Chapter 144: Unexpected Gains
In September, the weather in Jing City became increasingly hotter, with occasional rolling thunder in the sky.
Dark clouds sprawled across the sky, seeming on the brink of unleashing a torrential downpour at any moment.
Lin Wei, carrying items from the supermarket, stopped dead in her tracks when she saw the LED screen atop the building opposite.
The screen was replaying the Qingyi Award ceremony, and it just happened to show Xinan receiving her award on stage, with Cheng Yi embracing her.
She stared intently at the familiar face on the screen, her eyes swirling with complex emotions, as if pondering something yet also struggling...
Cheng Yi’s gaze at Xinan was tender beyond words, a stark contrast to the way he had looked at her in the hospital that day.
Lin Wei laughed derisively to herself, her eyes brimming with misery.
She had been sidelined by her company, and all her previous engagements and film shoots had been put on hold, and she knew that Cheng Yi had had a hand in this.
Watching Xinan on stage, radiant and the center of everyone’s attention, and then comparing it to her own current plight, Lin Wei suddenly felt immensely miserable.
Over the years, she had devoted so much to her acting career, even sacrificing her own body, only to end up in such a predicament—she truly couldn’t accept it but was powerless to change anything, because Cheng Yi could crush her career with barely a flick of his finger.