"Meeting a classmate," Long Tianjiao asked, "What about you?"
"I’m here for a blind date. Ugh, you have no idea, my parents are always nagging me to get married. It’s so annoying. I mean, I’m so young, what’s the hurry to get married so soon? It’s not like I can’t find someone, right?" Nᴇw ɴovel chaptᴇrs are published on novel⸺fire.net
Long Tianjiao looked at her with a half-mock, half-smile. "So which wealthy heir are you meeting with?"
Ye Ying chuckled, "Didn’t like any, so let’s not talk about it."
Long Tianjiao responded with an ’oh’ and didn’t continue speaking. She picked up her coffee and began to drink, her meaning was clear: I’ve got nothing to talk to you about, you can leave now.
However, Ye Ying didn’t leave and made small talk out of nothing, "I’ve heard that you and my sister don’t get along well, is that true?"
"True that, your sister..." Long Tianjiao sighed. "She always likes to stir up trouble for no reason. What can I do? Why can’t everyone just peacefully live their own lives? She just has to pick fights; there’s nothing I can do about it."
"That’s just her temperament; she’s been spoiled by our parents."
Long Tianjiao’s eyes veiled her deeper thoughts as she turned to her approaching classmate and waved, "Over here."
"Your classmate is here, so I won’t bother you anymore. I’ll take my leave."
Ye Ying thought she had performed flawlessly, feeling secretly thrilled that the fool Long Tianjiao would never guess she was actually Ye Ying.
However, little did Ye Ying know, while she saw Long Tianjiao in such light, Long Tianjiao thought the same of her.
Both dubbing the other an idiot in their hearts.
After meeting with her classmate, Long Tianjiao drove home.
Liang He hadn’t returned from the company yet, so she went to the kitchen to make herself a fruit salad. She carried it to the couch and turned on the TV.
The TV was broadcasting entertainment news.
"Breaking news, this afternoon, Shang Zhen signed with a new agency, joining Liang He, Sun Qianqian, Zhou Qingsen, and other celebrities as a junior sister at the agency..."
Long Tianjiao’s brows furrowed. Shang Zhen signed with Liang He’s agency?
That seemed rather unlikely, given her rank.
Just as she was thinking this over, Liang He entered in a smoke-grey coat, "Darling, I’m back."
"Shang Zhen signed with your company?"
"Yeah, I only found out this afternoon, too."
"The boss actually signed her?"
A flicker of amusement crossed Liang He’s eyes, "Surprising, isn’t it? I was curious too, so I asked President Su. Guess what he told me?"
Long Tianjiao went along, "What did he say?"
"President Su said Shang Zhen was recommended by Producer Zhou." Liang He took off his slippers, and while walking, he removed his scarf. "What a piece of work that Producer Zhou is, everyone in the industry knows. Remember when I caught him and Sun Qianqian having a secret meeting at a hotel? The fallout from that was Sun Qianqian getting played, her shot at the leading lady role went down the drain. She swallowed a bitter pill without a word. President Su knows what he’s like, yet this time, because he signed a contract with President Su offering the leading role script to Shang Zhen if she got signed, President Su thought the deal was good, so he agreed."
"So you’re saying Shang Zhen is with that Producer Zhou now?"
"What else could it be?" Liang He sat down next to her and reached for a toothpick stabbed into the fruit, placing a piece of apple in his mouth, "Shang Zhen needs a famous agency to package herself. It seems she’s been taking very good care of Producer Zhou; otherwise, how could she land such an important role?"