Chapter 166

"G-girlfriend?"

"Whose girlfriend?"

"Tang Song's girlfriend?"

The old man was both surprised and bewildered, asking back like a machine gun.

Shen Yuzhen replied to the phone in a casual tone: "That's right, Grandpa, don't worry about it. The most important thing for me just returning to the country is to meet friends; boyfriends and such can wait. I'm hanging up!"

Without waiting for the old man to say anything else, Shen Yuzhen hung up the phone and curled her lips helplessly.

Brother Tang Song was quite handsome, but she liked Shen Ci more.

Because Shen Ci let her have the bag; she was a little fairy who was as beautiful and kind-hearted as she was.

However, Shen Yuzhen didn't rush to clarify to Shen Ci that she had had contact with Tang Song. It was better to let such things take their natural course; there was no need to explain deliberately. After all, the beginning of their friendship had nothing to do with Tang Song.

Soon, Gu Lianxing and Pili arrived late, both with sweat on their foreheads and carrying a pile of shopping bags.

"Sorry, my dear, we're late." As soon as Gu Lianxing appeared, she apologized with a bitter face: "It was too hard to get a taxi over there today. They said there was a celebrity event, and several roads around were blocked. If I had known, I wouldn't have gone."

Shen Yuzhen looked at Gu Lianxing, who was speaking—she was a bright and beautiful little girl.

She then looked at Pili behind her—her figure was outstanding, her temperament was cold, and she looked like she had a lot of character.

They were all great beauties!

"Let me introduce you. This is Zhenzhen, a friend I just met."

"These two are my good friends and college roommates, Lianxing and Pili."

Shen Yuzhen couldn't wait to greet them: "Hello there."

"Hello, hello." Gu Lianxing was naturally enthusiastic, while Pili nodded gently as a response.

After they were all seated, Shen Ci took the initiative to tell the two of them the story of what happened in the "LV" store just now.

"Oh my god, how could there be such a disgusting man." Gu Lianxing's little face wrinkled into a bun upon hearing this, and she turned to look at Pili and said: "If you were there, you would have beaten him into a pig's head."

"So you guys really just met?"

Shen Yuzhen nodded excitedly: "That's right, we met within the last hour."

Pili didn't speak, but one could see she was vaguely shocked from her micro-expressions. It was truly an enviable speed of making friends.

During the meal, the mouths of Shen Yuzhen and Gu Lianxing never stopped. Both had personalities like chatterboxes; the two chatted from domestic to foreign, from luxury goods to medical aesthetics, and their souls were perfectly compatible.

Shen Ci only occasionally joined in to respond, while Pili didn't speak at all, only listening and focusing on eating.

The four were harmoniously together, which was rare, because if there were one more talkative person, it would seem a bit noisy. This atmosphere was just right.

Just as they were eating, Shen Ci's phone received a WeChat message from Lu Jinzhao.

"Miss Shen, there's a dinner party tonight where a film and television project with great potential will be discussed. I wonder if you're interested?"

Since her sister's incident last time, she and Lu Jinzhao hadn't been in private contact, occasionally just liking each other's posts on Moments.

At this time, he took the initiative to pull her to an investor's dinner party. Shen Ci actually didn't feel surprised.

From the beginning when "Jin Xiao" wanted to sign A-Li, Shen Ci had said that Lu Jinzhao wanted to bind her as well by signing A-Li, so that she would invest more in "Jin Xiao's" projects in the future.

Shen Ci didn't reject it, because investing in film and television dramas was actually the most effortless way for her to make money. Not to mention how much she would earn, at least it didn't require her to worry too much.

And even if she lost money, she could afford it.

Shen Ci replied: "I'm not interested in projects with too small a scale."

Shen Ci wasn't being arrogant when she said this; it was the truth.

If it were the kind of project where she invested a few hundred or one or two thousand and only earned a few thousand, she really wasn't interested.

"Miss Shen, rest assured. Would a small project even require a special dinner party? It's definitely a project that fits Miss Shen's scale. If Miss Shen comes, it's giving me face. Even if you're not interested in the project, you can meet some friends at the party."

At such dinner parties, making connections was also the key. After all, basically everyone at the table was capital.

"Okay, send me the address. I'll be there."

Soon, Lu Jinzhao sent the detailed time and address to Shen Ci and specifically told her that the dress code was casual; everyone was just having a meal and chatting.

Shen Ci was naturally unfamiliar with such dinner parties, but she wasn't afraid in her heart. Since it was a gathering of capital, money was her confidence.

On the other side, Shen Li had finished reading the youth campus script during the gaps in filming these past few days.

The script was okay overall, but the market had many restrictions on this type of subject matter, so the plot of the whole drama was conservative and old-fashioned—the kind of script where you could guess the subsequent plot just by looking at the beginning.

To be honest, Shen Li didn't like it too much, and the role of the heroine wasn't very brilliant either; instead, the male lead's character was more three-dimensional.

Perhaps this was also the reason why Song Anyu accepted this script.

"Sister Kuan wants me to accept it?"

Shen Li asked A-Pan immediately after finishing it.

A-Pan said seriously: "Sister Kuan said to look at your intention. If you are willing to accept it, she will go talk to the other party. If you don't want to accept it, she will decline it for you."

"You don't want to accept it, A-Li?" Xiao Yun asked in a low voice upon seeing this.

Shen Li didn't hesitate and nodded directly: "I don't want to accept it. I don't like this script or this role."

Xiao Yun raised her eyebrows, while A-Pan felt it was a pity: "The heroine, are you really not accepting it?"

Being able to get a heroine role right after debut was an opportunity many actresses couldn't ask for. The company even prioritized Shen Li's thoughts.

If this were any other company, who would care whether you were willing or not? If the opportunity for a heroine role was thrown at you, and you didn't want to accept it, it would be ungrateful.

Shen Li was actually worried that being too picky about the script would make Sister Kuan unhappy, but she didn't want to wrong herself when it came to acting. Since Sister Kuan said to look at her own intention, she would just tell the truth.

"I'll tell Sister Kuan myself," Shen Li said.

"Then what about Song Anyu?" Xiao Yun asked tentatively: "Should I go help you tell him? After all, he recommended you; we should at least say hello."

Shen Li naturally wouldn't ignore Song Anyu's good intentions: "I'll tell him myself and apologize to him."

After all, they had been in the group for two months, and they had filmed many kissing scenes, so their relationship could be considered quite familiar.

After thinking about it, she stood up directly: "I'll go now, so as not to delay them from choosing someone else."

Seeing this, Xiao Yun hurriedly stood up as well: "I'll go with you."

Arriving at Song Anyu's lounge, he was also studying the script. Seeing Shen Li come, joy visibly spread across his eyes, and he stood up to greet her: "A-Li, you're here."

Shen Li nodded with a smile and said straight to the point in a soft voice: "I'm here to apologize to you. I don't really want to act in the drama you recommended to the production team, so I'm sorry."