Then, she heard the sound of her young, clear voice singing ‘Man Bu Ren Sheng Lu’.“What if we… get caught again and can’t escape?” The boy’s voice rang out.“Idiot! With me here, how can we not escape? I’ll definitely take you with me and escape!”“If you ditch me, you’ll definitely be able to escape.”“There’s no way I'm going to ditch you! I said that I will protect you, so I’ll protect you! I’m not afraid of those bad guys!”“Why aren’t you going to leave me?”“Because we’re friends!”“Ah!” Ling Yiran opened her eyes with a start. In a flash, she sat up on her bed with her eyes wide open. What entered her line of vision was the pale rays of light.This was her rental home! Ling Yiran abruptly breathed in as she looked at the time. It was only three in the morning.Did she… have a dream? It seemed that she had dreamt of a conversation between her younger self and a boy. Furthermore, she had sung Teresa Teng’s ‘Man Bu Ren Sheng Lu’.Good heavens, why would she have had a
The part-time job that Sis Xu was talking about was to be an extra on a filming set. The job only required her to register her name and leave her contact number, so there was no need to look at any files.It was 80 bucks a day with lunch included. If an extension was needed for the filming time, they would provide dinner as well, but there would not be any extra pay.As Sis Xu said, since she was free on her rest days, she could be an extra and earn some cash. It was a job that was paid by the day after all. One month down the line, if there was something for her to do every rest day, then in that one month, she could earn a few hundred bucks.To other people, a few hundred bucks might not be much, but to Ling Yiran, it was already really good.When she left work, Ling Yiran glanced at the gloves that she had already finished knitting and made a call to Yi Jinli. “I’ve finished knitting the gloves. Do you want me to send it over, or do you want to get someone to come over and col
"T-there you are," Ling Yiran said dryly while leaning sideways to let Yi Jinli into the room."Sis, you must've waited a long time." Yi Jinli laughed and walked over to the desk. He saw copies of the case file which Ling Yiran had left opened on the desk.His black eyes squinted slightly as he reached out to pick up a few documents and looked through them. "Is Sis looking at that case again?"Ling Yiran's body stiffened a little. She had mentioned this case to Yi Jinli before, but at the time, she did not know his true identity. Now that she knew, there was a lingering embarrassment and helplessness to talk about this case again.After all, no matter how much she thought she was innocent, the car accident had really happened. Plus, the person who died in the car accident was his fiancée!"What's wrong, Sis?" Noticing her delay in answering, he looked up at her."I'm just... looking," she replied as she swallowed the sudden flow of saliva in her throat."By the way, Sis, you alw
"Why not?" he asked rhetorically. "Since I need to marry a woman in this life, does it make any difference whether I do it later or earlier? Hao Meiyu was quiet and obedient enough. A marriage with the Hao family could help the Yi family's development in shipping, so why not?"He was talking business, and Ling Yiran felt a faint pang of fear as she heard this.It was like he did not know love at all… Even marriage could be a business to him.What would really matter to a person like him?"However, now I think it’ll be nice if I married a woman who is interesting to me." His eyes were fixed on her as he smiled.She turned away awkwardly. He spoke as if he was referring to something else.She told herself not to think too much about it. He and she were people of two worlds. They would never be in the same boat. Soon, after giving him the gloves, surely he and she would never see each other again."Well... I'll get you your gloves." She hurried around him to get the gloves."No hu
"It's important," she said confidently. "To me, the truth is more important than anything else!""It has been three years since these things happened. Even if there are any evidence or surveillance videos, they’d be long gone by now. It's already very difficult to help you reverse the case, let alone find out the truth," he said.She forced out a smile and understood what he meant. All he wanted to do was to help her reverse the verdict. As for the truth, it did not matter to him. It did not matter why Hao Meiyu crashed the car in a suicidal way that day and what Hao Meiyu was thinking.He had no feelings for Hao Meiyu at all. Even though Hao Meiyu died, to him, it was just a lack of a suitable candidate to marry."Yi Jinli, you don't love Hao Meiyu at all," she suddenly said with great certainty.His eyelids drooped slightly. "I never said I loved her.""Who do you love then?" When she spoke those words, an answer suddenly appeared in his mind.For a moment, he looked at her in
It felt like one of the ironies of life.She did not speak a word but went over to the drawer. She took out the pair of gloves and handed them to him. "Here are your gloves, as agreed."He studied the gloves carefully and tried them on. "They're quite good and warm, just like the scarf you knitted, Sis. It's also warm and comfortable to wear.""You don't have to wear it. Others will look at it and feel it doesn't suit you," she said. His fine clothes only made the scarf look old, cheap, and rough."Doesn't suit me?" He raised his eyebrows and chuckled. "Sis, to me, there's never the need for others to judge whether it suits me or not. It only matters if I feel good about it. Take this scarf for an instance. When I say it suits me, then it suits me!"He then paused before feeling the scarf again. "What's more, Sis is the one who knitted it. In that case... it will suit any kind of clothes!"Her heart suddenly began beating violently. This was the kind of remark that if uttered by
Ling Yiran's role today as an extra was to be a servant girl. All she had to do was to stand where the director wanted her to stand and keep her head low. There was a whole group of servant girls. They had to wait for the main characters to pass by them and kneel as directed by the director. Then, they had to grovel and say, ‘We wish you happiness and peace, Master and Madam.’As this was a kneeling scene, she would get extra money—50 dollars more, so 130 dollars in total.'I'll just kneel then. It's only a scene anyway. Even a famous star will have kneeling scenes. Besides, most of the time, when survival is a problem, the knees aren’t as important,’ thought Ling Yiran.The extras' makeup room was huge. There were several makeup artists as well as male and female extras in the room, all waiting for the makeup artists to apply their makeup.The makeup artists worked very fast. One's makeup could be done in only five to six minutes.When it was Ling Yiran's turn, the makeup artist
After all, she was not stealing or robbing, she was only using labor to make money."If you want to be an extra, why didn't you ask me then? I might even get you a few lines. You’ll make more money than being an extra." As Ling Luoyin said this, she deliberately raised her hand and stroked her hair to show off the fancy watch on her wrist.Ling Yiran found Ling Luoyin's action a little funny. "I don't think I’ll trick my older sister into being an escort just to have a few more lines.""You..." Ling Luoyin's expression changed, knowing that Ling Yiran was mocking her for tricking her into escorting her assistant director. However, she seemed to immediately think of something. As she looked at Ling Yiran, she said, "Are you so short of money that you need to be an extra? Didn't anyone give you any money? You have to earn this kind of hard money now?""I'm not obliged to tell you." Ling Yiran did not bother to talk to Ling Luoyin. She directly walked past her and headed toward the pl