Xue Feimo rubbed his temples and asked in a hoarse voice, "What time is it now?"
"Ten in the morning," Luo Tiantian replied.
Xue Feimo nodded, then looked at the busy butler and said, "Butler, have the lawyer come over."
"Yes, young master."
The butler put down what he was doing and walked over to the landline phone.
Just as he was about to dial, the phone suddenly rang.
Seeing the familiar caller ID, the butler smiled broadly, "Good morning, old master."
Whatever was said on the other end, the butler kept agreeing respectfully.
Afterwards, the butler finally turned to Xue Feimo, "Young master, the old master wants you to take the call."
"...Okay." Xue Feimo hesitated for a moment, then got up and walked over.
He picked up the phone. "Grandpa?"
"..." Xue Feimo listened to the voice on the other side, saying nothing at all.
As the silence stretched on, his brow furrowed deeper and deeper.
Even from far away, Luo Tiantian could feel the low pressure radiating from Xue Feimo.
The call continued, and Luo Tiantian had no idea what they were talking about.
She only knew that after Xue Feimo let out a single "Okay," he started staring at her with a weird look in his eyes.
His stare made her scalp tingle...
"Bo-boss, did something happen?" Luo Tiantian asked nervously.
New place, everyone hostile.
With unseen dangers lurking in the shadows, she had no choice but to cling tightly to Xue Feimo's coattails.
She didn't want to be as miserable as the original owner; she wanted to live as freely as she had in her past life.
"Nothing." Xue Feimo shot Luo Tiantian a deep, meaningful look and replied coolly.
"..." Luo Tiantian choked, feeling even less at ease.
Just as she was thinking what to say, Xue Feimo had already gotten up.
After walking a couple of steps, he suddenly turned back. "Kid, what's your name?"
"Luo Tiantian." Luo Tiantian answered reflexively.
Xue Feimo nodded slightly and went upstairs.
Leaving Luo Tiantian sitting dumbfounded on the sofa, on pins and needles.
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About half an hour later, a well-dressed man, led by the butler, also went upstairs.
Luo Tiantian, already jittery, got even more nervous.
The huge living room was completely empty, her only company the scent of money everywhere.
"What the hell is Xue Feimo doing?"
Luo Tiantian glanced in the direction of the second floor, muttering quietly to herself.
According to the plot, in a few months the female lead would forcefully burst into the entertainment industry.
Then, with help from the Luo family and the male lead, she'd skyrocket into a first-tier star with hundreds of millions of fans.
Under the female lead's careful manipulation, the original owner was painted as someone desperate to replace the lead—no morals, no limits, arsonist, murderer, irredeemable, a plastic-surgery-addicted villain.
Overnight, the original owner, once the Luo family's pampered little princess, became a rat in the street; everyone wanted a piece of her.
The more the original tried to prove she was the real Luo Tiantian, the more the Luo family hated and resented her.
Even when she tried to take the female lead down with her, she was still outmatched at every turn.
In the end, the female lead imprisoned her and tortured her for more than a decade, before she was finally set free.
Just thinking about that made Luo Tiantian anxious as hell.
She had to seize her place in the entertainment world before the heroine did.
And then slowly expose the female lead's true colors.
But to succeed, she had to find a backer even more powerful than the Luo family and the male lead.
And Xue Feimo was her one and only choice.
"Sign it!"
"..." Luo Tiantian, lost in thought, snapped back to attention.
A tingling sensation, like a cat scratching, swept inexplicably through her heart.
Xue Feimo was ridiculously good-looking, and his voice was something else too.