Chapter 128 : Chapter 128

Chapter 128: “Misunderstandings piled on misunderstandings, leading to misunderstanding.”

Because of journalism's moment of charm, this matter was pushed to a height it shouldn't have reached.

Looking only at that leaked photo, being so close meant they were either fighting or kissing.

No one would believe that Nora, a newcomer to the film industry who had just come of age, could directly start a fight on set with the Movie King, one of the project's producers.

Domestic entertainment reporters were skilled at writing short essays.

They could spin a single picture into a fantastical story, immediately formulate a communication strategy, and finally write it up as romance gossip.

Lishou Entertainment's public relations team believed this was very unfavorable for them.

If it were a simple romance, or a jaw-dropping physical conflict, they could slowly find an angle for PR.

But looking at the situation this time... it was a suspected romance, which then reversed into a physical conflict.

It was the liveliest of the lively, with all the elements of love, suspense, and action.

It was hard to imagine the level of heat it would generate once the matter completely blew up.

The PR team did not have any intention of making the situation seem more serious than it was.

This matter definitely couldn't be hidden.

It was a highly watched project to begin with.

The fact that there was no news on the foreign internet yet was thanks to Li Yamin's team and the CAA staff with Nora.

“These media outlets are really crazy.”

Gu An said, “Now to ride the traffic, they're emphasizing that they are your two artists. If the subsequent events are exposed... it could easily lead to all sorts of speculation.”

Of course, Chu Zu knew this as well.

He was about to board the plane.

Marcus Li was on the side, constantly on the phone with Nora, trying to figure out the beginning and end of the incident.

At the same time, he also had to consider the corresponding legal risks—if subsequent public opinion caused a change in the project, and someone had to be held responsible, who would be at fault?

Nora or Li Yamin?

Nora was essentially still a CAA person.

So, should Marcus Li stand with his friend or his sister?

Chu Zu calmed down the somewhat chaotic Gu An, asking him to write the current situation into an email and send it to him, which he would read on the plane.

Neither Nora nor Li Yamin was within the system's searchable range.

The little yellow chicken could only scratch its ears and cheeks, waiting for Marcus Li to finish his call and exchange information with the host.

Marcus Li seized every moment, spitting out English from his mouth.

Because the matter was too extensive, he couldn't continue the call after boarding the plane.

The enclosed environment was not soundproof; if someone overheard, it would be all over.

After boarding the plane, Chu Zu began reading the email from Gu An.

The matter was both complicated and simple.

Nora had never studied acting and relied entirely on the director's on-site guidance.

Li Yamin had high standards for the crew, and having seen the overwhelming news, with every article mentioning his manager's name, he had been in a bad mood.

Li Yamin was fair when he lost his temper; he didn't care if you were male or female, old or young, not even if you were a person or a dog.

Whoever entered his line of sight would suffer.

Marcus Li's claim that Nora was good-tempered, obedient, and easily deceived was purely a brother's filter.

No one who could make it in the fashion world was a pushover, and Nora's combat power was even more astonishing.

If Li Yamin dared to be picky, she dared to talk back directly, and the reason she gave was exceptionally familiar to the little yellow chicken.

—Do you know who I am?

—I am a newcomer to the film industry.

—I admit I have no experience, but I am very smart, a fast learner, and have a strong sense of teamwork.

Right now, you are the one with the problem.

Your behavior is seriously disrupting the atmosphere on set.

You are the one holding things back.

The little yellow chicken: This moment is just like that moment.

Don't ask, just know it's where the dream began.

As expected of a young lady guided by the host.

It wasn't apparent in her childhood, but she had in fact already learned the essence from beneath many layers.

The little yellow chicken was willing to respectfully call her "little big sister" to show its respect.

The information Li Yamin's team knew stopped there.

Later, the two seemed to have had a few private conversations, followed by the secretly filmed conflict incident.

Nora slapped Li Yamin and then turned and left like a shooting star.

The little big sister had watched her brother and the neighbor's brother spar since she was young.

Because she was too young, she could only condescend to be a fierce cheerleader.

Only her imposing sound effects could demonstrate this girl's determination to practice martial arts.

That slap was fierce.

Li Yamin seemed not to have reacted.

The team only later discovered that their boss seemed to have shut down.

He changed his usual style and remained silent, with half of his face swollen from the corner of his eye to his jaw.

The filming schedule was forced to change, and other scenes without Li Yamin were moved up to be filmed first.

After understanding the situation on his side, Chu Zu looked at Marcus Li next to him.

Marcus Li was so worried he had a massive headache.

His short curly hair was tousled into a chicken's nest, and his thirty-five-year-old baby face aged in an instant.

“Will Li Yamin get physical with people?”

Marcus Li turned to the side, asking his childhood friend with worry.

Chu Zu: “He won't get physical with women.”

Losing his temper was one thing, but Li Yamin still had the most basic decency.

Marcus Li asked again: “Do I look like a woman to you?”

Chu Zu: “?”

Marcus Li showed an "I'm doomed" expression, wiping away non-existent cold sweat: “Sigh, Nora has had a strong competitive spirit and self-esteem since she was little, you know that too.”

Chu Zu: “I don't know.”

Marcus Li shook his head, pretending not to hear: “Li Yamin often mentioned you on set, you know, just those complaints, ‘If Wanshu Zu were here,’ ‘How did Wanshu Zu teach you all’... Nora couldn't hold back and argued with him, and then somehow it got to me.”

Chu Zu: “……”

It was pretty inexplicable.

A lawyer could handle other people's disputes.

Even if professional, friendly, and family stances conflicted, Marcus Li still felt it wasn't difficult to resolve.

But if it involved him... it was very difficult to sort out.

Li Yamin had always felt that he was the person with the best relationship with Wanshu Zu, and there shouldn't be anyone else.

Even if Wanshu Zu smashed his watch and told him to get lost, he still felt it was just a temporary cold war.

This wasn't their first cold war either.

It would be fine once Wanshu Zu's anger subsided—and the casting couch incident itself didn't have much to do with him.

On the contrary, Li Yamin handled the preliminary negotiations with Netflix; he was a "meritorious official."

And Nora firmly believed—the one with the tightest relationship with Wanshu Zu was her own brother, Marcus Li!

“She told Li Yamin that we shared a pair of jeans growing up, lived together every day, and snuck out to watch movies together late at night without sleeping.”

“You went to study directing because of this movie past, and then you switched careers only because I had no intention of pursuing an acting career and insisted on being a lawyer.”

“And after you changed careers, you didn't forget me. You immediately brought me, a rookie lawyer, into your business... and I have been present at every critical juncture since.”

“I handled your contract termination with your former company, I handled the establishment of Lishou Entertainment, and now that you've started a new business, you're still flying around the world with me.”

The more Marcus Li spoke, the more ferocious he looked.

His voice was even hoarser than Gu An's, but he lacked Gu An's composure: “Li Yamin got annoyed and started to launch some verbal attacks against me, and Nora slapped him right back.”

Nora and her brother had a very good relationship; after all, she had been following him around since she was little.

The Li family was a family of lawyers.

Marcus Li was also required to study law when he was young.

He rebelled for a period and only changed his mind because of the kitten incident.

His parents also hoped she could follow this path, but Nora was unwilling.

She was young when she decided to go to Italy.

It took a lot of effort to convince her parents, and Marcus Li helped a lot.

It didn't matter what Li Yamin said about her; it was just an argument.

But he couldn't curse her brother.

Marcus Li said, “Nora also added, ‘There's no way Wanshu Zu would like your personality. He never gives the cold shoulder to people he cares about; he resolves any problems on the spot’.”

Chu Zu: “……”

The little yellow chicken tried to analyze: “Does little Nora mean that Li Yamin is just a part of you and Marcus Li's brotherly play?”

The problem was, this brotherly play made damn sense, was completely plausible, and even had evidence and facts to back it up.

Wanshu Zu and Marcus Li did indeed hang out together all the time when they were kids, but they didn't share a pair of jeans.

When they were angry, Wanshu Zu wanted to beat the person to death.

Marcus Li was slightly inferior in terms of fighting prowess, and his mind was full of throwing this person into prison.

They also didn't sneak out to watch movies at night without sleeping.

To buy a birthday gift for his friend, Wanshu Zu worked part-time as a ticket seller at a movie theater.

When he was scheduled for the night shift, Marcus Li would go over to watch some free movies.

It was true that the two had always maintained a cooperative relationship.

The reason was very simple.

Wanshu Zu trusted Marcus Li's professional standards, and his family had two great American lawyers who could play a significant role in foreign business.

But after Nora's sorting out... it would be strange if Li Yamin didn't explode.

Nora's understanding of Wanshu Zu was limited to her childhood when Wanshu Zu treated her like a real sister and was very good to her.

He often had friction with her brother and reconciled at light speed after the friction.

In her perception, the neighbor brother wouldn't do something like giving the cold shoulder; he would take revenge on the spot—unless he didn't care about you at all.

Chu Zu was somewhat speechless: “Nora should work in media. In terms of creativity in storytelling and logical integrity, she is already eight hundred years ahead of domestic entertainment reporters.”

Marcus Li was already pondering whether he would get beaten, whether his childhood friend would step in righteously, and whether he should sue after getting beaten if Wanshu Zu watched coldly from the sidelines.

Studying law was indeed the right choice; the law was the most powerful weapon to protect oneself!

The little yellow chicken: “I think he should be worried about whether he'll be assassinated. I don't think Li the Second is the type to suffer internal friction; he'll get rid of the person who causes him internal friction.”

“Li Yamin really... he's not a bad person. There are people in the entertainment industry with worse tempers than him, and he has real talent... he's just a giant baby who lacks education.”

Chu Zu had experienced a peaceful childhood and was now in an extremely stable state of mind.

In Marcus Li's words from the morning, he had a kind of ghostly divinity about him.

Before, Chu Zu would absolutely not have cared about any issues related to Li Yamin; he would just handle it professionally.

Considering any personal feelings would be disrespectful to his many years of vacation-less nanny career.

Li Yamin was very difficult to reason with.

He had his own set of logic in his head.

Like a hardwired algorithm, if you input a value, he would always get his own exclusive data.

So "cooperative relationship" was equivalent to "bottomless care and compromise."

Hoping he could figure it out on his own, he interpreted the cold war as a tantrum.

When Wanshu Zu scolded him, he thought it was concern under normal communication.

He had already done what he was good at: acting, getting scolded, and being a driver.

So he handed over everything else, even to swing his room for growth, not caring that the cooperation model from his rookie days was no longer applicable today.

The problem had always been just one: Li Yamin was still the Li Yamin who had just graduated from college, but Wanshu Zu was long no longer the Wanshu Zu of the past.

Chu Zu: “I'd rather he come and get rid of me, a direct head-on collision. If he isn't tough with me, no matter how tough I am, he'll just treat it as ‘normal communication’.”

The little yellow chicken: “Why do I feel like what he actually needs is a psychologist?”

It sighed, “Sigh, this family is so strange, especially when compared with you and Marcus Li.”

If the system had known that its words would bring trouble, it would have swallowed that last sentence no matter what.

Because not long after it said that, the main text content refreshed.

A new plot was inserted into the main text, which only happened in one situation—it was closely related to the protagonist.

Qiao Tian and Xu Qiqi were both studying hard, one for her acting career, and the other for his manager career.

—Temporarily unemployed and thinking about his transformation plan at home, Shen Weidi saw the news.

Shen Weidi didn't know the real situation.

Gu An had controlled the news very tightly, and domestic public opinion was still at the level of the Movie King's romance.

Li Yamin was in a romance, and this time it was far more “real” than before.

Moreover, the company had not immediately issued a lawyer's letter, and Wanshu Zu had not made any clarification about his artist's romance.

Gu An was also being secretive, not responding, not suppressing... very much like the routine operation of an artist's team before admitting to a romantic relationship.

This was the one thing Shen Weidi couldn't stand to see.

Nora lived up to the little yellow chicken's respectful title of "little big sister."

Her one slap directly shattered the mentality of the two, uncle and nephew.

“He is struggling between shutting down and exploding, and there's no result yet, but it's coming soon.”

The system spread out the explosively increased content of the main text for Chu Zu to see.

“You may need to notify Gu An as soon as possible. This kid is no less capable of stirring up trouble than his uncle.”

After reading it, Chu Zu suddenly smiled.

It turned out that when a person is extremely speechless, they really will laugh out loud for no reason.

The matter with Li Yamin originally had nothing to do with the protagonist, but now it was strongly related.

So Wanshu Zu's childhood was also dragged into the main text.

From a factual level, this was a clear case of "adding scenes," but it was hard to say from the readers' perspective.

Wanshu Zu was being criticized only for "inaction," which had nothing to do with his personality, experience, or style of doing things.

Wanshu Zu's character setting was not the type to be disliked in the first place.

There was no reason for him to continue to be boycotted because of his gradually unfolding character.

If the readers could accept it, unfolding a new plotline could clearly explain the reason for Wanshu Zu's laissez-faire attitude towards Qiao Tian all along.

Looking at it purely from the plot's perspective...

Misunderstandings piled on misunderstandings, leading to misunderstanding.

Putting this matter into the main text of Death by Entertainment was in line with the tone of the whole novel.

When Chu Zu smiled, Marcus Li next to him felt even more horrified: “What are you laughing at? Be clear, what are you laughing at? I'm a little worried, don't add pressure on me at a time like this!”

“I just find it rather interesting.”

Chu Zu said slowly, “If I don't do anything, can you handle the situation with Li Yamin?”

Marcus Li: “This is undoubtedly a legally permissible murder. Do you want to bear the name of a murderer?”

Chu Zu: “OK, I'll handle it. You owe me one.”

Marcus Li reluctantly said: “Deal.”

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