Overnight Hit: Vicious Stepmother and Genius Son-Chapter 534 - 531 (four more updates)

Ye Zhenzhen returned to the set, she was, of course, late.

Liu Rui had notified Director Yang in advance, so no one said anything about her tardiness.

However, when Ye Zhenzhen was about to get her makeup done and change into her costume, she saw Ji Yunyun again.

This time, Qiu Wanshuang didn’t come; instead, it was her agent, Xu Qingxia, who brought the child.

Director Yang patted Ye Zhenzhen on the arm and gave her a meaningful look behind Xu Qingxia’s back, "Zhenzhen, try rehearsing with this child later."

Ye Zhenzhen glanced at Ji Yunyun throwing a tantrum at her agent and immediately felt a headache coming on.

Weren’t Xiao Yi and Xia Zhi supposed to personally look for child actors? So why was it still Ji Yunyun?

Director Yang noticed her troubled expression, leaned in, and whispered, "I haven’t fully agreed yet. You just rehearse with her first, and if it doesn’t work, we can change the actor."

Ye Zhenzhen frowned, "Director Yang, are you saying that in the end, you’re passing the responsibility of offending someone onto me?"

"In the drama, you’re the child’s adoptive mother, the most important person to the child. Xiao Yi rejected it, but the assistant director is afraid of offending Ji Ziqian. He insisted that you should try rehearsing with her when you’re back. Am I supposed to beat him up for it?"

"Besides, I really think it’s up to you to make the call. If you say it’s okay, then it’s okay. If not, then it isn’t."

It’s because your husband is Song Jinze.

Even if Ji Ziqian knew it was Ye Zhenzhen who refused, he would still be somewhat wary because of Song Jinze.

But for us directors, it’s different. If we refuse his daughter’s performance today, who knows, next time, there may be some little tricks played elsewhere.

The circle is just that small.

"Isn’t there any other child actor who can act?" Ye Zhenzhen still didn’t want to compromise.

As far as she was concerned, the answer was still the same, Ji Yunyun was absolutely not okay.

Director Yang sighed, "We had already agreed on one before, but he’s gone to the capital city for a show and can’t make it back today."

Otherwise, they wouldn’t have let Qiu Wanshuang’s daughter find this opening.

Seeing Yang Pinghui’s troubled face, Ye Zhenzhen didn’t say anything more and made a concession, "I’ll tell it like it is, without cutting any slack!"

She would rather quit the production than be responsible for bringing Qiu Wanshuang’s child in.

"Fine."

...

Once everything was ready, Xiao Yi completed his scenes, and just after a quick touch-up from the makeup artist, they could immediately start filming his part of the same scene.

Ji Yunyun stood beside Ye Zhenzhen. She tugged at Ye Zhenzhen’s hand, "Aunt Zhenzhen, can you take me to play with Brother Xiao Chen this afternoon?"

Ye Zhenzhen truly didn’t expect the child to ask this of her, and she smiled gently, "Brother Xiao Chen went back to his grandma’s house, if you want to play with him, you’ll have to wait until the weekend."

This indeed was the truth. These past few days, Song Yuchen couldn’t be happier after school. With grandpa looking after him, whatever he wanted, he got, and whatever he wished to do, no one objected. The main thing was they were all accommodating.

Even Madam Song messaged Ye Zhenzhen to say that the grandfather and grandson only had eyes for each other, playing better than anyone else.

Upon hearing Ye Zhenzhen’s words, Ji Yunyun’s temper flared up immediately, pouting and grumbling, "Auntie, you just don’t want to take me to play with Brother Xiao Chen, hmph!"

Saying so, she flung off Ye Zhenzhen’s hand and ran towards Xu Qingxia’s embrace.

Ye Zhenzhen was helpless, "Hey~ little one, that’s not what I meant~"

As Ji Yunyun’s aunt, Xu Qingxia spent more time with Ji Yunyun than Qiu Wanshuang, hearing the conversation between Ye Zhenzhen and Ji Yunyun, she smiled at Ye Zhenzhen;

"Zhenzhen, Yunyun just likes to play with Xiao Chen, there’s no need for you to refuse a child like that."

Ye Zhenzhen’s eyes swept over Xu Qingxia dispassionately, her eyes lifting slightly at the corners, "I can understand a child not comprehending, but may I ask, how old are you now? Was what I just said that difficult to understand?"

"But our Yunyun..."

"Awwoo~"

The child’s crying drew the attention of everyone around.

Liu Rui hurried over to soothe Ji Yunyun, "What happened? Little one, you’re about to start filming; why have you started crying already?"

It was just a matter of a few words just now, if Xu Qingxia could hear them, she heard them too.

She was comforting the child with her words, but inside, she was secretly praying, "Child, please cry a bit longer, and after you finish, let Xu Qingxia take you straight home."

Normal people wouldn’t like a child so troublesome as Ji Yunyun.

With so many adults present and unable to appease a child, Ji Yunyun, not getting what she wanted, kept crying nonstop.

Xu Qingxia negotiated with Ye Zhenzhen, "Zhenzhen, it’s no good for Yunyun to keep crying like this. She really does like playing with your son. Why don’t you have someone bring Xiao Chen over later, so the two little ones can play together for a while?"

Ye Zhenzhen had a smile on her face, but her attitude was unyielding, "My son is at kindergarten now. After school, his grandfather directly takes him home; he might not be able to come."

Let her cry; what’s it to her?

Besides, her relationship with her father-in-law, Song Wenbai, was really not good; they didn’t even have contact information for each other. Even if she wanted to contact him, it wouldn’t be possible.

Ji Yunyun was the most willful child she had met since joining the show for kids, absolutely unreasonable.

Selfishly, not only did she not want Ji Yunyun to join the drama crew, but she also definitely did not want Ji Yunyun to have further contact with Xiao Chen. What if her precious son were led astray?

In the end, Ji Yunyun was still carried away by Xu Qingxia.

The set became quiet.

Liu Rui came up to Ye Zhenzhen and whispered a reminder, "Zhenzhen, when Xu Qingxia left, she glanced back at you. My sixth sense tells me she’ll stab you in the back."

Ye Zhenzhen chuckled coldly, "Stab me in the back? Let’s wait until she does it to see who it hurts."

—"All crews get ready!"

The assistant’s voice echoed across the set, and Ye Zhenzhen turned and walked in that direction.

Qin Lang suddenly appeared from nowhere and greeted Ye Zhenzhen, "Zhenzhen!"

Ye Zhenzhen sighed; why couldn’t the set ever be peaceful?

"Zhenzhen, what’s wrong? Are you in a bad mood?"

"Yeah, I’m in a bad mood. Stay away from me, and then I’ll feel better," she said.

Qin Lang conveniently ignored Ye Zhenzhen’s unfriendly tone and continued to ask, "Are you going to the city center tonight?"

Ye Zhenzhen paused mid-step, "Why, if I’m going to the city center, do you want to carpool?"

"Sure!" Qin Lang replied cheerfully.

His gaze, however, was inquisitive, constantly observing the changes in Ye Zhenzhen’s facial expressions.

He had been skeptical, believing that Ye Zhenzhen probably didn’t know his secret, but last night at Dihao Hotel, Ye Zhenzhen appeared again.

And the timing was so coincidental, he started to suspect that she might actually know something, and thus deliberately appeared there to warn him.

Ye Zhenzhen nodded, "Okay then, later you can ride with me in my husband’s car, and we’ll drop you off in the city center?"

Qin Lang smiled noncommittally, "Zhenzhen, I’ve just realized, you’ve become much more humorous lately!"

Without bringing up the word ’husband,’ it would have been fine, but as soon as she did, it hit Qin Lang suddenly, as if he had just remembered: Ye Zhenzhen’s husband was Song Jinze.

Was he out of his mind, daring to have Song Jinze drive him to the city center!