Aaron frowned slightly in embarrassment.
He hesitated and said, "Well... Mr. Huang can only drink a few sips of wine, you know, but he is not an alcoholic and has a pretty good character. At most, I want you to have a drink with him? You can drink a little, right?"
"No." Lan Chu refused very simply.
She pursed her pink lips lightly and said, "If you must drink, just help me put down the entertainment."
Hearing this, Aaron fell into a brief silence.
He thought for a moment and then confirmed with her, "There are only two conditions: no drinking and no hidden rules, right?"
"Yeah." Lan Chu responded casually.
Aaron shook his head helplessly, "Why do you think you can't drink at all? I've seen you resist this in the past. You don't have a good drinking tolerance?"
There were some waves in Lan Chu's clear eyes.
She just laughed softly, and then said casually, "I just can't drink."
Aaron didn't know that Lan Chu had suffered from gastric cancer.
She had suffered from this serious illness. Only Bai Jingchen and a few people around Shi Qinglan knew about it, and not even her manager knew about it.
"Okay." He indulged her, "Then I'll say hello to Mr. Huang and I'll send you the address later."
Lan Chu immediately hung up the phone.
Being in the entertainment industry, it is inevitable to participate in some entertainment and the like. Moreover, she has no background, and she needs to maintain a good relationship with the investors and producers. But usually Aaron would accompany her, but this time he really couldn't get away.
Just go and go, she was used to it anyway.
…
That night, the imperial capital Chen Palace.
After all, Lan Chu came alone. She was relatively conservatively dressed. She wore a navy blue dress with a hemline above her knees and a simple outer layer. Mr. Huang came to greet her personally.
"Miss Qingli." Mr. Huang greeted her gracefully.
Although the man is not considered a young talent, he is considered handsome and relatively gentleman among middle-aged people with careers. I heard that his family was originally in business, but he is personally interested in the film and television industry, so he became a director if he could not. As an investor in incubating projects, there are few bad rumors about him in the circle.
Lan Chu nodded gently, "Mr. Huang."
"Go in, I invited a big director today, and he said he is very interested in you and wants to invite you to collaborate."
Mr. Huang smiled and led Lan Chu inside.
There were people coming and going in the bar, especially in the scattered seats. There were many dancing people. Lan Chu's petite body shuttled among them, and she looked a bit thin wearing high heels.
Mr. Huang seemed to be worried that her high heels would get stuck on his feet. He wanted to reach out and help Lan Chu's waist, but she turned aside warily.
"Miss Qingli, don't be nervous." He smiled helplessly.
He put his arm around Lan Chu's waist, but pressed his wrist against his waist. His hand did not touch her body. "Walk slowly, I'm just afraid that you will fall."
Lan Chu lowered her eyes and glanced at his hand. Mr. Huang was indeed as gentleman as the rumors in the circle, so she said nothing more.
Then the two people walked towards the box.
At the same time, two more men in suits and ties came in from the Imperial Capital Chen Palace. The man in a burgundy suit narrowed his eyes and looked somewhere, "Hey, this is not a coincidence."
"What a coincidence?" Bai Jingchen was not very interested.
The man in a burgundy suit raised his chin slightly, "Qingli, the one who has become popular in the entertainment industry in the past two years, has a very beautiful face."
Hearing this, Bai Jingchen's eyes froze for a moment.
He suddenly raised his head and followed the gaze of the person beside him, and sure enough he saw Qingli in a navy blue skirt, and there was a man standing next to him, even holding his arms around his waist...
The man in the burgundy suit is Bai Jingchen's business partner.
Little did he know that the deceased wife that Bai Jingchen could not forget was the female star in the entertainment industry that he had met.
He said with great interest, "I didn't expect to meet her here. Can I get an autograph? The one next to her seems to be Mr. Huang. The two of them are quite close... I haven't heard about Qingli's scandal, so that's right. Couldn’t he be her boyfriend?”
Boy friend…
The breath around Bai Jingchen suddenly became cold.
He clenched his fists tightly, his breathing stagnant with his emotions, and he looked at her back for a moment.
Has she... got a new boyfriend
It was more than a year ago since I last saw Lan Chu. The divorce was officially processed at the Civil Affairs Bureau. Since then, all information about her comes from entertainment industry news...
Bai Jingchen always cared about her and invested in her projects silently. Whenever he saw someone slandering her on the Internet, he couldn't help but help her PR get rid of all the slanderers. However, their interaction was limited to this. And it's still one-sided.
He has... not seen her for a long, long time.
"Mr. Bai?" The man next to him called him.
There was some confusion in Bai Jingchen's eyes, and then she slowly returned to her state of mind, "Let's go, don't you want to negotiate a contract?"
"Oh, okay." He glanced at the man suspiciously, and then the two of them walked towards the reserved box.
…
Lan Chu was introduced into the high-end box by Mr. Huang.
Before entering, Mr. Huang took his hand back and opened the door in a gentlemanly manner, "Miss Qingli, please come in."
"Thank you, Mr. Huang." Lan Chu nodded gently.
She immediately walked into the box and saw that Mr. Huang was as gentleman as the rumors said. She thought the entertainment would be easy, but when she walked in, she found that it was different from what she had imagined.
Dazzling lights flickered in the box, and there were many people sitting around on the sofa. There were oily investors of a very young age, and there were also young nobles who looked like second-generation ancestors, but each of them had a young girl in their arms. It’s unclear whether she’s a girlfriend or a princess.
"Miss Qingli is here." A voice sounded.
Lan Chu raised his eyes and followed the voice, and saw a young man wearing a black shirt, leaning lazily on the sofa. The buttons of his clothes were not fastened carefully, and traces of lipstick could still be seen on the collar. There was a young woman in his arms.
The young woman in his arms smiled sweetly and said, "Mr. Ji, why is it that Miss Qingli is here and you can't take your eyes off her? Are you planning to abandon her?"
"How could that be?" Ji Shao curled his lips and smiled softly.
He picked up the chin of the woman next to him with his finger, "You just stay in my arms, and you're not afraid of being alone on either side."
Seeing this, Mr. Huang couldn't help but look a little embarrassed.
But this kind of scene is inevitable in the entertainment industry. He took care of Lan Chu and said, "Miss Qingli, sit down."
"Yeah." She lightly pursed her lips and found a position.
Deliberately staying away from these people, the waiter came and asked her what she wanted to drink, but she just ordered a glass of hot water.
Mr. Ji sneered, "Miss Qingli doesn't give you any face. How can you only order a glass of hot water when you come to the bar? There is no rule in the entertainment industry about not drinking. Thank you for a glass of Pink Lady."
(End of chapter)