The call was quickly answered, and a voice altered by a voice changer came through, "Hello?"
He Hui hurriedly said, "Mr. Li, it was you who told me to say that before. Now the reporters want me to produce medical records, but the illness was made up by me, I can’t produce them at all. What should I do now?"
The paparazzo’s expression changed slightly, and he said indifferently, "I don’t know what you’re talking about, you have the wrong number."
Before she could finish her words, the person on the other end of the phone hung up.
He Hui’s daughter-in-law sobbed, "Mom, could it be that the paparazzo sensed something was wrong, so abandoned us?"
He Hui’s son also said sternly, "It must be so. Our phones can’t reach him, but using a new number got through immediately. Try calling back with this phone again, I guess it won’t connect anymore."
Unwilling to believe it, He Hui dialed back using the same phone, and sure enough, after a few dozen seconds, the amplified voice from the speaker claimed, "The number you have dialed is unattended...".
This really freaked He Hui out.
Her daughter-in-law cried even harder, unlike her fabricated tears at the police station, this time she was truly crying.
"Mom, what do we do now? The media is pressing us to produce your medical records. They’ve been blocking our door from yesterday to now, not willing to leave. I can’t even go out to buy groceries without being surrounded, and our neighbors are all pointing and whispering."
"We had an agreement with that paparazzo, you could use this trick to coerce He Jinxia into giving money, he said that He Jinxia would definitely pay, but now, we have angered He Jinxia, and He Jinxia wants to sue us! The paparazzo couldn’t have deceived us, could he? Why would he do this?"
While crying, He Hui’s daughter-in-law suddenly had a stroke of insight and said frantically, "Could it be that even the paparazzo was hired by He Jinxia to deal with us?"
Upon hearing this, both He Hui and her son were startled.
The more they thought about it, the more terrifying it seemed—it indeed seemed to be the case!
He Hui slapped her thigh and said angrily, "Great, it turns out we were all deceived, trapped in a scheme, all part of He Jinxia’s plot!"
"The solution that the paparazzo gave us got us cursed by netizens, watched by other paparazzi, living every day in unrest. He even came to our door before, saying it was to show us a clear path, to plan wealth for us. Now it looks like he and He Jinxia just want us dead!"
He Hui’s daughter-in-law cried out, "Mom, what do we do now?"
He Hui paced in place, and cursed explosively, "How would I know what to do? Stop your crying, all you ever do is cry! Can’t do a single thing right!
And hurry up and take care of Xiao Jie, he’s grown so big and still can’t even eat by himself, needing someone to feed him, completely useless!"
He Hui’s daughter-in-law pouted, feeling wronged; after all, wasn’t it her mother-in-law who had spoiled him? If the child even slightly hurt himself, she would fuss over him for a long time, and that feeding was also led by her.
Every time they tried to break this bad habit, as soon as the child cried, He Hui couldn’t stand it inside and would feed him again, making it impossible to break the habit.
A child of five, who normally even needs to be carried to walk—she wasn’t their nanny, why should she always cater to the child?
Just as He Hui’s daughter-in-law reached the bedroom door, suddenly, she heard He Hui in the living room exclaim, "I’ve found a way!"
Everyone quickly gathered around, and He Hui said proudly, "He Jinxia wants to use the paparazzi to exploit us, but we can also use the paparazzi to claim that all of this is He Jinxia’s conspiracy. She planned to frame us; she is the mastermind, which makes the paparazzi an accomplice!"
He Hui’s son was not foolish either, and frowned, "How are the police going to believe us? We didn’t record our interaction with the paparazzi."
He Hui sneered, "They intrigue each other every day in the entertainment circle. I’ve watched plenty of TV dramas; I know some of the tricks they often use."
"When the paparazzi came to discuss with us, I didn’t completely trust them. I deliberately turned on the voice recorder on my phone. The conversation where that paparazzi taught us how to deal with He Jinxia was all recorded!"
He Hui’s daughter-in-law’s eyes lit up and said, "Mom, does that mean we don’t have to be blamed anymore, and instead, we are the victims?"
He Hui nodded firmly, "Exactly, we are the victims. Let’s go, to the police station!"
Not to mention that the Qingdu Police Station had only slowly started to investigate and file a case when they received Luo You’s recording, He Hui and others ’walking into the trap’ with their evidence actually sped up the process, speeding things up at the station.
As it progressed to the later stages of investigation and tracking, it happened incredibly fast. In less than three days, they went from Qingdu to Imperial City, and captured the paparazzi.
Throughout all this, He Jinxia did not appear, even when He Hui and her group later requested to see He Jinxia, she refused to meet, delegating everything to her personal attorney.
From sending out court letters to the subsequent public squabbles and finally reaching an out-of-court settlement mediated by Mrs. He, He Jinxia knew everything but did not get involved, leaving it all to her lawyer and Mrs. He.
She disliked dealing with these matters, thinking that wasting her time for those people wasn’t worth it.
At that moment, He Jinxia, having cast aside her tangled, complex thoughts, quietly stayed in Dongting Lake Garden, enjoying the precious time with her family.
Since she became more popular, taking on more roles and her schedule becoming ever busier, the time she could spend with her mother naturally shortened. For this, He Jinxia felt somewhat guilty towards Mrs. He.
By the sixth day of the new year, businesses had gradually started to resume, employees in some companies in Imperial City had returned to work, and the streets were slightly more crowded. Content orıginally comes from novelꜰire.net
He Jinxia, wearing glasses and a mask, strolled through the supermarket in Dongting Lake Garden hand-in-hand with Mrs. He, picking up some food.
The supermarket in Dongting Lake Garden was very safe, catered to the residents of the community, and was modestly sized but comprehensive, offering everything from apparel to daily necessities.
Mrs. He, looking at the wide array of products, suddenly said, "You have to return to M-country to continue filming tomorrow, time flies so fast; the seven days have just flown by.
Looking at it now, your holidays are just like those of employees, but you are much busier than them; after all, they at least have regular weekends off, while you don’t."
He Jinxia said softly, "Mom, this year I will clear more of my schedule to spend time with you."
Even as she said it, He Jinxia herself felt a bit guilty.
It wasn’t that she didn’t want to spend more time with Mrs. He, but so many great scripts won’t wait for anyone.
Who knows if she will continue to be popular in the future or if she will still get such good scripts, now that she has great scripts coming her way, she wants to take them all.
By her side, Mrs. He gently patted Jinxia’s hand and said, "I know your character well, you’re determined about what you set your mind to and won’t give up until you achieve it. Don’t worry, I’m not that old yet, you go ahead and focus on your career for these few years."