Translator: Dragon Boat Translation | Editor: Dragon Boat Translation
Tan Rou spent half a month cleaning up Xinghe Entertainment from top to bottom. Many people who took private jobs behind the companyâs back and evaded taxes were all fired by Tan Rou.
Xinghe Entertainment did not lack people to submit their resumes. As soon as she fired them, there were dozens of people who submitted their resumes. She selected some capable and unblemished people and reopened Xinghe Entertainmentâs selection meeting, signing many new people.
Initially, Meng Xiao did not sign under Xinghe Entertainment, but this time, Tan Rou promised to help her return to the entertainment industry. She did not want to go through the trouble, so she signed Meng Xiao directly and made an agreement with her.
âWithin three years, you have to bring in 20 million worth of income for the company. If you canât do it, you can leave on your own.â Tan Rou had only promised to give Meng Xiao a chance. She did not say that she had to make Meng Xiao famous. âDo you agree?â
Meng Xiao didnât show any fear on her face. She smiled and said, âOf course. If I canât do it, Iâll leave by myself. I wonât bring trouble to Xinghe Entertainment!â
Tan Rou really felt that Meng Xiao was different now. Perhaps he had changed the moment she decided to leave the Meng family. Meng Xiao was not a teenage girl, and she could not get what she wanted by acting coquettishly and crying. She had to work hard to achieve her goal.
Tan Rou didnât have many entertainment resources, but she would help Meng Xiao. So, she called Liang Lu and asked her to give Meng Xiao a role to try.
Liang Lu readily agreed to Tan Ronâs request and immediately arranged a small role for Meng Xiao. Although this role was not the main character in the story, she had a lot of scenes, which tested the actorâs acting skills.
Meng Xiao did not say anything. She packed her things and took the high-speed train to the desert.
After settling Xinghe Entertainmentâs matter, Tan Rou returned to school. She was now a masterâs student. Although she didnât have that many classes, she had a lot of experiments arranged. She basically spent all her time doing experiments.
She had to do experiments at school, go to the company to handle work, and take time to research new products. Sometimes, she didnât even have time to rest. She had not returned to the old mansion for two months. She planned to go home after the school experiment was over.
That day, Tan Rou was waiting for the results of the experiment in the laboratory when she suddenly received a call from her mother. Her mother asked her to go back quickly, saying that her grandfather had fainted.
Tan Rou didnât wait for the experiment results to come out and immediately took leave. However, Grandpa Tao was not in the old mansion. Instead, he was in the intensive care unit of the hospital.
âWhat happened to Grandfather?â Tan Rou was very flustered. Grandpa was clearly fine the last time. Wiry was he suddenly hospitalized? Moreover, he was in the intensive care unit, which meant that Grandpa Tao was very ill.
Grandma Taoâs face was filled with a haggard expression. She couldnât speak and would cry if she did. When Tan Rou asked her, she only shook her head.
âYour grandfather is sick. The doctor said that his organs are failing. He wonât live for long.â
Tan Rou was stunned. She had never thought that her grandfather would have such a problem. If her grandfather was sick, she could still use her medical skills to save him. However, no matter how powerful she was, she could not run out of time. Organ failure meant that a personâs life was about to end. She could nurse Grandpa Taoâs body, but she could not stop Grandpa Taoâs life from flowing away.
âIâll go in and see Grandpa.â Tan Rou walked into the ICU in a daze.
Grandpa Tao closed his eyes. There was an infusion bottle hanging beside him. The brownish-red liquid kept flowing into his body like blood.
Tan Rou took Grandpa Taoâ s pulse. There was nothing wrong with him except that his body was weak and his organs were failing.
Grandpa Tao worked very hard when he was young and didnât pay attention to taking care of his health. Therefore, although he was only a few years older than Grandma Tao, he looked much older than her.
After Tan Rou returned to the capital, she had been nursing the two old menâs bodies, hoping that they could live longer. However, the two old men were already over eighty years old. Even if she did not want them to grow old, she could not stop God from taking them away.
âGrandpaâ¦â Tan Rou held onto Grandpa Taoâs hand as tears trickled down her face. âOpen your eyes and look at me. Iâm Rourou.â