Chapter 46

Putting down the signed photo, Song Zhiyi opened the envelope. Unlike the cursive signature in the photo, the handwriting on the letter paper had clear horizontal and vertical strokes and smooth pen strokes.

There wasn't much on the letter, just three lines, and the letter also solemnly apologized for the signature issue, which made Song Zhiyi feel embarrassed.

God knows, she had taken the initiative to ask Mao Suiqiong for an autograph and said that her mother was a fan of Mao Suiqiong, but she was just talking nonsense and didn't want to let the conversation die down. Who could have thought that after so long she would receive such a thoughtful gift in return.

Song Zhiyi used the back of her hand to feel the temperature of her face, and found it was hot. Sighing, she folded the letter back into the envelope, and her fingers touched the well-preserved album cover.

These are all CDs released by Mao Sui-chiung when she was young. The color of the cover is a very retro orange. Mao Sui-chiung has shoulder-length curly hair, exaggerated hoop earrings, and a bright and clean smile.

"Auntie Lin," Song Zhiyi casually picked up an album and took out the CD, "I remember if there was a CD player at home?"

"It seems so," Aunt Lin recalled, "These old items should be in the basement. I'll go look for them for you."

"It's okay, I can go by myself. I've been sitting for so long these past two days, so it's time to move around."

“…”

Because my dad is extremely nostalgic, he rarely throws things away except for real garbage. As for those things that he is reluctant to throw away but really has no use for, they are stored in the basement, waiting to be reactivated or completely scrapped.

"CD player, CD player... should it be placed together with the TV?"

Song Zhiyi looked around and quickly found a target covered with a white dust cloth.

"Tsk, still nothing." Under the dust cloth there was indeed an old big-butt TV, but there was still no sign of the CD player.

"Sister! Found it!"

Song Zhiyi turned a deaf ear and continued searching.

"I really found it." Seeing that her sister ignored her, Song Zhiyu shouted again.

"Yeah, yeah." Song Zhiyi said perfunctorily, but still didn't go to look.

When her brother saw her going into the basement to look for something, he followed her and offered to help. He looked honestly at first, but soon he ran out of the home appliance area and went to the childhood area of ​​the siblings to "treasure hunt". In less than half an hour, he had already found several discarded toys, two Barbie dolls with shaved hair, and a box of colorful marbles.

It would be fine if he just rummaged around, but the most annoying thing was that every time he found something he would shout "Sister, look what this is". Song Zhiyi got tired of hearing this and didn't want to pay attention to him, so he changed his words and started shouting "I found it". He would then tell others what he found after they had passed by.

The last time he used this trick, he found a love letter tucked inside the cover of a collection of classical poetry. There was no sign of it having ever been opened.

Because it happened so long ago, the brother and sister couldn't remember who the poetry collection belonged to, let alone the person who signed it with a pinyin abbreviation. However, after careful analysis and bold speculation, Song Zhiyu felt that the love letter was for him.

There are two reasons: first, he was the only one who liked to bring some incomprehensible books to school to show off when he was in junior high and high school; second, she started using abbreviations so early, and it was obvious that she was a future fan girl, so the casual love letter was of course for him.

Song Zhiyi had no way of refutating, mainly because she didn't really want to refute, so she just responded perfunctorily and continued to look for the CD player.

In short, Song Zhiyi thought, no matter what he shouted now, she would not believe him. It was obvious that the things in the basement were roughly divided into several categories, so how could a CD player appear in their old things area?

"I really found it. I lied to you that I was a puppy." Song Zhiyu shouted again.

"The puppy is so cute, you think it's your blessing," Song Zhiyi straightened up and said unhappily, "You said you were a cockroach for lying to me."

Song Zhiyu: “…”

"You don't dare anymore?" She knew it.

"I'm lying to you, I'm a cockroach," Song Zhiyu snorted, and then said, "If you don't come over, you're a piglet!"

“?” Really found it?

Song Zhiyi walked over doubtfully and saw Song Zhiyu still squatting on the ground, holding a gray rectangular box in his hand, holding it like a trophy.

"It really is a DVD," Song Zhiyi took it and looked at it. "It's been so many years, and I don't know if it can be used."

Song Zhiyu snorted complacently and said, "I told you I found it, but you still didn't believe me."

"Can you blame me? Haven't you learned the story of the boy who cried wolf?" Song Zhiyi put the DVD aside and went to look for things in the box. "It turns out that the DVDs and discs are all placed here. No wonder I couldn't find them in the home appliance section."

"You just said I was just fooling around, so I said I was looking for it seriously." Song Zhiyu stood aside with his hands crossed. Suddenly, he saw something flashing in the box out of the corner of his eye. He squatted down curiously and asked, "What is this?"

"Nothing." Song Zhiyi retracted his hand and wiped the dust off his sleeve with his knuckles. "Let's go. Put the things you dug out back where they belonged."

"Oh." Could he really have seen it wrong?

Song Zhiyu took another look into the box and stuffed the toys piled next to it into it. When he was done, he saw his sister disappear at the door, so he quickly picked up the DVD and followed her.

"Wait for me!"

“…”

“…”

In the glass greenhouse, Song Zhiyi put the DVD on the flower stand, put the CD in it, and pressed the play button.

Very good, the DVD can still be used after wiping it.

Listening to the slightly distorted but clear enough sweet song coming from the stereo, Song Zhiyi walked to the swing chair and sat down, lowered her eyes and took something out of her pocket.

It was a small earring. The earring post was silver-white and slightly oxidized and blackened, but the blue diamonds inlaid on it were still as dazzling as ever.

As he watched, Song Zhiyi suddenly laughed, took the earring and compared it with his ear, and finally put it back into his pocket.

"I thought I had lost it a long time ago, but here it is."

With a sigh, Song Zhiyi shook his head with a smile and picked up the character card booklet.

The lawyer who assisted Mao Suichong in the lawsuit was Qi Nanfeng's mother Chen Shoujing. Even for Chen Shoujing, who was experienced and capable, this divorce lawsuit was not easy to fight. Ren Xiuming and Mao Suichong had been married for so many years that even the division of property was a big problem.

Chen Shoujing would occasionally tell her about the progress of Mao Suiqiong. With this information, even without updating the character card book, Song Zhiyi had a general understanding of the situation on Mao Suiqiong's side.

It is said that after Liu Minmin was rescued from suicide, Mao Suiqiong did not go to see her. The mother and daughter who had not seen each other for a long time did not know how to face each other, and Liu Minmin may have misunderstood something from the silence, so she tried to commit suicide again a week later.

This time her tool was just a small roll of tape, and the method of death she chose was still extremely painful suffocation.

She almost succeeded, but perhaps God was not merciful, and the nurse suddenly woke up in the middle of the night and found the breathing sound that disappeared two meters away, and pulled her back from the brink of death in time. But even so, Liu Minmin still fell into a long coma.

The doctor said that Liu Minmin's will to live was very low, so she could not be awakened no matter what. After Mao Suiqiong knew this, she went to the ward alone and talked to the unconscious Liu Minmin for a long time. No one knew what she said, but three days later, Liu Minmin finally opened her eyes.

Song Zhiyi opened the character card booklet and deliberately skipped the contents. After reading for a while, she threw the book away and lay down on her back. She had already seen the end of this matter.

Liu Minmin was diagnosed with severe depression. For Liu Minmin, Mao Suiqiong found a scenic countryside and lived with her for several years. Liu Minmin's severe depression gradually improved, but she did not forget the feeling of her painful struggle. Two years later, she composed a song called "Moonlight".

The prelude of the song is dull and dark, like a sticky, dragging dark night, but the chorus suddenly becomes bright, like a strong and warm hand descending from the sky, pulling her out of the abyss, just like the bright moonlight that breaks through all the haze.

Once the song was released, it became a big hit on music platforms. Some people read redemption from it, while others heard guilt from it. The music contains the words that Liu Minmin dared not say and could not say, and her endless regret. Fortunately, Mao Suiqiong is not only related to her by blood, but also a creator who is extremely sensitive to music.

The last bit of their heart knot was untied from then on.

Listening to the sweet little songs sung by young Mao Suiqiong, Song Zhiyi closed her eyes and couldn't help humming along.

This is her favorite happy ending. How nice.

*

A week later, at Hongshi Airport.

Even though she was mentally prepared, Song Zhiyi was still a little scared when she faced the huge crowd of fans who came to pick her up at the airport.

Before boarding the plane, facing the fans who followed him on the plane, Song Zhiyi was still thinking that it might be a small probability time, but after getting off the plane, there were so many people waiting to greet him, there was only one possibility - Song Zhiyu, he was really famous.

After thinking for less than three seconds, Song Zhiyi quickly made his choice.

"I'll wait for you in the car. I'm leaving now."

That means you should slip away first as a sign of respect.

All attention was on Song Zhiyu, so it didn't take Song Zhiyi much effort to break through the crowd and find Liu Liu who was picking him up at the airport. After asking where the car was parked, he took the key and rushed over.

Estimating that he would have to wait another half an hour, Song Zhiyi calmly fastened his seat belt and checked the stock market information on his phone. Well, it was a healthy green.

Song Zhiyi closed the app with a puffed face, clicked on a push notification at random, read some social news for a while, and successfully made her breasts look a little less smooth.

With a sigh, Song Zhiyi opened the entertainment hot search list with a wooden face, intending to find some fun. As soon as she entered, she saw a familiar name——

Hu Tianling.

Song Zhiyi raised his eyebrows and clicked on the entry to take a look. The first entry in the square was another familiar marketing account. The copywriter skillfully used the Spring and Autumn style of writing to describe Hu Tianling as a scumbag who deceived the feelings of young boys. As for the young boy, it certainly was not Lu Qizhi.

It seems that this is a case of everyone pushing down the wall when it falls. Lu Qizhi used to take advantage of his backing and did many things to young people, but he probably never used real guns and knives. However, it is not because Hu Tianling has a high moral standard, but simply because he is too scared.

From the looks of it, Lu Qizhi and Hu Tianling should have broken up completely, but I don't know what's going on with Xu Yibai. However, the character card book is still with Song Zhiyu, so she can only speculate based on the information on the Internet.

Song Zhiyi searched for Xu Yibai's entry and compared it with the information she knew.

Last week's engagement party started off well but ended in chaos, so Xu Yibai and Lu Qizhi's wedding was naturally ruined.

Although blog posts, pictures, videos, etc. related to the event were jointly suppressed by Xu and Lu, there were many guests at the event that day, and some rumors still spread out and could not be stopped.

As a young actress whose career is on the rise, Xu Yibai would have kept her engagement a secret. But the Xu family didn't care much about her career in the entertainment industry, and the Lu family insisted on a grand wedding, so they invited many people and even the media against her wishes.

The rumors that spread this time are simply shooting themselves in the foot.

There are too many people involved, and they don’t know where to start to block the news. They can only spend a lot of money to silence the people online, but the effect is not great.

The most obvious impact was the plummeting number of Xu Yibai's Weibo fans. Although her studio responded online on her behalf, her fans are not easily fooled. Soon someone released leaked photos of the engagement party. Even if there were internet trolls trying to make out that these were leaked stills from a drama, it would be of no avail. Xu Yibai originally had many fans who were into her career, and this incident dealt a heavy blow to her.

However, it is not just the career setbacks that make matters worse. For Xu Yibai, what is even more difficult to accept is her true life experience.

Song Zhiyi sighed. Although she didn't know what had happened, from what she had learned about the Xu family this week, she was certain that the Xu family had discovered Xu Yibai's background in advance and had also found Jia Zhenzhen at the same time.