Chapter 30 (1/2)

Chapter 30 – We’ll Be Strangers The Next Time We Meet

When Chen Meimei’s scandal became global, Lan Jinyao received a call from Agent Vivi. To her surprise, the woman who’d always had a poisonous tongue didn’t ridicule her for the first time and instead encouraged her to rest for a few days. She also told Lan Jinyao that it would help if she forgot the unpleasantness of the past and welcomed a new future. Then, the next call she received was from Old Chen who told her not to be unhappy as he would find someone better for her. Following that was a call from Chen Meile, saying that after Lan Jinyao had calmed down for a few days, she would introduce her to someone else.

When Fu Bainian called, it was already the seventh call she’d received since being stood up at the wedding. Lan Jinyao glanced at the name flashing on the screen, then pressed reject. When the phone rang again, she added his number to her blocked list.

“Fu Bainian, what I suffered was all because of you. Why are you calling me? What more do you want?”

After she’d blocked his number, she still felt that it wasn’t enough and turned her phone off. After that, she lay in bed like a corpse and motionlessly stared at the white ceiling.

She lied in bed from morning until night before she rubbed her starving stomach. Although she felt hungry, when she placed her hand on her stomach and touched a mass of flesh, she became depressed.

It seemed that fat people would feel even worse when they were hungry, like every cell in their body was burning.

Lan Jinyao felt slightly dizzy, so she finally got out of bed and left her apartment. Half an hour later, she was sitting in a bar and holding a bottle of alcohol. Curling up in a ball in a dark corner, she’d consumed around two to three bottles which were scattered about the table.

Her vision was already impaired which was resulting in everything being doubled and blurred.

She felt someone sit beside her. Moreover, it was a man in a suit.

She held up her glass as she said to the man, “What do you want? Do you want to hit on me? Don’t you see how fat I am? My weight could crush you, you know. Most men...will immediately look disgusted once they see me; they don’t get near me by even half a step! Hahaha, they are indeed wise!”

Lan Jinyao didn’t want to cry, as that would cause her to be too ugly. But, she couldn’t control herself. She felt so vulnerable, like a fish out of water.

“Chen Meimei, look at yourself. You’re totally different from your normally optimistic self. The previous Chen Meimei was thoughtless and wouldn’t bother being sad over any man. It’s not like you were never rejected by Fu Bainian before. That time, even if people would laugh at you, you still bravely charged ahead. Where did the you from that time go?”

Lan Jinyao abruptly hugged him and started crying. She wanted to say that the Chen Meimei from back then had long since disappeared. She wasn’t as brave as Chen Meimei had been. She was Lan Jinyao; the Lan Jinyao who would retreat into her shell at the tiniest of injuries.

“Don’t cry anymore. As long as you no longer like Fu Bainian, you’ll show him he was wrong by becoming the greatest person on earth. One day, you’ll be able to meet a person who truly loves you.”

Chen Zetao patted her back, his tone gentle.

“Let go of her!”

Lan Jinyao heard a familiar voice that sounded much like Fu Bainian’s voice. She looked up but could only see a blurred figure; she couldn’t clearly see the person’s face.

The man who’d been hugging her remained composed as he calmly said, “Fu Bainian, how dare you still appear in front of her after what you’ve done?! Does playing around with someone’s feelings really make you feel happy?”

A whoosh was heard as a fist smashed into Fu Bainian’s face.