Chapter 547: Everything's Gone Awry

The key plot cut from Han Duoduo's story includes people arriving at the ice surface at specific coordinates, brushing away the snow above, and immediately being stunned by the scene beneath the ice.

Beneath the ice layer were countless people heading upstream, frozen in moments of agony; and further down, vague shapes of even more people could be seen.

Han Duoduo wanted to go outside to look, not out of curiosity about the outside world, but merely to find her parents' remains.

In the original story, in the year 2060 when Earth stopped rotating, a tsunami struck Han Duoduo's hometown, causing over 130,000 casualties; rescue teams saved more than five thousand people, including two hundred infants and five hundred children, and Han Duoduo was among them.

When Jiang Heng briefly outlined the story of The Wandering Earth and Han Duoduo's character from her perspective, Zhang Ruoruo listened with tears welling up.

"Duoduo is so pitiful!"

"In The Wandering Earth story, there are too many pitiful people. Han Duoduo is just one of them. She is pitiful, yet also fortunate—do you understand?"

Zhang Ruoruo nodded slightly, "I understand, I will really think about this role!"

"Alright, then I'll write up the materials on this character and send them to you later for you to study carefully."

"Mm-hmm, then I'll wait in the car until you finish work."

"Good!"

Jiang Heng got off the RV and continued filming, only finishing work after over two hours.

Zhang Ruoruo was quite bored waiting in the car, her phone game almost out of battery, before Jiang Heng came over to call her.

"What do you want to eat?"

"How about hot pot?"

In November, Jingcheng's weather is gradually cooling; eating hot pot is indeed a good choice.

Jiang Heng drove and brought Zhang Ruoruo to a hot pot restaurant in the main urban area of Huairou.

The decor is luxurious, the price slightly high, and it is also an outlet of the catering chain company under the group.

They ordered a private room and chatted while eating.

Zhang Ruoruo is still in a slightly "overly excited" state, after all, counting this, she has consecutively starred in three films in a short period.

Two of them are sci-fi blockbusters; with this treatment, across the entire Outstanding Rising Film Company, hardly anyone can compare!

Once the news gets out, it will surely shock the entire entertainment industry.

No, the news has already spread.

After all, when she answered the phone, a classmate was eavesdropping, and afterward she openly admitted it.

Thinking of this, Zhang Ruoruo suddenly felt a bit nervous, hesitating before saying, "By the way, I forgot to mention something!"

"What is it?"

"It's, it's, you said I would play Han Duoduo, and everyone in my class already knows!"

Jiang Heng chuckled, unbothered: "No problem, it's going to be announced sooner or later; saying it early is no big deal."

"Oh, oh, that's good!" Zhang Ruoruo exhaled in relief.

After eating, they went to Jiang Heng's mansion here.

Zhang Ruoruo curiously looked around, finding it not much better than her own large flat, and laughed, "Your place is quite modest!"

Jiang Heng: "Your standards are that high?"

"It's not that I have high standards; it's mainly because of your current wealth—even if you lived in a palace, I wouldn't find it surprising."

Jiang Heng laughed, "I'm just one person, all alone—what palace would I live in? Even this house feels spacious to me!" Zhang Ruoruo slightly pursed her lips; it's not been a short time since she joined the company, and she's heard too many rumors, true and false, about Jiang Heng's love life.

How to put it? Jiang Heng's personality is indeed somewhat aloof, but beautiful women have never been lacking.

Of course, for a girl, a man's rich romantic history is not a problem.

If one could settle down and start a family with him, that would be the best.

How many stars and tycoons, when young, were flirtatious and carefree, then in old age sought to marry a young, seemingly pure girl—such examples are far too many, yet Zhang Ruoruo still has confidence.

Unfortunately, Jiang Heng has too many "peach blossoms" (romantic entanglements), inevitably spoiling the atmosphere.

The two were sitting together on the sofa, drinking and chatting, when a call came in and the phone beside them rang.

Jiang Heng picked it up and saw it was none other than the "Big Honey" filming Tiny Times 4 in Shanghai.

Is this a planted spy? How could news arrive so quickly?

Jiang Heng wondered, then answered: "Hello!"

From the other end came a sweet, cloying voice: "Honey, I just heard a rumor that the company is going to film The Wandering Earth and plans to let Zhang Ruoruo play the female lead—this isn't true, is it? Didn't you promise me the female lead in your next film?"

At a glance, there is no wrong version!

Zhang Ruoruo rolled her eyes at the side, silently thinking: "I've always heard Yang Mi is dissatisfied with Director Jiang; who would have thought they...!"

Jiang Heng glanced at Zhang Ruoruo, stood up and walked to the huge floor-to-ceiling window, "Oh, this isn't a rumor; the company really is going to film this, but the director is Guo Fan. Since I promised you, the next film will definitely star you—how dare you doubt me?"

On the other end, Yang Mi panicked at these words, hurriedly explaining: "No, no, it's just a rumor with vivid details; I thought you were chasing the new and discarding the old, looking down on me!"

"What nonsense, stop overthinking—I won't go back on my word!"

"Oh oh, are you busy over there? How much longer until you wrap?"

"Soon, before the end of the month, I'll be busy with the script for The Wandering Earth, so I won't talk to you now!"

"Alright!"

In Shanghai, in the hotel where the Tiny Times 4 crew was staying, Yang Mi, after hanging up, fumed and paced around the room.

"This heartless person must have been seduced, lying to me about being busy—ahhh, it makes me furious!"

On Jiang Heng's side, gazing at Zhang Ruoruo on the sofa, he sighed lightly: "See, your slip of the mouth has caused trouble, right?"

Zhang Ruoruo nodded apologetically: "Sorry!"

"So, when good things come, don't get too excited too early or laugh too loudly; otherwise you'll invite misfortune and cause trouble."

Zhang Ruoruo nodded repeatedly, deeply agreeing.

If she had stayed silent in class or left the teaching building right after answering the call, she wouldn't have these troubles! As for talking about bags and such, even if she didn't say anything, someone would still volunteer to carry them for her!

As she was feeling annoyed, Jiang Heng's phone rang again—this time it was Jing Tian.

Jiang Heng was halfway through his conversation when Liu Yifei called again.

Zhang Ruoxi, sitting on the sofa, stared wide‑eyed; she never thought those office rumors would actually be true.

Jiang Heng took a few more calls, but he could barely keep up; to avoid revealing anything else, he simply switched off his phone.

He walked up to Zhang Ruoxi and said, "See? Now we're really in trouble!"

Zhang Ruoxi was so regretful she was on the verge of tears; if she had known this would happen, she wouldn't have shown off like that! "Sorry, sorry, I really didn't mean it—I'll never do it again!"

Jiang Heng suddenly pinched her chin and said, "That's more like it!" (End of chapter).