Jiang Yansheng returned to the restaurant. As soon as he entered, he felt a burning gaze on him.
Before he reached the table, Amei stood up and volunteered to pull a stool for him.
Amei whispered, "Yansheng, where did you go just now?" Her gaze fell on Yu Zhouzhou, whose eyes were still red, behind Jiang Yansheng. Amei immediately fell silent and only gave him a questioning look.
The two looked at each other and nodded.
Jiang Yansheng smiled. "I met a friend and went out to chat for a while. She'll be eating with us later."
Amei breathed a sigh of relief. "Oh my god. When I came back just now, Mr. Xiao was the only one at the table. God knows how scared my heart was. He didn't say whether it was okay or not, so I didn't dare to move."
"Do you think he'll really sign me?"
Her voice was breathy, which made Jiang Yansheng's ears itch. He smiled and teased her. "Isn't it just for a while? Mr. Xiao is not such a scary person. Don't worry. "
When she sat down, she saw Xiao Chuyun elegantly cutting the steak. Before Jiang Yansheng could say anything, a steak that was already cut was placed in front of her.
"I just happened to cut one. Ladies first."
Xiao Chuyun had an elegant demeanor. He also saw Yu Zhouzhou's somewhat distressed appearance, but he tactfully didn't open his mouth to ask.
Jiang Yansheng smiled and declined. In the end, he accepted Xiao Chuyun's kindness.
After taking a symbolic bite, she stopped.
She did not know if it was a unique hobby of rich people, but she liked to eat steak.
However, she did not feel anything. It tasted like wax in her mouth.
"Mr. Xiao, how did you feel after listening to Amei's performance?" Jiang Yansheng did not beat around the bush and asked directly.
Xiao Chuyun smiled at Amei slowly. "Miss Jiang left too early just now, so I didn't hear it. She sang a few lines later, and I thought it was okay. She was brought by you anyway. Even if she did not perform in front of me, I could have signed her."
Xiao Chuyun's words actually meant that it was safe.
Jiang Yansheng still didn't dare to let go of his worries.
Xiao Chuyun was handsome, rich, and powerful. He also had a good temper and did not ask for anything in return.
How was that possible?
He brought her to see Jiang Yaru's jokes for free and solved a lot of problems. She did not believe that it would be as simple as following Xiao Chuyun to meet his parents.
Unless this parent was very special.
She glanced at Amei, who was sitting obediently with her knife and fork in her hand. She began to promote her. "Amei is very popular on X Platform. She even has an endorsement with our company. There should be a lot of talk about her in the coming days."
Xiao Chuyun raised his eyebrows in surprise. "Your company has already given me the endorsement. Why are you still willing to bring her to me? Aren't you going to accept it yourself? "
"Mr. Xiao, you must be joking. How can the resources of Cloud Entertainment be better? Besides, I'm not in charge of this in the company. I'm just afraid that something might go wrong. " She chuckled. This time, she had directly snatched the endorsement from Jiang Yaru. If she still kept Amei with the Jiang Clan, she would probably be skinned alive.
"Actually, Mr. Xiao, any level of endorsement is fine. Or, I can even pay for it because her endorsement is a little difficult."
Amei's lips moved. She wanted to speak, but Jiang Yansheng held her wrist and stood up to pour a glass of red wine for Xiao Chuyun.
"Amei might not be able to take it if she really works around the clock like an artist. She just wants to hold a concert. After that, she might not be able to stay with the company. I wonder if Mr. Xiao would be willing to sign it?"
The lights on the ceiling of the restaurant were cold, reflecting a rainbow-like pattern on the glass.
Xiao Chuyun swirled the glass twice. He narrowed his eyes and looked at Amei.
Suddenly, Amei felt a chill. She tried hard to pull the corners of her mouth to show a sincere smile to Xiao Chuyun.
She didn't know why, but when she and Xiao Chuyun sat alone at the table just now, there was a kind of cold aura. However, when Jiang Yansheng came back, he seemed to have changed his face and was much gentler.
Now that he was staring at her without moving, she felt that the aura that made her feel as if she was sitting on pins and needles had returned.
"Of course, why wouldn't I sign it? It's okay for the company to suffer a little loss. As long as Miss Jiang is happy. "Xiao Chuyun curled his thin lips. He drank the red wine and met Jiang Yansheng's eyes.
"We might not be able to get the S-level endorsement during the board meeting. How about we make some changes to the A-level contract?"
Jiang Yansheng smiled brightly. "Of course. Mr. Xiao, do whatever is convenient for you."
…
The company was just next door. Jiang Yansheng tactfully rejected Xiao Chuyun's offer to give him a ride. He got the car and sent the two women who were sitting in the backseat back to their respective places.
When Amei got out of the car, her cheeks were slightly red. She didn't know if it was because of the cold or because she was excited.
"Come to me tomorrow afternoon. I'll take you to his company." Jiang Yansheng rolled down the window and repeated what he had said in the car. "Also, sign the endorsement contract for our company."
"Okay." Amei tied the scarf around her neck twice and winked at him playfully.
Jiang Yansheng laughed.
"Your company? You look quite young. " Yu Zhouzhou, who had been sitting in the backseat watching the scenery without saying a word, suddenly opened her mouth. She was shocked when she opened her mouth. Her voice was so hoarse that it sounded like a broken bellow.
"Drink some water." Jiang Yansheng unscrewed a bottle of mineral water and handed it to her. "Not the company. A friend."
"She's not young. She's probably a few months younger than us."
She looked at Amei's slowly disappearing figure through the car window. She exhaled softly and a small cloud of white mist appeared on the car window. "Maybe Amei likes to sing in bars. She's been doing what she likes, so she's living a happy life. That's why she looks young."
Yu Zhouzhou held the window frame with one hand and smiled gently.
"That's good."
Reversing the car out of the bar, Jiang Yansheng was about to drive to the road where Yu Zhouzhou used to live.
He suddenly remembered that the house had been sold.
"Where do you live now?"
Colorful car lights shone on the street at night. The dim light slid away from his face. Yu Zhouzhou gave him an address.
It was quite remote.
After driving to the place, Jiang Yansheng frowned.
It couldn't even be considered a residential area.
The lights in the security room downstairs were broken, and there was no one sitting inside to watch. On the side of the street, there were two drunk men supporting each other while playing a finger-guessing game. When they saw Jiang Yansheng's car, they even whistled like hoodlums.
"You and Fu Minglang live here now?" Jiang Yansheng stopped Yu Zhouzhou who was getting out of the car. His tone became serious. "Zhouzhou, did you buy or rent the house here? It's so remote that you have to wait for more than half an hour to go to work at the restaurant. "
Yu Zhouzhou was stunned for a moment. Then, a gentle smile bloomed on his face. "The house is rented. Don't worry, Yansheng. This is just an emergency. I've told Minglang that he shouldn't think about money anymore. He just needs to work hard every day."
She looked away a little and opened the car door.
"I told him that after Chinese New Year, I'll go home to see him and save money to buy a better set of clothes for him. Maybe my parents will be soft-hearted then."
Yu Zhouzhou's lips curled into a smile. A gust of cold wind came in through the gap of the car door and blew her voice a little lower. "After all, it's been five years. They won't be so cruel."
Jiang Yansheng nodded softly. She was about to get out of the car to send Yu Zhouzhou back. "I saw that the people living around your house are gangsters. There are no lights inside. It's not safe. I'll send you back."
"It's okay." Yu Zhouzhou quickly got out of the car and gently patted Jiang Yansheng's window. "You don't need to send me. Minglang is still waiting for me at home. I just sent him a message when I came back. He said that he'll pick me up later."
Jiang Yansheng was slightly relieved to see her like this.
She watched Yu Zhouzhou's thin figure disappear under the last street lamp. She waited for a while before driving away.
…
Yu Zhouzhou turned her head, and the gentleness in her eyes almost disappeared. She walked in the dark for a long time.
At the corner where she couldn't see the road clearly, there was a resident on the first floor who was holding a basin of water from the public toilet. He knocked into her, and half the basin of water spilled out, splashing into a dark, damp, moss-covered corner. The resident raised his eyebrows and began to curse with his hands on his waist.
Yu Zhouzhou lowered her head slightly and pursed her lips. She acted as if she didn't hear or see anything and continued to walk on her own path. The resident came up to her and wanted to pull her sleeve, but she flung it away.
She had gone some way off, and she could still hear people shouting after her, "The Door of Misfortune!"
She lowered her head and took out a key. She tried the door one by one. The moonlight coming through the broken small window reflected on her face.
She slammed the iron door shut.
Yu Zhouzhou covered her heart and slowly sat down against the door.
The lights in the house weren't turned on. It was very dark and deserted.
No one was waiting for her at home.
She hugged her legs and stared at a spot on the ground with red eyes.
…
Jiang Yansheng returned to the apartment tiredly and realized what he had forgotten.
"Why did you come back so late?" Gu Yan's face was frosty. She was hugging the little chicken pillow on the sofa in an untimely manner. She tilted her head, but her expression was very cold. "He disappeared halfway through the message. Do you know how anxious I was?"
"I was busy with something and forgot to reply."
Jiang Yansheng laughed dryly and subconsciously sniffed to see if he had accidentally gotten the scent of Xiao Chuyun's perfume on his body.
After a while, she stopped this slightly awkward action.
She wasn't really going out to have sex. She was going to talk business with Xiao Chuyun.
What was there to be nervous about?
Gu Yan snorted and used her words as an excuse. He said in a low voice, "I called you so many times. Why didn't you answer any of them?"
As he spoke, he took out his phone and made a call. Within a second, the call was picked up.
Gu Yan listened for a while with a cold face and then said word by word, "You don't need to look for him. He's back."
While he was not paying attention to her, Jiang Yansheng quickly took out his phone and looked at it.
The screen lit up, and a row of missed calls and messages slid down.
The first signature was the same person.
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