TRMP Chapter 101

Chapter 99

The blue-haired boy rolled his eyes subtly, noticing Jiang Yifeng’s lack of reaction.

Jiang Yifeng was standing right in front of him and immediately caught the boy’s expression.

The blue-haired boy seemed certain that Jiang Yifeng wouldn’t lose his temper with him. He greeted Jiang Yifeng before going to the dressing room to change clothes, and his smile was forced when rehearsing with Jiang Yifeng.

After another wasted rehearsal, the blue-haired boy bowed to the staff to apologize, but when he looked at Jiang Yifeng, his eyes were cold and contemptuous again.

“Are you secretly laughing at me? I can only play an ugly character, a male sixth or seventh role, but you get the male lead role…”

The blue-haired boy spoke sarcastically, but the last sentence sounded aggrieved.

Jiang Yifeng looked at the kid. The baby fat on his face hadn’t faded yet, and he was probably only in his teens.

He didn’t bother to argue with a child, and patiently guided him to find the feeling, rehearsing the scene of their first encounter.

The blue-haired boy slowly grasped the essence, gradually became familiar with the character’s feelings, and after three more rehearsals, they finally brought out the emotions of the first encounter.

After the rehearsal, Jiang Yifeng noticed that the blue-haired boy seemed less rebellious than before.

He cautiously glanced at Jiang Yifeng, and immediately looked away when Jiang Yifeng looked over.

Jiang Yifeng ignored him and was about to leave when he heard a “thank you” beside him.

Jiang Yifeng’s tongue pressed against his teeth. He hesitated for a moment, but finally turned his head and asked a very pointed question, “What… what’s your name again?”

He always felt it was impolite to call him “little blue hair” in his heart, but as soon as he opened his mouth, the blue-haired boy immediately turned around and left in anger, shouting loudly before leaving, “Qi Leya, my name is Qi Leya!” in an angry tone.

Jiang Yifeng thought the kid was weird.

He waited until he rehearsed with Guan Shaodong before asking about Qi Leya. Guan Shaodong raised his eyebrows and looked at Jiang Yifeng, “You don’t know the gossip from your own company, and you’re asking me?”

“…I haven’t been on good terms with the company lately.”

“No wonder. I saw your company issue an apology some time ago, and I thought you guys had reconciled.” Guan Shaodong glanced at Qi Leya’s back and said to Jiang Yifeng in a low voice, “He had a falling out with the boss of Xinghai Entertainment. The boss was furious. Jin Xin privately tried to get him to apologize, but Qi Leya refused. The male lead role that was originally set for him was gone, so he used his agent’s connections to get into our group as the male sixth.”

Qi Leya had played the male lead in several dramas before, although the dramas weren’t successful. But going from male lead to male sixth, his mentality was inevitably unbalanced.

But even so, Qi Leya didn’t dare to continue messing with the boss of Xinghai Entertainment.

Guan Shaodong didn’t understand why, but Jiang Yifeng knew a little.

It was probably related to what happened that night…

Jiang Yifeng frowned.

“Aren’t you going to comment?” Guan Shaodong bumped Jiang Yifeng’s arm and asked with a smile. “Young master, I’ve been giving you so much inside information, at least give me some reaction.”

“Yeah, I praise you, you’re really amazing.” Jiang Yifeng patted Guan Shaodong’s shoulder hard, “Keep it up. When you don’t act anymore, you can make a fortune just by selling industry news.”

“…” Guan Shaodong felt that Jiang Yifeng’s praise was strange.

But he didn’t take it to heart and continued to focus on filming.

Qi Leya had a falling out with Jiang Yifeng on the first day, but on the second day he ran to Jiang Yifeng’s side, holding his script and asking him, “Do you want to explain the scenes for me?”

Jiang Yifeng looked at Qi Leya’s hair, which was temporarily dyed black, and nodded.

–The landmark architecture is gone, what a pity.

–Luckily, I asked for his name yesterday.

Qi Leya seemed to have put aside his prejudice and was very serious when asking Jiang Yifeng for advice.

His acting foundation was very poor, and each scene had to be rehearsed for a long time before he could perfectly present the character. Qi Leya’s role wasn’t big, but he was the turning point where Jiang Yifeng’s great villain went from prosperity to decline.

“You can’t be too calm in this scene… He’s killing someone for the first time, he’s very flustered, but after the person stops moving, he wants to vent his anger, so he has to stab him continuously, both painfully and happily…”

Jiang Yifeng demonstrated a few times for Qi Leya, and when he saw that Qi Leya’s emotions were still not in the right place, he tried to help him find the feeling.

“Someone you hate very much, you impulsively want to kill him, what would you do?”

Qi Leya didn’t give him any face and said very disdainfully, “Then I would definitely slash him a few more times, directly with one knife…”

Jiang Yifeng: “…”

Jiang Yifeng thought about how the little devil grabbed his clothes in the hotel, crying pitifully and saying he wanted to hide, and only felt that the child was dishonest.

“Impossible, the first thing a normal person thinks of is panic. Killing someone, seeing blood, the first reaction is to feel flustered, scared. After the person stops moving, what’s done is done. Stabbing him hard while being scared is normal.” Jiang Yifeng demonstrated for him, and Qi Leya reluctantly nodded.

He glanced at Jiang Yifeng’s expression and suddenly asked fiercely, “Were you thinking about what happened at the hotel that day just now when you weren’t talking?”

Jiang Yifeng looked at Qi Leya expressionlessly and said very sincerely, “No.”

Qi Leya rolled his eyes, obviously not believing it, but couldn’t refute anything. He just lowered his voice and said to Jiang Yifeng, “It’s not that I’m chickening out, it’s that I can’t win. Don’t think I’m no good, people of Gu Miao’s caliber are no good either.”

Hearing the name Gu Miao from Qi Leya’s mouth again, Jiang Yifeng only felt surprised.

Logically speaking, Gu Miao shouldn’t care about a kid like Qi Leya who relied on a sugar daddy to climb up and hadn’t made a name for himself after filming several dramas, but Qi Leya acted like he was very familiar with Gu Miao.

“Haven’t Gu Miao and Xinghai Entertainment already become partners?” Jiang Yifeng asked tentatively.

“They are partners, because before it wasn’t just cooperation… Before, Gu Miao and my, that, the boss of Xinghai Entertainment, were a couple. He also climbed up by being someone’s sugar baby. That’s how he managed to snatch your role.” Qi Leya raised his eyebrows, looking gloating, but when he saw Jiang Yifeng’s calm expression, he felt bored and continued with a cold snort.

“Later, Gu Miao seemed to have taken it to heart and actually started a relationship with my boss, but he was dumped. They’ve been entangled until now, and they even had a fight some time ago.” Qi Leya seemed to feel relieved. Jiang Yifeng could understand why Gu Miao resented him.

He folded his arms, not interested in the love affairs between Gu Miao and that boss, but interested in why Gu Miao couldn’t win against the boss of Xinghai Entertainment.

“Why can’t Gu Miao win?” Jiang Yifeng asked casually.

Qi Leya seemed to quiet down instantly. His eyes flickered, and after a long time, he looked around to make sure that no one was nearby before lowering his voice and whispering, “Because of that drug, the drug I took that day.”

Jiang Yifeng’s expression changed.

“I heard him arguing with Gu Miao that day, and then Gu Miao slammed the door and left. I pretended to have just arrived and he fed me the drug.” Qi Leya’s fingers curled up. “I heard Gu Miao scolding him, saying he shouldn’t use that drug and photos to control the kids under him, it should be artists.”

Jiang Yifeng’s eyes stared straight at Qi Leya. Qi Leya also panicked and immediately raised his fingers seriously and said, “I really didn’t lie. The more I thought about it when I got back, the more scared I became, and I didn’t dare to go there again.”

The people under Gu Miao, whether they were artists or assistants, were all nominally under Xinghai Entertainment.

He dared to casually mess with people from his own company, so it would be even easier to target Qi Leya from Ocean Media–a few photos would be enough to make Qi Leya obediently do anything.

Gu Miao probably didn’t approve of the other party’s behavior, but there was no way to make a big deal out of this kind of thing.

Such a serious accident occurred in the same company, and Gu Miao had an ambiguous relationship with the boss. No matter how he clarified, he couldn’t possibly make the public believe him.

And even if the artists in his company hadn’t been affected, they would be scrutinized as victims, and neither the young boys nor the young girls who were promoted in the entertainment industry could be stained with such a persona.

Once they were touched, their careers would be ruined for life.

So no insiders would come forward, and no victims would come forward.

Jiang Yifeng’s brow was furrowed, and his face looked bad. Qi Leya didn’t dare to say anything.

He saw that Jiang Yifeng seemed to really care and couldn’t help but comfort him, “It’s okay, I won’t contact him again in the future.”

Jiang Yifeng: “?”

Jiang Yifeng looked at Qi Leya and asked in a speechless tone, “You think I care about you?”

Qi Leya’s eyes widened.

The next second, he hugged his script and turned around angrily, leaving the set and sitting on a chair on the side, staring at the script and reading it desperately.

Jiang Yifeng rubbed his head hard with his hands.

He wanted to find someone to tell his shock, but after thinking about it, he didn’t know who to tell.

It seemed that only Xie Jingshen could listen to him say these things. Even if he leaked even a tiny bit to others… Moreover, Jiang Yifeng wasn’t sure if what Qi Leya heard was true. After all, hearing is believing, and he was just someone who heard third-hand information.

He seemed absent-minded when acting in the afternoon.

Guan Shaodong came over and stared at Jiang Yifeng suspiciously, “What’s wrong, you look distracted? That scene in the afternoon, NG eight times? Teacher Jiang?”

Jiang Yifeng pursed his lips and hesitated. He pulled Guan Shaodong to a quiet place and asked in a low voice, “If a criminal case occurs in the entertainment industry, can it be reported through your brother’s hands?”

Guan Shaodong was silent for a moment, then slowly shook his head, “The industry consensus is that unless the police catch them first, entertainment reporters can report it. Otherwise, they can’t sell the news in advance, or they will definitely not be able to survive in the future.”

Jiang Yifeng’s hand rested on his knee, and his expression was a little disappointed.

Guan Shaodong touched Jiang Yifeng’s arm, “What criminal case?”

“For example, sexual bribery?” Jiang Yifeng changed to a euphemistic term, but Guan Shaodong smiled helplessly, “If the target of your sexual bribery is a director, producer, or actor investor, then forget it… First of all, you have to determine whether it is voluntary, but in our circle, they would rather get married directly to the perpetrator after being discovered than say they are involuntary in court.”

There were too many sexual transactions in the entertainment industry, so many that Guan Shaodong could know several every day.

With just such a small matter, if the entertainment news had no principles, it could broadcast different reports every day of the year.

“But if it’s really a criminal case, we can investigate it, have evidence, and report it anonymously.” Guan Shaodong smiled. “Is there?”

“Not yet.”

“Okay, you have to call me when you investigate.”