LWDC Chapter 15

Chapter 15 – The Attitude of Apology

Ning Fei watched a movie that was over three hours long that evening.

Lights off, projector on, sipping wine, completely immersed in the experience. It wasn’t until he finally emerged from the film’s atmosphere and picked up his phone to open social media that he realized he’d missed a huge spectacle.

#Su Cenxi Faints

#Su Cenxi Annie Same Dress

#Is Su Cenxi Wearing the Original?

#Gu Hechen Su Cenxi Relationship Troubles

“…Huh?” Ning Fei stared at the trending topics, rare confusion on his face.

He clearly finished reading the online discussions about the A brand fashion show in the late afternoon, and then peacefully enjoyed a movie in the evening. In just a few hours, Su Cenxi had managed to create so many trending topics?

Ning Fei patiently clicked through the trending topics, finally understanding the origins of these issues from the longest video.

The video started from the moment Annie and Su Cenxi were taking pictures together, ending when Su Cenxi collapsed on the ground.

After watching, Ning Fei tutted in amazement. He had to admit, Annie, Duan Yunhong, and Ryan’s “three-pronged attack” was truly brilliant, one thing leading to another, each layer escalating. Su Cenxi and Jialing were beaten without any ability to fight back, like boxers who hadn’t recovered from the previous blow, only to be immediately hit by the next. Su Cenxi’s collapse, whether a genuine faint or a feigned one, was truly a last resort.

Ning Fei couldn’t help but start imagining in his mind what he should do if he were in Jia Silin’s position. After calculating over and over, he could only give himself a score of 70-80 points; it would be difficult to perfectly defend against this “triangular attack.”

Ning Fei pressed the phone screen again, pulled the video back a bit, then took a screenshot and sent it: [Director Duan is really powerful.]

Before long, Duan Yunhong replied: [?]

Ning Fei: [I heard you scared Su Cenxi into a faint at the A brand celebration party today.]

Duan Yunhong: [Medical staff at the scene checked him, it should just be low blood sugar, it has nothing to do with me.]

Duan Yunhong: [Has the studio not released a clarification yet? Is it slow efficiency or on purpose?]

Ning Fei: [Who knows? I got fired, don’t ask me.]

Despite what he said, Ning Fei guessed that the studio was most likely doing it on purpose. Since most of the topics on the trending searches were unfavorable to Su Cenxi, it was better to let this “fainted” state last a little longer, to sell pity, and balance out the negative public opinion.

But just balancing it like this, without doing other public relations moves, was a bit strange. The fact that they were wearing the same dress was true, but why hadn’t they released any clarification about being questioned for wearing fake goods and relationship troubles? These two points should be hitting Gu Hechen’s weak points. One was questioning his “money power”, and the other was questioning his “loving husband persona”. How could he turn a blind eye to these rumors? According to his previous style, he should immediately “refute, warn, and send a lawyer’s letter”!

Even if he couldn’t react on the spot, shouldn’t he be mending the fold after it happened?

Ning Fei spent a long time online, making sure that he couldn’t find any more exposés, then took out his main phone and turned it on.

What could be faster than an exposé from the person involved? Nothing. So Ning Fei opened the chat app and went straight to Su Cenxi’s chat box.

Then, he saw content that was even more exciting than the trending topics lining up in a row.

“…Gu Hechen had a car accident?!” Ning Fei’s first reaction was that he might have read too fast and made a mistake, so he carefully read Su Cenxi’s latest message word by word, speaking it out loud, “‘… Achen had a car accident! How could this happen, are you doing something? Are you taking revenge on us?'”

Ning Fei raised his eyebrows and once again exclaimed a loud “Huh?”

Although he did collect some of Su Cenxi’s luck with interest, although the reduced luck would indeed lead to bad luck, and it would get worse and worse, and although this bad luck would indeed be contagious – but logically, it shouldn’t be this fast and this bad!

Ning Fei wasn’t really going to give up on collecting the debt of fate this time, he just wanted to give these two a little lesson, he would never strike them down completely with one blow. He still had to go back and clean up the mess, and leave himself room to maneuver. Moreover, Ning Fei was “regular personnel”, and there was a limit to the luck he could take back. To make these transmigrators have terrible luck in a short period of time, he would have to take away luck that exceeded the scope of Ning Fei’s responsibilities. Such blatant violations would be punished if done. If he didn’t succeed in collecting the debt, and was punished, and wasted the time he spent collecting the debt, wouldn’t that be a triple loss?

Therefore, Gu Hechen’s bloody disaster was definitely not intentionally caused by Ning Fei. Was it just that Gu Hechen happened to be having bad luck at the same time, or was there some other reason?

So Ning Fei sent Su Cenxi a message: [No.]

Su Cenxi’s call came quickly.

Ning Fei, with experience, held the phone away and pressed the call button. This time, it was actually Su Cenxi’s own voice that came from the other end: “Ning Fei, it’s really not you? Then what’s going on with Achen’s car accident? What’s going on with me being robbed of work lately?!”

Ning Fei directly put it on speaker, calmly answering: “Don’t make it sound like I’m the culprit, I’ve been at home the whole time.”

“You know what I’m talking about!” Su Cenxi said anxiously, “Ever since you left, Achen’s company seems to have been having problems, are you really not doing anything?”

Ning Fei didn’t answer directly, but asked: “What exactly happened in the car accident?”

Su Cenxi hesitated for a moment, but still answered: “He heard that I fainted, and drove from the company to see me himself. On the way, I don’t know what happened, he crashed into the green belt and a telephone pole.”

It sounded like it had just happened, no wonder there were no exposés online. Ning Fei continued to ask: “How is he?”

“He’s still in surgery, I only know that his hands and feet are broken, the rest is not very clear…” Su Cenxi replied, “But the doctor said it’s not life-threatening, Achen was still conscious before he went into the operating room.”

Ning Fei commented: “Then it’s not serious.”

Su Cenxi said: “He had a car accident, and it’s not serious? How serious do you want it to be?”

Ning Fei sharply criticized: “Get this straight, it’s because he worked overtime until he was dizzy, drove hastily to see you, and crashed into the green belt himself. He’s an adult, doesn’t he know that ‘he’s primarily responsible for his own health’? Are you blaming me for all this?”

His righteous words left Su Cenxi, who was stuck in a metaphysical quagmire, speechless.

After a long while, Su Cenxi finally regained his voice: “It’s really not you? It’s really not because Achen found that Master to deal with you, so you’re retaliating against us?”

“That Master? Tsk, what can he do to me?” Ning Fei sneered, “But I heard that if this kind of master’s rituals fail, it will backfire, causing the person performing the ritual and the person making the request to suffer. Gu Hechen might just be reaping what he sowed?”

“You’re saying he’s being backlashed…!” Su Cenxi was indeed frightened, and quickly asked his long-standing doubts, “Then what about me? Am I being implicated? Also, will I be seen through by… that kind of master?”

“Who knows, maybe there are experts in this world?” Ning Fei casually replied, “If you’re afraid of being seen through, tell your boyfriend not to provoke those people, what’s the use of just asking me?”

“But it’s already too late, he’s already provoked them, and it’s become like this…” Su Cenxi pleaded, “You must have a way, right? Before, when I was sick and having bad luck, you could solve it quickly, please help us again! I don’t want Achen to continue to have such bad luck, and I don’t want to keep losing work. If I lose work, I’ll get further and further away from the TOP 10, it’s not good for you either, right? Please help me!”

Ning Fei was amused: “Have you forgotten that I was fired by your boyfriend, the studio even issued a statement, and you just want me to turn around and help you? With no title, I’m just supposed to silently go back and be a nice guy? What kind of cheap thing am I?”

Su Cenxi said: “I’ll get the studio to rehire you, you come back and be my manager!”

“How good you are at dreaming. Summon me when you want, dismiss me when you’re done, and expect me to solve a bunch of messes?” Ning Fei scoffed, “Have you forgotten what your boyfriend did to me? What was your attitude at the time? Not even an apology, and you want me to go back? To be honest, if your account is ruined, it’s ruined, I’m just earning less, it’s none of my business whether you live or die.”

“Don’t, don’t give up on me. I told Achen not to fire you, if it really doesn’t work, you and Jia Silin can be my managers together, but he didn’t listen to me.” Su Cenxi quickly explained again, “Also, those messages sent by the marketing accounts later, I told him not to say things like that about you anymore, so there weren’t those topics anymore…”

Ning Fei didn’t respond.

The atmosphere stagnated for several seconds, Su Cenxi couldn’t bear it any longer, and said again: “Then can I apologize to you on his behalf? I’m really sorry, he just wanted to protect me too much…”

When he apologized, his tone was obviously much weaker than before. And these words of apology sounded like actually no one was responsible, everyone was forced to do so. Ning Fei sneered, and exposed him: “Are you apologizing, or are you shirking responsibility? Also, you said you can apologize on his behalf? Why didn’t you act on his behalf when he was making decisions?”

Su Cenxi didn’t know how to answer again.

“If you want to apologize, show sincerity.” Ning Fei leaned against the back of the sofa, tapping his fingers lightly on his legs, slowly saying, “If I don’t see sincerity, it doesn’t matter if we drag this out, it’s not me who’s anxious anyway. Also, I’m not that free, I won’t keep giving you opportunities. If you expect to reach my goal by ‘raising the price’ again and again, I’ll get angry earlier than you think, and give you an education that’s ‘more profound’ to remember. So, don’t play these little tricks.”

Su Cenxi was silent for a long time, and finally said: “I understand. You… no, please let me have a little more time.”

Ning Fei looked at his fingers, the scars on them had completely disappeared: “I said, my time is not unlimited…”

“Three days, within three days, I can definitely do it!” Su Cenxi quickly said, “Can you not turn off your phone for these three days? I just want to be ready to apologize to you immediately.”

Ning Fei finally relented: “Okay.”