Chapter 81 - Lan Xin’s Conspiracy 3 (2/2)

When Lan Jinyao listened to these words, she silently sighed in her heart. Sure enough, she was still young and spoke so bluntly, seemingly not afraid of offending people.

Afterwards, when Lan Xin had gone to the bathroom, she insisted on dragging Lan Jinyao along. And, as soon as they got there, the favourable impression that Lan Jinyao had in her heart instantly vanished into thin air.

“Big Sis Meimei, since you’ve autographed my arm, I can now have it tattooed!”

The girl's sweet words had now become a very ironic joke.

In the mirror in front of the sink, that girl, who was brightly smiling a moment ago, was currently frowning and continuously scrubbing at the autograph on her arm with hand soap. The delicate skin on her arm was now red from all her scrubbing. While she was rubbing, she was softly murmuring, “What kind of ink was this? Why is it so difficult to scrub off? If I’d known earlier, I would’ve used an easier to clean gel ink pen.”

Lan Jinyao stared at Lan Xin with a complicated look on her face and softly asked, “You brought me here just to see this?”

Lan Xin lightly grunted before saying, “I can see that your character isn’t bad, so you’re a friend worth making. I wanted to remind you that in the entertainment industry, people’s hearts are sinister, so you shouldn’t let others step on you like that. That girl is so young yet so shrewd; I'm sure that she’s not a simple person. I bet that she must’ve wanted to use you as a stepping stone.”

When Lan Jinyao heard these words, the look in her eyes was conflicted. If she’d known Lan Xin from the beginning, then she wouldn’t have become like this now. It was only after she’d died that she finally managed to see certain people’s true colours.

But, things were different now; she wasn’t the same gullible person from before.

After hearing Lan Xin say those words, Lan Jinyao smiled and said, “It’s all right! If she wants to use me as a stepping stone, then so be it! As long as she has the ability to do so!”

Lan Xin seemed angered by her words. After stammering ‘y-you’ several times, no other words were uttered as she angrily turned around and left.

Lan Jinyao glanced at Xiaomin, who was vigorously scrubbing her arm, and a glimmer of light flashed through her eyes. Her lips then curled up in a smirk as she turned around and left.

When Lan Jinyao clocked off work, she saw a huge stack of papers and documents in Lan Xin’s backpack. She had wanted to immediately leave at first, but just as she was about to turn around, the three words ‘Shen Wei’an’ printed on a piece of paper sticking out of the bag caught her eye.

How long did it take for information to travel from the nerves of the eyeball to the brain?

It only took a second. Lan Jinyao instantly stopped moving and then she slowly walked towards Lan Xin’s backpack.

By this time, most of the girls in the group had already gone home. Lan Xin had gone to the bathroom, so only Lan Jinyao was left in the practice room. Lan Jinyao didn't stop and kept on walking until she arrived in front of Lan Xin’s bag one minute later.

She extended her hand and slowly picked up the stack of papers and documents, looking through them one by one. Some of them were old newspapers, some were pages cut out from magazines, but all of them were about Shen Wei’an.

Not long after, she saw a news clipping. The news clipping was a report on Shen Wei’an’s fall from the elevated platform. In the attached picture, Shen Wei’an’s head was marked by a red pen and was ruthlessly crossed out in the middle; it seemed that the tip of the pen had penetrated through the paper, leaving a hole in Shen Wei’an’s face.

Lan Jinyao’s hand that was holding onto the newspaper slightly tightened and complex emotions flashed through her narrowed eyes.

Lan Jinyao suddenly remembered the scene where Shen Wei’an had fallen from the elevated platform. At that time, Xu Hao had said that the wire had been tampered with by someone. In addition, on the video that Xu Hao had distributed, it was clear that there was another person present that day. Who on earth was that person?

When Lan Jinyao saw the news clipping, she finally understood something.

Soon after that, she quickly put the stack of documents back in their original place and left the practice room as if nothing had happened.