The words full of complaints in Wu Pengpeng's mind suddenly got stuck in her throat, and she couldn't utter a single word.
It was not wrong for her to want to survive, and it was not wrong for Zhao Hongtao to want to realize his own ideal either.
They each had their own positions, and she had no right to destroy someone else's ideal for her own selfish desires.
Zhao Hongtao had spent all his fortune and his wife had left him and taken their children away in order to build the world's tallest building.
At first, she was willing to help him because it was an impossible delusion.
Now that the delusion could become a reality, she had no right to blame him at all.
It was just...
Wu Pengpeng looked at the energy meter on her wrist. There was less than a quarter of the energy left.
She could even feel her life slipping away bit by bit like quicksand through her fingers, but she couldn't grasp anything.
"What are you thinking about so intently?" He Qian Shan pushed the door open and came in. He called Wu Pengpeng several times, but she didn't respond.
He quickly walked over to her. Seeing that her complexion was not good, he reached out and touched her forehead. She didn't have a fever.
"Are you feeling unwell?" Or was she just exhausted from the past few days?
"I'm fine." Wu Pengpeng grabbed his hand and played with his long and slender fingers for a while. Then she suddenly asked him, "Do you still remember the documentary novels I once wrote that I told you about?"
He Qian Shan didn't know why she suddenly brought up this matter, but he still nodded following her train of thought: "I remember."
In fact, during the six years he was in that world, he had specifically looked up her articles and read them.
The topics she wrote about were all niche ones focusing on women and children. They were works of great social significance.
It was a pity that in that era of fast - food culture, they didn't meet the reading demands of most people and didn't make any waves at all.
Wu Pengpeng looked up at him, as if she had made a great determination: "I want to make them into movies."
If she was doomed not to stay, she had to leave something to prove that she had existed.
Since she had been given a second chance in life and had more opportunities than others, she might as well do something she really wanted to do. Maybe there would be a different outcome.
"Sure!" He Qian Shan completely agreed.
When he read her articles back then, he had thought that if someone made her works into movies, they would surely be a hit.
But at that time, he was busy helping her avenge her grievances and didn't have the energy to take care of this matter at all.
It would be a kind of consolation for her if this regret could be made up in this time and space!
He Qian Shan sat down beside her and leaned over with great interest: "What can I do to help you?"
"You!" Wu Pengpeng tilted her head and thought seriously for a while. Suddenly, she came up with a good idea, "I really do have something for you to help with."
He Qian Shan thought that Wu Pengpeng would say something like "you'll be my leading actor" as usual, but unexpectedly, the task she gave him was to help her choose the leading actor.
The requirement was that the actor should be young, good - looking, and have solid acting skills. He Qian Shan really didn't understand. Didn't this requirement just fit him? Why didn't she just choose him?
However, since Wu Pengpeng didn't say so, there must be other considerations. He didn't bring it up and helped her choose the actors according to her requirements.
Wu Pengpeng spent a week copying out the original novel from memory. She didn't have time to polish the script slowly, so she found ten top - notch screenwriters to work together to adapt the novel into a script.
The whole process only took a month, and the result of the script was quite good.
Wu Pengpeng happily took the script and went to show off to He Qian Shan.
Actually, it was a very simple story. A young urban couple who had been married for five years were raising a child together.
Just like millions of ordinary families, the wife was experiencing the so - called "widowed parenting". Every day, besides going to work, she had to do housework and take care of the child, while the husband only needed to come home with an empty mouth for dinner after work every day.
On a sunny weekend morning, their three - year - old son broke a glass. The husband was lying on the sofa, scrolling through his phone and didn't care at all. When the wife heard the child's crying and rushed out of the laundry room, the child's finger had already been cut by the glass shards.
The wife, who had always been hard - working and uncomplaining, suddenly erupted at that moment. She skillfully treated the child's wound and then proposed a divorce to her husband.
It was a long - drawn - out tug - of - war. The parents and relatives of both sides took turns to persuade the wife not to be so willful, but the wife insisted on getting a divorce.
Everyone thought that the wife was making a mountain out of a molehill. So what if a glass was broken? So what if the child's finger was just cut a little? So what if the husband who was tired from work didn't help with the housework?
Was it really worth getting a divorce over such a trivial matter?
This was the living situation of most women in the world. Under the influence of the traditional ideas passed down from generation to generation, no one thought there was anything wrong with it.
It wasn't until that day, because of a broken glass, that all the peaceful illusions could no longer be maintained. They were shattered and out of control, evolving into a war for gender equality.
After He Qian Shan finished reading the script, he was silent for a while. Then he reached out and hugged Wu Pengpeng. His voice was a bit choked: "In our family from now on, I'll do the housework, take care of the child, and earn the money."
He understood her intention of making this story into a movie.
Wu Pengpeng hugged him back and asked him with a smile: "What about me?"
He Qian Shan kissed the top of her head: "You just need to stay by my side."
The smile on Wu Pengpeng's face suddenly froze. Just now, she had tried to post a few segments of the script online to see if this type of movie would flop without a trace.
Unexpectedly, it had resonated with countless people. Married young women said that it was the marriage life they were experiencing, and unmarried women said that their mothers and sisters were going through such a life.
They left messages on her Weibo one after another, asking her to definitely make this movie.
Actually, it was already possible to foresee what kind of impact this movie would have once it was made.
It was unlikely that she could waste money by investing in this movie. She had to find another way.
"Sure!" Wu Pengpeng tightened her embrace of him a bit.
She would try her best to stay and accompany him forever.
However, reality was far more cruel than Wu Pengpeng had imagined. Without Jiang He providing her with junk projects, the projects that came to her were either really promising or just mediocre. There was simply no possibility of wasting money.
Wu Pengpeng thought hard for several days and finally came up with a good idea. She founded a startup support foundation in the name of Zhengling Group to provide financial support for startup companies.
As soon as the foundation was established, countless companies sent in their startup plans, hoping to be selected.
Since Wu Pengpeng was busy with the movie shooting, she entrusted this important task to her junior assistant. Anyway, she only had one requirement - choose the project that seemed the most unreliable.
The junior assistant was completely confused: "Why?"
Was the boss crazy?
Wu Pengpeng said confidently: "Because I want to create a miracle."
The junior assistant thought for a while. Although the projects the boss took on were unreliable, she always made a fortune every time.
Maybe the boss had some special money - making secrets.
The junior assistant didn't suspect anything and completely followed her requirements to look for projects.
The projects that were screened out were all extremely strange, one more absurd than the other.
Wu Pengpeng was very satisfied. She invested in each of them and personally followed up to prevent the hard - working and serious good employees from intervening.
Fortune favored the determined. This time, all the projects she invested in lost every single cent.
The money - wasting projects were going smoothly, but the movie shooting on the other side was not going so well.
It wasn't that there were any difficulties during the shooting. The main problem was that several of the male actors somehow heard that she liked young and good - looking male actors, and they liked to get close to her whenever they had the chance.
Although He Qian Shan was the producer of this movie, he also had a lot of things to do in his own company and couldn't always stay on the set with her.
Without a shield, Wu Pengpeng could only be extremely careful to avoid them. As long as He Qian Shan wasn't on the set, she wouldn't participate in any gatherings of the crew to avoid any messy things happening after drinking.
After the movie had been shooting for a month, the male actors finally gave up. It seemed that the director didn't like men as rumored.
On the contrary, she seemed to be closer to the leading actress. The two of them hugged each other on the set every day and often got into the same RV.
Wu Pengpeng had of course heard some strange rumors, but she didn't mind. After all, if she had a scandal with the leading actress, she probably wouldn't be tortured by the jealous He Qian Shan to the point where she couldn't get out of bed.
However, Wu Pengpeng was still too optimistic about her situation. That night, after work, she had just taken a shower when she heard a knock on the door.
She thought that He Qian Shan had forgotten his room card when he came back from work. While drying her hair, she went to open the door.
But the person standing outside the door wasn't He Qian Shan.