No reconciliation, no forgiveness! Mr. Pei leaves with nothing.

Backstage at the play, Xu Xiangjun was getting her makeup done by the makeup artist. Her friends all looked at her with envy. "Xiangjun, you're so lucky. Before, when you performed in Haishi, that big shot would come to every show you had. Now that we're in the capital, he's probably sitting in the front row, waiting to see you."

"Yes, if it weren't for Xiangjun, our drama troupe would have been disbanded."

"This makeup artist does a really good job. Unlike us, we have to do it ourselves. Looking at the entire drama troupe in the capital city, I don't think anyone else has the honor of having a makeup artist with them all the time."

Listening to the sounds around her, Xu Xiangjun didn't know why, but she couldn't feel happy at all.

She followed Shen Yebai for five years...

Five years ago, Xu Xiangjun was eighteen years old. Her mother couldn't stand her father being a gambler and ran away with another man. Her father was a gambler and the family was heavily in debt. When she had just come of age, her father sold her to Jinbihuihuang to work as a prostitute. She had a good voice and would sing for the powerful and wealthy when there was business.

When she was forced into a sexual assault and nearly humiliated, it was Shen Yebai's soft heart that saved her. It was as if a god had descended upon her, giving her a glimmer of hope.

He said that she sang well, and that's why Shen Yebai took her in, gave her everything, and also gave her the best resources.

No one outside knew of her existence, but time can never truly conceal it.

In order to survive and to please him, Xu Xiangjun was admitted to the Performance Department of the Imperial Capital University and eventually became a stage actress, because he said he liked it.

If all of this had happened before that woman appeared, Xu Xiangjun might have felt that she had already secured a place in that man's heart...

...

Jiang Hua raised her hand and glanced at the women's watch on her wrist. The watch strap was a bit worn, but she didn't seem to mind at all and was still wearing it. "Strange, five minutes have passed, why hasn't it started yet?"

Shen Yebai said, "Go ask."

"Yes."

The secretary went backstage…

Jiang Hua rested her forehead on her hand, looking at the huge red curtain with boredom. "Brother Ye Bai, you like this play too?"

Shen Yebai: "Mm."

Jiang Hua: "I thought that no one but me would like to watch such a terrible show."

He asked her, "Why do you like it so much?"

Jiang Hua thought about it carefully for a while, "I don't know. Ji Liangchuan brought me here once before. Every time he finished watching, he looked at me with a look that I couldn't understand. I didn't understand, so I came to find the answer. I don't know if I can feel and understand it this time."

"I'll come and watch whenever this scene is rehearsed..."

This play is indeed unpopular, perhaps because the plot is too tragic. Whenever Jiang Hua comes to watch this play, she is usually alone. Otherwise, a few young couples come, but they leave halfway through.

"What about you?"

Shen Yebai picked up the teacup beside him, concealing the emotions in his eyes. "Just killing time."

Jiang Hua exclaimed "Ah!" Then, as if struck by a sudden thought, she asked, "Has the perpetrator been found?"

Shen Yebai: "The surveillance system malfunctioned, the vehicle was found, and the owner is dead."

So the matter was left unresolved. If the other party was clearly there because of him, there would be a second chance, and he had the patience to wait.

Jiang Hua didn't dare to ask any further questions.

Shen Yebai inexplicably explained, "It's an accident car; the owner passed away three years ago."

Backstage

The drama troupe leader, with a fawning smile, walked up to Xu Xiangjun and said, "Xiangjun, the people around Young Master Shen have already come to urge you. They're just waiting for you."

The moment Chen Yebai finished speaking, the lights dimmed and the center of the stage lit up.

The performance has begun…

"Waiting for You for Ten Years" is a beautiful and poignant love story. It tells the story of a couple who were once very much in love but were forcibly separated by their families. The man couldn't withstand the pressure and eventually chose to leave his hometown to marry another woman and have a son and a daughter. The male protagonist lived a happy and fulfilling life until the end. As time passed, he remembered his former lover again and returned to his hometown with his wife and children.

The male protagonist thought he would be able to see her and see if she was doing well.

But what awaited him was the news that the girl he had once deeply loved had died of illness ten years ago.

Her death anniversary was his wedding day…

The male protagonist felt guilty and wanted to stay and guard the girl's tombstone, but his wife got angry and left with the child, and also divorced him.

The male protagonist's fate was also tragic; he didn't survive the three years and froze to death at her grave in the dead of winter...

Jiang Hua looked at the female lead on stage, dressed in clothes from the 1980s, and asked, "Has the female lead been changed?"

Shen Yebai remained silent. Jiang Hua held the performance list in her hand. The female lead had been changed to Xu Xiangjun, a name she had never heard of before. The other actors were the same.

After more than two hours of performance, Jiang Hua's eyes began to furrow, and she gradually became impatient. Even Shen Yebai, with his sensitive nature, noticed that something was wrong.

She could no longer bear it, so she picked up the teacup beside her and smashed it on the table. The sudden accident startled them all, and they stopped momentarily.

"Is this newly found actor here to act, or to watch the men in the audience?"

"If you can't act well, go back and hone your acting skills."

Jiang Hua pointed at the person on the stage, whose body was stiff and whose face was pale, "Next time you come, don't let me see you again."

"If you can't act well, get out of here as soon as possible."

"I said... who are you! Are you here to cause trouble?" One of the men couldn't stand it anymore and stepped forward to Xu Xiangjun, saying, "Today's show is for Young Master Shen, Xiangjun. Who do you think you are?"

The actors on stage all rushed to Xu Xiangjun's side to check on her injuries.

Suddenly, something came to Jiang Hua's mind. Shen Bao'er had told her that during the time Shen Yebai was working in Haishi, he was dating an actress from a drama troupe...

Is that her?

When the lights in the performance hall came on, Jiang Hua was finally able to see the face on the stage clearly. Her eyes, filled with tears and looking pitiful, were the same as the woman who had appeared in the restroom last time.

The group leader, who had been observing from backstage, immediately came out, bowed to Shen Yebai, and apologized, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, Mr. Shen! I've disturbed your enjoyment. Don't worry, I will call the police to deal with this woman. I will definitely not let this go so easily, as I have frightened Xiangjun."

On stage, Xu Xiangjun's close friend gently comforted her, "What a crazy woman! Are you alright, Xiangjun? Don't worry, Mr. Shen will handle it for you."

But just when everyone thought that Shen Yebai would stand by Xu Xiangjun's side, unexpectedly, a cold and hurtful sentence came out of his mouth: "Didn't you hear what she said? If you can't act well, then replace her."

what?

Everyone wondered if they had misheard.

"Clean up the surrounding area." Shen Yebai said, then took Jiang Hua's hand and left.

Jiang Hua frowned: It seems she's gotten herself into trouble.

"I won't apologize. It's her acting that's bad; she kept staring at you absentmindedly." She was simply stating a fact.

Shen Yebai: "You did nothing wrong."