Extra? Four years ago——
System: [You, what's the point of piecing together this sheet music? I told you to burn it, but you didn't. You can't take it with you anyway. What's the point of all this?]
Mu Tiantian: [For a lingering thought.]
System: [I'll ask you one last time, are you truly in love?]
Mu Tiantian: [Anyway, you'll eventually have to erase my memories and feelings, so does it matter to your system whether I was truly sincere or not?]
System: [Well, I can't really explain it.]
Mu Tiantian smiled as she walked through the maple forest.
Tong Lan asked her where she wanted to travel, and she said Canada because it's beautiful.
Mu Tiantian looked around. The golden and red maple leaves falling all over the sky were indeed beautiful, but she felt empty inside.
She walked to a maple tree and squatted down, thinking that she might as well bury the sheet music.
At that moment, she saw an abandoned mailbox standing against the wall not far away.
She got up and went over. The room was filled with envelopes and notes, most of which contained other people's heartfelt messages, which were placed there.
This email address is like an emotional dumping ground.
She put the sheet music into her mailbox and murmured to herself, "If I can still remember you when I retire, I'll come here to find you and take you away."
As she finished speaking, a maple leaf landed on the tip of her nose.
She picked it up casually; the maple leaf was very red and beautiful.
She smiled faintly, kissed the maple leaf, then placed it next to the sheet music, murmuring, "Including you, I hope you're still here then."
System: [You will never remember again.]
Mu Tiantian: [What if?]
System: [Even if something unexpected happens, the world will definitely be drastically different by then. Forget about this email address; it's uncertain whether this country will even still exist.]
Mu Tiantian: [Seventh Master, you really like to dampen my spirits.]
System: [...I just...wanted you to face reality.]
Mu Tiantian stretched lazily and said nonchalantly, "Let's go."
Finally, Mu Tiantian disappeared into the maple forest.
...
Extra? Ye Youjie
My family background is very good, which is probably the ultimate goal that ordinary people can never reach in their entire lives, but it is my starting point.
I'm sure many people envy me. If I said I was having a hard time, people would probably just think I was faking it.
In wealthy and powerful families, one cannot have one's own preferences; even money, which many people admire, cannot be freely disposed of by me.
I can't even decide what food I eat for three meals a day, except for my rights as the second son of the Ye family.
I originally thought I would live my whole life like a puppet on a string.
But I still couldn't resist running away from home. I was discovered by a talent scout and entered the entertainment industry. I thought my parents would send someone to bring me back, but they didn't.
I didn't understand what they meant, but I got a chance to catch my breath.
I met the manager, Sun Yu, and became a trainee. Although the training was tiring, it made me feel much better.
Later I met a girl who had come from another city to seek opportunities for her boyfriend. She had a sweet smile and seemed to love her boyfriend very much.
I suddenly had a bad idea and blurted out a lie. Actually, it was just because I was curious to know how far she would go for her boyfriend, so I said that.
And that's how she came to believe it.
When I saw how much she trusted me, I felt guilty for the first time.
I suddenly felt envious of her boyfriend, and even a little jealous.
Why would someone love him so much?
It wasn't until her boyfriend, Tong Lan, also joined the company as a trainee that I realized Tong Lan was very talented, and I could never compare to him.
I also saw how good Mu Tiantian was to him and how much she loved him, and my jealousy grew stronger and stronger.
Mu Tiantian has a great voice and is very talented at singing, but she has no interest in singing. She is willing to be Tong Lan's assistant, keep their relationship private, and wholeheartedly support his career.
She can also cook, and when she brings food to Tong Lan, she sometimes brings some to other people as well, including me, Tong Lan's partner.
She cooks very well, I really like it. Tong Lan sometimes gets jealous because of this, but Mu Tiantian is very good at coaxing her. The two of them are sweet and loving every day.
No matter how tiring or difficult the training was, Tong Lan was like he was on steroids, always optimistic and hardworking. He even told everyone that as long as he graduated from university, he would definitely marry Mu Tiantian.
The two were already of marriageable age, but Mu Tiantian kept saying she wanted to wait until he graduated.
I know they love each other very much, but I just can't control my heart.
I was so jealous of Tong Lan that I often secretly looked at Mu Tiantian. When he found out, I didn't hide it and directly told him that I liked her. At that moment, I had the idea of taking Mu Tiantian away from me.
Because I also want to know what it feels like to be loved by someone like that.
When Tong Lan heard that I liked Mu Tiantian, he punched me. I started fighting with him because I had disliked him for a long time.
Fight? I'm all for it.
That's when Tong Lan and I really started to have a grudge and became complete rivals.
Later, I stopped partnering with Tong Lanchenxuan because I had to go abroad for work.
At this moment, Mu Tiantian suddenly came to me and asked me to act out a play, saying that she had fallen in love with me and therefore wanted to break up with Tong Lan.
When I found out about this, I was overjoyed; perhaps that's what schadenfreude is.
I admit I'm not a good person.
However, I maintained a calm demeanor on the surface.
I also understand very well that if she knew I really liked her, she would never have asked me to act out this scene.
In the end, she and I went abroad together, but we parted ways after we got off the plane.
But I secretly followed her, wanting to know where she was going. I saw her take the sheet music she had painstakingly pieced together and walk to an abandoned mailbox, then throw it in.
Golden-red maple leaves fell on her, and the scene was like a painting, extremely beautiful.
I took out my phone and took a few photos and videos, wanting to keep a memento.
However, she vanished into thin air in the maple forest.
I thought I was hallucinating, but the video proved that what I saw was real.
I went to the mailbox and took her sheet music and the maple leaf she had kissed.
After returning to China, I decided to act. I posted a Weibo message: "The girl I like said she likes me."
That was a line from the first script I ever wrote, and it's what I wanted to say too.
After Tong Lan found out, she went crazy and started another fight with me.
I felt a secret thrill at the sight of his distress. At least he was in the same boat as me, unable to have the one he loved, perhaps even more so than I was.
That's when I realized I was actually a pretty bad person.
Four years later, I met Mu Tiantian again.
I don't want to give up.
I stumbled upon her videos on Kuaishou and saw her live stream.
I made no attempt to win her over, but she ended up signing with Lantian, a company owned by Tong Lan.
My deep-seated jealousy resurfaced.
Just then, the Ye family contacted me, and that's when I realized why they didn't care about my involvement in the entertainment industry or my running a company.
Because in their eyes, none of this matters. With just a word from them, my company can disappear, and I will never be able to escape their control.
The reason they've been so lenient with me all these years is simply because they haven't reached the point where they really need me yet.
At that moment, a crazy idea suddenly popped into my head.
He would have a scandal with Mu Tiantian, then publicly confess his feelings to her, which would put her in a media storm and subject her to attacks from fans.
I can use this public opinion to get her to be with me. As long as she's with me, I don't care if she leaves the entertainment industry. I'll save enough money to take her around the world and escape to a place where the Ye family can't find her.
In that case, even if I run away for the rest of my life, I think I would be very happy.
For the sake of such an unrealistic dream, I threatened her with those few sheet music pieces to come visit me on set.
I pinned that Weibo post from four years ago to the top.
I even hired paparazzi to take photos of me secretly.
With my current network capacity, I'm confident I can make the plan a success.
I had planned everything perfectly, but I never expected her to reconcile with Tong Lan.
I was insanely jealous when I saw those marks on her body.
But in her heart, there was still only Tong Lan.
In the end, I compromised. I would give her the sheet music if she could wait for me to finish.
Making her wait for me is nothing but self-deception, a fantasy that she is my lover.
I remembered the video of her disappearing and asked her why she came back. She said it was for Tong Lan.
At that moment, I gave up completely.
However, she didn't seem to realize why I asked that question, thinking I was just asking her why she came back after leaving.
That's fine, this secret will remain only for me.
In the end, I agreed to the arranged marriage.
On her birthday, I gave her that maple leaf and gave Tong Lan the source file of her edited photo, as a way of letting go of the past.
I met my arranged marriage partner, Jiang Jingsi.
I heard she was deceived by her first love, who was a scumbag. Since then, she has never trusted any other man, but agreed to the marriage for her sister's sake.
After we got married, I discovered that she was a gentle and sensitive person, but she usually kept her inner self very tightly wrapped up.
Sometimes she wants to be nice to me, but she pretends to be indifferent, and I suddenly find her kind of cute.
Marrying her seems like a good idea.
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Extra Chapter: Shen Xuan
I'm a talkative and fun-loving person, and I'm in the same group as Tong Lan and Ye Youjie.
I also know that Tong Lan has a girlfriend who loves him very much, Mu Tiantian.
I admire Tong Lan.
I don't deny that I had feelings for Mu Tiantian, and even thought that I must find a girlfriend like her in the future.
However, I quickly came to the realization that there is only one Mu Tiantian, and there is no need to let myself get more and more involved.
One thing I like about myself is my ability to cut my losses decisively in time.
Although Tong Lan discovered my little scheme, I reassured him that as the saying goes, one should not covet a friend's wife, and there are plenty of fish in the sea. I would not make a move on Mu Tiantian.
Then one day, Tong Lan told me that Mu Tiantian had cheated on him and wanted to break up with him, and it was on the very day he was preparing to propose. I couldn't believe it.
He showed me photos of Mu Tiantian and Ye Youjie. When I first saw the photos, they looked familiar, but I couldn't quite place them.
I asked him if it was possible that it was photoshopped, but he said that Mu Tiantian herself admitted it.
In a fit of anger, he burned the photos.
Whether it's photoshopped or not, there's no way to verify it, and the person who mailed the photos can't be found either. I just feel like something's not right.
But Tong Lan was so dramatic that he wouldn't listen to anyone, and even went to fight with Ye Youjie. The company almost gave up on him, but luckily Yu Jie and I kept helping him, which is why he stayed.
After a while, Tong Lan became a workaholic, and his popularity and traffic skyrocketed. In less than a year, he wanted to start his own company and asked me and Sister Yu if we would like to work with him.
Although it was risky, we trusted his abilities, so Yu Jie and I started a company with him called Blue Sky Entertainment.
We all know what this name represents, but no one has mentioned it.
After establishing the company, Tong Lan launched a variety show featuring trainees.
I met Han Min. She was very persistent and hardworking, and her outgoing personality made me like her.
I've always been a direct and decisive person, so I confessed my feelings to her, but she neither accepted nor rejected me.
So I took the initiative to withdraw before I got too deeply involved and cut my losses in time.
After some time, Mu Tiantian suddenly came back. I asked her why she did that back then and where she had been for the past four years, but she always deliberately avoided the topic.
However, she assured me that she would stay with Tong Lan for the rest of her life.
Seeing her and Tong Lan reconcile, I am genuinely happy for them both.
Not long after, among the new batch of trainees, there was a very talented and young Jiang Jingyu who became very popular, and I had high hopes for her.
What I didn't expect was that she was my die-hard fan. She had been a fan of mine for as long as I had been in the industry. She also came from a very wealthy family.
She said she joined the trainee program for my sake. She was very young and beautiful, nine years younger than me, and had just turned 18 at that time.
Every time she sees me, her eyes light up, which makes my heart flutter, but I don't know if she idolizes me or if she really likes me.
This was the first time I wasn't decisive about my feelings, but I still boldly expressed them later.
She agreed, but in order not to affect her career, I didn't go public. I even thought that if she found out in the future that it was just a momentary impulse when she was young and wanted to leave me, then even if we broke up, it wouldn't have any impact on her.
I suddenly realized how inferior I felt in front of her.
A few years later, Tong Lan and Mu Tiantian's child was old enough to run errands, but my relationship with Jingyu remained stagnant.
Until my relationship with her was exposed.
It turns out she never cared about age, fame, or even family background.
Her sister pleaded with the family on her behalf, saying that as long as it was someone she liked, no matter who they were or what their family background was, the Jiang family wouldn't stand in her way.
However, there is one condition: she has to get past her sister.
I've come to terms with it. No matter what difficulties we face, I will stand with her and face them together!
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