Jiang Fei's enjoyment of acting hadn't faded, and since she still had some goodwill towards Yan Yunzhou, she decided to take on a few more roles.
One was a niche art film that broke box office records for art films after its theatrical release, and she won Best Actress at an international film festival the following year.
Everyone in the industry says that Jiang Fei made a huge mistake. She should have struck while the iron was hot, taken on more commercial films, and focused on refining her skills after her position was stable.
However, Jiang Fei's next film soon proved those people wrong.
She took on a sci-fi film that was generally not well-regarded in China. She brought her own funding to the production, didn't need any extra scenes, and planned to reinvest any profits if the film lost money. The film's special effects were exquisite, comparable to Hollywood, and the plot was complete. Initially, the box office wasn't ideal, but after word-of-mouth spread in the second week, it suddenly surged and became the highest-grossing film of the year.
That year, Jiang Fei won so many awards that she couldn't keep up.
Jiang Fei is destined to be a legendary figure in the entertainment industry.
From her initial niche status, she was later disfigured in an explosion, but the scars on her face became the basis for her outstanding performance in her comeback film "After Dawn," after which she continued to rise to the top.
Besides her career, Jiang Fei's love life is also a topic of much discussion.
I heard that she and Qin Mo, the former president of Xingchen, were once engaged. Later, Qin Mo only treated her as a substitute, and the two broke up. Later, Qin Mo wanted to get back together, but to no avail.
She was rumored to be dating Yan Wang, a popular star in the entertainment industry. Some people said that after the explosion, Yan Wang chased her to the hospital and gave up his career to stay with her. There were even rumors that the scar on Yan Wang's face and his retirement from the spotlight were related to Jiang Fei, but there was no way to verify it.
Of course, what's most unbelievable is the relationship between Jiang Fei and Yan Yunzhou, the head of the Yan family.
At banquets and film festivals, the head of the Yan family was always by Jiang Fei's side. When they went out to film, Yan Yunzhou could always be seen next to Jiang Fei.
Initially, everyone said that Yan Yunzhou's interest in Jiang Fei was just a passing fancy. Later, the media jokingly asked Jiang Fei when she would give Mr. Yan a formal title.
Jiang Fei paid little attention to these rumors.
Just when everyone thought Jiang Fei would continue on her acting career, she announced at the peak of her career that after making a cameo appearance as an ancient goddess in a big-budget mythological film called "The Primordial Era," she would retire from acting, with no return date in sight.
This move stunned fans and viewers, with some questioning whether it was related to the recent rumors of "pregnancy and childbirth".
At the press conference for the new film "The Primordial Era", a reporter asked, "Ms. Jiang, can you tell us why you suddenly announced your retirement from acting?"
Jiang Fei just smiled and said, "I don't want to film anymore, I'm annoyed."
You get tired of something after a while.
Moreover, she has already achieved what she wanted in this industry, so there is nothing left for her to pursue.
The reporter pressed further: "There are rumors that your retirement from acting is related to your pregnancy. Have you heard of this?"
Jiang Fei became more serious and looked at the camera: "It's irrelevant."
After thinking for a moment, she added, "I will never have children."
The reporters were in an uproar, and some pressed for an explanation, but Jiang Fei did not answer.
Only at the very end of the press conference did a reporter ask, "Ms. Jiang, why did you choose to make a cameo appearance in the movie 'The Primordial Era'?"
This time, Jiang Fei looked much more serious. Holding the microphone, she looked at the reporter and said, "It's been a long time since I've been a goddess."
The reporter was puzzled.
Jiang Fei laughed: "Just for fun."
In the video, when the woman smiles, her eyes narrow slightly, exuding a charm and languor that makes one reluctant to defile her.
Yan Yunzhou paused for a moment after hearing her declaration of "infertility," then chuckled softly, turned off his phone, sat in the back seat, and closed his eyes to pretend to doze off.
Someone gently knocked on the car window.
Yan Yunzhou frowned. Jiang Fei wouldn't be so polite. He opened his eyes and, sure enough, saw a strange girl standing outside the window.
"Something wrong?" He glanced at the empty front seat. Yes, Assistant Wang had gone to pick up Jiang Fei.
The girl looked at him nervously, her cheeks flushed, holding a small doll in her hand: "Sir, you are the 599th lucky guest at the event. This doll is for you. Also, scan my WeChat QR code for more..."
“Thank you, but no need,” Yan Yunzhou interrupted her, his expression indifferent. “My girlfriend would be unhappy.”
The girl blushed even more and bit her lip: "I'm sorry."
After saying that, he turned and ran away.
Just as Yan Yunzhou was about to look away, he caught sight of Jiang Fei smiling at him from not far away.
There was a strong sense of mockery in her eyes.
Yan Yunzhou shook his head, just about to open the car door and get out to pick him up.
Jiang Fei walked closer, leaned over the car window, and knocked on it: "Sir."
Yan Yunzhou looked at her, his eyes full of helplessness, but still followed her words and asked, "Is there something you need?"
"Let's be friends?" Jiang Fei joked.
Yan Yunzhou smiled and said, "Why don't we just go to the hotel?" He paused and then added, "Don't worry, I'll pay."
Jiang Fei chuckled, opened the car door and got in: "Mr. Yan, you won't be able to win a girl's heart like this."
Yan Yunzhou looked at her; the woman who had just been on the video was now sitting in front of him, only her expression was more vivid.
"Tired?" Yan Yunzhou smiled.
"Um?"
“I was watching the live stream just now, and you looked a little impatient,” Yan Yunzhou said with a smile. “Come here.”
Jiang Fei casually moved closer to him.
Yan Yunzhou let her rest her head on his knees and gently massaged her shoulders with one hand.
Jiang Fei squinted her eyes, finally feeling comfortable, and then opened them, her eyes sparkling as she looked at Yan Yunzhou.
Yan Yunzhou remained expressionless, letting her look at him.
The next second, Jiang Fei wrapped her arms around the back of his neck, brought her face close to his, and said, "Say it, you love me."
Yan Yunzhou habitually wrapped his arms around her waist, chuckled softly, and planted a kiss on her lips: "What do you want to eat tonight?"
Jiang Fei still wouldn't let him off the hook: "You."
Yan Yunzhou paused for a moment: "Should we go back and wash up first?"
Jiang Fei: "..."
Finally, she pouted and lay back down on his lap.
Yan Yunzhou is the kind of person who might think ten things in his heart but not necessarily say three of them out loud.
Only when one can no longer restrain oneself can one utter those three words.
But he was simply...unyielding! He could control his emotions with ease, and he would never let his guard down.
Yan Yunzhou looked at her and couldn't help but chuckle.
She's always busy, and suddenly she'll say something like, "Confess your feelings," or "Tell me, do you love me?" At first, he'd be flustered, but he gradually got used to it.
No answer.
She's very fickle; once she gets something, she won't cherish it.
and……
Yan Yunzhou lowered her eyes. After winning their hearts, she truly devoted herself to staying by his side and never saw the two of them alone again.
He always felt that if he told her, she would treat him the same way.
But.
Yan Yunzhou pressed his hand against his heart; it was becoming increasingly unresponsive.
The two did not return to the villa that night, but went directly to the hotel.
It was still the top floor, the place where they met.
Jiang Fei nestled on the sofa in the rest room, gazing at the neon lights outside the window in an unusually quiet atmosphere.
Yan Yunzhou sat beside her, feeling a strange sense of unease, as if she were about to disappear at any moment.
"Jiang Fei." He called her name somewhat inappropriately.
Jiang Fei turned to look at him, then smiled with half-closed eyes: "Has any other woman been here?"
Yan Yunzhou sat down beside her, feeling her body temperature, and only then did he feel a little relieved: "No."
"What a pity, such a beautiful view," Jiang Fei shrugged. "I'll give you a surprise."
Yan Yunzhou asked, puzzled, "What surprise?"
Jiang Fei just smiled mysteriously and snapped his fingers.
The melodious sound of a violin rose from downstairs, drifting to the top floor where it became somewhat hazy. The overhead lights went out, leaving only a few wall lamps. Then, a waiter in a suit came in carrying red wine and candles.
Red and white roses, a candlelight dinner.
Yan Yunzhou looked slightly surprised.
Jiang Fei chuckled softly and snuggled into his arms: "Surprised?"
Yan Yunzhou looked down at her and asked, "When did you prepare this?"
"Just now," Jiang Fei said, "wasn't it romantic? Wasn't it touching?"
Yan Yunzhou thought about it seriously for a moment and said, "A little."
Jiang Fei bit his chin, then picked up the red wine and handed it to him.
Yan Yunzhou took it, his gaze never leaving her face.
She was still smiling as she drank several glasses of red wine, her cheeks slightly flushed. When she had had enough, she leaned against him again, saying, "Yan Yunzhou."
"Um?"
Jiang Fei said, "You lied this afternoon."
Yan Yunzhou smiled and hugged her: "What lie did I tell?"
"I'm not your girlfriend," Jiang Fei muttered, adjusting her position in his arms.
Yan Yunzhou remained silent.
"Such a beautiful night view, it's a shame to let me see it all by myself," Jiang Fei said softly. "Candlelight dinner, red wine and roses, violin music, have you learned it yet?"
Yan Yunzhou remained silent for a long time before slowly speaking: "...What?"
"This is how you pursue a girl," Jiang Fei chuckled. "If you're as cold as you were this afternoon, you've got no chance in this lifetime."
"..."
Yan Yunzhou remained silent.
Jiang Fei gradually calmed down as well.
a long time.
"Why?" Yan Yunzhou suddenly asked.
"Um?"
"Why did you say you couldn't have children?" Yan Yunzhou gently embraced her.
He was too clear-headed, clearly knowing it wasn't because of him, yet he still wanted to hear that one sentence, even if it was just a lie.
Jiang Fei laughed: "Mortal body..."
"You're not good enough for me."
Yan Yunzhou listened to her words without the slightest surprise.
From the moment she saved his life, he knew she was no ordinary person.
But……
"Tell me something I'd like to hear." Yan Yunzhou lowered his head and gazed deeply into her eyes.
He felt something in his heart that he could no longer control.
Jiang Fei frowned: "Why would anyone want to hear lies?"
Yan Yunzhou laughed: "Yes, why would anyone want to hear a lie..."
"But I like listening to it, Jiang Fei."
Jiang Fei remained silent for a long while, then looked up helplessly: "For you."
Yan Yunzhou gazed at her silently, then pulled her into his arms, concealing his expression from her. Along with this, he uttered a low, husky voice: "I love you."
His favorability rating remained unchanged, simply changing quietly from 99 to 100.
After years of silence, the system suddenly spoke, its voice accompanied by the hum of old, malfunctioning electrical wires:
[Congratulations, host, mission complete.]
Yan Yunzhou fell asleep with the woman in his arms.
When I woke up again, it was already bright outside, and the city was beginning to awaken.
Yan Yunzhou opened his eyes, only to find his arms empty.
The candlelight dinner from last night remains as it was; the candles have been extinguished, and the roses are no longer as vibrant and beautiful as they were last night.
Assistant Wang approached: "Mr. Yan, breakfast is ready... Hmm? Where's Miss Jiang?"
Yan Yunzhou didn't speak, but stood up and walked to the French window. Instead of looking at the tiny ground, he looked at the sky above.
I used to think that it was lonely at the top, but now I feel like, why can't I go higher, even higher...?
It's high enough to pull her down.
Miss Jiang.
That's so cruel.
"Mr. Yan?" Assistant Wang asked, puzzled.
"No need," Yan Yunzhou said calmly, turning to walk towards the elevator.
Assistant Wang stared in astonishment at Yan Yunzhou's retreating figure, feeling as if Mr. Yan had reverted to his former self. No, before, although he was plagued by illness, he was still gentle and indifferent, but now he was... lifeless.
Yan Yunzhou returned to the villa and remained silent throughout.
I was just sitting on the sofa when something suddenly occurred to me. I looked around blankly before finding the remote, turned on the TV, and listened to the sounds coming from it intermittently.
Just like when she was here.
He listened for an unknown amount of time, and gradually fell asleep. In his dream, it seemed as if someone was nestled in his arms, laughing, with a scar still on their left cheek, and said to him, "This place is missing a woman."
He should have refused, so that he wouldn't have lost it later.
But in the end, he still heard his own voice: "Yes, only you are missing."
I woke up to complete darkness and emptiness, and even breathing felt cold.
Jiang Fei has disappeared.
Without telling anyone, they vanished into thin air.
Online, various rumors about Jiang Fei are rampant. Some say she suffered from depression after acting in art films and committed suicide; others say she is pregnant and resting during her pregnancy; still others say she is just creating hype...
Many, many voices.
Yan Wang returned to the Yan family several times, pressing him for Jiang Fei's whereabouts.
Devastated by setbacks in both his career and love life, Qin Mo came to him, angrily questioning why he hadn't protected Jiang Fei.
Yan Yunzhou always thought that he would be in a lot of pain.
But he was very calm, calmer than he had been in the first half of his life waiting for death.
He began to relinquish his power and assets, revised his will, and then waited day after day, not knowing what he was waiting for.
One year later.
Before Jiang Fei disappeared, her last cameo role in the film "The Wilderness" was released.
The special effects were great, the plot was decent, and the box office was good.
Among them, the most unforgettable is the image of the ancient goddess played by Jiang Fei, who appeared for less than two minutes and remained a hot topic for a long time.
In the movie, she didn't seem to be acting; it was as if... she was always meant to be like that.
She is both alluring and sacred, looking down upon all living beings from a high position, yet her eyebrows and eyes are full of charm.
She became the goddess and white moonlight in the hearts of many people, and her figure could always be seen in countless stunning appearance videos.
A fleeting glance, yet an eternity in a single look.
The film "Wild Wilderness" was invested in by Lin Tao, who was also an investor in "After Dawn".
The film did well at the box office, and a celebration banquet was held a month after its release.
Yan Yunzhou hasn't attended any banquets for a long time, and people in the circle are well aware of this, so they never dare to disturb him easily.
This time, however, Lin Tao mustered up his courage and personally delivered the invitation to Yan Yunzhou.
Yan Yunzhou wanted to refuse without even looking at it.
However, when he saw Lin Tao's hands, which had already healed, he paused for a moment, and finally accepted the invitation.
Many times, he was in a daze and thought that Jiang Fei's appearance was his hallucination, but Lin Tao's hand brought him back to his senses.
She really did exist.
On the day of the celebration banquet, Yan Yunzhou refused all toasts and quietly stayed in a corner by himself.
Lin Tao approached him cautiously and said, "Mr. Yan, drinking alone is so boring, why don't you find someone to keep you company?"
Yan Yunzhou didn't look up: "No need."
Lin Tao paused for a moment: "Mr. Yan, I've brought everyone..."
"Let her leave."
“Alright then,” a soft, gentle female voice rang out, “I’m being narcissistic again.”
Yan Yunzhou's body stiffened.
Lin Tao left.
Yan Yunzhou hesitated to look up.
After a while, a familiar, sweet fragrance wafted over, and the woman sat on the sofa opposite him: "Is something missing here?"
...
Jiang Fei returned to the cave.
The candle burns eternally.
She looked at her own body on the ice bed with pity in her eyes: "Quick, calculate my current spirit coins again."
[System: Host, according to the timeline in the cave, you just calculated it fifty-three days ago.]
"You said it yourself, that was fifty-three days ago," Jiang Fei scoffed. "Besides, I haven't even settled the score with you for the old, broken-down machine, and you're already coming to me for it?"
The system silently thought, "[It's just a newly created system; it hasn't had a host before...]"
Before he could finish speaking, a sudden, earth-shattering sound came from outside the cave.
The barrier has been breached again.
The system was shocked: "Why is he being so reckless this time?" The last time, even the collision with the barrier was so gentle.
Jiang Fei glanced casually at the cave entrance and replied, "Of course it's because of the change of personnel."
She didn't need to guess to know that this spell, this power, must have come from her previous sexy divine guard.
[System: Host, does he... have a grudge against you?]
Jiang Fei thought about it seriously: "I humiliated him, does that count?"
[System: How to humiliate him?]
Jiang Fei said, "He said his virility had faded."
【system:……】
Outside the cave, the spells also ceased. However, the pause was only brief, before another powerful spell, mixed with a fit of rage and disbelief, crashed against the barrier.
The earth shook violently, as if collapsing.
Fortunately, after this surge of magic, things finally calmed down.
Jiang Fei brushed non-existent dust off her body: "Hurry up and settle the accounts..."
Before he could finish speaking, a bronze porcelain bottle rushed in from the cave entrance.
Jiang Fei caught it.
[System: What is this?]
Jiang Fei opened the porcelain bottle and smelled it: "Hmm...it seems to be the heart's blood of the Phoenix Clan." Without saying a word, she dripped it directly onto the space between her eyebrows.
[System: How many drops of heart's blood does the Phoenix Clan possess?]
"Just one drop." Jiang Fei watched as his body absorbed the heart's blood, his complexion becoming even more radiant, and his mood lifted. He waved his hand casually and said, "But in ten thousand years or so, the heart's blood will grow back..."
As they were talking, a loose boulder suddenly fell from the mountaintop, about to smash into the body of the Xuanbing Bed.
In his haste, Jiang Fei pointed with his finger, and the boulder swayed and actually stopped suspended in mid-air, surrounded by blue light. Jiang Fei waved his finger, and the boulder was also moved aside.
She was stunned, looking at her hands and then at the body on the ice bed. Could it be that because of that drop of heart's blood, she could use magic?
She lightly touched the candle flame beside her with her index finger. In the windless cave, the candle flame flickered violently for a moment, and then stubbornly burned again.
Jiang Fei smiled. Although it was only a hundredth or a twentieth of her magic, it was still usable.
In a good mood, she urged, "System, hurry up and settle the accounts."
[System: ...Host completed the mission excellently in the last world. Qin Mo's bounty is 4 million spirit coins, Yan Wang's bounty is 5 million spirit coins, and Yan Yunzhou's bounty is 5 million spirit coins, totaling 14 million spirit coins. There are no deductions. Adding the previous 11.3 million spirit coins, the total is 25.3 million spirit coins.]
Jiang Fei nodded with a smile, it seemed that the dawn of victory would be in sight soon.
The next moment she thought of something: "By the way, because you've been in disrepair for so many years, I haven't received any compensation for the time I've wasted."
[System: Host, you clearly went back while I was repairing it...]
"Isn't it because you malfunctioned?"
[System: In the next world, will you grant the host the skill of "immunity to all poisons"?]
Jiang Fei nodded: "Let's begin."
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