I Was Taken by the Female Lead After Transmigrating into a Book - Chapter 87

Li Mingming’s mother stared blankly into the distance.

There, Li Mingming’s body was placed on a cart. As the elevator doors closed, his figure finally disappeared.

Li Ke shouted into the megaphone, “Cut! The elevator can open now. Congratulations to Mingming for finishing his scenes. You don’t have to come to work tomorrow!”

The set immediately broke into a cheer. Outside the set, a little further away, Ling Xinghe’s fans also heard the news and cheered in unison.

Bai Feifei was quiet for a while. She slowly detached herself from her indifferent emotions and walked to Huo Wu, saying, “Are you going over there later?”

Huo Wu just looked at Ling Xinghe being surrounded by people for photos not far away. She smiled and said, “I’m not going.”

Ling Xinghe was still in his costume. The lighting at night wasn’t very good, and the photos looked a little morbid, but no one minded. The people taking pictures with him were furiously pressing the shutter or the photo button, as if they were afraid of not getting more details.

Huo Wu said on the side, “He’s going to a wrap party later. Li Ke set aside some time for him, so we can also get off work early because of him.”

With one of the main characters finishing their scenes, the staff’s morale was definitely going to be affected. If it was someone as unknown as Zhou Yun or Fang Jie, they would have to continue filming, but since it was Ling Xinghe, who was a top celebrity, it was inevitable that they would be delayed for half a day.

It was just after 8 p.m. Li Ke had a good handle on the time. If they couldn’t finish today, the wrap-up time would be set for tomorrow morning. In short, he would give him a day to thank his fans and treat the main staff to a meal.

The other staff members would also get to enjoy a nice dinner or a good lunch the next day.

But Bai Feifei still asked a staff member to get her a small cake. When she came back, she realized that the staff member had brought back a whole layer, not just a slice.

Bai Feifei was shocked. She took it with great reverence and asked in a pathetic voice, “Is it really all for me?”

The staff member nodded and said in a very gentle voice, “Director Li said you’ve been working hard and told you to have a slice and share it with your good friends.” Her tone changed. “But you can’t gain too much weight. He’ll still scold you if it affects how you look on camera.”

Even so, this cake was extremely precious.

She heard that the cake was specially made. Ling Xinghe had specially hired a chef from Yan City to fly over and make this cake. From the ingredients to the materials, everything was carefully selected. In addition to the nine-layer main body, there were also tens of thousands of individual cakes in boxes. The scale was not small.

But some of the filling inside was a blueberry that Bai Feifei didn’t like very much.

She looked at it with some distress. She didn’t like to eat it, but because blueberries could supplement vitamins and were good for her eyes, she would still follow Bai Xue’s instructions to eat her daily portion. She had already eaten today’s portion, so she didn’t really want to eat it, but she didn’t want to waste it either.

As she was contemplating, she saw Huo Wu, who had just finished washing up, sit across from her. “Is this for me?”

Bai Feifei nodded, then shook her head. “I’m giving you the part with the grapes you like. This part with the blueberries is what I scooped up too much of.”

After she said that, she sighed, ready to swallow it in one go as if she had a deep-seated hatred for it. But then she felt her fork sink. Huo Wu had already eaten the mouthful of cake filled with blueberries and blueberry jam.

“It’s okay,” Huo Wu said. “The blueberry one is also good.”

Bai Feifei blinked. After Huo Wu had swallowed it, she scooped up a spoonful of the grape cake and held it out to Huo Wu, who was tidying up her hair.

The distance was a little far, and the cake on the fork was swaying. Huo Wu smiled, reached out and gently held Bai Feifei’s wrist, lowered her head and took the small piece of cake. After eating it, she said, “The grape one is also good. You should eat more.”

So Bai Feifei left a little bit for the cute little cat and ate a small half of the cake herself.

She held her stomach and lay on Huo Wu’s lap with a serene expression. She closed her eyes and felt Huo Wu’s gentle movements as she blew her hair dry. She said, “This afternoon, I saw Ling Xinghe’s monologue in that email, and he’s actually very amazing.”

His girlfriend was praising her younger brother. This felt a little new to Huo Wu.

“You have a very good relationship with him.” Huo Wu thought about Bai Feifei and Ling Xinghe’s daily interactions. Ling Xinghe had a quick temper and often acted on impulse. It was the same when he came to the crew this time. He made a decision on a whim. His fans didn’t actually approve of him taking the role, but he insisted on coming to meet Bai Feifei because of the rumors.

At first, they were at odds with each other. Bai Feifei was even upset by him because of his identity, and her mood wasn’t good. Huo Wu had even considered tying Ling Xinghe up and having him dragged away by a car. But with a turn of the head, the misunderstanding was cleared up, and their relationship became closer instead.

Bai Feifei thought about it and said, “It seems pretty good.”

Huo Wu smiled.

The email that Li Mingming sent to Fusang contained a chain of evidence that was tens of thousands of words long. At the end of the email, he sent a separate monologue video to Bai Feifei.

He must have filmed it in the waiting area of the operating room. It wasn’t long, only a dozen seconds.

“Maybe you’re right.”

“I shouldn’t make my loved ones suffer and my enemies happy.”

“If I die, my mother will definitely be sad. Why should Li Jian tree be able to rightfully make his illegitimate son legitimate? I want him to be disgraced, and his illegitimate son to live like a rat in a gutter from now on. I also want myself to become a hero in everyone’s eyes. Even if this hero has a bad reputation, I want everyone to remember me and not let those who hated me and wished for my death to have peace after I die.”

At the very end of the video, Li Mingming’s face showed a smile.

The emotions in that smile were very complex. Bai Feifei could see Li Mingming’s relief at the inevitable outcome, and she could also see his pathological obsession and desire.

At first, he had just wanted to get his father’s attention. He started to cause trouble and be mischievous, until he finally started getting into trouble frequently. When he inadvertently stumbled upon his father’s and those other uncles’ ugly desires hidden under their facades, he finally had a place in the circle he couldn’t fit into before because of his illness.

He started to be valued and treated differently… But as his body grew weaker after his second surgery and the doctor suggested that he must have a third one, he was once again abandoned by that circle.

He had craved to be valued and discovered his entire life, but he had always been abandoned and hated. No one would miss him.

That’s why Fusang’s few words hit him where it hurt and why it was, as she said, another high-stakes gamble.

Bai Feifei recalled it and mumbled softly, “I feel more and more that Fusang is like a villain… Can a villain become a protagonist?”

She hadn’t directly done anything, but with a lot of coincidences, she had already harmed many people.

Li Ran, who was about to finish his scenes, the supporting cast from the car accident scene who had finished their scenes a while ago, and even Qi Yang, Chen Yanfang, and her son. Some of these people died because of the law, and some died in accidents, but in all of the events, there were traces of Fusang’s involvement.

Huo Wu stroked Bai Feifei’s head and answered her last question. “What is a villain?”

Bai Feifei shook her head and said, “I don’t actually know.”

Of course, protagonists with a glorious and righteous theme existed and even dominated the mainstream. But as Li Ke said, watching too many of these shows was harmful to young people.

The existence of these shows seemed to constantly promote that people should unconditionally retreat and tolerate, turning into the “saints” that all the young people with a budding sense of consciousness talked about.

If you were to give an example, it would be the most popular old-school romance dramas. The female protagonist came from a mediocre family, had no special talents, and was even very dumb. But the female antagonist was tall, beautiful, smart, and had a mind of her own, but the one who was liked in the end was always the most mediocre one.

This caused the minds of children whose thoughts were not yet fully formed and who didn’t have the ability to access more information to perfect themselves to be solidified. They would think that they could be liked without trying, and that they didn’t have to try even if they had bad grades. As a result, when they grew up and suddenly left the ivory tower of school, they would be faced with a cruel society and would be at a loss, forced to grow up and accept reality.

In these shows, good people were only good, and bad people were only bad. The protagonists and antagonists were clearly labeled.

But in “Glimmer,” it was hard for Bai Feifei to summarize who was a protagonist and who was a villain.

But still, everyone had a deserved or undeserved ending.

There was no miracle for Li Mingming. Because of his heart condition, he was doted on by his mother to the point of being lawless. His father also didn’t dare to blame him much when he was a child. He thought he was the most loved child, but he found out he wasn’t the only one, and even his parents’ marriage was based on a contract. This ultimately led to his dark and twisted nature and his death from a failed surgery.

There was no obvious good and evil. Behind every action, there was a unique cause and effect.

This was true not only in the show but also outside of it.

Bai Feifei suddenly thought of the system.

She had chosen to stay, but the system still packed her up and sent her back to her original world, where she became the orphan with nothing. But after living in a daze for a year with her savings, she was suddenly pulled back one day and took over this world, which had passed for several years.

Was there another reason behind this? Bai Feifei didn’t know. She had never thought about it before, but now she suddenly wanted to know.

Bai Feifei opened her eyes and lay on her side, burying herself deep into Huo Wu’s lower abdomen.

Sensing her emotional fluctuations, Huo Wu lowered her head, blocking the light, and looked at the half of Bai Feifei’s face that was covered by her shadow.

Huo Wu said, “What’s wrong?”

Bai Feifei shook her head silently. After a while, she called Huo Wu’s name. “Ah Wu.”

She said it out of the blue. Huo Wu didn’t know what she wanted to say, but she still responded cooperatively.

But Bai Feifei didn’t say anything else. She just gently kissed Huo Wu’s lower abdomen through her clothes. Her lips moved silently as if she was saying something, but Huo Wu couldn’t make it out.