Chapter 22.2

Xu Ke stored the things she bought from the supermarket somewhere, and then went to the bar on the first floor with Su Qian.

As soon as she entered the door, Su Qian boldly told the waiter, “Miss Zhou has reserved a seat.”

“Wait a moment, let me check for you.” The waiter clicked the mouse a few times, “Miss Zhou is in 203. I’ll find someone to take you there.”

“No need, I’ll go by myself.”

Xu Ke looked at Su Qian, who was calm and composed, and felt a little nervous. She still didn’t understand what they were supposed to do, but she did understand why Su Qian wanted to leave Xingcan.

Did she… have a grudge with the big boss?

But how could these two people be related?

Su Qian put on a mask and made her way unobstructed to the outside of room 203. The room door was half open, probably still waiting for the wine, and she could clearly hear the people inside talking.

Zhou Bingyan: “I heard that the actors for the new drama have been decided?”

“Oh, I was wondering why Miss Zhou had time to catch up with me today, turns out there’s a hidden agenda.” The producer laughed, “Just selected a role, does Miss Zhou have any thoughts?”

Zhou Bingyan casually rested her arm on the table and said coquettishly, “Look at what you’re saying, we’re old friends, can’t I find you for a chat when I’m free?”

The producer: “It’s okay, but you know my wife…”

“You really are henpecked.”

After a long time of small talk, Zhou Bingyan finally got to the point, “I know that the actress you guys are looking for is Su Qian, she’s one of my artists. But this role seems a bit special, her background is not too clean…”

“Excuse me, serving the dishes.” The rest of the words were interrupted by the waiter who came in.

The dishes and wine were served one by one. During this time, the producer’s phone happened to ring. He got up and signaled to Zhou Bingyan, “I’m going out to take a call.”

Xu Ke, who was eavesdropping in the corner, was almost shocked. What kind of grudge does the future boss have with Su Qian to obstruct this hard-won opportunity?

Su Qian watched the producer go to the window at the end of the corridor, thought for a moment, and took out her phone to open an app.

On the screen was the scene of Zhou Bingyan talking to Jin Lie at home that day. After listening at double speed for a while, Su Qian took off her Bluetooth headset and hooked the corner of her mouth lightly.

“Xu Ke, do me a favor.”

Xu Ke perked up, “Sister Qianqian, what do you want me to do?”

“Do as I say in a moment.” Su Qian was determined, “I want Zhou Bingyan to willingly give me this drama.”

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The producer received a call from his wife, and after a lot of explanation, she finally believed that he wouldn’t be going home tonight because of work.

After hanging up the phone and walking towards the private room, a thin woman came face to face. Her face was tightly covered with a mask and a baseball cap, and she blocked his way with an imposing manner.

“Hello Mr. Qin, I am a reporter from Zi Yu Zi Le, are you dating Miss Zhou Bingyan? Do you have any intention to cooperate in the future?”

The producer gave her a cold stare and said nothing, just walked around her.

Xu Ke pursed her lips and took out the shameless spirit of an entertainment reporter to follow him, “Mr. Qin, answer about your relationship with Zhou Bingyan! I heard that you and your wife have a good relationship, did you find me today because you want to expose your relationship?”

“Who brought you here?”

Xu Ke clenched her fists, her expression shifting, “Miss Zhou! She contacted our agency saying that there is big news to dig today. So you and her…”

“I have nothing to do with her! If you dare to write a word, I will sue you until you wet your pants!”

After the producer finished speaking, he pushed Xu Ke away and walked away in a huff.

Su Qian stood at the door of room 202, and leaned against the wall of the corridor pretending to make a call. It didn’t take long to see the producer surnamed Qin walking over with a stern face, passing by the door of room 203 without glancing sideways.

It seems that Xu Ke has accomplished the task.

Zhou Bingyan had already poured the wine and thought about the excuses for changing the female lead, but she didn’t expect Qin Jianbin to walk past like a gust of wind, without even giving her a glance.

“Mr. Qin——” Zhou Bingyan chased after him, and asked in confusion, “We haven’t finished our conversation, what is this…”

“I have nothing to say to you. I have other things to do, excuse me.”

Qin Jianbin’s face was cold, and after hastily speaking, he left in a huff.

Zhou Bingyan stared at his retreating figure, and gritted her teeth, “Does this man have a problem?!”

He was fine just now, and suddenly started to show his displeasure. The more Zhou Bingyan thought about it, the more angry she became. She held back her anger and returned to the private room to pack up and leave, only to find Su Qian sitting on the sofa as if nothing had happened.

She was sitting with her legs crossed, her elbow resting on her knee, and looked at her with a smile that wasn’t quite a smile.

“Long time no see, Miss Zhou.”

“How are you here?!”

“Of course I came with you. And I accidentally heard a little bit about me.” Su Qian raised her eyebrows slightly, “Has that man left?”

The words were so clear that if Zhou Bingyan still didn’t know what was going on, she would have wasted all these years.

She threw her bag onto the sofa and glared at Su Qian, “Are you looking for trouble? Do you really think I can’t handle you?!”

“The future Big Boss personally blocked my opportunity, I don’t know whether to say I’m scared or honored. But I advise you to close the door first, because you definitely don’t want others to hear what’s coming next.”

“Hmph.” Zhou Bingyan sneered, “Su Qian, how much weight do you think you have that I wouldn’t know? Whatever means you have, just use them, but I warn you, if you can’t handle me, you better think about your own way out.”

Zhou Bingyan dared to use underhanded tactics against her again and again, because she saw through that Jin Lie didn’t care about her affairs.

Su Qian thought the same before, so she didn’t want to make a big fuss every time. But just now she accidentally watched the surveillance, letting her know whether it was sincere or hypocritical, at least in front of outsiders, Jin Lie was biased towards her.

The time with the photo, he chose to help her, and when Zhou Bingyan slandered her, he also chose to stand by her side.

Su Qian was very content, it was enough that Jin Lie had shown his attitude.

Su Qian: “Just now, quite coincidentally, I heard your conversation with that producer.”

“So what?”

Su Qian said lightly, “After you finish looking at this thing, think again about whether you want to treat me like this.”

She pulled out the surveillance footage of Zhou Bingyan visiting Jin Lie at home that day and played a part of their conversation for her.

Zhou Bingyan maintained an indifferent expression throughout, and even laughed sarcastically after listening, “You’re so naive? Do you think that exposing this kind of thing would affect me? Jin Lie and the Jin family don’t acknowledge your identity, which part of what I said was wrong?”

“Don’t be in a hurry, it’s not over yet.”

Su Qian took out a voice recorder and pressed the switch. Inside was her conversation with that old lecherous manager Liu. That day, when they were discussing the endorsement of an internet celebrity at Demon club, Manager Liu got carried away and directly mentioned Zhou Bingyan’s name.

“I won’t expose these two things. But I will show the surveillance to Jin Lie’s parents. If they know that you are so eager to break up Jin Lie’s marriage, and even brazenly claim to be the third party, what do you think they will think of you?”

Su Qian leaned back with a calm expression, her arms folded, and her imposing momentum rose instantly, “You’ve been harming me before, and I’ve always been frustrated because I couldn’t find any evidence. What if I give the voice recorder to Jin Lie, would he believe you or me?”

Su Qian calmly analyzed the pros and cons one by one, and Zhou Bingyan’s face finally became serious.

She swallowed nervously, and sneered with her neck raised, refusing to admit defeat, “You don’t think I would be afraid of you like this, do you?!”

If Jin Lie were to intervene, he wouldn’t wait until now to take action. He would have taken action when Su Qian was being slandered all over the place before.

Moreover, even though Jin Lie hasn’t fallen for her yet, she has liked Jin Lie for so many years, how could she not see whether he has feelings for Su Qian or not.

This kind of sensitive matter doesn’t need to be spoken, just one look can say it all. She has persisted for so long and still refuses to give up, because she has never seen Jin Lie show a gaze that could drown people.

Not to her, not to others, and certainly not to Su Qian!

Su Qian shook her head, picked up her phone again, and opened the video she had just recorded in the album.

“I heard that the actors for the new drama have been decided?”

“I know that the actress you guys are looking for is Su Qian, she’s one of my artists. But this role seems a bit special, her background is not too clean…”

The words Zhou Bingyan had said were played out word for word.

Su Qian smiled, “The inventors of mobile phones and voice recorders are too great, don’t you think?”

If the content in the voice recorder can be denied, then she can’t deny this ironclad video now.

Zhou Bingyan nervously rubbed her hands, and her face ashen as she asked, “What do you want?”

“Since you’re my boss, you should do what a boss should do.” Su Qian stood up, put the voice recorder and mobile phone into her bag, “Although Jin Lie doesn’t usually care about me, you should know that my mother-in-law treats me very well. If I ask her to let Jin Lie help me find some water armies to hype up the setting of a poor little girl being oppressed, it seems not a difficult thing.”

As she spoke, she slowly zipped up her bag, “It’s such a coincidence that you’ve become my new boss. If netizens still don’t like me, compared to being suppressed by capital, which side do you think public opinion will stand on? Maybe I can take this opportunity to become popular, do you want to try?”

Zhou Bingyan: “I’m asking you what you want, can you stop talking nonsense?”

“I just said, let you do what a boss should do.” Su Qian looked at her, with a chill rising in her eyes, “I’ll wait until tomorrow, if there’s no good news, then the things in this bag will…”

“I got it!” Zhou Bingyan was burning with anger, but at this moment she could only choose to endure, “Su Qian, only this once.”

Su Qian: “Okay.”

“Those things…”

Su Qian walked over and opened the door, “You have no conditions to bargain with me. When it’s time to return them to you, they will naturally be returned.”

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