Chapter 2024 - 2017: I Didn’t Say It Was Today

Ouyang Jing glanced over; those fangirls were still clinging to Mu Qi, chattering away.

She walked over in annoyance and said to Mu Qi, "Come on, let’s go home."

Mu Qi naturally followed her out.

Ouyang Jing snorted as she looked back—these girls, seriously, have they never seen a man before!

Dragging Mu Qi out, Mu Qi said, "Hey, you said if I won, you’d let me go back to the Mu Family, right?"

Ouyang Jing froze.

He’s still thinking about that?

Ouyang Jing walked ahead with her hands behind her back, saying nothing.

Seeing that, Mu Qi hurried to catch up. "Say something."

Ouyang Jing said, "What, what, what are you trying to do?"

"Tsk, you promised you’d let me go back to the Mu Family, don’t you dare play tricks."

"I didn’t, I did say that," Ouyang Jing said.

"Then..."

"But I never said when I’d do it."

"Huh?"

Ouyang Jing said very seriously, "I said I’d let you go home, and I’ll definitely do that. But I really never said when I’d let you go back, okay? Heh, you will go back, just... not today."

Damn...

Of course Mu Qi didn’t agree. "That’s not what you said at the start, no way..."

"That’s exactly what I said from the start—you just misunderstood."

"Hey, you..."

"What, what are you planning to do to me."

Seeing Mu Qi walking toward him, Ouyang bolted.

"Get back here, explain yourself properly."

"Hahaha, nope." Ouyang Jing just ran off.

Mu Qi chased after him, watching him dive into the car and slam the door shut, so furious he could hardly breathe.

...

On the other side.

Ye Ning deliberately went to ask around to see if anything had happened at that school after she and Gu Qingcheng left.

It seemed the Wutao Family had greased enough palms; no one over there said anything. The classes were temporarily shuffled, and those who’d been drugged and passed out were scattered into different classes to continue prepping for the college entrance exam.

Ye Ning was relieved. Around that time, Zhang Zhiyou also messaged her, saying he was helping her line up a new TV drama and wanted her to keep an eye on it.

Ye Ning said, "What drama is it? You can send me the script."

Zhang Zhiyou suddenly said, "Right now your level is something a lot of people can’t reach. You’re just one step away from that final touch."

"What final touch?"

"Hollywood."

Ye Ning was taken aback; she hadn’t expected Zhang Zhiyou to want her to branch out into Hollywood.

Ye Ning said, "From here going to Hollywood to grind it out... there aren’t many who actually settle down there."

"You’re right, but anyone who’s been over still counts as having ’plated themselves in gold.’ Once you come back, you’ve got that status."

Ye Ning thought about it. Going to Hollywood wouldn’t be a bad idea.

After all, there really were some things over there she needed to look into.

This would be a perfect chance to go check it out.

She hadn’t forgotten what the Left Prime Minister of M Country had said: there’s an Organization over there called Dark Forces, so mysterious it makes you want to dig deeper. Especially since what they’re researching actually has to do with her origins, and they might even be subtly controlling Xiaojian.

So she said to Zhang Zhiyou on Whatsapp, "Sure, if there’s a chance to go test the waters over there, that’d be great."

Zhang Zhiyou immediately replied, "Isn’t there just such a chance? There’s a film starting production over there. They’ve seen your work here and think your action scenes look great. You know, a lot of people from here go over to do action roles, because in their impression, our stars are all good at Kung Fu, so they want you to come try out too."

Ye Ning nodded. "Alright then, I’ll go take a look."