Film and television companies are booming recently. When Shi Yun releases a new drama, many bosses come to discuss investment with money in hand.
Even Ningyuan Film and Television, with whom they have been cooperating, expressed interest.
Shiyun and Ningyuan have a close relationship, and their cooperation has been almost continuous. This time, when Ningyuan expressed its desire to invest, Shiyun agreed without hesitation.
Besides Ningyuan Film and Television, Shi Jing also had two other partners selected.
For Shiyun Films, fully investing in the project themselves is a breeze. The reason for offering a few investment slots is ultimately to promote cooperation and resource exchange among capital players in the industry.
Shi Jing is preparing for her CET-6 exam, and there's nothing important at the company that would bother her.
Several of Shi Jing's roommates had already passed the CET-4 exam, and this time they all registered for the CET-6 exam together.
On Saturday afternoon, Shi Jing, carrying her admission ticket, 2B pencils, and other items, went to take the exam with her roommates.
Their school arranged the exam venue, making the exam very convenient. Shi Jing looked at the extremely simple test questions and felt that the exam went incredibly smoothly.
She walked out of the examination room very calmly, confident that she would pass the exam, so she quickly put the matter out of her mind.
She was about to meet up with the others when she suddenly heard someone call her from behind: "Shi Jing".
Shi Jing stopped in his tracks and turned around to look.
"Cai Jiajia?"
Since Cai Jiajia moved out of the dormitory, the two have had virtually no contact for over a year.
Even if we occasionally meet, we only exchange nods.
I wonder what Cai Jiajia wanted to do by suddenly calling her?
"Do you have some time later? I'd like to talk to you about something."
Cai Jiajia was always proud and usually ignored them completely. The fact that she was called out meant she definitely needed something.
Shi Jing checked the time; it was 5:30. Her roommates were going to the cafeteria for lunch soon, and if she wanted to talk to Cai Jiajia, she probably wouldn't make it.
"I need to tell the guys in my dorm first."
Shi Jing took out his phone as he spoke.
She had kept her phone off during the exams, and only remembered to turn it on now that she needed it.
She first called Jian Rong, but her phone was switched off; it seemed she had forgotten to turn it on as well.
If she couldn't get through, she would call someone else.
Fortunately, Nan Zhuowen had already turned on his phone, and the call was connected shortly afterward.
"Shi Jing, wait for us at the intersection. Jian Rong left her things at the exam hall. I'll go back with her..."
"Wait a minute, Zhuo Wen." Shi Jing quickly interrupted her, "I have something to do later, so I can't go to dinner with you."
"Aren't you going to eat in the cafeteria? Should I bring you some food back?"
"No need, I'll handle it myself in a bit," Shi Jing declined. "I just made a round of calls, and you were the only one with your phone on. Could you please tell them for me?"
"Okay, then you go ahead and get busy. I'll talk to them."
Over the phone, Shi Jing could vaguely hear Jian Rong asking Nan Zhuowen what he was saying.
After hanging up the phone, Shi Jing looked at Cai Jiajia and asked, "Alright. What's up? Tell me."
"There are so many people coming and going, let's go somewhere else," Cai Jiajia said. "Let's go to the library, the tea bar there is quiet."
At school, Shi Jing wasn't worried about any danger. Besides, her opinion of Cai Jiajia wasn't that bad.
The two soon arrived at the tea bar on the first floor of the library.
I don't know what the library was thinking, opening up a tea bar on the first floor. It's usually not crowded, with most of the seats empty.
Students weren't required to be quiet here, so Shi Jing and Cai Jiajia each ordered tea and found a secluded corner to sit down.
Speaking here won't disturb others, and you won't easily be bothered.
Shi Jing put the exam supplies bag aside, first picked up his teacup and took a sip to warm it up, before looking at Cai Jiajia.
"Now you can tell me, right? What did you want to see me about?"
Instead of answering directly, Cai Jiajia asked, "Shi Jing, do you know about my relationship with Cai Fanghai?"
"You and Cai Fanghai?"
Shi Jing probably guessed their relationship, but she didn't know what Cai Jiajia meant by asking specifically.
"Brother and sister?"
Cai Fanghai looks quite old, that should be true.
Cai Jiajia hummed in agreement and said, "Cai Fanghai is my second uncle's illegitimate son."
"So?" Shi Jing really didn't understand what the other party meant by bringing up this relationship in front of him.
Cai Jiajia snorted, picked up her tea and took a sip: "It seems you really know nothing about my family background."
"Well, I really haven't looked into it."
Shi Jing's impression of Cai Jiajia wasn't bad, and she wasn't familiar with Cai Fanghai at all, so why was she investigating their family affairs?
"What does this have to do with what you wanted to talk to me about?"
"Don't rush. Since the date is canceled, let me talk for a while."
Cai Jiajia smiled and said, "Do you believe that there are born evil people in this world?"
Shi Jing looked at her, puzzled by her meaning.
Cai Jiajia continued, "My uncle went to the battlefield in his early years and was injured. He has been married for almost forty years and still has no children."
“My second uncle was quite the womanizer. When he was young, he kept a bunch of women, both at home and outside, and had quite a few illegitimate daughters, but only two illegitimate sons, one of whom was Cai Fanghai.”
Shi Jing listened, secretly wondering why such gossip from elders would be told to an outsider like him.
“When Cai Fanghai was five years old, my second aunt was pregnant. She accidentally fell down the stairs, lost the baby, and had her uterus removed. Cai Fanghai was there at the time.”
"When Cai Fanghai was fifteen, another cousin of mine was persuaded to drink, and after drinking, he sped and crashed his car into a cliff. I've met the person who persuaded him; he's still hanging around with that group now."
"..." This Cai Fanghai sounds a bit strange.
"Why would he..." I never expected that Cai Fanghai would go to such lengths for profit.
Cai Jiajia said meaningfully, "It's probably to inherit his brother's collection of figurines."
“You are probably the first person Cai Fanghai has tried to scheme against in all these years, but failed to do so.”
Shi Jing looked over, somewhat puzzled, and asked, "Are you sure he's trying to scheme against me?"
After Cai Jiajia made that remark, Shi Jing was actually on guard, but nothing happened.
Cai Jiajia noticed her confusion and smiled, "It's strange. You're clearly a very successful businesswoman, but I always see a kind of detached and unassuming quality about you."
"Uh..." That's a bit of an exaggeration; she does have some aspirations...
“Cai Fanghai did try to scheme against you, but at that time he probably only wanted your money, and his methods were relatively mild. You were almost never alone, so he couldn’t find an opportunity to get close to you.”
Shi Jing keenly discerned the phrase "at that time" in the sentence, implying that the current approach was not merely about money and that the methods would be more drastic.
"He's trying to scheme against me? How did you know?"
Since Cai Fanghai is such a strange person, Shi Jing doesn't believe he would reveal the plan to Cai Jiajia.
"You don't think that I'm living such a comfortable life in the Cai family just because of my temper, do you?"
Well, that's really not the case.
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