Feng Yuting walked away.
He was desperate, angry, and indignant.
But Lin Muci couldn't be bothered to care if he was losing his mind.
She walked back, and when her phone rang, she casually answered it. Ling Qianhe's cool voice came through the earpiece.
"Feng Yuting came to see you?"
"I saw the news, he drove to your school to block you..."
"Don't worry, I won't give him another chance to approach you."
Ling Qianhe's words were resolute. Lin Muci guessed that he probably had some way to cause trouble for Feng Yuting's projects. She hummed in acknowledgment, and then Ling Qianhe paused before saying,
"I'm filming on set, everything is going smoothly. Be careful on your end."
Lin Muci couldn't help but pout.
"There's nothing I need to be careful about, right?"
Ling Qianhe chuckled.
"You?"
"Of course, you need to be careful. In the next couple of days, Mrs. Ling is very likely to come to you. She'll probably offer you a price to seduce me and then conceive a child."
Lin Muci was bewildered.
"Why is she still not giving up?"
"Her son is infertile, can't she just accept fate? Why does she have to pin her hopes on you?"
Ling Qianhe explained calmly.
"A significant portion of the Ling family's assets is managed through family trusts. And for these family trusts, the most important thing is to have heirs. If there are none, she won't get the money, and her own status in the Ling family will become unstable."
"Ling Wanli can't have descendants, so naturally, she can only set her sights on me."
"As long as I have a child, I'll have no more use to her, and she can kill me."
"Then she won't have to live in constant fear, day and night, worrying that I'll avenge my mother and ensure she dies a terrible death, or constantly needing therapy just to get through a few days of peace."
"She's like a bowstring stretched to its limit, ready to snap at any moment!"
"So naturally, she has to find every way to make me die."
"Between Mrs. Ling and me, it's a life-or-death struggle. She wants to kill me, so why wouldn't I want to kill her?"
Such calculations.
Spoken by him so lightly.
In the Ling family, he had never felt any warmth. It was always a step-by-step battle for survival. How could he show mercy to his enemies?
It would be good enough if he didn't annihilate them completely.
Lin Muci coughed, "You, you, why are you telling me this?"
Ling Qianhe, however, said,
"I have a good idea."
"You can temporarily agree to her."
Lin Muci looked confused.
"Me? I agree to Mrs. Ling?"
What kind of nonsense was this? If she agreed to Mrs. Ling, wouldn't that mean she'd have to have a child with Ling Qianhe? Lin Muci thought about it more and more, feeling something was amiss.
Ling Qianhe on the other end chuckled and brainwashed her.
"We're going to be together eventually anyway."
"When people are together, they should experience some... intense, beautiful things."
"That way, we'll have a child sooner or later."
"Since it's going to happen anyway, why don't we join forces and extort a sky-high price from Mrs. Ling?"
"It's like using something we have to do anyway to get a huge fortune, draining Mrs. Ling. Once you have my baby, Mrs. Ling will have nothing."
"Her little tricks won't work. We can protect our child."
"Can't we?"
Lin Muci still felt something was very wrong.
"No... that's not how it works, is it?"
"Wait a moment, didn't you say you were taking medicine..."
She remembered that Ling Qianhe had taken medicine to prevent Mrs. Ling from using his sperm for IVF!
Ling Qianhe replied without hesitation,
"Stopped."
"I actually know that Muci sister came to save me, so of course, I want to be with Muci sister. I want you to have my child, that way, you won't be able to bear to leave."
"I want to tie you down with a child."
"One Ling Qianhe isn't enough, a bunch of little Ling Qianhes, little Lin Mucis, that should be enough, right?"
Lin Muci gasped upon hearing his bold and candid words!
The system's voice even trembled, "Wow, host, he's so audacious! He's really... too calculating!"
"He's actually hatching this plan, wanting to trap you!"
Lin Muci still felt something was amiss.
Wait... wait a minute.
"Who wants to have your child? Have you asked my feelings?"
Ling Qianhe, on the phone, seemed to sigh softly.
"So you still don't love me. You still prefer other men. What, do they have something attractive about them, or have I done something wrong? I can change!"
Lin Muci heard Ling Qianhe's voice.
It transmitted deeply through the phone, but it gave her a headache.
"I can change, until Muci sister is satisfied."
The point wasn't even this.
Wait—wait a minute.
Lin Muci's head was spinning from him.
"Don't do anything rash!"
Ling Qianhe, however, understood the essence of negotiation perfectly, truly living up to his reputation as a genius who had actually taken control of the Ling family in just a few years.
"Or do you want me to have children with other women?"
"Of course, I definitely wouldn't do that."
"If one day I wake up and find myself drugged and lying with another woman, my innocence lost."
"I would definitely commit suicide!"
"My heart, my body, only belong to Muci sister!"
Lin Muci sighed to the heavens.
He's gone mad, Ling Qianhe, this wild wolf cub has completely lost his mind!
How could he be so insane?
Lin Muci gave a bitter smile, lowered her head, and tried to negotiate with him properly.
"Ling Qianhe, be good."
"Let's talk about this in a few years, okay?"
Ling Qianhe asked her.
"How long will that take?"
"When your body turns twenty, we can get married, okay?"
Lin Muci stammered.
"Too... too fast!"
By the time this body turned twenty, she didn't even know if she could reach thirty percent global fame... Before her sub-world fame was high enough, she wouldn't consider going public with Ling Qianhe.
What did the system say earlier about his world fame?
【Reporting to host, it's ninety percent~ I think you can announce your marriage when your fame reaches sixty or seventy percent, which would probably boost it by about ten points.")
The system actually calculated it for her.
Lin Muci put on a stern face, took a deep breath, and warned him seriously.
"Don't have any ulterior motives towards me..."
"Don't... don't drug me!"
"Don't have any wild thoughts, that having a child can tie me down and make me never leave. Ling Qianhe, do you hear me? If you have such thoughts towards me, I will be truly angry!"
The man on the phone even had a ridiculously doting laugh.
His voice was magnetic.
He laughed gently.
"Okay. I understand."
"Don't worry, I won't make things difficult for you, Xiao Ci."
He pondered for a moment, then the man spoke softly and gently.
"I know."
"If I'm not mistaken, you won't have any feelings for this entire world. You might just be a task executor without any emotions."
"But, are you willing to have your heart moved for me?"
"Can you stay for me?"
"I will always love you."
His voice was deep, as if it could seep into one's heart little by little. Lin Muci's heart fluttered. She lowered her head and said softly,
"I... I need to go to sleep."
She was also a little afraid of disappointing Ling Qianhe.
But the man on the phone didn't push any further.
"Goodnight."
"My Muci baby, sleep tight."
...
Lin Muci said she was going to sleep, but she was so excited she was rolling around in bed. Even the system couldn't stand it.
"Is it that serious, host?"
"You know who Ling Qianhe is! If you waver, he'll only push his luck, having two kids in three years!"
"Aren't you still trying to increase your world fame?"
Lin Muci was silent.
She calmed down, flipped out the script, and planned to use reviewing the script to calm her mind.
Her next play was confirmed to be "I'm Thriving in the World of Scum Abuse."
She would join the crew after her exams, so time was tight. Moreover, Ling Qianhe and Hanks had already joined the crew, meaning the time for her to get into character was even shorter. She read the script line by line, then communicated with the system.
"I want to enter the acting space."
"Of course. However, this script really has high demands on acting. You'll be acting with two movie kings, tsk tsk tsk, I'm worried you'll be crushed by the emotions."
The character she played, Ye Ling, was a ruthless one.
Indeed, she completely abandoned personal emotions for the sake of executing her mission, prioritizing her own interests in all matters.
Only such a cold and heartless woman could counter-abuse scumbags!
In fact, this character had a lot of Lin Muci's shadow.
Lin Muci felt she was completely acting in her true colors.
As she read the script, she felt deeply moved. Every scumbag was simply... to the point where one wanted to tear them apart with their bare hands.
Whether it was the scum dog emperor who personally sent his beloved to be tortured by others.
Or the space marshal who watched his lover being devoured by insectoids.
And the young wolf dog who sacrificed his movie queen sister to a big shot to climb up in the entertainment industry—each one was more inhuman than the last.
Without any bottom line.
Infuriating!
Lin Muci looked at the script and thought of the WeChat message He Yunru had sent her.
She felt that these three scumbags weren't the worst, and planned to add a king of scumbags who was a playboy to the script...
She couldn't imagine how bad that would be.
The system mumbled.
"No matter how difficult it is, Ling Qianhe can play any role. Various scumbags, he can do them with ease, without any obstacles."
"Honestly, I'm quite curious, what kind of portrayal will his scumbag be?"
What it would be like, she could only find out once she joined the crew!
Lin Muci rolled around a few more times and fell into a deep sleep. She still had to prepare for her exams.
Whether Ling Qianhe played a scumbag.
She didn't care!
As for having children... if she had insomnia, it was his fault!