Chapter 278: Live In The Mont
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
Li Lei’s expression showed disappointnt.
Xia Ling smiled and lifted her glass. “Boss, don’t dwell in the details. There’s still a long way to go, let’s just get drunk today.”
Li Lei reverted to his usual lazy self as he watched her. “Today? Xiao Ling, you aren’t soone to get drunk.” He lifted the glass in his hands and clinked it gently against hers. He said suspiciously, “If you really get drunk, why don’t you just live in the mont and agree to be my girlfriend again?”
Perhaps because she had a little to drink, Xia Ling’s face was slightly flushed. She cheekily said, “No, no... it’s not that easy to be my boyfriend.” She stared at him and maintained her smile. “Let’s talk after you have dealt with your family.”
She did not want to have to break up all of a sudden again if they rekindled their relationship.
“I will.” Li Lei promised with a serious expression.
After that incident, the fact that she had not declined his pursuit of her was already sothing that he was very grateful for. Even if she had not raised this issue, he was already thinking of how to deal with his family. It was not rely ensuring that his grandfather would not harm her, but also ensuring that his entire family would willingly accept her and that she could properly beco the Li family missus.
To this end, he needed to fight it out with his crazy brother.
Li Lei’s gaze turned colder as he thought about this. The reason he had left China before was to avoid getting into a fight with his brother and acceded the role of the family heir to him. In fact, he felt that Li Feng was more suitable to manage the Li family businesses since they mostly involved the underworld. Li Feng was more vicious than he was, and enjoyed the dog-eat-dog nature of the underworld, whereas Li Lei did not.
He never had strong intentions to battle it out with Li Feng.
However, things were different now. Now, there was Xiao Ling in the picture.
He needed to ensure that he acquired enough power to guarantee Xiao Ling’s position and safety in his family. The best way to achieve that was to beco the head of the family like his grandfather, such that nobody could question anything he said and dare harm the girl he loved.
It was also good for Xiao Ling to leave Skyart Entertainnt at this ti.
Skyart Entertainnt would be embroiled in this power struggle and be a piece in his masterplan for the war with Li Feng. There would be danger and storms brewing, and he did not want his girl to be implicated in all of it.
Li Lei looked at Xia Ling with a gentle smile on his face. “Wait for to give you a safe ho.”
They had a pleasant and happy al, and after this bit of flirting, Li Lei gave her so useful advice regarding choosing the right agency. “If you want to beco a Diva, you need to pick a big agency with enough experience and ability, with the right systems in place, and it would be best that they are focused on being a managent agency with few other side businesses. Those kinds of companies are different from conglorates like Skyart Entertainnt or Imperial Entertainnt as they only focus on the managent of their artistes. They don’t dabble in the making of movies or music production, and all their energy will be focused on marketing and packaging their artistes, or picking the best activities and shows for them to go on. They tend to be highly experienced and have good ties with all the production companies in the industry, and they also provide a lot of breadth in terms of endorsent deals.”
“So you’re saying that they wouldn’t be like Skyart Entertainnt and not accept deals from Imperial Entertainnt because they have a bad relationship?” Xia Ling comnted as she digested what the Big Boss was saying.
Big Boss was unhappy with her statent. “Are you so bent on working with Imperial Entertainnt?”
“Actually, Pei Ziheng has approached and invited to join Imperial Entertainnt. I’ve rejected him.” Feeling relaxed under the influence of alcohol, Xia Ling lazily revealed her earlier conversation with Pei Ziheng to Li Lei.
Li Lei’s eyes narrowed into a line as he contemplated her. Suddenly, he laughed and said, “I’m glad.” He then lightly clinked her glass again and continued. “I won’t see Gu Lin, and you should not see Pei Ziheng as well.”
Xia Ling nodded. “I won’t see him.” She paused before shaking her head. “But, he... he is an important person to ... should I forgive him? I... I might forgive him soon.”
Her mumbling made Li Lei’s expression darken, and he instinctively felt that she was going to reveal an important answer to him. Almost holding in his breath, Li Lei softly asked her, “So, who is he to you?”
Xia Ling did not hold her alcohol well and easily beca drunk after a few sips of red wine. Yet, even though her head was spinning from the alcohol, the truth of her relationship with Pei Ziheng was too important and caught herself before she revealed the secret with what remained of her rationality. She looked at Li Lei, a sad smile on her face, and said, “Very important... Do you know he’s more important to than Gu Lin is to you? Many, many, many tis more important...”
She refused to say anything more.
“Why is he so important?” Li Lei tried to pry more information from her and asked in a seductive voice.
“My head is spinning.” She mumbled and put her head in her hands. She lightly closed her eyes and fell asleep.
Li Lei watched her calm sleeping expression for a mont. There was sothing that he could not bring himself to ask. Is he more important than ?
He wanted to know the answer to that question but was afraid of what he might hear.
When Xia Ling woke up the next morning, she was in her rental apartnt and sleeping in her own bed. Soone had helped her change into her pajamas and covered her with the blanket.
As she got up to brush her teeth, Luo Luo spied her and comnted, “Boss Li sent you back yesterday and told to prepare sothing light for your breakfast because you drank too much.”
She nodded and sent Li Lei a ssage thanking him for his concern.
She could not rember what she had told him yesterday. It looked like she should stay away from alcohol as much as possible in the future.
She went to the company and completed the necessary administrative procedures to release herself from Skyart Entertainnt as Sister Mai Na and the others looked on, their unhappiness with her leaving apparent on their faces. She was also sad to leave them and promised that there would be opportunities for them to work together in the future and that she would stay in touch and co back to visit everyone.
She walked out of Skyart Entertainnt.
At this mont, her body felt light, but she felt slightly at a loss at what the future held for her.
She had still not chosen a managent agency, although Li Lei and Sister Mai Na had given her so direction for her consideration. She was still very much on her own in making the decision. She was undecided between several companies and managers, and she suddenly thought of a person that could give her more advice. That person was more professional than Li Lei and Wei Shaoyin...
Feng Kun.
Feng Kun was a well-reputed veteran in the industry, and everyone considered him to be steady, diplomatic, and ticulous. He had lots of friends and understood the people in the industry a lot more than soone like Li Lei, who was a Big Boss that left the day-to-day matters to his subordinates. Compared to Wei Shaoyin, who was arrogant and anal, Feng Kun was more objective and calm in his assessnts. If she were able to get advice from him, she could supplent what she knew from Li Lei and the rest to make a more inford decision.
Xia Ling took out her mobile and called Feng Kun without further ado.
Feng Kun invited her to et him in the private room of a cafe.
“I was waiting for you to look for .” He gently smiled as he looked at Xia Ling.
Xia Ling felt a little apologetic. “I really need your help to assess which company and manager I should join.”
“I’d be sad if you didn’t approach .” Feng Kun jokingly said and continued, “You should have received quite a lot of offers, right? Show the list.”
Xia Ling was prepared and took it out.
Feng Kun scanned the list before saying, “There are several good companies on the list, and the managers listed are good as well. Unfortunately...”
“Unfortunately what?”
“The person that I was thinking of recomnding is not on the list.”
“Who is that?” Xia Ling’s curiosity was piqued.
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