Speaking of Luo Zesheng, Liu Rulan had a lot to say.
"You stay away from that person from now on, the farther the better."
Liu Rulan warned Xiao He seriously.
Xiao He was a bit confused, not expecting Liu Rulan's reaction to be even stronger than Bao Xin's.
"How so?"
He asked somewhat curiously.
Liu Rulan glanced at Xiao He, her gaze carrying some complexity, but she still said, "This Luo Zesheng, he has no scruples about men or women. Shu Han was targeted by him before, so things got a little unpleasant between everyone."
"Oh, ah, huh?"
Xiao He nearly tripped on flat ground.
"Fancied who?"
Xiao He's eyes widened like copper bells, staring straight at Liu Rulan.
Was it definitely Shu Han, not Tong Junhui, nor Su Shengxi?
Liu Rulan gave a light cough and instructed, "You absolutely must not tell anyone about this."
The corners of Xiao He's mouth and eyes were twitching madly.
For goodness' sake, who on earth would this be appropriate to tell?
And Brother Shu?
Thinking of the tough guy image Brother Shu deliberately marketed when he debuted early in his career, and that physique packed with muscles, Xiao He felt goosebumps all over and shuddered as he rubbed his arms.
"Has Luo Zesheng gone crazy?"
Liu Rulan was satisfied seeing Xiao He's expression. She gave a light cough and explained, "Fortunately, your Brother Shu is also a tough character. He immediately turned around and beat him up, knocking out three of his front teeth. After that, he didn't dare have any more sneaky thoughts."
Xiao He: "... I never imagined Brother Shu was such a passionate soul back in the day."
Turning around and throwing a punch, without the slightest hesitation, huh.
But putting himself in that position, Xiao He felt beating the other person up would be considered light. If it were him, he might have already turned around and pounded the person to death.
Liu Rulan gave a helpless smile: "It caused quite a commotion at the time. Luckily, Shu Han's career took off afterwards. That guy is a bully who picks on the weak and fears the strong, so he never dared do anything again."
Even so, that guy gave Liu Rulan quite a bit of trouble when he was at Jiaxing.
Xiao He noted this matter: "Then let's make him get lost."
He didn't come to the production team to swallow insults.
"Let's wait and see first." However, Liu Rulan shook her head, still retaining some rationality. "This production team can't afford any more disruptions."
It's a big production team and a major project to begin with. The longer it drags on, the greater the costs for the team. If they keep changing key members of the crew, it will inevitably affect the entire production, and who knows what might happen later.
Xiao He thought about it and agreed, so he didn't say anything more.
"Forget it, don't worry about it for now, just focus on playing your role well." Liu Rulan patted Xiao He's shoulder. "I'm going to find Bao Xin and the others to chat, see you later."
"Alright."
Xiao He didn't dawdle either. The first thing after entering the production team was still to seriously complete his own work.
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Since he had just joined the production team, the scenes being filmed weren't particularly difficult. It was mainly filming the scene where the female lead, after her first loop, sees the senior brother she secretly admires again.
The highlight of this scene lies with the female lead, that is, Yu Xuezheng, while Xiao He just needed to be a prop, so the overall filming progress was very smooth.
After finishing the scenes on this side, Producer Luo was no longer on set. However, both Jiang Chifei and Le Yuanbai invited Xiao He to go out for a meal, as a simple welcome ceremony and also as a gesture of goodwill towards him.
Xiao He didn't want to stay in this production team any longer, so he directly declined the dinner invitations from these two.
After bidding farewell to the others in the crew, Xiao He returned directly to the hotel.
Unfortunately, the person he hadn't seen at the production team, he actually ran into at the hotel now—
Xiao He saw Luo Zesheng from afar talking with the hotel's front desk manager. Standing next to them was actually a woman wearing a hat and mask, completely covered up from head to toe.
Xiao He narrowed his eyes and still recognized the other person's identity.
It was actually that female staff member who helped Yu Xuezheng adjust the wire work, causing the on-site "accident"!
If Xiao He remembered correctly, that person should have already been fired by the production team!
Having such a stain on her professional record, such a person definitely wouldn't be able to stay in the entertainment industry in the future. Otherwise, Yu Xuezheng would surely intervene as well.
But... Xiao He completely didn't expect that these two actually knew each other!
Back then, Luo Zesheng was still disgusted that the staff member was crying and sniveling, but in the end, that was also an act!
Muddling through from start to finish, making Yu Xuezheng swallow her anger—the truth was actually helping this employee out of trouble.
Xiao He smiled sarcastically.
Really didn't expect that, the acting skills of these two had everyone on set fooled.
If Yu Xuezheng knew the truth, she'd probably spit blood again.
It's just strange. Wasn't the person who arranged that accident Yu Xuezheng's agent? Why was Luo Zesheng inexplicably involved?
And this Luo Zesheng seems to have a good relationship with this hotel's manager...
A jumbled mess of doubts flashed through Xiao He's mind, but he didn't delve into them. He directly turned and walked towards the elevator, returning to his hotel room.
In the evening, Xiao He, as usual, reviewed the script lines he needed to film tomorrow and then prepared to rest in bed.
Just before sleeping, he thought of Luo Zesheng's matter again. After turning it over in his mind, he still sent an anonymous email to the undercover reporter Zhou Junhao.
Anyway, Zhou Junhao now knew who was sending them, so Xiao He wasn't worried the other would miss this email.
Sure enough, not long after the email was sent, it showed as "Read" on the other side.
Xiao He breathed a sigh of relief, stopped worrying about this matter, and went straight to sleep.
He slept until the early hours of the morning.
...
"Knock knock—"
In his groggy state, Xiao He seemed to hear knocking on the door next door.
"Hello, please open the door."
"Knock knock—"
"Hello—"
Xiao He turned over irritably, wanting to pull the covers directly over his head, but then found the knocking sound quickly spread to his door.
"Knock knock—"
"mr Xiao, are you asleep? There's a situation here we need to verify with you, please open the door—"
"Knock knock— mr Xiao? Are you there?"
Xiao He opened his eyes, fury shooting from them.
Accompanied by the noisy sounds outside the door, he first lay motionless, staring straight at the wall in front of him, before finally scratching his hair with great impatience.
"Coming, coming, who is it! Really annoying!"
Xiao He rolled over, picked up his phone from the bedside table, and saw it was just past midnight. His anger instantly surged even higher.
Thinking something might have happened outside, Xiao He could only suppress his anger, get up, randomly found a jacket to put on, and opened the door.
When he saw several unfamiliar police officers standing outside, Xiao He's sleepiness vanished instantly, and his head cleared up at once.
"Hello, sorry to disturb you."
The unfamiliar police officer looked Xiao He up and down. His gaze paused imperceptibly when it met Xiao He's eyes, then his line of sight passed over Xiao He's shoulder, meticulously examining the situation inside the room. His expression then turned serious as he asked, "May I ask, are you the only person in the room right now?"
Xiao He blinked, realizing his grumpiness from just waking up had triggered his criminal aura, once again making the unfamiliar officer in front of him sense something was off. He immediately used the action of yawning to rub his face, making his eyes less sharp and his expression softer: "Yes, just me. Do you need to check?"
"Alright, please show us your ID card first."
"Please wait a moment."
Xiao He nodded, turned and walked into the room, then came back out and handed over his ID card.
Only then did Xiao He notice that it wasn't just him; police officers were also standing at the doors of several rooms nearby, similarly checking the guests' documents.