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Chapter 269 The Furnace Goes Public
Melissa is a woman with an exceptionally keen sense of journalism.

Moreover, they are very bold!
This is the key point.

A good journalist can never be a coward.

Timid people won't get good news either.

She has an exceptional news sense, and was able to spot Liu Jin and Leonardo DiCaprio amidst the frolicking crowd on the beach...

He contacted the Liberation Daily as a reporter and published the photos.

Today, while everyone's attention is focused on the Cannes Film Festival, she has found Liu Jin again.

Furthermore, the topic was quite forward-thinking, focusing on the upcoming release of "The Crucible".

Liu Jin was plotting something, wanting to cause trouble for South Korea!
Arrogant Koreans...

As a novel, The Crucible is bound to be controversial.

That's how it happened in the past life, leading to the implementation of the Furnace Law.

But that's not enough, far from enough!

What Liu Jin wanted to do was to make the Koreans lose face on the international stage.

They value face a lot.

If Liu Jin were to expose this matter, it would most likely have little effect.

But if it's a French TV station... coupled with their clumsy tactics during the World Cup, they'd be in deep trouble.

……

"You don't like Koreans?"

"I like girl groups, but I don't care about the others."

As they set off again, Liu Jin sat in the passenger seat.

Old Zhong chatted with him as he drove.

"I dont like it either!"

"why?"

“Back in Paris, those Korean rats… I left Paris because of them.”

"Old Zhong, what did you do before?"

"I didn't ask you, so don't ask me."

"OK, OK, I won't ask."

Everyone has a side they don't want others to know.

Liu Jin didn't believe that he was just a simple cook.

He was unwilling to talk about it, and Liu Jin stopped asking.

Asking too many questions about certain things can lead to enmity...

So he changed the subject.

Unlike the trip to Cannes, the journey back was a bit dull.

After passing Montpellier, Liu Jin was exhausted and fell into a deep sleep.

When I woke up, it was still daylight.

However, the RV was already parked in front of Saint-Jacques Street.

"I'm leaving!"

"Won't you come in and have a seat?"

"Never mind, I'm tired too... Ottilie will bring Eva and the others over tonight, so you can clean the house properly."

Liu Jin did not try to stop him and jumped out of the car.

He then opened the garage, Old Zhong drove the RV inside, waved, and drove away.

That silhouette was so dashing!
He's also a seasoned show-off.

Liu Jin muttered a few words to himself, closed the garage door, and returned to his room.

The house was actually quite clean, with not much to clean.

After all, Toulouse has good air quality, unlike northern China where there's a lot of dust in the air. Even if the community doesn't clean, there won't be a layer of dust settling down. Liu Jin quite likes this aspect; it saves him a lot of trouble.

I slept for a while in the car, but I wasn't too sleepy.

He simply changed into a thin coat, sat on the second-floor terrace, set up his easel, and began to paint.

Before I knew it, it was dark!

……

The 55th Cannes Film Festival has come to a close.

As Liu Jin predicted, "The Pianist" won the Palme d'Or.

This year's film festival has 22 films nominated for the main competition.

But looking around, apart from the pianist, Ren Xiaoyao, and the three parts of Drunken Immortal, Liu Jinjin couldn't remember anything else.

Failed?
Maybe!

Indeed, the starlight was dim.

Perhaps this is why the organizing committee has incorporated Hollywood elements on a large scale for the 56th Cannes Film Festival next year.

Liu Jin has a deep impression of the next Cannes Film Festival.

Putting everything else aside, the judging panel alone is star-studded.

Meg Ryan, Spielberg, Jiang Wen... However, Liu Jin is not sure if he will participate again next year.

He's not in the film industry, so there's really no need for him to go and join in the fun.

Although, next year a show-off he really likes will also participate... we'll see, there's still a year to go.

On May 26, Singella Publishing House proudly launched Liu Jin's sixth work of the year.

"furnace"!
Many people bought it immediately because of the name "magical realism" and the gimmick of focusing on minority groups.

Some people buy it but don't rush to read it.

Some people, however, couldn't wait to tear off the packaging and open the book.

Melissa has returned to Paris.

She bought "The Crucible" as soon as it was available.

That night, she studied late into the night.

But after she finished reading it, she felt a chill run down her spine.

The chilling cruelty she felt was so profound that she couldn't believe such terrible things could exist in this world.

The story begins when a Chinese journalist, while traveling to Jeju Island, encounters a deaf-mute person.

Step by step, the horrific crimes that occurred at a school for the deaf and mute on Jeju Island were uncovered!

At the end of the story, the Chinese journalist was expelled from South Korea.

Before leaving, he quietly left his residence, intending to take the evidence he had collected with him, but as he was about to enter the airport, gunshots rang out.

The story ends here...

he died?

Melissa arrived at the TV station the next day with red and swollen eyes.

She took the book "The Crucible" and slammed it on the leader's desk.

"I want to go to South Korea!"

"what?"

The leader looked bewildered and asked Melissa, "The World Cup? Wasn't it already arranged that you would be going with the delegation?"

"No, I want a separate film crew."

"What?"

"Amos gave me a news item, and I have to go and verify it."

"Amos, that writer?"

"Yes!"

The leader picked up the book on the table and flipped through two pages.

"Because of this story?"

"Ok!"

"It's just a novel."

"Boss, you should know very well whether this is reality or fiction."

The leader remained silent.

"If this were real, it would be very dangerous."

"Isn't this what we journalists do?"

The leader put down the book, took out another book from the drawer, which was Liu Jin's "The Crucible".

“Melissa, I can let you go. I will give you an independent spot in the World Cup interview team. You can find the people yourself... But if something goes wrong, or you are expelled by the South Korean government, I will declare that your actions were your personal choice.”

In other words, the TV station won't cover your losses.

Melissa smiled!
She nodded vigorously. "Boss, I won't make things difficult for you."

"Then go and prepare. I'll give you the relevant documents before I leave work... Melissa, have a safe trip."

"Wait for my news!"

Melissa picked up the book on the table and left excitedly.

The leader watched his retreating figure, then opened the novel in his hand.

She read a few pages, then put it down.

She bought the book yesterday as soon as it was released, but to be honest, she found the contents difficult to read.

Magical reality!

It's truly magical...

Who could imagine that a developed country could harbor such a chilling scandal?

Based on her more than 20 years of work experience, she keenly sensed that the stories in the novels were likely based on real events.

She wanted to expose it.

But she didn't even have the courage to continue watching.

Fortunately, Melissa, that silly girl, volunteered.

From the leadership's perspective, if Melissa succeeds, LCI's ratings will inevitably skyrocket; if she fails, it will have nothing to do with LCI.

If she's willing to take the plunge, let her go.

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(End of this chapter)