748 A Million Times for You 110 (2/2)
Fang Erlan changed into her slippers and lay onto the bed. Upon recalling the text message she'd received, she cursed in her head, Is this co-director blind or something? My gut instincts were right, I knew he was eyeing me ever since day one. Does he think I'm a pushover?
Calling me to his room at such a late hour to ”talk about something”?
”Cut that bullshit,” Fang Erlan cursed out loud before tucking herself beneath the blanket.
Her phone began ringing all of a sudden.
She took a look at the caller display to see that it was from Jing Shui.
Fang Erlan did not answer and instead allowed her phone to keep ringing.
She thought that that would be the end of it all. To her surprise, the doorbell began to ring a few minutes later.
She tiptoed toward the door and peeked through the peephole. It was none other than Jing Shui!
Shocked out of her senses, she immediately switched off the lights and sneaked beneath her duvet to call Yan Ge, who was staying in the room beside hers.
”What's wrong?”
”Yan Ge, the co-director just tried to call me but I didn't answer. He's standing outside my door and pressing on my doorbell now. What am I supposed to do?”
”Oh, I see… don't open the door and just leave him be,” said Yan Ge, who was smoking while leaning against the headboard. A look of dismay had formed in his eyes upon hearing her words.
”What if he keeps pressing?”
”He won't. He'll leave after a while.”
”Yes, but I'm a little scared. He even texted me when we came out of the dining room and asked me to go over to his room. I immediately turned him down, yet he actually showed up at my door. Yan Ge, I told you he was looking at me weirdly. I'm a little afraid.”
”Have you guys met before?”
”No, I've never seen him before. This is my first time hearing his name. I'm being serious.”
”Alright, go to bed first and observe the situation. If he acts inappropriately again, call the studio directly. They'll handle it from there.”
”Okay, I understand.”
After ending the call, Fang Erlan crawled out of her duvet with sweat trickling down her forehead. Jing Shui was still pressing the doorbell.
She lay in bed and tucked herself beneath the duvet. Fortunately, the ringing stopped after a while.
She could finally fall asleep in peace.
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In the darkness of the night, An Xiaoning and Jin Qingyan were lying in bed to watch a movie in the dimly-lit bedroom.
The end credits scene came on, signifying the end of the movie.
An Xiaoning stretched her back and said, ”I hate watching horror flicks. It makes me so tensed and jittery all the time.”
”Don't you have anything else to say about this movie?” he asked, switching off the television with the remote control.
She lay down and turned to lie on her side to face him. ”Abortions are bad. I know that even without having to watch horror flicks about ghost fetuses. Suffering a miscarriage is different from going through an abortion.”
”How so?” Jin Qingyan asked.
”Take this movie that we just watched for an example. The female lead is only a student, and she accidentally got pregnant after playing with fire and trying to taste the forbidden fruit. She didn't have the guts to give birth to the baby so she decided to abort it after having a discussion with her boyfriend, who was another student. It would be a different case if she'd suffered a natural miscarriage.”
”They're just kids, after all. Even if they didn't abort the fetus, they wouldn't have had the financial ability to raise the child.”
”Since they were aware that they were incapable of raising a child, why did they have to be so ignorant as to get pregnant accidentally? Sensibility is not linearly related to age. To be frank, there's a predestined number of children every person will bear in their lives. It counts even if the child is aborted. Not only does abortion bring about karmic retribution, but it's also harmful to one's health. Some people would kill to have a child, yet some intentionally get rid of them. In fact, there are even those who abandon their child as soon as it's born. Even if these people don't receive their retribution in this lifetime, they're bound to be punished in their next one.”