The Wheelchair Scum Alpha Has Something to Say (GL) - Chapter 13

Fortunately, Chen Mengyi was not the type to discipline Bai Yue in front of outsiders. In fact, she rarely disciplined Bai Yue, choosing instead to look at her with such intense worry that Bai Yue would feel embarrassed herself.

Since they were at Haiyin Entertainment Company, Chen Mengyi naturally wouldn’t humiliate Bai Yue while Zhang Haiyin was present. She acted as if nothing had happened and smiled at Bai Yue: “Yueyue, why didn’t you tell me you were coming to Haiyin?”

“I, I was afraid you were busy.”

After a brief exchange of pleasantries, everyone took their seats, and Zhang Haiyin also greeted Bai Yue. Once they were all seated, Chen Mengyi asked Bai Yue again: “Yueyue, is there something you needed here? Didn’t you already visit yesterday?”

Bai Yue first cautiously placed the milk tea aside. Chen Mengyi smoothly took it and handed it to her assistant: “Please dispose of this.”

Actually, the milk tea was already gone, with only a few pearls left at the bottom. At this very moment, Bai Yue still had a pearl in her mouth. She felt a bit of regret, but Chen Mengyi had taken it away, and she couldn’t ask the assistant to put it back.

Hearing Chen Mengyi’s question, Bai Yue forced her thoughts to focus. She had been too lazy for too long; she had forgotten the main business. If this were in her previous life, her boss at the company would have told her to quit. She cleared her throat with a light cough, then spoke.

“I heard that Su Xi is investing in a movie recently. I’m quite interested in this. I’d like to check out the movie she’s investing in, too.”

Chen Mengyi glanced at Zhang Haiyin, who immediately understood. As the boss of an entertainment company, how could she be unaware of industry matters, especially the dramatic story of Su Xi and her online boyfriend? She immediately smiled and said: “That’s right, Miss Su is currently investing in Love Before the End of the World. Judging by the script, it’s a decent movie. Casting is mostly complete, and filming has recently begun, but for some reason, Miss Su temporarily replaced one of the lead actors yesterday.”

She omitted one sentence: The temporary change in casting required the entire framework to be re-shot, but the director was extremely grateful because the original lead actor was truly terrible.

“To my knowledge, the funding for this movie is currently sufficient, and the directorial team is highly likely to reject additional investment.”

Reject additional investment? Really? I don’t believe it.

Bai Yue didn’t believe the directorial team would reject additional investment. Directors weren’t stupid; wasn’t more money better? And even if they did reject additional investment, they would only be rejecting small sums. She was investing a large sum, the kind that would make the directorial team stop dead in their tracks upon seeing the money. They wouldn’t possibly refuse.

So, Bai Yue hesitated for a moment, then looked at Chen Mengyi: “I want to invest in this movie.”

The Chen Mengyi in the original novel definitely wouldn’t have refused, nor did she have the power to refuse. Even if the villain Bai Yue wanted to use the entire Bai Group for a whim, she had no standing to overturn the decision. But the situation was different now. Chen Mengyi was in charge, so Bai Yue definitely had to ask Chen Mengyi for such a large amount of money.

However, the current Chen Mengyi wouldn’t refuse either. She smiled: “Sure, Yueyue, go ahead and play if you want. How much do you want to invest?”

Bai Yue genuinely had no concept of money in this life. She had practically never spent money on her own since childhood and didn’t know the purchasing power of money in this world. She thought about the amount the original Bai Yue invested in the novel, and after hesitating, she asked with a hint of uncertainty: “Is a hundred million okay?”

Zhang Haiyin’s breathing became faint. Good heavens, as expected of a well-known Yunhai City wealthy family. She casually mentioned investing a hundred million. That wasn’t a hundred million in assets, but a hundred million in liquid cash. Who wouldn’t feel pained throwing that much money into a movie?

Chen Mengyi, however, showed no reaction. She simply said: “Sure, a hundred million it is. If you think it’s not enough, just let me know.”

After settling the matter with Bai Yue, Chen Mengyi turned to Zhang Haiyin: “Ms. Zhang, I’ll have to rely on you to handle the matter of Yueyue investing in the movie.” Zhang Haiyin immediately agreed: “It’s my duty.”

She then turned back to Bai Yue: “Then, Yueyue, I’ll arrange an assistant for you. If you want to visit the set during the day, someone will be there to accompany you.”

Hearing that Chen Mengyi was going to arrange an assistant for her, Bai Yue thought of Wang Yao, who had toured the headquarters with her yesterday. She immediately proposed: “Then let’s have Wang Yao from yesterday. I feel like she’s quite nice.”

Bai Yue proactively requested the person, but Chen Mengyi paused. Bai Yue was surprised to notice that for a moment, Chen Mengyi seemed reluctant to hand over the person. Bai Yue secretly wondered if Wang Yao was a very important assistant in charge of a critical project, making it impossible to spare her.

Just as she was about to suggest a replacement, Chen Mengyi sighed: “Fine, she’ll do.” She turned to her own assistant and told her, and the assistant agreed.

With this matter concluded, there was nothing else to discuss. Zhang Haiyin left first as she had other work. Chen Mengyi also dismissed her own team of assistants. The moment they all exited the reception room, Bai Yue knew she was about to be lectured.

Bai Yue immediately felt uneasy, but she didn’t know that Chen Mengyi’s attention was currently preoccupied by more important, and multiple, issues.

Issue one: Bai Yue suddenly wanted to interfere with the movie Su Xi was investing in.

Issue two: Bai Yue specifically requested a Beta she had just met to be her assistant.

Issue two was manageable for now; Chen Mengyi didn’t think Bai Yue was interested in Wang Yao romantically.

But regarding the Su Xi matter, Chen Mengyi couldn’t help but overthink it.

She recalled the night they drove back, when Bai Yue suddenly asked her opinion on Su Xi and Bai Shizhou. They had discussed Bai Shizhou and concluded that neither of them liked him. But the conversation about Su Xi was only started and then dropped; neither of them pursued it. At the time, she thought Su Xi was just a passing mention, but two days after returning, Bai Yue came to the entertainment company and insisted on co-investing with Su Xi.

She also remembered Mama Li asking her about Su Xi. She guessed then that Bai Yue must have wanted to know, otherwise why would Mama Li ask about someone she had no connection with? But when Bai Yue suddenly asked, the small alarm bells in her heart started ringing wildly.

Bai Yue not only asked her opinion of Su Xi but also what Su Xi was doing recently, and now wanted to follow Su Xi to make a movie.

What does this mean?

Chen Mengyi was inherently a person who overthought things; she naturally jumped to conclusions. She occasionally heard others’ comments about Su Xi at banquets, saying that Su Xi looked delicate and weak, not at all like an Alpha, but rather like an Omega, and that some Alphas even liked women like Su Xi.

Although Chen Mengyi didn’t believe Bai Yue would fall for anyone else, she still couldn’t help but ask: “Yueyue, why are you paying so much attention to Su Xi?”

Mama Li, hearing the two young ladies chatting like this, simply turned her head away, smoothly pulled out her in-ear headphones from her pocket, and put them on, adopting a demeanor of ignoring everything around her.

Hearing Chen Mengyi’s question, Bai Yue’s little brain also started working furiously. A barrage of excuses flooded her mind, but Bai Yue rejected them all. She looked at Chen Mengyi for a moment, knowing that any fabricated excuse would surely fail to deceive Chen Mengyi.

In this world, the person who understood Chen Mengyi the best was Bai Yue, and vice versa. Knowing she couldn’t fool Chen Mengyi, Bai Yue decided to tell a partial truth.

She recalled her noble mission, and her expression became much more serious: “I want to be the villain.”

“?” Chen Mengyi’s eyes were genuinely full of confusion. Just as she was about to discreetly ask Bai Yue if she was feeling unwell, she heard Bai Yue continue seriously: “Mengyi, I won’t hide it from you. Su Xi is actually the heroine, and I am the villain. I have to cause trouble for Su Xi.”

She was speaking the truth, yet Mama Li, eavesdropping nearby, thought Bai Yue was just unusually crazy sometimes.

Chen Mengyi also found it amusing and even laughed out loud. She reached out and patted the back of Bai Yue’s hand resting on the wheelchair armrest, then nodded: “Alright, how do you plan to cause trouble for Su Xi?”

Bai Yue said: “I’m going to mess up her movie. I need to insert my own people to play roles.”

“Then who do you want to insert, and what roles should they play?”

Bai Yue was confused, as she genuinely hadn’t thought of any of this. Bai Yue looked at Chen Mengyi, her eyes pleading “save me.” Seeing her like this, Chen Mengyi was even more amused. Suppressing her laughter, she said: “Then tomorrow, let Wang Yao accompany you to the set to have a look. You can also look at Haiyin Entertainment Company’s artists. Maybe you’ll find a suitable actor.”

“Okay.”

At noon, Chen Mengyi accompanied Bai Yue for lunch.

Bai Yue initially thought the matter of her secretly drinking milk tea had been overlooked, but who knew it would be brought up again at the dinner table? Chen Mengyi had a unique way of settling scores after the fact. She was a patient person. When she first started working at the company with Bai Yue’s mothers, she inevitably encountered people who tried to make things difficult for her due to her youth, and she endured it with a smile, only to settle the score directly after gaining power.

If not for her ability to endure, she wouldn’t have come so far. This applied not only to colleagues who had previously criticized her but also to her business rivals. When she couldn’t beat them, she endured; when she could, she liquidated them immediately.

The key was that Chen Mengyi always smiled, leaving people unable to find fault with her. People say you shouldn’t hit a smiling face, but upon seeing Chen Mengyi’s smile, her rivals only felt more annoyed. Otherwise, so many people wouldn’t privately call Chen Mengyi a smiling tiger.

But now, it was Bai Yue’s turn to experience the smiling tiger’s lethality.

“Yueyue, how could you secretly drink milk tea behind my back? Never mind whether it’s healthy or not, I’ve never gone off to secretly eat or drink things without you. How could you do this?”