Chapter 164: So Very Ugly (4)
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
On a busy road, a continental car and a taxi had crashed into each other. They lay strewn across the middle of the roads causing a huge traffic jam along this road.
The traffic police had already knocked on the window of the continental car several times, but there was no response from the car at all. Soon, even the traffic police lost their patience, their words becoming firmer and impatient. “Please get out of the car immediately!”
The accident was clearly caused by the continental car’s driver. The taxi was waiting at a red light, but the continental car crashed into the taxi from the back. It was a miracle that the taxi driver had left a safe distance between them and the car before them, if not it would have become a multi-car accident.
There were people already starting to gather around them, and the traffic police were starting to get more and more agitated too. In the continental car, Guan Meiyi was panicking as she tried to contact Li Fei on the phone to no avail.
“What’s happening? Is she still not picking up?” Ling Qi asked from the pa.s.senger’s seat.
Guan Meiyi frowned, her face darkened with distaste. After leaving the Ruan mansion, Guan Meiyi’s emotions had never calmed. She had been angry while driving on the road. By the time she had seen the taxi and wanted to make an emergency brake, she was too late. Li Fei usually came to handle that sort of thing for her since she was a public figure. She was wholly responsible for the accident and needed help.
The traffic officer’s patience was starting to really thin out, and the spectator’s gossiping was getting louder and louder, angrier and angrier too, making Guan Meiyi more and more annoyed.
“Why don’t I go out and talk to the police?” Ling Qi asked.
“You’re such a high-profile woman, who wouldn’t know that you’re my mom? Besides, it’s useless since you’re going out from the pa.s.senger seat.” Guan Meiyi took in a deep breath. She should have gotten out of the car the moment the accident happened and cooperated to solve the issue. It just got more awkward the longer she waited.
Left without a choice, Guan Meiyi could only open the door. The moment she got out of the car, tear tracks were evident on her face, as though she didn’t know what to do about the situation at hand.
Just as the traffic police were about to tear into the driver, they swallowed their words when they realized that they were facing the famous Guan Meiyi. She looked so absolutely fl.u.s.tered and confused and overwhelmed that the traffic police couldn’t help but hold a bit of pity for her. Even so, the fact remained that Guan Meiyi was fully responsible for the accident, and she still had to deal with the consequences.
“Please show me your driver’s license… …”
As the traffic police did their job, Guan Meiyi was very cooperative with them. Even the taxi driver that was absolutely livid earlier couldn’t take his eyes off Guan Meiyi. Guan Meiyi squirmed under his gaze, but she couldn’t blow up at him under public scrutiny, so all she could do was to show how innocent and guilty she felt about the accident.
When public standing around realized that it was Guan Meiyi that came down from the car, a wave of surprise exploded, they all scrambled to take out their phones and doc.u.ment the situation, some of them even live streamed the accident.
Guan Meiyi was panicking, she was already in a tight spot because of what happened previously, and her reviews were at an all-time low. If the situation were to explode, it would definitely just be rubbing salt in her gaping and bleeding wound.
Right then, a few comments started to be heard over the low murmur.
“How does Guan Meiyi still dare to show up in public?”
“Right, she thinks she’s so amazing driving a continental car. It’s not like the road’s her’s, how can she be so reckless on the road?”
“Pft, she doesn’t only think the road belongs to her, she shamelessly thought the Yuan Teng Corporation’s CEO was hers too! What a joke! Ruan Zeyan had already clearly mentioned that he had no relations to her at all, yet she still dared to say that his girlfriend of six years was the mistress!”
“I thought she was different than all the other people in the entertainment industry, her background is powerful, but she never used it to get privileges for herself. She’s done a lot of charity too and is amazing to her fans. Who knew it was all just an act, Weibo showed all of it a few days ago! Guan Meiyi was throwing her weight around in the set, just because she’s from a powerful family. She didn’t even agree to wear a wig that the directed need her to wear for the sake of the drama. I heard she’s always causing trouble for the staff on set too.”
“Right? There’s also the incident during the press conference. What a cunning woman, setting traps for the screenwriter TY, wasn’t she just jealous that TY was Ruan Zeyan’s actual girlfriend?”
The few girls were so absorbed in their discussion, even the people around them joined in.
Guan Meiyi felt as though she was parading around in her birthday suit, her discomfort clearly showing on her face.
“Don’t talk rubbish if you don’t know the truth! Speak rubbish again and I’ll make sure you have a difficult life from now on!” Ling Qi couldn’t bear it anymore and went into the crowd to pick a fight with those girls.
It would have been alright if she didn’t fly off the handle, but the moment she did, the crowd got agitated as well. Ling Qi couldn’t possibly win a verbal argument against tens of people, and all she ended up with was a flushed face and a ton of anger with nowhere to go.