Chapter 56: Mask Removed, the Fairy's Stunning Appearance Shocks the Entire Crowd

Gu Jinzhou did not continue to bother the huffy little woman. He took off his silver-gray suit jacket. The alcohol made his consciousness somewhat hazy, as if he were being manipulated by an invisible giant hand. He loathed this sensation; his refined and handsome face was gloomy, radiating the tyrannical and fierce aura of a domineering despot.

Silver Lake Manor.

Leng Ming sat in the driver's seat and did not step out; he had zero desire to provoke Crown Prince Gu while the latter was in a foul mood.

Su Ruanruan suddenly lunged into Gu Jinzhou's arms.

The man instinctively wrapped his arms around her waist and hips, gathering the soft little creature into his embrace.

The ultimate hangover cure.

He regulated his breathing, not wanting her to catch the scent of the alcohol she loathed, yet his entire body reeked of it. His clear, elongated phoenix eyes gazed at her with a watery glint, hoping his little darling wouldn't disdain him.

Su Ruanruan muttered in a muffled voice, "Brother, why do we have so many vexing troubles after growing up?"

Gu Jinzhou's Adam's apple bobbed. His deep, hoarse voice was laced with the utmost tenderness, "I'm sorry, baby. I have no way to stop the hands of time, but my love for you remains unchanging as always. If my baby is worried, why don't you inspect the naughty thing yourself... At your command it stands at attention, at your command it stands at ease. You are the only one who can command it."

After they showered.

Gu Jinzhou actually knelt on the bed, letting her inspect.

Free of the suit, his physique was powerful and well-endowed.

Su Ruanruan let out a short shriek and used her phone to block her eyes.

Good grief!

She was getting eye sores!

The phone was playing the cheesy singing of a male idol.

Gu Jinzhou raised an eyebrow, snatched her phone away to take a look, and a cold sneer broke across his gentle yet deep face.

A sissified little scum!

And she had been watching this with such relish?

"You like this kind of fragile pretty boy who needs you to stand in front of him when trouble strikes?" His ambiguous gaze carried a latent, coiled tension.

"I like it... Ah... But not that kind of liking." Su Ruanruan's weak tone was laden with a strong desire for survival, "I was just looking at their dance moves. I didn't look at their faces or bodies or anything like that. I still prefer someone like Jinzhou-ge."

"You like anyone who is like me?" Gu Jinzhou let out a cold, low laugh.

With a sweep of his slender arm, he placed the phone on the bedside table, leaving the background music playing.

"Since my baby likes it so much, then listen to their voices. When my baby is suffering through hardships later, let's see if these pretty boys can rescue you from beneath me."

"——?!"

Su Ruanruan had no idea when the hour-long compilation video finally finished playing. Her damp, fair, and tender face could shed no more tears. Why had it turned into her being punished again? Tonight, it was clearly Gu Jinzhou who had done wrong.

Never look for a man who is too smart and too handsome, or you will be played to death by such a man—played to death in every sense of the word.

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Gu Jinzhou had Secretary Yang ask for leave on Ruanruan's behalf; she probably wouldn't make it to the set until the afternoon.

He had two chief secretaries. Secretary Yang handled Gu Jinzhou's personal affairs and daily life, while Secretary Jin mainly dealt with official business.

Secretary Yang immediately dialed Director Wang Shuang's number to ask for leave for Miss Ruanruan.

Upon hearing the caller's name, Wang Shuang nearly dropped to his knees.

He had previously thought that having President Li backing Su Lan'er was impressive enough.

He never expected that the person asking for leave was the true grand ancestor.

In the afternoon, Su Ruanruan took a car to the set. She declined Crown Prince Gu's offer to drive her personally and had Leng Ming drive instead.

Passing by the dressing room, she caught sight of Su Lan'er sitting inside, giving an interview to entertainment reporters.

Suffering from a kidney disease yet insisting on filming—who wouldn't praise such dedication?

It would be trending on search queries within minutes.

"Ruanruan!"

Su Lan'er concluded her interview, strode over in a few quick steps, and grabbed Su Ruanruan's arm. Her assistant had already escorted the reporters out, leaving only the two of them in the dressing room.

"Why did you drag me in here? Aren't you afraid I'll stab you twice? After all, the scores between us add up to more than just a couple of accounts."

"Ruanruan, don't speak in anger. Stabbing people is something Mu Xin'er might do, but it's not your style. I know you harbor a lot of resentment and misunderstandings toward me. How about this? As long as you are willing to let Aunt Ding go, I will let Rong Xiu return to Mu Xin'er's side, and there will be no more entanglements between him and me."

"No need."

"To exact revenge on me, you're willing to disregard your best friend's happiness as well?"

"Have you acted in too many dramas and fried your brain?" Su Ruanruan batted her hand away and walked out of the dressing room.

Although Rong Xiu was the male lead of this novel and Su Lan'er's destined match, Su Ruanruan was not surprised in the least by Su Lan'er's magnanimous words.

Su Lan'er, this peerless white lotus, didn't actually love any man at all; she merely wanted them all to revolve around her. She relished the thrill of having a pain in her chest or a flare-up of her kidney disease, prompting men to abandon their wives and children to flutter around her.

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Gu Tong envied Su Lan'er's treatment and simultaneously feared President Li behind her, so she didn't dare to pick a fight with her.

She could only torment Su Ruanruan, the ugly kept mistress of a sugar daddy.

Su Ruanruan had to run through the dance steps several times before Gu Tong could be bothered to lift a finger.

Yet during the rehearsal, when Wang Shuang saw Gu Tong's dance moves, he frowned deeply.

"Gu Tong, what is going on with your dancing?"

Gu Tong blinked her eyes innocently. "Director Wang, aren't my dance moves good? I suppose it's because Teacher Su didn't teach well. As the saying goes, there are no unteachable students, only incompetent teachers."

"..."

Wang Shuang quietly watched her antics. Gu Tong, oh Gu Tong, if you knew Teacher Su's background, you'd probably drop to your knees on the spot and beg for mercy.

He said, "Teacher Su, please teach Gu Tong again. Her dancing is simply unwatchable."

Su Ruanruan rubbed her temples. "Director Wang, it's not that I didn't teach her seriously. I danced it myself seventeen or eighteen times before she was willing to move her arms and legs."

Wang Shuang gave a dry chuckle, brandishing his pen as if about to cut Gu Tong's scenes, and asked bluntly, "Can you dance or not? If you can't, don't dance at all."

Panicking, Gu Tong immediately promised, "I can dance! Director Wang, I can dance."

Su Ruanruan was slightly speechless; she had truly witnessed the diversity of species.

Back in the dance studio, Gu Tong was filled with simmering resentment, and when Su Ruanruan corrected her dance steps, the anger in her heart flared to an even higher level.

Deliberately picking a fault, are we?

Fine.

She would remember this.

When Gu Tong ran through the choreography again, her dancing turned out quite decent. Having a background in dance herself, she naturally picked it up well once she applied herself.

Director Wang offered a few words of praise.

The male lead acting opposite her also offered a few words of compliment.

Gu Tong smiled and said, "It's all thanks to Teacher Su's good teaching. Teacher Su has such good skin and a fine figure, yet I wonder why she wears a mask all day long. Could it be that she's contracted some kind of disease?"

Some people stepped back a little, seemingly afraid of being infected by Su Ruanruan.

Su Ruanruan said indifferently, "Whether I wear a mask or not seems to have nothing to do with your dancing."

Gu Tong smiled again, covering her mouth with her hand. "Of course it has to do with it. If you've really contracted some filthy disease and the skin on your face is starting to rot, what if it infects me?"

Su Ruanruan's eyelids twitched. "Are you overthinking things?"

"I am not overthinking!" As she spoke, Gu Tong whipped off Su Ruanruan's mask. "You ugly—"

An otherworldly, fair, tender, and ethereal fairy-like face left the entire room stunned into absolute silence.