Chapter 813: 813, is President Huo a dog?
On the other side, Su Wanwan followed Yan Shunhua back to the private room.
She let her long hair down, which, unless scrutinised closely, completely concealed the abnormalities on her face.
Yan Shunhua made up an excuse and left first.
The rest of the people at the table were sowhat surprised but didn’t insist on him staying.
Over ti, they had co to realize that although Yan Shunhua was a woman, she was decisive and held firm perspicacious views, not the type to be easily swayed.
…
...
Since she had been drinking and lived next door, Su Wanwan took the CEO’s car on her way back to the Imperial Court Villas.
Midway, Yan Shunhua suddenly asked, “That Mrs. Su you ntioned just now, how does she usually treat you?”
Su Wanwan said, “Just so-so.”
Just so-so?
Yan Shunhua nodded, “What about your father? Is he… is he always prone to laying hands on you like he did today?”
Su Wanwan had not expected such a direct question, but since it was her own private matter, she could only answer euphemistically, “Not really, he was just drunk tonight, and besides, we don’t usually see each other much.”
Yan Shunhua’s brows furrowed.
In the sa city, they were supposedly the closest of parent and child, yet they hardly ever saw each other, presumably due to a strained relationship…
Thinking back to what Su Yuntang had said in the hotel corridor earlier…
A bitter taste ford in Yan Shunhua’s mouth, “Wanwan, does your face still hurt?”
“It stopped hurting a long ti ago.”
The lighter the dismissal, the more Yan Shunhua ached for her, “It seems to be a bit swollen. Rember to apply a hot towel when you get back, it will heal faster that way.”
Su Wanwan couldn’t help but laugh, “Mr. Chairman, don’t worry about , I’m not that delicate.”
“Is that so?” Yan Shunhua couldn’t help but sigh, “I have a daughter too, and every ti she gets a little bump, she has to cry to for ages and only stops when I comfort her…”
Su Wanwan: “…”
She imdiately thought of Mo Weiyi.
That girl was the sa, so delicate, every little scratch could beco a long discussion.
Perhaps because she had such a delicate little princess around, Su Wanwan had beco accustod to protecting her, and over ti, she had herself beco more and more tough.
“Wanwan.” Yan Shunhua gripped the steering wheel tighter, hesitating, “May I ask you a question? Your mother, she….”
Su Wanwan answered directly, “My mom passed away a long ti ago.”
Her hands tightening suddenly, Yan Shunhua struggled to control her emotions and asked quietly, “Did she leave, or…”
“Passed away.” Su Wanwan stated simply, “I have never t her, so I’m not very clear about anything regarding her.”
“…I see.”
Up ahead was a traffic light intersection.
The car stopped, and Yan Shunhua turned to look at Su Wanwan.
The young girl’s face showed no sign of sadness, and her tone and expression were very calm as she spoke.
“Do you miss your mom?”
These words slipped out.
Su Wanwan looked over in surprise.
Looking into those eyes, almost identical to her own, Yan Shunhua felt as if her heart was being crushed by a mountain, dense and suffocating.
After catching her breath, she asked again, “Wanwan, do you miss your mom?”
Su Wanwan imdiately shook her head and decisively answered, “No.”
“Why not?” Yan Shunhua could barely control herself, her questions following one after another.
Su Wanwan found these questions rather abrupt as well.
But considering what had happened in the hotel corridor, it seed normal for Yan Shunhua, an outsider, to be curious.
So she explained, “She’s no longer here, so there’s no need to think about her, and besides, I’m doing quite well now.”
After speaking, she smiled at Yan Shunhua then turned her gaze back towards the window.
Clearly, she didn’t want to continue this topic.
Yan Shunhua seed to understand her aning as well and didn’t press any further.
The green light turned on, and the car smoothly drove off.
For the rest of the drive, neither of them spoke, leaving the car’s cabin very quiet.
…..
In fact, the term “mom” wasn’t exactly a beautiful noun in Su Wanwan’s mories.
From a young age, everyone had instilled in her the notion that her mother had been promiscuous, had betrayed Su Yuntang while pregnant, and had been caught in the act of infidelity by Su Yuntang…
Her death during childbirth seed almost like just deserts.
After all, no man could be magnanimous enough to forgive his woman for cuckolding him.
Thus when her mother died, she, the daughter, beca a thorn in Su Yuntang’s side, a constant reminder of his humiliation, which made her existence all the more unbearable!
When she was still naive and ignorant as a child, she had fantasized about what her mother looked like, what kind of woman she was, and even secretly rummaged through Su Yuntang’s things to find her photo or belongings…
Because of that, Su Yuntang often scolded and punished her.
As she grew older, Su Wanwan gradually accepted the reality that she had no mother and her curiosity slowly faded.
If it hadn’t been brought up deliberately, she wouldn’t have thought of this person at all…
**
Half an hour later.
“Chairman, you can stop here.” Seeing the door marked 68 ahead, Su Wanwan said.
“I’ll walk you to the door.”
Yan Shunhua said, and drove the car straight there.
When they reached the door number 69, she asked, “Is that President Huo?”
Su Wanwan took a careful look out the window.
It indeed was.
What’s he doing standing at the gate so late at night?
As soon as the car stopped, she imdiately got out and ran over, cheerfully asking, “Are you here to pick up?”
Did the chairman tell him?
These two seed to indeed have contact in private…
“Walking the dog,” Huo Jingshen replied calmly, “and also to pick you up.”
Su Wanwan: “…”
Fine.
I was being presumptuous.
The man was dressed in loose, comfortable loungewear, indeed holding a dog leash, and the walked KO imdiately howled and sprinted towards Su Wanwan upon seeing her.
“Why walk the dog so late? Can you even see the road clearly?” Su Wanwan said, still bending down to rub KO’s head.
Loved by its mistress, KO beca even more excited, shaking its neck and lifting both of its front paws wanting to scramble up on Su Wanwan.
Then Huo Jingshen suddenly pulled with force, and KO was yanked back by the leash.
“Woof!” The dog protested!
Su Wanwan also said, “Can you be gentler?”
Huo Jingshen: “…”
I knew I shouldn’t have brought this flirtatious dog out.
He looked up at the person who followed him out of the car, “Director Yan.”
Su Wanwan didn’t expect Yan Shunhua to follow them out, and quickly said, “I ca back in the chairman’s car, she lives at number 68.”
It seed like Yan Shunhua was explaining, “The people from the Gu family were too enthusiastic at dinner, Wanwan helped block two drinks.”
“Okay.” Huo Jingshen didn’t say much, maybe because there was a stranger, he remained fairly calm.
After briefly exchanging pleasantries, Yan Shunhua got into the car and left.
Huo Jingshen went back ho with one person and one dog, but upon entering the villa’s gate, he paused, “Let check.”
“Check what?”
Su Wanwan hadn’t reacted yet when her chin was lifted.
Huo Jingshen just looked down at her face from his higher position, squinting his eyes carefully in the light of the nearby lamp.
Su Wanwan: “…”
“Were you slapped and didn’t tell anyone?” Huo Jingshen frowned slightly.
“It’s not a big deal, I don’t feel it anymore.” Su Wanwan didn’t expect his eyes to be that sharp; her hair was covering it, plus it was dark, yet he still noticed?
“Who hit you?” Huo Jingshen asked again.
Su Wanwan could only tell him everything, “At the hotel for dinner, I didn’t expect to run into my dad and that white lotus, he was drunk, and I didn’t see it coming when he hit .”
She quickly added, “But it’s not sore anymore, and it has nothing to do with the chairman, she even lectured those two for .”
“It doesn’t hurt anymore?” Huo Jingshen asked.
“Yeah.”
The next second.
“Ouch!” Su Wanwan almost cried out in pain, “Are you poisonous? I got slapped and you pinch my face?”
“Didn’t you say it doesn’t hurt?” Huo Jingshen sneered coldly, “Little liar.”
“You bastard…” Su Wanwan was furious, “It didn’t hurt until you pinched !
Any other husband would probably be heartbroken to see his wife like this, soothing her with all the love and care.”
Instead, he had to personally test whether she was lying…
Su Wanwan exclaid, “You’re a dog, right!”
The nearby KO imdiately barked excitedly twice.
As if to say: I’m a dog! I’m the real dog!
Huo Jingshen directly kicked out.
“Ow!” KO howled and took off running.
Ever since the mistress had taken a liking to it, the master always seed to secretly make life hard for it! He clearly disliked it!
He must be jealous of it!
In the huge yard, only KO’s howling as it ran away could be heard.
Su Wanwan asked, “What’s wrong with KO?”
Why is it howling so excitedly?
Huo Jingshen narrowed his eyes and said, “Maybe it’s in heat.”
“In heat?” Su Wanwan widened her eyes, “What should we do then? Should we have it neutered?”
Isn’t that what people do with pets?
“Hmm, that makes sense,” Huo Jingshen actually agreed, “to prevent it from recklessly hooking up with female dogs in the area.”
Su Wanwan nodded, “Although it will be very painful, the pain is only temporary.”
Back in its kennel, KO comfortably rolled around in its nest, unaware that it was about to beco a canine eunuch…
**
It was past eleven at night.
In the living room, the lights were still blazing.
Gu Shaoting walked in and saw Yan Shunhua reclining on the sofa with a glass of red wine in hand,
and the red wine bottle on the coffee table was already half empty.
He approached and asked, “Feeling upset?”
Yan Shunhua looked up at him and asked, “Shaoting, did I make a mistake?”
Gu Shaoting picked up the red wine and poured himself a glass.
“Originally, Old Master Su personally assured that he would definitely treat Wanwan well… but tonight, I saw Su Yuntang publicly hitting Wanwan. In these twenty years, Wanwan must have suffered a lot; she must have had a tough life…”
Gu Shaoting quietly waited for her to finish, then finally asked, “What do you plan to do?”
Yan Shunhua shook her head, picked up the red wine, and downed the contents in one gulp.
She had originally planned to slowly make contact with Su Wanwan, let the young girl accept and grow to like her, and she would find an opportunity to clarify the past. When the ti was right, she would reveal her true identity.
But now…
“I don’t want to see Wanwan suffer anymore. I want her to know she has a mom, that her mom isn’t dead, and that her mom has been trying hard to co back to M Country to find her!” Yan Shunhua got sowhat worked up, “Shaoting, help check Su Yuntang’s cellphone number.”
“Okay,” Gu Shaoting readily agreed, “By the way, about Ye Qitian that I ntioned, give it so thought.”
Yan Shunhua frowned, “The one from Huanyu dia?”
“Don’t dismiss it just yet,” Gu Shaoting explained, “Ye Qitian is Miss Su’s only friend in Los Angeles; the two are very close, so things even Huo Jingshen might not know.”
Yan Shunhua imdiately understood his implication, “Okay, I got it.”
**
The next day, Su Wanwan received a call from Ye Qitian.
“Little junior sister, Big Bro loves you!”
Su Wanwan was sitting in the classroom, brushing up on English Level 6 exam questions.
With half a month left until the CET-4/6, she had already asked Yan Shunhua for leave. The company was busy with casting for a new movie, and whether the intern assistant went or not didn’t really matter.
“What happened?”
“Still playing dumb with !” Ye Qitian said, “Just now, my agent told that Yan Shunhua’s new movie starts shooting next week, and I, Ye Qitian, got selected!”
Su Wanwan was stunned, “Really?”
“What do you an ‘really’? Isn’t it because you spoke highly of that I got the role? You’re Yan Shunhua’s assistant. Besides you, who else would help ? Who else has the capability to help ? It turns out I haven’t been treating you well for nothing!” Ye Qitian was proud, “Although it’s the third male lead, I’ve got quite a bit of screen ti. Isn’t this like stepping a foot into the Oscars?”
Su Wanwan: “…”
After hanging up, she imdiately opened the Weibo app on her phone.
Indeed, the company had officially announced the main cast of Yan Shunhua’s new movie today, and Ye Qitian’s na was prominently listed.
It even topped several hot searches.
The male lead was Gu Shihan, who had just won the Best Actor Award, the most popular actor among the mid-generation actors dostically with deep credentials in the industry. Additionally, being the second son of the Gu Family, he had both a positive image and good acting skills. His participation essentially ensured both ratings and positive reviews.
Director Yan Shunhua had won the Best Director Award internationally and was the only female disciple of Hollywood’s founding father, David Aidison. This movie marked her venture into the Chinese market and was highly anticipated.
The female lead was also a top-tier dostic actress with solid acting skills and a wealth of works, boasting a dedicated fanbase.
Overall, the production was too luxurious, clearly aiming for international awards.
All the main and supporting actors were influential figures in the industry. Only Ye Qitian was a good-looking idol actor, young and rising, and not classically trained, drawing much public debate. A gossip forum had thousands of comnts piled up in less than an hour.
[Can soone tell who is promoting Ye Qitian?]
[Exactly, how can a wooden actor with no acting skills share the screen with Uncle Gu?]
[Uncle Gu has it tough!]
[And why can he get in while Zhou Chaoyang can’t?]
Zhou Chaoyang was another idol artist who rose to fa this year. It was said that he also attended the audition that day but was eliminated.
Because he had a similar type to Ye Qitian and encountered this incident, these comnts were clearly fans defending their idol.
So even leaked insider information, claiming Ye Qitian was favorably treated during the audition because he was dating the director’s assistant. They showed affection openly on set, so the role was definitely secured by the assistant for him.
Su Wanwan never expected to get dragged into it; fortunately, she had left quickly that day and nobody had taken any photos or videos of her…
However, Ye Qitian’s fans were also very aggressive. They certainly wouldn’t believe their idol was dating, so an insider soon revealed Ye Qitian’s background.
His mother was the eldest daughter of the Ming Family from Nancheng, several aunts married into the Huo Family, Gu Family, and Zhou Family, his father was a long-ti ambassador stationed in M Country, and his grandfather was a forr diplomat renowned internationally.
So the rumors about the girlfriend instantly collapsed!
He absolutely didn’t need help from so minor assistant as a rumor girlfriend. With such status and background, he was truly from a noble lineage! A wealthy family’s scion!
“I’ve always said, what rumor girlfriend? It seems soone is just fabricating things! Slander!”
“Our brother is single, thank you! He got in the group by his rit, thank you!”
“So people just can’t stand to see others doing well!”
“Is it that hard to admit soone is better than you?”
“Let them be sour. After all, our brother is hitting the big screen soon, and their folks can only mix in variety shows.”
“Comparing people can really kill you!”
“If you can, also make your brother reincarnate well!”
Looking at these comnts, Su Wanwan found them quite reasonable.
With Ye Qitian’s background and being the main artist promoted by the Gu Family, it was understandable that Yan Shunhua let him play a minor male role to save face for the Gu Family.
It definitely had nothing to do with her.
After all, she was just a minor intern assistant. How could she have the power to influence the director regarding casting decisions?
Moreover, she had never ntioned this to Yan Shunhua, though Gu Shaoting had asked her once…
As she was pondering wildly, her phone rang again.
This ti, it was Yan Shunhua calling, “Wanwan, I just saw the news online. Are you okay? Do you need to explain to Director Huo?”
“No need. We all know each other. He still has to call my husband ‘big brother’.”
“That’s good,” Yan Shunhua explained. “I only learned about this through the news. Luckily, it was just a rumor, and nobody took any pictures or anything. Anyway, you still need to be careful working in this circle.”
“Okay, I got it.”
Her last bit of doubt completely dispelled.
…
Two days later, the new movie held a grand opening ceremony at Nancheng Film and Television City, followed by the start of intensive filming.
The film city was quite far from the downtown area, requiring several hours for a round trip. Yan Shunhua did not ask Su Wanwan to go.
Thus, during this period, Su Wanwan devoted herself fully to preparing for the CET-6 examination, studying daily in the school classrooms. She was really busy, and after the CET-6, she had to prepare for the final exams and her thesis…
So, she really had no ti to focus on anything else.
Ti flew by in such busyness.
Soon, June arrived in Nancheng, and Su Wanwan finally finished her CET-6 examination.
The first thing she did after leaving the examination hall was to call Mo Weiyi.
“I’ve finished my exam. Are you at ho? I’ll co over and accompany you.”
Mo Weiyi said, “I’m at the hospital for a prenatal check-up. Co here.”
“Okay.”
**
Nangong Hospital, Gynecology Departnt.
In the corridor, Mo Weiyi put down her phone, “Rong An, wait for at the door.”
“Okay.”
…
The fact that the child was still there was a secret known only to Wanwan and Rong An.
So every ti they ca for a prenatal check-up at the hospital, Mo Weiyi could only bring Rong An with her.
Since they were divorced, Xiao Yebai had no reason to have servants or bodyguards follow her.
Moreover, Mo Weiyi often had Rong An take her out to relax and shop, so sneaking in for one or two prenatal check-ups was not difficult and he never found out.
In fact, in these past half a month, she had almost gotten used to her life after divorce.
Although they still lived in the villa at Lishui Bay, Xiao Yebai was a workaholic. He would get up at seven in the morning, have breakfast, and go to the office.
He usually returned at around nine or ten in the evening, sotis even later, and after coming back, he would either have dinner and continue working in the study or go straight upstairs to sleep.
He almost never stayed at the villa over the weekend, and if he did, he would be in his study.
Moreover, after Mo Weiyi requested that als be served separately, even eating together was no longer common, and their chances of eting further decreased.
Even if they occasionally t in the corridors or the downstairs living room, Xiao Yebai remained aloof. If not necessary, he hardly ever spoke to her voluntarily.
In summary, though they lived under the sa roof, they were as good as strangers…
Reviews
All reviews (0)