Surrounded by the warmth in his arms, Yan Yan felt more guilty in her heart, "It's all my fault... So many things happened, in fact, many of them can be avoided, and there are children..."
Her voice was choked with sobs.
"Stop talking," there was a feeling of distress in his eyes, "it will come back, it will come back..."
He lowered his head and kept kissing her hair, soothing her and gradually calming down.
Not far away, a figure stood in a dimly lit corner, staring blankly at this place.
After a while, he came back to his senses, hid deeper in a corner, and went out through the back door of the restaurant.
"Boss, you forgot your coat." The assistant chased him out and put his coat on him.
The cold winter night and the biting north wind made him regain his consciousness.
"How's the restaurant business?" he asked.
"The table turnover rate has been pretty good since the opening week, and the customer reviews are also very good," the assistant replied, "The rating on the food app has reached above 4.8."
The full score is 5.
He nodded with satisfaction.
He didn't open this restaurant on a whim, he just had a steak with caviar in a French restaurant in the southern hemisphere one day.
Yan Yan left him few memories, but he remembered it very clearly. She once said that caviar paired with steak has a very unique flavor.
He didn't expect her to come to the restaurant for dinner so soon. He didn't know if she had discovered the restaurant's signature dish, caviar steak...
Maybe I didn't see it.
She and Cheng Yiming seemed to be discussing something, and she was a little agitated, but with just a hug from Cheng Yiming, she slowly calmed down.
Suddenly, he felt that everything he did was ridiculous.
"Have you ever loved anyone?" he suddenly asked his assistant.
The assistant was stunned for a moment, then nodded: "Of course, I love my wife."
"You are so lucky," he said with sincere envy, "that you can enjoy your whole life with the one you love."
After a pause, he continued: "The decision to send you to other provinces to keep an eye on the branch has been cancelled. You will stay in City A and continue to do what you are doing."
After saying that, he strode forward and left.
The assistant was a little confused. The transfer decision had already been approved by the Human Resources Department and was changed so easily?
Mr. Wu is a little strange today.
I heard that he was already married, so how could he express envy of other people's marriages?
I also heard that his new wife was in good condition in all aspects, so why did he look so disappointed?
Wu Ruian walked across the long street and walked into a hotel.
As soon as he entered the hall, a young man came forward and said with a smile: "Mr. Wu, Director Liang has been waiting for you for a long time."
Wu Ruian followed him into a room and saw several staff members inside, filled with smoke and bustling.
Wu Ruian frowned and was about to speak when a voice suddenly rang out: "Okay, okay, let's just go shoot and let Yan Yan go try out the scene."
Director Liang held a burning cigar between his fingers, but he didn't care to smoke it. As he waved his arm, the smoke filled the room.
This is how the smoky effect in the room came about.
Within a few minutes, everyone in the room left.
Director Liang smiled and said: "It's all thanks to you, otherwise I wouldn't be able to do this."
He invited Wu Ruian to sit down in front of the sofa, and sent his assistant out to make tea, and then said to Wu Ruian: "Everything is done, no one will know that you are the biggest investor in this drama."
Wu Ruian was still worried: "Never let her know why she played the second female lead."
With her character, once she knew about it, she would probably quit acting.
Director Liang nodded, but couldn't hold back the gossip, "Mr. Wu, if you do good deeds silently, can you get the other person's affection?"
Wu Ruian smiled bitterly, "Actually, it's just a coincidence..."
He had been eyeing this drama for a long time, but he didn't expect that Yan Yan would also participate.
I don't want her to know because I don't want her to misunderstand.
But now that she was already on the crew, he couldn't help but want to seek more benefits for her.
"Is it still possible for her to play the leading female role?" he asked first.
Director Liang shook his head, "There is someone behind Miss Jia, Mr. Wu, this is a settled matter, please don't make things difficult for me."
Wu Ruian nodded. He didn't force it. Then, the second request was, "What can be done to be more beneficial to her? I heard that the second female lead has a bit of a bad character. I'm afraid this may not be beneficial to her."
Director Liang thought for a while, "Don't worry, I will call the relevant staff over immediately to discuss changing the script, and we will definitely create a second female lead that everyone will love."
Wu Ruian nodded with relief.
After arranging these things, it was almost late at night, and he got in the car from the side door of the hotel and left.
Another car followed and stopped outside the side door. Cheng Yiming opened the door and got out of the car, staring blankly at the distant car shadow for a moment.
The figure just now seemed to be Wu Ruian... What was he doing here?
Cheng Yiming had no time to think too much, so he took Yan Yan out first and sent her to the room.
She drank a little too much today and fell into a deep sleep.
He wiped her face, tidied her up, and covered her with the quilt.
"Cheng Yiming..." Suddenly I heard her calling softly.
When he raised his eyes, he saw that she was still sleeping with her eyes closed. She was just murmuring in her sleep.
He lay down on his side and looked at her pretty face tenderly: "You saw me in your dream, right..."
He lowered his head and wanted to kiss her lips, but finally held back, not wanting to disturb her sweet dream.
On the top floor of the hotel, there was a figure holding his arms tightly and walking back and forth.
The cold wind was blowing in the winter night, it was really cold.
Finally, a tall figure walked out of the rooftop entrance.
"Senior, I've been waiting for you for twenty minutes!" Qi Xuechun stood there, frowning and saying.
"Say it." Cheng Yiming stopped.
Qi Xuechun rubbed her hands and then said: "Wu Ruian was here, and Director Liang also called some of the crew to change the script. It took several hours to complete it."
"I have asked my classmates to check Wu Rui'an's related activities..." As she said this, she suddenly received a message on her mobile phone.
She took out her phone and looked at it with a solemn expression: "Senior, you guessed it right, Wu Ruian is the largest investor in this drama."
This was found through Wu Rui'an's company's fund movements, so there is no mistake.
Cheng Yiming nodded, the facts were very clear, Wu Ruian secretly invested, and then asked Miss Jia to recommend it deliberately.
Did he do this to impress Yan Yan?
Or is there some other purpose?
"This is not easy, just ask him." Qi Xuechun said.
Cheng Yiming disagreed. He didn't want to let himself fall into passivity.
"You don't have to worry about this matter, I will solve it." He told her, "You have to take good care of her."
Qi Xuechun nodded: "If you do what you promised me, I will do what I promised you."
Qi Xuechun returned to the room to see if Yan Yan was sleeping well, but saw that the quilt on the bed was lifted and there was no one there.
But there were wrinkles on the edges of the sheets, and following the direction of the wrinkles, she saw the bathroom.
"Wow!" The sound of water came from the bathroom.
Yan Yan walked out of the bathroom, covering her forehead, and flopped down on the bed again.
Qi Xuechun walked over gently and wanted to pull the quilt over her.
"Where is Cheng Yiming?" she asked.
Qi Xuechun thought she hadn't seen him, so she was suddenly asked, and she replied without even having time to think: "I'm on business."
Yan Yan raised her head in confusion: "What should I do?"
By this time she had sobered up a little.
"Do...what is Mr. Cheng doing? How do I know?" Qi Xuechun quickly laughed.
Yan Yan didn't ask again, "I'm going to bed. You should go back to your room and get some rest early. You have to get up early tomorrow."
Qi Xuechun agreed, put a cup of hot water on the bedside, and left.
The room was quiet for a moment. Yan Yan turned over and sat up, opened the door and walked out.
As she walked, she straightened her appearance. She remembered that there was something wrong with the first scene she was going to shoot tomorrow, and she had to discuss it with the director.
Turning the corner to the north of where the director lived, she suddenly retracted her steps, her body subconsciously shrank behind the wall, and then she quietly poked her head out to take a look.
She read it right, it was really Cheng Yiming, who walked into Director Liang's room.
How did he know Director Liang?
But I've never heard him mention it!
She couldn't help but think of what Qi Momo said, that Cheng Yiming used investment to "buy" her the role of the second female lead.
Even though she repeatedly reminded herself to trust him, how could he explain it to Director Liang in private?
"Is that the young master of the Cheng family just now?" The director's two assistants came towards this direction.
Yan Yan hid deeper in the corner.
"What is he here for?"
"80% of them are asking for Yan Yan to change the script."
"Wouldn't she still be the second female lead no matter what?
Another assistant clicked his tongue and shook his head, "Although she is nominally the second female lead, it is not impossible to increase the number of roles or make the second female lead's role more likable."
"That's right, the boss has the final say anyway."
"Hehe, Qi Momo's scolding is right. You have to work harder at night to get the boss to come over in person."
The chatter and laughter of the two assistants faded away.
Yan Yan walked out of the dimly lit corner with an ugly expression on her face.
**
At the traffic light intersection, Wu Ruian lightly stepped on the brakes.
"Knock, knock!" Suddenly, there was a knock on the car window, and a young girl stood outside with an anxious face, seeming to beg him to open the door.
Wu Ruian didn't want to pay attention. There are too many scammers these days.
Scammers have also learned to be smart and often use their beautiful appearance to deceive people.
However, the other person was beating more and more anxiously, shouting something loudly, "...Yan..."
When Wu Ruian heard this, he immediately pressed down the window and opened the door lock.
The girl immediately got into the car and took off her hat, revealing her delicate and beautiful face.
Wu Ruian recognized her. She was Qi Momo, who had made a big splash in the entertainment industry not long ago.
"Mr. Wu, please go back to the hotel and have a look," Qi Momo said anxiously: "Yan Yan doesn't know why she's so crazy. She has to terminate the contract with the crew without paying a penny in compensation!"
Wu Ruian was startled. He had just stepped forward, could it be that the secret was leaked on the back?
Without thinking, he turned the car around and rushed back to the hotel.
On the way, Qi Momo told him the whole story.
Yan Yan rushed into the room and wanted to terminate her contract with the crew. She seemed to have drunk some wine and was very emotional.
"Where is Cheng Yiming?" He remembered that she was with Cheng Yiming tonight, "Cheng Yiming doesn't care about her?"
"I didn't see Mr. Cheng," Qi Momo said with confused eyes, "I only saw Yan Yan making a fuss in Director Liang's room, and no one dared to step forward to stop her."
There was a "chi" sound of the brakes, and before the car came to a stop, Wu Ruian pushed the door open, got out of the car and ran into the hotel.
Qi Momo slowly got out of the car, a cold sneer appearing on the corner of her mouth.
