Chapter One: Unfulfilled Ambition

  Li Ruijin gritted his teeth, and blood almost spurted out. This kind of friendship was as fragile as paper, and it would break at the slightest touch.

  "Yī Yī! You're a worthless woman!" He finally squeezed out these words from between his teeth.

  Liu Yiyi glared back at him in exasperation, the current situation was like two people with a vendetta against each other running into each other, it was impossible to imagine that just an hour ago they were still intimate.

  The phone was taken away by Chen Jialin, who looked at it for a few moments before his eyebrows furrowed together.

  There are some things that don't seem disgusting when you can't see them, but once you see them, they become unbearable.

  He handed his mobile phone to Gong Xuehua "Little Gong, take a look."

  "Don't bother looking." Gong Xuehua shook her head, her eyes glinting like knives as she gazed at Qian Zhong, Li Ruijin, Liu Yiyi, and Bai Qing. Suddenly, she let out a cold laugh. "I, Gong Xuehua, have been in the industry for six years, starting from being an extra serving tea and water. I've seen things like this before. When I was a newcomer trying to make it big, I always thought that once I became famous, who would dare treat me like this? But today, three of you young people actually dared to scheme against me! Not bad, not bad at all! From now on, wherever you go, I'll make sure to 'take care' of you, thoroughly and meticulously."

  Liu Yiyi and Bai Qing both shuddered, and Bai Qing almost wailed like a mourner, "Sister Xuehua, it really has nothing to do with us! We're just small roles! The ideas are all from Qian Zhong and Li Rui's actions! How can our arms twist the thigh?"

  "Sister Xuehua! Have mercy on us!"

  Gong Xuehua was unmoved, pointing at the cosmetics and laughing "There's still these, over 10,000. If you can't take them out before the crew disbands, we'll see each other in court."

  "Xuehua sister!" "Xuehua sister! Forgive us this time, okay?" The two people's wailing voices almost turned the tent into a mourning hall.

  "Do you know now? Why didn't you think of that when you were doing these things?" Yao Chang'an hummed and said to Chen Jialin, "Director Chen, I'm afraid today's play can't be filmed. See how to deal with it."

  Chen Jialin glanced at Xu Ziyao without changing his expression, and the other party was calm and didn't say a word.

  "What should we do?" he said in a low voice "Bai Qing, Liu Yiyi."

  The two of them, who had been crying uncontrollably, suddenly lifted their heads and gazed at Chen Jialin with tearful eyes.

  Chen Jialin suddenly felt a wave of nausea.

  "Pack up your things and get out." He said word by word, "From now on, you are no longer members of the Kangxi troupe."

  The voice was flat, but to the two people's ears, it was like five thunderclaps, and Qian Zhong and Li Ruijin on the side also felt a chill.

  "Director Chen... Director Chen..." Liu Yiyi's lips trembled uncontrollably, although he had expected this outcome, but hearing it personally caused a shock that almost made him collapse mentally.

  Bai Qing was as stiff as a wooden puppet, staring blankly at Chen Jialin like a wooden chicken.

  The two of them were like a well-rehearsed team, their eyes falling on Li Ruijin at the same time.

  They avoided each other's gaze.

  They looked at Qian Zhong again, and Qian Zhong seemed to be staring at two balls of air.

  Finally, their eyes fell on Xu Ziyao, but this time, they averted their gaze themselves.

  "Director Chen... please give us another chance. This time we were confused, dizzy, I guarantee it will never happen again... I apologize to Lin Xiao and Gong sister, compensate them..." Liu Yiyi's voice was no longer angry, trembling... unable to speak properly.

  Bai Qing took out the white handkerchief again, gently wiping away her tears and said in a sobbing voice, "Yes... Director Chen, give us another chance... We've worked so hard for so long too... Oh right! I'll return all the signing fees to Lin Xiao and Gong sister..."

  "In your dreams!" Gong Xuehua finally couldn't help but say, "Even if Lin Xiao wants to let you off, I will absolutely not let the two of you poisonous snakes off!"

  She said coldly, "Our business isn't over yet."

  She was afraid that Chen Jialin would be soft-hearted, but Chen Jialin didn't have a bit of softness in her heart, this idea had never occurred to her. After watching the video, almost all the old actors thought of three words: Get out!

  And it's not just these two, Qian Zhong and Li Ruijin also don't plan on staying!

  "It's useless." Chen Jialin looked at Liu Yiyi and Bai Qing and said, "If I had known it would be like this, why bother in the first place. You're still men after all, if you've done something then dare to take responsibility for it. Get out, now, immediately!"

  He took out his phone and made a call. "Xiao Liao? Yes, it's me, Chen Jialin. Get the contracts for those two makeup artists, Liu Yiyi and Bai Qing, and tell their agency we want to terminate their contracts... Why?! I'll tell you why later..."

  Upon hearing these words, Liu Yiyi and Bai Qing's faces, which had still been somewhat angry earlier, completely fell, just like a dying person who had just thought of a life-saving medicine only to discover that the herb was already extinct.

  Their tear stains had finally dried, and their sobbing had stopped. The entire room was eerily quiet.

  Li Ruijin's heart suddenly became uneasy, because he saw that the gazes of these two people were changing, from desperation and despair to now nakedly wanting revenge and wanting to vent!

  "Li Rui, come on! Qian Zhong!" Before he could even think, Liu Yiyi suddenly shrieked "You two bastards! Didn't you guarantee nothing would happen earlier?! Now why are you not daring to speak up?!"

  He said with a mixture of tears and laughter, "Yes, you are the one the investors want to support, no one will touch you! Let me go out and take the blame!"

  "Yuan Yi, be careful what you say. Who is the investor? This crew belongs to Director Chen, not me." Xu Ziyao suddenly spoke up in a light tone, and this sentence even stunned Yuan Yi.

  Li Ruijin looked at Xu Ziyao in disbelief, he didn't dare to believe that his own younger uncle, although they hadn't met many times, had clearly abandoned him at this time!

  Qian Zhong's face was full of despair, and Xu Ziyao was indeed "completely clueless!", a useless husband! His own cousin dared to say whatever he wanted, let alone him, just a small prop manager?!

  Xu Zi Yao said one sentence, clearing her own stance, and continued watching the play.

  Li Rui swallowed hard, his previous thought that with Xu Ziyao's relationship, Chen Jialin wouldn't dare to do anything to him was slapped in the face by reality.

  Liu Yiyi was stunned for a few seconds, then suddenly burst out laughing wildly "Li Ruijin! Haha! Li Ruijin! Now even Xu Ziyao can't save you! Why aren't you dead yet?! Delaying the filming of the crew! Disrespecting your seniors! Forgetting kindness and betraying righteousness! You're such a despicable person! You still want to climb up? This time, wait for death! Haha!"

  Li Rui's mouth was bitter and he could hardly bear it. Finally, he squeezed out a sentence "Despicable person." and couldn't say anything more.

  "Just now you didn't even say a word to help us! Li Ruijin, I've been fired! You're waiting for death too! Wait till I get out! I must tell the crew outside about this in detail! I've already been fired and I'll make sure your path is cut off too! If we die, we die together!"

  "Are you done being crazy? Get out." Chen Jialin slapped the table, making a loud "slap" sound, interrupting this vivid performance.

  Liu Yiyi and Bai Qing gave everyone a venomous glance, finally fixing their gaze on Li Ruijin and Qian Zhong. Gnashing her teeth, she said "You two bastards, I'm waiting for you!"

  After finishing speaking, they lifted the tent and left.

  The tent came down again.

  After thinking for a while, Chen Jialin said "Li Ruijin, Qian Zhong."

  His eyes glanced at Xu Ziyao.

  "This is Director Chen's crew, of course he has the right to arrange the actors." Xu Ziyao said with a smile.

  Chen Jialin nodded and said, "Li Ruijin, you've finished taking all the shots you needed to take. Take a good rest for the remaining time. Qian Zhong, you don't need to go to Hengdian anymore. I hope President Xu assigns another prop manager."

  "That's no problem." Xu Ziyao nodded.

  Like a thunderclap in his ear, Li Ruijin stared at Chen Jialin in shock. He still had one-third of his scenes left to shoot. Did that mean he wouldn't be appearing again?!

  "No... Director Chen! Director Chen! I... I am being framed!" He said with difficulty, for someone who had hoped to rise to the top in one step, this was more painful than killing him.

  Qian Zhong didn't say a word, this handling was neither light nor heavy. He wasn't on the scene to begin with, and after returning to the company, he naturally had his own connections to take care of things. He glanced at Li Ruijin, sneering in his heart: young people, not deep in their ways, at this critical moment, it's best to keep quiet, the more noise you make, the angrier Chen Jialin will get.

  He couldn't help but smile wryly to himself, thinking that it was better this way. One person taking the fall was always better than two, and if Li Ruijin could just get a bit more crazy, like how Liu Yiyi and the others had performed earlier, then all the attention and anger would be focused on him. By the time he had vented his frustrations, he himself would feel much lighter.

  It has to be said that Li Ruijin did not disappoint him at all.

  He finished that sentence, Chen Jialin just played with the DV in his hand, and didn't respond to his meaning at all. He immediately became anxious.

  "Director Chen, I've already filmed so much of my part and there's just a little left. Can you please let me finish it?" His voice was almost choked with emotion "I...I finally have this opportunity."

  "So you just want to cut off other people's opportunities?" Chen Jialin said coldly, "Not as skilled as others, but always resorting to despicable means. I despise this kind of person the most."

  "I......" Li Rui looked at Chen Jialin in a daze, with millions of words stuck in his throat, yet he couldn't say a single one.

  His gaze suddenly turned to Gao Lan Chun, and he hastily said, "Teacher Gao, you also praised me at the time, saying that I acted well, didn't you? Please help me beg Director Chen to let me finish acting!"

  Gao Lan Chun didn't glance at him sideways, she simply didn't look at him at all.

  "Teacher Yao, we've had a scene together before. You..."

  "Xue Lao..."

  He seemed to have gone a bit crazy, anyone was like his lifeline, but a few minutes later, he found that it was completely useless.

  He felt like a clown performing in front of a crowd without emotions.

  "That's enough, don't make a fool of yourself. After all, you're not a bad actor. I won't reveal this to the newspapers." Chen Jialin interrupted him, "You go out first."

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