Xue Yi was sowhat surprised, "Zhongxing is hers? Isn’t Jiang Chuanning the boss of Zhongxing?"
After speaking, his eyes couldn’t help but widen!!!
Jiang Chuanning?!
The biggest shareholder of Xingyue before was also a person surnad Jiang...
As for this President Jiang, Xue Yi arrived late and had limited information. But he knew one thing, President Jiang had great authority and was a woman brave enough to innovate.
Could it be... could it be...
Did President Jiang have any relation to the President Jiang of Zhongxing?
Could President Yue be their direct relative?
If that was true, then Zhongxing really was another industry of President Yue’s!!! The official boss was Jiang Chuanning, but the actual boss was President Yue?!
What a huge scoop, Xue Yi was truly shocked!
Thinking back to the sequence of moves President Yue made after joining Xingyue, disposal of dissidents was both swift and accurate.
What did that represent?
It represented that her thods, rights, and connections were incomparable to ordinary people!
Thinking of that old rumor...
Could it be... could it be that President Yue was related to the legendary Jiang Family?!
Xue Yi patted his chest, suppressing the shock in his heart completely.
Stop thinking about it! If he thought any more, then President Yue would be the successor to the empire created by the Jiang Family! Then what was he, a person directly promoted by President Yue? The crown prince of Xingyue?
Xue Yi dared not entertain such presumptuous thoughts and quickly cast aside all inappropriate ideas from his mind.
He cleared his throat to state the purpose of his visit today, "Senior brother, how has Soaring Sky been treating you?"
Si Younian took a deep breath and answered truthfully, "Most people in the studio are okay, it’s an honor to work with them."
"Most?" Xue Yi sensed sothing was off, "What about the few... are they making you suffer?"
Si Younian was silent, unsure of how to bring it up.
Xue Yi didn’t press further, quietly holding his phone, waiting for his senior brother to speak.
The room was unusually cold, and Si Younian’s breath ford a white mist in the air, looking lost and confused.
"I... my agent... she... went against my wishes..."
Si Younian slowly began, "Today, I ssed up an endorsent contract. I’ve been in the industry for so many years and I’ve always maintained my original intentions, not wanting to be tainted by this circle..."
Xue Yi, who could relate, responded, "Yet the reality is, no matter how much you want to stay pure, there are always dirty hands stretching out towards you... Senior brother, I know you’re extrely dedicated, you even insisted on shooting the Flying sweaters advertisent until today. If there’s sothing that could make you give up a contract, nine tis out of ten... it’s the hidden rules!"
Si Younian’s head rested on the cold wall, his curled up on the floor, looking like a small beast that had been kicked several tis and was huddling together and sobbing for warmth.
"I don’t want to succumb..."
His drooping eyelashes couldn’t hide the bright gleam in his eyes.
It was hope, it was yearning!
It was the promise he once made to her.
The entertainnt industry was chaotic, but he would prove to her that not everyone bows down to dark forces.
Xue Yi understood that if he didn’t have the issue with his father, he too would want to be as unyielding as his senior brother.
He bowed his head for the sake of living, but when navigating the glittering and excessive banquets, did he not harbor resentnt?
Seeing his senior brother maintaining his true self even after becoming hugely popular, how he envied him in his heart.
"Senior, all these years, your path has been far more difficult than ours as ordinary artists! I... I understand..." Xue Yi anxiously tightened his grip on his phone, explaining his purpose, "I... Actually, the reason I’m making this call today is to ask you, do you want to switch to another company?"
"Switch companies?" Si Younian was clearly taken aback.
"I’m here on behalf of my boss..." Xue Yi paused, realizing sothing was off, and corrected himself, "It’s not exactly on behalf of the boss, it’s a ’Mission’ she gave ... Ah, no, not a ’Mission’..."
The more he spoke, the more confused he beca, fearing Si Younian would misunderstand sothing.
Stumbling over his words, he couldn’t even utter a punctuation mark properly...
"I..." Xue Yi didn’t know how to phrase it better. He lowered his head despondently, "Give a mont to organize my thoughts."
Suddenly, Si Younian laughed.
His hearty laughter filled the room, adding much warmth to it.
His voice regained its clarity, like a parched balloon filled with air once again, embodying a sense of revitalized energy.
"No rush, take your ti to organize," Si Younian even felt like teasing him, "Xue Yi, you might not have eaten pork, but you’ve seen a pig run, right? When other companies tried to poach you, were they also this blunt? Haha."
Xue Yi hemd and hawed: "emmm... no company has tried to poach ."
This ti, it was Si Younian’s turn to feel embarrassed!
He sat up straight, cleared his throat: "emmm... Sorry, Xue Yi, I didn’t an that..."
Xue Yi revealed his bright white teeth: "Don’t worry, senior, I understand."
Having said this, he knew how to begin.
"Senior, over the years, I’ve only shared the good news and kept the bad to myself. Actually... my ti at Xingyue has been tough. Do you want to hear my story?"
Si Younian nodded: "Yes."
Xue Yi looked up at the moonlit sky, let out a cool breath, and began to tell about his ti after joining Xingyue.
When it cos to looks, Xue Yi wasn’t the most handso.
When it cos to temperant, he didn’t possess that detached divine quality Si Younian had.
Placed in a crowd, Xue Yi could go unnoticed by everyone, rather inconspicuous!
But there was one aspect about him that was quite fatal.
He looked very easy to bully!
It was a vulnerability that appeared both physically and psychologically.
This perception clung to him like perfu, like the ambience crafted by light, permanently welded to Xue Yi’s being.
Many saw his bright and clear eyes for the first ti and thought — it must be fun to make him cry.
They didn’t care for his clean and pure appearance; they only wanted to bully Xue Yi until his eyes were red and swollen, to watch him silently weep in a corner, glaring in anger but daring not rebuke.
Xue Yi had been bullied during his school days. Those people might have found others unappealing or rely wanted to show off how tough they were, but with Xue Yi, they simply relished seeing his helpless tears.
It was only during college when Si Younian was constantly with him that the situation improved slightly.
If ordinary people felt that way, those with power were no exception.
Feng Long and Feng Hong set their sights on Xue Yi from the start. At every gathering, Feng Hong enjoyed getting him so drunk that tears welled up in his red-rimd eyes, teetering on the brink of falling... taking perverse pleasure in it.
Xue Yi struggled in such an environnt for several years, all for his father’s lifesaving money.
He was almost ready to give up when President Yue ca along.
Reaching this part of his tale, Xue Yi’s eyes moistened again, and he said with emotion: "Senior, the boss was like a beam of light shining into my barren heart. The mont she appeared, I knew... I had co back to life..."
Si Younian, with the speakerphone on, lifted his right hand and wiped away a tear: "I understand how you feel."
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