Zhou Chenxi was thinking along the line of why was his life so miserable when he heard Zhi Qi’s voice from the mobile phone on the ground. After the elevator stabilized, he hurriedly picked it up.
After Lu Ji watched Zhou Chenxi’s performance, he sat for a while before suddenly his assistant came over and whispered a few words to him.
Lu’s business partner has arrived early. They were going to talk about a big project today and Lu Ji had to go.
The vice president lamented that President Lu was really busy, he sat for a while and then had to leave, while standing up and sending him to the door.
Someone had been waiting by the elevator and pressed the elevator for Lu Ji.
But the elevator, which used to be fairly fast, had not come up even after they waited for a long time.
Lu Ji didn’t come to this office building often. The company didn’t install a direct elevator for him. There were two public elevators in the place where they were. One of them didn’t move at all and even the lights were not on. It was obviously broken.
The staff member responsible for pressing the elevator for Lu Ji next to him turned around and quietly said to the headset: “What’s the matter with the elevator in the office building? Get someone to check it immediately.”
With a ‘ding’, the elevator next to it came up, and a sweaty man came out from inside: “Where are you? I’m on the 20th floor…what?”
Maybe the other party’s voice was too loud, so Lu Ji looked at him.
“The elevator is broken? What floor are you on now?” Zhi Qi glanced at Lu Ji and the others next to him while holding his mobile phone.
“There’s…. There’s someone here!” Zhi Qi hurriedly put down his phone and looked at the people who were looking at him, “Please help me, my artist is trapped in the elevator. Are you…?””
Zhi Qi always felt that the man at the head looked a bit familiar.
Lu Ji turned his head and said to the people behind him: “When will the maintenance staff arrive?”
As soon as the staff heard that someone was trapped in the elevator, they went to the side and made a call.
Zhi Qi didn’t know Lu Ji, so he subconsciously handed over a business card: “I am Zhou Chenxi’s agent from Tianwang Entertainment. Oh, Zhou Chenxi is an actor who came to audition today.”
“Zhou Chenxi?” Lu Ji took the business card and looked at it, “Is he trapped in the elevator?”
“Yeah!” Zhi Qi wiped his sweat anxiously, “I don’t know what’s going on now.”
Lu Ji was silent.
After a while, the person in charge who went to call came back and said, “President Lu, the repairman has been contacted and is on his way. He reminded us to pay attention to the safety of the one inside the elevator.”
President Lu?
Zhi Qi was startled for a moment.
This couldn’t be the President Lu that he thought, could he?
The tall man turned around and said to the staff: “Go and see which floors the elevator stopped.”
“Oh, I can ask him directly,” Zhi Qi recovered and said to his mobile phone, “Chen Xi, do you know which floor you are on?”
Zhou Chenxi replied on the phone: “It should be on the eighth floor…”
Lu Ji turned around and walked in the direction of the stairs.
“Ah, President Lu!” The staff behind him hurriedly followed.
When he reached the eighth floor, Lu Ji was about to do something when someone next to him went up to help him break the elevator door open.
Lu Ji looked inside, there was no elevator compartment, it was still on the next floor. He called out, “Zhou Chenxi?”
“I’m here!” A crying voice immediately came up from below, “I won’t act anymore. Wu wu wu, Mom, I don’t want to work hard anymore. I will definitely go back and eat and wait for death! Wu wu wu…”
Lu Ji: “……”
He turned his head and said to the people behind him: “Tell the elevator repairman and go directly to the seventh floor.”
After saying this, he went down another floor.
He was tall and had long legs, the people behind him almost couldn’t keep up.
Waiting for someone to come up and help break the elevator door open, Lu Ji squatted down and asked at the half-exposed elevator car, “Zhou Chenxi, can you see me?”
Zhou Chenxi raised his head in the elevator.
Falling into his eyes was Lu Ji’s chiseled chin and dark eyes, his body seemed to be covered with a layer of light.
Zhou Chenxi was holding a pack of tears, and the short hair on his forehead was wet with sweat. He hiccuped while crying: “I can see you… hic… President Lu.”
“……”
“President Lu,” the person next to him came over and said, “The repairman is still on the road. We found someone to fix the elevator compartment as he told us. They said they could pull the person up first.”
Lu Ji had already taken off his suit jacket.
He only had a light-colored shirt inside. He simply unbuttoned the first button. He rolled up his sleeves, stretched out his hand, and said to Zhou Chenxi, “Hold on to me, I’ll pull you up.”
“President Lu, let me do it!” The person next to him hurriedly recovered and came up to help.
“President Lu, it’s okay!”
Zhou Chenxi stood on tiptoe and grabbed Lu Ji’s hand. After being pulled, he struggled to grasp the edge of the floor with his strength, and with the help of everyone’s seven hands and eight feet1七手八脚: Seven hands and eight feet (idiom). Meaning with everyone lending a hand (eagerly but somewhat chaotically). Describes many people with mixed hands and chaotic movements., he crawled out of the gap with a disheveled face.
Lu Ji’s original exquisite and high-end clothes were already dirty and Zhou Chenxi had already ignored his image and knelt on the ground, weakly saying: “The harder others work, the luckier they are. The harder I work, the more unlucky I am. Brother Qi, I gave up. I’m going home to farm.”
Zhi Qi: “……”
“Haven’t you already won this audition?” Lu Ji didn’t know where he got so much poisonous chicken soup, “Just go back and prepare well. How do you know if you can succeed if you don’t try?”
Zhou Chenxi raised her eyes to look at him, with a little teardrop on his curled eyelashes, he whispered to himself: “I tried it, but it just doesn’t work…”
Zhi Qi noticed what Lu Ji said: “What, Zhou Chenxi! You won the audition? Great!”
He hurriedly helped Zhou Chenxi up and thanked Lu Ji and the staff several times. Afraid that Zhou Chenxi would talk nonsense, he helped him downstairs from the emergency exit.
When they got downstairs, Lu Ji patted the dust on his suit and said to his assistant: “Add a life insurance clause to Zhou Chenxi’s contract, just treat it as…We Lu bought it for him.”
On the way back, Zhi Qi was very excited, and he was quite proudly thinking ‘the child has finally made a difference’. It was known that Zhou Chenxi was really unlucky before. From the perspective of Zhi Qi as a professional agent, Zhou Chenxi was not bad. He had talent, strength and appearance. He was also ranked in the circle, but his luck was a bit bad. Like before, participating in the show “I am an Actor” was very poisonous and he would always be stumped by inexplicable things.
But it’s okay now. Finally, the big stone in his heart had fallen.
Zhi Qi opened Weibo and logged on to Zhou Chenxi’s account that had 50,000 zombie fans bought by the company: “I will edit a draft for you. When Lu’s side sends the contract, you need to send this Weibo out.”
Zhou Chenxi was not interested and said “Oh”.
The people who pay attention to him were all zombie fans. What’s the difference between sending or not?
He said goodbye to Zhi Qi and returned home. The housekeeper was already waiting at the door and told Zhou Chenxi that Zhou Mingxuan had returned from the company.
Zhou Chenxi sneaked around the living room and saw Zhou Mingxuan sitting on the sofa. He didn’t intend to disturb him. He was about to go upstairs quietly, but Zhou Mingxuan stopped him: “Where are you going?”
Zhou Chenxi turned around silently.
Zhou Mingxuan was looking through a newspaper in his hand. He raised his head and glanced at Zhou Chenxi: “Sit down.”
Zhou Chenxi slowly moved to the sofa and sat down a meter away from him.
“Where did you go today?” Zhou Mingxuan turned a page of the newspaper.
Zhou Mingxuan looks a bit like Zhou Chenxi, but his facial features are tougher than Zhou Chenxi’s. Perhaps because of his blood relations and also the same status as the president, Zhou Chenxi felt that Zhou Mingxuan looked much more approachable than Lu Ji. But when Zhou Mingxuan looked at him so indifferently, Zhou Chenxi still couldn’t help being a little intimidated.
“I… went to an audition.” Zhou Chenxi thought for a while, but decided to tell the truth.
“Didn’t you say you don’t plan to mix in the entertainment industry anymore?” Zhou Mingxuan said.
“But…” Zhou Chenxi couldn’t find any reason.
He thought, if his brother didn’t agree this time, he would just give up and forget about it. What acting, it was not as important as his family. He didn’t want to be confused like in his previous life and lead them to a tragedy with him.
Moreover, today was really enough. It was difficult to guarantee that this kind of thing would not happen again.
“Go ahead,” Zhou Mingxuan turned another page of the newspaper and whispered, “I can’t hold you back anyway. But don’t run out without saying a word this time. The company’s position is still reserved for you. I said in advance that I will let you go to work in the company next time you come back. You can’t shirk it anymore.”
Zhou Chenxi’s joy rushed to the top of his head. He didn’t expect his brother to be so easy to talk to in this life. Did he really ignore the feelings of too many family members? He couldn’t help but rush up and hug Zhou Mingxuan: “Brother, you are so kind!”
“Tsk…” Zhou Mingxuan pushed him away, “Don’t be sticky, what does it look like!”
Seeing the roots of his red ears, Zhou Chenxi retreated with a smile. He calmly thought for a while and reminded Zhou Mingxuan: “Brother, do you know the Lu Group?”
“Of course,” Zhou Mingxuan put down the newspaper, “What’s the matter?”
“It’s nothing…” Zhou Chenxi said hurriedly, “I want to say… you’d better stay away from Lu Ji.”
Zhou Mingxuan thought for a while: “Lu Ji? I have heard of him. He has very strong abilities and skills. The structure of the Lu family is complicated. Unlike our family, he was not loved by the previous patriarch in the Lu family. Later, he somehow climbed to this position, but our family has no intersection with this person in business or other aspects. On the contrary, you, I heard that the variety show you participated in before was sponsored by the Lu family?”
Sure enough, nothing could escape my brother’s eyes.
Zhou Chenxi was feeling a little guilty and hesitated: “Yes. Anyway, I heard about him and knew that he was not a good person. Brother, you have to be careful and don’t go head-to-head with him.”
Zhou Mingxuan said helplessly: “You little idiot. Do you still need you to remind me? If you have the leisure to help me take care of the company, our parents will be very happy.”
As soon as Zhou Chenxi heard about the company, he had a headache, yawned and said, “Brother, I’m tired. I’ll go up and get some sleep first, so I won’t bother you!”
After speaking, he rushed upstairs like a rabbit.
Zhou Mingxuan shook his head.
At this moment, on the other side of the city, Lu Ji, who was busy with a meeting, suddenly sneezed inexplicably.
“President Lu.” The assistant next to him hurriedly said, “Do you need to see a doctor?”
President Lu hadn’t had a good rest for a few days, did he catch a cold?
“It’s okay.” Lu Ji thought to himself, one sneeze was someone scolding him, two sneezes were someone thinking of him, and three sneezes were a cold.
That’s the way it was.
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The author has something to say: Yes, President Lu is clever.
Note: According to popular science, you cannot climb out directly when the elevator fails, so the plot has been slightly changed. If you are in danger, please call the emergency number to find a professional.
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