Chapter 70 Jinjiang Debut
Lame Brother was stunned for a moment, then he really laughed. He said with a smile: "Oh my God, your idea is too outrageous. Have you watched too many science fiction movies? That's a living person, how could it be replaced by someone? I just watched the interview video of He Xianxian, and the person in the camera is obviously her. Where can you find someone exactly like her? Is it a robot replacing a human?"
Hu Leying was so angry that she stepped forward and punched the lame brother: "Asshole, you said you wouldn't laugh at me!"
Lame Brother smiled and apologized: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, but I really couldn't help it. Your idea is too funny. I have liked He Xianxian for a long time. I can be absolutely sure that the person in the camera is He Xianxian herself. There is no replacement."
Hu Leying said angrily: "No matter how long you have been following her, you have only watched her TV series. You have not retouched her photos one by one. I have done so, and I have a say in this matter. Due to work reasons, I always need to go to the scene to take raw photos and then help her retouch them, so I am very familiar with He Xianxian's appearance."
"Just a week ago, when the photos of He Xianxian wearing a mask entering and leaving a plastic surgery hospital were exposed, I recognized her at first sight - the person in the photos was not He Xianxian at all!"
"Why do you think so?" Lame brother unconvincedly flipped through the two photos on his phone, pointed his finger and said, "Look at her eyes, eyebrows, ears, how are they different from before? Even her hairline is exactly the same!"
Wu Leying emphasized: "I'm talking about the demeanor. Although this person looks similar to He Xianxian, his demeanor is wrong. He Xianxian has had a smooth journey and she is always confident when attending public events. However, the person in the picture is timid and afraid to move left and right, like a thief. There must be something wrong!"
"This..." Brother Cripple fell into deep thought, "You've been a professional fan for so long, you must know more than me. Even if what you said is true, where did this fake He Xianxian come from? How could there be two people in the world who look so alike? Could they be twins?"
"Impossible!" Hu Leying said firmly, "I know He Xianxian's family. She is the only daughter of her parents, and she has long cut off contact with her relatives. It is impossible for her to have any cousins!"
"Hiss," Lame Brother was stumped, "I just can't figure this out."
"Let her agent explain!"
Hu Leying said this, moved her fingers, and sent a WeChat message.
Cripple Brother came over curiously and saw that Hu Leying's WeChat was sent to an account called "Emily". It said:
I know she is fake.
"That's it?" Lame Brother didn't take it seriously. "Can such a simple sentence really attract the agent?"
Hu Leying's heart was beating fast: "I'm not sure either, but this is the only way. Let's take a gamble. I hope my guess is wrong."
Two minutes later, Hu Leying received a reply -
[Emily: Don’t talk nonsense. If you want salary, I will ask the finance department to pay you salary right now.]
After seeing this message, Hu Leying knew that her guess was probably correct. Lame Brother was also very excited. He waved his fist and said:
"Yeah, we successfully tricked her out. You kept asking the studio before, but they didn't respond. Now this agent responded right away and even promised to pay you. That means she's panicking. You guessed it right!"
Hu Leying hesitated for a moment and sent another message:
I can help you.
Lame Brother came over to watch again, and Hu Leying explained: "If the He Xianxian who is appearing on the screen now is a fake, then it means that something must have happened to the real He Xianxian. No matter what happened, my reply like this should arouse their interest."
Sure enough, Hu Leying received another reply.
Emily: Come to the studio.
As a professional fan, Hu Leying knew the address of the studio. Seeing this message, she hesitated. Lame Brother advised her, "You can't go. You know their secrets. Who knows if the agent wants to silence you by calling you over? Think about it. Once you get there, everyone is their people. What if they lock you up in a small dark room? You will be helpless. How miserable!"
Hu Leying was frightened by Que Ge's description. She looked at Bai Mian, who also agreed with Que Ge's idea. She suggested, "Don't go over there. Let them come here."
Hu Leying thought for a moment and said, "But He Xianxian's studio is in Beijing. It's a bit far from Beijing to Qingshui Town. Will they be willing to come?"
Lame Brother reminded him, "Have you forgotten? He Xianxian is holding a press conference for her new drama today. It's in this city. It only takes 40 minutes to drive from the city to here. There will be no problem!"
Hu Leying plucked up the courage to send the address of Ci Xin Tang to her agent, but this time the agent did not reply to her.
Everyone's heart was hanging with Hu Leying. Everyone was worried that the agent would not come to Ci Xin Tang, so their exploration of the matter would end here, and He Xianxian's fate would not be changed, and she would still die.
Bai Mian glanced at the time and said, "It's three o'clock in the afternoon now. Let's wait for an hour. If the agent still hasn't come by four o'clock in the afternoon, then this divination will end, and I will start to tell fortunes for the next client."
Lame Brother and Hu Leying screamed at the same time. Lame Brother begged, "Auntie, you must not give up like this. My goddess is still hanging by a thread, waiting for you to save her!"
Bai Mian sighed calmly: "We have done everything we can, the rest depends on chance."
Although Bai Mian's behavior seemed a bit cruel, most of the onlookers understood. After all, there was a third client waiting for Bai Mian, and Bai Mian couldn't keep wasting time on one thing.
After a long wait, Hu Leying almost fell asleep on the table. When there were only a few minutes left, the sound of a car approaching was heard outside the door. She was immediately excited and looked up at the door. She saw a stretched sedan parked steadily in front of the Ci Xin Hall.
"Here she comes!" Lame Brother's eyes lit up and he was happy for his goddess.
A van followed the car. Hu Leying happily ran to the door, ready to greet her agent. Unexpectedly, after the car stopped, there was no movement. Instead, the van opened its door first, and a group of tall and strong bodyguards came out of the car and rushed into Ci Xin Hall.
No one had ever seen such a scene and they were all scared. After the bodyguards came in, they shouted and cursed to drive away all the onlookers in the store. Only Bai Mian and a few others were left in the store. Hu Leying stood cautiously at the door and was also scared.
After the bodyguards cleared the area, the door of the stretched sedan slowly opened, and a big man wearing sunglasses got out of the driver's seat. The man in sunglasses opened the door for the co-pilot, and a slightly plump middle-aged woman walked out.
Hu Leying recognized that this was He Xianxian's agent. She calmed herself down and greeted him sweetly, "Hello, sister. I am Feitian Jeans. This is the first time we meet!"
Perhaps because she was used to seeing flattering faces, the agent ignored Hu Leying. She walked into the Cixin Hall indifferently, found a seat and sat down, and said arrogantly: "You said you could help me, you better mean it. You should know that I am very busy. Wasting my time is no joke."
Lame Brother whispered in Bai Mian's ear: "What's the attitude of this woman? We are helping her out of kindness, but she still dares to be arrogant to us. If it weren't for my goddess, I really want to kick her out!"
The muttering attracted the attention of the man in sunglasses. He immediately saw the phone that was broadcasting live. Without saying a word, he rushed forward and smashed the phone.
"Hey, what are you doing?!"
Lame brother got anxious and stood up to argue with him.
The man in sunglasses said sarcastically, "It's just a cell phone. If it breaks, it breaks. At most, I can compensate you. The celebrity team has enough money to buy your life. What's a broken cell phone?"
Lame Brother got angry and raised his arms to fight with the man in sunglasses. Bai Mian pulled at the corner of Lame Brother's clothes, signaling him to calm down. Lame Brother thought of his goddess, so he had to suppress his anger and squatted on the ground to pick up his phone.
This is an old mobile phone. When it fell to the ground just now, the screen went black and was shattered. Lame Brother thought it was scrapped, but he didn't expect that the moment he picked it up, the phone screen lit up and resumed live broadcast.
Lame Brother didn't say anything. He silently put his phone in his pocket and sat back next to Bai Mian.
Because of the long wait, most of the audience in the live broadcast room had left. However, after the bodyguard team broke in, the number of people in the live broadcast room began to surge again, rising to 50,000 in just two minutes, and barrages were flying everywhere.
[They are so arrogant, do they think they are an X society? 】
[Celebrities are so great, but just because they have money they can smash other people’s phones? What quality! 】
[The quality of the staff is just like this, and I guess He Xianxian herself is not much better]
[Don’t talk nonsense as mentioned above, our He Xianxian is a gentle little angel! 】
[…Sister, stop arguing. It’s already this late and you’re still controlling the comments. Something has happened to He Xianxian! 】
[Everyone just watch it here, and don’t post it on Weibo, so as to avoid the live broadcast room being discovered by the celebrity team! 】
[Damn, this is my first time watching a live broadcast in this way, so exciting! I like! 】
"What do you mean when you say you can help me?" the agent questioned Hu Leying like a creditor.
Hu Leying introduced her, "This is Master Bai Mian. She can tell people's fortunes by feeling their pulses. If you let her feel your pulse, you will know how to solve your current predicament."
"Fortune-telling?" The agent laughed disdainfully. "Haha, that's ridiculous. You asked me to come all the way here just to tell my fortune? I really believed your lies!"
As the agent spoke, he stood up and prepared to leave. Hu Leying wanted to chase him to explain, but the man in sunglasses stood in front of her.
Seeing that things were about to get worse, Bai Mian said, "What a pity, He Xianxian is beyond help."
The agent immediately turned around and asked angrily, "What did you say?"
"I said, He Xianxian will die because of you."
Bai Mian raised her beautiful eyes and looked into her agent's eyes.
The agent suddenly felt an inexplicable pressure. She thought about what Bai Mian had just said. Before she could speak, the man in sunglasses rushed up and shouted at Bai Mian: "You are the one who kidnapped her, right? Are you planning to kill her?"
"Kidnapped?" Cripple Brother repeated, "So He Xianxian was kidnapped?"
The agent turned around and scolded the man in sunglasses: "I haven't even said anything yet, what nonsense are you talking about? Now you've leaked everything!"
The man in sunglasses also knew that he had messed up. He remained silent. The agent stood at the door, in a dilemma. Bai Mian advised calmly:
"We are not kidnappers, and we have no ill intentions. Now that we know about the matter, why don't you tell us? Perhaps we can help you."
Hu Leying also quickly chimed in: "Believe me, Master Bai is not a charlatan, she has real skills, and she has helped many people. Just give it a try, just for He Xianxian, I beg you!"
The agent looked at Bai Mian suspiciously. She saw a kind of gentle and calm strength in Bai Mian's eyes. The agent had been in the entertainment industry for so many years and knew countless people. She felt that Bai Mian was a trustworthy person, so she returned to the store and sat down in front of the pulse diagnosis table.
The man in sunglasses winked, and the bodyguards standing in a row all retreated voluntarily. There were only a few people left in the store, and the sense of oppression instantly lessened a lot.
"My name is Ning Yu, but the name is not important. Everyone calls me the agent anyway," the agent briefly introduced himself, then pointed to the man in sunglasses standing behind him, "His name is Guo Yonghan, and he is the head of the bodyguards. For safety reasons, I need to keep him by my side. Please forgive me."
The agent didn't waste any time and went straight to the point. "He Xianxian disappeared a week ago. She was filming a martial arts film called "A Little Red in the Rivers and Lakes" at the time. The crew needed to go out to a remote mountain to film. I had a bad cold at the time, so I didn't go with her. Only a few staff members went into the mountain with her."
"She went to the toilet during filming. The nearest public toilet was in the town. A bodyguard accompanied her down the mountain. But after entering the public toilet, she suddenly said she needed sanitary napkins and asked the bodyguard to go to a nearby store to buy a pack of sanitary napkins. The bodyguard went to buy one. When the bodyguard returned, there was no one in the toilet."
"A female star disappeared in a remote town?" Many terrible associations suddenly appeared in Lame Brother's mind. He slammed the table anxiously and asked, "She has been missing for so many days, why didn't you call the police?"
The agent shook his head helplessly. "The kidnappers didn't let us call the police. On the day He Xianxian disappeared, the crew organized all the staff to search for her in the town, but found nothing. That night, I received a call. The person on the other end of the phone told me that He Xianxian was in their hands. They wanted five million, or they would kill her. You were not allowed to call the police, and they would kill her even if you did."
"If I called the police, He Xianxian would have died for sure. If I didn't, maybe she would have a chance of survival."
"If you don't want to call the police, then give me money!" Brother Crip asked doubtfully, "Your celebrity team should be very rich, right? It shouldn't be easy for you to come up with 5 million?"
"We paid the money," the agent said with a headache on his face. "After the kidnappers made their demands, I took out 5 million yuan in cash the next day, put it in a snakeskin bag, and put it at the place designated by the kidnappers. I thought he would release me after taking the money, but who knew that I waited there for a long time and no one came to collect the money. Later, the kidnappers sent me another text message like this."
The agent showed it to everyone, and the message read:
[The plan has changed. The transaction will be held on another day. Wait for me to notify you of the specific time. Don't act rashly, otherwise she will die! 】
Lame brother wondered, "This is really strange. Why didn't the kidnapper take the money? Did he find out that there was a trick?"
The agent immediately denied it: "No, I didn't call the police at the time, nor did I ambush anyone nearby. I just wanted to give him the money and rescue He Xianxian as soon as possible. Who knew he would change his mind at the last minute? I had no choice but to listen to the kidnapper's arrangement, take the money back, and wait for his call, but the kidnapper has not contacted me until now."
Lame Brother was extremely anxious: "You, you, you...you should have called the police a long time ago. How could you wait for a week? Let me tell you something unpleasant. If you wait for the kidnappers to contact you, He Xianxian might even be dead!"
The agent retorted: "Who are you to her? What right do you have to blame me? If I call the police and the kidnappers really kill me, how can I explain to the public? Her fans will definitely tear me apart!"
During the days when He Xianxian disappeared, her agent was under tremendous pressure. Her anger was already on the verge of exploding, and now it was ignited by Que Ge. She stood up and was ready to have a big fight with Que Ge.
"No, no, no, everyone calm down, business is more important!" Hu Leying hurriedly inserted herself between the two of them and acted as a peacemaker. She tried to change the subject and asked her agent, "Sister, is it true that He Xianxian has disappeared? Then what's the matter with the one on camera now?"
The agent said unhappily, "That person is not important. She is just a stand-in. She usually helps He Xianxian to act in the scenes she doesn't want to act in. After He Xianxian disappeared, there were still many activities waiting for her to appear. After all, her new drama has just been aired, and these activities cannot be postponed. If she doesn't go, there will be a penalty for breach of contract, so I had to let the stand-in take her place."
Lame Brother was surprised: "A body double? There are actually people in the world who look so similar. I thought they were twins!"
The agent waved his hand and said, "Actually, they don't look alike. Her eyebrows and eyes are very similar to He Xianxian, but her nose and mouth are not. I asked her to wear a mask and cover her face wherever she goes so that no one can see the flaws. Also, her voice is not similar, so I don't allow her to speak."
Hu Leying nodded: "So it's a body double, no wonder I always feel something is wrong with her, my intuition is really accurate! So this week, you asked the studio to stop all the activities of professional fans, because you were afraid that we would go to the scene to take raw photos and then find out that she is a body double!"
The agent nodded helplessly. Hu Leying complained, "Then your studio should have said something. You didn't explain anything. I thought you were going to run away!"
The agent held his forehead and said, "I have no choice. This matter is too difficult. I have to deal with He Xianxian's business activities and wait for news from the kidnappers. I am really exhausted and can't take care of you professional fans at all."
"I say, why are you still meddling in business activities? You should have called the police immediately, right now! There's no news from the kidnappers yet, maybe something has happened to He Xianxian!" Lame Brother said, slamming the table.
The agent raised his hand to stop her: "Absolutely not. Once the police are called, the matter will be exposed, which will affect He Xianxian's business image. She was detained by a stranger for a week. What do you think others will think? Her business image will be greatly reduced, and she will never get any endorsements again!"
"Endorsement, endorsement, you're almost dead and still bothering with endorsements, I think you're just a bag of salt!" Lame Brother shouted angrily.
Seeing that the two were about to quarrel again, Hu Leying tried to change the subject again: "I have been watching Master Bai's live broadcast. I remember a boy was kidnapped before, and later found out that he kidnapped himself. Do you think today's incident will be the same?"
Lame Brother immediately retorted: "How is that possible? He Xianxian is a big star and has her own studio. She can just take whatever money she wants. Why would she need to resort to this trick?"
"But don't you think He Xianxian's disappearance is strange?" Hu Leying expressed her opinion. "When celebrities go to film, they should prepare daily necessities such as sanitary napkins. Why did she ask someone to buy them at the last minute? Could it be that she deliberately sent her bodyguards away to do something?"
Hu Leying's guess triggered a new round of discussion. Just when everyone was discussing heatedly, Bai Mian said something lightly, which made the whole audience quiet down.
"Why don't we think about this: if He Xianxian really died, who would be the biggest beneficiary?"
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