Chapter 250 Big News
Fang Mona, who regards work as her life, was actually called away by a phone call. Not to mention Tan Guoxi, the agent, even Chen Boyang, who didn't pay much attention to this kind of news, felt quite puzzled.
"Could it be that she wants to retreat in order to advance?" Tan Guoxi thought about it again and again, and finally came up with this reason: During the negotiation just now, Fang Mona obviously wanted to sign a long-term contract with them, and even made this a condition, saying that if they were not satisfied with the contract, the issue of the awards for the first "Golden Songs" Awards Ceremony... would be more difficult to handle.
Because of the popularity of his first album, Po-Yang Chen only signed a short two-year contract with TBB, a contract with many favorable terms and relatively free restrictions on individuals. Now that the contract has expired, his album performance in recent years has been platinum and has been out of print several times, which can be said to be both stable and excellent.
Well, if we sign the contract again, we will have to negotiate carefully.
According to Chen Baiyang's current popularity and status in the pop music industry, he could just sign a one-year short-term contract like his most outstanding artist Luo Ji, and renegotiate the terms every year based on his new performance and value.
But Fang Mona still wanted to negotiate a two-year contract. Although there was also the benefit of not having to let Chen Baiyang occasionally shoot TV dramas and appear on variety shows for publicity and popularity, these benefits were obviously far behind Chen Baiyang's progress.
It was also because Chen Baiyang was one of the most popular young stars in the Hong Kong music scene that Fang Mona gave up the regular meeting with Zhao and devoted her full attention to the negotiation of this contract.
The two waited in the office for a long time, but not only did Fang Mona not come back, but a young assistant hurried over to inform them that Miss Fang had something urgent to do and could not continue the conversation, so she was asked to come over to apologize to them and make an appointment to talk next time.
Tan Guoxi and Chen Boyang looked at each other and found that the other person had the same doubt in their eyes.
But there was nothing I could do at the moment, so I had to leave first and make an appointment to negotiate next time.
Thinking that he had come to the TV station anyway, Tan Guoxi decided to go and see the other young artists under his management. Chen Baiyang, who was temporarily free, thought about it and decided to visit the Mei sisters as well.
Unexpectedly, as soon as he found Mei Aishuang, she quickly pulled him aside and said, "Do you know that the film company is arguing about whether to get rid of Su Su?"
"What?!" Chen Boyang widened his eyes.
"I overheard it when I went to the tea room. Ah Mei was still filming, so I didn't want to tell her. I just called home to inform my mother-in-law. Since you are free now, can you help me find out the details?" Ever since Mei Aishuang found out that she was not suitable for the entertainment industry in terms of talent or personality, she gradually retreated to the second line and became her sister Mei Yanshuang's assistant. Apart from occasionally playing some marginal roles, she usually takes care of her busy sister.
"Thank you for your reminder. I'll go and ask about it right away." Chen Boyang set off quickly.
The camera turned back to the conference room, and seeing Su Yun standing opposite with a cautious look, for a moment, the Zhao family really didn't know what to do.
Finally, it was Grandma Su who spoke first. She briefly described the process of comparing and confirming her memories with Huang Misheng, and then called Su Yun, "Su Su, they are your family."
"Just because the details I recalled roughly match, does that confirm my identity?" Although expressing doubts would embarrass Grandma Su, Su Yun still frowned subconsciously, "Have you tried blood tests, DNA tests, etc...."
"Grandma doesn't understand these things." Grandma Su was not angry, but she just waved her hands helplessly, "Grandma is of course reluctant to let you go, but blood is thicker than water. If they are really your relatives, you should recognize them."
"We have heard of the verification methods you mentioned, but it seems that there are no examples in Hong Kong. Or if you don't mind, can you tell us how to do it?" Zhao Suwen continued. "No matter what it is, we will do our best to cooperate."
After realizing from Zhao Suwen's explanation and follow-up that there are no highly accurate paternity identification methods in this era, Su Yun sighed and looked across: "I'm sorry, this news is... a little too sudden for me."
"Although it was very sudden, we have basically confirmed that you are Nannan!" Huang Misheng's tears, which she had just wiped away, fell again: because the child was too young when she disappeared, and because they were afraid of causing sadness to everyone, the child could not even be given a name, resulting in the name engraved on the wooden plaque being "Nannan", a folk custom for baby girls.
With this emotional expression, if Su Yun hadn't pointed out that Fang Mona was the one who gave birth to her, she would have suspected that Huang Misheng was the biological mother who had gone through the pain of pregnancy and childbirth for ten months.
Of course, what Su Yun didn't know was that Fang Mona was old enough to be Huang Misheng's daughter, and the relationship between the two was also quite good. In addition, Su Yun had saved the two sons of the Zhao family one after another, so Huang Misheng's feelings towards Su Yun were naturally extremely complicated.
The child she delivered with her own hands in dangerous circumstances suffered pain and had mood swings that were basically no different from if she had given birth herself; and there was also an age gap of almost two generations between them, so although she said she would treat this child as her own daughter, in reality she was more like a granddaughter.
This is equivalent to adding several layers of pity, and with the accumulation of eighteen years of obsession, it is not difficult for Huang Misheng to appear more excited than if he had found his own daughter.
On the contrary, Zhao Rifu, who had fought and cooperated with Su Yun, was the one who was so embarrassed that he didn't know how to express it: if two people with a child in old age were to stay together all the time, their relationship would naturally be much closer than that of a child in their youth, but Su Yun happened to be gone for 18 years and had just been found, so the age gap between them and his father was far too big compared to the common concept, which made both parties very embarrassed and difficult.
Especially since Su Yun is not the kind of Cinderella who is tortured by hardships and waiting to be rescued, but a rising star in the circle who has made her own living and started her own business and has a certain status and assets. Suddenly, she is informed that she is the child of the family who had given her a lot of trouble in the past. Even without putting yourself in her shoes, you can feel her embarrassment and complicated emotions.
So much so that, when Su Yunjie finally helped Grandma Su leave the conference room, none of them dared to speak up to stop her.
After watching Su Yun and Grandma Su leave, Zhao Suyun noticed Fang Mona hiding in the corner and couldn't help but blurt out, "Aunt Mona, why are you standing here?"
Huang Misheng's look made Zhao Suyun shut up, and then he called Fang Mona, "Mona, come in and sit down. I'll tell you the details of what's going on inside."
Fang Mona wiped her tears, nodded, and walked slowly into the conference room.
After leaving work for the day and returning home by car, Su Yun dived into the big sofa in the living room: "Oh, it's so scary, I even want to wake up quickly - but it's a pity that this is really not a nightmare."
Fortunately, the Zhao family were all polite adults who understood that now was not the time to force anything, so they let her and Grandma Su out without saying anything - otherwise, she could not guarantee that she could continue to maintain a calm state of mind and attitude.
"In fact, the Zhao family is much better than I originally expected." Grandma Su took a big sip of the shock tea and then sighed deeply, "Maybe I should have told you earlier."
"This is none of your business, mother-in-law." Su Yun leaned over and raised her eyes, "Who could have thought that things would be so complicated? Even if you told me that I was not a twin or my biological child, your kindness in raising me for the past 18 years is real..."
"I've said before that the grace of raising a child is greater than the grace of giving birth to him. I have been 'Su Yun' since the beginning, and this will never change."
"Granny knows you are filial, but the Zhao family is not bad people, so you don't have to resist them too much." Grandma Su touched Su Yun's hair, her voice filled with relief, "And grandma has always insisted that even if you want to recognize your ancestors, the Zhao family cannot treat you as an ordinary rich girl. You must put your thoughts first."
Unexpectedly, Grandma Su was willing to fight against the Zhao family in order to prevent her from becoming the kind of rich girl who was used as a pawn in marriage. Su Yun was moved and hummed in a tearful voice. Then she half sat up, picked up the phone on the coffee table and made a call.
"Hello? Mary? You..." As soon as Zhao Qiming answered the phone and realized that the person on the other end was Su Yun, he stopped talking immediately.
"I'd like to take a few days off." When Su Yun said this, it was so decisive that it sounded more like a notification than an application.
"No problem, you should have a good rest and think about it carefully." Zhao Qiming agreed repeatedly on the other end and prepared to hang up the phone.
"Wait! Don't hang up yet!" Su Yun hurriedly stopped him, "Although this happened, it's not like we have become so unspeakable..."
"I want to ask, regarding this matter - what are you going to do?" Thinking of the group of shareholders who left the meeting room with different expressions, Su Yun felt overwhelmed. "The truth cannot be hidden. If so many people know about it, the media will naturally know about it soon."
"Our relationship with the media has never been very good, but if there is some arrangement, it probably won't be written in a way that... makes people feel uncomfortable." Zhao and TBB both have their own official magazines. Although they mainly focus on news about their artists, they are also secretly targeted because they get a share of the media's pie. On a daily basis, no one knows how many gossip magazines rely on them for their livelihood while trying to dig up negative information about them.
"That is to say, it was an accidental disappearance..." Hearing Zhao Liming say that he would lead the incident to the accidental side, Su Yun breathed a sigh of relief but also felt a little sad.
Turning the old events into "accidents" not only avoids those prying eyes to the greatest extent, but also protects her from harassment - public figures are like this, no matter how tortuous and bizarre the truth is, in the end, they have to whitewash it in front of others.
"Take a good rest. You've been very tired recently." Grandma Su looked at Su Yun lovingly after she finished her phone call and drank her calming tea. "Grandma will be right beside you."
"Yeah." Su Yun covered herself with the quilt, and suddenly began to feel the fatigue that she had suppressed for days, all coming out at this moment.
But the warmest harbor is with family.
And while Su Yun is taking a break, people throughout Hong Kong who were already shocked by "That Kiss, the Whole City Quake" will encounter a new "earthquake" again.