"They say a married - off daughter is like spilled water. Even if Xiyu gets divorced and remarries, she won't find a man better than Song Jiaye. Besides, Song Jiaye is truly capable. He built Lishi Film Industry from scratch, and look, it's about to go public in just a few years."
"So you still hope they..."
"Sigh, after Xiyu's accident, I've thought a lot. As long as the kids are happy, let fate take its course." Li Xiangping waved his hand and then lay down.
Jiang Yongfeng covered him with the quilt and, on the pretext of going to wash up, walked out of the room.
But instead of going to the bathroom, she went straight to Li Xichi's room.
At this moment, Li Xichi was holding her phone and giggling.
Jiang Yongfeng didn't need to ask to know who she was messaging.
"I told you to catch a big fish, not to throw yourself in blindly." Jiang Yongfeng reminded helplessly.
"Mom, what are you talking about? This is not throwing myself in." Li Xichi couldn't help but pout as she spoke.
"Isn't this throwing yourself in? It's as if the words 'love - struck fool' are written on your forehead."
Jiang Yongfeng had no way with this clueless daughter. She gave up the idea of explaining and making her smarter, and asked, "I told you to beat around the bush and ask Song Yunsheng if he knows where the Song family's golden grandson is. Did he tell you straight?"
Li Xichi shook her head and said, "I asked him. He said he didn't know either."
Jiang Yongfeng was speechless.
"Who told you to ask directly? Didn't I tell you to beat around the bush, beat around the bush?"
"Come on, Yunsheng is a really nice guy. He answers all my questions. There's no need for all this trouble, Mom. You're overthinking."
Jiang Yongfeng: "..."
She thought of what Li Tong said on the phone and asked, "Then let me ask you, now that you have Song Yunsheng, are you giving up on Song Jiaye?"
Li Xichi's expression froze when she heard Song Jiaye's name.
Jiang Yongfeng continued, "Li Tong called today and said that Song Jiaye took Li Xiyu to the amusement park. They're like a sweet young couple now."
"That's not okay!" Li Xichi got anxious as soon as she heard this.
She did have Song Yunsheng now, but that didn't mean she was going to give up on Song Jiaye. For a woman, it's okay to leave herself a few more back - up options, right? After all, although her relationship with Song Yunsheng was progressing quickly, he hadn't directly confessed his love to her yet, so she couldn't even be considered his girlfriend.
Even if she really became Song Yunsheng's girlfriend or even married him, she wouldn't mind having one more man to take care of her.
Song Jiaye was so useful. Just by hanging his name, many screenwriters and famous directors would come to her asking to act in their movies. She didn't want to lose this golden sign.
Jiang Yongfeng knew her daughter's temper and was sure she wouldn't let go of Song Jiaye.
After all, she had taught her daughter herself.
Jiang Yongfeng had done the same thing back then. She had strung along her ex - husband while also getting in touch with Li Xiangping. It was only after Li Xiangping proposed and they got their marriage certificate that she completely kicked her ex - husband to the curb.
Women, one man is never enough.
Jiang Yongfeng reminded, "Xichi, don't blame Mom for not warning you in advance. Li Xiyu doesn't remember anything now, so everything is calm. But once she regains her memory and her relationship with Song Jiaye gets better, do you think she'll let you off easily?"
Li Xichi remembered what Li Xiyu had done to her in Xiyu Villa, those creepy acts of "care", and she felt scared.
"No, this won't do!" At this moment, Li Xichi seemed to remember something and said, "Mom, do you still remember what Song Jiaye told you about his dream?"
Jiang Yongfeng nodded. Of course, she remembered this. Sometimes Song Jiaye was really stupid. He actually took the things in his dream seriously. Otherwise, with Song Jiaye's intelligence, he wouldn't have liked her daughter for so many years.
It was all thanks to the beautifying effect of that dream.
"Recently, Song Jiaye has been looking for a poetry collection called 'Spring Yu Collection'. I watched the documentary about it. The content in this collection is very similar to what Song Jiaye dreamed about."
"Really?" Jiang Yongfeng was shocked when she heard this and quickly asked Li Xichi to find the documentary.
Since Song Jiaye was looking for this poetry collection, it had become popular. Not only the documentary but also the complete poems were starting to spread on the Internet. Many people were shipping the poet and the female general's CP. So when Li Xichi searched, a lot of information came up.
Jiang Yongfeng didn't have a high level of education, so she couldn't understand the poems. But she could understand the story. After watching the documentary, she clicked on a few analysis posts about these poems or fan - made stories based on the poem's story.
The more she read, the more she felt it was mysterious.
"This... how is this possible?" It would be okay if it was just the general plot that was similar, but many details were similar to what Song Jiaye had told her about his dream.
The long whip, the poppy, the jade hairpin and other details all matched.
"Yunsheng told me that this poetry collection was unearthed from a tomb last year. It seems to belong to a eunuch."
"A eunuch?" Jiang Yongfeng was also confused. Could a eunuch write love poems?
But now the important thing was not the identity of the tomb owner but the "Spring Yu Collection" that highly coincided with Song Jiaye's dream.
Jiang Yongfeng held the phone, pinched her chin and thought carefully, then said, "Has Song Jiaye read this poetry collection?"
"I heard from a friend in the media that Song Jiaye originally wanted to ask them for the content of the poetry collection, but then he said he didn't need it anymore. So the matter was dropped. I guess he hasn't read it."
Jiang Yongfeng nodded and came up with a bold idea.
"Xichi, didn't Song Jiaye say that you look a lot like his dream girl?"
"Yeah, Mom, why are you suddenly bringing this up?"
"Then you should become his dream girl."
"What do you mean?"
Jiang Yongfeng smiled, a meaningful smile on her face.
...
With Ming Yuexuan's remote guidance, Li Qiyu had recently learned how to scroll through Moments. Since there was only Song Jiaye in her WeChat contacts, and Song Jiaye never posted on Moments, she found it boring. So she switched to Li Xiyu's WeChat.
In Li Xiyu's Moments, she found someone whom Li Xiyu had备注 as "Intruder" had posted this text: "I've been having continuous dreams these days. It's really disturbing."
But the accompanying picture was a selfie that didn't look bothered at all.
The picture was so distorted that Li Qiyu had to look carefully to recognize that it was actually Li Xichi!
Li Xiyu then clicked on her Moments homepage and looked at several of her photos in different poses before she could confirm that it was Li Xichi.
The person in the photo looked -
She almost didn't recognize her!