The forty-second scoop: What scoop? Take forty-two bites...

While Ye Mo was still in a daze, Ruan Xianyue had already pulled her to the bedside and pushed her to wait on the bed again. When Ye Mo came to her senses, she saw herself sitting on the bed with a pillow stuffed behind her.

A small table was placed in front of her, on which were laid out white porridge and side dishes.

Ye Mo:???

What happened while she was in a daze?

"What are you standing there for?" Ruan Xianyue asked, noticing her staring at the porridge without moving, "Are you still feeling unwell...?"

As she spoke, she stepped forward, reached out and touched Ye Mo's forehead, then checked her own, saying, "Your temperature seems normal."

Seeing her movements, Ye Mo instantly came to his senses, "I'm fine!"

To show that she was really alright, she picked up the porridge bowl and ate a few mouthfuls, even though she didn't have much of an appetite. After she finished eating, Ruan Xianyue handed her the medicine and water.

"This is the medicine prescribed by Doctor Xu," Ruan Xianyue said. "It's three times a day, and you need to take it for three days..."

Ye Mo wasn't a child; she wouldn't cry and throw a tantrum to refuse to take her medicine. Once the medicine was placed in her hand, she naturally took it obediently. After she finished, Ruan Xianyue, who was standing next to her, suddenly reached out and patted her head, praising her:

"We're so good, taking our medicine so Momo..."

Ye Mo looked at her in surprise.

"..."

Ruan Xianyue felt a little embarrassed under her gaze. Her fingers, which had been hovering in mid-air, twitched slightly as she subconsciously explained her earlier action, "I'm just used to it. Before, when Baozhu took medicine..."

She stopped mid-sentence, seemingly realizing her words were inappropriate, and looked at Ye Mo with embarrassment and self-reproach.

Ye Mo smiled naturally, seemingly unaffected by Ruan Xianyue's words.

"Did you comfort Ye Baozhu like this when she was sick before?" she asked Ruan Xianyue with a hint of curiosity in her eyes.

Seeing that her expression was normal, Ruan Xianyue breathed a slight sigh of relief and nodded, saying, "... Yes, Baozhu was often sick when she was little and didn't like taking medicine. She always needed to be coaxed to take it."

"... I really envy her," Ye Mo suddenly murmured.

Ruan Xianyue stared at her in astonishment. "What?"

"..." Ye Mo suddenly snapped back to reality, realizing what she had just said. She opened her mouth, and after a few seconds, said, "... Nothing, I just mean, I think I'm a little sleepy."

Ruan Xianyue: "... Is that so? Then I'll take the bowl away. You should rest well! If you feel uncomfortable anywhere, be sure to tell me, okay?"

Ye Mo smiled and agreed, "Okay."

After Ruan Xianyue left, Ye Mo's smile vanished instantly. She lay down on the bed, a somewhat annoyed expression on her face.

"Was I out of my mind just now? How could I say something like that?"

She tapped her head, still not understanding how she came up with the phrase "I'm so envious."

Ye Mo sighed, "So it really is because of illness?"

Being sick is really scary; it's made her start talking nonsense. How could she possibly say such nonsensical things in a normal state?

Cheer up, Ye Mo.

Ye Mo silently encouraged himself.

Chapter 42 The forty-second melon... what kind of melon is it? It's the one you eat forty-two times...

As the saying goes, illness comes like a landslide, but recovery is like pulling silk from a cocoon. This saying perfectly describes Ye Mo's current physical condition.

After that night, she didn't have a fever again, but she was still very weak and coughed on and off for a week without getting better; it was truly a case of "the illness healing slowly."

She was sick for two days. Shen Yan and Zhou Xiaoyu, who knew she was sick, came to visit her. During the visit, they naturally cursed Tang Ying, the culprit who caused Ye Mo.

Zhou Xiaoyu, being young, was full of emotion and gave Tang Ying a very sincere scolding.

"Oh, right," Shen Yan said to Ye Mo, getting down to business, "Didn't we say before that our company was going to change hands? The new boss has arrived recently, so when you have time, you'll need to go to the company to renegotiate the contract."

When the new boss was mentioned, Shen Yan's expression became slightly strange, but Ye Mo didn't look at him and therefore didn't notice his expression.

Ye Mo: "Oh."

Only after Shen Yan mentioned it did she remember that there was such a thing.

"Brother Shen, have you met the new boss yet?" she asked Shen Yan curiously. "Is he easy to get along with?"

Shen Yan: "... Hmm, she's pretty easy to get along with."

Ye Mo: "Did the new boss discuss my contract with you? For example, did they say what the new contract would be like, or if there would be any changes to my compensation?"

The contract is what Ye Mo cares about most, and of course, it's probably something that all the artists at [Brilliant Star] care about as well.

Ye Mo's previous boss offered him very good compensation. Not only was his share of the profits 10% less than other agencies, but he also gave Ye Mo Ye Mo a high degree of freedom and didn't interfere too much with his business or personal life. This is one of the reasons why Ye Mo could never be poached by other companies.

Therefore, if the new contract offered to Ye Mo by his new boss doesn't offer the same benefits as his previous one, Ye Mo might have to consider changing jobs.

Regarding Ye Mo's concerns, Shen Yan once again wore the same strange expression as before, and said to Ye Mo with great certainty, "Don't worry, the new contract the new boss has offered you will definitely satisfy you."

Are you so sure?

Ye Mo raised an eyebrow and looked at him in surprise, "Brother Shen, do you know the new boss?"

Shen Yan: "..." That's too perceptive.

"I heard from Mr. Ye that the Ye Family is hosting a banquet at their home on New Year's Day, and they plan to take this opportunity to introduce you to people they know?" He casually changed the subject, clearly not intending to answer Ye Mo's previous question. "Is that so?"

"... Yes." Ye Mo nodded, then picked up two invitations from the coffee table and handed one to Shen Yan and the other to Zhou Xiaoyu: "These are the invitations. I was planning to give them to you when you left, but I didn't expect you to know about them already."

Shen Yan flipped through the invitations and smiled, "Secretary Huang specifically told me not to assign you any work during the New Year's holiday, so that's how I found out about this."

Ye Mo returned to the Ye Family in July. Logically, she should have been introduced to others at that time. However, since Ye Mo had just returned to the Ye Family and was not yet familiar with the other Ye Family, Ye Lin and the others planned to let the family spend some time together and get to know each other before introducing Ye Mo to the public.

However, they originally only planned to postpone the time by one or two months. But then Ye Mo had too much work, one job after another, and joined two film crews in succession, which caused the matter to be postponed to New Year's Day, two or three months later.

Ye Mo gave Shen Yan a few more invitations, asking him to help distribute them to some acquaintances in the company, as well as some friends.

Shen Yan and Zhou Xiaoyu didn't stay at the Ye Family for long either. They only Ye Mo with Ye Mo for a short afternoon, and left without agreeing to stay for dinner. When they left, Ye Mo asked the family driver to take them down the mountain.

--Unfamiliar vehicles cannot enter the area where the Ye Family lives; they all rely on the family's private driver for getting in and out.

That evening, Ye Zhipeng called Ye Mo to her study. However, the reason she called Ye Mo to the study had already been revealed to Ye Mo by the cheat device 888 on the way there.

[Host, your father is now planning to give you five percent of Tianheng's shares!] 888 said excitedly. As a smart system, it knew that its host really wanted these five percent of the shares. In fact, the main reason it gladly stayed with the Ye Family in the first place was for these five percent of the shares.

Now that we can finally get our hands on these 5% shares, the host will definitely be very happy.