Chapter 22

Q: What is it like when the gossip behind your back is brought to the attention of the person behind it?

Staff: Thank you for the invitation. I feel like I won’t be able to see the sun tomorrow.

The instigator had already used his sick escape skill to escape while everyone was confused, leaving the accomplices to panic in the wind, secretly praying that the boss could strike accurately and not harm them, the "innocent fish".

Jiang Yuanliang was quick to sense that everyone present was worried, but he didn't have much time to delve into it, because Zhang Xiaodong, who had been nowhere to be found, finally sent him a message -

He was fired by Chen Yuning, and many people who had been bribed by Jiang Yuanliang also left.

The middle and senior management of Huaxing Entertainment and Chen Yuning's other industries were shaken up, not to mention a major reshuffle. Those with a keen sense of smell had already vaguely sensed the reason behind it and consciously cut off contact with Jiang Yuanliang.

Jiang Yuanliang looked at the messages on his phone, a gloomy look flashed across his gentle and elegant face. He tightened and unclenched his right hand holding the phone, veins popping out on the back of his hand. Finally, he released his strength, lowered his eyes, and sent a message to someone unknown.

Jiang Yuanliang put away his phone and glanced at Song Zhiyi, who was sitting in front of him and writing something on a notebook, with a deep look in his eyes.

He came here for two purposes. One was to test how much Chen Yuning believed in those "prophecies of the future"; the other was to find out whether Song Zhiyi was a real hermit or just a trick.

Leaving the latter aside for now, at least he has not heard the so-called "oracle" yet, but judging from Chen Yuning's actions, she might have really heard those prophecies.

But why? Chen Yuning never believed in these supernatural things, and according to Zhang Xiaodong's retelling, most of what Song Zhiyi said never happened, and there was no evidence at all... Could it be that this person, like those quacks, had some ability to confuse people?

If this is the case, he has to think of other ways.

Jiang Yuanliang lowered his head with a deeply furrowed brow, and the index finger of his left hand was secretly tapping the stool beneath him. This was his habit when thinking.

When my son comes over, I have to teach him how to speak carefully...

Wait, son?

Jiang Yuanliang's pupils twitched. Zhang Xiaodong said yesterday that Song Zhiyi predicted that Chen Yuning would be pregnant again this year. Could it be that it will be now?

*

"We're here, let's go." Chen Yuning parked the car and unbuckled her seat belt. When she was about to open the door, she saw the woman in the passenger seat didn't move, so she called out "Sister" again.

The woman was naturally Chen Shoujing. She pinched her brows and said with a sleepy look on her face, "I'm relieved to see that you're okay. I haven't adjusted to the jet lag yet, how about we go home and rest first?"

Chen Yuning looked at her with a half-smile, pretended to pick up the phone and said, "Okay, let's wait here. Nanfeng has almost finished recording, so we don't need another two or three hours. Let him go back with us early."

"Don't!" Chen Shoujing whispered and subconsciously raised his hand to stop him. Chen Yuning took the opportunity to turn the phone over, revealing the unlocked screen.

"..." Chen Shoujing withdrew his body, met his sister's anxious eyes, and said helplessly, "Forget it, forget it, I will go with you."

The parking place was about three or four minutes' walk from the recording site. On the way, Chen Shoujing, wearing sunglasses, asked nonchalantly, "How has Xiaofeng been doing recently?"

"Very good, but a little unmotivated." Chen Yuning replied, "If someone else was my nephew, he would have been pestering for resources a long time ago, but he is different. He will turn down anything that comes to his door. Now he is almost unknown in the circle. I am embarrassed to mention my nephew when he praises him so much."

Chen Shoujing raised the corner of his mouth, but quickly suppressed it and said, "Don't be too indulgent with him. He chose to be an artist himself. Since he has chosen it, he should treat it as a real career."

Chen Yuning nodded casually and said, "Let him be, he may not really want to..."

"mother!"

Chen Yuning paused, as if seeing that she didn't respond, a small figure rushed over like a cannonball, shouting "Mom" in a sharp child's voice.

"Is this Xiaoqian? He's grown so tall." Chen Shoujing quickly stopped the child who was about to throw himself on his sister, looked at him for a while, and asked, "Didn't you have class today?"

Xiao Qian looked at her timidly for a few times, then looked at his mother, as if asking for help.

"Mr. Chen," a middle-aged woman in plain clothes caught up slowly and explained to Chen Yuning, "Mr. Jiang said he had something to do with Xiao Qian, and asked me to ask for leave for him and send him over from school.

"I think the place is a bit off the beaten track, but the scenery is nice. Are you planning to have a picnic? Oh, Mr. Jiang didn't tell me, how about I ask someone to send some fresh ingredients over?"

"No need," Chen Yuning held Xiao Qian's hand, rubbed his soft black hair with restraint, and motioned him to call someone, "This is your aunt."

"Hello, Auntie." Xiao Qian greeted obediently.

Chen Shoujing raised the corners of her lips and only gave a slightly distant smile in response. After knowing what he would do in the future, it was difficult for her to feel any closeness to this nephew.

Chen Yuning took Xiaoqian two steps, then stopped, turned her head and said to the nanny, "You go back first. I have some personal matters to take care of here."

“…”

Today is the last day of filming. In order to have more material, the artists did not take a break, while the staff took turns to eat and rest.

Song Zhiyi did not go, but sat there, concentrating on writing.

There were quite a lot of people whose story lines had deviated in the past two days, and her hands were a little tired from writing. The content on the character card book was finally updated to be consistent with reality. In the process of this update, she also inadvertently revealed the background of the two new members of the show "Hello, Boy".

But these two newcomers are generally lucky.

In order to show that they knew nothing when Chen Yuning came back, all the staff members spontaneously stayed away from Song Zhiyi's voice coverage, anxiously waiting for the sword of Damocles to fall. As a result, they missed the opportunity to eat melons.

Song Zhiyi was unaware of this. After updating the information, she looked up at the surveillance camera and saw that although Song Zhiyu was not jumping up and down due to his foot injury, he was still alive and well with the help of Qi Nanfeng, a human crutch. She then lowered her head with relief and continued to look at the character card book.

The information of Song Zhiyu's character card is almost the same as the first version. Even though so much time has changed, he will still be entangled with Lin Xiaofeng in the future, and then jump off the building to commit suicide at the same time.

Weird old times...

Song Zhiyu wanted to stay away from Lin Xiaofeng now, so how could he take the initiative to get entangled with her? If she guessed correctly, this might be the so-called "fate", that is, no matter how hard you try, the ending of things will develop towards the predetermined fate.

But unfortunately, as a person who was predicted by the "master" since childhood that she would not live to adulthood and whose character card book also set her to die young, Song Zhiyi least believes in fate.

She let out a light sigh, a leisurely smile on her lips, and with her right hand she opened the memo on her phone and wrote down the time of the next meeting between Song Zhiyu and Lin Xiaofeng on the character card.

When enemies come, we will fight them; when water comes, we will block it with earth. When she was six years old, she was able to save her life from the hands of kidnappers. Now that she is in her twenties, there is no reason why she cannot save her stupid brother.

"dad!"

A clear and tender child's voice rang out. Song Zhiyi stopped what he was doing and, like most people, subconsciously looked towards the source of the voice.

The boy who ran over was about ten years old, wearing only simple overalls and a shirt. He had delicate features and fair skin. He looked like a child who was carefully raised by a good family.

He rushed into Jiang Yuanliang's arms like a little cannonball. Behind him were two women of similar height. One was Chen Yuning, and the other looked somewhat similar to her, but her eyebrows were more relaxed and a little gentler.

[Who is this boy? Sister Chen’s ungrateful son? ]

Chen Yuning paused for a moment, and his mood visibly dropped. Looking at Jiang Yuanliang again, he still had the same hypocritical expression as if he knew nothing.

"What's wrong?" Chen Shoujing glanced at Jiang Yuanliang without leaving a trace. "If you don't want to see him, let's go back now and let me handle the division of the property."

"He doesn't mean that much to me." Chen Yuning sighed softly. She just hasn't figured out why her well-behaved son suddenly became rotten in a place where no one could see him.

[He really is Sister Chen's son,] Song Zhiyi glanced at the father and son with a strange expression, [If Sister Chen knew that her son had seen Jiang Yuanliang cheating more than once, but chose to hide it from her, she would be so sad.]

This time, Chen Yuning stopped completely, stood three steps away from Jiang Yuanliang, and looked at him coldly, his eyes as sharp as a knife.

"Are you okay?" Chen Shoujing approached her and quietly held her hand.

Jiang Yuanliang also stood up holding his son, and said in a very appropriate tone: "Why is your face so pale? Are you too tired from work?"

"Is Mom sick?" Xiao Qian looked confused and self-blaming, "Is it because I insisted on playing in the water and got Mom's clothes wet that she got sick?"

Chen Yuning shuddered and did not answer.

The two of them, one big and one small, look exactly like they were cast in the same mold, and the concern in their eyes doesn't seem fake.

What's going on? It doesn't look like acting. Could it be that Xiao Qian is already so good at pretending at the age of ten?

"Ningning, are you really okay?" Chen Shoujing held her arm and secretly borrowed strength from her, as if he was afraid that she would lose strength and fall.

Chen Yuning did not answer. She turned around and met her sister's worried eyes. Suddenly, a flash of enlightenment flashed through her mind, and she whispered, "Sister, can you hear me?"

"What did you hear?" Chen Shoujing didn't understand and asked subconsciously.

"Nothing." Chen Yuning closed his eyes tightly, and when he opened them again, he had regained his composure, with a hint of sarcasm in his pale smile.

No wonder Jiang Yuanliang could sit here for so long. It turned out that it was not because his thoughts were deeper than he thought, but because he could not hear at all.

Haha, Xiao Chou has been treated as a joke for the whole morning. I don’t know how he will react when he finds out the truth.

"Yuan... Jiang Yuanliang, take Xiaoqian with you and let's go back. There are some things that are not suitable to be discussed here."

…

Chen Yuning suddenly showed up with her family. The fear in the hearts of those who had participated in the gossip in the morning had not yet reached its peak, but it fell heavily with her sudden departure.

Someone who was close to the center of the vortex covered his chest and murmured, "The senior sister is really brave, otherwise how could she be the senior sister?"

"Indeed, I didn't dare to breathe when I saw Mr. Chen's expression just now." Someone looked at Song Zhiyi with a look of admiration, "Hey, where is the senior sister?"

Song Zhiyi had sneaked out when no one was paying attention to her. Her destination was next door, the B&B where she was staying for the past two days.

When Chen Yuning came over, she was flipping through the updated character card album, and it was at this time that she accidentally saw some things related to herself.

After saying hello to the staff member who had just gone out, Song Zhiyi went to Song Zhiyu's room as if he knew the place well and took out two ties.

The right length, the right toughness, perfect!

Song Zhiyi casually put the tie into her pocket, closed the door, stood in front of her door and entered the password. The moment she pushed the door open, she did not go in, but took a step back.

Just as she expected, the moment the door was fully opened, a dark shadow suddenly rushed over.

…

After quickly dealing with the person, Song Zhiyi leaned casually on the edge of the table and smiled at the man tied to the chair opposite him with a tie.

"You thought you were filming a spy drama and you were trying to sneak up on me. Tell me, what are you doing?"

"Guan Juan."