After twelve days of shooting, she was done with her scene and headed back to B city. Meanwhile, Jianyu and herself had been keeping in touch through calls and chats. He had gone back to B city a few days after they'd met but was currently on a business trip.
"Zhenzhen how I missed you all this while you were in H city," Fei'er said hugging her tightly.
"I didn't," Bai Liu said in a bored voice.
"Hey you smelling boy," said Fei'er said loudly.
"What it's a free world you know am entitled to my own opinion," he said dropping his note bad and looking straight at them smiling smugly
"Get out," They said in unison.
"Wow you girls know how to temple on a person's rights," he said picking up the tablet and walking away.
"Keep talking and that's not the only thing I will trample on," Zhenzhen said with a snot.
"He's gotten too confident we'll have to remedy that don't you think," Fei'er said.
"Yes, we do but discreetly Fei'er. I don't want him to feel that his rights were trampled on" Zhenzhen replied deliberately raising her voice.
"Oh, what a beautiful flower," Fei'er said her eyes trailed on the flowers in the vase.
"Yes, they're congratulatory flowers on a successful shoot," Zhenzhen said.
"From who, Elder brother Shen Xue? Fei'er said her head bent to the side and her hands rubbing her jaw gently.
"No It's from Jianyu" she replied.
"Jianyu? Zhenzhen you are hiding something from me" She said tickling her gently.
"No maybe yes," Zhenzhen said laughing.
"Why is it Zhenzhen. who's this Jianyu am just hearing about" Fei'er said
"He's my boyfriend. We met three weeks ago" She said.
"What don't tell me. He's the handsome stranger. Zhenzhen you didn't" Fei'er said.
"We met again by accident in H city," She said.
"Wow, how romantic. I am so happy for you" Fei'er said.
"thanks" she replied blushing.
"I am very glad that things are now getting better for you. So have you received any new job offer" Fei'er said?
"I was invited to audition for a role in a youth drama a few days from now," She said.
"That's good. Zhenzhen let's work hard" Fei'er said raising her balled-up fist.
"Yes," she said raising hers.
Two days after the audition for a supporting role in the Youth drama [[ My Deskmate ]] she received an invitation to join the cast as
Xie Lin the male leads childhood sweetheart vying for his heart.
They were scheduled to begin shooting by the end of the month so she memorized her lines until then.
On the day of the booting ceremony she together with the main cast were present to burn incense and pray for a successful production.
They were shooting in B city University so she communed from her apartment to the set until she was done with her scenes. She was going through a script for an audition when her phone rang.
Putting the script aside she picked up the phone and saw that it was her manager calling. She accepted the call
"Zhenzhen how are you doing, I hope you are taking care of your health," Her manager said. Startled, Bai Zhenzhen drew the phone away from her ear and brought it back in front of her to check if she did see the caller identification properly.
When had her manager ever been nice enough to ask her how she was.
"Zhenzhen is you there," he said after some time due to the dead silence on her part.
"Yes I am," She said.
"the company executives are very happy with you Zhenzhen. You received an offer from Softcare body lotion to become their ambassador" He said.
Ah so that's why he was being nice, she was now in use thanks to the offer. Typical
"That's good," she said.
"am calling to find out if you're interested," He said.
"I am" she replied without much thought. This was a very good opportunity that doesn't come easy so she was going to grab onto it.
"Good I will get back to the team leader and fix a date for the contract signing," he said.
"Thanks, Manager He. I am relying on you" she replied.
"all right goodbye," he said and cut the call. Bai Zhenzhen was so overjoyed with everything that she told Zhou Jianyu when they spoke over the phone.
After many talks, the day for the contract signing was scheduled two days later and was held in a restaurant.
The software main branch was located in A city so Bai Zhenzhen and her manager met with the software team in a private room in a hotel. Da Xia was attending to another artist so she wasn't present.
After the signing toasts were made and even though she was good with alcohol She still joined in on the toast.
After the toast, she began feeling tipsy so she took and excused herself to the bathroom to wash her face. But she still did feel, she began feeling dizzier her thoughts cloudy that was when she suspected that she'd been drugged. placing her and on the wall for support, she began walking forward gently.
She walked out of the bathroom to her manager grabbing hold of her sharply and dragging her up the elevator and into a room. After pushing her in he closed the door turning to lock from outside.
"No let me out" she screamed hitting the door.
"shut up and go in am doing this for your good. Zhenzhen this isn't time to be stubborn, it won't help you. Just keep quiet and let him do what he likes with you" Her manager said from outside.
Standing shakenly she turned carefully to see non-other than Director Chu the sex-crazed pervert who had been out to get her for years.
"No let me out" she screamed hitting the door.
Director Chu was popular in the industry for having peculiar sex habits. Actresses that slept with him never remained the same. seeing that her manager wasn't going to let her out as he was most definitely in league with this she quickly got hold of her phone and sent an SOS message to Zhou Jianyu.
Her brother was on the night shift and wouldn't be holding his phone and Fei'er was out of town. She only hoped that he gets her message on time but just to be safe she called him and turning on the call recorder dropped the phone on the ground.
By then Director Chu had already gotten closer and grabbing her arm harshly pushed her to the bed. She fell on the floor next to the bed hitting her head on the bed frame.
"Pretty girl come over to stop wasting my time. No one can help you now"He walked forward and he grabbed her hair and raised her diving in to kiss her.
They both wrestled as he bushed her down to the bed and backhanded her.
"You had better behave yourself you silly bitch or I will kill you and no one will find your body," he said standing and taking off his coat, shirt and trouser until only his inner wares remained.
He pick up his belt he began crawling up the bed while Bai Zhenzhen crawled backwards feeling the bed for weapons until she came upon the flower vase, Raising it she hit him at the side of his head startling him.
"You bitch" he said and blacked out. She quickly pushed him to the side and ran to the door Hitting the door and screaming for someone to let her go
. She turned back to look for something to break the door when the door was opened with force falling out of its hinges. She quickly ran out of the door and into a man's embrace.
"Jianyu you came, "She said looking up before blacking out.
Zhou Jianyu grabbed hold of her and carrying her up gently headed out to the hotel but not before instructing Xiaobo to take cure of everything.