Chapter 23

Chapter 23: This Taste Is Spot On!

The way Du He Xuan was snapping at people without holding back scared the big accounts who had joined this mess half to death.

Faced with Du He Xuan @-ing them right in the face, they all stayed silent and acted like timid quails.

Some media did want to make up some shocking stories about Du He Xuan using drugs to distract people, but the Police notice had clearly stressed “did not go to the hotel,” which completely killed their little schemes.

While Du He Xuan was busy fighting with haters online, Du An Rao was also watching how things were developing to help herself sort out the story line.

According to how the original plot went, Du He Xuan had not avoided the hotel honey trap scam.

When the matter broke out, he was still at the Police Bureau cooperating with the investigation, worn out trying to prove his innocence, and he was not let out this quickly.

So he could not have been sitting on the sofa like he was now, calmly arguing with haters. He had lost the initiative from the start back then.

But there was something very off here, and that was Du He Xuan’s identity.

Du He Xuan was not only a superstar in the entertainment circle, Film Emperor Du, he was also the second young master of the well-known Du family.

Even though Du He Xuan almost never talked about this in the circle, if something happened to him, would the Du family just ignore it and not stand up for their own child?

The answer was clearly no. So in the original story, why had Jiang Huai Ying been able to succeed so easily?

Du An Rao flipped back and forth through a few books related to the Du family and finally found a point where the plot overlapped.

[Ah~~~ it is that outlaw!]

Outlaw?! Who?

Father Du, who was busy calling Du Jun Yan to check on how things were going, Mother Du, Du Yu Xi, who was busily forwarding gossip posts online, and Du He Xuan, who was holding his phone and arguing with haters over a hundred floors of comments, all stopped what they were doing and quietly paid attention to Du An Rao’s side.

The “outlaw” in Du An Rao’s mouth was the real father of the child in Bai Xiu Qing’s belly. His name was Jia Yun Xiao, though no one knew if that was his real name.

According to how the original book described him, he was a top boss who had appeared out of nowhere. No one knew where he came from. Out in public he also used a fancy and overused English name, Justin, and people called him Boss Jia.

Boss Jia and Bai Xiu Qing were following the script of an old-school abuse romance, packed with dog-blood drama, explicit content, running away while pregnant, and all kinds of things that ruin your sense of right and wrong.

Bai Xiu Qing’s father had been an undercover agent inside a crime organization. After his identity was exposed, he was killed by Boss Jia’s men.

After learning the truth, Bai Xiu Qing had entered the organization herself to take revenge for her father, but she was still found by the male lead.

But unlike her father’s end, Bai Xiu Qing caught Boss Jia’s eye. After being imprisoned, abused, and “trained,” she became one of his many mistresses. Here we skip over hundreds of thousands of words of things that cannot be described…

Anyway, as the teaching and abuse went on, the plot went completely off the rails. The cold and unfeeling gang boss turned into a pure love warrior, and the brave, determined revenge female lead turned into a sweet silly wife with nothing but love on her mind.

And the reason this love-brained female lead, Bai Xiu Qing, ran away with the baby was not because she suddenly grew a conscience and remembered her dead parents, but because she found out that the male lead was keeping other mistresses besides her.

The three people listening: “…”

Mother Du and Du He Xuan were still okay, but Father Du’s face turned bright red with anger, and the hand holding his phone was shaking.

Bai Xiu Qing’s father had saved him years ago. Calling him his lifesaver was not too much, and because of that, the two had formed a very deep brotherly bond.

Father Du knew better than anyone how upright and kind that man had been, how much he hated evil. He had never imagined that the man’s daughter would fall in love with such scum, and that the man was even her father’s killer. How could she? How did she dare!

[Have some people’s values really become this twisted now? Who even likes this kind of story? Just because he only gave the order to have someone killed and did not do it with his own hands, you can dump all the blame on the underling and date the real culprit with a clear heart?]

[Isn’t this just the real-life version of “So what if he killed my dad”? Dad, all you lost was your life, but I would lose my love!]

The three eavesdropping were suddenly splashed in the face by this dog-blood rant and all got goosebumps.

To be honest, this taste was really spot on.

[According to the original plot, after running away with the baby, the first person Bai Xiu Qing went to was her number-one lapdog, the imaging doctor at the Third Hospital. She relied on him to have a temporary place to stay, but she still looked down on him for being too poor and not being able to support the lavish, decadent life she had gotten used to in the den of thieves.]

[So she started hiding from Boss Jia’s people while scouting for a spare tire to take over raising her and the child. In the end, she finally settled on my brother as that unlucky sucker.]

The three present: “Pfft…”

Du Jun Yan, who had already moved from calling Father Du to texting him: “…”

Thinking of her own brother’s fate in the original plot, Du An Rao could not help feeling scared and patted her own little heart.

[After Bai Xiu Qing used lapdog number one’s help to move into the Du family home to rest and raise the baby, Boss Jia’s trusted men soon found her. And then…]

And then?

The few people listening were itching with curiosity, wishing they could crawl into Du An Rao’s head and pull the rest out.

[Because she was afraid Boss Jia would blame her for this, Bai Xiu Qing cried to him with tears all over her face, saying that my brother had taken a fancy to her looks, dragged her home by force, and locked her up. In order to protect their child, she had no choice but to play along with him. Everything was my brother’s fault.]

The three: ???

Du Jun Yan: !!!

[And then…]

…And then what! Hurry up and say it already.

[Boss Jia believed it.]

The three: “…”

Du Jun Yan, who was getting the live updates: “…” He felt like he had ten thousand curse words stuck in his throat with nowhere to say them.

[To be fair, it was not strange that he believed her, since that was exactly how he had treated Bai Xiu Qing himself. Putting himself in someone else’s shoes… no, that was not it. Maybe he simply enjoyed the feeling of Bai Xiu Qing being full of little schemes but still having to make up pretty lies to fool him.]

Everyone: “…” Was this guy a pervert?

No, he was already a pervert, and a very dangerous one at that!

[The best proof was that my brother was only the first victim, not the last. Later, Bai Xiu Qing used similar tricks to harm backup number two, three, four, and five. You could say no one was spared wherever she went. And Boss Jia believed her every time, then turned around and sent each of these people a hot “set meal” of broken hands and legs, jumping off buildings, slitting wrists, and families ruined.]

Brother Du, who had almost been killed off: “…” Other people aside, he really had been wronged!

After forcing herself to go through the whole book again while holding back her disgust, Du An Rao finally could not help asking from the bottom of her soul:

[So is it now popular to write the male and female leads the way you would write villains? How did these two pieces of trash end up as the male and female leads? What good points do they have that make them worth being written as leads? You two play your little game of her running, him chasing, and her “unable to escape even with wings,” and everyone else is just supposed to be the stepping stones for your love? Disgusting! Disgusting! Truly disgusting!]