Chapter 17 - The Ground
Chapter 17 - The Ground
"What...don't kneel!"
Gu Hechen couldn't see what was happening outside the camera, but he heard Su Cenxi's words and immediately shouted to stop him. However, it was too late for him to speak. When he finished speaking, Su Cenxi had already knelt on the ground.
Ning Fei's ears hurt from the sudden shouting. He opened his phone with disgust and flipped the camera.
The scene of Su Cenxi kneeling in the porch suddenly appeared in front of Gu Hechen.
"Cen Xi, get up! Don't kneel!" Gu Hechen saw this scene with his own eyes. How could he remain calm? He clutched his phone tightly and his eyes were red with anger. "Hurry up and get up! What kind of apology is this? Don't apologize to that person like this!!!"
"Achen, stop talking!" It was rare for Su Cenxi to yell at her CEO boyfriend. "We agreed to come here to apologize, but you ruined everything I did with just a few words. Stop talking! You're going to ruin everything!"
He was also emotional. He had made a lot of preparations before he mustered up the courage to visit, all for the sake of getting Ning Fei's forgiveness and asking Ning Fei to help him again. As a result, Gu Hechen, who had said before that he was "willing to cooperate in the apology", now angered Ning Fei again with just a few words. Su Cenxi felt aggrieved and felt that Gu Hechen was not really thinking about her at all.
If it weren’t for Gu Hechen’s attitude, how could he have reached the point where he had to kneel down and apologize to Ning Fei?
He has already knelt down, but Gu Hechen is still angry. Wouldn't the significance of his kneeling be greatly reduced?
"No matter what, you shouldn't kneel down to him! Who the hell is he? Why are you kneeling down to him?!" Gu Hechen didn't understand the true meaning of Su Cenxi's words at all, or he was so angry that he didn't intend to think carefully. He just changed the subject and continued to shout angrily: "Ning Fei, you are insulting Cen Xi like this, huh? If you have anything to say, come to me. What's the point of bullying Cen Xi? People like you are bullies who only bully the weak and fear the strong! I warn you, don't think that you have been living comfortably during this period of time and I can't do anything to you..."
Su Cenxi couldn't stand it anymore and stood up to grab the phone back. However, Ning Fei stepped back and raised his hand to avoid his snatch, sneering: "He said that I bullied you and insulted you, so I dare not turn off the video. Otherwise, if something really happens to you, Mr. Gu will make a cyber judgment and punish me by lynching. It would be too unfair for me."
"You didn't bully me, I did it voluntarily, I did it voluntarily!" Su Cenxi heard Gu Hechen in the video still scolding and cursing, so she simply knelt back and started to apologize directly, and raised her voice so that her voice would not be covered up. "Ning Fei, I apologize to you! I was wrong, I was really wrong, I will never listen to others and resist you again. I will do whatever you want me to do, and I must get to the top 10! Please forgive me!"
Gu Hechen became increasingly furious, and opened her mouth with her boyfriend's full name: "Su Cenxi, are you crazy? You do whatever he tells you to do, and you do it if he asks you to kill or burn people? And you still say you are not controlled by him!"
In order to protect his hearing, Ning Fei finally lowered the volume of the demented person, and then looked at the young man kneeling on the ground: "You do whatever I tell you to do, but what if Gu Hechen doesn't let you do it? He takes you away directly and doesn't participate in the work? He makes everyone in the office oppose me, refuse to cooperate with my work, and also stop you, what will you do?"
Classic two-choice.
In the past, Su Cenxi would definitely try to smooth things over when faced with this problem. He didn't want to disappoint his boyfriend, nor did he want to offend Ning Fei. Therefore, while he obeyed one side, he apologized and flattered the other side in an obedient manner, trying to balance the relationship between the two sides.
But now he can no longer be vague about the answer.
Listening to Gu Hechen's curse, which had been lowered in volume but was still very clear, and looking at Ning Fei's cold gaze, Su Cenxi's expression gradually became firm, and she slowly said, "If the studio stops me, I will not be in this studio. If Gu Hechen stops me, I... will break up with him."
When these words came out, Ning Fei raised his eyebrows in surprise.
"Su Cenxi, you want to break up with me?!" Gu Hechen was even more incredulous, his tone was extremely surprised, "You want to break up with me just to apologize to an agent?! You went with him to get into the top 10, how could you get into the top 10 without me!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Ning Fei knew that Su Cenxi was going to explode. As expected, Su Cenxi couldn't help it and immediately argued with Gu Hechen on the phone: "Gu Hechen, what do you mean, I can't be in the top 10 without you? When my career was at its best, you asked me to stop working so hard and be an artist to have an easier time. Without you, I might have been in the top 10 a long time ago!"
"Also, you always say that my career will be fine as long as you are with me, but do you know how many jobs I have lost recently? Do you care? You have been so busy lately that you have little time to listen to me. As soon as I talk to you, you promise me this endorsement and that endorsement. The endorsement of brand B has been taken away, did you know that? And when Ning Fei was here, if he hadn't taken the initiative to find channels for exchange, you wouldn't have been able to give me any fashion resources..."
The more he spoke, the more excited he became, and the more incoherent he became, as if he wanted to pour out all the grievances he had suffered recently. Ning Fei saw Gu Hechen's face on the phone. It was ashen and he was breathing heavily. It looked like he was about to faint on the bed at any moment. But in the face of Su Cenxi's endless accusations, Gu Hechen, who was good at debate and accusations, remained silent. He seemed to have suddenly lost the ability to speak, and just stared at his boyfriend who was kneeling on the ground blaming him, stunned, angry, and unbearable.
Before he even hung up the phone, Ning Fei began to believe that he truly loved Su Cenxi.
When Su Cenxi finished speaking, there was an obvious tone of crying in her voice. He raised his hand and wiped away his tears, saying bitterly, "I know you feel ashamed to ask you to apologize, so can you please not hinder what I want to do? I never ask about your work. I will go with you to any business dinner you ask me to go to and cooperate with you. Then can't you support my career? I will find a way to do my work myself, can't you just cooperate with me?
"I just want to be in the top 10, and now I want Ning Fei to come back and help me. Can't you even agree to this?"
Ning Fei: ...This sentence pattern sounds a bit familiar.
——Isn’t this the way I taught Su Cenxi to persuade Gu Hechen before?
Before, Su Cenxi herself couldn't remember to use it, and even when she did, she was very reluctant, like a hopeless case. Now that he can switch to this mode smoothly, Ning Fei can't help but feel emotional. It turns out that people have to suffer before they can grow.
And Gu Hechen on the screen became increasingly silent.
His anger had dissipated a lot. Although he still had a cold face, at least he no longer had a ferocious expression that looked like "I'm going to send a hundred bodyguards to your house in the next second." Seeing that the two were silent, Ning Fei finally spoke slowly: "You two, please don't play with me, okay? I don't want to be a part of your play."
Su Cenxi was suddenly startled: "I'm not..."
"When you were kneeling, you were talking to Gu Hechen most of the time. Gu Hechen was the one who caused you to cry, and you're still saying no?" Ning Fei said, "Why don't you go home and continue playing?"
"That's not what I meant!" Su Cenxi immediately adjusted his posture and bowed to Ning Fei again, "I came here sincerely to apologize to you. No matter what others say, I am willing to cooperate with you in the future. Please help me, I want to be in the TOP 10!"
Ning Fei glanced at Gu Hechen on the phone again.
This time the man couldn't say anything to refute. He could only stare at his boyfriend kneeling and begging others in an almost pleading voice. His arrogance had been extinguished by Su Cenxi himself, but for Ning Fei, this was not enough.
So Ning Fei lowered his eyes and looked at Su Cenxi, his voice cold: "How do I know if you will still have this attitude after you leave this door? How are you going to explain to your boyfriend when you go back? What if he still disagrees with your statement here today?"
"I don't think there's anything to explain." Su Cenxi calmed down now, lowered his head, and replied in an ambiguous tone, "Anyway, he has watched the whole thing. If he agrees, then go ahead. If he doesn't agree, then..."
He didn't say what would happen if he disagreed, but judging from the previous argument, there was only one outcome.
"...There's no need to force him to express his opinion." It was Gu Hechen who took over the conversation, and his tone became heavier. "Ning Fei, I don't think your fundamental purpose is to ask for my apology. I make you a promise. From now on, I will no longer interfere with Cen Xi's work. Whatever resources you want to give him, as long as it does not violate the law or harm Gu's company, I can cooperate. And the compensation mentioned earlier is still effective, and you can continue to propose any conditions you have."
Ning Fei didn't say whether he agreed or not right away, he just said: "You finally learned to speak human language, Mr. Gu, it's really rare."
"Don't try to provoke me anymore. I keep my word." Although Gu Hechen looked unhappy, he remained restrained in his attitude. "Jia Silin will be kicked out, and the people in the studio will be warned. They will all cooperate with your work arrangements. I will give you shares in this studio. As long as you don't hurt Su Cenxi, you will be the actual controller of this studio."
Such preferential treatment represented that the high-handed Gu Hechen finally gave in for Su Cenxi.
But Ning Fei still did not comment, and continued to ask: "But Mr. Gu, what about the incident of finding someone to spit blood on me before?"
"...I was reckless and arbitrary. I apologize to you." Gu Hechen actually continued, "I was going to talk to Master Xu again, but it is really inconvenient recently. If the follow-up is handled, I will have someone notify you."
Ning Fei raised an eyebrow: "What if he comes to pick a fight with me again?"
Gu Hechen: “No.”
Ning Fei: "Don't mess with me with this kind of ghost stuff anymore, and don't let Su Cenxi get involved in it."
Su Cenxi's heart skipped a beat, and he realized that Ning Fei was helping him stay away from accidents caused by metaphysics.
Ning Fei is definitely coming back! After understanding this, Su Cenxi secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
Gu Hechen didn't think much about it and answered directly: "Okay. We won't get involved in such things anyway."
Ning Fei finally felt that it was about right. Gu Hechen might not be convinced in his heart, but he had already made concessions to this extent on the surface, and had basically achieved Ning Fei's goal. Ning Fei didn't want to spend any time on Gu Hechen, he just wanted to restrain him.
So Ning Fei took out a bottle of red wine that Su Cenxi brought and put it on the shoe cabinet: "If you open this, I will forgive you."
Su Cenxi's eyes lit up and she stood up immediately. She stumbled a bit because she had been kneeling for too long, and hurriedly held onto the shoe cabinet to steady herself: "Okay!"
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