Chapter 6

Moreover, although Shen Huai seemed to be speaking up to excuse him, he actually confirmed something that Su Ning had never done.

Su Ning always remembered the most useful sentence in the synopsis of the original plot that he remembered, which was also what the vice president at the time specifically said to him to joke with him - the family company of the villain with the same name and surname as himself went bankrupt, which was the story in the script that Guangying Entertainment was acquired by Shen's Film due to poor management.

Now it seems that even without that sentence, Shen Huai's behavior was enough to make Su Ning alert.

Following his speech, the organizer of the variety show also came out shortly afterwards, saying that they would hold a press conference in conjunction with Guangying Entertainment tomorrow to publicly respond to the matter.

The public outcry was so fierce that it was about to affect the normal broadcast of the program. But naturally, there were also voices of doubt under the statement, shouting for Su Ning to stop pretending to be dead and come out to apologize.

It is impossible for me to respond at this time. It is useless to say anything at this time. I will be scolded anyway. It is better to let the public vent.

The press conference tomorrow is suitable, which will leave me some time to prepare.

After reading the trending searches, Su Ning took one last look at Shen Huai's video, and deliberately lingered on that face for a long time.

The original owner's feelings had no effect on him. He was concerned about something else - he felt that Shen Huai was a bit like the man in the passenger seat who brought him back.

Of course, not as good looking as the other.

Su Ning's mind has now come to its senses. It is no longer the chaotic time. He can instinctively feel that something is wrong when he thinks back. Before Li Chu went to bed, he had asked him about it. Li Chu was very honest and told him that the assistant called him "Mr. Shen". He felt that this person did not seem to be the one Zhou Chunqing had hired.

Su Ning was thinking about this title when he heard the "ding dong" message alert on his phone. He looked down and saw that it was a new friend request. The name was Zhou Chunqing, and she also sent a long message when she applied.

"Master, I'm sorry to bother you."

"I asked many friends to get your contact information. Li Chu probably didn't bring his phone with him today, so I couldn't contact him. I was so anxious and wanted to ask how he was doing."

Su Ning clicked "yes", and then replied that it was okay, Li Chu was resting, and because it was too late, he would be sent back to the company tomorrow, and guaranteed to be in good condition. Zhou Chunqing replied with a thank you in seconds, and then sent another long message.

"I'm sorry, when I got there I found out that my agent had driven away without my permission. He thought I would stay there overnight, so he drove away to do his own personal business. It almost got into trouble. Please also thank Mr. Xiao Shen for his help, otherwise it would be difficult for me to go back tonight."

It’s this young Mr. Shen again.

Su Ning asked in detail and found out that Jiang Chenfeng flew into a rage when he found out that he had successfully taken someone away. However, Zhou Chunqing had been "out of favor" for a while because she was out filming, and no one had noticed what she had done. If she didn't come near, Jiang Chenfeng wouldn't be able to get angry with her.

But when the people from Diao Chunjiang secretly sent someone to send her away despite Jiang Chenfeng's anger, Zhou Chunqing was also very confused. She thought she didn't have the face to do so, so the other party told her who had greeted her.

"It was Shen Mingzheng from the Shen family, Mr. Shen's idea."

Zhou Chunqing became even more confused when he heard the name.

She really didn't know this person, but she was indeed sent back to her residence safely. After returning home, she couldn't help but ask around from people she knew. Someone who was well-informed told her that this Shen Mingzheng was an executive director who was parachuted into Shen's Pictures, so everyone in the circle called him "Little Mr. Shen."

When Shen's Pictures was mentioned, Zhou Chunqing naturally thought that Su Ning was lucky enough to run into a helper in the parking lot. After all, everyone in the circle knew that Shen's Pictures and Guangying Entertainment had a good relationship and cooperated a lot, so it was understandable that they would lend a hand, and they even sent a car to pick him up.

Apart from this, she couldn't think of any other relationship, so she came to express her gratitude. Even though Su Ning explained that it was not her who spoke, she was still very grateful.

Zhou Chunqing was not being simply humble and polite. She had just seen the trending searches and knew that because of Su Ning's strict protection, Li Chu was not dragged into this. Otherwise, it would be a disaster for a young celebrity who had not yet debuted to be associated with such negative news. Coupled with what happened tonight, her impression of Su Ning changed instantly. She felt that this person was not as bad as the trending searches said.

Maybe there is some misunderstanding.

Su Ning stared at the name "Shen Mingzheng" she said for a long time.

There aren't many well-known people with the last name Shen in the entertainment industry. Shen Huai's Shen's Pictures is one of the most famous ones. According to the original owner's understanding, this person was not among the senior executives of Shen's Pictures, at least not before he participated in the closed training for the talent show, so Su Ning did not recognize this face when he got in the car.

The "airdrop" in the past few months did not sound that simple. Most importantly, if Zhou Chunqing's retelling of Diao Chunjiang's words was correct, the other party's unit was not Mr. Shen from Shen's Films, but from the "Shen Family".

To ordinary people, there seems to be no difference between the two, but Su Ning knows the difference.

He has mastered most of the original owner's memories. No matter how unlearned he was, he was a serious insider in the circle. He knew that "Shen" was a very special surname in the domestic entertainment circle, and not just because of Shen's Film Company.

In fact, the Shen family is a very large family in the entertainment circle of this world, with a huge number of industries. They are deeply intertwined in the circle but not very prominent, so they are not very well-known to the public. The more famous Shen's Pictures was started by the Shen Ting branch of the family. It is not even the largest in the Shen family's overt industries, but it has indeed developed well in recent years. Shen Huai, as Shen Ting's biological son, is a popular star and seems to be very powerful.

But the Shen family giant tree that really occupies the circle is very low-key, so much so that people often cannot feel its existence.

It is said that the largest cinema and theater chains in the country, and even the media networks, have Shen's presence behind them. Many well-known companies also have Shen's investment. The largest private TV station in Hong Kong Island also belongs to Shen. There are even more that are unknown to the public. It is a truly huge network with hundreds of years of development and many roots.

Only a Shen family like this is worthy of Diao Chunjiang, a place that flatters the powerful and bullies the weak. Just because of a single word, Jiang Chenfeng, a big customer, was angered and Zhou Chunqing was quietly sent out. Even Su Ning, the only heir of Guangying Entertainment, did not receive such treatment.

This Shen Mingzheng is not a simple person.

The two had obviously never met before, but this person happened to show up at Diaochunjiang's parking lot and picked him up. This was definitely not a pleasing arrangement on Shen Huai's part, otherwise Shen Huai would have said it long ago.

Who is this person?

The same question that Su Ning was thinking about was also being thought about by Chen Tao, the special assistant who was driving silently beside Shen Mingzheng.

He had just been transferred to this position not long ago, and actually didn't know his top boss Shen Mingzheng very well.

This man is said to be the grandson of the legitimate head of the Shen family. The old head of the Shen family has only one daughter, who is extremely favored. However, it is said that when she was young, she had a big quarrel with her family and ran away from home and never came back. Shen Mingzheng is the child she gave birth to. He has never known his own life experience and was only found back recently by accident. So when he first arrived, he joined Shen's Pictures as an executive director. Shen Ting was also polite to him and did not dare to neglect him.

But after all, he only returned after he became an adult, and many people in his family secretly called him "bastard" behind his back. Although the head of the family shed tears when he recognized his ancestry, there has never been a formal ceremony for Shen Mingzheng to recognize his ancestors. Not long after, Shen Mingzheng moved from the family's capital to Haicheng, and went to Shen's Pictures.

My family owns shares in Shen's Pictures, but we don't think highly of such a small scale, so we have never been involved in the management. I can't tell whether this is a kind of demotion or an experience.

As an assistant, Special Assistant Chen hopes it is the latter.

Chen Tao is certainly not a simple assistant. He has been working in Shen's company for nearly 20 years after returning from studying abroad. He is over 40 years old and is an elder in the family. His current status makes him more like the right-hand man of the backup successor. Due to his rich experience and diligence, he gained the trust of his boss in a short time and he often follows him around.

But he could never see through this young man.

To be fair, Shen Mingzheng is a boss with a good personality. Even though he did not receive the unique elite education at home because he was living outside, he has a clear understanding of many affairs in the entertainment industry and can get started very quickly. He even has a more sensitive nose than those reserve heirs in the family.

For example, not long after arriving at Shen's Pictures, Shen Mingzheng took the lead in investing in the fourth season of Idol Star Map, spending a large sum of money to become the largest investor behind the show, and he personally modified many of the program settings and hardware.

No one expected that the fourth season of the show, which had only mediocre popularity in the first three seasons, would become a huge hit. This silenced many people in the Shen family and allowed Shen Mingzheng to gain a firm foothold in Shen's Pictures. He not only secured a position based on his connections, but people in the industry also honestly called him "Little Mr. Shen."

Everyone seemed to realize that if this "bastard" really achieved something, he would be ranked high among the family heirs in terms of kinship.

This person has a good temper and personality. Although he is usually cold and aloof, he does not have the arrogant and bad habits of his family who treat people like slaves. He did not become complacent at all after achieving great success. These are the reasons why Chen Tao was willing to stay by his side and continue working after being assigned.

But he seemed to be hiding a lot of things.

For example, why did Mr. Shen come to Diaochunjiang tonight to take Li Chu away?

There were only two of them coming here tonight, which was obviously Shen Mingzheng's personal behavior. This was also the only private matter of this young workaholic boss in the past two or three months.

It's understandable that he knew Master Su Ning, but it's very strange that he knew Li Chu and other little idols who haven't debuted yet, and he knew that they were fishing in Chunjiang tonight, and he went out of his way to rescue them.

If he was a friend he had known before, but looking at Li Chu's expression, it was obvious that he was a complete stranger to Mr. Shen, and it didn't seem like they knew each other.

A smart assistant would not ask these questions, but Special Assistant Chen was really curious.

It was getting late, but Shen Mingzheng didn't seem to be sleepy at all. He sat in the passenger seat with a frown on his face, not knowing what he was thinking about.

While waiting for the traffic light, Chen Tao spoke at the right time and said in a soothing voice: "Master Su Ning is just a bad character and not very smart. It doesn't seem like he has any special thoughts about Li Chu. If he wanted to do something wrong, he wouldn't have taken the risk of taking him away from Diaochun River. It's just that it's not appropriate for us to take Li Chu away at this time."

"Don't worry, Li Chu is still safe."

He felt his boss turn his head and look at him.

"I'm not worried about Li Chu's safety," Shen Mingzheng replied. "Since he has left Diaochunjiang, Su Ning may not be able to defeat Li Chu, so there's no need to worry about him."

Special Assistant Chen:?

Did I hear it right? Li Chu looked quite young, like a rabbit, and was smaller than Su Ning. What did the boss say? Did he say it the wrong way?

Shen Mingzheng did not open his mouth to explain to him, but just waved his hand and asked him to continue driving.

Not many people know Li Chu nowadays. He knows that others will not believe what he said. As Chen's special assistant, he must be confused as to why he knows these little-known idols.

Shen Mingzheng couldn't tell anyone why.

——Because he and Li Chu had known each other for their entire lives, he knew very well that Li Chu was not as simple as he seemed.

Last life... If "rebirth" had not happened to him, Shen Mingzheng would not have believed such an absurd fact.

But what is even more absurd than rebirth is that this world is a bloody and abusive story.

Shen Mingzheng knew that he was the protagonist.

When he was dying of depression in his previous life, a voice from the unknown told him everything. The things he had experienced flashed through his mind like a revolving lantern, and he quickly accepted this fact.

No wonder, this is the only way to explain why his life was so rough, as if God was always deliberately making things difficult for him.

At this moment, he couldn't help but recall his first life, let's call it the first life. Shen Mingzheng had been accompanied by bad luck since childhood. His mother died early due to an accidental illness during childbirth. His father, a once gentle musician, changed his temperament and became an alcoholic. He even regarded him as the culprit who took his mother's life.

His childhood was happy only for a few years at the beginning, and it was a mess afterwards. As Shen Mingzheng grew older, he looked less and less like his mother, with only his eyes and the red moles under his eyes showing a bit of charm. Perhaps it was because of this similarity that his self-destructive father did not kill him.

After they became adults, the father and son severed their relationship and never interacted with each other again. Shen Mingzheng decisively changed his name to Shen, taking his mother's surname.

But what Shen Mingzheng could not deny was that the capital for him to make a living after growing up was indeed the talent inherited from his alcoholic father. After all, without the broken guitar he found at home, this face and this voice, he would not have been able to earn money for his studies by singing on the street when he was in his teens.

But no one can tell whether such a talent is a curse or a gift to him.

After being discovered by a scout from Guangying Entertainment and successfully signed a contract, Shen Mingzheng, who was once full of hope, had just entered the circle and suffered his first loss at the hands of Su Ning, the young master.

It should be around this time.

Thinking of this, Shen Mingzheng turned his head to look out the car window. The neon lights of the city flashed before his eyes, and more and more memories from before flooded into his mind.

Su Ning, the eldest son of Light and Shadow Entertainment, is a love-minded man with no talent or morals but who still wants to shine in the entertainment industry. After participating in a talent show and being taught a lesson by the public, he still forced his way into the industry, hoping to wash off the label of waste on himself, and then forcibly took his composition and choreography as his own.

Although Shen Mingzheng's works at that time were immature, they still had an unconcealable sharpness and spirit. Two of his songs became popular songs of the year and even reversed Su Ning's reputation for a time.

Su Ning failed to debut in the talent show, so they treated him as a blood bag and naturally would not let him debut openly.

It was then that he discovered that the contract with Guangying Entertainment was a blatantly unfair clause that not only left him with nowhere to turn, but even if he disclosed the incident, the copyright of the work would still belong to the company according to the contract. Not only could he not get back what belonged to him, but he might even be sued by the company because of this incident, owing a huge debt that he could not repay for the rest of his life. Yan Shanting

Of course, he was not the only one who was cheated by Guangying Entertainment and Su Ning. Li Chu, who was also a trainee, was also one of them.

It turned out that Li Chu gave up a more powerful idol company and signed with this one because of Guangying Entertainment's promise to make money and debut as soon as possible. He wanted to make money to pay off his debts and pay the penalty for breach of contract, so that he could pull her sister Zhou Chunqing out of Jiang Chenfeng's studio.

But because of what Su Ning said, that his dancing ability was too good, and the eldest master thought that competing at the same time would create a clear contrast with himself, Li Chu was removed from the list of Idol Star Map Season 4 and missed this opportunity.

Li Chu could wait, but how could his sister, who depended on him and was still living under the clutches of a man like Jiang Chenfeng, wait?

He wanted to resist.

Shen Mingzheng knew very well what happened tonight.

Li Chu was instructed by someone to use himself as a bargaining chip to shoot negative news about Su Ning and Jiang Chenfeng, which caused the fourth season of Idol Star Map to be suspended. Subsequently, Guangying Entertainment was caught in a huge public opinion storm, and its subsequent bankruptcy and acquisition was also greatly affected by this incident.

These things that happened in the previous life are all chain reactions caused by the current "Su Ning Tyranny", like the continuous collapse of dominoes after being pushed down.

Of course, Shen Mingzheng from his previous life also contributed to this.

He has been secretly collecting evidence of the company's exploitation of its artists, and has gone through a lot of hardships to achieve this. However, just like Li Chu, he did not realize that his hard work would ultimately benefit others, namely Shen's Pictures.

It was only after a long time that he realized that the evil Master Su was truly wronged in this matter.

And at that time, the truth no longer matters.

Because the person who is behind all of this, because the actor Shen Huai who inherited the family business after his glorious retirement, has successfully swallowed up Guangying Entertainment by many means, and has become one of the candidates for the successor to the main branch of the Shen family as he wished.

However, this was just the beginning of Shen Mingzheng's bloody history in his previous life.

After all, this is a story about abusing the protagonist.