"It's time to eat." Li Mo's voice came from the table, pulling Ji Qin out of his contemplation. "What are you thinking, so fascinated?" Li Mo asked casually.

"It's nothing." Ji Qin twitched the corners of his mouth unnaturally. He suddenly felt sorry for Li Mo, but Li Mo never mentioned the past, and he didn't ask much.

Just as the two sat down around the dining table, Ji Qin's cell phone rang.

"Xiao Ji," came the hesitant voice of his director senior brother on the other end of the phone, "I'm really sorry, the producer called me this morning and said that the male lead has already been decided by default, so..."

Ji Qin's heart sank, and he asked, "Senior brother, can I ask... Who is the appointment?"

The director hesitated for a moment, but still told the truth: 'Anyway, you will know sooner or later, and it is Gu Lixuan. ""It's him? Ji Qin was a little surprised, and glanced at Li Mo consciously.

Li Mo didn't pay attention to who he was calling, but when he noticed Ji Qin's gaze, he raised his head and gave him a questioning look.

Ji Qin didn't care about any response to him for the time being, and only listened to the director's ramble on the phone: "To be honest, I didn't believe it at first, but the producer said that Gu Lixuan's assistant called him on his own initiative, and it was absolutely true. .so……"

"It's alright, I can understand." Ji Qin took a deep breath and tried to hide his disappointment, "? Just think I have no fate with the crew, senior brother, don't take it too seriously..."

"Who said there was no fate," the director changed his words, "I called you, but I wanted to ask you if you are interested in trying the second male lead in this show again? I have not decided on the male lead yet."

As soon as Ji Qin heard that there was a turnaround, he hurriedly responded with a smile. The two made an appointment for another audition and hung up. Li Mo then asked aloud: "What's wrong? The crew has changed their mind? Ji Qin didn't intend to deceive him, so he simply relayed what the director said."

Li Mo was silent for a while, but did not speak. After a while, he suppressed his voice and said, "Grabbing people's resources and cutting off the hustle and bustle", Gu Lixuan has done it before. This time too, I feel like he's coming for me, but for some reason, he ends up grabbing your role. "

"Maybe it's Hate Wu Jiwu, and it's not pleasing to look at me, right?" Ji Qin seemed a little indifferent, shrugged his shoulders and said, "But I'm really curious, what kind of hatred does he have with you? You don't even hesitate to lower your worth to grab resources from a little-known actor like us?"

Li Mo shook his head: "? I've always wondered. I used to be in the same class as him, and when we were studying at the Film and Television Academy, we used to have a good relationship. When I graduated, I was catching up with a director who was recruiting film actors. , I got the news first, I took him to audition out of good intentions, but the director took a fancy to his appearance and made him the male lead. I only managed to win a male supporting role who didn't even have a serious name. "

"I didn't care about it at the time. I took him as a good friend. He developed better than me, and I was very happy for him. After the film was released, the box office was not high, but it had a good reputation in the circle. He was signed by a good agency. At that time, he would often call me and complain to me about the difficulty of working hard in the entertainment industry, and I would try to comfort and encourage him as much as possible.”

"Later, I don't know when it started, I feel that he has gradually changed, and his attitude towards acting is not as simple as before. In order to gain exposure and better resources, he has done all kinds of shady methods. I tried to persuade him several times, but he couldn't listen, and there were several disputes with me about it."

"Gradually, I became more and more disappointed with him, and he felt that he had nothing to say to me. After a year, we gradually became estranged. Later, I also signed a small company, and an agent took us more than a dozen newcomers. , I don’t care about everything at all, and I have a relatively slow personality, and I don’t take the initiative to please and fight for it. Although I have had several opportunities to act, they are all small roles that do not have much room to play.”

"At that time, Gu Lixuan gradually intervened in my life and work, and repeatedly asked me to quit the entertainment industry. I asked him the reason, but he refused to say. I ignored him and continued to make my own dramas. He treated me to me. His attitude became more and more tough, and if he failed to persuade him, he began to threaten, saying that if I didn't want to quit this circle, he would have various ways to force me to quit."

"I didn't care at that time, I just thought he had a problem with his brain. He was already a star, but he always came to care about me, an 18th-tier actor. But later things proved that he was not joking, and he started to go around. Make me stumbling, either spoil my audition, or pry my resources at a low price."

"I couldn't bear it anymore and ran to him and had a big fight. After that, he rarely calmed down for a while, and I also took the lead in an idol drama in a roundabout way. I concentrated on filming with the crew for several months. I thought I could finally turn around with a drama, but I didn’t expect that after the film crew was finished, my agency suddenly replaced my agent.”

"When the idol drama was on the air, several main actors who participated in the show followed the crew to various places to promote and increase exposure, but I was the only one who didn't receive any notice. The agent who brought me was even more unreliable than the previous one. I couldn’t get through a phone call for a week. Later, I realized with hindsight that I was hidden by the company in disguise.”

Ji Qin was very depressed and couldn't help but interjected and asked, "Could it be that Gu Lixuan is behind the scenes again?"

Li Mo nodded slowly: "At the time, I didn't expect him to be so powerful, I just thought I had offended someone in the company by accident. Later, I really had no choice but to take the initiative to terminate the contract, but the company held the contract. I want to pay the full liquidated damages."

"I was cornered, but fortunately Xia Liang reached out in time and helped me. He originally wanted to help me win this lawsuit, but this kind of lawsuit in the entertainment industry often drags on for several years. The fight is very unfavorable to me, and Xia Liang himself is at a critical moment in the transformation of the family business, so he is really lacking in skills."

"Finally, I gave up the appeal and asked Xia Liang to help me pay the liquidated damages first. As soon as the lawsuit was over, I went abroad. To say it nicely is to study, to say it badly, it is escapism. I just hope that it is invisible. Get out of this quagmire as soon as possible."

"A year later, I found out that my previous brokerage company had been acquired by Gu Lixuan's brokerage company at a high price, and Gu Lixuan also participated in it." Li Mo said here, suddenly After a while, there was a wry smile of extreme tiredness on his face, "And the only condition for him to participate in the shares is for the company to force me to terminate the contract.