Chapter 452

Chapter 452: Chapter 452

"N-no... You can help. You can definitely fix this for me."

Seeing Sister Rose finish speaking and turn to leave, Lin Jiji grabbed her leg in a panic.

Sister Rose was his last lifeline.

If even Sister Rose was unwilling to help him now, then he was truly finished.

Lin Jiji didn’t want to be finished!

Clinging tightly to Sister Rose’s leg, he continued to beg, "One last time! Can’t you just help me this one last time?

You’re the one who built my career from the ground up. You poured so much time and effort into me. Can you really bear to just stand by and watch me go down in flames?"

Sister Rose sneered, "So you *do* know how much I’ve done for you? Then why didn’t you think about how you’d be throwing all my effort away when you were doing all those disgusting things?"

"I know I was wrong. It will never happen again, I swear. Please, help me one more time. The last time!"

"No!"

"Can you really be so heartless?" Lin Jiji paused. "Even if you don’t care about me, what about yourself and the company?

You invested a lot to build me up, and so did the company. Right now, I’m at the peak of my career, the time when I can bring you and the company the biggest returns.

Help me this once, and I promise I’ll work even harder to make money for you. It’s a win-win. If you don’t help me now, all your previous investments will go down the drain."

"In the pathetic state you’re in now, you have the nerve to say you’re at your peak?"

"I... I’m a bit of a mess right now, I admit. But that’s only because of this current situation. If you help me solve it, I can go back to how I was before."

At these words, Sister Rose suddenly laughed.

Of course, it was a laugh of pure exasperation.

"Even if you find the best craftsman in the world to repair a shattered mirror, the cracks will always remain.

I can solve all your problems, but you... you can never go back to how you were. You can never again be the Lin Jiji I first admired."

Seeing Sister Rose’s resolute expression, the pleading look on Lin Jiji’s face suddenly darkened.

His voice grew hoarse. "Maybe I can’t go back to being the star you admired, but as long as I can get through this crisis, I can still be an artist who brings profit to the company.

Even if you want to wash your hands of me, shouldn’t you at least consider the company’s interests?"

"Hah. Are you threatening me with the company?"

"I’m not threatening you; I’m just stating a fact. After all, I’m one of the more prominent B-list celebrities right now. The company has invested a lot of resources in me, and I have many ongoing collaborations.

If my career implodes now, the company will have to pay the termination fees for all those canceled contracts. Helping me not only avoids those huge penalties but also allows you to keep using me to make money for the company.

On the other hand, if you don’t help me, the company will suffer losses, and you will definitely be reprimanded."

As he spoke, Lin Jiji watched Sister Rose’s expression intently.

He was threatening Sister Rose.

But he was even more afraid of angering her in the process.

He knew better than anyone that Sister Rose had the power to make a nobody famous overnight or to bring down a top-tier star in an instant.

If he hadn’t been truly backed into a corner, he never would have used these words as leverage.

Of course, what he said was all true.

Lin Jiji was one of the company’s currently popular artists.

Especially in the last six months, his fame had skyrocketed, and he had taken on many collaborations.

Some of those collaborations were still in progress, while others were just starting to show results.

But no matter the case, if he got into trouble now, the partners would definitely come after the company. The termination fees and losses from those collaborations would all have to be shouldered by the company.

This was no small sum.

The company would certainly be unwilling to return the massive profits it had already pocketed. Therefore, considering the long-term, big-picture situation, they would definitely save him.

And while Sister Rose had a great deal of say and a high position in the company, she was, in the end, just an employee working for the boss. This made Lin Jiji think that if he couldn’t persuade her with sentiment, he would threaten and pressure her with the company’s interests and the boss’s authority!

Threatening Sister Rose to solve his problem wasn’t the best strategy.

But in Lin Jiji’s eyes, it didn’t matter if the cat was black or white as long as it caught the mouse. As long as he could solve his immediate problem, he couldn’t be bothered to think about the consequences he would face later for threatening Sister Rose.