Chapter 713: Chapter 710: New Scandal (4)
“When I chose to marry you back then, it definitely wasn’t because of those damn tires.”
“I know,” Bo Yan nodded. If she agreed to nod, it must have had something to do with the Xia Family, with her mother. However, “At that time, I had just come out of college, just starting out in the entertainment industry as a no-name actor. If it hadn’t been for you hitting rock bottom, I might not have had the chance, nor the courage, to be with you.”
Although Bo Yan was successful now, and had even won Best Actor at a young age, surpassing Xia Siyu’s status, choosing this path back then was a gamble with his life on the line. After all, whether one becomes popular really depends on luck. Minor celebrities rely on promotion, major ones on fate, and over-promotion invites disaster.
Fortunately, he had good looks, acting skills, high emotional and intellectual intelligence, plus his family background – he quickly made a name for himself.
But had he not succeeded, he would have remained a third-rate actor, and the gap between him and Xia Siyu would have grown even wider.
If he hadn’t made it, without money, status, or power, he couldn’t have stooped to use the Bo Family’s influence to force her to comply. They would have missed each other forever, with no chance to start over.
However, when Bo Yan brought this up, it reminded Xia Siyu of something, “Was it you who took care of Li Weiyi’s matter?”
He was suspected of criminal offenses, and initially, those girls he had forced and drugged wouldn’t dare to sue him – either because he had bribed them or because they felt ashamed. And now, he was already behind bars, a fallen prisoner.
Bo Yan’s quick downfall had initially made Xia Siyu feel a sense of justice served, but now, hearing Bo Yan mention it, she suspected that it was his doing, wasn’t it?
Bo Yan didn’t deny it; he simply said, “One must not harbour intentions to harm others, but one should always guard against others. I was merely acting in self-defense.”
“Self-defense my ass, if anyone should be defending, it should be me,” Xia Siyu complained, but her eyebrows were so raised with delight they almost took flight.
“As husband and wife, my defense is your defense,” Bo Yan asserted righteously.
“Wait a minute,” Xia Siyu suddenly thought of something, “Have you been watching me all the time? You even know who’s been harming me.”
Although she knew that Bo Yan had been thinking of her ever since they broke up seven years ago, she never imagined that Bo Yan observed her every word and action. He even silently learned everything about her, knew who she had offended, and how – some of whom she had even forgotten herself, but Bo Yan remembered them all.
Bo Yan was unfazed, “Because I like you, I care about everything to do with you. Those who treat you well are fine, but for those who don’t, you may not care, but I’ll help you remember.”
If they weren’t in love, this would be the template of an obsessive fan trying to get close to their idol. Even though everything Bo Yan had done was well-intentioned, without breaking the law, and using decent means, from another point of view it was like being silently monitored long-term by someone, quietly eliminating rivals.
“What if I don’t like you, and keep rejecting you? Would you secretly get rid of the men around me?”
Bo Yan was speechless: “I’m not a psychopath. I only target those who hurt you. Men who like you but haven’t harmed you, I’ve never laid a hand on them. Like Qin Baizhou, Wang Zisu and the rest.”
Only then did Xia Siyu brighten up, “That’s more like it.”
She thought of something else, “Have you been spying on me? Reading my Weibo messages, infiltrating our company, haven’t you! Have you bribed someone close to me, have you sneaked into my fan club!”