Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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Zu Qi waited for a long time but did not receive a reply from Xue Jue, so he thought that he had said something wrong again to make Xue Jue angry.
But he read the words he sent silently and found nothing wrong.
Zu Qi exited the WeChat interface, closed his eyes and sat on the seat for a while, but still couldn’t fall asleep. Thinking of the content of the chat just now, he always felt a little stuffy in his heart, as if there was something stuck in it.
After thinking about it for a long time, Zu Qi opened his eyes, picked up his phone and opened his address book. He planned to call Xue Jue.
As a result, before the call was made, the car suddenly pulled over and stopped.
Before Zu Qi could react, he turned to Xiao Dengzi and asked, “Have we arrived at the film and television city so soon?”
“It’s early, we haven’t left the city yet.” With that, Xiao Dengzi stood up and opened the door of the nanny car, and at the same time he continued to say to Zu Qi, “Brother Duan is going with us.”
Zu Qi was surprised: “Brother Duan? Are you talking about Duan Kai?”
“Yes, when Brother Duan contacted you yesterday, didn’t he tell you?” Xiao Dengzi wondered.
Zu Qi recalled the phone call between him and Duan Kai yesterday afternoon. In a few words, Duan Kai only said that other matters would be discussed after they met but did not say that they would meet so soon.
At this time, Xiao Dengzi happily greeted someone outside the car. Not long after, a tall figure appeared in Zu Qi’s sight.
As an agent with the largest number of fans on the Internet, Duan Kai was no worse than a popular A-list star in terms of figure and appearance. Even if he was wearing a simple and slightly bloated black down jacket, he couldn’t stop the charm and strong aura he exuded.
Duan Kai was carrying a dark old-fashioned backpack that suited his characteristics very well. He had cold eyebrows and cold eyes, and even the corners of his mouth were downturned. He looked very difficult to get along with.
Zu Qi looked Duan Kai up and down calmly and found that Duan Kai was almost the same as the description in the novel – he looked exactly like an old-fashioned old cadre.
After getting on the car, Duan Kai threw his backpack on the side and took out his tablet to discuss the next trip with Zu Qi.
Zu Qi: “…” Are all today’s workaholics so direct?
But having said that, in the next month, Zu Qi’s schedule was very small. After that, there would be nothing to do, and the work he would do in the next month would all be related to the movie “Palace Wall”.
Looking at the scant itinerary on the tablet screen, an embarrassed look gradually crawled onto Zu Qi’s cheeks.
“Sorry, I took a long break and put a lot of work on hold.” Zu Qi touched his nose and said.
“It’s okay.” Duan Kai waved his hands expressionlessly and said, “Director Wang’s name is the biggest gimmick. As long as you play your role well, many activities will come to you in the future.”
Zu Qi nodded, but he didn’t have any confidence in his heart.
He was a blank slate in this area. He had not received any professional study or training. He relied entirely on his own private practice and was completely ignorant of many things in the entertainment industry.
If he decided to develop in the entertainment industry in the future, Zu Qi still wanted to go to a relevant school and learn some knowledge systematically.
Anyway, the original owner was less than twenty years old and had a long road ahead in life.
After making up his mind, Zu Qi finally felt better. After chatting with Duan Kai for a while, he leaned against the window to rest.
The nanny car was driving on the broad road. Except for the driver, who was concentrating on driving, the other three people were doing their own things, and no one spoke.
Zu Qi, who had nothing to do, was listening to music with headphones on and scrolling through Weibo. Suddenly, several marketing accounts broke the news that Yu Meitong and Yuda had terminated their contract. They said that there was a dispute over the contract with Yuda, and Yu Meitong might even be on the hook for a lawsuit.
Fans of Yu Meitong flocked to the Weibo post and complained on her behalf in the comment section, complaining that Yuda was squeezing Yu Meitong’s resources and letting Yu Meitong accompany several newcomers with no acting skills, which was excessive consumption of her own fame and that such a brokerage company should not exist.
Soon, someone added that Yu Meitong seemed to have changed jobs with her agent Duan Kai, and went to Zu Qi’s company, and the condition offered by that company was to let Duan Kai take care of Zu Qi.
As soon as these words came out, Yu Meitong’s fans cried even harder.
[Zu Qi wants acting skills but does not have acting skills, and wants resources but does not have resources. Why should my Meitong share the same agent with him? Isn’t this an obvious way for Zu Qi to share Meitong’s resources?]
[But wasn’t Zu Qi just hidden in the snow for more than a year? Are you going to bring him out so soon? I absolutely don’t believe that no one is putting pressure from behind.]
[Upstairs… have you forgotten who Zu Qi’s wedding partner is…]
[Don’t always make excuses in the name of Xue Jue. The little incident between Zu Qi and Shi Hao made a big fuss before, but Xue Jue was not seen, nor did he stand up and say a word or two for him. If Zu Qi hadn’t secured his footing with his son’s wealth, I think even if Xue Jue was blind, he wouldn’t pay attention to a person like him who has no innocence in his body.]
[Let me tell you, wouldn’t it be good for Zu Qi to continue to sell things on Taobao? I have to come here to stir up this muddy water. When he sells the Yangxin powder, all the pink circles will turn white.]
….
At the end, it was almost all cynicism and criticism towards Zu Qi.
Everyone thought that Zu Qi was taking advantage of Yu Meitong’s popularity and wanted to take away Yu Meitong’s existing resources. And that the goodwill he had gained from opening a Taobao store had made him dizzy.
As many fans as he had in the beginning, even more people were stepping on him now.
“…” Zu Qi fell into a long silence after reading the entire article.
If he had known that Liu Huishan would ask Mr. Wang to arrange for Duan Kai to take him, he would never have found Liu Huishan so blatantly.
Hey… people are sitting at home, and pots come from the sky.
Fortunately, Zu Qi had a stable mentality. He never cared about the comments of netizens. He was not RMB and could not be perfect and loved by everyone.
Besides, across the Internet, who knew whether there was a person or a ghost behind the keyboard, so there was no need to get angry and hurt your body because of some irrelevant people.
Zu Qi thought broadly, and after scrolling through Weibo for a while, he started reading the script.
Wei Mohan’s lines were not too many compared to the male and female protagonists, but they were definitely not few. When he spoke, he spoke in long and emotional terms, which required careful consideration.
Zu Qi was about to enter the state when he suddenly heard Duan Kai’s voice: “Are you okay?”
At first, Zu Qi thought Duan Kai was talking to Xiao Dengzi, so he didn’t say anything until he was gently touched by Xiao Dengzi with his elbow. After pushing for a while, he took off the headphones that had already lost the sound and looked up at Duan Kai.
Duan Kai had put away his tablet computer. He was sitting upright. Even if he had been in the workforce for many years, he could still see his military demeanor. He was looking at Zu Qi with an indifferent expression.
“Don’t say anything on Weibo, it’s easy to cause trouble.”
Zu Qi realized that Duan Kai had seen him scrolling on Weibo just now. He raised his eyes and smiled: “I basically won’t post on Weibo unless it’s necessary, but I really like browsing Weibo.”
Hearing this, Duan Kai also smiled, but he only slightly twitched the corners of his mouth and still looked serious.
“It’s a good thing not to have a glass heart.”
Xiao Dengzi came over with a smile, patted Zu Qi’s shoulder, and said in a rather proud tone: “In the words of netizens, even if our brother Qi has poor acting skills and character but he is thick-skinned. As long as the diamond heart is not easily broken, he can continue to eat this bowl of rice.”
Zu Qi put down the script, raised his arms expressionlessly, and then strangled Xiao Dengzi’s neck.
“Ah ah ah -“
Xiao Dengzi couldn’t dodge and was strangled so hard that he waved his hands and struggled desperately, screaming like a slaughtering pig.
“Who do you think is thick-skinned?” Zu Qi said with a ferocious expression next to Xiao Dengzi’s ear through gritted teeth.
“It’s me, it’s me, it’s me, it’s me who is thick-skinned, please forgive me, I know I was wrong…” Xiao Dengzi kept crying at the top of his lungs.
The two of them were arguing for a long time. Zu Qi then panted and let go of Xiao Dengzi. Now he couldn’t read the script anymore. He lay half in the car bored and looked around, and finally his eyes settled on Duan Kai in front.
“Brother Duan, did Yu Meitong really follow you here?” Zu Qi asked knowingly, he just found an excuse to bring the topic to Yu Meitong.
Duan Kai nodded and said succinctly: “Yes.”
“I saw that your job-hopping incident caused quite a stir on the Internet.” Zu Qi paused and continued, “Yuda is one of the top big companies. If it hadn’t been with these things in mind, you won’t still stay here, right?”
He remembered that in the novel, Yu Meitong stayed at Yuda all the time, and even became the pillar of Yuda Company in the later period, and no one could challenge her status as the first sister.
So the fact that Yu Meitong and Duan Kai changed jobs together… did not exist at all in the original plot.
Duan Kai seemed to hear some small emotions in Zu Qi’s words. He raised his eyes and glanced at him but did not say anything. Instead, he replied: “Yuda’s main business is real estate, and the brokerage company is just their side industry, and their future expansion direction is not in this area, no matter how famous it is, it cannot be compared to a medium-sized company specializing in the brokerage industry.”
Zu Qi said okay silently, he naturally understood what Duan Kai meant.
In other words, Duan Kai and Yu Meitong had long had the idea of hopping jobs, and they were just waiting for the right opportunity.
“Then Yu Meitong…”
Zu Qi had just started to speak when he was suddenly interrupted by Duan Kai: “Do you know there is still a popular post on Weibo?”
“Well?” Zu Qi was stunned, “What post?”
Duan Kai’s eyes became meaningful: “Some people saying that you and Meitong are having an affair.”
Zu Qi: “…”
Xiao Dengzi shouted quickly: “I saw it too, those people are so full that they are too full. They have nothing to do, snooping into other people’s private lives all day long.”
Duan Kai shook his head and said in denial: “Meitong really shouldn’t mention you on Weibo again and again. You two had almost no contact before, and you only paid attention to her recently. But it is easy for marketing accounts to spread rumors.”
Although Duan Kai said it very euphemistically, Zu Qi still understood the implication which warned him not to pay too much attention to Yu Meitong. He was already married.
….
Zu Qi pursed his lips in embarrassment, and during the rest of the journey, he did not ask any more questions about Yu Meitong.
Three hours passed quickly. Zu Qi took a nap and was shaken awake by Xiao Dengzi, saying that they had arrived at their destination.
The film and television city was located on the outskirts of the city. It was bustling and lively inside, but outside it was desolate and unpopulated countryside and undeveloped yellow land. The three-star hotel the crew found was considered the best accommodation around.
Zu Qi and others dragged their suitcases to the hotel lobby, and happened to meet another group of people checking in.
“Xi Yang?” Xiao Dengzi said in surprise, “He arrived so early? I thought a big shot like him would be there for the finale.”
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