Chapter 138: What Do You Want for Christmas (3)Translator: Sissy That Walk
“What? C Studio has withdrawn all the scheduled covers with us for the next year? Don’t they want our advertisement any more?” Di Bian threw the documents in his hands away. He felt a tremendous pressure on his chest, “What’s going on? Why did Yu Hui turned her coat and helped that He Bai suddenly? Your useless bastards even can’t get one job done, can you?” The assistant glanced at him and replied in a low voice, “We don’t know the exact story now, but they had agreed to replace He Bai…” Someone suddenly knocked the door. The vice chairman Liu couldn’t wait any response and pushed the door open immediately. He strode forward and said hurriedly, “Mr. Di, Da Ze, who had almost reached cooperation with us, suddenly had changed their mind and chose C Studio instead of us.”
“What?!” Di Bian stood up panickily. Now he got aflame, “What’s all this about? Why does Da Ze have relation with C Studio!”
“Not only C Studio, Da Ze has also invested Hua Ding.” Liu added with a ghastly expression. He was about to say something but stopped as he glanced at that assistant.
Di Bian noticed his misgiving. He restrained anxiety and sent the assistant out. Then he asked, “What else? Make them clear!”
Liu got closer to him and said in a low voice, “The things that we have investigated before, I’ve found something. The actual boss of Hua Ding is Ke Shi. He was once a subordinate of the old chairman. They had some conflicts, so he left. It was likely that it was him who had snatched this project from us in C Province.”
Di Bian banged the table and said furiously, “I knew it! Recently, Hua Ding has become a new force emerging unexpectedly. Almost all its businesses had overlapped with ours, this is an obvious challenge to us. I have known that there must be someone behind it! What about Da Ze, what do you find about it?” ‘All our best-cooperated companies suddenly betrayed us. There must have been someone putting every obstacle in our way.’
Liu replied, “Yes, Da Ze changed its decision due to an equity change in their company. A major shareholder who only invested regularly but never engaged in their affairs suddenly gave all his equity to a young woman named Hu Lan. It seemed that Da Ze’s investment to C Studio and Hua Ding’ move were both the works of this woman.”
Hearing that, Di Bian clutched his fist. He restrained his anger and continued to ask, “What’s her background? Do you have sent people to get in touch with her?”
“We have only made some investigations, no contact.” Liu’s tone suddenly became weird, “Our investigation shows that she grew up abroad. Her appearance, background and ability are all about the average. What’s more, she was barely 19, a little girl full of romantic imagination. I think she is not the one who led Da Ze to change their decision. She is just a puppet. The person behind her holds the entity.”
Di Bian frowned, “Then can you find out who he is?”
Liu shook his head, “We are on it, but haven’t found any clue yet.”
So, they’ve got nothing in hand. It was nearly impossible to win Da Ze back.
Di Bian’s face darkened. He recalled Da Ze’s investment to Hua Ding and those two betrayers’ investment to C Studio. Suddenly, he thought something startling, “Are you sure that He Bai is only a poor student without any background and connections? They are too many coincidences now. Could it be Da Ze actually was intending to help him, so they invested Hua Ding and C Studio, instead us?”
Influenced by his words, Liu also thought about this possibility, then he shook his head and said with hesitation, “We’re sure that he is an orphan. All the connections he gets are only Niu’s family, Jia’s family, Jun Chen and Xu Yinrong, no more. The only one that is close to him recently is Master Di Qiuhe…Sir, could all of this be related to Master Di Qiuhe? He has cooperated with Yu Hui before…”
“Nonsense!” Di Bian interrupted him and said angrily, “Qiuhe is filming in country K. He only has some money he saved before. Besides, my people are around him. He couldn’t play any tricks! Don’t act like those fence sitters brainwashed by Qin’s family. They just want to slander my son! Those people try every method to force me to admit that I only have one son, Xia Song! That’s not gonna happen!”
Liu stopped talking. Qin’s family was a huge offence to Di Bian. Whoever mentioned it would outrage him, he’d go completely unreasonable.
Di Bian restored some calmness after his shout. He put on a serious face, analyzed the situation and said with certainty, “All the mess must be related to that Ke Shi. These days he has led Hua Ding to confront Huangdu everywhere. He probably helped He Bai to drive me mad. Forget that He Bai, he is Qiuhe’s friend after all, just do Qiuhe a favor. But you need to investigate that person behind Hu Lan. Now Huangdu is separating from Qin’s family, so we need a new capital inflow. We can’t afford to mess things up now.”
Now he realized that he couldn’t walk over Di Qiuhe, so he wanted to do him a favor…Liu despised Di Bian’s hypocrisy but he still pretended to obey him with respect and then strode for the door.
He Bai sent the retouched photos to C Studio. It took him several days to finish it, so he went directly to bed and had a sound sleep. When he was refueled with energy, he browsed some resumes sent to his mailbox, only to feel disappointed.
None of them were satisfactory, either too young without any experience or too worldly with too many requests. He was recruiting an assistant, not an apprentice or a guest. He was not in the least bit touched by these resumes.
It was really difficult to find a sophisticated assistant with great emotional intelligence…Xing Shaofeng was so good that He Bai subconsciously lifted the bar to a much higher level.
On the bottom of the mailbox lay Di Qiuhe’s numerous emails sent several days ago. He paused for a while and checked those emails again. Then he recalled the phone call at C Studio and gradually lost himself.
How was his filming going on in country K? He Bai remembered that Di Qiuhe had a car racing scene. Di Qiuhe was such a bad driver. He Bai wondered whether the racing shoot would go wrong…
Suddenly, the scene where Di Qiuhe fell from the building flashed in He Bai’s brain. He was fine recalling this scene before, now he felt agitated. He came to himself and pressed his chest to feel his strong-beating heart. He rubbed his face and thought for a while, finally took out his phone, opened WeChat and added “A Cute Bird Born in Autumn.”
Di Qiuhe wouldn’t see the befriending request until he finished today’s filming. He Bai put down the phone and went to the bathroom.
The other roommates went to play basketball, so he ordered in after he washed up. Feeling quite lonely, he began to browse the real estate market. The upcoming spring festival in several months reminded him to buy a house as soon as possible.
He didn’t have a large savings account, at least not enough for a large sized house. But he still needed to find one that he could move into immediately, so those unfurnished or unable to deliver instantly were ruled out; The Residential Property Management and environment must be decent, so no old community; it’d better be near toDi Qiuhe’s house…He suddenly realized something and crossed out this one without hesitation. He thought indifferently: “No, I have to live as far from DiQiuhe as possible, or he would stick to me like glue, then I would never live a quiet life.”
But…He recalled that Di Qiuhe had given his old house back to Di Bian, now living with Fan Da. He had to take care of the old man so he wouldn’t have much time to pester He Bai.
With that in mind, he added the last one again. With all these requests, he clicked “Search”.
“Sorry, no results.”
He rested his hand on the mouse with indifference written all over his face.
He almost forgot that Fan Da lived in a big hair villa community, where small sized houses didn’t exist at all. Should he buy a villa? Come on, be realistic.
Ring ring, WeChat reminded the acceptance of befriending request, and then a video call came.
He Bai forgot the hatred to the rich and looked at the call with narrowed eyes. He hesitated for a few seconds and answered it indifferently.
“Little puppy.” Di Qiuhe crouched on the road, sweating buckets. The workers went and came behind him, but he looked at He Bai in the screen affectionately and happily. His his lips curved up and he said, “Little puppy, I miss you.”