Chapter 3: A Strange Secret
When I got off work, my colleague who had gossiped about me yesterday pulled me and asked me to go and have a drink with her. Today, Friday, there will definitely be a traffic jam on the way to work, staggered evening rush hour, and drinking to suppress the shock sounds pretty good, if you ignore the drunken nonsense I heard later. "You know what? I think I'll be the next to die. β
These are the words of a colleague when he started to get dazed after drinking. "Nonsense. Where's this? β
"I'm not talking nonsense, we're all going to die."
"I'll rub, God, what do you say, drink the circle, right?"
"No, I didn't drink much, I'm telling the truth. Soon it will be my turn, first Yona (Wu Youna's stage name), then Wu Lei, then me and Jiajia, and then ......" She fell asleep on the table.
"And then who?" I pushed her, but she didn't move, and it looked like she was really drunk.
After settling the bill, when I wanted to send her home, I found that I didn't know where her house was, and I wanted to call her family, but I couldn't unlock her lock screen password, no way, I could only take her back to my house, and the owner of the restaurant helped me lift her into a taxi.
Because I want to go to work more conveniently and more freely, I rented a small apartment of more than 30 square meters near the company, which is completely enough for me to live alone. I'm glad I had an elevator in the place I rented, otherwise I would have died carrying such a drunk person. The taxi driver kindly helped me put the girl on my doorstep, and I opened the door and dragged her into the apartment. It's not that I'm ruthless, my leg injury hasn't been completely healed, and I don't dare to bear weight. But it's just right to wait until she wakes up tomorrow and ask her what she means by what she said today.
At about 4 a.m. the next day, my colleague woke up and looked at me in a daze. I poured her a glass of water, "You were so drunk yesterday that I don't know where your house is, so I'll take you back to my house." β
She nodded in gratitude and prepared to get out of bed and leave.
"I think you're still having a hard time, or you might sleep with me a little longer."
"No, thank you yesterday." She stumbled as she got out of bed and nearly tripped herself.
I helped her to sit back on the bed, and she still looked very uncomfortable.
"You heard me yesterday, didn't you?" Her brow furrowed.
"Yes. You said you were dying. "I'm glad she opened the conversation, otherwise I wouldn't have thought about how to ask her.
"I can't escape." I thought she smiled wryly.
"Can't escape from what? What the hell is going on? You've been mysterious since yesterday. β
"Don't you think it's strange that the company suddenly signed a contract with Wu Lei? In the past two years, most of the ISCBS contracts are singers, and few actors are signed, and the actors are probably trained by themselves 6 years ago. An actor like Wu Lei, who has no acting skills, can't come up with any decent works, lacks hype topics, not to mention popularity, according to the company's positioning, will not sign a contract at all. β
"What's so strange that the company may feel the need for a broader audience, right?" Although I don't know Wu Lei very well, I think it's quite too much to say that a conscientious actor is so, so I couldn't help but interject.
"You're thinking too much, and after tasting the sweetness brought by Wu Youna's fame, the company has positioned itself in the group of people under 45 years old. Now what the company needs more is a group of fans who can go to the list for the people they like and spend money to buy the peripherals. It can also be said that in addition to the artists, the company is also squeezing the children who like these artists. So how could the company sign an unknown actor who can't bring any real benefits? When I first learned the news, the whole office exploded. By the way, you were hospitalized at the time, so I didn't know much about it. She took a sip and continued.
"It's not the most strange thing about signing a contract. What surprised everyone the most was that the media did not know that Wu Lei had signed a contract with ISCBS, or that it had not reported on it. If the news is released, it must be a very topical news, whether it is for the artist, the company or the media that broke the news first, it is a good marketing. But it went on quietly. β
"Maybe the company hasn't figured out how to develop him, so ......"
"Impossible." Before I could finish speaking, I was interrupted by a colleague, "Because when Wu Lei signed in, no, it was not so much a sign in, but a buy-in, because it was the liquidated damages that our company helped Wu Lei pay." But as far as I understand, it was quite pleasant to work with the previous brokerage company without tears. This is the most suspicious part of this signing. β
"You're not going to sue me that you went to investigate this, are you?"
"Hmm. Same as you think. I did check it, but a friend of mine in the media helped me check it. Can you pour me another glass of water? Help me add some sugar to the water. β
I went to pour water for her, and I listened to her continue, "But I didn't find any special news, the only thing that was more attractive was that Wu Lei had a relationship with Wu Youna 6 years ago." β
I handed her the sugar water, "6 years ago, wasn't it when Wu Youna first debuted?" As soon as he debuted, he dated a male artist, and he was so bold. If it is exposed, it will lose its powder. Suddenly, a flash flashed in my mind, "Wait a minute, did she break up with Wu Lei on the first anniversary of her debut?" β
"How do you know? Indeed, on the first anniversary, the two separated. This time, my colleague looked at me in amazement.
"Well, I was a fan of Yona Wu at that time, and I happened to be there at her fan meeting for her first anniversary, and I interacted with her. At that time, I felt that her love xΓΉ didn't seem to be very happy, and I always felt a little bit of gritting my teeth, looking at the way everyone wanted to bite. β
My colleague was amused by my words, and I wanted to say that she looked good when she smiled. At that time, it was the beginning and most difficult stage of Wu Youna's singing career, she was signed by the company from the underground band. At that time, she released an album, and her friends, who used to be underground singers together, felt that her singing pop songs was a betrayal of music, and basically cut off contact with her. Wu Lei seems to have hooked up with an actress who was filming with him at the time, and then dumped Wu Youna. Plus the response to the first album wasn't great. You know, female hip-hop singers, at that time the audience was very small, so there weren't many people who liked her. But I think it's very novel that you like her, and I can't imagine the way you look. "She drank all the sugar water in her hand, maybe drunk people don't feel anything when they drink things, for her sake, I won't argue with her why I can't like Wu Youna.
"Yona was really hard during that time."
"Isn't it? Later, before "Meteor" became popular, the company almost gave up on her, and at that time, I felt that she had been cultivated for 3 years, except for 2 albums, and there was no improvement, thinking that maybe it would be like that, so I wanted to hide her directly. As a result, who would have thought that because of the Leonid meteor shower that year, the radio solicited and played a lot of songs about "Meteor", which made Yona's "Meteor" popular. The lyrics at that time: I made a wish on a meteor, only this one wish, so many meteors who heard my heart, I believe that there will always be one that can crash into the ground with my wish. In that atmosphere, it seemed that many people's tears were really poked, and then Wu Youna's luck at that time began to improve. β
"No wonder when I saw her later, she was very happy. Wu Lei wanted to get back together with her later? β
"Not really."
"Huh? But you told me the day before yesterday that the two of them were dating! β
"Until yesterday morning, I always thought it was the revival of the old relationship between these two people. However, yesterday at noon, after the news of Wu Lei's death at home, I received this message from my friend. Help bring me my bag. My colleague took out his mobile phone from his bag and checked the news to me: compared with the distance, the DNA found on Wu Lei's wound seemed to be Wu Youna's, who died the day before. The police speculated that Wu Youna may have committed suicide after killing Wu Lei.
It's too bloody! But what does this have to do with what my colleague said yesterday that she was dying? "Then since the case is closed, it should be fine, why did you say you were going to die yesterday?" I'm still curious about what kind of madness my colleague smoked last night.
"If it's just this one piece of news, I certainly wouldn't have a problem. But before I got off work, I received another message. She pulled out another message, from an unfamiliar number: Don't feel relieved, you'll both get the punishment you deserve. When I flipped to this text message, my colleague's hands were shaking all the time, threatening the text message.
After reading the message, we both stopped talking, and I didn't know how to comfort her, after all, this is the first time I've experienced this kind of thing that only happens in novels. Fortunately, my colleague broke the embarrassment first: "Not only I received it, but also a few people in our company, or several people who were in charge of the preparation of Wu Youna's new album recently." "Well, I couldn't answer again, so I could only reassure her that it might be a prank text from a few radical fans. But my colleague kept shaking his head, but he didn't say anything more. I had to help her lie down again, I heard so much information this morning, and now my brain is like a mush, and I have a headache.
When I woke up again, I found that my colleague had left and left a note saying thank you for taking care of me yesterday. I texted the ego doctor: "Woo, my head hurts! Soon, he sent a reply: Come over to drink fish soup at noon today, and send the address of his dormitory by the way. Wow, someone is in charge of the meal at noon, so happy.
At noon, I drank delicious fish soup in the doctor's bachelor apartment, and by the way, I told the doctor the news that my colleague had told me in the morning while I was busy washing the dishes, and the doctor just listened silently by himself. As I finished brushing the last bowl, the doctor suddenly said, "Tell your colleague to call the police." Something will definitely happen if you spend so much. "I called my colleague, but no one answered, so I had to send her WeChat to ask him to call the police, and after thinking about it, I was afraid that she wouldn't receive it, so I sent her an identical text message.
"Your colleague definitely knows more than just the little thing you heard, or rather, a large part of what she sues is lying."
"Why did she lie to me, it's no good."
"Because you're a fool." I glared at him, and he looked at me and continued, "She has a secret that she would rather die herself than let you know. And the key to uncovering the secret is to find out what happened in the two years from Wu Youna's breakup to becoming famous. I believe that making a person famous is not as simple as a song, you can check the news of the TV drama crew that Wu Lei participated in during that time, whether there is any change of actors halfway, if there is no news, you can take a look at the personnel changes in the boot press conference and the premiere press conference, even if you are not an actor, the staff, the drama affairs, these must be checked, the more detailed the better. β
"Then lend me a computer." I was already sitting on his laptop when I said this, but it was still time-consuming to investigate such detailed information. I had to contact a friend who works at a publishing company first, "Hey, is that Su Min?" Can you email me a copy of Wu Lei's TV works and film works, it's better to be detailed, well, it's better to have a complete list of staff...... It's not a joke, isn't this Wu Lei our company's signed artist, this time there is such a big event, the company may want to invite a few more people related to him to attend the funeral, so I will prepare the personnel list here soon...... Hey, isn't it too busy lately, isn't there enough manpower, so I'll catch the duck on the shelf, okay, don't say it, don't forget to help me send it, thank you! "Less than 1 hour after hanging up the phone, Su Min had already sent me the sorted information.
I found out in chronological order that Wu Youna debuted about a year ago, that is, 5 years ago, she participated in the TV series filmed without tears. The conceited doctor's guess was very correct, the TV series "Twilight Mist Flower" in which Wu Lei participated did have personnel changes at that time, so the TV series that could have been filmed in only 4 months was finally delayed for nearly a year. And the later release time was delayed to 2 years later. Wait a minute, isn't the release time of the TV series just when Oh Youna's album began to become popular? I had a vague feeling that something was wrong.
"Have you found out who you replaced?" When did the conceited doctor come up behind me and suddenly ask me and startled me.
"Well, it was the girl who played the heroine in it who was replaced in the middle of filming. Wait a minute, the production company has also changed. Change, change is our company's ......" The production company of the press conference at the time of release has already been replaced by Wishda Media (Wu Lei's previous economic company) at the time of the start-up of production, no, and then there was a change during the filming process, but this time the change is even more strange, Wu Lei changed from the fourth male to the second male in this play, and the newcomer replaced Wu Lei's original role. In other words, this TV series has undergone two remakes, but I remember that when this drama was released, there was no media questioning about the substitution.
"It's this secret that your colleagues want to hide, and now we have a clue, now let's check if there is any special news about the two actors who were replaced in those two years. For example, announcing retirement or injury or something. Especially the little girl who was the first to be replaced, look at her and there was no news about her later. The actress who was replaced at that time was called Jiang Yuexin, a student at the film school. There was no news after he was replaced, and it should be said that there was no news about him. The only thing I could find out was some student information released by the film school, as well as some of the awards she received during her time at school. The news of her participation in "Twilight Flower" could not be found on the Internet, and if it weren't for the email sent by Su Min before, no one would know that he had set foot in this circle. However, after graduation, she didn't seem to be engaged in the acting industry, so she disappeared.
On the other hand, Liu Xiao, the second male at that time, seemed to have disappeared after filming that film, and it was rumored that he was retiring, as if he had posted a message on his **, saying that he was going to study abroad. Because he is not a very famous actor, this ** is like a dead leaf that gently falls on the water, and it does not cause any ripples. The trail was broken, and I still didn't know what the secret they were trying to hide was.