Chapter 82: Meet
In order to coordinate the time, Su Jishi personally went to ask for leave from Director Zheng, hoping to free up the next few nights.
Mu Xiulun was busy with his work and wasn’t definite when he would arrive. Even if he did arrive, he would definitely fly back and forth, and leave soon after they met. To prevent failure to meet each other, Su Jishi simply took all the nights off.
She usually taped hard and was also very loyal to her friends in private. Plus, she was the biggest celebrity in the program, so once she asked for leave, the Director immediately agreed.
When it came to Su Jin and Mu Xiulun’s relationship, everybody had long sniffed something.
Director Zheng smiled and teased, “We’ll be returning to Beijing in a few days. Unexpectedly, President Mu can’t wait for these few days and has to come all the way to visit our shooting.”
Su Jishi rejoined smugly, “What’s so great about visiting the shoot? He is here to visit me.”
“…” Director Zheng thought to himself, What sin have I done to deserve this?
Seeing Director Zheng’s sour face, Xiao Xia declared inwardly, I think you’ve only eaten a few mouthfuls of dog food. ah. I watch them playing games every day. You dig mines and I make iron. If I, Xiao Xia were to to stand up and be twisted, I guarantee you’ll squeeze lemon juice!
When Su Jishi left with Xiao Xia, he happened to bump into the Chief Producer who was holding his tablet toward Director Zheng’s room to discuss work.
After the two sides greeted each other politely, Su Jishi left.
The Chief Producer looked at her back and asked curiously, “Lao Zheng, why did Su Jin come to your place?”
Director Zheng said, “To take time off —— Her boyfriend is coming to visit our shooting site.”
“Boyfriend, who is it?”
Director Zheng answered sourly, “Who else? Mu Xiulun, ah. Didn’t you share gossip news about his high-profile display of affection in front of the magazine with me on WeChat?”
The Chief Producer was shocked: “Didn’t they say it’s a ‘unilateral pursuit’? Su Jin didn’t say yes either, ah.”
Director Zheng: “Did not say yes, my ass! You didn’t see Su Jin’s expression, the standard want to show but embarrassed to show-sneakily doing something behind closed doors. Who knows what step the two have progressed in private?”
The two middle-aged men in their forties got together and shared some gossip, causing Su Jishi to sneeze for half a day after returning to her room.
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Meanwhile, Mu Xiulun called Gao Ling, who was on vacation, to return in advance. Poor Gao Ling’s twenty days of annual leave lasted only three days. He almost landed in Boracay((Boracay – one of the most famous beaches in the Philippines)), and was called back by Mu Xiulun.
Gao Ling had no time to go home and change clothes, so with a long down jacket wrapped around a floral shirt and a pair of pants, together with a pair of slip on flip-flops, he directly marched into the President’s office.
He tossed his laptop to Mu Xiulun’s desk and raged, “I have worked hard in the company for so many years, almost 24 hours 365 days without a break. This time, I finally took an annual leave with so much difficulty, but I ended up spending this holiday directly on the plane!”
Mu Xiulun didn’t bother to pay attention to him and asked, “Which is important, a pay raise or is an annual leave?”
“Annual leave!” Gao Ling, on the basis of their relationship as classmates, bluntly said, “A raise is not important. I have a life to earn money, but no life to spend it!”
Mu Xiulun asked again, “Oh, which is important, a 1.5% equity or an annual leave?”
Without blinking, Gao Ling picked up the laptop he had just thrown away and hugged it in his arms: “Annual leave? What annual leave? My life belongs to the company!!”
He was not stupid. No one knew better than him, the secretary, how much money the company was making now! One after another, the company’s well operated mines were now entering new energy and producing nickel intermediate products… He must hold onto Mu Xiulun’s thigh. Even if he worked overtime to death, he could be buried with a smile!
The two made small talk, and then Mu Xiulun said, “I called you back for some business. I have all the evidence against the Mu family. To avoid long nights fraught with dreams((an idiom – it also means undue delay may bring trouble)), I plan to get to work on the Spring Festival.”
Gao Ling rubbed his fist. He followed Mu Xiulun for so many years, so he naturally knew how hard it was for him to walk step by step. Now, Mu Xiulun could finally inflict serious damage to the Mu family. As a friend and subordinate, he was naturally happy for him.
Gao Ling looked out of the window —— He saw the sun slowly setting on the horizon, and dark red scattered far away. Gao Ling suddenly felt proud and felt that the scenery outside the window symbolized the future of Mu Mingde’s family. They were approaching their grave!
He couldn’t express the pride in his chest, and chanted off the top of his head, “Ah! When the day gets cold, let the damned Mu’s enterprise go bankrupt!!!”
Mu Xiulun: “…”
Gao Ling looked at his boss, waiting for his praise.
Mu Xiulun knocked on the table: “…Let me remind you. My company is also surnamed Mu.”
……
Thousands of miles away, the Wilderness Winners crew was still filming at Ulungur Lake.
In view of the accident they suffered last time in Indonesia, the higher-ups gave instructions. The team revamped the script and slightly changed the format of the program, from a simple wilderness adventure, into a half-wilderness adventure, half landscape tourism form. These were interspersed with several scripted tasks, taking into account the fun and adventure.
The program group was expected to stay in the spot for three to four days to shoot the beautiful beauty of the Winter Fishing Festival. Zhou Jing was originally the ‘flying guest’ of this stop, but she offended the biggest name in the program group on the first day. Hence, she shouldn’t think of getting any shots in the next few days.
But she, after all, was the person sent in by the Deputy Director through the back door. The Chief Producer couldn’t directly see her off the premises, and could only beat around the bush to exclude her.
In a reality show, things such as giving guests a hard nut to crack had a really low difficulty factor to execute.
In particular, while the other casts were doing the show, they directly sent Zhou Jing away and called it Solo Mission. Follow PDs were assigned to her to take a couple of footage at random. Only two minutes of screen time were given to her to give her some face when post-editing, and in this way, Su Jin’s request to ‘let her stay away’ was fulfilled, and the leader in the station was left unoffended.
Poor Zhou Jing didn’t even realize that she had offended the wrong person, but really thought she was unlucky enough to draw a solo task. In front of the camera, she worked as hard as she could, hoping that after the show aired, she could rely on the reality show to draw in a wave of fans, pulling her precarious reputation and popularity.
Peek-Aboo 
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