Chapter 111

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With the death of Lu Han Dong and the arrest of Wu Jun Yun, Teng Hing had to find a new employer. Originally, Teng Xing was the largest film company, including martial arts and actors under the banner of more than thousands of people, all of them had to find a new home. Nowadays, the movie industry is one of the hottest industries in Hong Kong, and it is in full swing, with movie companies springing up every year, and the competition is very fierce. Many companies seize the opportunity to snatch people at low prices.

Only Wen Nan did not move at all, focusing on the preparation of the new movie, only a month later, set up Hong Kong's first professional agency, the implementation of the star agency model. Once upon a time, stars only sign film contracts, business and packaging and publicity are their own work, big stars can ask specialists to take care of it, and it is still good to say that some of the actors and actresses who do not have a big reputation are all family workshop type, very irregular.

Brokerage firms are completely new to the acting world, but after Li Xing Chen, who issued a statement severing his relationship with his cousin, and Su Zhi Zhi both signed under their banner, many celebrities have reached out towards Wen Nan.

Qiao Wen and Chen Canaan carefully selected a dozen or so to include under their banner.

Two new movies started, coupled with the rapid expansion of the company's business, the two are busy. Qiao Wen in charge of the company's business, Chen Canaan is responsible for the filming and production of the movie, the division of labor, often a few days in a row, can not see what face, the two this dating is completely shot lonely.

Fortunately, busy down, the harvest is quite fruitful, although Wen Nan Film has only released the first film "brave world", but the brokerage company operation, two months down, for the signing of a dozen actors, received a few million business contracts, even without shooting, the company and the actors are making a lot of money, both sides are very satisfied.

Wen Nan Film is considered to have completely established itself in the movie industry.

At the end of the year, two movies were released at the same time, one was the second installment of "The Bravehearts" and the other one, "Chaos in the City", was a gangster-plus-commercial-war theme set in Hong Kong. Although the two movies were based on different themes, they were both box office hits. In particular, "Chaos in the City" is about the collusion of gangsters, police and tycoons, drug trafficking and money laundering, manipulation of the stock and property markets, and even the Legislative Council and Parliament. Because the subject matter was bold and realistic, it was simply a hit with millions of people for a while.

This script is still written by Guan Zhenbao, the material is all provided by Zhang big reporter, he as an investigative ability is comparable to the CIA agent of the paparazzi, these two years collected a lot of black and white and luxury circle of the secret of the truth, but also enough to put together a movie of the information.

This kind of subject matter previously not popular, because the black and white family, there is nothing to shoot, now the Independent Commission Against Corruption was established, the Kowloon Walled City was swept, Luk Hon-dong downfall, the fall of Inspector Hung fled to Taiwan, this is a ready-made good subject matter.

There are prototypes of gangster cops in the movie, except for a mysterious tycoon, who will only be the behind-the-scenes manipulator from the beginning until the end of the movie, and has not shown up to the net.

The original intent of the movie was just to leave it in suspense, and if it was well received, a second installment could be made . At first, the audience thought so too. It was only when it was being hotly anticipated that a lace tabloid report - "Exclusive Reveal

Guan Zhenbao simply do not know what five masters, write the script, this Mr. Z is just a fictional character, there is no archetype, for the next one, although Qiao Wen knew that Hong Kong City has a mysterious five masters only hand, but also completely did not connect the film's Mr. Z and five masters.

Although this report was only a gimmick in the headline, and the real identity of the fifth master never surfaced from beginning to end, the mysterious name of the fifth master was known to everyone. In the next few days, the most common headline in all the tabloids was "Who in the World is the Fifth Master".

When Qiao Wen realized that it was bad, the public opinion was beyond control, even going to a teahouse for a meal, one could hear people discussing who the fifth master really was. Several of the top wealthy businessmen in Hong Kong city, from Lin Zi Hui's father Lin Zhaoming to Ninth Uncle Zhou Chaozheng, have all become suspects.

Qiao Wen didn't know who the Fifth Master was, and wasn't even at all sure if it was a rich merchant, but knew that with this mess, they, Wen Nan, had not only offended a few rich merchants who had been pushed into the limelight, but they had also offended the real Fifth Master.

He was resting in the villa on this day when he suddenly received a call from Lin Zhaoming.

"Ah Man, the water in Hong Kong City is very deep, you guys are just starting out, you need to pay more attention, in case you offend someone you can't offend, you'll be in trouble."

Hearing this, Qiao Wen's first thought - could it be that Lin Zhaoming is the Fifth Master? But no, in the original story, Lin Zhaoming hiccuped as soon as he came out, how could he be this mysterious character.

He tried, "Boss Lin, are you talking about Master Five?"

Lin Zhaoming lost his smile, "You don't need to inquire from me, I also don't really know who the Fifth Master is, I only know that it's a character who can turn his hand to the clouds and his hand to the rain. This movie of yours, now that it's in such a mess, I'm afraid you've already offended someone, so don't hurry and find a chance to make up for it."

Qiao Wen smiled bitterly, "We really didn't insinuate anything, and somehow this lace report popped up and fermented so much. Thank you Boss Lin for reminding me, I'll take care of it."

Lin Zhaoming laughed: "Ah Wen, since ancient times, heroes come out of the youth, you and Ah Nan are the rising stars of Hong Kong City, the speed of the emergence, unheard of in these years. The speed of your emergence has never been seen before in these years. Do you understand that a big tree attracts the wind? This city is disjointed behind the scenes, you guys must act cautiously, or you won't know when you'll become pawns for others to manipulate."

Qiao Wen said, "Thank you, Boss Lin."

"Okay, I'm calling to remind you because you and Nan are Zi Hui's friends, and I hope all of you kids are doing well. I also hope that if Zi Hui encounters any difficulties in the future, you guys can help him out."

"Don't worry, it will be."

Hanging up the phone, he called for Chen Canaan who was practicing boxing on the balcony.

"What's wrong?"

Qiaowen said, "Gangzihui Abba called and warned us to be careful."

Chen Canaan: "The fifth master's matter?"

Qiao Wen nodded, "Imagine if you were originally mysterious for many years, even the bigwigs of the gangs that worked for you only knew your name and didn't know your identity. But suddenly one day, because of a movie, you were known all over the city, and although you didn't know exactly who you were, everyone was speculating and discussing. Would you be worried about anger?"

Chen Canaan pondered for a moment and said, "Indeed it will. This Fifth Master doesn't know who he really is, and seeing as he's so capable, if he really takes it out on us, and he's in the dark and we're in the light, won't we be in danger?"

Qiao Wen said: ''He is involved in arms and the Vietnamese military have cooperation, involved in drugs and Southeast Asian drug king has a very shallow relationship, Lu Han Dong so arrogant people, but also his white gloves. As for Inspector Hong, it is estimated that he is also a head shorter than him. And for so many years, his identity has not been exposed, so you can imagine how powerful he is. If we really mess with him, we might have a hard time dealing with him."

Chen Canaan was open-minded, not thinking, "Whatever, we didn't do it on purpose, the big deal is to issue a statement."

Qiaowen shook his head, "Sending it out at a time like this would be a bit of a cover-up, so we can only have Zhenbao dramatize Mr. Z's identity first to make it seem like this identity has nothing to do with Master Five."

Chen Canaan nodded, "That's a solution, or Xiao Qiao you're smart."

As soon as the words were out of his mouth, the phone rang again, and Jovian reached out and picked it up.

"Mr. Jovan is it?" A strange, polite male voice was on the other end of the line.

"That's right, who are you?"

"I'm Master Five's messenger."

Qiaowen's pupils shrank, "Fifth Master?"

"Exactly."

Qiao Wen hurriedly said, "That's just right, please tell Master Five that the Mr. Z in our movie, there's absolutely no mapping of him, turn around and the screenwriter will dramatize the persona ahead of time, and will let the audience know that there's no relationship with Master Five."

The man said, "Mr. Qiao, now that Master Five's name is known throughout the city, do you think it's still useful to mend things?"

Jovian said, "But this is really a misunderstanding, we are in no way insinuating."

"Mr. Qiao, I'm not going to beat around the bush with you, the several amounts in your movie must have come from Lu Han Dong's account book, right? You made the movie just to show it to the Fifth Master, right? The Fifth Master has already seen it. If you want anything, you can just ask. The Fifth Master thinks highly of you, and as long as you're willing, he can support you and give you all the big business in the future. If you guys have any other plans, Master Five advises you to get rid of the idea before it's too late, or you'll be the next Lu Han Dong."

The other party's string of words came down, causing Qiao Wen, whose brain had always spun fast, to be confused, and he subconsciously said, "Lu Handong?"

"Yes, Lu Handong was too ambitious and wanted to find out Master Five's true identity, so he was treated as an outcast by Master Five. The reason why Lu Handong died was not because of a grudge against you guys, but because Master Five wanted him to die and lent you a hand."

Qiao Wen broke out into a cold sweat, suddenly thinking that just now Lin Zhaoming's phrase "manipulated pawns", it turned out that they had already become someone else's pawns. He took a deep breath to calm himself down and asked, "What did you just say about the account book?"

"Lu Handong's account book, after his death has been unaccounted for, the fifth master's side has been looking for it, since it is determined that it is in your hands, you are nothing more than wanting to use it as a bargaining chip, what do you want to talk about can be talked about now."

Qiao Wen said, "Sir, please tell Master Fifth that we have absolutely no idea about what account book he's talking about, much less that it's in our hands, and that you're looking for the wrong person."

The other man laughed softly, "You're not going to say it's a coincidence that several of the amounts in the movie are exactly the same as they are in the ledger, are you?"

Jovian was silent for a moment and said, "...... What if I said it was indeed a coincidence?"

"Mr. Qiao, I'm just a messenger, so I won't talk too much nonsense, since Master 5 took the initiative to contact you, he's giving you a chance, so think about it, and I'll call you back."

With that, he hung up.

Qiao Wen heard the beeping sound coming from the opposite side, thought for a moment, and hurriedly dialed Guan Zhenbao's phone, "Zhenbao, let me ask you something."

Guan Zhenbao: "What is it, Arwen?"

Qiao Wen said, "The various amounts of money in the script of Chaos City, did you make them up yourself or did you refer to the information given to you by Zhang Jia Ming?"

Guan Zhenbao: "It's not like I have any concept of money, I took it straight from the profile."

"Okay, I got it."

Qiao Wen hurriedly dialed Zhang Jiaming's phone again, and he was lucky that this big reporter who had a lot of work to do on a daily basis was rarely at home at this time.

"Good evening, big reporter Zhang."

"Vin? Something wrong?"

"It's a bit of a thing, where did those numerical amounts come from in the information you gave Zenbo earlier for the script of 'Chaos City'?"

Reporter Zhang said, "Oh, this ah, it's a few points of anonymous revelations that the newspaper received earlier, and I gave them all directly to Zhenbao."

"Okay, I got it."

"What's the problem?"

"It's okay, you're busy."

Qiaowen hung up the phone, a pair of handsome brows knitted deeply.

"Xiao Qiao, what's going on?" Chen Canaan had just pricked up his ears and listened to the several phone calls, and although he was in a fog, he knew that things were getting complicated.

Qiao Wen raised his head to meet his eyes and said word for word, "Brother Nan, someone has taken Lu Handong's account book, making Master Five misunderstand that we have it, and is likely trying to use Master Five to screw us."

"Avenge Lu Handong?"

Qiaowen shook his head, "I don't know, but we have to find a way to either find the ledger or find out who Master Five is."