After Being Targeted by the Gloomy and Obsessive Movie Queen - Chapter 16

Chapter 16: Disappointment – “If It Weren’t for You, Miss Yu Wouldn’t Have Been…”

It was peak rush hour, and the car was stuck in traffic. Xu Yinyu was frantic; she regretted not taking the subway, as they would be delayed for a while at this time.

By the time the traffic finally cleared, night had fallen.

“Brother Li, can you go a little faster?” Xu Yinyu kept fiddling with her phone screen.

The driver upfront laughed heartily. “Alright, Miss Xu. This road has fewer people; I’ll speed up for you.”

Xu Yinyu appeared calm and composed, but her heart was pounding as if it would burst from her chest. Her hands hovered over the seat as she quietly waited for time to pass.

When she returned to the villa, the house, which had been pitch black previously, was now brightly lit.

Xu Yinyu immediately saw Chi Xia waiting at the door when she got out of the car. “Is Shujin in the master bedroom?”

Chi Xia nodded, speaking hastily. “Follow me. Miss Yu has been waiting for you.”

Xu Yinyu nodded and followed Chi Xia. Her eyes glanced around and suddenly noticed several bodyguards stationed in the corners of the villa.

She followed Chi Xia to the master bedroom, pushed the door open, and walked in. She found Yu Shujin wearing a patient gown, lying quietly on the bed with her eyes closed. A prominent bandage ran from her neck down her chest, and she was hooked up to an IV drip. Her lips were entirely bloodless. Her face, usually as bright as the morning sun, was now pale and fragile, like a piece of shattered, exquisite porcelain.

Xu Yinyu leaned against the door for support. Seeing Yu Shujin’s chest moving as she lay in bed, she let out an exhausted breath of relief. After calming herself, she walked to Yu Shujin’s bedside, sat on the mahogany chair, and carefully lifted Yu Shujin’s patient gown.

The wound on her chest was tiny but had penetrated Yu Shujin’s entire shoulder.

Xu Yinyu’s expression darkened. Just as she was about to silently withdraw her hand, the suddenly awake Yu Shujin fiercely grabbed her wrist and pulled her into her arms.

Xu Yinyu’s eyelids twitched. She wanted to struggle but feared pulling Yu Shujin’s wound and aggravating the injury.

“Don’t move,” Xu Yinyu’s mind was in turmoil. “Am I pressing on your wound? Please let go quickly.”

Yu Shujin’s eyes looked weak from illness, but she stared at her with an icy gaze, her lips parting.

“I won’t let go… I just won’t let go.”

Xu Yinyu’s chest began to ache, and a complex, bittersweet, yet strangely familiar emotion filled her heart. She froze in place.

Perhaps her energy was spent, as Yu Shujin passed out again after uttering that sentence.

Xu Yinyu’s eyes flashed, and she quickly pressed the medical alert button by the bedside.

Soon, steady footsteps and the sound of a door being pushed open came from nearby.

Xu Yinyu looked over and saw a young female doctor with a ponytail, looking slightly fresh and student-like.

She expertly checked Yu Shujin’s wound, her eyes fixed on the fair wrist tightly clasped by Yu Shujin, and her expression turned obscure.

“Miss Xu, please don’t worry too much. This is just a coma due to excessive blood loss. Her injury has been treated promptly, and she is out of fatal danger,” Xu Ruoying said to Xu Yinyu.

She spoke with a clear, mature voice.

“However, the gunshot wound penetrated her shoulder. She must rest well during this period to recover. I suggested hospitalization, but she insisted on recuperating at home, so this will be trouble for Miss Xu.”

Xu Yinyu nodded. “Do you know why Shujin was shot?”

Xu Ruoying hesitated, then shook her head. “Miss Xu, I apologize, but I am only Yu Shujin’s private doctor and am unaware of the reason for her accident.”

“I see. Thank you, Dr. Xu,” Xu Yinyu bowed slightly.

“It’s nothing. You’ll be tired in the days to come,” Xu Ruoying patted Xu Yinyu’s shoulder.

Xu Yinyu smiled softly. “Alright. Could you leave your contact information for me? I think you are more professional regarding Yu Shujin’s physical condition.”

Xu Ruoying murmured, “Oh,” tore a piece of paper from her pocket, quickly wrote down a long string of numbers, and handed it to Xu Yinyu, forcing a smile. “You think of everything.”

Xu Yinyu took the paper. “Goodbye, Dr. Xu.”

Xu Ruoying smiled and turned to leave, but her eyes flashed as she paused, having thought of something. She turned back to look at Xu Yinyu’s earlobe.

It was a clean, flawless, sacred spot.

Xu Yinyu instinctively looked over.

Her unguarded gaze met a pair of obscure, intimate eyes.

“Dr. Xu, what is it?”

“Nothing. I just remembered a girl who looks very much like Miss Xu,” Xu Ruoying said with composure and ease, without a hint of panic.

Xu Yinyu responded indifferently, “It seems I have a very common face.”

“Hahaha, Miss Xu is very humorous.”

After Xu Ruoying left, Chi Xia knocked on the door and brought her a delicious dinner.

Xu Yinyu took it. “Thank you, Miss Chi.”

Chi Xia said through gritted teeth, “You’re welcome. Has Miss Yu woken up yet?”

“Once,” Xu Yinyu replied, sipping the rice porridge slowly.

Chi Xia looked at Xu Yinyu’s emotionless, extremely calm, and indifferent demeanor. Her face darkened. “Come out with me. I have something to tell you.”

Xu Yinyu looked up, put down the rice porridge, glanced at Yu Shujin, and then followed Chi Xia out into a guest room.

“Do you know why the prop gun on set turned into a real gun?” Chi Xia looked at Xu Yinyu with bloodshot eyes.

Xu Yinyu didn’t speak. She didn’t know what to say.

Chi Xia lowered her voice, trembling. “It’s because of the Su family. It’s because of you.”

Xu Yinyu’s eyes glazed over.

“To save you from Su Baili’s insane revenge, Yu Shujin personally dragged the Yu family into the fight, disrupting the Su family’s mayoral election and causing them to lose. Because of this, the Su family resented her and retaliated. This gunshot wound is not their first act of revenge, nor will it be their last.”

Xu Yinyu’s heart pounded violently. She recalled the many times they argued and fell silent, and how the other person was always the one to break the ice. She remembered the agreement that the other person forced her to sign.

Did a contract really require such actions?

“If it weren’t for you, Miss Yu wouldn’t have been injured,” Chi Xia said with hatred.

A basin of cold water poured over Xu Yinyu’s head. Her heart trembled from the cold, and her entire body was shaking intensely.

Xu Yinyu raised her head, tears streaming down her face. All she could see vaguely was the door in front of her.

She slowly crouched down, crossing her arms and hugging her own shoulders.

The phrase “If it weren’t for you, Miss Yu wouldn’t have been injured” kept replaying in her ears.

Tossing and turning, the words repeated in her mind.

If she could choose, she would choose for them never to have met again.

The world was like a giant web, and the relationships between people were woven into a complex structure, endlessly tangled.

To hate someone, to love someone—when the emotion reaches a certain intensity, only one phrase remains in the mind.

I want to forget her.

The winding difficulties of the world were already enough to defeat a person. Those pure, straightforward loves, free from betrayal and deceit, could not take root, sprout, and break through the hard exterior in her dry, barren land.

Xu Yinyu leaned against the wall, wiping away her tears.

If she had a choice, she wouldn’t want to be the daughter of a gambler.

If she had a choice, she would also want to stay away from Yu Shujin, dragging her mother along and passively accepting fate’s arrangement, dying in a corner unknown to anyone.

She had been profoundly disappointed in herself for a long time.

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