Recalcitrant

On the day Lu Shaoheng came back from Gannan, as soon as he got off the plane, he went to a flower shop to arrange a bouquet of flowers carefully, and took a basket of imported fruits with him to the best private hospital in the city.

"Mr. Sun, how are you doing these days?" Lu Shaoheng greeted warmly when he entered the ward.

A middle-aged man was lying on the hospital bed. He was Sun Zhijie, the executive producer of "Tomorrow".When Lu Shaoheng went to Hainan to visit the class last time, Sun Zhijie mentioned that he had suffered from severe back pain recently and wanted to rest for a few days before coming back for a checkup.Lu Shaoheng agreed without saying a word, and approved him a long vacation on the spot.

As a result, Sun Zhijie came back for a check-up and found cancer. He was admitted to the best private hospital in the city that night.

"Mr. Lu, you are here." Sun Zhijie saw that it was Lu Shaoheng, and quickly put down the thermos cup in his hand and was about to get up and get out of bed, but because of his weakness, he fell back: "Look at me, hey, I'm really sorry Mr. Lu is staying here, so I can't get up to greet you."

During this period, Sun Zhijie underwent two chemotherapy treatments, and he looked much lighter, but his mental state was still good.

"It's all right, you lie down." Lu Shaoheng handed the flower and fruit basket to the nurse, and said kindly to Sun Zhijie: "Don't pay attention to these imaginary things at this time, and have a good rest."

That being said, Lu Shaoheng's visit still caused Sun Zhijie and his family a lot of trouble.The nurses and family members made tea and cut fruits, moved the sofa and chairs, and finally waited for Lu Shaoheng to sit down.

"You just came back from Hainan?" Sun Zhijie asked.

"Yeah." Lu Shaoheng sat down on the single sofa that had just been moved to the head of the bed: "I also went to the group of "No Man's Land" on the way."

"How is the crew doing now? I'm lying here now, and the crew is the one I can't let go of." Speaking of the crew, Sun Zhijie was a little sad: "Now the company is short of manpower, and I'm like this again, hey, why is it at this time."

Lu Shaoheng comforted him: "It's okay, I've made arrangements."

In the next half hour, Lu Shaoheng told Sun Zhijie about the recent situation in the crew, and asked for his advice on some issues.In the end, he told him kindly, let him recover from his illness with peace of mind, don't worry about other things, he will definitely get better, if you have any difficulties, you can contact the company Yunyun.

After a few gentle words, Sun Zhijie said that he was in tears, and he will never regret being a star gatherer in this life.

Regardless of whether Lu Shaoheng's move was sincere, or the new official took office as a superficial effort, Sun Zhijie and his family were very moved by his presence.

The topic came to an end, people came to visit, and the words of condolences were finished, just when they thought Mr. Lu was about to move back to Luan, Lu Shaoheng suddenly asked: "By the way, Mr. Sun, do you know Taiji, Deshi, Yarong? Are these companies?"

Sun Zhijie was startled and froze. He didn't expect these names to be read from Lu Shaoheng's mouth.

But Sun Zhijie had been in this industry for so many years, so he quickly calmed down and asked, "I haven't heard of it, what's the matter?"

"How come you haven't heard of it?" Lu Shaoheng was a little puzzled at first, and then smiled again in the next second: "These companies should have made you a lot of money over the years."

Cold sweat rolled down from Sun Zhijie's forehead, I don't know if it was from shock or illness.

"Mr. Lu, I have never heard of these names before, and I don't know why you say that." Sun Zhijie hurriedly asked the family members and nurses in the room to avoid them first: "Is there any misunderstanding?"

"You are not in good health, so let's not waste these words in vain." Lu Shaoheng waved his hands wearily, took out a tablet computer from his bag and put it on the bedside: "This is some of the things I have asked people to do during this time For investigation, you can first check whether it conforms to the facts, point out any mistakes and omissions at any time, and we will correct it later.”

Sun Zhijie turned on the tablet, tried his best to control his hands, and tried not to tremble.Just clicking on a few files casually made his heart feel cold.

The companies mentioned by Lu Shaoheng seem to have nothing to do with Sun Zhijie on the surface, but after layers of equity penetration, it can be found that behind these companies are controlled by him and his family.

Over the years, Sun Zhijie has used his position to operate at both ends, selling products or services to Juxing at a price several times higher than the market price, thereby embezzling huge amounts of money.Not only that, but he also fabricated the amount of expenditure in multiple projects to seek benefits from it.

During the time when Lu Shaoheng was on the set, he checked all the accounts on the grounds of increasing income and reducing expenditure, and found that a large part of the expenses were unreasonable.So he asked Ling Xiao to thoroughly investigate those cooperative companies, and finally found out the tricks.

The production cost of "Tomorrow" has repeatedly exceeded the standard. Apart from opening Zhang Guoqiang, the bigger reason is the executive producer Sun Zhijie.

After finding this breakthrough, Lu Shaoheng asked people to investigate all the projects that Sun Zhijie had handled before, and found that these problems basically existed.

This method is not clever. The reason why he is so blatant is that in the past, these actions of his were acquiesced by the upper class.

"President Lu, I, I..."

Sun Zhijie "me" for a long time, but he couldn't say a fart. The black and white evidence in the materials Lu Shaoheng produced was conclusive, and he couldn't allow him to argue.

Seeing that he was at a loss, Lu Shaoheng kindly comforted him: "Don't worry, you should be able to apply for medical parole in this situation. I won't really send you to jail, and I can't bear it." Then he changed the subject, He added: "But your huge property will definitely be confiscated."

From the beginning to the end, Lu Shaoheng always smiled, without any harshness, and every word he uttered was soft and gentle.But it was such a person that made Sun Zhijie feel the fear he had never had before.

"Your follow-up treatment should cost a lot of money." Lu Shaoheng was worried about Sun Zhijie's future from the bottom of his heart: "I heard that your daughter is currently studying in junior high school at an international school and plans to study abroad in the future. How much does it cost to graduate from college?"

Lu Shaoheng is indeed a person with a weak sense of morality, threatening cancer patients without any psychological burden.

When Sun Zhijie heard Lu Shaoheng mentioning his daughter, he was about to get off the bed excitedly. Lu Shaoheng quickly reached out to stop him: "Don't worry, your body is the most important thing, don't touch it."

"Boss Lu, what do I need to do?" Sun Zhijie is a smart man who knows everything. Since Lu Shaoheng has already grasped the evidence, he can directly call the police instead of coming here.

He can come here today, which means that he still has value.

"I know that you are definitely not the only one who has engaged in these small actions in the company over the years." In an instant, the aggression in Lu Shaoheng's eyes disappeared. He patiently turned off the dazzling screen and carefully closed the protective cover , and then slapped the tablet on Sun Zhijie's chest.

"Who else in the company has participated in these things? Besides, what have they done? Tell me what you know." Lu Shaoheng looked at Sun Zhijie and smiled brightly: "I can turn a blind eye and close the other." Now, pretend that these things never happened. You can continue to recuperate in peace, and your wife and daughter will naturally have no worries about food and clothing."

"Really?" Sun Zhijie asked, he didn't believe that things could be so simple: "You mean what you say?"

"Of course." Lu Shaoheng said.

"Okay." After a while, Sun Zhijie's face was completely gray.Although Lu Shaoheng had a discussing tone from the beginning to the end, he knew that this matter was out of his choice, and he had no other way to go.

Moreover, this serious illness has already opened him up a lot.The prosperity of the world is all for profit, and the wealth and wealth that I have accumulated for most of my life are nothing but nothing in the face of death.

Sun Zhijie looked down at the tablet computer on his chest, and said in a low voice, "I'll tell you everything I know."

It was late at night when he came out of the hospital. After Sun Zhijie let go, Lu Shaoheng asked Ling Xiao to come in and ask for the records, while he sat on the sofa beside him, wondering what he was thinking.

The car slowly drove out of the hospital parking lot, Ling Xiao glanced at Lu Shaoheng in the back row, and asked, "Where are you going tonight?"

Lu Shaoheng has several footholds in the urban area, where he lives depends entirely on his mood.

"Whatever, go to the nearest one." Lu Shaoheng leaned on the back seat and closed his eyes to rest, looking a little tired.

Ling Xiao didn't bother him anymore, and replied: "Okay."

The car drove on the road for a while, Lu Shaoheng suddenly opened his eyes, stared at Ling Xiao who was driving, and asked abruptly, "What did Chen Zhuo say to you at the entrance of the hotel today?"

Ling Xiao said as if nothing had happened: "It's nothing, I just explained some precautions for your leg injury."

"Really?" Lu Shaoheng asked.

"Yeah." Ling Xiao felt guilty and avoided Lu Shaoheng's gaze.

"Ling Xiao, I'll warn you one last time." The car drove into the tunnel, and Lu Shaoheng's voice sounded in the darkness, as cold as poisoned ice: "Don't get close to Chen Zhuo."

A chill ran down the spine, and Ling Xiao couldn't help shivering.He raised his head, looked in the rearview mirror, and found that Lu Shaoheng was also looking at him.

There was a brief meeting of eyes in the mirror, and Ling Xiao saw in Lu Shaoheng's eyes a possessive desire that he had never shown to the outside world.

That look is like a bright red snake letter, domineering, cold, and paranoid.

Ling Xiao lost his sight.

The numbers on the dashboard of the car jumped to twelve o'clock, and it was a brand new day.The car passed silently on the elevated road, carrying everything that had happened, into a thicker dark night.

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The Spring Festival arrived in a blink of an eye, and the filming of "No Man's Land" came to an end. Because the mountains were covered by heavy snow and it coincided with the Chinese New Year, the crew simply took a ten-day long vacation.

Chen Zhuo didn't go back to City H, but set off directly from Lanzhou, and transferred to New Zealand to meet his parents.

Now that Lu Heping is paralyzed on the hospital bed without knowing his personnel, An Ran has also torn off his disguise to reveal his green face and fangs, so during the Spring Festival, a happy family day, Lu Shaoheng did not stay by his bedside as a meaningless filial son, nor did he go back to the Lu family mansion to accompany him Aunt An continued to play tricks.After the company was on holiday, he took advantage of the opportunity to send Ling Xiao away, and stayed alone in his house in the urban area, where his ears were rare and quiet.

On the night of New Year's Eve, when thousands of families reunite, a group of idle second-generation ancestors gather in a bar by the river, and take turns telling their tragic stories in order to compete for the last glass of whiskey on the table that has been hoarded for half a century. .

"I have five half-brothers and sisters, and each of them wants to compete with me for family property. It's too bad." A light-haired girl took the wine bottle first, as if she was determined to win it.

"I want to start a business and my family won't let me, so now I can only borrow money to raise money." Xiaokai, who is in the shipping industry beside her, said: "My girlfriend's birthday is at the end of the month, and I don't even have the money to give her a sports car. Who can be as miserable as me?"

"What's this? I'll change it to me." The troubles of money are the least important thing for them, and a young man in the center with necklaces of skulls and crosses all over his body said: "I slept with my wife that year." Mom's boyfriend, who was kicked down from the second floor by her, had multiple comminuted fractures all over his body, and had to lie in bed for three months before he recovered."

This kind of traumatic experience, in the eyes of these prodigal sons who have not experienced any storms, is indeed a bit tragic.

Someone's desire to win was aroused, and he chose to attack when he committed suicide, and then jumped out and said, "I'm impotent."

As soon as this remark came out, it immediately caused a roar of laughter.

After the laughter, someone in the crowd turned their eyes to Lu Shaoheng: "Mr. Lu, it's your turn."

Lu Shaoheng suppressed his smile, thought for a moment, and asked a question that was incompatible with the surrounding environment: "Do you know how to destroy a person through mind control?"

These dudes are ignorant and shake their heads like rattles.

Lu Shaoheng shook his wine glass, and continued to say: "My mother lived under my father's mental abuse, manipulation, and suppression for more than ten years, and then gradually lost her mind, and finally went crazy, and was sent to a mental hospital before she died. "

The first half of Lu Shaoheng's sentence is already scary enough, but he didn't expect the second half: "As a victim, my mother has been insane for most of her life, but she also used the same method to control me. So I became a little crazy , but so far no one has discovered it.”

Compared with other people's encounters, Lu Shaoheng's story was so ingenious, it could even be regarded as a thriller, and it really stunned everyone present.

"Is it true or not?" Shipping Xiaokai was the first to not believe it.

Immediately someone came out to respond: "No way, it's different from what I heard?"

"Where are you crazy?"

Lu Shaoheng saw that everyone seemed to be intimidated by him, he laughed "puchi" and revealed the answer: "Of course it's fake."

"My parents are loving and my family has endless money. I can do whatever I want every day, and I have a handsome celebrity boyfriend like Chen Yan. No one can live a happier life than me." He put the empty cup on the table and smiled. Said: "I won't compete with you for this glass of wine."

Lu Shaoheng's interruption almost delayed the progress of the game, but fortunately he was pulled back soon.Lu Shaoheng had no interest in continuing, so he stayed away from the crowd alone and went to the private room on the second floor.

He walked through the twisting crowd, and just turned up the stairs when the phone in his pocket rang.

Said that Cao Cao Cao Cao arrived, it was Chen Zhuo who was far away on the other side of the world called.

"Where is it?" It should be around four o'clock in the morning in New Zealand. Chen Zhuo just got back from somewhere, and his voice was a little tired.

Lu Shaoheng leaned against the railing on the second floor, watching the demons dance wildly on the dance floor under his feet, "It's in Xie Er's brother's store."

"Is the bar still open today?" Chen Zhuo asked lazily, "I've worked so hard. Is there anyone to cheer for the New Year's Eve?"

In fact, Xie Siwen's brother's bar is not only open tonight, but also held a large-scale electronic music party. On the terrace, with the rhythm of the music, there are lampposts in mid-air, which can be seen from miles away .

"Look at what you said." Lu Shaoheng said with a smile: "There are many people without homes in this city."

Lu Shaoheng said it bleakly, but the dynamic rhythm in the background sound of the phone and the occasional cheers hinted that the atmosphere at the scene was hot, which was not what he said at all.

"Drink less alcohol for Chinese New Year, and go back early if you don't have any fun." Chen Zhuo paused, and then reminded: "Remember to wear a condom."

Lu Shaoheng didn't raise his voice, and obediently responded: "Understood."

Realizing that Chen Yao was going to hang up the phone, he sniffed and asked again: "Is New Zealand fun?"

"It's fun." The "goodbye" on the lips was cut off, and Chen Yao began to play tricks: "I went skydiving yesterday, guess what happened later——"

"Oh? What's the matter?" Unusual, Lu Shaoheng showed a very interested look, and asked following Chen Zhuo's words.

Chen Zhuo told Lu Shaoheng a few interesting things about him recently. Hearing Chen Zhuo describe the scenery of lakes and mountains in the southern hemisphere in spring, Lu Shaoheng suddenly regretted rejecting Chen Zhuo's invitation.

The call had no purpose and no theme, the two of them were chatting casually, and before they knew it, the time had come to midnight.

A countdown animation began to play on the gorgeous electronic screen, and the atmosphere in the audience became agitated. A few young people with no shape and no sense turned up on the stage and followed the rhythm. It seemed that they were going crazy and wanted to striptease in public.

The screams on the first floor came one after another, and there were many words that were not suitable for children. Amidst the countdown of mountains and tsunamis, the new year came.

"Then see you next year." Lu Shaoheng lowered his eyes and said softly to the person on the phone.

Chen Zhuo gave a "hmm" and said, "See you next year."

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The author says:

The first volume is over, and the next chapter begins. The timeline is a few months later.

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