CH 322

Adopting and Raising the Male Lead and the Villain 322

Blood veins slowly appeared in Li Jinyuan’s eyes, making them seem even more fierce.

Ling Lan was still waiting for Li Jinyuan to take the initiative to ask her what happened to make her look this way.

The original story was single-sided after all.

It only described Li Jinyuan as a warm gentleman who was black-bellied and domineering in his bones and held great possessiveness towards the female lead.

Therefore, Ling Lan only saw those traits.

But it didn’t write about how Li Jinyuan had long transcended the black-belly realm. His dark side was very shrewd, indifferent, and with no morals whatsoever.

Ling Lan wasn’t able to wait until Li Jinyuan spoke and was met with his cold gaze as a result.

Ling Lan felt her heart skip a beat. “M-Mr. Li?”

Li Jinyuan finally spoke, “You silently walked behind me and secretly looked at my phone, which are both very disrespectful actions. Hasn’t your agent taught you not to casually offend your seniors?”

Ling Lan was shocked, but her reaction wasn’t slow and quickly began apologizing, “I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to look at your phone. I only…”

“What do you want to say to me?” Li Jinyuan interrupted.

Ling Lan swallowed, feeling strange. This world wasn’t like the story at all…

But she still spoke, “Shao Mingming’s making things difficult for me. I-I also have no way… Mr. Li, can you…”

There was a part in the original story like this.

Wen Yongchen’s ex-girlfriend, Shao Mingming, made things difficult for Ling Lan, ruining her dress and shoes for an event the next day. In the end, she relied on Li Jinyuan and got many brand name dresses and shoes, immediately retaliating and face-slapping Shao Mingming.

But Li Jinyuan only found this all too funny.

Ling Lan should’ve long known about the story, or else she wouldn’t continuously forcefully establish a relationship between the two of them without any prior interactions.

Since she knew the plot, why didn’t she use this ability to avoid all the disasters and use her own ability to seize opportunities, to audition, to sharpen her acting skills, to shoot good dramas and films, and eventually gain the position she originally got in the original story?

Why did she come to him?

Can she not live without a male lead?

Li Jinyuan didn’t bother hiding his knowledge and coldly said, “Do you want me to sympathize with you and pity you? Then send someone to get you clothes and shoes? … Everything in the original story is dead. Humans are alive. Humans cannot be forcibly controlled. Did you think that if you continued acting according to the original story, I’d eventually be led to follow it?”

Ling Lan was completely stunned. “… Y-You also know… you also know the story…?”

“I do.” Li Jinyuan’s gaze landed on the car coming towards him, not even bothering to look at Ling Lan.

“Then why don’t you…”

Li Jinyuan opened the car door and finally glanced at her, lowering his voice to say, “Do you like being manipulated and being forced to follow a predetermined trajectory? You might like it, but I don’t. If someone can only climb to the top using their halo and plot, then they are a complete idiot.”

After Li Jinyuan finished, he got in the car.

This was probably the harshest thing he had ever said.

Li Jinyuan secretly thought that if Huanhuan knew what he said, she would probably think that he’s not a gentleman, but a completely straightforward man!

The driver started the car, but Ling Lan grabbed onto the car window from outside.

Her face was alternating between red and white, hoarsely asking, “Why?”

“In the original story, the author only wrote that Li Jinyuan was from an orphanage and had a handsome appearance, wealth, status, and popularity when he grew up. He knew many things and was a gentlemanly and warm person. All of his other experiences and thoughts were very vague. Seeing those, I only feel disgusted.” Li Jinyuan curled up his lips. “But when I thought about how the real me was the one Zhong Yuhuan brought home. Because she brought me back, I was able to experience the ups and downs of life. And it was because of her that I learned a bit of everything. This makes me feel like a real person. From the start, I am not the Li Jinyuan in the book. I am the Li Jinyuan of Zhong Yuhuan.”

Ling Lan was stunned in place.

Li Jinyuan pressed the button and the car window quickly went up.

Ling Lan hurriedly took her hands away in fright.

He isn’t the Li Jinyuan in the book…

He is Zhong Yuhuan’s Li Jinyuan…

Ling Lan covered her face and squatted. Then what about her? Who was she? The Ling Lan of her previous life who was destined to die full of regrets? Or the Ling Lan of the story who had everything? No, no, she’s not going to be the Ling Lan of her previous life. She’s never going to be that Ling Lan again!

Inside the car.

Li Jinyuan took out his phone and called Zhong Yuhuan. “Can I bring you a lava cheesecake?”

“Sure!” she replied. In the background, he could hear the sound of a game.

Li Jinyuan happily smiled. “Okay, wait at home.”