Joey Norton was immediately stunned.
At this moment, the waiter had already served the appetizers.
"At noon today, taking advantage of A Ze's visit to apologize, I also told your father this news. But your father is extremely stubborn. Not only did he scold A Ze and me severely, but he also kicked us out of the house. Fortunately, your mother is a sensible person. She asked me to tell you that you must stay away from this kind of disreputable man."
After Hou Lei finished speaking to Joey Norton, unexpectedly, it made this Wang Zhipeng angry.
"What are you talking nonsense about?"
Luo Yize replied with a sneer, "Man does, Heaven sees. Your affairs are not only known to a few of us."
Wang Zhipeng glared at Luo Yize fiercely. "I don't need a playboy like you to tell me what to do!"
"Yes, I'm just a playboy, but at least I'm devoted. I never indulge in debauchery. I even understand the principle of 'a gentleman loves wealth, but acquires it in a proper way'."
Luo Yize sat there with his legs crossed like a hooligan, his arms folded across his chest, in a slouchy Beijing-style sitting position, looking at Wang Zhipeng with his head tilted.
"Stop talking!" Joey Norton put down the newspaper. "Mr. Wang, the reason my father arranged for us to meet is that he cares about me and wants me to get married earlier. First of all, in my opinion, it's probably not suitable for us to be together. Secondly, I already have someone in my heart. Although the man I love has broken up with me, it doesn't mean our relationship is completely over."
"If it's not completely over, can it be called a breakup?"
Luo Yize interjected, "You're right on this point. Since our relationship is not completely over, it's just a nominal breakup."
"You win..." Saying this, Wang Zhipeng began to gobble up his food.
When he finished the appetizers, Wang Zhipeng suddenly went out to answer a phone call. When he came back, he picked up his bag and walked out of the private dining room in the restaurant.
Joey Norton followed him out. Seeing him leave so suddenly and in such a hurry at the door, she probably guessed that if it weren't for Hou Lei's help, she wouldn't have known so much about Wang Zhipeng and might have really been taken advantage of by this guy.
Then, Joey Norton went back in and sat back in her original seat.
After the meal, at the entrance of the building, after saying goodbye to Hou Lei and watching him leave first, Luo Yize suddenly kept a certain distance from Joey Norton.
Joey Norton saw through Luo Yize's action, and her look made Luo Yize feel extremely embarrassed.
"Why are you keeping your distance from me?" Joey Norton quietly got closer to him.
"Don't get any closer to me. I helped you out of friendship." Luo Yize looked at Joey Norton with a cold look.
"If I had known this, we should have just been strangers." After saying this, Joey Norton turned around and was about to leave.
"Stop!" Luo Yize called out to her. He firmly pressed one hand on her shoulder. "I'm just staying away from your body, but your heart will always be in my control."
Joey Norton ignored him. She loosened his hand and strode away.
From then on, the frequency of their meetings became less and less, and they were both busy with their own careers.
In the blink of an eye, half a year had passed. "Until the End of the Red Carpet" became popular even before it was broadcast, so Joey Norton made a large sum of money from it. Joey Norton finally decided to terminate her contract with General Manager Zhao and joined Cao Can's Beijing branch, becoming Cao Can's exclusive screenwriter.
Luo Yize didn't really give up on Joey Norton. He would ask her out for a meal every one or two months. Of course, he paid for the meals himself. Joey Norton tried every means to avoid Luo Yize, but there was nowhere to hide.
After Ah Hai quit his job, he became a copywriter for self - media. He seized the fact that Joey Norton had become a well - known screenwriter and began to report all kinds of negative news about her wantonly to make a profit from the click - through rate of his articles.
Facing the impact of all kinds of negative news, Joey Norton received countless phone calls from reporters every day. Sometimes, not only during the day but also at midnight or one o'clock at night, the reporters didn't even let her rest, making Joey Norton physically and mentally exhausted.
One day, while Joey Norton was typing, she received a phone call from Hou Lei.
"Yinuo, I have something to tell you."
"What is it?"
"Do you still remember that Wang Zhipeng? He..."
At this point, Hou Lei lowered his voice as much as possible. "He was dismissed from public office."
"Really?"
"Really. He is suspected of serious disciplinary violations, and an investigation into him started three months ago."
Joey Norton never expected that Wang Zhipeng would be dismissed from public office after only half a year.
The key point was that he not only became rich step by step through embezzlement and bribery, but he didn't even put the unit leaders in his eyes. He even dared to harass his female secretary. Both his superiors and subordinates must have hated him to the core. It was just that no one dared to take action against him in the past.
On Hou Lei's side, his voice suddenly became a bit more serious. "There's another thing. You should be mentally prepared. He Jing is pregnant."
Hearing this, Joey Norton could hardly believe it.
"I saw this on Weibo. She also @ Luo Yize. The content is very simple, just a photo."
He Jing was actually pregnant. Since she @ Luo Yize on Weibo, it meant that the child must be Luo Yize's. No wonder Luo Yize always kept a certain distance from her. It turned out that they had secretly gotten back together.
Joey Norton went from disbelief at first to complete inability to believe. In just half a year, He Jing suddenly got pregnant. This development was a bit too fast and sudden.
She took out her phone and found He Jing's Weibo. Sure enough, it was exactly the same as what Hou Lei had said.
He Jing posted two photos on Weibo. One was a medical test report showing that she was two months pregnant, and the other was a group photo of Luo Yize and He Jing when they were filming "The Campus Chess King" in the early days.
When she clicked into this Weibo post, she found that many people in the comment section were commenting with "99" and "666", and some people were also standing up for Joey Norton. Amid the scolding of Luo Yize, Joey Norton vaguely realized that if she were still just a junior reporter instead of a screenwriter; if she hadn't met Luo Yize back then, and if he hadn't been chosen as the male lead in "Turn Around and Meet Love", maybe none of these things would have happened.
Joey Norton's heart was completely broken. Her phone slowly slipped out of her hand.
"Hello, Yinuo, Yinuo, are you still there..."
In her ear came Hou Lei's anxious voice on the phone.