Zhao Ziyin suddenly turned around, muttering to herself, "No, I haven’t memorized the script yet, and there’s still a job to be done. The station is going to assign me another task next week, which I need to get on right away. How can I waste time?"
While she spoke, she nodded as if to affirm her own words. Jian Anning saw her leaving and followed, "Ziyin, wait for me!"
Zhao Ziyin didn’t pay her any attention, walking faster and faster as if chased by a ghost, towards the elevator doors. When she saw that both elevators required waiting, she turned to open the door to the emergency stairs, without a word, and started heading down!
"Ziyin!" Jian Anning grew anxious. Though Zhao Ziyin always did things in a frenetic way, she had never seemed so distraught before. Without a word, she chased after her, "Ziyin, don’t do this! He’s not worth it, for that kind of man."
"Yes, I’m not worth it!" Zhao Ziyin suddenly jumped up, bursting out all at once. With her eyes reddening, she said, "I’ve known him for five years, five years! When he came back to the country, he clearly promised me, he would never cheat, never find another woman. But now! What is this! What is this!"
Hysterically, she pointed in the direction of the door upstairs, "He lied to me about going on a business trip, but instead, he’s rolling in the sheets with some woman from who knows where! And I don’t even have the courage to knock on the door!"
"Ziyin, Ziyin!" Jian Anning immediately went over to grab her wrist, "Ziyin, don’t be , this isn’t your fault!"
"Anning!" Zhao Ziyin suddenly started crying, "I know what people say about me outside. They say I climb up the ladder relying on men, they say I’m shameless, they say I change men every day, they say I have no talent or background, that I slept my way to the top. But I really haven’t! I only ever liked him, and after breaking up with him, I never had another boyfriend. I know that his family opposed our relationship when he came back to China. They thought I was that kind of unclean woman, but only he reassured me that it was okay, he believed in me. Do you know? It was only after I heard him say ’believe me’ that I agreed to be with him. He had wronged me before, but after all, he supported my studies abroad, I owed it to him. But I never expected that he would still do this......"
Jian Anning watched her crumble, feeling an unspeakable anguish herself. How many times she had felt the same heartbreak when she discovered the affair between Lu Jiayuan and Cheng Tingting? It was as if something inside her heart suddenly collapsed, a shattering pain.
But what could she do about it? Even without a relationship or someone by her side, the sun still rises in the east and sets in the west every day, and the world does not change over such a trivial matter.
Just like her, Zhao Ziyin, who usually had sharp and unfiltered commentary, full of jokes and anger, could only shrink in the small corner of the emergency stairs. And moreover, she dared not vent her emotions too loudly—fearful of the paparazzi finding out.
Looking at Zhao Ziyin in front of her, Jian Anning suddenly felt very helpless.
Yet, the only thing she was clearly aware of was that tonight, no matter what, she could not leave Zhao Ziyin’s side.