Narcissus: Before Becoming You

【Note: This article has no real-life character prototypes; any resemblance is purely coincidental.】

Actress Qiao Zheng, who gained notoriety in the entertainment industry, has endured cou...

Chapter 86 Fei Yuan bans the Xu family, and Qiao Zhizheng backs up Qiao Zheng...

Chapter 86 Fei Yuan bans the Xu family, and Qiao Zhizheng backs up Qiao Zheng...

Xu Ying's so-called revenge came quickly.

When Qiao Zheng and Qiao Zhizheng saw the overwhelming negative articles about Qiao Zhizheng on the Internet, they were no longer surprised.

These people come and go using the same tactics.

Qiao Zheng had very few scenes left in the crew of "The Lonely Boat". The emotionally exhausting final battle scene had already been filmed. When she met Xu Ying in the crew, they disliked each other and ignored each other.

Lin Yiwei privately asked Qiao Zheng about the situation. This kind of thing was very tricky. After all, the filming was almost done, and Xu Ying suddenly did this weird thing. Lin Yiwei was very angry, but the entire crew had worked very hard in the past few months, and they couldn't let the efforts of so many people go to waste because of Xu Ying's trouble.

Qiao Zheng expressed her attitude of "considering the overall situation" at the right time.

Lin Yiwei felt extremely guilty, and even angrier when she thought of Xu Ying. She regretted choosing him as the male lead.

Now that things have come to this, Lin Yiwei promised that if there are any disputes in the future, she will express her position to the public in the most fair and just manner.

Lin Yiwei not only talked big but also took concrete actions. Knowing that Qiao Zheng had no plans to act in movies in the future, she introduced Qiao Zhizheng to a science fiction director she knew.

"Zhang Zhi isn't the kind of director who uses cheap special effects. All the money spent on the film went into those. You know Feiyuan Technology, right? They're the company that recently launched the holographic game."

Qiao Zheng's eyes flickered, and she nodded. "I know."

"Zhang Zhi's next film will be a collaboration with Fei Luan, and the special effects will be absolutely top-notch. You can rest assured that Qiao Zhizheng will star in her film."

Qiao Zheng received verbal comfort and tangible benefits.

Chen Yuzhi suddenly called Qiao Zhizheng and said that someone threatened her because Qiao Zhizheng starred in "Tower of Love 12", and her movie was blocked. She was asked to post a Weibo to participate in the wave of bashing Qiao Zhizheng on the Internet, and they would fund her to make another movie.

Chen Yuzhi paced around the room, cursing, "...You'd have to have had a 10-year brain thrombosis to say something like that. Is Chunchun crazy? I worked so hard to make this movie, and you want me to destroy it myself. I'm going to fuck him up..."

With parents as the center and eighteen generations of ancestors as the radius, Chen Yuzhi launched an all-round indiscriminate attack.

When Chen Yuzhi was cursing, Qiao Zhizheng turned on the speakerphone and heard every word.

Qiao Zheng gave Qiao Zhizheng a shocked look: I didn't expect that Chen Yuzhi, who usually looks so gentle, would be so good at scolding people at critical moments.

Qiao Zhizheng blinked, and the meaning in her eyes was clear: Chen Yuzhi must be furious. After all, she had spent so much effort to shoot this thing, and now she had to destroy it with her own hands. Only a fool would do such a thing.

Qiao Zheng frowned: He probably knew that Chen Yuzhi was risking everything this time and had mortgaged her house, and knew that she had no other way out, so he wanted to use this to restrain her.

After Chen Yuzhi cursed for a while, she let out the anger in her heart. She no longer felt as depressed as before and felt much more comfortable.

"I, Chen Yuzhi, am not that kind of person."

"but……"

Qiao Zheng and Qiao Zhizheng both held their breath, waiting for Chen Yuzhi's answer.

Chen Yuzhi's throat must have been dry from scolding him for so long. He drank some water, smacked his lips, and continued, "If the bank takes my house away, don't forget to take me in."

Qiao Zhizheng comforted her, "Don't worry, that day won't come."

Chen Yuzhi: "???!!! You're so good..."

Qiao Zhizheng: "Tsk~ It's like there's no one above you."

Chen Yuzhi: "Who?"

Qiao Zhizheng: "I won't tell you. Anyway, all you need to know is that the movie can be broadcast smoothly."

Chen Yuzhi calmed down for the time being.

It's easy to tell that it was Xu Ying who sent someone to do this.

Not only that, several familiar directors sent messages to Qiao Zhizheng, saying that the Xu family had threatened to ban her, but they ignored them.

As an investor, the Xu family has cooperative dealings with many film and television companies, and has been hinting, both overtly and covertly, not to cooperate with Qiao Zhizheng.

Not to mention the distant past, just recently Zhang Zhi’s new science fiction film "Above the Stars". The Xu family heard about it and, as one of the main investors of "Above the Stars", put two choices in front of Zhang Zhi - either me or her, or either her or me.

As a science fiction film, special effects definitely cost a lot of money, and the Xu family's threat is very powerful.

The day Qiao Zheng learned about this, she flew to the city where Zhang Zhi was and met with her. No one knew what they talked about. After that, the Xu family withdrew their investment and Feiyuan Technology took over as one of the main investors of "Above the Stars".

Others don’t know what Zhang Zhi and Qiao Zheng talked about, but Qiao Zhizheng knows.

Based on her ten-year-leading knowledge of movies, Qiao Zheng gave Zhang Zhi some small suggestions. Zhang Zhi's original movie script was already excellent, and Qiao Zheng's novel idea took the movie to a higher level. She cleverly filled in the two links that Zhang Zhi originally felt were awkward and poorly connected. Zhang Zhi held Qiao Zheng's hand and felt that they had met too late. He wished he could make her his confidant, and his impression of Qiao Zheng became even better.

At the same time, Qiao Zheng invested in "Above the Stars" as a representative of Feiyuan Technology and became the producer of "Above the Stars". She was not resident in the crew, but was mainly responsible for the overall financial control and major decision-making, and occasionally participated in key meetings of the crew.

Why not stay in the crew? Compared with Xu Xunzhen, I have my own opinion——

Xu Xunzhen pointed at the two dark circles under his eyes and asked, "Look what is this?"

Qiao Zheng's eyes flickered. "Is the shadow crooked?"

Xu Xunzhen sneered and looked at her expressionlessly.

"Qiao Zheng! You said you'd be back after filming for two months, but look at how long it's been? It's been 128 days. I haven't had a day off in 128 days. I've either been working at the company or attending social events. I... I..."

Xu Xunzhen became increasingly heartbroken as she spoke, and Qiao Zheng quickly tried to comfort her, "Okay, okay, I'll be right back..."

When Qiao Zheng is free, she also handles company affairs remotely, but it is still not that convenient.

The company recently took on an official cooperation. Xu Xunzhen had been eyeing this project for a long time. When it was successfully won, everyone in the company received a generous bonus. From top to bottom, there was joy, but... it was really tiring.

Now that the government is strongly supporting Feiyuan Technology, Xu Xun is both happy and worried. He is happy because the future is bright, but he is worried that he will not live up to this support.

At first, Qiao Zheng said that she would only invest and not participate in the company's operations. Later, when Feiyuan Technology was in its restarting phase, seeing that Xu Xunzhen could not handle it alone, Qiao Zheng participated in the company's operations. Later, she inexplicably began to take on more and more work, and inexplicably owned an office. And now, half of Xu Xunzhen's work was naturally divided into her.

Seeing Qiao Zheng's troubled expression, Xu Xunzhen guessed that she had finally figured things out. He immediately put his droopy face back on and said to her seriously, "Come back when you've finished your business. I'll be waiting for you. Bye."

I was afraid that Qiao Zheng would change her mind and not come back.

Qiao Zheng: ...

The Xu Xunzhen that Qiao Zheng met in the original timeline was a workaholic. Perhaps the setbacks at the beginning made her not trust others, and she only wanted to keep a firm control of the company. Although she was already the boss of a successful company, she still rarely gave herself a holiday.

As for now...

Qiao Zheng's eyes shifted to the screen which had automatically turned off.

Maybe it doesn't matter how you work when you can handle it alone, but when you think about the fact that the company was founded by two people and you have worked hard to build it up, you cannot accept that your colleagues are having an easy time. When you think about this, the work in your hands no longer has any interest.

Especially—Qiao Zheng can still find time to date in her busy schedule, and have someone to accompany her when she’s tired, but I’m a single dog, and when I’m tired, I can only hug myself, all alone, all alone, and a lonely person...

Whenever Xu Xunzhen thought of this, he couldn't help but feel sad. He looked at the office that was as bright as daylight, then looked at the dark blue night sky outside the window and sighed.

Friends are like this, when no one else has you, we are all happy.

If you have it and I don’t, I’m not happy.

"Ding~" There was a sound, and Xu Xunzhen sent a message, "Friend, come back soon, I want to find love."

Qiao Zheng was a little surprised. The Xu Xunzhen in Qiao Zheng's original timeline was still single in his thirties. Every time they met, he only cared about work and had no idea about love. She didn't expect that the Xu Xunzhen now had the idea of ​​looking for love.

Qiao Zheng smiled and replied, "Danggui."

Put down your phone and start doing other things.

As Qiao Zhizheng had Qiao Zheng's support, she was not at all worried about the Xu family's ban.

The Xu family simply wanted to cut off Qiao Zhizheng's escape route from film and television investment.

Unfortunately, they don’t know that Qiao Zheng, as a famous “angel investor” in the film and television industry, has invested in many low-cost TV dramas, movies and variety shows, all of which have been a huge hit, and he has deep connections with many film and television companies.

No matter how many times the Xu family cooperates with film and television companies, the film and television industry is not entirely dominated by the Xu family.

The Xu family banned Qiao Zhizheng, and Qiao Zhizheng turned around and provided her with better resources.

Second- and third-tier endorsements may be influenced by the Xu family, but first-tier and above endorsements are not influenced by the Xu family. They have their own selection criteria.

The Xu family worked hard for a long time, but found that they had worked in vain.

Qiao Zhizheng didn't care about the impact it could have. What Qiao Zhizheng cared about was that Xu Jiani tried his best, but only caused some insignificant minor damage, which he could just get over with a wave of his hand.

Xu Xiangwan was so angry that she threw things around in Xu Ying's office, shouting, "Who's behind this Qiao Zhizheng? Does Hengxing Entertainment have such power? How did they save her?"

"Hengxing doesn't have that ability! Who is it? Who is it? I'm going to teach her a lesson!"

Xu Ying sat behind his desk and looked at Xu Xiangwan expressionlessly until Xu Xiangwan was exhausted from banging. Then Xu Ying slowly took out a stack of documents and placed them in front of Xu Xiangwan.

"Who else could it be? It's Qiao Zheng, the one you want the most!"

Xu Xiangwan lowered her head and looked at the words crawling like ants in her hands. She felt dizzy and took a half step back uncontrollably.

Seeing Xu Xiangwan remained silent, Xu Ying rubbed his throbbing temples and said irritably, "I didn't expect Qiao Zheng, who is so quiet and unassuming, to have such great abilities."

Xu Ying asked Xu Xiangwan: "Suppression is useless, do you want to continue?"

Xu Xiangwan stared intently at the things Qiao Zheng had done for Qiao Zhizheng on the paper. Her heart ached as she gritted her teeth and said, "Keep going! Why not? I want to see Qiao Zhizheng's reputation ruined before my eyes!"

Xu Ying shook his head. Xu Xiangwan had completely lost her mind. But, so what? After all, she was his sister. He would definitely protect her first.

I have already taken action. Things have come to this point. In this situation, there is no reason to stop. If I stop now, wouldn’t it be a joke?

Once the arrow is shot, there is no turning back. Xu Ying made a phone call and gave instructions.

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The author has something to say: Kite - my previous impression of it was "paper kite", but after reading "Ancient Love Song" I learned that "kite" means "eagle". "Kite" follows the general term for birds of prey in ancient literature, and can be understood as an image of a bird of prey similar to an "eagle", without the need to strictly distinguish the biological differences.

So we named the company "Feiyuan Technology". I know some people may ask why it is not Feiying Technology, because -

"Flying Eagle" reminds me of a brand of blades that was common in my childhood - Flying Eagle Blades. When I bring it into the text, I feel an inexplicable sense of joy.

Hmmmm? I didn't come up with a name for Xu Xunzhen's tech company earlier, did I? Probably? Shouldn't I? If so, could you remind me where it is? I rarely look back at my writing; I usually leave it as is, unless there's something crucial I remember, then I'll look back. If there are any bugs, please point them out. Love you!

Add a little more thoughts: Angelica - this is the name of a medicinal material. If there are sisters with dysmenorrhea, they should have been cooked by their family or cooked Angelica eggs for themselves. This word may be glanced at at ordinary times, but in fact, if you think about it carefully, you will find it very charming. Angelica, Angelica, it will definitely come back.

Let’s go a little further——

"It's getting late, why don't you come back?"

Then he replied, “Danggui, Danggui.” (I’m back, I’m back)

This sentence is not in the original text, I just picked it up myself, just read it for fun, I just thought it was interesting so I wrote it down hahahahaha