☆, Chapter 115: Jealousy

"Well, have you read the original novel?" Director Lin paused the video on the screen.

"Well, it's well written, the subject matter is novel, and the logic is very consistent." Wen Mianyu said.

"Yes, I did think about it before. There was a copy that I really liked and wanted to switch to shooting this kind of thriller. Unfortunately..." Director Lin smiled regretfully, "This author is not my wife. Otherwise, I would have shot The Mist after finishing Youth."

Wen Mianyu took a few seconds to react, "The author is the director's wife?"

"Yeah." Director Lin released the mouse, grabbed a bottle of water, and unscrewed it. "This director's surname is Sun. He used to be my assistant director. He's quite talented. He and his wife come from well-off families. One likes writing, the other likes making movies. They're a match made in heaven, right?"

"It's indeed a perfect match." Wen Mianyu smiled.

"The original novel was written by his wife before they got married. She said it was a wedding gift for him. They never intended to sell the copyright. Even if they're good friends, it's useless!" Director Lin gulped down his mouth and cursed jealously, "You little bastard, you're so lucky!"

Wen Mianyu shrugged and closed the script with both hands. "It can't be helped. I'm very interested in this script, so we can discuss it. As for the other one, Director Lin, please help me push it."

"Okay, I'll send you Xiao Sun's contact information. You can talk to him yourself. I won't get involved in this kind of thing." Director Lin picked up his phone from the table and suddenly remembered something. "Oh, by the way, the production team offered a salary of 300,000 yuan per episode for the variety show I mentioned yesterday, and it's a one-per-episode contract. If you're okay with that, I'll have her send you the contract."

Wen Mianyu was a little surprised, "Three hundred thousand?"

This is almost as much as her salary for filming Youth, but it took her three months to shoot Youth, while recording an episode of the variety show only takes two or three days.

"Yes, there are quite a lot. It seems that variety shows are profitable now. No wonder these movie stars don't focus on filming and go for reality shows." Director Lin was not aware of Lu Congxu's price increase. He just thought it was because variety shows were too profitable. He couldn't help but sigh and feel sorry for those good actors who were poisoned by money.

In his opinion, many good actors will form a fixed impression on the audience after being overexposed in reality shows, making it difficult for them to fit in with new characters. This is especially true for more entertaining variety shows.

"Director Lin, Mr. Chen is here." The deputy director appeared outside the door and knocked.

"Got it." Director Lin stood up quickly and walked out. After taking two steps, he thought of something and turned back to ask Wen Mianyu, "Mr. Chen is coming. Do you want to go over and take a look?"

"I won't join in the fun. So many people will be going, and it won't make a difference if I'm not there." Wen Mianyu had no interest in this at all. She was even more worried that Chen Yaoqing still had evil intentions towards her. Unlike the previous dinner party, she would soon have a "family" too.

"Director Lin, you're busy. I'll go back to the car and contact Director Sun to discuss the script, and then contact the program team to sign the contract." Wen Mianyu waved the script in his hand and stood up.

Director Lin nodded slightly, "Okay, then you go back to the car and wait. I'll see what Mr. Chen means. If you're just here to take a look, we can wait until he leaves before filming."

"Okay." Wen Mianyu responded.

After Director Lin left, Wen Mianyu helped him tidy up the desk, then returned to the car with the script.

Cheng An sat in the passenger seat with earphones in his ears, his body swaying to the rhythm in the earphones. When he felt the car body shaking, he looked back and found Wen Mianyu getting in the car.

He frowned at first, then thought of Lu Congxu's words, suppressed the displeasure on his face, and took off his headphones.

"It's okay, just do as you say. I'll just take a rest." Wen Mianyu sat down in the back.

Cheng An pursed his lips, thought about it and put away the earphone wire, and asked, "Do you want some water?"

"No, thank you." Wen Mianyu raised his chin and took out his cell phone.

I opened WeChat and saw that I had received a call from Director Lin.

"I'm going out for a walk." Cheng An said, pushed the door and got out of the car.

Before Wen Mianyu could respond, the car door was already closed.

Wen Mianyu smiled helplessly and called the program team first.

The contact person was the coordinator of the program team. The contract terms were the same as what Director Lin had said before. Wen Mianyu didn't spend too much effort to finalize them and was just waiting for the contract to be sent and signed.

Then, she called Director Sun again.

"Hello." The call was connected quickly. The man on the other end had a warm voice, sounding gentle and elegant like a scholar.

Wen Mianyu didn't expect that the director who loved making thrillers would have such a tone, so she softened her tone unconsciously, "Hello, is this Director Sun Zhicheng? I'm Su Moli."

"Ms. Su, I didn't expect you to contact me..." Sun Zhicheng was obviously surprised. "I saw your audition and thought you had a great temperament and were very suitable for my new film. Since you called me, I guess you must have read the script carefully..."

Sun Zhicheng changed his previous gentle tone and became talkative.

Wen Mianyu couldn't even get a word in while listening.

Before she could finish her words, the car door was opened from the outside, and a woman in business attire leaned in, carrying a bunch of things. "Hello, Miss Su, I'm Mr. Chen's assistant."

"Director Sun, sorry to wait a moment, I have something to do here." Wen Mianyu interrupted Sun Zhicheng on the phone, but did not hang up. She moved the phone away and glanced at the female assistant, "What's going on?"

"It's like this." The female assistant had a formal smile on her face. "Boss Chen came to visit us on set. He knows how hard everyone's worked, so he brought everyone breakfast. He asked me to personally deliver your portion."

As she spoke, she raised the paper bag in her hand.

The LOGO on the paper bag is the name of a big-name cake brand, a brand that Wen Mianyu liked very much in her previous life. It is quite expensive, and not everyone can buy it if they have money. Large quantities need to be pre-ordered.

She hadn't expected Chen Yaoqing to be so generous when visiting the set, but since it had nothing to do with Wen Mianyu, she didn't pay much attention to it. She just pointed forward and said, "Okay, thank you. Put it there."

After that, she ignored the female assistant and turned around to continue her phone call.

"Director Sun, please continue. I heard everything you just said. I am indeed very interested in the script. I contacted you because I like it very much."

"That's good..." Sun Zhicheng was very happy. "The original work of this novel was written by my wife. This is my debut work..."

Sun Zhicheng started talking in a torrent of words, and Wen Mianyu was once again unable to get a word in.

She tried to answer the call several times but was interrupted every time, so she could only let Sun Zhicheng continue. By the time she finally hung up the phone, her phone was hot. She looked at the call time and it was a full half hour.

"Oh my God... People really can't be controlled by voice..." Wen Mianyu put down his phone, leaned back in his chair, closed his eyes and felt his ears buzzing.

Less than two minutes after the break, someone else got on the bus. Wen Mianyu opened his eyes and found it was Lu Congxu.

"Didn't you go to see Chen Yaoqing?" Wen Mianyu sat up, and her dysfunctional sense of smell belatedly came into play, and she suddenly smelled a floral scent spreading in the car.

Lu Congxu also smelled it and turned around with her to look over. They saw a bouquet of bright red roses on the seat and an exquisite paper bag next to it with the logo of a famous pastry brand.

"Where did you get it from?" Lu Congxu picked up the bouquet of roses.

"Chen Yaoqing sent it." Wen Mianyu replied casually without thinking at all, and only then did he realize something was wrong.

But it was too late. Lu Congxu looked at her, his brows slightly furrowed. "He gave you flowers?"

"Uh..." Wen Mianyu suddenly felt inexplicably guilty. She had obviously done nothing wrong, but facing Lu Congxu's restrained scrutiny, she felt that her momentary negligence was quite wrong.

At this time, Lu Congxu found the card sandwiched between the flowers, took it out and opened it.

Wen Mianyu hurriedly explained, "His assistant brought it over, saying it was breakfast, and the crew had it all. I was on the phone at the time, so I thought it was just a cake, and I didn't look closely, so I asked her to put it down."

After saying that, Wen Mianyu leaned over and looked at the contents on the card with Lu Congxu.

A beautiful line of words was printed on the golden card in rose-red font.

People say that roses represent passion and love, but none of them are as beautiful as you, which makes me love you so much - Chen.

"..." Wen Mianyu.

Lu Congxu tightened his grip on the card with his fingertips, and the card was folded, with the signature "Chen" being bent in two.

Wen Mianyu felt like she had died unjustly and cursed Chen Yaoqing fiercely in her heart. She moved quickly, snatched the card and tore it into pieces in a few strokes.

"I didn't notice the assistant had flowers in her hand, otherwise I wouldn't have accepted them! You know I'm so fed up with Chen Yaoqing."

"Yeah." Lu Congxu responded and looked down at the bouquet of roses in his hand.

Wen Mianyu noticed that his right hand, which was holding the bouquet, was tightening, and she quickly reached out to hold his wrist, "You're not angry, are you?"

Thinking back to what happened last time on the mountain and how Lu Congxu got angry several times, Wen Mianyu discovered that Lu Congxu was actually a very jealous person and not as calm as he looked.

"There's no way I'd fall for Chen Yaoqing. Don't you understand me? How could I have known he would send flowers and write such a sour poem? If I had known, I wouldn't even have accepted breakfast." Wen Mianyu felt she needed to explain a few more words. Meanwhile, her other hand wasn't idle either, plucking a handful of petals and throwing them under the car. "I don't like these crappy flowers at all..."

Lu Congxu grabbed her wrist with his backhand to stop her from stroking the flower. He raised his head and looked into her eyes with his black eyes.

"I know," he said.

"I don't want that cake anymore. You deal with it. I won't accept anything he gives me from now on!" Wen Mianyu quickly stated her position.

She herself is a person who is very obsessed with love, and she thinks Lu Congxu is the same. If Lu Congxu is the one who takes the initiative to accept flowers from others, she will also feel uncomfortable.

And for some reason, she especially couldn't stand seeing Lu Congxu showing that slightly lonely expression, like when he lowered his eyes and stared at the profile of the flower just now. He looked more than just indifferent. Wen Mianyu always felt that he was pitiful. It reminded her that Lu Congxu had been hiding his feelings and misunderstanding her and Ye Qianan.

She really didn't want Lu Congxu to misunderstand her in any way again.

"That old guy Chen Yaoqing doesn't really like me. He just thinks I'm a newcomer with no backing and finds it interesting. He wouldn't have dared to do that to me before, you know." Wen Mianyu said again.

Lu Congxu threw away the bouquet, pulled her hand over, and held it in his palm, "You don't have to explain so much."

"I'm afraid you'll be angry!" Wen Mianyu said.

Lu Congxu's expression softened, his thin lips curved up, and his usually cold eyes held a touch of warmth. "I'm not angry."

He knew Wen Mianyu very well, and his discomfort just now was only due to Chen Yaoqing's coveting.

"I'm not angry, I'm just..." Lu Congxu paused, "I'm just a little jealous."

"Ah..." Wen Mianyu suddenly froze.

"You don't have to apologize. This is just a little emotion of mine. From now on... I will..." Lu Congxu thought about it and couldn't help laughing. His laughter was low and deep, magnetic. "I will try not to be so jealous."

He didn't say he wasn't jealous because jealousy, like love, is an emotion that cannot be controlled.

But he would also restrain himself and not let Wen Mianyu apologize for such things.

"But you care about me..." Lu Congxu leaned over, close to Wen Mianyu's ear, and whispered softly, word by word, "I'm very happy, thank you."

Wen Mianyu's ears moved and she felt a little itchy. The itch went from the tips of her ears to the tip of her heart. She opened her mouth but didn't know what to say.

Suddenly, there was a noisy sound outside the car, and Director Lin's voice came, "Mr. Chen, please come this way. Jasmine should be in the car. I'll ask someone to call her down."

Then, without giving Wen Mianyu time to react, someone ran over and opened the car door.

"Jasmine..." The assistant director opened the door. He had originally called out to Wen Mianyu anxiously, but then he saw Lu Congxu in the car, and the way they were positioned...

It seemed like a whispering distance. The assistant director was startled for a moment, but without thinking too much, he continued, "Mr. Chen is here, and Mr. Lu is here too, which is great. Let's get out of the car and have a chat."

"Oh." Wen Mianyu responded and turned to look at Lu Congxu.

She actually didn't want to go. No matter how dumb she was, she knew that Chen Yaoqing still had lustful intentions towards her. But if she refused at this time, it wouldn't be a matter of not giving Chen Yaoqing face, but would be a huge slap in the face.

After all, Chen Yaoqing hasn't taken any action yet, and there are so many people outside. If he refuses to even get out of the car, wouldn't that be a slap in the face to Chen Yaoqing?

Chen Yaoqing was furious and was bound to become enemies with the crew. Wen Mianyu didn't want Director Lin to have a difficult time, but she also didn't want Lu Congxu to feel wronged.

"Are you going?" she finally asked Lu Congxu.

Lu Congxu had originally looked unhappy when he heard the assistant director's words, but upon hearing them, he smiled, his brows relaxed, and he asked, "Do you want to go?"

"If you want to go, go. If you don't want to go, don't go." Wen Mianyu said.

"Go ahead." Lu Congxu kept smiling.

"What are you laughing at?" Wen Mianyu was puzzled.

"It feels like the opposite." Lu Congxu said.

"What?" Wen Mianyu asked.

Lu Congxu didn't say anything right away. After the assistant director walked away, he leaned over and whispered three words in her ear, "Is your husband in charge?"

The last word was spoken loudly, with a questioning tone.

"..." Wen Mianyu.

You are a very strict husband! It is obvious that he does not want you to suffer any injustice.

"Let's go." Lu Congxu took her hand and got out of the car together.

At this moment, Director Lin and his group had already walked to the front of the car.

Director Lin was quite surprised to see the two of them together. "Congxu, you're here too. I just asked my assistant to look for you, but he couldn't find you."