Chapter 161 - BLAIR FLEMING

“WHO was it?” Lauren asked his assistant.

His assistant quickly understood what his boss was referring to.  “It’s young master Fleming.”

The annoyance on Lauren’s face became even more prominent after hearing that.  “You mean that obnoxious ‘I’m the best’ Blair?” 

The assistant nodded. 

Lauren’s feeling of wanting to beat someone just intensified when it was confirmed that it was Blair Fleming who’s messing with Astrid.  If it was that guy, then he’s now 100% certain that this situation escalated into this because of him.  Especially if the other saw his assistant and thought that Astrid was connected to him in some way.

That guy, for some reason, thought of him as a thorn in his eyes.  Whenever they met, he would be very hostile.  As if trying to make a rise out of him.  So, the two of them could duke it out.  But Lauren never really reacted in the way the other wanted.  He often just brushed him off.  Even though he really just wanted to raise his fist and punch the other.

He always stopped himself from doing so.  Because if he did, his agent would definitely nag him to the point that he would wish that he never ever punched that guy in the first place.  As much as possible, Chris didn’t want him to entangle with Blair because of the other’s identity. 

Yes, Blair Fleming was the president’s younger brother.  Polaris signed him almost at the same time as Lauren.  Their relationship could be said to be ‘alright’ at the beginning.  But when Lauren started to get more and more jobs and Blair just remained at the point where they both started, the other started became hostile to him.

He understood that Blair was probably just frustrated.  He couldn’t move from where he was not because he was lacking in ability but because his own brother was suppressing his development. 

He once asked Chris why the president was doing that.  The only reason he could think of was because the family was against Blair being in the entertainment industry.  After all, the Flemings were still a noble family.  But according to his agent, it’s mostly because of the other’s temper. 

During the first year of their debut, Blair was the one who got a filming gig first.  He starred as a male third in a romance movie.  That was already good for a newcomer.  Although his performance in the movie was flawless, his attitude behind-the-scene wasn’t exactly as perfect.

A video of him being rude to the female lead spread after the movie was released.  In the video, he was scolding the female lead, telling her that instead of flirting with all males in the cast, she should learn to act first because her acting sucks.  Some find that video funny.  But most disagreed with Blair’s behavior.  Especially the fans of that female lead.

If not for Polaris’ quick PR, Blair’s acting career might have ended right there and then.  But it didn’t stop there.  When incident like that happened again for the second and third time, the president just had it and decided to take matters into his own hands.  And his solution?  Not let his younger brother appear in any commercial films and just let him shoot literary films.

Literary films were different from commercial films in a way that the former care more about the awards it would get rather than the box office.  Because they were often long, tackled dark topics, and not very entertaining.  That’s why it’s not very popular among the masses.  Letting Blair act on those type of films would keep him away from the prying eyes of the public and at the same time still give him room for growth.

But reality often does not follow one’s expectation. 

Blair’s first literary film ended in disaster.  This time, the one he offended was the director.  After that, the president seemed to have given up and made an ultimatum.  As long as Blair wasn’t able to control his explosive temper, then the president would continue to be a deterrent in his career.   

That’s why in these past years, Blair’s acting career had remained stagnant.  A huge contrast to Lauren’s.  He couldn’t help but feel that that was the reason why the other had always been targeting him.  And because of the fact that despite all the ‘scandals’ he was in, all he got was a mere slap on the wrist.

If he was in his position, he’d be angry at himself too.  That’s why whenever the other was being confrontational, he just chose to be the bigger person and looked the other way around. 

But this was taking it way too far.  There’s no reason for Blair to attack someone just because that person was being toured around by his assistant.  He stopped, as if realizing something.  Unless, of course, that guy thought Astrid was actually his new ‘fling’.

He became even more annoyed thinking of that possibility.  But why would he think that Astrid was a ‘fling’?  Andreas was also with them.  Wasn’t it possible for Andreas to be his ‘fling’? 

And he almost slapped himself at that last thought.  What the heck?  Was he really going crazy?  He shook his head.  [Stop thinking about useless things, you stupid Lauren!] – he scolded himself.

Then the voice of the person he was just thinking suddenly spoke.

“Excuse me, but who is this Blair Fleming?” Reas asked, looking at the reaction of the assistant and Lauren, the other seemed to have some kind of special identity.

Lauren refused to look Andreas because he still hadn’t recovered from his gaffe just now.  So, he just let someone else answered him.

“He’s the younger brother of the president,” Chris said with a helpless tone.  He actually didn’t expect that the one who was making ‘trouble’ with Astrid was Blair.  Now this just got a little bit more complicated.

Reas narrowed his eyes when he heard that answer.  By this ‘president’, he didn’t need to ask to know that the agent guy was referring to this company’s president.  So, he had to ask;

“Will he side with that brother of his even though the other one was the one who started this shit?”