Walking Away While Pregnant: Dear Ex-Husband, I Don't Love You Anymore novel Chapter 177

Chapter 177: Chapter 177

Over the next two days, Elise entrusted Robin and Lily to the care of Jessica and Mrs. Shaw. She and Rina spent every day at the show’s recording camp, making all the necessary preparations.

Life was relatively quiet. Ever since that night, Dylan had seemingly vanished from Elise’s world without a trace. He didn’t come to bother her, and she didn’t bother to keep tabs on him.

The show’s recording went smoothly. Rina had prepared meticulously; she used her own go-to crew, and the students invited to record alongside Elise all had solid, well-honed skills, meshing wonderfully with her on camera.

The first episode took five days to film, as everyone worked through a brief adjustment period. Overall, it was well within their expected timeline, and the finished product turned out great.

After a three-day rest, they moved on to filming the second episode. By then, everyone’s chemistry had clicked, vastly boosting their efficiency—filming for the second episode took just three days.

By the time the third episode wrapped up, accounting for rest days, only half a month had passed in total. Across all three episodes, the production exceeded expectations in both quality and time management.

Rina was thrilled. At this rate, Elise would still be able to hide her pregnancy bump during the final episode’s live broadcast.

During post-production, the editors couldn’t stop praising the footage. Every single frame was shot so exquisitely and professionally that they hated having to cut anything. In the end, the production team held a meeting and agreed to expand the runtime from 45 minutes per episode to 90 minutes. Though the length had doubled, the high quality allowed it to breeze through the censorship review without any hassle.

With all three recorded episodes locked in, only the fourth episode—the live broadcast—remained. Rina scheduled it for the end of the month: late November.

In November, Rainport finally felt a touch of autumn-winter chill.

On the day of the live broadcast, Elise wore an off-white, loose-knit sweater paired with a matching long mesh skirt. Tall and slender, she looked so elegant that no one would ever suspect she was over four months pregnant unless they already knew. Her hair, which had been cut to her collarbones months ago, had grown quite a bit, falling naturally over her shoulders and adding to her soft, gentle aura.

At the start of the broadcast, Elise made her appearance wearing Selin’s signature cat mask. Because of the heavy pre-show hype, the moment the stream went live, viewer numbers surged almost instantaneously.

The live chat was covered with a unified roar: [TAKE OFF THE MASK!]

Elise calmly watched the screen, a faint smile curving her lips. "If you want me to take off the mask, you will have to behave. The director just gave me a surprise task—I have to ask everyone ten questions, and I can only unmask once you answer all of them correctly."

The live chat was instantly flooded with a wave of [????].

Watching behind the monitor, Rina laughed helplessly. "Elise even managed to rope me into her little scheme."

Beside her, an assistant asked in a low voice, "What is Miss Selin planning to do? We didn’t mention anything about Q&A sessions during our meeting!"

"Don’t worry, Elise knows what she’s doing. Those ten questions will definitely be related to our cultural history," Rina said, gazing at Elise on screen with complete trust and pride in her younger sister.

Sure enough, every question Elise asked revolved around intangible cultural heritage.

With over 100,000 viewers in the stream—tens of thousands of whom were long-time diehard fans of Selin—a mere ten folklore trivia questions posed no real challenge. Elise had added this interactive Q&A segment simply to raise awareness and foster appreciation for intangible cultural heritage.

"Excellent. It seems everyone pays great attention to our cultural history. As one of its preservers, I feel truly heartened."

Looking at the stream packed with demands to unmask, Elise let out a helpless, affectionate laugh. "Alright, since everyone got them right, I have to keep my word."

With that, Elise reached up, unfastened the mask’s strap, and removed it—

At that exact moment, in a presidential suite of a five-star hotel in North City, Mr. Lee sat on the sofa, his sharp, eagle-like eyes glued to the tablet on the table.

The instant Elise removed her mask, the usually composed and self-controlled man actually suffered a brief hitch in his breath. When Elise’s striking, exquisitely beautiful face was fully revealed, Mr. Lee froze!

In the next second, he abruptly stood up.

In those eyes of his—normally unfathomable and unruffled—there was now a genuine, unhideable wave of shock.

Theo had followed Mr. Lee for over a decade, and this was the very first time he had ever seen his boss react so intensely!

Then again, it made total sense.

Selin was Elise all along?!

Elise was actually Selin?!

That was the very Selin whom Mr. Lee had been searching for relentlessly for five whole years!

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