Just as Lu Lingxi had said, Su Miao knew perfectly well that she only secured the female lead in this drama because of Song Yunsheng. Even though Su Miao didn’t believe Song Yunsheng would force her to give up the role, she decided to play it safe—this role was hers to keep.
Thus, Su Miao let out a gasp of surprise and asked with feigned wonder, “Sister Yunsheng, didn’t you know? I saw Sister Sang Yu there; I thought you already knew…”
After saying this, she added with a look of great regret: “It’s such a pity that Sister Sang Yu was late for her audition. Otherwise, this role probably would have been hers. Fortunately, the director liked Sister Sang Yu very much and specifically chose another role for her—one with the most screen time.”
This speech wasn’t exactly a lie; she had simply cherry-picked certain facts. First, it cleared her of any perceived involvement, and second, it let Song Yunsheng know that she wasn’t greedy or competitive.
Su Miao appeared completely innocent here. Even if Song Yunsheng wanted to compensate Sang Yu, she wouldn’t go as far as publicly replacing the female lead and causing Su Miao embarrassment. After all, Su Miao “didn’t know” that Song Yunsheng would help her through the back door.
For a moment, the ward fell silent. Song Yunsheng’s expression was very grim. It was unclear whether she was angry at Sang Yu’s concealment or something else, but Su Miao knew she couldn’t let Song Yunsheng remain silent for too long.
She tentatively asked, “Sister Yunsheng, did you and Sister Sang Yu have a falling out? Was it because of that trending topic? If I had known, I should have gone to explain things to her.”
Su Miao’s tone was full of remorse. Song Yunsheng snapped out of it, shook her head, and indicated it had nothing to do with her, saying she would handle it.
Su Miao wanted to take more responsibility, but her sharp eyes suddenly caught sight of the band-aid on Song Yunsheng’s hand. She immediately changed the subject.
“Sister Yunsheng! Your hand… how did you get hurt?”
She took Song Yunsheng’s hand, carefully blew on it, and asked with concern if it still hurt. Just as Song Yunsheng was about to speak, a few loud bangs echoed from outside.
The two looked up to see Sang Yu entering with an expressionless face. She glanced at their hands, which hadn’t yet separated, and let out a cold laugh. “So, this is the lawyer you mentioned?”
Song Yunsheng didn’t notice the jealousy hidden in Sang Yu’s cold expression at all. Since she was currently in the wrong and hadn’t actually prepared for a lawyer to come, she acted as if she hadn’t heard the question. Instead, she blinked and asked Sang Yu back: “Where’s the soup?”
With those two simple words, the people in the room couldn’t quite wrap their heads around it. Su Miao subconsciously glanced at the soup she had brought, while Sang Yu saw right through Song Yunsheng’s evasive attitude.
How could Sang Yu fall for that now? She refused to let it go and said bluntly, “I’m asking you, where is your lawyer?”
“Didn’t you tell me to come over to discuss the divorce details? Where is your lawyer?”
Seeing that she couldn’t bluff her way out, and knowing she couldn’t conjure a lawyer out of thin air, Song Yunsheng’s face darkened. She came up with a perfunctory excuse, saying the lawyer had something urgent come up and couldn’t make it.
This excuse was far too flimsy. Sang Yu felt that Song Yunsheng was intentionally playing her, and perhaps even staged this scene just to spite her.
Already furious, Sang Yu turned to leave, but Song Yunsheng compromised once again.
“Wait. It’s not like I can’t talk to you personally.”
To be honest, given how many times she had been stalled before, Sang Yu shouldn’t have believed Song Yunsheng again. But Sang Yu pursed her lips and glanced at Su Miao; she wasn’t willing to leave the two of them alone together, so she stopped in her tracks.
Although Song Yunsheng didn’t catch her jealousy, she wasn’t stupid enough to let Su Miao stay and listen to their divorce talk. Seeing there was nothing left to do, Sang Yu’s lawyer also departed, leaving the agreement in Sang Yu’s hands.
Once everyone was gone, Sang Yu petulantly pulled a chair and sat far away. Song Yunsheng couldn’t stop her, so she could only ask about the business at hand.
“I heard you went to an audition? Why?”
There was a reason Song Yunsheng asked this. When she and Sang Yu entered their contract marriage, Sang Yu’s family background originally made it a match of equal social standing. However, the Sang family had interfered, making snide remarks and implying that Sang Yu appearing in public was disgraceful.
To settle the matter, a clause was added to the agreement stating that Sang Yu would no longer appear as a public figure. This was the ultimate reason Sang Yu retired immediately after winning the Best Actress award.
In the past, Sang Yu would have likely apologized repeatedly, stating she hadn’t intentionally broken the agreement. But now, hearing this only made Sang Yu angry. What kind of messed-up agreement was this? Had Song Yunsheng followed it herself?
She scoffed and said directly, “We’re getting a divorce now. Why on earth should I still follow that god-awful agreement? If you hadn’t been dragging your feet, I could have gone out to earn my own money ages ago.”
Sang Yu’s words were sharp. Song Yunsheng had no choice but to back down, saying patiently, “Actually, we don’t necessarily have to follow the agreement.”
“Let’s put it this way: if you don’t divorce, I can provide you with better resources than you have now. You can act if you want, just like before—”
“Don’t mention ‘before’ to me!”
Sang Yu found that Song Yunsheng always managed to step exactly on her triggers. She truly didn’t know what to say. Did Song Yunsheng actually think those past days were worth remembering?
And talking about “better resources”—Sang Yu understood instantly and sneered inwardly. Was she afraid she would steal the spotlight from her little darling?
It made sense; why else would Su Miao have come over?
Song Yunsheng, who was usually well-informed, hadn’t asked about her audition yesterday, but as soon as Su Miao arrived today, she knew about it. It was hard not to draw a connection.
Sang Yu didn’t ask it out loud; asking would only be self-humiliation. She simply raised an eyebrow and stuck to one point: “Words are useless. I will fight for these resources myself. Right now, I just want to divorce you.”
Having said her piece, Sang Yu had nothing left to talk about. She stood up and looked down at Song Yunsheng.
“I’ll be joining the film crew soon. I will leave everything related to the divorce entirely to my proxy lawyer. I hope you can finalize it as soon as possible and stop dragging this out.”
With that, Sang Yu turned and left.
Song Yunsheng closed her eyes, feeling miserable. The soup Su Miao brought was still sitting nearby, but she didn’t have the slightest desire to taste it.
Soon it was time to be discharged. Song Yunsheng was never one to trouble her mother, and Sang Yu naturally wouldn’t come at this time, so only her assistant came to help with the paperwork.
The assistant drove Song Yunsheng home. After the assistant left, Song Yunsheng was the only one left in the massive house.
That night, Song Yunsheng suffered from a rare bout of insomnia. She rarely came home this early, but in the past when Sang Yu was there, no matter how late she returned, Sang Yu would always be waiting.
Knowing Song Yunsheng had a weak stomach, Sang Yu would always prepare some steaming hot food and keep it in a warming box, so it would be at the perfect temperature to soothe her stomach when she returned. Song Yunsheng had almost grown accustomed to this companionship over the past three years, and now Sang Yu was saying she was done.
Song Yunsheng suddenly felt a sour taste in her mouth. She couldn’t understand why, despite her many concessions, Sang Yu insisted on a divorce. Was there really nothing but an agreement holding them together for these three years?
This thought made Song Yunsheng feel very uncomfortable, leaving her with an indescribable irritability.
Unable to sleep even as the night grew deep, she got up to wander around. She ended up in the study and pulled out Sang Yu’s medical records.
When Sang Yu had thrown the records in her face, Song Yunsheng had mostly been shocked. She had later had the entire incident investigated and obtained the complete medical file. Sang Yu didn’t know this, and Song Yunsheng didn’t dare let her know.
Regarding medicine, Song Yunsheng truly didn’t understand much. She hadn’t dared to face it before, but… after hesitating for a while, she contacted a doctor friend.
After sending Sang Yu’s medical records over, Song Yunsheng asked seriously for the first time, “What does this specific illness mean? Is the situation very serious?”
It wasn’t that she suspected Sang Yu of lying to her. Song Yunsheng just found it hard to imagine: she had merely rejected Sang Yu’s advances once; how could the situation be so grave?
Not long after sending it, her friend called back, sounding incredibly gossipy. “Unbelievable, simply unbelievable! So the stuff on the trending topics was true? Your Alpha really developed a psychological shadow because of your ‘frigidity’ and is planning to divorce?”
With a dark face, Song Yunsheng first warned her not to spread rumors, then frowned and asked, “How can you tell? What… exactly causes this illness?”
“What else could it be? Just looking at what you sent me, the person really developed problems because of your lack of sexual interest.”
The friend was flippant, but her professional skills were decent. She explained everything to Song Yunsheng in detail.
Only then did Song Yunsheng realize that things were not that simple.
She became increasingly troubled, but at that moment, all she could say was, “You know I’ve always been insensitive to pheromones… You’ve been abroad for so long; are there any new treatment methods?”
At those words, the laughter on the other end stopped. The friend indicated that Song Yunsheng’s issue was very difficult to handle.
Song Yunsheng’s insensitivity to pheromones wasn’t a recent development. She didn’t even have the heat cycles a normal Omega should have.
Reasonably, with the Song family’s wealth, this shouldn’t have been a problem, but Song Yunsheng had spent untold amounts of money and undergone every possible check-up, yet no cause was ever found.
Essentially, aside from her lack of sexual drive, all her other functions were normal. It didn’t impact her life much, so Song Yunsheng usually didn’t take it to heart.
However, general social opinion was different, especially since Song Yunsheng was the successor of the Song Group.
They discussed it for a while, but no solution was found. Song Yunsheng had wasted so much time on this before without finding a fix, and now it clearly seemed even harder. Finally, the friend cleared her throat and gave a mischievous suggestion.
“Actually, there is one way. If the hardware isn’t enough, supplement it with software. Why don’t you try being more proactive, doing some ‘learning,’ or maybe dressing more sexily?”
Talking about this in the middle of the night was enough to make anyone roll their eyes. With a dark face, Song Yunsheng hung up without a word.