Chapter 118: Living Forever in Fear

As soon as these words were spoken, the entire venue was in an uproar!

【Holy crap! Holy crap! Holy crap! Important things must be said three times?! The most explosive official announcement in the entertainment industry this year, bar none!】

【Publicizing a relationship? Claiming a girlfriend? Supervised by the entire internet? This is too intense!】

【The Shen Family's possessiveness is just too strong; how much must he love her to actually have the paparazzi supervise his girlfriend?】

【To the person above, what do you know? This is called a golden canary in a cage; you couldn't be one even if you wanted to!】

【Li Xinran's life is worth it; she actually managed to keep the son of China's richest man firmly under her thumb.】

【…】

The comment feed was scrolling furiously.

But Li Xinran felt as if she had been struck by lightning, frozen in place.

Others didn't know the truth, but Li Xinran was all too clear about it.

She finally understood what that ambiguous smile in the man's eyes truly represented.

Shen Huai's words were undoubtedly a Damocles Sword forever hanging over her head!

Binding herself firmly to the empty identity of "Heir to the Shen Family's girlfriend," yet never receiving true love! He wanted her to live forever in the terror that her fake identity could be exposed at any moment!

At this moment, Li Xinran felt as if she had fallen into an ice cellar, her brain stiffening.

Ruthless, truly too ruthless! The continuous sound of camera shutters felt like a death curse, making her head ache as if it were splitting.

Li Xinran stood stiffly beside Shen Huai, looking at the man before her who looked exactly like her ex-boyfriend but had a vastly different status, and a stormy sea surged in her heart! Shen Huai paid no attention to the shock and panic in Li Xinran's eyes.

He enjoyed the pleasure of being the center of attention under the spotlight, the smile on his lips growing increasingly smug.

Taking advantage of the motion of putting his arm around her waist, Shen Huai leaned close to Li Xinran's ear and said in a voice only the two of them could hear:

"What? Scared silly? This is only the beginning; the good show is yet to come."

"You'd better hold onto this identity as the Heir to the Shen Family's girlfriend tightly, and make sure you don't slip up."

After speaking, a cold sneer appeared in the depths of Shen Huai's eyes.

He ignored Li Xinran further, turned around, and left dashingly under the protection of a group of bodyguards.

Leaving Li Xinran alone to face the barrage of the reporters.

"…General Manager Shen, wait!" Li Xinran panicked and hurriedly followed.

But before she could even take a step, she was surrounded by the reporters.

"Ms. Li, according to our understanding, General Manager Shen has been overseas for years, and you just graduated from a local second-tier college in Jianghai. May I ask how you two met?"

"Ms. Li, do you have anything to say about General Manager Shen's remarks just now?"

"Ms. Li, what are your future plans with General Manager Shen? When do you plan to get married?"

"Ms. Li, …"

"…"

Li Xinran was surrounded so tightly by reporters that there was no way out; she wanted to escape, but there was nowhere to go! For the first time, she longed for no one to pay attention to her, for no one to know her!

This current situation was almost becoming a heart demon!

"Media reporters, the press conference has ended. If you have any questions, please contact our staff! Thank you for your cooperation!"

A panicked voice came from afar, drawing near, as someone struggled to rescue Li Xinran from the crowd.

It was Yu Xiang.

She brought the late-arriving bodyguards, forcibly carved a path through the crowd, dragged Li Xinran out, and sprinted to hide in the dressing room.

Only when she breathed the air of freedom again did Li Xinran feel as if she had come back to life.

If Yu Xiang had arrived any later, she felt she would have suffocated and fainted on the spot.

"Sister Xinran, here, water."

Yu Xiang hurriedly took a cup of water and handed it to Li Xinran to help her calm her nerves.

Li Xinran took a slow sip, and the agitation in her heart finally eased slightly.

After calming down, Shen Huai's remark, "I hope all my media friends will help me supervise," still felt like an invisible shackle, leaving her feeling stifled.

"Yu Xiang, hand me my phone."

"…Okay." Yu Xiang handed over Li Xinran's phone.

Li Xinran closed her eyes and took a deep breath before unlocking her phone screen and tapping on Weibo.

Even though she had fully prepared herself mentally.

But the moment she saw the trending search titles, Li Xinran's heart still trembled! #Li Xinran relationship official announcement (Explosive) #Shen Huai CEO statement (Explosive)

#Crown Prince of the Shen Group (Hot)…

The related entries quickly climbed the trending search list.

The heat was so explosive that even the servers couldn't handle the load and crashed directly.

Netizens turned into "microscope girls," starting to dig deep into the "dating details" of Shen Huai and Li Xinran.

However, very soon, the first batch of netizens discovered something amiss. This Young Master Shen, is he too well-disguised?

They couldn't dig up anything at all!

Seeing the wide variety of guesses from netizens.

Li Xinran felt the helplessness of a mute eating coptis.

Only she knew that this so-called relationship was fake from beginning to end.

How could any details be dug up for something fake that didn't exist? What made her feel even more desperate was.

She couldn't even tell anyone this truth…

Once exposed, that man wouldn't be affected in the slightest.

But she, however, would have her future completely ruined! "Sister Xinran…"

Watching Li Xinran stare at the public opinion, her eyes grew increasingly cold.

Yu Xiang hesitated for a long time before finally speaking, her gaze toward Li Xinran full of hesitation, "Don't you think this Young Master Shen looks a lot like someone?"

Hearing this.

Li Xinran's breath hitched.

She suddenly thought of something, stood up abruptly, and grabbed Yu Xiang's wrist tightly, "Where is Shen Huai? Hurry up and call him over for me!"

"Shen Huai... Shen Huai should be... it seems he is with Team Leader Lin?"

Yu Xiang was startled by Li Xinran's actions, "Sister Xinran, you also think this Young Master Shen looks a lot like the handsome Shen, right?"

Li Xinran's eyes darkened, and she snorted coldly, "What do you mean 'looks a lot like'? They are exactly the same!"

"No, I must find Shen Huai and ask him clearly!"

After saying this, Li Xinran stepped in her high heels and hurried toward the door in a rush.

"Sister Xinran, slow down!" Yu Xiang hurriedly chased after her.

Just as they reached the door, however, Li Xinran suddenly stopped in her tracks.

They saw Shen Huai and Lin Yeman pushing the door open and walking in, chatting and laughing.

"Yo, is the big star Li trying to sneak out again?" Shen Huai teased.

A careless smile hung on Shen Huai's face, as if the Young Master Shen at the press conference who was a copy-paste version of him was not him at all.

Seeing Shen Huai arrive uninvited.

Li Xinran pursed her lips and said nothing, her gaze like an X-ray, immediately scanning Shen Huai back and forth in detail.

At this glance, Li Xinran's heart suddenly muttered.

Something was wrong.

The Shen Huai in front of her was clearly the person she was familiar with.

Wearing a cheap T-shirt and jeans, his hair was soft and fluffy, clean and fresh, without any traces of hair gel.

One had to know that the hair of that Heir to the Shen Family was meticulously set with hair gel.

In such a short amount of time, it would be impossible to wash it out.

Unless...

He had never used hair gel to begin with.

Suddenly, Li Xinran felt her brain was not enough to process this.

What on earth was going on?

"Shen Huai, come here for a moment." Li Xinran lowered her voice and said through gritted teeth toward Shen Huai.

Shen Huai raised an eyebrow, glanced back at Lin Yeman, a hint of playfulness flashing in his eyes.

He did not refuse, obediently walked up to Li Xinran, and leaned down slightly: "Is something the matter?"

In an instant.

The atmosphere felt as if it had frozen.

Li Xinran looked at this face close at hand.

It was clearly the same face.

Yet one was a playboy, and the other was noble.

One was unrestrained and sunny, the other cold as frost.

Li Xinran could not help but have the sultry scene from that night surface in her mind, and her breathing could not help but become somewhat heated.

"... You..."

She hesitated for a moment, then spoke in a deep voice: "Shen Huai, who exactly are you?"

(End of this chapter)