Chapter 20: Throw Him Out Now!
“Investor? Do I need your money?” Lu Ziyan’s anger flared. Her film would never feature someone like Ye Bai!
In her past life, she’d been blind, casting Ye Bai in her movie and using her family’s influence to boost his fame. If not for his later actions being exposed, she might’ve still seen him as a good person.
“Lu Ziyan, what do you mean by this!” Ye Bai was also irritated. He couldn’t understand why, since returning to China, everyone he wanted to win over seemed to despise him.
From Xia Shihan to Xiao Yuxuan, even his closest ally Hecate might have turned traitor. Now Lu Ziyan’s attitude was bizarre, as if she held a grudge against him.
“Nothing much. I’m telling you, my movie is off-limits to you. This is my home—leave!” Lu Ziyan had no patience for Ye Bai’s nonsense.
Her rebirth was her secret, one she’d never share.
“…” Oh wow, Lin Tai watched Lu Ziyan’s fury with renewed confusion.
Sister Lu, you might be overacting a bit.
Though Ye Bai’s face was thick with bandages, it was clear he was genuinely pissed.
As a bystander, Lin Tai would’ve thought they had a blood feud if he didn’t know they were the male and female leads.
Did Lu Ziyan need to provoke Ye Bai this much to rile him up?
Lin Tai was utterly lost on what these two were up to.
“Lu Ziyan, is this all for that trash?” Ye Bai’s gaze turned fierce. It seemed every time Lin Tai was around, these women turned against him.
Xia Shihan, Xiao Yuxuan, and now Lu Ziyan—all the same! Did this waste have some magical pull?
Ye Bai couldn’t wrap his head around it.
“…” Lin Tai stood by, enjoying the couple’s spat, until Ye Bai dragged him into it.
What did this have to do with him? Since his rebirth, this was his first meeting with Lu Ziyan. Could she, a heroine, have fallen for him, a vicious side character, at first sight?
Keep your male-female lead drama away from me, please …
“Is he trash?” Lu Ziyan sneered. “In my eyes, he’s a thousand, no, ten thousand times better than you!” Her words were born of anger and truth—Lin Tai outshone Ye Bai, that despicable man, in every way.
“You, Ye Bai, aren’t fit to tie his shoes!”
“Fine, fine, Lu Ziyan, don’t regret this!” Ye Bai’s body trembled with rage, his partially healed wounds splitting open again under the strain.
The white bandages soon stained red with blood, a chilling sight, before he fainted from blood loss.
“What are you waiting for? Throw him out! A death here would bring bad luck!” Lu Ziyan ordered coldly, showing no sympathy despite his injuries.
The bodyguards, without a word, hoisted Ye Bai and dumped him by the roadside, leaving him there.
“…” Lin Tai watched, mouth agape.
This artistic girl seemed gentle, but her heart was cold—tossing Ye Bai onto the street like that.
If no one found him, he’d bleed out alone! Worst of all, the Lu estate was in the suburbs, with hardly any traffic. Ye Bai was in for it.
Yet even now, Lin Tai couldn’t decipher Lu Ziyan’s intent.
The plot was fine when he arrived—how did it spiral into this? Someone explain why!
A male and female lead turning into enemies—what bizarre plot was this, leaving Lin Tai stunned?
“Did I scare you?” Lu Ziyan suddenly remembered Lin Tai was still there, feeling a twinge of regret.
She shouldn’t have been so harsh. If Lin Tai misunderstood her as cruel, it’d be a problem. Her anger stemmed from Ye Bai—she already despised him.
That schemer had planned to use her movie to whitewash his image, yet acted as if he were doing her a favor. It disgusted her. Compared to that, Lin Tai’s straightforwardness won her over.
Anger was anger, joy was joy—she loved Lin Tai’s genuine simplicity.
“Scare me? Please,” Lin Tai waved it off casually. “Uh … do you really hate Ye Bai?”
He couldn’t help asking.
He genuinely couldn’t figure out what Ye Bai had done to earn such loathing from Lu Ziyan.
This mattered—otherwise, if his mission failed, he’d be clueless why.
“Not exactly hate—just find him insufferably fake,” Lu Ziyan’s mind raced with calculations. This was only her second meeting with Ye Bai; she couldn’t admit to hating him.
That might raise suspicions of her rebirth. Besides, she truly loathed his pretentiousness.
“He came begging for my help but acted like he was granting me a favor. Disgusting.”
“Oh.” Lin Tai nodded. Ye Bai, as the protagonist, had an ingrained arrogance—his pretension was undeniable.
That made Lu Ziyan’s dislike understandable.
Still, this was a novel world. As the saying goes, “beating is affection, scolding is love.”
As long as Lu Ziyan didn’t want Ye Bai dead, as a heroine, she’d eventually fall for him.
With that thought, Lin Tai regained his confidence.