CHAPTER 44: CHAPTER 44: TRENDING AGAIN

Brother Wang looked at his stunned expression, feeling a bit of pity, and asked, "What have you done this time?"

Zeng Xu took out his phone, tapped the screen a few times, and handed it to him. Brother Wang took the phone and saw the latest trending topic on the screen:

[Yu Xiaozhe’s Gay Partner Exposed, Sweet Night at the Crew Hotel]

Brother Wang was utterly speechless, now truly frantic, "Are you like a dog? Do you just have to bite Yu Xiaozhe alone?"

He really didn’t want to manage Zeng Xu anymore. Initially, he saw that Zeng Xu looked quite good and had great potential, so he signed him under his wing.

In the beginning, Zeng Xu was indeed quite hardworking and did well. Brother Wang had two other artists under him and seeing that Zeng Xu could handle things on his own, he stopped following him all the time and diverted some attention to the other two.

This led to him not knowing when or how Zeng Xu hooked up with President Zhang. But he didn’t care, after all, this was Zeng Xu’s own choice.

President Zhang happened to be responsible for investment production at Mingsheng, so Zeng Xu’s future resources were no longer a concern, a win-win situation.

Before Zeng Xu got with President Zhang, he was already ambitious, arrogant, and after joining with President Zhang, he became even more unrestrained. Previously, there were always rumors from the small crews about him bullying newcomers, but these rumors were eventually suppressed by President Zhang.

This time, the role was already decided, but when Zeng Xu heard Yu Xiaozhe would play the role of Yang Shu in the drama, he begged President Zhang to give him the role of younger brother Yang Xiaotu, and eventually, he got it. The originally set young artist wasn’t famous, not worth mentioning.

Director Wang’s crew, partnered with award-winning actors and with many famous guest appearances, it would be hard for the production not to become popular.

Seeing Zeng Xu get such good resources, Brother Wang was naturally excited, so he had been busy discussing with the team on how to publicize it, even though it hadn’t been officially announced, they had to prepare the draft to be released with the announcement.

"Sigh, tell me in detail what happened these last two days, don’t give me the run-around, speak the truth!"

Zeng Xu recounted how he was turned away twice by Yu Xiaozhe and how Xu Yang ridiculed him from start to finish.

After listening, Brother Wang was a bit speechless. If you say Zeng Xu is foolish, yet he knows to give gifts to people in the crew with higher status than him and be low-key. But if you say he’s smart, his smartness isn’t used correctly, always trying to gain benefits through side doors, thinking everyone will fall for his tricks.

"So what’s up with today?"

Zeng Xu’s mind was chaotic now, originally planning to release the photo exposé this morning, but he spent the entire morning out of town filming a variety show.

The paparazzi he contacted last night couldn’t reach him in time, and thinking it concerned Yu Xiaozhe, still wanted to confirm with Zeng Xu before releasing it, as not everyone dared to offend Yu Xiaozhe, unless he paid a lot.

That’s the kind of person Zeng Xu is, he paid a lot, so the paparazzi dared to take this job. They had to confirm repeatedly before daring to release it, but they couldn’t contact Zeng Xu all day.

Zeng Xu didn’t expect such a thing to happen when he returned to the crew, until he was lying on the hospital bed, the long-silent paparazzi saw the trending topic and contacted him again.

At that time, Zeng Xu was in a rage, and since the photo was already meant to be exposed, without much thought, he let the paparazzi release it, just to take advantage of the afternoon trending topic, to smear Yu Xiaozhe for mixing personal affairs with work, publicly meeting in private at the crew.

As for what the consequences would be, Zeng Xu didn’t care at all, at worst he still had President Zhang to help him!

"..."

Brother Wang really didn’t know how to describe Zeng Xu. After listening to his account, to put it bluntly, he envied other people’s achievements and status, thinking to latch on and ride the wave, not expecting that Yu Xiaozhe wouldn’t fall for it.

If Zeng Xu had just left quietly after giving the gifts, maybe Yu Xiaozhe would have remembered him as someone sensible. But all the messy, disgusting things Zeng Xu did afterwards...

Now Brother Wang was truly envious of Yu Xiaozhe’s manager, not to mention Yu Xiaozhe’s countless awards, just the fact that he didn’t cause trouble made Brother Wang extremely envious.

Since Zeng Xu hooked up with President Zhang, he had been subtly oppressing him, complaining about not getting good resources, not matching his worth. Brother Wang wanted to ask Zeng Xu back then, what worth does he have? Is it that face that didn’t mind President Zhang being old enough to be his father? Or is it the behavior of willingly becoming a mistress for resources?

Now that there’s trouble, he knows to ask Brother Wang to solve it for him. Why didn’t he discuss it with him before doing this?

"Now that things have blown up, what does President Zhang say?" Brother Wang really didn’t want to handle Zeng Xu’s mess anymore.

"I called President Zhang before you came, but he didn’t answer, it was his secretary who answered, saying he was in a meeting." Zeng Xu said weakly.

Bah, what meeting?

Brother Wang had just rushed over from the company, he saw with his own eyes President Zhang pulling his secretary into the office, was this having a meeting in the office with the secretary?! But now he had to calm Zeng Xu down, which was strange, Zeng Xu’s temperament wasn’t this irritable and explosive, it was only after he took on this role that he suddenly changed, he still felt Zeng Xu was hiding something from him, after thinking he decided to ask clearly,

"Since President Zhang is busy, let’s not disturb him. Zeng Xu, tell me the truth, there’s something wrong with you recently, what’s going on? Also, I’ve asked your assistant, he said you’ve been going out alone every night lately and don’t want him to accompany you, what exactly have you been doing?"

Looking for President Zhang was impossible, because this President Zhang had a family, and his wife came from a good background and was famous for her fierceness. If she found out President Zhang married her and still fooled around with men outside, President Zhang would have to suffer severe consequences. Every night, except for necessary social engagements, President Zhang had to go home, this wasn’t a secret at Mingsheng.

So what was Zeng Xu doing going out alone every night? And who was he looking for?

Zeng Xu finally broke down, unable to hold back, he cried out, "Brother Wang, brother, help me, you have to help me!"

Brother Wang was taken aback by this, "What are you doing? Don’t cry, speak slowly."

"I didn’t want this, I didn’t want to do it, it’s not what I wanted! It was her forcing me! Ahhhhh! It was all her!" Zeng Xu’s emotions were very unstable, even somewhat frenzied, Brother Wang was scared, attempting to hold down his hands that were pulling at his hair.

But then Zeng Xu became even more hysterical, crying and laughing, shouting, "Hahahaha! It’s me! It’s me! How’s that? How does it feel to be tormented by that thing? Back when you did that to me, did you ever think there would be a day like this?! Hahahaha!"