Chapter 28 - Rival In Love
"Ugh..." Yuan Ge sighed, put away his phone, looked back at Amélie and shrugged helplessly.
Amélie tried to keep her composure. She managed to put on a smile, but she involuntarily pressed her hand to her stomach - she had just overheard a little bit of Yuan Ge's conversation with his parents and suddenly felt a pain in her stomach. Artefact or not, it was so insensitive for a mother to let her son take home an old coffin of unknown origin! What a horrible family habit! If one had to get along with such a mother-in-law in the future…
"Yuan Ge, are you sure this coffin has never had a corpse in it? I've heard that when a drowning ghost is looking for a host, it doesn't disappear until it has killed the person who did it..."
Amélie's apprehensive persuasion, as always, fell on deaf ears - and being an atheist, Yuan Ge, as always, responded in the same way, "You Cantonese are too superstitious; there are no ghosts in this world."
When Du Jinghai finished tying up all loose ends of the day, he was overjoyed to see Amélie back on set.. "Amy, how did the sponsorship deal go this afternoon? Would you like to go to dinner together?" After glancing at Yuan Ge, he hastily added, "All three of us?"
Yuan Ge looked at Du Jinghai and clearly understood what he really meant. How could he not understand! He smiled and pointed at the coffin and said, "You guys go ahead, I have to get rid of this thing first, otherwise Liu Sang will nag us again tomorrow."
Amélie was being pulled away by Du Jinghai, but still looked back at Yuan Ge with a concerned look on her face. She had been trying to find an excuse to go to Yuan Ge's house, but how could she go if he brought something like this back to his house!
"It's good to have a bit of reverence for mystical cultures, I don't think there's anything wrong with your Cantonese superstition. My home town is quite superstitious too, my parents adamantly forbid us to talk about anything to do with death..."
Du Jinghai's voice was low when he spoke to Amélie, but Yuan Ge still heard it all. However, he did not have the slightest intention of reproaching him. After all, Jinghai's pursuit of Amélie was the worst kept secret at Dragon Dreams. Perhaps the reason he was willing to join the DDP in the first place was the fact that Amélie was on board. Among the four founders, Amélie was the only female, and she was so beautiful and outstanding in every way that if Fat Chow had not been married, he would have joined in the mad pursuit of her as well. But he, on the contrary…
Thinking about this, Yuan Ge could not help but feel a bit at loss. He had been pursuing an artistic dream all his life, but for what? What was his goal? Art, that was his ideal in life, and he had never wavered in the slightest. But beyond that, did everything else really not matter? The faint scent of Amélie's perfume still lingered in the direction she had left. This woman, willing to put aside all her pride for him, willing to be a submissive woman for him, could he really be so heartless and willingly give her up to Du Jinghai?
He stayed in a daze for a while, but Yuan Ge was not good at sorting out his personal feelings, so he avoided it by escaping into work as usual.
The immediate work before him was to deal with the coffin.
Yuan Ge carefully weighed the difference in his parents' battle power in his mind, and considering the dire consequences if he abandoned her mother's "precious artefact" and her doubled battle power after finding out his abandonment, he finally picked up the phone and reluctantly called a courier company. After all, he rarely went to his house in the Western Hills these days, and his parents weren't likely to return any time soon, so it wouldn't make much difference to have one more strange object there, would it?
A few courier boys soon arrived at the Rong Mansion, all looking grimly at the heavy coffin, and one of them said, "Sir, you should call a funeral home to deliver this, not us!"
"It's just a prop!" Yuan Ge waved his director's ID, "Not the real thing! Please deliver it for me to 18 Moonlight Valley, Western Hills."
"Who signs for it and do we need a key?"
"No, the door has a smart lock. Call me when you get there and I'll open the door for you remotely."