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Chapter 14 Dignity at the Top of the Food Chain

On the media visit day, Lu Li got up early.It was written in the almanac that "everything is inappropriate", but what he has to do today will be several times as much as usual.

The first is to wait for Xu Rulin to wash and make up, and then invite the giant Buddha into the studio after breakfast; then go back to the hotel and prepare gifts for the media reporters; at [-] o'clock in the morning, check the time of group interviews and exclusive interviews with the publicity staff, Review the content of the question.

In addition, the company has also opened up a number of visiting spots to Xu Rulin's support club.At twelve o'clock at noon, Lu Li had to go to the station to meet these little girls and help them collect the big and small gifts they gave Xu Rulin.

However, today's Xu Rulin has become more amiable, not only opened his own umbrella, but even found a corner to hide the mini refrigerator carefully.Of course, he is far from the only one in the crew with this kind of "two faces in the front and back".

At one o'clock in the afternoon, the three groups of actors had assembled, and the visiting army marched into the set.Shen Xingcho, Wang Anliu, Xu Rulin and others were immediately surrounded by three layers inside and three layers outside.At this time, Lu Li acted as a part-time videographer again, holding up the selfie stick to start a webcast for Xu Rulin.

The class visit lasted for more than three hours.When the large army left the field, Lu Li was already dripping with sweat, as if he had just been fished out of the water.Perhaps out of compassion, Xu Rulin even opened the refrigerator and invited him and Assistant Chen to drink a bottle of iced mineral water.

Everything seems to be going in a good direction.But who knew, at around [-] o'clock that night, Lu Li suddenly received a call from Assistant Chen, asking him to go through the resignation procedures tomorrow.

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Assistant Chen is not a bad person, and after half a month of getting along, he has developed some friendship with Lu Li.He didn't hide the reason for Xu Rulin's dismissal - the problem turned out to be in the webcast that afternoon.

Just now Xu Rulin looked through the replay and found that Lu Li showed a small face at the beginning and the end.And it was this small face that attracted ridicule from many netizens.

"The assistant is so handsome too", "Little brother, are you an actor too", and some people even swiped the screen "You are more handsome than Xu Rulin"...

If it were someone else, they might laugh off these messages, but Xu Rulin would not.He is a narrow-minded man with no sense of humor, and he is extremely insecure, always guarding against the people around him stepping on him.

Lu Li didn't try to restore this unhappy labor-management relationship.On the contrary, he slept comfortably for a long time, and went to the hotel to settle his salary at noon the next day.

After all, Lu Li was introduced by Shen Xingxuan, so he was fired so soon, and the producer of the life film was also a little embarrassed, and even offered to arrange another job for him.

On the other hand, Lu Li shook his head briskly, expressing that it would be embarrassing to stay on the set, and he didn't want to cause trouble for others, so he turned around and left after receiving his salary.

After leaving the hotel, Lu Li stopped by the bank to save money, and then went to the vegetable market to buy fruits, fish and shrimps for extra meals for the family in the evening.He is not in a hurry to find another home - I heard from Lao Zheng a while ago that the film director Zhang Jueming has signed a contract with the film studio, and he is setting up scenes and making props for a while now. A few more ways.

With that in mind, An An stayed at home and scratched his feet for two days.Unexpectedly, a phone call at dinner on the third day disrupted his wishful thinking.

The call was from Shen Xingxuan's female assistant, Anna, who asked him straight to the point if he had been fired by Xu Rulin.

Lu Li nodded in agreement, and briefly explained the reason for his dismissal.Sister Anna interrupted him halfway, and directly said that she would come back to work tomorrow, and this time she would be Shen Xingxuan's assistant.

"I was fired." Although it was a bit redundant, Lu Li emphasized again: "This is not good, it would be embarrassing if I met Teacher Xu."

"Why isn't he embarrassed when he fires you?"

It's really the seventh-rank official in front of the prime minister. Although Anna is only Shen Xingze's assistant, she is a strong woman who can stand alone in other companies.Sure enough, he spoke with confidence, carrying the shadow of Shen Xingxuan himself.

"I said, don't be such a mother-in-law, do you still want to earn tuition?"

She kept talking to this point, and if she tried to evade, the scene would be ugly.Lu Li quickly nodded and agreed, and agreed to report to the hotel at [-] o'clock tomorrow morning.

As soon as he put down the phone, before he could figure out what was going on, a few peeled prawns were thrown into Lu Li's bowl.

Mother frowned and said, "Are you going to go to work again?"

"I also feel strange." Lu Li nodded, and briefly talked about the events of these days.

Ginger is still old and hot, and my mother heard something wrong as soon as she heard it.

"You, you were probably taken advantage of by that life producer."

According to her analysis, Xu Rulin's frequent replacement of life assistants must have caused a lot of trouble for the life producers.So this time, the life producer deliberately didn't tell Xu Rulin that Lu Li was introduced to work by Shen Xingze—otherwise, even if Xu Rulin had the guts, he wouldn't dare to yell at Shen Xingze's relatives.

According to Xu Rulin's pissing behavior, Lu Li will be fired in a short time, and the life producer uses this to provoke Shen Xingxuan's dissatisfaction, so as to achieve the purpose of killing people with a knife.

After all, the crew seems to have a harmonious relationship on the surface, but in reality they are strictly ranked.People in high positions can be kind to others, but they cannot sit back and watch the provocations of low-level people.Because every provocation is a temptation; tolerate it one more time, and there will be double and double people delusional to ride on your neck.

I see.Lu Li was speechless inwardly. After all, the cast and crew were all good people, yet they could even feel Shen Xingxuan's temper clearly.

This reminded him suddenly of an old thing——

It was the second half of the third year of the university, and two classes from the acting department of their current year cooperated with students from the directing department to make a public welfare micro-movie, and competed for the box office in the form of rewards.

At that time, the two classes had their own star students, and they mobilized fans to raise funds and donations; those with well-to-do families begged their parents to donate generously; even some star agencies also participated in it, and began to promote the students they were attracted to.

Two days before the end of the competition, Lu Li's class took the lead with a slight advantage of more than 5000 yuan.However, the good times didn't last long, and the box office amount was reversed by the second class in just one night, and the gap reached 5 yuan at one point.

Seeing that the 24-hour countdown is about to enter, the contacts and resources that should be used have already been exhausted, and the outcome seems to be a foregone conclusion. Everyone feels a little frustrated.

But it never occurred to him that after just eating a lunch, the total box office amount of the first class was more than one digit at the top.Lu Li remembered that he counted five times from front to back, and then he was stunned together with his classmates.

Until the end of the competition, the box office of the second class did not exceed that of the first class; but they reported this matter to the department office - the school severely criticized the unfair competition between the two classes, and donated all the box office to the school as agreed. Hope works.

No one has ever stood up and acknowledged the huge sum of money that came out of the box office.Slowly, a rumor began to spread: there is an invisible super rich in the class, who has been lurking low-key for a long time, maybe he is a high-ranking official.

It wasn't until after graduation that Lu Li found out that this invisible rich man was Shen Xingxuan.His father has been on the Forbes list year after year, and his family business spans multiple fields such as e-commerce, real estate, and social media. A few years ago, he even started to set foot in the theater industry chain. , if you act in a bad movie casually, you will not worry about not being sold.

However, Shen Xingxuan is a very competitive person.As the male squad leader of Class One, he has been determined to win from the very beginning of the competition, and he can even do whatever it takes to keep the overall situation in his hands.

"You like to control others so much, why didn't you take the directing exam and become a great director in the future?"

Lu Li used this incident to tease Shen Xingxuan more than once - he is competitive and always likes to control the overall situation. This may be the mark of a businessman branded on him.

Back to reality, although Shen Xingze has matured a lot over the years, this incident was obviously a small episode of his desire to control.

For a candidate who met by chance, how could Shen Xing choose to do this?

In my mind, the half-lit cigarette butt under the sweet-scented osmanthus tree lit up again.

Lu Li's heart tightened a little. He told himself that he must stop making useless fantasies. What he never got in the past would be even more impossible to get in the future.

And what he got into was nothing more than a hidden battle within the crew.

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At five o'clock the next morning, the sky was still covered with a layer of blue, so Lu Li came to the hotel as agreed.

Sister Anna held a thermos bucket in her hand and led him to the eleventh floor by elevator.This floor is the luxury suite area of ​​the hotel. Lu Li also stayed here before. He knew that every suite has a garden terrace overlooking the film and television city not far away.

Although Lu Li knew Shen Xingxuan's daily life well, but this time he came to be an assistant after all, so he had to learn how to do it from scratch.After ringing the doorbell, he followed Anna and swiped his card directly to enter the door.

There was no light in the living room, and there was a faint smell of cigarettes in the air.Anna signaled Lu to leave the window for air, while she carried the thermos bucket to the kitchen.

Lu Li walked to the window, brushed aside the curtains, and pushed open the floor-to-ceiling windows leading to the terrace.The refreshing cool breeze blows in in the morning, bringing with it the fragrance of the grass and trees in the mountains.

Next to the floor-to-ceiling windows is the bedroom.The door was not closed, and a dim bedside lamp was on inside.Lu Li heard movement in the room and subconsciously glanced at it.

He found Shen Xingze sitting on the bed, with his pajamas in disarray and disheveled hair, looking for glasses with his eyes closed.

Few people know that the bright-eyed Shen Xingze on the screen is actually extremely short-sighted.Once, when he got up to go to the toilet at night, he couldn't see the road clearly after turning on the light, so he knocked his head heavily on the door frame.

That collision really shed a lot of blood, and even the pajamas of Lu Li who rushed over after hearing the sound were stained red.Lu Li still remembers how cowardly he was at that time, his hands were shaking so much that he couldn't even hold down a piece of cotton.

He really thought that Shen Xingxuan was going to die, and be wiped out like other treasures he once owned - of course, it turned out that he was the one who died first.

The glasses were originally placed in the corner of the bedside table, but Shen Xingze fumbled for them twice before sweeping them onto the carpet.Lu Li couldn't stand it anymore, so he walked over to help pick it up in two or three steps.

Shen Xing chose to put on his glasses, and the eyes of the two came into contact.

"coming?"

"Here we come." Lu Kai joked, "Thank you Brother Shen for giving me the chance to be a new man."

Shen Xing chose not to respond, and waved him to go out first.

Lu Li returned to the living room to check today's work schedule. The sound of changing clothes and washing soon came from the bedroom, while the smell of food began to waft from the kitchen on the other side.

In just 15 minutes, Sister Anna has used the kitchen of the suite to fry poached eggs and sliced ​​steamed buns, and the porridge with preserved eggs and lean meat is in the thermos.Lu Li helped her carry the food to the restaurant, where Shen Xingze was also fully dressed, holding an ashtray in his hand and trying to sneak it into the trash can.

"Don't hide it, I smelled it as soon as I came in." Sister Anna didn't even lift her head, "Keep smoking and replace all your teeth with diamond-encrusted porcelain. Anyway, your old man has a lot of money."

Shen Xing chose to know that he was wrong and didn't defend himself, so he sat down to have breakfast quietly, while listening to sister Anna's advice, sorting out today's work schedule.

It was only around six o'clock after breakfast, and Anna accompanied Shen Xing to go downstairs to the make-up group, while Lu Li was left behind to clean up the dishes.A few minutes later, Anna called and asked him to help carry a small box down later. There should be scripts, books, tablet computers and some snacks in it.

Lu Li found the silver flight case in the corner of the bedroom, as if he had found a long-lost old friend.

The badly worn box was covered with various stickers - this is certainly not Shen Xingze's style, except for some fans' gifts, at least [-]% of the rest were made by Lu Li, and the earliest ones can even be traced back to theirs. school days.

Shen Xingxuan is a nostalgic person, or in other words, a stubborn person who refuses to give up easily in the face of time.

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