Chapter 226 - The Crisis Regarding Trust That Has Never Occurred Before
“Director Ning, can you please let us know when you signed a contract with Liu Wenlong, did you purely appreciate his talent? Did you not know beforehand about his character? Why would you work with such a person?”
“Director Ning, this place is your filming location; it is also your territory. You room was on the same level as Liu Wenlong, how could he dare to allow these matters under your watch?”
“Director Ning, after all of this happened, will you officially terminate his contract? How will you deal with this matter? Please let us know your opinion. Please say something.”
Ning Qing did not say anything. She turned away and left under the protection of bodyguards.
….
In the office, Ning Qing, Xiao Zhou, and Liu Wenlong, who looked entirely dispirited, were present.
In five minutes time, the news of Liu Wenlong engaging in adultery made the top headlines in the entertainment news. In half an hour, it concurrently made its way to the top searched results on Baidu and Weibo Chat Topics. The more serious matter was, every entertainment news headline was written as, “Artist Signed under Ning Qing’s Studio Revealed to Be Engaging in Adultery”. The headlines did not even use Liu Wenlong’s name, and Ning Qing’s reputation was shattered into pieces. She had become the target instead.
Xiao Zhou understood. When she had asked Ning Qing yesterday why she did not see a future between Liu Wenlong and Li Yi, she probably thought that this would be the answer.
Liu Wenlong felt his face burn in pain. Every word from Ning Qing weighed deeply in the bottom of his heart, and she had pierced his Achilles’ heel. He painfully hung his head and slowly slumped onto the floor.
“Xiao Yi, Xiao Yi… I was wrong to do this to you…”
Ning Qing felt her eyes tearing up. She lifted her gaze and she straightened her posture. “Liu Wenlong, you stay here this few days. Do not go out for the next few days. You are unable to leave; you are the target of scorn of everyone now. Also, don’t go to look for Xiao Yi. She is a girl who has treated that you as the sky, and she has nowhere else to go. You have betrayed her, and I would assume that she would not want to look at you again for the rest of her life.”
Ning Qing turned to leave.
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Ning Qing walked to the corridor. Xiao Zhou followed behind her, and she said with hesitation, “Ning Qing, I have something that I do not know whether to tell you about.”
“What’s wrong?”
“Maybe I am thinking too much about this, but I still think that Xiao Yi was not behaving normally yesterday. Did you know, when Xiao Yi ran out of Liu Wenlong’s room, she banged into me. At that time, she looked like she was going through a great amount of stress, then she hid inside the bathroom to cry alone. I went to touch her, and she was shocked until she was shaking from head to toe. She still said, ‘I beg you not to touch me.’”
Ning Qing paused her steps abruptly. Xiao Zhou could not brake in time, and she almost crashed onto her. She had not regained her footing when she heard Ning Qing say in a serious tone, “What did you say?”
“I… Xiao Yi seemed to be very afraid of men touching her…” Xiao Zhou said what she had guessed in her heart.
Ning Qing closed her eyes and took in a deep breath to suppress the anger in her heart. She immediately ordered, “Go investigate for me. That audition show probably has a problem. Go check through the three judges.”
“Roger that.” Xiao Zhou accepted her order but she still did not leave, and she looked like she still had something to say.
“Xiao Zhou, what’s the matter? If there is something then say, I am able to shoulder it.”
“Ning Qing, I saw the surveillance footage from the corridor just now. Last night when Liu Ling entered Liu Wenlong’s room, she passed by Yin Moer. At that time her assistant had her suspicions, but Yin Moer was afraid that she would be implicated in these matters, so she chose to make a hasty exit.
Ning Qing’s expression in her eyes darkened. Yin Moer and Liu Wenlong were both artists signed under her. When Yin Moer met with her colleague in trouble, she chose to turn a blind eye to it.
She hadn’t had enough time to truly build a team. They did not have chemistry and interactions between them, and they did not understand they were bound together, when one had fame, they would all be famous, and when one was in trouble, all of them would also fall in trouble.