Ye Shaohua was thinking correctly.
Right now, Yin Tianyu did have a bit of that kind of thought, but unlike her, he actually felt a little sorry for her, since she was being treated like a discarded pawn.
He got into the car and went straight back to the company.
“Yin Tianyu, what are you thinking about?” Just as he was deep in thought, a sudden, loud voice came from beside him.
Yin Tianyu turned his head and saw that it was Ye Meng.
His expression softened a lot.
For someone as skilled in manipulation as Yin Tianyu, meeting someone as simple and guileless as Ye Meng naturally put him more at ease. That’s also why he had always treated Ye Meng so differently.
“It’s nothing,” Yin Tianyu said with a smile.
Ye Meng didn’t overthink it. She just looked at Yin Tianyu and said, “Oh, right, I came to tell you something today. I might not be able to come to work for a while. I need to go overseas.”
“What are you going there for?” Yin Tianyu asked, surprised.
“It’s about gem betting,” Ye Meng lowered her voice. “Someone from a family called the Lance family invited me to be their gem betting master. It seems like we’re going to participate in some kind of… competition.”
As she spoke, Yin Tianyu was stunned. “The Lance family?”
“That’s right,” Ye Meng smiled. “You know them too? But this time, my dad has some things to deal with, so he can’t come with me.”
Ye Qing had stayed in Qingcheng this time to clean up the shady history of the Green Gang and the matters with Feisheng Entertainment.
Knowing he had to deal with these things, Ye Meng was naturally thrilled.
Thinking about how her status would change when she came back, and that she would get to see Ye Shaohua looking pathetic—how could she not be excited?
“You won’t know anyone there. How can you go alone?” Yin Tianyu put away his surprised look. He smiled gently at Ye Meng and said, “I’ll go with you.”
“Don’t you have a movie to film?” Ye Meng was stunned by Yin Tianyu’s offer.
Yin Tianyu’s voice was very soft. “The international scene is very chaotic right now. I wouldn’t feel comfortable letting you go alone. As for my filming schedule, I’ll ask the director for a few days off, and I’ll just work extra overtime recently to make up for it.”
Ye Meng didn’t expect Yin Tianyu to go this far for her.
She was deeply moved.
She tried to persuade him a few times, but Yin Tianyu wouldn’t agree, so she left, feeling both touched and a bit proud of herself.
After Ye Meng left, the agent frowned.
He looked at Yin Tianyu and couldn’t help asking, “Tianyu, what are you really thinking right now? You’re actually going to ask the director for time off for this Ye Meng? And what about you and Ye Shaohua? What’s going to happen there? Back then, you ignored my objections to date her, and now you’re not even clearing up the rumors with Ye Meng…”
“It wasn’t dating,” Yin Tianyu frowned when the agent brought this up. “Getting close to Ye Shaohua was for other reasons.”
The agent didn’t know about this.
He looked a bit surprised. “So, you haven’t broken up with Ye Shaohua yet? What are your true feelings for her? You just went to see her too.”
“What are my feelings…” Hearing the agent say this, Yin Tianyu actually seemed a bit conflicted.
His original intentions towards Ye Shaohua were very simple.
It was just using her. Too bad she was so foolish, she never saw it coming from start to finish, and she trusted him completely.
But now…
“Well… she does have a decent face.” To be fair, it would be hard to find someone better looking than her in the entertainment industry. Thank goodness she wasn’t trying to make it in showbiz. If she were, what room would be left for other actresses?
“But she’s just very boring, simple-minded,” Yin Tianyu waved his hand. “Alright, don’t worry about this. I know what I’m doing.”
Anyway, it wouldn’t be long before Ye Shaohua’s career cooled off.
What mattered most now was Ye Meng’s situation.
Seeing Yin Tianyu say this, the agent didn’t press him further. After all, Yin Tianyu always knew his limits.
**
Recently, the entire industry had been very unstable. A lot of people in charge had come around to inspect things.
These days, hardly any company could withstand a thorough inspection, causing widespread anxiety for a while.
But the company that should have been most worried—Feisheng, which laundered money for the gang—was surprisingly relaxed. In fact, Ye Shaohua even had the free time to go overseas with the company crew to check out set locations.
After getting off the plane, Ye Shaohua sent out a text message.
She stayed close by the director.
Upon arrival, Director Yu prepared to contact someone to arrange accommodation and transportation passes for everyone.
However, they ran into some problems with the real-world location they had rented.
“The crew from Country F got here first,” the location manager said impatiently to Director Yu. “You’ll have to wait another half a month.”
All the actors’ schedules were already set. How could they delay by half a month? There were Best Actor and Best Actress winners among them. Even the supporting roles were top-tier celebrities from the country. Finding time in their schedules wasn’t easy.
Director Yu never expected to face such a difficulty after arriving here.
“We paid the rental fee first,” Director Yu swallowed his pride, trying to reason. “It was booked specifically for these two weeks.”
“If you don’t like it, just leave. I’ll give you back your deposit,” the representative from Country F said, looking at Director Yu mockingly. Then he turned to speak with the location manager, completely ignoring the whole group.
Director Yu had always had a hot temper. Seeing this, he got furious.
“Stop. These are people from Country F, an international matter. Don’t start trouble,” the Best Actor next to him quickly tugged Director Yu’s sleeve and whispered, “We can just reschedule.”
Director Yu naturally knew it wasn’t good to cause trouble.
His face darkened. Then he turned around and looked apologetically at Ye Shaohua and the others behind him.
“Miss Ye, what’s going on here?”
