"She is indeed next to me, reading a script. If you want to talk to her, that's impossible," Ji Juntao replied.

Shi Shan replied: "You've misunderstood. What I meant was that Ye Chu mustn't see our upcoming conversation."

Ji Juntao and Shang Yechu exchanged a glance.

Ji Juntao picked up his phone, stood up, and left the sofa. After walking to the door, he returned to the sofa and laid the phone out in front of himself and Shang Yechu.

Shang Yechu reached out and typed a few words:

Alright, I've left the room now. Mr. Shi, is there anything you'd like to say? I won't be persuaded.

Ji Juntao glared at Shang Yechu, deleted the words Shang Yechu had typed, and replaced them with:

I have nothing to hide from her.

“It’s too obvious. It’s a bit like trying to hide something,” Ji Juntao said. “This is just right.”

Shang Yechu winked and made a funny face at Ji Juntao.

A while later, a picture was sent over. Ji Juntao clicked on the picture and his expression changed.

The image shows the names of several TV series and low-budget films.

To outsiders, this picture seemed nonsensical. Shang Yechu glanced at the image, scrutinizing Ji Juntao's expression: "What are these?"

Ji Juntao gritted his teeth and uttered a few words: "Several works starring our company's artists."

Ji Juntao's underlings have been doing quite well lately. Although Shang Yechu hasn't been following them closely, she knows that some of them have played supporting roles in a few productions. One of the smaller singers even sang the theme song for a TV series, gaining a small following. A generation of them has already risen to third or fourth-tier fame.

"What's wrong with these works?" Shang Yechu wondered, then exclaimed in shock, "You evaded taxes?!"

"How could that be?" Ji Juntao weakly pushed Shang Yechu away. "Taking money you shouldn't have will ruin your hands. These..."

We're all family, there's nothing we can't say. Ji Juntao lowered his voice: "These resources originally belonged to Tianding Entertainment."

"..."

In a flash, Shang Yechu immediately understood what was going on!

Resources in the entertainment industry are limited, and there's always a surplus. Qingping Entertainment is still small and doesn't have many connections. But Ji Juntao can't let his people go hungry forever.

Large companies always have abundant resources, so Ji Juntao used his connections to acquire (or rather, steal) some of them. As for how Tianding Entertainment's resources ended up in Ji's hands, that question is difficult to answer definitively...

Shang Yechu's eyelids twitched: "How much did your aunt give you?"

“A small portion”.

Shang Yechu glanced at Ji Juntao.

Ji Juntao raised his hands in surrender: "Give me everything below the third tier."

"..."

Shang Yechu nearly jumped up: "You're really greedy!"

“I’m not that stupid,” Ji Juntao argued. “I carefully selected some that were sure to be hits, less than a tenth of them. I gave the rest back to my mother. Afraid that Tianding Entertainment would find out, I even reluctantly sold the information on the biggest and best resources to Meta Pictures and Guanjun Century.”

Shang Yechu's eyelids twitched as if she'd been slapped twice: "You're trying to shift the blame? Aren't you afraid of implicating Auntie?"

“It’s very common in the industry,” Ji Juntao said. “Apart from those big productions and big roles, these small fry always leak out from everywhere. Others leak out more than my mother does, and Tianding Entertainment is also confused about it.”

"Alright, alright," Shang Yechu said impatiently, shoving Ji Juntao. "I'm too lazy to deal with your amateurish stuff. Just reply to him already. Can't you see he's threatening you?"