Entertainment: Starting with a complete collapse

Chapter 142 Details 2

night.

Just after eight o'clock, Wang Zhi was standing on the balcony of his living room, making a phone call.

Gradually.

Wang Zhi could no longer contain her anger and snapped, "Now you know it's my fault? Where were you before? I told you long ago to leave things to me—yes, I didn't handle it well, but if you hadn't insisted on doing it that way, how could your ex-husband Huang Min have held onto this? Now look what's happened! This morning I just had most of my assets taken away, and this afternoon Zhang Li is suing me again, saying there's a discrepancy in the accounts and demanding an explanation. How am I supposed to explain this—"

The more Wang Zhi spoke, the more intense his tone became.

Even though he casually remarked at the time that "there's no need to delay the negotiation by slandering Huang Min," Wang Zhi doesn't mind bringing it up now that things have developed to this point.

On the living room sofa.

Sitting there is Wang Zhi's agent.

Unlike ordinary agents, he didn't take a cut of his earnings. He only received a salary of three million a year. Even Zhang Li and Lin Wan didn't know that Wang Zhi, nominally his agent, was actually a woman he kept as a mistress.

"So what do you suggest we do now?!"

Lin Wan on the phone was also a little flustered.

"Call Huang Min. Didn't you say Yang Dong put in a good word for you last time? Fifty million it is. I don't believe you can't even come up with fifty million. Tell Huang Min not to release the video of you and me, and also tell him not to pursue this matter. You've already lost face big enough, do you want to lose face any more?"

Wang Zhiqi said.

Now, Wang Zhi deeply regrets getting involved with Lin Wan. Aside from her good looks and figure, this woman is utterly useless.

What should have been a simple matter has been turned into this mess by her. Her career is ruined, and so is her own. The worst part is that Huang Min is not willing to give up. It's clear that he doesn't just want to clear his name, but also wants to drag him and Lin Wan into this mess.

Wang Zhi could tolerate everything else, but he couldn't accept going to jail.

Money can be earned back. Even if he can't act, he has other ways to make money, so he won't starve. With his earning ability, he can probably earn back the assets he had before the divorce in a few years. But going to jail—just thinking about it makes Wang Zhi shudder.

Seeing that Lin Wan remained silent on the phone, seemingly unwilling to trouble Yang Dong any further, Wang Zhi suppressed his anger and said, "Can't you see? Huang Min wants you and me to go to jail. I consulted a lawyer tonight, and this defamation and causing significant losses to others will at least take one or two years, and possibly even three. At that time, it won't be something that you and I can settle with a few apologies."

Wang Zhi only just learned that Zhang Li's determination to divorce him was due to Huang Min and his subordinate's machinations.

If he had known earlier, he would have made Lin Wan and Huang Min reconcile long ago.

It wouldn't have come to this point, with both of them in such a passive position.

"Go to jail!?"

Upon hearing that she would be going to jail, Lin Wan panicked even more.

"right"

Wang Zhi said in a deep voice, "It means going to jail."

If Huang Min didn't have this intention, he could have stopped after cutting up five photos from the video of his affair with Lin Wan and ruining their careers. But they still wouldn't let it go, and his intentions are self-evident.

Smearing their reputations and making it impossible for them to continue their careers in the entertainment industry is just the first step.

There's something even more ruthless coming up.

Wang Zhi believed that once the court traced the flow of funds, it would definitely open a case for investigation. At that time, the owner of that studio would certainly not maintain his professional ethics to the end. Once he told the whole story, he and Lin Wan would be doomed.

This is probably why Huang Min is so persistent in his pursuit of this issue.

Trying to clear one's name is both costly and time-consuming; it's far more effective to wait for the police to release their investigation results.

Cloth is strong evidence, the kind that no one can question.

"I'll call Yang Dong right now."

After saying this, Lin Wan hurriedly hung up the phone.

Standing on the balcony, Wang Zhi shoved his phone into his coat pocket and furiously scratched his hair. Just then, his manager Li Fei's voice rang out from the living room: "Judging from what you're saying, that Huang Min seems to have changed quite a bit."

"That son of a bitch, he's become incredibly cunning."

Wang Zhi cursed.

Now Wang Zhi belatedly realized that the reason why his domestic violence against Zhang Li was photographed by that reporter named Gan Li was probably Huang Min's doing.

After all, he's not a top-tier or super-top-tier celebrity, just a second-tier one. Given the nature of entertainment media reporters, they usually stake out top-tier celebrities, as well as young heartthrobs and actresses, to generate buzz and attention.

Staying in a second-tier position is simply not something a normal journalist should do.

Because the effort and the reward are not proportional.

For this reason, Wang Zhicai was careless and attacked Zhang Li without any restraint in the underground parking garage, which resulted in reporters actually lying in wait.

"I guess it was because of you and Lin Wan that he was forced into it."

Li Fei smiled.

"What are you laughing at!?"

Seeing the gloating look on the woman he was keeping, Wang Zhi's face suddenly darkened, and he said coldly, "No matter how down on my luck I am, you can't laugh at me. Don't forget who you are."

Li Fei's fair face froze instantly.

"Just you wait and see. I can't get out for now, but as long as I get through this crisis, even if I can't go back to the entertainment industry, I can still earn back all the assets I had before."

Wang Zhi is confident in this much.

After all, if he really relied on making money from acting, he couldn't possibly accumulate assets of two or three hundred million.

Even if he continues to provide emotional support to Lin Wan, she won't stay with him. She just wants to follow him and make some investments. Give him ten million, and in a few months it will become twenty or thirty million.

It was precisely because he was eloquent and could help her earn money that the woman became involved with him.

However, when Wang Zhi thought about the movie Huang Min directed that had grossed over 700 million yuan, he became insanely jealous. He had invested in this and that, but Huang Min had made so much money from just one movie. He had also heard that the script for the movie Huang Min was currently filming had received high praise from two senior executives of Zhongteng Pictures.

This means that as long as there are no problems during filming, the quality of Huang Min's new drama is guaranteed. Thinking about these things, Wang Zhi, who was already really angry because of Lin Wan, is now even more furious.

When Li Fei's expression froze, Wang Zhi walked up to her.

Then.

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