The Useless Stepmom Brings Her Kids to Reality TV Shows to Photograph Them - Chapter 177
177 The Most Beautiful Mother and Li Yanchen’s Sister-In-Law Fight With Each Other
At the entrance of Yun City Airport Hotel Ji Hanzhi leaned on a pillar. She was exhausted. She pulled the brim of her hat lower.
Later, when she met her daughters, she had to pretend to be happy.
She waited a while, then went upstairs. Her manager was playing with the two children.
“Mama!” They exclaimed when they saw their mother and ran to her.
!!
Her manager stood up. “You’re back. I’ll heat up a glass of milk for you.”
“Thank you, Lulu,” said Ji Hanzhi. She wanted to say something more, but she stopped.
Lulu was Ji Hanzhi’s manager and her personal assistant. She was also her best friend.
When Ji Hanzhi had made her debut in the show, she had called Lulu and offered her the job of being her manager. Lulu had quit her stable job at the bank and accepted the offer to work by Ji Hanzhi’s side.
Even though Ji Hanzhi smiled, Lulu could tell something was wrong.
“Tuan Tuan. Yuan Yuan. Let Mama rest for a while. I will help you shower and then you two go to bed, alright?” Lulu carried the two children in her arms.
“Alright,” they said. Tuan Tuan and Yuan Yuan nodded obediently, then kissed Ji Hanzhi on the cheek. “Mama, we’re going to take a shower.”
Ji Hanzhi leaned back on the sofa and looked at her private messages. Her head buzzed. She closed the bedroom door and called Du Xing.
“Sister Hanzhi, I thought you blocked me.” Du Xing was laid on her own bed, her feet swinging.
“Why didn’t you ask me before you posted the photos?” Ji Hanzhi asked.
“Sister, are you joking?” Du Xing laughed. “How can I ask you if you blocked me and my message wasn’t going through to you? Didn’t you willingly come with me to Chenxin to create a scandal?”
“You manipulated me. You lied to me. Now, my fans are asking me if I really want to be a mistress to a married man. Why would I ruin my reputation willingly and go to Chenxin?”
“You told me that Li Yanchen liked me. You begged me to help your three nephews. It’s because of you I was humiliated by Li Yanchen. Now, you are trying to create a rumor and pointing fingers at me!” said Ji Hanzhi.
Ji Hanzhi finally realized that she had been used. Du Xing had pretended to be worried about her nephews and lied to her about Li Yanchen’s feelings for her. She was just a tool that Du Xing had used to create a scandal.
“Du Xing, you’re the one who truly likes Yanchen, right? You intentionally used me to try to destroy the relationship between Li Yanchen and Lin Wan!”
“When you realized that Yanchen had no intention of leaving Lin Wan, you deliberately made this huge issue. Even if there was nothing between me and Li Yanchen, Lin Wan would still be suspicious because of the scandal.”
“Furthermore, you’ve intentionally misled the netizens with the headlines, causing Yanchen and my image to be damaged!” said Ji Hanzhi.
Du Xing’s phone was on speaker. She clicked her tongue at the long speech. She pushed her phone aside and ignored it.
Ji Hanzhi gritted her teeth in frustration. “You think Yanchen will just let this slide since you are his sister-in-law? All our conversations and exchanges have been recorded. You will also not be safe.” She hung up
Du Xing nonchalantly glanced at her phone and muttered to herself, “I’m not a public figure, anyway.”
In the middle of the night, there was a sudden change in the direction of the posts.
[The most beautiful mother and Li Yanchen’s sister-in-law fight with each other!]
[Is Ji Hanzhi a little child? Is she going to ignore all responsibility after everything has been exposed?]
[Doesn’t she have the basic logic of an adult? Even if Li Yanchen’s sister-in-law wanted her to meet him, why would she go willingly knowing he was a married man?]
[The funniest thing was that in the recording, the sister-in-law said that she was afraid that Lin Wan wouldn’t be able to take care of her three nephews and hoped that Ji Hanzhi could be the stepmother for her nephews. Ji Hanzhi actually agreed to help!]
[I am stunned! She has been caught wanting to be a mistress to break other people’s home and still acts like she was trying to be a savior!]
[If it was a man with no self-control, Ji Hanzhi appearing at someone’s door in this manner would have really destroyed someone’s family!]
[I suggest that we ban Ji Hanzhi.]
[This is so disappointing. I always thought she was so strong and inspirational, but this is her true color.]
Ji Hanzhi’s latest photo was also filled with negativity.
Lulu tried her best to contact public relations and have the news removed from the hot search. But no matter how much money she spent on it, the news kept pouring.
At the same time, calls from various stores and brands rang through the night.
Ji Hanzhi smashed the cup on the sink.
At the Royal Water Bay Villa., Lin Wan and Li Yanchen were aware of the uproar on the internet. They switched off their phones so that they wouldn’t be disturbed with random phone calls and went to shower.
That night, Lin Wan had a very strange dream. She saw Yang Ruoxi on an arched bridge, and she was on a ferry under the bridge. She desperately called to her friend but no matter how much she shouted, she had no voice.
When the alarm went off in the morning, Li Yanchen jolted awake. He saw Lin Wan’s squirming as though she was in pain.
He pulled her into his arms. “Wanwan! Wake up, Wanwan.”
She finally opened her eyes. “I saw Yang Ruoxi in my dream. She was standing on an arched bridge. I called her, but I couldn’t make a sound. I was on a wooden boat and asked the boatman to dock, but he didn’t listen to me. There was clearly a dock there, and I saw people washing clothes. There were also people burning coals on the riverbank.”
Li Yanchen had heard the name before. Lin Wan had said that she was her best friend. Now that she was in another world, Li Yanchen thought that “another world” meant that Yang Ruoxi was no longer around.
“Wanwan, you must’ve missed her too much.” He held her close to him and comforted her. He only let go when she had calmed down.
Li Yanchen helped Lin Wan change into her clothes and carried her to the bathroom to wash up before heading downstairs.
The three children had left early in the morning. They told Auntie Huang to inform their father that they would be back only at night.
While they were having breakfast, Lin Wan and Li Yanchen browsed through the news. They saw the latest development of a fight between Ji Hanzhi and Du Xing.
Lin Wan, who was feeling really down, finally smiled. “Didn’t you say they banded together? Just one night and they are at each other’s throats?”
Li Yanchen touched her nose. “Mrs. Li, are you gloating?”
“Yang Ruoxi used to say that you should never covet something that belongs to someone else. If you know it’s not yours but you still snatch it from others, it will haunt you night and day like a thousand claws scratching at your heart.”
“Does your best friend study philosophy? Her words are very wise. If she was still here, I would have liked to meet her,” said Li Yanchen.
“I miss her too. But… if I meet her again, it will mean I can’t be here with you.”
Lin Wan’s words were so strange that Li Yanchen was confused.
“Let’s not talk about her. Have you finished eating? We’ll leave after eating.” Lin Wan put down her chopsticks.
The two of them took the offerings that they had prepared and headed to the Lin family’s old residence.
