CH 94

Chapter 94: Relying on Power to Bully People

Before Xi Qing got home, he received a call from Gongxi Qiao that he was going out of town to film a movie. He closed the book in his hand and said to the person on the other end of the phone, “Be careful on the journey. Give me a call when you get to the set.”

Special Assistant Gou, who was helping Xi Qing to organize the documents, saw that he looked a little lost and knew that his boss must be unhappy about Qiao Shao going out of town. However, it couldn’t be helped. Qiao Shao was such a popular superstar that being able to squeeze in so much time with his boss could already be considered not being productive.

After hanging up the phone, Xi Qing looked at the book on the table, and the young man with a feather fan and silk headdress on the cover caught his eye. He inexplicably felt some affection, and couldn’t help but laugh. Was this the so-called love the house and its crow?[1] Because Xiao Qiao liked to paint the paintings of the Tianjin period, he was also interested in these characters?

Gongxi Qiao suddenly went out of town because he had to make a cameo appearance in a film crew. The director of this film crew, Director Liu, was a member of the “National Industry” directing team. Although he wasn’t the lead director, when he was in the “National Industry” crew, Director Liu took good care of him. Therefore, since the other crew needed him for a role, he couldn’t refuse.

The important point was that this movie “Crash” was a comedy, but the plot was very logical, with a positive outlook and many laughs. He expected the movie’s box office to explode.

As soon as Gongxi Qiao arrived at the set, he was warmly welcomed by Director Liu and had a few words with several of the main actors. The directors who were able to enter the crew of “National Industry” were all big names in the circle, so the main actors in this comedy movie were all top names in the country. These first-rate artists were very cordial and friendly when they met Gongxi Qiao, with no trace of the arrogance of a senior to be found.

The entertainment industry was like that. Who was popular, who had more resources, who had a strong background. No matter who entered the circle first or later, people generally didn’t dare to easily mess with them. Who would be so stupid as to mess with their own star career?

Gongxi Qiao usually didn’t have much contact with people in the circle, so although these big brothers and sisters were famous, they weren’t really friends with him. After greeting each other, Gongxi Qiao went straight into filming.

The story of “Crash” took place on a road in the countryside, where four cars and a motorcycle collided on a rainy night. Fortunately, no one was hurt. After they called the police, they had to stay in a small hotel on the side of the road because the road had landslides in front and behind them.

After these people with different backgrounds and different statuses stayed in the hotel, in just one day and one night, a lot of ludicrous stories happened. In the end, it was revealed that the collision was caused by one of them taking money to kill one of the other people. Ultimately, he slowed down because of his soft heart and no one was killed.

As a result, the mastermind behind the scenes, the hidden villain of the movie, was implicated. Gongxi Qiao was guest starring as the villain, the rich and ruthless Qian Shao.

The villain, Qian Shao, was a deeply hidden character, so there weren’t many times when he really needed to appear. Gongxi Qiao had never played a villain before, but he acted with ease. He had a handsome face and acted with an overflowing sense of evil. After the movie was released, it was sure to make the teenage girls in the audience love and hate him.

As already mentioned, most people in the entertainment industry understood how to read people and knew what to do and what not to do. However, in this world, no matter what circle, there were people with a serious lack of both IQ and EQ[2]. Therefore, when Gongxi Qiao passed by the hotel corridor at night and heard someone bad-mouthing him in one of the rooms, he very immorally stood still, with the embarrassed-looking lead actor, He Xi, standing beside him.

He Xi intended to please Gongxi Qiao, which was why he went back to the hotel with Gongxi Qiao. He didn’t expect anyone to be stupid enough to badmouth someone and not close the door tightly. The conditions of this hotel were average and the sound insulation wasn’t good. If the door of the room wasn’t closed properly, people walking outside could easily hear the sound inside the room.

“What is Gongxi Qiao? If I hadn’t jumped ship back then, he wouldn’t have had a chance to be the top actor of Senhe. Outside they say he’s 360 degrees handsome, but I think it’s nothing more than that. Rather than saying he’s a good actor, I think it’s better to say that the Xi family head is rich. I don’t know what he can do to make Xi Qing give him his heart and soul. Without Xi Qing being willing to call him a friend, he’s nothing!”

“I think …… Qiao Shao is actually pretty good.” The one who opened his mouth at this moment was another person in the room.

“Now that he’s the Golden Leaf Award film emperor, even if his acting skills are average, these people still have to say it’s good.” The first person who spoke sneered, “What Qiao Shao? It’s just a nouveau riche family. I heard that his father was a coal miner in the past. Now he’s holding the Xi family’s thigh to get some real estate and ecological industry, he’s just someone riding on someone else’s success to ascend to heaven. He’s still praised outside for his nobility and poise. It’s really …… bah!”

He Xi was going to come down in a cold sweat. He carefully looked at Gongxi Qiao and found that he looked a bit frighteningly calm. He originally wanted to cough to interrupt the conversation in the room, but now he didn’t dare.

He had already heard that the person who scolded Gongxi Qiao was Cao Zheng. Two years ago, this person was the top actor of Senhe, but later he jumped ship and went to Ringstar. However, he ended up not doing as well as he did in Senhe before. Now he was slandering Gongxi Qiao behind his back, probably because of envy, jealousy and hate, unable to feel satisfied.

Seeing Gongxi Qiao’s calm look, he was a bit impressed. If he had heard someone say that about him, he would have been furious by now. How could he be so calm?

The other person who spoke to Cao Zheng was Liang Dong, who had been put in cold storage for two years because his drug use was exposed two years ago. Recently, he had been forgiven by the public because he had changed his ways and was active in charity work, and had passerby roles in several film and television productions.

“Anyway…… I think Qiao Shao’s acting skills are pretty good.” Liang Dong straightforwardly refuted Cao Zheng’s words, which made Cao Zheng even more angry.

“In the beginning, if you hadn’t been unable to participate in that drama called Princess Something-or-Other, what else could he do?” Cao Zheng said with hatred, “If he hadn’t stolen your role, you would have been on fire by now. What else would he have done?”

“It’s ‘Princess of the Closed Moon’,” Liang Dong huffed. “I wasn’t able to keep that role in the first place. Without him, there would have been others, not to mention …… if he hadn’t played that role, maybe the drama wouldn’t have caught fire.”

“Haha, I didn’t expect you to also want to kneel down and lick this great young master Qiao. I just don’t know if he knows who you are.” Cao Zheng and Liang Dong were artists of the same entertainment company, and the two had a good relationship in private. He didn’t expect the other person to speak for someone else, and Cao Zheng became angry. “If it wasn’t for me, you wouldn’t even be able to get a role, and now you’re thinking of hugging Gongxi Qiao’s thighs!”

“You’re being unreasonable. I won’t bother talking to you.” Liang Dong had never been very good-tempered. “You can say what you like! What role did you help me get, did you really help me get those roles? You can’t even grab your own roles. How dare you say you helped me, don’t put gold on your face!” After saying that, no matter how ugly Cao Zheng’s face, he pulled open the door to go out. As a result, as soon as the door was opened, his face suddenly turned white with fear.

“Liang Dong, you bastard ……” After seeing the two people standing outside the door, Cao Zheng’s angry curses were suddenly choked into his stomach, his face full of panic.

Although he cursed so freely in the room, in fact, on the set, he was very polite to Gongxi Qiao, and didn’t dare to offend him at all.

“You two …… aren’t going to continue?” Gongxi Qiao smiled at the two. His gaze fell on Cao Zheng’s face and he smiled more gently. “Want to know something?”

Cao Zheng looked at Gongxi Qiao blankly, not knowing what Gongxi Qiao was going to say.

“Heh,” Gongxi Qiao laughed out lightly. “I have a shortcoming, that is, I hold grudges. I really can’t figure you out. You know I’m holding Xi Qing’s thighs, but you still want to go against me. You have a lot of guts.”

Liang Dong and He Xi: Young master, you just admitted that you’re holding a thigh. Isn’t that a bit simple and rough?

At this time, normal people should righteously say that they weren’t hugging a thigh, but relying on strength. He was so honest that they, the bystanders, were a little overwhelmed.

“You, what do you want?” Cao Zheng turned pale. “Gongxi Qiao, the entertainment industry isn’t a place where you can turn your hand palm-up to gather the clouds and turn your hand palm-down to make it rain.[3] Don’t try relying on power to bully people.

“I never bully people,” said Gongxi Qiao, pulling out his phone and smiling, “because the ones I bully aren’t people.”

“Why don’t you take a guess now? Will I, the thigh hugger, let my thigh block you?” Shaking the phone in his hand, Gongxi Qiao sighed airily. “Who told me to be a villain and have a strong thigh to hold?”

“Gongxi Qiao, if you dare to do this, I’ll definitely find the media to expose you!” Cao Zheng was already scared to death. He didn’t know how good Gongxi Qiao’s relationship with Xi Qing really was. However, he knew in his heart that if Xi Qing really wanted to block him, not to mention that he didn’t dare to tell the media about his grievances, but even if he dared to expose it to the media, the media wouldn’t dare to expose the matter.

“It’s not enough for you to slander me behind my back, but you also want to threaten me.” Gongxi Qiao stared at him with wide eyes and a face full of grievances. “You’re not being reasonable at all, how can you bully people like this?”

Cao Zheng almost spit out a mouthful of blood from his throat. Who the hell was bullying whom?

After dialing someone’s phone, Gongxi Qiao opened his mouth and said, “Thigh, your thigh pendant was threatened. What do you think we should do?”

He Xi secretly gulped. He saw Gongxi Qiao really make a phone call. He was very close to Gongxi Qiao, so he heard a low male voice coming from the phone.

Aiya, damn, this young man really went to complain?

What damn thigh pendant?

However, it was precisely because of this that He Xi was more convinced that Gongxi Qiao and Xi Qing really did have a best friend relationship, not a thigh and a thigh-hugger. Who would dare to hug a thigh the way Gongxi Qiao did? He was afraid that the thigh would have kicked him off by now.

Only people who were really close friends would dare to make such jokes in front of outsiders.

Thinking of this, he glanced sympathetically at Cao Zheng. How bad was his brain to say bad things about someone and be heard by the person concerned?

After talking to Xi Qing on the phone, Gongxi Qiao looked at Cao Zheng coldly. “It’s normal for people to try to go up in the world. When you jumped ship from Senhe to Ringstar, it was just your choice. However, you should have a bottom line and conscience. Even if Senhe’s temple was too small to accommodate you, at least you were carefully cultivated and not pitted. However, when you found a new boss, you couldn’t wait to smear your old boss’s behavior. It’s really unsightly.”

“I’ll teach you a lesson today. Be kind to others, and don’t offend people who shouldn’t be offended.” Gongxi Qiao gave him a sarcastic look. “I’ll also let you experience what it means to really rely on power to bully people.”

Liang Dong silently covered his chest. He felt like he was probably going to be punished as the criminal’s associate. Who asked him to be present when Cao Zheng was saying bad things about someone?

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