226: You Are Fired

Today was the day when Wang Ning'an, his aunt, and his cousin were coming to the Imperial Capital. Wang Cheng specifically told this to his grandfather, so although he was going to Yazhi today, he would not need to report. He then drove to the airport to pick them up.

Coincidentally, when Wang Cheng arrived at the airport, he saw his elder brother walk out of the airport with his aunt and cousin.

"Elder brother, first auntie, over here!" Wang Cheng pressed on the carn horn and waved to them.

Wang Ning’an had long seen him.

Since it was her first time coming to the prosperous Imperial Capital, Guan Meifang was a little uncomfortable, and sat in the car a little restrainedly. Only He Ping looked around curiously, wowing when he saw strange things with a child-like mentality. Guan Meifang said a few words, telling him not to move around.

Wang Cheng glanced at the rearview mirror, "First auntie, it's okay, let big cousin have a look."

Guan Meifang sighed, "Chengcheng, Ning'an, I’ve really troubled you."

"First auntie, we are relatives, it is normal for us to help each other. Also, everyone in the family hopes that my big cousin can be cured. If he is cured, you will relax a bit - we’ll all be very happy to see that," Wang Cheng said.

Guan Meifang touched her son's head and nodded with a smile.

Wang Cheng said to Wang Ning'an, "Elder brother, when will you meet with the doctor who is treating our big cousin?"

Wang Ning'an, who was sitting in the passenger seat, continued to look at the scenery outside the window. He said: "Tomorrow morning. You can send us to my apartment."

"Well, nothing happened at home after I left, right?" Wang Cheng asked again. Although he had talked to Mama Wang on the phone just last night, she never told him the bad things.

"Several things happened." Wang Ning'an was not prepared to hide it from him.

"Tell me the whole story."

"It's nothing really, just Liang Youshan and his wife. They spread rumors after you left, but no one believes them anymore. I asked our parents to report their slandering, so the two of them are squatting in the police station for a few days. Their reputations are already stinking. After they come out, they should never dare to do such things again. There is also our eldest uncle’s family, they wanted to borrow hundreds of thousands from our parents to fill their company’s leaks. Their family is quite troublesome. However, I let our parents not lend them money under the pretext of poor cash flow. The company seems to be going bankrupt now."

Wang Cheng could fully imagine how they would make trouble afterwards. The Old Wang husband and wife might get involved. However, with his elder brother there, he believed that his eldest uncle's family could not get any benefits. "It's hard to deal with the two elders."

Wang Ning’an laughed.

Wang Cheng saw his first aunt's uncomfortable expression in the rearview mirror, and shut up.

Soon, they arrived at the apartment. Wang Cheng helped them unload their luggage from the trunk, but there was not much, especially when it came to his aunt and cousin. There was only one suitcase for the clothes of them both. It was estimated that there was only a little clothing in it. Even if their living conditions did grow better, his first aunt had really paid a lot for his big cousin. However, such a good person was so unfortunate.

...

Yazhi was a very nice name. When many people heard this name, they usually thought of elegant, beautiful, and not vulgar people. However, people who had been in the entertainment industry did not think so when they heard this name, they only thought of a lot of dirty things.

The hidden rules of the workplace were most common in Yazhi. In all directions, its internal system had long been rotten to its roots. The reason why Yazhi was able to stand and had not yet fallen, was thanks to the name of the Zhou Group. Otherwise, it would have long been knocked down by several other entertainment companies, and they would have joined forces to secretly blacken Yazhi, but not kill it.

It was Wang Cheng’s first time coming to the entertainment city, where many entertainment companies, large and small, were gathered. It was one of the most prosperous areas in the Imperial Capital and was quite competitive.

After heading across the street bustling with pedestrians, Wang Cheng drove to the entertainment plaza. The plaza was very large, with a giant fountain in the center that sprayed water in all directions, forming a curtain of water; its visual effect was quite shocking. Yazhi was on the eighth floor of Building A.

When he walked into the gate of Block A, a beautiful woman with high facial features was coming over. There was a man talking next to her, he seemed to be telling the woman something in a hurry. They were followed by two female assistants carrying things.

If Wang Cheng knew about celebrities, he would know that this woman was a popular star, Qi Dai, who acted in many costume TV dramas and was known as the number one beauty in costume dramas. Unfortunately, she was not a Yazhi artist, but an artist of its rival company, Jinlan Culture.

Because both companies’ headquarters were in Block A, the employees and artists of the two companies often encountered each other. In the past, there were some tit-for-tat conversations, but now that the situation of Yazhi was getting worse and worse, the artists fought back and forth.

Wang Cheng maneuvered past them.

Qi Dai, who had been walking in a hurry, suddenly stopped and looked at Wang Cheng in surprise. Noticing her gaze, Wang Cheng glanced at her lightly, but ignored it. The elevator door in front him just opened, so Wang Cheng sped up. Qi Dai suddenly called out to him.

"Hey, wait."

Wang Cheng completely ignored her, not bothering to greet her. He entered the elevator in a few steps just as the door closed, blocking the sight of the people outside.

Qi Dai’s agent, Dou Hong, saw Wang Cheng when she called out to him, but didn’t understand why Qi Dai had called out to a stranger. "Is there any problem with this person?"

"Don't you think this person's appearance is very good?" Qi Dai said.

Dou Hong understood her meaning as soon as he heard it. "As you say, his appearance has a chance of becoming popular. However, he probably appeared here as a new artist from another economic company." It was impossible for him to be an old artist, because unless he was a fool, he shouldn’t have let go of a potential cash cow.

Qi Dai said with a faint smile: "I just saw that his destination on the elevator is the eighth floor. If he is a Yazhi artist, I am afraid that such a good seedling will not have a chance to shine. Isn't it easy to dig him into our company?"

"I see. I'll get this notice up first. When I come back, I will find someone to check his identity." In Dou Hong’s opinion, there were never enough good seedlings.

"You want to see our President Pan?"

Xiao Zhang was surprised to see this handsome guy who suddenly appeared in front of her. The other party had opened his mouth and said he wanted to see President Pan, asking with the name of Zhou Cheng. However, she didn’t know if President Pan had an appointment today.

Wang Cheng nodded, "Is your President Pan here?"

"Yes, but..."

Xiao Zhang hesitated a bit. When she rashly took people to see President Pan without an appointment, she was scolded badly. She had been scolded several times, and felt very grievous about it.

“What's going on here?"

A man walked over. Xiao Zhang didn't relax in the slightest when she saw him. On the contrary, her expression grew a bit stiff, with a trace of disgust in her eyes. The man didn't notice, but Wang Cheng on her other side noticed it. He looked towards this man who walked over.

He was not thin, but he was not short, so he did not look very fat. His hair was greased back, and he was dressed in a suit and tie. He looked a bit serious, but Wang Cheng felt that this person was a bit ill-intentioned, as his eyes seemed to give a glint of evil.

"Fang Ge." Xiao Zhang restrained the expression on her face and cried out nervously.

Fang Hui ignored her, his eyes falling on Wang Cheng. He smiled: "This gentleman doesn’t look familiar, you must not belong to our company. I don't know if you are interested in being a star, but I am an agent. If you follow me, I guarantee that, like many other celebrities, you will definitely be popular."

Xiao Zhang glanced at Wang Cheng and couldn't help but say: "Fang Ge, he said he came to see President Pan?"

"Looking for President Pan?" Fang Hui's expression suddenly became more meaningful. "Well, President Pan can’t meet everyone at random. I can help you, but I, Fang Hui, don’t help just anyone."

Wang Cheng raised his eyebrows and said with a faint smile, "What are you going to do?"

"I think you are quite congenial to me. Why don't we go out to have a meal together tonight? I'll treat you, so how about it. Are you able to have such a meal with President Pan?" Fang Hui’s tone was as if he was the evil fox coaxing Little Red Riding Hood. A normal person would know that he must not have any good intentions.

"Are you sure it's just a meal?" Wang Cheng finally knew why Yazhi was shrouded in rumors. An agent wanted to perform the hidden rules with handsome men and beauties? It might not matter to famous celebrities, but he was afraid that newcomers would not be willing to stay. At least 90% of the negative news was true.

Fang Hui thought he was interesting, and his eyes were enveloped in his smile: "After eating, we can go to the hotel to 'chat'. There is no problem if you want to ‘chat’."

"What about after chatting?"

"Fame or fortune, you can get whatever you want."

Wang Cheng looked at him and suddenly smiled: "Didn’t you say that you aren’t President Pan?"

Fang Hui raised his head and laughed, saying triumphantly: "Who is President Pan? As long as it is a person I, Fang Hui, want to support, there is nothing I can't do. On the contrary, as long as it is a person who makes me unhappy, I can also hide them to the end."

"Listening to you, you seem to have higher rights in Yazhi than President Pan. You are just an agent, so how come you have such great rights?" Wang Cheng continued to ask.

Fang Hui grew a little unhappy when he heard his next two sentences, and he became more and more impatient, "Have you never heard that the chairman of Yazhi is Zhao Chenlin, the young boss of the Zhou Group? I'm not interested in talking nonsense with you anymore."

Wang Cheng smiled, "Then I'll tell you: I'm not interested in eating with you. However, I have news to tell you, and it should be extremely bad news for you."

Fang Hui's face became dark when he saw him so ignorant of what was good for him, "What bad news?"

Wang Cheng said: "The bad news is that you are fired. Starting today, you are no longer a Yazhi employee."

Fang Hui was taken aback, and suddenly burst into laughter. That laughter caught the attention of others in the company. Several employees came over and respectfully asked what happened, while Fang Hui laughed so hard that he held his stomach. He smiled and pointed to Wang Cheng, saying, "This kid just said he would fire me. Tell me it’s not funny, I haven't heard such a funny joke in my life, hahaha!"

"Which mental hospital did this one run out from? Looking at him, I wouldn’t expect him to be a neuropath!" Several employees immediately laughed unceremoniously at Wang Cheng.

Their laughter attracted a group of people. Some of them were artists and assistants who had just returned from outside, both famous and not famous. They didn’t know what happened, so after hearing it, most of them surprisedly looked towards Wang Cheng in the middle.

Wang Cheng was neither angry nor mad. He lowered his cuffs and said calmly: "Huh, hasn’t President Pan told you that the chairman of Yazhi has changed, and it is no longer Zhao Chenlin?"

In an instant, all the sounds disappeared.

"What are you standing here making noise for, do you treat the company as a vegetable market?"

Pan Zhihai walked over. The movements here were so loud that he could hear it when sitting in his office. He thought there was another quarrel and asked his assistant to go out to check, but they never came back, so he came out on his own. He seemed to have never seen the face of Wang Cheng, who was in the middle.

"P-President Pan..." Assistant Fei remembered that President Pan was still waiting, and his tongue suddenly became flexible. "President Pan, this gentleman just said that the chairman of Yazhi has changed."

When Pan Zhihai heard this, he immediately moved away from Assistant Fei and walked in front of Wang Cheng. The surprise on his face turned into a flattering smile, "So you are Zhou Shao. Hello, hello, I am the president of Yazhi, Pan Zhihai. I have heard about you taking over as the chairman of Yazhi, but didn’t know Zhou Shao was coming here today. I am sorry for neglecting you."

"You're Pan Zhihai? It was really not easy to see you." Wang Cheng glanced at Fang Hui, whose expression was already stiff.

Pan Zhihai heard something in his words, thought of the noise just now, and then looked at Fang Hui. He thought of what happened just now. With Fang Hui’s moral character, he could imagine what had happened earlier. He couldn't help but sneer; Fang Hui probably didn't expect that he would kick an iron wrench. He was worried that he would not have a chance to deal with Fang Hui, but since he took the initiative to send himself to the door, he would not be polite.

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