In the end, the loan agreement between the two was modified according to Jiang Dao's proposal.
Next, we just have to wait for the people from Chu Yinlong’s studio to negotiate with Xinghe Media to discuss the specific amount of liquidated damages.
After handing the agreement to his assistant, Chu Yinlong looked at Jiang Dao and suddenly asked, "Are you living in the dormitory of Xinghe Media now?"
Jiang Dao nodded: "Yes, I have been looking at houses these past two days, but it is difficult to find a suitable one."
Although he still had a lot of savings, it was obviously far from enough to buy a house in Yan City, otherwise he would not be unable to pay the penalty of one million yuan. If he moves to the suburbs, transportation will become a big problem - unless he can get a driver's license as soon as possible.
However, if you rent a house in the city, the privacy that an artist needs will be difficult to guarantee, and you may encounter unexpected troubles.
"Since you are unwilling to sign the agency contract, we cannot allocate the dormitory of Longqi Entertainment to you," Chu Yinlong thought for a moment and said, "However, I personally own two apartments. If you don't mind, you can choose one to stay in temporarily."
Hearing this, Jiang Dao raised his eyebrows: "Why do I feel more and more that you are setting a trap for me? You are helping me to advance the penalty for breach of contract, and you are giving me the house to live in... Suddenly I feel like I have jumped into the trap myself."
Chu Yinlong smiled and said, "I'm helping you pay the penalty. Wasn't it you who asked for it?"
Jiang Dao pretended to be scared, with a vigilant look on his face: "You won't only give me a few hundred yuan for the film in the future? Add the rent, then I will never be able to pay it back in my lifetime?"
These words made Chu Yinlong not know whether to laugh or cry.
He reached out and pointed at the word "fair" in the "fair remuneration" in the agreement and said, "If I only give you a few hundred dollars in remuneration, will you still run away?"
After joking around for a while, Jiang Dao got back to business: "If your house is suitable, I can move in... but I can't live there for free. You can set a rent and we can sign a rental contract."
Chu Yinlong sighed: "Do you have to calculate it so clearly? I thought we were already friends."
Hearing this, Jiang Dao suddenly remembered what Lu Zhengrong said a few days ago, about Chu Yinlong having few friends of the same age.
Obviously, after just two variety shows together, Chu Yinlong has already recognized him as a "friend". It is probably for this reason that Chu Yinlong wrote the agreement just now to be so considerate of him and did not make any harsh demands on him.
It’s just a pity that, from Jiang Dao’s side, the relationship between the two has not yet reached his definition of “friends” - for example, if the two of them were to step onto the battlefield together now, facing a life-and-death crisis, Jiang Dao would not be able to safely leave his whole life to Chu Yinlong.
This is the code of conduct for making friends in the wasteland of the apocalypse. Trusting a person's character is one thing, but not fearing the test of human nature is another.
Therefore, Jiang Dao could not accept Chu Yinlong's excessive kindness with peace of mind.
"You've helped me a lot." His smile was impeccable. "Even if we're friends, I should pay the rent for living in your house."
Seeing that he insisted, Chu Yinlong didn't hesitate any more: "Okay. If you don't have any plans next, let's have lunch together. After lunch, I'll take you to see a house."
"No plans." Jiang Dao put down his teacup and leaned back in the booth. "I don't have classes on the weekends, and I don't have work. Zhu Yao is busy with the two kids' group and has no time to take care of me... If I wasn't afraid that the company would arrange auditions or social events for me, I wouldn't be in such a hurry to terminate the contract if I could stay idle like this."
Chu Yinlong was helpless: "So, you still want to be able to live freely in the mountains, rivers and fields in the future?"
Jiang Dao smiled: "Of course, my ultimate goal has never changed."
Chu Yinlong said nothing more. He drank his tea silently and moved his gaze to the lush flower garden outside the window.
"But don't worry." After a moment of silence, Jiang Dao spoke, his tone was very light, but solemn and serious, "I will do my best to do what I promised you, and I won't deal with it casually. Correspondingly, I only promised to star in the movie, as for the publicity..."
"I won't hold you back." Chu Yinlong sighed, "I will try my best to weaken your presence in publicity. You just need to concentrate on your performance."
Jiang Dao curled the corners of his mouth and gave Chu Yinlong an extremely sweet smile generously.
Chu Yinlong accidentally choked on his tea and coughed violently a few times, with a pink patch appearing under his ears.
After a simple lunch in the cafe, the two went to a high-end residential area near Longqi Entertainment and took a look at the apartment mentioned by Chu Yinlong.
The apartment is not big and is obviously designed for one person to live alone, with two bedrooms, a living room, a kitchen and a bathroom. In addition to the bedroom, there is another room with a whole wall of mirrors. Next to the mirrors are treadmills and fitness equipment, and there is a sandbag in the corner.
Seeing the toothbrush and cup placed in the bathroom, Jiang Dao looked suspicious: "Do you come here often?"
"I don't come here very often." Chu Yinlong did not hide it. "When my schedule takes me to a place nearby, I'll occasionally stay here for a night or two to reduce my commuting time. I usually stay in the suburbs, which is closer to the airport and more convenient for travel... Oh, I'll ask Xiao Yang to pack these things and take them away."
"No need, just put it in the cabinet." Jiang Dao smiled, "Your home is still your home. If you have a schedule here one day, come back and stay. I can sleep on the floor in the training room for one night... By the way, is there gas in the kitchen?"
When Chu Yinlong heard this question, he felt embarrassed for a moment.
"There's no gas," he coughed lightly, "only electrical appliances... well, the shower is also electrically heated, so you need to boil water in advance."
Seeing his expression, Jiang Dao suddenly remembered that the actor in front of him had a bad relationship with the kitchen and had even caused several fires in the past - no wonder there was no gas in the kitchen, otherwise, his assistant would probably be worried every day.
After looking at the apartment and discussing the rent issue, Chu Yinlong sent Jiang Dao back to Galaxy Media.
After watching the grown man disappear around the corner of the basement, Chu Yinlong withdrew his gaze and chuckled softly.
In the driver's seat, the assistant couldn't help but say, "You helped him pay for breach of contract and rented him a house. If people knew that you did all this just to 'beg' him to act in a movie, everyone would probably think you were crazy."
"No."
Chu Yinlong lowered his eyes slightly and looked at the off screen of his mobile phone.
"They won't think I'm crazy, they will only speculate Jiang Dao with greater malice. So, you know about this matter, I know about it, and he knows about it. Let's announce to the public that he is an artist signed by me to the studio. If a fourth person knows about the loan, you should prepare your resignation letter."
The assistant shrank his neck: "Understood!"
After a moment of silence, Chu Yinlong said, "The episode of Dry Eater will be aired tonight, so keep an eye on the PR team."
The assistant nodded immediately: "Okay, if there is anything, I will report to you as soon as possible!"
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Eight o'clock in the evening.
"Go ahead, eaters!" 》The new issue has arrived as promised.
Jiang Dao sat on the small sofa in the dormitory, looking at Zhou Wei, who had come uninvited, with a speechless face.
"If you want to watch a variety show, why do you have to come to my room?" He held a box of popcorn that the other party brought and sighed, "If I were to invite you, I should have invited Tang Yao to watch it with me."
Zhou Wei looked at Jiang Dao with a puzzled look on his face: "Why should I ask Brother Yao out?"
Jiang Dao was speechless.
That's right, during this period, Zhou Wei hadn't been conquered by Tang Yao yet, and their CP had just begun to emerge, but had not yet reached the point of being overwhelming. Zhou Wei would indeed not ask Tang Yao to watch their variety show together at this time.
But...if he remembered correctly, at this time in the book, Tang Yao had already begun to like Zhou Wei, and during the filming of "The Food Lover", he began to deliberately add sugar to the relationship, making the CP fans cry out.
Thinking of the subsequent plot in the book, Jiang Dao was slightly startled: "Have you finished filming the web drama?"
He remembered that the book wrote that the filming of the web drama was quite long, so how come Zhou Wei appeared less than a month after the filming started?
"Yes, my scenes were finished yesterday. I may need to reshoot them, but I don't have to stay on the set all the time." Zhou Wei smiled shyly, "I just came back today. I thought we haven't seen each other for a long time, and we just happened to have the same time, so I came to watch the variety show with you... Actually, I also want to thank you again for giving the role to me."
Jiang Dao didn't take it seriously: "I've already thanked you before, don't keep repeating it."
Zhou smiled and said, "Then just think of it as me wanting to be your friend."
Hearing this, Jiang Dao suddenly got a headache: "One or two of them, why are they all..." Want to make friends with him?
Before he could finish the second half of his sentence, he was interrupted by a cry of surprise from the TV:
"ah!"
"oops--!"
"careful!"
"Teacher Chu, are you hurt anywhere?"
A clip from the variety show's opening flashed across the screen, leaving Jiang Dao with a look of bewilderment.
What?
Didn’t the director team agree that this part would be cut out?
Open screen critical hit, is that what they call "will be cut off"? !
Zhou Wei was also stunned.
After a while, he let out a long "Wow": "They cut this in!"
"Heh," Jiang Dao sneered, "I shouldn't have believed the director team's words."
"It's okay," Zhou Wei was very happy. "You are so good at fighting. If a director sees you, he might ask you to act in a martial arts drama. This opportunity is rare!"
Jiang Dao was helpless: "This is not a question of whether or not to fight..."
This is a really embarrassing problem as you actively attack someone and end up hurting yourself!
Even if he has made up his mind to quit the entertainment industry in the future, this shot is destined to remain on the Internet forever along with the variety show, and it is possible that as Chu Yinlong becomes more popular, he will be dragged out again and again to be whipped.
Frowning and pondering for a long time, Jiang Dao suddenly slapped the armrest of the sofa hard - he knew where the problem lay, it was his own mistake that led to providing the program crew with such good editing material.
If he had not displayed extraordinary skills and fought back and forth with Chu Yinlong in the final name tag tearing battle, the program crew might have really cut out this accidental opening scene.
But now, in order to pave the way for his confrontation with Chu Yinlong in the later stage, the previous segment was edited in to maximize the program effect!
Jiang Dao realized this truth belatedly and pursed his lips with a gloomy look on his face.
So, this time he was blinded by the delicious food again, and in order to win that table of water banquet, he ruined himself.
The author has something to say: Xiaodao was led astray by the environment he grew up in, and he can’t tell the difference between friends and comrades.
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The pre-collected articles are out. The next one is "This Omega is Fierce and Wild [Holographic]". The protagonist and Kojima come from the same apocalypse, so it can barely be considered a brother story of this one (bushi). Interested little angels can collect it (づ￣ 3￣)づ
Next is the fantasy entertainment circle. The title has not been finalized yet, but it should have a lot of cute furry characters.
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