TLSOTMTKOGAYWHTDI Chapter 19
by VolareChapter 19: The Truth of the Award That Year
Filming ended, and Qi Yanwang dusted off the ash from his motorcycle leather pants with his gloves and walked toward this way.
Zhuo Huaimo’s phone suddenly vibrated, and a text message from Yu Feng Ran popped up,
“Li Jian is waiting for you in the office, when are you coming back?”
Li Jian, Qi Yanwang’s first agent’s boss. Looks like the flowery arm man delivered the message.
Zhuo Huaimo looked up at Qi Yanwang, “I have to go back to the company first!”
Qi Yanwang glanced at Che Ye, who had come to visit the set, and turned to Zhuo Huaimo,
“Okay, you go first, I’ll change clothes and go back with Che Ye directly!”
Zhuo Huaimo, “…”
“What an ungrateful person, went to clean up his mess, and actually told me to leave first, without even asking.”
Zhuo Huaimo muttered alone in the car, stepping on the gas pedal all the way to Xingyue Media.
Li Jian was sitting in the conference room with his legs crossed, waiting. As soon as Zhuo Huaimo came in, he immediately took his legs off the desk, still unable to hide that annoying ruffian air.
How did he ever sign a contract with this kind of person in the first place?
Zhuo Huaimo once again questioned Qi Yanwang’s judgment of people.
“Yo, President Zhuo, long time no see!”
Li Jian had a toothpick in his mouth and greeted him with a shameless face.
He lived up to his name, indeed, quite cheap!
Zhuo Huaimo bypassed his hand and went straight to sit opposite him, getting straight to the point.
“Did you bring the IOU?”
Li Jian quickly took out the IOU from his pocket, “President Zhuo, please take a look!”
But his hand firmly pressed down on the IOU, his eyes flashing with greedy light.
Zhuo Huaimo glanced at him, his narrow eyes half-closed.
“President Zhuo, this money…”
Li Jian said, making a counting money gesture with his other hand.
Zhuo Huaimo leaned back, “It seems you haven’t figured out the situation, today, you are the one giving me the IOU, not me giving you money!”
He leaned against the back of the chair, speaking calmly.
Li Jian instantly became anxious, “No, President Zhuo, there’s no reason to take the IOU directly without taking the money, right?”
He suddenly felt that the man in front of him was even more of a rogue than he was, clearly he could just rob him, but he was still going through the motions.
Zhuo Huaimo smiled, “President Li, you should know better than anyone how this IOU came about. Not to mention a few years ago, even now, Qi Yanwang’s value is not worth this penalty.”
He slowly stood up and continued, “Moreover, all the money he’s earned over the years has gone to you, right? As far as I know, this money didn’t go into your company’s account, but into your personal pocket. What do you think would happen if your company’s shareholders found out…?”
“President Zhuo, let’s talk nicely!”
Li Jian still insisted, “We can discuss the amount, Qi Yanwang was indeed our company’s artist before, he terminated the contract, so he has to pay some penalty, right!”
Zhuo Huaimo tapped the desk with his slender fingers, offering him a cigarette.
Li Jian took the cigarette with a wary look, pondering the other’s thoughts.
Zhuo Huaimo raised his chin at him, signaling him to light it.
Offering a cigarette, mostly means there’s room for negotiation.
Li Jian’s momentum in lighting the cigarette instantly increased.
Zhuo Huaimo also handed him a document.
Li Jian opened it and his face turned pale instantly. It was the three million he lost to the Wang family’s second young master at the casino in Macau last month, using the artist contract as collateral. He never expected that this contract would end up in Zhuo Huaimo’s hands.
Once this kind of thing gets out, he not only won’t be able to survive in this circle, but he might even face a lawsuit.
Li Jian was so frightened that the cigarette in his hand fell onto his body, making him jump up and down in pain.
“Zhuo Huaimo! I don’t know why you want to sign Qi Yanwang, but you better not go too far!”
Zhuo Huaimo tilted his head slightly, raising an eyebrow at him, “Or what?”
Li Jian was so angry that his face was pale, and the hand pointing at Zhuo Huaimo was trembling.
“Consider yourself lucky, we’ll see!”
Having said that, he threw down the IOU, turned around and was about to leave.
“Wait!”
Zhuo Huaimo’s cold voice sounded again from behind, “Return every penny Qi Yanwang earned in the past two years!”
“You!”
Li Jian slammed the table in anger, his face livid.
After a while, he suddenly laughed, mockingly, “Zhuo Huaimo, one day, you will regret it! Do you think Qi Yanwang will be grateful to you for doing this? It’s all your fault that he owed five million when he left Fei Huang!”
“What are you talking about?”
Zhuo Huaimo frowned at him, and finally there was anger on his calm face.
“Now you’re pretending to be a good person, pretending to be noble. While you were living a successful life, he was living worse than a rat in the gutter.” Li Jian wildly provoked him.
“You better explain to me what’s going on!” Zhuo Huaimo grabbed his collar and asked sternly.
“Zhuo Huaimo, what do you think your Grand Slam three years ago came from? It was the organizers who wanted to create momentum and made a gimmick, replacing Qi Yanwang’s Best Newcomer Award with you. What’s even more ironic is that you actually signed him now, be careful, you’re raising a tiger to invite calamity!”
Zhuo Huaimo stared into Li Jian’s eyes, recalling Qi Yanwang’s expression when he saw the Most Promising Newcomer at his house, and what he said.
He knew that Li Jian wasn’t lying to him, nor did he have the guts to lie to him.
He took a deep breath, slowly let go of him, and wiped his hands on the other person’s body meticulously,
“That’s good, in your company, you can’t even protect a worthless award. In my hands, that trophy doesn’t deserve him, he can do without it!”
Zhuo Huaimo turned around and returned to the table, tilting a cigarette out of the pack, “By the way, remember to transfer the money to his account within three days, or the consequences… you know!”
Li Jian cursed, gnashing his teeth, “Zhuo Huaimo, don’t be too proud, one day, you will regret it!”
After Li Jian left, Zhuo Huaimo sat back in the chair, the hand holding the cigarette trembling uncontrollably.
So, that trophy was his, no wonder he looked at it with such complicated eyes at the time, but he said those bastard words, wasn’t he stabbing him in the chest?
Zhuo Huaimo was not a person who could hide things, and he didn’t want there to be a gap between them before they even started, so he immediately picked up the phone to call Qi Yanwang.
But this guy…
Just received the remuneration from the previous film crew, and was taking Che Ye out for a “big meal”!
A self-service barbecue on Huaihe West Road, 69 yuan per person!
Che Ye’s eyes were almost rolling to the sky, “Qi Yanwang, I said, can you be a bit more ambitious, is this what you call taking me out for a big meal?”
“This place is great, you can eat as much meat as you want. Next time, bring Sister Chai along, the three of us will definitely get our money’s worth!”
Che Ye was completely speechless. He used to think this guy was okay, but now he wondered what Zhuo Huaimo saw in him.
“You eat first, I’ll go get some more meat!”
Qi Yanwang got up to get food, and Zhuo Huaimo’s call happened to come in at this moment.
Che Ye looked at the words “Zhuo Huaimo” flashing on the screen and answered the phone directly…