After Being Targeted by the Gloomy and Obsessive Movie Queen - Chapter 23

Chapter 23: Two Questions – Do You Hate Her?

It took a full week for Xu Yinyu to calm down from the extreme emotional turmoil. However, she still needed over sixteen hours of sleep every day. Her face was pale, lacking any color, and she completely lacked the vitality expected of a twenty-six-year-old.

Meanwhile, Yu Shujin, for the first time, surprisingly accepted advice from others and actually went to see a psychologist, arranged by Xu Ruoying.

Xu Ruoying didn’t hesitate, introducing Yu Shujin to the best psychologist she knew—her senior sister’s teacher—and scheduled an appointment time.

“She’s a top domestic expert in psychology, my senior sister’s professor. You go see her and get proper treatment. Don’t embarrass me,” Xu Ruoying warned.

Yu Shujin responded distractedly.

She was quite reluctant to agree to see this psychologist, but she remembered how, during every argument with Xu Yinyu, she would suddenly blurt out a string of inexplicable malice, which was a very significant contributing factor.

Yu Shujin was shocked when she heard herself say those things.

The cruel words she spat at Xu Yinyu had never been rehearsed in Yu Shujin’s mind, yet they came out of her mouth naturally and casually. The moment Xu Yinyu showed the slightest inclination to leave her, Yu Shujin lost control of her emotions.

She sat down in front of the psychologist and flatly described her issues.

The psychologist was a refined woman in her fifties. She adjusted her thick-lensed glasses, her expression serious, taking notes constantly, occasionally asking minor, detailed questions without causing offense.

“Excuse me, I’d like to know about her relationship with her mother?” Luo Yan paused her fountain pen to ask.

Yu Shujin answered fluently, “Excellent. She is willing to give up everything for her mother.”

“What about you?”

Yu Shujin paused, seemingly unsure of Luo Yan’s question.

Seeing her confused, Luo Yan repeated and completed the question, “What about your feelings for your mother?”

“My mother?” Yu Shujin murmured the words. “It’s too far in the past. I’ve been without a mother for too long. My mother and I… I don’t know.”

“Do you believe a girlfriend should stay together forever?” Luo Yan asked.

“A romantic relationship can be terminated.”

“What kind of relationship is difficult or impossible to terminate, in your view?” Luo Yan asked gradually.

“A relationship of mutual interest.” Anyone immersed in society for many years understands the answer to this question, and Yu Shujin’s reply was perfectly normal.

“What is the thing you are most unable to accept losing?”

“My emotions.” Yu Shujin still answered quickly.

Her consistent belief was that emotion permeated her entire soul.

“Alright, Miss Yu, you may go.” Luo Yan smiled and motioned.

Yu Shujin didn’t hesitate, picked up her phone, opened the door, and stepped out.

“How was it? What did Professor Luo say?” Xu Ruoying watched her curiously from the side.

Yu Shujin opened the monitoring video on her phone, watching the playback repeatedly. Only when she saw Xu Yinyu sleeping peacefully did her inner anxiety slightly ease.

“She didn’t say anything, just asked a few common questions,” Yu Shujin replied impatiently.

She was currently struggling to suppress the intense urge to go near Xu Yinyu. The suppressed physical and psychological desire was like a seesaw constantly sinking on one side, and she didn’t know when it would violently rebound.

Yu Shujin had accepted an S+ level drama series this week and was expected to spend the next three months filming on set.

Xu Ruoying sighed. “Then you are truly beyond saving. Good luck to you. I need to have dinner with my professor, so you can go by yourself.”

Yu Shujin nodded, tugged on her cap brim, tapped on the window of the expensive car, leaned over, and got in.

In the front seat sat a weary Chi Xia, with dark circles under her eyes. “Why are you joining a new crew again? Didn’t you just finish a major production last month?”

“Well, if I paid you last month’s salary, should I not pay you this month’s?” Yu Shujin said coldly, full of threat.

Chi Xia’s eyes bulged with rage. Yu Shujin had the audacity to talk about salary. Her performance bonuses and salary from the first half of the year were deducted just because of one sentence, and now she was after her salary again.

“If you keep deducting my pay like this, I’ll quit.”

“Why don’t you consider that I only deduct your bonus?” Yu Shujin said coldly.

“That’s because the truth is unpleasant,” Chi Xia’s voice was filled with resentment. “I sincerely plan for your best interest, and not only do you ignore me, but you deduct my bonus! I’ve never met such a foolish ruler.”

Yu Shujin was amused. She thought that if she was a foolish and confused ruler, then Xu Yinyu must be the beauty who caused the downfall of the kingdom in Chi Xia’s eyes.

“You’ve stayed up so late that you’ve lost your mind. Hurry up and shut up,” Yu Shujin completely refused to discuss the person she couldn’t see but dearly missed with Chi Xia.

It was like a meat lover being tied to a wooden stake, surrounded by roasted meat. They could only smell the aroma but couldn’t indulge. This kind of affection turned into outright torture.

By the third week, Xu Yinyu had enough energy to read. Her bedside cabinet was filled with books of various genres. Xu Yinyu would randomly pick one and immerse herself in it.

She didn’t even notice when Xu Ruoying entered the ward.

“Miss Xu, how is your recovery? How have you been feeling these past few days?”

Xu Yinyu closed the book, her lips slightly pursed. “Much better. Thank you for your concern, Doctor Xu, and thank you for the books you found.”

Xu Ruoying looked at the books on the bedside cabinet and cheekily accepted the compliment.

“Reading is good. Reading can enlighten the mind, enlightenment can lead to transcendence, transcendence can lead to detachment from the mortal world, and your psychological ailment can heal without medication.”

Xu Yinyu curved her lips slightly. “You don’t seem like you’re here just to recommend books.”

“We’ve met a few times at Boss Yu’s house, so we’re somewhat familiar. Seeing that I saved you this time and persuaded Boss Yu to stop pressuring you, I’d like to ask you two questions.” Xu Ruoying smiled, two shallow dimples appearing by her lips, looking innocent and harmless.

Xu Yinyu paused, then nodded. “Go ahead.”

“I want to know, do you hate Boss Yu?”

“No, I don’t.” Xu Yinyu paused before giving a dry answer.

“Why?” Xu Ruoying didn’t understand. “You fell into her hands and almost went crazy. How can you not hate her?”

Why would I hate Yu Shujin?

Xu Yinyu was even more perplexed. Yu Shujin wasn’t the only one who had forced her.

When her parents divorced, they both forced her to make a choice.

After Yu Shujin was rescued from the kidnapping, Yu Zhenmin forced her to leave before she could even say goodbye to the person she loved.

Working and paying off debts with her mother in a foreign land, reality forced her to put down her brush, extinguish the light of her future, abandon unrealistic fantasies, and take on unavoidable debt.

Her suffering wasn’t caused by Yu Shujin. So why should she hate Yu Shujin?

“Is that the second question?” Xu Yinyu asked with a smile.

Xu Ruoying pouted in dissatisfaction, but could only proceed with the second question. “Do you want to leave here? To leave Yu Shujin.”

Xu Yinyu hesitated. The few short months of living with Yu Shujin had subtly changed Xu Yinyu’s way of thinking. She now considered Yu Shujin’s attitude.

Xu Yinyu lowered her head and slowly offered an explanation. “I will stay until the day she forgives me.”

“If you stay by her side, and she gets angry, curses you, or forces you again, and truly drives you insane, aren’t you afraid?” Xu Ruoying suddenly couldn’t understand Xu Yinyu’s thinking.

Xu Yinyu looked at Xu Ruoying. “If there are more than two questions, I can choose not to answer.”

Xu Ruoying sighed, then unintentionally blurted out, “Your personality is so different from your sister’s.”

Xu Yinyu’s eyes froze. “You’ve met my sister?”

Xu Ruoying admitted frankly, “Of course. When you sent her to the police station, I was the one who picked her up, following Boss Yu’s instructions. She’s someone who often gets hurt.”

Xu Yinyu hesitated. Xu Lianyue was the kind of person who wouldn’t go to the hospital even with a fever for two weeks. It was even less likely that she would be in contact with a doctor of Xu Ruoying’s caliber.

“Where is my sister now?”

“I don’t know,” Xu Ruoying smiled faintly, her words half-truth, half-lie. “I only picked her up once. She always lingers in the busy areas, looking very much like a tabby cat, always having to go out to forage for food even though she has a home, walking around with injuries. It makes people feel sorry for her.”

Xu Yinyu carefully scrutinized Xu Ruoying’s demeanor, feeling that she didn’t seem like a treacherous doctor who trafficked people or harvested organs.

However, the strange look in her eyes when mentioning Xu Lianyue gave her an inexplicable sense of crisis.

“If you see my sister again, please contact me. I have something I want to tell her.” Although Xu Yinyu and Xu Lianyue had long since fallen out, blood was thicker than water, and she still couldn’t let go of her younger sister.

“Alright. If I see her again, I will let her know,” Xu Ruoying bowed slightly and then left.

With Xu Ruoying’s prompting, the thoughts in Xu Yinyu’s mind became tangled and difficult to sort out.

Just like her relationship with Yu Shujin.

It was like thousands of red threads wrapping around her fingertips. Their entanglement was like strands of hair twisted into a knot. To separate completely, one would have to peel the skin and tear the tendons, cutting off all the red threads along with the fingertips to truly sever the connection.

Xu Yinyu had actually realized that Yu Shujin’s feelings for her might be more than just resentment and dislike—it was more disappointment.

What she desired most now was what Yu Shujin least wanted.

That was the reason the two of them couldn’t be together.

Yu Shujin knew this. She used the power and wealth of her position as bait, pushing Xu Yinyu into the net. Fearing she would secretly slip away, she reinforced the fishing net with iron cages, layer after layer, pressing down on both of them until they couldn’t breathe.

With the slightest sign of trouble, Yu Shujin would become alarmed, then wonder if her net was too loose, and continue to reinforce it, layer after layer.

As long as Xu Yinyu showed the slightest hint of defiance, her heart would be ravaged by storms.

Yu Shujin had also cast a net over herself. This net constantly tore at her already fragile nerves.

One trap leading to another.

In the end, she used herself as bait to confine Xu Yinyu in her net.

No breathing room, no relaxation.

If this continued, their relationship would become increasingly tense, fractured, and they would completely lose trust in each other.

Xu Yinyu knew this, and she knew Yu Shujin knew it too.

It was just that Yu Shujin was unwilling to let go.

Only now had she given Xu Yinyu a small opening, yet she still monitored her constantly with a camera.

Xu Yinyu tiredly moved her fingers. She looked up at the camera flashing a red light, seemingly able to pierce through the cold device and the isolation of time and space, meeting the gaze of the watching Yu Shujin.

She knew the other person was watching her.

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