Rebirth in the 80s: The Scholar Wife is Cute
Chapter 1264: It’s fine if she doesn’t admit it.

Chapter 1264: Chapter 1264: It’s fine if she doesn’t admit it.

Ruan Feng was about to speak when Ruan Yiqian curiously asked, "Doesn’t Xining have a boyfriend backing her up, with quite a few resources? Why is she eyeing Mianmian’s meager resources now? Didn’t she use to look down on them?"

"Don’t even mention it," Mrs. Cheng fumed. "That old man is nothing but a scammer. Now that he’s broken up with Xining, he wants to cut her off completely, even blacklist her. If it weren’t for this, we wouldn’t have come to you all!"

The last sentence just slipped out from Mrs. Cheng.

Cheng Xining herself didn’t seem bothered, as everyone knew her business anyway, and it was fine as long as she didn’t admit it.

So, playing along with Mrs. Cheng, she said with tear-filled eyes, "I was with him with the intention of marriage, but who knew this old fart would find a younger one and dump me, and now he even threatens to blacklist me, just because he thinks I have no one backing me up. Uncle, Auntie, I know you don’t like the idea of using power to bully others, so I didn’t want to do anything. I just hoped Mianmian could introduce me to some resources. I just want to show them that even without their help, I can still get good movie roles. They can’t just blacklist someone because they say so."

Actually, this all started with Cheng Xining’s romantic relationship with Su Gen, who was the father of her ex-boyfriend Su Sheng. Su Sheng was incompetent and not in charge of the family, so after dating him for a while, Cheng Xining found him useless. Thus, she seduced Su Gen, planning to become Su Sheng’s stepmother and inherit the family wealth once Su Gen passed away.

During their relationship, Su Gen was quite generous, even claiming he would marry Cheng Xining. However, not long after, he was charmed away by a newly debuted young actress and dumped Cheng Xining.

Enraged, Cheng Xining went to confront the young actress, only to find out that it was Su Sheng who had set his father up with the young star, with the purpose of taking revenge on her, and even threatened to make it impossible for her to continue in showbiz.

Now, Cheng Xining had no one to back her up and was genuinely out of resources.

Furious but powerless against the father and son of the Su family, Cheng Xining had spent money extravagantly over the years on luxuries and saved very little. Her connections were all but severed, and with her arrogant and haughty nature that spared no one, she had offended more than half of the entertainment industry. No one was willing to help her now, so she thought of turning to the Ruan family.

If she hadn’t broken up with Su Gen, she wouldn’t even consider a supporting actress role.

Ruan Yiqian might not have known the specifics, but as soon as he heard about Cheng Xining’s breakup with Su Gen, he sneered, "Before you broke up, you couldn’t even secure such good resources. What makes you think it’s possible now?"

Lu Nian’s movies are very selective about their cast, and in recent years every film has been a hit; there’s a rush even for a supporting role. Given Cheng Xining’s level of acting, she wouldn’t catch Lu Nian’s eye, let alone the role of the second female lead - even for extras, she would be overlooked.

"Brother Yiqian, can’t you just help me save face, if nothing else?" Cheng Xining sniffled, "Otherwise, people might think the Ruan family is easy to bully."

"What does the Cheng surname have to do with the Ruan family?" Ruan Yiqian huffed, "Let me be frank with you, you might as well give up on this play. The lead and supporting actress roles have already been assigned to Mianmian and Yang Xiaoxi respectively; these roles were tailor-made for the two of them by Lu Nian."