Chapter 15

Chapter 15: Gossip That Hits My Own Family?

Director Gao and Zhou Shun Zhe had never seen a scene like this before. They jumped to their feet in fright and backed into a corner.

They wanted to pull Du An Rao and her brother over to help them, but they were afraid of angering that crazy woman and dragging everyone down with them.

At this moment, Xi Jing Yue, who had gone out to take a call, instead became everyone’s only hope.

Xi Jing Yue thought the same. His face darkened, and he rushed forward in big strides toward the private room, but just then he heard Du An Rao’s voice from inside: “Sister, where did you get your nails done? They look so pretty.”

Inside the private room, Du An Rao suddenly stood up and held President Jiang’s hand, quietly shifting to block Du He Xuan behind her.

Everyone was caught off guard by this move. Du He Xuan didn’t even have time to stop her, and President Jiang also didn’t react in time, allowing her to get close.

After a long moment, President Jiang finally came back to her senses and asked, warily: “Who are you? What’s your relationship with him?”

From her look, she clearly saw Du An Rao as a potential love rival.

Du He Xuan’s eyes flashed. He wanted to play along and take advantage of the misunderstanding, but when he saw the bodyguards standing behind her, he had no choice but to swallow the words back down.

If this crazy woman really mistook An Rao for his girlfriend, her anger, which was aimed at him, might be turned onto his sister instead. Who knew what kind of insane thing this lunatic might do to warn him once she truly lost it.

“She’s my younger sister,” he said sharply. “If you have a problem, come at me. Don’t touch her.”

“Sister? Real sister?” President Jiang looked a little surprised. Only then did she finally look Du An Rao over properly.

After a long pause, she suddenly dropped a bombshell: “Looking closely, you’re pretty too. You’re just my type.”

The surrounding audience: ?

Du He Xuan: !

Du An Rao: …

Seriously, sis, you’re unbelievable! It’s one thing to grab men from the people, now you won’t even spare the women.

And that’s not all. You’re going after a brother and sister together? What, are you planning to strip our whole family bare?

The veins on Du He Xuan’s forehead bulged, and he finally exploded completely: “Jiang Huai Ying, don’t go too far! Other people may be afraid of you, but I’m not. If you push me, we’ll both go down together. If you dare touch my An An even a little today, I’ll risk this life of mine to make sure you don’t have a good end!”

The moment he said this, everyone in the room showed the same look of shock and fear.

The difference was, Zhou Shun Zhe and the others were truly terrified, while Du An Rao was purely dumbfounded and shocked.

[Jiang Huai Ying? She’s Jiang Huai Ying? The one praised as the iron lady of the entertainment circle, who kept half the industry as her own harem, stirred up storms everywhere, and in the end crashed and burned because she kept a substitute boy toy and ruined herself, that Jiang Huai Ying?]

The furious Du He Xuan, hair practically bristling, felt shock, doubt, a flicker of savage delight, and confusion all rush to his head at once, making his expression twist and shift like a paint palette, just a little strange and distorted.

[No wonder she dares to brazenly try to unspoken-rule my second brother, using sweet words to tempt him and then trying to use force when it doesn’t work. So she’s a seasoned veteran!]

It was no wonder Du An Rao was shocked. The person who had mentioned the name Jiang Huai Ying was from that Jack Sue-style wish-fulfillment entertainment circle novel where Yang Jian Tao had been nothing but a background extra.

The main character of that book was a low-level actor who ran between crews playing tiny roles, while Jiang Huai Ying was his early cheat code and one of his female leads.

Yes, one of his female leads. It was a one-male, many-females harem story.

The poor male lead, long depressed and unknown, caught the eye of the queen behind the entertainment circle by accident and became one of the lovers she kept outside.

With this big boss of the industry covering him, the male lead officially started his cheat-run. Step by step, he went from a nobody extra to the very top of the entertainment circle, becoming a household-name international superstar.

Just when the male lead’s career was climbing higher and higher, he accidentally found out the real reason Jiang Huai Ying had chosen to keep him and treat him differently. It was all because she had once had a “white moonlight” she loved but could not get.

That man had also been a shining star in the circle. Because he had firmly rejected her love over and over, he suffered severe revenge from Jiang Huai Ying. His reputation was ruined, and he had no choice but to leave the industry.

After personally destroying him, Jiang Huai Ying immediately moved on to keeping someone who looked about fifty or sixty percent like him – the male lead.

By then, the male lead was already sick of Jiang Huai Ying’s domineering ways. Compared with the other gentle and understanding confidantes around him, once he learned the truth, he felt more and more that Jiang Huai Ying was a complete freak.

But at that time, he still needed her power to keep climbing up, so he could only swallow his anger and pretend to get along with her.

When the time was finally right, the male lead secretly teamed up with Jiang Huai Ying’s trusted female assistant and stripped her of her power, completely stepping on her.

What impressed Du An Rao the most was that after he succeeded in taking control, the male lead, holding a beauty in each arm, looked at the miserable, defeated Jiang Huai Ying and turned into a drama heroine on the spot: “To tell you the truth, every moment beside you these years has made me feel like I was suffocating. Every time I touched you in bed, I felt disgusted. Old woman, go in peace. I’ll take good care of the empire you built.”

Jiang Huai Ying was so furious she spat several mouthfuls of blood and died on the spot. The legendary queen of the entertainment circle fell just like that.

Back when Du An Rao had skimmed that book, she had only paid attention to Yang Jian Tao. Now that she knew who the woman in front of her was and looked at the scene in front of her again…

[Help! My second brother can’t be that unlucky sucker white moonlight, right?]

You really couldn’t blame Du An Rao for thinking this. The original story had focused almost entirely on the male lead and his many confidantes. Everyone else was barely mentioned.

As for that so-called white moonlight, he was even more like a censored blur the whole time. The only reason she now suspected it was her second brother was because she had combined the timing, the people involved, and the crew as reference and analyzed it.

The original text mentioned that after Jiang Huai Ying framed the white moonlight, ruining his reputation and getting him banned, she immediately grabbed the resources in his hands and threw them to the male lead. Stepping on him, she pushed the male lead up, creating a “White Moonlight No. 2.” The male lead took over all the high-end resources the white moonlight left behind and perfectly copied his path to fame.

Now, Jiang Huai Ying had already chased him down, and Yang Jian Tao just happened to be the background extra in the first resource the male lead would get…

Putting it all together, her second brother really might be that prepared “blood bag” for the male lead, and the first resource the male lead was about to get could very well be the role her second brother had now.

[What is this? I just wanted to watch some gossip, and it turns out the drama is happening in my own family? My second brother is really unlucky. Of all people, he had to attract this crazy, man-eating flower. If she can’t get you, she’ll destroy you. Even after you die, she’d probably dig you out of the grave to suck your bones dry and squeeze out every last bit of value. Is she even human? She’s basically a man-eating ghost. Back! Back! Back!]

The soon-to-be walking blood bag, Du He Xuan: …

Even so, it wasn’t like he wanted to provoke this woman. How was it his fault for being too good-looking and too easy to like?