Overnight Hit: Vicious Stepmother and Genius Son
Chapter 299: Dinner Invitation!

Chapter 299: Chapter 299: Dinner Invitation!

Xiao Yi returned to his room and felt incredibly stifled. He pulled out his phone and looked at it again and again. That phrase "still pretty sweet" was just getting on his nerves!

Then there were those huge persimmons in the photo, which were clearly supposed to be his, but Song Jinze, that crafty dog, had beat him to the punch.

First, his wife was snatched away, and now even a few lousy persimmons!

No, he couldn’t stand it. He really couldn’t stand it!

There were some things he could accept, but he absolutely could not let these persimmons go so easily.

When Xiao Yi went back to the gaming room, Feige was eating the bun he hadn’t finished.

"I want Ye Zhenzhen’s phone number. Contact her agent."

Feige, with a bun in his mouth, was startled by Xiao Yi’s abrupt demand, "Have you lost your mind? You already have her WeChat, don’t you?"

Weren’t you just checking her Moments? Could it be that you now want to call her to personally question her?

Feige’s mind was already conjuring up a melodramatic scene!

Xiao Yi walked over, picked up a cup of water, and drained it in one gulp, "Hurry up, contact her agent."

"Burp—" Choking on the bun he had just swallowed, Feige saw the serious look on Xiao Yi’s face and said no more, picking up the phone to call Liu Rui;

"Huahua, send me Ye Zhenzhen’s number on WeChat." Feige directly stated his intention without beating around the bush.

Liu Rui was puzzled, "What do you want our Zhenzhen’s number for?"

"Of course it’s not for me, but for Talented Xia. Xia Zhi, isn’t she having a script reading the day after tomorrow? She said she suddenly got an inspiration to change some lines and wants to call Zhenzhen to discuss it. That’s why she asked me to get the number."

As Feige spoke, he shot Xiao Yi a sideways glance, thinking the lie he crafted was a tangled mess.

But what could he do? He had to avoid suspicion somehow!

Liu Rui frowned, "Really? Why didn’t Talented Xia contact me directly?"

"Come on, if you guys have exchanged contact information, why would she come to me?"

Liu Rui remembered that at their last meal together it seemed they had not exchanged contact information and readily agreed, "Then shall I send it to you on WeChat?"

"Mhm."

"Little White Dove, don’t lie to me. If Zhenzhen’s phone number gets leaked, I’ll expose your and Best Actor Xiao’s dirt to the anti-fans!"

Liu Rui was quite cautious with her artist’s phone number, but was now cornered due to Xia Zhi, the writer of Zhenzhen’s latest movie. she felt compelled to make a stern threat.

Feige clenched his teeth, "Classmate Huahua, stop calling me Little White Dove!"

"Little White Dove! Little White Dove..." After repeating it several times, Liu Rui hung up first.

Whoever hangs up first wins this call!

Feige: ...

Who in the world was the first to call him Little White Dove in the circuit?

Receiving the number, Xiao Yi stared at the string of digits, his gaze deepening. He always believed he never regretted his actions, yet this was the one thing that he thought might have changed everything had he made this call earlier. Could it have been the turning point?

Thinking about it now was useless. He pressed the call button and, as he listened to the mechanical ring from the speaker, his mind was already brewing what to say...

When Ye Zhenzhen received Xiao Yi’s call, she was on her way home.

Xiao Chen and Song Jinze were sitting with her in the back seat of the car.

Looking at the unfamiliar number on the phone, she did not hesitate to answer, "Hello!"

As someone in the business, she tended to answer these unmarked, normal unknown calls—it might be someone from the industry looking for her.

Xiao Chen, who had been chatting with his dad, lowered his voice when he heard Ye Zhenzhen on the phone, so as not to disturb her call.

On the other end of the line, Xiao Yi’s throat tightened when he heard Ye Zhenzhen’s voice. After a few seconds’ pause, he finally said, "Ye Zhenzhen, have you arrived in Jiangcheng yet?"

Xiao Yi?

Ye Zhenzhen quickly realized who it was.

In her mind, there weren’t many people with distinctive and pleasant voices, one being the man sitting next to her, and the other was Xiao Yi.

"I just arrived in Jiangcheng, I’m on my way back now."

Xiao Yi continued to ask, "Are you with the show’s crew?"

The space inside the car was small and quiet. The voice emanating from Ye Zhenzhen’s phone speaker drifted into the ears of the man beside her, and his originally gentle face suddenly became stern.

He recognized the voice. It could be no one but Xiao Yi.

"No, I’m with my husband and Xiao Chen."

Ye Zhenzhen spoke casually, but there was a sly tactic hidden in her words, meant to remind the man on the phone that she had a husband, and she was sitting with him.

She also didn’t want the man next to her to misunderstand.

She didn’t recall any interactions between the original character and Xiao Yi, nor had the author detailed any narrative involving their past, considering the original character was a minor one in the original story.

So, she didn’t dwell on why Xiao Yi would have her number and didn’t want to think about it.

As she expected, the facial tension of the man beside her eased a lot after hearing her reply.

His wife told Xiao Yi that she was his husband.

He was quite pleased with that response.

"Oh~"

On the ride back, Song Jinze was also in the car.

Xiao Yi’s lips curved, and he deliberately raised his voice, "Let’s meet for a meal this weekend; you promised to treat me last time. Also, bring some persimmons. Didn’t you tell Xiao Chen during the live stream that you would bring some for me?"

If it weren’t for Ye Zhenzhen just finishing the program, he would have asked her to have dinner with him that night.

Ye Zhenzhen: ...

She tilted her head slightly to glance at the man next to her. Persimmons, huh?

All the persimmons had been taken by this man!

As for the meal, since she had previously agreed to treat the Best Actor to a meal, she couldn’t go back on her word.

"Sure, no problem with the meal," she replied affirmatively.

Repaying one’s kindness with a meal was necessary, and as for the persimmons, that too was a matter of returning a favor. The persimmons prepared had been taken by the man next to her, so she would have to purchase some more on the weekend for Xiao Yi.

Xiao Yi laughed, "Okay, see you on the weekend."

Ye Zhenzhen hung up the phone, and Xiao Chen leaned in, wrapping his arms around her, cheerfully saying, "Mom, I want to visit Great Grandfather and Grandma tonight. Let’s all go together."

Ye Zhenzhen nodded, "Sure thing, we’ll stop by our place first, and then take you to their place for dinner tonight, okay?"

"Yay!" The little guy was elated.

He really missed Great Grandfather as well as Grandfather and Grandma.

Ye Zhenzhen asked the man beside her, "Are you coming for dinner tonight?"

The man hunched his handsome face, replying coldly, "Not coming, I have a meeting."

"Oh, then Xiao Chen and I will go."

Ye Zhenzhen seemed oblivious to the subtle shifts in the man’s mood.

...

After dropping off Ye Zhenzhen and Xiao Chen at home, Song Jinze continued to the company.

On the way, Secretary Zhang, after briefing his boss on the content of the upcoming meeting, asked, "President, when I contacted President Lei, he inquired whether you’re still not attending the charity dinner at Chenguang this year?"