CH 51

"Infatuated" actor (5)

Translated by Jev Kaez

Edited by Jev Kaez

Li He’s expression stiffened. After reacting, he reached out and grabbed the phone in Lu Yi’s hand. Lu Yi didn’t watch out, and let him grab it like this.

When Li He smiled triumphantly and wanted to break the phone, Lu Yi’s voice suddenly sounded: “I have uploaded the recording and backed it up. If it breaks, remember to pay me a new phone.”

The complacency on Li He’s face stopped before it was fully displayed. The too vivid emotional changes made the civil servant a little distorted. He raised his phone high, a little frustrated, and finally did not throw it, he sat back on the chair.

He regained his image as a sleek and even a bit insidious agent, calm and cunning and treacherous like a fox: “This audio has no meaning, isn’t it? You let it out, for you, the impact is far greater than mine.”

Lu Yi said: “Then if I plan to completely withdraw from the entertainment industry and do not plan to participate in any related commercial performance activities?”

Li He said: “If this is the case, why are you so troublesome? You can wait until the contract with the company expires.”

When Lu Xingchen said this, he didn’t believe it. After being hidden by the company for such a long time, Lu Xingchen was still full of yearning for this circle as before. Such a person said that he planned to quit the entertainment circle and never participate again. Related activities, giving up that star-lit and highly anticipated life, joking, how was it possible.

It wasn’t like he had water in his mind, he wouldn´t believe Lu Xingchen’s lies so easily. This time he was dealt with without being wary of recording. It was entirely because he believed that Lu Xingchen was a fool and he was too confident about himself, so he accidentally followed the other side’s play, but just with this little thing, he wanted to play him. It was impossible to go.

Lu Yi took the original owner’s mobile phone from Li He’s hand: “I want to solve this problem, of course, there are my own reasons. It doesn’t matter if you don’t agree, Mr. Li, I’m a stupid person, I don’t understand anything. It’s called operating public opinion, but the fright and calculations Mr. He Xiao received; his outrageous fans must be very happy to find it for him.”

He smiled: “I’m just a little artist whose fame is still hidden by the company. I have nothing to lose. but Mr. Li is different. He drugged the artist for his own selfish desires. He didn’t hesitate to drag another artist into the water, working as an agent, doing pimping business, this is known, I am afraid it will cause trouble, not just for Mr. He Xiao.”

He looked at his mobile phone: “When I left yesterday, Mr. He´s agent was very angry. He is now finding out who calculated his celebrity, but yesterday I firmly believe in you, Mr. Li, that you´re a good person, so I didn’t confess you, but now…I think I may not have to hide it.”

Li He’s cold sweat slipped from his forehead. Although he had more than a dozen artists in his hand, there were also one or two that had developed well. They were a cash cow in his hands, but compared to He Xiao´s agent, he´s nothing.

And the other party’s company was far more famous in the industry than the small company he worked for.

Brokers were not more famous than the celebrities, nor did they rely on fans to eat a bowl of rice, but because he was engaged in related industries, he knew how terrifying fans were.

He Xiao, in particular, had been in the limelight recently, attracting a large number of young people. These fans were young and easy to be incited, but they were also strong. For idols, they can do terrible things.

If Lu Xingchen released this recording, and then builds momentum through public opinion, the unspoken rules of the entertainment industry would be hit with a dozen tags, but it was not easy to generate a new hot search, and it would be really difficult for him to mix in the industry.

It was true that the impact of this incident on Lu Xingchen would not be small, but if the other party was really frustrated and willing to go out of this circle, what should be done?

Barefoot people are not afraid of wearing shoes. As a shoe wearer, he was really afraid of the barefooted Lu Xingchen.

In front of Lu Xingchen, he curbed his temper for the first time, and negotiated with the other party in the same respectful and polite manner as his boss: “I know your difficulties, and I can understand your approach. Like you said, the contract is indeed a helpless move after being hid in the snow, but you also know that I am just a very ordinary broker, and when it comes to the contract, I have no way to be the master.”

Since he couldn’t do it hard, Li He simply got up and Lu Yi asked him, “You didn’t say that in front of me before.”

As an agent, Li He liked to talk about how capable he himself was, and he had a pivotal position in the company.

But the reality was obviously different from what he bragged about. Whether the artist could terminate the contract smoothly was not something he could determinate.

Li He said: “This is what I brag about, I don’t have that great ability.”

Seeing Li He’s stoic expression, Lu Yi only then felt that the other side liked words very much. He was obviously in trouble, but in the face of the ironclad evidence that he made out, he would still be stubborn.

Lu Yi also said loosely: “Follow my requirements, and when I’m done, I will naturally delete these evidences.”

Half an hour later, Kong Si asked Lu Yi: “What the guy just said, will he really do what you say? Why do I still think it would be better if you publish the recording?”

Lu Yi shook his head: “After releasing it, there will be no handle. For people like Li He, can you guarantee that he will not come to trouble you again?”

Sometimes it was not interesting. Besides, he just asked Li He to find contacts to resolve a small star’s indifferent contract relationship.

Li He had been in this entertainment company for such a long time, and he had brought more than a dozen artists. It was impossible to have no contacts at all. He calculated the original owner, and now he wanted the other party to save his old face to solve the trouble, it was not a big deal, right.

“Well, anyway, I don’t make any comments about your entertainment industry.” Kong Si rubbed his numb thigh. What happened last night actually tossed him quite a bit. As soon as he woke up, he started to toss and check, and then got married. He didn’t get a good rest at all. It was just that Lu Yi was negotiating with that broker Li He. He could only rest after the matter was over.

He glanced at this messy little house: “This is your residence?”

“Yes, temporary accommodation, this is the house I rented.”

Generally, entertainment companies were built in big cities like Magic City. For convenience, even if there was no notice, it was impossible for artists to find a house to live in other cities. The house price here was very expensive, just because of Lu Xingchen’s specifications and reputation. In the eyes of the company and the agent, he was only worthy of finding a way to rent such a house.

Kong Si stood up and said, “Get up and pack up quickly, take everything you want, and follow me.”

Lu Yi asked him, “Where we you going?”

“Of course, you´re going to live with me.” He kicked the empty Coke can that fell on the ground. “Since we got the certificate, the wedding night, are you planning to let me live here with you? I’m not the kind of person who would let his wife live in this dirty and messy pig kennel.”

Like revenge, he bit the word “wife” very hard.

“Then sit and rest and wait for me for fifteen minutes.”

Although he also liked men, Lu Xingchen was no different from ordinary straight men. He had the same problems as most straight men. He was carefree and casual. In addition, life was not so smooth. The place where the original owner lived was indeed small, dirty and messy.

The simple single bed could accommodate a big man with long arms and legs. It was definitely not possible for two people to sleep.

Lu Yi rolled up his sleeves and packed most of the things that belonged to the original owner into a large garbage bag. For the original owner, all the things that were commemorative or important were put in the suitcase.

In fact, it would be faster to let two people clean it, but this was after all the original owner´s mess, and it was now his rental house, so it made no sense to let Kong Si clean it. And although the other party tried to hide, his walking posture had been a little unnatural until now. He was not a beast. Such a small matter did not have to drag the “injury” to accompany him.

It took him ten minutes to clean up, and five minutes to notify the person in charge of the apartment to check and accept that he wanted to check out.

Because it was the kind of very cheap old-fashioned apartment house, it was still in the suburbs. The house adopted a one-month deposit, and the rent was paid in advance every month.

The other party looked at the house and looked through the contract. In Mandarin with a strong accent, he said, “You can also terminate the contract early, but you only lived in three of the six-month period stated in the contract signed at the beginning. The deposit of this month is definitely not refundable to you.”

“I know, after delivering the keys, it will be fine.”

Although he was indeed short of money now, Lu Yi had not yet reached the point where he could hold the few hundreds, and he had indeed violated the contract. The landlord was still kind, and it was normal that the deposit was not refunded.

“Okay, you can leave after handing in the keys. Remember to take all your garbage out.”

Lu Yi glanced at Kong Si who was sitting there playing games: “Kong Si, it’s okay, let’s go.”

Kong Si was called by name, then raised his head and found that the surrounding area became bright. He moved some tingling hands and feet, and helped Lu Yi take a few large bags of garbage along with him.

When getting in the car, Lu Yi said, “I’ll drive, just report the name of the place.”

Kong Si glanced at him: “Can you drive?”

“I got my driver’s license in college.” The original owner made his debut on a talent show during the first semester of his junior year. He was signed as a sophomore and had just graduated from his senior year.

Kong Si didn’t say anything, and took the seat of the co-pilot. The main reason was that he really hurt while sitting, so the physical work of driving should be handed over to the other party.

The car slowly started, and when the two people got along, they definitely couldn’t just play with their mobile phones. Kong Si tried to find out about Lu Yi’s situation by checking his household registration.

“I remember you are 21 years old this year, right, didn’t you have been a star a long time ago? Are you still in college?” After getting married, he had to ask everything now.

Lu Yi explained: “I just graduated this year and got a diploma, so I’m an undergraduate. I’m from NTU Art School and my grades are average.”

Because of the signing of the company, Lu Xingchen did not do well in academic studies. He just got stuck on the pass line for each subject, and some subjects still failed. Fortunately, he passed the re-exam, and he got a diploma smoothly.

“Then you are three years younger than me. You can call me Brother Kong when we are outside from now on.” Kong Si thought, he could barely find a little wolfdog younger than himself, a junior.

Lu Yi didn’t answer his words. Although his body was indeed younger than Kong Si, he was actually older than Kong Si. It was impossible for him to call the other brother.

Seeing Lu Yi’s silence, Kong Si began to say: “Then your grades are definitely not very good. You really quit the entertainment circle. What do you plan to do? didn’t say you want to raise me before? It seems difficult to raise me.”

He could still remember Lu Yi’s words about making a lot of money to support him, the children of the family dared to speak up.

“There are many ways to make money. You don’t have to be an artist.” The car stopped when it encountered a traffic light. Lu Yi put his left hand on the steering wheel, raised his right hand, and put it on Kong Si’s head and rubbed the other´s hair: “Give me a month, no matter how difficult it is for me to raise you, I will definitely raise you.”

The young man’s hand seemed to have magical power, rubbing Kong Si’s messy heart to calm down, when he reacted, the driver looked ahead intently.

He said, “I´m not a kid, who are you coaxing…?”

But after Lu Yi smiled to each other, he didn’t say anything. Obviously, his heart felt better after the other´s actions.

Soon the car stopped at the place where Kong Si lived. This was a high-end residential area in the third ring road of S City. It was a large house with a size of 150 square meters. The house was bought three years ago with the money he earned, and part of the sponsorship from home.

On weekdays, Kong Si lived alone. The house was in warm colors and the design was very distinctive.

After entering the hallway, Kong Si walked to the door of the second bedroom: “You put your luggage here. I’m not very used to sleeping with others.”

He got married on impulse, but there was obviously a break-in after marriage. Even if Lu Yi looked a lot like him, and it reduced his sense of rejection a little, but it was impossible to accept each other all at once.

Lu nodded: “I see.”

“This house is my pre-marriage house. The loan has not been paid off yet, but my own salary is enough to cover the loan and I don’t need you to repay it. As for daily expenses, you only have 5,000 yuan now, so I’ll use mine first, and wait for you. Once you have found a job, let’s look at setting up a public account.”

The first thing to do in marriage was to shake off the financial situation between the two people. Kong Si first explained: “My salary is not stable. My monthly income is 20k-50k. I am the only child. My dad is University professor, my mother is a doctor, and both are from City B. I am a freelance worker, and I studied interior design at university. Sometimes I am busy, so I don’t often live at home. Personal deposit is about 200,000 yuan at present. After graduating from university, I developed in City S, so the house I bought here has a mortgage of 2 million, and I will repay about 100,000 a year in 20 years. The car is the one you drove today.”

In fact, the family could afford to buy a house in full, but he was too lazy to engage in personal investment. Depending on the value-added investment of the house, this kind of mortgage that could be made as much as possible was an investment in itself.

It was funny to say that this was something that you should know before getting married. Now they were married and only talk about the lines when they meet on a blind date, and they don’t know what kind of fascination he was at the time.

Lu Yi also imitated his own way: “Lu Yi, from D Province A City, my father is a photographer, my mother is a music teacher, and I have a sister who is five years younger than me. The academic situation has been mentioned before, I have nothing much to say, I just terminated the contract with the entertainment company, deposited 5,000 yuan, and have no additional debt. I am currently an unemployed vagrant, without a house or car.”

The original owner was also from an artistic family, and he had been affected by his family’s environment since he was a child, so he embarked on the path of an artist. He clarified his situation so carefully, and found that in terms of the existing conditions, he was actually not suitable for Kong Si.

But Kong Si didn´t care much about it: “Then I will have to ask you for your advice. I’m not a good-tempered person, and I don’t like the obscure things. Although we are married now because of that, if we don’t get along, we will get divorced.”

He looked around: “This will also be your home in the future. What do you need to buy later? I hope that the housework can be shared by two people in the future, ok?”

Although his temper was not good, Kong Si was not the kind of person who was difficult to get along with, and he did not like to take advantage of others. And he though, he was three years older than Lu Yi, and occasionally he had to be a little more tolerant to others.

“Can.”

“That’s it for today, I’m going back to my room to rest now, you are free.”

Kong Si finished speaking, stretched with laziness, walked into the master bedroom, and locked the door with a click.

After closing the door, he did not rest. Instead, he opened the laptop for work and opened the chat software.

He clicked on each group. In the group of three people, his mother reposted a health article five minutes ago: “Eating it at night is equivalent to taking poison, and if you like it, you must give up.” Dad did not know from where he reposted good morning quotes.

Generally speaking, Kong Si didn’t talk much in this group, but after thinking about it, he still took a photo of his marriage certificate with his mobile phone and sent it to the group, and then @Old Man

Maybe because of the meal, he posted for a while, but no one responded. No one complained that he was really crazy after doing such a shocking event. He simply posted a circle of friends and set up a group of high school classmates that were not visible to strangers. He was too lazy to deliberately expose it, but he had a few friends who play well. The group all posted photos.

In addition to the photos of the two marriage certificates placed together, the wedding photos of the two people laughing together after the marriage certificates were spread out were also taken by him and sent out.

Kong Si: I announced that I got married today. Please prepare red envelopes. I paid for your marriage before.

After graduating, the pain of giving red envelopes was simply a pain, and he could take it back now.

Fat fish: This marriage certificate seems to be real, interesting, what software is used? Ask for the name, ask for the link.

Sweet Nanako: ask for name, ask for website

Yao Nana: +1

Fried tomatoes: +10096

The reactions of these people were too different from what he thought. Kong Si typed the line with dissatisfaction. As soon as he was about to send it out, he saw that the V letter icon was also lit.

He clicked on the icon; it was the family group.

Mom: What do you mean, don’t you want to get married?

Mother Kong Si was very sad. She finally accepted that her son liked men, but now that her son was posting this photo, in fact, he didn’t like men, but he just liked himself.

Kong Si suddenly had an urge to vomit blood.

He originally wanted to surprise everyone, but instead he was internally injured: Mom, you can see clearly that the picture is not your son, really not, I just want to tell you that I am married.

Kong Si’s mother didn’t believe it at all, so Kong Si had to get out of the room and looked around in the hall. Without seeing Lu Yi, he went to knock on the bedroom door again.

“Lu Yi, are you inside?”

At this time, Lu Yi was checking the situation of the stock market through related software. He did not have much money now, and the part-time job that relied on low-cost labor in exchange for a meager salary was not suitable for him.

Therefore, as a matter of urgency, he still decided to do his own business. The money in his hand was too small. He planned to observe and explore for a period of time, and then look at borrowing a sum of money from the original owner’s parents as starting capital.

Although Kong Si married him, he couldn’t directly ask people for money. He still waited until he made money and then considered the two people’s joint income for financial management.

Hearing Kong Si’s voice, he responded: “Yes, wait a moment.”

When he was alone, he was used to locking the door.

He opened the door, Kong Si approached him with his mobile phone, and said to him, “Come on, look at the camera, and smile.”

Lu Yi was stunned, and subconsciously showed a standard smile with a forty-five-degree angle from the corner of his mouth.

The new group photo was posted, and a bunch of people were willing to believe that Kong Si was really married. The reason was that Kong Si could not have such a polite smile.

“Okay, go back and rest.”

Kong Si waved his hand and went back into the bedroom.

Lu Yi was still at a loss. He didn’t know what his new wife was doing. After half an hour, the other party knocked on his door again.

Then asked him for a personal account.

Lu Yi reported the mobile phone number bound by the original owner, and then with a ding, his mobile phone reminded him that there was 30,000 yuan in the account.

The transfer record also remarks: remember to check the money for the wedding — Mr. Lu’s husband.

Looking at the words in the remarks, Lu Yi first showed a helpless smile, and couldn’t help but doubt the memory of the original owner—was this Kong Si really the future actor? He must had remembered it wrong.