Shi Youxi glanced at the rearview mirror. The car behind them had been following for quite some time, ever since Wenxin came out.
There's no need to guess who the other party is.
He glanced at Mu Yiran, who looked completely dejected, and asked after a moment's thought, "What's wrong, sister? Did you have a fight with your friend?"
Mu Yiran hadn't yet recovered from the reality of her argument with Mo Mumu when she heard the person next to her ask a question she already knew the answer to. All that frustration rushed to her head: "You still dare to say that! It's all because of you!"
Shi Youxi looked innocent. "Why? Is my sister taking her anger out on me?"
As the car drove onto the independent mountain road, the private cars following behind were stopped outside. It was then that Shi Youxi realized that there were two cars following them.
Whose is the other one?
Mu Yiran was completely unaware of this, and she questioned Shi Youxi:
"If you hadn't suddenly gone to Mu Mu's place, how would she have known that I was marrying you without any preparation!"
"Was she caught off guard, or was it you?" Shi Youxi casually pulled the car over to the side of the road. The entire mountain road was his; he could park wherever he wanted. He braked, turned to look at Mu Yiran, and...
"If your sister didn't want her to know, you could have just not come, right? But you insisted on coming anyway. Do you think your friend is so stupid that she can't see through everything?"
Mu Yiran retorted with a stern face: "Don't you know why I would go, Shi Youxi?"
Shi Youxi unbuckled her seatbelt, leaned over the center console and pressed against the car window next to her, and pulled her into her arms.
"What do I know? I'm just going to discuss business."
"Shiye has its own film and television company and doesn't need to acquire others at all! Don't tell me you have no ulterior motives in cooperating with Wenxin!"
Mu Yiran's eyes were filled with naked suspicion. She huddled on the back of the car, but her mouth was incredibly fierce. This air of rejection made Shi Youxi feel dazed for a moment, as if they were still in the villa in London, as if time hadn't changed much. This sense of familiarity made him inexplicably happy, but he also felt annoyed because Mu Yiran still didn't trust him.
He gripped Mu Yiran's left hand tightly, pressing his thumb against her ring repeatedly. "Yes, I do have a purpose."
"Shi Youxi!"
"But I just wanted to please the people around you." Shi Youxi replied casually. He lifted his eyelids and stared at Mu Yiran. The two were so close that they could feel each other's breath. Shi Youxi couldn't help but kiss her mole on her chin and then moved down to kiss the corner of her mouth.
"Why do you think I went to all that trouble and spent money to invest in Wenxin? Hmm?"
Mu Yiran bit her lip and turned her head away, her eyes filled with "What do you think!"
"Does your sister think I'm trying to control you in order to control your friends?"
Mu Yiran blushed deeply at his constant kissing. She placed her hand on his chest and said fiercely, "Don't look at me like that! You know how many times you've done this kind of thing!"
The woman stared with almond-shaped eyes, her face flushed, looking incredibly charming. Her seemingly fierce tone only made Shi Youxi's throat dry. He quickly unbuckled her seatbelt.
Before Mu Yiran could even see his movements clearly, she was suddenly dizzy and found herself straddling his lap, pinning him under the driver's seat.
Shi Youxi wrapped his arms around her waist, his other hand caressing the back of her neck. He liked it when his sister was pressing against him like this. As he touched her, Shi Youxi felt an irresistible itch. He pressed her closer, his voice hot and husky:
"Sister, how about we try it here?"
Mu Yiran was stunned for a moment, then her neck tensed instantly after she realized what was happening. Her face flushed red as she angrily scolded, "Shi Youxi! I'm talking to you about serious matters! If you're going to act like this, then get out, I'm not saying anything more!"
Shi Youxi pulled the seatbelt over from behind and fastened it on her. "Say it, didn't I say I didn't intend to do anything? I just wanted to use this opportunity to make a good impression on your friends in advance. I said, I only want to please the people around you, the people you care about."
Mu Yiran still didn't believe it: "Then why did you deliberately hide it from me? You need to hide it if you can't stand it!"
“I didn’t hide it from you. I called you this morning and told you about it, but you were sleeping so soundly that you probably forgot.”
Shi Youxi took out her phone. "Look if you don't believe me."
Mu Yiran suspiciously opened the call log and found that Shi Youxi's number had indeed dialed before Li Bingcheng's call.
But why does she have no recollection of it at all? She was sleeping so soundly.
Shi Youxi hugged her lazily, "I've explained my problem. Now let's talk about your sister's problem."
"What's wrong with me?" Mu Yiran felt that Shi Youxi had suddenly become mentally ill and was pestering her to do some inexplicable things in the car. "I don't want to talk to you, just let me out."
Shi Youxi wouldn't let go; he could grab both of Mu Yiran's wrists with one hand. Mu Yiran raised her leg to kick him, but he didn't dodge, her arrogance evident. "If you kick me again, what if I start a fire? How do you plan to put it out then?"
"....."
"You're so scared by just one sentence?" Shi Youxi chuckled a few times, nestled in her shoulder. "What are you afraid of, sister? No matter what, I'll let you be on top."
Mu Yiran felt her whole body burning up from what she said, and gritted her teeth: "What exactly are you trying to say!"
Shi Youxi stopped teasing her. "Why are you so afraid to tell others about our relationship? Don't deny it. My sister just said it herself. Only things that can't be seen by others should be kept secret."
"Am I that shameful? It's one thing to hide it from outsiders, but to keep it from your closest relatives and friends?"
Mu Yiran also felt guilty, and she said sheepishly, "We just got our marriage certificate yesterday, I need time to organize my thoughts..."
"You don't need time, you simply don't want to." Shi Youxi traced the woman's soft cheek with the tip of his nose, as if whispering intimately, but his words chilled both of them to the bone.
"Sister, in your heart, you don't even consider me your real other half, your man, do you?"
"What did you say when you agreed to marry me? Hmm? You didn't want too many people to know. I understand you, but even the people around you can't be unaware of me."
"Then why should I marry you? Wouldn't it be better to just lock you up like before?"
“But that’s not my goal. I’ve said it before, sister. I want all of you, your body and soul. I want Shi Youxi to have a place in your world. I want everyone around you to know that Shi Youxi is your lover and your husband.”
Shi Youxi pressed her head down, their noses touching. Mu Yiran could clearly see the childlike stubbornness and surging affection in the man's phoenix eyes. She had seen this look before; Shi Youxi always looked at her with the same gaze.
But things are different now.
That thick, deep-sea-like desire was now tempered with restraint.
He was learning to be patient for her sake.
"Even now, I don't think the methods I used to keep you were wrong. As long as I could keep you, anything was fine, even if it took a long time. Back then, I even thought about making you lose your memory and implanting an image of me into your blank world. I didn't believe you wouldn't fall in love with me that way."
"Shi Youxi, don't be like this." Mu Yiran was frightened by his dark thoughts.
"But I softened in the end. You were crying like that, and I couldn't bear it..."
Shi Youxi rubbed her face. He remembered that when he woke up, he had given Guan Shiyan a good beating. That guy told him everything to save his life, and even showed him the video of Mu Yiran in the corridor when he had surgery five years ago.
She stood alone in the empty corridor, sobbing uncontrollably; Youxi would dream of her countless times in the dead of night.
He realized that he didn't want Mu Yiran to cry like that more than he was afraid of her leaving him.
“If you don’t like that approach, I can change it to another one. Anything is fine as long as you can accept it. You can do whatever you want me to do, but the prerequisite is that you must fall in love with me, and only love me.”
Mu Yiran's heart raced at his words, and a sense of helplessness welled up within her. "Shi Youxi, really, do you think you're being reasonable?!"
Shi Youxi chuckled softly, "If you prefer my unreasonable side, I'd be happy to oblige."
He grabbed the woman's fingers and licked them, then bit down hard with his sharp fangs, sending shivers down her spine. "After all, it's really hard to suppress the urge to seduce you in front of you all the time, sister."
"......"
I'll die if I don't utter a single nonsensical sentence every three sentences!
"I've put on this act for so long, just so you can have a normal relationship that you can accept. If you can't accept the old methods, then I can take it slow, but you have to give me an equal chance."
Unlike before, they no longer kept her locked up or monitored her.
They simply stayed together day and night, like any other loving couple.
He can pretend and he can learn!
Shi Youxi stared at the ring she was wearing for a long time, then interlocked his fingers with hers. He turned their hands around so that Mu Yiran could see his ring finger and Shi Youxi could kiss her ring finger.
His voice was low, but every word was clear: “No matter what happened before, that’s all in the past. I won’t plead for Shi Youxi in the past, and you can’t hate me now because of the Shi Youxi of the past. I just want you to start now, to look at me properly, to look at the 23-year-old Shi Youxi, and to fall in love with the 23-year-old Shi Youxi. You gave up five years of my life in exchange for an equal opportunity to be loved by me.”
"There is no other choice but to either want it or not."
Shi Youxi lifted her waist, looked up at Mu Yiran, his heart and eyes filled with her, "Sister, will you give me this chance?"
"....."
Mu Yiran bit her lip and asked, "What if I say no? What will you do?"
Without a second thought, Shi Youxi said, "Then we'll lock you up. We can put that chain back on anytime."
Mu Yiran: "........."
Then why are you pretending to ask such a question?
A leopard can't change its spots, just as Shi Youxi can't change his inherent compulsion and stubbornness.
Finally, after Mu Yiran was forced to say "yes," Shi Youxi finally let her out of the car, satisfied.
Perhaps to show his sincerity, Shi Youxi has become increasingly "husband-like" these past two days, prioritizing Mu Yiran in everything, and refusing to do anything if she shows even the slightest reluctance.
Specifically, Shi Youxi wanted to acquire all of Wenxin's shares held by Mo Mumu and then transfer them back to Mo Mumu.
To put it bluntly, it's a disguised way of giving money to Mo Mumu.
"—You didn't know how to apologize to her, so money is the most practical way. I'll pay for the apology gift. As long as it's the thought that counts, that's enough."
He presented this fallacy with such conviction that Mu Yiran was almost swayed by him.
After several warnings, Shi Youxi finally gave up the idea and had someone bring back the drafted contract.
Mu Yiran spoke with haughtiness when she refused, but when she thought about how to apologize to Mo Mumu, she suddenly felt that Shi Youxi's suggestion was excellent.
No wonder Mu Yiran is troubled.
Although Mo Mumu used to be strict with her, she never hurt her true feelings and never argued with Mu Yiran because of her immature behavior.
This is the first time.
This also made Mu Yiran realize for the first time that her actions might have been wrong.
In her friendship with Mo Mumu, which was more than family, she had always been incredibly selfish, which broke Mo Mumu's heart.
"Um...Aorsa, is something on your mind?"
A voice called out from the side, and Mu Yiran snapped back to reality, looking at her assistant beside her. "Oh, oh! Sorry, I was thinking about something and didn't hear you. Is there something you need?"
After returning from London, Mu Yiran was afraid of running into Shi Youxi, so she gave up her study opportunity with Qiao Lisi. In the past two months, she did not harm her health by interrupting her studies, but instead devoted all her energy to Ms. Wen's studio.
Saorsa was revived by Mu Yiran in 2019 and established as an online brand studio. During her undergraduate years, Mu Yiran would occasionally post her design and production process online, and she was a well-known content creator on Bilibili. Because she never showed her face, outsiders always thought that the founder of Saorsa was a woman in her thirties who had returned from studying abroad.
The variety show "Up Idol," produced and filmed by Wen Xin, was released recently and received rave reviews online. In just one month, it garnered over 100 million views. In the latest episode, which is about to be filmed, the production team plans to invite a well-known domestic designer to collaborate with the goddesses on a runway fashion show.
Mo Mumu, being the boss, immediately pushed this opportunity to Mu Yiran. Mu Yiran, who needed to further increase Saorsa's popularity, gladly accepted the program's invitation.
She's been busy looking for a studio and recruiting staff lately, and this assistant is one of the people she hired.
The assistant's name is Ji Yunli. She is two years younger than her, but she entered the workforce early and is very efficient.
Ji Yunli held up her phone, which displayed a WeChat chat interface. "Aorsa, the goddess the production team arranged for you has arrived. As I told you a few days ago, this goddess wants to see the design drawings in advance."
"Oh! Right! She's already here, have someone invite her to the conference room!" Mu Yiran pulled a drawer from a bookshelf in her office and took out a design sample. "Let's go."
The studio had only recently been renovated, and wooden crates and stacks of fabric were scattered everywhere. It was more like a warehouse in a wholesale market than a fashion brand's studio. The meeting room was the only decent place that had been temporarily set up.
As Mu Yiran walked, she asked, "Which goddess did the production team assign to us? Young actress Zhao Qingzi? Or singer Liu Wen?"
Ji Yunli was very excited, but shook her head mysteriously, "No, it's none of them! It's one of the special guest stars we invited this time, the biggest star of all! I didn't expect the production team to be so nice to us!"
It's not so much that the production team treated her well, but rather that Mo Mumu treated her well.
Mu Yiran's smile was tinged with bitterness. "Yes, that's why we can't let them down!"
Ji Yunli nodded, and the two of them walked quickly toward the conference room. The goddess who came was indeed quite famous, with four or five assistants standing in the corridor alone.
Mu Yiran greeted them with a smile while asking in a low voice, "Don't keep me in suspense, tell me who it is!"
Ji Yunli leaned closer to her and said, "You must know her. She's the Best Actress at Cannes this year. She started as a child star, Helian Xin."
He, Lian, Xin?!
Mu Yiran's eyelids twitched, and she subconsciously stopped in her tracks the moment she heard the name. But it was too late. The conference room was a glass room, and the automatic door opened. The woman sitting inside, surrounded by people, lifted her eyelids and looked over when she heard the sound.
The moment Helian Xin saw Mu Yiran clearly, his pupils contracted sharply!
"you?!"
"How could it be you?!"
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