Chapter 358 Mary Sue's Sister-in-law (13)

Ning Shichu drove Li Jiewen back to the city, stopped the car in front of a hotel, and said to him, "Okay, you should get off now."

Li Jiewen seemed to be clinging to her and refused to get out of the car. He said, "Madam, why are you so unsympathetic? I just tried to commit suicide once, and you are so cold and heartless to me. What if I feel hopeless in life and want to commit suicide again?"

Ning Shichu turned his head and stared at him coldly: "Really? Since you are so prone to suicidal impulses, why don't you be my sandbag before you die, so that I can practice my boxing and kicking skills? I just felt that the sandbags I bought were not strong enough and they broke in a few hits. You, the human sandbag, came at the right time. Why don't you repay me before you leave this world?"

Li Jiewen shuddered immediately and said with a wry smile: "No, no, I'm not suitable to be a sandbag..."

I don’t know if Li Jiewen has a “chicken complex” towards Ning Shichu who saved him. In any case, no matter how Ning Shichu mocked him, he endured it, feeling quite shameless.

"What do you want to do by not leaving?" Ning Shichu asked impatiently. If she rescued someone and ended up with a useless plaster, she would wish she could turn back time and never meddle in other people's business again.

"Well... I see you are quite rich. Are you interested in investing in my movie?" Li Jiewen finally stated his purpose hesitantly.

Ning Shichu: ...

She looked at Li Jiewen with a strange expression, and Li Jiewen immediately straightened his chest and said, "Don't worry, I'm not a fake director. I have won the National Best New Director Award. I filmed the movie "Heavy Cocoon" five years ago. Have you seen it? I also won the Golden Plum Director Award and the Best Screenplay..."

Ning Shichu thought about it and indeed remembered the movie "Heavy Cocoon" he mentioned. This low-budget movie was indeed the biggest dark horse of the year. Although it did not win the box office championship, it was also in the top five. The protagonists of this movie were originally just unknown ones on the 18th line, but because of this movie they became famous overnight. Now they have become first- and second-tier stars in the circle.

As the director of this movie, Li Jiewen should have been on the rise, but Ning Shichu didn't expect him to end up like this. In just five years, he went from being a popular up-and-coming director to wanting to commit suicide.

Thinking of this, Ning Shichu couldn't help but look at Li Jiewen with suspicion.

When Li Jiewen saw her eyes, he immediately said anxiously: "I am really the director of "Heavy Cocoon", I didn't lie to you!"

"Then how did you end up like this?" Ning Shichu asked curiously.

"..." Li Jiewen was silent for a long time before answering faintly:

"I was young at the time, and I got carried away after achieving a little success. I didn't know how high the sky was and how deep the earth was when I was praised by others. I signed with Houde Entertainment Company, but who knew that they only saw my fame and didn't take me seriously at all. They forced me to shoot bad dramas and promote popular stars, and took the scripts I wrote for themselves...

Isn't it funny? At the beginning, I trusted Houde's reputation too much and signed the contract without even reading it. It was not until the copyright of my script became the property of the company that I realized what a fool I was.

That would have been fine, I learned a lesson from my failure. The script was taken by someone else, and at most I would not write it again during the contract period. But I didn't expect that Houde would see that I refused to renew the contract and actually wanted to eliminate me completely. After the contract expired, they banned me from the industry.

I couldn’t find anyone to invest, I couldn’t find actors willing to act in my plays, and even the film studios wouldn’t rent me space. I was left with nowhere else to go, and I just wanted to die on impulse.”

Ning Shichu was speechless. Li Jiewen's experience was indeed sympathetic. She asked, "Hou De treated you like this, didn't you leave any evidence?"

"It's useless. Houde has been doing this for who knows how long. There are so many traps in the contract. If I sue them, I will be the only one who suffers." Li Jiewen said with a wry smile, "The power of capital is too great. I used to think I had the ability and talent to resist, but I didn't expect that reality would teach me a lesson."

"I am also a member of the capital. Why do you trust me? Aren't you afraid that I will also take your achievements for myself like Houde did?" Ning Shichu asked.

Li Jiewen said self-deprecatingly: "If this is really the case, then I will accept my fate. After all, it's okay to be blind once. If I'm blind and misjudge people every time, then I'm too stupid. I won't be able to make it in the entertainment industry in the future. It's better to quit early. It won't be worse than it is now."

Ning Shichu nodded and said, "You are lucky this time to meet me." As she spoke, she restarted the car and drove towards her company.

"Where are you taking me?" Li Jiewen asked.

"You'll know when you get there," Ning Shichu said.

Ning Shichu's company was not far away, and they arrived soon. She took Li Jiewen to her company. Sun Yu was talking to several agents. When he saw her come in, he ended the conversation and asked the agents to leave.

"Mr. Ning, you're here. Who is this?" Sun Yu asked when he saw Ning Shichu coming in with a strange man.

"This is Li Jiewen, the director of 'Heavy Cocoon'. He has a script he wants to shoot. Please find someone to evaluate whether it is worth the investment." Ning Shichu went straight to the point.

"Director of Heavy Cocoon?" Sun Yu was an insider in the industry. Heavy Cocoon was a hit movie a few years ago, so he naturally remembered it. So when he heard that Li Jiewen was the director of Heavy Cocoon, he was immediately excited and stretched out his hand to shake his hand: "Nice to meet you, nice to meet you! I've heard a lot about you."

Li Jiewen had been bullied everywhere in Houde Entertainment, and it had been a long time since he had been looked at with such admiration. Now that Sun Yu treated him with such respect, he was flattered. He quickly shook hands with Sun Yu and said, "Mr. Sun, thank you for the compliment. My little achievement is not worthy of your politeness..."

The two of them flattered each other again, and Ning Shichu finally couldn't stand it anymore and said, "Okay, stop bragging and get down to business sooner, can't you?"

Sun Yu and Li Jiewen then stopped talking awkwardly. Ning Shichu told Sun Yu to talk to Li Jiewen about his new script. Sun Yu naturally agreed. After all, his impression of Li Jiewen was still on "Heavy Cocoon". He had no idea that Li Jiewen had filmed a lot of bad movies in recent years and everyone said that he had run out of ideas.

Houde Entertainment wanted to kill him, so they fabricated a lot of negative information about Li Jiewen and threw a lot of dirty water on him, saying that he had sexual relations with female stars, had a bad temper, was arrogant, beat people on the set, was suspected of plagiarism, and occupied other people's scripts...

In short, no matter how you ruin someone's reputation, Li Jiewen has indeed been in a very bad state on the Internet recently. Many people are yelling at him to get out of the entertainment industry, saying that he is not worthy of being a director.

(End of this chapter)