ATAMMDO 11

Chapter 11 – Travel To The Set

 

Jiang Liu Cheng hasn’t seen his parents for a long time.

 

When he was young, his parents threw him to his grandfather and then they broke up and disappeared for good.

 

When they reappeared in their hometown, they ended up remarried.

 

But they did not bring Jiang Liu Cheng any good news nor do they finally remember the responsibilities they have not done yet towards him. Let alone the sudden emergence of fatherly and maternal love.

 

When a young boy grows up in this environment, with only his grandfather to support him, he will eventually grow up getting used to this and with his own feet. 

 

“By the way, you have terminated your contract with the company. Remember to post a termination statement on your Weibo.” Before parting, Li Qiu especially reminded him to do that. But he was afraid that Jiang Liu Cheng simply did not know how to post on Weibo. Nonetheless, he did not comment on it. 

 

Jiang Liu Cheng has no idea how to do that. After all, he is just a small fry. No one will care what a mere extra in a movie would say.

 

However, since Li Qiu told him to, he didn’t say anything. He casually took a picture of the termination contract and then posted it to Weibo. He captioned it: ‘Had been busy. But by the way, here’s the termination of my contract.’

 

As a small-face starlet, there are not many fans following his microblog. Instead, only a few of his college classmates are his audience.

 

When he first signed with the company, the company wanted to introduce him to the public as the former Q university schoolboy to raise his profile, so they let him use his own Weibo account.

 

When he first signed the contract, the comments below were all alumni, and those who knew him were surprised how their school handsome went to be a star.

 

However, with the passage of time, people found out that not only did he not become popular, but also became more and more left behind. Because of this, people gradually stopped paying attention to him.

 

After parting with Li Qiu for a while, Jiang Liu Cheng’s cell phone rang.

 

“Damn it. Jiang Liu Cheng, you terminated your appointment with Zhou Sheng Entertainment. A lot of people came to ask me what was going on.” Guo Qifan’s loud voice came from his mobile phone.

 

Jiang Liu Cheng put the phone away from his ear a little bit, and then took it back when the voice became softer. “Yes, it was terminated.”

 

He didn’t check his post after making it public on Weibo. He didn’t know that someone was interested and asking in the comment section.

 

Because he did not respond, those who knew the relationship between the two went to Guo Qifan. It’s a good thing that Guo Qifan knew about his termination of the contract with the company beforehand.

 

“They’re asking for a good reason. Huh, you have all the reason to leave that broken company.” Guo Qifan started.  “This company has not given you any good opportunities in the entertainment industry. It’s about time you terminate that contract. But I heard that artists have to pay a lot of liquidated damages to the company if they want to terminate the contract in advance. You don’t really lose a lot of money, do you?”

 

Jiang Liu Cheng: “No. They’re the ones who lost a large amount of money.”

 

Guo Qifan: “It’s good that there’s not a lot of losses. Er… What did you just say? Zhou Sheng Entertainment lost a sum of money to you?”

 

His voice suddenly rose.

 

It’s a good thing that Jiang Liu Cheng had foreseen this and put away his phone beforehand. Guo Qifan wanted to say something more, but Jiang Liu Cheng had beat himself to it. “I’ll tell you the details when I got home. I have to go, someone is calling me.”

 

Jiang Liu Cheng hung up the phone and as if on cue, his phone really did ring as he receive another call from someone else. It was Lao Zheng who was also there to inquire about his situation regarding the termination of his contract. 

 

Jiang Liu Cheng told him the truth.

 

“If you are short of money, feel free to let me know.”

 

Lao Zheng also thought that he would pay sky-high liquidated damages.

 

Jiang Liu Cheng said that he would not borrow money from a friend unless he had to.

 

The two chatted for a bit and as soon as he hung up again, another phone call came in. This time, it was not his friend, though.

 

“Meet with me and I’ll give you back the deposit for a month.”

 

Jiang Liu Cheng probably knew what the landlord was going to say, but the one-month deposit was also money, and he never had a problem with the money.

 

Come to the agreed-upon address soon. 

 

The landlord drove himself and arrived one step ahead of him. She was sitting inside, looking out from time to time. She seemed to be a little relieved when she saw him coming. 

 

Jiang Liu Cheng walked up to her and at the same time, his phone rang yet again.

 

He looked down and found that it was a text message prompted to the account by the mobile bank.

 

Sure enough, it was the transfer from the landlord, but the amount was much higher than his one-month deposit.

 

“Wang Jiajun has already told me the truth. He was the one who had wronged you. Apart from the one-month deposit, the rest of the money is the compensation given to you by me as his mother.”

 

The landlord was too clever to give it to him in the name of asking for help.

 

Jiang Liu Cheng deducts the deposit and transfers the rest of the money back to her account. “His behavior doesn’t cause me any loss. I don’t need compensation. If there’s nothing else, I still have things to do.”

 

When the landlord saw that he was leaving, she didn’t try to beat around the bush anymore. “If you think that’s not enough still, I can give a higher rate. How much do you want? Name your price. If you are afraid that I will scam you then I can transfer the name of my property to you directly. If you’re still suspicious, I’ll double it. As long as you tell that man for me to let go of my Wang Jiajun. There must be a way.”

 

Jiang Liu Cheng looked at her carefully. “Your son’s case has been filed with the police. It is useless for you to beg for me or someone else. Whoever commits intentional injury or serious injury will be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years and not more than ten years. Besides, your son has committed more than one crime. With several punishments coming his way, I advise you to give up.”

 

With that, he left.

Out of the coffee shop, Jiang Liu Cheng looked back at the bent landlord.

 

If he had known this would’ve happened, he wouldn’t have come here in the first place.

 

He did not pity the other side, if not for her connivance, Wang Jiajun would not be like that, and there would be no innocent people being hurt.

 

After returning home, Guo Qifan was quick to pester Jiang Liu Cheng, who had just come back from work. And as expected, he asked about the termination contract.

 

Guo Qifan was dumbfounded for a while but when he thought about it, it seemed normal for this kind of thing to happen to Jiang Liu Cheng.

 

Guo Qifan and Jiang Liu Cheng have known each other since high school. When he was a freshman in high school, Jiang Liu Cheng was very precocious. No matter what happened, he could do everything.

 

At that time, a young man of that age always went home to his parents for everything. He was the only one who thought of everything by himself.

 

“Don’t look at me with such pathetic eyes.”

 

Jiang Liu Cheng saw that Guo Qifan had a flat mouth as he kept on staring at him, enough to send goosebumps all over his skin.

 

“But you are really pitiful.”

 

Jiang Liu Cheng “Do you want to make a deposit with me?”

 

Guo Qifan: “No, then I’ll be more pitiful.”

 

He is an ordinary office worker who has just graduated for a year. He can’t compete with him. He doesn’t have the ability to get the agency to compensate him with a sum of money.

 

……….

 

A week after the appointment, Jiang Liu Cheng bought a ticket to the filming base one day in advance.

 

Cheng Qinghua’s new film is about to start filming, and there is a lot of news on the Internet. A marketing number revealed that the leading actor in the film is Qin Lu.

 

However, it is regarded as a fake by many people, because Qin Lu has not made a new film for nearly two years. Although he has worked with Cheng Qinghua, fans know that their idol will not easily work with the same director to make a film, unless the script can particularly impress him.

 

When Jiang Liu Cheng got off the plane, there happened to be a lot of noise at the airport. Today’s people are obviously unexpected by bought the airport management and the agency staff.

 

As he walked out of the airport, he heard screams.

 

Jiang Liu Cheng looked around and found out that fans of some star are here to pick him up at the airport. There are fan signs all over, saying how much they love the star.

 

When Jiang Liu Cheng was about to make a detour, there was a sudden uproar in the crowd, and it seemed that someone had come out. A girl holding a sign was squeezed a few times and was about to fall to the ground. He reached out and grabbed her arm waving in the air in time.

 

The girl was in shock, and when she reacted, she hurriedly thanked him, “Thank you. Thank you so much. If it hadn’t been for you, I would have been hurt.”

 

“You’re welcome.” Jiang Liu Cheng opened his hand and picked up the sign that had fallen on the ground. It read ‘Mo Yi’s elder brother’s words of refueling’, and handed it to her and said, “Be careful next time.”

 

The girl took the sign and thanked him again. The boy was one head taller than her. She looked up while thanking her.

 

The boy wears the most popular short hair nowadays, and a few strands of broken hair rebelliously fall from his forehead, like falling in the eyes of the stars. His facial features are exquisite and beautiful. And then there’s his smooth and fierce facial features enough to make his masculine features more prominent.

 

At this time, the boy was bowing his head, and his black pupils reflected the figure of the girl.

 

The noise around them seems to have disappeared.

 

The girl watched in a daze for a while until the boy’s voice rang.

 

“What’s wrong?”

 

The girl instantly regained her senses. Her face was quickly flushed and her heart was screaming. She was fascinated by the boy, but she was here to welcome the big star in open arms.

 

“No, it’s all right. Thank you anyway.”

 

Jiang Liu Cheng once again said ‘you’re welcome’ before he completely left.

 

The girl looked at his back as he left, and when she ran to find her love interest, she heard the other girls say that her love interest had already walked the aisle. After a moment of disappointment, she took out her phone to share the experience with her best friend, saying that this little brother looked better than her love interest.

 

Meanwhile, Qin Lu, who had just finished signing a bunch of contracts, finally remembered his matchmaking duties and he called Cheng Qinghua first.

 

As soon as the phone was connected, Cheng Qinghua’s voice came through first.

 

“Emperor Qin, as the male lead, when are you going to come over? The shooting starts tomorrow ah.”

 

“I’ll catch a plane at night.” Qin Lu got up and walked to the window as he tried to relieve his fatigue from sitting all morning. “How was your talk with Jiang Liu Cheng?”

 

There was a quiet pause from the other line before director Cheng Qinghua speaks, “Of course, it was a good conversation. He told me before that he had booked a flight for today, but I don’t know when it would arrive.”

 

The agent who opened the door suddenly felt a surge of pressure. He looked at the tall figure standing in front of the floor-to-ceiling window. Zhou Wenbin couldn’t help but frown as he sensed the bad aura slowly forming around his boss. 

 

“You don’t know when he will arrive.” Qin Lu’s tone of voice by this time could not be defined as joy or anger. But the agent who knew him well enough by now identifies it as more of a tone of unhappiness rather than the two. 

 

“He didn’t tell me.”

 

“If he didn’t tell you, won’t you ask? Do you want a good-looking boy to take initiative to tell you that? What’s your use? You can’t even pick up the phone to ask him.”

 

In hindsight, Cheng Qinghua, who was stunned by the roar, remembered that he and Jiang Liu Cheng were still blind dates. He could tell that Qin Lu was discontented with how this is going. As a director, he could not take care of Jiang Liu Cheng, but as his blind date, he should. Jiang Liu Cheng came to his own city and even if he didn’t, Cheng Qinghua should’ve arranged for someone to come and pick him up.

 

“Cheng Qinghua, you don’t want to go on a blind date with him, do you?”

 

Qin Lu’s voice came from the mobile phone as calm as the lake.

 

Cheng Qinghua shivered, “Of course, I want to go on a blind date with him.”

 

As soon as the words fell, the whole crew stopped as if the pause button was pressed upon them.

 

……….

The author has something to say about Cheng Qinghua who is not a good-looking boy.