Yu Shishu seemed to be trying his best to control his expression; he appeared to be just there to check out the location and find the best shot.

This time, instead of going over to talk to Ye Zhiwei, he asked a female artist next to him, "What are they doing here? Didn't the assistant director book all the scenes here?"

The assistant director hadn't told Yu Shishu about hiring Ye Zhiwei as an extra. What should have been a chance to claim credit had turned into a major disaster. The assistant director was terrified, hoping to see Yu Shishu as late as possible. He found something else to do and kept pretending to be dead.

Only a few of the artists knew that Ye Zhiwei was an extra invited by the assistant director; the rest assumed that Yu Shishu had invited her. Seeing this situation, they immediately understood. The shrewd assistant director had originally wanted to flatter Yu Shishu by inviting Ye Zhiwei, but he hadn't expected that Ye Zhiwei would bring her boyfriend along. This attempt at flattery almost got the assistant director himself fired.

The female celebrity said awkwardly, "It must have been the assistant director who invited her."

Yu Shishu lowered his head. He thought to himself that there was no need to use many extras at all. The staff could just make up the numbers. This scene was basically a scene between the male and female leads. What was the assistant director doing?

He was angry, but sad more than angry. If Ye Zhiwei hadn't been with anyone else, he would have been happy to see her for the first time, but now he was still feeling down and disappointed as he had yesterday.

Even though things were already like this, he still couldn't bear to let Ye Zhiwei leave. He could only comfort himself by saying that he didn't like her. He had only thought she was photogenic from the beginning and wanted her to act in his films. He hoped she would accept his invitation to become the female lead in his work, and that was all.

Yu Shishu was somewhat dejected. He pondered for a long time before finally trying to pretend he hadn't seen it, but Jiang Jianian noticed him.

Jiang Jianian had seen Yu Shishu's photo before. He turned to Ye Zhiwei and asked, "Is that Yu Shishu?"

Ye Zhiwei nodded.

After a moment's pause, Jiang Jianian said directly, "Go and say hello."

"Go now?" Ye Zhiwei was surprised. She didn't expect Jiang Jianian to be so eager to greet Yu Shishu, even though he had always been hostile towards Yu Shishu before.

Could it be because of her?

Jiang Jianian still thinks that Yu Shishu has something to do with her, doesn't she?

Ye Zhiwei wanted to laugh a little. Seeing Jiang Jianian's resentful look towards Yu Shishu, she figured that Jiang Jianian was just jealous. She secretly chuckled to herself, but on the surface, she had to go along with Jiang Jianian's wishes and asked, "That big director is busy right now, how could he have time to pay attention to us?"

Jiang Jianian's gaze darkened, and he said to Ye Zhiwei in a low voice, "Do you really think Yu Shishu is busy, or are you afraid he will misunderstand?"

He's just jealous!

Her tone was tinged with jealousy. How could Miss Ye, who had already developed romantic feelings for Jiang Jianian, not be happy? Even though she knew that there was nothing between her and Yu Shishu, she couldn't refuse Jiang Jianian since he said so. In order to prove that her relationship with Yu Shishu was innocent, she brought Jiang Jianian over without hesitation.

As soon as Ye Zhiwei arrived, the artists and staff in the club lobby seemed to be doing their own things, but their attention was actually on Yu Shishu.

Yu Shishu didn't look up at Ye Zhiwei, seemingly not wanting to pay her any attention.

Ye Zhiwei thought Yu Shishu was still angry about what happened yesterday afternoon, so she took the opportunity to apologize: "I'm sorry, Director Yu. I did have something to do yesterday and had to leave temporarily. I noticed that you didn't call me. Otherwise, as compensation, I'll pay for the club you booked today."

Her arrogant and wealthy tone made the young artist next to her extremely envious, wishing she were a gigolo and begging the beautiful Qian Duoduo to take her on as a client.

Seeing that Yu Shishu was still ignoring her, Ye Zhiwei turned to ask the young actress if she knew the contact information for the crew's finance department. Upon seeing this, Yu Shishu lowered his voice and said, "No need."

He didn't even look up at Ye Zhiwei. He was a little sad, his eyes lowered, his head down, trying to hide his disappointment. He was afraid that Ye Zhiwei would notice his disappointment.

Seeing that Yu Shishu didn't seem to like her, Ye Zhiwei turned to Jiang Jianian, as if asking him: Now that we've said our goodbyes, can we leave?

Unexpectedly, Jiang Jianian showed no intention of leaving. Instead, she turned to Ye Zhiwei and smiled, continuing the previous conversation: "How can you talk like that? You didn't stay to continue filming yesterday because of me. If anyone should compensate, it should be me—"

After interacting intimately with Ye Zhiwei, Jiang Jianian finally turned her attention to Yu Shishu.

"I am Jiang Jianian." He even changed his usual cold attitude towards others and smiled politely at Yu Shishu: "I'm sorry, Director Yu, I had a little disagreement with her yesterday. I sent her a message and told her to focus on filming. I didn't expect that she would come after me not long after I left. When I asked her, I found out that she hadn't done her promised extra work properly. She was afraid that I would be really angry, so she came to me directly. She was so aggrieved that I couldn't say that she was being willful. I could only come and apologize to you on her behalf."

Jiang Jianian's words were seven parts truth and three parts falsehood, half of which were true and half of which were falsehood. She spoke with sincerity and earnestness, seemingly explaining the situation of yesterday, but her words also revealed the intimacy between the two of them to Yu Shishu and the reason why Ye Zhiwei left yesterday.

The cruel truth.

Yu Shishu's eyelashes trembled slightly. He tightened his grip and did not look up at Jiang Jianian. Jiang Jianian's words still had a great impact on him. Even though he did not say anything, Jiang Jianian could notice his emotional changes.

He noticed Yu Shishu's change, glanced at the oblivious Ye Zhiwei, and said in a more polite tone, "Her willfulness yesterday must have caused your crew a lot of trouble, so it's only right that we compensate her in some way."

Unlike Ye Zhiwei, Jiang Jianian did not inquire about the specific details of the young actress's finances. He had already learned in advance that the film crew had signed a contract with the club for the entire venue, and all the crew's expenses would be paid in a unified manner at the final settlement. Therefore, he simply contacted the person in charge of the club and paid the rental fee for the day's venue booking for the film crew.

When the club manager heard that the venue rental fee could be settled in one lump sum, he would never refuse Jiang Jianian. He immediately found the booking with the film crew, explained the details to Jiang Jianian, and readily settled the payment with him.

After paying the money, Jiang Jianian was clearly in a very good mood. For him, this money was not only to apologize to Ye Zhiwei, but also to directly tell Yu Shishu about the relationship between Jiang Jianian and Ye Zhiwei. At this moment, Jiang Jianian did not even need to make anything clear. While Ye Zhiwei was still confused, he had already achieved the effect of killing her heart.

Jiang Jianian cheerfully tidied Ye Zhiwei's slightly messy hair and said in a very gentle voice to the still bewildered Ye Zhiwei, "Sweetie, I'll take you to touch the race car."

After receiving payment from Jiang Jianian, the club's manager quickly contacted Yu Shishu and told him that a boy had just come over to settle the bill for the day's bookings, and that the contract had been re-stamped, including a new confidentiality agreement, which they had also prepared for Yu Shishu.

Thinking of Jiang Jianian, who was close to Ye Zhiwei, Yu Shishu pursed his lips. He seemed to have not expected Jiang Jianian to act so quickly. Just like his sudden appearance, Yu Shishu did not have a chance to prepare. He could only be completely overwhelmed by a sense of loss. He responded in silence the whole time. In the end, he could not even stay at the scene and turned to go to the lounge.

He didn't want to recall it, but Jiang Jianian's words kept popping into his head. He thought of the filming scene he had been looking forward to for so long yesterday, but in the end he could only watch helplessly as Ye Zhiwei left in a hurry. It turned out that she said she had something very important to do, which was to find Jiang Jianian.

Yu Shishu was very sad, and there was also an indescribable sense of grievance. However, this sadness and grievance made him feel a little ashamed. He did not want anyone to notice his sadness and grievance. Even when Yu Jingchen called at this moment, and his phone kept vibrating on the table, Yu Shishu hung up on Yu Jingchen's call without answering it.

Yu Jingchen had just finished his work when he discovered that Xiao Shishu had gone to Yanda University to call and ask about his younger brother's pursuit of Xiao Shishu. However, not only did he not know how to send a message, but he also couldn't get through when he called.

Yu Jingchen frowned. He sat on the desk in the president's office and tapped it absently. A few seconds later, Yu Jingchen directly called the assistant director of the film crew.

The assistant director was still pretending to be stupid and avoiding Yu Shishu, but little did he expect that this protective big shot would call him directly, which made the assistant director feel desperate. He answered the phone awkwardly, "Mr. Yu... Mr. Yu."

"You've already started filming?"

The assistant director chuckled dryly, "Not yet."

"Do you have the book of time?"

“They should be resting in the lounge—right?” the assistant director replied.

Yu Jingchen had a bad feeling and frowned as he asked, "How have things been lately? Weren't you filming at Yanda University? I heard that the Ye family agreed to let you film together. How's the progress?"

Since Yu Jingchen had already asked this much, the assistant director dared not continue to play dumb and could only obediently tell Yu Jingchen the general outline of what had happened.

Yu Jingchen: ...

That's roughly how things are.

Yu Jingchen rubbed his temples and asked again, "So, my brother is now all alone and I don't know where he went. The eldest daughter of the Ye family and that kid named Jiang Jianian went to go racing?"

"Mr. Yu, there's nothing we can do about it—"

After a moment of silence, Yu Jingchen recalled Ye Qingcheng's protective words towards Jiang Jianian that day, and his own helplessness in the face of the unyielding Ye Qingcheng. He sighed and couldn't help but say, "Go find Shi Shu for me. Once you find him, give him the phone. I want to say a few words to him."

Xiao Shishu probably hid in a corner and secretly wiped away her tears.