After Saving the White Moonlight, the Black Moonlight Went Crazy - Chapter 22.1

Chapter 22.1: Three-in-One Premium Chapter

◎An epic love triangle◎

“Wha…”

Just as Yan Sui was about to speak, Lu Shutian pressed a finger to her lips.

“Do you want to know where Jian Liyun is right now, who she’s with, and what she’s doing?”

Yan Sui blinked, grabbed the other person’s wrist, and moved it away. “No.”

The two words successfully blocked what Lu Shutian was about to say.

Yan Sui cleared her throat. It was not a pleasant feeling to be looked down on like this. “This isn’t Liyun’s work time. As long as she’s not doing anything illegal, she can do whatever she wants.”

“Ha,” Lu Shutian’s smile was ferocious. “Jie, you’re really good to Jian Liyun, so good that I’m extremely jealous.”

Yan Sui pushed Lu Shutian off her and used her hands to brace herself on the sofa, finally sitting up.

She was breathing slightly heavily. “Miss Lu, I think we should talk about Jin Lan now.”

There was not a trace of a smile on Lu Shutian’s face.

She spoke like a robot, without any emotion. “The reason you wanted to invite the two of them is because Jin Lan made a deal with you. You have to invite her ex-girlfriend to the show, and only then will she be willing to collaborate with Jian Liyun.”

How does this Lu Shutian know everything? Yan Sui felt that the person with the “God’s perspective” was not herself, but the female lead in front of her.

She nodded slightly. “…So what.”

Lu Shutian pushed Yan Sui down again. She pressed her left hand heavily on the other person’s chest, gritting her teeth with every word she spoke.

“But this isn’t a good deal. Jin Lan doesn’t have any famous works right now. As a director, her qualifications are too shallow. Even if you beg her to collaborate, the final outcome could still be a complete failure.”

Yan Sui’s expression was calm. “I’ve seen her previous works. Although she doesn’t have any mature commercial works yet, she has a promising future.”

What a perfect excuse.

The corners of Lu Shutian’s eyes were tinged with red, and her eyes seemed a little moist—

Of course, it could also be an illusion caused by the bright light.

“You’re just…”

Lu Shutian didn’t finish her sentence. She seemed to lose her strength, let go of the other person’s hand, and stood up.

She picked up the remote control that had been thrown to the side, pressed a button, and a screen slowly came down. The projector also began its dutiful work.

From the image, this was shot by a camera from the ceiling of what appeared to be a study.

In the picture, two people were sitting together, both holding a thick stack of what looked like books.

But Yan Sui knew they weren’t books.

Because the woman in the picture was Jian Liyun, and the man, needless to say, was the novel’s male lead, He Chenyu.

The two of them sat on the same side of the desk. Jian Liyun’s pen was marking the script, and she would occasionally point out things on He Chenyu’s script.

Yan Sui didn’t know what the two of them were saying in the picture. The live broadcast didn’t have any sound.

Objectively speaking, He Chenyu was indeed a handsome man. Although his eyes looked gentle at first glance, he also…

“Host, why does the male lead smell so bad?”

The system suddenly spoke.

Yan Sui responded in her mind, “I haven’t even met the male lead face-to-face. How would you know? What kind of bad smell?”

“I don’t know how to describe it. This smell isn’t a stench that can be understood in a normal way, but rather…”

The system hesitated for a few seconds. “It’s like his soul is emitting a foul smell. But this is very strange. No protagonist in any world is like this. The supporting female lead next to him and the female lead next to you don’t smell bad.”

“And Host, you smell so good~”

Why are you being cute at a time like this?

Yan Sui didn’t continue discussing the strange smell issue with the system and instead turned to Lu Shutian.

“So? It’s Liyun’s private time now. She has the right to arrange her time however she wants.”

Lu Shutian’s eyes flashed with disbelief. “Is Jian Liyun, running around and doing all this for a man, worth you doing all this?!”

Yan Sui sighed.

Not because she was angry, but because she felt a little melancholic.

It was one thing for Jian Liyun to act like she was in a love-drunk stupor in front of her, and Yan Sui wouldn’t say anything.

But now that Lu Shutian knew, with her connections in the entertainment industry, if she were to spread this information widely, who knows how people would look at Jian Liyun.

A young actress with a promising future, selflessly doing things for a new male actor. No one would believe that Jian Liyun wasn’t a “simp.”

It would be bad if this were to affect Jian Liyun’s future in the entertainment industry.

“System, I now believe the female lead doesn’t like the supporting female lead.”

“Host, you’re finally a little more clear-headed.”

Yan Sui lowered her eyes and said softly, “Miss Lu, I don’t care if it’s worth it or not.”

“But this isn’t logical. I don’t understand.” Lu Shutian retorted very quickly.

Her speech sped up. “You’re her manager. Although you have a responsibility to her, your most important job is to create higher profits for your management company. With Jian Liyun acting like this, how could she possibly have a good future?! Forget about being a Best Actress, I bet she’ll want to retire and marry He Chenyu in a few months!”

In the picture, Jian Liyun sneezed.

He Chenyu, who was next to her, took a white coat from the clothes rack and handed it to Jian Liyun.

Jian Liyun took it and put it on.

Lu Shutian pointed at Jian Liyun in the picture and accused her. “Look, she’s even wearing He Chenyu’s clothes!”

Yan Sui was speechless for several seconds before speaking. “First of all, that’s a woman’s trench coat. It’s obviously her own jacket. Secondly, what if she catches a cold? That would be a huge loss. Being healthy is the most important thing.”

Even if it were He Chenyu’s clothes, Jian Liyun could still wear them. Would it be better for her to not wear it and get a fever?

Yan Sui didn’t understand what the big deal was.

Lu Shutian was so angry she started stuttering. “You, you’re just being unreasonable! Don’t you understand what I’m trying to say? I’ve only been in the industry for a year, and my popularity is already so high. My skills are great, and I won’t go chasing after a disgusting man. I also know excellent music producers and management teams. I’ll become the best singer, I…”

I’m a hundred, a thousand times better than that Jian Liyun!

Why, why did you choose her and not me?

I’m the one who was supposed to be chosen!

Lu Shutian’s eyes were filled with rage, but Yan Sui was becoming calmer and calmer.

“Becoming her manager was the company’s arrangement,” Yan Sui even smiled gently. “You could say it was fated.”

When she first took on this mission to save the supporting female lead, Yan Sui only did it to hear the words she had missed.

But what was gone would never come back. She also didn’t want to force Jian Liyun onto a path of so-called success just to complete the mission.

Besides, Yan Sui felt that Jian Liyun was a little pitiful—

Even if the other person might not need her pity.

So now, Yan Sui’s attitude toward the mission was “go with the flow.” If she could complete it, great. If not, so be it.

After all, as long as Jian Liyun could break free from the shackles of being a tragic supporting female character and live a happy life, that would be enough.

“There’s no such thing as fate in this world!” Lu Shutian roared.

Due to the intense emotional fluctuations, Lu Shutian was breathing heavily, and her chest was heaving with her movements.

Yan Sui didn’t say anything.

Lu Shutian threw the remote control away. “If there really is such a thing as fate, then Jian Liyun and He Chenyu’s fate is to die together.”

Yan Sui’s heart sank. She instinctively grabbed Lu Shutian’s arm. “You…”

Lu Shutian shook her hand off and walked toward the corner of the room.

There was a small wooden round table there with a wired landline phone on it.

Yan Sui quickly followed her and grabbed her arm again. “What are you trying to do?”

Lu Shutian laughed. “What? I’m going to set them both on fire, of course.”

“Are you crazy?!” Yan Sui was shocked, but Lu Shutian didn’t look like she was joking at all.

What’s going on? The female lead is so angry she’s decided to kill both the supporting female lead and the male lead?

Is this even logical?

Lu Shutian’s hand was already reaching for the landline phone. “I’m not crazy. I’ve never been more clear-headed in my life.”

Yan Sui couldn’t care about anything else. She wanted to pull out her phone to call Jian Liyun, but her phone was in the living room outside.

Yan Sui rushed to the door, only to find that she couldn’t open the lock.

“Only I can open it,” Lu Shutian’s voice became gentle and sweet again.

“Jie, I’ve given you so many chances to choose.”

Yan Sui pursed her lips. Her forehead was already covered in fine sweat, but no matter what she tried, she couldn’t open the lock.

“Host, don’t worry. The female lead shouldn’t be that reckless. If she really kills the male and female leads, this world will also collapse. But there are no signs of the world collapsing right now.”

Yan Sui ignored the system. She was still stubbornly trying to unlock the door.

Lu Shutian sighed. “Jie, why are you so stubborn? I told you that you can’t get out of this door. Okay, come back and sit down. Watch the show with me.”

“System, if I attack the female lead, will there be a punishment?”

After asking this in her mind, Yan Sui felt she had asked the wrong question. “No, what I want to ask is, if I attack the female lead and she gets hurt, will this world collapse?”

“Host, as long as the main characters don’t die, it won’t collapse.”

Yan Sui moved so fast that her expression was unreadable. She lunged at Lu Shutian.

But Lu Shutian easily subdued her.

Lu Shutian moved to the side, twisted Yan Sui’s hands behind her back, and then used one hand to hold both of her wrists. She pressed her knee into the other person’s leg and held Yan Sui tightly against the wall.

The wall was covered with soundproofing foam, so it wasn’t cold or hard.

But Yan Sui was so restrained that she couldn’t move.

She tried to struggle, but even using all her strength, she couldn’t move an inch.

“You want to save her that badly?” Lu Shutian’s warm breath brushed against Yan Sui’s ear.

Force won’t work, so I have to use a gentle approach.

Yan Sui softened her tone. “I’m sorry. If I’ve offended you in any way, I’ll definitely change. If you think the Jin Lan matter is too troublesome, then I’ll…”

“Jie,” Lu Shutian interrupted. “Why do you want to save her, but you don’t want to save me?”

Yan Sui was speechless.

Lu Shutian was the female lead in the original novel. She had a prominent family background, an enviable career, and a male lead who loved and cared for her. She had everything.

Her life was nearly perfect—

Or rather, as the female lead of a romance novel, her life was perfect.

A perfect life didn’t need Yan Sui’s involvement. Lu Shutian didn’t need Yan Sui to save her.

Yan Sui said in her mind, “System, I’m 100% sure there’s something wrong with the female lead. After this is resolved, go and check with your superiors again. The female lead must have either been reborn or had her consciousness awakened.”

But Yan Sui couldn’t understand. Even if Lu Shutian discovered that this world was a novel and that she was the female lead, she was still the protagonist.

She was the center of this world. It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that she could get whatever she wanted. Why would she be angry and dissatisfied?

If anyone should be dissatisfied, it should be Jian Liyun, who was destined to commit suicide.

That’s not right. Yan Sui suddenly realized that ever since she came to this world, even before she helped Jian Liyun change certain parts of the plot, some parts of the plot had already changed.

Some plot points changed because of the female or male lead, but some didn’t.

Like Jin Lan.

In the original novel, her infinite-flow TV series didn’t get made because of a lack of funding, but now it had changed to a problem in her love life.

Yan Sui didn’t think the female or male lead could do something like that.

So were the novels she read before even the real original plot?

A chill ran down Yan Sui’s spine, but the current situation didn’t allow her to think too much.

And her silence, brought on by her deep thinking, completely enraged Lu Shutian.

Lu Shutian controlled Yan Sui with one hand and used the other to pick up the landline phone, preparing to dial a number.

Yan Sui’s pupils constricted. She struggled desperately, and her non-prescription gold-rimmed glasses fell to the floor.

“Calm down…” Yan Sui was practically begging.

Lu Shutian had already started dialing the number. She said wistfully, “Jie, you only become real in front of me at a time like this. But I’ve given you so many chances, and you always reject me.”

Lu Shutian was even acting like she was the one being wronged.

The number was almost finished being dialed.

When she was about to input the last digit, Lu Shutian mischievously paused.

She affectionately pressed her cheek against Yan Sui’s. “Jie, no one will find out that I did this, except you. Will you report me?”

Yan Sui’s lips trembled. “Miss Lu, I beg you, please stop.”

Lu Shutian let out a low laugh.

“That’s not how you beg. And I’ve said it many times, why do you call her so intimately but call me so formally? ‘Miss Lu’? Who is this ‘Miss Lu’ you’re talking about?”

Then what should I call her?

Yan Sui’s brain was working at top speed. Suddenly, a flash of inspiration hit her, and she blurted out, “Tiantian.”

“Yes,” Lu Shutian finally responded with a smile.

Yan Sui let out a sigh of relief. “Tiantian, don’t do this, okay?”

“No, Jie,” Lu Shutian said with a giggle. “I’m still going to have someone set a fire, but those two won’t notice it right away. By the time those two idiots do, the fire will have already spread throughout the entire villa, and no one will be able to escape.”

Yan Sui had her back to Lu Shutian, so Lu Shutian didn’t notice that Yan Sui’s face was visibly turning pale.

She continued on her own. “This villa is an old building, so it’s not fireproof. It will burn quickly. The fire will be fair; it will perfectly consume every person in the house. Jie, Jian Liyun’s skin will be carbonized. What do you think will be left in the end?”

“Oh, maybe some scraps of flesh, or a little bit of bone?”

Lu Shutian amused herself. “How interesting.”

Yan Sui didn’t say anything—

Her eyes were unfocused, and her pale lips were slightly parted, only able to produce a weak, airy sound.

“Host, Host! Hold on, I’m going to contact my superiors immediately! Damn it, I don’t have enough energy to do anything for you right now. Just wait ten minutes, no, five minutes!”

The system’s voice was deafening in Yan Sui’s mind, but Yan Sui couldn’t hear it anymore.

Lu Shutian finally realized that something was wrong.

Yan Sui had gone completely silent at some point.

Lu Shutian tried to let go, but as soon as she released her hold, Yan Sui’s body went limp and she fell.

Lu Shutian quickly wrapped her arms around Yan Sui’s waist. After seeing the person in her arms, her voice trembled. “Jie?”

Yan Sui couldn’t say anything at all. She was breathing through her mouth, taking small, shallow breaths, and her eyes were staring at the bright ceiling.

Yan Sui felt that even though she was using all her strength, she couldn’t breathe. Her vision was rapidly becoming blurry and dark, and her hearing was also fading.

She knew she was having an attack again.

This feeling was extremely painful, but when the wound she didn’t want to remember was brutally ripped open again, Yan Sui found it difficult to reconcile with the past.

She couldn’t vent, so her body could only cope with the overwhelming pain in this way.

“Ah…”

Yan Sui finally let out a weak sound, like that of a small animal.

Tears welled up in the corners of her eyes, but they never fell.

Lu Shutian’s face finally showed panic. She knelt on the floor, looking at Yan Sui in her arms, completely at a loss. “Jie, what… what’s wrong?”

Yan Sui couldn’t give any response.

The female lead wants to kill the supporting female lead.

The person she wanted to save, the person she wanted to protect, could never be saved or protected.

This thought was like a poisoned blunt knife, repeatedly torturing Yan Sui’s heart.

Her lips parted and closed. Although no sound came out, she managed to form the words.

“Don’t”

Don’t hurt Jian Liyun.

Lu Shutian was terrified. How could she continue? She quickly promised, “I won’t, Jie. I won’t hurt Jian Liyun. Don’t scare me.”

Yan Sui had completely shut herself off from the outside world. No matter how much Lu Shutian called out to her, Yan Sui couldn’t respond.

Suddenly, Yan Sui’s body became stiff, and her pale face turned bright red—

This wasn’t because her color had returned, but because of the suffocation from not being able to breathe.

Lu Shutian bit her lower lip. She carefully laid Yan Sui on the floor and quickly dialed the emergency number. Following the instructions on the phone, she performed emergency first aid on Yan Sui.

The landline phone that was supposed to be used for murder was now being used to save a life.

…

When Yan Sui woke up again, she was lying in a hospital room.

She first struggled to open her eyelids, which felt like they weighed a thousand pounds. After seeing the face of the person sitting next to her, she suddenly opened her eyes wide.

Seeing that Yan Sui was awake, Lu Shutian was relieved. “It’s good that you’re awake… Don’t move!”

Yan Sui instinctively recoiled after seeing Lu Shutian. She had an IV drip in her left arm. As she moved her left hand, the IV tube, which had been transparent, turned crimson red.

Yan Sui seemed completely unaware of the changes in her body. Her eyes were filled with undisguised fear, and moving away from the person in front of her became her only instinct at that moment.

Lu Shutian lowered her gaze. She clenched her teeth, struggled for a few seconds, and finally seemed to compromise by taking a step back.

“I won’t get close to you. Don’t be afraid.”

Her once sweet voice was now dry and hoarse.

Lu Shutian raised her hands and backed away from Yan Sui step by step. “I’ll go find a doctor.”

The woman left the room.

Yan Sui also moved her gaze away as the other person left. She looked around the room, searching for something—

She found it.

Yan Sui grabbed the bag on the cabinet and quickly took out her phone. Her hand was trembling, and it took her several tries to successfully unlock it.

She found Jian Liyun’s contact information in her address book. Yan Sui wanted to send her a message saying she wouldn’t be coming home today, but…

After a moment of hesitation, Yan Sui decided to make a phone call instead.

After all, the female lead is so crazy right now. What if she really went after the supporting female lead?

She also knew that her performance just now was really bad, but she had reached her limit.

The call was answered almost instantly after she dialed. Jian Liyun’s gentle voice came through. “Sui Sui, do you want me to come pick you up and bring you home?”

Jian Liyun is alive.

Yan Sui’s nose tingled as she realized this. She took a breath to answer, but for a long time, she couldn’t say a word.

Her voice was completely choked in her throat, and what came out before the sound were tears.

Yan Sui clumsily wiped the warm liquid from her face and said in the most natural and calm tone possible, “No need, Liyun. I have something to do tonight. After I leave Miss Lu’s place, I have to go to the company, so I won’t be coming to your place. I’m sorry.”

Jian Liyun was silent for a few seconds.

“Where are you now?”

Yan Sui’s grip on her phone was so tight that her knuckles turned white. She tried her best to keep her voice from trembling. “I just left Miss Lu’s place.”

“Doctor, look, she’s awake.”

At the same time, Lu Shutian entered the room with a doctor. She followed the doctor, explaining Yan Sui’s condition, but she kept her head down, afraid to make eye contact with Yan Sui.