107: Starlight Entertainment

Starlight Entertainment

Somewhere in the S city.0

In the living room, Ji Lingchen and Fang Wen sat on the sofa, exhausted, while Jiang Xun stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window with a lost expression. As for Gong Tianhao, he was anxiously pacing back and forth in the room without a second's pause.

They were the artists of Starlight Entertainment who stood loyal to the company.

Fei Yang, who was sitting in front of a desk and looking at his laptop, finally lost his patience and pinched his eyebrows while looking at Gong Tianhao. "Little ancestor, can't you sit down peacefully for a moment and stop wandering in front of me?"

Gong Tianhao exploded like a lit firecracker, his birdnest of hair swaying to and fro with his shouting. "Damn! Your young master is about to be abducted by a group of bandits and hoodlums to shoot a porno! So what if I'm pacing? Have I even lost the right to pace? Huh?"

Fei Yang pushed his glasses up with an exasperated expression. What did Gong Tianhao having to shoot a porno have to do with him wildly pacing back and forth like a perpetually bouncing spring?

However, Fei Yang knew Gong Tianhao was in a bad mood, so he swallowed his words, unable to reproach him. "Fine, fine, fine, keep pacing if you can strip less for every circle you pace…"

Xiao Qing, who was helping Fang Wen organize his clothes, feebly interjected, "Compared to Brother Tianhao, Brother Lingchen and Brother Wen are more tragic…"

Dong Zai nodded in agreement. "Right! Brother Lingchen was forced to give up his role in that Hollywood Blockbuster and keeps having to surrender all his hard work to that Ling Shaozhe from Skylark. And Brother Wen has to keep that awful princess company every day! Brother Wen, that harpy didn't do anything to you, right?"

Fang Wen's expression stiffened a little, and he aloofly responded with a grim expression, "I'm fine. Don't worry about me; you just need to take good care of the company."

Xiao Qing's face was brimming with indignation. "Is there really no one who will prevent Skylark Entertainment from relying on their gangster background to tyrannize everyone like that?!"

Next to the window, Jiang Xun calmly replied, "Their background is too complicated, and they are all extremely malicious and savage people. Who would dare to control them?"

Dong Zai mumbled, "Why don't we all leave the Starlight entertainment together then…"

As soon as Dong Zai said that, Fang Wen, Gong Tianhao, Jiang Xun, and the silent Ji Lingchen all simultaneously said, "No."

The four of them met each other's gazes and turned quiet.

Gong Tianhao hmphed furiously. "Leave? No way! The Starlight Entertainment is Brother Xu's life and blood! It's the empire Brother Xu conquered for us! How could we possibly yield it to someone else? If we left, we would let Brother Xu down!"

Jiang Xun's lost expression solidified into determination. "Anyway, I will never leave."

Fang Wen also inputted, "I'll stay behind and wait for Brother Xu to return."

Ji Lingchen's gentle and comforting voice rang out, "The situation isn't that serious. After all, our influence is still here, so they wouldn't dare to go too far."

Although Ji Lingchen said that, none of their expressions eased up. They knew that gangsters were a troublesome problem for them.

Gong Tianhao acted like an abandoned pet and withering plant and plunked his head on the coffee table with a whimper. "Ah… We don't even know what is the situation on Brother Xu's side.."

An oppressive silence enveloped the room following Gong Tianhao's listless grumbling.

Fang Wen asked, "Has Brother Xu contacted any of you recently?"

The people in the room all shook their heads.

Jiang Xun looked grim. "I hope Brother Xu is okay."

The company was suffering a great impact due to CEO Xu's charges. Their chain of funds was broken and they were facing bankruptcy. Skylark Entertainment adopted all kinds of vicious methods to acquire the company.

All of them were resisting it to their deaths and trying to protect the company with everything they had. If they took a gamble, they might have been able to overcome this challenge since the company's foundation was well built.

But the power behind Skylark Entertainment was not to be trifled with!

The Hongxing Gang was a well known mafia gang in S City and they had an unfathomable background. They only started stepping into the entertainment industry in recent years and used the industry to launder their money in large quantities.

Skylark Entertainment somehow hooked onto this connection, using the mafia's status in the entertainment industry along with the Hongxing Gang's power to force the sale of the Starlight Entertainment at a remarkably cheap price.

Their methods were extremely nauseating…

They bribed Shen Sisi, a top manager of Starlight Entertainment and used her to control the whole company after pressing charges against Xu Dong.

The Starlight entertainment didn't expect them to use such a vulgar method!

What chilled their heart more was Shen Sisi's betrayal…

Shen Sisi was someone Xu Dong unearthed and taught hand over hand. He passed his knowledge to Shen Sisi without holding back and even entrusted her with some of his important artists.

At the same time, another top manager who did not betray the company was Zeng Yaozu. But his state now was indescribable.

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The little bun left the S city in the afternoon. He bade goodbye to Qin Yan reluctantly. Qin Yan showered the little guy with hugs and kisses before separating from him. The Xi brothers watched the whole scene in silence.

Qin Yan was somewhat upset at the little bun leaving, but her mind got distracted when she got an email.

The email consisted of everything about Starlight entertainment. It was even more detailed than the investigation she had conducted before and gave information about everything that happened in last few months.

Qin Yan wondered about who would have sent the email and thought of investigating it. But the contents of the email made it an urgency to focus on the matters of Starlight Entertainment now.

Qin Yan had always wanted to open an entertainment company and had admired Starlight entertainment for their clean history. She had thought that she would also open a clean company like it, but now that Starlight was in ruins, Qin Yan thought that acquiring it was the most feasible option.

Qin Yan skimmed through the schedules of the artists provided in the email before she logged on to a website. She summoned two of the basic guards from the website and entered the contact time and place for them.

She then focussed on Gong Tianhao's schedule that day.

The name of the film that Gong Tianhao was going to shoot today looked familiar. It seemed to be the film claimed to use explicit scenes to catch viewers' attention…

Currently, the set of the film A Sensual Night had a tense atmosphere, and the scent of gunpowder permeated the air.

Next to Gong Tianhao were a tipped chair and the shattered pieces of a cup he knocked over. "Shen Sisi! This isn't what you said when you coaxed me into signing the contract for this film! I can tolerate you using those crude methods for publicity, but now, you actually want me to strip and shoot that kind of thing? Just to support a nobody?! Who do you think I am?"

The female lead of this film was the lover of some leader in Hongxing Gang and a minor, unpopular artist. She was currently signed to the Starlight entertainment and personally managed by Shen Sisi.

How could Gong Tianhao tolerate this kind of vulgar and low-quality film and ruin his image?

Shen Sisi was sitting in a leather chair with a cup of coffee in hand, unconcerned about Gong Tianhao's rage. "You're too naive, Gong Tianhao. Which high-earning person in the industry doesn't do this?"

"You wasted so much time and energy shooting a film without a market. So what if you used it to win Best Actor? The profit that it brought is far inferior to you stripping your clothes and revealing some skin!"

"Xu Dong's self-righteous method of blindly pursuing expertise and acting skills doesn't suit this industry at all and he should've been eliminated ages ago."

It had only been a few mere months, but all traces of Shen Sisi's original simple and frugal appearance had disappeared from her body.

Her outfit could hold a candle to the outfits of some artists and celebrities—there was a luxurious bracelet around her wrist and a Chanel couture outfit enveloping her body. There was also a personal assistant waiting on her tail, and she completely resembled a golden manager, confidence leaking through her every word.

The director and producers next to her all bobbed their heads zealously and fell over themselves to lick her boots. "Manager Shen is brilliant!"

"Manager Shen's words are incredibly insightful! Ah, Gong Tianhao, didn't we all enter this industry to earn money? Why must you jeopardize your earnings? Manager Shen is doing this for your own good!"

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