I Was Taken by the Female Lead After Transmigrating into a Book - Chapter 31

Li Ke’s persona in Bai Feifei’s mind completely shatters, beyond repair.

“This is more exaggerated than the original… me,” Bai Feifei chokes, swallowing the words “the original character” and says with a lump in her throat, “when I was young. My closet is full of red, orange, yellow, pink, blue, purple, and white, but there is no green.”

Huo Wu glances at her, but says nothing.

Bai Xue laughs with a look of hidden meaning and says to Bai Feifei, “Take good care of yourself. Your health is important. You’ve already been hospitalized twice in such a short amount of time.”

Bai Feifei smiles sheepishly. It’s not like she wants to be hospitalized. The first time was a complete accident, and this time was even more so. She thinks for a moment and decides that, besides her stomach issues, she doesn’t have any other problems. She quickly raises her hand and says, “I promise I won’t go to the hospital next month!”

Huo Wu raises her eyes at this statement. Her lips curve into a smile, but she doesn’t say anything.

Not long after, Bai Feifei gets hungry. She finishes an entire pot of chicken soup by herself and still isn’t satisfied. She holds the pot with a look of disappointment and says, “I’m full, but I feel like I can eat more… Huh? Auntie Xue, what are you doing?”

“You’re eating so deliciously,” Bai Xue says with a smile, pressing the stop button. After the video is automatically saved, she watches it for a moment. “The effect is great. After this storm passes, we can use this as a promotional video.”

Bai Feifei nods. “Okay, okay.” She lowers her head again, licking her lips with dissatisfaction, trying to pick out leftover shreds of chicken from the spices.

Huo Wu’s eyelids twitch. She suspects that Bai Feifei hasn’t been eating well all this time. The last time she came to the hospital, the doctor told her that Bai Feifei was hospitalized because of overeating, a lack of rest, and eating cold, greasy food, all of which led to her getting sick.

The IV drip has been in her arm, but that only provides the necessary nutrients. It doesn’t make her feel full. The chicken soup is gone, but Bai Feifei still looks so hungry… Huo Wu suddenly notices something and says, “Get out of bed and walk around.”

Bai Feifei turns her head. “Huh?”

“Walk around?” Bai Feifei says. “What’s wrong? My legs are fine.” Although she says this, Bai Feifei still follows Huo Wu’s instructions and moves from the bed to the floor. The moment her feet touch the ground, Bai Feifei puts her hands on her hips and lets out a big burp. She’s confused and looks down at her stomach, which is round and bulging.

Huo Wu: “…” She turns to Bai Xue and asks, “How much did you make for her?”

Bai Xue frowns. “I only made her a small half chicken. The purpose was for her to drink the chicken soup…” But Bai Feifei ate all of the chicken soup and the chicken.

Huo Wu stays to watch her, and Bai Xue puts down what she’s holding and goes to the first floor of the clinic to buy her some digestion pills.

The delayed feeling of fullness finally sets in. Bai Feifei tries to hold on for a while but soon lies down on the bed, tossing and turning uncomfortably. Her eyebrows are constantly furrowed, and she can’t help but groan.

Huo Wu doesn’t know what to say. In the entire entertainment industry, there are people who faint from hunger, people who get anorexia from dieting for too long, but there has never been a healthy person who has overeaten to this extent twice in a row.

“A-Wu,” Bai Feifei calls out with a soft voice, sounding a little choked up. “My stomach is so full and bloated…”

Huo Wu can’t bring herself to scold her. After all, Bai Feifei hadn’t had a proper meal for a long time. In that situation, a normal person wouldn’t even be able to drink water, let alone eat.

Huo Wu watches Bai Feifei start to pinch the bedsheet and finally frowns. “Lie on your side. I’ll rub your stomach for you.”

“Okay,” Bai Feifei moves down, lifts her shirt, and reveals her round little tummy. Huo Wu, with a straight face, pulls her shirt back down.

Bai Feifei talks to her in a slow, soft, and sweet voice. “Why don’t you talk to me? If you talk to me, it’ll distract me, and I won’t feel so uncomfortable.” Huo Wu’s hand is already on Bai Feifei’s stomach. It’s indeed very full and even a little hard. Did she even eat the bones… Her hand accidentally touches something and she pauses. She first replies to Bai Feifei’s request and then hesitantly says, “Can you unhook your bra?”

Bai Feifei looks up at her with a blank expression. After a moment of silence, she says softly, “I wanted to unhook it earlier, but I was too full to get up… Can… can you help me…?”

Huo Wu looks at the two red spots on Bai Feifei’s fair face, knowing that she has shot herself in the foot.

Bai Feifei says resignedly, “If you don’t help me, then I’ll have to ask Auntie Xue to help me later. She just went to buy medicine and won’t be back for a while. The hospital is the busiest in the morning, A-Wu…”

When she calls Huo Wu’s name, Bai Feifei’s voice always drags, with a hint of a spoiled tone. But people who are spoiled are sometimes unaware of it. Bai Feifei doesn’t even realize it; she’s just always called Huo Wu that way. And every time she calls Huo Wu that, she is rarely rejected.

Sure enough, Huo Wu silently stands up, walks behind Bai Feifei, and places her hand on Bai Feifei’s back.

Bai Feifei can’t see Huo Wu, so she talks nonsense. “A-Wu, aren’t you going to put your hand inside? Is it hard to unhook it without putting your hand inside? If you can’t unhook it, will you have to put your hand inside anyway? Then you might as well just…”

The clasp makes a very faint click. Huo Wu doesn’t even have to look down. She unhooks the bra with just three fingers. The feeling of her stomach being tightly squeezed disappears, and Bai Feifei lets out a sigh of relief.

“I felt my stomach being squeezed, but now it’s so much better…” Bai Feifei feels better both physically and mentally. Her eyes start to roll around again. “A-Wu, why didn’t you answer my question just now?”

Huo Wu looks at her with endless, calm confusion. She can’t figure out why Bai Feifei can always adjust her state so quickly, why her speaking tone is always so cheerful and happy, and why she can always sound as clear as a nightingale.

As Huo Wu thinks this, she says, “Is it that difficult?”

“It is!” Bai Feifei nods earnestly, as if it’s really a difficult task. “There was a time when Xiaoxiao wasn’t looking where she was going and fell into a sewer. She broke her arm. I was the one who unhooked her bra for her during that time. It was so hard to unhook it through her clothes. Every time, I had to take off her clothes first to unhook it… You don’t know how much weight she gained then, like 17 or 18 pounds…”

Bai Feifei smacks her lips, feeling a little thirsty. She looks up and sees that Huo Wu’s expression doesn’t look very good. She says with a confused face, “A-Wu, are you hungry too?”

“No,” Huo Wu says coldly. “And then?”

“There’s nothing else to it,” Bai Feifei says, wrinkling her nose. She says with a lot of emotion, “But Fu Xiaoxiao is so fair. Her whole body is fair, like a big steamed bun. And so soft…”

Huo Wu suddenly gets up and says in a very stiff voice, “I’m going to get you some hot water.”

The hospital’s hot water room is at the end of the hallway. When Bai Feifei looks up, all she can see is Huo Wu’s back. She’s not done talking. She lifts her shirt and looks at herself. She says with regret, “I’m pretty fair too, and soft. I wanted to show you…”

She pulls on her collar and looks at herself. She feels a little embarrassed, so she pretends like nothing happened and picks up her phone again. She takes a few seconds to prepare herself mentally before opening it. The trending topics on Weibo have indeed changed completely. But what surprises Bai Feifei is that the public opinion has gone in a direction she never expected.

—Guo Kuan has been exposed. To be precise, Guo Kuan was the first person to be exposed. The rest of them were found by netizens who used voice and travel comparisons to find a lot of senior executives.

#EntertainmentIndustryUnspokenRules#

#LongtengCompanyExecutiveUnspokenRules#

#FanhuaCompanyExecutiveUnspokenRules#

#SpeakingOut#

The first few topics are clear and concise. You don’t need to click on them to know what they’re about. Bai Feifei has a general idea in her mind. She remembers the dinner party that day. She can’t match the people’s faces to their names at the moment, but if she sees them again, she’ll recognize them. The situation at the time was naturally self-evident. Everyone at the dinner party were acquaintances. They even said things like ‘pretty, obedient, and clean,’ and other disgusting words like ‘better than the previous one’ and ‘a phoenix in distress, it’s nice to have a change of taste.’

Under the #SpeakingOut# trending topic, someone has even compiled a list of bloggers who have spoken out on Weibo. Their ages range from teenagers to 22 years old. Without exception, they are all students. Bai Feifei is on the older side among them, and the gender is not limited to females.

Bai Feifei doesn’t even have the courage to open it. She has personally experienced such a thing and can’t imagine the despair of the victims after they were harmed. She can’t face the bloody accusations word for word.

Most of these people suffer from mental illness. One girl even chose to commit suicide by jumping off a building. Her family was poor and conservative. They couldn’t seek justice for her and even saw her as a disgrace. A disgrace who got into a top-tier university but chose to drop out to join the entertainment industry.

It wasn’t until their daughter died that they regretted it, but it was too late. They had evidence, but the popularity was limited, and they had no one to turn to for help. They could only use the few platforms they knew about, repeatedly exposing the evidence their daughter left behind and commenting repeatedly on popular content.

Because of this, the netizens’ anger is evident.

[One Bai Feifei led to a whole group of people. If Bai Feifei hadn’t had Lawyer Xi Rong to protect her this time, would there have been another person after her?]

[Maybe there already is, but we just don’t know about it.]

[Disgusting. These pieces of trash don’t deserve to be human!]

[How desperate must the parents who lost their daughter be? They used all their family’s strength to get her into university…]

[Besides the words of seeking justice, I also see the parents’ self-condemnation in these words. They also regret it, but it’s too late. They haven’t chosen to have a second child. All their money has been used to seek justice for their daughter.]

[Support the death penalty for Guo Kuan. Do you open a company to sign up boys and girls to sell them? They come to your company full of hope, and you use a contract to force them to sell their bodies?]

[Support the death penalty for Zhang Boyuan! Support the death penalty for Guo Kuan! Support the death penalty for Lin Wanglun!]

[Rape, drugging, threats, a lot of bad uncles… I saw so many things in the final letter of a girl who just turned 18. She didn’t even have anyone to confide in.]

[Yina died on her 18th birthday. Before that, she was a minor. She had just finished her college entrance exam and had an excellent score.]

Bai Feifei reads all of them one by one. Her hands are trembling as she dials Xi Rong’s phone number.

Xi Rong answers quickly, but even through the phone, Bai Feifei can hear the fatigue in her voice.

“Auntie Rongrong?” Bai Feifei says. “Are you busy?”

“No, just regular business,” Xi Rong says concisely. “But I have a meeting in 10 minutes.”

“I wanted to ask about Guo Kuan and those people,” Bai Feifei says, pursing her lips. “Are you going to take on their cases too?”

Xi Rong doesn’t hesitate at all. She says with certainty, “Of course. I have to. Feifei, you know how much I hate these scumbags. I wish I could kill them with my own hands, but I’m a lawyer, so I can’t. I can only do my best to get them the death penalty.”

Before hanging up, Bai Feifei suddenly says, “Auntie Rongrong, your last sentence was so cool.”

Xi Rong laughs. “Is it?”

“Yes,” Bai Feifei says. “Super cool.”

The sun is bright and hot outside, making Bai Feifei think of something that happened many years ago. She and Fu Xiaoxiao were very young. One year, she went back to Xi Rong’s hometown with Fu Xiaoxiao, in a very remote village. They were there to bring the two elderly people to the city to live.

Xi Rong’s life has not been easy. She was sponsored to leave the mountains and become a lawyer. She must have suffered much more than Bai Feifei can imagine to get to where she is. At that time, Xi Rong and Fu Xiaoxiao’s father, Fu Xiaoyang, were helping the elderly people pack. In the blink of an eye, the two children were gone.

Xi Rong is a good person. Before coming to the village, she gave every household a few hundred yuan as a red envelope. It wasn’t a large amount, but it was a sign of her gratitude for taking care of the two elderly people for the past year. Most people in the village know that Xi Rong is successful. The lawyers under Xi Rong’s law firm have been helping them with free lawsuits and legal consultations. So when the news of Fu Xiaoxiao and Bai Feifei’s disappearance spread, the entire village helped to look for them.

They were eventually found in a small cave in the mountains. Not far from them was a man covered in blood, who was already dead. The man was naked. He was a fool who always roamed the area. He was in his forties. When his wife asked for a divorce when he was younger, he killed her and went crazy. But because he was a mentally ill person, he couldn’t be sentenced to prison. He was only locked up for a while and then released.

Even though they weren’t truly harmed, Xi Rong almost went crazy. Fu Xiaoxiao had a fever for half a month after that and was never the same. She could only say a few words when she saw Bai Feifei. For a long time after that, a six-year-old child became a little follower of another six-year-old child.

Because of this, even though Xi Rong knows that a lawyer must be absolutely fair and just in the face of the law, people still have their preferences. She has said bluntly that she will not defend certain criminals, even if they are just suspects. This time, she will even be on the side of the prosecution to get them the death penalty.

After hanging up the phone, Bai Feifei is silent for a long time. The situation has gone far beyond her control. She thought it was just a simple contract termination, but she never expected it to involve so many things and even shake the foundations of some companies. And in this, there is no lack of senior executives in the industry.

Her phone vibrates a few times. Bai Feifei looks down and sees it’s a special notification.

[Xi Rong: Little Feifei complimented Auntie Rongrong on being cool. I can’t help but share it with everyone. I am a mother, and I hate these scumbags. I even wish I could kill them with my own hands. But I am also a lawyer. I know the consequences, so I can’t do that. I can only do my best to stand on the opposite side of them to get them the death penalty.]

The comments under this Weibo post immediately explode.

[Lawyer Xi 6666!]

[Lawyer Xi is a goddess! Lawyer Xi is awesome! I’m not leaving!]

[For your information: If a case involves the death penalty and the case and people are large and complex, the case can drag on for more than a year. Go, Lawyer Xi, go! Thank you for your hard work, Lawyer Xi! For those children and their parents who have suffered so much, we thank you!]

Bai Feifei resists the urge to like it for a long time, remembering that Bai Xue and Huo Wu told her not to do anything. Besides, she’s logged into Bai Xue’s account. She thinks about it and suddenly remembers that this phone has two SIM cards. Guan Ziyao is a very careful person. She had both cards ready for her, so registering a new account is a matter of seconds.

Then Bai Feifei gets stuck on the username. Finally, a flash of inspiration hits her, and she starts typing on the keyboard:

User ID: mantianfeiwu fly

Before Bai Feifei can search for Xi Rong, a notification pops up automatically.

[Recommended bloggers based on your interests]

The first one is Huo Wu. Bai Feifei’s eyes light up. She creates a group and names it: Interested, interested, very interested. Then she opens Huo Wu’s Weibo and quietly clicks the follow button.