My Fortune-Blessed Leading Lady
Chapter 496: Such a melodramatic trope will happen to her

Chapter 496: Chapter 496: Such a melodramatic trope will happen to her

"Sweetheart, Daddy is right by your side. Are you sure Daddy can’t hear what you’re saying?" Yuran kindly reminded.

In truth, Zhizhi had a very good relationship with Bo Yan. Their approach to parenting was to let nature take its course, without too much interference in Zhizhi’s choices. The things Zhizhi liked could be said to be somewhat biased, but not excessively so, though some were indeed a bit too much so.

However, when it came to communication, there were no issues at all among the three of them.

Zhizhi subconsciously turned around and saw Bo Yan sitting on the sofa looking utterly serious, not glancing elsewhere, and thought to himself, Did Daddy hear that?

Daddy didn’t seem to have heard it.

Maybe Daddy didn’t hear it after all.

Zhizhi was a bit troubled. "Mommy, Daddy probably didn’t hear it, right? Zhizhi was speaking so softly just now."

Yuran couldn’t help but laugh. "Sweetheart, can you buy a plane ticket yourself? Can you find your way to see Mommy? And most importantly, sweetheart, do you have any money on you?"

With several questions in a row, Zhizhi was dumbfounded, his little mouth agape in shock.

He was greatly distressed.

The phone was leaking sound, and everything Yuran said had made its way into Bo Yan’s ears. Bo Yan was trying not to laugh, and seeing his son look as if he was questioning his entire existence made him find it even more amusing.

"Sweetheart, what did Mommy say?"

Zhizhi glanced at Bo Yan and felt a tad wronged, an emotion he felt on behalf of Bo Yan.

His father had always been so good to him, taking him everywhere, but yet he had been ready to ditch Dad just to be alone with Mommy.

He was too inconsiderate. Blinking his big eyes, he said, "Daddy, can Daddy take Zhizhi to see Mommy, please?"

Bo Yan raised an eyebrow, pretending to be confused. "Why? Didn’t we just visit Mommy not too long ago? Visiting Mommy too often might disturb her work. Do you not want to be with Daddy?"

Zhizhi shook his head resolutely. "No, Zhizhi loves Daddy and Mommy the most."

Yuran, on the other end of the phone line, was beside herself with laughter, enjoying the mutual adoration between father and son so much that she didn’t hang up but rather waited for Zhizhi and Bo Yan to finish their negotiation.

After it was over, Bo Yan took the phone from Zhizhi’s hand. "Are you resting this weekend, baby?"

Yuran hummed in affirmation. "My part is almost wrapped up. Gui Yu and I agreed that I won’t rest this weekend but reshoot the scenes I’m not satisfied with, and then speed up the process. Miss Rose’s crew wants to play hide and seek with us, and I’m not interested in playing along. Now that there’s been an incident on Miss Rose’s set, I feel it’s time to work even harder. Such an opportunity shouldn’t be wasted."

Bo Yan: "...So well-informed?"

Yuran replied, "By the sound of Qi Ge’s voice, he seems to know that there have been problems over there too."

Bo Yan laughed. "I was unaware, but today, when I was on the phone with Si Huang, I was forced to listen to some gossip. You know Si Huang doesn’t quite get along with the Ou Family’s young masters."

Hearing this, Yuran also started laughing. "Well, that works out perfectly, I don’t quite get along with the Ou Family’s young lady either.

Speaking of which, should I join forces with Si Huang to do something else that might make people uncomfortable?"

Bo Yan: "Whatever makes you happy."

"Qi Ge, you really get me."

...

Yuran didn’t know how Ji Zexiu managed to get the chance to make the phone call, nor how he found out if she was doing well, so when Ji Zexiu called her, Yuran was quite puzzled.

Ji Zexiu’s words on the phone weren’t exactly polite, so after a few sentences, someone took the phone away from him, but Yuran had heard what he said clearly.

"Yuran, you won’t die a good death. Isn’t it strange, do you know who wants to put you to death? Do you want to hear some news from me?"

Yuran was not interested.

Ji Zexiu, "Actually, I didn’t want to harm you, really, I had no plans to lay a hand on you before, but did you know you’re blocking someone else’s path?"

"Yuran, why did you want to go to the Bo Family?

What can the Bo Family give you? Is Bo Yan good in bed?"

Yuran couldn’t stand these obscenities, especially the humiliation directed at Bo Yan. She hardened her voice, "Ji Zexiu, you’re like a maggot, wriggling on rotting flesh. What right do you have to talk about others?

Actually, I never would have thought that the person who would harm me would be you, but even later, I wasn’t surprised. Although in our childhood we weren’t close, as adults, we did hang out a few times;

I just never imagined that the person who would strike at me would be you, and an utterly unapologetic, unsympathetic you at that. Your fate today is not at all undeserved."

"I find it a bit unjust that I didn’t kill you."

Yuran didn’t care about such threats, which she considered life-threatening.

It seemed like someone beside Ji Zexiu was trying to snatch the phone from him, and then Yuran heard his roar, "Yuran, don’t be too smug. I didn’t kill you, but there are plenty who want you dead."

Then, calming words from a staff member came through, "Miss Yu, we apologize for this call. Rest assured, we will follow up on your safety."

"Thank you."

After hanging up the phone, Yuran reflected on the past. From childhood to adulthood, what entanglements had the original host actually had with Ji Zexiu and the others? It seemed like there weren’t any in her memory, yet from Ji Zexiu’s tone, it sounded like they weren’t few.

Could it be that she really had amnesia?

This soapy plot twist, could it happen to her?

No, instead of saying amnesia, it might be better to say hypnosis, but there wasn’t such a thing in her memory.

Moreover, had Yuran offended someone before she became an orphan?

Back when the Yu Family was wiped out, all the men in the family perished, and she was fortunately adopted by the Bo Family. Considering that, did all the people of the Yu Family die in a natural disaster or an accident? It seemed there was no such proof at the time.

Yuran stayed in her hotel room, her mind in chaos. She didn’t know where to start investigating.

She had wanted to discuss this matter with Bo Yan, but looking at the time, it was rather late, so she gave up on the idea.

...

When Xi Nian returned to his family’s home in the capital, he locked himself in the audio-visual room. There, all of Fu Yuran’s works were present, and there were two works by Yuran that seemed rather mystical. He trusted his intuition very much. If his guess was correct, then he indeed had found his sister.

The deceased Fu Yuran, was it the current Yuran?

Xi Nian had spent several sleepless nights, his eyes bloodshot. He was filled with self-reproach and punishing himself.

If he had not been so inept, if he had not been so late, if Fu Yuran had not been so lucky, then...

What meaning would there be to everything he had earned?

Although Providence had shown mercy and he was not completely without recourse, his current circumstances were a great irony.

He even didn’t know what opportunity to look for, to tell Yuran about this. If, in the end, Yuran still refused to acknowledge it, there would be nothing he could do to force her.