Injured

'Why am I suddenly hearing these lines? Have I lost my mind? The lines are right but the tune, music and voice weren't right. What is going on?' Several questions popped into Wu Jinyan's mind. In a daze, she took a step back and lost her footing.

She got severely injured as the filming location had harsh flooring and the scene had several sharp objects positioned randomly on the ground. Both her knees were scratched as she landed directly on her knees before she fell to a side that had broken glass pieces scattered on the ground. In the end, her head hit the ground and she lost consciousness.

When Lin Ran learnt about the incident, Wu Jinyan was already taken to the nearby hospital.

...

In the evening, Li Xiaoyi came to the hospital to visit the injured artist.

If anyone exposed the news of someone getting injured while shooting the music video for her song, everything she meticulously planned so far would go to waste.

Li Xiaoyi walked up to the patient's room. Through the glass part of the door, she noticed the woman lying on the bed with her eyes closed. Her face was ghastly pale. She looked vulnerable with an oxygen mask hooked to her nose and the right side of her head and body was wrapped with several bandages.

A sudden alarming sound reverberated in the room notifying the drop in the patient's body vitals. One could tell her life was threatened just by the way how the nurse in the room panicked and pressed a button.

Immediately, a doctor opened the door and ran towards the bed. A few seconds later, a nurse ran with a trolley full of equipment.

The doctor gave some instructions while the nurses ran in and out of the room.

Watching the scene from afar, Li Xiaoyi chuckled in disbelief as she never expected a simple fall could throw one's life into danger. She thought the doctors were exaggerating for few small injuries.

Li Xiaoyi then saw the two people in the room who stood far from the bed.

She assumed the woman was the artist's manager. But seeing the other person, Mu Feng, she was a little astonished. She didn't understand what Mu Feng was doing there. He looked more panicked than anyone else in the room. It was as if he had some deep relationship with that small artist.

Remembering the artist was from Star Entertainment, she thought his concern over that artist was pointless when he was no longer the owner of the company. She wondered if he was hitting on that beautiful newcomer.

Li Xiaoyi then realised that Mu Feng must have forgotten why he returned to the country in the first place. It was because she persistently pleaded with him to make an appearance in her music video and help her in promoting the song.

"Feng, if not for me at least show some mercy on your fans. Do you know how much they are waiting for you?" She begged him because she knew his appearance in her video at least for a few seconds would give an enormous boost to her song and she was sure her song would top the charts if his fans showed interest in her song.

She then recalled how Mu Feng was reluctant to help her in the beginning but agreed only after listening to the song.

He was immensely curious and asked about the source of the song lyrics. "Who wrote the song?"

Thinking back to that time and the expectant look she saw on his face, she regretted lying to Mu Feng. She said it was her own song but only she knew from where she got the lyrics.

No one except her knew that she stole some papers from a recording studio belonging to a local singer in America.

Li Xiaoyi turned around and left the hospital hoping that nothing would happen to the patient. If anything happened to her, she could not settle and close the matter with some money as the other party was not an artist from a small company but someone from Star Entertainment.

Gu Zihao was a reckless man and a free-living soul who cared mostly about his happiness but once someone under his shadow was put in danger, he would turn into a ferocious beast. 

If something happened to that woman and Gu Zihao dug up the information that eventually pointed to her, Li Xiaoyi was afraid Gu Zichen would also hear the news sooner or later.

She was already at a disadvantage with how Gu Zichen was distancing himself from her, he even hired some bizarre woman to act as his wife and pushed her away like he didn't care about her.

Now she didn't want someone's death that occurred in her working grounds to be another reason for Gu Zichen to hate her. Things were already not in her favour, she couldn't afford to get into another mess. She silently prayed Gu Zihao wouldn't target her in case something happened to his artist and be a reasonable man and understand that it was just an accident.

...

Lin Ran was aware she couldn't let outsiders know about the matter as per the contract she signed with Li Xiaoyi on behalf of Wu Jinyan. However, her boss Gu Zihao was an exception. He specifically warned her to take good care of Wu Jinyan. She didn't know why her boss was particularly overprotective of Wu Jinyan, but she could only do what she was ordered.

She immediately contacted Gu Zihao and reported about Wu Jinyan's condition.

"If anything happens to Wu Jinyan, see if I'll let you stay alive" The reply she received left her shuddering in fear.