Ace of the Dragon Division

Chapter 242: Banned (1) 

At the hospital, after Yan Xian hung up, he asked Ou Li on the next bed, “President Ou, how’s it going on your end?”

President Ou looked pretty proud, “Basically all of my friends agreed to help. I have a deputy president friend in the theatre industry and he said that he would help me out and minimize the playrate of films with Lin Chuxue at theatres under their brand. I have a couple of friends at different TV networks that agreed to avoid inviting her onto their shows in the future, and a couple other friends are all going to help out with getting Lin Chuxue’s sponsors to drop her. Now, let’s see how anxious Lin Chuxue’s boss gets. With their one and only money tree down, that company will pretty much go bankrupt since they have no other celebrities that really have any exposure. If she’s not stupid, she will be calling me in the next few minutes to apologize.”

Yan Xian snorted on the side, “What use is an apology? He should know what we want.”

Ou Li nodded, and then he asked Yan Xian, “How’s your end?”

Yan Xian: “They knew I’m hospitalized and they are for sure very angry. A few of my celebrity friends directly leaked a message to the circle that they refuse to work with Lin Chuxue in the future. Now, I just want to see which director still has the balls to cast her in their films.”
At this moment, Ou Li asked Yan Xian, “Did the people in the circle learn about what happened today now?”

Yan Xian snorted, “Of course, and my wife had already called me so many times. I explained to her for a long time and she finally decided to calm down. The media is always trying to catch any detail so that they can spin out a story of me cheating on my wife, yet they don’t have any evidence. But my wife is still in a cold war with me, f-ck.”

Then, he turned to his assistant and said, “Go and turn on the TV, switch to the entertainment channel.”

His assistant nodded, found the remote, and turned on the TV.

But very coincidentally, they turned to the channel just in time to hear the host say, “Now, we have a story that went viral online. A netizen exposed the well-known celebrity Yan Xian of cheating on his wife with the B-list model, Li Wen. Several photos from Li Wen’s personal phone was leaked out by this netizen, and most of them were of Yan Xian deep asleep with his upper-half naked, and several ones were even more revealing, showing Yan Xian in his bathrobes in the bathroom. From the two toothbrushes by the sink, it seemed like Li Wen and Yan Xian always spend the night together. Right now, our reporter is interviewing Li Wen, and let’s see what she has to say.”

Seeing this scene, Yan Xian and his assistant’s eyes went wide open. Yan Xian even directly sat up from his bed, and the scene suddenly switched to a bunch of reporters blocking Li Wen in the hallway of her condo. She was behind a mask and seemed to be trying to avoid being interviewed. But, with so many reporters pursuing her, she replied with a sentence carrying a hint of innuendo, “You should ask Yan Xian about this!”

Yan Xian immediately punched the bed. “How could that dumb woman answer it this way?”

Ask Yan Xian? Wasn’t that answer basically telling the reporters that she wasn’t denying it, rather admitting to it so that the reporters would go to Yan Xian to see if he admits to it as well or not?

Yan Xian immediately called his assistant, “Hurry, bring my phone over.”

After his assistant brought him his phone, he immediately called Li Wen, and he began shouting furiously the moment the call connected, “Damn you, how could you say that to the reporters?”

Li Wen also sounded very angry on that side. “I’m already in a mess over here, the media camps my condo every day. Besides, all the evidence is there, so what if I admitted it? It’s true that you are my sugar daddy…”

Yan Xian: “But you know that I’m not divorced yet, and I have to bear a lot of public criticism and pressure. Are you trying to kill my career? Now, right now, go and clarify to the media and say that I have nothing to do with you, at all!”

Li Wen: “But… But what about those pictures? Those aren’t photoshopped, and there are even a few with us hugging together that weren’t exposed yet… My phone got hacked, and the hacker probably got a hold of those photos too.”

Yan Xian: “Damn it! Right now, just go and hide and don’t come out. Just f-ck off as far as you can, and I will try and buy the photos off of whoever has it. Since he didn’t take out those more revealing pictures, he’s clearly waiting to negotiate with me.”

Li Wen: “Then what about me? After you finish taking care of these things, are you still going to divorce your wife?”

Yan Xian: “Divorce your face! If I divorce her, wouldn’t it basically validate the rumor that we are together? By that time, I will face public pressure and criticism as well! I will give you some money, and you can f-ck off as far as possible!”

Then, Yan Xian directly hung up the phone in rage.

On the other end, Li Wen looked to the other side of the sofa where two men sat. After seeing the call end, they asked, “Was it recorded?”

Li Wen nodded.

That man came over and took her phone. “Don’t worry, our boss will honor his words and give you the money. On top of that, he will give you three movies to be casted in where you are the second female lead. These are all opportunities that models like you would rarely ever get, and as for if you become famous after this, it will be up to you.”

Li Wen: “Thank Master Hu for me.”

The man nodded. “We hope you can utilize this opportunity.”

Then, the two men left.

Yan Xian was in the hospital and he anxiously called his agent and said, “Check the source that leaked the photos, find the guy, and buy all of the photos from him.”

On the agent’s end, he was silent for a moment and then sighed. “It’s already too late. Just 10 minutes ago, all the photos were exposed. Now you are trending, you are more trending than you have ever trended before. You are on fire, but this fire can burn you to ashes. Now, all of the photos with you and Li Wen, there was more…’”

Yan Xian was shocked. “More?”

Agent: “Yea. All of the rookie celebrities and other celebrities that you had sexually harassed or forced had joined to file a lawsuit against you, and the company has already received a subpoena from the court. I also received 15 contract cancellations, including 5 shows, 3 from movies that were already shot where the company now wants to delete all of your scenes and do reshoots, and 7 from endorsement deals where the brands saw your reputation would harm their products. The president wants to see if you are still dead or not, and he wants me to drag you to him to give him an answer. I will come and pick you up right now.”

Yan Xian’s eyes spread wide open, and the phone fell from his hand. He was already dumbfounded on his bed.

“President Ou… things seem to be going not in our favor…” He opened his mouth with great difficulty, and he swallowed his saliva, looking as if he was up against a terrifying enemy, his face looking pretty pale…