My Wife Became a Top Star After I Came Back from Quick Transmigration - Chapter 23

Zhou Ping didn’t know that this was how Su Qixi got angry. Although he was also very angry at the fan’s actions.

However, he thought Su Qixi’s reaction would be more obvious. Well, it was quite obvious now.

In the passenger seat, Lin Mo rested her head on her right hand, her eyes occasionally glancing at the rearview mirror, but she didn’t say anything.

It was quiet in the car, and the atmosphere was strange. So Lin Mo reached out and turned on the radio. Soothing music filled the car, easing the awkward atmosphere. Lin Mo’s fingers tapped on her thigh, as if deep in thought.

[Is Su Su upset?]

[I don’t think so? I saw her smiling after leaving the supermarket.]

[I’m a CP fan and I deserve to die, but I can’t help but fantasize. She got upset after she found out that Miss Pig was hurt, so…]

[Shut up! You’re a CP fan, you really do deserve to die.]

[No, as a Kirin CP fan, I think she’s right.]

[All you CP fans, snap out of it.]

[In short, she is indeed upset.]

“Are you unhappy?”

Lin Mo’s voice rang out in the car along with the music. Zhou Ping in the back seat sat up straight. Good job, Miss Pig.

Su Qixi was still focused on the road through the windshield. Hearing Lin Mo’s words, she just said blandly, “No, I’m not.”

Lin Mo hummed and turned to look outside again.

Zhou Ping: “…” No, ask her again!

[Ahhhhh, Miss Pig, she said no and you believed her!!!]

[Miss Pig, Miss Pig, where did your shrewdness go? Weren’t you so good at flirting with her just now?]

“But I still feel like you’re unhappy,” Lin Mo looked at the scenery for a while, then turned her head to look at Su Qixi’s profile and said with certainty.

Zhou Ping: “!!!” Good job, keep going, Miss Pig!

Su Qixi took a deep breath and asked with a smile, “Why would I be unhappy?”

Lin Mo leaned her head forward, looked at Su Qixi’s forced smile, and said, “I’d like to know too.”

Su Qixi still had a smile on her face. “I’m not unhappy.”

Lin Mo leaned back in her chair. “Okay.”

Zhou Ping: “…” No, you…

[Miss Pig, try harder!]

Lin Mo looked out the car window. The car was moving slowly, and Su Qixi was obediently staying in the right lane. Car after car passed them. The only sound in the car was the music from the radio.

Lin Mo suddenly said, “Xiao Xi, aren’t you nervous?”

Su Qixi: “I’m not nervous.”

Lin Mo’s fingers, which were tapping on her thigh, paused. She asked, “You’re unhappy because I got hurt, aren’t you?”

Su Qixi paused and then laughed in anger. “You’re too full of yourself!”

Lin Mo lowered her head to look at her arm, feeling wronged. “My arm is hurt.”

Su Qixi was speechless. “It’s just a little red. The skin isn’t even broken.”

Lin Mo smiled. “You’re right. If we don’t get home soon, this wound will be healed.”

Su Qixi: “…You, you…”

Lin Mo’s words choked Su Qixi, and her face turned red. After a long while, she finally said, “Have some shame!”

Lin Mo chuckled. “You’re worried about me, and that makes me happy! I don’t need shame.”

Su Qixi was speechless again. Lin Mo wasn’t hurt, and if she didn’t bring it up, the matter might have just passed.

Attempted murder and murder have different punishments, let alone just pushing someone. The injury was just a little redness on her arm. The victim wasn’t angry, so it made her look particularly petty.

But Su Qixi had been in the entertainment industry for eight years. She had experienced many incidents of fans hurting people. She thought about her own situation back then, and her heart felt an unspeakable sadness. But she didn’t want to bring up the past, so she could only say, “I had a college roommate. I brought her with me when I debuted.”

Lin Mo: “Hmm?”

Su Qixi: “After I became famous, she was the first to be attacked. She was scolded and even hit. Later, she resigned on her own.”

Lin Mo hummed and said with a smile, “Xiao Xi, I won’t leave.”

Su Qixi’s face turned red. “That’s not what I meant.”

Lin Mo: “I know, but that is what I mean.” She looked seriously at Su Qixi’s eyebrows and eyes, making sure that her expression was normal, before continuing, “I’ll always be here.”

Su Qixi fell silent. She felt that Lin Mo still didn’t understand. She didn’t understand how she could accept her fans hurting her.

The promises she made were still fresh in her mind, that she would make Lin Mo’s life better. But after they were reunited, the only thing she could give Lin Mo might be the harm from her fans.

Lin Mo, however, felt that Su Qixi didn’t understand, because she had forgotten. She had forgotten what Su Qixi’s indifference to the world meant when she first brought her back.

“Your hand… is it okay?” Su Qixi asked quietly.

Lin Mo smiled gently. “The injury was too minor; it’s already healed. I’m more concerned about the red light ahead. Are you going to stop?”

Su Qixi: “…”

[…Miss Pig, the mood was perfect.]

[It’s like they were about to kiss, and she said, “I’m hungry.”]

[The mood is completely gone.]

Even Zhou Ping couldn’t help himself. “Miss Lin, can’t you read the room?”

Lin Mo looked innocent. “But… it’s a red light.”

Zhou Ping had nothing to say. After all, life was more important than love. It seemed that Miss Lin was also a very clear-headed person.

Su Qixi slammed on the brakes and glared at her.

Su Qixi and Lin Mo returned to the “Ink Residence” at around 4 PM. Su Qixi had called the people inside beforehand. Jiang Lun, Qiu Mingyi, and the others all came out to help carry things. They saw that Su Qixi’s expression wasn’t very good.

After Su Qixi left, Qiu Mingyi asked Lin Mo, “Did you two fight on the way?”

Lin Mo shook her head. Qiu Mingyi said, “Married couples… couples fight. They fight at the head of the bed and make up at the foot of the bed. Xiao Su is still a little childish. You have to be more magnanimous.”

Lin Mo looked at Qiu Mingyi strangely. Every couple here had problems. What made this guy so confident that he could give advice as a seasoned veteran?

The fans were also skeptical…

[Our Senior Qiu is so confident…]

[If he’s so confident, why was he invited here?]

[So he hasn’t even comforted his own wife yet, has he?]

However, Lin Mo understood Qiu Mingyi’s good intentions and said, “It’s not a big deal. We were surrounded by fans at the supermarket, and I accidentally bumped into the counter when I was backing away.”

[Our Miss Pig is too polite. She was clearly pushed very hard by a rude fan.]

[Yeah! Although the camera was on Film Queen Su just now, you could still see that the fan behind her pushed very hard.]

[It must be a fan’s jealousy?]

[No, that kind of fan is an individual. Don’t drag the rest of us ‘Sodas’ into it.]

Qiu Mingyi naturally thought of this as well. He paused and then asked, “Did you get hurt?”

Lin Mo looked at her arm, which wasn’t even red anymore, and said, “Does that count as an injury? It was already healed by the time we got home.”

Qiu Mingyi sighed, probably thinking of something. “You can look up the ‘Mercurochrome Incident.’ Qixi is very disgusted by fans’ aggressive behavior. She even took a break for a while back then.”

Lin Mo hummed and sighed again. She knew in her heart that the real problem wasn’t after Su Qixi’s debut.

But Qiu Mingyi didn’t know what was on Lin Mo’s mind. He just sighed and said with emotion, “No matter how smooth a career path is, it’s impossible to have no bumps, especially since she doesn’t have any background. This girl is also stubborn. She doesn’t talk to people about things and just endures them herself.”

[The Mercurochrome Incident?]

[Others might not know, but ‘Sodas’ must know very well, right?]

Lin Mo’s eyes narrowed slightly. “It seems she was bullied.”

Qiu Mingyi patted her shoulder. “It’s an unavoidable situation in this line of work. In short, you should comfort her more.”

Lin Mo smiled and said, “Thank you, Senior! I know what to do.”

Looking at Lin Mo’s retreating back, Qiu Mingyi was confused. “You know what to do?”

[What to do?]

[You should hug her and comfort her, right?]

[Are you going to live stream from the bedroom?]

Are they?

After dinner, the live stream was turned off.

[(:з」∠) So, are they not going to show us the recorded footage on TV later?]

[If they do, I’ll watch it!]

[What TV station will it be on? I want to watch!]

After dinner, everyone else went back to their rooms to rest. Since the store was officially opening tomorrow, the show was getting back on track.

Lin Mo said she needed to prepare the ingredients for tomorrow’s pastries and stayed behind alone.

After she was done with all the preparations, Lin Mo didn’t go back to her room. Instead, she went to the pavilion alone. She took out her phone and started searching for the “Mercurochrome Incident” from that year. In the eight years she was gone, there were too many things she didn’t know about.

The Mercurochrome Incident happened when Su Qixi was 21 years old. At that time, she was just starting to become very popular. There’s a saying in the entertainment industry that applies to almost every person who wants to succeed.

Fame brings trouble!

After becoming a top star, Su Qixi had just dealt with her father’s issues and was emotionally drained.

During a personal interview with a blog app, after the interview was over, she took a sip of water that a staff member had given her.

Because it was in the middle of winter, the water for Su Qixi was in a high-end thermos, so you couldn’t see what was inside. An extremely crazy fan of a rival star somehow infiltrated the set and replaced the water with Mercurochrome. Although Su Qixi discovered it in time and didn’t swallow it, she quickly spat it out.

But this incident left a huge psychological scar on her at the time, and she even took a six-month break because of it. Reading this, Lin Mo couldn’t help but frown.

The ridiculous thing was that in this incident, she was the victim, but some people online were leading the charge to call her “delicate.” They claimed that a staff member revealed she hadn’t even drunk it and that she was using it as an excuse to take a long break to exploit her company.

Lin Mo looked at the online posts that lightly described the scene at the time, using various words to try and make the scene sound thrilling.

The posts even included screenshots of the hateful comments from anti-fans at the time to show how difficult Su Qixi’s situation was.

But every sentence in the articles also showed that even in such a situation, Su Qixi was unwilling to expose her wounds for the world to see and judge.

She couldn’t tell people why she took a six-month break!

Lin Mo knew that Su Qixi’s break during that time was because of the Mercurochrome Incident, and not just because of it.

“Sigh!” Seeing this, Lin Mo put her phone away.

When she first brought the little waif in the alley home, Lin Mo only had the idea of doing a good deed and leaving a small mark on this world.

She wasn’t from this world, so she didn’t need to worry too much about it, and the things in this world didn’t have much of a hold on her.

The little waif was indeed very pitiful. She gave her food and drink and solved her problems. Lin Mo thought this was a perfect ending.

But there’s a saying in the world, “The weak are always picked on.”

The little waif’s situation wasn’t just in her family, but also in everything around her…

Su Qixi tossed and turned in bed. Her mind kept replaying the image of Lin Mo getting hurt. Between these thoughts, several other images flashed, which she forcefully suppressed.

She and Lin Mo had their conflicts, but that was a matter between the two of them. How could that fan hurt Lin Mo in her name?

She didn’t even have the heart to do something like that, so how could her fan do it?

Lin Mo had never done her wrong. In fact, Lin Mo gave her a new life.

How could someone like Lin Mo get hurt because of her?

What was the difference between that fan who pushed Lin Mo and the fan who gave her Mercurochrome for their idol?

And what was the difference between them and the people who bullied her just because they didn’t like her back then?

And what was the difference between them and those beasts from high school?

The more she thought, the more images flashed in her mind. Those memories she thought she had forgotten, and those she thought could never hurt her again, suddenly seemed to come back to life.

Su Qixi felt it was a little hard to breathe. She knew something was wrong, but she couldn’t call out for help.

The memories in her mind went from Lin Mo’s smile, to her injured arm, to her retreating back. They seemed to circle back to an alley, where under the dim lights, a few lewd faces of men appeared…

Su Qixi grabbed her blanket and covered her head, but this memory seemed to come from her bones and wouldn’t let her escape.

In fact, Su Qixi didn’t stun anyone with her beauty in high school. Exquisite beauty in front of a person with no ability to protect themselves could only be a disaster.

She had no protection from her father or mother. As a child, she had seen beautiful people in her village being bullied, and she was also mentally suppressed by her parents.

From middle school, Su Qixi had bangs that covered her eyes, and she always walked with her head down.

Coupled with her malnourished body and yellowish hair, she was so skinny that her skin was stretched over her bones.

To be honest, no one could have ever thought of her as a stunning beauty.

Her mother ran away when she was very young, leaving her with labels: her mom eloped with someone else, her mom seduced a married man.

Therefore, even when her father beat her as a child, many neighbors didn’t feel sorry for her.

Children were ignorant. They started bullying her in elementary school, calling her mother a vixen and calling her the daughter of a tramp.

And this kind of bullying would continue. It continued through middle school and… into her first year of high school.

High school bullying was different from elementary and middle school. Elementary and middle school were compulsory education, so all kinds of people were there, and the bullying methods were more crude but also more direct and violent.

But high school had already filtered out a group of people. The remaining students had worked hard to get in, so they generally wouldn’t use such crude methods easily.

Isolating a person was already the most they could do.

But they couldn’t stop the hormones from raging in high school. A group of boys, started by who knows who, decided to bully a nobody in their class.

A kind of bullying method they wouldn’t have thought of as children!