You're already divorced, why are you so anxious about him becoming a succubus?

Lu Ci told the girls he was going to call Guo Feng, but it was just a pretext he made up to send them home.

Unexpectedly, just after he saw the four people off and closed the door, his cell phone, which he had casually tossed on the coffee table, rang.

The caller ID showed it was director Guo Feng.

Lu Ci raised an eyebrow, chuckled, walked over, pressed the answer button, and put the phone to his ear.

As soon as the call connected, before Lu Ci could even speak, Guo Feng's excited voice came through the receiver:

"Professor Lu, thank you so much! This afternoon, the young master of the Zhao family in Shanghai told me he wanted to invest. Professor Lu, you've saved my life!"

Guo Feng sat in his RV, his face glowing, and he spoke very quickly.

He finally let out the pent-up frustration he'd been holding in for the past few days after arguing with Jian Yan on set this morning.

He had a great time, but when he got back to the RV, the veteran director, who had been famous in the industry for many years, suddenly collapsed. He slumped weakly on the sofa and drank most of a bottle of baijiu (Chinese liquor).

Such a large project, if it were to be aborted and disbanded midway, would be a devastating blow to Guo Feng's reputation and directing career in the current film and television industry downturn.

Other investors aren't stupid. Who would dare to easily hand over hundreds of millions of dollars to you in the future?

Just as he was getting drunk and resigned to his fate, two phone calls from Shen Man and Zhao Xingxing instantly sobered him up.

Upon learning that the other party was willing to invest, he was so excited that he almost knelt down and thanked them from afar.

What surprised him even more was that both the Shen Group and the Zhao family of Shanghai, two super-powerful figures, made the same request over the phone:

The male lead, Luo Ji, must be played by Lu Ci, and all rights of the investors are unconditionally granted to Lu Ci alone!

It's quite obvious that they weren't interested in Guo Feng at all; they were only investing because of Lu Ci.

He never expected that Lu Ci, who had recently become a sensation online and was thought by everyone in the industry to have only gotten ahead through sheer luck by climbing up from the bottom of bar singing, would actually have such a powerful background.

Overwhelmed with excitement, Guo Feng couldn't resist drinking a few more glasses of wine. As a result, he drank too much and slept until evening. The first thing he did after waking up was to call Lu Ci.

However, Guo Feng did not mention Shen Man at all in his thanks just now. This was because Shen Man had specifically told him not to mention her beforehand.

Hearing Director Guo's fawning tone on the phone, Lu Ci raised an eyebrow with amusement:

"Director Guo, did you forget about President Shen?"

"Uh... this... hehehe."

Guo Feng on the other end of the phone was momentarily speechless, then let out an awkward laugh.

He hadn't expected Lu Ci to already know, so he immediately changed his tune, saying:

"Right, right, right! Look at my memory, and also President Shen!"

The two chatted for a few more minutes on the phone and finalized that Lu Ci would play the male role "Luo Ji".

After hanging up with Director Guo, Lu Ci lay on the bed, breathed a sigh of relief, and then began to reply to Qin Meng and the others.

Lin Wan and Qin Meng were sending messages very frequently.

The short essay mostly expressed his concern and worry about the rumors spread by online trolls he encountered in Hengdian.

But between the lines, there are occasional sarcastic remarks like, "I heard your ex-wife went to visit you on set."

Lu Ci reassured them, thus nipping their impulse to visit the set in the bud.

In contrast to the gentle and reserved demeanor of the two, Jiang Xinyue's WeChat message seemed to express schadenfreude.

The screen was filled with sarcastic comments like, "Wow, Boss Lu is amazing! Can your back handle it? Should I send you two boxes of kidney tonics to help you recover?"

Lu Ci typed a reply, threatening that he would definitely beat her up when he had time.

Perhaps because the two hadn't seen each other for a while, Jiang Xinyue, upon seeing the threatening message, not only didn't back down but instead provocatively sent back a reply:

"Ha, who's afraid of who? Whoever begs for mercy later will be a coward!"

……

Meanwhile, inside a luxury suite.

The lights were dim, and the air was filled with the smell of alcohol.

Jian Yan was sitting on the sofa, with a bottle of foreign liquor that was already more than half empty on the coffee table in front of him.

Several female assistants stood respectfully to the side, all with their heads bowed and eyes lowered, remaining silent and not daring to even breathe loudly.

At this moment, Jian Yan removed her daytime makeup, revealing her most authentic, natural appearance.

His skin is somewhat dark and dull, and he usually relies on makeup and professional lighting to create a Korean-style handsome look in front of the camera.

He tilted his head back and downed the glass of strong liquor in one gulp. Then, anger surged across his already somewhat gloomy face.

*Smack!*

Jian Yan swung his hand fiercely, smashing the wine glass in his hand against the marble wall opposite, shattering it instantly, with glass shards flying everywhere in the room.

"Damn it! What makes that guy surnamed Lu so special?! Shen Man already divorced him, so why is she still acting like a lapdog, constantly fawning over him, even investing hundreds of millions in Guo Feng for him?!"

"And then there's Zhao Xingxing! How did Lu Ci become his master?!"

Jian Yan was about to explode with frustration today.

After withdrawing his investment in the morning, he originally planned to use his connections to smear and blacklist Lu Ci.

As a result, before he could even make the call, his biological father contacted him first.

On the phone, his father, who usually doted on him the most, seemed like a completely different person. He scolded him severely and warned him not to mess with Lu Ci.

Before he could recover from his father's anger, Zhao Xingxing contacted him through a group chat for rich kids.

As soon as the call connected, Zhao Xingxing's insults nearly shattered Jian Yan's eardrums.

Jian Yan, who usually looked down on people, didn't dare to utter a single word for the first time. He was so sullen that he nodded repeatedly and said nice things.

Jian Yan had never suffered such humiliation in his entire life.

He originally thought Lu Ci was just an easy target, but he didn't expect the other party to have such a powerful background.

The more he thought about it, the more frustrated he became. He turned and yelled at his female assistant beside him:

"You idiot! Didn't you see the glass is broken? Go get me another one!"

The female assistant who was yelled at instinctively shrank back and glanced at the corner of the wall not far away in a panic.

The floor was already covered in shards of glass. The dozen or so glasses that were originally provided in the suite had all been smashed to pieces by this impotent and furious young master in the afternoon.

She murmured in a voice barely audible, "Young Master Jian... there... there are no more cups left in the room..."

"Why don't you just go to the front desk and ask for more?! Huh?!"

Jian Yan could no longer suppress the overwhelming anger that had been building up inside him.

He abruptly stood up, grabbed the female assistant by the collar, pointed at her nose, and began to hurl insults:

"I've been paying you all a fortune, and you can't even handle this little thing? What good are you bunch of useless trash?!"

While roaring wildly, Jian Yan, with red eyes, suddenly pushed his female assistant hard onto the sofa...

……

The next day, when Lu Ci and Gu Xiaowei arrived at the film crew, the crew, which had been in a state of panic and facing disbandment the day before, had now returned to its usual bustling state.

Along the way, whether it was the staff or the veteran actors who usually held themselves in high esteem in the industry, everyone who saw Lu Ci immediately put on a smile and came up to chat and get close to him.

They used to think that Lu Ci was just a bit young and impetuous because he had repeatedly embarrassed Jian Yan.

Now I realize that they have the right to be arrogant; they're not afraid at all.