I Was Taken by the Female Lead After Transmigrating into a Book - Chapter 105

The next few days of filming took place in the studio. Once that was done, the entire crew could move to the next location.

“After we get back to Yan City, can we stop living in hotels?” Bai Feifei asked. “Can we just commute to work?”

Bai Xue had already instructed her assistant to pack her luggage. Every time Bai Feifei went back to her room, she would find it a little emptier than the last time. In the end, only her daily essentials were left behind.

The next filming location was in Yan City, but the shooting site wasn’t in the city center. It was in a more remote, newly developed area.

“No, there’s not enough time,” Bai Xue said with a hint of regret. “It takes at least an hour and a half to drive from your place. It’s almost a cross-city trip.”

An hour and a half, that would be nearly a hundred kilometers. Bai Feifei immediately deflated. She said listlessly, “Then that means it’s far from A-Wu’s place too, right?”

Bai Xue raised her eyebrows with a smile. “That’s what you really wanted to ask, isn’t it?”

Bai Feifei nodded without any shame.

To her, Bai Xue was her closest elder, yet they interacted like friends. Given Bai Xue’s role as her manager, Bai Feifei and she were true confidantes who talked about everything.

There was even less of a need to hide her relationship with Huo Wu. Both Ji Meng and Bai Xue needed to be aware of the movements of the artists they managed, including their emotional lives and even daily arrangements for family and friends.

“A-Wu invited me to live with her,” Bai Feifei said in a low voice, but there was no hint of shyness on her face. She even looked quite expectant. “I thought we could live together as soon as we went back.”

Just like now.

Although they were living together now, Bai Feifei was a little confused herself about the difference between living at Huo Wu’s current home and living in a hotel—or rather, what was the difference between the present and the past?

Bai Xue stroked the top of Bai Feifei’s head and patted her gently. “Of course, it’s different.”

But she didn’t tell Bai Feifei exactly how it was different, and Bai Feifei didn’t press. Some things were better to experience for yourself; it would be more of a surprise.

After all the remaining scenes in Luoshui City were filmed, the crew successfully packed up and moved to Yan City in batches.

Whether it was a coincidence or planned, Bai Feifei and Huo Wu were sitting next to each other, with Ji Meng and Bai Xue sitting opposite them.

Everyone in the industry was familiar with each other. The high-speed train ride was five hours long, and it would take another three hours to get to the next filming location in Yan City. It was a long journey, so everyone was catching up on sleep.

Huo Wu remembered the express delivery with insurance that Bai Feifei had sent back to the city. She couldn’t help but ask, “What on earth did you send back?”

With her personality, she wouldn’t normally ask such a thing. But the state that Bai Feifei and Fu Xiaoxiao were in at the time was…

They looked like two silly dogs that had just crawled out of a mud pit.

When Bai Feifei heard Huo Wu ask about this, her forehead was filled with black lines.

Before the incident, Fu Xiaoxiao, filled with the sentiment of ‘I’m going to give my darling a huge surprise,’ rushed to the airport overnight. She got off the plane at a little after three in the morning and successfully arrived in Yan City. She spent nearly half a day and found the coffee machine, which was buried under a pile of junk, at noon the next day. Wanting Bai Feifei to get it as soon as possible, she spent a huge amount of money to hire a moving company. She drove for nearly eight hours and, along with the coffee machine, arrived back in Luoshui City—

On the same day that the entire crew was already moving.

The sudden arrival of a few dozen pounds of a coffee machine made Bai Feifei’s already not-so-smooth moving process even worse.

The two of them were both exhausted at the time. When they saw the coffee machine, they were filled with anticipation, love, and frustration. In the end, neither of them could hold back. They laughed for a while, looking forward to their future carefree lives where they would be lying in a garden, basking in the sun, and drinking coffee. Then, in front of the moving company’s employee, they burst into tears. They had paid for a round trip just so that a lifeless coffee machine could have a one-day tour of Luoshui.

After hearing the whole story, Huo Wu couldn’t help but fall silent.

Looking at Bai Feifei’s tearful expression, she really couldn’t say anything hurtful. She thought for a while before finally squeezing out a sentence, “You did it all for me.”

Bai Feifei sniffled, and then she heard Huo Wu say, “Only Fu Xiaoxiao is the truly傻 one.”

When she put it that way, it was true. If Fu Xiaoxiao had just said one more word to Bai Feifei, she wouldn’t have made this pointless trip. Now she had monopolized two seats next to them and was sleeping soundly, spread out all over the place.

Bai Feifei asked a flight attendant for a blanket and covered Fu Xiaoxiao with it.

When Huo Wu got up to go to the bathroom and came back, she saw Bai Feifei looking at the work information Bai Xue had sent her. She narrowed her eyes slightly and directly lifted the blanket that Bai Feifei had carefully tucked under Fu Xiaoxiao’s neck, covering her entire face.

Out of sight, out of mind.

Huo Wu, in a rare moment of childishness, curled up her lips as if she had done something bad. Sitting next to Bai Feifei, she still didn’t forget to pass the buck. “She doesn’t sleep well. No matter what you cover her with, she’ll kick it off.”

Bai Feifei subconsciously looked over. Sure enough, the blanket below Fu Xiaoxiao’s waist had been kicked off. But her upper body was covered tightly. Her head was even wrapped in the blanket like a club.

Huo Wu took the opportunity to say, “If I hadn’t pulled the blanket up to cover her head, it would have all fallen on the floor by now.”

Bai Feifei touched her nose and still said in a low voice, “Then please help me again and cover her stomach and legs too.”

Huo Wu clasped her hands in front of her stomach and closed her eyes, pretending to fall asleep in a second in front of Bai Feifei.

Bai Feifei was sitting in the window seat. One of Huo Wu’s legs was either intentionally or unintentionally pressed against her, and she couldn’t get up. But looking at Fu Xiaoxiao’s stomach exposed to the cold air, she felt uncomfortable no matter how she looked at it.

So she shook Huo Wu’s sleeve again, then cupped Huo Wu’s arm, which was also slightly cool from the air conditioning, with her hand. She kissed her hand once, and then again. Finally, when Huo Wu opened her eyes, she had a chance to say, “Please cover her up.”

All she did was pull her out of bed in the middle of the night. Fu Xiaoxiao didn’t deserve this.

Huo Wu stared at Bai Feifei’s red lips for two seconds. Her peripheral vision confirmed that no one was looking their way. Her lips moved slightly, pouting into a very subtle arc.

But Bai Feifei was very sharp and tilted her face up to kiss her.

Only then did Huo Wu reluctantly lower her leg and use her foot to pick up the blanket covering Fu Xiaoxiao, making sure it covered her whole body.

Bai Feifei relaxed completely when she saw Fu Xiaoxiao’s stomach was covered. Her expression even softened.

It was still early when they arrived at the hotel the crew had booked in Yan City. The sunset had risen, and the world was a brilliant spectacle. That night was for rest and preparation. For the crew members in charge of the set’s logistics, it was a sleepless night, as they had to make all the final preparations. But the actors could take this opportunity to rest.

Their luggage was taken care of by assistants. Bai Feifei once again realized the benefits of having someone help. She checked the time and the map and found that the distance from the hotel to the hospital where Jiang Yueming was receiving treatment was not far. The round trip would take less than two hours.

The old arrangement was still two rooms, and they still had the top-floor treatment. Li Ke was very generous in this regard. One top-floor suite was used as a walk-in closet, and Bai Feifei and Huo Wu shared the other room.

After entering the room, the first thing Huo Wu took out was the beautiful, fake flower that looked like a model. She placed the flower on the sunny south-facing balcony as usual and followed all the steps in the guide Bai Feifei had written. She tapped the rose twice before leaving.

Bai Feifei had already changed her clothes and opened the door. Fu Xiaoxiao was waiting outside. When she saw Huo Wu come out, Bai Feifei put her hand on the doorknob, only showing her small, round head with her forehead hidden by a hat. “I’m leaving now! Wait for me to come back!”

“Wait,” Huo Wu said, gently holding one of Bai Feifei’s small braids. “I’ll go with you. Give me two minutes.”

When Huo Wu said two minutes, she meant two minutes. She would only be early, never late.

She also put on her disguise. But it was the end of summer vacation, and based on past experience, there wouldn’t be many people in the inpatient department of the psychiatric hospital where Jiang Yueming was. In the special care area, there would even be a lot of empty rooms. They just needed to be careful on the way there.

When they came out, Fu Xiaoxiao had already gone downstairs to get the car. Bai Feifei and Huo Wu briefly separated on the way. Bai Feifei sat in the passenger seat and talked with Fu Xiaoxiao, while Huo Wu sat in the back, only occasionally saying a word or two.

On the way, Fu Xiaoxiao chattered on and on, but once they arrived at the inpatient building, she fell silent.

She held onto Bai Feifei’s other arm, unwilling to let go. With Huo Wu and her like two guardian gods, they were holding the person in the middle hostage. She said nervously, “What if Auntie doesn’t like me? What if she doesn’t want to see me?”

“She won’t,” Bai Feifei patted Fu Xiaoxiao’s hand and said, “Don’t you remember? My mom always liked you.”

In fact, she was very quiet when she was a child—at least, that’s what the adults at the time thought. After all, even though she had transmigrated into a child’s body, she still had an adult soul inside. If she hadn’t met a vibrant person like Fu Xiaoxiao, it would have been very difficult for her to become so close to her parents.

Heaven knew how painful it was for an adult to go to kindergarten every day. She was finally able to read some books and play with LEGOs, but Jiang Yueming would always look at her with a very worried expression.

So Jiang Yueming had always liked Fu Xiaoxiao. She thought it was only after Bai Feifei started playing with Fu Xiaoxiao that she became lively and cheerful, instead of reading books silently far away from the crowd and playing with building blocks alone.

But even with Bai Feifei saying that, Fu Xiaoxiao still couldn’t feel at ease.

Her hand subconsciously went to the location of her kidney on her back. There was an old injury there. Every time she took a shower, Fu Xiaoxiao would stare at it for a long time.

It was Bai Feifei who had given her a second life. This was almost carved into her soul. She couldn’t forget it, and she wouldn’t dare to.

But Jiang Yueming was Bai Feifei’s mother. Could she really treat her with an equal heart?

For one of the very few times in her life, Fu Xiaoxiao was truly nervous.

When they stepped into the inpatient building, the abundant cold air made Bai Feifei shiver as she came in from the hot outdoors. She and Huo Wu were very familiar with the way here. Only Fu Xiaoxiao, who was here for the first time, was subconsciously looking for the floor directory.

“This way,” Bai Feifei said, holding Fu Xiaoxiao’s wrist. “My mom lives on the fifth floor now.”

Jiang Yueming’s condition had been improving. Her room was moved from the intensive care unit to a regular ward on a lower floor.

Huo Wu, who was on the far right, looked at Fu Xiaoxiao’s unfamiliar and confused expression. She suddenly spoke up. “You’ve never been here before?”

Jiang Yueming had been receiving treatment for several years. In the beginning, she was treated at several hospitals. Finally, with Huo Wu’s deliberate arrangement, she was moved to this one for long-term care.

Counting the time, it had been about three years.

Three years was a long time. Fu Xiaoxiao was in Yan City, so why was she so unfamiliar with the environment here?

Before, she and the others had never met. Huo Wu had never thought about it in depth. After all, the times she came were completely different from when ordinary people would visit patients. But now, looking at Fu Xiaoxiao’s confused expression, it seemed it wasn’t just a simple case of not meeting. It was that she had never been here at all.

“I…” A more obvious look of confusion appeared on Fu Xiaoxiao’s face. “I remember I went to the hospital to see Auntie.”

“Which hospital? When?” Huo Wu asked in a deep voice.

Her face was hidden behind her disguise, and her expression was unclear. But Bai Feifei could tell that her tone was not friendly. It was even very persistent, as if she was determined to get a definitive answer from Fu Xiaoxiao.

Fu Xiaoxiao couldn’t answer.

This was within Bai Feifei’s expectations.

She knew that the System was probably behind it. Fu Xiaoxiao’s memory had probably been tampered with in some way. Under the System’s misleading, she might have truly believed that she had gone to see Jiang Yueming. But the System didn’t have that much power. The memory it had inserted couldn’t withstand close scrutiny.

For example, when asked, Fu Xiaoxiao knew that she had once visited Jiang Yueming. But if she was asked to think about when and which hospital, she would be unable to provide an answer.

Bai Feifei guessed that it might be because the System didn’t have that much energy. Perhaps back then, when it thought everything was certain, it used up most of its energy to erase her from this world and try to make her, a soul from the outside, disappear completely. So, in many of the details, it no longer had the ability to fabricate things.

“It’s been so long!” Bai Feifei forcefully interrupted the conversation that was destined to have no result. “Xiaoxiao doesn’t keep track of things normally. Don’t even ask her when. She has to think for a long time to even remember the name of her own neighborhood!”

This was because there were three or five similarly named villa communities near Fu Xiaoxiao’s house, all part of the same real estate company’s developments. They had just moved in not long ago, so every time Fu Xiaoxiao went home, she had to think for a long time about the name of the community.

Hearing Bai Feifei say this, Fu Xiaoxiao’s confused expression was pulled back. She pouted her lips in grievance. “It’s all the developer’s fault! Five communities with the same sound but different characters! What kind of genius came up with that? It’s been so many years, and people still get lost and ask which way the next community is because they can’t find their home.”

The topic was successfully diverted. Bai Feifei used this topic to tell a few jokes, and they managed to get through it.

In the hospital, which was well-air-conditioned and had few people, she was so nervous she was sweating all over.

Huo Wu frowned, but she seemed to have reluctantly accepted the reason Bai Feifei had given.

However, her gaze landed on Fu Xiaoxiao’s back, lingering on the area where her hand had been for a long time. Fu Xiaoxiao’s guilt, gratitude, and deep friendship with Bai Feifei didn’t seem fake. But from the information she had received a few years ago, the physical distance and emotional detachment were also fake.

She didn’t continue to ask, but her eyes were filled with a deep sense of confusion.