The Film Empress White Moonlight Wants To Be A Salted Fish - Chapter 46

Lu Yiran was jolted awake from her dream. Her face was flushed as she silently wailed: Why did she always have these kinds of dreams every time she stayed at Wen Shiyan’s house!

Afterward, Lu Yiran sat on the bed, covering her face and racking her brains, looking worried. Could it be that the feng shui of this place wasn’t good?

Walking out of the room, Lu Yiran saw Wen Shiyan.

“Wen Shiyan, I like you.”

After Lu Yiran said this, she saw Wen Shiyan freeze for a moment, put down her cup, and then say, “Me too.”

Could it be that the dream hadn’t ended yet… Lu Yiran slowly changed her clothes and walked leisurely into her own house.

Until her knee hit the corner of the table.

“Ouch, that hurts!”

Lu Yiran squatted down painfully, her face twisted as she closed her eyes. It really wasn’t a dream, but she had actually just told Wen Shiyan that she liked her!

Lu Yiran limped over to the sofa and sat down, huffing as she took the first-aid kit from under the coffee table and winced while applying medicine to herself.

Bad luck, absolutely terrible luck!

Wen Shiyan was happily cleaning at home. Yiran had actually just said she liked her, and Wen Shiyan’s face was beaming with a smile.

The System watched the happy Wen Shiyan and proudly said, [See, I told you things would get better today.]

The System’s words interrupted Wen Shiyan, who was immersed in her world of happiness. Wen Shiyan looked at the System with a cold, icy expression and ordered.

“Shut up.”

[Oh, oh…]

The System’s voice gradually weakened and faded away.

After the System disappeared, Wen Shiyan started to go out to buy the ingredients she needed for today’s meal.

While waiting for the elevator, Wen Shiyan ran into Xiao Yu, who had come to see her.

“Shiyan, have you looked at the two scripts I gave you recently?”

Wen Shiyan nodded, indicating that she had read them, and asked Xiao Yu to follow her into the house to talk.

“Shiyan, are you planning to accept the script Director Zhang recommended, or…”

Looking at Xiao Yu sitting on the sofa and asking her, Wen Shiyan didn’t speak first but went to pour Xiao Yu a glass of water and placed it in her hand.

“I’m not planning to take either of them. I’m going to take a break from the industry for a while.”

“What?” Xie Shuyao looked at Wen Shiyan in disbelief, “Shiyan, don’t you love acting the most? Did something happen? Tell me, and we can solve it together.”

Opening Wen Shiyan’s door at the entrance, Lu Yiran overheard their conversation.

“I…”

As soon as Wen Shiyan finished speaking, Lu Yiran pushed the door open and rushed directly in front of Wen Shiyan.

“Wen Shiyan! How can you take a break from the industry?!”

She had actually heard Wen Shiyan say she was going to step back. As Wen Shiyan’s former fan, she wouldn’t allow it!

Seeing Lu Yiran, Wen Shiyan said, “Yiran? What are you doing here? Shouldn’t you be at the company right now?”

Lu Yiran was now on the same side as Xiao Yu. She stood by Xiao Yu’s side, crossing her arms, and looked at Wen Shiyan with a scrutinizing gaze. According to the novel plot she knew, Wen Shiyan should now be getting together with Xie Shuyao. Knowing Wen Shiyan, it wouldn’t be surprising for her to withdraw from the industry for love.

“I have the day off today. Tell me, Wen Shiyan, are you dating someone?”

Wen Shiyan looked at Lu Yiran confusedly. Who would she be dating? If she were going to date anyone, it would be Lu Yiran.

“Shiyan! Your career is more important!” Xiao Yu also said earnestly.

Listening to the two of them, Wen Shiyan rubbed her temples in distress. It was fine for Yiran to make a fuss, but she didn’t expect her sister Xiao Yu to join in the nonsense.

“Enough, I’m not dating anyone. Or are you two telling me one of you likes me and wants to date me?”

As soon as Wen Shiyan finished speaking, the two people in front of her immediately shut up and looked away.

“Well, I, I have things to do, let’s talk another time…” Xiao Yu said and then fled.

She finally figured out what was going on between Wen Shiyan and Lu Yiran. Turns out Wen Shiyan hadn’t confessed yet she was secretly in love! No way, she didn’t want to get mixed up in their relationship.

Seeing Xiao Yu abandon the fight, Lu Yiran was a bit timid. She had just blurted out everything she knew without thinking. Lu Yiran stammered, “The company still has things to do, I’ll be going now…”

Hearing Lu Yiran lie, Wen Shiyan smiled and said, “The company still has things to do? Didn’t you say you have the day off today?”

“Um, I, I just saw a message my mom sent me.”

With her lie exposed, Lu Yiran became even more awkward. While talking, Lu Yiran backed toward the door, suddenly making a very surprised sound while looking at her phone. “Huh? My mom said I need to hurry. Wen Shiyan, I really have to go now.”

Wen Shiyan stepped forward, grabbed Lu Yiran’s wrist, pressed her against the wall, sniffed the scent emanating from her neck, and whispered, “You’re lying…”

The breath swept past her ear and skin. Lu Yiran abruptly pushed Wen Shiyan away, stepped back a few paces with a red face, and covered her neck. Wen Shiyan looked at Lu Yiran without saying a word. Lu Yiran’s earlobes were as red as dripping blood.

“You, you!”

Lu Yiran rushed out the door and ran into her own house, locking the door behind her.

Looking at Lu Yiran’s fleeing back, Wen Shiyan sighed. “Phew, I was too hasty.”

The System was quite worried that Wen Shiyan might mess things up due to impatience. [Haste makes waste, and you don’t even have any relationship with her yet, and you treat her like that. You should apologize tomorrow.]

Wen Shiyan didn’t say anything, which was a silent acknowledgment of the System’s words.

Lu Yiran leaned against the door, catching her breath, and used the back of her hand to cool her flushed cheeks. That was a close call; if she hadn’t left sooner, she would have exposed the fact that she was blushing.

Calming her breath, Lu Yiran peeked out the peephole. Only after seeing Wen Shiyan close her door did Lu Yiran feel relieved and walk towards the refrigerator to grab a bottle of water.

Wen Shiyan’s behavior was really strange, and she even said she wasn’t dating anyone. Could it be that some of the plot information she knew was wrong?

“Now Wen Shiyan still hasn’t gotten together with Xie Shuyao, and the plot has changed…” So that means she has a chance… Lu Yiran murmured to herself.

Maybe she could confess to Wen Shiyan! Even if it didn’t succeed, at least she would have no regrets!

Thinking this, Lu Yiran opened the door and went to Wen Shiyan’s house. But after pushing the door open, the house was empty.

Wen Shiyan didn’t drive but walked back to the home where Auntie Xie and Xie Shuyao lived.

She entered the house, ignoring Auntie Xie and Xie Shuyao who greeted her, and headed straight to her bedroom.

[Wen Shiyan, what are you looking for?]

“The pendant.”

Wen Shiyan said this and took out two identical pendants from under the bed. Seeing the pendants, she scoffed and gave a cold smile.

Clutching the pendants tightly in her hand, Wen Shiyan said to the System, “They must have thought I wouldn’t remember, so they left these things here without destroying them. No, perhaps they didn’t mind me finding them at all.”

Looking at Wen Shiyan’s palm, which was red from the pendants digging into it, the System couldn’t help but sigh.

Lu Yiran searched all over Wen Shiyan’s house but couldn’t find her. Lu Yiran returned home and sat on the sofa, laughing at herself.

This was probably fate giving her a chance; if she had confessed, she and Wen Shiyan probably wouldn’t have been able to remain friends.

Wrapping the pendants in red cloth, Wen Shiyan put them away.

Downstairs, Auntie Xie looked at her daughter with a worried expression. “Your sister came back and rushed upstairs just now, did something happen?”

“What could have happened? Mom, are you too idle at home with nothing to do and thinking too much? I’ll book tickets for you and your new friends to go out and travel together.”

“Oh.”

Auntie Xie stopped questioning Xie Shuyao. She personally went upstairs and knocked on the door of Wen Shiyan’s bedroom. Just as she knocked once, Wen Shiyan opened the door. Seeing Auntie Xie and not Xie Shuyao behind her, Wen Shiyan invited Auntie Xie in.

Sitting beside Wen Shiyan, Auntie Xie took Wen Shiyan’s hand and gently patted the back of it, saying, “Shiyan, did something happen to you? Tell Auntie, and Auntie will see if I can help you solve it…”

“No, Auntie, you’re overthinking it.”

Wen Shiyan spent some more time comforting Auntie Xie before successfully leaving the house.

Xie Shuyao walked out to see Wen Shiyan off. Seeing Wen Shiyan remain silent, Xie Shuyao pondered for a moment and said, “Sister, are you really not going to live at home? Is it because of Mom and me…”

Looking at Xie Shuyao’s face, Wen Shiyan helplessly hugged her. “No, the reason I’m living over there is that the person I like is closer to me.”

The person living close to her sister was only Lu Yiran, right? Xie Shuyao suddenly realized that her sister had told her who she liked!

Xie Shuyao was screaming internally; she was actually witnessing the real-life romance!

Xie Shuyao’s excitement was too obvious. Wen Shiyan was afraid that if she told Xie Shuyao, the whole world would know she liked Lu Yiran before tonight. Wen Shiyan instructed Xie Shuyao, “Don’t tell anyone.”

Xie Shuyao nodded excitedly.

Returning to the floor where she and Lu Yiran lived, Wen Shiyan pressed Lu Yiran’s doorbell.

Before the door opened, Wen Shiyan took a deep, nervous breath.

When the door opened, Wen Shiyan said to Lu Yiran, who opened it, “I’m sorry, for the inappropriate thing I did to you at my house just now, you…”

Seeing that it wasn’t Lu Yiran who opened the door, Wen Shiyan’s body instantly froze.

Listening to Wen Shiyan’s words, Chen Ziyun’s jaw dropped in shock. Had she just heard something she shouldn’t have?

“Chen Ziyun, who is it?”

Hearing Lu Yiran’s voice, Chen Ziyun finally snapped out of her shock and said to her, “Ah, Yiran, it’s Miss Wen…”

Lu Yiran hadn’t heard Wen Shiyan’s words. She walked over to Chen Ziyun and asked Wen Shiyan, “Wen Shiyan? Why are you here?”

Wen Shiyan was so embarrassed she wished she could dig a hole and crawl into it right there.

Seeing Wen Shiyan standing stiffly at the doorway, Lu Yiran asked suspiciously, “Aren’t you coming in?”

Wen Shiyan couldn’t decide whether to leave or enter. She glanced at Chen Ziyun. Chen Ziyun quickly looked away after noticing Wen Shiyan looking at her. Wen Shiyan felt even more awkward for some reason.

Lu Yiran sat on the sofa, looking at the two strange people, and asked, “What’s wrong with you two?”

“Nothing at all…” Chen Ziyun said, then subtly moved farther away from Wen Shiyan and Lu Yiran.

Lu Yiran looked at Chen Ziyun’s strange behavior with confusion.

Unable to endure the awkward atmosphere, Wen Shiyan simply grabbed Lu Yiran and walked toward Lu Yiran’s bedroom. Chen Ziyun watched the closed bedroom door in disbelief from behind them.

Ignoring Lu Yiran’s forceful struggles, Wen Shiyan locked the bedroom door after they entered.

With just herself and Lu Yiran left, Wen Shiyan gradually advanced toward Lu Yiran.

Looking at Wen Shiyan getting closer and closer, Lu Yiran hugged her chest, backed away, and nervously looked away.

“W-Wen Shiyan… What are you going to do?”