Huayu: From Prisoner to Movie King

Chapter 588 Queuing for Comfort
East Fifth Ring Road, Chaoyang District.

Jiang Yiyan was lying on the sofa motionless. She had rushed back from Shanghai overnight after receiving the news that Xu Kun had been attacked the day before yesterday. She had been staying with Xu Kun for the past two days.

Xu Kun sat on the concubine's throne at the other end, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and then reached out to rummage around on the coffee table, finally pulling out six remote controls.

"Which fresh air system are you talking about?"

Jiang Yiyan listened to his question and then she raised her head with all her strength to glance at the coffee table. Then she lifted one foot and pointed with her manicured toes: "This is it... Oops~!"

bang~
Halfway through the movement, she felt her calf twitch and her whole foot slammed heavily on the coffee table.

"What are you trying to show off?"

Xu Kun threw her feet back on the sofa, picked up the remote control and pressed it above his head. When he heard the humming sound of the motor, he threw the remote control back on the table.

Jiang Yiyan tried to turn over and sit up, but her left leg was numb and her right leg was stiff. She tried several times but failed. She had no choice but to call for help: "Liying, Liying!"

"What's wrong, Sister Yiyan?"

Zhao Liying poked her head out of the bathroom with a head full of foam.

"You...forget it."

Seeing her like this, Jiang Yiyan gave up the idea and said to Xu Kun, "The cigar is at the bottom of the coffee table."

"I'll do it, I'll do it!"

Zhao Liying yelled, grabbed a towel and wrapped her hair, then trotted over in slippers, bent down and took out a box of Havana cigars from under the coffee table, unskillfully took out one, cut it open, and put it to Xu Kun's mouth.

Xu Kun bit his cigar and said vaguely: "You squat in front of me like this, I can't help but want to rub your back."

Zhao Liying laughed and lit a cigar but didn't rush back to take a bath. Instead, she propped her hands on the coffee table, doing a 'plank' position: "Sister Yiyan, your design is really good, especially the big bathtub. I want to get one when I have money!"

“It’s still too early to buy it.”

Jiang Yiyan turned sideways and posed like a sleeping beauty, saying calmly, "If it were now, I would definitely buy a villa with a large yard, with bodyguards patrolling the front yard with wolfhounds, and a large swimming pool in the backyard..."

Xu Kun slapped her on the face and interrupted her, "Okay, stop bragging here. The air is ventilated, be careful not to catch a cold. Go take a shower with Xiao Zhao."

Zhao Liying hurried over to support him.

After the two of them entered the bathroom like conjoined twins, Xu Kun wiped the sofa roughly with a towel, then leaned on the armrest with a cigar in his mouth, staring at the artistic chandelier on the ceiling in a daze.

The trend of opposing Xu has been growing stronger these days. Perhaps he really shouldn't have taken on "Founding of a Republic" in the first place - if he had assembled the crew himself, this drama of moral kidnapping would have been impossible to perform.

But at that time, Han Sanping took the initiative to abdicate and let others take over. How could Xu Kun refuse?

The only good news now is that Fanfou’s data has increased again. Its valuation is now more than ten times what it was when Xu Kun acquired it. JD.com’s valuation has also increased a lot.

Now the entertainment and current affairs sections are all condemning him, but the financial section is the only one praising him to the sky, saying that he is the Midas Touch of the Internet and the golden eye of the investment world.

Recently, many small and medium-sized Internet companies have been trying to contact him, hoping to become the next Fanfou.

But when Xu Kun was thinking about something, Wang Baoqiang suddenly called him.

"What's wrong, Baoqiang?"

"Brother Kun, didn't you say there was a party tonight? I'm already at the villa."

"Isn't this too early?"

Xu Kun looked at the time and it was only 3:30 in the afternoon: "I'm here with Jiang Yiyan, wait for me for half an hour..."

"No, no, Hu Die and I will go look at the house first and discuss how to place the furniture. When the time comes, give me a call and I'll go over."

When the three of them bought the house together, the decoration was handled by Designer Jiang, which also included the selection of furniture. However, Baoqiang wanted to use it as a wedding house, so he planned to let Hu Die choose it himself.

"Okay then. I'll contact you later." Last night, Xu Kun, Bao Qiang, Chen Xuebin, and Li Yixiang, the four of them got drunk together at a table. They had already said everything they needed to say, so the two brothers didn't talk much.

Throwing his phone aside, Xu Kun looked at the ceiling and daydreamed again.

He did not think it was strange that he was criticized by wave after wave of public opinion. If he wanted to make a living by being a patriot but had an undisciplined private life, it was impossible for him not to be criticized.

The problem is that he has now stepped onto the cusp of the Internet boom, and his net worth is now approaching 2 billion. Doesn't it make little sense for him to continue staying in the entertainment industry as a target?
This was the first time that Xu Kun had such an idea. This was probably the period of burnout after achieving financial freedom.

But he couldn't bear to quit, because this was the career he had been fighting for since his rebirth, and there were too many ties that he couldn't let go of - if he could let go, he wouldn't be scolded.

"Brother Kun~"

At this time, Zhao Liying came out of the bathroom dressed neatly. Xu Kun gestured for her to sit on the concubine's throne and asked, "What do you think I should do next?"

Xiao Zhao was even more confused. Was this something she could decide?

But seeing that Brother Kun was waiting for her answer, she hesitated and said, "I think Brother Kun, you don't need to care about what those people say. Just do what you should do, make movies and TV series, and run the Youth Directors Association well. Anyway, the better our lives are, the angrier those people will be."

"I mean the future, the long term."

"Long term?"

Xiao Zhao never gets that way.

Seeing her eyes wide open and a bewildered look on her face, Xu Kun smiled in relief and said, "Forget it. Who can predict what will happen in the future? Let's take care of the present first."

At this time Jiang Yiyan also came out of the bathroom and wondered, "What's going on with Huang Yi?"

"What's going on?"

"She called suddenly just now, asking if Huo Siyan had..." Jiang Yiyan was halfway through her sentence when she suddenly had an idea and clapped her hands, "Wait, I understand!"

"What do you unserstand?"

Xu Kun just felt puzzled, but Jiang Yiyan smiled very proudly: "It's nothing, I just figured out one thing."

"whatever."

Xu Kun rolled his eyes helplessly, lay down on the sofa and waved his hand, signaling Jiang Yiyan not to disturb him anymore.

Jiang Yiyan took Zhao Liying to the second floor, and soon brought a towel blanket to cover Xu Kun.

Returning to the second floor, Zhao Liying asked curiously, "Sister Yiyan, what did Huang Yi say to you?"

"Nothing, she must have had a conflict with Huo Siyan, so Huo Siyan didn't mention her at all when she came - we can take this opportunity to bring Huang Yi over."

After hearing this, Zhao Liying looked at Jiang Yiyan and seemed to be hesitant to speak.

In fact, in her opinion, it would be better to just stand by and watch. If Huang Yi and Huo Siyan had a quarrel, then she would just watch the fun; if she was squeezed out by Huo Siyan, wouldn't everyone just have one less competitor?

But Jiang Yiyan was stuck in confrontational thinking and couldn't extricate herself.

…………

When Huang Yi came in the evening, Zhao Liying had not left yet. This was her privilege as Jiang Yiyan's confidant.

But Xu Kun is no longer here.

Huang Yi didn't see Xu and was obviously a little anxious. He sat on the sofa and started asking where Xu Kun was before Zhao Liying finished pouring the tea.

"No hurry, Brother Kun has made an appointment with the Youth Directors Association to discuss film investment." Jiang Yiyan sat lazily on the reclining chair and said to Huang Yi, "We should have a lot of things to talk about before he comes back."

(End of this chapter)