Overnight Hit: Vicious Stepmother and Genius Son
Chapter 368 Doing this just because of you

Chapter 368: Chapter 368 Doing this just because of you

The waiter brought each dish to the table and then inquired of Da Mi, "Mr. Ye, the wine has already been decanted. Shall I pour it for you?"

"Sure." Da Mi responded.

He looked at Ye Zhenzhen and said, "Before you arrived, I had already ordered the dishes— all the ones you used to love. If you don’t like them, we can order something else."

Song Jinze looked at the dishes on the table and the cake beside them, the aggrieved feeling in his eyes growing stronger. The ones she used to love?

Does that mean if he hadn’t followed her here today, she would have been here celebrating her birthday with this guy, drinking red wine?

Moreover, as far as he knew, it wasn’t Ye Zhenzhen’s birthday.

He lifted his eyes and said to the waiter, "Could you pass me the menu, please?"

The waiter, noticing the tension among the three of them, didn’t dare to say much and handed the menu to the man with the gloomy expression.

Song Jinze took the menu and said regretfully to Da Mi, "Zhenzhen’s tastes have recently shifted. She prefers spicier food, and she doesn’t like what you’ve ordered."

Having said that, he opened the menu and ordered two more sets of spicier meals. After that, he took out a card and handed it to the waiter, "And please, settle the bill while you’re at it."

"Certainly, sir."

Afterwards, the private room returned to the awkward atmosphere from before!

At this moment, Ye Zhenzhen somewhat regretted her earlier politeness at the door. Why on earth had she brought a man to dine here!

What had been a comfortable atmosphere turned exceedingly chilly.

Looking at the cake on the table, Ye Zhenzhen smiled at Da Mi, "Happy birthday!"

It wasn’t her birthday today. Since the cake and wine were brought in by the waiter, it must be Da Mi’s birthday. They were old acquaintances, and even if she didn’t remember it was Da Mi’s birthday today, she should still offer her congratulations upon seeing the cake.

Da Mi chuckled, "You only remembered it was my birthday after seeing the cake?"

Ye Zhenzhen nodded, "I tend to forget my own birthday as well."

Her words were true; she had been so busy with her work in the past that she often forgot her own birthday. It was usually celebrated by her fans, or she received birthday wishes from people in the industry on social media.

The truth was, she didn’t even know her actual date of birth. It was only when she was in her teens and entered the industry that her agent had it calculated and then had a so-called master choose a lucky day to be her birthday.

In the beginning, when she wasn’t famous, she never celebrated her birthday. Later, when she became well-known in the industry, people celebrated it for her every year even if she didn’t do it herself...

As they discussed this, Da Mi’s expression suddenly turned melancholic, "Sorry, I shouldn’t have brought it up."

Huh?

Ye Zhenzhen felt puzzled. Was this supposed to be some kind of secret?

Damn, the original owner of this body really had no memory at all!

She promptly changed the subject to the more recent aspects of her life. Da Mi also seemed keen on this, and after they exchanged a few pleasantries, he suddenly mentioned the topic of Ye Zhenzhen’s donations, "I saw you donating schools on the variety show and doing charity work. Do you have any plans to continue in this area?"

Before Ye Zhenzhen arrived, he was scrolling through Weibo, where, apart from Song Jinze’s public announcement that he was Ye Zhenzhen’s husband, there were some scandals regarding Han Jiangxue’s arrest at last night’s charity dinner.

Then, this afternoon, with Chenguang’s latest Weibo update, a list of donations from last night’s charity gala was made public, along with the plans for the projects they were about to start.

Because of this update, Ye Zhenzhen was once again trending on the search engines. She had mentioned during a variety show recording that she had donated a school, and then at last night’s charity dinner, she donated forty million more.

Among the guests present, aside from the business owners, Ye Zhenzhen, as an artist, donated the most.

Beyond her identity as an artist, as one of the hidden shareholders of Chenguang, her name was attached to an additional fifty million donation.

In fact, this fifty million was donated by Song Jinze under Ye Zhenzhen’s name, something Ye Zhenzhen and Da Mi weren’t even aware of yet.

Ye Zhenzhen nodded, "Yes, the school was actually donated by Song Jinze, it really has nothing to do with me."

At this point, the usually silent Song Jinze spoke up, "I only did these things because of you."

After Song Jinze finished speaking, Da Mi looked at him with a slight change in his eyes.

All Da Mi knew about Song Jinze was that he was a powerhouse in the business world, who had married Ye Zhenzhen and then seemed indifferent to her.

He probably made his identity public yesterday because others were calling him an old man, Da Mi thought. Now, hearing Zhenzhen speak, he felt that this man might not be as he had understood him to be.

At least this man wasn’t indifferent to Zhenzhen, right?

"Then why didn’t you step in when Zhenzhen was being slandered and exposed online?" Da Mi couldn’t help but ask.

This made Ye Zhenzhen suddenly feel guilty, "It has nothing to do with him, don’t talk about him like that, I asked him not to interfere, I always felt it was my own matter, and I never allowed him to intervene..."

Her voice dwindled as she spoke, which was indeed what the original owner had said.

Da Mi snorted coldly, so if you’re told not to care, you just don’t care, huh!

He didn’t say this out loud, though. He understood Ye Zhenzhen’s stubborn nature since childhood. Considering how he had recently been helping her, if it weren’t for the fact that he approached her for money to settle his fees, he felt that, given her personality, she definitely wouldn’t have sought his help again.

"So what are you planning to do next? Do you intend to continue doing these things?" Da Mi went on with the previous topic.

Ye Zhenzhen: "Yes, I have always had this intention. I think no matter how much money is earned, it can eventually be spent. If saved a little, the necessary expenses can be made, and the rest can be donated to those needy children and the elderly.

Although there are many unfortunate people in the world and I am no savior, whenever I see those children and elderly left behind, I am reminded of my own childhood and can’t help but want to support them as much as I can. After all, I also received help from others when I was a child..."

About this growing up experience, Ye Zhenzhen felt she had some similarities with the original owner. The original owner had only a grandfather and grew up under his care.

She was the same, with no parents as a child and was taken in by a kind old lady. Then at the age of twelve, when the old lady passed away, her looks drew the attention of a talent scout, and she entered the entertainment industry.

Since then, her path was a mix of work and study; the money she earned was either spent on herself or given to charity, aiding children and the elderly in need, just like her...

After arriving in this world, similarly, what she wanted to do most, aside from wanting to develop her career in the entertainment industry, was to help the needy left-behind children and elderly as much as she could, carrying on the wish she had in her last life but hadn’t fulfilled.

Only, since her arrival here had been short, and a lot had happened recently, there were still many things she had yet to practice...

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