Chapter 126

  The next day, Li Jin was blocked by Xiao Pu at the elevator entrance as soon as he entered the company.

  "Brother Lei, something's gone wrong!" Xiao Pu grabbed the phone with one hand and pulled him with the other. The bright screen of the mobile phone still showed the dialed number, and Lei Jin's mobile phone rang in sync, "Luo Fei... he's causing trouble at Bei Ge's place!"

  Li Jin clicked "Decline", his brain refreshed after a good sleep, he responded with a single word and walked towards Bei Fuming: "Mm, okay."

  Xiao Pu was stunned for half a day, clutching her phone, thinking to herself that Lui Ge was indeed Lui Ge, she had already blown her top but he could still remain so calm and collected, admirable.

  Actually, Li Jin is not calm, he just had an early preparation.

  Bei Fuming's office is on the 8th floor, third door to the left after exiting the stairwell. He is now Qin Yige's deputy, and with Qin Yige traveling abroad, he has been entrusted with handling all major and minor matters of the company. As a result, he has taken the opportunity to rectify the company from top to bottom. Although there are still undercurrents within the company, at least there have been no more incidents like the time when Luo Fei's father was exposed as a triad member, when several department leaders openly clashed in meetings.

  Li Jinguang had just walked to the door when he heard the voices inside.

  "Ba Ge, don't try to persuade me anymore, once I've made up my mind, no one can change it."

  This is Lu Fei's voice.

  Sounds calm and peaceful, what's going on somewhere?

  Li Jin lowered his head and smiled, thinking that Xiao Pu was really exaggerating, if it was like this then what happened last night when Luo Fei scolded him?

  On this side, Bai Fuming said: "Luo Fei, you're still too tender, don't be so worked up. Among the five artists under Li Jin's management, which one has he been so attentive to? Besides, deceiving artists for publicity is a common thing in the circle, I'm not surprised you're angry, but changing agents would be too serious."

  Luo Fei said: "It's nothing serious, I've already changed."

  Bei Fengming let out a long sigh, seemingly also left speechless by him. As his good friend, Li Jin couldn't just watch him lose face, so at the critical moment he pushed open the door and said, "Then let's switch."

  Bei floated in and saw him as if she had seen a lifesaver, subconsciously walking around the office desk to greet him: "Li Jin, you've finally arrived, take care of this disobedient child of yours."

  "I'm not careless," Luo Fei said, "I'm not a kid either."

  Li Jin couldn't help but laugh, and glanced at him, coincidentally meeting Ruo Fei's gaze. Bei Fuming's office was very large, with Ruo Fei standing upright in the middle of the room, his five fingers clasped together and pressed against his thigh seam, like a javelin. His eyes were fixed on Li Jin, burning with an intense fury that surpassed last night's scorching hostility, as if someone had poured a whole bucket of gasoline onto the small flames of last night.

  Li Jinyue walked over to the table, and Bei Fengming handed him a piece of paper, saying: "I hadn't even arrived this morning when he came, standing guard at the door. As soon as I did, he gave me this and said he wanted to change agents."

  "Hmm." This was an application, applying to replace the original agent Li Jin. Li Jin roughly scanned the article and felt that Luo Fei's writing was especially good in his anger, the entire application was almost a thousand words, a true battle plan. As he read, he praised: "Clear logic, prominent conclusion, not bad."

  He finished speaking and pressed the application on the table, took out a pen from the pen holder, bent down and signed his name at the end of the application.

  "I've had enough," said Lai Kam. "From now on, you're no longer my artist.

  Luo Fei clenched his fists tightly, staring fixedly at the application form, or more precisely, the name signed at the end of it - Li Jin's signature. His breathing was rapid, like an ox carrying a heavy load.

  "Xiao Jin, how could you too..." Now that things have come to this, Bei Fuming still wanted to persuade her, but didn't know what to say.

  Li Jin shrugged and turned around to walk out of the door.

  I went back to work.

  From start to finish, he didn't even glance at Luo Fei.

  It turns out that in this world, whoever leaves whoever else will still go on living just the same.

  The entertainment company is now operating normally, with everything going smoothly. Young people with starry dreams are flocking to join, and as the chief broker, Li Jin's position and methods are clear for all to see. With Luo Fei gone, countless newcomers are vying to take his place. Before Li Jin could even feel down, he was overwhelmed by a mountain of work. Bei Feng took advantage of the opportunity to introduce two new people, who have good figures and faces, but most importantly, they flatter Li Jin excessively, making him feel uncomfortable every time they mention their names.

  On the other hand, Luo Fei's agent later settled on Xiao Pu. Firstly, Xiao Pu had followed Li Jin for half a year and had some experience, so as long as he didn't cause any trouble, Luo Fei's development in the next six months would be fine; secondly, after Bei Fengming found out about the whole situation, he also scolded Luo Fei for being too reckless and intentionally let him cool off on the bench.

  He also criticized Li Jin, saying that he was also responsible for this matter, and it was all because he had spoiled Luo Fei. Li Jin repeatedly acknowledged his mistake, expressed his willingness to reflect on himself, and took the opportunity to mention that he had made mistakes in the past, and now with two more people, he hoped that the organization would give him a chance to let the lower-level personnel gain experience. Bei Fengming thought for a moment, waved his hand and said, "You're tired of bringing two more people? Alright, then let's suspend Xiao Susu's work entirely."

  Xiao Su was frozen out.

  Luo Fei is not much better than her.

  Compared to Li Jin, Xiao Pu looks like a standard young agent. Half a year into the job, in his early twenties, with little work experience and social experience, it's already a blessing if he doesn't make mistakes at work, let alone achieve anything impressive. Luo Fei discovered after working with Xiao Pu for two days that compared to Li Jin who prepares everything and can get the show merchants on board with just a few words and a smile, Xiao Pu is more like an assistant.

  Luo Fei's work also became particularly unsmooth because of this.

  When Li Jin was around, he would film, record songs, attend events, shoot commercials and more, all at the same time. Li Jin would always inform him of his schedule for the next day in advance, so he could prepare ahead of time. But with so many schedules, how could he remember them all? He often simply didn't listen and waited for Li Jin to arrange things. After switching to Xiao Pu, Xiao Pu didn't have that habit, and even if he did, he was more disorganized than Luo Fei, and couldn't be relied on at all.

  And many times, even pre-arranged activities would go wrong. Sometimes, for performances, the show business people would ask him to perform extra at short notice, which required his agent Xiao Pu to negotiate the price. How could Xiao Pu outsmart those businessmen with a hundred eyes? In the end, either they would only give a token amount and Ruo Fei would lose money on the performance, or they would agree to increase the price but then not pay afterwards, so Ruo Fei would perform and the money would be withheld.

  After a few times, Li Jin's painstakingly helped Ruo Fei's value, which had risen like a high platform diver, fell down, and after a long time, even the opening of small shopping malls in third-tier cities dared to ask Ruo Fei to attend.

  The whole company took it as a joke, and everyone was talking about it, calling Lu Fei to experience the ups and downs of life.

  Bei Fengming couldn't bear it anymore and privately instructed Xiao Pu several times, only then did he pull Luo Fei back from the edge of the cliff.

  From head to toe, Li Jin didn't say a single word.

  On the 29th of the twelfth lunar month, a certain TV station held an award ceremony for the annual style awards as a warm-up for the Spring Festival Gala. Luo Fei won the award for the most popular newcomer singer of the year. He swallowed his pride and asked the company's chief stylist to postpone her travel plans and do his styling for the evening. He knew that his popularity was declining, so he couldn't afford to miss any opportunity to appear in public, especially since there was a red carpet segment this time, and whether or not he could make it to the headlines during the Spring Festival depended on this one performance.

  Ten minutes before going on stage, a staff member accidentally spilled a cup of hot coffee all over him, ruining the outfit he had carefully selected.

  Although the staff apologized in every way, time was pressing, and it was an impossible task to temporarily come up with a set of formal attire. The red carpet event was doomed to be cancelled.

  Luo Fei hastily borrowed a suit from the organizer and quietly slipped into the venue. He hadn't been in the circle for long, and although there were many celebrities present, he only knew a few people, most of whom had been introduced by Li Jin. When he greeted others, they would smile and exchange pleasantries, but it was all very superficial. He gradually felt bored and started playing with his phone, accidentally opening the phone book and staring at Li Jin's number for a while.

  Later still didn't delete it, even when he was furious at that time, didn't delete it. Now with mixed feelings, even more won't delete it.

  Because it's a live broadcast, the consideration of on-site scheduling and program atmosphere makes the award sequence table distributed to the guests in advance basically useless. Next to Luo Fei sat a new female star, who came from a Taiwanese talent show, with a mature and elegant temperament. She seemed to pay a lot of attention to Luo Fei, constantly chatting with him in a low voice, and even guiding him to look at the camera, both of them revealing their signature smiles together. Luo Fei knew she was trying to pull him into the spotlight, but he's not like before, so a bit more exposure is good, therefore he cooperated extremely well, his smile being broadcast live on the big screen in the venue, even causing the female host to become flustered.

  Extreme joy begets sorrow.

  When the advertisement was broadcast in the middle of the field, Luo Fei was called out by a staff member. The man said that his agent was waiting outside and had something important to tell him. Luo Fei followed the man out of the awards ceremony venue, but the exterior structure was complex, and the man walked quickly, disappearing after a few turns. It wasn't until then that Luo Fei realized he had been deceived, and he hurriedly called Xiao Pu, who was on the other end of the line, confused, saying that he was fine and had been resting in the lounge all along, and had never called him.

  Luo Fei's heart skipped a beat as he quickly turned around and ran towards the meeting room.

  It's too late.

  The award presenter announced the winner of the annual most popular newcomer singer, but Kou Fei's name was called three times on stage, yet no one knew where he went. Helplessly, his junior fellow and colleague from the same company, Ma Ding, accepted the award on his behalf.

  Martin was dressed in a bright and handsome attire, holding the trophy on stage to thank everyone on behalf of his senior brother. His movements were elegant and majestic, as if he were the one who had won the award.

  Luo Fei looked at him, his heart was like ice from the inside out, frozen solid in just a few seconds.

  He suddenly felt extremely scared, even more so than when the media exposed his father as a gangster or revealed his long-hidden romance.

  He looked at Martin, this junior who had just debuted a month ago, and saw him on stage, in front of the camera, recklessly showing off his charming smile, as if he saw himself two months ago, when the Chinese Star Voice Generation competition had just ended.

  It's only been two months and he was squeezed out of that center of attention, relegated to this place, watching a new generation replace the old.

  He looked down at his own hands, thinking that he was only 19 years old and the road to stardom had just begun. Was he going to disappear silently from people's memories like many other idol stars before him?