Chapter 1003: Chapter 1003: Anticipating Hai Lan’s Decline Chapter 1003: Chapter 1003: Anticipating Hai Lan’s Decline However, Yun Shan soon comforted herself by thinking, “My sister is attending the event as an invited artist, which is different from my prestigious guest status. Hai Lan is not a guest; she’s just a star hired by someone else’s money, so she is still not as good as me.”

After thinking this way, Yun Shan felt much better.

She also turned her head and asked Wei Zhijie with feigned surprise, “Brother Zhijie, is my sister a star invited by the organizers?”

Wei Zhijie also watched Hai Lan on the stage with a complex expression.

Strangely enough, when he didn’t see Hai Lan, he felt nothing for her. But as soon as he saw her, his heart inexplicably stirred.

Wei Zhijie sighed inwardly. He couldn’t blame himself. It was all because Hai Lan was too beautiful. Any man would be moved a bit upon seeing her.

So his reaction was normal.

But when he turned his head to look at Yun Shan, he surprisingly found that in comparison to Hai Lan, Yun Shan seemed to fall short by more than just a little…

He had forsaken a beautiful wife for a slightly less attractive one, giving him an inexplicable feeling of making a loss.

However, Wei Zhijie still liked Yun Shan and naturally showed nothing.

He answered with a smile, “She must be, otherwise she couldn’t attend such a banquet.”

“Not necessarily. My sister is a big star; she might also be invited,” Yun Shan naively said, always siding with Hai Lan.

Wei Zhijie explained with a sense of superiority, “This kind of banquet invites only people from the business and political circles. Others are not qualified to attend. Hai Lan is just a star. She doesn’t have anything to do with these two areas, so surely she wouldn’t be invited. That’s why she’s just an artist paid by the organizers.”

Hearing Wei Zhijie say that Hai Lan was an artist paid by the organizers, Yun Shan felt balanced again.

With a sense of superiority, she looked at Hai Lan on the stage with a sympathetic expression and said, “My sister is working too hard. She’s trying to earn money even though she’s not fully recovered. Ever since her disfigurement, she must have had very few jobs.”

Her words implied that Hai Lan was on the decline, struggling for a living even when ill–such a hard life.

Wei Zhijie nodded in agreement, “She is indeed working hard. But that’s the life of a star. You can’t stop; otherwise, you could quickly become outdated and be forgotten.”

Then, both of them looked forward a little to Hai Lan becoming outdated.

They wondered whether the perfect and outstanding Hai Lan would be able to maintain her current glory when she became outdated…

Yun Shan believed that Hai Lan would become outdated sooner or later! There was still a long future ahead and her sister would certainly not have it as good as her.

Wei Zhijie also believed that Hai Lan would become outdated. Female stars generally do once they grow old. By then, Hai Lan would surely regret losing him.

Yes, in Wei Zhijie’s view, it was not that he had intentionally betrayed Hai Lan. It was because Hai Lan was too strong and perfect, never showing weakness in front of him.

If she had been cute like a little woman, he wouldn’t have left her.

So this was all Hai Lan’s fault, for not having the tenderness and charm of other women; thus, she deserved not to be liked by men…

Wei Zhijie and Yun Shan, true to the saying “birds of a feather flock together,” were both quite full of themselves.

In the midst of their boundless self-righteousness, they didn’t notice that in the first row in front of them sat a distinguished and handsome man.

And his gaze was always tenderly fixed on Hai Lan, as if she was the best and most precious woman in the world.

After Hai Lan helped the host with the proceedings, the banquet began.