When Ran Xueyi went downstairs after taking a quick shower, she saw her tall and well-built husband standing before the stove with a frying pan and a spatula in his right hand. Hearing her approach behind him, his lips curved up and told her without looking back to sit down.
Ran Xueyi did as he was told and sat down in a chair and watched him cook their food. Five minutes later, Song Yu Han walked towards her with two plates in his hands and put it down on the table.
"We don't have much food in the fridge so I only cooked the ingredients that are still fresh."
Ran Xueyi stared at the steaming food in front of her and felt her mouth salivating. Forcing the urge to gulp down the whole thing inside her mouth, she asked, "What is this?"
"It's stir fried beef with broccoli and garlic buttered shrimp..."
Ran Xueyi's first impression of the two dishes in front of her was that it was definitely as appetizing as the person who cooked it. Moreover, the taste should be as good as the previous dishes he cooked for her before.
After the two of them ate their fill, neither of the two mentioned the topic of the box of surprise and tacitly understood that they did not have enough time nor had the energy to spend on a vigorous nightly activity. Instead, the moment sleepiness struck them, they both tucked into bed and embraced each other till dawn.
The next morning, Ran Xueyi felt Song Yu Han kiss her on the cheeks and tell her that he would be going early to the company. She was still muddled with sleep and wouldn't open her eyes and so, when she finally woke up, it was already half past nine o'clock and the sun was already blazing above the sky.
Ran Xueyi stared at herself in the reflection of the mirror and raised an eyebrow. Specifically, she was staring at the spot on her neck with a very striking red mark on her neck, looking as though a bug had bitten her.
–Ha, a big mosquito must have bitten me last night.
After saying this, she grabbed her phone, took a picture of the red mark, and sent it in a message to Song Yu Han.
[A big mosquito bit me... Can you buy a mosquito killer later?]
The accompanying picture of this message was an evil emoji: a smiling face with two horns.
The reply came quicker than expected.
[YH: Unnecessary. The bite mark looks good on you.]
While Ran Xueyi was still having a good morning after seeing Song Yu Han's replies, she received another message.
This time, it came from an unexpected sender. It was Ran Yue.
Ran Xueyi stared at Ran Yue's name for a few seconds without pressing on the message to read it. After what happened last time, what does Ran Yue want this time? Ran Xueyi wondered.
Though she was curious to know why her younger sister sent her a message, Ran Xueyi didn't bother opening the message and kept it unread until late afternoon.
After getting ready that day, Ran Xueyi drove her car to Chestnut and met up with Wu Qi in her office to discuss the matters that she missed during her stay in Silver City. As the president of her newly established entertainment company, she should have a lot of things to do, but thanks to Wu Qi, the burden has been mostly taken care off by him during her absence.
Wu Qi welcomed her back to her office warmly with an ice cold coffee and a smile on his lips. "Welcome back, President Ran."
Ran Xueyi was amused by him and accepted the cup from his hand. "No need for that, Uncle Wu. But I should thank you for your hard work during these few weeks."
Wu Qi didn't reject this and nodded his head.
"By the way, how are things working on Sister Zhenzhen and Yao Chuan's contracts? What about Zhang Yiqing's?" Ran Xueyi had too little time to spare before she returned to Silver City so she went straight to the point.
Wu Qi understood that since Ran Xueyi had started to recover her career, she really didn't have time so he also quickly reported to her what had happened in the office during her absence.
"Deng Zhenzhen's previous agency is reluctant to relieve her from her contract. They think that her fame and influence has more use than letting her jump ship and so they decided to increase the money of buying her over to our company."
"Oh? How much did they ask us?"
Usually, an artist must wait till the years in their contract were finished before they could go to another place to be signed with. There were also some cases where an artist would terminate their contract and pay the previous company for the remaining years that an artist had not met. But due to the fact that many artists who had done this move have been blacklisted by their previous company and as a result, some directors were reluctant to hire these artists.
However, there was another method for an artist to safely get out of the muddy water without being blacklisted or waiting on the waiting list for a few years. That was to allow their company and another company to negotiate with themselves and buy the artist out.
This method was similar to sports figures and e-sports players.
Wu Qi remembered when he brought over his assistant to meet with Deng Zhenzhen's agency president and was slightly annoyed.
But still, he had to say what had been said during that meeting and said, "22 million yuan."
Surprisingly, it was a big amount of money.
For a veteran actress who was slowly losing her peak, this amount was really not suitable.
"I think it is better for us to forget about this and look for another artist to sign with. Deng Zhenzhen might have been suggested by my friend, but from what I can see, it is really not worth for us to try." When Wu Qi first heard of the amount the Deng Zhenzhen's president was asking from them, he was shocked with disbelief. This amount was more suitable for a younger and more popular artist than a sinking veteran actress.
Ran Xueyi was silent for a few seconds and casually asked, "What did Sister Zhenzhen say when she heard about this?"
Wu Qi paused before he replied, "I haven't talked with her about this."
Ran Xueyi glanced at her computer and instructed, "Call her and tell exactly what her company president told you, don't miss anything, and tell her what she wants to do after."
"I will call her as soon as I leave this office... But why do you want to tell this to her?"
"Sister Deng Zhenzhen is desperate to jump ship, or else, why would your friend know about her wanting to leave her company when the company itself never mentioned this to anyone else?" Ran Xueyi tapped the flat side of the cup and continued to say, "Wait until you hear her answer before making a decision."
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