Overnight Hit: Vicious Stepmother and Genius Son
Chapter 143 No One Needs

Chapter 143: Chapter 143 No One Needs

After returning home in the morning, Ye Zhenzhen stayed in the sunroom to bask in the sun and read her script. Watermelon’s little nest was in the sunroom, and it lay beside Zhenzhen, looking incredibly happy.

It wasn’t even noon yet when Ye Zhenzhen received two phone calls. One was from Su Xi, who told her she would be coming to Jiangcheng the following afternoon and mentioned that young Master Cheng Jiaming was eager to see Song Yuchen. They agreed to have dinner together the next evening.

The other call was from an old lady from Yishan Village, whom Ye Zhenzhen had helped sell oranges during a previous TV show recording.

On the phone, the old lady was filled with gratitude towards Ye Zhenzhen, thanking her profusely and saying that she had received all the money from the orange sales.

She also invited Ye Zhenzhen to visit again so she could specifically host her. The elder became so emotional during the conversation that she struggled to express herself and even offered to transfer money to Ye Zhenzhen to show her gratitude.

Where would Ye Zhenzhen accept the old lady’s money? She laughed and declined politely, reminding her that their initial agreement still stood and telling her to just get in touch when the oranges ripened next year, without overthinking it—it was nothing more than a simple gesture on her part.

The old lady hung up the phone, still holding a deep sense of gratitude for Ye Zhenzhen, and then she made another call to the TV program team...

Starting from the live broadcast on Monday, Ye Zhenzhen has dominated the hot search on Weibo for several days, with little attention paid to the daily news of other celebrities or announcements from drama crews compared to the spotlight on Ye Zhenzhen.

Even businesses from across the country were trying their best to secure Ye Zhenzhen for endorsements or to host live streams.

Liu Rui’s email inbox was nearly exploding, and she had taken so many calls that she started to automatically block unknown numbers.

Although Ye Zhenzhen did not go to the company today, Liu Rui kept sending her screenshots of emails from merchants.

Some merchants, probably having watched the video of Ye Zhenzhen’s live broadcast selling oranges and seeing her recent popularity, offered an astronomical appearance fee to have her help livestream their products.

Ye Zhenzhen outright rejected the offers to Liu Rui and informed her that, for the foreseeable future, she would not be doing any live broadcasts or advertisements, no matter how high the appearance fee.

If she wouldn’t even take on endorsements, how could she consider live streaming product sales?

This easy money would only deplete the modest popularity she had built up. Once this phase was over, she would become nothing again, and might even be labeld as "the live-selling XX actress".

Liu Rui had anticipated Ye Zhenzhen’s refusal.

She only sent the information to Ye Zhenzhen as an FYI, since as an agent, Liu Rui could make some decisions on her behalf, but certain matters still needed Ye Zhenzhen’s personal input.

Nowadays, Ye Zhenzhen was no longer the person she used to be. Liu Rui felt that Ye Zhenzhen was thinking things through even more thoroughly and far-sightedly than she did.

This actually gave Liu Rui a sigh of relief. If Ye Zhenzhen continued to maintain this attitude and seriously pursued her career, she really had limitless prospects in the industry...

The production team of "Ren Pingsheng" called Liu Rui in the afternoon to arrange for all main actors to have their costume fittings at Lemon Channel next Tuesday, as they were preparing to get the costumes ready for the actors.

And to sign the participation contracts while they were at it.

The payment offered by the production team was not much.

Since the drama didn’t invite any A-list stars, the lead couple, played by the fairly talented but not very famous Fang Siyuan and Lin Qianqian, were not commanding high salaries, so naturally, Ye Zhenzhen, as the second female lead, was also receiving less.

After hanging up the phone, Liu Rui still contacted Ye Zhenzhen to discuss.

Ye Zhenzhen naturally had no issue with it and even told Liu Rui straightforwardly, "Huahua, just accept any good scripts in the future. As long as the payment is within a reasonable range, I won’t refuse."

...

Afternoon.

Secretary Zhang suddenly remembered something, it was about whether the President needed a female companion for the anniversary banquet tomorrow night.

Previously, when the President was not married and occasionally needed a female companion for various events, he would have a secretary or assistant from his office accompany him, but that wasn’t really considered a companion, at most just an attendant.

But now that the President was married, he was unsure whether he should invite a colleague from the company or his wife to such occasions...

After much thought, Secretary Zhang decided to ask in person in the President’s office, because, after all, while this matter might seem unimportant, it actually mattered quite a bit.

If the wife wanted to attend, he would have time to prepare.

Once inside the office, Song Jinze was looking at data analysis charts on his computer. He didn’t speak directly upon Secretary Zhang’s entrance but asked, "What’s the matter?"

Secretary Zhang pursed his lips and inquired, "President, about your female companion for tomorrow evening’s banquet..."

Was he to find a female colleague from the secretarial office, or have Mrs. Song participate?

Secretary Zhang only dared to ask halfway, because the President hadn’t made his marriage public and he wasn’t clear on the specifics.

"No need for anyone," Song Jinze responded without lifting his head.

Secretary Zhang nodded, "Oh."

Then he turned and left the office.

Before, he would have taken a female colleague along, but now this meant Mrs. Song would not be attending, nor would there be a need for a female colleague.

Was he afraid of his wife getting the wrong idea?

Inside the office, Secretary Zhang had left for only two minutes when Song Jinze stopped his work and pondered;

If Ye Zhenzhen wasn’t taking Xiao Chen to the show recording, he would certainly consider asking Ye Zhenzhen to attend the banquet as Mrs. Song.

Whether that woman would refuse was another matter.

But now that Ye Zhenzhen had made her relationship with Xiao Chen public, announcing it further would be like exposing Xiao Chen directly.

The reason for having their wedding ceremony a year after getting their marriage certificate, in part, was to consider Xiao Chen.

Now that things had developed to this point, for any reason, he wouldn’t make Ye Zhenzhen and Xiao Chen’s relationship public at this time.

...

Shen Zhaonan came home early today, heading straight to the Shen family’s villa.

Today, Madam Shen had Han Jiangxue making dumplings here, and Shen Yibo was picked up by the servants.

When Shen Zhaonan got home, he cheerfully shared the day’s achievements with his mother and his wife, saying he would be attending Huanya Group’s anniversary celebration tomorrow night and casually chat with Cheng Zheng about potential collaboration.

Han Jiangxue poured tea for Shen Zhaonan considerately, "Honey, you’ve worked hard!"

Madam Shen glanced at Han Jiangxue subtly before turning to her son with a smile, "Ah Nan, are you confident?

The eldest son of the Cheng family is quite cunning in business. When dealing with him, if you can’t outsmart him, be as sincere as possible, but don’t be too naive, that young man is as sharp-minded as his father."

Shen Zhaonan was full of confidence, "It’s all set on the engineering side at Huanya, President Song said Cheng Zheng would be outsourcing, and it’s highly likely there won’t be any issues on my end. However, I had someone check this afternoon, and Cheng Zheng is a cunning business opponent, but apparently, he’s also quite afraid of his wife."