Su Ding saw Jin Ye's name displayed on the screen. After much deliberation, she picked up her phone and answered.
Her heart pounded.
"Hello?" His voice was deep, yet held a gentle quality.
"Mm..." Su Ding responded softly.
"Don't rush to refuse me. Give me time, okay?"
"..." Su Ding's face flushed crimson. Thankfully, they weren't face to face.
"Su Ding?"
"Mm, okay."
As soon as Su Ding shyly agreed, her mind exploded. What was she saying, ahhhh!
Jin Ye's lips curved into a satisfied arc. "Good girl."
Su Ding was so embarrassed she wanted to disappear immediately. She stammered, "Th-that, I have something else to do. I'll hang up now. Goodbye, Mr. Jin."
Without waiting for a response, she hung up the phone.
She clutched the phone tightly, breathing deeply, her mind replaying her own "okay."
Had she lost her mind?
She had explicitly said she wouldn't accept his proposal at noon. She was such a fickle woman!
Just then, her phone rang again.
She quickly looked at it, expecting it to be Jin Ye calling back. But it was Jin Xiaoxi.
As soon as she connected, she heard Xiaoxi's voice, hoarse and very dejected, as if wronged.
"Auntie..." Xiaoxi called out softly.
"What's wrong, sweetie?" Su Ding asked.
"I don't want to stay at home anymore. Can I stay at your place?" Xiaoxi asked in a pitiful, low voice, sounding a little uneasy.
Su Ding was stunned.
Why did Xiaoxi suddenly not want to stay at home?
"Did Xiaoxi argue with your daddy?" Su Ding asked gently.
"No, I just miss you and Xiao Rui," Jin Xiaoxi's grievance intensified upon hearing Su Ding's gentle voice.
Her daddy was too useless.
He couldn't even win over someone as good as Auntie, yet he was surrounded by bad women all day!
Hearing this, Su Ding's heart melted into a puddle. "Be good, darling. Auntie will pick you up to play when I have time. Aren't your grandparents back today? I heard you say they treat you very well."
"No! There's a bad woman!" Jin Xiaoxi was very resistant.
"A bad woman?" Su Ding paused for a few seconds. Almost instantly, Shao Lin's image flashed in her mind.
From their interactions over this period, she had indeed noticed that everyone implicitly acknowledged Shao Lin as the future Mrs. Jin.
After Jin Ye's outburst on set today, her reputation as a mistress was probably unavoidable.
Initially, it was because of Shao Lin that she felt a sense of resistance towards Jin Ye.
But now, after getting to know him, she felt Jin Ye was a good father and a charming man.
She wanted to follow her heart and be a little reckless.
What's more, a dark voice within her told her to snatch the man Shao Lin was desperately trying to flatter, to let Shao Lin also taste the bitterness of pain.
She had never forgotten the hatred from the past.
Su Ding hesitated for a few seconds. "Is the bad woman's name... Shao Lin?"