After We Broke Up, She Started Pursuing Me [Entertainment Industry] 66

Chapter 66

Jiang Nuo stood by the window, smoking, her gaze drifting aimlessly at the night outside.

One after another, the smoke she exhaled swirled in circles, as if a gust of wind could carry away her worries along with it.

She didn’t know how long had passed when the doorbell suddenly rang.

Jiang Nuo went to open the door and saw Shi Qin standing outside, her face haggard, the area around her eyes visibly more swollen than usual.

Seeing her like this, Jiang Nuo’s heart ached. She quickly took her hand and led her inside.

“It’s so late. Why did you come over?”

Shi Qin looked at her without speaking. In just that short moment, her eyes had reddened again.

Jiang Nuo knew in her heart that she was struggling to bear the shock of the truth, but she still stroked her face and asked with concern, “What’s wrong? Silly child.”

Shi Qin threw herself into her arms.

Not a single word was spoken, but they both understood each other’s hearts, which was more than a thousand words.

Jiang Nuo patted her back as she had when she was a child. “I’m sorry… Auntie didn’t… want you to know so much back then.”

“I never wanted you to enter this industry, also because I’ve seen the filth there. The evil of human nature is something you can’t imagine.”

“If your mother were still here…”

Jiang Nuo’s voice choked. She took a deep breath to calm herself.

“If she were still here… she would definitely want you to stay away from there…”

Shi Qin shook her head in her embrace, then stood up and wiped the tears from her face.

“I won’t leave. I’ve already come this far.”

Jiang Nuo sighed softly and ultimately said nothing. She had Shi Qin go sit on the sofa for a while, while she went to pour her a glass of water.

Shi Qin took the water. After a few sips, the turmoil in her heart also calmed down a lot.

Jiang Nuo sat beside her, silently watching her. After a long moment, she finally spoke, “If I had told you sooner, maybe your obsession now wouldn’t be so deep…”

“It’s my fault… sigh…”

Shi Qin said in a deep voice, “Don’t say that… this was all my choice. I will also be responsible for my choice.”

Jiang Nuo stroked her hair and said slowly in a hoarse voice, “Don’t blame her too much either… she really tried. Some people’s malice toward her was just too great.”

Shi Qin lowered her head. After a long while, she said softly, “The situation back then… was it…”

Hearing this, Jiang Nuo also recalled the sealed-away past and lamented, “Qinqin, before that incident, some people already didn’t have a good impression of her.”

“But how many people could truly understand her?”

“A woman’s body is also equivalent to her dignity. When one day, someone tramples on your dignity like a plaything, how would you feel?”

“When those photos were first exposed, it caused a sensation in the entire entertainment industry. Can you imagine a woman… having her body looked at by countless strangers, and even being judged for it…”

The more Jiang Nuo spoke, the more agitated she became, the indignation in her heart almost bursting through her chest.

Listening, Shi Qin’s heart also felt as if it were being squeezed alive. Even though she had never met her since she was born, they were still related by blood.

Even if she had had her misunderstandings and complaints before, they were all resolved just now.

“It’s a pity I was nothing back then. I couldn’t help at all. All I could do was stay by her side, watching her suffer more and more each day…”

Feeling exhausted, Jiang Nuo leaned back on the sofa and let out a long sigh.

She looked at Shi Qin and sighed with emotion again, “But you’ve grown up now… and you have someone by your side to accompany you. She would be relieved to see that.”

Hearing this, Shi Qin’s eyes dimmed a little.

She said, “If Xiao Si wants to come to the set recently, Auntie, you shouldn’t bring her…”

Hearing this, Jiang Nuo was a little confused. “What’s wrong? Did you two have a fight?”

Shi Qin didn’t want to explain the reason clearly. “I guess so…”

“And the set is full of people with prying eyes. I don’t really want to get her involved.”

Shi Qin lowered her eyes, staring blankly at the water glass in her hand.

She had a bold plan in her heart. Regardless of success or failure, the impact of this matter would definitely not be small…

The best choice now was to avoid Zhou Jinsi for the time being. One, to let them both calm down. Two… she also didn’t want anyone with ill intentions to follow the vine and find out Zhou Jinsi’s identity…

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In the past two weeks, with the start of the third year of high school approaching, the pressure of work had suddenly increased. And Shi Qin was also clearly avoiding her. Zhou Jinsi was caught in a two-sided torment, her heart extremely frustrated.

Even when she occasionally wanted to follow Jiang Nuo to visit the set, she would be inexplicably rejected with various excuses.

Zhou Jinsi really couldn’t figure out why. Fortunately, the two of them were still in contact via messages. All she could do was assume that Shi Qin was temporarily busy with work, and she herself could only temporarily not think about matters of love.

And Shi Qin’s workload recently was indeed not small. Besides filming on set, she sometimes had to rush to various places to attend commercial events.

There wasn’t much time to delve into her character. She didn’t know if it was intentional or not, but she was finding herself discussing with Lu Xing on set more and more frequently.

Sometimes they would talk about the character, sometimes about life. Over time, some of the internal staff couldn’t help but start to gossip.

After all, who didn’t know about Lu Xing’s promiscuous affairs on set back then? It was just that no one dared to bring it up.

And so, one told ten, and ten told a hundred. That’s how rumors slowly start.

After hearing this rumor, Qin Zhen would, from time to time, mock Shi Qin in private.

“Hey, I was wondering why I haven’t seen a certain someone lately. Turns out you’ve found a higher branch to climb.”

Shi Qin looked at her coldly and replied in a flat tone, “Miss Qin, if you don’t have the heart for it, then don’t be a living Lei Feng (a selfless and modest person). If you have so much time to care about others, you might as well care about yourself.”

She knew very well what she was doing.

Actually, every time Lu Xing looked at her directly, she couldn’t help but feel nauseous.

She couldn’t help but think, had Ye Qingnan also faced the same scene back then, suppressing her physical discomfort while trying her best to cooperate?

But now, she had to get close to him, bit by bit.

A predator usually gives its fierce prey the final blow the moment it lets its guard down.

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This day, the staff on set were all secretly discussing.

The scene Shi Qin was filming today was one of her frolicking and flirting with Chen Jiaohua in a pool. The scale was not small, perfectly balanced between pure desire and eroticism.

This scene required both actresses to wear only a tube top. She didn’t know if it was out of selfish reasons, but Lu Xing had specially cleared some of the men from the set.

In the narrow bathroom, the hot water in the pool was steaming. The fragrance from the aromatherapy by the pool gradually filled every corner of the bathroom.

Shi Qin changed her clothes first. Under Mo Li’s care, she walked over slowly, wrapped in a bath towel.

In pursuit of naturalness, she chose to appear without makeup. Her waist-length hair was tied into a bun, revealing her fair, slender neck.

Lu Xing looked at her, an unknown emotion in the depths of his eyes.

He did enjoy being with Shi Qin, but it was not the kind of romantic love between a man and a woman that everyone thought.

It was because, sometimes, looking at Shi Qin, he could always remember that person he had once been infatuated with.

Actually, when Ye Qingnan’s private photos were exposed back then, he hadn’t felt good either.

After all, to him, Ye Qingnan was not just a plaything for him to vent on, even though he had used such shameful means to obtain her.

Later, when he learned of Ye Qingnan’s death, Lu Xing had suffered from insomnia night after night for a period of time. The moment he closed his eyes, he would see images of Ye Qingnan coming to claim his life.

It wasn’t until a long time had passed, and the storm of this matter had gradually faded, that his life returned to normal.

“Director Lu, I’m ready.”

Shi Qin looked at the person before her, who was lost in thought, and a smile with no emotion appeared on her lips.

Lu Xing came back to his senses, his gaze warm as he looked at her. “Okay. You can get in the water first to test the temperature. If it’s not suitable, we can adjust it.”

Shi Qin nodded, lowered her eyes, and slowly untied the bath towel around her, handing it to Mo Li on the side.

Although they were still working, many of the men on set couldn’t help but stare, while the women’s eyes showed a hint of envy.

Shi Qin’s figure was very well-maintained. Not too thin, nor did it make one feel plump. Not an inch more, not an inch less.

Her proportions were excellent, her limbs more slender than an average person’s. At this moment, standing barefoot by the edge of the pool, even her curled, pink toes seemed cute.

Her jade-like foot lightly tapped the surface of the water, then her whole body was submerged in it. The water’s surface covered the tantalizing curves of her chest.

Only then did everyone slowly retract their gazes, and then, in unison, they all looked at Lu Xing on the side.

And Lu Xing’s gaze was even more infatuated than they had imagined.

He stared intently at Shi Qin’s exposed back, his eyes unblinking. Between his slightly furrowed brows, there seemed to be a hidden, unspeakable desire, as if in the next second, he could “swallow whole” the person before him.

The men didn’t think much of it, but some of the women couldn’t help but feel contempt in their hearts. But thinking that sometimes it was Shi Qin who took the initiative to provoke, that little bit of sympathy vanished in an instant.

Everyone had their own thoughts. However, they did not know that Lu Xing’s gaze was not one of infatuation, but of surprise.

Deep surprise!

Looking closely, on Shi Qin’s back, near her waist, there was a dark red birthmark, like a flower, imprinted on her smooth back, possessing a different kind of beauty.

Back then, Ye Qingnan had given birth prematurely. After the child was born, it needed to be cared for by a nurse for a period of time.

And Lu Xing had also pulled some strings and had gone to see her secretly once.

The nurse had shown him the child and said that the child had a rather large birthmark on her body, but it was on her lower back, and its shape was not ugly, so it wouldn’t have a major impact.

Lu Xing’s face was calm, but his heart was already in turmoil.

In the past two years, perhaps because he was getting older, the little bit of guilt from his youth had welled up again. He had secretly inquired about the whereabouts of that child. Since she was born, she was his child, after all. He thought he could give some compensation.

He had used various methods to inquire, but all the clues had ended at that welfare institute. The child’s whereabouts, he had no way of knowing.

And now, Lu Xing looked at the person splashing in the pool, and his eyes actually became a little moist with excitement.

A similar appearance, a suspected overlapping birthmark…

Could she be…