Chapter 31
Diana: [How can you let Dean keep a distance from me?]
Diana: [Do you deserve to be human?]
Diana: [After knowing you, I only wanted to know how many years was the sentence for murder. Internet meme]
Ten minutes later, she received a reply from Josh.
He didn't say anything, but only sent her a screenshot of the legal provisions for intentional homicide sentencing as a response for the last Internet meme she sent.
Taking a glance, she found the prison term was at least ten years, while stay of execution and death penalty were in the center of the screenshot.
Diana: [?]
Diana: [Do you intend to put your wife into jail?]
Seeing this sentence, Josh did not continue to argue with her, but just held the dialog box of WeChat to talk slowly: "You won't get any benefits by spending too much time on contacting popular stars, so you should be a little more restrained."
He took a glance at the time, and then added: "By the way, I will fly to L City tonight and come back in a week. But I will go back to P City first, and then come to X City. Sam has already arrived at X City. You can contact him if there is something."
The business in branch company in X City was harder to dealt with than expected.
In recent years, there were many internal contradictions in the headquarter of the Hunter family, and Richard has spent great efforts to eliminate them, but somewhat neglected some specific affairs in Lux Hotel Group.
As the second largest base of Lux Hotel Group, the branch company in X City has been under control of executives for many years, and in a situation of fragmentation. It was impossible to solve this problem at a stroke, and every obstacle needed time to be overcome.
Josh would not stop working to manage internal conflicts in a branch company, which was unwise, so he asked Sam to keep an eye on it, while he himself temporarily went to negotiate more important cooperation.
Diana paused for three seconds after receiving these two voice messages from Josh.
Was this the reason why he broke up that coupling?
She sent messages to Josh again, but he didn't response.
Anger surged into her brain so she decided to cut of all contacts with him by blacklisting and deleting him as her WeChat friend. By the way, she even cursed this bastard in heart to ease her fury.
After venting her anger, Diana had a new idea. Since she didn't get the answer she wanted from Josh, why not make a breakthrough from Dean.
This guy was too young, so if she said something good to him, he might honestly told her "how he and Josh knew each other" and "what Josh said about keeping them at a distance".
Maybe she can also brainwash this boy and persuaded him not to be so obedient to Josh's nonsense.
But unexpectedly, Dean was a very principled child. He would have any physical contact with her since he has promised Josh to keep a distance from her. They even hardly looked at each other, let alone had body contact. When having Television signal capture, he always dodged as long as she intended to approach him.
Diana was very angry.
The only good news for her was that Dean was so indifferent to everyone, so no one found he was deliberately keeping a distance from her.
He was cool and indifferent all the time, and just submitted himself to someone's direction by doing more than he said.
Sarah was a very typical negative example of him. She even said more than the other three members of the group in total, but did the least. While cleaning the floor, she always panted and had a rest from time to time, whispering and acting cute in front of the camera by the way.
What was worse, she even always made troubles instead of working.
Diana: "What's this you bought? Six thousand five dollars! Are you crazy?"
Under the triple pressure of "having financial difficulties", "being the backbone" and "being ignored by Dean", Diana understood how hard life was in the just several days.
In the beginning, she had no idea of how much budget she should make, but thought decorating a toilet must cost more than 200,000 dollars, let alone remodel the whole house, which was ridiculous.
But she secretly consulted experienced designers from other groups, and also searched for some home decoration cases of ordinary families on Internet, only to realize that the funds given by the shooting crew were reasonable.
Moreover, after sauntering in the building materials and furniture market, she found that many materials of decorating the house including furniture were not as expensive as she expected.
There were lots of furniture to choose from except some classic and specific one of well-known furniture designers.
In just a few days, Miss Swift, who only doted on articles of luxury before, has drawn up a long budget sheet on the basis of the renovation fund of 200,000 dollars. She has been so shrewd in money matters by haggling over every penny. In addition, she even repeatedly emphasized to her team members not to buy any unpractical decoration being out of line with their design scheme.
Unexpectedly, Sarah didn't care about teamwork at all, and suddenly took a carpet costing 6,500 dollars.
Facing the question from Diana who was on the verge of rage, she even pretended to be innocent and said, "It's a carpet. Don't you think it looks good? It's a specific model designed by a famous designer this year, and this is the last one left."
Diana knew its brand in just a glance, so she said without raising her head, "Return it."
"Why? It matches all kinds of decoration style, and makes our house post-modern if putting it under the sofa in the living room."
Diana complained Sarah about her countrified aesthetics at the first time they had show-recording. The later was very unconvinced, so she searched and learned many relevant materials when she went back home. At this time, she would like to spurt out some artistic words like "postmodern" and "high saturation".
The camcorder was still working, but Diana who was just felt dizzy and choking didn't care it any more, so she was mad at her, "Do you know what postmodernism is? What kind of postmodern is it?"
Picking up the carpet and throwing it to Sarah, she roared, "Do more than you speak since you are not a connoisseur. Have you graduated from college? Are the songs you sing composed by you? Do you have basically respect for original designs? This brand of being collective boycott that cannot enter the mainland market doesn't turn over a new leaf but instead cooperates with furniture dealers. How can such a broken carpet cost 6,500 dollars! But such a layman as you even crows about it.
It was really ridiculous!
Sarah was almost astonished by the ridicule.
Ivan even tried to be a peacemaker by saying "Forget it, forget it", but Diana interrupted him directly, "Nope."
She stared at Sarah and said coldly, "You have to return this carpet, or pay it yourself and take it as yours. In short, I don't need this collectively boycotted garbage in my work!"
She made a budget sheet by pinching pennies, so how could she agree to pay for such a kind of garbage.
How dared this girl to play tricks with her, shit!
After working together for many days, all the staff members including following shot cameraman have understood that -
The average designers of other groups were just acting as a supporting part, and they even had to euphemistically dealt with the unreasonable and strange ideas of the star guests from time to time.
However, as the designer of this group, Diana was the real backbone with great ability and unparalleled charisma, so she had the final say in the group.
Ivan and Dean almost followed her instructions unconditionally. Sarah was a troublemaker, but she could not compete with this designer at all, and only suffered wrong every time.
She wanted to play a big name, but Dean was even peacefully waiting for assignments. She didn't deserve the special treatment from the variety Show Team, and the director team would not care her either.
So there was no doubt that this time Diana totally won the victory in the carpet battle.
Sarah had to return the carpet with grievance, and even murmured a lot of harsh words to the camera along the way.
But Diana didn't have time to care so much. There was not much time left for her renovation, while she had to adjust and control all aspects.
She has never been involved in decoration and renovation after completing her all previous design drawings, including those conceptual works she did while she was studying, and didn't put her conception into practice. This was the first time that she created life-like interior design, and really participated in house reconstruction.
She was even absent-minded in the last two times of TV show recording. But after getting into a groove, she put her heart and soul into it.
At noon, the program team prepared meat and vegetables as lunch for all staff, but it just looked like a simple diet in a plastic box. In addition, the house in the renovation was full of dust and the smell was also unpleasant, so Diana had no appetite at all.
While everyone else was having lunch, Diana was still testing the effect of sound insulation materials in the piano room.
When she came out of the piano room, there was suddenly nothing in sight, and after about four or five seconds, she recovered from the rigid state.
Diana rubbed her temples, and always felt that something was wrong with her health. Recently, she felt dizzy and nauseated from time to time, which was seemingly the legendary reaction in the early stages of pregnancy.
But she and Josh didn't have sex for a long time, and he also wore a condom when they did that lat time. Besides, she also had menstruation some time ago, so she would not be pregnant.
Walking to the balcony to breathe the fresh air for a while, she suddenly remembered that Sarah had often complained about the bad smell and formaldehyde in the house which might poison people to death, so she felt a little uneasy.
The wall paint was a sponsored product. She has certified by searching on Internet it was in environmental protection grades, but no one could guarantee its security.
Diana probably had never heard of the saying, "every answer about illness was ridiculous and all doctors in name were charlatan." She was too timid to see a doctor in hospital, but instead even searched for her symptom on Internet.
After she got the answer, her face turned pale, and she became more and more anxious.
In the next few days, Diana didn't have appetite, nor sleep well, but bustled in the construction site and building materials market, and obviously she got thinner. No one knew that how her mind ran wildly when she was lying in bed alone in the dead of night.
A week passed quickly, and Josh finally returned.
When he was waiting at the airport and saw the brand store where Diana always bought and carried bags, he went in and bought a new style one.
Josh original intended to go back to P City first and talk to the old man about the George family.
But unexpectedly, Sam called him as soon as he got off the plane and said, "Mr. Hunter, Mrs fainted at the recording site of the show and was rushed to a nearby hospital half an hour ago."
"Got it."
So he flied to X City after knowing it in the airport.
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Diana suddenly fainted when carrying furniture with others. She felt dizzy and nauseated, and could not say anything at that time before fainting and getting unconscious.
The program team rushed her to the hospital and notified her contact person she wrote on paper before.
The one was Sam. As Josh's general assistant, he was probably a hundred times more reliable than the former, and his phone could be gotten through at any time.
Half an hour after getting the news, he had already appeared in the hospital.
But Diana never woke up.
After falling asleep until evening when the afterglow of the setting sun cast in from the floor-to-ceiling windows, casting an orange-red sheen, Diana finally slowly opened her eyes.
After about a minute or two, her consciousness gradually returned, and she realized that she had suddenly fainted in this day and been rushed into the hospital.
She rolled her eyes and then saw Josh standing beside the bed. She suddenly felt nervous.
-Even Josh came here.
Realizing that she was awake, Josh walked to the bed and said calmly, "Wake up."
Diana didn't speak, nor have any expressions. She was neither sad nor happy. Going through a thousand struggles, she asked calmly, "What's wrong with me?"
Josh was silent.
"It's okay, just tell me, I can stand it."
Diana's eyelashes drooped. One of her hands was having an intravenous drip, and the other one was tightly clenched into a fist under the quilt. Thinking of those countries she had never been to before, those delicious food she didn't enjoy, the limited-style bags she didn't collect, she felt a dull pain in heart, and she was even struggling with whether or not to undergo chemotherapy, and whether it would make her ugly.
"......"
"You fainted because of hungry."