Chapter 20.5

The official Weibo account of □□ responded quickly, immediately explaining the group’s new charity project and creating a website to provide updates on the project’s progress and financial situation. They requested everyone to supervise the allocation of every penny.

Online public opinion unanimously praised this. Yu Zhi felt that the direction of this plot seemed somewhat familiar. After repeatedly reading the news, she suddenly remembered that this charity auction was the place where Jiang Qianchen in the original book saved the female lead Lu Zhenzhen.

Yu Zhi remembered how it was described in the original text: Lu Zhenzhen was working as a waitress at the event and accidentally spilled red wine on the supporting female character, White Lotus. The female lead suffered from the cunning schemes of the supporting character, but later the male lead found out and bought an expensive bracelet to apologize to the female lead.

At that time, when she read this part, she could only feel speechless. This kind of old-fashioned CEO novel plot was simply eye-catching. But as a supporting character with excellent professional ethics, she had already memorized the lines for this part and was waiting for a moment to shine.

However, now the supporting character herself was still taking a bath in the hot spring, and the expensive bracelet inexplicably turned into an art painting. Yu Zhi was puzzled, suspecting that she had read a fake book. How could the play start before the actors even appeared on stage?

Yu Zhi poked the system that gave her the script, but it showed that customer service was busy, and the completion rate for tasks she hadn’t checked in a while had reached 95%.

Yu Zhi: “…”

She was a little confused. Recently, she seemed to have done nothing special except eating more than usual. How could the task completion rate be so fast?

[Hey, the system is here.]

The system, who also served as the chief screenwriter, wiped off some sweat. Recently, in order to meet the KPI, it had signed several new writers to maintain the unstable novel world and worked 996^[1]The 996 working hour system (Chinese: 996工作制) is a work schedule practiced illegally by some companies in China. It derives its name from its requirement that employees work from 9:00 am to … Continue reading every day to answer their questions. For hosts like Yu Zhi, who had excellent acting skills, strong abilities, and were rich and leisurely, it adopted a free-range working style, so it didn’t have to worry much. Unexpectedly, it was careless and almost didn’t notice the problem with this small world, almost causing a disaster.

[Congratulations, the task is about to be completed. Just continue to follow the original plot and you can do whatever you want.]

[After the task is successfully completed, there will be a surprise gift package for you~]

Yu Zhi wasn’t very interested in the surprise gift package. She tried to quietly curse Jiang Qianchen. The feeling of being suppressed was greatly reduced, as if she was about to completely break free from the control of the foolish lover character.

Great! She only needed to complete the part where the supporting character turns evil, and then she could finish the play perfectly. Just as she was thinking about how to perform this magnificent play to the fullest, she felt sleepy and received a blackmail letter from a stranger in her mailbox.

[I have evidence that your husband is cheating on you. If you want to keep the information from being exposed, put ten thousand yuan in cash on xx road tomorrow afternoon, otherwise, hehe.]

[Attachment: Picture 1.]

Yu Zhi clicked on the picture and struggled to identify the blurry mosaic image, which seemed to be Jiang Qianchen, and the other character was most likely Lu Zhenzhen, the protagonist of the original novel.

However, the plot of this original novel was too ridiculous. Yu Zhi deeply felt that being able to deceive people with such obviously fake images at a glance was truly a medical miracle.

Yu Zhi decided to pretend to be blind, not bothering with these tools who were arranged to deliver props, and returned home early to prepare to act out her final part according to the original script.

Sure enough, the male lead had not returned to the other set.

Yu Zhi hid the spoils she bought at the mall today, let Aunt Chen and the others go back to rest, and began to brew her emotions.

When Jiang Qianchen entered the house, he saw such a scene: the huge villa was not lit, only a few candles on the dining table emitting a faint light. His wife sat under the candlelight, her eyes dark, her all-black robe blending completely into the dark background, giving off a somewhat eerie vibe.

Although he knew that Yu Zhi was not a rigid and conventional lady, occasionally showing a playful and willful side, he found it quite cute.

He just didn’t know what strange things she had been watching recently. Jiang Qianchen unbuttoned his suit jacket, draped it over his arm, and thought with a hint of interest, perhaps… she was playing the role of a witch?

“You’re back.”

If Yu Zhi, with her darkened makeup, heard this sentence, she would probably be furious. However, at this moment, Yu Zhi was already immersed in it. She spoke hoarsely, suppressing all her sadness within her: “I heard that you attended the auction today.” Yu Zhi accused heavily, “Why didn’t you take me with you?”

“You’re tired of me, aren’t you? Otherwise, how could you have the opportunity to be affectionate with someone else?” he retorted.

She scoffed coldly, “Now, are you afraid that I’ve taken someone else’s place?”

“…”

Jiang Qianchen rubbed his forehead and decided to have Aunt Chen control the TV at home and watch less of these unproductive content. However, just as he was about to take a step forward, Yu Zhi forcefully interrupted the spell:

“Don’t come near me. I don’t want to hear your hypocritical explanations!”

Yu Zhi desperately tried to evoke tears, “Jiang Qianchen, your eyes can’t deceive people. I know that you are no longer the person I once deeply loved.”

Perhaps due to recent negligence in her acting career, tears refused to fall. Yu Zhi never expected that one day she would become a third-rate actress who needed to prepare chili water and onion slices in advance. A sense of sorrow and indignation surged within her.

“You would rather spend a fortune to buy a bracelet for another woman… oh no, a calligraphy or painting,” Yu Zhi almost got the line wrong, “but you have never bought me anything.” Speaking up to this point, Yu Zhi couldn’t help but feel a little guilty. No problem, using Jiang Qianchen’s black card for shopping didn’t count as him buying things for her.

Seizing this pause, the person involved finally had a chance to defend himself. He walked up to her and spoke softly, “That painting was made for you.”

After saying that, Jiang Qianchen paused for a moment, his tone somewhat unnatural. “Aren’t you the one who likes this artist’s work the most?”

“You’re saying that painting was bought for me?”

Yu Zhi wiped away imaginary tears and her heart skipped a beat. She completely forgot about her previous nonsense about liking a certain master, and she never expected Jiang Qianchen to proactively spend a high price to buy it for her.

Although there were significant deviations from the actual and original plot, she decided to salvage the situation. “Jiang Qianchen, you still don’t understand what I want.”

“I don’t want much,” Yu Zhi looked up at the sky at a forty-five-degree angle and blurted out, “Just the new diamond bracelet from V brand.”

“Okay.”

Surprised by Jiang Qianchen’s quick agreement, Yu Zhi couldn’t help but feel astonished. She tentatively added, “And… a Princess cruise yacht.”

“Okay.”

“I also want a divorce.”

“Not okay.”

Jiang Qianchen expressionlessly turned on the lights in the villa, the bright light instantly overshadowing the dim candlelight.

The atmosphere suddenly became silent.

The man pursed his thin lips, furrowed his brows, clearly in a very displeased mood.

His eyes were dark and deep, his tone unprecedentedly serious, “Yu Zhi, do you think this is funny?”

“Marriage is not something to joke about,” the high-end suit in his hand unconsciously crumpled, Jiang Qianchen tried to calm down, “I don’t want to hear you mention the word ‘divorce’ again.”

Jiang Qianchen paused for a few seconds before adding, “Try to watch fewer useless TV dramas in the future. Especially those so-called idol dramas.”

Yu Zhi always detested people speaking in a commanding tone. She had been taught since childhood to be gentle and courteous, to be a well-behaved and obedient student. After marriage, she was supposed to be calm and magnanimous, to uphold the honor and reputation of the family. At this moment, it seemed like all the suppressed rebelliousness from her youth erupted.

“Jiang Qianchen, do you have the right to control what I like?”

Yu Zhi tried to steady her breathing, then threw the blackmail email at Jiang Qianchen, “You behave improperly outside, letting others send me such pictures, and you still have the nerve to give me orders?”

“This is not the company, and I am not your subordinate.”

Jiang Qianchen closed his eyes, not wanting to escalate the argument.

“I think we both need to calm down.”