Su Yanxi was in a great mood. She cupped Bie Yunzong's face in her hands and generously returned a kiss to her husband's lips.
"Remember that top agent who retired from the industry? With this offer, I can confidently ask her to come back and sign a management contract with her."
Bie Yunzong hugged his wife and clicked his tongue lightly: "It's a good thing to sign with the agent you've chosen, but—does it have to be that person? She rejected you so ruthlessly last time, why not just choose someone else this time?"
Su Yanxi leaned against Bie Yunzong's chest, reached out and touched the big dog's face to soothe him: "No, my manager can only be her. She is excellent enough and has a very sharp eye; being able to sign with her and have my professional skills recognized by her is a huge affirmation for me."
"Okay." Bie Yunzong nuzzled against Su Yanxi's shoulder again, then quietly picked up the beautiful woman in his arms. "My wife, your happiness is the most important thing."
"Come on, let's go to bed!"
"Hey—wait!" Su Yanxi hurriedly grabbed the sofa armrest to stop Bie Yunzong from acting recklessly. "I haven't finished speaking yet!"
"You're not finished yet?" Bie Yunzong asked in surprise. "If you're not in a hurry, why don't you continue tomorrow? It's making me uncomfortable to hear you keep going on and on like this."
Su Yanxi rolled her eyes speechlessly: "What's wrong? Is that all you can think about?"
“Oh dear,” Bie Yunzong admitted with a smile, not at all ashamed, “that’s what’s on my mind too.”
"You're something else," Su Yanxi snorted. "I'm telling you, the first half of 'Red Flower' will be filmed in Guangcheng. Once I'm confirmed as the lead, I'll definitely be living in Guangcheng with the crew."
The good news wasn't particularly significant, but the bad news was truly frightening!
Bie Yunzong immediately lost his composure and shouted, "You're going to Guangcheng—? Who are you going with? Where are you staying? How long are you staying? Are you taking me with you?"
"Of course I'll go with my management team; I'll stay wherever the crew arranges. The first half will probably have about twenty episodes, right? It'll take at least a month to film." Su Yanxi said casually, "I'm going to work, what are you going to do?"
"I'll come with you!" Bie Yunzong grabbed Su Yanxi's hand and wouldn't let go. "If I don't go, wouldn't that be the same as us being separated for a month? I don't want that, I absolutely don't want that!"
Su Yanxi shrugged: "You have to take it whether you want it or not."
"No way!" Bie Yunzong demanded an exorbitant amount, "Unless we do it five times tonight!"
"Five times?" Su Yanxi clicked her tongue and pulled her hand back. "Are you trying to break my bones? Get off me, go take a shower!"
"You have to make it up to me, right? How am I supposed to live without my wife sleeping with me for a whole month?" Bie Yunzong pretended to be pitiful, but was actually bargaining like crazy. "Four times is fine too!"
Su Yanxi couldn't resist the stinky dog's clingy touch and disgustedly twisted Bie Yunzong's ear: "We'll talk about it later, go take a shower now! You smell all sweaty, do you expect me to touch you?"
"Alright." Bie Yunzong puffed out his cheeks and forcefully stuffed the hem of his T-shirt into Su Yanxi's hands. "Then, wife, help me take off my clothes."
Unable to refuse, Su Yanxi had no choice but to help Bie Yunzong take off his shirt.
With his upper body bare, Bie Yunzong looked like an Alaskan Malamute unleashed from its leash. After stealing two kisses from Su Yanxi, he skipped into the bathroom to take a shower.
Su Yanxi shook her head helplessly and cursed under her breath at the bathroom: "What a jerk!"
After seven years together, Bie Yunzong is still the same as before, unchanged.
Seven years of unchanging routine, Su Yanxi couldn't tell whether this was a good thing or a bad thing.
Is it a bad thing? It doesn't seem so. Bie Yunzong is still very clingy to him, cherishing and treasuring him.
But is this a good thing? It seems not. No matter how hard Bie Yunzong tried to cover it up, seven years of dating had indeed passed, taking something away from each other without them realizing it.
Su Yanxi's eyes dimmed, and as if possessed, she turned out the collar of the T-shirt in her hand and brought it to her nose to sniff it carefully.
Although he just joked about having a "sweaty smell," Bie Yunzong actually didn't sweat much—probably because he was in an air-conditioned environment the whole time.
Aside from a lingering scent of men's cologne and a faint smell of alcohol, his clothes were remarkably clean, likely picked up from a dining table or karaoke room. Aside from these two smells, Bie Yunzong's clothes were remarkably "clean."
Finally, the unfamiliar perfume scent is gone.
At three in the morning, the continuous, ambiguous breathing in the bedroom slowly subsided. Bie Yunzong lay on the bed, holding the naked beauty for a long time before finally reluctantly letting go and getting up, supporting himself on the bed.
He first blew out the nearly burnt-out scented candle, then turned back to give Su Yanxi another kiss on the cheek, and lovingly hugged the beauty again: "Wife, does it hurt anywhere?"
Su Yanxi cleared her throat and replied in a hoarse voice, "It's alright."
"That's fine then." Bie Yunzong was satisfied. He turned around, picked up the dirty tissues from the ground, and threw them into the trash can. "I'll take the trash outside first, and then I'll come back and wipe you down. Honey, if you're sleepy, go to sleep first, don't wait for me."
Su Yanxi yawned sleepily and closed her eyes: "I didn't mean to wait for you."
Bie Yunzong chuckled softly, picked up the trash bag, and strode out of the room.
Su Yanxi closed her eyes and listened to Bie Yunzong's movements, but what she was thinking about was the unbearable stickiness below her.
During this period, Bie Yunzong's whereabouts have become more and more mysterious, but after the battle that night, Su Yanxi can completely let down her guard.
Because... the consistency is normal.
At least this guy didn't cheat on his wife in bed.
The following morning, when Su Yanxi returned to her room after having breakfast downstairs, she happened to run into Bie Yunzong, who was peeking around looking for her.
Bie Yunzong kept a sour face, looking around for a while, until he saw Su Yanxi, then he smiled and said, "Wife!"
Su Yanxi glanced at him: "Sneaking around like that, looking for a mouse?"
"I've been looking for you." Bie Yunzong leaned closer affectionately, trying to take advantage of him. "Why are you up so early? It's Sunday, aren't you going to spend more time with me—"
Halfway through his sentence, Bie Yunzong noticed Lin Xiaohai following behind Su Yanxi, and his attitude suddenly changed, his tone becoming displeased.
Chapter 10
"Why are you following me into the room? Hurry up and bring up the breakfast."
"Go downstairs and eat by yourself." Su Yanxi poked Bie Yunzong's forehead and pushed the clingy dog away. "I called Xiao Hai in to help carry things. I'm taking my lawyer to see my agent to sign a contract today, and Xiao Hai is coming with me."
Lin Xiaohai, holding a large vase filled with white roses that Bie Yunzong had bought the night before, greeted Bie Yunzong respectfully: "Greetings, young master."
Bie Yunzong ignored him, focusing only on talking to his wife: "Can't we rest for a day before going? Why are we in such a rush?"
"The sooner we get the contract signed, the sooner we can get her to help plan my acting activities." Su Yanxi sat down at the dressing table. "Stop messing with me here, come downstairs for breakfast. Are we going out today?"
"...I wasn't planning on going out; I wanted to stay home with you." Bie Yunzong was uninterested, having lost his fighting spirit by the middle of the morning. "But you're going out—?"
"Then I'd better go out and find something to do, so I don't just get moldy at home."
Bie Yun sighed and swayed as he left the bedroom.
Su Yanxi glanced at the stinky dog's departing figure out of the corner of her eye and snorted coldly inwardly.
Lin Xiaohai, oblivious to the young mistress's subtle mood, arranged the vase and gazed at the white roses, exclaiming, "Young Master has such excellent taste! These white rosebuds, once they bloom, are as beautiful as an oil painting!"
"Among all the playboys in the world, none of them have bad taste." Su Yanxi closed the perfume bottle cap, her face expressionless. "If he had bad taste, how could he be a playboy?"
Lin Xiaohai quickly withdrew his hand and went to the young mistress's side to help pack her things for going out: "Young master, you came home late again last night? That's so unfair! You were out gallivanting around all day without a sound."
"It's not the first time you've done it, you'll get used to it. If you take it to heart every time, you'll never have a peaceful life."
After spraying perfume, Su Yanxi tidied her hair and clothes, and put her handbag aside.
Lin Xiaohai took the bag, still feeling indignant on behalf of the young mistress, and advised, "Madam, are you really not going to talk to the young master? Although it's not my place to interfere in your relationship with him, but..."
“It’s painful for me to see you suffering like this.”
"Me? I'm not upset," Su Yanxi said nonchalantly. "I was mentally prepared before marrying him. This was all expected, so what's there to be upset about?"
This answer puzzled Lin Xiaohai even more: "Why, Madam? You know the young master is a womanizer, why do you still want to marry him?"
Is this so hard to understand?
Su Yanxi chuckled, realizing she had made herself laugh.
“His parents—that is, the master and the mistress—have been very good to me; they can’t live without me and hope that I will become a member of another family and participate in managing family affairs. So I have no choice but to get married, and I can’t escape it.”
Seeing that the hickeys on her neck had been mostly covered up, Su Yanxi closed the concealer box and turned to look at Lin Xiaohai.
"Next is..."
"Do you really think the way I'm interacting with your young master is proper?"
Author's Note:
Su Su: I have special measurement skills
Hehehe, I like the unspoken understanding between long-married couples.
06#Did you spend four years dating?
On her way to her agent's house, Su Yanxi checked the agency contract.
"Hmm, no problem." Su Yanxi closed the folder and handed it to the side. "We won't open the partition window. You can give this to the lawyer later and have him sign it with this."
Lin Xiaohai was caught in a daze and quickly snapped out of it, taking the document: "Yes, yes, Madam."
"What's wrong?" Su Yanxi asked curiously, "Why are you spacing out?"
Lin Xiaohai didn't really understand what the young mistress meant by "improper ways of interacting" just now. But seeing that the young mistress didn't want to talk about it in detail, he was too embarrassed to ask and could only change the subject.
"It's nothing. I just don't understand how I should get along with my agent. Madam, will you tell her your true identity?"
Su Yanxi was also troubled by this problem, pressing her temples: "I actually didn't want to tell her. I didn't want her to treat me specially because of my status as 'someone else's young mistress.' But after spending every day together, she'll eventually realize something's wrong."
Su Yanxi couldn't come up with a solution, so she could only take it one step at a time.
"We'll see. If she doesn't ask, we won't say anything. If she does, we'll explain everything to her one by one." Su Yanxi rested her hand on the armrest, propping up her chin. "I'm an actress, so it shouldn't matter whether I'm single or not, right?"
Su Yanxi wasn't sure either.
The group arrived at the residential area where Zhou Tong lived alone.
As soon as the car came to a stop, Su Yanxi had only gotten halfway out when she heard Zhou Tong's voice from afar: "You're here? You're so fast! I thought you were going to prepare the agency contract first and wouldn't arrive until later."
Su Yanxi steadied herself and introduced the lawyer who came down from the passenger seat with a smile: "Attorney Chen has been preparing the contract for me for a long time, and he will be presiding over the signing ceremony today."
Zhou Tong smiled and pulled Su Yanxi over, glancing at Su Yanxi's car without making it obvious.
"You're really determined to win, aren't you? You even had your lawyer draft the contract before the audition."
"That's right, you have both talent and charisma, you're definitely the kind of artist I like!"
Compared to their first meeting, Zhou Tong's attitude had undergone a complete transformation—it was much better!
As a top agent who has mentored two TV Queens and one Movie King, Zhou Tong naturally wouldn't change his attitude towards Su Yanxi just because Su Yanxi drives a Rolls-Royce; the only thing that could change Zhou Tong's mind is his ability.
They have the ability to secure the lead role so easily.
"Sister Tong, you flatter me," Su Yanxi said modestly. "It is my honor to receive your recognition."
While remaining humble, Su Yanxi also gained more confidence, thinking that not relying on shady dealings was indeed the right choice. Zhou Tong's connections in the entertainment industry were second to none; if she had really used connections, it would most likely have been discovered.
Chapter 11