Quick Transmigration: Why did you provoke him? He's love-struck!

Chapter 538 Keeping a Canary in Captivity (17)

Tao's expression changed: "The Yan family?"

Yan Jing was as smug as a bullying puppy. She stepped aside and showed Yan Zhen to Brother Tao: "That's right, my aunt is the daughter of the Yan Group. You can call her Miss Yan."

Tao Ge: "..."

"If you don't want to end up like your CEO friend, pay him the money now. Otherwise, you'll upset my aunt. Acquiring another Lanhai Entertainment is no big deal for the Yan Group."

Tao gritted his teeth inwardly.

After weighing the options for a while, probably feeling that it wasn't worth offending the Yan family for a few hundred thousand, Brother Tao took out his phone with a dark face and transferred money to Jing Chen.

Upon receiving the money, Jing Chen immediately breathed a sigh of relief and bowed to Yan Zhen and Yan Jing, saying, "Thank you! Thank you both!"

Yan Zhen didn't say a word from beginning to end.

Now that the matter was resolved, she said calmly, "Let's go."

After leaving the hotel, Yan Zhen and Yan Jing got into the car parked outside.

Just as the bodyguard was about to close the car door, a hurried voice came from outside: "Wait, wait!"

Jing Chen ran over quickly, jumped into the car in a flash, sat opposite Yan Zhen, and closed the car door behind him.

Yan Zhen: "?"

Jing Chen smiled gratefully at her: "I'll go with you."

To help him resolve his unpaid wages, his sugar daddy sister came all the way here. He had to be sensible and not wait for her to speak before following along.

Yan Jing glanced at Jing Chen and said thoughtfully, "Why do I feel like you look familiar... I remember now, didn't you play the third male lead in 'The Scent of Love'?"

Jing Chen smiled awkwardly: "Yes, I did act in it, but I was the sixth male lead."

Yan Jing chuckled: "You're better looking than the male lead and the second male lead, but you didn't have many scenes. I thought you were the third male lead. Your acting was pretty good in that drama. I was quite into your pairing with the female lead when I watched it. Why weren't you included in the promotional materials?"

Jing Chen touched his nose: "The company didn't arrange anything."

"What's your name?" Yan Jing asked.

"Xiao Yun".

In front of Yan Zhen, the two started chatting back and forth.

Yan Jing is a lively person. She learned that Xiao Yun had signed a 20-year contract with Lan Hai Entertainment and had been exploited for 12 years so far. Every time he worked, the company would find a reason to deduct money from his salary, and the amount that Xiao Yun received was usually no more than 30% of the amount stipulated in the contract.

Yan Jing was both angry and sympathetic: "Your company has gone too far. Why don't you expose it?"

Xiao Yun said helplessly, "If I expose it, I'll be blacklisted."

"So what if you're blacklisted? They only give you that little bit of money a year, what can you do with that? You might as well take the civil service exam. Do you think Lanhai Entertainment would dare to keep you here?"

Xiao Yun hesitated, then glanced at Yan Zhen unconsciously.

"What's wrong?" Yan Jing pressed. "I saw some popular science articles online that said if you encounter a shady company that uses contracts to control us workers, you should take the civil service exam and get a job. Then they won't be able to keep you from leaving."

Xiao Yun was silent for a moment, then said in a low voice, "I can't take the exam."

"why?"

“…Low education level,” Xiao Yun said in a low voice. “I didn’t even finish high school before I started working.”

"Huh?" Yan Jing exclaimed in surprise, "Why?"

“My dad doesn’t care about anything, my mom is sick, and I have younger siblings who are still in school. I dropped out of school at sixteen and signed with Lanhai Entertainment. Although the company is unscrupulous, it pays me much more than I did washing dishes in a restaurant.”

"You're so pitiful." Yan Jing's eyes softened instantly when she looked at him. "No wonder you're such a good actor, but you've never really become famous in the industry... Why don't you switch to Xinyue Media? I'll protect you from now on!"

Yan Zhen: "..."

Xiao Yun looked at Yan Zhen again and saw that she was expressionless and did not express her opinion. He subconsciously assumed that this was also Yan Zhen's opinion.

He was tempted but hesitated: "But I still have eight years left on my contract with Lanhai..."

"It's alright, let my aunt help you." Yan Jing took it all in. "It's just asking for a favor, a simple matter of a word—right, Auntie?"

Yan Zhen: "..."

Seeing that Yan Zhen didn't speak, Yan Jing hugged her arm and said coquettishly, "Auntie, please help me out. You've seen his TV dramas, you know he's a very good actor. It's worth supporting him."

Yan Zhen glanced at the mirror and looked at him and Yan Jing with hopeful eyes. She remained silent for a while, then said to the bodyguard sitting in the passenger seat, "Get this done."

"Okay, Miss."

Yan Jing cheered, "Auntie, you're so kind!"

Xiao Yun smiled slightly.

As the car entered the city, Yan Jing had to go to school the next day. Considering that the Yan family lived too far from her school, Yan Zhen sent her to a flat near the school for temporary accommodation and arranged for two nannies to take care of her daily life.

After settling Yan Jing in, Yan Zhen returned to the car.

Xiao Yun remained in the car, and when Yan Zhen got in, he looked somewhat uneasy.

"Where do you live?" Yan Zhen asked.

She was thinking of finding a convenient intersection to hail a taxi to drop Xiao Yun off; she didn't plan to take him home.

Xiao Yun glanced at her expression and cautiously said, "I...I'll go to your house?"

Yan Zhen frowned: "Go to my house?"

Why go to her house?

Seeing her displeasure, Xiao Yun immediately changed his words: "I live at No. 19 Fu'an Road, Yuhua District."

Yan Zhen: "..."

The address is so detailed, it seems like they're planning to hitch a ride all the way through.

That person has a really thick skin.

Yan Zhen said helplessly to the driver, "Go to this address."

"Yes."

Upon hearing that Yan Zhen was going to his house, Xiao Yun said uneasily, "This is a rented house, it's very dilapidated and old."

How could we let our sugar daddy go to a place like that!

Yan Zhen looked at him expressionlessly.

The man first asked to go to his house, and when he was refused, he implied that his house was rented and "very dilapidated and old". What was he trying to do?

Is she implying that she'll give him a house?

That face is way too big.

Yan Zhen warned, "You talk too much."

Xiao Yun immediately shut his mouth.

Forty minutes later, the car stopped on Fu'an Road.

Jing Chen got out of the car and saw that Yan Zhen was still sitting in the car without moving. He remembered the bodyguard opening the door for Yan Zhen, so he walked around the car, walked to Yan Zhen's side, and opened the car door.

Yan Zhen was puzzled: "Huh?"

Seeing that she still wouldn't get out of the car, Jing Chen hesitated for a moment, then leaned forward and climbed into the car to unbuckle her seatbelt: "Let's go."

Yan Zhen: "..."

She belatedly realized that there seemed to be some misunderstanding between her and Xiao Yun.

"where to?"

“My home,” Xiao Yun said, his tone carrying the obsequiousness of a subordinate to a superior. “There aren’t many good restaurants nearby. If you don’t mind, I can cook for you. I… I’m pretty good at making porridge, and I can also cook some home-style dishes.”

Yan Zhen looked at him coldly: "Why?"

Xiao Yun observed Yan Zhen's expression and remembered that Brother Tao had previously scolded him for being "pretentious" and "not good at coaxing people." He figured that Yan Zhen probably felt that he was not attentive enough.

So he forced a fawning smile and awkwardly displayed his sweet talk: "To repay your kindness in helping me out of trouble so many times."