A sickly bamboo horse dressed as a villain

The signing ceremony between Tengxing and Li Xingchen was very grand. Reporters and colleagues from all walks of life flocked to the venue. Due to the large number of people, Qiao Wen and Chen Jianan also entered the venue smoothly.

The host of the signing ceremony invited a celebrity from Hong Kong Island, and several artists under Tengxing attended the ceremony, including Lin Jiali who had just signed a contract with Tengxing not long ago.Speaking of it, it also gave Li Xingchen enough face.

Hundreds of people in the venue were all focused on today's protagonist, and no one noticed Qiao Wen and Chen Jianan sitting in the last corner.

Wearing a white suit, Lu Handong sat in the center of the rostrum. On the left was his deputy Wu Zhunyun, and on the right was Li Xingchen, the protagonist who was doing his part today. The rest of the stars sat on both sides in turn.

The popularity of "Bravely Entering the World" made Li Xingchen the first shot in the film industry. He transformed himself from a TV niche to a movie star, and his reputation and social value have risen a big step.From the perspective of fame and popularity, he is the hottest actor on Hong Kong Island recently.

After his contract with Baozhutai expired, everyone paid attention to his direction.The original news was that he would sign a contract with Wennan Films, which seemed to be a matter of course.Unexpectedly, Wennan Films held a celebration banquet a few days ago, and Li Xingchen signed Tengxing right away.

This is simply a slap in the face of Wen Nan.After all, it is a small company and cannot keep people.

Qiao Wen didn't care what the media guessed. He was focusing on Li Xingchen at this moment.

In the past few months, because of frequent visits to the class, he and Li Xingchen got along quite a lot, and asked each other early about Qiao Ying's choice; Xi Si rewarded Cang Ying and didn't dare to say anything else, but he thought he still had a little bit of ability to read people. .

Li Xingchen is definitely not an ungrateful white-eyed wolf. It is impossible for Wei to go back on what he said before without saying a word, and to slap them in the face in this way.

The most important thing is that during those few months, Qiao Wen obviously felt that Li Xingchen was very happy on the set. The gloom from before almost disappeared from his face. He really liked getting along with them.

As for Li Xingchen who was sitting on the stage at this moment, the gloom that the captain had disappeared clearly enveloped him again, and he didn't even try to cover it up a little.

Qiao Wen narrowed his eyes, he was 100% sure that this contract was not signed by Li Xingchen voluntarily.

After the emcee's introduction, Lu Handong, as the boss, picked up the microphone and stood up, eloquently starting his performance.Qiao Wen didn't listen to a word, but kept staring at Li Xingchen who was next to him with his head bowed.

After Lu Han finished talking eloquently, he turned to look at Li Xingchen, and said with a smile, "Ah Chen, come and say a few words to the reporters."

Li Xingchen seemed to have never heard of it.

Lu Handong was displeased, but still had a smile on his face. He patted the other party's shoulder with a big hand, and repeated: "Ah Chen, tell me a few words."

Li Xingchen suddenly came back to his senses, stood up in a trance, glanced blankly at the banquet hall, his eyes inadvertently fell on the faces of Qiao Wen and Chen Jianan in the corner, he was slightly stunned, and quickly moved his eyes away as if he was electrocuted open.

"Thank you, everyone!" He opened his lips for a moment, and finally managed to utter these few words.

The master of ceremonies is a fine person, seeing that the situation is not right, he hurriedly came out to smooth things over, and asked two staff members to send up a huge check, which was a signing bonus of 100 million.A big sign, Lu Handong and Li Xingchen held one end in front of each other, asking the reporters below to take pictures.

It's just that in the camera, one is full of enthusiasm and smiles, and the other is depressed and unhappy.

The signing ceremony was not lengthy, and Li Xingchen did not accept an interview, saying that he was in a hurry and left with Lu Handong ahead of schedule, leaving only a few stars from Tengxing to deal with the enthusiastic media.

Seeing this, Qiao Wen and Chen Jianan left early, taking advantage of not being noticed, and quietly followed in the footsteps of Lu Handong's group.

They went to the underground parking lot.

At this moment, the parking lot was empty except for them.

It happened so suddenly that Qiao Wen almost didn't react.I saw a group of people ahead, stopping beside a Mercedes.Lu Handong suddenly turned around, raised his fist and slammed Li Xingchen's face fiercely, and said angrily, "What do you mean by making such a sad face? Is someone dead in the family?"

Li Xingchen's reaction was fairly timely, but he still couldn't dodge the punch.

The sound of bang was particularly harsh in the quiet underground.

Qiao Wen's heart skipped a beat, and even thinking about it with his toes, he knew how heavy the punch was.

Li Xingchen covered his face and looked at the angry Lu Handong in shock.And Lu Handong obviously wasn't done yet, he raised his fist and was about to punch him again, but it was Wu Zhunyun who held him back: "Brother Dong, calm down, Ah Chen will join the group in a few days, he won't be able to film because of his bad face."

Li Xinghai also tremblingly stood in front of his cousin, saying submissively: "Boss Lu, it's because my younger brother is ignorant, don't be angry." He pulled Li Xingchen and said, "Ah Chen, hurry up and apologize to Boss Lu."

Li Xingchen was shocked and humiliated again, clenched his fist tightly with a hand hanging by his side, and stared at Lu Handong fiercely with a livid face.

Lu Handong snorted and said, "What? You still want to fight back with me? Don't you want to see if you have the ability? Let me tell you, you signed a contract with us in black and white, and the 100 million signed Jinwei will be credited to your account. You voluntarily Whether you want to or not, I will finish filming the ten films honestly. If you don’t want to do it, then follow the contract and pay double the signing bonus and the total film salary to redeem yourself.” Saying this, he spat fiercely again, "I'm giving you enough face, holding such a big ceremony for you, and letting a few stars under my banner serve as a foil for you. It's nice of you, you've lost your face the whole time, just like your own mother died. An actor really treats himself as a It's the same thing, it's not as easy for me to trample you to death as it is to trample an ant to death.

Li Xinghai said shyly, "Boss Lu, don't be angry, it's Ah Chen who doesn't know people."

Lu Handong looked at Li Xingchen contemptuously, and said, "There are a lot of men who sell their asses in your line of business. If you really annoy me, believe it or not, I will send you to the old man's bed."

Li Xingchen bit his lower lip tightly, his eyes were flushed.

Lu Handong relieved himself after cursing, snorted coldly, and said, "Let's go!"

He took a few of his men into the Mercedes, and quickly drove away, leaving only the two brothers of the Li family in place.

Seeing his cousin covering one side of his face all the time, Li Xinghai remained silent for a while, and asked tentatively, "Ah Chen, let me see your face?"

"It's okay." Li Xingchen lowered his head, waved his hands and said, "You go first, I want to be alone for a while."

Li Xinghai continued as if he didn't hear it, "Ah Chen, it's not that I'm talking about you, you're too ignorant, on what occasion today, you have a downcast face all the time, and it's too disrespectful to Boss Lu, he's not angry Strange!"

Li Xingchen turned a deaf ear and said: "You go, I really want to be quiet."

Li Xinghai sighed, and continued: "People have to bow their heads under the roof."

Li Xingchen finally seemed to be unable to bear it any longer. He raised his head and roared, "I'll let you go! Don't you understand human speech?"

Li Xinghai seemed to realize that his cousin was really angry, and hurriedly said: "I'll leave now, leave the car to you, and I'll go out and call a taxi. Don't stay outside for too long, be careful later A reporter is coming down."

Seeing that his cousin's face was so ugly that it was frightening, he didn't dare to say any more, and ran away quickly with his two not very long legs.

After the people left, Li Xingchen slumped his shoulders, walked to the load-bearing pillar next to him, leaned on it as if he was relieved, slowly slid down to the ground, and buried his face in his knees.

Qiao Wen and Chen Jianan, who were standing in the dark, looked at each other tacitly, nodded, and walked towards the man squatting on the ground.

The two walked all the way to Li Xingchen, and the other party reacted belatedly. He probably thought it was a reporter, and quickly wiped his eyes and raised his head. When he saw the two familiar faces above, he opened his eyes wide in shock. Then, as if remembering something, he quickly lowered his head, stood up and said "I'm sorry", and hurried to his car as if fleeing.

It's just that he just opened the door to get into the car, when Wei Chen Jianan quickly got into the co-pilot of his car, stopped his hand from starting the car, turned around and opened the door of the back seat, and let the slower-speed Qiao Wen get into the car.

Qiao Wen sat up unhurriedly, and said, "Ah Chen, we are friends, what happened, why didn't you tell us?"

"That's right, my pretty boy Nan's friend is in trouble, would he just stand by and watch? Speaking of which, that scumbag is not a thing, you are the star he just signed, and you actually want to fight with you!"

Li Xingchen lowered his head, unwilling to show his red and swollen cheeks to the two of them, and said in a hoarse voice: "Awen Anan, I'm the one who's sorry for you, don't ask, I don't want to hurt you."

Qiao Wen chuckled: "No matter what, you have to tell us what happened. It's better for everyone to figure out a solution together than for a person like you to suffer silently."

Chen Jianan echoed: "Yeah, what kind of man is Rattle East? We were afraid that he would not succeed. He is a gangster, and we still have Brother Feng and Hexing Society. It really made us anxious and someone dragged him into Kowloon." If the walled city is destroyed, no one will notice it."

Qiao Wen: "..."

Hearing what he said, Li Xingchen quickly raised his head and said, "Don't tell Brother Feng, I don't want to cause trouble for him."

Qiao Wen said: "Ah Chen, we are law-abiding citizens, and we will not use the underworld methods to solve problems casually. Don't be afraid, tell me what's going on first, and we will slowly figure out a solution together."

Li Xingchen shook his head: "Awen, Lu Handong is not easy to mess with. This is my own business. I really can't involve you. Besides..." He paused slightly, "My captain signed a contract with Tengxing, and now we can say anything. Wei is useless. If I have not been abolished in Tengxing for the past three years, you are still willing to accept me and I will work with you again."

Qiao Wen knew that Wei Chi didn't want to be aggressive, so he asked instead, "You were coerced by Lu Handong to sign this contract, right?"

Li Xingchen remained silent.

Qiao Wen understood, and asked again: "Lu Handong made movies to clean up his crimes. It is impossible to threaten people's lives casually. It is only possible that there is something in his hands."

Li Xingchen still didn't speak.

Qiao Wen continued: "You have always been responsible and disciplined in your conduct, so there is no reason to be coerced by him, so it can only be your cousin."

Li Xingchen raised his head suddenly, and looked at him beggingly: "Ah Wen, don't ask, what can I do if I tell you the matter?"

Seeing that he was about to collapse, Qiao Wen obviously didn't want to talk about it with him.It is estimated that in addition to not wanting to cause trouble for them, it is also because the family ugliness do not want to be publicized.

"Okay, I won't ask. But no matter what, you are still my friend and Anan. If you need help with anything, you can tell us right away."

"That's right," Chen Jianan echoed, "Although we are not as rich and powerful as Lu Handong, nor as he is backed by a big tree, we are not people who have no ability at all, so you don't have to worry about hurting us. "

Li Xingchen choked up and said, "Thank you."

Qiao Wen thought for a while, and said: "You are in an unstable state now, and I'm afraid it's unsafe to drive. Let Brother Nan drive you back."

Li Xingchen did not refuse this time, and changed places with Chen Jianan.

When the car drove out, it happened to meet a wave of reporters and tried to stop the car for interviews.Chen Jianan made a turn, like a dragon wagging its tail, leaving him behind.

Li Xingchen originally thought that Qiao Wen and Chen Canaan came to question why he betrayed him immediately.No, they didn't suspect his behavior at all, they were concerned about what happened to him from the beginning to the end.

He was a little relieved, they were indeed true friends, and he, Li Xingchen, had true friends too.So the pain and humiliation brought by Lu Handong's fist subconsciously subsided a lot.

I just felt more and more guilty.

When the car drove to his apartment building, Chen Jianan turned off the engine and got out of the car with Qiao Wen.

Li Xingchen also came down, Lu Handong's punch was effortless, his face was still red and swollen, but he could still see his original handsomeness, he lowered his eyes and said in a low voice: "Awen Anan, thank you."

Chen Jianan waved his hand indifferently: "I'll drive you back. Anyway, Xiao Qiao and I have nothing to do today. Go back and have a good rest. Get some medicine to wipe your face. You have to rely on your face to make a living." Man, don't let that bastard, Laidou Dong, ruin your face, I think he's just jealous of your good looks."

Li Xingchen smiled wryly, and looked at the two enviously: "You two brothers have such a good relationship."

Qiao Wen raised his eyebrows and looked at Chen Jianan, meeting his rather smug eyes, and then stretched out his arms to wrap his arms around his shoulders: "That's right, Xiao Qiao and I are going to be together for the rest of our lives. With a knife resting on our necks, we will not betray each other."

What he said meant something, and it was also to sprinkle salt on someone's scars. Li Xingchen's red and swollen face really had a sad look on it.

Qiao Wen quickly poked the waist of the guy next to him with his elbow, signaling him not to talk nonsense.

Chen Jianan obediently kept his mouth shut.

"Achen, go back and rest, and give your face a good look. Call us if you have something to do." Then he said, "I still say that, no matter where you are, you are my friend and Anan."

Li Xingchen's eyes were red, and he nodded vigorously.

Because of Li Xingchen's signing with Tengxing, Wennan Films will inevitably be harassed by various reporters these days.In order to be quiet, Qiao Wen and Chen Jianan did not go back to the apartment, but went to the villa in the middle of the mountain.

As soon as he entered the room, Chen Jianan stretched out and lay down on the leather sofa, sighed and said, "This street in the east, are we really going to watch Ah Chen being forced to film for him for three years? Who knew he would What should Ah Chen do? Maybe pornographic movies? Isn’t that what Tengxing is good at?”

Qiao Wen hadn't thought of this at first, but when he mentioned it, the alarm immediately went off.With Li Xingchen's popularity, making this kind of film is of course a waste, but Li Xingchen didn't sign the contract with Tengxing voluntarily. It's not impossible to force him to make a pornographic film.

Qiao Wen was sitting at Chen Jianan's feet, frowning and thinking, when the phone next to him rang, and he picked it up to answer it.

It was Jiang Yufeng calling.

"Xiao Qiao, what's going on with Ah Chen? Isn't he going to do something with you? Why did he suddenly sign the manger? Ah Xue just called me and cried, saying that Ah Chen must have been forced to sign Teng Xing."

Qiao Wen said: "We only found out today, but what is certain is that Ah Chen was indeed coerced by Laidoudong."

"No, why doesn't he ask us for help when he has something to do? No matter how stupid the man is, he knows that Chen is under my cover, so he definitely doesn't dare to mess around."

Qiao Wen said: "I couldn't contact him a few days ago. It should be controlled by Lu Handong. I guess I can't ask for help. I guess I was forced to sign a contract before I regained my freedom."

Jiang Yufeng swears on the other end of the phone, then sighed and said, "If Axue knew about this, she would probably be furious. So what should I do now? Is there any room for change?"

Qiao Wen said: "The captain has signed the contract. If he breaks the contract, he will have to pay several million. Chen used to get a salary in the TV station, plus some business activities. The income is not comparable to that of a movie star. He can't afford the money. Besides, It's simply unreasonable for Lu Handong to get such a sum of money for nothing." He paused, and then said, "The problem now is that Ah Chen is afraid of hurting us, so he doesn't tell us what happened, so let us leave it alone."

Jiang Yufeng sighed: "This guy... really..."

Qiao Wen said: "Anyway, we definitely can't just sit idly by. If Chen really stays in Tengxing for three years, he might commit suicide due to depression. I'll go and find out what's going on first, and I'll come to you later if I need help."

"Okay, okay, if you need any help, call me anytime. You don't have to be afraid of him if you threaten our Kowloon Walled City and Xingshe."

Qiao Wen smiled: "Brother Feng, now Chengzhaiwei is no longer a three-way zone, you should be careful, the old lawlessness can no longer be used."

Jiang Yufeng smiled: "Don't worry, I have a measure."

After hanging up the phone, when Qiao Wen turned around, Lieutenant Chen Jianan sat up and looked at him with wide black eyes. When he saw him looking over, he shrank his legs and moved his butt, almost touching him directly.

"What?"

Chen Jianan's eyes sparkled and he said: "Otherwise, we'll just tie up Li Xinghai and ask him for clarification. I think that guy is a bear. My younger brother wouldn't even dare to fart even if he was spanked, and he even asked Ah Chen to give him a slap in the face. Apologize. If you arrest him, you may be able to tell the whole story if you scare him casually."

Qiao Wen couldn't help laughing: "Guide Chen, boss Chen, why are you still engaging in the underworld? It's not difficult to arrest people and ask them back, but you can guarantee that you will find out the truth? Li Xinghai's being cowardly doesn't mean he's stupid, on the contrary, he's smarter than his cousin There are too many. Maybe he didn’t ask the truth, and even startled the snake, which put Lu Handong on his guard.”

Chen Jianan nodded: "That's true."

Qiao Wen said: "But the problem must be with Li Xinghai. I'll ask Zhang Jiaming to help him find out what he has in Lu Handong's hands."

Chen Jianan pursed his lips, and said contemptuously: "Anyway, this is a bastard tortoise. If I had such a brother, he would have been beaten to death by me."

Qiao Wen shook his head with a smile.

After Chen Jianan finished speaking, he suddenly seemed to think of something, and stared at Qiao Wen rightly, his eyes could be called "affectionate", and then grabbed his hand: "Little Qiao, don't worry, I will always love you." It can't be such a brother, even if the knife rests on my neck, I won't betray you."

His swearing appearance was very exaggerated, which made Qiao Wen dumbfounded: "I know."

Chen Jianan grabbed his hand even harder, and continued: "However, if someone puts a knife on your neck and asks you to betray me, you should sell me immediately."

Qiao Wen: "..."

Ma Dan, quite touched.