Chapter 410: What Was Really at Stake
Ye Feimo was silent. Cheng Anya looked at him and spoke again. "Wen Nuan is just a twenty-one-year-old girl. She’s young and has dreams and talent. She loves her career, and you can’t have a bias against her because of other artists.
You can’t expect a girl in her twenties to stay by your side all day and be your trophy wife. Over time, you’ll be disappointed in her. Don’t think that just because you love Wen Nuan so much now, you’ll love her that much in the future. When a woman becomes your accessory, she loses herself. You’ll be like two parallel lines, growing farther and farther apart.
You’ll keep growing, but she’ll be stuck in the same spot. Think about it: when you come home from work, what will you talk to her about? You don’t have any common interests, and you’ll just talk about daily trivialities. Won’t you feel bored? Won’t you feel that this woman has lost her spark?
Your relationship will grow colder and colder, and you’ll grow more and more disappointed. So, Feimo, don’t be biased against a woman who has a dream. Wen Nuan loves acting and is wholeheartedly fighting for her dream. She’s better than you. What is your dream?"
Ye Feimo had no answer. Cheng Anya looked at him with sympathy. "My son, think carefully about what I’ve said. You both made mistakes to get to this point, but you have to take most of the blame."
Everyone knows the theory, but the important thing is the practice.
Ye Feimo knew that Cheng Anya was right, but he couldn’t stand the thought of Wen Nuan being an actress. He had a deep-rooted bias against actors, but even so, he had never stopped Wen Nuan. He had supported her unconditionally in whatever she wanted to do, but it was a different story whether that support was genuine.
Perhaps he really had been wrong.
Cheng Anya didn’t say anything else to him. Just as she was about to go inside, Ye Feimo called out to her. "Mom, seven years ago, why did you do that to Han Bi? What did she really do to me?"
Cheng Anya’s expression changed. Ye Feimo said calmly, "You said you wouldn’t tell me until I was in another relationship. Now I love Wen Nuan, and I’ve more or less let go of the past. Don’t you think you should tell me what happened? I don’t have any feelings for Han Bi anymore, but I still have this unresolved issue. I want to know what she did to make you go after her like that."
Cheng Anya led Ye Feimo to sit under a magnolia tree. Remembering the past, she still felt angry. "Feimo, I don’t want you to lose the last shred of positive feeling you have for Han Bi. She was, after all, a woman you once loved."
"I don’t care. My image of her is already ruined. What’s one more thing?" Ye Feimo said.
Cheng Anya sighed and nodded. "Do you remember seven years ago when you and Han Bi were shopping in the Jingsha District and you ran into Boss Jin? At the time, he was the king of the north side of the city. No one dared to mess with him. Anning Entertainment had a very close relationship with him, and many things were handled through him. He would name the artists he wanted, and I would give them to him. It wasn’t worth the trouble. Back then, the entertainment industry and the gangs were very closely linked, and this Boss Jin had a lot of power in the industry."
"I know. I ran into him. Later, he was taken over by the Dragon Gate. I thought it was strange that Dad and Uncle Tang would go to such lengths to take over a gang like that. I thought it was for the development of Anning Entertainment, so I didn’t think anything of it." Ye Feimo thought for a moment and asked Cheng Anya, "What does that have to do with Han Bi?"
"Han Bi had a few drinks and a meal with Boss Jin. He was very interested in her. At the time, Boss Jin wanted Han Bi, and I knew she was your girlfriend. At the time, she was still a good girl, and she wasn’t doing anything crooked, so I turned him down. It was a coincidence that she saw you and Han Bi go shopping. Boss Jin took an interest in you and went to Han Bi. He told her that if she was willing to exchange you for herself, he would let her go.
At the time, Boss Jin had a very bad reputation. He had ruined two out of three girls from a new group from Huayun and crippled the third. In the end, they found someone else to take the blame and nothing came of it. Boss Jin wanted Han Bi for a long time. At the time, I wasn’t paying much attention because of the Li Yun incident, but I later found out that Boss Jin put a lot of pressure and temptation on Han Bi.
Han Bi couldn’t take it and sold you out. She set you up to meet at the Jingtian Bar. Coincidentally, I had a car accident that day. You had just arrived at the bar, and Ah Chen called you. Even more coincidentally, Han Bi didn’t show up. Boss Jin overdosed on drugs and was taken to the hospital. He saw you at the hospital and saw you with Ah Chen in the hospital room, and he found out who you were. Boss Jin wouldn’t dare mess with the Ye family.
He told me the truth about what happened. I was so angry. I never dared to tell you about this because it was so disgraceful. For her own sake, for fame and fortune, for self-preservation, this woman was willing to sell you out. Why would she be worth all the sadness you’ve felt for her all this time? I know you loved her back then, and I never dared to tell you the truth, because I was afraid you would be too upset.
Even if you were sad about her, I wanted you to think that she had only left you for fame and fortune, not because she didn’t love you, but because she wanted to pursue her career. You’ve always been so stubborn. When you like someone, you’re all in, and I was afraid you wouldn’t be able to handle the truth and would do something foolish.
My good son, Han Bi is really not worth it. If you were a penniless kid today, she wouldn’t have come back for you. She wouldn’t even look at you on the street. What did you have back then besides your good looks? I know she once loved you, but after all these years, after all she’s been through, she knows what she wants.
She regrets leaving you, but she regrets the things that came with your identity, not you as a person. You’ve always been so proud, and I was afraid you would do something extreme if you found out the truth. I don’t care if the woman you’re with is talented, beautiful, or capable.
I just want a woman who loves you and gives you her all. That’s all I want. The rest doesn’t matter. I’ve always supported your relationship with Wen Nuan because I could see that she was sincere. Although I knew there were some problems between you, I thought you would be able to solve them. I never expected things to turn out like this."
Ye Feimo clenched his fists. His eyes were as dark as a bottomless pit. Han Bi sold him out to Boss Jin? If it weren’t for his mother’s accident, he might have gone through a heartbreaking experience seven years ago.
For her dignity, for her pride, and to protect him, his mother had kept it a secret all this time.
So that was the truth.