The Villainous Celebrity Wife of the CEO - Chapter 180.2

The nanny car soon drove into the underground garage. Su Jishi got off and took the elevator instead.

This high-class apartment was a one-elevator one-household. Swipe your card and go straight to the entrance of the corresponding door.

As soon as the elevator door opened, Su Jinqing, who was in the living room, heard the commotion. She didn’t even put on her slippers and greeted her excitedly.

“Sis!!!”

She had slept for more than ten hours in one breath, and now she looked much better than yesterday. If not for the evening activities, she could even have slept until tomorrow.

She opened her arms and flew over eagerly like a baby swallow.

The two sisters hadn’t seen each other for several months. Su Jinqing missed Su Jishi so much that when she woke up today, she fell into a trance and thought she had a dream. It was only after seeing her sister now that she felt sure.

When Su Jishi saw her face, she subconsciously took a step back and said, “You, don’t come over!” Su Jishi asked, “What’s wrong with your eyes?”

Su Jinqing had blue and a bright yellow eye respectively. She was wearing a white floor length dress. Seeing her like this, she resembled that odd-eyed cat that Xiao Xia had just mentioned.

Su Jinqing was shocked by her startled look and stammered for a long time before explaining, “What…You mean what happened to my eyes?…Oh! I have a show to record this afternoon. This is the look that Ashan designed for me, and I’m wearing contacts.”

Su Jishi stayed up all night recording another show, and her brain was a bit disoriented. After listening to her sister’s explanation, she reacted with hindsight.

Su Jishi asked, “Aren’t you going to take a break?”

“No.” Su Jinqing held her and said petulantly, “I’ve recovered now. You’ve already helped me once, Sister. I’d better take care of that activity by myself at night.”

Lin Yan and Ashan just then hurried from the living room, one carrying her slippers, the other holding lipstick and powder puff, both urging her to hurry back to her makeup.

Su Jinqing was a very busy person. Seeing this, Su Jishi did not exchange pleasantries with her, but only urged her to work well, and that they would have a good chat when she returned.

Su Jishi just got off the plane and recorded a show all night, so at this time, her sleepy bugs were also lying down. She was so sleepy that she could hardly tell east from west. She hastily removed her makeup, waved her hand and said, “I’m going to rest first —— By the way, which room do I stay in?”

She had lived in this house for more than half a year before, and was familiar with all the furnishings inside. But this time, when she entered the house, she found some more eye-catching items in the house: the men’s shoes in the entrance, the jacket hanging behind the door, the wind chimes made from bullet shells in the window… This one insignificant change was enough to explain something.

Although the house was large, the few other rooms had been converted into a study and a fitness room. There was only a master bedroom and a second bedroom. So before Su Jishi entered the house, she made it a point to ask where she would stay.

Su Jinqing didn’t dare to look at her, but her ears were red: “Sister, we’ll both stay in the main bedroom. Lin Yan has always stayed in the second bedroom.”

Hearing this unexpected answer, Su Jishi glanced at the man in surprise. However, the man’s eyes were glued on her sister and never left her for a second.

Su Jishi was too tired to think much about it. She yawned and said goodbye to her sister. She didn’t even last until her sister went out to work, before she fell headlong on the master bedroom’s king-size bed and fell into a deep sleep.

……

Su Jishi’s sleep was extraordinarily troubled.

The quality of her sleep had always been good, and she rarely dreamed. But today, she somehow had a weird dream, which she couldn’t break free from no matter what she did.

She dreamed…she dreamed that she had become a cat.

She had two black front paws, two black hind leg paws, and even her face was black.

She stared at her paws in the dream, licking non-stop. She kept thinking, her body was all clean, but why were her paws so black, ah?

With a small bamboo basket on her back and her hammer on her waist, she entered a cave with great enthusiasm —— There she saw all the ore crystals waiting to be mined around a cliff. She meowed and meowed, shook her tail and thought: I’m a mining cat!

So she worked diligently to dig up the mine.

One day while she was breaking a leg, she was kidnapped by a crested myna, which could bark, and a Doberman with a girlish heart.

They told her that her twin cat sister was missing. They wanted to give her a chance to go from being a coal digger to the most famous gang leader entertainer in the cat world!

From that day on, Su Jishi became a different person … correction, cat. She put on a soft snowy white long hair and began to imitate the missing odd-eyed Persian cat.

She had many, many fans, and one day a fan stopped her, handed her a letter, and told her shyly that she would always support her.

But just then, Su Jishi’s disguise suddenly disappeared!

She was no longer the white beauty with the odd-eyes, and reverted back to being a miner cat.

The fans were terrified and angry, pelting her with leftover fish bones.

At that juncture, the Persian cat, which she impersonated, jumped out and stood in her way, taking many attacks for her.

In the end, the beautiful Persian cat also got dirty.

“Get out!” But the fans didn’t stop. “You two big liars!!! The entertainment industry doesn’t need twins!!!”

And then…?

Then, Su Jishi woke up.

She jerked her eyes open and stared at the ceiling in disorientation.

The focus of her eyes gradually became clear. It was already sunset outside the window, and the afterglow of the sunlight spilled onto the floor, warming the house in the sun. Su Jishi rubbed her temples with a headache, and her brain was still in a state of confusion.

It was said that you’d dream about your thoughts during the day…She was so confused, mixing the words she heard before into her dreams.

She rubbed her long hair in frustration. She never thought that her self-confident self would one day look ahead and back.

She slept until dusk, but when she woke up, Su Jinqing still hadn’t returned.

Su Jishi got up from the double bed in a daze and first reached for her phone on the bedside table, only to find a man’s watch instead of her phone.

Su Jishi: “…”

She got out of bed to wash up, and she ended up finding a pair of electric toothbrushes and razors on the sink in the master bathroom.

Su Jishi: “…”

She concluded that even if her sister didn’t live with Lin Yan, they were definitely sleeping together!

She didn’t come back to be a light bulb. After ruminating about it, she thought she’d better move out. It happened that Mu Xiulun also had several houses in the same community. She would just ask Gao Ling for a door card later and just pick a house close by.

Su Jishi planned to make do with another night tonight, chat with her sister, and move out tomorrow.

……

She walked a few times around a big empty house alone, and when she felt bored from idleness, she turned on the TV to watch a program.

As it turned out, Channel A was playing Su Jin’s commercials; Channel B was showing a prime time hit TV series starring Su Jin; and Channel C was reviewing popular starlets… Su Jishi took the remote control and chose a round, getting a fuller idea of how famous Su Jin really was.

Su Jishi scrolled the Internet again and found that Su Jin’s Chaohua was discussing a list of awards that had been announced a while ago. Su Jin was nominated for Queen of Views for a drama with ratings breaking 2% on three networks. This was the first time she had been nominated for such a prestigious award. Whether she could win or not, the fact that she could step on the red carpet as a nominee was enough to make her fans happy.

At the same time, the rights to Su Jin’s variety show, Wilderness Winner, was also snapped up by several overseas TV stations. In fact, there was an international award in the variety industry, known as the Variety Oscars, and only South Korean variety shows in Asia had been nominated every year. But this year, Wilderness Winner came out on top and beat Korean variety shows in the online voting stage.

At this juncture, any little bit of black information that popped about Su Jin on the internet would be quickly extinguished by the PR team,and fans would spontaneously control the comments.

Su Jishi did not turn on the lights. She sat in the increasingly dark living room, quietly scrolling down the computer screen.

So far, she hadn’t discussed with her sister and manager about her decision to take off her vest[1] and apologize to her fans.

Su Jishi returned home on impulse. Everyone thought she was returning for a vacation, and only Mu Xiulun knew about her decision.

But now she was stumped again —— Revealing her identity would allow her to appear in the sun once and for all, without the fear of being stabbed one day; but on the other hand, she couldn’t predict what Su Jin’s fans would think, what the public would think, what her sponsors would think.

The worst outcome would be drastic plunging of her reputation and exorbitant claims from brands she advertised.

When Su Jishi talked to Mu Xiulun on the phone, she told him about her concerns.

Mu Xiulun reassured her, “If you really want to pay for it, I’ll pay for it.”

“Mr. Mu is so generous, that’s three billion,” Su Jishi said helplessly.

Mu Xiulun laughed: “When did I not give you enough three billion?”

Su Jishi thought to herself: since being together, how does this guy always find strange positions to drive the shock source of a car?

……

It was getting darker and darker.

Su Jishi sat in her empty home with the TV on mute. She hugged her legs and silently watched the Graduation Drama recorded last week.

As she expected, the program deliberately devalued Shi Xing and gave him only minimal screen time. He spent most of the time in the background, and the rest of the time with Shi Yang, as a foil to Shi Yang, highlighting the cloud and mud difference between the two brothers.

Su Jishi was so distracted that when the end credits came out, she snapped off the TV.

Twilight had come. The capital was heavily hazy, and everywhere was gray and dreary.

Su Jishi couldn’t help but think of the vast sea of stars like waves in the wilderness.

Seeing that the clock was approaching ten o’clock, and seeing that her sister was not yet home, she moved to give her a call…

Coincidentally, her phone rang at the same time.

It was just that the name on the phone wasn’t Su Jinqing, but Fang Xie

Su Jishi picked up the phone. She just said, “Hello”, but then the rest were swallowed back.

“——Sister Su, I’m outside the TV station with Sister Jinqing. Your father is blocking us.”

The phone in Su Jishi’s hand fell to the sofa with a thud.

Her head swam, and she subconsciously pinched her thigh.

Could it be that she was still trapped in the nightmare and hadn’t broken free?

Translator’s Musings: Time to face the music, Jishi!