Chapter 15

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

Ming Dai entered the house with the soy sauce, two yuan, and three days of medicine.

Yu Ting said that she came back late and was cursing non-stop. She did not notice that there was a small bag of medicine beside the soy sauce.

Ming Dai did not say anything. She poured herself a glass of warm water and prepared to take her medicine.

Yu Ting, who was in the kitchen, seemed to have eyes on the back of her head.

“What are you doing? Didn’t I tell you to wash the clothes in the toilet?”

“In a minute.”

Ming Dai opened the medicine bag without looking up.

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!

The thin anti-theft door was smashed loudly!

Ming Dai guessed who it was and did not move.

She took a sip of warm water to moisten her throat and was about to pour the pill into her mouth—

“Who’s knocking on the door? Ming Dai, don’t you have ears? Are you being lazy again?”

Ming Dai glanced at the pill and put it down helplessly. She went to open the door for the time being.

Just as the door opened a crack, a figure rushed in impatiently.

When the other party saw Ming Dai, he immediately questioned her.

“Ming Dai! How could you run away halfway! Do you know how big of a chance you’ve missed!”

There was resentment, frustration, and disappointment on his face. In the end, they all turned into dissatisfaction and poured towards Ming Dai.

Before Ming Dai could react, Yu Ting rushed out of the kitchen.

The sharp voice almost overturned the ceiling.

“What? You ran away halfway? Ming Dai, didn’t you say that the director didn’t like you? How dare you lie to me?”

Ming Dai thought to herself, I didn’t say that. You assumed it yourself.

Kang Ren, who was at the side, rolled his eyes.

He suppressed his anger and advised earnestly,

“Ming Dai, why did you lie? The director likes you so much! Even though you ran away halfway, he asked me to pass a message to you. He said that as long as you change your mind, you can go back at any time! Look at how much he respects you!”

Then, he sighed at Yu Ting.

“Auntie, you don’t know how difficult it was to get into the audition list when we have no connections! I spent a lot of effort trying to get my ex-friends to help me, but Ming Dai ran away just like that… Of course, it was a given on my part. I don’t mean to blame Ming Dai. I just feel that it’s a pity to miss such a good opportunity.”

“Kang Ren, even your kind aunt knows about it! It’s Ming Dai who doesn’t know what’s good for her and wasted your good intentions. I’ll teach her a lesson! By the way, can she still act in that movie?”

Ming Dai looked at them quietly.

She realized that she was really muddle-headed in her previous life.

Kang Ren’s clumsy acting skills and calculations, and the fanaticism for money in Yu Ting’s eyes. She had actually missed these signs.

Instead, she believed Yu Ting’s words that her family was doing this for her own good. She let Kang Ren take care of the company’s finances.

Now that she thought about it, with Kang Ren’s shareholding in the company, how could he buy a villa and a sports car in just two to three years? Where did this money come from?

Ming Dai pursed her lips imperceptibly.

Now that Yu Ting and Kang Ren finally focused their firepower on her, Ming Dai automatically switched to an aggrieved expression.

—Her acting skills were average, but it was enough to deal with the two people in front of her.

“It wasn’t like that, Mom.”

She defended herself in a weak voice, looking like an obedient child who listened to her mother as usual.

“I left because… that production team seemed indecent.”

“Indecent?”

Yu Ting’s anger was suppressed by the pause button.

She quickly thought of some bad rumors in the entertainment industry and her face gradually turned green.

These reactions were all within Ming Dai’s expectations.

Not only her, but Kang Ren also understood what Yu Ting cared about the most.

“No, Auntie!” He hurriedly explained, his voice almost breaking. “This is definitely a misunderstanding! They are a proper production team! They have a record! Ming Dai, how could you fabricate these words to lie to your mother? This is too much!”

Yu Ting looked at Ming Dai again.

Ming Dai was calm and composed. “Is that so? But when I went to the washroom, I heard someone chatting. They said that the content of this film might require me to take off my clothes… Mom, I don’t want to be a bad girl!”

It had nothing to do with Ming Dai’s own thoughts.

It was because she had been ordered by Yu Ting since she was young— she could not wear a short skirt, make shady friends, or talk to male classmates… Otherwise, she would not be a good girl.

Ming Dai followed Yu Ting’s train of thought and hit the nail on the head.

“What? Take off her clothes? How can she do that! If she filmed such a movie, how would Ming Dai be able to get married in the future? She would definitely be criticized by her in-laws! She would never be able to raise her head!”

However, Kang Ren knew a little about the movie’s content and could not refute it at all.

After hesitating for a long time, he could only squeeze out a sentence.

“We won’t let Ming Dai take it off. It’s the other actresses…”

Halfway through his sentence, Ming Dai knew that it was settled.

She could not help but sigh in her heart. The current Kang Ren was indeed too young. If it were him a few years later, he would definitely be able to brag and coax Yu Ting into agreeing, instead of telling the truth like now…

Yu Ting had completely changed sides!

She resolutely refused.

“No! If word gets out, it’ll be a disgrace to the Ming family! Ming Dai’s father will definitely scold me when he comes back!”

In front of Ming Dai, Yu Ting was sharp-tongued. However, she was obedient to her husband and Ming Dai’s adoptive father. She acted as if her husband was the heavens and did not dare to anger Ming An because of this!

Hence, no matter what Kang Ren said next, she no longer believed him.

In the end, Kang Ren had no choice but to give up. He rejected Yu Ting’s invitation to stay for dinner and left dejectedly.

Before he left, he still refused to give up on Ming Dai, the money tree. He pulled Yu Ting and said earnestly,

“If it doesn’t work this time, there will be a next time! I’ll ask my other friends and find a better production team!”

“We’ll see next time.”

Yu Ting smiled and patted his hand.

When the door closed, Yu Ting’s expression immediately changed.

“What celebrity? Your cousin is indeed unreliable!” He glanced at Ming Dai and reprimanded her. “Don’t think about this in the future! Focus! Study hard in your third year of high school! Hurry back to school after the meal!”

“Okay.”

Ming Dai, who was used to Ting’s accusations, nodded.

She took the medicine first, then went into the toilet to wash the clothes and dry them.

At this moment, Yu Ting’s food happened to be placed on the table.

It was a simple meal with mainly vegetarian dishes. There was some minced meat in the meat dishes, and the vegetarian dishes were the vegetables that could not be used in the stall. Yu Ting felt that it was a pity to throw them away, so she simply left them for her family to eat.

Actually, it was more like she left them for Ming Dai and herself. If Ming An was at home, he would definitely not be eating such rotten vegetables.

However, Ming Dai was already used to this kind of bias.

After dinner, she returned to her room. Being here for the first time in ten years, she felt an inexplicable nostalgia—

The house was small, so the room could only accommodate a bed and a desk. Standing at the window, she could even smell the stench of the gutter downstairs. It was really different from the house she would live in in the future.

But at the same time, the bed was fluffy and warm, and the clothes were neatly folded. There was a pot of green radish in front of the window, and the desk was covered with a green checkered tablecloth. There were celadon bowls on the table with lotus flowers that she had picked up from the park.