Chapter 459: Protecting the Flower Shen Lang (4 words)
What the crew said made Hirosue Ryoko blush immediately. She looked at Shen Lang, and saw that Shen Lang was still staring at the monitor and working seriously, and she felt relieved immediately.

"Mr. Shen, since today's work is over, can I go back to the hotel early?" After Shen Lang finally finished watching the surveillance camera, Hirosue Ryoko made the request somewhat embarrassedly.

Today was the first day of work, and Sato had already booked a room at the local Yangwu, which serves the famous delicacy of Yamagata Prefecture - Genghis Khan Hot Pot. Everyone was preparing to go and try it after work.

"Is Miss Ryoko feeling unwell?" Shen Lang asked worriedly.

Every time she heard Shen Lang call her "Miss", Hirosue Ryoko felt a little shy, but there was also a hint of happiness in her heart. She was involved in a scandal, had been married twice, and was a mother of three children, so why would the other party still call her "Miss"?
I guess it’s because Shen Sang is a foreigner.

Hirosue Ryoko bowed and said, "Yes, I feel a little dizzy, I want to go back and rest first!"

Shen Lang nodded, called Sato, and asked him to arrange a car for the crew to take Ryoko back to the hotel first.

……

After dinner in the evening, a group of people in the crew were clamoring to go out singing. Shen Lang couldn't understand why Rijiya liked singing K so much, so he left early on the pretext of going back to the hotel to rest.

When he returned to the hotel and took the elevator to the floor reserved by the crew, he suddenly saw Hirosue Ryoko holding the phone and walking downstairs in a panic in the far corner of the corridor.

"Ms. Liangzi, what happened?" Shen Lang asked quickly when he saw her in a hurry.

Hirosue Ryoko said, "I'm sorry, Shen Sang, I may have to go back to Tokyo. The servant at home just called and said that Haruko has a fever and keeps crying for her mother!"

"But..." Shen Lang looked at his watch, "It seems that there is no Shinkansen at this time!"

"It doesn't matter. I've already rented a car online. It only takes eight hours to get to Tokyo. I can be back tomorrow!"

Shen Lang shook his head and said, "It's too dangerous to drive alone at night! How about tomorrow, we can leave early tomorrow morning!"

Ryoko shook her head repeatedly, looking anxious: "No, Haruko has been timid since she was a child. Besides me, only my brother can coax her, but my brother has gone abroad, he needs me!"

It was so confusing that Shen Lang couldn't figure out the relationships between the characters. However, after thinking about it, he said to Hirosue Ryoko, "How about this? Tomorrow is the outdoor shooting day. As you know, I'm not a professional director. Shochiku Films has already found other directors to do this kind of work for me. Instead of following them and wasting a whole day, it's better to..."

"I'll go with you!"

"Huh????" Hirosue Ryoko looked at Shen Lang in surprise.

Shen Lang smiled and said, "Then it's settled!"

When the two got into the car, Hirosue Ryoko still looked at Shen Lang in the passenger seat with a confused look on her face.

Shen Lang was depressed. He thought he could be a hero and be the beauty's driver. However, when the car rental company asked him to show his driver's license when picking up the car, he remembered that he did not have an international driver's license.

In the end, I failed to be a hero and could only serve as a companion, sitting in the passenger seat boredly looking out the window at the pitch-black mountain road.

"Shen Sang, I heard you got married?"

"Well, divorced!"

"why?"

Shen Lang didn't want to talk about the past, so he said vaguely: "It's not suitable, so we have to separate!"

Hirosue Ryoko clearly heard Shen Lang's resistance to this topic, so she didn't continue with it.

The two of them didn't have much contact to begin with, so of course they had no common topics. Shen Lang also rejected the topic that Ryoko had finally offered, and the car fell into silence.

Shen Lang saw that the atmosphere was a little awkward, so he asked, "Why don't I see your assistant?"

Hirosue Ryoko hasn't seen her assistant since Shen Lang was at NHK. Logically speaking, she is also a top actress in Japan, and it is impossible for the agency not to arrange an assistant for her.

Ryoko smiled bitterly and said, "Because of some recent events, the company is very angry about this. The president has issued a notice to [indefinitely suspend the artist's performing activities]. But at this time, the notice from Shochiku Films arrived at the company..."

Shen Lang understood. Hirosue Ryoko was banned by the company because of the scandal, so the assistant was naturally laid off or assigned to someone else. It just so happened that he invited her to play the female lead in the movie, and the company didn't have time to reassign an assistant, so she was pushed out.

Perhaps the topic came back to the scandal, and Hirosue Ryoko, who was just looking for a topic, suddenly became silent again.

Shen Lang couldn't force the topic anymore, so he had to take out his cell phone to pass the time.

……

When Shen Lang woke up from the cold in the car, he quickly sat up and looked out the window. He didn't know when, the mountain road outside the car was no longer the same. Tall concrete jungles stood on both sides of the road. Shen Lang said dazedly: "Sorry, I fell asleep! I said I would talk to you!"

Hirosue Ryoko smiled and said, "Shen-san, I am very grateful that you could accompany me here in the passenger seat."

At this time, Shen Lang discovered that he was covered with a small tight purple women's suit, which was exactly the one that Hirosue Ryoko was wearing.

"Why are you still..."

Liangzi blushed: "I'm afraid Shen Sang will catch a cold, so..."

Shen Lang picked up the clothes after hearing that. As the clothes were waved, a faint fragrance of a mature woman emanated from the clothes. It was not the smell of perfume, but a mixture of a woman's body odor and the refreshing smell of shower gel. Shen Lang couldn't help but take a deep breath.

Liang Zi, who had been secretly glancing at Shen Lang, said awkwardly: "It's really rude. I didn't change my clothes last night..."

Hearing this, Shen Lang said in a mysterious way: "No, this smells better!"

Hirosue Ryoko trembled all over when she heard that, and she almost lost her grip on the steering wheel.

Seeing this, Shen Lang quickly explained: "I mean the shower gel on this dress smells good."

I don't know if the Japanese understood what it meant to be trying to cover up one's own guilt, but the atmosphere in the car suddenly became sticky.

After a while, Ryoko drove past a traffic light and pointed to a building in front of her and said, "We're here, we're finally here!"

At this time, the whole Tokyo was still asleep, and they finally arrived in Tokyo from Yamagata Prefecture in more than eight hours.

Ryoko's home was a large flat with one unit per floor. When she opened the fingerprint lock and walked into the house, a female voice in the room asked vigilantly, "Who?"

"It's me, Mrs. Watanabe, I'm back!" Ryoko replied in a low voice.

After a while, the lights were turned on and a sleepy middle-aged woman came out.

When she saw Shen Lang behind Liang Zi, she was startled and her sleepiness disappeared instantly: "How rude! We have guests. I'm going to change my clothes!"

After a lot of trouble, Liangzi's nanny came out, looked at Shen Lang with stars in her eyes and said, "Is this Mr. Shen from China? Ms. Liangzi always mentions you at home, saying that you are a gentleman who is more beautiful than a woman. You are indeed much more beautiful in person than on TV."

Facing this straightforward woman, Shen Lang didn't know how to respond. Fortunately, Hirosue Ryoko interrupted him in time: "Mrs. Watanabe, where is Haruko? How is Haruko?"

"She's asleep. She just fell asleep. She kept crying for her mom. I've taken her to the hospital. Fortunately, it's just a common fever!"

Hirosue Ryoko expressed her gratitude repeatedly and rushed into the room to see her daughter impatiently.

At this time, only Shen Lang and Mrs. Watanabe were left in the room. Mrs. Watanabe was very talkative and asked Shen Lang a lot of questions, from Chopin to the major schools of cello bears, from the customs and habits of China to the anime characters of Japan. After a while, she finally responded: "You must be hungry after driving such a long way, right? How about I cook some noodles for you?"

Shen Lang let out a long sigh: "Thank you for your hard work!"

When Mrs. Watanabe saw that Shen Lang was willing to eat the food she cooked, she was so happy that she continued to chat with Shen Lang while busying herself in the kitchen.

"Ryoko is so exhausted! Originally, she had three children, and the eldest could help her share some of the burden, but now he is studying abroad. Ryoko has to rely on herself for anything that happens at home!"

Shen Lang asked in confusion: "Boss? Studying abroad? You're going abroad to study at such a young age?"

Watanabe laughed and said, "You are not young at all. You are already 18 years old!"

"Ah..." Shen Lang was confused. Hirosue Ryoko's information said she was 40 years old, but she looked only 30. She was well-maintained and had three children, which surprised Shen Lang. He didn't expect that her eldest son was already 18 years old.

This……

"It's so infuriating to talk about it. Ryoko's ex-husband is such a cold-hearted person. He has been dishonest since he married Ryoko. There are always women around him. After Ryoko became pregnant, she had to take care of three children. She was allergic to perfume. Guess what happened to that man?" Watanabe looked in the direction of the house, then turned to Shen Lang and said mysteriously.

As expected, the countries are different, but the aunts are all the same. Shen Lang was also whetted by the village’s frequent meetings at this moment: “What’s wrong?”

Watanabe whispered, "Ryoko is so busy taking care of the kids that she sometimes can't even wash her hair for a week. That guy even forced her to spray more perfume on herself even though she's allergic to perfume!"

"Shouldn't a couple be considerate of each other? Shouldn't the man help take care of the children so that the woman can have some time to take care of herself?"

"Of course!" Shen Lang provided topic booster fuel at the right time.

Mrs. Watanabe was indeed very satisfied with the audience in front of her: "Shen Sang is a gentle man at first glance, and he is definitely not a bad man. On the other hand, that man is a live-in son-in-law, and he is messing around with other women outside, and he is thinking of biting back and framing Ryoko!"

"Hiss!~~~You mean~~~?"

"It's not the chef of the French restaurant. This thing never happened. That man actually spread rumors!"

Shen Lang felt that he was about to get in touch with Ryoko's core secrets, but at this moment, Ryoko walked out of the room.

Seeing this, Mrs. Watanabe quickly winked at Shen Lang, and the topic came to an end.

"Shen Sang, you should take a rest for a while. After breakfast, I will observe Qingzi's condition and then we can go back!"

Shen Lang nodded and said, "Okay, then don't drive for a while, let's take the Shinkansen, otherwise it's too dangerous!"

Mrs. Watanabe smiled and said, "Mr. Shen is such a considerate man!"

Hirosue Ryoko blushed upon hearing this, and took Shen Lang to rest. When they arrived at a room, Ryoko said, "This is my study. I rarely have the opportunity to stay here on weekdays. If you don't mind, please rest here!"

Shen Lang was startled: "This, this is not good, why don't I just take a rest on the sofa outside!"

Ryoko blushed and said, "It's okay. It's really rude to lie on the sofa. You... you can just rest here!"

……

It would be disrespectful to refuse it, it is definitely not that Shen Lang has any special hobby.

After a while, Shen Lang fell into a state of half-sleep and half-wakefulness. At this moment, Mrs. Watanabe's voice suddenly came from outside the door: "This Mr. Shen looks like a really good man! Is he pursuing Ryoko?"

"Oh, that's absolutely not true, Watanabe, don't talk nonsense!"

"Ah, that's such a pity. It's hard to find a man who is so gentle and knows how to listen nowadays. Besides, Shen Sang is so handsome and talented!"

"Oh, right, he's so famous, and I heard he even won an Oscar. He definitely wouldn't be like other men and try to take your money, Ryoko!"

"It would be a shame if we couldn't grasp a man like this!"

Shen Lang was completely awake. He stared with his eyes wide open and listened attentively to the noise outside!
"Stop talking about Watanabe. I'm already a 40-year-old old woman..."

Old woman? NONONO, with that figure, that face, that temperament, people would believe she was in her twenties, how come she was forty?

At this moment, the doorbell suddenly interrupted their conversation.

"Who's here at this time?"

Suddenly, a man's voice came out: "Watanabe, don't call me late at night. I have divorced this woman! Do you know?"

The man's voice was full of gunpowder, and he kept clicking his tongue as if he could be used as a bottle opener.

Watanabe's angry voice came out: "Sir, but Haruko is also your daughter. Ryoko is working in another place, and you are so close to her. Haruko is sick, can't you take her to the hospital?"

"Baga, old woman, this woman gives you so much money every month, can't you take Haruko to the hospital?"

"But what Haruko needs is a dad and a mom!"

……

"Asshole, it's not clear whether this child is mine or not. I have no reason to take her to the hospital. Besides, the court has already awarded the child to this woman. Why are you still harassing me!"

Finally, Ryoko's voice was heard in the room for the first time: "Hirosu Jun, are you still a human being? Haruko is your child! How could you do this to her?"

"Old woman, you can only blame yourself for considering money more important than your children. But don't worry, the scandal between you and the chef of the French restaurant has been exposed. The scandal between you two happened during your marriage. After a while, I will find a lawyer to re-file a lawsuit. By then, you will have to give me most of the money you are holding on to, you idiot!"

Damn it! The more Shen Lang listened, the angrier he got.

Isn’t this guy a marriage fraud?

He married Hirosue Ryoko just to get a large sum of money when they divorced, but he failed. From the way he spoke, he exposed Hirosue Ryoko's private life and then continued to make money.

Let’s not talk about whether Hirosue Ryoko had an affair with the French restaurant chef. With your behavior, using marriage to make money, are you still a man?
Thinking of this, Shen Lang sat up with a "gulp", got out of bed, opened the door and looked towards the living room, where he saw a man covered in tattoos, standing opposite the two women in a nonchalant manner with an arrogant look.

The man didn't expect there would be a strange man here. He was shocked for a moment, but soon he cursed: "Well, you shameless old woman, you actually brought a man home! Haha, I caught you now. I'm going to take a photo and upload it to the Internet to ruin your reputation."

As he spoke, he was about to take out his cell phone to take a picture of Shen Lang.

But before he could take the phone out of his pocket, Shen Lang came up to the man and grabbed his wrist.

"Ah! It hurts, it hurts..." The man screamed and held his wrist.

"You scumbag, get away from here!" The man in Shen Lang's eyes suddenly turned into Lin Jiaer's face. He couldn't help but give him a big slap in the face. The man screamed and almost fell down.

"You, you dare to hit me, just wait for me!!!!" The man covered his face and stumbled out of the door.

(End of this chapter)