Chapter 32

Although Song Zhiyu's foot injury did not affect his running around at all, Liu Liu still turned down most of his work and let him rest well, leaving only one music variety show schedule.

The day after the Qiao family dinner, Song Zhiyi also received the results of the brake inspection. The people she invited carefully investigated the surveillance around the parking lot and checked the brakes several times. The conclusion was that there was a 90% probability that it was an accident and the brake line had aged naturally.

After reaching this conclusion, she couldn't tell whether she was relieved or still worried, so she just asked someone to modify all the dozen or so cars in the garage to make them safer.

Another week passed, and when news came from the Qiao family again, they were reading the script together.

"Chairman Qiao is in the hospital? Which Chairman Qiao?"

"Yes, okay, I understand. Please pay more attention to the recent developments of the Liu family, especially Liu Qifan."

After hanging up the phone, Song Zhiyi threw the phone aside and rubbed his temple very slowly with his index finger.

Song Zhiyu didn't even bother reading the script. He came over angrily and gossiped, "Sister, is it that Chairman Qiao who is in the hospital?"

"Qiao Liangze's father." Song Zhiyi thought about it, got up and went outside to get the character card book.

"Old man Qiao? Is he Ou Lingling's biological father?" Song Zhiyu had already been briefed by his sister on the complicated relationships in this family, and his eyes lit up almost instantly.

"Should? Anyway, that's what it says." Song Zhiyi said this with some uncertainty. After all, Qiao Nianwen's character card didn't say that his biological father was not Qiao Liangze. I'm afraid that except Hong Siyin, no one else knew about this. I have to say, she hid it really well.

She recalled, "Ou Lingling's previous card said that after she got engaged to Qiao Liangze, she accidentally found an old photo of her mother, and discovered her own background by accident. But she kept it a secret and did not do a paternity test."

"She didn't know Qiao Nianwen's background at that time, but she still dared to continue to be with him. What was she thinking?" Song Zhiyu couldn't understand.

"Who knows? We are not Ou Lingling." Song Zhiyi said as she updated the information on her character card. "Okay, her information has been updated. Let me see...they are really father and daughter.

"Huh? Qiao Nianwen's biological father has also been found, and the speed is so fast... Wow, you will never guess who Qiao Nianwen's father is!"

"Who? The Qiao family's housekeeper? The driver?" Isn't that how it's played out on TV?

"Neither." Song Zhiyi shook his head mysteriously, with a hint of sorrow in his eyes.

Song Zhiyu was strangely silent for a moment, and an absurd thought arose in his mind: "It can't be..."

"It's just as you think," Song Zhiyi paused, "Qiao Nianwen's biological father is from the Liu family, and he is Liu Qifan's father."

"Our uncle, he's over 60 this year, right?" Song Zhiyu's left eye showed absurdity and his right eye showed ridiculousness. "He's at least 17 or 18 years older than Hong Siyin. What does she like about him?"

"Maybe he took advantage of his age and the fact that he doesn't take a bath." Song Zhiyi couldn't understand it either. "He probably knew that Qiao Nianwen was his child, so he had a good idea. If he exposed this matter after Qiao Nianwen officially took over the Qiao family, it would be easier for the Liu family to swallow up the Qiao family.

"Found it. I was wondering why Qiao Liangze had sown so many bastards, but there was only one 'illegitimate child', Wan Bohong. It turned out that it was all done by Hong Siyin. She had been sending people to monitor the bunch of 'substitutes' that Qiao Liangze had found. Once she found any of them pregnant, she would use threats and inducements to make them abort the baby.

"If Wan Bohong's biological mother hadn't owed a huge gambling debt to her father, she wouldn't have been forced to take the initiative to find Qiao Liangze and become an unnamed 'third party'. After the gambling debt was paid off, she left without saying a word. Because she knew Qiao Liangze would look for her, she made preparations early and hid herself under a false name, so she managed to avoid Hong Siyin's people by accident."

"No, why would Hong Siyin do this?" Song Zhiyu asked puzzledly, "Does she love him so much? But if she really loves him, she wouldn't cheat, right?"

"What love affairs? Hong Siyin was also trained as an heir," Song Zhiyi raised an eyebrow. "The Hong family's decline is probably due to Qiao Liangze. What she wants is to destroy the Qiao family and Qiao Liangze."

After reading this information, Song Zhiyi had a flash of enlightenment.

No wonder, no wonder Liu Qifan's annexation of the Qiao family went so smoothly in the original trajectory. It turned out that in addition to the Qiao family being in a state of confusion due to the loss of their heir, they also received secret help from Hong Siyin.

Song Zhiyi closed the character card booklet and looked at the ridiculously childish name on the cover.

The information on this character card booklet did not seem as detailed and reliable as she had previously thought.

*

The next day, Song Zhiyi and her brother went to see Liu Liu together and confirmed the office address of the studio.

When she said it was confirmed, in fact, Song Zhiyi just sent him the addresses of all her vacant office buildings in the city and asked him to pick a few suitable ones, and she would make the final decision.

The place Liu Liu chose was not in the city center, but there were many photo studios and recording studios nearby, which was a good location for an entertainment company.

The entire building was owned by Song Zhiyi, so there was no need to worry about the rent. After confirming the location, he just contacted the construction team to come and renovate it. Song Zhiyi also gave full authority to Liu Liu to handle this matter.

She came here today mainly to meet the artists brought by Liu Liu.

They are all young people, some have just graduated from school, and some have been working hard for a few years but have never been very popular. Considering that the studio's main supporter is Song Zhiyu, the two male artists selected by Liu Liu are both actors and there is no conflict in their acting styles.

With the door closed, blocking out the noise of five young people playing games outside, Liu Liu stood in the simple office, reporting on his work to Song Zhiyi.

"…Three female artists have been chosen for now, one is an actress, and the other two want to develop into idols. We plan to have them participate in the talent show held by Fruit TV next year."

"Three?" Song Zhiyi interrupted him, "Aren't there only two girls outside?"

"That's exactly what I wanted to tell you," Liu Liu closed the file, straightened his lips, and said, "Last time when Zhiyu was filming the group show, didn't I rush back to the city because something happened?"

Song Zhiyi nodded slightly, motioning him to continue.

"The artist in the accident is named Li Ying. She is a professional actress who just graduated this year. She is also a poor child who came from the mountains. However, she is relatively lucky. Her talent for acting was discovered by a volunteer teacher, and she has gradually come to where she is today.

"She was originally filming in the crew, and was almost considered the fourth female lead, but she offended the first male lead within a few days of filming. Now the role is gone, and the other party even threatened to ban her."

"How did you offend him?" Song Zhiyi put his hands on the keyboard and asked while typing.

"The man knocked on the door in the middle of the night and said he was going to film a scene opposite her the next day and wanted to take her to a scene. Li Ying thought he was a nice guy and let him in. But before they could finish their lines, his hands were already dirty."

Song Zhiyi paused and asked coldly, "Were you bullied?"

"No, you don't know that some male stars nowadays can't lift or carry anything. Li Ying has been doing farm work since she was a child. How could she be bullied so easily?" Liu Liu explained, and then said, "But she was not bullied. The male lead actor had one arm and one leg removed by her, and he is still in a cast."

"…So what did the man ask for?"

"No plea," Liu Liu felt tired just thinking about it, "He has lost so much face, he will definitely not let Li Ying off easily, he wants to ban her."

He dared to do this because he was sure that a small actor and an unknown small studio would not have the backing to stand up to him.

"Where is Li Ying now?"

"She must have gone back home." Liu Liu took out a letter from his pocket and handed it to me. "I was trying to find some connections for her, but she felt that she had implicated me, so she left a letter and left. The letter said that she might not be a performer, and she even left me a bank card as compensation. I checked the money in it, 29,283.23, which is probably all she can take out."

Liu Liu sighed: "You said this child, why do I need her compensation?"

Song Zhiyi took the letter and opened it. She knew that Liu Liu's purpose in telling her all this was simply to hope that she could help Li Ying.

Who made her really fall for this?

After looking down for a while, Song Zhiyi slid his right hand, which was resting on the computer, on the touchpad a few times.

The phone in his pocket vibrated, and Liu Liu looked down. In the message column was a business card shared by Song Zhiyi.

"Who is this?"

"A friend," Song Zhiyi said casually, "From now on, Zhiman Group is our investor. If they want to touch our people, let them consider their own weight first."

Zhiman is her personal brand founded when she was 17 years old. She started out in real estate, and later, with her keen market insight, the company was successfully listed only one year after its establishment. After seizing the emerging trend of the Internet, the business scope expanded rapidly.

At this point, even the Liu family, which has been entrenched in Yaskawa City for many years, has to temporarily avoid the limelight, let alone a small actor.

*

Li Ying's problem was successfully resolved two days later. On the same day, Lin Xiaofeng's mother's surgery was successfully completed and her condition was under control.

On the same day, five million yuan inexplicably appeared in Song Zhiyu's account. The two checked the information and confirmed that the money should have come from Liu Shunan.

If I guess correctly, the Liu family found out that Zhiman had invested in an artist studio, and then learned that the studio was opened by Song Zhiyi. Therefore, the equation that Miss Zhi invested in this studio for Song Zhiyu was formed.

After coming to this conclusion, Song Zhiyi showed an indescribably complicated expression: "Doesn't the Liu family seem to be doing well, and their business has not been suppressed by Zhiman? Why do they always want to marry Miss Zhi?"

"You know that old man is deeply superstitious. Whatever the master says is the truth." Song Zhiyu skillfully transferred 4.5 million to his sister's account and kept the remaining 500,000 for his own pocket money.

After transferring the money, he came over again and asked in a flattering manner, "How's it going, sister? Have you chosen the script?"

"That's about right," Song Zhiyi looked at the two piles of scripts in front of him and rubbed his eyes, "These few..."

"All are OK? Brother Liu said he is more optimistic about these three scripts. The directors have experience in films and the stories are not clichéd. If they are well filmed, they will definitely be a hit."

After he finished speaking, Song Zhiyi continued the second half of the sentence slowly: "No, none of them worked. One director was imprisoned for taking drugs, one of the leading actors was imprisoned for committing a crime, and one of them was not imprisoned, but the scandal of the master of time management was exposed, which was too bad."

"..." Song Zhiyu almost couldn't catch his breath, and said in a dark voice, "I was wondering why so many books were sent to me recently. It turns out it's not because I want to be famous, but because these books are not good enough!"

"Not really, there are still some good ones." Song Zhiyi pulled out a script and threw it over, "This one is not bad, a sweet campus drama, the second male lead role is quite suitable for you, your appearance is also suitable, and it is an original role, so you don't have to worry about being criticized by book fans."

Song Zhiyu lowered his head and sent a message: "Okay, I'll talk to Brother Liu and see when the audition will be."

Song Zhiyi stood up and stretched, then looked at the time and patted his head: "Let's go."

"Where are you going?"

"Hospital checkup, did you forget?"

…

Because both of them were premature babies, they were very weak when they were young, and they had to have physical examinations at least twice a year. It was not until they recovered a little that the frequency of physical examinations was reduced to once a year.

They arrived relatively early and completed the physical examination quickly, but Song Zhiyi had been feeling chest tightness recently, so a CT scan was added temporarily.

Everyone is equal in front of CT. Even if she has money, she still has to queue up honestly.

At this point, there was no need to fast, so Aunt Lin went to buy breakfast nearby. Song Zhiyu was sitting in the waiting room nearby, playing with his phone. Suddenly, he saw something and tiptoed over.

"Sister, look at that person over there, does he look familiar?"

"Where?" Song Zhiyi looked in the direction of his finger and saw a man and a woman arguing about something at the stairs. It was a bit far away and she couldn't hear their voices clearly. She could only see the girl covering her face and seemed to be crying.

As for that man... he looked so familiar, he was none other than Ren Xiuming, one of the guests at the music variety show that Song Zhiyu was about to attend.

[Song Zhiyi, please go to CT room No. 3...]

The screen started calling numbers, and Song Zhiyi took a last look towards the stairs, just in time to see Ren Xiuming roughly pulling the girl away.

*

Ren Xiuming has been in the industry for more than 20 years and is now 47 years old. He is a idol in the hearts of many elders. Even the classic TV series that Aunt Lin often revisits have OSTs sung by him.

Although so many years have passed and his fame is no longer the same as before, it has to be said that some people are destined to be famous, such as Ren Xiuming.

Five months ago, he and his wife Mao Suiqiong participated in a couple variety show. After the show was broadcast, the two quickly became popular with their humorous and loving daily life as a couple, and attracted many young fans.

Thinking about it, Song Zhiyi turned his head to the right and met the eyes of a middle-aged woman with a heroic appearance. The two nodded to each other in a friendly manner, which was considered a greeting.

This person is Mao Suiqiong, who was also a popular singer at the time. After getting married, she and her husband dominated the music scene for a period of time, until she had children and gradually retreated to the back line.

However, it was not for the family, but because their child was accidentally lost at the age of two. Mao Suiqiong was hit hard and never picked up the microphone again.

What a pity...

Song Zhiyi turned her gaze forward and nonchalantly watched the music variety show that had already started filming.

She also watched the variety show in which Ren Xiuming and Mao Suiqiong became popular again with Aunt Lin. In the variety show, the way the two looked at each other was almost tearful, which made people feel envious.

In reality, Mao Suiqiong's eyes were just as gentle as water, but Ren Xiuming's attitude was obviously much colder.

Moreover, Zhiyu saw with her own eyes yesterday that Ren Xiuming and the young girl came out of the gynecology department.