After Being Blackened All Over the Internet, I Ruled the Military Variety
Chapter 725 - 715: Madam, Wait for Me at Home

Chapter 725: Chapter 715: Madam, Wait for Me at Home

After lunch, Jiang Lingxi watched as Shen Yunqing changed clothes in the room, "Going out again?"

"There’s an industry summit."

Jiang Lingxi waved her hand immediately, "Then you go ahead."

Shen Yunqing silently swallowed back the words about inviting her Majesty out for a walk, "I’ll be back before dinner."

Summits like these usually have banquets afterward, but leaving early isn’t a big deal. Going back to Xiyuan to read books and play chess with her Majesty is more interesting than any banquet.

After Shen Yunqing left, Jiang Lingxi took a short nap before opening the script of "Empress Xiao".

Altogether, it’s 300,000 words.

But after reading the first few thousand words, she couldn’t keep going.

Her understanding of Xiao Chan is that she’s profit-driven, ruthless, and will do anything to achieve her goals. However, her political talents are also outstanding, otherwise, she wouldn’t have been able to rule for so long.

The script slightly beautifies this heroine’s traits but also weakens Xiao Chan’s abilities a lot.

Not only does it cut out some of her ruthless methods, but it also invents a lot of nonexistent plots.

If the script didn’t blatantly state this was about Empress Xiao, Xiao Chan, she wouldn’t have thought this protagonist was Xiao Chan while reading it. It seemed entirely made up.

Jiang Lingxi simply scrapped the script.

No need to force herself to read something she doesn’t like.

"Tong Jie."

"I was just about to call you, how’s the script going?"

"I didn’t finish it, don’t feel like reading."

Tong Yue: "... Do your fans know their idol is this willful? So you’re not planning to take it at all?"

"Yeah."

"Alright then, we won’t take it."

Jiang Lingxi was a bit surprised Tong Yue allowed her to give it up so readily, and then heard the next sentence, "I just received another invitation, this time it’s a movie! You know Feng Xu, Director Feng, right?"

"Nope."

"That’s okay, the important thing is I never thought you’d have a chance to be in this director’s movie. Although it’s Director Feng’s movie, you’re not the main character, just one of them at best."

Jiang Lingxi responded with a hmm and directly asked, "What’s the genre?"

Tong Yue paused for two seconds, "Racing. When Director Feng contacted me, he mentioned he saw the car commercial video you shot and got the idea to add a female racer to the creative team. But, this racing is different from ordinary cars, if you can’t satisfy him, then there’s no point in adding this flair."

"By the way, you’re sure you’re not pregnant, right? If by any chance you are, you definitely can’t shoot this kind of movie."

Opportunities are indeed rare, but life is more important.

"I’m sure I’m not, why are you also influenced by comments online," Jiang Lingxi said with a helpless smile, pausing to reassure her, "Don’t worry about that, I won’t get pregnant."

"What do you mean?"

"The literal meaning."

This time Tong Yue was silent for even longer, "Does Mr. Shen know about your situation?"

"He knows."

It was actually Shen Yunqing who told her.

"Good, good, no wait, I mean, as long as Mr. Shen doesn’t mind, it’s fine, no that’s still not right! I feel like, Xiao Xi, you..."

Jiang Lingxi realized Tong Yue was overthinking it, but the situation between her and Shen Yunqing was indeed hard to explain, "Tong Jie, I’m not bothered. Also, I’m quite healthy, it’s not a physical issue that prevents pregnancy, it’s for another reason."

"Okay, okay, got it, let’s not talk about this anymore. If you’re interested in Director Feng’s movie, I’ll reply to him and schedule a time after New Year’s for a proper discussion. As for ’Empress Xiao’, if you don’t want to take it, we won’t. But I don’t want cheap out to that Zhou Lingyue either; she’s been a real nuisance online these days!"

Jiang Lingxi felt Tong Yue’s tone sounded like she was coaxing her, and nodded cooperatively, "Letting Zhou Lingyue make money from this is too easy on her."

Even though this chain of events let her see her own Prime Minister Shen secretly getting jealous and led to unexpectedly getting their marriage license, being manipulated is still uncomfortable.

"Exactly, exactly, though I don’t plan to retaliate in kind. New Year’s coming up, I’m too lazy to dig any dirt on her."

"So you have a different plan?"

"Yes, I’ve thought of someone. We now have Director Feng’s invite, and a good reason to decline Director Tang’s offer, and when apologizing for the delay, we can recommend someone, which is reasonable."

"Who did you think of?"

"You’ve even watched her drama with me and Zhengzheng, discussing her role."

"Dong Wei?"

"That’s right, I liked her a lot when I was young. What do you think?"

"A model for acting classes, almost like my teacher, so definitely not bad. But didn’t she already quit the industry?"

"This is the downside of not following entertainment news; Dong Wei’s husband got into trouble recently, owes tens of billions, so I think there’s a high chance she’ll come back to acting to earn money. Plus, I’d love to watch her dramas again."

Jiang Lingxi: "Then go and ask her."

"Alright then, you rest up and get ready for the New Year, while watching Zhou Lingyue gain nothing. I won’t bother you unless necessary."

Watching the call end, Jiang Lingxi was sure that Tong Yue really was trying to cheer her up.

Such a novel experience!

*

Assistant He walked up behind Shen Yunqing, bending down to dutifully remind in a low voice, "Boss, it’s five o’clock."

Shen Yunqing nodded at him and put down his teacup.

The few people at the same table were taken aback by this.

One couldn’t help but speak, "Mr. Shen, you’re leaving already? There’s still the banquet later..."

"I agreed with my wife to be back before dinner, excuse me."

The group exchanged glances for a moment, then quickly put down their cups to see him off as he stood up to leave.

Watching as Shen Yunqing and his assistant hastily left, the group then sat back down.

Someone couldn’t help but sigh, "People do change after getting married, he seems afraid of being late and getting punished to kneel on a laundry board."

Then someone chimed in, "He even went to act in a drama to chase his wife, I really didn’t expect him to go that far. By the way, have you all seen ’Yuan Zhao Empress’?"

The group exchanged looks, yes, they had all seen it.

Mostly out of curiosity.

At their status, sometimes on a whim, they’d make a simple cameo as a boss character in a drama or movie. But to spend lots of time to play a substantial role, that was never considered.

After all, the small pay from acting, though quite a bit for ordinary people, they could earn it with a wave of a hand.

"You can see that Mr. Shen truly loves his wife, anyway, I can’t imagine going to a film crew to act for a woman, much less kneeling to her in a scene."

Others nodded, they most likely couldn’t either.

Or rather, they had never met a woman who could motivate them to such an extent.

"I used to see Shen Yunqing being equally cold to men and women, I thought... didn’t expect he’d be such a romantic!"

"Looks like we’ll have to start calling that Miss Jiang, Mrs. Shen, when we see her at social gatherings."

...

Shen Yunqing didn’t realize that after he left, he became the topic of conversation among those at the table.

But he knew back when he agreed to play Prime Minister Shen, once the show aired, people he knew, including many employees of Shen’s group, would see it, and there’d be plenty of talk online and in private.

But with her Majesty inviting him, he had no regrets.

He hurried back to Xiyuan, where the red lanterns were already lit one after another.

Jiang Lingxi was just setting the dining table when she heard footsteps and turned to see him returning home under the lantern light, "You’re back, hurry and wash your hands, dinner’s ready."

"I’m back."