Chapter 31 The 30th day of getting disliked
When Shi Wei opened her eyes, it was already dawn.
After a night of rain outside, the air was filled with the fragrance of grass and soil.
The weather after thunder was always exceptionally clear.
Look, it was the same every time. Bear with it and it will pass.
Shi Wei struggled to get up, but found that her hand was tightly held by something. She turned her head in confusion and saw Sheng Jingchen, who was already asleep on the bed.
One of his hands held her hand and the other rested under her chin.
Maybe because he didn't sleep all night, there was a shadowy stubble on his noble and handsome face as well as light dark circles under his narrow and long phoenix eyes. His hair, which was always combed meticulously, drooped a few strands. It made him look a bit decadent.
Shi Wei only noticed at this time that she had laid on the bed at some unknown time. There was an IV drip on her other free hand.
"Host, you had a fever last night. On top of that, you fainted from fright. It was the villain who took care of you all night!"
Shi Wei was a little surprised.
In her dream, she did feel someone was taking care of her. She thought it was a dream and that the person who was taking care of her was Grandmother. Unexpectedly, it was Sheng Jingchen.
"The family doctor didn’t come?" Shi Wei asked.
"He did come. Housekeeper Wu asked the villain to rest, but the villain seemed to be worried about you... so he took the initiative to stay... Host, the villain seems to be really different to you..."
Shi Wei could feel that Sheng Jingchen really treated her differently from what she thought before.
However, under the situation where Father Shi and Mother Shi assumed that she was their biological daughter, they could abandon her. When Father Xia and Mother Xia knew she was their biological daughter, they still treated her as a stranger...
How credible was the feeling from a strange man?
"Sheng Jingchen, will he stay with me forever?"
Shi Wei laughed at herself.
It was impossible. She was used to being abandoned.
She was a villain in the novel. The moment her character was set, she was destined not to be loved.
Don't have any hope for anyone, so there won't be any disappointment in the end.
Sheng Jingchen woke up at some point, rubbed his sore arms, and looked at Shi Wei.
"You’re awake?" Shi Wei said softly, "I'm sorry... I troubled you last night."
"Are you okay?"
"All okay."
"En," Sheng Jingchen nodded, "Then I'll go to the company."
"Okay."
Sheng Jingchen got up. The luxurious pajamas were already wrinkled because they were creased all night.
When he walked to the door, he suddenly stopped and said, "Last night, no trouble."
Shi Wei was stunned. She didn't expect Sheng Jingchen to say such a sentence out of the blue. Then he said, "And, I will."
I will stay with you.
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The news of Xia Duoduo being kicked out of the Xia Family spread throughout the wealthy circle.
The news of the real and fake heiress caused a sensation. Even so, the Xia Family had always known about it, so people in the wealthy circle didn't think that the Xia Family would do anything to Xia Duoduo because of it.
But the next day, they learnt that the Xia Family had kicked Xia Duoduo out.
Almost overnight, the to heiress of the wealthy circle became a street rat that everyone hated.
Yu Manman, who liked to eat melons and read gossip, went to investigate and found out that Xia Duoduo had fueled the Ye Yu incident. All the marketing on the Internet that discredited Shi Wei later was Xia Duoduo's work.
From this point of view, Xia Duoduo deserved being kicked out by the Xia Family!
She was clearly an adopted daughter, but why couldn't she figure out her position?
Shi Wei didn't know how Xia Duoduo was doing recently. She was occupied with W2’s matters and had no time to care about the affairs of the wealthy circle.
Come to think of it, it was quite interesting. When a person had nothing to do and could only be a pampered rich lady, the trivial things in the wealthy circle became particularly important. Such as whose family bought a limited edition bag, or whose man kept a mistress... But once there was something to do, time would become fast and busy.
Shi Wei could only clearly feel Xia Duoduo's disgust for herself. Her dislike value soared to more than 5,000 after the real and fake heiress incident. After she was kicked out of the Xia Family, it soared to more than 8,000.
Xia Duoduo had the habit of hating her fiercely a few times every day. So tens of thousands of dislike values could be racked up every day.
Later, Shi Wei felt that it was boring to watch, so she asked the system to turn off the notification.
The task given to her by the system at the beginning was to be a good vicious female supporting character. At least according to the current results, in Xia Duoduo's cognition, she did a good job as a ‘vicious female supporting character’.
It was just that Xia Duoduo didn't seize the opportunity to climb up, always thinking of some crooked ways. If not, she would have reached the peak of her life like in the novel.
During this period, Zhao Meiqi and Xia Derong always came to find Shi Wei.
Like Xia Yiwen at the beginning, they didn't believe that Shi Wei had completely severed ties with the Xia Family, thinking that Shi Wei would come back as long as they persuaded her for a few days.
But after being rejected many times at Sheng Family's Manor, they realized that Shi Wei was serious.
The Xia Family's dinner table’s atmosphere gradually became depressed. Xia Derong and Xia Yiwen used work to numb the sadness of losing their daughter/sister, while Xia Yuanzhou trained all day long. Gradually, Zhao Meiqi was the only one left at the dinner table.
Shi Wei left and the Xia Family didn't become better because of this. Instead, it had already fallen apart.
Zhao Meiqi knew that if there was any blame, then it was because they didn't properly treat Shi Wei from the beginning.
It was they who pushed Shi Wei to a farther place with their own hands.
Shi Wei didn't know about these matters in the Xia Family. She asked the security guards of the manor not to let the Xia Family in.
During this period, she and Ye Wenqing have been occupied with W2. ‘Scientific Cultivation of Immortality’ was proceeding in an orderly manner. The script had passed the review of the radio and television some time ago and the cast recruitment had been completed. During this period, the main acting team had been reading the script in Hengdian Hotel. It usually took one to two weeks. It just happened that Shi Wei was finished with W2 matters and could go to the crew to supervise the production for one or two weeks.
The recent core of W2 was to launch the ‘Earth’" IP series of movies and a series of investment in the movie.
'Earth' was a work that won the International Hugo Award some time ago. After winning the award, the sales of physical books have exceeded 30 million copies. In the novel, the 'Earth' series of movies kicked off the prelude of science fiction movies in their country’s film industry and created the miracle of the top 1 box office movie in the film industry.
Shi Wei and Ye Wenqing certainly wouldn't think of developing such a god-level IP by themselves. The workload was so huge that they couldn't handle it alone. They needed other investors to join.
The investment promotion of the 'Earth' IP was the first time W2 met the media.
After two busy weeks, the 'Earth' investment promotion meeting finally kicked off in the largest exhibition hall of the Waldorf Hotel.
On the day of the investment promotion meeting, many media were invited to the destination. Before the investment promotion started, major marketing accounts had already opened the live broadcast room to prepare for the live broadcast.
Though the IP investment didn’t really have much to do with these media, it was rumored that the bigshot behind W2 would meet with everyone today.
This was the bigshot who bought most of the popular IPs on the Internet before the IP fever!
Some senior people in the film and television industry have predicted that the IPs bought by this bigshot were the most promising adaptation IPs at present. It could be said that the works that will be popular in the next ten years may have the shadow of this bigshot!
【Private investment of 200 million to buy Tianyao with hundreds of well-known IPs in hand, including an international IP like 'Earth'! This bigshot must be a senior person in the industry, right? 】
【After I heard about the IP fever, many film and television masters went to W2 to buy IPs. The IPs that were bought for hundreds of thousands at the beginning could now be sold for millions or tens of millions. Isn't it a profit! 】
【The bigshot is worthy of being a bigshot. What sharp eyes! 】
【I think the team of 'Scientific Cultivation of Immortality' was good. The big guy obviously wants to make a movie seriously. He found the original author to adapt it. I am looking forward to it! 】
…
The heads of the film and television departments of the Sheng Family, the Xia Family, and the Ye Family came to the investment promotion meeting.
In addition to wanting to get to know the bigshot behind W2 and purchase IPs, they want to participate in the investment of 'Earth' IP.
Such a big project had won the Hugo Award. It will definitely be a hit movie!
The leader of the evaluation team of Shengshi Group gave a box office forecast for Earth early on. If the Sheng Family's Film and Television Department was allowed to film it, the investment will be less than 500 million and the return will be at least 5 billion!
The Xia Family had long had the ambition to enter the film and television industry. Although they wanted to buy Tianyao Film and Television before. It was somewhat due to Xia Duoduo. But even without Xia Duoduo, Xia Yiwen firmly believed that the huge profits of film and television will not lose to the traditional real estate industry. Investing in the IP of 'Earth' was a good way to enter the industry.
As for the Ye Family, since Ye Wenqing started to co-found W2 with Shi Wei, she hadn’t been so concerned about the power struggle of the Ye Group. The Ye Family was complicated. Even if old Mister Ye was sorted, there were still a bunch of uncles to deal with! Ye Wenqing simply put her focus on W2 and comfortably receive her dividends.
At this time, Ye Tingyue was called back to the Ye Family by Old Mister Ye. The Ye Family may not put as much energy into film and television as the Xia Family, but as a triple-gold film emperor, Ye Tingyue naturally knew how profitable the 'Earth' IP project was and he wanted to get a piece of the pie.
So, the investment promotion of the new film and television company attracted the three giants in the capital.
The three young heirs stood together, frequently attracting the attention of others.
Sheng Jingchen and Ye Tingyue have known each other since childhood. When they met, they talked about the investment in 'Earth'. Xia Yiwen came up later. The investment promotion and IP were handled by his own people in the film and television department. He was more curious about Shi Wei's situation.
"Weiwei...how is she doing lately?" Xia Yiwen asked Sheng Jingchen a little stiffly, "I heard that Weiwei is afraid of thunder. After the last birthday party, there was so much thunder. Was Weiwei okay?"
Sheng Jingchen narrowed his eyes slightly and didn't hold back with Xia Yiwen, "It had been two weeks since Shi Wei's birthday party. Xia Yiwen, you only know this now. Isn't it too late?"
Xia Yiwen choked and couldn't refute.
Shi Wei was afraid of thunder and he didn't know this all this time. It was only after the housekeeper reminded him that he realized that Shi Wei was afraid of thunder. It was after the assistant went back to the place where Shi Wei lived when she was a child to investigate that he knew that Shi Wei was abandoned by the Shi Family when she was little.
He only knew that Shi Wei valued family affection before, but he didn't know why she cared so much.
But now when he knew it, it was too late.
Xia Yiwen smiled bitterly, "I have no intention to make Shi Wei return to the Xia Family. I only want to know how she is doing recently."
Xia Yiwen realized earlier than Zhao Meiqi and Xia Derong that it was a luxury to make Shi Wei return to the Xia Family.
"She’s doing great," Sheng Jingchen said, "Maybe, she is doing better than you think."
Xia Yiwen couldn’t understand what Sheng Jingchen meant.
While Ye Tingyue had long known from Ye Wenqing’s side that his younger sister and Shi Wei were working together.
Watching the scene of Xia Yiwen's dejected departure, Ye Tingyue sighed, "Say, if the Xia Family knew that Shi Wei was so outstanding, would they still be so partial to Xia Duoduo?"
The news that Shi Wei severed her relationship with the Xia Family spread throughout the wealthy circle.
Partiality was common in the wealthy class. With so many children, one will inevitably be partial. In the past, the reason why the Xia Family favored Xia Duoduo was that they mistakenly thought that Shi Wei had snatched away Xia Duoduo's engagement partner as well as feeling that Xia Duoduo was more elegant, beautiful, and generous, and more worthy of the status as the daughter of the Xia Family.
Shi Wei, a rural girl, seemed to be unpresentable no matter how one looked at her.
But if they knew the truth, they would probably regret it.
Most people, like the Xia Family, don't know the truth.
Whether it was other people in the wealthy circle or netizens who know that Shi Wei and the Xia Family have severed ties.
【To be honest, Shi Wei's eyes are still too shallow. Although the Sheng Family is great, how can a husband compare to her own biological parents? It isn't a wise move to sever ties with the Xia Family and rely on the Sheng Family! 】
【+1, she is truly a rural girl with no knowledge. Young Master Sheng being good to Shi Wei is more or less because of the Xia Family. If she breaks off ties with the Xia Family like this, will the Sheng Family still recognize her as their granddaughter-in-law? 】
【It feels like as long as the Xia Family puts pressure on the Sheng Family, the Sheng Family will most likely give up Shi Wei. After all, it's just an engagement! 】
…
Half an hour later, the investment promotion meeting officially began.
The first person to show up was Ye Wenqing, the CEO of W2.
She first gave a brief introduction to W2. As a film and television company, W2 was now preparing projects such as the S-rated project 'Scientific Cultivation of Immortality' and the much-anticipated 'Earth' IP. In addition, W2 will prepare to shoot 2-3 film and television works in the second half of the year.
In terms of artists, W2 had plans to cultivate artists. Artists signed by W2 could get priority to play roles in W2-invested dramas.
'Scientific Cultivation of Immortality' and 'Earth' series were both good cakes. The news announced by Ye Wenqing undoubtedly made many newcomers who want to enter the entertainment industry excited.
Finally, Ye Wenqing solemnly introduced the chairman of W2, who was the person in charge of the 'Earth' IP series, and she would introduce the 'Earth' series of projects to all investors.
When the exhibition hall of the investment promotion conference slowly darkened, the resume of the young chairman was projected on the huge screen. She graduated from the highest institution of learning in the country, Capital University and was responsible for many projects on campus. She won international awards... In her hands were hundreds of well-known IPs...
She wasn't a bigshot in the industry.
But her achievements in the film and television industry in a few months cannot be underestimated.
When Shi Wei appeared in front of everyone, everyone took a breath.
【Shi Wei? ? ? 】
【The bigshot behind W2 turned out to be Shi Wei? ! 】
【Oh my God! Many marketing accounts have guessed many people before, but no one thought it would be Shi Wei! 】
【But Ye Wenqing have no reason to lie...】
【Junior student at Peking University here...I had the honor of working with Senior Shi before, and participated in a venture capital competition project together. At that time, she used one million and made 100 million in 24 hours! 】
【Ah! I participated in that competition...but I lost all my money. I saw Shi Wei's name in the entertainment industry section before. Just thought it was someone with the same name. Unexpectedly, she is that bigshot! 】
【If it’s Shi Wei, I can completely understand why she broke off relations with the Xia Family. She doesn't need to rely on the Xia Family and the Sheng Family. She can build a wealthy household by herself! 】
【Sure enough, self-reliance is the hard truth! 】
...
Xia Yiwen stared blankly at Shi Wei, who was on the stage introducing the IP of 'Earth' with great grace.
Outstanding graduate of the Finance Department of Capital University? Chairman of W2?
He had... never really got to know Shi Wei.
The Xia Family always thought that Shi Wei was a wild child who grew up in the countryside. How good could she be without the elite education of the rich and powerful? But in the end, she was their own daughter and they could not give her up.
But now they knew that Shi Wei had always been excellent.
Four years ago, before she returned to the Xia Family, she was admitted to Capital University. This was the result of her own efforts and had nothing to do with the Xia Family. She didn't understand the useless etiquette of the upper class in the rich and powerful circle, but it didn't mean that she was a bad person.
Xia Yuanzhou, Zhao Meiqi, and others saw the scene of the investment promotion conference through the media live broadcast.
Their surprise wasn’t any less than Xia Yiwen.
Xia Yuanzhou still remembered that he had seen Shi Wei's university admission notice.
At that time, the family was holding a celebration for Xia Duoduo's admission to the Capital Film Academy. When he saw Shi Wei's admission notice, he subconsciously felt that it was fake.
He laughed at Shi Wei, "How can a farm girl like you get into Capital University? You even bought a fake admission notice!"
Unforeseen, the notice was real.
They, the children of wealthy families who have always enjoyed elite education, may not be able to get into Capital University.
Because they couldn't doesn't mean that Shi Wei couldn't.
The pearl had been covered in dust. They held that fake daughter in their hand for so many years and finally realized that their sister/daughter was the best one.
Unfortunately, it was too late.
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