Entertainment Era: My Good Sister Is All Over the World

Life is full of unexpected events.

Huang Wenbin never expected that he would have a new job before "The Cotton Robe" even started filming.

This task was directly ordered by Director Wang, and since it concerned Director Chen's health, he had no choice but to accept it.

A short while later, Chen Huaikai's wife arrived, and the family began to talk.

"Old factory director, I agree to the film editing."

With everyone else outside the ward, Huang Wenbin spoke to Wang Yang, saying, "However, I'm worried that the editors at the studio won't cooperate and will delay the progress."

"Don't worry!" Wang Yang had already thought it through and said to Huang Wenbin, "I'll find a few experienced people to help you with the editing; I guarantee they won't hold you back."

Since Director Wang said so, Huang Wenbin immediately felt much more at ease.

Wang Yang asked, "How's the progress of the 'Kapok Robe' production team? Will it be affected?"

"No problem." Huang Wenbin answered confidently. "Everything is ready. Director Wu and Brother Xu are in charge of the training. I'll just hire a teacher from the school to oversee the acting training, and there won't be any issues."

"Okay. Then you can focus on editing." Wang Yang breathed a sigh of relief, feeling extremely fortunate that he had snatched Huang Wenbin up early. This kid is a jack-of-all-trades; he can do anything, and he does it well.

Genius!

"Director Chen has something to say to you later, so stay behind." Wang Yang patted Huang Wenbin on the shoulder. "I have things to do at the factory, so I'll be leaving now. Please tell Old Chen for me later."

Huang Wenbin nodded. Liang Xiaosheng was about to leave, but Huang Wenbin grabbed him and said, "Don't go yet, stay with me for a bit."

The two arrived at the entrance of the building.

There were quite a few people here, and they chose a quiet corner to stay in.

Liang Xiaosheng lit a cigarette, leaned against the window, and slowly smoked it.

Huang Wenbin, sitting on the steps, suddenly asked, "Brother Liang, what are you thinking about?"

"What are you thinking about?" Liang Xiaosheng gave a bitter smile: "I just saw that Chen Kaige is already married in his twenties, while I'm thirty and still a bachelor."

In fact, Liang Xiaosheng's personal qualities are quite good. The young man is good-looking, tall and upright, and he graduated from a prestigious university. He also works as an editor in the Literature Department of Beijing Film Studio.

Logically speaking, with such conditions, there should be no shortage of girls who want to marry him.

The key issue is that Liang Xiaosheng is an honest person. Whenever someone introduces him to a potential partner, he always tells them about his family situation beforehand.

His parents are in poor health, and he has an older brother who suffers from mental illness, as well as younger brothers and sisters.

As the second child, he had to shoulder almost all the family's expenses, and he would send most of his monthly salary back home.

When the girls heard about his family's situation, none of them would dare to marry into it.

Many people advised him that there was no need to reveal the truth beforehand, as he was deliberately scaring the girl away.

Liang Xiaosheng felt that if he didn't tell them in advance, it would be a complete lie, and such a marriage wouldn't bring happiness, so there was no need to harm others.

In 1981, he finally met a kind and beautiful girl.

As was Liang Xiaosheng's custom, he told her about his family situation in advance, but the girl replied, "I didn't expect you to have such a hard time, with such a heavy burden on your shoulders. You need someone to help you share the burden."

These words deeply moved Liang Xiaosheng, and they got married in the second year of their relationship, remaining as loving as ever.

"You will have a beautiful and virtuous wife."

Huang Wenbin smiled and comforted her, "Not only does she not look down on your family situation, but she also dotes on you, shares the housework, takes care of your siblings, and is quite a lucky charm for her husband..."

"Alright, alright!" Liang Xiaosheng interrupted Huang Wenbin speechlessly. "Director Jiang is too lazy to even make empty promises to me, and Elder Shi has stopped introducing me to girls. Where in the world are there girls this good? Even if there were, how could they possibly be interested in me?"

Huang Wenbin said with a smile, "That's how strange things are in this world. Just you wait and see, your good days are coming!"

"Okay, so what you said is true, there is a girl who has taken a liking to me."

Liang Xiaosheng looked unconvinced and scoffed, "Then what am I supposed to offer to marry her? With my meager salary of just a few dozen yuan, more than half of it has to be sent home. Do you think her parents would be happy about that?"

Huang Wenbin then said, "I have a job here that can make money, do you want to do it?"

"What kind of work?" Liang Xiaosheng asked, taken aback.

"As you know, I publish martial arts novels in Foshan Literature and Art." Huang Wenbin slowly explained his situation: "The circulation is now over 500,000. It's a bi-monthly magazine, and I have to serialize at least two chapters each month, which is 20,000 words. I'm currently filming a movie, and I just took on editing work, so I really don't have time to write."

Liang Xiaoming understood. He had no prejudice against popular fiction, but he had never seen it written before, so he was puzzled: "If I wrote it, would people want it?"

"It's alright, I already mentioned this to Editor-in-Chief Wang over there."

Huang Wenbin explained to Liang Xiaosheng, "Originally, they planned to hire a ghostwriter, but I didn't trust the person they found. So I wanted to hire you. I've already written the outline and details; you just need to create the specific plot. Your writing is quite good; surely you can handle a simple popular novel?"

Liang Xiaosheng still had reservations: "Isn't this inappropriate?"

"There's nothing wrong with it; this is a novel we co-authored."

Huang Wenbin casually explained, "This collaborative writing model is not uncommon in traditional literature. Isn't it like the 'Boxer Rebellion' co-authored by Feng Jicai and Li Dingxing?"

The two co-authored the novel *The Boxer Rebellion* in 1977, which was then picked up by the People's Literature Publishing House. They were temporarily transferred to No. 166 Chaonei Street to revise the manuscript. However, Li Dingxing was the head of the comic strip group at the Tianjin Fine Arts Publishing House and couldn't take a long leave, so Feng Jicai had to go to Beijing to revise the manuscript. Essentially, Li Dingxing collected materials, the two discussed the outline, and then Feng Jicai wrote it down.

That made it much easier for Liang Xiaosheng to accept.

"If you don't want people to know you write popular fiction, you can also use a pen name."

Huang Wenbin frowned, then said seriously, "From now on, you'll be called 'Rainy Night with a Knife but No Umbrella'."

"Carrying a knife but no umbrella on a rainy night?" Liang Xiaosheng read it aloud, then said somewhat strangely, "What a weird name, and why make the pen name so long?"

"Longer ones have more presence," Huang Wenbin said, barely suppressing a laugh, pointing at Liang Xiaosheng. "Don't you think the overall effect is beautiful?"

Liang Xiaosheng shook his head: "It just feels weird, because you've been holding back your laughter for a long time."

Huang Wenbin shrugged nonchalantly: "I've received professional training, and I generally don't laugh unless I can't help it."

"Say weird things again." Liang Xiaosheng finished his cigarette, stubbed it out, wrapped it in paper, and planned to throw it outside later.

He suddenly smiled and looked at Huang Wenbin: "What about you? Aren't you going to find someone? Beijing Film Academy is a hotbed of beauties. I've heard there are several really pretty girls there."

"I'm still young, there's no rush," Huang Wenbin said calmly.

"If you don't find a partner in college, it won't be so easy to find a suitable one after graduation."

Liang Xiaosheng graduated from Fudan University. When he was in school, some female classmates confessed their love to him, but he politely declined them all because of his family's financial situation. He still feels a little regretful when he thinks back on it now.

"I'd like to find someone a little more mature than me," Huang Wenbin said casually with a smile. "The girls in my class are pretty, but they lack poise and need to mature."

"You want to find an older sister to dote on you? You're a smart person."

Liang Xiaosheng's eyes crinkled into a smile as he teased, "You're so young, yet you know so much."

"Not really." Huang Wenbin didn't have a specific standard in mind either. "It's mainly about being able to find someone I like. Of course, pretty, elegant, and with good temperament are preferred."

Liang Xiaosheng couldn't help but feel frustrated for Huang Wenbin: "Your standards are sky-high. There's no such woman."

"I'll meet him eventually," Huang Wenbin said casually with a smile. "Maybe God will just give me one later."

Liang Xiaosheng found this statement rather absurd and couldn't help but chuckle: "You're dreaming."

"Excuse me, excuse me, excuse me! I've got some hot water!"

As the two were chatting, someone rushed upstairs shouting, carrying a teacup filled to the brim with water: "Get out of the way, I'm not responsible if you get burned!"

Huang Wenbin and Liang Xiaosheng quickly stepped aside.

Unfortunately, the man slipped and spilled the entire hot water from the teacup.

Just then, a female doctor pushed open the door and walked into the hallway, immediately exclaiming, "Ah!"

Seeing this, Huang Wenbin had no choice but to pull the female doctor into his arms and use his back to block the hot water.

"grass!"

The hot water scalded Huang Wenbin so much that he couldn't help but swear.

"Wenbin, are you alright?" Liang Xiaosheng was also startled and quickly stepped forward to ask with concern.

After asking the question, he turned to the man and said, "How do you walk? Can't you even hold the hot water steadily?! What if you burn someone?!"

Upon seeing this, the man apologized, then threw down his teacup and ran away.

"It's alright, just a little sore, nothing serious!"

Huang Wenbin breathed a sigh of relief and asked the female doctor in his arms, "Are you alright?"

The female doctor in his arms came to her senses and looked at Huang Wenbin with concern: "What injury could I possibly have? You should get treatment quickly; being scalded by boiling water is no small matter."

"what?"

Huang Wenbin felt the face in front of him was unbelievably beautiful, and somewhat familiar. "Zhu Lin?"

"You know me?" The female doctor in his arms paused for a moment. "But I don't think I know you."

Isn't this the Queen of the Women's Kingdom?

How did you end up working as a doctor in a hospital?

Then I remembered that there seemed to be some information that said Zhu Lin worked at a research institute in a hospital before she made the movie.

"Can you let me go first?" Zhu Lin asked Huang Wenbin with her big eyes.

Huang Wenbin felt a jolt and immediately released her: "I'm sorry, the situation was critical just now, I didn't mean to offend you."

"I know, so I'm not blaming you, am I?" Zhu Lin smiled and then said, "You really need to apply some medicine to your back, otherwise it will get blisters and inflammation. Come with me for a moment."

"Thank you for your help." Huang Wenbin did feel a burning pain in his back, so he followed her.

Seeing this scene, Liang Xiaosheng suddenly felt a pang of sadness. He touched his cigarette case; it was empty.

Did a wonderful woman really fall from the sky for this guy?

He touched his mouth again, feeling resentful, and cursed under his breath, "Damn it!"