I Was Taken by the Female Lead After Transmigrating into a Book - Chapter 109

That piece of malt candy, wrapped in two disposable chopsticks, was especially large, almost the size of a fist.

It wasn’t the first time she had noticed, but Huo Wu always found it magical. Bai Feifei’s fingers were long and slender. Her joints were naturally small, and she had never done any rough work since she was a child, so her hands were very delicate. When you saw such hands, you would subconsciously think they were made for playing the piano or practicing calligraphy.

But in reality, the most difficult piece Bai Feifei could play on the piano was “Bugs are Flying,” and her calligraphy was only legible with a pen, but she couldn’t distinguish between different styles. When her hands were spread out or she deliberately made certain poses, they were beautiful enough to be a hand model, but once she curled them up…

“Her hands aren’t even fat, so why do her joints disappear when she curls them up?” Huo Wu said, touching the fleshy part where Bai Feifei’s fingers and palm connected. It was amusing to look at.

Bai Feifei was also very wronged. “I don’t know either. Auntie Xue said the first commercial that contacted me even had a close-up of my hands, but that product’s ad required me to hold it up to my face for promotion…”

Huo Wu held back her laughter. “And then what?”

Bai Feifei was unhappy. “Their manager said it would distract the audience and politely rejected me.”

After saying that, Bai Feifei made a grasping gesture, showing Huo Wu the back of her hand. The malt candy was indeed the size of a fist, but when her palm was open, it was only a palm-full. However, with Bai Feifei holding the chopsticks high, it looked like two dumplings of different sizes.

It also looked like a mini, off-colored dumbbell.

Huo Wu squeezed Bai Feifei’s hands. She then cupped them in her palms and played with them for a while. After a moment, she said, “You could be a child model.”

Bai Feifei: “?”

Huo Wu smiled with her eyes, reached out, and took the malt candy Bai Feifei had already taken a few bites of. She kept opening and closing Bai Feifei’s hands, saying at the same time, “Curl your left hand up to pretend it’s a child’s hand. Open your right hand to pretend it’s a big sister’s hand, and then wrap them together. Look, a family.”

Bai Feifei: “…”

She slowly pulled her hand away, staring dumbfounded as Huo Wu put the swindled malt candy into a box and walked back. The whole process took less than five seconds, and she even kissed Bai Feifei on the lips.

The texture wasn’t very good. Huo Wu’s body was already under extreme stress from not eating or drinking, so her lips were dry and not very moist.

But Bai Feifei still chased after her and pecked at her a few more times.

After the kiss, she heard Huo Wu say, “Malt candy has too many calories. You can’t eat too much. Brush your teeth and go to bed early.”

She only got to eat a tiny, tiny little bite.

That bite wasn’t even as big as Bai Feifei’s own front tooth.

Bai Feifei grumbled and got up to brush her teeth. She had already reached the door when she stuck her head out and made a bold request. “Come brush your teeth with me.”

After brushing their teeth, they also washed up and changed clothes together. But considering they had to get up early tomorrow, Bai Feifei thought it over and decided not to go all the way. She just clingily wrapped herself around Huo Wu and kissed her for a while. But she was very suspicious that Huo Wu was doing it on purpose. She was so into the kisses, yet she would always bait Bai Feifei into taking the initiative, as if that way she could feel she was loved a little more.

So Bai Feifei had to keep kissing her while saying, “I love you.”

—A goodnight kiss has certain benefits for sleep and can also prevent cavities.

The next day, Bai Feifei, after reading a Baidu Encyclopedia page, was full of energy and went to work very happily.

Today, they were filming the hospital scene in Yan City.

The hospital’s facilities here were clearly different from those in Luoshui City. It was cleaner and newer. All the instruments, equipment, and even the display screens in the waiting area proved this.

Bai Feifei was amazed at the various uses of the hospital’s facilities. It took her a long time to figure out how to register. But the scene didn’t require that; she just needed to find the inpatient building.

Because they wanted to capture the most authentic look of her first time at this hospital, Li Ke didn’t have her scout the location beforehand. He wanted to film it as soon as she went up.

“Third time’s the charm,” Li Ke said before they went up. “The sense of newness toward an environment is the same. What I want is the newness of your first time going up there. This feeling can last for three takes at most. By the fourth take, your state will be different from the previous few.”

Bai Feifei thought about it carefully and nodded in understanding.

The filming sequence was out of order.

This scene was connected to the last scene in Luoshui City. Fu Sang left the Night’s Eve bar and discovered that the bar owner, Li Qinqin, was the biological mother of Li Ran. At the same time, she was also the mistress of Li Jianshu, and the biological mother of Li Ran, whom Li Mingming hated to the core.

In that scene, Li Qinqin should have just learned of Li Ran’s death and frantically led a group of people to leave the bar and go to a school or hospital to identify the body, clean up his belongings, and cooperate with the investigation.

Bai Feifei had long sorted out the cause and effect of this scene. On set, Li Ke went over it with them again, adding or deleting some content. After everything was confirmed, the clapperboard sounded, and filming officially began.

She was wearing the same outfit she had brought from Luoshui City. Her face showed fatigue. The sweat on her body turned cold from the wind, and only the strands of hair stuck to her cheeks proved that the weather outside was still hot.

However, just before opening the door, she looked at the words “Room 96” and, very suddenly, a shiver ran through her.

She pushed open the door with one hand.

The room’s decor was mostly light-colored. There was only one bed inside, and it had a strange scent. Fu Sang sniffed, lowered her eyes, and walked two steps inside.

After turning the corner, the woman lying in the bed came into view.

Without her heavy makeup, the woman lying in bed looked much younger. Because of her years of wearing makeup, her skin was an unhealthy pale. Her eyebrows and eyelashes were very light, but her lips were a very bright color, which looked a little out of place on her face.

Fu Sang’s gaze lingered on her overly bright lips for two seconds. What came to mind was the hurried pass they had at the hotel.

At some point, the woman on the bed opened her eyes.

One old, one young; one lying down, one standing. The only thing they had in common was that they were both women.

“So you’re Fu Sang.” The woman still didn’t make any other movements. She just lay there. Her voice wasn’t what Fu Sang had expected. She thought that with Li Qinqin’s radiant and imposing looks, her voice should be very loud and clear.

But in reality, her voice was very gentle, making one think of the old Jiangnan that was always associated with rain.

Fu Sang didn’t reply. She just nodded quietly.

After a moment, she took out the business card she had found from her small cloth bag and placed it on the cabinet next to her.

Li Qinqin didn’t look at it. She was silent for a while, as if she was trying to figure out where to start.

“My son liked you very much,” she said suddenly. “When I was cleaning up his things, I found a locked diary in his drawer.”

She suddenly looked up at Fu Sang. “The password was your birthday. In it, he was constantly repenting for his cowardice.”

The expression on Fu Sang’s face remained unchanged.

Li Qinqin closed her eyes wearily. “I know about the messed up things in your school… but that school has been a rotten institution for over ten or twenty years. I don’t have the time to deal with it, and I have no reason to, and I can’t…”

Fu Sang looked up at her at this point, just watching her calmly.

Li Qinqin’s face gradually began to show a look of pain. “But I never thought my son would fall into it.”

How could she have thought that?

At the very top of this chain of interests, her man was one of the masterminds. Even though her identity was not legitimate, she had given him a healthy and intelligent son in front of a man with low sperm count who had difficulty getting a woman pregnant. That was enough to ensure that she and Li Ran would be comfortable for the rest of their lives and even inherit everything after that man’s death.

Everything seemed to be going so smoothly… but then.

“Why did the retribution have to fall on my son?” Li Qinqin’s eyes were filled with tears and pain.

As an outsider, Bai Feifei could actually understand a woman like Li Qinqin. She had lived a life without dignity, rising to power with just a face. It wasn’t that she didn’t have schemes and methods, but a woman who came from a small place like her, who had been taught for a lifetime that “women should be virtuous and gentle,” probably didn’t like that version of herself. Ever since she became Li Jianshu’s mistress, she would go home and call herself his official wife and even made a fake marriage certificate to show off.

She lived in this false halo because she and Li Jianshu both knew that now that her wings were gradually full and she had a biological son of Li Jianshu, she was qualified enough to be “Mrs. Li.”

Her entire life, the first half was lived for Li Jianshu, and the second half was lived for Li Ran. She had never had a real self.

But with Li Ran’s death, everything was over.

But Fu Sang had no way to answer the question she was asking.

Fu Sang didn’t understand Li Qinqin. She didn’t know that the person in front of her loved her son more than her own life and was even willing to turn her sword on the man she had been attached to for the first half of her life for her son’s sake.

After all, one was love that was thicker than blood, and the other was an attachment based on a subordinate relationship for profit.

So Fu Sang should have been scared at this moment, but she knew that there would be someone from the police department protecting her 24/7 and that she wouldn’t be easily killed. She also knew that this woman was under 24/7 surveillance by the police, so nothing would happen to her here.

What’s more, a woman without a weapon who had fainted from extreme grief over her son’s death and was too weak to stand up after not eating or drinking for several days and nights could not harm her.

So Fu Sang sighed softly. The words that came out of her mouth carried a kind of weary desolation from dealing with worldly troubles. “Then what should I do? He liked me very much. Because he was afraid to step forward when I was being bullied and was rejected by me, he felt he was a coward and repented in his diary. So, do you want me to pay with my life for his?”

The content of Li Ran’s diary wasn’t hard to guess.

Fu Sang also couldn’t forget that scene.

Li Ran could be said to have died to protect her, but it was hard to say whether he died to protect her or to absolve himself of the crime of “cowardice” in the very last moment of his life.

She didn’t know.

However, upon hearing this, Li Qinqin stopped crying.

She looked into the distance. The summer sun was scorching. The tops of the trees in the distance reflected the light, making her eyes sting.

After a moment, she stared intently at Fu Sang. The bones in her hands were white from holding on too tightly, gripping the bedsheets and blanket beneath her. “My son died to protect you! He’s a hero!”

She propped herself up from the bed with her weak, trembling arms, which shook madly under the heavy pressure. The heart monitor buzzed. Her hair was messy like a demon’s. Fu Sang was startled by her appearance and took a step back until she was against the wall.

Medical and police staff rushed into the room in an instant. Amidst the chaos, only Li Qinqin’s heart-wrenching screams and roars remained. “My son died to protect you! He’s not a coward—!”