I am the only one who practices magic: I practice magic in the city

Chapter 530 Did you hide the treasure? (4400)

"Nice phone. Is this the one that's supposed to surpass Apple?"

"I just got my hands on it. It's not just called that, Dawn, this isn't just beyond fruit, it's beyond its time..."

Inside the Maritime Museum, Zac Efron, his eyes gleaming, chattered incessantly with Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson about his new phone.

Many Hollywood stars are avid tech enthusiasts and gamers, and Zac Efron is one of them. He loves playing Mario and Halo and is quite skilled at them.

“Cool.” Dwayne Johnson wasn’t interested in his phone. After a few perfunctory words, he pulled Zac Efron aside and asked in a low voice, “I heard you’re going to transfer to UTA?”

Zach Efron looked embarrassed: "It's not confirmed yet, but you know CAA is in high demand and short supply right now, and Cade has disappeared. I don't even have a regular agent right now."

Kade Hudson, Zach Efron's agent at CAA, suddenly disappeared four months ago. It is said that many Omniscient Society secrets were found in his home.

After the collapse of Fortress, at least 20% of the signed artists and agents, with an even higher proportion of top and mid-tier stars, switched to CAA, leading to increasingly fierce competition for resources within CAA.

“Dawn, do you know that since the filming of Beach Guard wrapped up in May, I haven’t had a new job for almost half a year?”

Zach Efron sighed: "We're not the same, Dawn. You're a cash cow for Hollywood, while I'm just an idol who hasn't successfully transitioned and is about to become obsolete."

After saying that, Zach Efron glanced enviously at the Maritime Museum, which was decorated with flowers: "Look, the CAA even teamed up with Lorraine to throw you this signing party."

"If I don't have a stable team to help me manage my business, I'll have no choice but to go to Las Vegas and dance for Britney Spears."

Zach Efron picked up a bottle of beer from the side and took a sip in frustration.

Although Hollywood appears to be recovering, the overall number of projects is still down by nearly 80 percent compared to the same period a year ago, and there are very few stars with work available.

People like Zac Efron, whose popularity has waned but whose prices are still high, are naturally in a worse situation.

The Alcatraz and Omniscience incidents had completely different impacts on every Hollywood professional.

Zac Efron is a Jude agent, and his agent, Kade Hudson, has vanished without a trace, making him one of the unluckiest people in Hollywood.

Although Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson's contract is still progressing, he hasn't suffered much damage, mainly because his ex-wife helps him manage his business and investments.

Meanwhile, his ex-wife was also the vice president of Merrill Lynch, and his family has very strong financial resources.

It was with the help of his ex-wife that he became one of the highest-paid male stars in Hollywood. Now he is even directly involved in the capital field. The movie "Baywatch," which is currently in post-production, was invested and produced by himself and his ex-wife.

Upon hearing Efron's words, Dwayne Johnson's eyes flickered, and he gave a look of not understanding: "So that's why you didn't touch Ellie?"

"I have a feeling she's interested in you, bro. This is Hollywood, and you've actually not made a move on her?"

Zach Efron tilted his head back and took a swig of his drink: "Come on, bro, she's sexy, but you know, she's not my type."

"She has a great figure and is very beautiful, but she's too inexperienced in this area. I prefer to cook, not be a coach."

A flicker of struggle crossed Zac Efron's eyes.

Of course I know Ellie has a crush on me, but what right does a scumbag like me have to have such a wonderful thing?

I don't want to tarnish a girl like her who has lived in the sunshine all her life.

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson's eyes gleamed. He patted Zac Efron on the shoulder and laughed, "You're afraid her daddy will think you're a terrorist and arrest you, aren't you?"

Zac Efron was slapped by Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, causing him to spit out a mouthful of wine and cough for a long time.

You can tell from their expressions and actions that they have a very good relationship and are true best friends.

"Okay, I got it. Don't worry, brother, everything will be alright."

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson raised his glass to a producer he knew well, and before leaving, he gave Zac Efron a meaningful pat on the shoulder.

Zac Efron glanced at Dwayne Johnson's back, then turned his gaze to find Daddario, whom he had just been chatting with, intimately embracing and laughing with a short-haired girl.

Upon seeing this, Zac Efron couldn't help but give a wry smile.

Dawn, look at who his friends in the industry are.

Kate Easton, daughter of the Easton family.

He was a direct descendant of Theophrastus Easton, the organizer of the Puritan Exodus, the governor of New Haven, the founder of the North Macedonian colony, and a member of the founding family of Harvard and Yale.

A true nobleman of the Mai Kingdom.

Girls in this social class can date people in the entertainment industry, but they will absolutely not be allowed to be led astray.

If I were still that naive Zac Efron from ten years ago, not lost in this industry and covered in mud, maybe I would have the courage to walk up to her today, look into her icy blue eyes, and say: "Want to come out with me?"
But now, he can only pretend to be a loser addicted to electronic products and games to keep her away from him.

Zac Efron, who had just starred in High School Musical ten years ago, was at the height of his fame and was considered Hollywood's most handsome young man after Leonardo DiCaprio.

Beauty is the original sin in this circle, regardless of gender.

Unless you have enough capital to prevent beauty from being tainted, it will sooner or later be treated as a commodity, dismantled, devoured, and exploited.

Although Zac Efron is a Jude, he is only a lower-class Jude, and not a Jude of the orthodox matrilineal lineage, so of course he doesn't have that kind of status.

Dadario has it.

"Zack's looking at you. Did you come with that playboy today? I thought you'd come with Matthew. Did something 'interesting' happen on the way?"

Kate Easton, with her intellectual look and thin lips characteristic of Anglo-Saxon women, chatted and laughed softly with her best friend beside her. When she saw Zach Efron turn her gaze over, she smiled and waved.

"Even though he's grown up to be less attractive, his eyes are still so full of affection, aren't they?"

Many female members of this American-style hereditary aristocracy are involved in the cultural industry, and Kate Easton is no exception, holding a host of titles such as actress, producer, columnist, and screenwriter.

Actors who play minor roles, producers who don't do any specific work, writers whose columns are nowhere to be found, and screenwriters who don't write scripts but occasionally participate in script discussions and contribute "flashes of inspiration".

They don't need to do the "boring" parts of these jobs; they only need to complete the "interesting" parts.

To put it simply, it's all about having fun. The wealth accumulated by their ancestors means they don't need to worry about survival or career; they only need to experience the "joy and sense of value that work brings."

Compared to ordinary people, it's as if God has added a filter to their lives.

“'Interesting' thing… Kate, do you know how many Best Buys are there on the way from Los Santos to Santa Barbara?”

Alexandra Daddario pursed her lips.

“How many Best Buys?” Kate Easton looked puzzled. “How would I know? I don’t even know how many Best Buys there are in New York.”

“I know there are three Best Buy standalone stores, two mobile phone specialty stores, and one Pacific chain store, making a total of six.”

D'Addario shrugged, raised the bottle, and took a sip.

"Six Best Buys, from morning until an hour ago, I went to six Best Buys just to buy a phone. Because we came out late, after the release time, we couldn't buy one anywhere. Finally, we went to Oxnard and bought it because there was a strike there in the morning and it didn't open until the afternoon."

“Buying a cell phone?” Kate Easton exclaimed incredulously. “He took you to an electronics market all day?”

Daddario was indignant: "That's not all! On the way, he kept telling me about cutting-edge technology, AR reality, AI pets... He was acting like a loser freak. I was driving for the rest of the time!"

"Really?" Kate Easton glanced at Zac Efron, who was trying to curry favor with Robbie Miles, in surprise. "You're right next to him, and he's playing on his phone?"

"Did you hide these two treasures when you left the house?"

Kate Easton reached out and poked Daddario's golden curve with her finger.

Three thousand acts of loyalty are no match for a woman's bosom. To one's best friend, let alone three thousand acts of loyalty, even thirty thousand wouldn't be enough to make her worth it.

Fun fact: When you have an F-cup, each breast weighs approximately 800 grams.

Kate Easton was filled with envy, jealousy, and hatred. If there weren't so many people around and it wasn't a public place, she would have crushed the two bears.

How exactly did it grow up? Why is it that I'm the one with three thousand loyal friends?

And that's three thousand in total from both sides.

"Fxxk!" Daddario slapped away her best friend's groping hand and they started playfully fighting.

"Hey! I surrender, stop messing around! Look over there, Anne Hathaway and her husband are here too."

Kate Easton, with a combined strength of three thousand, was no match for those with thirty thousand. She was easily overwhelmed by Daddario and could only pant and change the subject, taking the opportunity to pry Daddario's arm off.

Daddario tossed his hair triumphantly and followed Kate Easton's gaze, where he saw Anne Hathaway, wearing a beach dress, and her husband Jude, exchanging pleasantries with Robbie Miles and a young man of Asian descent beside them, all while wearing fake smiles.

It's him?

Daddario immediately recalled that figure from behind.

It turned out to be him.

He also showed up at the party Robbie Miles hosted after the Oscars.

Just thinking about Fang Yu, who exuded hormones at the party that day, made Daddario's legs go weak.

Regardless, I've dated two or three boyfriends, but I've never had that kind of impulse before.

I thought he wanted my phone number, but to my surprise, he just glanced at it and didn't do anything else.

I can't believe I saw him here again.

Is she Robbie's new assistant? It doesn't seem like it, otherwise Anne Hathaway wouldn't be so polite.

Isn't Amber Heard Johnny Depp's wife? How come she's so close to this Asian young man?
Oh, I remember now, I think I saw some gossip a while ago saying they were separated.

Daddario nudged Kate Easton: "Kate, who is he?"

Kate Easton looked at Fang Yu with shining eyes: "The owner of Lorraine Noven is called Fangis. He rarely appears in social situations, and very few people know him. He's very mysterious, right?"

"It is said that he may come from a prominent family in the Great Zhou Dynasty. You know, in recent years, there have been more and more wealthy people from the Great Zhou Dynasty in Mai Kingdom."

As soon as Kate Easton said this, Daddario frowned and his expression quickly turned cold.

Daddario became fascinated with Dr. Zhou seven or eight years ago, and he goes to a Dr. Zhou clinic in Manhattan almost every quarter for acupuncture and occasionally cupping.

She injured her neck and shoulders while filming, which later developed into chronic cervical spondylosis. Western medicine treatment was ineffective, and after six months of treatment, nothing worked.

Finally, having no other choice, I took a friend's advice and tried acupuncture. I only intended to give it a try, three times a week, but after a month of continuous treatment, I was actually cured.

From then on, D'Addario became a staunch supporter of acupuncture. He would get acupuncture when he was injured while filming, when he was feeling unwell, or when he was in a bad mood. He even went to the clinic for acupuncture for facial care.

And you know what? Ever since she started acupuncture, she has aged much slower than her peers. Now she's thirty, but she looks almost exactly the same as she did five or six years ago.

The problem is that the acupuncture clinic she was attending was run by first-generation immigrants more than sixty years ago.

Over time, through constant exposure and influence, D'Addario naturally developed a dislike for the current Zhou Dynasty.

As soon as D'Addario frowned, he saw the young man of Asian descent seem to sense something, and two beams of light, almost tangible, gazes were suddenly directed at him.

!!!

D'Addario instinctively lowered his head to avoid the other person's gaze, his heart pounding and his body trembling uncontrollably.

That's terrifying. How could this person's gaze be so terrifying?
Under his gaze, it was as if I had been hit by a bang!
No! It was dissected!
It was dissected from the inside out!

Daddario, trembling, picked up a bottle of beer and gulped it down.
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Malice?

The party was not large, with fewer than two hundred people. It included not only top artists from CAA, but also many professionals in the industry who truly control core resources.

Fang Yu was very sensitive to the sudden appearance of this group of malicious people.

Alexandra Daddario?
It's her! I remember now. I watched a two-minute clip of True Detective when I was a freshman in college, but I didn't look up the woman's name back then.

You can tell a woman's identity by the sound of thunder.

At Robbie Miles' party last time, her full makeup made her look like a ghost. Although I knew her name using identification magic, I didn't recognize her as the protagonist of that two-minute clip.

Now it all makes sense; he truly has a top-tier physique.

But I've never fired you, so why are you so hostile towards me?

Hmm, that's not right either. If it's been stir-fried, then there's no malice involved.

Hmm? This woman's spiritual structure is quite complete, which is rather rare in the entertainment industry...

The spiritual color is normal, indicating good mental health. The spiritual response to stimuli is not intense, indicating a peaceful state of mind.

It's even rarer to see this in the entertainment industry.

However, this kind of spirituality, full of dullness, while peaceful, also means a lack of emotional sensitivity, making her unsuitable for acting. No wonder her acting skills are not very good.

Let's look at the factions...

! ! ! ! !

A fierce red light burst forth from the top of Daddario's head!

Fang Yu's gaze sharpened.

The evil faction!?
And it's extremely evil!

Although they are not as evil as the people on Devil's Island and the Omniscient Society, they are already very evil among ordinary people, more evil than 99% of people!
Amber Heard is even more evil than Depp, who brazenly put a hat on him and plotted to ruin his reputation!

How could someone with such a peaceful and healthy spirit have such an evil stance?!

Yes, this is the bitter fruit.

What exactly did she do?
Kill someone?

No, it's not just murder; it couldn't be that evil!

Moreover, judging from her spiritual state, she seems completely unaware that she has done anything wrong.

interesting.

Fang Yu withdrew his gaze, turned his head and saw that Amber beside him had a flushed face, seemingly unable to contain her excitement.

"Lord, Hathaway and her husband are here. XX, you must do XXX, in front of her XXXXXXXXX!"

Seeing Amber's state, Fang Yu's face darkened.

Damn it! I knew there was something wrong with this faction-determining method!
This psychopath isn't even as evil as Daddario?

(End of this chapter)