Chapter 13 - Ominous Premonition
Chapter 13 - Ominous Premonition
Ning Fei was having a great night, but Gu Hechen was probably so pissed off by Ning Fei that he asked Chenxi Studio to issue an announcement overnight, saying that Ning Fei had left.
Ning Fei’s first reaction when he saw the announcement was: Who from the studio was called by Gu Hechen to work overtime late at night to produce the announcement? So miserable.
Although this announcement was hastily prepared and the wording is somewhat rough, some key parts are still made clear. For example, the part describing Ning Fei's departure was not expressed as "Ning Fei voluntarily resigned" as Gu Hechen had said before, but was changed to "the two parties had different ideas, no longer cooperated, and terminated the labor relationship." This statement seems neutral at first glance, but once you think about it carefully, you can still feel the studio's tough attitude to some extent.
What’s even more interesting is that not long after this announcement was released, so-called “inside revelations” appeared on the Internet. Some marketing accounts said that Ning Fei was fired because he was absent from his post for a long time and caused serious dereliction of duty, which led to Su Cenxi losing his job. What he meant was that everything was Ning Fei's fault; if Su Cenxi appeared less frequently in shows in the future, it would be Ning Fei's full responsibility.
Not long after these revelations came out, Ning Fei's phone started to ring continuously and the chat software started to buzz like crazy. Ning Fei knew without even looking that the media was definitely trying to dig up some new information from him. Ning Fei's way of dealing with this was to first find the recording of the phone call with Gu Hechen, send it to Su Cenxi, and then decisively turn off the phone again.
But this time he didn't isolate himself from everyone. He used his secondary phone to send a message to Duan Yunhong: [I am Ning Fei. The host is down. Please use this number to contact me if you have any questions. 】
Duan Yunhong was not asleep either. After more than ten minutes, he replied: [I saw that you were fired. Where are you going next? 】
Ning Fei immediately took the initiative to guard against the opponent's recruitment: [Next, there will be a gap for a while. 】
Duan Yunhong: [Real gap or fake gap? 】
Ning Fei: [Authenticity guaranteed. I would never say I’ll take a gap year today and start working for another company tomorrow, okay? 】
Duan Yunhong: [You have no better choice than ST now. 】
It's a very arrogant tone, but if Ning Fei was really a social animal agent, she would agree with Duan Yunhong's self-promotion.
Unfortunately, the "class" that Ning Feilai attended was not the "class" that Duan Yunhong understood.
So Ning Fei replied very perfunctorily: [Yes, yes, yes. I promise to consider your ST carefully during the gap period, okay? 】
Duan Yunhong: [How long do you plan to take a gap year? 】
It was obviously up to Su Cenxi to decide, but Ning Fei couldn't say that. If he really dared to reply like this, Duan Yunhong would definitely be sarcastic and say to him, "You've been dumped once, but you still want to go back to her."
So Ning Fei said: [Not necessarily. If you run out of money just go and work. 】
Duan Yunhong didn't send any more messages.
Ning Fei didn't care either. Duan Yunhong is not his boyfriend, so there is no need to say good morning and good night to him. Just don't talk if you have nothing to say. Moreover, the other party has tried to poach him many times, but Ning Fei behaved like a hopeless case. I guess he must be worried.
Ning Fei, who had no pressure to get up the next day, surfed the Internet vigorously on his secondary mobile phone and fell asleep happily.
***
Ning Fei had a dreamless night, but Su Cenxi tossed and turned all night.
After he received Ning Fei's recording, he listened to it immediately. At that time, Gu Hechen went to the study to work again, and Su Cenxi didn't even have to avoid him deliberately to listen to the entire recording alone. When he learned that Gu Hechen's so-called "teaching Ning Fei a lesson" actually meant finding a master to exorcise the evil spirits on Ning Fei, he was deeply shaken.
He wanted to ask Gu Hechen whether the master had real skills and whether he could see "things that did not originally belong to this body". He also wanted to ask Ning Fei whether his situation could be considered as being possessed by a ghost, and whether he could be driven away by those metaphysical means. But he didn't dare to ask, and he couldn't ask. He actually sent a message to Ning Fei to ask, but he quickly deleted the message record after sending it, for fear that Gu Hechen might happen to see it in the future.
Ning Fei had turned off his phone at that time, so how could he reply to him?
Su Cenxi sat on the sofa holding her phone for half the night, feeling anxious and confused but not daring to say anything. In contrast, there was a lot of excitement on the Internet and in the work group. At Gu Hechen's suggestion, the studio bought a lot of negative information about Ning Fei. Ning Fei treated Su Cenxi harshly, always using PUA on Su Cenxi, scolding her harshly if she was slightly 0.1kg overweight, and forcing Su Cenxi to do a job she didn't want to do. In short, the revelations portrayed Ning Fei as a "big devil" and Su Cenxi as a pitiful little white flower. Su Cenxi's fans were so excited that they were still discussing and cursing Ning Fei crazily late at night.
Someone else mentioned Gu Hechen. On the one hand, some people said that Ning Fei was so bold as to bully Su Cenxi because Gu Hechen was around; on the other hand, some people shouted, "Mr. Gu, please take Xixi home quickly so that she doesn't have to suffer working outside anymore," which frightened Su Cenxi.
His work had already been drastically reduced, and at this critical moment Ning Fei was driven away. He had a premonition that he was in great trouble. If Gu Hechen asked him not to go out to work, he didn't know what fatal consequences would be caused.
Speaking of Gu Hechen, Su Cenxi also had a vague feeling that her boyfriend's life had not been going so well recently.
The most obvious manifestation is that Gu Hechen comes home later. Sometimes Su Cenxi returned home from rehearsal late at night, and Gu Hechen had not returned yet. Even if both of them were at home at night, the time Gu Hechen and Su Cenxi spent together was reduced, and they often worked overtime in their own study rooms. Su Cenxi wanted to ask, but didn't know how to start, because he knew nothing about Gu Hechen's job.
At this moment, Gu Hechen finally entered the bedroom.
"...You haven't slept yet?" He was a little surprised to see Su Cenxi sitting on the sofa. "It's almost three o'clock. Go to bed quickly. Don't wait for me next time."
"Achen..." Su Cenxi saw him, opened her mouth, and finally asked only one question, "You seem to be very busy recently, are you okay?"
"I'm fine, just a little busy." Gu Hechen always looked at ease in front of Su Cenxi, "I'm even a little happy that I finally fired Ning Fei."
"I don't want you to hurt anyone, Achen." Su Cenxi stood up and summoned up the courage to ask indirectly, "He asked you to find someone to exorcise the evil spirit for him. Is the person you found reliable?"
"He even told you this? Of course the person I found is reliable. I didn't just find a liar on the street." Gu Hechen sneered, "He was the one who went crazy. He first hurt himself, and then kicked Master Xu's disciple into the hospital! No one asked him for compensation, so he still had the nerve to seek sympathy?"
Su Cenxi saw that he had misunderstood, and racked his brains to think of the right words: "I'm not saying that you were deceived, I want to ask, did Master Xu see any clues? By the way, where did the master come from?"
"Master Xu has been practicing with a master since he was young. Many important people have come to them for help. You can rest assured about their background and abilities. He said that Ning Fei's horoscope is very incompatible with his personality, and he knew there was a problem. Unfortunately, he was not careful on the day of the ceremony, causing Ning Fei to go crazy and self-harm, disrupting the ceremony, so it has not been completely resolved." Gu Hechen replied, "But Master Xu also said that Ning Fei has offended their ancestor, and he should never cause any trouble again. As long as you transfer him away from you, his influence on you will gradually decrease."
Su Cenxi had a hunch that the master was wrong.
He knew very well that what would really affect him would be the progress of "debt repayment". Even if Ning Fei is not here, as long as his work is normal and the MDC ranking can rise, he will not have any big problems. But now that Ning Fei is gone, many jobs have been inexplicably squeezed out or cancelled. Some jobs even had nothing to do with Ning Fei, but they were also lost. The impact of Ning Fei's departure was much greater than Su Cenxi had originally expected!
——Did Ning Fei do something after he left? Is he taking revenge on me?
——But this was not my decision. I left him a message explaining the situation. Couldn’t he just turn on the phone and take a look to listen to what I said?
Su Cenxi felt very aggrieved and conflicted. He hated Ning Fei, but he was more afraid that Gu Hechen would go too far and Ning Fei would completely turn against him and reveal his true colors. Looking at Gu Hechen with a fierce look on his face, Su Cenxi tried to persuade him: "You have already driven him away, so why don't you continue to teach him a lesson? We are colleagues after all. It's too ugly now, and it's not good for the studio..."
Gu Hechen frowned: "Are you still speaking for him? He treats you so harshly and tortures you mentally, aren't you also in pain?"
"That, that's just that our philosophies are a little different." Su Cenxi replied, "But our goals are the same. I want to be in the top 10..."
"You can still get in without him. This has nothing to do with him!" Gu Hechen interrupted, "No, you are still too deeply influenced by him. How about asking Master Xu to take a look at you one day and completely eradicate Ning Fei's influence on you..."
"I don't want to watch it!" Su Cenxi suddenly forgot about persuading him and blurted out words of opposition. When he realized that he had overreacted, he immediately said, "I don't like to get involved in this kind of weird stuff. It's weird. I won't watch it, okay?"
"Okay, then don't watch it." Gu Hechen walked over and hugged him, "Then let's stop talking and go to bed. Don't wait for me to go to bed later. I can't control my time recently. When I'm done with these few days, I'll host the endorsement of a high-end car series for you? The global spokesperson for B-brand cars is about to expire. Gu's is their major shareholder, so he should have a say."
When Su Cenxi heard this, his mood suddenly turned from gloomy to cheerful.
The endorsement of high-end car series can be counted as commercial value points in the MDC ranking, and there is finally a ranking bonus point!
"Can I really do this?" Su Cenxi's eyes lit up. "I'm just a model..."
"But you are a supermodel. It's normal for high-end brands to use supermodels as their spokespeople." Gu Hechen finally made Su Cenxi laugh, and he felt relieved. What difference does it make whether the agent is Ning Fei or not? Anyway, I can support Su Cenxi.
"Don't worry, Xixi, you are always the best. Don't be influenced by irrelevant people."
***
Gu Hechen said that he would be able to finish the work in a few days, but in the following days, he was obviously getting busier and busier.
Even when Fashion Week had already arrived, Gu Hechen had no time to watch Su Cenxi's show. Su Cenxi had finally been able to attend two top luxury brand shows, but Gu Hechen never showed up, let alone catwalks and events for other brands. Someone came to the backstage of the show and asked Su Cenxi casually, "Why didn't your boyfriend come to support you?"
Su Cenxi could only reply somewhat uncomfortably: "He's busy lately."
The other party smiled and said, "It turns out that Mr. Gu is busy. I thought it was because something happened in his company and someone was arrested. The brand didn't dare to send him an invitation letter."
Su Cenxi was confused: "Who was arrested?"
The person who started the conversation said, "He's a CEO of Gu Corporation, right? How come CEO Gu didn't tell you? Or is this just a rumor?"
Su Cenxi had no idea where to go, so she could only say, "I'm not sure."
The other party looked at him meaningfully, exchanged a few words casually, and walked away. Just then, Jia Silin returned to Su Cenxi and asked, "Mr. Gu is not free even tonight? Are you still going to the celebration party for this show?"
Su Cenxi has never wanted to go to such occasions, and since Gu Hechen will not come to accompany him, he is even less willing to deal with social occasions. But before he could think of a reason to refuse, he heard Jiasilin continue, "I heard that all the ST models will go to this show tonight, so there must be some big shots there. Can you at least show up?"
Su Cenxi hesitated again and again, but finally his fear of losing his job prevailed and he nodded.
"Okay then, I'll go for a spin."
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