After chatting for a while, Shi Ran was also very sleepy. Thinking of the child in her womb, she had to lie down on an empty hospital bed nearby. "Dad, I'll take a nap too. Call me if anything comes up."
"Okay, okay, fine. You've been busy all night too, get some sleep quickly." Father Shi was heartbroken for Shi Ran and nodded.
Exhausted from a whole night, Shi Ran was incredibly sleepy and fell asleep as soon as she lay down.
However, after only two hours of sleep, she was awakened by a nightmare, her body drenched in cold sweat.
When she opened her eyes, it was already daylight outside. Her father was on an IV drip, and her mother was nowhere to be seen in the room.
Shi Ran breathed a sigh of relief, recalling the nightmare she just had about her brother being chased by creditors and having his hand chopped off. The memory left her sweating profusely.
The immediate priority was to find her brother.
Knowing her own limitations, she planned to seek help from Meng Jingwei.
Just then, Mother Shi returned with breakfast. Seeing Shi Ran awake, she smiled and said, "Ranran, you're awake? Mom just bought breakfast, hurry up and eat something."
"I..."
Shi Ran was pregnant and couldn't stand the smell of greasy food. More importantly, she had to take off her mask whenever she ate, which she couldn't do.
"I'm not hungry yet, you guys eat first. I'll sleep a bit longer. So sleepy~"
She made an excuse, planning to sleep a bit longer. Once the breakfast her mother bought cooled down, she could then claim the food was cold and go downstairs to eat.
This way, she wouldn't have to take off her mask in front of her parents.
"Look how tired the child is. Ranran, you sleep, sleep." Father Shi gestured to Mother Shi and said to Shi Ran, "With your mom taking care of me, you can sleep with peace of mind."
"Mm-hmm, okay."
Shi Ran nodded, lay on the bed, and closed her eyes as if pretending to sleep.
She had intended to feign sleep, but as she drifted, she genuinely fell asleep.
Meanwhile, at the film studio.
Meng Jingwei made a video call to Qing Muye.
Qing Muye, busy at the company, saw the WeChat video call and immediately answered.
Propping his phone against his computer so it stood upright, with the camera facing him, he said, "Awei?" A faint smile tugged at his lips as he gazed at Meng Jingwei's face on the screen, a face he missed day and night.
"You're at the company so early, have you eaten?"
In the video, despite the beauty filters on phones, Meng Jingwei could still see the exhaustion on Qing Muye's face, and even the stubble on his chin was noticeable.
Thinking about the recent troubles at Qing Muye's company, she felt increasingly concerned for the man before her, yet she dared not show it too obviously.
"Mm, I have. What about you?" he asked, leaning back in his executive chair and lifting his hand to brush his short hair.
Meng Jingwei lay on the makeup table, her chin resting on her arm, and nodded, "I've eaten. It's just that the crew has other arrangements, so I'm giving you a heads-up."
"What arrangements?" he asked.
"The crew needs to film some major scenes due to character development changes, requiring singing. The director is very demanding, as you know, so he plans to send me to an intensive, isolated training program for twenty-one days."
To be able to return to the Hidden Clan with Shen Liannuo, she fabricated this reason.
However, to convince the director, Meng Jingwei and Shen Liannuo had to put in considerable effort and invest a significant amount of money before they could get the director to cooperate with her.
"That long?" Qing Muye's brow furrowed slightly, and he looked skeptical. "The crew has been filming for so long, won't this sudden isolated training delay the shoot?"
"My scenes at the film studio are all finished." At this, Meng Jingwei pouted and sighed. "Do you think the director wants me to undergo isolated training? Besides finding teachers to teach me singing, he also found teachers to improve my acting. Perhaps my performance was a bit poor, so the director decided to have me train for everything at once."