Having received the script, Jiang Xin immediately rushed over to ask what exactly was going on. Sang Yu gave a bitter smile and briefly explained the situation, shaking her head helplessly. “I’m sorry, it’s my fault for involving the production crew.”
“Don’t overthink it; this has nothing to do with you.”
Jiang Xin found it both unbelievable and incomprehensible. She couldn’t resist calling Song Yunsheng to question her indignantly, her words echoing Sang Yu’s own: “Song Yunsheng, what is the meaning of this?”
Song Yunsheng considered herself polite enough just by answering Jiang Xin’s call, but upon hearing this, her face immediately darkened. “Jiang Xin, Sang Yu and I are not divorced yet. Don’t overextend your reach.”
“What do you mean my ‘reach is too long’? Regardless of whether you’re divorced or not, you shouldn’t treat Sang Yu like this! She is a living human being, not your pet!”
Jiang Xin was furious to the extreme. On the other end, Song Yunsheng grew even more consumed by jealousy. She let out a cold laugh, muttered “mind your own business,” and hung up. Jiang Xin was stunned, stomping her feet in rage and cursing Song Yunsheng for being a psychopath.
As it turned out, this wasn’t even the most bizarre part. Not long after, Jiang Xin’s mother suddenly called, her tone grave: “What have you been doing lately?”
Jiang Xin was completely confused, stating that she was just filming. Her mother nodded in satisfaction upon hearing this but then issued a warning.
“If you’re filming, then focus on filming. Behave yourself in the entertainment industry! I told you before not to offend people just because the family has money. It would be one thing if you were just acting out normally, but why did you have to get involved in the Song family’s internal affairs? Your father told me about it when he got back; he wanted me to give you a warning.”
Hearing this, Jiang Xin understood everything. She let out a sneer and said sarcastically, “Song Yunsheng is already this old and she’s still running to ‘Daddy’ to complain? People would think she’s a primary school student.”
Jiang’s mother didn’t spend much time online, but she could hear the contempt in Jiang Xin’s voice, and her tone became even more stern.
“Jiang Xin, I know you’ve disliked her since you were young, but Little Song is the successor of the Song Group. If she wasn’t truly angry, your father wouldn’t be this nervous—do you understand what I mean?”
In other words, what Song Yunsheng had done was far more than just “complaining.”
As the successor of the Song Group, Song Yunsheng had far too many ways to warn Jiang Xin. This time, it was applying pressure through Jiang Xin’s parents; what would it be next time?
Jiang Xin gritted her teeth and was forced to agree. She paced around the room several times, unable to swallow her resentment. However, Song Yunsheng had been more talented than her since childhood, to the point where, at a moment like this, Jiang Xin had no room to resist.
At the end of the day, she was just an actor from a wealthy background who brought her own funding to sets. But Song Yunsheng was different; she had long ago established her own entertainment company.
Furthermore, now that she had succeeded as President Song, how could a socialite like Jiang Xin—raised in luxury and without a serious occupation—possibly resist her?
But just because of that, was Song Yunsheng allowed to treat Sang Yu this way?
Jiang Xin was still fuming. She hated Song Yunsheng more and more. Using her power to pull stunts like this—she truly didn’t deserve Sang Yu at all.
Her idol had always relied on her own hard work to become a Best Actress winner, yet Song Yunsheng had appeared and wiped away all her professional achievements. Now that Sang Yu had finally figured things out and wanted to make a comeback, Song Yunsheng was actually using such despicable tactics to force her back into the domestic sphere. What kind of Omega in the world acts like this!
Jiang Xin was dying of anger but was utterly powerless. For the first time, she felt her resolve about entering the entertainment industry waver.
Originally, her parents had warned her that if she didn’t do well, the family business would surely be handed over to someone else. But Jiang Xin had a rebellious streak; hearing those words only made her excited, and she had packed her bags and left without a second thought.
If she had gritted her teeth and stayed in the Group back then, perhaps she wouldn’t be so useless now…
She lowered her eyes, feeling utterly dejected. For a time, she didn’t even have the courage to contact Sang Yu and could only flee back home to appease her mother.
The script situation remained at a standstill. Because the new script was riddled with too many loopholes, even if it satisfied Song Yunsheng, it wouldn’t satisfy the other investors. The crew had no choice but to stop filming and urgently recruit screenwriters to revise the plot.
All losses were naturally paid for by Song Yunsheng, but Sang Yu knew very well that this amount of money was a mere pittance to her.
Song Yunsheng would never believe she was in the wrong. She was rarely capricious, but once she became stubborn, no one could persuade her otherwise.
Sang Yu had never liked arguing with Song Yunsheng in the past, and she was even less willing to talk to her now. She simply decided to let things slide, holding onto the thought of “I’ll act however the script is given to me.” Nursing her grievance, she returned to her rented apartment while asking Lu Lingxi to take the opportunity to find her other work assignments.
There was no other way. Sang Yu could guess that if they continued revising the script under these conditions, the best solution would be to marginalize her character. The other roles wouldn’t have to change; the original conflicts could simply be rewritten into a new character.
Sang Yu had originally thought she would be on set for several months, but with these revisions, it would likely be over in two or three weeks.
Hearing these words, Lu Lingxi on the other end was also very silent.
She hung up the phone and brought fried chicken over to see Sang Yu. She couldn’t help but ask, “Is it really that serious? No room for compromise at all? What on earth is President Song thinking?”
“If I knew that, would I still be sitting here?” Sang Yu shrugged, drinking cola and taking a bite of fried chicken, though even the delicious food couldn’t make her happy.
With the script changed like this, it meant that all the effort Sang Yu had previously put into this character was wasted. She didn’t even know what would be left of the role in the end.
Perhaps only her own sigh would remain.
Sang Yu pursed her lips, unable to speak. Lu Lingxi knew what she was thinking and sighed, patting her on the shoulder.
As the two sat in silence, misfortunes never come singly. Sang Yu’s phone suddenly started ringing incessantly with a string of calls.
Because she had set a special ringtone for her emergency contact, Sang Yu was momentarily stunned by the shock. Once she reacted, she scrambled into the bedroom to grab her phone. Lu Lingxi, seeing this, grew worried and stood up to follow. Sang Yu had already bolted out like the wind, grabbing her and asking, “Did you drive here?”
Lu Lingxi nodded instinctively. The next second, she heard Sang Yu’s voice, thick with tears: “The hospital issued a critical condition notice for my mother. Sister Lu, can you give me a ride to the hospital?”
There was no room for hesitation. Lu Lingxi agreed immediately, grabbing Sang Yu’s hand and heading for the car.
They rushed all the way there. Lu Lingxi nearly ran several red lights before finally getting Sang Yu to the hospital.
The caregiver from the nursing home was already waiting there. Sang Yu rushed over only to find her mother was already in the Intensive Care Unit. She turned around, wanting to demand how the caregiver had been looking after her, but seeing that the caregiver was nearly the same age as her mother, she couldn’t bring herself to say anything harsh. For the moment, she could only contact the nurse to pay the fees.
But once she got there, something went wrong with her bank card. Sang Yu’s face froze as she repeated the action several times, only to receive the same notification: “Unavailable.”
The nurse at the window tactfully suggested that she might want to check her balance first. Only then did Sang Yu react. She hurriedly called the bank staff, only to learn that her card had been frozen.
“Frozen by whom?”
Sang Yu asked the staff instinctively. The reply was that it had been requested by the person responsible for the primary account.
Sang Yu’s heart went completely cold. She returned to the lobby like a walking corpse. Lu Lingxi was startled by her deathly pale face and quickly began to question her.
Upon learning that the bank card had been frozen by Song Yunsheng, Lu Lingxi was both furious and anxious: “A day as a couple brings a hundred days of grace—this President Song is too cruel! She’s driving a person to a dead end!”
Sang Yu stared blankly, momentarily unable to process the news.
She truly hadn’t expected that Song Yunsheng could actually go this far.