The curtain falls

Zunhuang Media was a subsidiary of Zunhuang Entertainment, specializing in films.

When Su Ye heard that Wu Zhaolong's father was an executive at Zunhuang, he looked at Li Anlan with interest.

Under Su Ye's gaze, Li Anlan pulled out his phone in some embarrassment and made a call. The person on the other end picked up immediately.

A fawning voice came from the other end.

"Cousin, is something the matter so late at night?"

"Xiaofeng, do you have someone named Wu Jianguo working under you?"

"What happened, cousin? Did he offend you? I'll fire him right now."

"Tell him to come to the bar and pick up his son. That's all. I'm hanging up."

After hanging up, Li Anlan smiled and said to Wu Zhaolong:

"Your dad will be here soon. You can talk to him yourself!"

Then he turned back to Su Ye and said:

"I'm sorry, Brother Su. I didn't expect the person who offended you to be the son of one of my employees."

"There's no need to be like that, Chairman Li..."

Su Ye was someone even Li Anlan had to curry favor with. If this incident made Su Ye unhappy and he went back and said a word to Secretary Xiao, Zunhuang Entertainment would lose a layer of skin. After all, everyone in the entertainment industry had a bit of dirt on them.

At the thought, Li Anlan glared fiercely at Wu Zhaolong again.

Wu Zhaolong was frightened too. Could Su Ye and An Mu really have some powerful backing? Or were they simply trying to scare him? He couldn't make up his mind either.

"Brother Su, let's go downstairs and sit for a while. We'll deal with him when his dad gets here!"

Li Anlan said to Su Ye. After all, it was no good just standing around here.

When Wu Zhaolong heard Li Anlan say that, he thought Su Ye and the others really were putting on an act and wanted to slip away. His eyes turned fierce, as though he had made up his mind about something, and he shouted:

"Don't go! I can see you're putting on an act, and you even claimed you'd deal with me? I think you're feeling guilty and trying to slip away."

Li Anlan looked at Wu Zhaolong as though he were an idiot.

Seeing that Li Anlan seemed stunned, Wu Zhaolong thought he had guessed right. He raised a hand and patted Li Anlan on the shoulder, laughing loudly.

Just as he was patting Li Anlan's shoulder, a burly man arrived outside the door. Seeing Wu Zhaolong patting Li Anlan with an outrageously arrogant smile, the man flew into a rage. He swung his fist at Wu Zhaolong's face.

Before the laughing Wu Zhaolong could react, the burly man sent him flying with a punch, crashing onto the sofa.

An Mu stared at the burly man with wide eyes and tugged at the hem of Su Ye's clothes.

"That's the Master Hu I was talking about!"

Su Ye thought to himself, Xiantian?

The burly man hurriedly checked Li Anlan for injuries. This was his wealthy patron; nothing could be allowed to happen to him.

"Boss, are you all right?"

Li Anlan waved a hand at Master Hu, indicating that he was fine.

Then he turned to Su Ye and said:

"Brother Su, let's go!"

Su Ye and An Mu followed Li Anlan out of the private room. Li Anlan turned back to the burly man named Master Hu and said:

"Bring the kid you just punched!"

Master Hu stepped back into the room, turned around, and hoisted Wu Zhaolong, who had already passed out on the sofa, onto his shoulder before heading downstairs.

Everyone in the private room was dumbstruck.

"What's Su Ye's background?"

They had all been stunned by everything that had just happened before their eyes, especially the burly man who had sent Wu Zhaolong flying with one punch. Wu Zhaolong had to weigh a hundred-odd jin, at least, yet he had been sent flying with such a casual punch?

Li Qian in particular had a look of fear on her face, while Li Hanxue, sitting beside Zhao Shanshan, looked worried.

Su Ye and An Mu sat down to wait in Li Anlan's office on the first floor.

About half an hour later, a middle-aged man with an anxious look on his face appeared at the entrance of the Honored Emperor Bar. He took out his phone and called for a long time, but no one answered. Seemingly having made up his mind about something, he put his phone away and walked into the bar.

When the middle-aged man entered the hall, a burly man and a somewhat stout middle-aged man stopped him.

His legs went weak at the sight of them. Perhaps the two men didn't know him, but he knew them.

One was Zunhuang Entertainment's "door god," nicknamed Master Hu. It was said that Master Hu had been seriously injured in a struggle between underground powers years ago, and Li Anlan had saved him. To repay the favor, Master Hu had become Li Anlan's personal bodyguard. Later, when Li Anlan and the others founded Zunhuang Entertainment, Master Hu helped look after Li Anlan's establishments.

The other, the stout middle-aged man, was Li Anlan. It could be said that he had founded Zunhuang Entertainment single-handedly, and he held more than eighty percent of its shares.

After receiving a call from his superior and hearing that his good-for-nothing son, Wu Zhaolong, had offended Chairman Li Anlan, Wu Jianguo had rushed over in a panic.

Li Anlan glanced at the photo on his phone, then looked at Wu Jianguo and asked:

"Are you Wu Jianguo?"

Wu Jianguo quickly nodded, then dropped to his knees before Li Anlan and said:

"Chairman Li, I heard that my good-for-nothing son offended you. Please be magnanimous and spare my boy!"

Li Anlan looked expressionlessly at Wu Jianguo, who was kneeling before him, and said:

"Your son does indeed need some discipline. I can treat his offense against me today as though it never happened."

Hearing Li Anlan say he could overlook his son's offense, Wu Jianguo immediately knelt and bowed repeatedly, thanking him:

"Thank you, Chairman Li. You're a magnanimous man. I'll make sure to keep that little bastard on a tight leash when we get home."

Then Li Anlan changed the subject.

"I can let it go, but I wasn't the only person he offended today."

When Wu Jianguo heard that, he asked:

"Chairman Li, who else did that little bastard offend? I'll go to their door and apologize in person."

"The other person he offended is someone even I can't afford to offend. Do you understand what I'm saying?"

At Li Anlan's words, Wu Jianguo's heart went half cold, but he still steeled himself and asked:

"Could you give me some idea, Chairman Li? I've worked under you for so many years. Even if I have no accomplishments, I've still put in hard work..."

Li Anlan gave Wu Jianguo a helpless look, then said to him, "Come with me!"

Li Anlan led Wu Jianguo to a private room, where Master Hu had already tied Wu Zhaolong up tightly. His mouth was stuffed with a lump of sponge from who knew where, so even though he had now regained consciousness, he could only vent the anger in his heart through his eyes.

After waiting a long time, Wu Zhaolong's mouth had begun to ache. Just then, the door to the private room opened.