The Film Queen Is Cold and Ruthless, Only Sends Money - Chapter 2

Last year, Jiang Zhi won the Golden Peony Award, the highest honor in the film industry, cementing her exceptional acting skills and unshakable status in the entertainment world.

Stripped of her actress persona, Jiang Zhi’s stunning beauty, paired with her perpetually impassive and cold expression, resembled the eternal frost atop an icy mountain.

A single indifferent glance from her toward the camera effortlessly captured the hearts of everyone.

A fashion editor who had once collaborated with her publicly praised Jiang Zhi on social media, calling her the only muse among all the people she had ever worked with.

Now, seated in her company office, Jiang Zhi rested her slender, fair wrist beside her, her eyes slightly lowered as she scrolled through her phone, occasionally tapping the screen with her fingertips.

She appeared utterly composed.

But the moment her manager, Wen Yun, stepped into the room, she noticed the faint furrow between Jiang Zhi’s brows.

Jiang Zhi rarely showed her emotions. If she was frowning, it meant something significant was bothering her.

“What’s wrong?” Wen Yun sat down on the sofa beside Jiang Zhi, concern lacing her voice.

In response, Jiang Zhi simply turned her phone around and slid it toward Wen Yun. “What’s this about?”

Wen Yun looked at the screen.

#Su Yun Injured#

“Su Yun has been in the hospital for a month, and the news only broke yesterday saying she woke up? Was she really that badly hurt?”

“Even though she’s annoying, I have a friend from the crew who said she was genuinely injured when she was sent to the hospital, lost a lot of blood.”

“Who knows what kind of ‘friend’ your insider is? No matter how severe, fainting for a whole month? Probably just another ploy for sympathy.”

“LOL, this reminds me of that time she faked an illness wasn’t it just to get Jiang Zhi to visit her in the hospital? And what happened?”

“HAHAHAHA, this time Jiang Zhi still didn’t come back, did she?”

“Looks like there’s really no affection between them.”

Wen Yun didn’t read further, but she could guess the general sentiment among netizens.

However, she knew Jiang Zhi wasn’t just concerned about the online comments, she was also upset about being kept in the dark. “You were filming at the time. If you’d known Su Yun was injured, you would’ve rushed back from abroad…”

Jiang Zhi’s frown didn’t ease. “So you specifically told the assistants to keep me away from my phone?”

When she was working on set, she rarely checked her phone.

Add to that the fact that she was abroad, surrounded mostly by foreign crew members, and hardly anyone brought up Su Yun’s injury.

As a result, she was only finding out about it now.

She rubbed her temples. “We may be in a marriage of convenience, but we’re not enemies. I should’ve at least been informed if she was hurt.”

After marrying Su Yun, Jiang Zhi had been aware of the other woman’s feelings, but deep down, she still saw her as a younger sister.

Hearing this, Wen Yun knew she had made a mistake. “I handled this poorly. Do you want me to arrange a visit to the hospital for you?”

Jiang Zhi was silent for a moment. “No need.”

She knew about Su Yun’s feelings for her and ultimately didn’t want to give her false hope.

Instead, she simply tapped on her phone a few times, a small compensation.

–

When Su Yun saw the notification pop up, she didn’t take it seriously.

She received plenty of scam messages daily, but this one was by far the dumbest.

Sure, she dreamed of winning five million in the lottery.

But she hadn’t even bought a ticket yet wasn’t sending a scam message this early just plain rude?

So she simply swiped the pop-up away and continued browsing through other messages.

The novel’s plot was limited, and since Su Yun was just a minor character, there naturally wasn’t much written about her. She had to piece things together on her own.

After scrolling through everything and getting a general understanding, she tapped back into that scam message, ready to appreciate the “brilliance” of the fraudster.

A boring life occasionally needed a little spice.

[Your bank card ending in 2333 received a deposit of RMB 5,000,000.00 on June 11. Current balance: 7,120,345.00. Thank you for using Haicheng Bank.]

Su Yun raised an eyebrow. The wording, the format, everything was correct. Even the sender’s title matched Haicheng Bank’s official notifications…

Wait, could a scammer really make it this convincing?!

When two nurses walked in, they saw Su Yun frozen in shock.

“Miss Su, we’re here to change your dressing.”

Due to the nature of her previous job, Su Yun was highly sensitive to voices.

The moment the nurse spoke, she recognized them as the same ones who had been gossiping about her outside the door earlier.

Her injuries, including the ones on her arm, hadn’t fully healed yet and required daily dressing changes.

Before, when she was unconscious, the nurses would finish and leave immediately.

But now that she was awake, the nurse’s heart skipped a beat under her gaze.

Hesitantly, the nurse asked again, “Miss Su?”

Su Yun finally tore her eyes away from the string of zeros in her account and slightly lifted her arm to make it easier for the nurse to apply the medicine.

However, halfway through, she propped her chin on her hand and looked at the two nurses.

“Do you know about Haicheng Bank?”

Though the nurses didn’t understand why she was asking, they suddenly wondered if she had overheard their earlier conversation.

Feeling guilty, they didn’t dare hide anything. “Haicheng Bank is the biggest bank in our city. Pretty much everyone has a card from them.”

They were in Haicheng, after all. With a name like that, the bank was practically a household name.

Hearing this, Su Yun finally believed that the message she received was real.

Not a lottery win, not a scam, a genuine five million!

According to the novel, the only person who could have transferred this money to her was the actress she had a contractual marriage with Jiang Zhi.

She realized now that all the tears she’d shed earlier were just paving the way for this moment.

She asked the nurses, “Earlier, you said Jiang Zhi and I have no feelings for each other?”

The sudden question made the nurse’s hand jerk violently.

Su Yun reacted quickly, pulling her arm back just in time to avoid disaster.

“Miss Su, you.”

The nurse’s mind raced through countless tabloid headlines, all claiming Su Yun had a terrible temper.

She wanted to cry. How had their gossip session been overheard by the very person they were talking about?

She might not love this job, but she couldn’t afford to lose it either. QAQ

Somehow sensing the nurse’s distress, Su Yun patted her shoulder. In a way, minor characters and gossip-loving bystanders were kindred spirits.

“Don’t worry, I was just asking casually. I won’t make things difficult for you.”

Now that she’d confirmed the transfer was real, Su Yun was in an unbelievably good mood. She felt like she could forgive the whole world.

She had tried searching for Jiang Zhi’s contact info earlier but came up empty, so she had no choice but to ask outsiders.

Under Su Yun’s gaze, the nurse somehow sensed a strange camaraderie in her eyes.

Without realizing it, she blurted out everything she knew: “I just saw it online people say you and Actress Jiang have never appeared at the same event together, so your relationship must be bad.”

Su Yun asked, “And you’ve never seen us going home together either?”

She had no memory of such a thing, but she needed to confirm it again.

The nurse hesitated and shook her head, unsure of what Su Yun was getting at.

But she continued, “Given Actress Jiang’s personality, it’s hard for anyone to believe she’d have a lover, let alone…”

Before the nurse could finish, Su Yun completed the sentence for her, “Let alone someone like me, who has a bad reputation?”

Word for word, just like what was said online.

The nurse: “…”

She felt like she could see her own fate utter darkness.

Just as she was preparing to accept her doom, she was caught off guard by the bright smile on Su Yun’s face.

“Miss Su, you?” The nurse’s heart trembled.

Had she pushed her too far?

“I’m fine,” Su Yun waved her hand and asked, “If there was a job where you didn’t have to do anything just stay quiet and not cause trouble and you’d get paid five million a month, would you take it?”

“Of course, I would!” The nurse’s eyes lit up with determination.

No working person would ever refuse such an offer.

Su Yun shook her phone meaningfully. “I’ve already found one. The boss is a money-giving bodhisattva.”

Jiang Zhi didn’t come home, didn’t want her company.

The empty house had only her and the cold, hard five million.

Tears welled up at the corners of her mouth.

Jiang Zhi wasn’t just the protagonist, she was practically her money-giving bodhisattva!

–

A week later.

Su Yun’s injuries healed quickly, and she was ready to be discharged. Her manager, Li Xinyi, came to pick her up.

After a week of lying around, doing nothing but playing games, sleeping, and eating, Su Yun actually felt a rare pang of reluctance upon hearing she could leave the hospital.

The sorrow in her eyes was genuine. Even when she’d learned she had no work for a month, she hadn’t felt this sad.

Li Xinyi, seeing it all clearly: “…”

It’s good to relax, but maybe this is a bit too relaxed.

Su Yun was still a public figure, after all, and the hospital they were staying at had excellent privacy measures, no paparazzi or media lurking around.

After exiting through the VIP passage, Su Yun saw the car waiting for her.

Understated yet luxurious even someone who knew nothing about cars could tell at a glance that it was worth a fortune.

Li Xinyi said, “The car picking you up today was arranged by Actress Jiang’s side.”

As the manager, she was privy to the inside story. When the marriage announcement was first made, Jiang Zhi’s manager had reached out to her.

They’d talked for three or four hours, summarizing it as: the two were in a business marriage and didn’t want their daily lives to cause unnecessary trouble for each other.

So she understood Jiang Zhi’s side didn’t want Su Yun’s team to use this for publicity.

Yesterday was the second time Jiang Zhi’s manager contacted her, surprisingly to ask about Su Yun’s discharge and even arranging a car and driver to avoid any major hassles.

Su Yun was surprised. “Jiang Zhi arranged this?”

After receiving the transfer, she’d found the other woman’s contact info originally saved as “Sister Jiang” in her phone.

She first changed the nickname to “Money-Giving Bodhisattva” before carefully wording a message to ask if the five million was from her.

All she got in return was a cold “Mm,” with no further explanation.

But from just a single “Hmm,” Su Yun seemed to see the radiant glow of an angel shining through.

She never expected the other party to arrange a luxury car to pick her up!

The interior of the car was spacious exceptionally suitable for someone injured and Su Yun curiously looked around.

After all, this was only the second time she’d ridden in a luxury car.

The first time was when she worked overtime until midnight and hailed a cab, only to encounter a wealthy heiress.

The woman drove over in a car worth millions, its headlights nearly blinding Su Yun.

When Su Yun asked why she was driving a taxi, the heiress replied with profound solemnity, “Life with too much money is boring. I just wanted to experience something different and have a little fun.”

Su Yun, who spent the ride trembling in fear, terrified of scratching or denting the car and ending up in debt for life: Hah.

She wished the rich could just live in their own world.

Who would’ve thought she’d get another chance to ride in one today?

The car moved smoothly, without the slightest bump.

Seeing Su Yun in good spirits, Li Xinyi remarked, “Actress Jiang does care about you. Don’t cause her any trouble.”

Su Yun knew exactly what Li Xinyi was referring to.

The original owner’s wish had simply been to enter a marriage alliance with Jiang Zhi.

But after securing the engagement, she grew greedy for Jiang Zhi’s love, resorting to all sorts of antics, including but not limited to:

Sneaking onto Jiang Zhi’s film set to visit, only to break a prop and delay production by a day.

Publicly declaring her love on Weibo, only to be torn apart by Jiang Zhi’s fans until she withdrew into herself.

Attempting to imitate roles Jiang Zhi had played in the past, but with zero acting skills her facial expressions completely out of control.

Busy, yes, but busy accomplishing nothing.

Su Yun patted her chest and assured Li Xinyi, “Don’t worry, Sister Li. I promise I won’t cause her any trouble from now on.”

She had more important things to do like spending money.

Li Xinyi had a good temper and always cleaned up after her, but even the most patient person had their limits.

Hearing Su Yun’s nth promise, Li Xinyi wasn’t sure whether to believe her. “Just remember what you said.”

Before they knew it, they had arrived at Su Yun’s residence.

Peering out the window, Su Yun saw that it wasn’t in the bustling city center but closer to the suburbs.

The scenery was beautiful, with lush greenery lining the roads, pleasing to the eye. In the distance stood a row of three-story villas.

While sorting through the original owner’s memories, Su Yun had known the living situation was decent after all, Jiang Zhi had bought it for her.

But the original owner hadn’t been particularly enthusiastic, so the memories were faint.

Noticing Su Yun still sitting dazed in the car, Li Xinyi waved a hand in front of her face. “Get out.”

Once Su Yun stepped out, Li Xinyi asked, “Which one do you want to live in?”

She glanced down at her phone. “Actress Jiang’s manager said you own ten properties here. You can choose any one you like.”

Su Yun: “?!”

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