Chapter 25

What Ji Linyu said was that he didn’t want anything from her, he just wanted her eyes to be better. Before that, he would always be there for her.

Zhu Xinyue couldn’t believe that there would be such a person in the world.

At least apart from her mother in her original world, she had never encountered a second person who would be unconditionally kind to her.

Perhaps she was forcing herself not to believe.

As long as she didn’t believe it from the beginning, even if he eventually broke his promise, she wouldn’t be too disappointed, and she wouldn’t be hurt. 

People always say nice things, but the ones who are the first to trust are always the ones who get hurt in the end.

The “Peach Blossom Spring” crew had an incident that caused a great stir outside.

Besides finding doctors for Zhu Xinyue, Ji Linyu was busy with the follow-up public relations after the accident, after all, this was also a project invested by Jinhuan Group.

After Zhu Xinyue became blind, she changed hospitals several times and finally returned to the hospital in Tianze City. Liang Yuyu specially flew to Tianze City to visit her and brought her the latest developments in the accident investigation.

“This wasn’t an accident. It’s man-made.” Liang Yuyu sat beside the hospital bed and told Zhu Xinyue. His agent was handing his business card to Ji Linyu sitting in the living room.

Zhu Xinyue was the biggest victim in this accident. Except for her, everyone else managed to evacuate from the fire zone in time. At most, they were hit by the iron chains and suffered minor injuries, or they were scalded by flames, which could be treated with cold water or burn ointment, none of it was severe.

“Who did it?” Zhu Xinyue vaguely guessed it was deliberate because the accidents in novels and this one were different, but they targeted the same people—Ji Qingyuan, Jiang Rui, and Liang Yuyu. If they couldn’t avoid it, they were the most likely to be injured, especially in a fire accident, which could easily disfigure them.

For an actor, that might mean the end of their career.

“…” Liang Yuyu hesitated, reluctant to speak.

If it hadn’t been for the camera filming behind-the-scenes footage, capturing everything, Liang Yuyu probably wouldn’t have imagined someone being so ruthless.

Liang Yuyu was also scared.

In the video, when the chandelier fell, Liang Yuyu wasn’t in the central area, but he was the closest person to Ji Qingyuan and Jiang Rui at the time. His first reaction to danger was to protect himself, to move away from the danger source, which was his survival instinct.

However, Ji Qingyuan’s first reaction was to protect the actors around him.

In addition to Ji Qingyuan, there was Zhu Xinyue, who was originally in a safe area but bravely rushed into the fire to protect Ji Qingyuan and Jiang Rui as they evacuated.

There was no comparison without injury. Fortunately, Ji Qingyuan and Jiang Rui were fine. Otherwise, Liang Yuyu’s behavior of running away driven by the instinct of survival would definitely be condemned.

Although self-protection is human nature.

“Teacher Liang, I’m blind, don’t I have the right to know?” Zhu Xinyue smiled self-deprecatingly.

Liang Yuyu took a deep breath and said, “It was Jiang Rui’s black fan. He got a job badge from the props team and deliberately installed a timer during the set arrangement. He thought… I had a relationship with Jiang Rui, and after turning from a fan to a hater, he wanted to destroy her.”

After finishing the final scene, Zhu Xinyue changed her clothes and came out. She saw Jiang Rui and Liang Yuyu embracing each other. The system suddenly came online and told her about today’s accident. At that time, Zhu Xinyue had a vague guess that the accident might be related to them, and sure enough…

“I’m sorry.” Liang Yuyu felt guilty. Although this matter had little to do with him, he was still very sorry. Looking back, it was because he didn’t handle his relationship with Jiang Rui well.

Zhu Xinyue leaned back onto the pillow, but her head accidentally hit the wall behind her, making a “bang” sound.

Liang Yuyu quickly got up to touch her head, “Are you okay?”

He got up in a hurry, and even the chair under him was toppled down, making a loud noise. Zhu Xinyue, who couldn’t see anything outside, was startled and almost jumped off the bed.

Ji Linyu outside heard the movement and immediately walked into the room, frowning at Liang Yuyu, “What’s going on?”

Liang Yuyu was about to explain, but Zhu Xinyue thought Ji Linyu was talking to her just now and said, “I accidentally hit my head.”

Ji Linyu realized that the tone he had just used with Liang Yuyu wasn’t very good. He pursed his lips and walked toward Zhu Xinyue, taking Liang Yuyu’s place.

Liang Yuyu didn’t know what was going on either. When he saw Ji Linyu coming over, he instinctively avoided and stood at the end of the bed, watching Ji Linyu gently rub Zhu Xinyue’s head with the palm of his hand and asked her softly if it hurt.

They… were they talking?

“It doesn’t hurt, just bumped it,” Zhu Xinyue pulled Ji Linyu’s hand down. She was touched by Liang Yuyu just now, so she instinctively dodged. After Ji Linyu took over, she wasn’t sure who had touched her head, but she smelled a familiar smell from him and guessed it was Ji Linyu.

Zhu Xinyue held Ji Linyu’s fingertips, as if measuring his hand, squeezed and loosened it again to confirm it was him.

“Is Teacher Liang still here?”

Ji Linyu looked at Liang Yuyu at the end of the bed.

“Yes.” Liang Yuyu responded immediately.

Zhu Xinyue heard his voice coming from the end of the bed and confirmed that he was still there, and said to Ji Linyu, “I still have something to say to Teacher Liang. Can you and the others go out first? If there are other people in the room.”

Ji Linyu wouldn’t refuse her request. He just felt that Liang Yuyu standing here was a bit annoying.

He left the room with Liang Yuyu’s agent.

After the door closed, there was a slight click.

“Do you have something to say to me?” Liang Yuyu pushed the chair up again and sat down next to her.

In the novel, Liang Yuyu’s life took a turn for the worse starting with this accident.

Zhu Xinyue didn’t want him to feel guilty. Her blindness had nothing to do with others, it was the system.

She was grateful for Liang Yuyu’s teachings these days. He had helped her a lot, and if she had a chance to be an actress again, what he taught her would be very useful.

“Although I can’t see with my eyes anymore, it seems that I see more clearly than before.” Zhu Xinyue smiled at Liang Yuyu. This smile was very shallow, as if she had let go of something.

“I didn’t really know what I wanted before. I just followed the standards set by society and framed a definition of success for myself. For example, I wanted to earn a lot of money so that I could do whatever I wanted.”

“So I thought, as long as I could become wealthy, it wouldn’t matter what I did,” Zhen Xinyue said, a mocking smile curling her lips.

Liang Yuyu quietly stared at the blind girl in front of him, as if seeing her for the first time.

In the entertainment industry, most people are like what she described.

After all, it’s a world of fame and fortune. How many people who enter the entertainment industry don’t want to make money?

“But after I became wealthy, I lost a lot. Only then did I realize that what I truly wanted was something I had already had when I was not wealthy.”

Liang Yuyu was somewhat surprised, looking at her empty eyes, feeling a heavy weight pressing down on his heart.

Zhen Xinyue crossed her hands, as if silently praying or making a wish: “I want a healthy body. If not perfectly healthy, that’s fine too. My original body was already good enough. I want my family and friends around me, wishing for their safety, even if they don’t love me that much. That way, they won’t be too sad if they lose me one day.”

“I want a stable job that can support myself. If the salary isn’t high, I hope to have more free time, so I can go home to drink soup on weekends, hang out with friends to watch movies, visit anime exhibitions, attend concerts, and even take vacations.”

These were the things she had in her life before transmigrating.

But she couldn’t go back now.

“Teacher Liang, the outside world is very noisy. Sometimes it can affect one’s judgment,” Zhen Xinyue released her hands, her expression calm. 

“If one day you feel those voices are influencing you, why not close your eyes, cover your ears, and ask yourself what you truly want?”

Liang Yuyu was deeply moved.

He hadn’t expected a young girl he had only known for a short time to understand his inner thoughts.

There is no actor who doesn’t want success, who doesn’t want to be admired by others. Fame and fortune were what he desired, but he also wanted the joy of acting.

He had been in the entertainment industry for so many years, and he knew times had changed. There were too many choices for the audience now. Even the aroma of wine was afraid of the depth of the alley. Marketing and hype were necessary to increase one’s fame. With higher fame came more script options.

But he also cherishes his own feathers. He doesn’t want others to say that he is a marketing guy when they mention him, or that his acting skills are getting worse and worse in bad dramas. He doesn’t want his fans to fight for him like the fans of traffic stars, working hard to collect data and hit the charts. Liking him has become an impure thing.

He just wanted to act well and be appreciated by the audience. If the audience liked the play and liked his character, that would be even better.

During these days of filming with Ji Qingyuan, Liang Yuyu couldn’t help but feel jealous. It was difficult for him to treat this young junior who had become popular after only one or two years of his debut with a normal heart.

He had heard many comparisons between him and Ji Qingyuan.

Even though he knew he was not worse than Ji Qingyuan, Ji Qingyuan was too popular, making people jealous.

But now that he saw Zhen Xinyue, Liang Yuyu understood that he just wanted to act well and be appreciated by the audience.

“Thank you, Xinyue.” He sincerely hoped that she could get everything she wanted, and that her eyes would recover soon.

After Liang Yuyu left, it was just in time for dinner.

Ji Linyu helped Zhen Xinyue sit up, put her slippers under her feet, waited for her to put on her shoes, and then let her hold his arm and led her out of the room to eat in the small hall outside.

Zhen Xinyue smelled the aroma of food, and her stomach growled.

She has been eating porridge lately, because she can at least take care of herself when drinking porridge, but eating is very troublesome.

Ji Linyu held her wrist, let her left hand touch the sofa first, and said, “This is the sofa, sit here.”

Then let her right hand touch the coffee table, “This is a coffee table, it’s a bit close, be careful not to bump your knees.”

When she turned around, Ji Linyu saw the smile on Zhu Xinyue’s face and thought she looked pretty. He asked her, “What are you laughing at?”

During this period, Zhu Xinyue’s daily life was basically taken care of by the nurse, but today Liang Yuyu and Ji Qingyuan said they would come to visit her, and they took flights one in the morning and one in the evening, and landed one after another. 

They are public figures, and the heat of the “Peach Blossom Spring” incident has not yet passed. In order to reduce the attention, fewer people will notice them, and fewer people will pay attention to them, so the nurse was given a holiday.

Zhen Xinyue’s VIP ward was empty, except for Ji Linyu alone in the room, and his bodyguard was guarding the door and preventing any idle people from approaching.

This was Ji Linyu’s first time taking care of Zhen Xinyue like this, and he was very meticulous. Earlier, he let her grab his arm, which was also the way the nurse guided her to walk, and he also considered that she was not familiar with the layout of the new ward, so he let her touch the real thing first to confirm their location.

It was as if he had deliberately learned how to take care of the blind.

Zhen Xinyue smiled and bent her eyes, stretched out her index finger, pointed to herself, and imitated Ji Linyu’s tone, “This is Zhen Xinyue, the visually impaired Zhen Xinyue.”

Then pointed in the direction where Ji Linyu had just spoken, saying, “This is Ji Linyu, considerate Ji Linyu.”

Ji Linyu looked at the direction of her fingertips—empty space beside him.

He silently moved a step, walked to where she pointed.

Her fingertips happened to point to his heart.

Ji Linyu repeated her sentence structure, with a smile in his eyes:

“This is Ji Linyu, Zhen Xinyue’s exclusive caregiver Ji Linyu.”