Ex husband's Plea for Forgiveness novel Chapter 88

"You don't have to worry about the funding. Just tell me how much it costs exactly."

Since it was such a large amount of money, the crew was taken aback for a while. They all looked hesitant at first to say the cost out loud.

Soaring Group was obviously very well-off. If it decided to start funding this, the crew of this TV show would definitely get a lot more work done.

"Is thirty million enough?"

Seeing that people from the crew had been hesitating, Jonas directly told them the amount of money he could promise. The crew was so excited. Thirty million was more than enough to shoot a large-scale TV series.

"You're giving us thirty million as long as Emily is the heroine?"

the producer asked. Jonas nodded promptly. Even though his eyes lit up at the amount Jonas offered, he was weighing out the pros and cons. For one, they wouldn't be able to change the heroine if she didn't work out. If they did, Jonas would definitely ask for compensation for breaking the contract. On top of that, it was a whole other issue if Emily ever got injured during shooting.

Although getting someone to support their show was great, it was still troublesome to accept the money since there were strings attached. However, despite the fact that Emily was a bit out of date, her flow was still better than amateur actresses. Besides, thirty million wasn't something anyone could walk away from exactly.

"Well, Mr. Gu, I hope you can come to the set as often as you can to check her progress!"

the producer said with a smile, his arms held wide open in welcome. With this, William took out the written contract and the respective parties signed.

Afterwards, a few members of the crew went over to the hospital to tell Emily the news. Soon enough, word got out. It quickly became a trending topic on the internet that the news about the protagonist being replaced was false.

Just like that, Emily was back under the limelight, and gained a lot of new fans. Of course, because of this, the company had to pay extra attention to the matter.

Meanwhile, at the hospital, Emily lay on bed inside her ward. There was a gentle and polite smile on her lips as she looked at the fawning faces of the crew. In her heart, however, she kept sneering at them.

'What a bunch of snobbish and superficial people!'

"Emily, please get better soon. We can do nothing without our leading actress!"

"Right. What did the doctor say? How are you doing?"

They talked all at once, their voices overlapping with one another. Emily's hands and feet were no longer in plaster, but there was still some gauze wrapped around. As she lay in bed in her hospital gown, it was evident that she looked very weak.

It had already been a week since she was brought in here, and yet Jonas had never paid her a visit.

"Emily is all right now. Thank you for your concern. It's getting late now. Might I suggest having dinner at a restaurant nearby to celebrate this occasion?"

Emily's agent quickly suggested. She saw the sour look on Emily's face, and decided that it might be best to bring the big crowd outside.

"You're right. Emily hasn't fully recovered yet. We're still disturbing her rest. Sorry for coming out here on a whim,"

the assistant director said. After a quick goodbye, Emily's agent left with the crew to personally accommodate them.

Now, all that was left in the ward was Emily and her assistant. Emily closed her eyes and took a deep breath, trying to calm herself down.

"Miss Bai, what would you like for dinner? I'll order for you."

"Whatever,"

Emily mumbled as she reached out for her phone. When she checked the news, she saw that there were a couple of trending news articles about her involvement with the show. Previously, the show hardly had any sort of press. Now it was quickly becoming a hot topic.

One of the articles wrote about Emily's injury—there were even photos of her with the group of people who had just visited her.

Another was a positive review, saying that replacing the main protagonist was clotted nonsense.

There was one more piece of news that caught her attention. It was about Soaring Group's investment to the TV show. These pieces of news made the show a lot more popular that it actually was.

Even though Jonas helped her as promised, Emily couldn't help but frown.

When she tried calling Jonas, William was the one who answered the call. Like before, he came up with some reasons why Jonas couldn't come answer the phone. 'Fine,' Emily thought bitterly when she hung up. 'It's better to sleep anyway when someone doesn't want to talk to you.'

"Miss Bai, the doctor told you not to eat spicy food, so I bought you the porridge with pork ribs. You should eat some now,"

the assistant said as she walked back inside the ward. There was a considerate smile on her face. However, truth be told, she was somewhat afraid of Emily. She tried to be respectful around her as much as possible, a hint of fear always lingering in her voice and expression.

Before she started working for Emily, she ate up all the rumors saying that Emily was nice and sweet. When she finally became her assistant, it was only then that she realized that everyone had been deceived.

Emily's mood was oftentimes unpredictable—when it wasn't, she was just straight out cruel.

Meanwhile, Nelson had just gotten the news that Jonas had invested a large sum of money under the company's name. He immediately called for Gavin to arrange a car to send him to the company. "Make sure Melinda doesn't know about this," he added in a low voice.

In Soaring Group, Nelson and Jonas sat face to face in the CEO office.

Even though Nelson was old and less spirited than he was during his youth, his eyes were as sharp as ever.

In fact, the similarity between grandfather and grandson was quite evident, especially when it came to their temperament.

"Pull out the money you invested on that TV show, Jonas."

"Please stay out of this, Grandpa."

Jonas had his reasons for doing what he did. Right now, he did not want to explain himself. He had predicted that Nelson would try to stop him. Because of this, he gave the money as soon as the contract was signed to seal the deal.

"You bastard! You still stood up for that woman! Look at what you have done! You left Melinda alone in Japan and came back to help Emily?! What did you expect from her? You promised to protect Melinda, but you betrayed her at such an early time. Do you really want to make everyone suffer?"