Jane Gardner pushed down all her emotions, and she stopped talking.
Rudolf Bartley listened to the silence of the air, and he half spat out one word, “Good!”
That night, Jane Gardner stayed up all night.
In her mind, all she could think about was the image of Zachary Irwin seeing himself just now.
She hugged herself tightly with both hands, as if Zachary Irwin was hugging himself.
The next day.
Just as Jane Gardner expected, those few pictures of her from the Irwin circulated out, the whole network boiled, before because of her words, a lot of reporters and media had already squatted in Maravilla trying to find her.
Now, those people were even pulling out and looking for her everywhere.
I don’t know if it’s because she was photographed by someone when she came over last night, but the house that Rudolf Bartley rented for her was swarmed by journalists in just a few hours.
“I heard that you’ve been furthering your music studies lately, and Wen Baining is your teacher?” Gu Yiren called Jane Gardner again, her voice smiling and relaxed.
“Yes.” Jane Gardner took a deep breath as she pulled the curtains closed so as to shield her from the press media who were frantically snapping pictures of her.
“I’ve also heard that he’s returning to China this time because he wants to plan a music genre variety show, I don’t know what exactly it is and I don’t care, but you should call Wen Baining right now and say that you want to participate.”
Gu Yi Ren didn’t do all this so that Jane Gardner could hide away and live her life as a homesteader.
She wanted Jane Gardner to return to the entertainment industry with all the negative news, and she wanted to see how Jane Gardner would be reduced to a falling dog, with everyone shouting at her.
“Okay, I will do everything you say, but I have one request.” Jane Gardner gritted her teeth.
“Make a condition with me? Do you think, you still have this qualification now?” Gu Yi Ren sneered, then, “However, although you’re not qualified, but seeing as you’re so obedient, say it, and I’ll see if I can oblige you.”
Gu Yi Ren admired Jane Gardner’s large-scale photos, and she had to say that Jane Gardner was really obedient enough.
Destroying her own reputation was considered to be destroying it thoroughly enough!
“I want to see Grandma!” The one person Jane Gardner really meets is Zachary Irwin, but he no longer remembers that he loves him.
“You want to see Ottilia Amos? Good!” Eva Koo answered cheerfully.
Just as Jane Gardner was about to ask her when she was going to let herself be seen, Yui Gu dialed the video over.
She was over the video and saw Ottilia Amos lying on the bed.
“I’m not going to meet Grandma in a video, I want to see her in person!” Jane Gardner could hardly blame Yiren Gu for agreeing so readily, she couldn’t tell if Ottilia Amos was really safe through the video.
She wanted to see her with her own eyes!
“Seeing with your own eyes, I’m afraid I can’t, have you forgotten, you still have that bunch of reporters at your door. Jane Gardner, I’ll give you ten minutes to say whatever you want to say to Ottilia Amos, hurry up.
Oh, I forgot to tell you, Ottilia Amos has been sniffing that perfume I developed, and she can talk, but she can’t move.
So you’d better not move your head!” As Gu Yi Ren’s words fell, she gave her cell phone to a bodyguard.
That bodyguard then held up the cell phone so that Ottilia Amos could see Jane Gardner on the other end of the video.
Jane Gardner saw that Ottilia Amos’ always shrewd eyes were full of pain at the moment, and she felt guilty, “Grandma, I’m sorry, it’s all because of me that I’ve dragged you down.”
“How is Less, Zachary?” Ottilia Amos was still spitting out her words, but her strength wasn’t as good as before and her body didn’t look as fit.
“He’s okay, how are you?” Jane Gardner didn’t dare to tell Ottilia Amos about Zachary Irwin’s memory loss and being hoodwinked by Kiyoshi.
She could only report the good news.
“Silly girl, you don’t have to lie to me, if Zachary is really well, how can you still have tears in your eyes? I’m already a handful of years old, it doesn’t matter what happens to me.” Ottilia Amos’ old eyes rarely glowed as well.
A million ideas had flashed through her mind in the last few days when she thought of the possible calamity that had befallen Zachary Irwin.
“If you ever get into trouble, take care of the jade bracelet Grandma gave you earlier; that bracelet isn’t worth much, but it’s more or less a token of Grandma’s appreciation.”
Jane Gardner’s intuition told her that Ottilia Amos’ mention of the bracelet at this time must have a deep meaning unique to her.
After that, she chatted with Ottilia Amos again, after the ten minutes were over.
Jane Gardner’s cell phone was taken away by the bodyguard, and Gu Yi Ren hung up the video.
“I didn’t know that you and Ottilia Amos were so affectionate!” Yi Ren Gu’s voice was conspiratorial.
“Zhong Jinghao has fallen in love with you, and you’re the only one he remembers, so what exactly do you want to see me fall into before you’re willing to let me go?” Jane Gardner was afraid that Gu Yi Ren would hit Ottilia Amos with her idea.
Her heart lifted and her hand squeezed the phone so tightly that her palms were covered in sweat.
“If you want me to let you go, probably, you’ll have to wait until I’ve tortured you to death. After all, when a cat teases a mouse, it teases until the mouse dies before it loses interest.” Gu Yi Ren gave an evil smile that sent chills down her spine.
Jane Gardner ended her call with Gu Yiren, and she was about to call Wen Baining to offer to participate in his variety show.
But as she was about to call, Wen Baining’s phone was the first to dial in.
“Miss Gardner, are you alright? How come in just one day, the internet is full of negative news about you? Although those photos look realistic, I recognized at a glance that the photos are all synthesized and the person on them is not you.”
Wen Bai Ning’s voice was tinted with a smile, and although his speech was fast, Jane Gardner couldn’t feel his concern for herself.
“How did you recognize it?” Jane Gardner was curious, when she was looking for a figure last night, she was looking for someone whose figure was extremely similar to her own.
Wen Baining had only met himself a few times? He shouldn’t have instantly recognized that those pictures weren’t her!
“There’s a mole in the direction of the back of your neck that’s not in the pictures.”
Jane Gardner heard Wen Baining’s reminder and flipped open her cell phone to look at it, and it turned out to be just as Wen Baining had said.
She wondered if Gu Yiren would find this out, her brows furrowed, “This matter, can you not tell anyone?”
“Give me a reason? Why don’t you clarify everything? Did someone force you to do this?” Wen Baining asked about all this, and his voice fell serious.
“I can’t say.” Jane Gardner closed her eyes, she opened them again, “Forget it, forget it, pretend I didn’t say anything just now, you can say whatever you want, bye!”
Jane Gardner said and was about to hang up the phone.
“Wait!” Wen Baining voiced out in time, “Okay, I promise you, but as a reward for me helping you hide it, you also need to do me a favor.”
“I came back this time because I want to pick a girlfriend for myself, it just so happens that a friend of mine wants to organize a universal casting type music variety show, I don’t know many people in China, can you attend as a judge for the show?”
“You want me to use this program to help you find a girlfriend?” Jane Gardner didn’t realize that Wen Baining’s conditions coincided with Gu Yiren’s request.
“Yes.”
“Good, I promise you.” Jane Gardner smiled bitterly, “As long as you and your friends don’t mind me being notorious.”
“The more infamous you are, the more you can drive the popularity of our program, trust me and trust yourself, you will definitely find your own musical character in this program.”
Jane Gardner didn’t expect Wen Bai Ning to do and say so much to help herself.
She choked on her words for a moment.
“Give me your address, I’ll come pick you up right away! Something about the program needs to be discussed with you.” Wen Bai Ning’s voice was warm and moist, and listening to his voice always unconsciously made people feel comfortable.
Jane Gardner listened to the voices outside and knew that with her alone, she wouldn’t be able to walk out of this room, so she promised him and gave him the address.