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He said he wanted to run into her again in their next life, and Wen Di was a little touched. Regardless of whether there was a next life, everyone loved to hear sweet nothings.
She finished the page she was on and turned it.
“You’re good with your words now; you know how to give in to me.”
Yan Heyu fastened his belt and looked at her.
The room was silent, a strange kind of quiet.
Wen Di also looked up, meeting his gaze. “What kind of look is that?”
Yan Heyu said, “I’m a little confused.”
Then he added, “Maybe I misunderstood.”
Wen Di became even more confused. “Misunderstood what?”
Yan Heyu: “The first half of what you just said.”
Wen Di had just said, “You’re good with your words now.”
“...”
She meant that he had learned to be more tactful and was willing to make her happy, unlike a few years ago when he would always argue with her.
He, on the other hand, was full of dirty thoughts and deliberately misinterpreted her, thinking she was complimenting his oral skills in that regard.
“Did you not hear the second half, ‘you know how to give in to me’?”
Yan Heyu honestly said, “I didn’t pay attention.”
He took half a step closer to the bed and bent down. “Help me unbuckle it.”
Wen Di lowered her eyes, her gaze on the book. “You have hands. Do it yourself.”
Yan Heyu took the book from her hand, quickly glanced at the page number, memorized it, and put the book on the bedside table. He then took her hand and placed it on his belt buckle.
Wen Di smiled slightly, pretending to help him unbuckle the belt, but her feet weren’t idle. However, before she could kick him, Yan Heyu grabbed her foot.
He knew exactly what kind of mischief she was about to get up to.
“Don’t move your feet.” Yan Heyu trapped her in his arms, kissed her, and unbuckled the belt with one hand.
Wen Di wrapped her arms around his neck. “Don’t forget what you said this morning.”
That they would go to bed early tonight.
Yan Heyu said, “I didn’t forget.”
She had just stirred up his desires, but he was mindful of her body and would have to take care of himself.
“Then help me loosen my tie.”
Wen Di pulled off his tie and opened his collar to check. The hickeys hadn’t completely faded, and their color was lighter than in the morning.
She gripped his jaw and moved her finger down an inch. “From now on, I’m going to leave marks here.”
That place was on the collar and couldn’t be covered by a tie.
Yan Heyu said, “I’m all yours. You can decide where you want to leave marks.”
“I’m going to take a shower. You should get some sleep first.”
Yan Heyu tucked her into the bed and turned off the lights.
The next morning, Wen Di woke up naturally and found herself in Yan Heyu’s arms. He wasn’t up yet, so it must be before six.
But then she felt something was off.
She had woken up before six yesterday morning because her throat was so sore, so it didn’t make sense for her to wake up that early today.
The person in her arms was tossing and turning, and Yan Heyu woke up.
Wen Di reached out to grab her phone to check the time. He took it and handed it to her, asking, “Do you have to go out this morning?”
“No, not today.” Wen Di checked the time. It was seven fifty-six.
She looked back at him. “It’s almost eight. Why are you still home?”
Yan Heyu threw off the covers and got up. “I just have to be at the company before ten. It won’t delay anything.” He had been out so late last night that Assistant Kang had pushed back his morning work.
Wen Di also got up. She usually ate breakfast at eight-twenty and started working at nine.
It was rare for them to have breakfast together on a weekday.
Yan Heyu sat next to her and brought up her dinner with Heyan. He had heard Heyan mention it yesterday.
“When do you want to go to my place?”
“I don’t.”
“We can go when we have a break. I’ll take Wen Wen to play first.”
Today, it was his turn to get her a piece of bread, which he handed to her with his left hand.
The first thing Wen Di saw was the ring on his ring finger. Now, anything he could do with his left hand, he would never bother his right hand with, to give the ring maximum exposure.
“When you were drinking at the dinner party, did you hold your glass with your left hand, too?”
“Yeah.” Yan Heyu took off the ring. “I’ll wear it after I eat. I’ll have to wash my hands in a bit. Heyan told me to try not to get the ring wet.”
As he spoke, he put the ring next to his plate and pushed it toward her, trying to get her to take a closer look at the material of the deformed ring.
After wearing the misshapen ring all day, he would take it off at night to find a deep indentation on his finger.
Wen Di ignored it and focused on eating the bread in her hand.
She saw right through his intentions. He wanted her to buy him a ring.
A belt, a watch, and now he was fixated on a ring.
“Did Shen Tang buy a lot of clothes for Jiang Chengyu yesterday?” Yan Heyu asked nonchalantly.
“How do you even know that?” “Qin Xing messaged Jiang Chengyu in the group chat last night to go out, but he said he was busy trying on clothes at home.”
“...”
Wen Di almost choked on her bread and took a few sips from her juice cup.
Yan Heyu continued to talk about the clothes. “Someone would think Shen Tang bought him a hundred or so pieces that would take all night to try on.”
Wen Di counted how many clothes and pants Shen Tang had bought for Jiang Chengyu. “Twelve pieces. It would indeed take some time to try each one on.”
“Only twelve pieces. I thought it was more.”
“...You’re just jealous.”
Yan Heyu smiled and cut a piece of sausage. He tried it and thought it was good, so he fed the rest to Wen Di.
The ring had been in front of her for more than ten minutes, and she hadn’t even looked at it. He picked it up and put it back on.
“I don’t have any dinner parties tonight.” He reported to Wen Di before leaving.
Unfortunately, Wen Di had plans for the night.
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Tonight, Zhou Mingqian was hosting a dinner for the main creative team of Behind Desire. His new movie was about to start filming, and he hadn’t had time to get together with them after the premiere of Behind Desire. So, he was hosting the dinner party early while he had the chance.
Wen Di noticed that Yin Ziyu was unusually quiet. Aside from saying a few words during toasts, she spent most of her time eating with her head down.
She whispered to Yin Ziyu, “Is it about work, or...?”
Yin Ziyu quickly shook her head. “Sister Li has everything perfectly arranged for me.” Even her mother had marveled, saying she was lucky to have such a thoughtful agent.
Wen Di said, “You don’t seem to be in a good mood.”
She wasn’t in a good or bad mood; she just felt like Tan Moxing was looking at her whenever she looked up since she walked into the room. It might have been her imagination, so she simply kept her head down and ate.
“Wen Di.” Qin Xing called out to her.
Wen Di and Yin Ziyu’s chat was interrupted. She turned her head to look at Qin Xing, who raised his glass to toast her.
She had driven there, so she toasted him with juice instead of alcohol.
They didn’t need to be formal with each other. Qin Xing finished his glass of wine in one gulp. “The show is about to premiere, but Brother Yan and Xiao Donghan’s price war isn’t over yet. What are they plotting?”
Wen Di wasn’t just being perfunctory with Qin Xing; she knew as little as he did. “I don’t know. It’s a trade secret. If you’re really curious, ask Yan Heyu.”
Qin Xing knew better. “There’s no point in asking. Brother Yan won’t tell me.”
Wen Di told him to wait for the show to air and to watch it every day, and he would find the answer in the plot.
Tan Moxing joined their conversation, saying, “I’m most interested in the plot about the big order. The way it was handled was something I never expected.”
He raised his glass and drank with Wen Di from a distance.
Qin Xing didn’t remember any plot about an order, feeling like he had read the script for nothing. He asked, “What order?”
Tan Moxing’s tone was the same as Wen Di’s. “You’ll know when you watch the show, Mr. Qin.”
Qin Xing laughed. “Don’t bully me like that.”
When they brought up the plot about the order, everyone got into the discussion except for Qin Xing, who was completely lost. He turned to Wen Di for help. “Tell me about it.”
Wen Di wanted to tell him, but the problem was, “It’s not something you can explain in one or two sentences.”
“...” Qin Xing gave up hope.
Even though Behind Desire had wrapped up more than half a year ago, Gu Heng still remembered a lot of the plot. He still had a fresh memory of the scene with the order. “The order was a trap I set.”
Qin Xing became interested again. “What happened? Did Teacher Tan fall for the trap?”
Gu Heng smiled. “You’ll find out when you watch the show.”
The whole table burst into laughter.
Qin Xing was the life of the party and had no temper or airs, so they loved to tease him.
Qin Xing then turned to Wen Di. “Gu Heng plays the prototype of Xiao Donghan. Was the subsequent plot twist something Xiao Donghan pointed out to you?”
Wen Di: “Not exactly. I changed that scene later.” By then, she and Xiao Donghan had already broken up, and she hadn’t called him for advice.
“But he did say something to me once: ‘People see the benefits but not the harm.’ At the time, I thought, what if the other person saw both the benefits and the harm that followed? Would the person setting the trap back off? And after Teacher Tan’s character saw through the trap, would he be willing to let go of such a great temptation?”
Human greed could sometimes be immeasurable.
Qin Xing had a sudden thought. “What if, in a real-life business war, Brother Yan and Xiao Donghan encountered a situation like that? What would they do?”
Wen Di shook her head. “How would I know?”
In reality, the Met Company order was indeed a difficult one for Director Liu to give up.
Who could just say no to such a big order?
But Yan Heyu had Kang Bo relay that message and also asked him if he had figured out what the other trap was, forcing him to reconsider multiple times.
Met Company hadn’t received a reply from Huayuan Industrial for a long time.
Three days later, Jiang Yunxing received a call from Xiao Donghan. “You’re trying to make up for your mistake, and this is how you do it? Do you know what I had to trade to get Met Company to help just once?”
Jiang Yunxing hadn’t expected to arouse Director Liu’s suspicion. Yan Heyu had been busy with Jingyue and dealing with her uncle for the past six months and hadn’t had the time to ask about Huayuan Industrial. She couldn’t figure out where the mistake was.
Xiao Donghan took off his glasses and rubbed the bridge of his nose. “You really have a lot of money to give Director Liu a six-hundred-million-dollar order all at once.”
“What else was I supposed to do? A small order wouldn’t have been enough to make Director Liu prioritize it, and Huayuan Industrial’s production capacity can handle small orders just fine.”
A large amount was easily suspicious, and a small amount was useless.
It was a difficult situation.
Xiao Donghan: “Couldn’t you have broken it into three orders, two hundred million each, and kept adding more? Do you think the effect would have been the same?”
Jiang Yunxing didn’t say anything. She had thought about it, but she felt that breaking up the order wouldn’t have given it the special treatment of a major client.
Xiao Donghan said, “You can’t be so rigid in your thinking.”
Jiang Yunxing didn’t argue with him and asked, “What’s your plan now?”
“We can’t tip them off. If Director Liu doesn’t prioritize the order, we’ll have Met Company modify the payment terms again, and the order will still go to them.”
“Okay, I understand.”
They planned to steal Huayuan’s small- and medium-sized domestic clients while Huayuan was focused on major clients like Met Company.
Huayuan Industrial’s production capacity was limited. If they prioritized Met, other clients would have to wait in line. They would then release signals that raw material prices were going to increase, which would make clients anxious and want to stock up. Instead of waiting in line at Huayuan, they would turn to Xiao Ning.
Once they had stabilized their market and clients, Met would no longer need to work with Huayuan Industrial.
To quickly establish a foothold in the domestic market, Xiao Ning had to spend a lot of money upfront. The Met Company order was a bait they had paid for.
Xiao Donghan confirmed something with her. “Did your uncle want to ruin the show Behind Desire?” He had just heard about it.
Jiang Yunxing didn’t dare to mock him directly, but her words couldn’t help but be sarcastic. “My, my, your ex-boyfriend sure cares about her.”
“That show gave me my only relationship. Don’t you think I should care?” Xiao Donghan was blunt. “I’m glad your uncle didn’t succeed, or I would have killed him.”
“Did you not hear that she got back together with her ex?”
“I know. I knew before you did.”
Jiang Yunxing told him to be realistic. “She has no relationship with you now.”
“It has nothing to do with me if she’s doing well. But it has everything to do with me if she’s not.”
“...” Jiang Yunxing was baffled and frustrated. “You and Yan Heyu are both obsessed. It’s not that I think Wen Di is a bad person; I’m just genuinely curious. She got back together with her ex’s ex, and you, her ex, are still thinking about her.”
She explained, “I genuinely don’t understand. I don’t mean anything else by it.”
Xiao Donghan wiped his glasses and put them on before speaking. “Do you know why you don’t go back to old relationships? Because Yan Heyu would never try to win you back, let alone chase you for three years and eight months.”
Jiang Yunxing picked up her water cup and drank half of it. If Xiao Donghan were in front of her, she couldn’t guarantee she wouldn’t smash the cup in anger.
Xiao Donghan continued, “You’ve known I have no class since day one. I told you before, I think Wen Di is a good person, and no one can say otherwise.”
He glanced at the time, intending to end the call. “Keep an eye on Met Company.”
“Oh, and,” he remembered, “end the conflict between your uncle and Yan Heyu as soon as possible. Yan Heyu is trying to crush your family, and it’s affecting my market.”
Jiang Yunxing: “There’s nothing I can do. I went to see Yan Heyu.”
Xiao Donghan gave her some advice. “Go to Wen Di, and make sure everyone knows you went to her. Yan Heyu will only make peace with your family out of respect for her.”
Jiang Yunxing hung up. She had a feeling that Xiao Donghan was a bit vengeful, which was why he told her to go to Wen Di.
But what he said wasn’t completely without reason.
If they continued to drag this out, her family would lose even more.
Jiang Yunxing drank some water to calm down. She decided to put her uncle’s conflict with Yan Heyu aside for now and called the people at Met Company to finalize the order for Huayuan Industrial.
That evening, Kang Bo received a call from Director Liu, who said that Met Company had decided to give them the order. If they couldn’t prioritize it, they would just have to modify the payment terms.
This was reasonable.
Kang Bo reported to Yan Heyu, relaying the message word for word.
He also felt a bit suspicious, wondering if he was being paranoid, thinking every big order was a trap set by Xiao Ning.
“Mr. Yan, should we accept this order or not?”
Yan Heyu finished the document he was working on, signed his name, and instead of answering, he asked, “Met Company is practically putting money into our pockets. Why wouldn’t we take it?”
Kang Bo quickly replied to Director Liu without a moment’s delay.
Yan Heyu capped his pen and told Kang Bo, “Tell Director Liu one more thing: this time, the bait Met Company gave him has no hook. Next time, it might.”
“Okay.” Kang Bo became more and more interested. “I wonder how Miss Wen handled that order in the script.”
Yan Heyu: “It’s airing in two weeks. You can watch it then.”
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Two days before the premiere of Behind Desire, Wen Di and Shen Tang flew to Shanghai to attend Chang Qing’s charity auction. Yin Ziyu flew in from another city.
Wen Di didn’t walk the red carpet with Yin Ziyu. In the waiting area, Yin Ziyu ran into Liang Yu. It was their first time seeing each other since the scandal.
Yin Ziyu nodded at Liang Yu, and Liang Yu smiled slightly before they both turned their faces away.
To generate buzz, the organizers had scheduled her and Liang Yu to walk the red carpet around the same time, with only one person between them, so they were bound to be in the same shot in a wide-angle photo.
She knew she would be a hot topic online.
She was working hard to get out from under the shadow of the scumbag. She wondered how Liang Yu was doing now.
Inside the venue, Wen Di and Shen Tang sat together.
Shen Tang was looking at a calendar. Wen Di leaned over. “What are you looking at?”
“Counting how many days until the New Year. I want to go to your house.”
“Why are you more eager than I am?”
“Maybe it’s because I haven’t had a good New Year in a long time.”
Wen Di had always hoped to spend New Year’s Eve with Shen Tang. This year, that wish would finally come true.
“They have fireworks in Jiangcheng every year. They’re beautiful. You don’t have to go out; you can see them from Grandpa’s terrace.”
“What time?”
“There are two shows. The one in the old city is earlier. The one in the east is at eleven-forty or fifty at night and lasts until after midnight.”
She loved the words ‘Happy New Year’ in the fireworks at midnight.
She wondered if there would be any new fireworks this year.
As they were talking, Shen Tang patted her. “Hey, look who that is.”
Wen Di followed her gaze. In the crowd, surrounded by people, the heir of Jingyue Group had come to support the auction.
She had told him not to come, but he had come on his own.
Yan Heyu was chatting with people and occasionally looked over at her.
Wen Di didn’t go over and didn’t look at him again.
Shen Tang joked, “Yan Heyu must be itching to have Assistant Kang hold a sign next to him that says, ‘I’m Wen Di’s boyfriend.’“
Wen Di laughed. “Don’t talk about him.”
She and Shen Tang continued to talk about what they would do during the New Year.
Director Ruan was also there tonight. After hearing about it from someone nearby, Wen Di got up to go say hello to him.
She first asked about Professor Qu’s health and when she would return to the country.
Director Ruan smiled. “Soon. She’ll definitely be back before the New Year. She even said she wants to watch your show.” He wasn’t just saying that; his wife had seriously said on the phone that she was very interested in Wen Di’s work from her low point.
They hadn’t even talked for long when everyone around them started looking behind her, smiling and giving her meaningful looks.
Without a doubt, it was Yan Heyu.
Yan Heyu walked over and looked at Wen Di. “Aren’t you going to introduce me to Director Ruan?”
The people around them knew about their relationship. At first, they treated it as gossip. There were too many different versions, and the more they heard, the more outlandish it sounded, so few people took it seriously. That was until someone saw Yan Heyu jogging in Wen Di’s neighborhood and then saw them going in and out of the villa together. They couldn’t help but believe it.
Seeing it in person today, they were all happily eating up the gossip.
Wen Di smiled and said, “This is Yan Heyu, Mr. Yan of Jingyue Group.”
Director Ruan teased, “I definitely know that.”
Yan Heyu gently placed his hand on her waist, pulling her a half-step closer to him. His eyes were soft, and his tone was doting. “Stop joking around and introduce me properly.”
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