Chapter 357: Guilty Conscience

Translator: Larbre Studio Editor: Larbre Studio

Even when He Liang kept on insisting that he was the mastermind, people remained skeptical.

They couldn’t bring themselves to believe that Huang Yanran had nothing to do with it.

Bedridden by the backlash, Huang Yanran found herself worried all the time and couldn’t sleep, even when she was drained.

She even forgot her lines and spaced out when she was working one day.

“What the hell are you doing?” Peng Sicheng shouted angrily as he threw his script on the ground. “Can you show some professionality? If you don’t want this spot anymore, then leave!”

Huang Yanran was summoned back to Yunhai Entertainment as soon as her work ended that day.

It was her first time stepping foot inside the CEO’s office.

She’d never had the chance to meet with Huo Yunshen alone. Her heart beat wildly as he suddenly called her to his office.

She’d guessed that Huo Yunshen wanted to question her about the recent incident. She walked into his office determined not to tie herself to it.

“Mr. Huo,” Huang Yanran said as she stood in front Huo Yunshen’s table. “Did you ask for me?”

Huo Yunshen sat behind his arch-shaped table and signaled Huang Yanran to take a seat.

“Mr. Huo, do you need anything from me?” Huang Yanran asked as she sat down.

“Just a few words,” Huo Yunshen replied as he rested the file in his hand on the table and looked at her with his dark eyes.

Huang Yanran could feel her soul being absorbed by his eyes and quickly lowered her head involuntarily.

Huo Yunshen turned on the projector and opened a file on his computer.

“You have been doing well,” Huo Yunshen said as he looked at the information on the screen. “You’ve climbed your way up to be one of Yunhai Entertainment’s top celebrities.”

Huang Yanran raised her head and looked at the screen. The information on it showed every job that she’d taken in the past.

Huang Yanran, the review wrote, made her debut 5 years ago and has played in 36 shows and movies, in which she had a starring role in 12 dramas and 7 films. Her position in Yunhai Entertainment falls only behind Qi Liya.

There’s high hope for her to be awarded the Best Actress Award for her role in “Root of Evil.”

Huang Yanran was puzzled by why Huo Yunshen was showing her the information and her hands began to shake under the table.

“As you can see, we really believed that you could get the award with ‘Root of Evil,’” Huo Yunshen said with a soft voice.

Huang Yanran already knew that she could get a nomination with the drama she was shooting, but she could feel everything had changed with how Huo Yunshen was telling her the information.

Her guilt was making her shake from fear.

Just as she thought Huo Yunshen was there to talk about work, the screen changed, and a series of images of He Liang being captured by the police appeared on it.

“I’ve never thought that he would do such a cruel thing…” Huang Yanran quickly explained.

Huo Yunshen did not respond and played a video where He Liang was confessing to the police.

In the video, He Liang had shaved his hair off as he sat on a chair with prisoner’s clothes and cuffs.

“All of this was all me, Huang Yanran had nothing to do with it,” He Liang said.

“Then why did you do it?” the interrogating officer asked.

“Because…” He Liang choked as he began to cry. “Because I love her.”