Chapter 65 p1
A few days later, Wasteland released its scheduled trailer.
This time, the conspiracy theory netizens were completely convinced that at the awards ceremony, Meng Jiang’s speech was to warm up and hype up the new movie.
A week later, at the movie’s press conference, a reporter asked, “It is rumored that your rumored marriage with the crew’s screenwriter, Teacher Qi, is a publicity stunt for the new movie. What are your thoughts on this?”
Chen Cheng, from under the stage, winked at Meng Jiang, telling her not to speak recklessly.
Meng Jiang smiled nonchalantly, held the microphone, and showed off the ring on her ring finger.
She replied, “Next question.”
Although she said she had no comment, her facial expression and the ring she held up clearly said, “It’s none of your business.”
After Qi Sijia returned to the country, she had many things waiting for her to handle.
After the awards ceremony, the two of them had already signed a contract with the program team of Sisters’ Tearing Trip.
The original plan was to start filming immediately in a live broadcast format.
But because Meng Jiang and Qi Sijia had too many things on their hands, the schedule was pushed back again and again. In addition, the investor was the Qi family, so they didn’t care about the cost of the delay.
The scheduled guests’ schedules were all pushed back accordingly.
The production team was not without complaints, but in any case, the investor was the one who would suffer the loss from the delay.
The salary was paid as usual, and they could just laze around and take the money. It was all fine.
A month after RENAISSANCE STUDIO entered the country, the subsequent script allocation, personnel recruitment, and talent resource reserve all required Qi Sijia to make decisions.
After this matter was handled, the Qi family’s equity was transferred, and Qi Sijia went back to Ningcheng.
The Qi family was not like a deep-rooted and large family. It had started from scratch and had risen too quickly, relying on Qi Jun’s hard work in the first half of his life, showing signs of an unstable foundation.
That day, when she was checking the accounts, Meng Jiang happened to be in Ningcheng doing publicity for her new movie, Wasteland. She also took the opportunity to help Qi Sijia find someone to check the Qi family’s bad debts.
Many of the accounts had an unknown origin, and the direction was obvious, pointing to the old people in the management who had built the empire with Qi Jun.
Times were changing, and the enterprise also needed new blood. Especially after Qi Jun had made the decision to transform, the old management methods that had relied on medical equipment to make a fortune had to be abandoned, and a new team had to be formed.
Otherwise, within five years, this bad debt would become the biggest hidden danger for the continued survival of the enterprise.
Qi Sijia knew this very well, so before she returned to the country, the request she had made to Qi Jun was that she would hire an external team to manage the company.
But at that time, Qi Jun had angrily refused. Now that Qi Sijia had brought up this plan again, she also brought the bad debt to Qi Jun’s office.
Meng Jiang was also there. For so many years, she had been in business, and she was even more direct than Qi Jun.
After a few words, the enterprise’s shortcomings were clearly laid out.
Qi Sijia listened from the side and did not express her opinion.
It wasn’t until Qi Jun had finished a cigarette that he turned back and asked for her thoughts.
Qi Sijia still said the same thing. She was not good at business management.
After she returned to the country, her career focus would definitely be on scripts. She had always adhered to the principle of having professional people do professional things.
If Qi Jun could accept the turmoil of laying off senior management, then Qi Sijia’s side could help hire an absolutely professional team to join the Qi Group and serve as the management of the Qi Group.
As for the subsequent entry of the Qi Group into the entertainment industry, Qi Sijia held the largest shares in the studio, and the resources in her hands would naturally not be lacking for her own family.
With Qi Sijia’s guarantee, although Qi Jun was angry in his heart that Qi Sijia wanted to shirk her responsibilities as soon as she joined the company and make a big move to mobilize the group’s senior management, when he thought about the company’s bad debts and the negative growth in the company’s profits in the past two years, Qi Jun could only nod silently in the end.
The day after the equity transfer, Qi Sijia took Meng Jiang and flew directly to Guangcheng.
On the plane, Meng Jiang asked who they were going to see.
“An old friend,” Qi Sijia took an orange from the tray and peeled it slowly in her hand.
Meng Jiang was thirsty. She had looked at the orange several times before, but because it was too much trouble to peel, she had not touched it.
Now, seeing Qi Sijia holding it in her hand, she tilted her head, leaned on Qi Sijia’s shoulder, and her tone was a degree more charming. “Teacher Qi, I want to eat too. Can you clean the orange pith for me?”
Qi Sijia glanced at her. “Why are you so troublesome?”
Seeing her half-smile, Meng Jiang followed her words and said in a joking tone, “Then what should we do? Not peel it?”
Ignoring her, she lowered her head and peeled it seriously. After peeling it, she began to remove the white pith.
Meng Jiang looked at her and, after a while, asked casually, “Why did you suddenly ask me to accompany you to Guangcheng to see an old friend I don’t know?”
Qi Sijia was not usually like this.
Because Meng Jiang had to go to R country for a business trip tomorrow, and her schedule was tight. Under normal circumstances, Qi Sijia would not ask her to come and go with her.
In Qi Sijia’s own words, there was no need to go back and forth and cause trouble. It was not considerate.
Something unusual must be going on. It was definitely not as simple as just meeting someone.
Meng Jiang knew this very well.
Seeing that Qi Sijia had not looked up and was still struggling with the orange in her hand, Meng Jiang looked at her and asked again, “An ex?”
“No,” Qi Sijia answered without thinking. She looked up and met Meng Jiang’s smiling eyes.
Her tone was a little low, and she said in a bewitching tone, “The person I’m seeing this time is also a lesbian. I was worried you would be uncomfortable.”
These words of Qi Sijia were too piercing.
She clearly didn’t know how to say sweet nothings, but the honest words she said often pierced the thorn in Meng Jiang’s heart.
Meng Jiang suddenly didn’t want to ask anymore. It didn’t matter.
Qi Sijia took the initiative to bring up the topic and explained, “I’ve known her for seven years. We don’t usually contact each other much, but she owes me a favor. This time, I want to hire a management team for the Qi Group, so I need to ask her for help.”
Meng Jiang raised an eyebrow and asked, “What’s her status?”
“A trader,” Qi Sijia thought for a moment and said, “I heard from Right that she was the most powerful trader on Wall Street back then. Her main business was capital injection into listed companies, financial investment, and so on. The teams she built herself were all top-notch.”
Meng Jiang felt that this person was almost within her circle of acquaintances. Just as she was about to continue asking, she looked down and saw the white pith wrapped around Qi Sijia’s hand. The whole orange had been peeled clean, and a small orange lantern was in Qi Sijia’s palm.
Qi Sijia broke off a segment and put it in her mouth to taste. Meng Jiang asked her, “Is it sour?”
Qi Sijia said without changing her expression, “It’s not sour.”
Hearing this, without even thinking, she took a piece from Qi Sijia’s palm and threw it into her mouth. But it was so sour her mouth went numb.
Her phoenix eyes curved, and Meng Jiang said with a half-smile, “It’s so sour, yet you say it’s not sour.”
“This segment of mine is not sour.”
“Unless I taste it myself,” Meng Jiang propped herself up on her arms, half-raised her body, and trapped Qi Sijia in her seat between her arms.
Qi Sijia raised an eyebrow, and a very faint smile appeared on her thin lips. “Okay.”
With that, without giving Meng Jiang time to react, she hooked her arm around Meng Jiang’s waist and sat her on her lap.
At this time, the first-class cabin was quiet. Just now, Meng Jiang’s heart was pounding.
Mixed with the snoring of the man in the suit who was already asleep in the front row of the first-class cabin, there was a sense of a secret and exciting tryst.
Her eyelashes trembled. She looked up, her eyes filled with a watery light, and stared at Qi Sijia.
Qi Sijia’s lips curled into a smile. She took the magazine from the table and blocked her face, then lowered her head and used her teeth to pry open Meng Jiang’s lips.
There was a Q&A on Weibo a long time ago, asking: What does it feel like to kiss in the clouds?
Now she knew. It was the taste of eating cotton candy.
Whether Meng Jiang felt the same as her, Qi Sijia didn’t know. She looked down at her and saw that the other person had narrowed her eyes in enjoyment and was panting heavily.
Qi Sijia let go of her and asked in a low voice, “Is it sweet?”
“I didn’t feel it,” Meng Jiang buried her face in Qi Sijia’s shoulder, narrowed her eyes, and said in a sexy, hoarse voice, “Then you can kiss me again, okay?”
The dinner was at Broadway. Meng Jiang and Qi Sijia pushed open the door and entered the private room.
The person inside had already arrived early. She was sitting gracefully at the round table. She put away her phone and turned her head. She must have just finished a phone call with someone. Her eyes were gentle, and she was wearing a warm-toned pantsuit with short sleeves.
Her black hair was loose behind her back, even longer than Qi Sijia’s waist-length hair. It was very well-groomed. From any angle, you could tell that the other person was an extremely particular person, and her posture was impeccable.
In the circle, the only person whose posture surpassed Meng Jiang’s was one person.
Meng Jiang blinked, and after a moment of shock, a familiar smile appeared on her face. She was even more enthusiastic than Qi Sijia.
She was the first to walk into the private room and shake hands with the woman inside.
She said in a joking tone, “I was wondering who the very outstanding female entrepreneur Qi Sijia was talking about. Bodhisattva, long time no see.”
For Meng Jiang to bluntly call her a bodhisattva, Qi Sijia raised an eyebrow. Her gaze went from her friend to Meng Jiang. “You guys… know each other?”
“Jiang Ru’s younger sister, Jiang Danli, is under Bodhisattva. We have some connections.”
After explaining, she met Qi Sijia’s eyes and gestured for Qi Sijia to explain as well.
It had been three months since the awards ceremony, where Meng Jiang had revealed their marriage. The originally good official announcement, due to Qi Sijia’s rich love history and the rumors fabricated by those marketing accounts, as well as the half-true and half-false short essays, had completely turned Qi Sijia into the number one female player in the screenwriting world.
Some people said that the fish in Qi Sijia’s pond were deeper than the sea. From the top traders in the financial world to the top female stars in the entertainment industry, and even the big shots in the fashion world, they were all Qi Sijia’s ex-girlfriends…
This rumor was undeniably bold. As for the truth, Meng Jiang was too busy and hadn’t had time to ask.
In summary, netizens no longer believed that Meng Jiang and Qi Sijia were a couple.
Three months ago, Meng Jiang would not have thought that Qi Sijia would debut on Weibo because of her cold and compelling beauty and countless scandals. And along with these, there was also her talent. Since ancient times, the love lives of cultural people have always been rich, and online fan fiction has been endless.
There weren’t many scolding voices, and they expressed that they could understand. After all, she hadn’t broken the law, hadn’t cheated, and there was no collapse of her persona.
But with these, Qi Sijia had a topic of discussion every day.
The netizens’ ability to dig was first-rate. Some random and groundless pictures were all pinned on Qi Sijia.
So much so that when a netizen found a picture of Qi Sijia and Yin Junning as the cover of a Japanese lesbian novel, the whole circle exploded.
The famous Yin Bodhisattva in the Guangcheng circle was of course not Qi Sijia’s girlfriend. The reason why she was listed as an ex was because of a photo.
