Chapter 454

Chapter 454: Chapter 454

Lin Jiji was dumbfounded.

He had thought he could threaten Sister Rose by leveraging the company’s interests.

But to his surprise, not only had Sister Rose anticipated his move, but she had also been digging a trap for him from the very beginning.

Lin Jiji knew about the shady contracts common in the entertainment industry.

But he never thought it would happen to him.

Because Sister Rose had once told him that whether it was in the company or outside, he would always receive the treatment of a top-tier celebrity.

And that had indeed been the case. At the company, artists more famous and influential than him didn’t receive the same level of treatment. When attending events, he could bypass his peers and stand on equal footing with other top-tier stars.

The reason for all this was Sister Rose’s status in the industry.

So he had always felt that as long as Sister Rose was around, those unfair things would never happen to him, and he wouldn’t need to worry about the industry’s unwritten rules and other such nonsense.

Only now did he understand that the things he thought would never happen had actually been happening all along.

It was just that while he was still profitable for the company and Sister Rose, these things were kept under wraps and didn’t affect him.

But now that he was no longer profitable and was being abandoned by the company and Sister Rose, these things would become the last straw that broke the camel’s back!

At this thought, Lin Jiji suddenly laughed.

"So you’ve been using me and lying to me all this time."

Sister Rose glanced at him. "Don’t make it sound so ugly. Haven’t you been using me and the company all along as well?

Besides, you are where you are today entirely because of the help from me and the company. Conversely, the company and I have invested so, so much in building you up. Especially in the last year, we’ve poured almost all of the company’s resources into you.

To ensure you wouldn’t just take off or backstab me after you got famous, we took some precautions. Isn’t that only natural?"

Lin Jiji took a deep breath. "You’re ruthless!"

"It’s not that we’re ruthless. We’re just doing what every other company does as standard practice. The only reason you feel so let down is because you’re a fucking idiot."

"Heh, when you needed me, you said I had potential and was a real talent. Now that you don’t need me, you’re calling me an idiot?"

"And you’re not an idiot?" Sister Rose sneered. "If you had just obediently listened to me and followed the path I laid out for you, you would have become a top-tier star in one to three years, guaranteed.

And during that time and for the rest of your career, I could have ensured you received the best treatment. It wasn’t even out of the question that I could have turned you into a generational superstar.

All of that could have happened. But you, because of your damn arrogance and selfish greed, destroyed all my hard work and investment bit by bit."

As she spoke, a chilling anger appeared on her beautiful face. She glared at Lin Jiji and said, enunciating each word, "To put it bluntly, the one who brought you to this point is you! A person who had a brilliant future but insisted on destroying it with his own hands—if that’s not an idiot, what is?"

His face flushed red at her words.

’The company and Sister Rose were wrong to use shady contracts to plot against him. Still, his fall from grace was truly his own doing. If he hadn’t engaged in those shady dealings, he would still be on his pedestal, enjoying a smooth and successful career, completely unaffected by those contracts. But what was done was done. There was no use crying over spilled milk, and talking about it now was pointless.’

Thinking of this, Lin Jiji took a deep breath. "Sister Rose, you and the company schemed against me, but I also have something on you.

Over the past two or three years, I’ve collected evidence of some of your shady dealings. It might not be enough to ruin you completely, but it’s definitely enough to make you suffer."

Sister Rose said disdainfully, "So? You plan to threaten us with that?"

"No. I want to make a small deal with you."

"What kind of deal?"

"I’m not asking you to solve all my current problems. Just help me take care of the situation with Chenyang, and I can guarantee that evidence will never end up in the hands of the media."

Sister Rose blinked her beautiful eyes a couple of times and asked, "How do you want me to resolve things between you and Chenyang?"

Lin Jiji said in a low voice, "It’s simple. I want to beat him. I want him to be utterly disgraced and thrown in jail, just as I planned! I believe in you. You have the power to make that happen!"

Sister Rose smiled. "I do have the power to do that, but... I don’t want to."