“Alright, I’ll come back.” After Ye Shaohua replied, she hung up the phone.
The original host’s grandfather truly loved her.
Xu Peipei had thought it would be very difficult to persuade Ye Shaohua.
She never expected it to be this easy.
What a naive child, she thought.
So much easier to handle than her mother.
After hanging up, she mused indifferently.
Ye Shaohua reached out to close the browser tab, but someone sent another message.
Mu Chengzhou: Bu Fu, you accepted the dry recording for “Ten Thousand Gods and the Vast Sky”. Have you seen the great author Wild Willow in the crew chat?
Seeing Bu Fu Shaohua’s reply of “No,” Mu Chengzhou frowned.
He lit a cigarette, closed the chat window, and opened Weibo on the webpage.
Wild Willow 001’s last Weibo post was still the update notice for Chapter 481, the finale.
Below it, one of the hottest comments was from the very famous film director Wu Kai.
[“Finally finished! Great author Wild Willow, can I get the adaptation rights? I want to make a movie of “The Vast Sky”.”]
This comment had already received over 990k likes.
Unfortunately, Wild Willow had never responded.
Mu Chengzhou blew out a smoke ring, only snapping back to attention when the QQ notification sound came from the lower right corner.
It was a message from Ran Mo.
Ran Mo: [Image]
Ran Mo: Great God Mu Chengzhou, Bu Fu Shaohua has been deceiving you all along.
Mu Chengzhou clicked open the image and saw a greasy, fat face. He frowned in disgust and immediately closed the image.
It was indeed… rather disgusting.
Especially when he thought about this person being his official CP in the online dubbing circle, Mu Chengzhou felt nauseated.
**
Monday arrived quickly.
Before leaving, Ye Shaohua weighed herself again.
She had lost four pounds in a week.
At this rate, she would successfully lose the weight in another month.
She picked up the gift she had bought for the original host’s grandfather and set off directly.
Ye Shaohua left very early. It was not even 7 a.m. when she arrived at the Ye family villa.
The earliest guests invited by the Ye family wouldn’t arrive until after 10 a.m.
She rang the doorbell. No one came to answer. Her expression unchanging, Ye Shaohua pressed it again.
“I heard you! Always ringing the bell, aren’t you annoying?” A servant frowned upon seeing Ye Shaohua through the iron gate.
After saying this, she took another look at Ye Shaohua.
She couldn’t help but feel surprised. It hasn’t even been a year, how did this fatty lose so much weight?
Ye Shaohua acted as if she hadn’t heard and walked straight in.
Before even entering the main villa, she could hear the melodious sound of a piano drifting from inside.
It was probably her stepsister, Ye Ruxue, practicing. Ye Ruxue had been outstanding since childhood and was habitually proud. Even after coming to the Ye family, she called Ye Ming “Dad” and the original host’s younger brother, Ye Rui, “Little Brother,” but she had never once called the original host “Sister.”
At school, she also always pretended not to know Ye Shaohua.
Although Ye Ruxue and Ye Ming weren’t blood-related, they shared the same mindset: they were afraid Ye Shaohua would embarrass them.
“Miss, you play the piano so beautifully. Although I don’t understand music, it sounds wonderful, even better than what’s played on TV,” said another servant.
She looked at Ye Ruxue with admiration.
Ye Ruxue nodded faintly. She had been praised since she was a child and didn’t pay much mind to such compliments.
“Is Grandpa awake? I want to see him. I have a gift for him today,” Ye Ruxue said.
Hearing this, the servant paused before replying cautiously, “Miss, you’d better not go upstairs… The Old Master is speaking with Designer Liu…”
At these words, Ye Ruxue’s face darkened considerably.
She just couldn’t understand. She had worked so hard.
Since she was little, she had been countless times better than that fatty.
What did that fatty have? Not only was she at the bottom of her class, but she even dropped out in her third year of high school! It was utterly ridiculous!
Why wouldn’t Grandpa even look her way? In what way was she inferior to that fatty?
And now, knowing that fatty was coming back today, Grandpa specially invited Designer Liu. Designer Liu was a famous stylist in City B, and his father was an old friend of Grandpa’s.
Grandpa had asked him to come today specifically to style that wretched fatty.
Ye Ruxue was truly resentful.
Initially, she had followed Xu Peipei’s instructions to curry favor with Grandpa.
Later, after learning that Grandpa knew many prominent figures, Ye Ruxue realized that her nominal grandfather was actually a very famous former general.
Even after retiring, many soldiers he had mentored still visited him.
During holidays, many people would come to see him bearing gifts.
When Ye Ruxue was eight, she once saw a person who frequently appeared on national television also come to visit Grandpa Ye. From then on, she began genuinely trying to win Grandpa Ye’s favor.
Who would have thought he only doted on that Ye Shaohua? It infuriated her.
Fortunately, as time went on, Ye Shaohua grew fatter and fatter. Except for Grandpa, almost no one in the Ye family liked her, which made Ye Ruxue feel somewhat better.
As Ye Ruxue was lost in thought, she caught a glimpse of a figure in black from the corner of her eye.
She saw someone with a somewhat heavy build, but whose face hinted at beauty, especially those eyes—they resembled Ye Rui’s. Ye Ruxue was stunned. “Ye… Ye Shaohua?”
She called out, disbelief in her voice.
Ye Shaohua glanced at her and replied nonchalantly, “Hm.”
After this brief acknowledgment, she headed upstairs to find Grandpa, following the original host’s memories.
Her reaction was completely different from before.
The former Ye Shaohua was actually a deeply insecure person who kept her head down and avoided eye contact, especially when faced with the flawless Ye Ruxue—she would shrink into herself, utterly eclipsed.
