Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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When he received a call from Liu Huishan, Zhou Yan was complaining about some things at work in a friend’s office. As soon as he mentioned the boss Wang Zhongmou’s refusal to let him bring in new people, he heard Liu Huishan calling him to make a trip back to the company in a slightly hasty tone.
As early as half a month ago, Zhou Yan had tactfully mentioned to Liu Huishan that he wanted to ask her to do some ideological work on Wang Zhongmou. It would be best if he could be assigned two new people with good qualifications to him.
At that time, Liu Huishan thought about it for a while and then agreed.
However, it was not easy to convince Wang Zhongmou. After all, Tang Moning lost the role of the male protagonist in “Palace Wall”. Zhou Yan, as the agent, naturally had half of the responsibility. Even if Liu Huishan had the right to speak with Wang Zhongmou, he would not automatically do what she said.
The time estimate given by Liu Huishan was half a month, and now it had been exactly half a month.
After hanging up the phone, Zhou Yan’s face almost burst into flowers. He immediately said goodbye to his friend, then picked up the coat he had thrown on the chair, put it on, and left in a hurry.
Zhou Yan returned to the company as quickly as possible and came outside the lounge. The first thing he saw through the glass was Liu Huishan sitting inside. He was immediately surprised and happy, and hurriedly walked in quickly.
Of course, there were other people sitting in the lounge, including Zu Qi, but Zhou Yan was no longer able to see anyone else at this time.
“Sister Hui.” Zhou Yan shouted happily and sat down on the empty seat next to Liu Huishan.
Liu Huishan had been sitting here for half an hour, already waiting impatiently. If there were not so many people watching, she would not be in a hurry to deal with this matter.
“You’re here.” Liu Huishan glanced at her watch and then asked straight to the point, “I just want to ask, when you asked Xiao Dengzi to come and follow me, did you mention any salary increase to him?”
After hearing this, Zhou Yan was slightly startled.
He didn’t seem to have expected that Liu Huishan would suddenly ask this question, but he quickly replied without thinking: “Xiao Dengzi’s salary has always remained at the original level. If you think he is good, I can consider increasing it at the end of the year and giving him some bonus.”
Zu Qi was the one providing the money anyway. Just let Xiao Dengzi find time to go to Zu Qi’s place and cry. Zhou Yan’s abacus was rattling at this time.
Liu Huishan fiddled with her phone and asked casually: “So, you are paying Xiao Dengzi’s salary and year-end bonus, right?”
“Of course it’s me, otherwise who else would be willing to pay this money?” Zhou Yan was amused. He suddenly spoke, but at the same time he felt something was wrong, as if Liu Huishan was deliberately inducing him to say these words.
Before Zhou Yan could think about it, Liu Huishan sneered from the corner of her mouth and said in a cool tone: “Really? But Zu Qi came to ask for people today.”
As soon as she finished speaking, Zhou Yan saw a tall figure sitting in the corner in his peripheral vision. He stood up and walked slowly toward them. He then turned his head and took a closer look – it was Zu Qi?!
Zhou Yan realized everything in an instant, and his face suddenly became extremely ugly. He stood up from the chair as if his buttocks were on fire, gritted his teeth and glared at Zu Qi.
“What are you doing here?” Zhou Yan squeezed out a sentence through his teeth. He reached out to grab Zu Qi’s arm, but Zu Qi turned away and nimbly dodged it.
“Didn’t you ask me to find Sister Hui?” Zu Qi crossed his arms and stood beside Liu Huishan, looking at Zhou Yan with a raised brow and a half-smile.
“I asked you to come to discuss with her, not talk nonsense!” Zhou Yan was so angry that he was about to explode, wishing that Zu Qi would disappear immediately from before his and Liu Huishan’s eyes.
But now he finally understood that Liu Huishan didn’t ask him to come because of Wang Zhongmou’s affairs, but to confront him because of Zu Qi.
Thinking of this, Zhou Yan suddenly broke out in sweat.
Although he had always claimed that he had been paying Xiao Dengzi’s salary, the fact was that Xiao Dengzi’s salary was being deducted from Zu Qi’s bank card regularly. It had been almost a year. But Zu Qi had never mentioned this matter. Why today? Why did it suddenly occur to him?
Zu Qi seemed to see Zhou Yan’s doubts and said with a calm smile: “Xiao Dengzi is my only assistant, responsible for my work and daily life, so I have been paying his salary and bonus this year, and now as I’m about to join the set for filming, but there is no one around, so I called you, but you asked me to ask Sister Hui for someone, so I came. Is there anything wrong?”
Zhou Yan was startled for a moment, and he extracted an important point from these remarks sensitively.
“You are joining a crew to film? What kind of film are you filming?”
“Palace Wall.” Zu Qi replied, watching Zhou Yan’s face turn blue and white, both colorful and beautiful, and he was in a particularly happy mood, “It seems you don’t know yet, right? I am determined to play the role of the second male lead.”
“…” Zhou Yan froze.
During this time, he had been immersed in controlling the damage caused to him after Tang Moning lost the role and did not pay attention to the results of Zu Qi’s audition at all.
In Zhou Yan’s perception, Zu Qi was a complete loser. Maybe Zu Qi’s outburst that day was just a blind cat bumping into a dead mouse, and his true colors would be revealed in the retest.
Who knew…
Zu Qi actually got that role?!
At this moment, Zhou Yan’s inner emotion could be described as shocked. He looked at Zu Qi in disbelief, as if he had never really known Zu Qi.
What followed was an overwhelming wave of regret that overwhelmed him.
If he had known that Chen Meixin and Shi Hao would fall so quickly, he would never have given up on Zu Qi and supported Tang Moning, who had no brains, no acting skills, and the airs of an emperor.
But he never dreamed that Zu Qi, who was almost hacked into the mud at that time, would one day fight back…
Liu Huishan observed the changes in Zhou Yan’s expression and knew that Zhou Yan had been deceiving her for more than half a year, and she became immediately angry. She laughed back and said sarcastically: “I, Liu Huishan, am not short of money. If I had known that Xiao Dengzi was still Zu Qi’s assistant, I would rather wait a little longer than rob him. What you did was purely provocative. Did you want to provoke my relationship with Zu Qi?”
Zhou Yan shook his head hurriedly: “No, Sister Hui, please listen to my explanation…”
“This is the end, there is nothing to explain.” Liu Huishan interrupted Zhou Yan with a cold voice, “I really believed you. You think Xiao Dengzi is really yours. Now everyone knows that I, Liu Huishan, have been occupying Zu Qi’s assistant for more than half a year. Do you really want everyone to laugh at me?”
Zhou Yan didn’t expect Liu Huishan to show such a big temper. He was caught by the cold gaze of the other party. In an instant, all his complicated emotions just turned into fear and timidity.
“Sister Hui, you have to believe me. I really didn’t remember that Xiao Dengzi’s salary was still being paid by Zu Qi…”
“Come on, Brother Zhou, just stop saying these words.” There was a male staff member who couldn’t stand it, stood up and said, “Last month I saw you going to the Finance Department to ask Manager Xu about Xiao Dengzi’s year-end bonus. At that time, Manager Xu said that Xiao Dengzi’s year-end bonus was also directly deducted from Zu Qi’s bank card, right?”
Hearing these words, Zhou Yan’s face turned pale, and all his quibbling words were stuck in his throat.
He knew that no matter what he said, no one would believe him.
Seeing this, other people in the lounge started talking in low voices. They didn’t expect to be able to eat a fresh melon on the spot today, and they didn’t expect that Zhou Yan, who usually seemed upright would actually do such an obscene thing in private.
Liu Huishan looked at Zhou Yan with eyes full of disdain and disgust. She picked up her phone and asked about Xiao Dengzi’s salary. In front of everyone, she transferred the salary of the past six months to Xiao Dengzi via WeChat and asked him to return all the money received previously to Zu Qi, and the rest would be his bonus.
“From now on, you will just have to follow Zu Qi. His agent is just like a decoration. You can’t even have his assistant be useless.” Liu Huishan patted Xiao Dengzi on the shoulder comfortingly.
Xiao Dengzi held the mobile phone, his eyes red with gratitude: “Thank you, Sister Hui.”
Liu Huishan smiled and nodded, then looked at Zu Qi next to her, sighed with a complicated expression, and whispered: “Sorry, before using someone I should have investigated first.”
“It’s not your fault, it’s my inability,” Zu Qi said.
Liu Huishan pursed her lips and did not refute Zu Qi’s words. She remembered that Zu Qi really didn’t have any acting skills, but he had a lot of all kinds of tricks and appeared on Weibo hot searches from time to time. He was all black and purple.
To be honest, whether it was in the past or now, Liu Huishan had no favorable impression of celebrities like Zu Qi who did not develop their own works properly but instead racked their brains for hype. However, Zu Qi behaved modestly and politely today, which made her slightly change her mind.
“Come on, work hard on the film, and I will tell Mr. Wang the rest.” Liu Huishan encouraged.
Zu Qi didn’t know what Liu Huishan wanted to say to Wang Zhongmou, but he didn’t ask. Anyway, he could guess with his toes that it would be something detrimental to Zhou Yan.
After Liu Huishan left, more than a dozen staff members who were watching the farce in the lounge also left. Suddenly, only Zu Qi, Xiao Dengzi and Zhou Yan were left in the huge room, with an increasingly ferocious expression.
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