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Yun Zhi Yue entered the room and glanced at the Cloud Table Lamp glowing on the coffee table, a faint smile appearing on her face. Yun Xiaoxiao was not a bad sister when she wasn't trying to take advantage of her.
As she approached the lamp, just about to head upstairs, Jian Qinzhi came down the stairs and said, "Let's chat for a bit." It was clear that he wasn't giving her a chance to refuse.
Yun Zhi Yue followed him back to the sofa and sat down. "Jian Shu, do you really enjoy late-night conversations? This is the second time I've run into you awake at this hour. I'm exhausted; I have so many worries on my mind that I just want to sleep."
"What's one more moment? You've been coming home late lately. How's everything going with your work?"
Yun Zhi Yue shook her head with a gloomy expression. "Not great. It's been a series of setbacks and humiliations. In a month, my resources will drop significantly, and I’ll definitely end up trending for all the wrong reasons."
"Why did you choose to become a star?" Jian Qinzhi asked.
"Because I want to save Nie Yi," Yun Zhi Yue blurted out without thinking.
Jian Qinzhi raised an eyebrow but didn't seem surprised. "Elaborate."
Yun Zhi Yue cast him a sidelong glance but didn’t hold back. "Not long after leaving the Jian Family, I took a job at a golf course. The people who go there are usually well-off. Nie Yi also worked there, but his job involved taking hits."
She sighed deeply, memories flooding back to the past involving the Puppet Body.
Her first encounter with Nie Yi was when he was being severely beaten, but she hadn’t dared to intervene because those people were either rich or powerful. It wasn’t until later that she learned Nie Yi had accidentally spilled a drink on a wealthy heir while working. The heir had retaliated by beating him up first before demanding an apology. When Nie Yi refused, he became their target for bullying.
At that time, despite her fear, she felt they were going too far; they didn’t even regard Nie Yi as human. It was just a wet shirt—did it warrant such torment? Nie Yi never fought back; he always ended up covered in bruises. Back then, she didn’t realize he was intentionally provoking them.
Eventually, she tried to reach out to Nie Yi. While she couldn’t solve his problems, she could at least offer him some care. Gradually, he began to talk to her more often.
Perhaps it was compassion or empathy that made her think of herself when she heard about Nie Yi’s mother passing away and his father abandoning him.
Her birthday coincided with her mother’s death anniversary; her parents’ resentment towards her led them to ignore her completely.
Their friendship grew warmer as they became closer, providing each other with solace in their shared struggles.
After Nie Yi was knocked unconscious again, she mustered the courage to approach Court Owner, hoping to have Nie Yi quit his job. Court Owner said that as long as she could provide him with ten thousand within a week, he would help resolve the situation for Nie Yi.
Jian Qinzhi recalled what Yun Zhi Yue's agent had said about the ten thousand in the Betting Agreement, and everything clicked into place.
"So you sold yourself to save someone whose background you didn't even know? How clever," Jian Qinzhi remarked seriously.
Yun Zhi Yue sighed in resignation. "I realize now how foolish I was, but at that time, all I wanted was to save him. After signing the Betting Agreement with the Entertainment Department, I managed to pull Nie Yi out."
"I thought he was homeless, so I worked and studied while taking care of him. I never expected anything in return; I just felt he shouldn't be living in such a desolate state."
Even when I had only a piece of bread for lunch, I would share half with him. This way of living continued for a while until one day he suddenly disappeared without a word.
Yun Zhi Yue chuckled self-deprecatingly.
"I wasn't angry; I just felt a bit lost, thinking that at least he should have said goodbye. Even though that fifty thousand plunged me into hardship, I didn't hate him because it was my choice."
But then he appeared before me, impeccably dressed and looking down at me from a position of superiority, and it completely shattered my composure.
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