Daddy Ceo's Beloved Wife [Book 2]

Chapter 302 - Jia Yi's Hidden Past

As for Steffanie, she should have shared the same dressing room with four other actresses. However, growing up being spoiled and getting what she wanted, she begged her father to request the filming crew to have her own dressing room.

"Tsk! So pretentious!" Steffanie scolded. "Who is she trying to pretend for? She's just a sugar baby of some old farts who just wanted to taste young bodies like her! So cheap but I still think she's so great!"

"But I don't think the rumor is true." Steffanie's manager muttered.

Steffanie glared at her. "What?"

"I... I mean, everyone doesn't think it's true that... that she has a gold master," stuttered her manager. "I heard Jennie came from a good family and she has been an actress for a long time. She must have... saved a lot of money to buy things she wanted... Besides, 100 million for pocket money is too much, even Mr. President, don't give much to you, young miss."

"Are you mocking me because my father only gave me 10 million?" Steffanie was enraged by her words, feeling like she wanted to peel her manager's skin. "And this is the first time I heard you speak so much... Shi Lian... Are you rebelling?!"

--PA!

Feeling a hot sting on her cheeks and drawing tears from her eyes, Shi Lian saw black and fell to the ground with a loud thud.

She didn't mean to rebel against Steffanie, but she had to say those words to help her artist to learn and grow up. What she could see, everyone could also see it. There was no way that Jennie was being kept even if she admitted to it. But only Steffanie believed that Jennie really had a gold master backing her.

"Shi Lian, just because my daddy pitied your father because he served our family as a butler doesn't mean you can secure your position as my manager. Just one word from me and you'll lose your happy life. Do you really want me to call my daddy and have you fired."

"No! Please, don't! I don't want to lose my job!" Shi Lian cried and crawled to hold Steffanie's leg, but she was kicked away.

"Don't touch me with your hands!" After kicking her manager, Steffanie sent a disgusted glance at her.

But then, a sudden idea came into her mind and she asked Shi Lian, "Shi Lian, do you really want to keep your job?"

Shi Lian painfully raised her head and looked at her. Her father has been hospitalized ever since he was diagnosed with cancer. Steffanie's father helped them pay her father's hospital bills, but the amount of money Shi Lian had to repay them was something she can never get in this lifetime. And so, she could only work to her bone under Steffanie and became her slave.

Even though she really hated Steffanie, Shi Lian could only continue slaving her entire life under her.

Nodding her head, Shi Lian tearfully said, "Yes."

Steffanie was pleased by her reply and smiled. "Then, can you do me a favor?"

Shi Lian stilled for a second before nodding.

Shi Lian still has some hope for Steffanie to change and thought that she really was going to ask her a small favor. But she forgot the the young miss was not someone who would do anything for charity nor do a good deed.

Steffanie's next words pushed Shi Lian to a pit of no return.

"Ruin Jennie's face for me."

...

Inside the restroom, Jia Yi looked down on her phone with trembling hands. She locked her screen and unlocked it. She did this several times before finally smashing her phone against the wall across her.

Jia Yi raised a hand to press on her face as she breathed heavily. Peering into the gaps of her fingers, she stared into the air in silence.

She was finished.

She was still gleefully and excitedly waiting to see Jennie fall to her ruin. She and Jennie did not have any falling out and had no relationship whatsoever other than being acquaintance who met as part of the cast in the film. But her hobby of wanting to see other people fall down and see them making desperate actions to save their career and life was aroused upon seeing the brightly shining Jennie.

On that day of their first meeting, Jia Yi instantly felt admiration towards Jennie. But that admiration was another type which it made her want to see Jennie's face in terror and fear of losing her wits and career.

Hence, she said those innocent and harmless statements in front of Steffanie, who was an easy prey on.

As she expected, Steffanie went along with her words and really made a scene against Jennie.

Her plans were even going the way she wanted.

Until Jennie made that unexpected move.

Jennie's post threw Jia Yi off her game and surprised her. Who knew that Jennie did not despair but instead challenged her, the real manipulator, indirectly and also Steffanie.

Jia Yi leaned against the wall nearest to her and took a deep breathe to calm her mind before looking down at her phone that had the screen on and displayed what was sent to her just now.

It was a photo of her a few years ago. She was wearing a prisoner's uniform and looked extremely unkempt and dirty. Below the picture was the libel; murderer and sentenced to 25 years in jail.

It was a dark past she didn't want anyone to see and nobody should have known. Everything was hidden by the man who saved her out of that place and helped her go wild in the entertainment industry using another identity.

But now, that secret has been unearthed and being used to threaten her.

"Who... who could have sent this?" Jia Yi murmured to herself and picked up her phone before anyone could enter the empty public restroom. "How did they find out?"