🌸 Chapter 193 - 194 🌸

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Xi Wenjun lowered her voice, "Weiyin, tell me the truth. Did you come here just to see Lu Beichuan?"

The corners of Shen Weiyin's mouth curved up. She didn't say anything.

She didn't come here just to see Lu Beichuan. She had arranged for paparazzi to be stationed outside of Lu Corporation. Regardless if she saw Lu Beichuan or not, the gossip that she had come to Lu Corporation to discuss her contract renewal would spread by tomorrow.

She didn't care about this small contract. She only cared about Lu Beichuan.

Xi Wenjun had been Shen Weiyin's agent for several years. How could she not know what she was thinking? Seeing that Shen Weiyin was remaining silent, she understood that her silence was acquiescent.

Although she was Shen Weiyin's agent, Shen Weiyin had the final say when it came to what movie scripts and endorsements she would accept. Shen Weiyin had always been very clear about her goals and was never sloppy. Of course, she was also unscrupulous about getting what she wanted.

The door to the conference room was pushed open. Director Zhou walked into the room. He looked deeply worried. He closed the door and looked at Shen Weiyin with a worried frown.

"Director Zhou, long time no see." Shen Weiyin noticed his expression, but her expression remained unchanged as she stretched her hand out for a handshake.

Director Zhou politely shook her hand. He sat down across from Shen Weiyin and went through the motions of taking out a contact. Lowering his voice, he said, "Miss Shen, I'm very sorry. CEO Lu has informed me that he wants to terminate the contract. I'm here to talk to you about that."

"Terminate?"

Director Zhou put on a bold face. "That's right."

Xi Wenjun sneered. "Terminate? Your CEO might not know that its your company that benefits from having Weiyin endorse your company's brand, but you should clearly know that. If it wasn't for Weiyin's endorsing this brand, it couldn't have reached its current popularity. What is your CEO thinking? Burning the bridge after crossing it? Is that how Lu Corporation does its business?"

Director Zhou looked troubled. "This... I'm very sorry. I'm just a PR Director. I can't change CEO Lu's decision."

Shen Weiyin deeply looked at him. She wrote out an amount on the table. "Director Zhou, I want to directly talk with CEO Lu."

It was a very tempting amount.

If he had seen this amount in the past, Director Zhou would have already been carried away by it. However, after that conversation at noon, he wouldn't dare to make any deals with this woman.

"Miss Shen, I really can't do anything about this." He deliberated his words and finally whispered, "CEO Lu found out about the rumors online. He's very angry and ordered me to clean them up immediately. Also, Mrs. Lu came here at noon. She was probably the one that informed CEO Lu of those rumors."

"Mrs. Lu?" Shen Weiyin furrowed her brows. "Ye Zhen is here?"

"Yes, I heard that she made a special trip to bring CEO Lu lunch. She brought their baby along too. Everything was okay this morning, but after Mrs. Lu came, CEO Lu ordered the PR Department to investigate those rumors. The matter over terminating the contract is probably because Mrs. Lu..."

Not waiting for Director Zhou to finish speaking, Shen Weiyin stood up. She put on her sunglasses and put on the air of someone about to leave. "I got it. Director Zhou, sorry, I didn't come here today with plans of terminating the contract. If your company wants to terminate the contract, let's schedule an appointment for another time."

Shen Weiyin's agent and lawyers followed Shen Weiyin in standing up.

The door to the conference room was suddenly opened. Ye Zhen was standing outside of the conference room and looking at Shen Weiyin with a smile.







"Miss Shen, you're here. What a coincidence."

Shen Weiyin stood in place. She watched Ye Zhen stride into the conference room and asked, "Mrs. Lu, what's your business coming here?"

"Nothing much." Ye Zhen slightly smiled. She sat down at the head of the conference table. She hadn't closed the door on her way in, so the people in the office area outside the conference room as well as the people walking by could hear their voices.

Director Zhou wanted to close the door, but Ye Zhen stopped him. "Director Zhou, weren't you talking about terminating the contract? Go on, continue."

"This... Mrs. Lu, for you to be here while we're discussing that, isn't it..."

Ye Zhen smiled. "I own 10% of the company's stocks. I could be considered a minority stockholder, right?"

"10... 10 percent?" This was outside of Director Zhou's expectations.

"10%?" Shen Weiyin was incredulous.

"Grandpa gave them to me." Ye Zhen downplayed how Old Master Lu had transferred her 10% of the company stock on her wedding day. She continued, "Go on, continue your discussion. I'm just here to listen."

Shen Weiyin deeply sighed. With an unhappy expression, she said, "The company didn't inform me in advance that they wanted to talk about terminating the contract today, so nothing has been prepared. If the company wants to terminate the contact with me, we'll make an appointment for another day."

“Miss Shen, your lawyer is here. What else do you need to prepare?"

Shen Weiyin's lawyer was an experienced person and remained unflustered. The lawyer slightly smiled. "Mrs. Lu, regarding the termination of the contract, I need to go back and prepare for it."

"May I ask what's your last name?"

"My last name is Nan."

Realizing who the lawyer was, Ye Zhen stood up and asked, "You're that famous Lawyer Nan?"

Lawyer Nan humbly smiled. "I don't deserve such praise."

"Lawyer Nan, you're being too humble. You're renowned in your industry. None of the cases that you handled have failed, but..." She looked at Shen Weiyin. "I understand that your employer has recently suffered a lot of gossip that damages her reputation. Lawyer Nan, how do you plan on resolving this?"

"Gossip?"

Ye Zhen smiled as she handed her phone to Lawyer Nan. The phone screen was full of articles gossiping about Shen Weiyin and Lu Beichuan.

Lawyer Nan glanced at the screen, then looked at Shen Weiyin. "This..."

If Shen Weiyin still couldn't see why Ye Zhen had come here today, then she would have learned nothing from being in the entertainment circle for the past several years. 

"It's a bunch of fabricated gossip. They're just paying attention to it because it's popular right now. I never mind this sort of thing. If you pay attention to this sort of thing, it'll only make them heady with success. Miss Ye, you haven't been in the entertainment industry, so you don't know any better."

Ye Zhen contemplatively nodded. "Miss Shen, you said this is all just made up gossip. So this means you're saying that the gossip about you being childhood sweethearts with my husband, Lu Beichuan, is all fake?"

There was a bustling crowd gathered outside the conference room. Shen Weiyin gave a vague answer, "If Miss Ye wants to know, you should go ask your husband."

"I already asked him. He said that there's nothing between the two of you. That's why I'm here to ask you, are my husband's words true, Miss Shen?"

She was directly confronting her.

In a sunken voice, Shen Weiyin answered, "Yes, it's true."

"It seems that it really is these tabloids messing around. Since you're confirming that you and my husband aren't childhood sweethearts, then all the stuff they wrote that's based on that rumor is also false, right? The two of you haven't pledged an oath of eternal love. Lu Beichuan isn't infatuated with you. Nor has he been waiting for the past several years for you while you've been working hard on getting the title of film empress. All of that is fake news, right?"

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