Assistant Wu organized the real estate information overnight and sent it to Chen Yiran’s email. After Chen Yiran forwarded it to Chen Xi, the two girls hid in the room and started a video chat with Wu Hui to choose a house.

“Jinguan Nancheng, Huadu, Kensney Manor, Ruiqi·Man……” Wu Hui was astonished. “Your President Chen has collected all the luxury houses in A City!”

She had seen a lot of wealthy people who collects all kinds of strange things. But collecting all kinds of luxury houses, President Chen was still the first.

“Can we really pick one of these houses?” Wu Hui still felt a bit surreal. She thought that one day a pie might fall from the sky and hit her, but she never thought that the pie would weigh a ton.

Her head was swollen! She’s actually struggling which mansion in A City to live in!

“I think Yinwan isn’t bad.” Li Linlin pointed out Yinwan’s information. “It’s right between our studio and the school. It’s close to both sides and there’s a big commercial district nearby, making it convenient if we want to go shopping, watch movies, and so on.”

Chen Xi nodded. “Not bad indeed.”

Wu Hui raised an objection, “I think we should pick the most expensive one to live in so President Chen’s mansion won’t be wasted!”

Although the house in Yinwan was something she might not be able to afford it in her lifetime, but among Chen Yiran’s heaps of luxury houses, it’s neither the largest nor the most expensive one. Why was the two of them interested with it after choosing for a long time?

“Let’s stay in a big villa.” Wu Hui looked at them expectantly.

Li Linlin tapped her head and said in a troubled tone, “I live in a big villa at home and will still live in a big villa outside. There’s nothing new at all.”

Wu Hui: “……”

Sorry for troubling you. 🙂

“Xixi.” Li Linlin raised her eyebrows and looked at Chen Xi while pretending to be nonchalant. “Which one does Brother Yiran usually like to stay in?”

Chen Xi also raised her eyebrows in pretense and looked at Li Linlin with a shadow of a smile. “You want to choose the one where Brother Yiran usually lives?”

“No way.” Li Linlin laughed twice. “I was just asking.”

Chen Xi said, “Don’t bother, Brother Yiran usually stays in Xinghai Garden and it’s not included here. Assistant Wu certainly can’t sort out the houses Brother Yiran uses all the time.”

“Oh…… That makes sense.” Li Linlin pursed her lips and suddenly lost half of her interest in the houses. “Then let’s go with Yinwan.”

“Okay. Wu Hui, what do you think?”

“……” I think your question is insincere. 🙂

Wu Hui showed a professional fake smile. “If it’s Yinwan then it’s Yinwan. I also like villa flats.”

“Then I’ll go tell Brother Yiran.” Chen Xi ran out of the room and found Chen Yiran in the living room. “Brother Yiran, we’ve decided to live in the house in Yinwan!”

“En.” Chen Yiran was talking to Chen Zui. When he heard Chen Xi calling him, he turned back and nodded to her. “Got it. I’ll ask Assistant Wu to go over and tidy up first. He will take you there once everything is done.”

“Thank you, Brother Yiran!” Chen Xi happily gave him a heart sign. “Happy New Year!”

In Chen Xi’s room, Li Linlin was being tortured by Wu Hui, asking her what she had eaten that night. Seeing Chen Xi return, Li Linlin hung up the video call quickly and leaned on the sofa with a sigh of relief. “Wu Hui’er is becoming more and more like my grandmother now, which is scary.”

“It’s your first time joining the crew. She must be nervous.” Chen Xi sat next to Li Linlin and casually opened a bag of potato chips. “Only I can eat this, you can’t.”

Li Linlin: “……”

She snorted at Chen Xi, lowered her head and continued to look through Chen Yiran’s real estate information. “Xixi, why does Brother Yiran like to buy houses so much?”

“It’s probably a form of psychological compensation.” Chen Xi had a piece of potato chips stuffed in her mouth and her speech was a little incoherent.

Li Linlin looked up at her, baffled. “Compensation?”

“Yeah.” Chen Xi dusted her hands and swallowed the potato chips in her mouth. “You know he was raised by my dad, right?”

“I know.” Li Linlin nodded. Chen Xi once told her about Chen Yiran’s life experience. His parents divorced before he was even born. His mother took care of him alone and had to juggle her work. Later, due to fatigue, she had a traffic accident and wasn’t able to be rescued.

“I have never met my aunt but my grandparents say she’s stubborn and strong. When she married uncle, the family didn’t agree. Then later when they divorced, she worked hard on her own to take care of Brother Yiran without telling her family.” Chen Xi sighed. “When she had an accident, my dad had to rush out of town to handle everything. He hadn’t even graduated from university at that time.”

Li Linlin froze for a moment, then asked Chen Xi, “Has Brother Yiran followed Uncle Chen since then?”

“En, my grandparents often goes on field visits and has no time to take care of children. Brother Yiran was only two years old but had to stay with my dad in the dorm for days.” These things were also what Chen Xi heard her mother say when she chatted with her once. “You’ve no idea, Brother Yiran has been worrying about the housing prices in A City since he’s eight.”

Li Linlin: “……”

That’s…… pretty forward-looking.

“When my dad first entered ABA, he only bought a small two-bedroom house for himself and Brother Yiran. Later my dad met my mom, and Brother Yiran thought they would definitely change to a bigger house since there’ll be a baby in the future, which is me—” Chen Xi patted her chest. “He was worried that my dad couldn’t afford a house, so he planned to move to the campus and give up his room.”

The more Li Linlin listened, the more uncomfortable she felt in her heart. “Brother Yiran is so young but so sensible.”

“Yeah, he’s worried that my dad wouldn’t be able to find a partner because of him, and at the same time, he’s worried that after my dad found a partner, my dad wouldn’t want him anymore.” Chen Xi said, feeling sad herself. “My mom felt heartbroken for him at that time. Later, they moved to a bigger house with a room for Brother Yiran, who was so happy.”

“Wuuwuuwuu, Brother Yiran is so pitiful.” Li Linlin cried directly. “He’s so pitiful, yet I deliberately didn’t greet him today and didn’t wear the earrings he gave me. Wuuwuuwuu, I shouldn’t have sulked. I’ll treat him well in the future.”

Chen Xi: “……”

Linlin can really cry on cue.

“You still think he’s pitiful after seeing his real estates?” Chen Xi asked.

“……” Li Linlin glanced at the dazzling mansions and coughed lightly. “No amount of houses can make up for the lack of them as a child.”

Chen Xi was silent for a moment, then said, “I think it can. If one set isn’t enough, then one hundred sets.”

Li Linlin: “……”

You’re right.

———

As soon as the year passes, time seemed to fly faster. Li Linlin completed her final exams in early January and seamlessly joined the crew of 《Fatal Heartbeat》.

The two assistants that Chen Yiran assigned to her went with her to the set. It was also when Li Linlin asked them about their expected monthly salary that she learned Chen Yiran was paying them directly.

“I think President Chen takes good care of you.” Wu Hui sat in the nanny van and leaned towards Li Linlin as she whispered, “Is he a siscon?”

Li Linlin held the script in her hand and didn’t even want to look at Wu Hui. “I’m not his sister.”

“But he always regards himself as your brother.”

Li Linlin looked over. Wu Hui touched her chin and said, “You still haven’t given up yet, have you? I’m telling you, it’s already not easy for the two of you to maintain your original relationship after your last failed confession, if you do it again, you won’t even be able to maintain superficial harmony.”

Li Linlin snorted and lowered her head to get back to the script. “You don’t understand, everything will be different after 《Fatal Heartbeat》 aired.”

This time 《Fatal Heartbeat》 would be airing on ABA’s weekly theater. This ‘theater’ produces high-quality dramas, usually about twenty episodes. Two episodes were aired on the TV station every week, with a two-hour delay on the Internet. Another feature of the weekly theater was that the drama would air while it was being filmed.

The drama currently airing would be finished in early February, and 《Fatal Heartbeat》 would take over. It would air during the winter vacation and the Spring Festival which could be said to be a very good schedule.

Wait another month, when the drama officially starts, she, Li Linlin, would turn everything around and have a new start!

Wu Hui was confused by what she said. “What does that have to do with whether 《Fatal Heartbeat》 aired or not?”

“You don’t need to understand.”

Wu Hui: “……”

Why does she have a feeling she’s missing something? Was Li Linlin doing something silly again?

“Li Linlin, don’t think that just because an official account praised you with a few sentences, you can go crazy. What they said is just talk on paper. No one knows what the public opinion will be like after it really airs.” The thought filled Wu Hui with apprehension. “Remember to close your private message after the drama starts in a month.”

“……” But that’s exactly what Li Linlin wanted.

At the opening ceremony, Li Linlin once again met the other actors in the drama. It seemed that the male and female lead have already filmed a few scenes and they both attended with makeup on. When Li Linlin saw them, she walked up to greet them, “Hello.”

Lin Zhen glanced at her and smiled without speaking. Zheng Yang, who was next to Lin Zhen, took over the conversation to avoid awkwardness, “Hi, Little Sister Linlin.”

Li Linlin was the nation’s little sister and many people call her thus. Zheng Yang wasn’t much older than her and they were both actors in the same crew so it didn’t sound odd for him to call Li Linlin that way. “Teacher Zheng, just call me by my name.”

Zheng Yang smiled and said, “If you call me Teacher Zheng, then I’ll call you Teacher Li.”

“I don’t deserve, I don’t deserve.”

Although Zheng Yang and Lin Zhen were both idols, they have appeared in several TV dramas, while Li Linlin was still a blank slate in this industry.

“How is Teacher Li undeserving? I think those official accounts have blown you up to the sky.” Lin Zhen, who had been silent up until now, suddenly interjected. Zheng Yang stood in place and laughed awkwardly. He knew that Lin Zhen had opinions about Li Linlin, but he didn’t expect her to be so blunt.

As soon as Lin Zhen mentioned the official account, Li Linlin was also quite indignant. “I also think it’s irresponsible for them to write like that!”

Zheng Yang: “……”

He couldn’t tell, but Little Sister Linlin was also clever.

The corners of Lin Zhen’s mouth twitched, not knowing how to respond to Li Linlin’s words. At this moment, screams from fans suddenly rang out in the set. Several people looked over in the direction of the sound and Lin Zhen asked casually, “Teacher Zheng, is that your fans?”

“I don’t think so. They already came the day I joined the crew.”

“Aaahhhhh, it’s Shang Ci! Shang Ci’s here!” Wu Hui, who had transformed into a screaming chicken, helped them answer this question.