Later, the two stumbled into the entertainment industry. After their careers failed to take off, they naturally started to have crooked ideas. They each began to try to seduce "sugar daddies" to make themselves famous. After Jiang Yiben failed to find a sugar daddy, Zhu Hong, as his agent, came into his sights.
As a master of romance, Jiang Yiben naturally knew how to win a woman's heart. After he deliberately flattered her and the events following the death of Zhu Hong's father, the two officially became boyfriend and girlfriend.
Mei Xia found out about this later. Naturally, she wasn't angry. She just whispered sweet nothings in Jiang Yiben's ear, telling him not to forget her after he became famous. In private, the two never broke off contact and slept together countless times in places where Zhu Hong couldn't see.
"... Are you hooking up with another woman on your new film set? Is that why you haven't contacted me in so long?"
In the bedroom, where only a small bedside lamp was on, Mei Xia glared at Jiang Yiben with a resentful and angry voice.
Jiang Yiben laughed and protested his innocence, "You know perfectly well that old woman Zhu Hong is keeping a close eye on me, coming to the set every few days. How could I dare to flirt with other women? Besides, you know that other women are just fleeting clouds to me; only you are my true love..."
Mei Xia scolded him, "You're the best at sweet-talking and deceiving people, I don't believe you."
Jiang Yiben looked at her, squinted, and asked, "But you, you haven't been flirting with other men behind my back, have you?"
Mei Xia looked at him tenderly. "How annoying! Don't you know who my favorite person is?"
Both knew each other's true character, so whether they believed each other's words or not was only known to them, and each had their own thoughts and calculations.
The two, each with their own agendas, were laughing and joking around, oblivious to the person standing in their bedroom doorway. It wasn't until Jiang Yiben's restless hands began to grope Mei Xia again, and the two nearly rolled around in a passionate embrace, that Mei Xia, glancing up casually, noticed the shadow standing in the doorway. Startled, she instinctively screamed.
Voice.
"Ah!" Mei Xia shoved Jiang Yiben, staring in horror at the figure. "Who is it?!"
Jiang Yiben was still a little dazed when she pushed him away. Hearing her shout, he subconsciously turned his head to look. At this moment, the figure standing in the shadows walked out from the dimly lit place, revealing a face that shocked the two of them.
"... Hong, Sister Hong?" Mei Xia looked bewildered. The next second, she hurriedly explained to Zhu Hong, " Sister Hong, please listen to me, it's not what you think. My relationship with Yiben isn't what you think!"
Jiang Yiben also came to his senses and realized the situation before him; he felt like his scalp was about to explode.
" Zhu Hong!" he said stiffly, his mind racing, desperately trying to come up with an excuse. He stammered, "I... I drank too much today, I don't know what happened... I... I mistook her for you!"
He tried to get up, but he was completely naked, so he could only try to express his sincerity to Zhu Hong with his eyes.
"You mistook her for me?" Zhu Hong repeated his words.
Jiang Yiben thought she believed him, and his eyes lit up immediately. He nodded repeatedly and said, "Yes, I really did mistake her for you... I drank too much today!"
"Heh..." Zhu Hong suddenly laughed. She didn't say much, but just took out her phone and fiddled with it for a bit. Then, a series of moans of pleasure came from her phone.
Upon hearing this sound, Jiang Yiben and Mei Xia's expressions turned extremely pale, alternating between ashen and ashen. What made their faces change even more drastically was the sound of the two talking after the groans.
"... Have you hooked up with another woman again...?"
"That old woman, Zhu Hong, kept staring at me..."
The phone rang during their conversation, and the two men's expressions changed drastically as they looked at Zhu Hong with almost panicked expressions.
At this moment, Jiang Yiben didn't care that he was naked. He got off the bed in a disheveled state and immediately threw himself in front of Zhu Hong, hugging her legs and saying, " Zhu Hong, I know I was wrong, please forgive me! I was just momentarily bewitched, the person I love is still you!"
"I promise you!" he said firmly, "I'll never do that again, and I won't have anything to do with her anymore. You believe me! You're the only one in my heart."
Mei Xia quickly added, " Sister Hong, it's all my fault. I was confused and bewitched. I'm so sorry..."
Zhu Hong watched the two of them arguing and apologizing, but all she could do was laugh. She did laugh, but her laugh was more like a grimace. After she finished laughing, she took a deep breath and looked at the people on the ground again.
"You said the person you love is me?" she asked again.
Jiang Yiben nodded vigorously, looking at her expectantly.
Zhu Hong sneered, yanking his hands away from her legs, and said, "You think I'd believe you? Ha, go tell that to a ghost..."
" Zhu Hong!" Jiang Yiben shouted anxiously, tears streaming down his face, "I really know I was wrong, I'll never do it again, please give me another chance!"
Zhu Hong coldly observed his performance, completely unmoved, and said in a detached tone, "When you and Mei Xia decided to lie to me, did you think I was easy to fool, that even if things came to light, I would forgive you?"
Jiang Yiben and Mei Xia were stunned when they heard her words, and for a moment they almost thought that Zhu Hong knew everything.
"... What did you say?" Jiang Yiben's voice was stiff, unwilling to believe that Zhu Hong knew everything, and he said dryly, "How come I don't understand what you're saying? I promise, apart from this time with Mei Xia, I really haven't lied to you about anything else."
Mei Xia hurriedly said, "Yes, Sister Hong, it was really just an accident between me and Yiben. There's nothing else between us... Could it be that someone whispered something in your Sister Hong, Sister Hong? Please don't believe them! They're trying to sow discord!"
Jiang Yiben said, even more sadly, "We've had a relationship for three years. Are you really going to negate everything we've had because of this one thing?"
He looked at Zhu Hong with heartache, as if she were the one at fault, and said, " Zhu Hong, are you really so heartless? I want to ask you, all these years, have you ever truly loved me? Every time, I've been the one eagerly trying to be good to you, but what about you? All you care about is work. Have you ever shown me even a little bit of concern? If you hadn't been so indifferent to me, I wouldn't have been so disillusioned and had this accident with Mei Xia!"
By the end, he had adopted a self-righteous attitude.
Zhu Hong:"..."
Zhu Hong was amused and asked, "You mean, you two slept together and then blamed me?"
"That's not what I meant," Jiang Yiben's voice softened again, "I just wanted to say that my devotion to you is as clear as day, and you can't deny my feelings for you just because of one mistake I made!"
He spoke with such deep emotion that if Zhu Hong hadn't known everything, she probably would have been completely fooled by his acting.
At this moment, Zhu Hong felt a sense of desolation. Looking at the man in front of her, she thought to herself: Zhu Hong, this is the man you fell in love with, a liar who is full of lies.
She suddenly felt listless and exhausted.
"Enough." She interrupted Jiang Yiben's "confession," looking at him with disgust, and said, "I've known about your and Mei Xia's schemes for a long time... In truth, I'm the one who's the third party who came between you two."