My Paranoid Girlfriend Asks Me to Be Her Kept Woman (Rebirth) - Chapter 3

“I won’t.”

Lin Yi turned on the faucet and cupped the running water in her hands to wash her face.

She had to prepare herself first. There was still a hard battle waiting for her soon.

“Then how am I supposed to collect them?”

Wuming said, “Your heart will guide you. When the time comes, you will naturally know.”

Lin Yi washed her face clean, then picked up the skincare products beside her and carefully took care of her skin. Right now, her cheeks had not yet sunk in from the torment of illness. They were still full of collagen, plump and soft. After a good night’s sleep, her complexion was visibly rosy. With just a little skincare, her skin became moist and glowing all over.

She called Wuming twice more in her heart, wanting it to explain what it meant by “when the time comes,” but there was no response in her mind. She shook her head. From that strange hollow feeling, she knew Wuming had already left.

Lin Yi had no time to dwell on the information Wuming had brought. She grabbed the makeup brush beside her and quickly applied a nude makeup look. Finally, she put on a glassy lip gloss. The beauty of the person in the mirror seemed to be sparkling.

The washroom door opened. Lin Yi clung to the doorframe and poked her head out, peering into the room. When she did not see anyone, she walked out dejectedly.

—That made sense. After all, they were not familiar with each other right now. She had troubled Zhao Qi for an entire night last night. It was only natural that she would leave.

Although she thought this way and defended Zhao Qi in her heart, an unreasonable sense of grievance still surged up abruptly.

“What’s wrong? Why are you pouting?”

Zhao Qi was holding her phone as she walked in from the balcony.

“You’re still here?” Lin Yi asked in surprise.

Zhao Qi raised a brow. The corners of her lips faintly revealed a smile, and her aura softened quite a bit.

“You want me to leave?”

“No!” Lin Yi immediately refuted.

She did not even have enough time to miss her. How could she possibly hope she would leave?

Zhao Qi tossed her phone onto the table and walked past Lin Yi.

“Drink more water now that you’re awake. If necessary, go to the hospital for an examination. I’m borrowing the bathroom.”

Lin Yi stared blankly at Zhao Qi. When the woman passed by her, she obediently moved aside from the washroom entrance.

As Zhao Qi closed the door, she held the doorknob and turned her head to look at Lin Yi beside her.

“How am I supposed to go out without washing up?”

The door slowly closed in front of Lin Yi. With a bang, Lin Yi’s face turned bright red.

—Was her expression really that obvious?

**

By the time both of them had finished getting ready, it was only just past nine in the morning.

Knock, knock, knock.

The sound of knocking rang out. Lin Yi’s heart chilled. She knew they had arrived.

“Hello, guest. Room service.”

Zhao Qi sat on the sofa playing with her phone, doing who knew what. Lin Yi took a deep breath, stood up, and pulled the door open.

“Hello, I’m from X Entertainment News. May I ask if you know about the senior executives of your company gathering to take drugs and [censored] last night?”

“I heard you were at the scene too?!”

“I heard you were taken away by the company’s executives! Did anything happen?!”

The entertainment reporters who had sniffed out the news swarmed forward. Lin Yi blocked the doorway. A cold smile flashed across her lips, but she opened her mouth innocently.

“What are you talking about? I came back very early last night.”

The entertainment reporters outside the door sized up the person standing inside. Her pink hair fell smoothly, her eyes were large and bright, and she looked at them innocently. Her expression even seemed a little dazed, clearly as if she had no idea what had happened. Moreover, her clothes were neat, her cheeks were moist and glowing, and her complexion was very good. She did not look as if anything had happened.

Everyone hesitated. Had they received false information? Jianming Entertainment Media’s crown prince, Li Junhao, clearly was not here. Was there still any meaning in reporting this news?

Just as they hesitated, someone hiding behind the crowd shouted, “Is Li Junhao here? I saw someone in the room behind you!”

Lin Yi gripped the doorframe tightly. “How could he be here? You saw wrong.”

Seeing that there might be something, the crowd became even more agitated and started shouting over one another.

“Is Li Junhao hiding inside?”

“What is your relationship with Li Junhao?”

“Does he know the police are contacting him and asking him to take a urine test?”

“Someone revealed that last night at the Fengxue Club, your company’s senior executives publicly [censored] and took drugs! May I ask what you have to say about that?”

Lin Yi’s petite body blocked the doorway, her expression unchanged.

“I don’t know anything about what you’re saying. I came back very early last night. The hotel has surveillance footage. As for what happened afterward, I don’t know.”

The entertainment reporters at the door clearly did not believe her. One after another, they tried to rush into the room, causing a commotion.

“The police are here!!!!!”

Someone suddenly shouted, and everything instantly quieted down.

Two police officers pushed through the crowded reporters, took out their IDs, and said, “Miss Lin, someone reported you. Please cooperate with our inspection.”

The pack of jackals that had smelled blood grew even more restless. Lin Yi lowered her head to hide the cold smile at her lips.

“Please come in.”

The entertainment reporters secretly followed behind the police. Their cameras clicked nonstop, clearly unwilling to miss out on headline news.

Zhao Qi leaned against the wall with her arms crossed, her expression unfriendly.

“Have you taken enough photos?” she asked in a low voice. “Who gave you permission to take pictures?”

After taking pictures for quite a while, the entertainment reporters finally realized that the person hidden in the room was actually an ice-cold woman???

Where was Li Junhao???

At this moment, the police also reacted and reprimanded them, “Who gave you permission to take pictures? Get out!”

The entertainment reporters who were driven out looked at one another as the door slammed shut with a bang. After a while, someone cried out in shock, “Inside! The person inside is the youngest daughter of the Zhao family! The legendary Zhao Qi!!!”

“Zhao Qi!”

“Zhao Qi?”

“Zhao Qi…”

Everyone reacted differently, but without exception, they all shuddered and began recalling Zhao Qi’s astonishing actions.

When Zhao Qi was seventeen, she was a senior at Chengnan High School. She was the youngest daughter of the Zhao family. She had three older brothers. The eldest Zhao son inherited the family business, the second entered politics, and only the third was ignorant and idle, a rich playboy.

During Zhao Qi’s senior year of high school, Zhao family’s third son, Zhao Chengzhi, wildly spent one hundred million yuan to propose to Tang Tang, a rising starlet in the entertainment industry. Afterward, however, Tang Tang slapped him in the face by claiming he had “deliberately [censored],” and he was thrown into prison.

Because the impact was terrible, Zhao Chengzhi was sentenced to ten years in prison. For a time, he was despised by the entire country, while Tang Tang rose to become a representative of women who dared to stand against power.

Just when everything seemed settled, Zhao Qi posted a ten-million-yuan reward online to gather clues about Tang Tang and Zhao Chengzhi’s relationship. People die for wealth, and birds die for food—sure enough, someone actually stepped forward. That person was the witness Tang Tang had bribed.

The witness confirmed that Tang Tang had set a trap to seduce Zhao Chengzhi, then deliberately turned against him afterward, causing Zhao Chengzhi to be thrown into prison!!!

The Zhao family’s morale surged at once. Because of the negative impact brought by Zhao Chengzhi’s case, the Zhao family’s stock prices had fallen across the board, and the second son had also been suspended from office. Now, they began a counterattack from rock bottom. Not only did they get Zhao Chengzhi out, but the second son was also promoted by one rank. Under the public’s mentality of compensation, the Zhao family’s industries also rose with the tide. And the source of all this was Zhao Qi!

And what did Zhao Qi do at that time? With a single summons, she sued every media outlet and netizen who had defamed them online. Not only did she demand apologies, she also demanded compensation for emotional damages. Because the case was extremely significant and involved hidden secrets of the entertainment industry, the media hyped it up greatly.

Afterward, once it was proven that Zhao Chengzhi had truly been wronged, the court ruled that each media outlet had to issue legal apologies and compensate Zhao Chengzhi for emotional damages. Every netizen who had spoken wildly online also apologized and paid compensation one by one.

At that time, all the media outlets were crestfallen and completely gave in. Zhao Qi was called “the nemesis of the media world.” Afterward, someone did the math. Not only had Zhao Qi earned back the ten million from the reward, she may even have raked in thirty million in compensation. Just as all the media outlets were secretly preparing to mess with Zhao Qi, she suddenly disappeared from Huaicheng. It was said that the Zhao family had sent her abroad to study, and she had not even taken the college entrance exam. The compensation money she received was also used, under the Zhao family’s direction, to establish a public-interest legal fund that popularized legal knowledge and provided aid to people in need.

After that, no one could really say anything, and the matter ended without further consequences.

Who would have thought Zhao Qi had actually returned?!

Media people who had dealt with Zhao Qi back then could never forget that face. It was practically a nightmare, so today, they had recognized her immediately.

The people outside the door scattered like startled birds, each secretly making their own calculations.

Inside the room, however, the two police officers’ faces relaxed into smiles, and their attitudes were very good.

“Miss Lin, thank you for your report. Are you all right?” asked the slightly chubbier police officer on the left.

Their station had received Lin Yi’s phone report in the middle of the night yesterday: the senior executives of Jianming Entertainment Media had gathered at Fengxue Club to take drugs. Following the clues, they had traced it to an entertainment-industry drug trafficking ring! Everyone at the station was extremely excited and had been about to get arrest warrants to take down the big tiger headed by Jianming Entertainment Media. But this morning, they received an anonymous report saying that someone at the Marriott Hotel was [censored] and taking drugs. When the people at the station looked at the address—

Well, wasn’t this exactly the address of the other informant?

The station chief hurriedly sent them to investigate, afraid that something might happen to the informant, Miss Lin. And sure enough, once they came to look, someone really had ill intentions!

The chubby officer touched his chin thoughtfully. The anonymous reporter was hiding their head and showing their tail. Who knew whether they were in league with those “big tigers”?

A smile appeared on Lin Yi’s face, this time a little more sincere.

“I’m fine. I accidentally ingested some hallucinogens. Last night, under…” Lin Yi looked in Zhao Qi’s direction. “Under her care, I was fine.”

Zhao Qi was observing Lin Yi’s interaction with the police. When she heard Lin Yi avoid saying her name, her heart tightened slightly.

“And who is this young lady? Is it necessary for her to come back to the station with us?” the slightly shorter police officer beside them asked, seeking the chubby officer’s approval.

“Miss Lin, you still need to come with us to the station, take a urine test, and give an oral statement as a witness about what you saw. If necessary, you may also have to appear in court.”

“If this young lady was also at the scene at the time, it would be best for her to come with us to the station as well and cooperate with the investigation.”

Lin Yi looked at Zhao Qi apologetically. She had dragged this woman into trouble.

The reason she had not said Zhao Qi’s name earlier was also because she did not want to involve Zhao Qi. After all, this was her own matter.

“This matter has nothing to do with her. Yesterday, I used the excuse of going to the restroom to touch up my makeup, escaped from there, and then called you to report it. Afterward, because of the effects of the hallucinogen, I almost collapsed at the restroom entrance. She was the one who saved me.”

The chubby officer nodded in understanding. “Then Miss Lin, please come with us now.”

Zhao Qi’s heart softened slightly. So it turned out Lin Yi did not want to implicate her.

Her heart stirred, and the words slipped out.

“I’ll go too.”

“Maybe I can provide the police with some clues.”