"I'm taking this child. For the sake of your career, I don't want him showing up in Rockwellburg again! Don't worry, I'll arrange for someone to take care of him."
The moment Ian Monroe heard he was being taken away, his small hands gripped Melody Monroe's tightly. The tears he had been holding back finally burst forth.
"No, I don't want to go! I don't want to! I beg you, don't send me away!"
Melody Monroe felt her heart shatter. His pleas and sobs tore her apart inside! She gripped Ian Monroe's hand tightly.
'According to the original novel, if Ian Monroe left now, his life would be set on a completely different path!'
'Rose Shaw did arrange for someone to look after him, but those people were just in it for the money. How could they possibly take good care of a child with no one to advocate for him?'
'Later, he vanished without a trace!'
'When he went missing, the original Melody was in the middle of filming. She had already clawed her way up to being a C-list actress and was counting on this role to launch her into the A-list.'
'She grieved for a bit after hearing the news, but fearing a scandal that would ruin her reputation, the original Melody didn't dare to call the police. She only dared to hire people to search for him privately.'
'But the child was never found. As time went on, the matter was simply dropped.'
'In the novel, the author subjected the main villain to endless tribulations. After he was separated from his mother, he endured every hardship imaginable!'
'He often saw his mother on-screen, but he never went back to her.'
'Back then, he still loved his mother deeply. He worried that his reappearance would affect her career and bring her trouble.'
'This separation must have been one of the key turning points in his transformation into the main villain!'
'Could it be… that I transmigrated here just to save the main villain?!'
"Rose, I don't want to be separated from Ian." Melody Monroe looked up at Rose Shaw.
Rose Shaw was stunned. She clearly never imagined Melody Monroe would say such a thing.
Even Ian Monroe couldn't believe it.
Rose Shaw looked at Melody Monroe, feeling as if she had become a different person.
'After everything she did to land such a great role, only to get injured on the first day of filming… anyone would be upset. She just figured Melody was still grieving and that was causing her to act a little strangely.'
Melody Monroe knew why their expressions were so strange.
'It was because the original Melody had gotten pregnant with Ian after being set up. She had assumed the child belonged to the middle-aged chairman of The Scott Group.'
'She figured giving birth to the child wouldn't be a loss; at the very least, she could get a pile of cash out of it, or maybe even marry into a rich family!'
'But as it turned out, after the baby was born, they ran a paternity test—and the child wasn't the old geezer's!'
'It was only then that Melody realized the man she'd slept with that night wasn't that old geezer, Jedediah Scott!'
'She had no idea who the father was! The baby was born, and her dream of marrying rich was shattered. Given the original Melody's circumstances back then, she couldn't afford to raise a child at all!'
'The boy suffered so, so much living with his own mother!'
'But he still loved his mom.'
'The original author probably demonized the villain's mother so thoroughly just to wring tears from the readers! She never once fulfilled her duties as a mother and was always trying to get rid of the "burden"!'
'The original Melody gained some fame through reality competition shows, caught Rose Shaw's eye, and was signed to Stellaris Entertainment.'
'Then, using her looks and her wiles, she landed a major role.'
'But as a result, she was seriously injured right when filming began…'
'At this point in the original story, Melody was about to go insane with rage.'