Chapter 25 - Conspiracy
Song Xiao subconsciously avoid her. He didn’t b.u.mp into Zhuo Jingjing at all, yet that woman suddenly fell towards him.
‘Pata!’ Dugu An promptly appeared, catching Zhuo Jingjing’s hand, in pa.s.sing, he twisted her arm behind her back.
“Ah, save me!” Zhuo Jingjing immediately screamed.
Yu Tang pulled Song Xiao over, blocking him with his body.
“Aiyo! Hurry up and let go of our Jingjing!” Zhuo Jingjing’s agent was effeminate, upon seeing this he immediately hurried over with swaying hips. Once he saw that it was Song Xiao, the finger that was raised in preparation to scold him was immediately put away.
When everyone had rushed over, Dugu An had already let go of Zhuo Jingjing, in a flash he stood by Yu Tang’s side silently.
Zhuo Jingjing staggered for a moment, and was firmly caught by the a.s.sistant at the side.
“You little children, what are you doing? Our Jingjing jie is very pampered now ne…” The young a.s.sistant wanted to speak but was pinched by the agent, then immediately shut his mouth.
At this time, they still hadn’t begun shooting, so with such loud activity, basically the entire cast and crew had surrounded them.
Zhuo Jingjing didn’t say a single word, only reddened the rim of her eyes while incessantly rubbing her wrist.
Because of the recent news, everyone knew that Song Xiao wasn’t that amicable to his father’s lovers. Qiu Mingyan was a mistress, so Song Xiao treating her like that had no reason for criticism, but Zhuo Jingjing wasn’t the same.
“What’s up, what’s up?” Li Weiwei who was late was even later than the one visiting the movie set, when he entered the crew he immediately heard that Song Xiao had a dispute with Zhuo Jingjing.
“Nothing, nothing, little children aren’t sensible.” Zhuo Jingjing seemed as if she slowly gathered her strength, taking the initiative to utter a mediation.
But everyone originally had no plans to blame Song Xiao, after all, he was the boss’s son. One by one, they pretended that nothing happened, enthusiastically inviting Song Xiao to visit the makeup room and the props team.
“That woman has a problem,” Yu Tang lowly said to Song Xiao.
“En,” Song Xiao nodded, and didn’t plan on being in a tangle anymore. This sort of frivolous woman who touched people’s faces upon meeting, it was clear within a glance that she wasn’t a good person.
Li Weiwei caught his agent to interrogate, before, didn’t he say that the female lead was his favorite female G.o.ddess, ‘Luo Fei’? If he knew Zhuo Jingjing was here, he would never have called Song Xiao to come ne!
“Luo Fei wanted to film a movie, the filming schedule couldn’t match, they changed it last minute.” The agent’s face was filled with embarra.s.sment. Speaking this way, but anyone with eyes could see that because of Xinghai Entertainment’s recent scandal, Luo Wei didn’t want to attract any extra trouble.
Zhuo Jingjing, who was hiding in the makeup room to fix her makeup, had eyes filled with cruelty. Even though she heard the rumours a while ago, seeing firsthand that that fool had recovered and become normal still had her feel stuffy.
In some aspects, Song Zicheng was a feudalistic old fart. Originally, she had thought, Song Zicheng’s son was a fool, and for so many years he hadn’t married Qiu Mingyan was because she had given birth to a daughter. If she herself gave birth to a healthy son, she didn’t need to worry about not marrying in. But she really never expected, Song Xiao would become normal after his serious illness.
For a son to recover his normalcy, who he married at this time didn’t matter, in any case, he already had an heir. And as for Qiu Mingyan who had a daughter to bind him there, at this time she seemed to have an advantage over Zhuo Jingjing. So, that was why there was that explosive allegations, it was to pressure Song Zicheng to abandon Qiu Mingyan.
“My father didn’t punish her, moreover she looks to be secure in the knowledge that she had backing, she definitely has a trump card,” Song Xiao ate a prawn while leisurely speaking.
To apologize to Song Xiao, Li Weiwei treated him to hotpot in the afternoon.
“Public morals are degenerating each day,” Yu Tang snorted. The biggest benefit of modern society was that men weren’t allowed to take a concubine. This saved him no small amount of inconvenience, but who knew that it was useless for Song Xiao’s side.
“Hey, those brothers of yours ne?” To mention illegitimate sons, Song Xiao thought of the emperor’s previous incarnation’s brothers. Even though he was the di son, above him was still six sons of imperial concubines, below him, besides Yu Jinlin, there was quite a few brothers. That was why the fight over the emperor’s throne that year was especially brutal.
Yu Tang proudly smirked, and whispered quietly by his ear, “Were defeated before zhen was born.”
His shu brothers were entirely unborn, leading to the emperor becoming a winner in life the moment he was born.
Li Weiwei, sitting opposite of them, lifted the piece of mutton on his chopsticks. After staring at the two of them for half a day, he felt that his position as Song Xiao’s only good friend had already collapsed. They were eating for half an hour, yet Song Xiao had only spoken a sentence to him, and the rest of the time he was whispering to that pretty boy.
“That, my mother wants me to transfer to your school, Song Xiao, what cla.s.s are you in? I’ll go look for you,” Li Weiwei coughed, attempting to stick into their conversation. He was regarded as a celebrity, so there was always trouble when he was in the city schools. Sheng Meng was designed to be closed off, so it would be relatively a lot better.
“Special Cla.s.s Three,” Yu Tang replied without even blinking.
Song Xiao glared at him, but he couldn’t undermine the emperor’s words, so he could only lower his head to eat.
Li Weiwei took it to be true, and excitedly wrote down ‘Special Cla.s.s Three’.
In the afternoon, Yu Tang invited Song Xiao to his home, but failed once again, and had no choice but to send him to his house’s entrance.
“You clearly knew that it was that little s.l.u.t that had exposed the news, why do you still shield her?” The moment he entered the house, he heard Qiu Mingyan’s weeping cries.
Song Xiao rubbed his temples for his aching head. His home wasn’t peaceful, thank goodness he hadn’t allowed Yu Tang to follow him up, or else it would’ve been humiliating.
Song Zicheng sat on the sofa, smoking. His expression was somewhat cold, and when he saw that his son had returned, he felt a little humiliated, thus spoke up in beration, “Are you done? The company has now suffered damages because of your reputation and had already lost no small amount of money. For me to not want you to compensate is already extreme benevolence and duty!”
Qiu Mingyan immediately choked until her eyes rolled. At the side, Song Zheng was shrinking into the corner of the sofa and crying. Seeing Song Xiao enter, she couldn’t help exposing resentful eyes.
“Xiaoxiao, go upstairs first.” Song Zicheng waved his hand to make Song Xiao leave.
“Wait!” Qiu Mingyan yelled to block Song Xiao, “Xiaoxiao is also part of the family, his father wants to give him a new little brother, shouldn’t he discuss it with Song Xiao?”
The previous matter of the exposal, with Song Zicheng’s connections, it didn’t take long for him to discover that Zhuo Jingjing had something to do with this. He had called her to the office at once, sending a slap across her face.
“Wuwu, I also had no choice, I’m pregnant.” Zhuo Jingjing covered her face, taking out a certification that proved her seven weeks pregnancy from her handbag, “My child doesn’t have any disreputable parts, so you have to marry me.”
Song Zicheng this person, was easily soft-hearted towards the matter of children. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have been fired by the national broadcasting station because of Qiu Mingyan that year. This was his weak point. He could fall however many tumbles, but it was taboo for other people to mention.
Hearing Qiu Mingyan’s words, Song Zicheng immediately flew into a rage out of humiliation. “You shut your mouth!”
Song Xiao narrowed his eyes slightly, and turned to go upstairs without a word.
Pregnant? Thinking of that woman’s action of falling onto his body today, Song Xiao sneered. This sort of contemptible method, his father’s concubine from the rear court had also done it before. Because she couldn’t keep the child, she then shifted the blame onto him. At that time, because of this, he had to suffer his father’s cane, and had even been punished to kneel in the ancestral hall. Fortunately, he had been stopped by his paternal grandfather.
“Merely a concubine, even if she died she isn’t as important as my grandson.”
At that time, he was only eight.
While thinking, the phone by his side suddenly rang. It was an unfamiliar number. Song Xiao answered it, then heard a male voice from the other side.
“You’re pudding gongzi ba, this is Dari Media, really sorry to disturb you on the weekend,” the man seemed to be smiling, “It’s like this, our company took a fancy to your marketing potential, would you be interested in signing a contract with us? We can guarantee that we would promote you until you’ve become very popular, in the future you will also have excellent prospects within the entertainment circle.”
“You should know, my family also works in this industry.” Song Xiao sat down in front of the computer, and very quickly looked up ‘Dari Media’ on the computer. The web page had a lot of news, the most eye-grabbing one was Dari Media received a large amount of funds and poached so-and-so’s film emperor into their company.
“Of course I know this, now I’m just greeting you. My surname is Yu, this is my phone number, contact me again as soon as you’ve thought about it ba.” That person was apparently not the slightest bit worried. “Trust me, you’ll need it.”
At the Yu family garden’s lawn, a servant replenished the tea for the person who was speaking. A man wearing a suit was currently delightedly speaking to the woman beside him.
“Once Xinghai Entertainment goes bankrupt, he will definitely contact me. The unrestrained n.o.ble gongzi, this really is a pretty good joke,” the man wearing a suit smiled with a face full of smugness.
“You’re so fierce,” the woman by his side covered her mouth and lightly laughed.
“Woof woof woof!” A black and white husky crouched on the lawn, suddenly pounced over, opening his mouth to bite into that man’s b.u.t.t.
When Yu Tang returned, this was what he saw. He immediately shouted to stop the dog, “Zhang Xiaoren, you’re not allowed to be rude!”
The frenetic couple saw Yu Tang and immediately tidied up their clothes, smiling as they greeted, “Eldest young master, you’ve returned.”
The husky walked over to Yu Tang’s side, turning his head to use fierce eyes to glare at the pair. A dog’s eyes with big whites and small pupils, didn’t look fierce at all, contrarily, it seemed thoroughly silly.
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Little theater
First prince: I’m good at war campaigns
Second Prince: I’m full of craft and cunning
Third Prince: I’m the best at gaining favor
Fourth Prince: I’m the best at making false charges
Fish Tang: Modern society’s wedding night
All the princes: So?
Fish Tang: So you all died in father emperor’s right hand (lights candle)
Cao Gonggong: (BGM) Don’t be scared~ Don’t be scared~ Don’t be scared~
Princes: QAQ
Baobao Notes
I think I died at this little theater. In case you don’t understand, Yu Tang was implying that modern society only allows one marriage, and so all his older brothers that were born from concubines died when his dad was single and only had himself as a partner, if y’know what I mean lol
Edit: For those of you who read this and noticed that Dairi Media became Dari, that’s because I found out I made a mistake in the names and came back to edit.