The sentence that suddenly appeared in her mind, like a basin of ice-cold water, doused Su Jiaobai, making her feel utterly chilled.
At the same time, it extinguished the anger in her heart, making her instantly sober up.
If not for the strange events that had happened before, she would have found this sudden sentence utterly inexplicable.
But with the preceding setup, having already known that she was merely a tragic female cannon fodder existing in a novel, she naturally had a high degree of acceptance towards this sudden sentence.
“Supporting character’s persona and deviated plotline have been successfully corrected…”
The words “supporting character’s persona” here should refer to her persona, right?
More than a week ago, as an NPC in the book, she had suddenly awakened. After awakening, her personality and attitude towards handling matters naturally changed, which was the so-called change in persona.
To her, the change in her personality naturally meant that everything was developing in her favor.
But for the overall plot of that book, because of her changes, the relationships between her and a series of people around her had changed. It was like a butterfly effect, and in the end, it might have affected the direction of the entire grand finale.
Therefore, the author was supposedly correcting this book. And the deviated supporting character’s persona and plot were, under its correction, slowly returning to the right track.
The video in Qi Mingxuan’s hand was not intentionally fabricated by him to frame her, but rather, for Qi Mingxuan, such an event had indeed happened.
But because she hadn’t done those things, she had no memory of them.
For the novel titled “After Divorce, I Took My Son to Marry into a Wealthy Family,” her persona had suddenly deviated, causing many conflicts that should have occurred not to happen, and the subsequent plot could not progress. The author wanted to pull the plot back, so she had a scene like this forcibly added to her earlier. This would allow her relationship with Lu Leyao to continue to deteriorate, returning to the so-called right track.
And if she hadn’t heard this voice, she would have continued down the old path of targeting Lu Leyao.
If she ultimately couldn’t escape a tragic fate, it meant she would still be sacrificed in the end?
Thinking of this, Su Jiaobai’s back instantly broke out in a cold sweat. This powerlessness of being manipulated by the grand hand of fate was truly terrifying.
The person who had been furious moments ago instantly became as quiet as a frightened chicken. Seeing the fear and unease on her face, Gu Xingmo found it strange and asked her what was wrong.
Su Jiaobai’s face was pale at this moment. After coming back to her senses, she shook her head and said, “It’s nothing.”
Such strange things, even if she told him, he wouldn’t believe it, right?
Moreover, this matter was too bizarre. She herself hadn’t figured out many of the intricate details.
She didn’t know if she had a mental problem or if she had truly encountered such a ridiculous situation.
“By the way, during the previous physical examination, I also had an MRI of my brain. Have the results come out yet?”
MRI results took three days to come out, so Su Jiaobai hadn’t received the report of her brain MRI immediately after the physical examination.
She had been busy during this period, so she had forgotten about the MRI results.
It was only after the sudden bizarre incident just now that she suddenly remembered.
“They’re out, everything is normal.” They came out a few days ago. A director from the hospital had personally called him.
Because the other party had confidently said that everything was normal, he had thanked him and hung up, not bothering to ask for the report. There was no need.
Now that she suddenly asked about it, was she suspecting something?
“What’s wrong?” Sensing the wrongness in her emotional change, Gu Xingmo asked curiously.
Hearing him say that everything was normal, Su Jiaobai felt a sense of relief. But with this relief, her mood didn’t lighten; it remained tense.
“Mr. Gu, I don’t care what you think, but I still need to explain to you that the so-called video in Qi Mingxuan’s hand is not real. I absolutely did not do the things in the video.” If it were truly those hands of fate manipulating her destiny, then her enemies were powerful.
She didn’t know if these small struggles would change the final outcome.
But no matter what, she could righteously deny what she hadn’t done.
Gu Xingmo, having navigated the ups and downs of the business world for many years, had developed a formidable skill set. For example, now, from the determination on her face, he could tell that she was not lying.
The truth of the matter was no longer important. In fact, even if she had done such a thing before, he wouldn’t have cared.
They weren’t married because of love in the first place, so her loyalty to him wasn’t important.
As long as she stayed in her position, fulfilled her duties, and acted as Mrs. Gu, he would respect her and give her the treatment she deserved.
For example, now that she was increasingly concerned about Jun Zai, he was willing to give her twenty thousand yuan a month for her personal expenses, to spend as she pleased. This was his way of buying maternal love for Jun Zai with money.
Another example, as Mrs. Gu, if she didn’t cause trouble and even cooperated with him in attending some events when necessary… then, in the future, he would provide her with everything, from cars to houses.
As for whether she had a first love, who she loved, or who was in her heart now… none of it was important.
As long as everything was within controllable limits, didn’t affect Gu’s business, and didn’t affect Jun Zai’s physical and mental health… she could do whatever she pleased.
Maintaining superficial harmony by each fulfilling their own duties was quite good.
But now, she seemed to care very much and needed his trust and recognition.
Gu Xingmo didn’t mind and gave her the trust she needed, saying, “I believe you.”
These simple four words immediately soothed Su Jiaobai’s agitated heart. Whether he truly believed her or not, at least he was willing to provide this emotional value, for which Su Jiaobai was quite grateful.
Having experienced too many emotionally draining and absurd events in a short period, Su Jiaobai felt completely drained at this moment and had no interest in anything else.
“I won’t be having dinner. I’m going upstairs to wash up and sleep.” After informing Gu Xingmo, Su Jiaobai turned and went upstairs.
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Wu Yichun only found out about all of this after she returned home. Seeing that the father-daughter relationship had room for improvement and was about to take a further step, it had turned into this… Wu Yichun also became anxious.
After much thought, Wu Yichun went to Lu Ting’s study.
She felt it was necessary to tell Lu Ting her thoughts and feelings about what had happened during the day.
Lu Ting’s anger had not completely subsided; after the initial rage, there was still lingering anger.
Wu Yichun carried a bowl of lotus seed and lily soup and knocked on the door.
Lu Ting didn’t want to see anyone at the moment, but since his wife had actively come to find him, he couldn’t bear to shut her out.
“Come in.”
Wu Yichun brought the lotus seed soup in. “Drink some sweet soup to calm your anger.”
Lu Ting waved his hand, indicating that he couldn’t drink it. He then pointed to the side, telling her to just put it there.
After placing the soup bowl down, Wu Yichun went behind Lu Ting, placed her hands on his head, and began to massage him.
“I was with Jiaobai all noon, and I know everything that happened,” she said softly while massaging his temples. “It’s not that I’m biased towards Jiaobai, but what happened at noon was indeed not her fault.”
Seeing that Lu Ting didn’t stop her, guessing that he wanted to listen, she continued, “I had lunch with Jiaobai at noon. Not long after we entered the restaurant, I saw Leyao and Mingxuan also arrive. Jiaobai took the initiative to greet Leyao and Mingxuan. It was Mingxuan who was ungrateful and spoke sarcastically, angering Jiaobai. After that, Jiaobai confronted him.”
“As for that video… I don’t know what’s going on. But judging by Jiaobai’s reaction at the time, she really seemed unaware.”
“But Mingxuan’s angry expression didn’t seem like an act. So, I was quite puzzled at the time, not knowing who was right and who was wrong.”
Although Wu Yichun was inclined to favor Su Jiaobai, she wouldn’t do so too obviously. Some things required fairness and impartiality.
Although Lu Ting’s scales of justice were beginning to tip, he said, “Could the video be fake?”
Wu Yichun didn’t talk about whether the video was fake or not, only saying, “I don’t know the reason behind it, but what if Jiaobai was truly wronged?” She glanced at the man. Seeing that he remained silent, Wu Yichun added, “Back then, Jiaobai was unwilling to marry even someone like Mr. Gu. If she hadn’t been pregnant, that matter would probably have been dropped.” She was barely willing to marry Gu Xingmo, so could she possibly be interested in Qi Mingxuan?
“She’s stubborn and not the kind of child who is cunning and scheming. When she got married, she didn’t ask for anything. Even if she came back that day to ask for money, so what? Why are you so angry? You’ve been angry for so long that you’ve chilled the child’s heart.” She then emphasized, “This afternoon, I accompanied her to test drive a car. Mr. Gu paid for her car, and she could have chosen a more expensive and better one, but she only chose a car worth over 200,000 yuan. A 200,000 yuan car, this child… she probably still thinks it’s quite expensive and good.”
And what car did Leyao drive? Leyao’s usual casual handbag alone cost twenty thousand yuan.