“Stop acting like a spoiled child! I’m not Yi Ling, nor am I your husband, Lu Yi who will indulge you unconditionally. Do you have any idea how much trouble you’ve caused me?” Luo Lin glared at Yan Huan. What else could she do? She had canceled all the notices. Would Yan Huan leave her a mess again after she got all the notices back?
“Please, Sister Luo,” Yan Huan tugged Luo Lin’s sleeve again. She knew very well that Luo Lin would eventually approve it even though she was fuming right now. This was because she was just like Yi Ling; they would compromise with her unconditionally. She could stop filming as she wanted and change her schedule as she pleased. She knew that her one-month schedule had been fixed beforehand. Changing one part of the schedule would have an impact on others. As far as the manager was concerned, it would undoubtedly be a very tedious matter and most probably she would be utterly exhausted from overwork.
“Yi Ling really has spoiled you,” Luo Lin pulled out her sleeves from Yan Huan’s grip, she simply could not do anything with Yan Huan. “All right, go as you please, I’ll arrange the rest. Remember, just this once.”
She would have to make amendments later, it was a troublesome job. She had never seen an artist who caused less trouble than Yan Huan, yet she was the most troublesome one as well.
She shook her head. Nevertheless, she had no choice but to leave Yan Huan here and go first. After all, she surely would not lose Yan Huan. She would abandon Yan Huan here as her punishment. How could an artist be so audacious to change her schedule without consent? Besides, she did not even inform her manager and left the manager with a terrible headache instead.
Luo Lin took a total of three days to settle the follow-ups. At the moment she had not taken a bath and changed her clothes for three days. But strange to say, she could not smell her own sour body odor.
Her hair was all frizzy and she had dark circles under her eyes.
Luo Lin was enraged and stormed into Yi Ling’s place to pour out her grievances. However, she was startled when she saw Yi Ling’s current appearance.
“Oh my goodness, why have you become so fat?” She pinched Yi Ling’s face. She used to be so skinny, how did she become like this all of a sudden? She could not even recognize her.
“If you have one in your tummy,” Yi Ling pointed at her belly which had grown so much, “And…” She pointed at her surroundings, “A big family who feeds you like a piglet, would you be able to stay slim?”
“What do you think I can do? For the baby in my belly, I can only give up and stop bothering. I’ll have to wait until I give birth to the baby and see what to do.”
“It’s so scary!” Luo Lin could not imagine how Yi Ling would look like if she kept getting fat. Though she initially wanted to complain to Yi Ling about Yan Huan, in the end she did not stay for long and left like fleeing from calamity. She had made up her mind that she would not drop by before Yi Ling went into labor. This is clearly an evolution from a tough girl to a piglet, oh dear, it’s hurtful.
She better follow behind Yan Huan, at least Yan Huan was so good looking and delightful to look at.
“Why are you looking at me like this?” Yan Huan turned her face at Luo Lin and asked wonderingly. “You have been staring at me for about an hour. Am I so pretty that you can’t take your eyes off me?”
She took a sip of juice from the glass beside her, but Luo Lin was still staring at her when she turned around. Well if it’s a man who’s looking at her, it can’t be helped, but isn’t it pretty weird and awkward to be stared at by a woman?
She held out her hand and waved in front of Luo Lin.
“Hey, come back.”
Luo Lin had a sudden chill, “It’s too horrifying!”
“What’s wrong?” Yan Huan did not get what Luo Lin was thinking about. What’s with her expression and strange glance that was like a combination of empathy, fear, horror and all sorts of intolerance?
“Nothing,” Luo Lin let out a sigh, “I was just thinking about what to do if you got pregnant and become like Yi Ling in the future. How are you going to make a comeback?”
Yan Huan was holding a glass, her hand paused for a moment before she lifted the glass to her lips.
“Maybe I won’t get pregnant forever?”
She looked at the puffy white clouds outside the window, an unspeakable sigh escaped from the corner of her mouth.
Perhaps she could not have children forever. How could everything come off satisfactorily in life? She already had Lu Yi, and that was enough for her.
Though that was what she said, Luo Lin simply treated her words as a joke. After all, every woman would come to a stage where she would reproduce by giving birth to children. It was a natural instinct for living beings, it was the same for animals and human beings.
The airplane landed at Serene City after a few hours. Serene City was very far from Sea City. It would take seven hours of flight time. It might take a few days and nights if they were going by train. Of course, Serene City lagged far behind the Sea City in the economy. Serene City was in the inland areas. Despite the ‘Sea’ word in the name of Sea City, it was not really in close vicinity of the sea. However, there was a sea-river in Sea City and it was totally different from the inland area. Sea City served as an opened port for import and export trade. The city had a well-developed transportation system and it was leading the way in sea freight, land and air transport. Furthermore, the city attracted countless foreign investors and had an extremely crucial role in the world.
On the contrary, owing to the fact that Serene City was an inland city and had a lower sea level, there were plenty of living organisms in its ecosystem. The air in Serene City was a lot purer and fresher than Sea City. In spite of the fact that Sea City had been putting emphasis on ecological life, there were too many reinforced concrete buildings after all. There were lots of vehicles and people too, as a result, the environment was polluted by all sorts of industrial raw material waste gases. It was economically advanced and yet there was no longer clean air and unsophiscated hearts.
Sea City had its own good, while Serene City had its own serenity. After being accustomed to the urban lifestyle, it might be a good way to loosen herself by living in such an enchanting place for a period of time.
Yet, humans were odd and nostalgic. They would not leave if you were to ask them to leave the place where they had been living all their lives. They would not change even if they were asked to change.
Just like Yan Huan, she was born and bred in Sea City. She was from Sea City for both her lives. Perhaps Serene City was a better place to live, nonetheless, Sea City was the only place she would stay.
For the simple reason that she had her roots in Sea City.
The work at Serene City was actually very simple, she just had to shoot a commercial as a spokesperson and there was nothing much to do after that.
“You’re not going back?” Luo Lin was puzzled when she heard that Yan Huan wanted to stay here. “Why don’t you want to go back? Don’t you miss your husband? You’re always clingy with him and worried that he can’t eat, drink or sleep well, right?”
