Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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Tang Moning didn’t expect that Yue Ji would be so stupid and talk about the money he received in front of everyone. He suddenly became confused and pushed Yue Ji away and jumped on him.
“Calm down. If anything’s happened, let’s talk about it when we go out.” Tang Moning had layers of cold sweat on his forehead, and he whispered to Yue Ji through gritted teeth.
However, Yue Ji could not listen to Tang Moning’s words at this time.
He was already in a mess, and he grabbed Tang Moning’s arm fiercely as if his body refused to obey him, as if he was holding on to the last life-saving straw.
“You must give me an explanation today.” Yue Ji said fiercely, “You took so much money from me, don’t think you can stay out of it. I still have evidence of remitting money to you. Believe it or not, I will hand over the evidence to Director Wang right away.”
Although Yue Ji was overwhelmed by the fear of losing the audition, he still retained a trace of reason. He did not shout about the deal between him and Tang Moning but spoke in a way that only the two of them could hear.
However, others naturally noticed Yue Ji’s large movements, and turned their heads to look at him and Tang Moning in confusion.
At this moment, Tang Moning was extremely panicked.
He looked back at Zhou Yan with a guilty conscience, who knew nothing about the matter, and then wanted to pull Yue Ji aside: “If you hurry out now, I can say a few nice words for you afterwards, otherwise if you continue making such a fuss, no one will get any benefits.”
Yue Ji opened his eyes in disbelief and pointed at himself: “Are you threatening me?”
“I just asked you not to be impulsive.” Tang Moning saw that Yue Ji could still listen. So, he quickly said while the iron was hot, “I will definitely do what I promised you, but I also need your cooperation.”
Yue Ji stared at Tang Moning with a gloomy face. Although he did not make any response, he was finally not as emotional as before.
Seeing this, Tang Moning secretly breathed a sigh of relief and was about to continue persuading him when Zhou Yan suddenly rushed up behind him and blocked him and Yue Ji like a mountain.
Zhou Yan didn’t know about the deal between them and didn’t hear clearly what they just said. He thought Yue Ji was looking for trouble with Tang Moning, so he said coldly: “If you’re not good at acting, just study hard. Don’t think of some evil ways all day long.”
“Okay, Brother Zhou,” Tang Moning quickly stopped him for fear of angering Yue Ji, “Don’t say anything.”
Zhou Yan ignored Tang Moning’s words. He suspected that Yue Ji had some intentions and wanted to instigate the relationship between them and Director Wang, so he suddenly became angry and laughed coldly: “Even if you are allowed to join the crew, are you capable of acting with everyone? So save it and don’t involve innocent people.”
“Innocent people?” Yue Ji sensitively grasped the key point in this sentence. He seemed to have figured something out, and his expression gradually became violent, “Oh, it turns out you are all innocent people…”
Tang Moning secretly thought, “Oh no.” he didn’t care too much and directly reached out to cover Zhou Yan’s mouth.
Yue Ji saw all of Tang Moning’s panic and twitched the corner of his mouth almost inaudibly: “I promised you well at the beginning, but now you have taken the money and turned your back on me. You are really amazing…”
“Yue Ji …”
Before Tang Moning could explain, Yue Ji stared at him with a sinister look in his eyes, and then turning around without hesitation, he walked towards Bai Guangjian and Director Wang who looked confused.
“I’m afraid you don’t know yet, right? The male lead you selected privately accepted 200,000 yuan from me and swore to me that he would convince you to give me the role of the second male lead.”
For a moment, the whole place was silent.
Bai Guangjian, Director Wang and others were so shocked that they all cast incredulous glances at Tang Moning, whose face was as pale as paper.
Even Zhou Yan was stunned on the spot, his eyes quickly covered by a layer of anger called anger, but he quickly reacted and opened his mouth to subconsciously refute Yue Ji’s words.
“That’s nonsense. You will be held legally responsible for falsely accusing others without evidence!”
“How do you know I don’t have evidence?” Yue Ji still had one hand left. He immediately picked up his phone and pulled out a few photos and documents from the memo. And a recording was also handed to Bai Guangjian, “Mr. Bai, this is the evidence that I transferred money to Tang Moning, as well as the recording of my conversation with him.”
Bai Guangjian took the phone with a gloomy expression and clicked on the recording at the bottom.
The originally quiet conference room immediately resounded with the voices of Yue Ji and Tang Moning bargaining.
Bai Guangjian’s face became increasingly ugly. Director Wang next to him almost jumped up with anger when he heard this.
Director Wang pointed at Tang Moning’s nose and started to curse: “Who are you? You actually treat our crew as a tool for making money. Which crew will dare to hire an actor with no acting skills and no character like you in the future!”
“Is he an actor?” The assistant director added sarcastically, “He’s just a popular star. Real actors don’t put their minds into these things.”
Tang Moning felt his eyes darken and almost fainted. Fortunately, there was someone beside him. Zhou Yan helped him in time.
At this moment, he extremely regretted that he had taken Yue Ji’s money in a crazy way, and now he didn’t even have the last chance to stand up.
He was really scared. The experience of being boycotted by the entire network some time ago caused him to lose many endorsement cooperations and announcements. Not only did he pay a huge amount of liquidated damages, but he was also hidden by the company for more than a month.
If not for his remaining savings not being enough to support his huge expenses, he would not have thought of this trick of defrauding Yue Ji.
Tang Moning originally thought that Yue Ji was a soft persimmon who could be manipulated by others, but he didn’t know that Yue Ji was a lunatic who could do anything!
“Director Wang…” Tang Moning’s eyes were red and he shouted with a trembling voice.
Director Wang turned away his head in anger, as if he felt sick even looking at Tang Moning. He pointed to the door: “Get out of here, don’t show up in front of me again, or I will scold you every time I see you.”
Tang Moning also wanted to beg for mercy but was mercilessly kicked out by several security guards brought in by the assistant director.
In full view of everyone, Tang Moning, Zhou Yan and Yue Ji were kicked out by the security guards.
People who didn’t know the truth gathered together to talk and point at their backs. Their curious eyes mixed with inquiry were like sharp needles piercing the nerves in Tang Moning’s body. In the end, he almost ran out of the hotel lobby.
At this time, Tang Moning knew that his acting career was over.
He originally wanted to make a great comeback with the movie “Palace Wall”, but unexpectedly he fell down hard before embarking on this path and was kicked out like a beggar.
It’s over… it’s really over… but this was not the end.
After Yue Ji came to his senses from the broken jar, he began to insult Tang Moning with unpleasant words and forced him to return the 100,000 yuan. If he didn’t return it, he would have to wait to see him in court.
Tang Moning, who was immersed in despair, could no longer suppress his anger, so he stood on the street and started scolding Yue Ji. In the end, they got into a fight, beating each other until one’s nose was bruised and one’s face was swollen.
Zhou Yan stood aside and watched expressionlessly, without any reaction or movement.
Zhou Yan turned around and left before the crowd of passers-by watching the excitement gathered around him.
After removing Tang Moning’s name, the position of the leading actor suddenly became vacant.
At the dinner that night, Director Wang tactfully invited Zu Qi to take up the role of the male protagonist again, and deeply reflected and apologized for his previous behavior of kicking Zu Qi out and choosing Tang Moning.
Zu Qi was flattered as he watched Director Wang drink three glasses of wine in a row. He smiled and waved his hand and said it didn’t matter.
In fact, Zu Qi had a good impression of Director Wang, and it could be seen from his performance today that he was not very satisfied with Tang Moning playing the leading role.
It was a pity that in many cases the director could not play a decisive role. After all, Bai Guangjian was the largest investor and producer of “Palace Wall”, and Chen Meixin was Bai Guangjian’s wife. Director Wang did not dare to openly go against Chen Meixin. Or there could be complaints about the crew’s behavior.
Fortunately, Bai Guangjian and Chen Meixin had divorced, and Director Wang no longer had to worry about Chen Meixin’s face.
Zu Qi understood Director Wang’s mood, but still politely declined Director Wang’s kindness.
One reason was that he had been reading Wei Mohan’s scripts recently, and he thought he had a better understanding of Wei Mohan. The other was that the male protagonist had more scenes, which was not suitable for him, a newcomer who had just started acting.
Director Wang couldn’t help but feel pity after hearing Zu Qi’s explanation, but he didn’t say anything more and quickly changed the subject with a smile.
There were not many people sitting around the dining table. In addition to Bai Guangjian and the four directors and screenwriters, there were also two directors, assistants and a coordinator. Together, Zu Qi had less than ten people, and they just fit together to form a table.
Where there were many men, there would be a wine shop. So, Director Wang and the assistant director ordered two wine bottles. After the meal, they did not eat much food, but their stomachs were full of wine.
Zu Qi also drank a lot and leaned on his seat in a daze.
At this time, Bai Guangjian, whose face was glowing, came over drunkenly, holding half a glass of wine in his hand. After drinking it all, he looked at Zu Qi with some melancholy and let out a long sigh.
“Congratulations, you got the script you liked.” Bai Guangjian grinned, “You are more capable than I thought, and you didn’t need my help at all. I was unnecessary.”
Zu Qi turned his head slowly and stared at Bai Guangjian for a while with round eyes. Although he was drunk and was not very conscious, he could still detect Bai Guangjian’s low mood.
“Thank you, Mr. Bai.” Zu Qi narrowed his eyes and smiled softly. He picked up the empty wine glass in front of him and touched the glass in Bai Guangjian’s hand. “You didn’t do anything unnecessary. You gave me confidence.”
Bai Guangjian curled his lips with an “I don’t believe it” expression on his face.
Zu Qi guessed that Bai Guangjian’s depression might be related to his ex-wife, because Director Wang and others mentioned Chen Meixin when they talked about Tang Moning just now, and Bai Guangjian’s face didn’t look good at that time.
Even though Zu Qi had been in love several times, he was still an inexperienced novice emotionally. He didn’t know how to comfort Bai Guangjian, so he had to remain silent.
So the two of them stared at each other for a long time, and Bai Guangjian said quietly: “Xiao Zu, I have something to ask you…”
Zu Qi subconsciously sat up straight, and several things related to chicken soup of love he saw on Weibo flashed through his mind, so he nodded solemnly and said, “Go on.”
“When will the meditation powder be on the shelves next year? My inventory is almost running out. If I had known that the supply would exceed demand, I would have grabbed more.” The sadness on Bai Guangjian’s face almost condensed into substance and overflowed.
“…” Zu Qi was silent for a moment and decided to tell the truth, “I thought you were sad about Chen Meixin…”
Bai Guangjian blinked blankly: “Who is Chen Meixin?”
Zu Qi: “…”
After three drinks, everyone was ready to leave.
Zu Qi was leaning on the chair in a daze and was about to fall asleep. He couldn’t drink enough. After drinking too much, his whole body became hot. Even his brain seemed to be frozen and he couldn’t think of anything.
Director Wang called Zu Qi for a long time but received no response, so he ordered his assistant to open a room in the hotel and let Zu Qi rest there for the night.
Zu Qi really didn’t want to move anymore. After hearing Director Wang’s arrangement, he obeyed his wishes.
At this moment, Zu Qi’s phone suddenly vibrated. He picked up the phone with some difficulty and took a look. Xue Jue’s name was displayed on it.
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