Lin Mvci attended the movie premiere and planned to go home. Uncle Li came to pick her up, saying there were guests at home.
She felt a headache coming on.
Was it...
Yang Lanyin?
The Yang family had a marriage engagement with the Lin family. Although she had only just learned about this, she couldn't pretend she knew nothing.
Lin Mvci sighed.
She raised her head and looked at the villa gate, stepping into the house with the resolve to face another hell—only to hear…
Ling Qianhe’s pleasant conversation with her mother, Ms. Lin Cuiping?
"I bought Xiaoci an estate overseas. They can produce wine there, and vast fields of roses are planted. Auntie, do you like it?"
So...
He was trying to win over his future mother-in-law?
No, the estate was bought for her.
Lin Mvci stood frozen, momentarily unsure of what to do. Ling Qianhe, holding a cup of clear tea, had a faint smile in his eyes. The moment he saw Lin Mvci,
his gaze softened even more.
"Xiaoci?"
She walked over.
"Oh, it's you. Uncle Li was being so mysterious... I thought it was..."
"Cough cough."
She stopped abruptly. Ling Qianhe glanced at her, then leaned close to her ear and whispered in a breathy voice,
"What did you think it was? Who did you think had arrived?"
She was stunned. She certainly couldn't tell him the truth.
If she said she thought it was Yang Lanyin, Ling Qianhe would definitely fly into a rage.
Everyone knew Ling Qianhe was extremely possessive.
"It's just you, anyway."
Ling Qianhe nodded. He lowered his head and poured a cup of tea for Lin Mvci. His eyes were gentle, revealing the faint smile deep within. The tea leaves floated and sank in the teacup. He leaned close to Lin Mvci's ear and said in a low voice,
"Your mother likes me very much."
Lin Mvci sighed as she looked at him.
"Can you have some shame?"
Her mother had always been biased against Ling Qianhe!
Was he not afraid of divine retribution for saying such boastful words?
However, Ling Qianhe clearly was not afraid at all.
The next second, she saw her mother, Ms. Lin Cuiping, affectionately hold Ling Qianhe's wrist and say with deep affection,
"You must have something to say to Xiaoci. You two go upstairs. I'll prepare some food for you—oh dear, my cooking is just average, it's merely a token of my affection. You go upstairs."
Was this... urging them to have some alone time?
Lin Mvci was a little surprised.
Were these really words Ms. Lin Cuiping would say?
Had she perhaps swapped her mother?
But Ms. Lin Cuiping clearly meant it.
Her eyes were still full of smiles as she pushed Lin Mvci upstairs.
Ling Qianhe acted obediently, as if he were following his mother-in-law's orders.
But the moment they reached the room, Ling Qianhe immediately started smiling. He closed the door, and Lin Mvci suddenly felt a dangerous aura pervading the air. She nervously swallowed and coughed dryly,
"What... what do you want?"
Ling Qianhe's gaze fell on her.
Then he looked away.
"To discuss some important matters."
Lin Mvci desperately tried to figure out what important matters Ling Qianhe wanted to discuss. She had been well-behaved lately.
She hadn't flirted around with anyone, so why did Ling Qianhe have that jealous, icy expression?
She thought and thought, but still couldn't figure it out.
So Lin Mvci decided to take the initiative.
"Then why did you go looking for Xia Zhiqian? He's just a child, studying diligently. Going to find him will disrupt his normal life!"
Ling Qianhe chuckled enigmatically, his voice very soft.
"Will he be bothered?"
"He won't be bothered by anything."
Ling Qianhe was silent for a moment, then said,
"Xia Zhiqian is a smart, clever child. I like him very much. I think if we have a child in the future, they will definitely be more capable and stronger than him."
He could hint at other things, but when Lin Mvci heard Ling Qianhe mention having children, she coughed, touched her nose, and her voice immediately lowered,
"Child... children."
That was something they needed to wait for.
She really wasn't in a hurry!
Ling Qianhe clearly had no intention of pressuring her on this matter. After all, she was only twenty years old and a top female celebrity.
Although having children now wasn't impossible, he didn't want to force Lin Mvci.
Otherwise, he wouldn't have used contraception every time.
His body was fine.
They would have children eventually.
He leaned closer to Lin Mvci, carefully examining her face.
A hint of panic appeared on the young girl's face. She was like a naive deer in the forest. Even though she knew it was an illusion, the nervousness in her eyes still made Ling Qianhe happy.
Lin Mvci thought to herself that she absolutely couldn't let this yandere Ling Qianhe control her.
So she raised her eyes, glanced at Ling Qianhe, and continued to question him.
"Didn't you say you were going to find Franklin? To the underground research institute."
"Why did you meet Xia Zhiqian?"
"What about your friend, that mad scientist?"
Mentioning his friend, Ling Qianhe was silent for a moment, and then a faint light flashed in his eyes.
"I met him, but we didn't reach a consensus, and he has no intention of giving up his research on the super-serum."
"He's the kind of person who is willing to sacrifice everything for the science in his heart."
Lin Mvci felt a bit of a headache.
She knew that too.
But it was precisely because she knew that it gave her a headache.
This world was still an entertainment industry novel.
If she could dominate the world in the entertainment industry, she could clear the level. If there were any variables there, this good entertainment industry world might collapse into a doomsday instance.
How could she tolerate such a thing happening!
Her movie hadn't been released yet.
The hard work she filmed with Ling Qianhe hadn't been seen by the fans.
How could the world collapse!
So she looked at Ling Qianhe.
"If the serum he researched causes great chaos, do you have a way to stop... him?"
Ling Qianhe hummed.
His fingers gently touched Lin Mvci's hair.
His fingertips slowly traced her strands of hair with a touch of tenderness. As Ling Qianhe gently stroked her hair, her heart involuntarily fluttered.
Ling Qianhe leaned close to her cheek,
his tone as gentle as flowing water.
"But he's not that terrifying."
"Compared to some malicious scoundrels, Franklin is actually much simpler."
"He just doesn't know where to focus his energy. His father was a failed scientist who, due to a calculation error in an important experiment, was expelled from the university and lost his teaching position."
"From then on, all his efforts were focused on nurturing him. He had no childhood, only endless data for company."
"Later, he entered the research institute, betrayed his professor, and fled with the data. At a critical moment, I saved his life."
"That's why he considers me a friend."
This was Franklin's past.
It was the so-called character background.
This was information the system should have given her, but hearing it from Ling Qianhe was just as good. Lin Mvci listened attentively and suddenly asked him,
"Then—"
"Why did he betray his professor at the research institute back then?"
She hadn't carefully considered this plotline before. Thinking about it seriously, it seemed to hide many secrets.
She now roughly understood that Franklin was a potential villain. Since Ling Qianhe wasn't being the villain, someone else had to take his place.
This was similar to Bai Jian taking over his fate of being imprisoned.
However, Bai Jian's fate...
She had changed that too.
Franklin... shouldn't be unchangeable, right?
She was still thinking carefully about these matters related to the mission and the world line.
Meanwhile, Ling Qianhe's hand had, without her realizing, quietly touched her waist—Lin Mvci coughed heavily, and heard his voice, deep and laced with a smile,
"Xiaoci isn't someone who's ticklish, is she?"
Lin Mvci wanted to sigh again.
"I'm afraid of someone losing their beastly nature. I'm abstaining."
Ling Qianhe's hand rested on her waist, and then Lin Mvci heard him continue,
"The reason Franklin betrayed the research institute is simple. He couldn't stand a bunch of idiots being above him."
"Listening to those he deemed fools give him orders, and perform experiments he believed were impossible."
"Hearing them boast about their ridiculous scientific achievements was, for Franklin, an extreme form of torture!"
Lin Mvci was stunned again.
Torture...?
Listening to others talk nonsense was torture?
That was indeed quite eccentric.
"Can I go and see Franklin then?"
Persuading villains to turn back to the righteous path was a task she was all too familiar with.
Since the movie was filmed and the album was released, Lin Mvci thought it was time to do something important.
The prerequisite was...
Ling Qianhe wouldn't be jealous.
He would cooperate with her obediently!