Xia Cici never imagined that she would one day find herself in such a dilemma.

Really, it's a dilemma.

The night breeze kept blowing, raising her long hair, and the strands of it were stuck to her face with tears, making it more and more difficult for her to see.

She couldn't see Lu Lan in front of her clearly, the light behind her couldn't see the whole world.

She didn't understand why she was doing this.

When she first stepped into the entertainment industry, she knew that there were many unspoken rules in the entertainment industry.

Those dirty, unseemly unspoken rules have always been ashamed of her, and they are the last thing she wants to see.

Why has she always been so arrogant, because she has arrogant capital.

She is a clear stream in this dirty quagmire, no matter when and where, she has never succumbed, she has always adhered to her heart and done her business cleanly.

She is worthy of herself, so she is proud.

has been in the entertainment industry for many years, and the rules that have not been broken by her are going to be broken now?

Impossible, absolutely impossible.

This was her last insistence.

Over the years, she knew that she would be struggling because of these, and she would take many detours, she admitted them, and she endured them step by step.

The longer I endure it, the more I don't want to give up.

Those people, staring at her with lustful expressions, made her sick.

"But Cici, it's not the point where you can choose now." Lu Lan took a deep breath, and her every word was like a sharp wheat, piercing Xia Cici's heart to a thousand holes.

"In the past, if you don't do this, you will just be a little harder, you will just be slower, but now, your retreat has been completely blocked, if you refuse, you can only withdraw from this circle."

"Then I'll quit this circle!" Xia Cici raised her cheeks and looked resolute, "I'm still so young, I have hands and feet, I can do something else!" ”

"Really?" Lu Lan asked rhetorically, hooking his lips, not sarcastic, but a somewhat bitter smile, "Cici, you are in the most complicated entertainment industry, you don't know what the current situation of this society is." After quitting this circle, what kind of job did you find to make a living? Do you think your current food, clothing, housing and transportation are affordable for ordinary people? Or do you feel like you can lower your quality of life? But it's easy to go from thrift to luxury, and it's hard to go from luxury to frugality, don't you know? ”

This remark made Xia Cici speechless.

I have to say that Lu Lan has a point.

To live a good life, how can you be willing to return to ordinary days? 
Accustomed to wearing tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of big brands, can she still wear shopping mall goods for hundreds or even dozens of dollars?

"The most basic." Lu Lan spoke again, "The face you are most proud of, how much does it cost you to maintain your face every year?" Can you afford it? What burden do you take? Do you have a fortune, or do you have a sky-high education? ”

"Don't talk about it......" Xia Cici couldn't help but interrupt Lu Lan, really, she couldn't listen to it anymore.

It's horrible, it's really horrible.

Lu Lan's words pierced her heart, but she couldn't refute them.

Because this is a fact, it is a problem that she has to think about, a basic problem of survival, and she has no way to escape it.

"I understand your feelings, after all, no one wants to sell themselves. But sometimes, the choice is up to you. Lu Lan raised Xia Cici's face and forced her to look at herself, "Cici, you have been so aggrieved over the years, if you still want to live worse than you are now, you can stick to your so-called principles, and I will definitely not stop you." Anyway, it's not me who suffers, it's you! ”

Xia Cici closed her eyes and burst into tears.

Suddenly, I felt that I was so tired of being a man.

Lu Lan wiped the tears from Xia Cici's face and slowed down his tone: "Cici, it's not a shameful thing for people to take some means to break some principles for the sake of their own well-being. You've only lived like this all your life, why do you live a simpler and easier life? What can your principles bring to you? Money, power, or a good life? ”

"I can't, but it gives me a clear conscience."

Lu Lan couldn't hold back his laughter this time.

She thinks that her friend is really cute, cute to the point of silly.

I can't believe that people who have been in the entertainment industry for so long still have such simple ideas.

"But Cici, this is your own business, and it is not contrary to social morality and the public interest, even if you do it, you are not sorry for anyone, you are just letting yourself feel troubled for a while, how can you still have a clear conscience?"

Xia Cici's eyes widened suddenly, looking at Lu Lan, who was overjoyed.

"I ......" she was speechless.

For a moment, Xia Cici didn't know how to refute Lu Lan.

"I know you're referring to your bottom line. But the bottom line is used to break, and even if you break it, you won't hurt others, because you're not killing people and setting fires, and you're not buying evil. So, Cici, there really is no need to stick to that principle of yours all the time. ”

Xia Cici swallowed her saliva and did not speak.

Lu Lan let go of Xia Cici's chin.

She listened, and her loose, sloppy eyes told her that she listened.

"Think about it, what you have is time. I've been friends with you for so many years, of course I hope you can have a good life, and the better you live, the happier I am. ”

Xia Cici is her only friend who has her heart and lungs, and she is also persuading from the bottom of her heart.

She rarely talks so much to others.

was born in a family of interests, so Lu Lan can understand many things.

Since she was a child, she has seen and heard a lot about profiteers doing everything for profit, so she knows that for some people, there is no principle in front of interests.

Sometimes, even being too persistent is a kind of pedantry.

"It's late at night, let's go inside, it's a little cold here."

Xia Cici shook his head and took a few steps back: "I'm not going in, I'm going to go." ”

She didn't know what kind of face she had to enter that hall.

When Zhong Ling called just now, everyone inside heard it, knowing that she was blocked, did she still have to accept the ridicule and ridicule of those people?

No, no, she just wanted to find a corner to hide herself now.

Finally escaped from that place full of shame, so she didn't want to go back.

"And you're going home now?"

Xia Cici nodded.

"I've already told my assistants about it, and now they should be waiting for me in the nanny car."

"Okay, then I'll send you there."

"No need, you go back to the administrative building, I'll go to the parking lot by myself." Xia Cici rejected Lu Lan's kindness, "The Nanxia campus is safe, there are so many celebrities here today, there will be no accidents." And you've been out for so long, today is the graduation party, and you're the protagonist! ”

After that, Xia Cici left.

The steps were very hurried, for fear that Lu Lan would catch up.

There was no way, Lu Lan had to enter the administrative hall by himself.

As soon as I entered, I heard someone talking, it was Zhong Ling.

Zhong Ling's voice is really good, with the charm of a mature woman, just like herself, quite seductive.

From the quiet atmosphere, you can know that these people have been completely attracted to Zhong Ling.

Lu Lan found a secluded position to stand and listen to Zhong Ling.

Within minutes, someone stood beside her.

Lu Lan glanced sideways, and Gu Muyun smiled at her. 
"Persuaded? Gu Muyun asked.

"You know all this?" Lu Lan asked rhetorically.

"Of course, your relationship with Xia Cici is there, and you won't sit idly by."

Lu Lan didn't answer, and said after a few seconds: "Gu Muyun, you are so ruthless." ”

Gu Muyun shrugged and was silent. 
"You know what is the most important thing to Xia Cici, you have to use this to blackmail her, are you really good? ”

"I just asked Xia Cici to agree to this condition, have I mentioned the specific means?" Gu Muyun said with a smile, "There are thousands of ways to achieve the goal, and it depends on how Xia Cici chooses." ”

"It looks like thousands, isn't there just one? You won't be able to see it? ”

Gu Muyun looked at Lu Lan with a serious face: "I don't look at the process, I only look at the result." How the process is Xia Cici's own choice, I am very busy, I don't have so much spare time to worry about her, not to mention that I am still a person who feels sorry for me. ”

"You're really going to get back on your eyes." Lu Lan's words were full of sarcasm.

"No, no, no." Gu Muyun waved her hand, "I'm just using some means to achieve my goal, and my means are above board, and equivalent exchange is a principle that has been handed down since ancient times." ”

Lu Lan snorted coldly.

After a few seconds, I heard Lu Lan change the topic: "You just said that you asked Xia Cici to go to Mayor Liu and ask him not to deal with the Dragon Gang, according to my understanding, the most famous Brother Xiang in Nancheng seems to be from the Dragon Gang, so what conflict did Brother Xiang have with Mayor Liu?" ”

Gu Muyun didn't intend to answer this question.

"But what does the Dragon Gang have to do with you?" Lu Lan held his chin, as if he was talking to himself, and seemed to be asking Gu Muyun.

Gu Muyun still didn't answer.

Lu Lan's eyes swept over Gu Muyun, turned around the entire banquet hall, and fell on Gu Muyun again.

She stood there leisurely and indifferently, a little out of place with this chaotic environment, but the calm and suitable temperament exuded by her seemed to show that she should have belonged to such an occasion, and it was extremely harmonious.

Suddenly, a very terrible thought flashed through Lu Lan's mind.

She couldn't help but blurt out: "Gu Muyun, are you the Gu Muyun of the Gu family in the capital?" ”

She has always wanted to know where Gu Muyun's outstanding temperament came from, although she has always advertised that she is very poor and has a hard life, but she does not have any characteristics of a poor person.

And her mind and IQ, her temperament and demeanor, are definitely not something that ordinary families can cultivate.

The light of the jade cannot be concealed.

If this guess had been in the past, Lu Lan would have felt ridiculous, but after today, she would not be surprised at all, but ......

Fair and reasonable.