I’m the Moonlight White That the Former Movie Queen Secretly Loved 43

Chapter 43

After the plagiarism incident, Qi Sijia was so busy she was flying.

The time for her psychological consultation with Mike was shortened to once every two weeks.

The matter of her agreeing to go to the set with Meng Jiang was settled the next day.

But Qi Sijia’s work did not allow her to be fully on set. When she called Sam the next day to say she could go and help, he agreed to her request of not being fully on set almost without thinking.

The director’s team was collectively relieved.

The two sides agreed on a time. Qi Sijia would go to the set next week. The entire director’s team arranged the shooting schedule and deliberately set aside time in advance to meet with her and polish the script.

There was still a week before she went to the set, but after that night, Qi Sijia’s relationship with Meng Jiang was obviously much better than before.

She woke up before seven in the morning, and the black assistant was waiting for her outside.

After Qi Sijia finished washing up, she would take out her phone and take the initiative to check the text messages from Meng Jiang.

Usually, in the early morning, Meng Jiang would send a message: [Good night.]

Their times were still not in sync.

Meng Jiang finished filming in the early morning, and Qi Sijia needed to sleep in the early morning. When she saw the text message the next morning, she would reply: [Good morning.]

On Wednesday morning, the studio had a three-hour long meeting.

After weighing all aspects, Right decided to start attracting investment for the script Dark Tide, whose creativity had been plagiarized, in advance. But the investment plan had been through Qi Sijia’s hands. She had omitted all the main plot summaries of the script.

This was to ensure that after the script came out, it would be completed with both quality and quantity. Although to this day, no studio had dared to be so arrogant as to attract investment for a script in this way.

The studio’s investment advertisement came out in the morning. In less than an hour, the hashtag “Young and Famous Screenwriter Jia is Arrogant” was trending on Twitter and Facebook.

Qi Sijia had no reaction to this. Right called and asked if he should send someone to remove the hot search. Qi Sijia said there was no need.

Qi Sijia did not have any of these foreign software like Twitter or Facebook, nor was she worried about being recognized by foreign netizens. She had no time to pay attention to whether others were scolding her for being arrogant.

Whether she was arrogant or not, in front of a work, all paradoxes always need the work to speak for itself.

And those empty names were not important to the current Qi Sijia. Many times, even a gust of wind was a disturbance, let alone rumors.

Qi Sijia held the folder and came out of Right’s office.

The black assistant followed by her side, carrying the detailed outline of the last scene and episode into the office.

“Teacher Qi, the new director of the marketing department just asked privately if you have a designated investor in mind.”

“No.”

Qi Sijia said as she walked. She was not familiar with the European and American capital circles. This matter was up to Right to weigh. The bottom line was that the film must maintain the originality of the original script. This was the most basic respect for all creators.

After the black assistant finished reporting, he looked at Qi Sijia with a hesitant look.

“Is there anything else?”

“Your friend is waiting for you in the reception room.”

Qi Sijia was slightly surprised. “Friend?”

“Mmm.”

The reception area was two hundred meters from Qi Sijia’s office.

Qi Sijia walked around the public area corridor and met many colleagues from the studio along the way, but she couldn’t remember their names.

When her colleagues greeted her, Qi Sijia simply hummed in agreement, but her gaze did not fall on them.

She looked quite normal, but she gave people a sense of social distance, as if she were detached from the world.

The black assistant was three steps behind. He walked to the door of the reception room and opened it.

Only then did Qi Sijia’s gaze regain a little focus. The guest was Meng Jiang. She was signing an autograph for a white male fan.

The corner of her lips held a half-fake smile.

The white male fan took the autograph book with both hands, his hands trembling slightly. He said, “I really like you. I like your 2021 movies Ant Emperor and Century Cruise.”

“Your acting is amazing.”

Meng Jiang raised an eyebrow and said in a joking tone, “Your taste is also amazing.”

When she mentioned her profession, whether it was her raised eyebrows or the lazy smile on her lips, there was a charming confidence in it.

Qi Sijia looked at her a few more times. Meng Jiang seemed to have eyes in the back of her head. She turned around and quickly caught her.

“Teacher Qi,” Meng Jiang’s smile reached her eyes.

She waved goodbye to the white movie fan and walked to Qi Sijia’s side.

Her gaze landed on her face, and she said with a heartache, “You’ve lost weight.”

Qi Sijia laughed. “Why did you suddenly come by yourself?”

Meng Jiang walked side by side with her and said idly, “I’m here to talk about cooperation. Your script is up for bidding. Of course, I’m here this time to try to use some connections and see if I can coax you into investing in RENAISSANCE STUDIO’s script for the second half of the year.”

You don’t talk about cooperation while carrying a lunchbox. Qi Sijia glanced at the brown food basket that Meng Jiang was openly carrying.

The two of them entered the office. Qi Sijia turned her head and said, “I thought you were here to rush me to the set.”

As soon as she said this, their eyes met, and they both smiled tacitly.

“You can do your own thing. I didn’t mean that.”

“Then what do you mean?” Qi Sijia looked at her and asked deliberately.

Asking the obvious, who can stand it?

“Can I take back my polite words just now?” When it came to flirting, Meng Jiang was much more playful than Qi Sijia.

“If you have to ask, then I’m here to see you. After three months of not hearing from you, even a normal friendship would have grown cold. Teacher Qi, if you had kept your word that night, I wouldn’t have been able to wait a week.”

She was so direct, with three layers of meaning in her words.

Qi Sijia naturally understood. She raised an eyebrow and, following Meng Jiang’s words, found the key point and said seriously, “Just normal friends?”

Qi Sijia was so on the ball, handing her a question with a free point.

Meng Jiang was a little surprised. After the surprise, her eyes were filled with a smile.

Meeting Qi Sijia’s gaze, she put away her teasing tone and said seriously, “It’s definitely not in my heart. I hope it won’t be in yours in the future.”

This reply was too direct, laying their relationship bare. It had to be said that getting along with Meng Jiang was really comfortable.

Qi Sijia curled her lips into a smile, didn’t reply, and didn’t cool down.

With a playful thought, she asked, “Isn’t it a little late to come now? Why didn’t you come before?”

“You didn’t say who you were before.”

Meng Jiang said, “Of course, you can also understand my coming today as a bribe.”

Back and forth, all the little emotions of being ignored and having her cover blown were erased.

Their eyes met, and they couldn’t help but laugh together.

Qi Sijia intentionally followed Meng Jiang’s words. “Just a lunchbox is not enough for a bribe, right?”

Meng Jiang’s tone had no hint of unfamiliarity. “Then what do you want me to bribe you with?”

Originally, one was asking seriously, and the other was answering seriously. But at this point, the topic was getting more and more off-track. The next thing, the joke was about to be told.

Qi Sijia interrupted her, waved Meng Jiang to sit in the office for a while, and went to wash her hands herself. On her way back to the office, she passed by the corridor and met the black assistant, telling him not to order takeout today.

She walked into the office. Meng Jiang had already taken off the exquisite lid of the lunchbox.

“Where are you eating?”

Qi Sijia went around to the side of her desk and said, “Here.”

Her desk was full of documents. Meng Jiang frowned, looking at the folders that were piled up and almost toppling over. She was just short of tidying them up herself.

Fortunately, she held back. Meng Jiang asked, “Why aren’t you eating on the coffee table?”

The coffee table in the office was a little low, and she had to bend over to eat. She had been sitting and typing for twenty-four hours straight recently, and her back was almost unable to straighten. It was uncomfortable to sit like that.

Qi Sijia said, “My back hurts.”

Meng Jiang frowned. “This won’t do. You should find a Chinese medicine practitioner for bone setting and massage.”

Qi Sijia said, “I’ll go after I’m done with this.”

Meng Jiang didn’t say anything more, just looked at Qi Sijia’s waist a few more times.

She pulled over a swivel chair and sat in the position directly opposite Qi Sijia’s desk.

This desk was very messy, and there was no place to put the lunchbox. Five years ago, Meng Jiang would have been chattering and tidying it up herself.

But not now. Their relationship was not at that point. And the documents on the desk, it was unclear if they involved script manuscripts or business secrets. Without the owner’s permission, Meng Jiang was very good at grasping the sense of propriety. She didn’t even glance at the content of the documents on the desk.

Qi Sijia looked up and took in Meng Jiang’s expression, a dense smile in her eyes.

She deliberately pretended not to see, took the lunchbox from Meng Jiang’s hand, and placed it on the blue folder in front of her.

Meng Jiang finally couldn’t hold it in anymore and frowned. “You should tidy up your desk.”

Qi Sijia looked at her with the corner of her eye, lifted the lunchbox in her hand, and gestured, “I don’t have a hand.”

In a very natural tone, she said, “You can help me tidy it up.”

This tone did not treat Meng Jiang as an outsider at all. The goddess Meng had been through a lot over the years and was as smart as a fox. Of course, she could see this level of intimacy. She quickly came out of her disgusted and cleanliness-obsessed mood.

The words she said were still teasing. “You were more particular when you were a cleaner.”

Qi Sijia replied idly, “Then it’s more comfortable to be a cleaner.”

She was really tired. She wasn’t usually like this. Although she wasn’t as clean as Meng Jiang, the places that should be tidy were also decent.

It was just that she had been so busy lately that she didn’t want to do any chores other than writing scripts.

Her mind had been thinking about problems all day. Writing itself was a mind-draining and emotional thing, especially now that she was rushing to finish.

In the three months she had been in M country, the accumulated workload was already more than the accumulated workload of Qi Sijia in the past five years.

Therefore, when Meng Jiang came over suddenly, Qi Sijia didn’t even want to bother thinking about what expression to show Meng Jiang, nor would she bother to figure out which words were appropriate and which were not.

The phone call last night was also in this state of mind. The words she said and the things she did had completely exceeded the friendly distance they had tacitly maintained before.

But after she said it, and their relationship was unclear, Qi Sijia did not want to stubbornly use reason to analyze the cause and effect of the future.

She was too tired. At this moment, she was unwilling to use her brain to think and just went with her subjective feelings. It seemed much easier.

She wouldn’t ignore someone for a month like that again. After all, every movement of her body seemed to express discomfort, so she could only go with the flow.

Fortunately, Meng Jiang meant the same thing.

Meng Jiang gathered the blue folders and stacked them in a place where Qi Sijia could easily reach them. She simply tidied up the scattered documents outside.

Soon, a space was cleared.

Qi Sijia placed the lunchbox on it and said, “Thank you.”

Meng Jiang complained, “You weren’t like this before. Now you’re just ordering me around.”

Qi Sijia ignored her, opened the lunchbox, and lowered her head to eat.

Despite her complaints, Meng Jiang re-stacked Qi Sijia’s folders, making sure all the corners were neatly aligned.

After doing this, she pulled a swivel chair and sat in the position directly opposite Qi Sijia’s desk.

While wiping her hands with a wet tissue, she openly looked at Qi Sijia with her eyes.

Qi Sijia ignored her and let her watch. The food in the insulated box was laid out. There was some rice, green vegetables, and pork ribs, not a lot, but a variety.

Meng Jiang said that the lunch was bought in Chinatown.

Qi Sijia couldn’t help but praise that it was very much to her taste. She had been eating Western food for almost a few months. Suddenly seeing authentic Chinese food, and the taste was not bad, her appetite was stimulated.

“You’ve lost a lot of weight,” Meng Jiang looked at her for a long time and still said with a sigh.

After eating, Qi Sijia put down her bamboo chopsticks. The paper towels were on her left.

She took a piece of paper, wiped her mouth, and then took another one to wipe her hands.

“You’ve also lost a lot of weight,” after doing this, Qi Sijia turned to Meng Jiang, looked at her seriously, and replied.

“It’s not the same,” Meng Jiang looked at Qi Sijia with a hint of heartache. “You’re thin from exhaustion. I’m just maintaining my figure for acting.”

After lunch, Qi Sijia’s stomach was warm, and there was a faint smile in her eyes. She said, “It’s all the same, for work.”

Meng Jiang met her gentle gaze and, after hearing this, also curled her lips. It seemed that the two of them had only been together for half an hour, and their mood had improved a lot.

After this meal, the next day, Meng Jiang came to the studio to deliver food again, as if she were familiar with the way.

Qi Sijia was in a meeting in Right’s office and came out a little late. Meng Jiang was sitting in the reception area.

When Right saw her, he was a little surprised. He personally walked over to greet her and pulled Qi Sijia over to introduce her.

“Meng, this is my disciple, Qi Sijia.”

“This is Meng Jiang, the president of Luo Meng’s Greater China region. Our future investor.”

Qi Sijia was surprised at how fast Meng Jiang was. After all, the plagiarism scandal had spread, and all the capitals were currently in a wait-and-see state.

But this did not mean that the studio would have difficulties in attracting investment in the future. The original scripts from RENAISSANCE STUDIO were priceless in the European and American markets. A third-rate media company’s theft, anyone with discerning eyes could see the pros and cons.

At this time, the capitals were not moving, not because they were worried about plagiarism, but because they were worried that after the studio solved this problem, the original team’s mentality would have problems, thus affecting the completion of the script.

So a few days ago, after the emergency public relations was released for the plagiarism, the studio opened up the script for investment on Wednesday in advance. Of course, it was also expected that the investment from the investors on the first day would not be much.

Meng Jiang’s move was too fast. Qi Sijia suspected it was for her.

After Right finished his introduction, seeing that Qi Sijia was not moving, he patted her on the shoulder.

Qi Sijia extended her hand and shook Meng Jiang’s.

Without pretending to be a stranger, she asked in a familiar tone, “Is it because I’m the editor-in-chief?”

Meng Jiang heard the implication, and a three-part smile appeared on her lips. She first explained to the clueless Right that she and Qi Sijia had known each other for many years.

Then she turned to Qi Sijia.

In business matters, she had always been business-like. Meng Jiang did not answer but asked back, “Do you think I’m the kind of person who mixes public and private affairs and is blinded by lust?”

Their eyes met. There was a light in Meng Jiang’s eyes, and a confident and charming smile hung on her lips. Although this question had a deliberate and teasing tone, Meng Jiang did not show it on her face. From a professional perspective, she simply explained to Qi Sijia the reason for her investment.

“Meng Luo needs to expand its foreign market. Since the beginning of this year, we have selected more than three hundred similar scripts, but no matter in terms of quality or reputation, RENAISSANCE STUDIO has always been our first choice for cooperation. There is also a special reason. I chose to cooperate because you are Jia. Five years ago, our team analyzed your Earth’s Destruction. I have always trusted my own judgment in reading films.”

As Meng Jiang spoke, she scratched Qi Sijia’s palm with her finger. Qi Sijia looked up and met Meng Jiang’s mischievous eyes. She calmly let go of her hand and put it in her pocket.

Meng Jiang thought to herself, Stingy. She felt the hot heat in her palm and curled her fingers.

“Then, happy cooperation,” Qi Sijia said seriously.

“Logically, you should shake my hand again for the cooperation,” Meng Jiang glanced at the section of Qi Sijia’s wrist that was exposed from her long coat.

Qi Sijia glanced at her with the corner of her eye, and a very faint smile appeared on her lips.

She turned her back, passed by Meng Jiang, and suppressed the end of her voice. Her voice was low and magnetic, brushing past Meng Jiang’s ear. “No.”

Meng Jiang stood there in a daze and took several deep breaths.

Right asked Meng Jiang from the side, “Are you okay?”

Meng Jiang half-closed her eyes, suppressing the bit of moisture at the corner of her eye. Her smile was a little evil. She said, “I’m fine.”

Then she chased after Qi Sijia’s back and entered her office.

During this meal, Meng Jiang didn’t say much, brewing a big move.

It wasn’t until Qi Sijia wiped her mouth that Meng Jiang finally spoke.

With a half-smile, her phoenix eyes slightly raised, with a hint of flirting, her eyes full of charming and lingering charm, she asked Qi Sijia, “Teacher Qi, am I coming back tomorrow?”

Qi Sijia smiled. “If you insist on coming, do I have the ability to stop you?”

“No ability.”

Meng Jiang held her face and laughed. After laughing enough, she brushed her hair behind her ear, stood up, turned her face sideways, rested her arm on the desk, and leaned her body slightly, getting closer to Qi Sijia.

A broken diamond necklace leaked out from her bra, and the cold pendant fell on the back of Qi Sijia’s hand.

Qi Sijia narrowed her eyes slightly and looked up.

Meng Jiang’s gaze wantonly chased after her.

Qi Sijia was very different today. She was wearing a pair of silver glasses that accentuated her face shape. The lenses reflected a blue light, and two thin chains hung down, making every inch of her facial lines stand out, full of a cold and ascetic feeling.

Meng Jiang’s gaze moved up from her perfect jawline and finally, through the lenses, met Qi Sijia’s cold, willow-leaf-shaped black eyes.

This look was too alluring.

Five years ago, this was the kind of outfit that had pierced Meng Jiang’s heart, growing in her heart inch by inch. Her arm should have long since wrapped around Qi Sijia’s long neck, pulled her down, and sat on her lap to kiss her.

But now, Meng Jiang only dared to look. Her fingers tapped on the desk irregularly, her gaze on Qi Sijia’s left hand.

Seeing that Qi Sijia didn’t react, she moved her hand closer, brushed against the skin on the edge of Qi Sijia’s hand, held the desk, leaned over, and moved her lips to Qi Sijia’s ear. “I’ll take that as a yes. See you tomorrow.”

Their eyes met. Without waiting for Qi Sijia to say yes or no, Meng Jiang suddenly withdrew, leaving after flirting, giving no room for imagination.

Qi Sijia leaned back in her office chair and stared at the door that had been slammed shut for a long time.

She stood up, walked to the small fridge, took out a bottle of iced mineral water, twisted off the cap, and took a sip of cold water.