CHAPTER 226: CHAPTER 226 ORIGINAL SIN 35

When facing Qiangqiang, Yun Shuangshuang could smoothly call herself ’sister,’ but looking at the still young Zhang Ying, she really couldn’t get the word ’aunt’ out of her mouth. Calling her ’sister’ was acceptable, but she also called Professor Zhang ’grandma,’ which would mess up the seniority. In the end, she could only mumble through it.

Yun Shuangshuang really liked Zhang Ying, probably because her mother Feng Jinyan, herself, and Zhang Ying were essentially the same type of women. They were both strong-willed, unyielding, and liked to rely on themselves to conquer the world, rather than depending on men.

After carefully looking at her son, Zhang Ying also changed into a costume to get closer to him. A bunch of people put on costumes, leaving only one driver in modern clothes.

The driver felt a bit out of place, adjusting his clothes. Why did he suddenly feel so mismatched, as if he was wearing something eccentric? Clearly, he was the one dressed most normally.

Zhang Ying thought it was indeed eye-catching to have someone in modern clothes among a group of people in costumes. She waved her hand generously and got the driver a set of costumes too. After the driver changed, everyone looked again and felt, finally, it was pleasing to the eye!

In F City, at Quanwei Company Headquarters, in Wan Yan and Feng Jing’s office, a slightly chubby man with long hair and a big beard, completely with a non-mainstream look, lay on the spacious sofa, sighing one after another like life held no meaning for him.

Wan Yan and Feng Jing were so irritated by this man’s sighs that they couldn’t work at all. After a while, Feng Jing was the first to snap. He slapped the table, a bit angry, and said to the man on the sofa, "I say, Li Ming, are you doing this on purpose? You’re deliberately giving us a hard time with your constant sighing, aren’t you?"

Wan Yan, who was working on the other side, frowned too, the veins on his forehead twitching. He hadn’t turned a page of the documents in hand for ages. If it wasn’t because this guy was his childhood friend and buddy, he would have already asked security to throw out this noise-maker and mood-dampener.

Li Ming, lying on the sofa, raised his eyelids slightly, and said dejectedly, "Don’t you two have any love for your childhood buddies? I’m like this, and you two are still despising me here! My life is dark and bleak, utterly devoid of light!"

Li Ming turned over, raising his hands towards the ceiling, using a dramatic tone to deliver his final line.

Feng Jing and Wan Yan shivered, rubbing their arms covered in goosebumps. Feng Jing couldn’t help but say, exasperatedly, "I say, is it that serious? It’s just that you couldn’t find the right filming location for your movie. What’s the big deal? You look like you’re about to die, people who don’t know any better would think your old man is trying to drag you back home to forcefully marry you off to some ugly monster!"

"If my movie fails again this time, do you think that kind of outcome is far off for me? You know how twisted my old man’s sense of aesthetics is. How can he be so set on the idea that women who are plump and muscular are good for bearing children and perfect for marriage?"

Li Ming first sat up excitedly, rebutting Feng Jing, then moaned and collapsed back on the sofa, "Why am I so unlucky? I don’t play any dirty rules; I just want to make a good film. Why is it so difficult?"

"Your demands are too high, you’re overly fastidious. You can use special effects in post-production just the same. Why insist on finding a real scene?" Wan Yan frowned, looking at Li Ming!

Talking about his area of expertise, Li Ming immediately perked up. He sat up and argued with Wan Yan, "The main purpose of my movie is to highlight those precious, beautiful scenes unknown to our people, isolated from the world! How can we use special effects? It would lose all meaning, don’t you get it?"

"I don’t get it!" Wan Yan replied smoothly, lowering his head to continue looking at the documents, his expression very calm. On the other hand, Li Ming was choked up by his simple "I don’t get it," unable to catch his breath for quite a while.

Once Li Ming regained his composure, he pointed a shaking finger at Wan Yan, shaking for ages before saying with a look of exasperation, "I mean, you, acting like an old fossil at such a young age, so rigid and inflexible, without any entertainment life. Those women who fancy you must be blind! How can they see you as being perfect when you’re just an old relic without any sense of fun? You’ve been brainwashed by your old man!"

Wan Yan remained silent, continuing to look at his documents. Being childhood friends, they knew each other’s temperaments well. Li Ming didn’t think he could persuade the stubborn Wan Yan, and continued to slump down sighing.

Wan Yan and Feng Jing endured the twitching veins on their foreheads for a long while, until they couldn’t take it anymore. Feng Jing threw down the document in his hand, "Enough! Stop creating this depressive atmosphere. You’re going to drive us into depression, don’t you know that! Or turn us manic!"

Seeing Li Ming ignore him and continue sighing, Feng Jing shouted at Wan Yan, "Old Wan, quickly think of a way to shut him up, or he’s going to drive me crazy! It’s driving me insane!"

Wan Yan pondered for a while before suddenly speaking to Feng Jing, "Do you remember that village we passed by when we went on that trip a few years ago?"

Feng Jing frowned, "I travel to so many places year-round, north to south, how could I remember a little village!"

"Not far away, the village around F City, not far from there, there’s a waterfall group!" Wan Yan reminded.

"Oh!" With Wan Yan’s reminder, Feng Jing suddenly recalled.

It was a weekend; both he and Wan Yan were fed up from working a whole week indoors. But with such a short break, they couldn’t venture far. After discussing, they decided to just explore around F City. After all, F City is a tourist city with beautiful scenery around.

That day was unlucky; when night fell, the car broke down and couldn’t run anymore. The company driver was on leave, back to his hometown, unable to come pick them up, so Feng Jing and Wan Yan could only find a nearby village to stay for the night and wait for a tow truck in the morning.

After eating a tasteless farmhouse meal and sleeping on a wooden bed that left their whole bodies aching, both of them gloriously caught a heavy cold, so bad they couldn’t get out of bed, and couldn’t return to F City.

Since they both got sick and vomited the moment they got in the car, they had no choice but to rest in that village for a few more days. After recovering, the two rusted individuals wandered outside, intending to appreciate the rural scenery before returning to F City. They ended up discovering a piece of paradise!

At the time, due to work, they could only linger for a day before leaving. They planned to return whenever they had more leisure time, but upon getting back to F City, they became busy with growing Quanwei Company, negotiating contracts, expanding the company, and never found the time to go back. With time, even their memory of the place grew hazy.

If Li Ming hadn’t tormented Wan Yan and Feng Jing so fiercely today, Wan Yan might not have suddenly recalled that place. Now that he did, Feng Jing immediately felt that the place was just right for the fastidious Li Ming in terms of filming locations!

As soon as Li Ming heard the description from Wan Yan and Feng Jing, he was tempted! He jumped up from the sofa, full of energy, urging Wan Yan and Feng Jing to take him there immediately!