My wife is in my arms

Chapter 556 Flowers Bloom in Five

After the car had traveled for some time...

Jiang Yiren's phone rang. She looked at the screen and saw that it was her best friend Zhang Yi calling. Wearing sunglasses, Jiang Yiren reached out and tapped the screen in the car.

immediately.

Her best friend's slightly sleepy voice came from inside the car.

Do you have work today?

Zhang Yi asked.

"Yes, I have!"

Jiang Yiren responded with a sound of agreement, then asked with a smile, "You didn't just wake up, did you?!"

"I'd like to get up early, but what am I supposed to do after that? I haven't been working for long, and I already feel so weak. If this keeps up, I think I'll become useless."

Zhang Yi's words revealed helplessness and a hint of resentment. She probably didn't expect Zhuma Company to be so ruthless. You see, she had been calling the directors she had worked with all this time, not caring about the size of the role, just hoping they could give her a chance.

Apart from one male director who implied that he wouldn't mind helping her if she abandoned some of her principles, all the other directors politely declined.

Faced with this situation, Zhang Yi couldn't think of any other good solutions.

As for that male director... she immediately blacklisted him.

She couldn't understand what the director was thinking. She was out of work, but that didn't mean she was so destitute that she needed to do this to support her family.

The key issue is that even if she wanted to support her family, no one needed her to support them.

Her parents do need it, but how much they give each month is entirely up to her as their daughter. She has also told them about her current situation, so her living expenses will definitely not be as readily available as before. Now it's 20,000 yuan per person, take it or leave it.

If she wanted to cause trouble for her daughter because she had less living expenses, Zhang Yi directly stated: "I don't have a single commercial performance right now, I can't get a single role, and I don't have a single source of income. If you cause me any more trouble, I won't have a single penny left."

Originally, she was a little unhappy to hear that she would only give her parents this little bit each month. But after she said this, they suddenly started to care about her. They rarely gave their daughter's parents money, and last night they actually called her for almost half an hour.

They repeatedly told her to take care of her health, that if her career wasn't going well, she could take it slowly, and not to do anything rash. If she hadn't stopped them, the elderly couple, who never used to come, would have rushed over to be with her this morning.

Whether it was genuine or she had other intentions, nothing else happened that bothered her.

However, after this incident, Zhang Yi also understood some things. Take her parents for example, they were actually spoiled by their daughter. As soon as she gained a little fame and made some money in the entertainment industry, she wanted to make her parents and younger brother live a better life. As long as they asked for it and she happened to have the ability to do so, she would try her best to satisfy them.

But as time went on, her good intentions became taken for granted.

Hearing that she would only give him this much in the future naturally caused a huge psychological gap, which is why he was a little unhappy at first. But after hearing about her recent situation, he understood.

Fortunately, although her parents wanted money, they still had some conscience, unlike some celebrity parents in the industry who almost ruined their artists.

"Then come and keep me company."

Jiang Yiren replied with a smile.

"I'll stay with you!?"

Zhang Yi hesitated on the phone, but Jiang Yiren suddenly spoke up, "Stop pretending. I know you too well. You're calling so early in the morning to ask what I'm doing, just because you want to come over. Come on! I'm on my way to the company to rehearse for the concert at the end of the month. I'd like to invite you to be my guest singer."

"giggle"

Zhang Yi chuckled softly and said, "Honey, you're the best."

"Oh, right, I forgot to tell you, Tianyu Entertainment has decided to invest in the script my husband wrote, and they've secured you the lead female role..."

Before Jiang Yiren could finish speaking, Zhang Yi impatiently asked, "Is it that 'The Truman Show'?!"

"Um"

Jiang Yiren nodded in agreement and said, "Originally, my husband wanted to give the male lead role to your ex-husband Yuan Hong, but Chairman Lin disagreed. In the end, he only agreed to give up the female lead role, so... stop sighing. Besides, didn't my husband say that in two or three months at most, Zhuma Company won't have time to target you?" "Yuan Hong!?"

When Jiang Yiren mentioned her ex-husband, Zhang Yi paused. She was about to suggest that Zhang You talk to Chairman Lin to let her ex-husband play the male lead role, and that she herself could stay out of it, but she didn't say it out loud.

Because her ex-husband Yuan Hong is doing much better than her now, one more film or one less film won't make a difference.

On the other hand, she is different. Although the chances of her making a comeback with this role are slim, once she takes the role, people in the industry will know that even if she offends Zhuma Company, she will still have roles to play, and her backer is still Tianyu Entertainment.

Even if Zhang You's claim that Zhuma Company was too busy to care about her doesn't happen, she can still find other roles to play. In the meantime, she'll need to find a way to get Tianyu Entertainment to endorse her. She'll probably need to ask Zhang You or Jiang Yiren to talk to Chairman Lin, the head of Tianyu Entertainment.

So Zhang Yi laughed and said, "It's already not easy to get a female lead. As for the male lead... I wouldn't mind acting with him, but let's not force it. Your husband is just a screenwriter, not an investor. He doesn't have that kind of say."

"You know what, they not only invested this time, but they also co-invested with my brokerage firm! Wow!"

At this point, Jiang Yiren couldn't help but sigh softly, saying, "To be honest, after investing so much money like this, I was so scared that I considered divorcing him. If he hadn't promised to sing if the movie didn't do well at the box office, I might not have continued living with him. We still have gambling debts to pay off, and now he's investing in a movie."

"Exaggerated"

Zhang Yi said with a smile.

"I'm not exaggerating."

Jiang Yiren gave a wry smile and said, "According to my husband, they plan to split the investment 50/50 between him and my agency. And do you know where my husband got so much money?!"

"They won't have to borrow it, will they!?"

Zhang Yi recalled what Zhang You had said at home a couple of days ago.

"You guessed right. He borrowed 30 million from Xu Qingya, 20 million from my agent, and the rest he actually borrowed from Chairman Lin, but..."

Jiang Yiren paused slightly, then said with some doubt, "That's strange, Chairman Lin really lent it to him."

immediately.

Jiang Yiren suddenly realized that they had known each other since childhood. After chatting for a few more minutes, Jiang Yiren said, "Get up quickly and come rehearse with me. Oh, and there's another song... never mind, I'll talk about it when you get here! When you leave the neighborhood, please bring me an egg tart from the cocoa shop east of your house."

The sunlight was clear and soft, casting a gentle glow. Zhang You, who had changed her clothes and put on makeup, took a piece of paper from Director Han with a puzzled look and asked, "What's this for?!"

"Help me see which character is better."

Han Wei replied.

Zhang You looked down and saw that the paper was covered with many characters, such as "Jinghe, Hongyu, Yunhe, Yiming, Kexia," as well as single characters like "Ran, Nuo, Lan, Nuo, Rou, Qing..."

Zhang You frowned, his expression somewhat strange.

He figured it out: this was for naming a child. A two-character name was probably for a boy, and a single-character name was for a girl. Zhang You looked up at Han Wei, who had been watching his expression closely, and asked, "Why are you showing me this?! Is it your relative's child, or... what's their surname?!"

"Han"

Han Wei immediately replied.

"Then let's call him Han the Three-Cut! You cut once, I cut once, and then we'll each cut once more."

Done.

Zhang You returned the paper to Han Wei and walked away with a smile.

Zhang You discovered that Director Han sometimes seemed to be acting strangely. Even though everyone knew he was Li Zongsheng, she still didn't believe it, and now she was asking him to name their child. Parents should just choose the name themselves; why was she asking an outsider like him? What was she thinking?!

It's not like he, an outsider, helped give birth to her.

He's willing to do it, but he's afraid the other woman's husband won't be.

(End of this chapter)