“You know, Mom doesn’t necessarily object to the two of you being together.”

Ms. Lin Ping decided on a softer approach and let her daughter know where she stood. “If you like him, Mom doesn’t have much to say. But, one way or another, we should meet him and see for ourselves too, wouldn’t you say?”

Now that Yiyi has her own film company, her career was also in the entertainment circle so to speak. And the two of them would be working together a lot…

One couldn’t say that they wouldn’t make a good couple. 

Ms. Lin Ping decided to first observe for a while. 

As long as she decided for herself that the Lu guy was a decent man, she would, of course, be supportive of her daughter’s relationship. 

After all, she’s a very open-minded mother!

“I have just told Lu Xun today to not come over again.”

Her words made the entire living room fall silent. 

Ms. Lin Ping looked at her in shock. 

Mr. Gu Chengyi’s eyes widened as well. 

Both of them had the same look on them…

And it looked so familiar.

Lin Yiyi: “……”

Giving it some more thought, they seemed to look exactly the same way how Meng Yuran was looking at her earlier?!

“Would you believe me if… if I say we are not in a relationship?” asked Lin Yiyi weakly as she raised her hand. 

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Lu Xun left Lin Yiyi’s place with a look of distress. 

He recalled that he didn’t get to have dessert today.

And, he had planned to add Lin Yiyi to his WeChat today one way or another but that didn’t happen either. 

And that was that. What he didn’t understand was, what was that inexplicable sadness that he was feeling inside of him?

He thought about it long and hard then suddenly remembered something else that had been bothering him!

He gave Executive Assistant Zhou a call and said, “The male lead for ‘The Enemies Are Approaching’ is Meng Yan? I want him swapped out.”

Executive Assistant Zhou was stunned and almost didn’t know how to respond. “Bo.. Boss, Meng Yan had already signed the contract.”

He dared not ask why, but the penalty for breaching the contract was high enough to get the board of directors’s attention. 

Shengshi Entertainment was a diversified holding corporation. Lu Xun wasn’t the one who could make all the decisions alone. There was still a board of directors. 

The board of directors has been very happy with Lu Xun’s performance thus far, but should Lu Xun make a bad decision that caused the company a lot of money, they would also keep track of every incident as well.

Lu Xun went silent for a while and hung up abruptly. 

Executive Assistant Zhou thought; whatever was going on with the CEO today? Swapping out the male lead… That was going too far.

Executive Assistant Zhou’s phone rang again and he was almost scared sh*tless.

He took a look. It was the CEO again. 

“Boss?” Clutching to his poor, little heart, Executive Assistant Zhou asked cautiously. 

From the other end of the phone came their CEO’s deep voice, “How much is the penalty for breaching the contract?”

Mr. CEO, do you not know that the company losing money translates into a lot of people losing money? The board of directors would really, really make a note on this. 

“His compensation is 20 million yuan, the penalty for breaching the contract is three times that amount…”

Lu Xun said somewhat unhappily, “That only came out to be 60 million yuan, are you saying that I can’t afford that?”

Executive Assistant Zhou: “……”

But that was so not the point at all.

Just when poor Executive Assistant Zhou was struggling to come up with a way to talk their CEO down, the other end of the phone went silent for a little while.

Lu Xun said, “Never mind. Forget I have brought it up.”

Executive Assistant Zhou, “……”

Mr. CEO, exactly who were you trying to compete with?