Sheng Xing Ze turned around, "Truth is I don't really want to see you, Lin Mu."\n
Seeing that Lin Mu could never be able to play Su Jin Mu, the manager Wan Bo Xue was able to get him in on another Xianxia [1] movie, which happened to be in the same movie city as "Xing Lan" set.
Sheng Xing Ze only learned about this from Weibo. He had always lived his life with the motto of out of sight out of mind, so he had been keeping a distance from Lin Mu, yet Lin Mu seemed to love causing trouble around him.
"Xing Ze, how can you say that, I've been waiting for you here, since they wouldn't let me in."
He grievously glanced at the staff at the door, not knowing how long he stood at the door, Lin Mu's face got quite blush but it did not affect his overall image; moreover, it made him look like a fragile beauty.
Worthy of being the protagonist.
Sheng Xing Ze thought.
If he did not know what kind of person Lin Mu actually is, just looking at this innocent face Sheng Xing Ze would be happy to pet this little beauty, unfortunately this beauty was a viper in disguise.
"That's right, not like anyone can just enter our set without authorization," Sheng Xing Ze glanced at Lin Mu indifferently, lifted his foot to walk past the boy.
Lin Mu's eyes looked around, and he had found what he was looking for. He originally wanted to stop Sheng Xing Ze but he paused in his movement, and his eyes suddenly were full of tears; round bean shaped tears swirled in his eyes but did not fall.
"Are you still blaming me? Brother Wan does not mean to be biased, he just wanted to bring out some results to prove himself."
Lin Mu knew Sheng Xing Ze's character well, saying this just to irritate the other.
This was not the first time he had done this, all the rumors about Sheng Xing Ze acting all mighty on the Internet were actually Lin Mu's doings.
According to Lin Mu's calculation, Sheng Xing Ze's hot headed character will definitely fight him on the spot hearing these words. At this time, he only needs to get beaten and passively becomes a victim, drops a few tears, then he can easily win the sympathy of the people who do not know the truth. By then, no matter what Sheng Xing Ze says, it is just a pale sophistry of the assaulter.
Moreover, once the scandal of Sheng Xing Ze beating someone is implemented, based on the director's personality, Sheng Xing Ze certainty has no way to stay in the crew. At this time, as long as he shows his strength in front of the director, he can justly take back his role.
There are many people coming and going on the set, Lin Mu is not worried that no one will not stop Sheng Xing Ze, so the chance of him getting seriously injured is low. In addition, he will be able to get the role he likes. At the same time, he might gain some positive feedback from the public. He can easily harvest great results without much effort.
Thinking about this, Lin Mu could not help but slightly raise his mouth as he bowed his head.
Lin Mu's fantasy was very beautiful, but it was a pity that the Sheng Xing Ze standing in front of him was not the original owner that would be arbitrarily kneaded by him. The Sheng Xing Ze now did not want to have anything to do with him.
He stopped next to Lin Mu, his eyes staring straight at him, with a mocking expression on his face, he looked indifferently at Lin Mu's self-directed bitter drama.
Lin Mu was stunned by these seemingly insightful eyes. How Sheng Xing Ze's dumb brain could have seen through him, he thought. The expression on his face remained unchanged, and his red eyes looked back at Sheng Xing Ze with pain.
Sheng Xing Ze chuckled softly and said in a low tone for only two of them to hear, "Do you still remember Bai Gao Cen?"
Lin Mu's complexion instantly turned pale, and his facade broke into pieces.
Bai Gao Cen was the newcomer in the same year as Lin Mu. Before Lin Mu targeted Sheng Xing Ze, Bai Gao Cen was his biggest target, only because the two of them chose the same route, but Bai Gao Cen's popularity was higher than Lin Mu.
Bai Gao Cen's biggest secret was that he had a boyfriend outside of the entertainment circle.
At the time, Lin Mu hired a private detective and could easily obtain the evidence of the two people's interactions, and even leaked these pictures of the two people's intimacy on the net.
Just like Lin Mu had guessed, the netizens could not accept this kind of intimacy, Bai Gao Cen's popularity immediately hit rock bottom due to this scandal.
With his boyfriend being exposed to the media, Bai Gao Cen's somewhat improved career got hit hard, and Wan Bo Xue ruthlessly abandoned this promising newcomer. Bai Gao Cen's boyfriend broke up with him because he could not stand being attacked by the netizens' cyberbullying.
Bai Gao Cen suffered a double blow of losing career and love, unable to withstand such pain, he jumped off the building killing himself.
Until the news of Bai Gao Cen's death came out, the criticism of netizens gradually stopped. Some people said that he deserved his death, but some people said that this was the result of cyberbullying.
Lin Mu did not expect things would escalate that far. He just wanted to teach Bai Gao Cen a lesson, kicking the stumbling block on his way to superstars. He did not want Bai Gao Cen to die.
Although in the end, the police's autopsy determined that Bai Gao Cen commited suicide, he could not run away from the fact that he was the trigger of Bai Gao Cen's death.
When the incident of Bai Gao Cen happened, Sheng Xing Ze was not an artist under Wan Ba Xue. Lin Mu did not know how Sheng Xing Ze knew about it. He could only hold onto the thin hope that Sheng Xing Ze had no evidence.
In the original book, Lin Mu had a seme protagonist boyfriend who would help him covering this up with ease. He made sure all the few insiders' lips are sealed. The public opinion on the net gradually subsided with the pass of time. This matter got completely sealed since then, and it did not affect Lin Mu's career.
But Sheng Xing Ze was different, he would not let Lin Mu get to act in this movie as he wanted, the pain that Lin Mu inflicted on the original owner--he would repay them one by one to Lin Mu.
Lin Mu was very flustered, seeing that Yu Bai was coming in this direction. The tears in his eyes remained like the rivers of the dike. He started to bawling his eyes out like a pear blossom in the rain.
"Why don't you listen to me, that aged president is not a good person, you don't know how many of his men call him godfather like you, he only wants to play with you..."
Sheng Xing Ze saw him make such a sudden change in attitude, he was about to say something, in the next second Yu Bai was already coming to them, then he realized this sentence was not meant to speak at him.
Yu Bai frowned, still not saying anything, Sheng Xing Ze chuckled and said, "I'll let you two alone," then turned away.
Throughout the time they spent together, he and Yu Bai were very happy with each other, so much that he had almost forgotten that Yu Bai, in the original book, was being portrayed as a person who willingly became a spare tire for Lin Mu and did not get married for the rest of his life.
Sheng Xing Ze felt uncomfortable at this thought and stomped each step loudly on his way back to the hotel.
On the other side.
"Senior Yu, I haven't seen you for a long time," Lin Mu wiped his tears and said softly, pretending to be fragile and wanted to lean on Yu Bai.
Yu Bai took a few steps back to avoid Lin Mu's fragile body, Lin Mu did not expect Yu Bai to avoid him, and he almost lost his balance.
He looked at Yu Bai in disbelief, "Senior Yu..."
"Don't let me see you bullying Xing Ze ever again," If he did not know what kind of person Sheng Xing Ze is, Yu Bai was sure he would be deceived by the two-faced Lin Mu standing in front of him. Just when he saw the true face of this person, Yu Bai really wanted to stay away from Lin Mu as far as possible. When thinking back that he did help him once, Yu Bai wanted to punch himself for being blind.
"You know what to do." Yu Bai glanced at Lin Mu distastefully, then turned to chase after Sheng Xing Ze who had long gone. No matter how much Lin Mu shouted "senior" to him, he did not bother to look back, only Sheng Xing Ze was in his heart. He felt a deep cut in his heart when Sheng Xing Ze stared at him like staring at a stranger.
Eyes still glued at Yu Bai's back, Lin Mu clenched his hands tightly on his sleeves, "Sheng Xing Ze, you wait and see."
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<b>Notes:</b>
[1] Xianxia - a genre of Chinese fantasy influenced by Chinese mythology, Taoism, Buddhism, Chinese martial arts, traditional Chinese medicine, and other traditional Chinese elements.