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Chapter 18 – Magazine Shoot
There was silence in the private room for three seconds. Cen Sen, Jiang Che and Zhao Yang all looked at Shu Yang. Cen Sen and Jiang Che were fine, but Zhao Yang's disdain and disgust for him were clearly written on his face.
But Shu Yang's face was thicker than the mud under the Yellow River. At this moment, he still pretended that nothing happened and turned around in surprise, "Oh, Xiao Shu, you are finally here! Come on, come on, brother, look, where did this beauty come from!"
Ji Mingshu smiled wryly, grabbed the bag and smashed it across his head.
He was good at pretending and immediately started crying out “Ouch, ouch”.
"Shut up, I haven't complained that your hair is too oily and has dirtied my bag, so why are you yelling?" Ji Mingshu wanted to roll her eyes.
These two people whose names contain "Shu" have been very talkative since they were young, and everyone has long been accustomed to it. At this moment, they are bickering with each other, and the others are tactful enough not to get involved.
Jiang Che played a pair of Qs as if nothing had happened, and Cen Sen followed with a pair of Ks. Zhao Yang knocked on the table and said, "Pass."
Ji Mingshu looked down on Shu Yang from head to toe, and after winning, like every other quarrel, she sat down next to Cen Sen.
Cen Sen gestured to her with the playing cards, and she took them as a matter of course. She also looked at the cards directly from Jiang Che and Zhao Yang with great confidence, and then changed the order of playing the cards according to the comparison.
"9, 10, jack, queen, king, a straight; three fours with two cards; a pair of fives; okay, that's it."
"...I'll go." Zhao Yang covered his cards and stretched his neck to look forward. "Who can stand this?"
He hadn't seen this kind of gameplay in several years, and he was still a little confused.
Ji Mingshu has already started to settle the gambling money, "You owe me one bag, you, three."
"Why do I have to give three?" Jiang Che raised his eyes lazily and asked.
Ji Mingshu: "He is now at least a doctor serving the people and saving lives. You are just an unscrupulous businessman who exploits the common people. What's wrong with you giving three?"
Zhao Yang suddenly had the illusion that he had gotten a great advantage.
Ji Mingshu continued to speak confidently to Jiang Che: "Besides, your buddy just said that whoever earns more money should contribute more to the little canary. It's fair for you to give three."
Jiang Che disagreed, "Oh, he's not my buddy."
……?
"Isn't that what I just said?" Shu Yang had a question mark in his head, and turned to look at Jiang Che again, "No, it’s just three bags, are you so cheap that you don't recognize me as your buddy?"
Jiang Che: "Then you buy it."
"I'll buy it if I want, I'll buy ten!"
Ji Mingshu's expression changed instantly, and she smiled and held her chin up and said, "Thank you, Brother Yang."
Shu Yang never thought before bragging, but when he came to his senses and thought about the price of Ji Mingshu's bags, his heart was bleeding.
He turned around and tried to provoke Cen Sen to recover some of the losses. "Brother Sen, how can you abuse her? You didn't even buy her a bag, and you're trying to cheat us?"
Cen Sen was not provoked by him at all, and just said calmly: "Xiao Shu is more frugal and manages the household well."
Ji Mingshu also gave a smile that showed ‘a good woman who is diligent and thrifty in managing the household’.
Shu Yang: “…”
Okay, you two are a perfect match. People should lock them up now and don't come out to harm innocent people anymore :)
At the get together party that day, Ji Mingshu cheated and stole more than a dozen bags. Everyone gave in to her and, since they hadn't seen her for a long time, they also liked to play jokes on her.
Ji Mingshu was replacing Cen Sen, making up for his lack of activity in the atmosphere.
They are all smart people, and no one mentioned the minefield of "Li Wenyin" during the whole process.
Li Wenyin is Cen Sen’s ex-girlfriend. The rumored affair lasted for three years, but the actual term was three months.
In fact, ex-girlfriend is not a taboo topic that cannot be mentioned, but the key point is that Li Wenyin and Ji Mingshu do not get along well. They have been competing with each other since middle school and have caused a lot of unpleasantness.
Moreover, although Li Wenyin seems free and easy, she shows her lingering feelings for Cen Sen from time to time.
In the first day of Ji Mingshu and Cen Sen’s marriage, Li Wenyin became popular on Weibo with a short story about first love - "My Ex Got Married ".
Although Li Wenyin later deleted that Weibo post on the grounds that she "didn't want to disturb the other person's life", it was widely reposted online and is still quoted from time to time today.
After the party, Ji Mingshu went home without saying a word. She looked at the window, her phone, and the rearview mirror, trying to observe the changes in Cen Sen's micro-expressions through all reflective materials.
But Cen Sen had no expression, let alone any changes. He fell asleep as soon as he got in the car, and his mind was like a radar, and he woke up as soon as he got home.
Ji Mingshu didn't know why, but she was very angry and didn't want to pay any attention to him.
Cen Sen was completely unaware of her little emotions. He originally wanted to gather his energy and go home to spend a good night with his wife, but he didn't expect that when he came out of the shower, Ji Mingshu was already fast asleep. He didn't care much about it and just postponed the day of having a good night with his wife in his mind.
The magazine shoot that was postponed due to the Zhang Baoshu incident has resumed. "Zero Degree" has replaced the screen couple, but the skirt still needs to be borrowed.
Ji Mingshu felt very disgusted when looking at the skirt now, and wished that she could just give it to them, so she naturally agreed immediately.
On Thursday morning, she took Jiang Chun to "Zero Degree" with her, intending to let this little country goose be influenced by fashion.
The screen couple photographed today are the current traffic stars. They became famous for their collaboration in an idol drama. They each have many fans and CP fans. Their fans have different stances and they quarrel every three days and curse each other every five days. They have turned these two people who have no works to become traffic stars.
"The lighting on Li Che's side should be a little closer...yes, that's it."
Gu Kaiyang was wearing a fashionable suit, standing in the studio with her arms folded, directing the work. She had been in office for some time, and her assitant editor-in-chief attitude was becoming more and more prominent.
Ji Mingshu and Jiang Chun sat in the corner of the studio, watching the filming and talking in low voices.
Ji Mingshu: "What did you do last night? I was planning to ask you to come out to watch a movie, but the phone was not connected."
Jiang Chun: "Can't get through? Maybe the signal is bad. Tang Zhizhou invited me to see a movie last night."
Ji Mingshu turned to look at her, "After the incident last time, is Tang Zhizhou still willing to pay attention to you?"
Jiang Chun: "What do you mean? Although I am not well-educated, I am sincere, okay? After you told me, I sent him a WeChat message to apologize. He said it was okay and praised me for being cute."
Ji Mingshu looked at Jiang Chun with a look that asked, "Is he blind?"
Jiang Chun forced Ji Mingshu to praise her, and then thought of the little ambiguity when she watched a movie with Tang Zhizhou last night. Her ears turned red, and she couldn't help but pat her with her goose claws, and forced to change the subject: "You are still talking about me, what is going on between Cen Sen and that 380th-line little green tea? I didn't even see the cause and effect, how did it end?"
Ji Mingshu: "I've already said it was just a misunderstanding. I don't even remember the woman's name. What's the point of you asking me?"
It was really useless to ask Ji Mingshu about this matter. She only understood from the beginning to the end that Cen Sen did not cheat on her. She didn't know or care about the rest.
However, Gu Kaiyang knew the whole story very well. After the photographer took over the filming, she explained the extra story to Ji Mingshu and Jiang Chun, which was roughly how Zhang Baoshu acted like a demon and how tragic her end was.
"She was a promising young lady, but now she is completely hidden. You can't ask her to mess with anyone else but Zhang Qi, because that young master holds a grudge."
"Besides, this kind of girl has tasted the glory, and it's impossible for her to quit the entertainment circle and find a nine-to-five job. Anyway, her future will be difficult."
Jiang Chun thought of the girl who had the same style of the Xiao Bailian who snatched Yan Yu, and she could not muster any sympathy. She only commented, "She did it herself." After a pause, she asked something else, "By the way, what about the one called Shi Qing that you were talking about?"
Gu Kaiyang raised her eyebrows and made a gesture of wiping her neck.
Jiang Chun: "Fired?"
Gu Kaiyang: "Yes, I still find it strange when I think about this. What happened that day was ultimately a personal grudge between me and her. Shu Shu said it wasn't her, so I don't know why the company fired her."
Jiang Chun suddenly had an idea and looked at Ji Mingshu, "Could it be your husband who did it?"
"……?"
"Sister, have you read too many novels?"
Jiang Chun was stunned by her incredible expression. She stopped talking for a moment and began to doubt the rationality of her own idea.
However, when Ji Mingshu heard what Jiang Chun said, she thought it was a fantasy at first, but after thinking about it carefully, she felt that it was not completely impossible.
During the half-time break, she sent a WeChat message to Cen Sen.
Ji Mingshu: [A few days ago, I had an argument with a woman at Gu Kaiyang’s magazine, and she was fired.]
Ji Mingshu: [Secret observation.jpg]
She distracted herself and waited for Cen Sen's reply, but Cen Sen seemed to be busy and there was no movement for a long time.
During this period, Jiang Chun went to the bathroom, and Gu Kaiyang went out to answer a phone call and came back.
When she came back, Gu Kaiyang looked a little strange.
Ji Mingshu looked up, and when he saw sher expression, she remembered the fears he felt when she was notified of her husband cheating a few days ago. "What's wrong with you? You have a weird expression again."
Jiang Chun just came back and wiped his hands while adding, "Are you constipated?"
"No, I just received a notification for an interview."
"Who? Her husband? Showing off their love in a magazine?"
Jiang Chun was completely confused and pointed at Ji Mingshu without even thinking.
Gu Kaiyang paused, "Her husband's ex-girlfriend."
Jiang Chun & Ji Mingshu: "..."
The atmosphere suddenly became subtle and awkward.
In order to ease the embarrassment, Jiang Chun asked another question from the bottom of her heart: "Then...isn't your magazine a men's fashion magazine? Why are you interviewing a woman?"
“Isn’t there a woman on the cover?”
Gu Kaiyang pointed backwards and then said, "I'll think of a way. This topic doesn't necessarily have to be about Li Wenyin, but Li Wenyin should be back in the next two days."
She could find a way to reject the interview subject, but she had no way to stop her from flying back to the embrace of her motherland.
Just then, Ji Mingshu's cell phone rang.
Cen Sen: [I did it.]
Ji Mingshu looked at these three short words and paused for a moment.
Cen Sen: [Are you at the magazine’s office?]
Ji Mingshu: [nodding obediently.jpg]
Cen Sen: [Then I'll pick you up after work.]
Ji Mingshu looked at the brief conversation on the screen, and for some reason, she felt a little happy.
She couldn't help but curl up the corners of her lips, then sat up straight and touched her hair, and said to Gu Kaiyang in a very noble and cold manner: "No, just do her interview, I want to see what she has to say.”
Jiang Chun was drinking milk silently beside her. After spending so much time with Ji Mingshu, she felt that her subtext was "If this little b*tch dares to talk nonsense, I will kill her."
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