Chapter 118

  It wasn't until much later that Li Jin couldn't figure out why he didn't break up with Luo Fei.

  He silently put Lu Fei's phone back and then used his own accumulated connections to investigate the source of those anonymous text messages.

  Shu Mu's glance made him no longer dare to trust his own judgment.

  He thought, if Shu Mu could even kill someone like him back then, what was the point of his so-called persistence?

  Luo Fei's phone was accidentally knocked into his hand by his assistant on the second morning, and although he rushed to rescue it, the circuit board got wet and was completely scrapped. Li Jin took advantage of the situation to replace him with a new phone and a new number, and those annoying text messages stopped coming in. At the same time, Li Jin also came up with some other trivial things to distract his attention, and one person's energy is limited, with more important things on his mind than this matter, so that photo didn't seem like anything anymore.

  If everyone knew why Lu Fei was so powerful that even the gods couldn't stop him, then Li Jin would be too incompetent to handle him.

  Out of sight, out of mind. Li Jin discovered that as long as he didn't see those text messages, Luo Fei was a diligent and studious good kid. Although he was a bit too straightforward, he still had his wits about him, and Ren Ji Lin was also very skilled at acting. By the next evening, he had successfully turned around the impression of the entire crew - of course, Li Jin thought afterwards that it probably also had something to do with her own threat to take him home and tell him not to mix in anymore if he didn't behave himself.

  The two-day appointment with the deputy director was successfully completed.

  That night after work, Li Jin invited the crew to have a midnight snack at Chongqing hot pot outside the film and television city in the name of Luo Fei. During the meal, he received a call, and the person on the other end of the phone lowered his voice and told him that the owner of the anonymous call was not registered, and the card seller had been found, it was a roadside stall.

  And the source of this phone call, Luo Fei is also investigating, and he started investigating much earlier than him.

  Li Jing hung up the phone and coldly smiled at Lu Fei's red face in the wine shop.

  Raising and raising, raised a white-eyed wolf.

  He knew that if he didn't find the person who was secretly manipulating things behind his back, this matter would not be settled. But in his heart, something was off, and every time he thought about it, he felt extremely tired, as if there were two little people living inside him, one urging him to do his duty and help Luo Fei clear away the hidden obstacles, while the other kept mocking him for pouring his heart out for someone who not only hid their love from him but also didn't tell him when something like this happened.

  He had thought countless times of strangling that mocking little man, telling himself not to be influenced by Shu Mu's words with ulterior motives. Luo Fei was just being a bit too clever for his own good and still had a chance to turn things around.

  Couldn't bring himself to do it.

  Li Jin stopped the car by the side of the road, and as he pushed open the door, a blast of cold air rushed in through his open collar. He pulled his coat tightly around him and looked up.

  Among the towering skyscrapers that pierced the clouds, the sky was cut into a chessboard like a game of Go, orderly yet... beyond one's control.

  He smiled self-deprecatingly and turned around, but a kind smile had already appeared on his lips.

  Pushing open the door of the Cantonese restaurant, Li Jin hadn't even told the waiter where to sit when a loud shout came from above.

  "Li Jin!"

  Li Jin raised his head, and Tim poked his head out from behind a bamboo screen on the second floor, beckoning to him.

  "Come on up here."

  After the longevity celebration, Li Jin had intermittent contact with Tim. Firstly, this was Mu Lao's most favored grandson, and secondly, Tim himself was a well-known new director with unlimited prospects. Moreover, Tim wanted to return to China to film a movie, and after showing the script to Li Jin, he offered many opinions, so Tim considered him a kindred spirit, and every time he revised the script, he would first send it to Li Jin for review.

  Unfortunately, Lijin looked at it several times and felt that what he wanted to shoot was an American version of "A Chinese Story", which not only didn't catch the spirit but also made no sense.

  Ordinary people would have long since given up on this story, but Li Jin saw a glimmer of hope in it, as if the current messy script was just a precious jade covered in dust, which would surely shine brightly once polished.

  Then Tim invited him to dinner and he gladly accepted.

  Tim's mother is from Guangdong, he likes to eat cured meat rice and Hong Kong-style dim sum. This restaurant is the business of his middle school classmate, so most of their daily gatherings with friends are held here. Lai Kam doesn't picky eater, has a good appetite, and entrusts Tim with the task of ordering food. While waiting for the meal, the two chatted casually, unknowingly bringing up the topic of movies.

  Li Jin said: "Your idea is good, but it's just not quite timely."

  Tim said: "What does it mean by 'timely and appropriate'? Are you also asking me to do some 3D IMAX gimmicks? Play with those technical tricks? That's still a movie?"

  Li Jin said: "Technical skills are well played, audiences like it, and it's also a skill."

  Tim said: "I agree that's a good thing, but it can't be all of the movie."

  “……” Li Jin thought he would definitely get along with Luo Fei, “Okay, let’s go back to the story itself. If you still want to keep the core of the story unchanged, it’s better to change the way it’s presented. Heavy realistic themes may be well-received, but they will never attract a large audience.”

  "What form of expression?"

  "For example, comedy? Exaggerated narrative and performance? Even magical realism elements?"

  "Comedy?" Tim thought to himself.

  "Yes, comedy," said Lai Kam, "Audiences pay to go to the movies either for thrills or for laughs. If you don't want to thrill them with 3D, then you can only make them laugh."

  Tim bowed his head in thought.

  "Besides, at present, comedy films are obviously easier to invest in..."

  Tim didn't speak for a long time, and Li Jin also didn't know how much he had said to get through to this stubborn person. Sometimes he felt that this returned overseas new director was like a rigid and unyielding Lu Fei, with the most orthodox Hollywood movie ideas in his heart, originally wanting to return to China to show off his ambitions, using a heavy topic to strike at everyone's soul, but found that domestically no one bought it. As a result, all he had learned over the years became utter confusion, others minding their own business, no one paying attention to him, while Li Jin was slightly kinder to him, and he took Li Jin as a trustworthy comrade.

  So what's with Director Qin Yige, you go to America just go to America, why mention me to this kid?

  Li Jin rested his arms on the table, feeling bored and looking downstairs. The restaurant was divided into two floors, with a wooden staircase leading to the second floor right at the entrance. The second floor was half as wide as the first floor, with a row of iron railings carved with flowers along the edge, and bamboo screens standing upright. Sitting outside, one could just see people dining on the first floor. At this moment, it was lunchtime, and the wind chimes above the door jingled as two people walked in, one after the other.

  The man in front wore sunglasses, and even when he entered the restaurant, he didn't take them off. He walked with his feet crossed and his head held high, as if no one was around him. Behind him followed a petite girl wearing a grayish-white sportswear with pink stripes, her duck-billed cap pulled low over her face, her long hair covering half of it.

  That figure - Lei Jin's gaze was stuck on her back as if glued - that figure was Xiao Susu.

  Xiao Susu was an artist of Li Jin, he would never admit his mistake. Taking advantage of the screen on the second floor, Li Jin looked at the other side without any scruples. The man sitting opposite Xiao Susu seemed familiar, Li Jin narrowed his eyes and measured him for a long time, suddenly his head exploded.

  He is currently managed by Xing Dong!

  After Ke Yuan's death, Shu Mo went through a period of vacuum without an agent. Later, He Yuesheng arranged a new agent for him, who is the one in front of us now. But how did he end up with Xiao Su?

  Look at the two of them, they're being very secretive; but looking at their actions, it's clear that they've seen each other many times before and are extremely familiar with each other. But what explains everything even more is the white mobile phone that Xiao Susu took out of her bag and handed to Xing Dong.

  According to Li Jin's understanding of Xiao SuSu, she had never taken out this mobile phone before, and no one even knew that she actually had a second mobile phone.

  In the midst of it all, there seemed to be a thread that at this moment tied together all the abnormalities. Li Jin didn't need to think much to understand what was going on.

  "Li Jin, Li Jin?" Tim called out to him for half the day, only to find that he was just turning his head to look downstairs, and asked inexplicably, "What are you looking at?"

  "Tim, do you know there's a software that can hide the phone number of this device? When making calls or sending texts, it will only show 'Anonymous'."

  Tim nodded: "Of course I know."

  "Do you know how to secretly forward all the SMS sent from one person's phone to another person without letting her know?"

  Tim said: "This is not difficult either, there is a software that can do it just fine."

  Li Jin raised her eyes and looked at him, smiling: "Is today's technology so advanced?"

  "Nature, technology serves man," Tim said.

  "Then let technology serve me once." Li Jin pointed to Xiao Susu downstairs, at this moment, the two had already finished talking, Xing Dong left a 100-yuan note on the table and hurried away, leaving behind a white mobile phone. Xiao Susu took the menu from the waiter's hand, relaxed her shoulders, and began ordering slowly.

  "You want me to check if she has that anonymous software on her phone? You also want all the text messages she's sent?" Tim said in a low voice, "Are you crazy?"

  "Yes, love drives people crazy." Li Jin said with a curl of his lip under the building, "I swear to you I won't do anything strange to this lady, go quickly."

  Then Tim left.

  Five minutes later, Li Jin's mobile phone was filled with a swarm of short messages.

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