In the temporary dressing room, all the staff had left, and only Jiang Linyu and Zeng Yixiu were in the room.

"It was our first time meeting, and I didn't expect it to be this way."

Zeng Yixiu forced a bitter smile on her exotic face.

Before this, Jiang Linyu had only seen her online and had no contact with her, so he didn't know why she suddenly wanted to chat with him privately.

"What does Miss Zeng want to tell me?"

Zeng Yixue gestured for her to sit down, and then said, "Do you know what I told Li Nuo just now about why I had to be chosen?"

Jiang Linyu shook his head.

"I said, if I can play the leading role in this drama, I am willing to give up all my activities and resources during this period."

She looked at Jiang Linyu with her deep eyes, her tone filled with relief.

"I also said that if I didn't get this role, I would quit the entertainment industry."

Quitting the entertainment industry? This was indeed something Jiang Linyu had not expected.

"If it's because of this role, Miss Zeng doesn't have to do that. You have your advantages."

Zeng Yixiu chuckled.

"Are you talking about beauty? Figure? Or scandal hype? No, I still lose to you."

Jiang Linyu didn't say anything. He probably understood that Zeng Yixue didn't come to talk to him, but regarded him as a listener.

As for why it was herself, she didn't understand.

After a moment of silence, Zeng Yixiu looked at her with envy in her eyes.

"Actually, I saw you just now when you were in the dressing room, along with you and your friends."

Jiang Linyu also looked at her, his eyes suspicious and puzzled as to what she wanted to express.

"Before my debut, I also had a very good friend. But for tens of thousands of dollars, she sold my privacy to the paparazzi. I don't know why this happened. So when I see that you have such a good relationship, I envy you."

Zeng Yixiu recalled this with disappointment in her eyes.

"But after entering the entertainment industry, I found that there are many people who are worse than my friends, so I have to be extremely careful and dare not confide in others, so I don't have any friends. I can only tell you here that my life is really tiring."

Looking at this actress who looked so glamorous in front of the camera but so empty inside, Jiang Linyu didn't know what to say for a moment.

Zeng Yixue tried her best to control her emotions and continued, "You should know that there is a person named Feng Yuxi in our company, the one who always hypes me and him up as a couple in the company."

Jiang Linyu nodded.

"In fact, there is another person I envy very much, and that is Feng Yuxi. He can do whatever he wants, and he can be unhappy if he is unhappy, without having to consider other people's faces. But I dare not do anything. I am afraid of doing something wrong, I am afraid of saying something wrong, I am afraid that others will not like me..."

Listening to what she said, if it were Jiang Linyu in the previous life, he would probably sympathize with her.

But Jiang Linyu felt nothing in her heart after living a new life. In her opinion, the world is just like this. But how you live is your own choice.

So after Zeng Yixue said a lot and finally stopped, Jiang Linyu looked at her expressionlessly.

"If Miss Zeng has finished speaking, I will leave first."

Zeng Yixiu obviously didn't expect that after he had spoken so much to her from the bottom of his heart, she would react so coldly.

"So what do you think, should I quit the entertainment industry?"

"Sorry, we are not familiar with each other and I am not obligated to answer your questions." Jiang Linyu's face still had no expression.

Zeng Yixue nodded and smiled bitterly: "It is true that this is the first time we have met. I don't know why I have an inexplicable liking for you. It may be a little abrupt for you."

Jiang Linyu, who had already stood up and was about to leave, stopped when he heard this and looked at her.

"You don't have a crush on me, but you think I'm weaker than you and can be used as a tool for you to make cowardly choices. If I had advised you not to quit the industry just now, then you would have the reason and confidence to continue being an artist. And if I advised you to quit the industry, then if you regret it one day, you can blame me instead of yourself."

As soon as these words came out, Zeng Yixue's whole body became dazed, and she couldn't recover for a long time even after Jiang Linyu left.

After the female lead of "Kou Ji" was finally decided, Junhe Media's progress report meeting on the drama also ended.

Lu Zheng returned to the office, took a sip of water, and looked at the express delivery on the table.

He recalled what the staff member on the phone said: "All your wife's indicators are normal."

So Lu Zheng reached out and took it, unpacking the courier package, and inside was indeed the marriage medical examination report of the two.

The report has a total of six pages, the first three pages are his and the last three pages are Jiang Linyu's.

He briefly scanned his own and then turned to Jiang Linyu's key points.

After checking her first page and finding nothing abnormal, Lu Zheng turned to the second page.

His eyes moved downwards little by little.

When he saw a certain place, Lu Zheng suddenly paused and his pupils dilated slightly.

He read it word for word, twice, and then three times.

I read it three times without any mistake or dazzle. There are indeed three words on it: Second trimester

Second trimester? Second trimester?? Second trimester??!

The paper trembled slightly, then violently.

Lu Zheng held the hand holding the paper tightly with his other hand until the shaking of the paper slowly slowed down. Then he picked up the hand that was holding the paper and turned to the third page with trembling hands.

After opening it, a color ultrasound image of the fetus appeared on the report, and the ultrasound prompt had a few clear words written on it: Ultrasound gestational age: 21 weeks.

The paper shook violently again and was crumpled and squeezed tightly.

Xiaoyu is already more than five months pregnant? ! Five months ago, that was the time when they had sex that night!!

Lu Zheng's body was shaking uncontrollably, and he could only support himself on the table with both hands to barely maintain his balance.

Xiaoyu is pregnant! Xiaoyu is pregnant! Xiaoyu is pregnant!

A few tears dripped onto the dark brown desk, and Lu Zheng's body trembled even more violently with his head lowered.

After an unknown amount of time, his hands that were supporting the table moved. He raised his head with bloodshot eyes and dialed the landline next to him.

"Now, ask Zhao Zhi, Manager Li from Shenzhen Insurance, the three vice presidents of the company, and Lawyer Feng to come to my office immediately..."

About two or three minutes later, Manager Zhao, the head of the Artist Department, who was notified by Assistant Gao, knocked on the door of the president's office and went in.

"Mr. Lu, you are looking for me"

At this moment, Lu Zheng was not sitting like he usually did. Instead, he was leaning his hands on the table, his shirt sleeves casually rolled up to his elbows, and his eyes were a little red.

"Prepare to sign Jiang Linyu's contract. Have you re-drafted it?"

"It's already been drafted, and we're going to contact her tomorrow. According to what you said before, Mr. Lu, the new contract will give her a bigger share than Xinghui, and she will also get more resources than Xinghui, and..."

Lu Zheng interrupted her directly.

"Now you draft a new one. She will fill in all the contract terms, profit sharing, resources promised to her, and contract period. All you have to do now is stamp it and give it to her. Then don't assign her any work within this year, but keep promoting it."

Manager Zhao was completely stunned. She decided all the terms? And then she signed the contract just to keep him employed without him doing any work? ? Not to mention that this was not a good deal, there was no precedent in the industry.

"This doesn't comply with regulations. In fact, the optimized contract is better than those of our first-tier artists."

"What I said is the rule. After she signs in, she will follow a separate set of rules."

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