Thinking back to how his agent had opposed him falling out with Tourmaline Entertainment so quickly, and seeing how worried he looked now, Zhuang Yushu sat up a little straighter and said seriously, "Do you think Yan Xianjue would have let me become Shen Fangli's teacher if I hadn't completely cut ties with Tourmaline Entertainment?"
His agent stopped pacing, then said indignantly, "He was the one who came to recruit us in the first place."
Zhuang Yushu was clear-headed. The years of being respectfully called Best Actor in public and private had not gone to his head. "But recruitment comes with many different levels of treatment, and we didn't have many choices back then."
Once Qian Quan, Tourmaline Entertainment's boss, had decided that Zhuang Yushu was the one pulling strings behind the scenes, Yan Xianjue had become his only option.
After spending so many years at Tourmaline Entertainment, he knew exactly what kind of person Qian Quan was.
Petty-minded and vindictive. Even if he did nothing now because of the company's circumstances, once Qian Quan recovered from this crisis, he would most likely come looking to make trouble for Zhuang Yushu.
By then, Zhuang Yushu truly would have no reinforcements.
His agent was still stubbornly muttering, "We could have gone to the Ji Household."
Having worked with him for years, Zhuang Yushu knew how stubborn his agent could be.
He tugged at the corner of his mouth, sounding somewhat self-mocking and slightly teasing. "Ji Xi is the nephew of the chairman of Ji Corporation."
"And he's a nephew with considerable influence."
"Otherwise, why do you think Ji Corporation, which had nothing to do with this matter in the first place—"
"—wouldn't simply sit back and wait for Random and Tourmaline to tear each other apart before making a move? The