Nicky Thompson was surprised by Xiao Yao's change of attitude at this time. Not only the content of the question he asked, but also the expression and tone of his voice at this time. If you want to talk about coercion, Xiao Yao refused to tell her the identity of the female companion who ate at the same table before, but she took out her mobile phone and said that after taking a video of the two, Xiao Yao changed her attitude and told her. Isn't it called coercion for you to answer questions, but for you to be my guitarist?

"Haven't I been trying to blackmail you?" Nicky Thompson was slightly stunned, and suddenly looked at Xiao Yao with some amusement.

"Oh, by the way, you've been blackmailing me!" Xiao Yao nodded suddenly, then shook his head again, "Regarding being your guitarist, I refuse!"

"What?" said Nicky Thompson.

"I said I refused to be your guitarist!" Xiao Yao repeated.

Nicky Thompson couldn't think of what to blackmail Xiao Yao for a while, and it was only in a flash of inspiration that he remembered to ask Xiao Yao to accompany her stage performance. This improvised idea was not a very good idea for Nicky Thompson, who wanted to take revenge on Xiao Yao.

The Billboard Awards Ceremony is a major event in the entertainment industry in the United States and even the world, and the opportunity to show your face on stage is very rare. Xiao Yao is a celebrity and well-known in the United States, but these are just the basis for Nicky Thompson to be confident that the organizers will agree to take Xiao Yao on stage to perform. After all, Xiao Yao is a star from China, and there are not many activities in the United States, and the award ceremony of this level in the United States is not something that Xiao Yao can go to if he wants to.

On the surface, Nicky Thompson asked Xiao Yao to be an accompanist to serve her, and it can be regarded as Nicky Thompson coercing Xiao Yao to do things for him, but in fact, Xiao Yao's appearance on stage at this kind of award ceremony is also very beneficial to him.

Nicky Thompson understands this, of course, but she doesn't really care. All she wants is Xiao Yao to be soft in front of her and be able to breathe. If Xiao Yao agreed, not only would she not embarrass him, deliberately make him look ugly, but even planned to arrange for Xiao Yao, a guitarist, to stand next to her during the performance, interact with him when singing, and possibly let him perform a solo solo performance. After all, Xiao Yao is the only guest performer who has performed guitar on the Eva Show so far, and she and her team will not let go of this kind of resource in vain.

It's just that what Nikki Thompson never expected was that Xiao Yao rejected her so simply and resolutely.

"Didn't he want to be blackmailed?" thought Nicky Thompson, "but his performance before him was clearly not like this!"

"Why?" asked Nicky Thompson, "as far as I know, you have been an accompanist for more than one celebrity in China, and even an Internet singer whose status is far less famous than yours. Do you think I'm going to make a fool of you on stage? That's a billboard ceremony, or do you think it's more difficult for you to go to a billboard ceremony and be an accompanist for me than to tell me about your relationship with that girl?"

"Yes!" Xiao Yao nodded.

"What is it?" said Nicky Thompson.

"It's really more embarrassing for me to go to the billboard awards ceremony and be a musician for you than to tell you about my relationship with Paula!" Xiao Yao said.

"Huh?" said Nicky Thompson, wondering, "why? because of schedules?"

"It's not!" Xiao Yao shook his head and said, "I'm on vacation now, and the vacation should be about a month, in terms of time and itinerary, there is no problem in participating in the award ceremony that will be held here in half a month." ”

"Is that because?" asked Nicky Thompson.

"Because of the band!" Xiao Yao said.

"The Immortals?" Nicky Thompson didn't understand, "You just said you're out of the band. Also, whether you quit the band or not, what does that have to do with Immortals?"

"The band is now touring the eastern city. Xiao Yao said, "If I hadn't quit the band, I might have toured with them in the east at this time." They don't have any ideas about which celebrity I work with in China and what I do for which celebrity, but in the United States, I can't guarantee it. If I show up as your guitarist at an important awards show like Billboard, will they think that I quit the band because they dislike them and want to find a more popular partner in the United States? I can't guarantee that they won't think so, but I can not give them a chance to think so!"

"Heh," Nicky Thompson laughed, "you're out of the band, and you care so much about what they think?"

"We are still very good friends. Xiao Yao said.

"Then you're not afraid I'll release the video of you and that girl?" said Nicky Thompson.

"Heh," Xiao Yao smiled this time, "You're using a video to blackmail me because I made you think you can use a video to blackmail me!"

"What do you mean?" asked Nicky Thompson, frowning.

"It's just a video of me eating together with a girl in a public place like a hotel restaurant," Xiao Yao laughed, "I don't know how long you recorded it, but even if you started recording it from the moment we entered the door, and recorded the whole thing, the truth is that I didn't even have physical contact with her during the meal." How much of a threat do you think this kind of video can be to me?"

"Although there is no physical contact, you are dining alone with a beautiful woman other than your girlfriend after all. Nicky Thompson said, "This kind of thing is in the hands of gossip reporters, and it can get you something wrong if it's fine!"

"Yes, for ordinary celebrities, this kind of video is enough for the gossip media to make them make a scandal report," Xiao Yao nodded, "However, there is no value in the American media reporting my scandal, and in Huaxia~ You don't know how difficult it is for the gossip media in Huaxia to make the public and my fans believe my scandal." ”

"How hard is it?" said Nicky Thompson.

"I have participated in the recording of Eva's swimsuit special, been a guest performer on the Eva show, helped the angels shoot documentaries, I am a shareholder of a model company in Huaxia, I know a lot of Chinese models, I have cooperated with a lot of female stars in Huaxia," Xiao Yao said, "To put it simply, I know a lot of beauties, and there is no shortage of famous celebrity beauties." My contact with them was much more intimate than my contact with Paula today, but there were no scandals. Just because I was having dinner with Paula and I said I was splitting my legs, my girlfriend wouldn't believe it, and few of my fans and the general public would believe it. ”

"Does a scandal need to be believed?" snorted Nicky Thompson.

"It's really not, but the media needs to be hot about the news. Xiao Yao said, "My fans are also quite special, this kind of news is fake at first glance, my fans are too lazy to attack the rumor-mongering media, and the media that report the news is even less likely to be attacked by my fans and cause hot spots." The Huaxia media are very interested in my news, but unless there is some solid evidence, the Huaxia gossip media has little interest in fabricating my scandal. ”

"Why were you so nervous when there was no threat?" Nicky Thompson wondered.

"For fun!" Xiao Yao smiled, "I said that you are using a video to blackmail me because I made you think that you can use a video to blackmail me! If I don't care about the video in your hand, will you still use the video to blackmail me?"

"What?" said Nicky Thompson.

"Paula's identity, why did you lend her chips, guess what your job here is, those could have been told to you. I wanted to keep playing and see what else you could ask me to do, but I didn't want to be left to my word. Xiao Yao spread his hands and said, "I won't go to the stage of the Billboard Awards Ceremony to do guitar accompaniment to your performance, and I won't pretend to promise you, so I can only end this game!"

"So, you've been lying to me all along?" said Nicky Thompson angrily.

"I'm telling you the truth, and I do want you to delete the video on your phone, but I've never admitted that the video threatens me, it's just that you think so. So, strictly speaking, I'm not lying to you, it's just that you misunderstood. Xiao Yao said, "However, I think you definitely don't think so now, thinking I'm quibbling." Really?"

"Aren't you quibbling?" said Nicky Thompson.

"Okay," Xiao Yao spread his hands again and said with a smile, "Even if I'm quibbling, even if I'm lying to you, what are you going to do? Sue me? Let me apologize to you?"

"You!" Nicky Thompson stared at Xiao Yao angrily, only to find that he really couldn't do anything.

Nicky Thompson subconsciously looked at the coffee in front of him.

"I advise you to calm down!" Xiao Yao noticed that Nicky Thompson's gaze was down, and reminded with a smile, "It's not a good choice to splash me with the coffee in front of you!"

"What?" Nicky Thompson was startled, then deliberately put his hand on the handle of the coffee cup and said viciously, "Ha, are you scared?"

"I'm really good for you!" Xiao Yao smiled, "First of all, I'm on guard and will hide, you may not be able to splash me." Secondly, I don't hit women, but I will call the police. There was surveillance in the restaurant, and waiters and other guests were witnesses. The police are coming, and you can't take advantage. Thirdly, this is a public place, we are all public figures, and if something gets bigger, the media will definitely know about it. Although I am from China and am not as famous as you in the United States, I am a hero a few years ago, and my image is better than yours, and the media and the public are not necessarily on your side. I didn't do it, you did, the media reported it, and you were the one who suffered!"

"You~" Nicky Thompson found that Xiao Yao's analysis was very reasonable, and weakly put his hand off the coffee cup, so depressed that he wanted to cry.

"Hey, don't do this!" Xiao Yao smiled, "I didn't do anything, don't act like I hurt you!"

"What did you say, what did you not do?" Nicky Thompson heard Xiao Yao say this, and looked up at Xiao Yao sharply.

"Isn't it?" Xiao Yao said, "Have you lost anything?"

"Yes, I have nothing to lose!" Nicky Thompson gritted his teeth and stood up, pointing at Xiao Yao, "Wait and see, I'm not done with you!" With that, Nicky Thompson left the table and strode towards the door of the restaurant.

"Hey, you haven't paid for your coffee yet!" Xiao Yao shouted behind Nicky Thompson, "Do you want me to pay your bills for you?"

Nicky Thompson stopped a little frantically, resisted the urge to go back and beat Xiao Yao, took out a hundred-dollar bill from his bag, stuffed it to a waiter standing nearby, and pointed behind him casually, "My coffee money, don't look for it!"

"Your boyfriend really split his legs?" The waiter who took the money glanced at Xiao Yao and whispered, "Are you so arrogant when you are caught? Men are really bastards!"

"Huh?" Nicky Thompson glanced at the waiter a little strangely, and found that the waiter who took the money was the same waitress who had served her food before and found that she was secretly photographing.

Looking at the appearance of this waitress, it seems that she doesn't think that she is helping her girlfriend catch rape as she said before, but that her boyfriend cheated and caught rape herself.

Did you look like you were caught and dumped after you were successfully caught?

Nicky Thompson was even more frantic and said to the waitress, "He's not my boyfriend!"

"He didn't split his legs either!" Seeing that the waitress looked incredulous, Nicky Thompson added again, and then walked away quickly.

After leaving the restaurant, Nicky Thompson's mood calmed down a little and calmed down a little.

This restaurant is located on the fourth floor of the hotel. Nicky Thompson originally wanted to go back to his room, but after entering the elevator, he suddenly changed his mind and pressed the button on the first floor.

When the elevator reached the first floor, Nicky Thompson stepped out of the elevator and walked straight to the hotel's service desk.

"Hello, I would like to ask if there is a guest in your hotel named YaoXiao or YoungShaw, can you tell me which room he is staying in?" Nicky Thompson asked one of the receptionists at the front desk.

"I'm sorry, ma'am," the receptionist shook her head, "the hotel's guest information is confidential and we can't disclose it to outsiders. ”

Nicky Thompson thought for a while, took out his mobile phone to operate, and then lit up the mobile phone screen to the receptionist: "Look, I have a photo of him, he is my boyfriend, a Chinese man, his Chinese name is YaoXiao, English name YoungShaw, you can check his information first." He was not able to answer my phone right now and asked me to wait for him at the hotel, but he forgot to tell me the name of the hotel. You can check, just tell me if he is staying in this hotel, you don't have to tell me if he is staying in this hotel, let me know if I should wait for him here, is that okay?"

The receptionist looked at Nicky Thompson's phone and saw a picture of a young Chinese man. I checked it in the system and found that there was indeed a Chinese named YaoXiao who checked in to the hotel with his passport.

"Yes, he does live here!" replied the receptionist, seeing that he didn't need to report the room number, and felt that it didn't matter, so he nodded to Nicky Thompson.