My Paranoid Girlfriend Asks Me to Be Her Kept Woman (Rebirth) - Chapter 18

“Zhao Qi.”

The young woman’s voice was cool and pleasant, carrying a stubbornness Zhao Qi could hear.

“What did I do wrong that made you leave without saying goodbye?”

Lin Yi’s straight shot left Zhao Qi utterly defeated.

She stood on the twentieth floor of the hotel, looking at a cityscape different from Huaicheng’s.

This place was foggy. The fog covered the entire city like a light veil.

Zhao Qi’s heart was just like that thin layer of mist—hazy and indistinct.

She held the phone and remained silent. Lin Yi quietly waited for her answer.

Zhao Qi changed the subject. “I only left in a hurry.”

The breathing on the other end of the phone grew rapid. Lin Yi softly called, “Zhao Qi.”

She asked the doubt that remained in the depths of her heart.

“What do you take me for?”

Zhao Qi: “…”

Lin Yi immediately hung up.

She leaned against the wall of the practice room, her chest rising and falling unsteadily.

Whenever she thought she had gained everything, she would always lose it again.

Just like in her previous life, when she thought she could cast everything aside and begin a new life, only to learn she already had cancer.

…

The sound of a phone notification rang out. Only then did Lin Yi realize that she was actually crying.

She raised her arm, wiped the tears from her face, and unlocked her phone. Lin Xiaolu’s message popped up.

How are you preparing the thing we talked about yesterday?!

Lin Xiaolu paced back and forth inside her room. Liu Chang had called her again just now to ask for songs, and she had vaguely brushed him off.

But the release date for Liu Chang’s album was getting closer and closer! If Lin Yi still did not hand over the things, Lin Xiaolu really would lose her temper!

Expressionless, Lin Yi replied:

Originally, I had something.

Lin Yi! What do you mean?! Lin Xiaolu immediately fired back on her phone. Do you want the director to know about your sexuality?!

If the director alone isn’t enough, I’ll spread it for you! I’ll let the whole industry know!

How about I make you rot and stink?!

Do you want me to publicize it for you?

Lin Yi curled her lips, her smile without warmth.

Calmly, she typed on her phone:

When I moved, the USB drive was damaged. I had someone repair it, but they said the files inside couldn’t be recovered.

The kind of songs you want were on that USB drive.

If you don’t believe me, I can mail the USB drive to you.

Lin Xiaolu gritted her teeth. Why had Lin Yi’s USB drive suddenly been damaged?!

She did not believe Lin Yi would lie about this, because it was an easy lie to expose.

You didn’t save even a little of it?

No, Lin Yi replied leisurely.

Lin Xiaolu’s mood plunged into despair. After a long while, she gritted her teeth and replied, still unwilling to give up.

Send the USB drive to me.

Lin Yi sneered.

Fine.

She waited a little longer, estimating that Lin Xiaolu had probably grown terrified enough on the other side, before sending another message.

I’m already writing a song. Wait a little longer.

Lin Xiaolu gripped her phone like a drowning person clutching a piece of driftwood.

Yes, yes, yes. Hurry and write the song. It has to be in that style.

Lin Yi replied again:

I can’t write it.

She kept Lin Xiaolu hanging, making her heart go up and down. Lin Xiaolu accused her:

How can you not write it? Aren’t you usually very good at writing?

Lin Yi replied with three ellipses, then sent another sentence.

I thought you were my younger sister, and also my family.

Lin Xiaolu cursed inwardly: Who is your younger sister? If you weren’t useful, would I have needed to keep flattering you all this time?

As it turned out, in Lin Xiaolu’s heart, taking Lin Yi’s money and things, then softly acting spoiled toward Lin Yi a few times, counted as flattering her.

In order to soothe Lin Yi’s emotions and make her write the song, Lin Xiaolu had no choice but to say:

You’re still my big sister, and I’m still your younger sister. If you want to come back and live here, I’ll welcome you anytime.

But you have to change that problem of yours. Can you change your problem?

Lin Yi sent one sentence:

I understand.

Then she ended the conversation.

Even at the very end, Lin Xiaolu still wanted to manipulate her.

Lin Yi walked a few steps forward and pulled open the curtains of the practice room. Bright sunlight spilled in, dispelling the gloom inside the room, but Lin Yi’s mood was not very bright.

The matter of the USB drive was easy to handle. She had already transferred everything out. During the transfer, that USB drive, filled with the source of her past creations, seemed to have completed its mission and finally broke down.

She had not lied. She simply had not told the whole truth.

In her previous life, this USB drive had indeed gone missing. After that, Liu Chang, a fresh young idol from Jianming, released a song. The title track of his album had used her creation.

Lin Yi had thought Liu Chang had found her USB drive and claimed the songs inside as his own.

She had thought about confronting Liu Chang. She had also thought about directly stating that she was the owner of the USB drive.

But who would have believed her?

As soon as that title track was released, it received widespread praise and became highly popular.

Within just a week of its release, the song could be heard playing in shops on every street and alley.

While Lin Yi felt comforted, she also felt terrible.

Because the name people discussed was not hers, but Liu Chang’s. At that time, she was nothing more than an unknown trainee who had been framed and sent to a higher-up’s bed, and who had also been dragged into a nude-photo scandal…

Lin Yi lifted her head and looked up at the sun outside the window. The sunlight was so bright that her eyes could not bear it and filled with tears.

She blinked, and a tear vanished along her cheek.

And afterward?

Lin Xiaolu said she would avenge her and uncover the truth of what had happened. Lin Yi foolishly believed her.

From then on, she stood in the shadows and paved Lin Xiaolu’s road to stardom, until Lin Xiaolu and Liu Chang stood together and hurt her without restraint in front of her sickbed.

Lin Yi had never been a pushover since she was young.

She had simply given all her trust to her little sister, Xiaolu…