Chapter 272: Chapter 272 - 269: A Drop in the Ocean

After all, it was already past seven in the evening, and dinner time had long since passed.

Yi City looked at her calm expression. "Have you eaten tonight? This restaurant has pretty good food; you should try it."

Shi Su glanced at him, didn’t say much, and when the waiter brought the electronic menu over, she ordered some pasta and a hot cocoa and didn’t order anything else.

Yi City took the menu afterward and ordered a few more things. Shi Su didn’t care what he ordered, as she certainly couldn’t eat that much.

After the waiter left with the menu, Yi City kept staring at her.

Shi Su took a sip of the lemon water on the table, put down the glass, and said, "Mr. Yi, just say whatever you want to talk about directly. I didn’t come here just to accompany you for dinner for your enjoyment."

Yi City looked at her for a moment before speaking, "The sharpness you hid in your bones back then is no longer hidden. The Shi Family indeed wronged you, and I wronged you too."

Shi Su considered herself to be very calm now. Where was there any sharpness?

But she knew Yi City understood her. Even if he didn’t know exactly how she survived these five years, he was indeed aware of her past life in the Shi Family and her silent struggles with Mrs. Shi.

"If you called me out just to apologize, then it’s really unnecessary." Shi Su’s eyes showed clear detachment. "Nothing happened between us. It was just a period of youth, we didn’t get married, we just broke up, and no one needs to be responsible for anyone or feel sorry."

Yi City stared at her face for a while. "Five years ago, the night before Yunyin injured her leg, at the set of ’Chi Xiao,’ she was scolded by the director for poor acting and stiffness. She was in a bad mood, drank some alcohol, and went to the company to cry to her agent. I was at the company that day. She had drunk too much and was not in a good emotional state. I originally intended to take her back to the Shi Family, but she then ran outside the company, crying in the rain. To prevent her emotions from affecting your parents, I took her back there."

He continued to look at Shi Su, his voice slightly hoarse: "That day, at Yisu Villa, did you see it?"

Yi City had lived alone for years, and his residence was originally in a secluded wealthy area of Jiang City. Later, as he was busy with company affairs, he purchased a villa near Four Seas Entertainment at Blue Water Bay and named it "Yisu."

Yisu was a grain in the vast sea, was Yi Su, was Yi City and Shi Su.

He said all the decorations and furnishings in that villa were things she liked, and once she reached the legal age for marriage, he would marry her. It was a wedding room he had prepared for her long ago.

Shi Su once took advantage of a rare break during her dance rehearsals to plant dozens of rose bushes at Yisu Villa by hand. She personally selected a beautiful crystal chandelier, and even the later replaced floor tiles and carpets in the villa were things she picked out herself during a break. Every inch there was the future she dreamed of.

Five years ago, she thought she just needed to wait another year, until she turned twenty, to completely leave the Shi Family and live a peaceful life with Yi City.

But all of that was shattered on that day five years ago.

That day, she had just gotten out of a taxi. The rain seemed endless. She was holding an umbrella in one hand and carefully protecting two particularly beautiful succulent plants in her arms when she saw Yi City’s car suddenly stop across from the villa in the rainy night. She saw him carry Shi Yunyin out of the car, with Shi Yunyin tightly snuggled up in his arms, her face pressed against his chest, her hands wrapped around his neck. Despite the heavy rain and the distance, Shi Su could clearly see Shi Yunyin planting a cautious kiss on Yi City’s chin before being carried into the villa...

Shi Su couldn’t remember how long she stood in the rain, only recalling that later her legs went numb and the umbrella couldn’t shelter her from the downpour anymore, and the succulents in her arms were drenched to the point of lifelessness. She saw the lights in the villa go out not long after, and as time passed by second by second, Shi Yunyin didn’t leave the villa all night.

How she left there and returned to the Shi Family, she couldn’t remember clearly.

She only remembered the following afternoon when Shi Yunyin returned to the Shi Family, she had changed into a different dress and claimed to be feeling unwell, taking leave from the director. When Shi Yunyin walked past Shi Su, she saw the hickey on Shi Yunyin’s neck.

At that moment, Shi Su was standing at the staircase on the second floor of the Shi Family, feeling as if she might fall down at any moment. She asked, "Are the roses in the Yisu Villa living room about to wither? Did you help change the water for the flowers when you left today?"

Shi Yunyin immediately gave her a meaningful look and deliberately asked, "Did you see me and Yi City together last night?"

What happened afterward, Shi Su didn’t recall well either. She only remembered Shi Yunyin suddenly screamed in front of her, much like the people in those eight o’clock TV dramas she had watched before, and inexplicably fell down the stairs from the second floor.

The stories are all derived from reality. It turns out that such a huge lie can also unfold realistically before one’s eyes.

The Shi Family servants surrounded the scene, screaming, and when Shi Lingkang and Xv Yaru rushed over, they all said in unison that Shi Su pushed the second young lady.

Yi City had been invited by Shi Lingkang to dine at the Shi Family that evening. Upon entering and seeing this scene, he immediately went over, picked up Shi Yunyin, and ordered the servants to call an ambulance. Shi Yunyin, shaking and sobbing in his arms, said that she merely drank too much and thus went to stay at his place, claiming that Shi Su suddenly threw a huge tantrum at her...

Shi Su just stood aside, coldly watching it all unfold, until Yi City frowned, turned to her, and asked, "Shi Su, why don’t you say something?"

Shi Yunyin’s leg injury was severe, and the ’Chi Xiao’ film crew was pressing for time. She was the main artist Four Seas Entertainment was promoting at that time, and in such high-stakes productions, no mistakes could be tolerated, so they temporarily concealed the extent of her injury and took a few days off.

In those few days, Yi City was overwhelmed with company matters inside and out. The hospital said that while Shi Yunyin’s leg injury wouldn’t affect her future walking, she certainly wouldn’t be able to perform any dance moves.

As the crew’s urgencies intensified, Yi City suddenly looked at Shi Su, who had remained silent in the hospital corridor, and he said, "Shi Su, Yunyin’s leg injury won’t heal anytime soon, and the film must continue shooting. There are two dance scenes next. Could you substitute for her?"

Yi City knew Shi Su’s face was actually very suitable for the entertainment industry, even more spirited than Shi Yunyin’s, but he originally didn’t want Shi Su to enter that circle.

After Shi Yunyin became an artist with Four Seas Entertainment, she was the focus on whom the company concentrated their resources. In this situation where no mistakes could be afforded, he had no choice but to let Shi Su substitute in the dance scenes.

Because Shi Su would never betray any of them.

And because Shi Su really danced beautifully.

Fortunately, she only needed to dance behind the curtains, unseen by anyone.