"I'm sorry, Wen Yan. I won't be so hasty next time." Qin Yulong is someone who admits her mistakes.

She immediately apologized to Wen Yan, her attitude sincere and her tone earnest.

Upon seeing this, Wen Yan immediately sat down and hugged her.

"There's no need to be so serious. I'm not blaming you, I'm just saying what I think. Actually, I felt that my second brother was a little embarrassed just now. You haven't seen each other for many years, so you may not know, but he's a bit awkward. I think the tone he used just now was mostly to save face and argue with you. Don't take it to heart."

"I won't," Qin Yulong shook her head. "I'm just stating the facts. I hope he doesn't think I'm deliberately offending him."

"Then...why don't you send him a message to tell him, so that there won't be any unnecessary misunderstandings between you two because of me."

"Okay." Qin Yulong would humbly accept any reasonable suggestions.

As she spoke, she took out her phone and brought up Shen Jinghe's chat window.

She said she didn't mean anything by it and asked Shen Jinghe not to misunderstand.

Shen Jinghe took the art of being extremely concise with words to the extreme.

He simply replied with an "Mm".

However, looking at the cold, businesslike exchange between the two, Wen Yan actually thought it was alright.

After all, the two of them still communicated, but it seemed that the other brothers in the family had no contact with Qin Yulong at all.

Just as she was thinking this, Wen Yan realized that she had been proven wrong.

Because she saw that Qin Yulong's phone had an incoming call.

The screen displayed Shen Jingxiu's name.

He called Qin Yulong.

Qin Yulong didn't delay and quickly answered the phone.

"Hey, bro. What's up?"

"Yulong, I saw the news online. Do you need any help from home?"

"unnecessary."

"Yes, just say the word if you need anything."

Okay. Is there anything else?

"there is none left."

"Then I'll hang up."

"Um."

Because Wen Yan was standing right next to Qin Yulong, she clearly heard the entire conversation between the two.

It must be said that their communication was remarkably concise.

The two of them probably didn't even exchange fifty words in total.

They don't look very familiar with each other.

However... Wen Yan suddenly noticed a problem.

Compared to Qin Yulong, she and Shen Jingxiu should be considered more familiar with each other.

But why didn't he contact me directly, but instead called Qin Yulong, whom he wasn't very familiar with?

After this question arose in her mind, Wen Yan immediately took out her phone.

My phone wasn't on silent, and there were no missed calls.

However, she didn't think too much about it.

Now, Qin Yulong and I are on the same team. Regarding those things online, it doesn't matter whether my family contacts her or Qin Yulong.

Thinking of this, Wen Yan put her phone away again.

She continued chatting with Qin Yulong.

"We need to talk to the investors about changing actors first, but it seems a bit late today."

"Yes, I've arranged to meet with them tomorrow morning. Please have a seat for a while, I'll go find Gu Xiran's agent."

"Are we going to start looking now? Why not wait until tomorrow after we talk to the investors?"

"It's okay, I'll talk to his agent first. Maybe he's unavailable, in which case we'll have to consider someone else. If he is available, I'll let them know first, so they don't take on other jobs."

Wen Yan nodded and nestled back into the sofa: "Then you go ahead and get busy."

Qin Yulong hummed in agreement and quickly walked to her desk.

When no one spoke, Wen Yan took out her phone again.

Her WeChat account had accumulated quite a few red dots, but most of them were unimportant group messages and updates from public accounts.

However, as she scrolled down, she suddenly discovered one that had slipped through the net.

It's Shen Jingxiu!

Upon clicking through, she discovered that Shen Jingxiu had sent her numerous messages intermittently over the past two weeks.

But somehow, she somehow managed to set Shen Jingxiu's account to Do Not Disturb mode.

"Damn it!" Looking at the Do Not Disturb icon, Wen Yan couldn't help but mutter a curse under her breath.

"When did I mute him?"

Wen Yan had absolutely no recollection of such a thing.

Did you accidentally slip your hand?

No wonder she said that Shen Jingxiu would rather call Qin Yulong, whom he wasn't that familiar with.

So she hasn't replied to any of his messages for over half a month.

Wen Yan quickly flipped forward.

She discovered that Shen Jingxiu would send her messages almost every time there were negative news stories about her online.

Usually, Shen Jingchuan and Shen Jinghe would contact her at that time, and no matter how busy she was, she would always find time to chat with them.

She never replied to Shen Jingxiu, because for some reason he was set to "Do Not Disturb," as she didn't know.

Good heavens! That's incredibly rude!

Wen Yan quickly sent a message to Shen Jingxiu to apologize.

"Big brother, big brother, are you there? I have something to tell you that I find a little unbelievable myself, but I swear it's true."

That is, I don't know what happened, I have no recollection of it at all, but I set you to Do Not Disturb.

Besides, I receive a lot of messages, so I didn't see any of your previous messages. I know it's impolite, but I really didn't mean to ignore you.

Please forgive me!

After sending several messages, Wen Yan sat cross-legged on the sofa and waited for a reply.

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