Pure-Hearted Sickly One x Lying Award-Winning Actress
[The Top Reborn]
*Lin Yanran was famous in Beijing's elite circles for being sickly. She had money but no time to enjoy it. A medicine jar, dull, and bland: those were the labels attached to her.
At a party, rising star Li Songyi boldly slipped a room keycard into her hand. A flicker of surprise crossed Lin Yanran's mind. Then she invited her to a secluded corner and bluntly refused:
“Sorry... I can't...”
Li Songyi curled her red lips into a charming smile, reached up to drape an arm over Lin Yanran's shoulder, and lowered her voice.
“Miss Lin, don't sell yourself short. How can you know if you can or can't unless you try...”
*Lin Yanran and Li Songyi started dating.
Their friends privately questioned her and teased, “Yanran, can you really handle Li Songyi? You're boiled cabbage, and she's braised pork.”
Lin Yanran covered her chest and coughed. “What's wrong with that? A mix of meat and vegetables is pretty good.”
Li Songyi had a perfect figure and captivating features. Her scenes in that award-winning film had made her a well-deserved goddess of allure, a red rose blossoming in the midst of desire.
She wanted to marry her.
For the first time, Lin Yanran had entertained such a thought. She was someone who wouldn't live much longer, yet suddenly she wanted to burden Li Songyi with her troubles.
But Li Songyi asked to break up. Lin Yanran tried to keep her from leaving in the rain, burning with fever, but Li Songyi said something cruel and walked away without looking back.
Lin Yanran thought she must have had her reasons.
Until illness consumed her and she lay dying, Li Songyi never came to see her, not even once.
In that final moment,
Lin Yanran was certain, and accepted the truth: Li Songyi had never loved her.
*Li Songyi drifted from the arms of one powerful person to another, a beautiful canary trapped in a cage.
She was skilled at calculating their worth, keeping them in a state of ambiguity to secure resources for herself. She enjoyed getting things without working for them, yet hated being controlled.
After breaking up with Lin Yanran, she thought she was finally free. But before long, loneliness and emptiness came creeping in.
By the time she finally came to her senses, it was too late.
Amid flashes of lightning and peals of thunder, the torrential rain soaked Li Songyi to the skin. With an extinguished cigarette between her lips, she gazed at the photo of Lin Yanran on the tombstone, her expression unreadable.
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