Chapter 5

Since it was the rush hour, traffic was especially bad. When Arisen arrived, she was already late.

Chance and Margaux were smiling from ear to ear as they stepped out of the audition building. They were surrounded by a crowd that offered congratulations.

Seeing Arisen from afar, sweating as she hurried to the building, Margaux looked at her with the same gaze from five years ago.

It was the gaze of a deity looking down on an ant.

A trail of dust was left behind as Margaux arrogantly left on her minivan. Arisen quickly ran into the building after seeing Margaux depart.

It wasn’t too late!

Suddenly, Arisen ran into a group of people who were chatting cheerfully as they were walking. They were the panel judges for the Land Under Heaven auditions.

“Sorry, I’m late!” Arisen bowed deeply.

Seeing that Arisen had blocked their path and interrupted them, a couple of the judges exchanged looks, clearly unhappy.

No one liked people who were late.

The assistant director kept a straight face, “The audition is already over. What’s the point in rushing over here? Youngsters are getting more and more unreliable these days!”

“I’m not here to try out for the lead role!” Arisen started talking.

“Oh? You’re not here to try for the female lead? Then what are auditioning for?” The screenwriter asked with interest.

“I’m here to try out for the supporting female lead! As far as I know, you weren’t able to find a suitable actress for the supporting lead during the last auditions!” Arisen lifted her head before the screenwriter could respond to her words.

The instant Arisen lifted her head, the surroundings turned quiet for five seconds. The unfriendly assistant director was awestruck.

What he saw was a girl with full lips, white teeth, waist-long ebony hair, in a crimson dress. Her brilliance could not be suppressed by such a vibrant colour; instead it helped enhance her beauty.

She was just standing there calmly, yet it was almost as if she was standing in a forest of floating mist. She seemed like a fox spirit with a thousand years of cultivation; that pair of mesmerising eyes would make a person drop their guard and fall into that endless spring of beauty in just an instant. Although her cultivation was that of a spirit fox, she seemed like fairy who had never stepped on the ground. Her eyes held a lustrous depth.

“What’s your name?” As if they had been lost in a beautiful dream, many of the judges regained their senses only after director Kevin Guo spoke.

“Ning Xi.”

Director Guo spoke after exchanging glances with the assistant director, screenwriter and film producer “I have some recollection of you, you’re one of Starlight’s artists right? You can go back to prepare, the supporting female lead is yours! You will be notified when filming starts.”

“Thank you director, I will prepare well!” Arisen bowed to express her gratitude.

Arisen’s target had always been the supporting female lead.

She had been preparing this role for three months by trying to completely understand Meng Changge’s character. Making all the effort to impress the judges with just a single glance.

Fortunately, she had succeeded despite some setbacks.

Director Guo exclaimed after Arisen had left, “We looked all over for an actress, and the moment we stopped looking, we found the perfect one! Her qualifications are too poor despite being signed to Starlight Entertainment. With her acting record, I didn’t even consider her for the female lead. Though I had never imagined that she would be far more beautiful than in her pictures!”

Screenwriter Ye couldn’t suppress his excitement either, “Most importantly, her aura was on point, that gaze from before was too fitting. Meng Changge was a righteous female general before she became the downfall of the nation. She could be pretty and coquettish, yet she would maintain a pure demeanor and state of mind. She could never be vulgar. All the artists that came to audition before acted out brothel courtesans for me, I was fuming!”

“Haha, don’t get worked up, haven’t we finally found the Changge we’ve been waiting for?”

……

At the same time, in B City, The First People’s Hospital.

The VIP hospital room that Little Bun was in was currently in a state of chaos.

The little guy was huddled on the windowsill with bare feet. He was frustrated and screaming at the top of his lungs. No matter how the doctors and nurses tried to persuade him, he wouldn’t come down.

Lynx was cajoling him like the most precious person in his heart, but it couldn’t be helped that his efforts were completely ignored by the other.

Calyx had just been called back to his company, but with no other options left, Lynx had to call him.

“Brother, you’re finally here! Your Little Treasure was just fine a while ago, but he suddenly started going on a rampage!”

“What happened?” Calyx asked in a low voice.

“I don’t know what happened either. After he woke up, he was searching everywhere for someone. I thought that he might be searching for Miss Ni, so I told him to stop looking, the pretty lady had already left. As soon as I finished talking, he started his rampage. Little Treasure seems to like Miss Ni a lot, but it shouldn’t be to the point where he would get this agitated by just hearing that she left!”

Also, it had been a long time since Little Treasure had shown such intense and turbulent emotions.

After hearing what had happened, Calyx walked straight towards his son.

Seeing Calyx come closer, the little guy immediately retreated backwards warily. His eyes were filled with caution and aversion, he wasn’t going to stop, even for his own father.

Calyx stopped when he was three steps away from his son. He said in a calm and steady tone: “When your second uncle told you that the lady had already left, that was exactly what he meant. There was nothing wrong with her health, so she has already left the hospital to go home. She didn’t die, it’s not like when your grandmother left and never came back, understand?”

It was perhaps only when facing his son that Calyx would have such patience, having so much to say.

Lynx gaped, “Are you kidding me? I only said those two words, ‘she left’, and his mind made such a huge leap?”

Little Treasure had personally seen Ning Xi fall down and had already experienced a big fright. Under such emotional turmoil, he couldn’t be blamed for misunderstanding the situation.

Little Treasure briefly stopped screaming after hearing Calyx's explanation. He refused to move while burying his head and curling up on the windowsill.

Seeing this, he took out a slip of paper, “She left this for you, are you going to look at it?”

Little Treasure’s body twitched once, as if a switch had been turned on. He quickly raised his head and opened his little arms, indicating that he wanted his father to hug him.

Lynx: “…….”

The doctors and nurses at the scene: “……”

Everyone in the room had been put through the wringer to the point of breaking down, yet Lu Calyx managed to end the matter with a slip of paper?

Lynx had originally thought that asking Arisen for a note was entirely unnecessary, but now he was completely convinced.

Calyx carried his son to the sofa and sat down, then handed the paper slip to him.

The little guy eagerly received it. He had learned to recognize words a long time ago, and could already read on his own.

[Darling, thank you for saving me, you’re amazing XOXO~]

Looking at the words on the slip, and the heart drawn at the end of it, the little guy’s eyes were sparkling. He even had a faint blush on his cheeks. Even though he tightened his lips reservedly, the corners of his mouth could not resist faintly quirking up. His demeanor was especially cute.

Lynx looked as if he had just seen a ghost. “What the ****, was I just blinded? Our Little Treasure actually smiled! I can’t even remember how long it’s been since I last saw him smile! What exactly did Arisen Ni write?”

Lynx wanted to sneak a peek, but Little Treasure immediately hid it like it was a precious treasure.

However, Lynx's sharp eyes had already seen it. It was just a fairly ordinary note, yet it could make Little Treasure so happy? This Arisen Ni was remarkable!

Lu Tingxiao gazed warmly at his son without speaking.

After Little Treasure had woken up, Calyx immediately brought him home. In addition, he postponed all his work at the company to stay with Little Treasure at home.

……

At night, in Platinum Palace’s villa No. 8.

The huge living room was icy cold. An adult and a child sat facing each other across the dining table with matching cold expressions.

Calyx: “Eat your food.”

Little Treasure turned a deaf ear.

Calyx: “I’m saying this for the last time.”

Little Treasure didn’t even twitch.

Calyx: “Do you think that this kind of childish hunger strike would work against me?”

Little Treasure was like a meditating old monk, completely immersed in his own world, isolated from the outside world.

The duo continued to confront one another.

After one hour.

Calyx called Lynx: “Send me Arisen's address.”

Okay, so this had proved that hunger strikes did work on him.

Lynx was extremely efficient as he immediately sent Arisen's exact address to his older brother’s cell phone. Following that was a huge pile of gossip, which was completely ignored by Calyx.

This time, Calyx didn’t even need to say anything. The moment Little Treasure saw his father picking up his jacket and car keys, he immediately followed his father’s every step.

Calyx helplessly picked up his son after a single glance at the little bun standing by his feet, “There won’t be a next time.”