Locking away my heart and love! Going back to 2000 to be a top student again.

Now only the two of them were left in the office. Xu Su sat up straight and looked out the dim window: "It's dark. Are you done with your work? I want to go home."

“Okay,” Shen Chen nodded, saying very naturally, “Let’s go have a meal first, then go back.”

Xu Su's lips twitched slightly, as if she wanted to say something but couldn't find a reason, so she could only nod in the end.

As soon as she stood up, Shen Chen pointed to the three scripts on the coffee table that she had flipped over and put aside: "You've been working on this all afternoon, aren't you going to make some arrangements?"

"..." Xu Su hesitated for a moment, then bent down to pick up the notebook on the table and handed it to him: "I think these three are pretty good, do you want to take a look?"

"No need. If you think it's good, then that's fine. I haven't been involved in these matters, and I don't really understand them." Although he said that, he still took the script that Xu Su handed him, without opening it, and simply asked, "You've taken a liking to these three? Then I'll make the arrangements."

"Don't be so hasty," Xu Su reminded him, "Aren't you afraid I'll screw you over?"

Shen Chen said matter-of-factly, "I trust your judgment."

"..." Xu Su was speechless and too lazy to argue with him: "Fine, fine, you can vote."

Shen Chen was taken aback: "You're not investing? Didn't you say you'd invest in anything you liked?"

"Business is business," Xu Su said solemnly, "I don't want to take advantage of you."

"Nobody's asking you to take advantage of them. What are you thinking?" Shen Chen said with a serious face. "I'm a shrewd businessman. I never do business at a loss."

As he spoke, he made a phone call, as if afraid that Xu Su would change her mind, and directly asked the legal department to draft an agreement.

"Can we each take half the shares?" Shen Chen asked with a smile, adding, "Let's draft an agreement first, and you'll have to pay according to your investment ratio."

Xu Su lowered her head, remained silent for several seconds, and then hummed in agreement.

Shen Chen looked at her, puzzled: "Cheer up, don't be so down, okay?"

Xu Su didn't respond to his question. She thought of Li Na and chose "The Story of the Imperial Physician" from the three scripts. "Can I specify the female lead for this script?"

She's never been a sugar daddy before, so she sounded a little unsure of herself when she said that.

Shen Chen smiled, raising his eyebrows as he said, "You might not understand, but let me put it this way: with just these three scripts, without me raising any objections, you can arrange everything for the entire crew, including the director."

Shen Chen asked, "So, who are you planning to cast as the female lead?"

He knew her social circle just as well as Zhou Mochen did, and after thinking about it carefully, he concluded that it was probably just her few classmates.

He wouldn't object if she wanted her classmates to try their hand at acting.

Unexpectedly, Xu Su asked, "Do you still remember Lina?"

"Who?" Shen Chen asked in confusion. He had always had a good memory and remembered the names of her two best friends perfectly, but he had no recollection of this Lina.

Xu Su could only explain, "It's that girl I called for you the night you first arrived in Beijing. Didn't I ask for her phone number before I left? You've already forgotten? She even sat with you all night."

"Don't mention that time." Shen Chen's lips were pressed tightly together, his face full of displeasure. "You actually took that woman seriously after just one meeting?"

“Yes, I really like her,” Xu Su said. “I want her to play the female lead, is that okay?”

Shen Chen didn't want to argue with her over such trivial matters, so he nodded without hesitation: "Okay."

As soon as he finished speaking, Xu Su made a move to take out her phone to contact Li Na, but was interrupted by Shen Chen.

"You don't need to contact her personally. Just send me her phone number. I have so many people working for me, and they get paid to do work."

"..." The evil capitalists.

Xu Su gave Li Na's phone number to Shen Chen, and then warned him with a smile: "Try to avoid contact with people in those industries in private. Don't believe anything that you find agreeable. Be careful they don't sell you out and then you feel sorry for them."

Xu Su looked unconvinced; she wasn't that stupid.

Shen Chen said, "You really shouldn't disbelieve me. Women in those circles will do anything for profit; they'll even betray their own sisters."

"Alright, stop making it sound so scary. I didn't plan to be friends with her anyway, and we won't contact each other again..." She suddenly thought of the twin sisters in the private room last night.

Shen Chen noticed her strange expression immediately and asked, "What's wrong again?"

“Um…” Xu Su hesitated for a moment before asking, “You guys aren’t going to take advantage of me for free, are you? Like, sleeping with the girls and not giving me any benefits.”

She had no memory of those twins in her past life's entertainment industry. Either they were unknown after their debut, or they never debuted at all.

If it's the latter...

Shen Chen's face darkened at her question. "Xu Su, I advise you to rephrase your words."

"..." Xu Su was taken aback, then quickly explained, "Last night, there were twin sisters in the private room, right? I saw them, Zhu Yuxuan, and a man coming out of the restroom together..."

She gave Shen Chen a knowing look, then continued, "Later I asked the younger of the twins, and both sisters are from the music academy. They were willing to do *that* with Zhu Yuxuan and his group, probably hoping they'd help them get into the entertainment industry..."

At this point, Xu Su wanted to ask Zhu Yuxuan if he would help promote her, but when she looked up, she found that Shen Chen's face was as dark as a shadow...

Xu Su quickly stopped talking and looked at him cautiously: "Are you angry?"

"I'm not angry with you." Shen Chen looked down at her. "Why didn't you tell me you witnessed that kind of thing?"

"What..." Xu Su paused mid-sentence, looking completely bewildered: "Why should I tell you?"

Shen Chen was amused and annoyed: "Aren't you scared when a little girl like you stumbles upon that kind of scene?"

"I'm not afraid. I know what kind of people you are," Xu Su said, recalling the scene from last night. "It's just that it was a bit too heavy-handed."

Shen Chen lowered his head, seemingly lost in thought. After a long while, he chuckled and said, "I'm so sorry, taking you out only resulted in them offending your eyes."

He probably held a grudge against it.

Xu Su thought he was making a mountain out of a molehill; although it was a bit... it didn't offend her eyes at all...

She wanted to say something, but just then, the draft agreement was brought in by her assistant, so she had to give up.

Xu Su carefully read the agreement and then signed it.

“Alright,” Shen Chen looked at her signature, his face no longer gloomy, and said with a smile, “I never thought I could partner with you to invest in a project.”

Xu Su couldn't take it anymore. "Try to be normal. If you keep acting like this, I'm not going to eat with you."

Shen Chen tilted his head to look at her, raised an eyebrow and smiled, "What's wrong with you? There's something even more abnormal, want to see?"