Perfect Fiancé Chapter 34

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When she saw the contract placed in front of her, Su Jin was momentarily stunned.

Initially, after her father first rejected the doc.u.ment of transferral, she hadn't really continued to pay much attention to the conversation between the two men. After all, with Su Chenghai's innately intellectual and scholarly demeanour; since he had said that he wouldn't just accept the shares for nothing, whatever Lu Xi had to say would be meaningless(1). But, she didn't expect her father to actually give his permission, where the end result would essentially be entrusting the a.s.sets to her.

(1) 文青性子 (wén qīng xìng zi) – A familiar phrase that appeared before in this novel, it is used to describe people but particularly, young people. Therefore, 'wen qing' describes the characteristics of these people as bookish with certain flights of fancy and often, who have idealistic ideals that do not relate to pragmatism and reality, while, 'xing zi' means personality or demeanour. This refers to her father having a bookish, scholarly nature with certain degrees of idealism.

Here, in Su Chenghai's hand, was the agreement that she had previously signed regarding the transferral of shares when they were processing the handover of the business to Su Yue. Su Chenghai had prepared this allocation doc.u.ment of the Su's company shares for the both of them; only back then, the agreement stated that she only had ten percent of the shares.

Now the amount of shares had increased to thirty five percent. Although this was not much, compared to the value added by what Lu Xi had brought to the business, this was already the maximum ceiling Su Chenghai would have been able to fork over. But, it was all being given to his own daughter anyways, so anything more or less would not make a difference to Su Jin.

This was just great- since he had only changed one page of the clauses, there was not even a need for her to sign at all.

"Dad….." Su Jin blinked as she speechlessly looked at the contract in her hands.

She had only been watching a television programme intently for a little while so how did all these a.s.sets switch hands to become hers?

"Take it." Su Chenghai nodded, his eyes gleaming with delighted pleasure.

In the car journey back, Su Jin leaned back against the leather seats and stared for a long time at the man who had been sitting upright and still in his seat. She suddenly asked, "Why did you suddenly give these to me?"

"Why?" Lu Xi smiled as he clutched the steering wheel, "earlier, as I have already explained when we were with Uncle Su, this is the compensation that the Zhao family owes you."

Su Jin peered at him with a glance and lightly snorted, "Lies, followed by even more lies."

"Since you don't believe me…" Lu Xii raised his brows, his peach blossom eyes sweeping over Su Jin's delicate facial features.

"Hmm?" Su Jin slanted her head as she looked at him.

Lu Xi shook his head in laughter as he continued, "Then I can't do anything about it."

Initially prepared to hear his answer, Su Jin was stupefied to hear that blase comment from him. When she recovered herself, she saw that the man was driving rather seriously, thus she couldn't help but unhappily lean back against the seat and close her eyes for a while.

The rays from the afternoon sun filtered through the windows and fell on her as a gentle warmth spread through her entire body. Su Jin slowly drifted off to sleep.

In front of the villa, Lu Xi deftly pulled the car over at its entrance and turned to look at the front pa.s.senger seat.

The pale golden rays filtered in through the car windows from the side and fell on the girl's alabaster face. Her jet black hair was pressed against the back of her head, clearly accentuating the contours of her face while her inky black brows laid against her temples. Her closed phoenix eyes were slightly curled up; her slender, thick lashes were slightly curled and in accompanying her steady breathing, moved ever so slightly.

Lu Xi stretched out his hand, his slender fingertips hovering over her, tracing along the outlines of her face as his peach blossom eyes became flushed with drunken tenderness.

This girl, he knew better than anyone, how much pride she had in her. Even if it was her biological family, if she continued to be on the receiving end, she would most probably feel apologetic, much less…

His fingertips fell on her dark red lips.

He curled his lips, silly girl, whatever you owe, I'll pay it back.

By the second day, the issue of the transferral of rights of the Zhao family's properties and company had already made it to the headlines of the economic and entertainment magazines and newspapers. But, the entire situation had not even been made clear yet before the story in the entertainment sections had already been moved over by another issue.

The terrifyingly talented director, Lu Xi's new drama,《Sunflower》.

Due to Qin An being appointed to the job of putting together the production staff, the news of Lu Xi's new drama 'Sunflower' was inevitably leaked out.

Even though there was already a foundation laid down with《Heart-pounding Excitement》, this news still stirred up quite a lot of discussion.

Actually, it was not targeted against Lu Xi's skills, after all his grasp and understanding of camera angles could be clearly seen from his previous film. However what stirred up discussion was the plot of this drama and its t.i.tle.

Everyone in the entertainment industry unanimously agreed that television dramas were better than variety shows, and that, movies were better than television dramas.

As the saying goes, 'man seeks his way up just as water makes it way down,' so no matter whether one was an actor or director, most would usually go from drama productions to movie productions. A lesser number of people returned back from movie productions to drama productions unless the actors became overwhelmed.

But to Lu Xi, whom the industry regarded as an extremely talented director, all of the reasons were unfounded.

Based on the achievements of his previous movie, he just needed to film another movie that bordered on the standards of the norm and just above average to stabilise his position. If he filmed one more similar to the last one, he could immediately shoot straight up to the holy pedestal of directors.

But right at this critical juncture, he put out the word that he was going to shoot a television drama. Moreover, the screenplay wasn't even written by him, he had merely adapted an unknown novel.

Therefore, Qin An was in a frustrated and worried state of a dilemma about this state of events.

Some news media outlet had wanted to interview Lu Xi and caught wind of some gossip: some actors had wanted to take part in this production, so they had painstakingly gone through the trouble to get someone to make a few inquiries. Some girls had even directly "offered their services", which had caused Lu Xi, who was clearing out his office inbox, to down several days' worth of chrysanthemum tea in a day to vent his frustrations away.

Whereas Su Jin's book had gotten popular overnight and many people had gone to check out the original work because of the news. Some people liked it, while some people did not, so she tried not to care about the negative comments.

Unable to find the author's Weibo, many readers who had been tormented by the ending went in hordes to Qin An and Lu Xi's Weibo to ask if the ending for the televised version would be changed.

With such a story unfolding, without the gossipy and meddlesome finger of the entertainment magazines, what was now left was the comparatively more sensible voice of the economic magazines. With no little pressure from Su Chenghai, the general information about the buyout of the Zhao family's company and a.s.sets was not disclosed.

Even though all of this happened, it did not affect the two of them who were comfortably revising the script.

The start of August was when the news had reached the outside world and caused much excitement. Even the increasingly scorching weather could not stop the growing enthusiasm of the media; there were 'little news reports' published daily through all sorts of channels.

Yet in Lu Xi's villa, at the moment, the atmosphere was the total opposite.

The air conditioning had been turned to an optimum temperature. Wearing similarly light pink and grey loungewear, the both of them faced each other as they sat on the sofa with identically solemn expressions.

The draft of the screenplay was already nearing its final stages. Although all of the earlier plot points had not always been unanimously agreed upon by the two of them, even if there had been some disagreements, they were able to swiftly come into complete accord.

However, there had never been such a long confrontation like this before.

It was not merely a squabble but an actual stand-off.

It had already been half an hour.

"Jin'er, why do you insist on this story being a tragedy?" Lu Xi lightly frowned as he asked with knitted brows.

Both of them were equally unrelenting in their opinions when it came to the ending; he felt that it should've been more of a happy ending, but she didn't yield and was unwilling to change the script.

"Honestly because this should be a tragedy." Su Jin said firmly, meaning every word of it.

"Why must it have to be done this way? Even if Tong Yao really was indifferent yet sensitive, wouldn't she still be touched by the silent efforts Cheng Yuan put in for her?"

Lu Xi still did not really understand: clearly, before the resolution, Tong Yao had already confessed that she had been touched, so then in the end, why would she suddenly reject Cheng Yuan's proposal when he had come a long way from his hometown?

"Being moved does not mean that you are in love." Su Jin bit her lip while she hesitated for a bit and lowered her head silently as she tried to organise her thoughts.

"Ever since she was a child, Tong Yao had grown up on her own. Therefore, she has this disposition so some things are already ingrained in her. As for Cheng Yuan…" Her gaze grew distant, "he was defeated by the fact that he had done all this quietly and covertly."

Lu Xi's face slightly fell.

But Su Jin wasn't paying attention to his expression and she continued, "They've been friends for too long. In fact, the more Cheng Yuan understood Tong Yao better, the more honest she was with him, but at the same time that was also where she was more wary of him. Failing to strike while the iron was hot and immediately causing a crack in Tong Yao's heart was Cheng Yuan's error. Then afterwards, in those following days, no matter how hard he tried, no matter how much effort he had invested, he could only let her slowly become used to his presence in her life and eventually exist in a position similar to that of a family member to her.

"But――" she closed her eyes slightly, "That's not love."

Actually, in the book《Sunflower, the characters were more or less influenced by her. Most particularly, the female lead Tong Yao; this character was almost the complete reflection of her past life.

As for the male lead Cheng Yuan, he also bore some influences from another person.

And that person was a patient in a hospital who had been a.s.signed to her direct superior, the chief physician after she had left the hospital. He looked to have been in his thirties with nerve necrosis in the muscles of his legs. All the surgeries that were supposed to be done had been completed, and the reason for his presence seemed to be to come to the small town for recuperation.

Due to his vast background, she was merely the mouthpiece of his main physician. She did not even know his actual name and just went along with the rest of the hospital staff as they addressed him as Mr Lu.

She was unsure if it was due to his disability that he was rather cold in nature and somewhat gloomy, with no particular inclination of coming into contact with other people.

Perhaps at that time, he just saw her as a newly graduated young woman that would be comparatively harmless, but in any case, the two of them gradually warmed up to each other. At times, they would even chat.

She had lived at the orphanage ever since she was a young child. Even though her personality was indifferent and cold at times, and she could still be a little dense when it came to emotions, girls would naturally always have an innate intuition.

She did not know when it all began but by the time she realised it, he liked her.

But he never spoke about it. Maybe… He didn't even realise that he liked her then.

She never pointed it out either, and better yet, she hoped that he never found out.

That was because, between the two of them, there could not be anything possible at all.

Since she couldn't give him the result that he wanted, then, there was not any reason for her to reveal the truth to him.

Probably because she did not know many people of the opposite gender, the ones she was acquainted with, she was not familiar with them either. Therefore, when she wrote 《Sunflower》, it was inevitable that the male lead had the presence of that man as well.

Initially, she too thought of writing a happy ending in hopes that the lovers would be reunited and all would be well- giving them a sweet, happily ever after.

But after rewriting the ending over and over, in the end, it turned into its current state.

In the end, it still could not be forced.

The girl in front of him had closed her eyes, she looked serene yet a little heartbroken.

Lu Xi lowered his head and looked at his intercrossed fingers and sighed deeply. After a long time, he finally spoke.

"That silly girl…" He paused and laughed quietly, "what an ungrateful, poor soul."

Su Jin blanked out for a while, blinked and smiled.

"Who said she wasn't?"

Translated by Macey

Edited by Ely, Iris

TLC-ed by Minodayz, Iris