Chapter 508 - The Truth (1/2)
Seeing that the call was from Yi Yunrui, Xia Ning smiled sweetly and pressed the answering key, asking, “Dear, what are you doing?”
“Miss me?”
“Of course!” She surely missed her outstanding husband, “Have you been behaving yourself?”
Hearing that, Yi Yunrui chuckled, replying, “Dummy. I’ve just got the news that Huo Zhanpeng will hold a press conference at three this afternoon. Please get prepared.”
“Oh?” At three this afternoon? Xia Ning took a look at her watch and found that it was just about eleven. Generally, press conferences would be notified one or several days in advance. Huo Zhanpeng wanted to take them by surprise again, “OK, I see. Dear, what’s he going to announce in this press conference?”
“About He Yuan’s disfigurement. I may have to write something about you. No matter what you see or hear in the afternoon, forget it. Leave everything to me.”
Xia Ning pressed her lips. She knew Huo Zhanpeng would definitely do something!
It seemed that Huo Zhanpeng held a grudge against her as he had always been fighting against her.
It seemed that Yi Yunrui had got everything ready and all she had to do was to sit down and watch.
“Thanks, dear. And… I only have to wait here?” Actually, she really shouldn’t meddle in this. But as Huo Zhanpeng had been cornering her, she was really pissed off!
Yi Yunrui pondered. If it had been in the past, he would have surely not let his wife suffer in silence. But now as his wife was pregnant, what he feared most was an accident.
He wouldn’t have allowed his little wife to go to work if World Era Weekly hadn’t asked her to. Allowing her back to the media building was the last offer he could make.
“Yep, just wait here. I’ll work it out to your satisfaction.”
“Mmm.” Xia Ning let out a sigh, replying. And then she hung up the phone.
“Jing Shu, prepare for Huo Zhanpeng’s press conference at three this afternoon.”
Hearing Sister Xia’s words, Jing Shu goggled. And then she checked today’s schedule and found that there was no press conference today!
“OK. But the question is… Sister Xia, is it a temporary decision? There’s no press conference in today’s schedule…”
“I know. But Huo Zhanpeng is gonna make an issue of He Yuan’s matter, which may get me involved. Just be prepared and do not spill the beans.”
It was really provisional news! Commander Yi must have told Sister Xia about it through the phone call just now.
“OK. I’ll get started.”
Sure enough, at two o’clock in the afternoon, Jing Shu received an invitation from Tianyu Entertainment Company which asked World Era Weekly to attend the press conference an hour later.
Different from last time, this press conference was scheduled to be held in XX Hospital.
At three o’clock in the afternoon, the large ward was crowded with journalists, who were holding the flashes and cameras high. In front of the hospital bed lay a number of microphones.
The door of the ward was opened at ten to three. After entering the ward, the journalists saw that He Yuan was lying on the hospital bed. Her head was wrapped in bandages, showing only two eyes. If Huo Zhanpeng hadn’t sat beside her, none of the journalists would have believed that this was the charming star He Yuan.
Her head was wrapped in so many bandages that only a pair of eyes are exposed. One could imagine how badly He Yuan was injured.
The press conference began. Huo Zhanpeng held He Yuan in his arms. They remained silent for fully five minutes before Huo Zhanpeng started to speak.
“I can only say I’m sorry that He Yuan was injured like this.” And then Huo Zhanpeng told the journalists what happened that night, almost in tears.
Because he was so sad that when he went to the bar to get drunk and met a woman in a state of unconsciousness, He Yuan arrived. He saw He Yuan quarreling with the woman and then they started a catfight. Next, He Yuan chased the woman out of the VIP room.
When he sobered up and looked for He Yuan, he found that she was lying on the ground in a lane and he could hardly bear the sight of her face injury.
“It’s my fault. It’s all my fault. If I hadn’t gone to the bar that day, she wouldn’t have been hurt like that. Yuanyuan, I’m sorry!”
With this, Huo Zhanpeng held He Yuan close, sobbing, “Yuanyuan, no matter how bad you may look like in future or whether you will recover from your injury or not, I, Huo Zhanpeng, will love you forever! Yuanyuan, listen, I will never leave you!”
He Yuan’s shoulders trembled and she choked. They hugged each other close, which deeply moved the people around them.
Looking at the pair of “lovers” on the screen who burst into tears and seemed to meet again after surviving a great disaster, Xia Ning realized that this was just foreplay.
Yi Yunrui must be right. Huo Zhanpeng was putting on a bitter drama to make others take pity on them. After finishing paving the way for his scheme, he would target her.