But I did go.

However, I wasn't wearing a deep V-neck dress.

I just promised Director Zhao that I would take a fifty percent pay cut for his next film.

Song Yue scolded me over the phone for half a day.

"Su Ling, have you seen the news? How are the media portraying you? The prestigious three-time Golden Actress willingly kneels to flatter the chairman of the Shen Group and becomes their dog.

"What were you thinking? Your husband and his mistress got into trouble, and you go shamelessly clean up after them? The whole internet is laughing at you, do you even realize?!"

How could I not know?

I continued the call while looking at the news on my computer.

The incident on set today has already hit the top trending on Weibo.

The top trending topic is me being humble for love, cleaning up the mess for my husband's mistress.

But this isn't the first or second time.

I've long been accustomed to it.

The three years of my marriage with Shen Yan have not been peaceful. Every now and then, we would become the subject of jokes.

The mess was caused by him and his mistress, Xu Qinqin, but I was the only one who became the laughing stock of the entire internet.

To understand why Shen Yan treats Xu Qinqin so well,

We have to go back to their childhood friendship.

They have known each other since childhood, were inseparable, and were already at the stage of discussing marriage.

However, Xu Qinqin's family suddenly fell from grace, losing their status, and the elders in Shen's family no longer approved of her. They adamantly refused Shen Yan's marriage to Xu Qinqin and even threatened that if he insisted on her, he would not receive a penny of the Shen family's wealth in the future.

As a result, the two had a quarrel because Shen Yan didn't want to break up but also didn't want to give up everything for Xu Qinqin.

To spite the Shen family and Xu Qinqin,

He turned around and married me, who was a three-time Golden Actress and extremely popular at the time.

He said—

"The lowest of the low are actors. You all look down on Xu Qinqin for not being from the same background, so I'll have the Shen family welcome an actress."

But what he didn't expect was—

The Shen family, in order to cut off contact between him and Xu Qinqin, saw my strong ability to make money in the entertainment industry and bring free advertising and traffic to the entire group, so they agreed.

After marriage, I fulfilled the duties of a good wife flawlessly.

No one could find fault with me.