Chapter 22

Wenning felt like this was a setup.

A well-designed game, just waiting for her to jump in.

But an order of two hundred wontons would generate one thousand two hundred dollars in revenue, and the packing fee would add up to two days’ worth of money for her store.

Faced with such a great temptation, the poor people at the bottom had no reason to refuse.

“Then please tell me the address of the theater group, and I’ll find a way to drive it over to you.”

Wen Ning smoothed a useless little card from the counter, memorizing the time and place of delivery in order.

“I’d like to thank Boss Wen in advance on behalf of my colleagues in the theater group,” Ying Ying said briskly about the so-called long-standing problem, “I’ve been wondering what kind of afternoon tea to treat everyone to on Thursday, now it’s good, it’s directly solved.”

She pushed her sunglasses back up.

The ravioli in front of her remained untouched.

She just stirred her spoon out of habit, and finally put down the utensil with a slight disgust.

She didn’t even bother to act.

As time went by, the wontons were saturated in the soup, and the skin became thin and floated around in the bowl.

Wen Ning didn’t think Ying Ying really wanted to use her wontons as a treat for everyone, after all, even she herself couldn’t see it. If she simply wanted to do her business, and not to eat the wontons, it would inevitably result in a bigger waste.

“Ms. Ying.”

Wen Ning tried to cancel the order, even though the income of two days was heartwarming, she was also afraid of creating unnecessary trouble.

But Ying Ying didn’t listen to her, instead she got up and scanned the QR code, transferring the prepayment for the 200 bowls in one go.

There was one thing she never forgot.

“Ms. Wen, why don’t you ask Zhou Yinchu to give you a pair of genuine sunglasses,” Ying Ying smiled faintly, “Next time, I don’t want another obvious pirated copy to appear in the snaps that flow out about me.”

“There won’t be a next time.”

Wen Ning, however, realized that the other party simply couldn’t hear her differentiation, and left on her own.

Wen Ning had been busier than ever since Wednesday, she was ruled by her own life, two hundred orders were enough to keep her and Xiao Yang busy.

However, there was an advantage to the same.

She hadn’t had time to think about what Chouin Chu had said, nothing as if it were a monster devouring her heart.

Only the occasional glance her mother cast her way added a bit of pity.

It was as if she and Zhou Yinchu could really have put aside worldly prejudices and broken down class barriers to stand shoulder-to-shoulder.

The appointed time arrived.

On this day, Wen Ning arranged for Xiao Yang to pick up Li Che, who was studying for the last two days at Center Street, while she herself set off for the Jiangcheng Film and Television Base.

Remembering that when she was in college, she was living in dire straits, and it wasn’t as if she hadn’t gone there to work, so Wen Ning was still quite familiar with this highway.

She will be two hundred copies of the cooked wontons and soup each packaged in a bracket smoothly placed in the trunk of the car, all the way, she is not fast.

The road she was traveling on happened to be the most beautiful avenue in Jiangcheng’s external marketing.

Only, despite the green trees, light through the layers of leaves mottled welcome, Wen Ning can not patiently to appreciate the beauty of the visual level, she is only concerned about the road conditions. Wen Ning had to rush to deliver before the rush hour, but also to ensure that no bowl of soup would be spilled, and her whole heart was focused on this not-so-small order of hers.

When she arrived at the movie city, the sky was clear and bright, and the sun was stronger than ever.

Wen Ning thought it was destined to be a good day.

It was unlikely to rain.

Until the time of delivery, however, the sky was suddenly overcast, except that her trunk was also piled high with ingredients such as the shredded seaweed she had cooked the toppings with, so there was no room for an umbrella.

Wenning cheered up thinking that even if it was raining, it would only be a few steps back to her car.

Not enough to be afraid of.

Perhaps, at some point in the past, she had been equally petulant.

Weak.

But after experiencing the frost of life, no woman will be spared from this disaster, Wen Ning looked at the woman in the front mirror, slightly frowning, tired.

The car came to a phone call.

The old bluetooth came a trace of a voice full of warmth.

It was the only thing that could make the tired woman in front of her less tense.

While she instructed Sayo not to take her paycheck to go to KFC with Chul, on the other hand, she found out that the phone call’s they could have already been at the same KFC in Taiyo department store.

“Don’t use your own money, that’s your own hard-earned money,” Wen Ning seldom acted arbitrarily on things, “Either use my relative’s card directly, or wait for me to finish my work before transferring money to you.”

The laughter on the other end continued, Xiao Yang pretended not to hear his own words at all, his two ears were usually alert, but at this time, they turned a deaf ear.

And after listening to them recount the fun they had after school today, Wen Ning finally hung up the phone reluctantly.

Ahead was the movie and television work base.

Wen Ning showed all kinds of documents, registered all the way, and finally arrived at the theater group where Ying Ying was working, and by this time there were already dark clouds pressing down on the sky. Wen Ning was afraid that the wontons would be really unpalatable after covering them for a long time, and was eager to pack these treats one by one and take them out.

Luckily, she eagerly found the location of the crew, and also smoothly learned from the crew that the staff related to Ying Ying was not far away.

However, Ying Ying seemed to be in the middle of filming a scene that belonged to her and had no time to care.

Her little assistant had wanted to come forward to help, but the manager on the other side of the room gave her a dry stare, and then she didn’t make a move.

There was no time to lose in packing up two hundred copies of work out of thin air at once.

Pressing Wen Ning couldn’t breathe.

Before she could finish, Ying Ying’s agent suddenly walked towards her and coldly reminded, “The person we want to invite is on the B set.”

In fact, Wen Ning had long heard about the special identity of the agent beside Ying Ying, and heard that the two had been classmates during their university days.

Ying Ying had jumped ship from her original agency, and when she went solo to set up her own personal studio, her agent had not been less helpful.

But after so much back and forth, Wen Ning felt that she might not be able to leave in time before it rained.

“Do you have any other hands that can do a favor?”

This agent cut in, “No.”

The face that looked over at her was anything but kind; it was commonplace for unusual people to offer a hand to each other, and to the eagle-eyed, it seemed as if doing such trivial things was an inherent challenge to their status.

The big deal was to send them over in batches themselves.

The stone path, which was modeled after one built in the old court, was anything but easy to navigate, and Wenning didn’t understand how this group of people managed to be oblivious in the face of their respective refreshments.

But if this is what they call difficult, Wen Ning is not a weak little white flower, even if it was once, now this little white flower must have become tough and incomparable.

Still couldn’t figure out the reason why this group of people were making things difficult for her.

Money is hard to earn, shit is hard to eat.

This is a problem inherent in society, and there is no exception when it happens.

Wen Ning persuaded herself like this all the way.

If they were certain that they chose to purposely make things difficult for themselves because of the relationship between herself and Zhou Yinchu, Wen Ning wouldn’t mind cursing this man a few more times in the bottom of her heart.

Wen Ning struggled to drag the wontons, which had already been packed separately, and hurriedly ran to the other venue where the crew was located before it was completely heaped up.

Ying Ying from the B crew had a few distractions today.

“Not in good shape, director, let me take a day off first.” Lingering in place, Ying Ying waited for that white moonlight of Zhou Yinchu’s to personally deliver the snacks for the entire crew.

Despite not having her part anymore, she had no intention of moving halfway.

Rather, she waited as if nothing had happened for Wen Ning to deliver her batch of wontons.

Finally, she saw that skinny, slender figure, and not being able to hold back, she dialed this one as if she was watching a play, “Zhou Yinchu.”

Hearing her voice, the other party hated to hang up immediately.

“Mr. Zhou, the person you’ve been longing for is on my side today ……”

But when she threw out this sentence with preparation, the opposite party’s attitude changed almost immediately, “Where?”

She reported a generalized address of her location, she still did not want, they met so early. But the old hunch was that Zhou Yinchu might immediately leave behind everything in his hands that distracted him and come straight to where she was.

Rather like himself, he created a suitable meeting opportunity for the bystanders.

“Ms. Wen, I’ve worked hard for you today.” Ying Ying spoke with a smile.

“Here are fifty copies of the wontons, and the other one hundred and fifty, are they all going to be divided here, or are they just going to be divided right here in the A theater group?”

The May day was already sweltering, especially in such a plum rainy season, and she saw the crystalline beads of sweat rising from Wen Ning’s forehead, saw the fact that she was the culprit.

Ying Ying was not sympathetic in her conversation, “Please bring fifty more copies over, the number of people in our group shooting today is not small.”

Not far away, the road that must be traveled through, paved with layers of goose soft stone, specially designed for the construction of vintage scenes, the surface of the goose soft stone is smooth, and it’s not easy to walk on a normal day.

She thought she’d shrug it off, mention a mouthful of tiredness, find it troublesome.

It was not a good path, there were times when they were filming a certain clip that they hated to go around, and the woman in front of her did not complain in the slightest.

But Wen Ning did not, “Then please ask Ms. Ying and your colleagues to wait a little longer.”

“There’s no rush.”

The reason why Ying Ying did this was not because she was naturally a person who could cut people off, and her initial choice to do so was not all out of her undying heart for that man after all.

Rather, it came from a single sentence-

“How do you deserve to be compared to her?”

For the first time, she heard from Zhou Yinchu’s words that she was not qualified to be on par with other women.

She had some regrets and chagrin, but right now, she had already done so and become a complete villain, she thought she should be more ruthless, that way, she might be able to make Zhou Yinchu see that the woman his heart was holding onto was nothing more than acting as a waitress in their world.

When she saw her status as an underclass commoner, when she knew that the woman in front of her would rather use fake sunglasses, and that there was no way in hell that she would ask another man for money, she still chose to call for embarrassment in her own way.

Ying Ying admitted that the reason she did so was entirely out of her own sense of superiority.

She had experienced the same low point in her life, but the low point wasn’t that long, and she lived in her proud world.

So, suddenly, in a fit of narrow-mindedness.

She thought that if she were asked to bring snacks to herself and the crew, she would be willing to come over, would be dominated by her, would recognize who could not be “compared” to whom.

But by the time the woman was tired of delivering the other fifty wontons, and there was a torrential downpour outside, she instinctively said to her, “Take shelter under the roof for a while, the weather can change on a whim, I’ll ask my assistant to send an extra umbrella over later.”

She saw through her hardships, yet she had to admit that even if she was a man, she would be equally attracted to the woman in front of her.

Obviously, she could be a delicate flower in the palm of her hand, but she was willing to accept the whack of the rock.

After saying this, Ying Ying uncomfortably distributed the several bowls of wontons in her hands, as for those rising and falling voices regarding thanks.

What she said was, “I’m not the one you should be thanking.”

She turned around and raised her eyes to look at Wen Ning, seeing her with a clear and moving smile, as if she was really the pure heroine who didn’t plot for external forces, while she herself was this vicious female supporting character who went around making things difficult for people.

In fact, Wen Ning was definitely angry.

But a trip that could earn a full seven hundred dollars for a large order, nothing could stop her.

Business people, this is practiced the code of peace and prosperity, maybe next time the weather is a little better, she came to the theater group does not have to be so difficult.

What she was thinking was that she shouldn’t have worn these flimsy leather shoes today. Had she known that she would have to walk on a path full of soft stones, she should have changed into the spiked shoes that she wore on the day of the Parents’ Sports Day.

It would have saved her a lot of time and effort.

Moreover, after delivering the entire two hundred copies, she still had some of her strength left, she thought that although she did not have a good impression of Ying Ying and her manager, she thought that if she could deliver a few more times to the theater group, she might still be able to make a name for herself on this base.

But the person who really made things difficult for her still appeared.

She saw Zhou Yinchu’s car pull up at the intersection where the crew was located, and in the midst of the storm, he stepped out of the car. It was also from the moment Zhou Yinchu walked towards Ying Ying that she suddenly got a clear sense of their respective identities, a young and promising entrepreneur and a sunny actress walking together, as if they naturally formed a high sense of appropriateness.

Zhou Yinchu was well-dressed, while Ying Ying wore a beautifully centered costume.

The actress got up and removed something from her business car, which was none other than Toyota’s nearly-million-dollar Elfa, while Zhou Yinchu stood in place and waited.

He had one hand propped up on the Alfa’s automatic armrest, as if he was deliberately trying to keep the woman inside from pulling it on completely.

The woman in the car half squatted and pulled out her cell phone, as if desperately trying to prove something to him, and he seemed to finally be slightly satisfied that he had gotten the answer he wanted.

The moment of silence pulled the two figures infinitely closer together, and tended to be ambiguous.

The rain seemed to have gotten bigger all of a sudden.

Wen Ning didn’t wait for the legendary umbrellas sent by the staff, and her little semblance of fighting spirit that she wanted to ignite in order to earn money instantly vanished.

She instantly realized what Ying Ying had really called herself over for.

Envoying was merely a part of it.

And right now, she felt that she was still that stinking rat, and the fact of that didn’t change because of the intersection between her and Zhou Yinchu.

She braved the rain and headed for her own used polo outside the promenade without looking back.