Chapter 88: Our Daughter Has a Situation

Xiang Province, Tanzhou.

Yan Danchen lay comfortably on the sofa, constantly fiddling with her phone.

"Chenchen, the fruit is washed and put on the table."

"Okay, Mom."

Yan Danchen said without looking up.

Yan Ma glanced at Yan Danchen, then walked toward the bedroom.

"Lao Yan, haven't you noticed something's off with our daughter?"

Yan Ba looked at his wife and said:

"It's normal for her to seem different—you haven't seen her in a long time, so you're overanalyzing every move. She'll settle down in a while."

Yan Ma rolled her eyes at him and said:

"You're a terrible father. She's been smiling like an idiot at her phone since morning,

keeps fiddling with it nonstop, ignores you when you talk to her—don't you think she's… got a situation?"

"What situation? Maybe she's just chatting with coworkers."

"You're an idiot. She's already finished filming—what coworkers is she still chatting with? By 'situation,' I mean…"

Yan Ma glanced toward the living room, then whispered mysteriously:

"Do you think our daughter might be secretly dating someone?"

Hearing this, Yan Ba frowned tightly, put down his newspaper, and stood up:

"I'll go ask her."

Yan Ma quickly grabbed his arm and said:

"You go ask? Ask what? If you ask her, will she honestly tell you? Men are just clueless—I'll test her out."

Yan Ba nodded and said:

"Fine, you're better suited to ask. But don't be too blunt… our daughter isn't young anymore. Girls her age already have children. Dating isn't necessarily a bad thing."

"Nonsense."

Yan Ma rolled her eyes at her husband and said:

"Our daughter's career is still rising—she's even a bit of a star. Look at the news: every celebrity who dates ends up in a scandal.

Dating now would only hurt her career—it's absolutely out of the question."

Yan Ba nodded helplessly. The women in the Yan family were all career-driven.

Yan Danchen had been raised since childhood by her grandmother.

Her grandmother was the daughter of an official family, but opposed arranged marriages and insisted on finding her own job.

Yan Danchen had been taught since childhood: girls must be independent—don't rely on men to support you!

Yan Danchen's mother worked as an accountant at the city center hospital and had her own career; she had encouraged Yan Danchen to attend Beijing Film Academy.

So the women in the Yan family were all strong—this was a "matriarchal society."

As for Yan Ba, he was merely a tool to carry out Yan Danchen's pre-planned education and bring income to the household.

Yan Ma walked over to Yan Danchen, sat beside her on the sofa, and smiled:

"Chenchen, what are you doing?"

"Chatting with a friend."

Seeing her mother sit down, Yan Danchen slightly shifted her phone's angle toward herself and looked up.

Her daughter's instinctive avoidance caught Yan Ma's eye—her heart tightened, yet she still smiled:

"Wasn't the plan to get home the day before yesterday? Why did you detour to Lu Sheng? Did something happen?"

"No, Mom—I told you, a friend of mine is filming in Lu Sheng, so I went to visit the set."

Yan Danchen replied.

"Oh." Yan Ma answered, then asked:

"Is this friend of yours close? Male or female? Why haven't you brought them home to meet us?"

Then she muttered to herself:

"It's fifteen hundred miles from Modu to Lu Sheng."

Knowing her mother well, Yan Danchen immediately sensed the hidden meaning—she hugged her mother's arm and cooed:

"Mom~ What are you thinking again? I tell you, my friend is amazing—super talented and can perform opera,

lots of men like him."

"Lots of men like her? So popular?"

"Yes!"

"You were just chatting with her?"

"Yes."

"How old is she then…"

"Oh Mom, why are you interrogating me like a census officer? Next time I'll bring him home to meet you, okay?

Grandma loves opera—then he can sing a few songs for her!"

"Heh, silly child—he's our guest, how can we ask him to perform?"

"Aw, but Grandma's family, and he won't lose anything."

"Hmm, that's true…"

After finally soothing her mother away, Yan Danchen picked up her phone and grinned, opening her messages:

"I just told my mom you're amazing at opera. When you come to Tanzhou, visit our home and sing for Grandma."

After sending the message, she buried her phone against her chest, as if remembering something, and couldn't help giggling.

……

The cast of "The Great Dyeing Factory."

Cheng Chen, watching the message from Yan Danchen in the makeup room, couldn't help smiling bitterly.

I only know a bit of opera cadence—how did it turn into her saying I can sing opera?

But going to Yan Danchen's place? Hmm, that's actually a good suggestion.

"What are you smiling at, Teacher Cheng? Thinking about how you'll be sharing a scene with that gorgeous beauty later, and sneaking off to gloat?"

The makeup artist behind him, arranging his hair, laughed.

When Cheng Chen filmed his previous drama, "The Policeman's Story," he shaved his head to fit the character's look.

This time, playing Lu Jiaju, he's portraying a refined young gentleman.

There's no such thing as a gentleman with a buzz cut, so the crew gave him a wig.

Cheng Chen is always kind to everyone on set—he's famous but has no airs.

Some people on set enjoy getting close to this big star and teasing him; the makeup artist Lucy is one of them.

The "gorgeous beauty" Lucy mentioned is Wang Siyi, with whom Cheng Chen will be filming today.

Hmm, a passionate scene.

Calling it a passionate scene is a bit much, but "The Great Dyeing Factory," as an excellent business warfare TV drama,

doesn't rely on shock value to grab attention—yet Wang Siyi's character, Jia Siya, is simply irresistible.

She's not as reserved as Pan Jinlian, but she's a woman of captivating charm, hence her nickname "Big White Horse" in the drama.

The general plot of this scene is:

Dahua Dyeing Factory has a long-time rival: Yuanheng Dyeing Factory.

Among its shareholders is a modern woman nicknamed "Big White Horse," Jia Siya (played by Wang Siyi).

She is also the mistress of Yuanheng Dyeing Factory's owner, Sun Mingzu.

Sun Ming Zu is overwhelmed by Dahua Dyeing Factory's Flying Tiger Brand fabric, as his market share is steadily eroded.

Jia Siya plans to use a beauty trap to seduce Lu Jiaju, the owner of Dahua Dyeing Factory, and steal the dyeing formula.

Lu Jiaju has excellent character, but he's a young man with a weakness for beauty.

Still, he hasn't reached the point of being blinded by lust—after receiving Jia Siya's invitation, he immediately reported the situation to Chen Shouting.

Chen Shouting couldn't fathom her intentions, so he warned Jiaju to be extra cautious.

Lu Jiaju, with his overseas student demeanor, and Jia Siya, a modern woman, met—and it was dry tinder meeting flame, impossible to contain…

……