Acting as the Movie Queen Love Rival’s Golden Finger GL - Chapter 11

The next time they met was on the day of the contract termination.

After Ming Xu and Xinghan finalized her treatment and other related matters, it was time for her to terminate her contract with Xiwang.

Early in the morning, the system, that alarm clock inside Song Jianzhi’s skull, woke her up: “Plot point detected: the female lead terminates her contract. Please proceed immediately to the scene of the incident.”

Song Jianzhi’s face was still buried in her goose-down pillow, the fluffy pillow covering most of it. She burrowed her head in and spoke in the hoarse voice of someone who had just woken up. “Did you install a detective novel vocabulary pack? What do you mean, scene of the incident?”

Complaints aside, Song Jianzhi still obediently climbed out of bed to work.

Speaking of which, it had already been three or four days since she had last seen Sister Ming Xu.

Thinking this, she casually picked a cherry-red flutter-sleeved top and paired it with high-waisted wide-leg jeans. The red set off her complexion wonderfully, and as she moved, her pale waist flashed in and out of sight.

When she went downstairs, Song Jianyin was taking a call at the dining table. She had always avoided working during meals, which made Song Jianzhi look over a few extra times.

Perhaps her curious expression was too obvious, because after Song Jianyin hung up, she brought up work with her for the first time. “It was Wei Zhixuan’s call.”

“Wei Zhixuan?”

Song Jianyin paused. “Wei Xiao’s older half-sister. Recently, she’s had some business dealings with the company.”

Song Jianzhi remembered now. This Wei Zhixuan was also quite an impressive figure. She had always been the person in charge of the Wei family. In a way, her position was similar to Song Jianyin’s. However, Song Jianyin looked after Song Jianzhi out of familial affection, while Wei Zhixuan simply did not take Wei Xiao seriously and allowed him to make trouble.

There was probably also a bit of the thought that the more useless Wei Xiao was, the more reassured she could be.

The novel had been abandoned, and Wei Zhixuan’s scenes had not even appeared yet before there was no more to read. Song Jianzhi had no idea whether her ending would be as miserable as the Song family’s.

After Song Jianzhi came back to herself, she picked up her sandwich and took a bite. Raising her head, she saw Song Jianyin observing her with a strange expression. After thinking it over, she said, “There really isn’t anything between Wei Xiao and me, Sister. I don’t like him anymore.”

“You don’t like him anymore?” Song Jianyin tapped the table. “I heard that you advocated poaching the female celebrity connected to Wei Xiao into the company.”

“I appreciate Ming Xu’s ability.” Song Jianzhi had grievances she could not voice and wrinkled her face.

Whether Song Jianyin believed her or not, she nodded slightly and let her off. “As long as you know what you’re doing.”

Song Jianzhi sighed in relief and obediently agreed. She finished the sandwich in a few bites, grabbed her bag, and took a ride in Song Jianyin’s car to Xiwang.

When Ming Xu arrived, the door to Sun Xia’s office was tightly shut. The secretary had her wait outside for a long time before a seductive, swaying actress finally came out from inside.

Ming Xu withdrew her gaze and pushed the door open.

Sun Xia was sitting behind his desk, one hand pressed against his tie. When he saw her come in, he chuckled and said, “Ming Xu, you’re just in time. President Wei also said he would come over this afternoon. Stay here with me for a while and accompany President Wei later.”

Ming Xu frowned slightly. “I’m here to discuss something.”

“What is it?” Sun Xia said casually. Then, remembering something, his tone turned dissatisfied. “Where’s your manager? Why didn’t you have her come to me if there’s an issue?”

Ming Xu concealed the disgust in her eyes and said bluntly, “I came to discuss contract termination matters with the company.”

Sun Xia froze for two seconds. Then his eyes suddenly widened, and he slammed his palm onto the solid wood desk. “You want to terminate your contract?!”

“Terminate?”

Another disbelieving voice rang out. It was a low male voice from the office doorway. Ming Xu turned sideways to look, and the disgust in her eyes deepened considerably.

“I don’t allow you to terminate your contract!” Wei Xiao strode toward Ming Xu, furious as he spoke.

Ming Xu said coldly, “This is between me and the company. It has nothing to do with you.”

“Listen carefully. I, Wei Xiao, do not allow it!”

Ming Xu looked at the man in front of her, who seemed ready to explode at any moment, and felt as if she were watching a chimpanzee walk around in the human world, acting tyrannical and raging at the sky, only short of wildly beating his chest.

No, Ming Xu immediately denied that thought. Chimpanzees were smarter than Wei Xiao.

After imagining Wei Xiao as a brainless primate, Ming Xu’s tolerance for him increased quite a bit.

She stopped looking at him and turned instead to Sun Xia. “I came today to discuss the specific matters of terminating my contract with you, President Sun.” Then, remembering that Wei Xiao was probably also here to discuss work, Ming Xu was rarely considerate. “Or we can arrange another time.”

Sun Xia’s condition was not much better than Wei Xiao’s. He deeply felt that the health-preserving tea he had drunk for the past three months had all gone to waste. Blood rushed to his head in anger, and the veins at his temples jumped sharply. “You can’t terminate your contract!”

“I’m willing to pay the penalty for breach of contract.”

Sun Xia roared, “This isn’t about the penalty fee!”

What did a penalty fee count for? Compared with Ming Xu’s current acting fees, of course keeping her in his hands would make far, far more money!

Sun Xia pointed casually. “Forget everything else. The drama President Wei invested in is still waiting for you to star in it. The contract is about to be signed!”

Ming Xu’s fingers moved. Since entering the office, her expression had been cold and frozen, but now a ripple appeared across it. She looked at Wei Xiao. “Director Zhao’s drama was invested in by you?”

Wei Xiao’s face was dark. “Yes. Before, you didn’t know it was my drama, so forget it. Now that you know, aren’t you going to—”

“Now that she knows, Ming Xu wants to leave even more, right?” A woman’s voice came from the doorway, its ending drawn out, casual and lazy.

Everyone looked over.

Ming Xu had already recognized who it was the moment she heard the voice. She looked over. Song Jianzhi stood by the door, one hand resting on the handle, with the terrified secretary behind her.

“Song Jianzhi! What are you doing here!” Wei Xiao was the first to roar. Sun Xia had originally been displeased that someone had barged into his office without permission, but the moment he heard the person’s surname was Song and saw that she was acquainted with Wei Xiao, he cautiously chose to wait and watch.

Song Jianzhi stepped inside in her high heels. Click, click, click. Each sound was like a step on Ming Xu’s heart.

Ming Xu’s brows relaxed. “Why are you here?”

If I didn’t come, wouldn’t you have been bullied by them?

“I was bored, so I came to take a look.” Song Jianzhi wrinkled her nose. She walked to Ming Xu’s side and stopped. She was only a tiny bit shorter than Ming Xu. Standing shoulder to shoulder, the two of them had an indescribable harmony.

Wei Xiao instinctively felt that this scene was especially glaring. He said sharply, “You did this on purpose?”

Without waiting for Song Jianzhi to speak, he continued directly, “Who knows who you bribed by my side? You found out that I invested in a drama for Ming Xu, and in order to stop her from acting in my drama, you threatened Ming Xu into changing companies, didn’t you?”

Song Jianzhi was stunned speechless, thoroughly shocked by Wei Xiao’s ability to fill in the blanks with his own imagination.

Ming Xu saw it all. She lowered her eyes to hide the strangeness there, and her voice was like cold jade striking stone, carrying firmness. “Miss Song is right. If I had known it was a drama you invested in, I would not have agreed to star in it.”

Originally, she had still hesitated over whether she should simply refuse the drama and terminate her contract decisively, but now—

Ming Xu pulled out a mocking smile.

No wonder Sun Xia was so eager to have her star in it. The company had done plenty of pimping people out before, but now they had actually done it to her.

Wei Xiao looked deeply at her. “Ming Xu, you’re still this strong and independent.”

Sure enough, to a simp, everything his goddess did was right.

Song Jianzhi almost flung an eye roll onto his face. She brushed the stray hair beside her cheek and tucked it behind her ear, then pointedly reminded him, “Stop overthinking it. Still don’t understand? Ming Xu doesn’t like you. She can’t wait to avoid you.”

Wei Xiao sneered. “Even if Ming Xu doesn’t like me, I still won’t like you.”

Song Jianzhi: …I really thank you for not liking me.

Facing a love-brain like Wei Xiao, who would twist anything said to him no matter what, Song Jianzhi gave up on reasoning. She directly took Ming Xu’s wrist and, raising her chin at Wei Xiao, said disdainfully:

“Competing with me for someone? Wei Xiao, what do you count as?”

Wei Xiao glared deathly at her. “Song—”

Rarely revealing the original owner’s arrogant and domineering side, Song Jianzhi raised her voice and cut him off. “In front of the Song family, you are nothing. Oh, do you still remember how you were invited out by my family’s bodyguards in the middle of the night not long ago?”

Wei Xiao had clearly recalled the humiliation of being dragged out of bed that day. His fists clenched, and his teeth gritted tightly.

Song Jianzhi smiled, charming and moving, with a hint of wickedness. “Before, I gave you some face, and you lost sight of who you were. Now…” Song Jianzhi lifted Ming Xu’s wrist and shook it. Ming Xu, who seemed to be thinking about something, let her do as she pleased. “You should see clearly that what you want, I can snatch over with a casual lift of my hand.”

Wei Xiao’s heart burned with rage. “What do you take Ming Xu for!”

Song Jianzhi was very confused as to how this idiot could so naturally put on the attitude of standing up for Ming Xu’s sake.

Wake up. All this time, the person who made Ming Xu unhappy and even repeatedly tormented her was you.

Song Jianzhi couldn’t help looking at Ming Xu, afraid that she would misunderstand her the same way Wei Xiao had. With this glance, she saw that Ming Xu’s expression had not changed, but within her clear, bright brown eyes were traces of indulgence, as well as inquiry.

As if saying, I was watching the show just fine. Why did you stop acting?

Song Jianzhi felt slightly reassured and said no more. Finally, she threw a sentence at Sun Xia. “I’m taking Ming Xu with me. As for the contract termination, someone will come and contact Xiwang.”

Sun Xia was like a minor soldier watching immortals fight. No matter what he thought inside, facing Song Jianzhi, who could press Wei Xiao to the ground and rub his face into it, he did not dare stop her.

He didn’t dare, but Wei Xiao, in the middle of his rage, did.

Wei Xiao had just been snapped at, and now when he looked at Song Jianzhi, it was as if enemies had met and his eyes were especially red with anger. He quickly walked over and blocked Song Jianzhi’s way.

With that expression, Song Jianzhi believed that if he did not avoid hitting women, she would have already been struck.

But holding the warm, soft wrist in her hand, Song Jianzhi gathered her courage and took a step forward, blocking Ming Xu behind her and also blocking Wei Xiao’s unwilling gaze toward Ming Xu.

“I advise you to move aside.” Song Jianzhi’s thoughts spun quickly, and she remembered what she had heard that morning. “I remember the Wei Corporation is currently discussing a partnership with my family. Wei Xiao, when you make trouble in the entertainment industry, Wei Zhixuan doesn’t care about you.”

“But if you affect the Wei Corporation’s project, will Wei Zhixuan let you off?”

The meaning behind her words was that Song Jianyin would vent anger on behalf of her younger sister, but to Wei Zhixuan, what did Wei Xiao count for?

Wei Xiao’s face paled slightly. His gaze fixed deathly on Song Jianzhi for a long while without speaking, his eyes nearly splitting with rage.

But he did not dare gamble.

The result was self-evident.

Ming Xu obediently followed Song Jianzhi out of Xiwang.

Ming Xu had watched this entanglement caused by herself from the sidelines. There had basically been no need for her to do anything. Instead, in front of Wei Xiao, Song Jianzhi had protected her behind her.

She followed Song Jianzhi into the elevator. There were only the two of them inside. It was quiet and enclosed, so silent that Ming Xu could hear her own heartbeat.

Song Jianzhi noticed nothing and was still studying the elevator buttons. She hesitated, pressed B1, and muttered, “Ming Xu, how did you come here? I can’t exactly let you take a taxi. I’ll call my driver and have him pick us up in the underground garage—”

Ming Xu interrupted her with action. She turned her hand over and grasped Song Jianzhi’s wrist, pulling her into her arms. One hand pressed against her back, the other wrapped around her waist. In the polished elevator wall before her, Ming Xu saw Song Jianzhi’s reflection, imprisoned in her embrace, graceful and slender-boned.

Song Jianzhi’s voice sounded a little panicked and a little confused. “Wh-what’s wrong?”

But she did not push Ming Xu away.

Ming Xu saw herself smile in the “mirror.”

What was wrong? She didn’t know either.

“I suddenly wanted to hug you,” Ming Xu murmured.

Song Jianzhi was quiet for a moment. The hands hanging by her sides slowly lifted and hugged her back.

“Are you sad?”

“Then let me hug you. You won’t be sad anymore.”

Author’s Note:

Ming Xu: None of your business. [Not really.]

Right now, Wei Xiao toward Song Jianzhi: enemies meeting.

In the future: love rivals meeting.