Chapter 55

Nan Tao's eyes were full of sympathy, but her words were blunt and hit Li Ding directly in the lungs.

"What's wrong with you? You're so ugly you can't let anyone see you? Tsk tsk, no wonder you were rejected by Rongya. I don't like her either, but you're so ugly and you're still pursuing her. Isn't that like a toad wanting to eat swan meat? You're overestimating your own abilities. People like you are disgusting even when they're just licking dogs. Rongya is really magnanimous. I'm ashamed of myself. After all, seeing your atrociously ugly face makes me so disgusted that I can even vomit up my leftover food."

"You, you..." Li Ding was so angry that he was shaking all over and his face turned pale.

Nan Tao pressed the elevator button, curling her lips and exaggerating, "What do you mean by 'I'? Am I not telling the truth? You're ugly and you don't even let people say you're ugly? You're so shameless to show it to others. I was just saying it, but you're so petty that you're getting so angry. Even if an ugly man like you were given all the resources, I wouldn't even look at you. It seems Rong Ya treats you well. You helped her get Director Le's female lead, and she's willing to accept you as a lapdog. Tsk, how pitiful."

Li Ding: "What nonsense are you talking about?! Rongya definitely didn't agree to me being a bootlicker just because I gave her resources! Bah bah bah, you're the bootlicker, I'm pursuing her openly!"

Nan Tao smiled faintly: "So you really are her bootlicker?"

Li Ding realized he was being sidetracked. With a sinister look in his eyes, he threatened, "I know Lu Zhao, the new head of Nan Huan's business management department. We've been friends for many years."

Nan Tao: "So, what does it have to do with me?"

Li Ding felt as if he was punching cotton. He gritted his teeth and said, "Do you really not understand or are you pretending not to understand?"

Nan Tao blinked: "What's it to you!"

Li Ding was so angry that he was shaking all over. How could Nan Huan have such an unruly female artist who didn't even know how to read people's expressions? No wonder she was still an 18th-tier artist after all these years. How could such a big agency like Nan Huan take a fancy to a waste like Nan Tao? After meeting Lu Zhao, he must take good care of "Nan Tao".

The elevator door opened with a ding.

Nan Tao brought Yu Ze in, and seeing that Li Ding also wanted to come in, she was worried that the enclosed space was not safe. Although it was broad daylight now, who knew if Li Ding would go crazy.

While Li Ding was still not reacting, Nan Tao quickly pressed the door-closing button. When she saw Li Ding reaching out to pull the elevator door with a sinister look on his face, she quickly pressed the accelerator button.

Li Ding was afraid of getting his hand pinched, so he hurriedly withdrew.

Nan Tao smiled provocatively, and at the last second before the elevator door closed, she saw Li Ding cursing in frustration.

The elevator stopped at the eighteenth floor, and Nan Tao took Yu Ze straight to Lin Hong's office as if they were familiar with the route.

As I walked to the door, I saw a puddle of water on the ground. I didn’t know who spilled the water in their cup onto the ground.

"Son, move away from it. Don't step on it. Be careful not to slip."

When I opened the door, I saw that besides Lin Hong, there was another person in the office, a man. This man was sitting in the seat that originally belonged to Lin Hong, while Lin Hong was standing aside with a document in his hand. He looked respectful, probably a superior.

However, he didn't come to the company often, so Nan Huan didn't know anyone except the president and Lin Hong.

Nan Tao glanced at the man's almost bald head, and estimated his height. He was a little taller than Li Ding, but not much taller. He was barely the same. After all, he was so short when sitting on the chair, so he must not be much taller when standing up.

Lin Hong and the bald man heard the noise and looked towards Nan Tao.

Nan Tao greeted them naturally, "Hello."

Then he walked to the sofa as usual and sat there playing with his phone as usual.

Lin Hong coughed lightly, "Nantao, let me introduce you. This is Lu Zhao, the new head of the business department. He's here to inspect the work."

When Nan Tao heard Lu Zhao's name, it seemed familiar to her. Tsk, isn't this the good friend that Li Ding just mentioned?

Thinking of this, Nan Tao couldn't help but look up. They were indeed good friends, they were both of the same short stature.

Lu Zhao frowned and scolded in a low voice: "No rules, this is your artist? How do you lead people, Lin Hong!"

Lin Hong's eyebrows twitched slightly. Is the new leader so reckless?

The most taboo thing for them in the entertainment industry is to create friction without knowing the other party's background, because no one knows whether the other party has a background or whether the background is bigger than their own.

A typical example happened in the circle two years ago. A female artist relied on her strong background to bully a male artist who had just entered the industry and debuted. As a result, she hit a wall. The consequence was obvious. The female artist was banned.

Seeing that Lu Zhao was still nagging, Lin Hong was afraid that he would annoy Nan Tao, so she tried to dissuade him.

After spending all these years with Nan Tao, she didn't know much else, but she knew this young lady's temperament very well. She was very clear about gratitude and resentment, and anyone who provoked her would definitely pay the price. Of course, before Nan Tao could make a move, she was basically dealt with by Nan Tao's family and husband.

She still vividly remembered the tragic plot to deprive Nan Tao of her virginity two years ago. Just thinking about it made her scalp tingle and her hair stand on end. Nan Tao still had no idea that it was Mr. Yu who was behind this, and she thought it was just bad luck for him to mess with someone he shouldn't have messed with.

She didn't dare tell Nan Tao, but she treated her with respect, not showing it on the surface. Later, she learned from other colleagues that the unlucky guy had been personally dealt with by President Nan Bo, and the punishment was said to be no less severe than that of President Yu.

Nan Tao is surrounded by ruthless people. You can mess with anyone, but you can't mess with Nan Tao.

You can't mess with small things, because Nan Tao will be angry to death, and you can't mess with big things, because the Nan and Yu families are cruel enough.

Lu Zhao slammed the table. "Lin Hong, what's wrong with you?! Why do you keep interrupting me before I even finish my sentence?"

Lin Hong raised a professional smile and said, "Boss Lu, every artist has a different development path and personality. Nan Tao's personality is lazy and casual. Today's netizens are under a lot of pressure and like this style."

Lu Zhao was displeased by the rebuttal and angrily cursed at Lin Hong. Finally, he concluded, "Are you being sarcastic to me? What artist has such a rubbish personality! I think she's just lazy, like a boneless salted fish."

Lin Hong was unhappy. She had kindly tried to stop Lu Zhao from provoking people he shouldn't have, but what happened was that the new official took office and used his power to wield his authority over her and Nan Tao.

Since you want to die, fine, she doesn't mind going along with it, otherwise it would be unfair to get scolded just now.

"Mr. Lu, look at what you said. You're overthinking it. I'm telling the truth." Lin Hong opened the drawer and took out Nan Tao's character design plan. "Look, everything I said just now is exactly the same. It's written clearly there."

Lu Zhao was unable to get down from the situation and was very angry. He sneered and said, "No matter what her personality is, she must change according to what I say from today."

Nan Tao scratched her ears and said, "What did you say, you pighead? Sorry, I didn't hear you clearly, can you repeat it again?"

Lin Hong suppressed her smile, lowered her head and pretended not to hear.

Lu Zhao frowned, looked at Lin Hong, and then looked at Nan Tao. He felt as if he heard someone being called a pighead, but he also thought that he might have heard it wrong. It didn't make sense for Nan Tao to be so bold as to scold him in person. After all, in any artist agency, the person in charge of business management has a lot of say.

"Your character is not good. You're acting crazy and gossiping all day on the kids' show. You're even corrupting the other guests. This has a huge negative impact on Nan Huan's image as an artist. Lin Hong, I order you to revamp Nan Tao's character from today on. Submit a 5,000-word character revamp plan to me tonight."

Lin Hong widened her eyes: "..."

Did I hear that right? Five thousand words?

Haha, the new CEO, Lu, hasn't even gotten his foot in the door yet, and he's already using her as a warning to others? And he's even bringing this up to the entire company's artist image? He's really good at using a big name to gild his own reputation.

She has been in the entertainment industry as an agent for so many years. Does she look like someone who can be easily controlled?

Lin Hong looked at Lu Zhao with a smile and said slowly, "Mr. Lu, please take a closer look at this character design plan."

Lu Zhao glanced at it perfunctorily, "Is there any problem?"

Lin Hong continued to smile and said, "This personnel plan is a special company official document. It has the company seal and the president's signature on it."

Lu Zhao: “…”

No, which artist’s personality plan would specifically go to the celebrity, get stamped, and have the president sign it?

Lin Hong smiled and said, "If you want to change Nan Tao's character design, you need to go through a special cancellation report to invalidate this official document. Then, for the newly drafted character design, you need to go through the same official seal as this one, and have the president's signature. Oh, and if the president asks the reason, this... I can only do what President Lu asks."

Lu Zhao's face paled from being bullied. He'd only been at Nanhuan for less than a month, barely settled in yet. Wouldn't it be troublesome to ask the CEO about such a trivial matter? Wasn't Lin Hong a top-tier agent? How could she not understand such a subtle signal and not stop him just now?

Now that the big talk has been out, hurry up and save face. Lu Zhao suppressed his dissatisfaction and frequently signaled to Lin Hong with his eyes.

Nan Tao was surprised and said, "Boss Lu, what happened to you? Did you have an eye cramp? If your eyes are not good, go to the hospital and see a doctor immediately. Don't go blind."

Lu Zhao was so angry that his stomach hurt, "You..."

Nan Tao smiled lazily and said, "I think my character is pretty good, but since President Lu doesn't like it, it doesn't matter to me. Everything will be done according to President Lu's wishes. Lin Hong gave you a 5,000-word rectification plan tonight, but I think it's still too slow. Why don't we go to the president together now and tell him to change my character. What do you think?"

Lu Zhao didn't dare to go there. Although he didn't know why it was so troublesome for a small artist like Nan Tao, and even changing his personal image had to be approved by the president, he had just joined the company and didn't know whether it was the same for all Nanhuan artists or just Nan Tao.

However, he still prefers the first one, because Li Ding told him that he had investigated Nan Tao's background, which can be said to be three-nothing, with an ordinary family background and no golden thigh. As for the Haishi mansion, it should be a rich woman persona arranged by the company, otherwise he would not rashly take action against Nan Tao and Lin Hong.

After sorting out the logic, Lu Zhao breathed a sigh of relief. What he feared most was provoking people who should not be provoked. At present, Nan Tao should not be the latter, otherwise she would not have had no resources at all after so many years in the company.

Lu Zhao had a cold face and tried to save face. "There's no need to trouble the president with such a small matter."

Nan Tao blinked her watery almond eyes and said innocently, "But you just kept saying 'must'. Are you sure you don't need to change it? The president should be in the company today. We can go together."

As he said this, he pretended to stand up.

Lu Zhao was both scared and angry, "No need!", and left with an angry look on his face.

Because I was walking too fast, I didn't notice a puddle of water at the door. I slipped, my arm flapped in the air a few times, and I fell to the ground.

A big thud on the butt, with a bang, it hurts just to hear it!