Chapter 5: Compose
A half hour had passed before they reached the house. Still, Jiang Sichen acted like he had no one with. He directly walked towards the house without even taking a glance at her.
Nan Xiaoying twitched her lips again in annoyance. Nevermind.
She was actually planning to at least create a civil relationship with him. After all, they're married. But looking at his attitude on her, nevermind her plans, alright.
Besides, it looks like if she tries to act friendly, he'll probably think that she's trying to stick on him.
Xiaoying went to her room and picked up her phone. She went to the small terrace in her room and felt the fresh air breeze on her own.
She was thinking on what to do when her gaze went down below and landed on the cloth swing at the garden.
She immediately had an idea. After picking up a small notebook and a signed pen on her study table, she went downstairs and snuggled herself at the cloth swing. She was half laying on it as her feet kicked the land so it would swing.
Feeling a cold breeze of air on her face, she took out her phone and was flabbergasted when she noticed that the original host doesn't have any social media accounts.
What the hell?
Her phone has only regular apps. She has a WeChat and Weibo but when she clicks the two, it appears that she has to sign in. Only means that there's no used account. Even on her contact list, there's only four people. The Chairman Jiang, Jiang Sichen, the butler's and Sister An— the one who took care of her when she was still at the orphanage.
So she has no friends?
Other than this, she also has an app. An app for webnovels.
Xiaoying clucked her tongue inside her mouth and officially made an account.
She named herself as Silence and began scrolling on her newsfeed.
Aside from the regular gossip news at the Entertainment Industry, there wasn't a thing that could catch her attention—
Ah, no, wait.
One of her eyebrows raised when an announcement caught her attention.
@RuChenOfficial(✓): The newest movie Drunk And Soul has finally begun. The team has opened for new recruits for the music team production. Seeking a composer that could write amazing songs to be used as an original sound track for the movie. If you are interested, just click the link below, fill up the form and submit your entry according to the said theme.
Theme: When the soul had enough of restraining oneselves.
Xiaoying immediately searched for information about this movie.
Drunk And Soul is a heavy drama scene about friendship. It was about a group of strangers who met at the bar. Because of drunkenness, they found themselves telling the problem of their lives. But apparently, one of the strangers confessed about how he killed a person unintentionally. This results in the other party reporting to the police. However, the other stranger chose to help the killer escape until all of them finally found the reason and what happened to the victim who somehow crossed into the other stranger's life.
Creating lyrics is not a problem for Xiaoying since she had already experienced it in her past life. The only issue that she needed to handle was about hiding her identity.
Although being famous has the bigger chance to earn money, Nan Xiaoying doesn't have the courage as of now. Especially on her condition as a mute. Since she was in the entertainment circle in her past life, she naturally knows what kind of society that she has to face.
And unfortunately, the word perfect has to be applied to it even if it's impossible. Every step is very risky. The more famous you are, the more suffocation you'll feel. Privacy will naturally be invaded and freedom.
That's the last thing that she doesn't want to ruin. She already experienced being in the spotlight. Although praises are great, the pressure is more troublesome. Especially that they're too many competitors. If you want to survive, you have to do everything in order to not let the spotlight off.
Even other artists are the ones making their own scandals to gain more fame. And of course, the easiest way is to act as a perfect white lotus. Just act as if you're naive, cute and pitiful, truly, you can gain sympathy that makes people want to protect you.
And that's the greatest shield. Unfortunately, if a person was already under the spell of a white lotus, in their eyes, that lotus is perfect and right that results in irrational decisions.
Thus, looking at the mostly girls competing acting delicate made her stupefied.
It even made her shiver knowing that she also had acted like this last life.
Heh. I would never in this lifetime! Thankfully I'm super timid and weak that no one wants to be with me. That's right. My sickly temperament has no connection in acting docile and pity. It's normal. It can't lure someone. Hehe.
Based on what happened to her and seeing that no one even wants to be with her made her somehow sigh in relief. She didn't know whether to laugh or cry on that fact.
Does she need to celebrate that no one will disturb her or cry because she'll be alone?
Aiya. Whatever. Just let the time flow.
Therefore, Nan Xiaoying spent the whole day creating pieces that match for the movie.
This is her first step to her new life and secure it. And then later on after this, she has no thought of another work that she can do for additional income.
Right. The more connections, the more money I can get.
She happily nodded at herself while still planning about her future plans for the following days that she failed to notice the man upstairs.
He was standing on the large window while his gaze was down below. His arms are cross and he's leaning on the wall while watching the tiny woman on the cloth swing.
What is she doing?
This is the first time that he saw her pouring so much effort to do something. Well, he wasn't actually sure of that since he rarely goes home so he basically doesn't know her actions— or not that he's interested anyway.
But now, seeing her acting very dedicated while scribbling something on her notebook made his curiosity poke.
Just what made his mute wife interested that she didn't notice him? Afterall, she's very sensitive and every time he'll stare at her, it always felt like she automatically felt that that made her step backwards away from him.
She's always scared and nervous. But now, even though he's staring at her for a long time, he himself didn't notice— but he got no response from her , which made him somewhat irritated.
His lips twitched before he tsked in annoyance and went back to his bed. He sat on its side and opened the drawer before gently pulling out a frame.
A smile appeared on his lips when he saw the sweet smile of the woman in the picture.
His very own first love— Yi Ruru.
However, she left him. But even though she did, if she'll come back to him, he'll accept her without hesitation.
Who's greater than her in his heart? No one.
And he can do anything that he's much more willing to divorce his wife even if that's his grandfather's wish to him.
All he needed was to wait for her. And they'll be together again.
Reminiscing their memories made his heart grow warm with so much joy.
But then, his mind suddenly recalled the tiny woman in the garden. She's always alone again. Silent and very distant to everyone.
And it unknowingly made an itch on his heart. He frowned.
No. He promises to his beloved that she's the only one. He can never affect himself. Even if it's pity or even creates friendship.
Ruru is more than enough for anyone. No one can replace her.
To be continued.