Li Anran felt good venting her anger, but after she finished, she gradually realized something was wrong.
From the moment she stood up and spoke, all the cameras and flashes in the venue focused on her.
Those dark, gaping lenses seemed to possess a magical power, like bottomless black holes, sucking in all her anger and resentment.
The flashing lights were like bolts of lightning, cleaving through her chaotic consciousness and gradually clearing her irrational mind.
Ang Lee then belatedly realized that everything she had just said, her expressions and actions had been filmed without missing a single detail, and might even be posted online for more people to see.
This is really bad! She has always presented herself as generous, gentle, tolerant and virtuous, but the way she just acted, how could she be associated with those words at all?
Li Anran secretly felt annoyed.
Why is she so impatient? What if netizens discover this and start questioning her all-time pretense?
It's important to understand that the real and the fake are never the same, and netizens have completely different attitudes towards the two. She didn't want to be ridiculed, criticized, or even verbally abused by a group of complete strangers.
But it's too late for her to regret it now.
Seemingly not wanting her to have a chance to regret it, a reporter who was nearby immediately raised a microphone and approached her, asking, "Ms. Li Anran! What are your thoughts on Jian Ruoxi's premarital pregnancy? And what is your attitude towards the fact that the child's father is Lu Shen?"
"This matter..."
Li Anran paused for two seconds, her brain racing as she searched for the right words.
By the way, if she takes advantage of the questioning opportunity to perform well, she might be able to salvage her public image. Her earlier lapse in composure could easily be excused as "losing control due to being provoked by Jian Ruoxi's blame-shifting remarks." After all, even a rabbit will bite when cornered; what's wrong with her hurling a few insults at the mistress?
"I am certainly devastated by Ms. Jian Ruoxi's premarital pregnancy. Moreover, her remarks just now have left me utterly disappointed. I never imagined that as a public figure, she would feel no shame whatsoever for disrupting someone else's family harmony, and even be so..."
Li Anran deliberately adopted a gentle and charming yet genuinely sorrowful demeanor, and as she spoke, she even showed a troubled expression, as if she found it difficult to say what was to come. After hesitating for a while, she simply skipped over it.
"However, although Miss Jian Ruoxi's character is not entirely satisfactory, she is, after all, carrying the Lu family's child. The child is innocent, and I cannot simply take my anger out on him or ignore his existence. If Miss Jian Ruoxi doesn't mind, I can help educate her child in the future..."
Li Anran's words were truly a gesture of compromise, and coupled with her virtuous, generous, and sensible demeanor, they were enough to make anyone who heard them feel heartache and anyone who saw them feel sorry for her.
Unfortunately, these entertainment reporters have been in the entertainment industry for so long, seen so much gossip, and dug up so many juicy stories, that they simply couldn't believe Li Anran's performance. They were all just looking for gossip, stirring up trouble, and enjoying the drama, only thinking about how many press releases they could publish after today's press conference and how to write them to attract attention and generate buzz.
Jian Ruoxi was even less likely to believe her performance. In fact, she scoffed at every word Li Anran said. Therefore, before Li Anran could finish speaking, she interrupted her directly.
“No need for you to trouble yourself, Miss Li Anran. My child has nothing to do with you, and you don’t need to go out of your way to help teach him. Besides, Miss Li Anran, if I may be so bold, you are not qualified to say what you just said.”
As Jian Ruoxi spoke, the sarcasm and disdain on her face and in her words intensified.
"What do you mean? How come I'm not qualified?"
Li Anran frowned, barely managing to keep her tone from being too harsh or her expression from being too ferocious.
"Whether what you just said was high-sounding or not, and whether it came from your heart, is another matter. Only the mistress of the Lu family could say such things. But, Miss Li Anran, you are only Lu Shen's fiancée, not the young mistress of the Lu family. Isn't it a bit premature for you to act like the mistress of the Lu family?"
Jian Ruoxi thought Li Anran was incredibly stupid just by talking about it.
Does this woman have any self-awareness? She dares to put on airs and act high and mighty everywhere. Regardless of what Lu Shen thinks of her, do you think Old Madam Lu would tolerate her?
Or is she so confident and certain that she can marry Lu Shen and become the rightful mistress of the Lu family?
"you!"
Jian Ruoxi's words undoubtedly struck a nerve with Li Anran.
Although everyone knows she's now Lu Shen's fiancée, she's still just a fiancée. Especially in this situation, this status only makes her predicament more awkward.
The status of a fiancée doesn't mean much, especially for a large family like the Lu family. Changing Lu Shen's fiancée is no big deal; at most, it might cause some public discussion. But if changing a fiancée would benefit the entire Lu family, no one in the family would hesitate for a second.
As long as the wedding hasn't taken place and she hasn't officially joined the family, Li Anran isn't considered a true member of the Lu family, and she can't presumptuously think she's the mistress of the Lu family.
But what she just did was clearly telling everyone that she, Li Anran, was the future mistress of the Lu family. If she wasn't the mistress of the Lu family in the end, then everything she did today would just be a clown, a self-inflicted humiliation.
Li Anran clenched her fist secretly, glared at Jian Ruoxi, but couldn't say a word.
The reporters looked left at Jian Ruoxi and right at Li Anran, and unanimously chose to remain silent, belatedly realizing that the current situation seemed to have deviated from the original plan.
Heaven knows how Jian Ruoxi's personal press conference turned into a confrontation between the two young mistresses of the Lu family.
Although this topic is also very good and the writing is very attractive, it will definitely earn them a lot of attention and discussion.
However, perhaps it was just their imagination, but although in reality Li Anran was the intended new young mistress of the Lu family, while Jian Ruoxi was only the former young mistress and now bore the stigma of being a "mistress who knew but did it"—why did Jian Ruoxi seem to have so much more to say than Li Anran in their behavior?
Moreover, to be frank, it's obvious to anyone with eyes that, between the two, Jian Ruoxi, the former young mistress, clearly has a more imposing presence.
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