Mrs Fox Heinous Revenge: Can You Love A Villainess like Me?
Chapter 257: An Ironic Scene

Chapter 257: An Ironic Scene

Seeing Su HaiTan’s car that had left the building, Canary’s eyes lingered until it had completely disappeared. In the end she had forgotten to ask Su HaiTan’s name or search for his background. When she had asked him the details he told her that he would like to talk it out to her as soon as possible as his phone had rang.

His face was unreadable but he seemed rather unhappy seeing the name that had cross his phone, rather than unhappy, it was burdened. Then he left in a hurry, leaving not even a trace of him.

No, actually there was a trace. Canary turned back at the couch he had sat on where all her documents had been neatly tidied by him. The young man seem to have taken care of it while talking with her, an action he had done so subtly that she couldn’t tell it was happening at all.

She sighed, shrugging her shoulders. Su HaiTan was a rare type of person that she had found to be rather odd. The last time this had happened was to the young girl who was brought to the prison, the same girl who glared at her that had now became her best and only friend.

Canary click close the lighter that Su HaiTan eventually gave to her before tossing it to the desk.

Meanwhile, AiLin who had been allowed to leave the hospital had gotten back to work. Despite her family initial refusal to the idea and Li ZiChen who worriedly ask her to stay, she didn’t want to spend her time doing nothing which would only feed more into the media. She had decided to go first and act, finishing her work and leaving all those mouths that had suspect her to quiet down.

While smiling, AiLin had now stared at the large building. The first twenty minutes of the film would be about the bullying and the extent of it. The now it was about the revenge that the main character had painted along with the man who loves her yet couldn’t truly save her from that hatred she held against those who had wronged her.

The man who would play the role was Xiao MuChen.

These days she noticed how Xiao MuChen had became kinder to her. Not because he felt the need to be nice to her, but rather seem to come out because of guilt.

She looked at her reflection, dressed in a blouse and a pencil skirt, she embodied the image of a female office worker.

The first person on the character’s revenge list is the character played by InRan. InRan had became a famous TV personality and now AiLin’s character had came to the office of where InRan and her husband had worked, turning herself as a journalist who would be interviewing the couple.

When Director Gu shouted for the camera to roll, AiLin strolled into the company with a wicked smile but her eyes were as empty as a bottomless abyss.

She had nodded gently to the staff who had showed her the way inside the building and came to a stop as she saw InRan who had became famous and had everything in her life now, gently fixing her husband’s necktie as her husband had became one of the director to the media company.

"Such a pretty family," said AiLin in her character and the staff who heard her chuckled.

"They’re the most famous couple in this building, Miss. You would see how sweet they are even closer when you interviewed them."

"I can’t wait," AiLin spoke softly, smiling wistfully.

The scene then cuts to AiLin introducing herself to the couple and she could see how InRan doesn’t recognize her. It was the same as how when she had first appeared to her bullies and how they have utterly forgotten her face.

This was why she had always held the novel so dearly in the past. It was because though the main character had suffered a little differently than her, there was so many aspect in the character’s life that was too similar to her own.

Perhaps that was why she was able to act out everything, as if she was replaying her life in a form of a two hour long movie.

As the camera continued rolling, AiLin kept her composure, her character’s smile polished without a single crack to be found. But under the perfectly poised journalist persona, there was a quiet storm brewing in her eyes, one only she and the audience who had known all the suffering she had gone through would every understand.

InRan, oblivious to the quiet poison laced at the edges of AiLin’s smile, extended a polite handshake. "It’s a pleasure to meet you, Journalist Shen! I have heard so much about you."

AiLin took her hand lightly, her grip rather firm enough to give the illusion of a person who was swept with the same honor. "The pleasure is all mine," she responded smoothly, her tone could only be heard with a warmth that she had practiced to show no single mistake.

The cameras zoomed in, capturing every the littlest expression on her face, every flicker of rage and that storm-like anger beneath AiLin’s gaze. InRan’s husband, Director Zhou, gestured toward the seating area. "Then shall we begin? I heard you always ask the best questions that the readers wanted to hear."

The three of them then settled into their seats, the bright glow of the office lights could be seen as a rather warm interview or rather an interrogation. The couple were always the image of success. The two people who had built their lives on stability, respect, and admiration from the public. They love each other dearly and known for all their charity works as they had always honored those lesser than them.

AiLin pulled the cap of her pen and flicked her recorder on. She then leaned forward slightly with a wide excited smile to know the couple. "Month xx year 20xx. Thank you so much for allowing us to interview you two. Knowing your busy schedule it must have been difficult to allow this interview."

"Of course not! We are glad as we know you have always wrote an honest interview. It is our pleasure instead, Journalist Shen."

AiLin chuckled, the scoff turning sincere to their ears. "Let’s start with something simple! Many admire your journey, Mrs. Zhou. From a rising star to one of the most influential figures in the entertainment industry it must have been such a difficult task. So I always wonder what would you say was your biggest challenge?"

InRan tilted her head down thoughtfully, placing her hand under her chin as a thoughtful expression appeared on her face, "Oh, there were too many for me to thoughtfully pick one, but I suppose navigating through competition was one of the hardest things. I have to know what the audience like from me and enhance it. I know my honesty is what they love the most so I always keep it authentic. It takes a strong mindset to overcome obstacles."

AiLin nodded, scribbling something on her notepad with her pen, her voice sounding very excited and eager, "Strong mindset, that’s a lovely way to put it. And how did you... well deal with those who, perhaps, weren’t as strong? I suppose there must be a lot who didn’t make it so I wonder how do you take care of those who fell behind while you succeeded?"

InRan’s lips twitched, a flicker of something crossing her expression before she laughed lightly. "That’s a rather interesting question."

AiLin smiled, tilting her head innocently. "I just wonder, have you ever looked back at those you left behind? I heard that you have been in many groups and media teams until you have now settled in this company. Do you ever wonder what happened to them?"

Silence stretched between them for a beat too long, lingering like a vice.

Director Zhou, oblivious to the shift in the atmosphere, chuckled. "Ah, my wife has always been focused on the present and the future. It’s what makes her so admirable."

AiLin’s fingers curled slightly around her pen. The present and the future, she thought. Never the past. Never the wreckage you left behind.

The camera pans to AiLin’s fingers and Director Gu couldn’t hold his excitement with how the entire scene had played out.

She smiled, her eyes glinting under the artificial lights. "How admirable indeed."

The camera caught everything, the slight stiffness in InRan’s shoulders, the way she shifted almost too subtly in her seat, and the faintest trace of unease that flickered across her face.

And in that moment, AiLin knew while this was acting, InRan who had a play in her bullying back in high school hadn’t forgotten everything or forgotten the fact that the person she had tried so hard to destroy had came back to her view, sitting right across her while they had acted out an uncomfortable scene that had discussed revenge against those who had bullied them.

InRan had always been in fear knowing AiLin could easily uncover all her pasts. She might have appear to forget what had happened, but deep down, she remembered everything, everything too well.