The Film Empress White Moonlight Wants To Be A Salted Fish - Chapter 51

Seeing Lu Yiran about to leave, Wen Shiyan hugged her and said, “I agree!” She then quickly let go of Lu Yiran, keeping a distance between them.

Lu Yiran sat on the sofa, and Wen Shiyan followed suit. Lu Yiran hadn’t had time to turn off the private messages on the newly created account. As soon as she clicked into Weibo, she saw a pile of private messages.

Lu Yiran was too bored, so she clicked in to read a few of the messages.

“Wen Shiyan, look,” Lu Yiran said, showing the private messages to Wen Shiyan.

“They’re actually saying that I secretly recorded the video and posted it to suck up to you and leech off your traffic.”

After Lu Yiran finished speaking, Wen Shiyan looked at the private messages with a serious expression, then opened her phone and posted on Weibo.

Wen Shiyan: I need to work even harder for her to like me.

What! It’s actually true!

This was posted by Wen Shiyan, right! I didn’t see wrongly, did I?!

She even needs to work harder, does that mean Lu Yiran hasn’t agreed?

Isn’t Lu Yiran’s family very powerful? Wen Shiyan must be being threatened!

Seeing Wen Shiyan’s Weibo post, Lu Yiran was dumbfounded, then a little flushed. She nudged Wen Shiyan’s arm and scolded, “Wen Shiyan, are you stupid?”

By posting on Weibo, Wen Shiyan had essentially admitted that the video content was real and that the person she liked was Lu Yiran.

“Idiot! They didn’t even capture our faces clearly; we could have just muddled through it later! Now it’s settled, everything we do will be linked together from now on.” Lu Yiran sighed after speaking.

“But I really like you, and I can’t bring myself to say that the video content and my liking for you are fake,” Wen Shiyan said, lifting her head.

“Ugh, you…” Lu Yiran was too shy to speak after hearing this. She turned away from Wen Shiyan.

After a long while, she spoke, “Sure enough, I still prefer the way you used to be, aloof and ignoring me.”

When Lu Yiran finished, Wen Shiyan curled her lips. She moved further away from Lu Yiran and said, “If Yiran likes that version of me, I can change back anytime.”

The smile on Wen Shiyan’s face faded as she impersonated her former self. Looking at Lu Yiran, she thought: So Yiran likes playing hard to get?

Lu Yiran looked at Wen Shiyan. After Wen Shiyan spoke, Lu Yiran clearly felt like she had changed into a different person.

“Wen Shiyan?” Lu Yiran tentatively called out to Wen Shiyan.

Wen Shiyan looked up, and Lu Yiran saw that the affection in Wen Shiyan’s eyes for her had disappeared. Wen Shiyan suppressed her feelings for Lu Yiran, afraid that Lu Yiran would notice anything.

“As expected of someone who has won awards, the acting is really good,” Lu Yiran praised, applauding Wen Shiyan.

Hearing the clapping, Wen Shiyan replied to Lu Yiran in a distant tone, “Thank you.”

Lu Yiran was stunned by Wen Shiyan’s words and said, “Ah, is it still going on…”

“Miss Lu, I’ll go back to my room to rest now.” Wen Shiyan got up, didn’t answer Lu Yiran, and walked away.

After Wen Shiyan returned to her room, the system teased her. [Tsk, tsk, tsk, I didn’t expect you two to like this kind of…]

Lu Yiran sat in the living room, staring at Wen Shiyan’s tightly closed door, lost in thought. Could it be that Wen Shiyan was going to keep pretending to be her former self? Although she had said she liked the old Wen Shiyan, she preferred the current one!

Lu Yiran panicked, but she couldn’t show that she cared too much about Wen Shiyan.

When it was dinner time, Lu Yiran took the opportunity to knock on Wen Shiyan’s door.

When Wen Shiyan opened the door, Lu Yiran said to her, “Ahem, well, it’s time to eat.” Lu Yiran glanced at Wen Shiyan from the corner of her eye after speaking.

“Mhm.” Wen Shiyan maintained her expressionless look and replied to Lu Yiran.

“I saw there was wine at home, so I opened a bottle. Want to have a drink together?” Lu Yiran said, then saw Wen Shiyan look at her with a strange gaze.

“Wh- what’s wrong?” Lu Yiran touched her face, asking Wen Shiyan curiously.

Wen Shiyan shook her head. “Nothing.”

It’s just that she remembered Lu Yiran when she was drunk before…

Lu Yiran drank a glass with Wen Shiyan, then her face flushed, and she softly slumped onto the table.

Wen Shiyan knelt beside Lu Yiran and held her hand.

“Yiran, are you feeling alright?” Wen Shiyan asked Lu Yiran, but Lu Yiran didn’t respond.

Wen Shiyan had planned to take the seemingly obedient Lu Yiran back to her room to sleep, but Lu Yiran suddenly broke the pattern and abruptly got up.

“I want to go out and see the moon… and the stars…”

She pushed Wen Shiyan away and walked unsteadily.

Wen Shiyan steadied Lu Yiran, and Lu Yiran leaned into Wen Shiyan’s arms.

Being held by Wen Shiyan, Lu Yiran pouted in dissatisfaction, patting Wen Shiyan’s arm and commanding, “I want to go out! Take me out quickly!”

Helplessly, Wen Shiyan had to pick up Lu Yiran. Lu Yiran comfortably pressed her head against Wen Shiyan’s body.

After putting Lu Yiran in the swing chair in the courtyard, Lu Yiran hugged Wen Shiyan and pulled her in as well.

Lu Yiran pointed at the night sky and said to Wen Shiyan, “Wen Shiyan, tell me… doesn’t this look like the starry sky we watched together before…”

Wen Shiyan looked at Lu Yiran in disbelief after hearing this.

“Yiran! You remembered?” Wen Shiyan grabbed Lu Yiran’s shoulders and asked.

Lu Yiran sniffled, her eyes slightly red as she looked at Wen Shiyan. “Wen Shiyan, you’re hurting me…”

Wen Shiyan froze for a moment and let go of Lu Yiran.

Lu Yiran rubbed her slightly aching shoulder. “What are you talking about? What did I remember?”

Wen Shiyan looked a bit disappointed after hearing this. “Nothing,” she said, getting up and pulling Lu Yiran up with her.

“It’s cold. Let’s go back inside.”

Looking at Wen Shiyan’s profile, Lu Yiran felt a fleeting moment of loss flash across Wen Shiyan’s face. She didn’t know what she had said wrong. Although she comforted herself that she might have seen wrongly because she was drunk, she always felt like Wen Shiyan was looking at someone else through her…

She couldn’t see Wen Shiyan clearly anymore…

Back inside, Wen Shiyan helped Lu Yiran take off her coat, then led her into the room and patiently coaxed her to sit on the bed.

Watching Wen Shiyan walk back and forth in front of her, fetching clothes, Lu Yiran lowered her head and spoke.

“Wen Shiyan, who exactly do you like?”

Wen Shiyan stopped in her tracks. She went to Lu Yiran, tightly held her hands, and gave the same answer.

“I like you, only you.”

Looking at Wen Shiyan, Lu Yiran covered her face, chuckling as she asked Wen Shiyan.

“Wen Shiyan, who are you looking at through me?”

“What?” Wen Shiyan knelt down and took Lu Yiran’s hands away from her face. “Yiran, why would you ask such a question?”

Lu Yiran looked at Wen Shiyan with a cold expression and forcefully pushed her out of her room. Before closing the door, Lu Yiran said to Wen Shiyan, “Let’s meet tomorrow. I want to be alone for a bit.”

In her dream, Wen Shiyan kept recalling Lu Yiran’s words.

“No… Yiran… don’t leave me…”

Wen Shiyan struggled to escape the cage that held her captive. The Lu Yiran in front of her gradually drifted away. Wen Shiyan desperately reached out from the cage, trying to pull Lu Yiran back, but Lu Yiran had already walked into the darkness and was swallowed by it.

[Wen Shiyan! Wake up!] The system anxiously called out to Wen Shiyan, who was trapped in a nightmare. [If you don’t wake up, she will really leave!]

Wen Shiyan woke up from the dream and rushed out the door before she could even straighten her messy clothes.

“Lu Yiran!” Wen Shiyan said, then saw Lu Yiran pushing her luggage, ready to leave. Wen Shiyan quickly went forward to block her way.

Looking at the dishevelled Wen Shiyan, Lu Yiran apologized, “Hey, did my voice wake you up? Sorry.”

Wen Shiyan pressed down on Lu Yiran’s suitcase and asked her sadly, “Why are you leaving?”

Lu Yiran definitely couldn’t say it was because she saw a note on the bedside table when she woke up this morning. She knew she would forget many things that happened when she was drunk, but she recognized her handwriting. It was indeed written by her, so something must have happened last night when she was drunk.

“It’s quite inconvenient to live here. I was planning to ask you to move back to the apartment complex with me, but seeing that you weren’t awake yet, I decided to pack my luggage first before calling you.”

After Lu Yiran finished speaking, the system loudly told Wen Shiyan. [I saw she was planning to leave alone!]

Wen Shiyan didn’t know what was wrong with Lu Yiran. She released her hand from Lu Yiran’s suitcase.

“I see. You can go.” Wen Shiyan said and returned to the room. Lu Yiran didn’t say anything and left with her luggage.

After closing the door, Wen Shiyan listened as Lu Yiran’s footsteps gradually faded away. Once they were completely gone, Wen Shiyan opened the door and saw that all traces of Lu Yiran in the house had vanished.

The system was confused. [Why did you just let her go like that?]

“Right now, I’m the one pursuing her. Being too aggressive will backfire,” Wen Shiyan said, then thoroughly cleaned the house before locking the door and leaving.

In the car, Lu Yiran took out the note and read it over and over. Why would she write that Wen Shiyan was lying to her? What did Wen Shiyan lie about?

Lu Yiran couldn’t figure it out. She put the note into a sealed bag.

Forget it, I’ll think about it later.

Returning to the apartment she bought, before entering the house, Wen Shiyan noticed that the apartment opposite hers showed no signs of being occupied. Sure enough, Lu Yiran lied to her…

Chen Ziyun looked at Lu Yiran sitting next to her watching TV. She took off her headphones and asked, “Lu Yiran, why are you at my place?”

“Of course, it’s because I missed you so much” Lu Yiran said, reaching out to hug Chen Ziyun, who pushed Lu Yiran away in disgust.

“Tell me, what’s wrong again? Oh, right, is the video of Wen Shiyan confessing to you on Weibo true?” Chen Ziyun asked curiously.

Since Lu Yiran went home, Chen Ziyun hasn’t had to worry much about Lu Yiran’s matters. Before, she had to constantly check Weibo for all sorts of things, but now, thanks to Lu Yiran’s two mothers, she rarely looks at Weibo anymore.

“It’s true. She did confess to me.” After Lu Yiran finished speaking, Chen Ziyun exclaimed how amazing Lu Yiran was.

“But I haven’t accepted yet.”

Chen Ziyun was completely shocked. She said to Lu Yiran, “Didn’t you like Wen Shiyan a lot? Why haven’t you accepted yet?”

Chen Ziyun had thought Wen Shiyan’s Weibo account was hacked, but it turned out that what Wen Shiyan said was true.

Lu Yiran didn’t speak. Chen Ziyun remembered the “love triangle” between Lu Yiran, Wen Shiyan, and Xie Shuyao, and she covered her mouth in surprise.

“Could it be that you’ve fallen for someone else?”