BDB Chapter 7

It wasn’t just the assistant who thought of catching someone cheating.

Jiang Rao, having been instructed by Madam Bai and having her eardrums tortured by the audio sent from some wealthy socialite, also thought of catching someone in the act.

However, in her imagination, encountering the male lead wouldn’t happen until after she had finished walking through the plot point location.

First, because she wasn’t playing the runaway wife like the original female lead did, and second, because she assumed that, as a domineering president, the male lead had come to City Z for more than just pleasure. At this hour, he would either be resting or negotiating business.

Even though they were both at Yan Lake Coast, the beach was so large that she couldn’t possibly be unlucky enough to run into him by chance, right?

Yet, when she arrived at the easternmost side of the coast where the Mayflower Cruise ship was docked, she realized how naïve she had been!

How could she forget that there was an unusual magnetism between the male and female leads?

Tilting her head back to look at the two parallel cruise ships in front of her, Jiang Rao’s gaze shifted from the Mayflower Cruise to the ship on its right. Though unnamed, it looked even more impressive.

Her eyes locked with a man standing on the deck of the larger ship, his hand shading his eyes from the sun. Jiang Rao took a deep breath and began walking forward.

What she hadn’t expected was that, despite not moving slowly on her way to Yan Lake Coast, halfway toward the cruise ship, she was suddenly hit with a headache without warning.

When pain strikes suddenly, it’s hard to control your facial expressions. So, as the familiar figure in the distance moved closer to the ship, Li Jueyan finally recognized who this sharp-faced woman, clearly here to cause trouble, really was.

At that moment, a panting voice reached his ears, “President Li, Ma-Madam is here, hurry and hide! Don’t let her find out!”

Li Jueyan didn’t turn around. “Why should I hide?”

His tone was cold and arrogant, without a trace of nervousness.

He didn’t move at all, instead pulling a zippo lighter and a cigarette from his tailored suit pocket.

With a single hand, he lit the cigarette, and as he focused on the graceful figure approaching, his eyes narrowed instinctively.

The flickering flame, combined with the blinding sunlight above, illuminated the smoky air around him. For a fleeting moment, the woman who had haunted his dreams for days seemed to overlap with the one now standing before him.

In all his 28 years, Xiao Zhang had never seen someone cheat so openly, completely unafraid of being caught by his wife while seeing another woman.

In his mind, there was only one reason why a man wouldn’t care about how his wife reacted—he didn’t love her!

As he was thinking this, he suddenly noticed the president pinched the cigarette between his fingers and, faster than lightning, turned and started walking down the steps from the ship.

“Don’t follow me,” Li Jueyan ordered.

Hearing this, Xiao Zhang stopped in his tracks.

But when his gaze unintentionally swept across the president’s face, he noticed that his usually calm, unreadable eyes were now shining with intensity.

Following the direction of the president’s gaze, Xiao Zhang froze for a moment.

The madam walked so fast. The madam’s legs were so long. The madam had such a great figure. The madam…

Wait!

He shook his head.

It was the president who had hired a criminal investigation expert at great cost to create a sketch based on his description. It was the president who had mobilized all the City Z branch staff to stake out Yan Lake Coast in search of his so-called dream goddess…

So why, then, did the president have this expression when facing his wife?

Jiang Rao had the same question.

Not only was she curious about why the male lead was here, but she was also puzzled by the determined look in his eyes, as if everything was already within his grasp.

Before she could dwell on her curiosity for more than a few seconds, the male lead blocked her path.

The closer she got to the cruise ship, the more the pain in her head subsided.

At this moment, Jiang Rao had already arrived at the front of the cruise ship. If she remembered correctly, the original female lead in the plot had not boarded the ship but had instead engaged in a dramatic love-hate entanglement with the male lead on the coast in front of the ship, only to be forcibly taken away by his underworld forces. This did not align at all with the core values of socialism.

Therefore, upon realizing that the pain in her body had diminished to almost nothing, she did not walk around the male lead but instead turned to face him.

As she was about to put on a mask of Jiang Tang’s noble and aloof expression, she noticed that her own face had been tense for a long time without her realizing it.

In that brief moment, the male lead spoke first, “What are you doing here?”

Jiang Rao remembered the role she was currently playing.

She wasn’t a drama actress, but she had seen enough melodramatic TV series.

Catching someone cheating was not that difficult.

She lifted her chin slightly, a mocking smile appearing on her face. “Li Jueyan, shouldn’t I be the one asking you that? Whatever you’re here for, that’s exactly why I’m here. What’s the matter? Are officials allowed to set fires, but the common people can’t light a lamp?”

During the days she had been transmigrated, Jiang Rao hadn’t just been idly waiting around.

In her spare time, aside from skincare and fitness, she had used her years of experience as a bookworm to analyze the characters of Jiang Tang and the original female lead.

The original female lead was pure, kind-hearted, and determined. However, due to being raised in luxury from a young age, she was a typical pampered princess who almost never raised her voice at others.

Jiang Tang, on the other hand, was a glamorous and bold beauty, a typical wealthy heiress who would snap at anyone she didn’t like.

If the latter were in real life, she likely wouldn’t be short of admirers.

While pampered girls are certainly adorable, glamorous beauties are also the desire of many hearts.

However, in these kinds of old-fashioned melodramatic novels, where the moral compass is skewed, and every effort is made to torment both the body and heart of the female lead, such characters are not liked by the male lead, supporting male characters, or even random passersby at all.

What Jiang Rao wanted was exactly to be disliked by them.

As expected, as soon as she finished speaking, the male lead’s expression turned cold almost instantly.

To be honest, when Li Jueyan heard her tone and saw the undisguised scorn on her face, he realized that his earlier assumption was likely mistaken.

He had thought that such a coincidence could not possibly occur at this time and place.

So once again, he mistook her for the woman from his dreams.

But she wasn’t her.

He immediately lost interest.

As their gazes clashed for a while, the intensity in Li Jueyan’s eyes faded.

He had never felt the need to socialize with women, and given his status, there was even less need to do so.

Seeing that her comment had driven the male lead away, Jiang Rao couldn’t help but show a hint of slyness in her eyes.

However, she noticed that the male lead suddenly turned back, and she quickly composed herself and stifled the smile on her lips.

Li Jueyan felt like he must have been seeing things.

Otherwise, why had he just seen such an incongruous expression on Jiang Tang’s face?

This made him think again of the woman from his dreams.

But she wasn’t her, and he couldn’t have her.

With rising irritation in his heart, he eventually said, “Know your place. Don’t come wandering around in front of me if there’s nothing important.”

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Author’s Note: “Female lead: Today, you ignore me with indifference, but tomorrow, I’ll be out of your league~ Humph!” Not a pit.

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