Chapter 73 - A New Environment
Chapter 73: A New Environment
“You’re Mo Li?” Nie Li gave her a once-over. Mo Li nodded, and she fired back, “How can I help you?”
When the driver saw the woman blocking Mo Li’s way, he immediately came over to help. Nie Li turned to stare him back to his post. “Don’t worry, I just want to see the person who has garnered such intense hatred from Mo Zheng.”
Mo Li frowned. This woman had been Mo Zheng’s agent for 2 years already, she definitely knew how Mo Li looked like.
Nie Li’s slender fingers lifted Mo Li’s chin. “You are still the prettiest among your family.”
It was a compliment but Mo Li was uncomfortable because the woman was assessing her like she was some kind of object. Mo Li frowned slightly as she struggled free from the woman’s grasp. “You didn’t come here today just to tell me that did you?”
Nie Li liked to work with smart people. Initially she wanted to sign Mo Li as her star but at the time, she was still too young. Her family refused Nie Li. However, Mo Zheng showed interest to join the industry and he had good qualities as well. So Nie Li settled with Mo Zheng.
After years of effort, Nie Li finally managed to steer Mo Zheng towards the path of stardom but this accident had ruined everything.
Mo Zheng’s contract hadn’t reached its maturity. If he was forced to terminate the contract due to the accident, then he would have to pay at least 10 million in compensation. This amount was not that much for the Mo Family but taking out ten million in a short amount of time would not be a good idea. Once the company’s financial chain was interrupted, the company would be in the risk of being acquired.
However, Mo Li was still confused. If this woman wanted compensation for Mo Zheng’s breach of contract, she should have gone to Mo Zheng or Mo Yi, why would she come to her?
“I have something that you want.” Nie Li said apropos to nothing. It startled Mo Li. Something I want?
“Even though the surveillance footage from that day has gone missing, I have saved all the footage prior to the accident.” Nie Li took out her phone and waved it before Mo Li. “Apart from that, I also have a 34 seconds footage salvaged from the car’s traffic cam. I’m sure Miss Mo Li will be interested in that, right?”
A threat! This woman is openly threatening me! Mo Li took several deep breaths. Even though she didn’t know this woman’s motive, it was true that Nie Li had the things she desperately needed. She believed Nie Li wouldn’t use false evidence to trick her either.
Nie Li used these things as bait because she knew Mo Li would be eager to find out the truth.
“1 day every week, but I won’t do anything that is against my conscience.”
Nie Li laughed when she heard Mo Li’s reply. She loved working with smart people. If Mo Zheng had this intelligence, he wouldn’t be in the state he was in now.
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For the next few days, Mo Li was busy as a bee. In the morning, she had classes and math exercises with the professor. Then after school, she had to attend posture and acting classes from a teacher hired by Nie Li. Strangely enough, after that encounter at the school gate, Mo Li had not seen Nie Li again.
Even though Mo Li returned home very late every day, her grandparents never said anything about it. Perhaps Nie Li had been in contact with them.
After one month of training, Mo Li was stuffed into a movie production crew by Nie Li. She was there on weekends to do minor jobs. Nie Li’s intention was for Mo Li to gather some experience at the set and from the crew.
During the weekdays, Mo Li was busy with school work, so her weekends at the set were perfect to distract herself from the heavy mathematical homework.
Mo Li did not have much working experience other than at the research institute so she found the work at the movie set to be quite refreshing. This was a world that was so different than the one that she was used to. She saw it as a chance to improve herself.
This movie was a heavy production. The main story went like this, there was a koi spirit who had transformed into a beautiful woman to repay the kindness of the main protagonist. They married but tragedy fell. To save the world from destruction, the spirit had to sacrifice herself in the end.
There were two veteran actors in the cast. Since this opportunity didn’t come often, Mo Li tried to learn as much as she could from them. She was very lucky.
The male protagonist, Chen Fan was also a good actor. The movie’s female protagonist was the top celebrity of the moment, Wen Xue.