The Homophobic Woman Is Reborn And Turns the Best Actress Gay - Chapter 7

Ye Shixun remained lost in her thoughts until Zhou Shihan’s concerned voice reached her.

After a moment, Zhou Shihan chuckled softly. “Did you look into my background before coming here and discover that I’m different from what the rumors outside say?”

Having regained her composure, Ye Shixun slipped into her practiced business mode and solemnly fulfilled her responsibilities as a businesswoman.

“You must be joking. Before coming here, I merely asked your cousin, Chen Yuetian, a few simple questions about you. For example, Miss Zhou dislikes green peppers and enjoys eating fish.”

Ye Shixun truly had not investigated Zhou Shihan because there was simply no need.

Never mind their life-and-death friendship in her previous life—Zhou Shihan’s character alone meant she was not someone Ye Shixun needed to investigate closely.

Even asking Chen Yuetian about her before this meeting had merely been a formality.

Zhou Shihan smiled.

She disliked green peppers and loved fish, but she usually concealed those preferences very well when dining outside. Other than a few close female friends, only her relatives and family friends knew about them.

When Ye Shixun mentioned those two details, Zhou Shihan did not entirely believe her explanation, but she no longer remained suspicious.

“I’ve always enjoyed traveling freely without being restrained, but lately, I’ve begun to find that lifestyle boring. I’ve decided to return to the country and become an actress. My family opposed it, but they couldn’t overcome my stubborn temper.”

“However, if I signed with someone else’s company, I would certainly be restricted by all kinds of rules that would make things unpleasant. So I decided to establish my own company.”

“But trying to be both an actress and run a company by myself would leave me overwhelmed. That’s why my cousin introduced you to me. Are you interested in managing my talent agency?”

Ye Shixun narrowed her beautiful eyes slightly.

For a moment, she wondered whether she had imagined the determination in Zhou Shihan’s voice.

Ye Shixun sat there with countless thoughts turning through her mind, although her expression revealed nothing.

Zhou Shihan’s words suggested that she had merely chosen this path for amusement, but her eyes could not deceive Ye Shixun.

She was determined to make her mark in the entertainment industry.

“If Miss Zhou places the agency in my hands, how much freedom will you give me to operate it?”

Ye Shixun understood Zhou Shihan.

Although she did not possess remarkable business talent, she had an instinctive grasp of human nature, particularly when it came to those she manipulated in the palm of her hand.

In that respect, she was rather similar to Su Yun.

The only difference was that Young Miss Zhou treated everything as a game, while Su Yun was a genuine devil through and through.

At that moment, the food began arriving.

Once all the dishes had been served, Zhou Shihan suddenly became serious.

“To be honest with you, this company can only be established under your name. You will serve as its president publicly. Naturally, as long as you do not interfere with my interests, every aspect of the company’s operations will be handled according to your own judgment.”

Zhou Shihan was a generous wealthy heiress, but she was also a cunning beauty.

She understood the principle of trusting those she employed and not employing those she distrusted.

By handing complete control of an entertainment agency to Ye Shixun, she would not only earn Ye Shixun’s gratitude but also motivate her to work even harder for the company.

“Miss Zhou’s proposal is excellent, but I have one condition.”

Ye Shixun considered it for a while before ultimately deciding to voice it.

Zhou Shihan picked up a piece of fish with her chopsticks and casually placed it in Ye Shixun’s bowl.

She blinked her alluring eyes at her.

“Let’s eat first.”

Looking at the fish in her bowl, Ye Shixun could not help laughing.

“All right. Let’s eat first.”

Although the meal itself was not their true purpose for meeting, they had already settled all their terms and points of disagreement, so both of them enjoyed the food.

“Now that we’ve eaten and drunk our fill, you can tell me what condition you wanted to propose.”

Zhou Shihan sat upright, her voice filled with her unique confidence.

Ye Shixun thought for a moment before speaking hesitantly.

“I hope that if anything ever happens to this company in the future, I will bear the responsibility alone. No one else in the company may be implicated—including you or the Zhou family.”

Ye Shixun feared that even if she gave everything she had in this life, she still might not be able to defeat Su Yun.

But she did not want to drag down the people who had helped her.

Ye Shixun’s words left Zhou Shihan stunned.

After her surprise faded, Zhou Shihan looked into Ye Shixun’s eyes with increasing seriousness.

“All right. I agree.”

After signing the contract, Ye Shixun stood and prepared to leave.

Before she could go, however, Zhou Shihan suddenly called out to her.

Ye Shixun turned around and saw the concern in Zhou Shihan’s eyes.

She froze briefly before immediately understanding what Zhou Shihan was worried about.

She reassured her, “The entertainment industry may be a troublesome place where people constantly scheme against one another, but acting is still a profession.”

“And I am a legitimate businesswoman.”

Those two sentences dispelled the faint concern in Zhou Shihan’s heart.

The two exchanged a smile, their unspoken understanding contained within it.

After leaving the hotel, Ye Shixun’s lips curved into a self-mocking smile.

In her previous life, hatred had blinded her.

To take revenge, she had not only operated legitimate businesses but had also turned around and entered the criminal underworld.

Having received another chance at life, Ye Shixun only wanted to be a respectable businesswoman.

Although she currently possessed nothing and all the money in her hands had been provided by those wealthy heirs, Ye Shixun believed in her ability to conduct business.

In her previous life, if she had not smuggled a shipment through the underworld and encountered a treacherous, double-dealing traitor, she would not have fallen so quickly or so disastrously.

Still, when Ye Shixun thought about how she had met Gu Su’an before any of the misfortunes occurred in this life, she felt that this was the only good thing capable of making her wake up laughing from a dream.

When she returned home, the house was empty.

Gu Su’an’s luggage remained inside, and she had taken out some of the wet clothes to deal with them.

Thinking about what Gu Su’an had said that morning, Ye Shixun guessed that she had probably gone to the company to meet her new manager.

Ye Shixun changed out of her professional suit and into casual clothing, then went to the supermarket to buy some vegetables.

She planned to return and personally cook for Gu Su’an.

According to her memories from her previous life, Gu Su’an was still completely helpless when it came to everyday tasks at this time. Ye Shixun had even heard that when Gu Su’an cooked rice, she did not know she needed to rinse it first.

At the company, Gu Su’an met the manager who had been assigned to her.

The woman was young and had only recently completed her internship. For now, Gu Su’an was the sole artist she managed, and she even appeared shy when she first saw her.

The manager’s surname was Zheng, and she was three years older than Gu Su’an.

Gu Su’an did not stand on ceremony and simply addressed her as Sister Zheng.

As Gu Su’an returned from the company, she wondered how Ye Shixun’s search for an apartment had gone, since Ye Shixun had said that morning that she would help her find one.

Whenever she thought of Ye Shixun, she felt that the woman was extremely strange.

From the first time they met, when Ye Shixun unhesitatingly paid her sister’s medical expenses, to yesterday, when Gu Su’an learned that Ye Shixun had previously lived as a wandering street performer, she increasingly found Ye Shixun impossible to understand.

No matter what people did in life, they should have some sort of motive.

What motive did Ye Shixun have for doing so much for her?

Gu Su’an could not be blamed for being suspicious.

After her family went bankrupt and her sister died, she had changed within a single year from a wealthy young lady into a working woman, then from someone who depended on her sister into a person completely alone in the world.

She had experienced far too much, and her heart could no longer bear it.

Ye Shixun had just finished cooking the final dish when she heard a familiar knock at the door.

She happily ran over and opened it for Gu Su’an.

When she saw Gu Su’an looking exhausted while pretending to be energetic, Ye Shixun’s heart clenched, and a wave of helplessness swept over her.

In their previous life, she could have pulled Gu Su’an into her arms and comforted her properly.

But now, she could only stand before her as a familiar yet distant friend and ask what was wrong.

“What happened? You don’t look well. Did you encounter some trouble?”

When speaking to outsiders, Ye Shixun’s tone always carried a barely perceptible forcefulness.

But in front of Gu Su’an, it softened completely.

Her gentle, soothing voice improved Gu Su’an’s mood considerably.

In truth, Gu Su’an had not encountered any major problems.

She simply could not understand why Ye Shixun treated her so well.

“Nothing happened. I just thought about my sister on the way back and became a little sad.”

Gu Su’an’s spirits were low.

Although she concealed it well, Ye Shixun still noticed immediately.

Ye Shixun instinctively stretched out her long arms and pulled Gu Su’an into an embrace.

Holding her quietly, she spoke in the same gentle voice as always.

“Don’t be afraid. I’ll stay by your side from now on. No matter what happens, you’ll never be alone.”

To the current Gu Su’an, those words were undoubtedly deeply moving.

But it was precisely because of those words that her face instantly turned deathly pale.

She remembered her sister once telling her that she was a lesbian and liked women.

So was Ye Shixun helping Gu Su’an unconditionally because of her sister?

Gu Su’an silently withdrew from Ye Shixun’s embrace.

Seeing the hidden pain in Ye Shixun’s eyes, her breathing grew increasingly rapid, and she instinctively took two steps backward.

So Ye Shixun was the woman my sister loved before she died?

Sister Gu had indeed had a girlfriend while she was alive.

That woman was a wealthy young lady, but she had only been playing with Sister Gu.

Otherwise, she would not have disappeared without a trace after something happened to her.

Coincidentally, Ye Shixun appeared at exactly that time and even told a lie involving Sister Gu.

When Gu Su’an placed all these suspicious details together, she suddenly felt as though she had reached enlightenment.

Ye Shixun helped her because Ye Shixun had been her sister’s girlfriend.

As for the pain that had flashed through Ye Shixun’s eyes just now, it was merely because she had suddenly remembered how Su Yun had caused Gu Su’an’s death in their previous life.

However, if Ye Shixun knew what Gu Su’an was truly thinking at that moment, her poor little heart would probably ache even more.

Wife, stop imagining things. Even now, I still don’t know what your sister’s name was.