There weren’t many cars passing by the labor reform facility.
Ye Shaohua waited for a while. Just as she was about to give up, a car finally came.
But the car was far too luxurious. Ye Shaohua stared at it for a while, then took a step back.
Unexpectedly, the car stopped on its own.
The front window rolled down. In the sweltering heat, Ye Shaohua could distinctly feel a wave of cool air radiating from inside the car.
“Young lady, need a ride?” The driver was a middle-aged man with a honest, genuine smile. “It’s getting late. If you keep waiting, no cars will come by here. If you’re not afraid, hop in.”
Ye Shaohua noted the license plate number.
Not because she was afraid of any ill intent—she simply had no money right now. After noting the plate number, she figured she’d repay the favor once she made something of herself.
The car drove very smoothly.
Ye Shaohua knew a young man was sitting in the back.
She didn’t look back, and after getting in, she didn’t ask any questions—she just closed her eyes slightly.
The driver, however, was quite talkative. “Little lady, are you going to the labor reform facility to visit someone?”
“No, I just got out of the labor reform facility.” Ye Shaohua spoke up.
At that, the driver didn’t say anything, nor did he give her any strange looks. He just smiled. “Well, live a peaceful life now that you’re out.”
But inwardly, he found it a bit odd, and his words became fewer afterward.
Only when they reached a bustling street did Ye Shaohua speak, saying a word of thanks to the middle-aged driver and the person sitting in the back.
After a pause, she added, “My name is Ye Shaohua—Ye as in leaf, Shaohua as in ‘not failing one’s youth.’ If you ever need help in the future, you can come find me.”
With that, she got out and closed the car door very gently.
She didn’t look anywhere the whole time.
She hadn’t gotten a new phone or SIM card yet, so she had no contact information to give.
But her attitude struck the middle-aged man as very strange. It was probably the first time he’d encountered a woman who paid so little attention to his young master.
He didn’t think much of it, though.
As for what Ye Shaohua said, he didn’t take it to heart either. After all, if there was something even they couldn’t solve, he didn’t think this girl who had just gotten out of the labor reform facility and couldn’t even afford a taxi fare could help.
When he started the car again, Assistant Bai saw the young master squinting out the window through the rearview mirror. He couldn’t help but sigh. “Young Master, you knew full well that Cousin was up to no good. You just got back to the country—why did you take on Huichen Entertainment? If Huichen’s performance doesn’t improve this time, the board might keep holding onto the Bai family’s control.”
“It doesn’t matter,” a low voice sounded from the back seat after a long moment. “I know what I’m doing.”
Assistant Bai was exhausted too.
The Bai couple had died suddenly in a car accident, leaving only a young master who had been abroad studying medicine.
He came back to handle the funeral and take over Bai Corporation. Unfortunately, he had studied medicine, and the board and the Bai relatives knew he probably couldn’t make any waves, so their demands were utterly unreasonable.
Huichen Entertainment and Star Entertainment were both companies under Bai Corporation, but Star Entertainment was second to none in the entertainment industry.
Huichen, on the other hand, was precarious—already on the verge of bankruptcy.
The board handed this entertainment company to the young master and said that only if he could build Huichen up to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with Star Entertainment would they hand over control of Bai Corporation to Bai Yunci.
Assistant Bai had given Bai Yunci a look at the time, signaling him not to agree. But who would have known—this young master of theirs actually agreed!
Assistant Bai had wanted to quit on the spot right then and there.
But the master and madam had entrusted the young master to him. He couldn’t just leave him. What could he do?
This was his foolish young master. He couldn’t abandon him.
Thinking of this, he sighed slightly. The young master had studied medicine abroad for five years. He didn’t understand the company’s situation now, had never studied management—there was still a lot to teach him.
Bai Yunci paid him no mind.
His slender fingers tapped on the phone screen, which showed a WeChat conversation.
If Assistant Bai were beside him at this moment, he would naturally have seen that he had just typed three words—
Ye Shaohua.
The contact in the conversation was a foreign name… Bieber.
After thinking for a moment, Bai Yunci still sent those three words.
Along with a secretly taken photo.
Then he sent another message.
Bai Yunci: Look into this person.
As for just how shocked the person who received these three messages was, he didn’t care. He turned off his phone, leaned back, and closed his eyes slightly.
Even with his eyes closed, a certain sharpness could still be seen on that keen-edged face.
**
Right now, Ye Shaohua only had her ID card, a set of keys, a phone that wouldn’t turn on anymore, and a SIM card that had been deactivated.
Not a single cent to her name.
In the original host’s memory, there was still a bank card—she just didn’t know how much was left on it.
The apartment had been assigned to the original host a year ago when she participated in that talent show. Because she was talented in every way back then—not to mention, just her face alone could have made her famous in the entertainment industry—
She had signed a C-level contract with Star Entertainment.
For an unsigned newcomer who hadn’t even graduated to get a C-level contract with no connections was already a pretty good platform.
Now, a year had passed. Star Entertainment had long since given up on her. This temporary apartment they’d rented for her hadn’t seen a visitor in a year and was covered in dust.
Ye Shaohua saw a pile of things in the cluttered living room. She knew Ye Guoming had moved her belongings out of the Ye house.
Truly abandoned by everyone.
Ye Shaohua wasn’t the original host, so naturally she didn’t feel much grief. She took the original host’s card, withdrew the only five thousand yuan in it, opened a new bank account, and bought some daily necessities.
When she reached her place on the fifth floor—
She had just pulled out her key.
When she heard a cool, clear voice. You could tell the voice was very pleasant, but if you listened carefully, there was a hint of impatience in it.
“Ye Shaohua.”
Ye Shaohua turned her eyes slightly and saw a handsome man emerging from the shadows.
He wore a baseball cap and a black mask, making it almost impossible to see his face.
Clearly, he didn’t want to be recognized.
Ye Shaohua narrowed her eyes slightly. Looking at the look in his eyes—as if he were gazing at something filthy—she found this person in her memories.
The original host’s musician-genius boyfriend—
He Zichen.
