LWDC Chapter 17

Chapter 17 – Dogeza

Chapter 17 – Dogeza

Chapter 17 – Dogeza

“What… don’t kneel!”

Gu Hechen couldn’t see what was happening outside the camera’s view, but he heard Su Cenxi’s words and immediately shouted to stop him. However, he was too late. As his voice fell, Su Cenxi had already knelt on the ground.

Ning Fei’s ears were assaulted by the sudden shout, and with a disgusted expression, he pulled away the phone and flipped the camera.

The scene of Su Cenxi kneeling in the entrance hall was abruptly presented before Gu Hechen.

“Cenxi, get up! Don’t kneel!” Gu Hechen couldn’t remain calm after seeing this scene with his own eyes. Gripping the phone, his eyes were about to burst. “Get up quickly! What kind of apology is this? Don’t apologize to that person like this!!!”

“Achen, don’t say anymore!” Su Cenxi rarely shouted back at his CEO boyfriend. “We agreed to come and apologize, but you’ve ruined everything I did earlier with just a few words. Don’t speak! You’ll ruin everything!”

His emotions were also running high. He had made many preparations and mustered his courage to visit, all to get Ning Fei’s forgiveness and have Ning Fei help him again. But Gu Hechen had previously said he was “willing to cooperate with the apology,” and now he was irritating Ning Fei again with just a few words. Su Cenxi’s feelings of grievance kept surging, and he felt that Gu Hechen wasn’t truly thinking of him.

If it weren’t for Gu Hechen’s attitude, how would he have been forced to kneel down and apologize to Ning Fei?

He had already knelt down, but Gu Hechen was still just getting angry. Wouldn’t the meaning of his kneeling be greatly diminished?

“No matter what, you shouldn’t kneel to him! What is he? Why are you kneeling to him?!” Gu Hechen didn’t understand the true meaning of Su Cenxi’s words, or perhaps he was consumed by anger and didn’t intend to think carefully. He simply changed the subject and continued to shout loudly, “Ning Fei, are you just going to insult Cenxi like this? What’s the matter, come at me if you have a problem, what’s the point of bullying Cenxi? People like you just bully the weak and fear the strong! I’m warning you, don’t think you’re having a good time these days, it’s not like I can’t do anything to you…”

Su Cenxi couldn’t listen anymore and stood up to snatch the phone back. However, Ning Fei stepped back and raised his hand, dodging his grab and sneering, “He says I’m bullying you and insulting you, so I wouldn’t dare turn off the video. Otherwise, if something really happens to you, CEO Gu will solve the case online and punish me with private justice, I’d be too wronged.”

“You’re not bullying me, I’m willing, I’m willing!” Su Cenxi, hearing Gu Hechen still constantly scolding and cursing in the video, simply knelt back down and started apologizing directly, raising his voice so that his voice wouldn’t be drowned out, “Ning Fei, I apologize to you! I was wrong, I was really wrong, I will never listen to others and resist you again. Whatever you want me to do, I will do it, I must get to the TOP 10! Please forgive me!”

Gu Hechen became even more enraged, and blurted out his boyfriend’s full name, “Su Cenxi, are you crazy? He tells you to do whatever you do, if he tells you to kill and set fire, would you do it? You’re still saying you’re not being controlled by him!”

Ning Fei, in order to protect his hearing, finally lowered the volume of this insane man, then looked at the kneeling youth, “I tell you to do whatever you do, but what if Gu Hechen doesn’t let you? What if he takes you away directly and doesn’t let you work? What if he makes everyone in the office oppose me and not cooperate with my work, and also stops you, what do you do?”

Classic either/or choice.

In the past, Su Cenxi would definitely try to smooth things over when faced with this question. He didn’t want to disappoint his boyfriend, nor did he want to offend Ning Fei. So he would apologize and please the other side while complying with one side, trying to balance the relationship between the two.

But now he couldn’t blur the answer anymore.

Listening to Gu Hechen’s curses, which had been lowered in volume but were still very clear, and looking at Ning Fei’s cold gaze, Su Cenxi’s expression gradually became firm, and he slowly opened his mouth, “If the studio stops me, then I won’t be in this studio anymore. If Gu Hechen stops me, I… I’ll break up with him.”

Hearing this, even Ning Fei raised an eyebrow in surprise.

“Su Cenxi, you want to break up with me?!” Gu Hechen felt even more incredulous, his tone was extremely surprised, “You’re going to break up with me just to apologize to a manager?! You’re following him to get into the top 10, what top 10 can you get into without me!”

As soon as these last words fell, Ning Fei knew that Su Cenxi was going to explode. Sure enough, Su Cenxi couldn’t help it and immediately argued with Gu Hechen on the phone, “Gu Hechen, what do you mean, I can’t get into the TOP 10 without you? When my career was at its best, you were the one who told me not to work so hard and to be an entertainer to relax. Without you, I might have already entered the TOP 10!”

“Also, you always say that my career only needs you, but do you know how many jobs I’ve lost recently? Have you cared? You’ve been so busy lately that you have very little time to talk to me, and as soon as I talk to you, you promise me this endorsement, that endorsement. The B brand endorsement has already been taken away, do you know? And before, when Ning Fei was around, if he hadn’t taken the initiative to find channels for exchange, you wouldn’t have been able to give me any fashion resources…”

The more he spoke, the more excited he became, the more he spoke, the more incoherent he became, as if he wanted to pour out all the grievances he had suffered recently. Ning Fei saw Gu Hechen’s face on the phone, pale, panting heavily, as if he was about to faint on the bed at any moment. But faced with Su Cenxi’s Talking endlessly accusations, Gu Hechen, who was good at arguing and accusing, didn’t say a word. He seemed to have suddenly lost his ability to speak, just staring at his boyfriend kneeling on the ground and accusing him, stunned, angry, and overwhelmed.

He hasn’t hung up the phone even now, Ning Fei is starting to believe that he truly loves Su Cenxi.

Su Cenxi’s voice already had a clear sob at the end. He also raised his hand and wiped away his tears forcefully, hatingly saying, “I know you think it’s embarrassing to come and apologize, so can you not hinder what I want to do? I never ask about your work, I go to whatever business banquets you ask me to go to, I cooperate with you, so can’t you support my career? I’ll find a way for my own work, can’t you just cooperate a little?”

“I just want to be in the TOP 10, and now I just want to ask Ning Fei to come back and help me, can’t you even agree to this!”

Ning Fei: … This sentence pattern sounds a bit familiar.

–Isn’t this the way I used to teach Su Cenxi to persuade Gu Hechen?

Before, Su Cenxi couldn’t remember to use it himself, and when he did, it was very forced, like a pile of mud that couldn’t be plastered on the wall. Now he can switch to this mode so smoothly, Ning Fei can’t help but sigh, people really have to suffer before they grow up.

And Gu Hechen on the screen became even more silent.

His anger had dissipated a lot, although he still had a cold face, at least he no longer had the fierce expression of “sending a hundred bodyguards to your house in the next second.” Ning Fei saw that neither of them was speaking, and finally slowly opened his mouth, “You two, can you not play your Air-to-air training game with me? I don’t want to be a part of your play.”

Su Cenxi was suddenly startled, “I’m not…”

“Most of the words you said while kneeling were to Gu Hechen, and the tears you cried were also provoked by Gu Hechen, are you still saying you’re not?” Ning Fei said, “Or do you want to go home and continue playing?”

“I really didn’t mean that!” Su Cenxi immediately adjusted his posture and lowered his head to Ning Fei again, “I sincerely came to apologize to you, no matter what others say, I am willing to fully cooperate with you in the future. Please help me, I want to be in the TOP 10!”

Ning Fei glanced at Gu Hechen in the phone again.

This time, the man couldn’t say any rebutting words, he could only stare at his boyfriend kneeling, begging others in an almost pleading voice. His arrogant aura had been extinguished by Su Cenxi himself, but for Ning Fei, this was not enough.

So Ning Fei lowered his eyes and looked at Su Cenxi, his voice indifferent, “How do I know if you’ll still be this attitude after you leave this door? How are you going to explain it to your boyfriend when you go back? If he still doesn’t agree with your statement here today, what will you do?”

“I think there’s nothing to explain anymore.” Su Cenxi’s emotions had also calmed down at this time, he lowered his head and replied with some unclear meaning, “Anyway, he’s seen the whole thing, if he agrees, we’ll continue, if he doesn’t agree then…”

He didn’t say what would happen if he didn’t agree, but judging from the previous argument, there was only one result.

“…No need to force him to express his opinion.” It was Gu Hechen who answered, his tone also sinking down, “Ning Fei, I think your main purpose is not to get my apology. I’ll give you a promise, from now on, I will no longer interfere with Cenxi’s work. Whatever resources you want to change for him, as long as it doesn’t violate the law or harm Gu’s interests, I can cooperate. And the compensation I mentioned earlier is still valid, you can continue to bring up any conditions.”

Ning Fei didn’t immediately say whether he agreed or not, he only said, “Finally learned to speak human language, CEO Gu, that’s really rare.”

“No need to try to anger me again, I mean what I say.” Although Gu Hechen’s face was not good, he still maintained restraint in his attitude, “Gasilin will be kicked out, and the people in the studio will also be warned, they will all cooperate with your work arrangements. I will give you the dry shares of this studio, as long as you don’t harm Su Cenxi, you are the actual controller of this studio.”

Such preferential treatment represents that the high and mighty Gu Hechen has finally made concessions for Su Cenxi.

But Ning Fei still remained noncommittal and continued to ask, “But CEO Gu, what about the matter of finding someone to Swallow me blood earlier?”

“…This was my recklessness and arbitrariness, I apologize to you.” Gu Hechen actually followed up, “I was originally going to talk to this Master Xu again, but it’s really inconvenient recently. If it’s handled later, I’ll have someone notify you.”

Ning Fei raised his eyebrows, “What if he comes to find trouble with me again?”

Gu Hechen: “It won’t happen.”

Ning Fei: “Don’t let these Pretend to be a ghost things come to provoke me again, and don’t let Su Cenxi get involved in these things either.”

Su Cenxi’s heart thumped, realizing that Ning Fei was helping him stay away from accidents caused by metaphysics.

Ning Fei is definitely going to return! After understanding this, Su Cenxi secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Gu Hechen didn’t think much about it and directly replied, “Okay. We wouldn’t get involved in this kind of thing anyway.”

Ning Fei finally felt that it was almost enough. Gu Hechen might still be unconvinced in his heart, but he had already made concessions to this point on the surface, which basically achieved Ning Fei’s goal. Ning Fei didn’t want to spend his mind on Gu Hechen, he just wanted to restrain him.

So Ning Fei took out a bottle of red wine that Su Cenxi had brought and threw it on the shoe cabinet, “You open this, and I’ll forgive you.”

Su Cenxi’s eyes lit up and he immediately stood up, stumbling because he had been kneeling for too long, and hurriedly grabbed the shoe cabinet to steady himself, “Okay!”