness.

The grievances Yin Lingzhu had suffered because of Yan Si seemed to vanish at this moment.

During the times when Yan Si was not there, Tiantian gave Yin Lingzhu enough companionship and peace of mind.

“If only your other owner could be like you and stay with me all the time,” Yin Lingzhu said, rubbing Tiantian’s little head.

Seeing that Tiantian had licked all the cat treat from her fingertip, she picked it up in her arms.

Tiantian brought its head close to Yin Lingzhu and rubbed hard against her arm.

Yin Lingzhu understood what Tiantian meant and decisively refused. “You’ve already eaten all your cat treats for this week.”

Tiantian seemed to understand her words and turned its head away as if angry.

“I’ll give you an extra meal this week. Tomorrow night, I’ll let you eat another cat treat.” Yin Lingzhu lowered her forehead and pressed it against Tiantian’s little face.

Yin Lingzhu carefully held Tiantian and placed it into the cat carrier, letting it get used to the carrier’s environment.

Tiantian was timid. Every time before going out, it had to be prepared for a long time. Otherwise, it was easy for it to become stressed.

Tonight, she would take Tiantian for a checkup. She hoped everything would go smoothly.