Rebirth of the Pampered Wife's Daily Life CH6

Chapter 6: Slander

The next day, Xu Lang took another day off school, a sick day off, the class teacher repeatedly confirmed with him that it was nothing serious, before hanging up.

Xu Lang didn't go to school, because today was the meeting day with Director Lin.

The meeting time was ten in the morning, Xu Lang went to the coffee shop an hour earlier, continuing the video he didn't finish last night.

At nine-thirty, he saw Director Lin coming in with some people.

In his previous life, he had also met this director before, at that time, Lin Ce[1] was already a wonder in the movie industry, back then, he wanted to invite Lin Ce to make a movie, but Lin Ce refused.

In this life they met again, but this time Lin Ce didn't have that same edge as then, now he was only just a college graduate carrying dreams.

Not even knowing about his own artistic talents.

Lin Ce quickly found Xu Lang who just closed his notebook, he was without basis, but only by looking, he knew, that he was the one willing to invest.

Wearing a black big coat, quietly sitting by the side, not blending with the surrounding environment at all, standing out uniquely.

"Mr. Xu?" Lin Ce tentatively walked over.

"Hello, Lin Ce." Xu Lang stood up.

Lin Ce was a bit restrained, mostly feeling embarrassed, "Sorry, you must have waited long."  Originally he arrived early, because he was afraid there would be traffic in the middle of the way, making the other party wait, but it turned out that the other party was still faster than him.

Xu Lang smiled gently, "It's fine, I had nothing to do at home, so I came early."

Hearing Xu Lang say this, Lin Ce guessed that the other party was a rich second generation that had just graduated.

"This is my team," Lin Ce quickly introduced the people behind him, "This is the scriptwriter Tu An, this is editor Jin Sen, these two are cameraman Da Tu and Ji Du, this is the lighting engineer Jian Zhi, and makeup artist Mei Duo." Mei Duo was the only girl in the entire team.

After everyone's introductions, they all sat down too, they were all feeling a bit uneasy.

Xu Lang knew, that the reason for this was that they were all still young.

"I have already gone through the script and contract." When Xu Lang spoke about this, he found that everyone was restless, Xu Lang understood in his heart, they had probably been denied way too many times, and have started doubting their own visions, "The script is excellent, although it is different from what is shown in the mainstream film industry right now, that's exactly where it's excellence lays."

"......" The people looked over all at once, seemingly unable to believe what they heard.

"If the fundings are adequate, are you guys confident enough to have the final product ready in four months?" Xu Lang continued to ask.

In his previous life this movie was dragged on for two years, he couldn't help but talk about this in advance.

Lin Ce nodded his head, eyes shining, "It doesn't need that much time at all! When we were writing this script we already considered these factors, give us just two months' time! We only need adequate fundings."

Fundings really were important, previously, this dragged on for two years.

After reaching an agreement, the two sides signed a contract, and Lin Ce spoke of a few more details.

Then Xu Lang invited this group of people to lunch, then left.

After Lin Ce sent Xu Lang off, he still couldn't believe it, looking at the people by his side, "He didn't ask to change the director, or to change the script, and didn't ask for the female lead's role? I didn't just dream all of that right !!"

The people by the side nodded their heads.

"Go go go, let the juniors come over, we need to get to work!" The actors have long been decided! Originally they were planning to start shooting in city B, but because the investor was in city A, and there wasn't a need to go to Hengdian[2], so, simply all the actors came over, making it convenient for the boss to come over to check the progress rate at any time.

All those that had money were big figures, and this big figure was even so magnanimous, especially comparing him with the others they had met before.  

They had that feeling of finally being recognized after being passed over many times.

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As Xu Lang walked to the entrance of the classroom, he heard the classroom full of noise and clamor. Xu Lang faintly heard the two words Xia Teng, and went over. A sharp female's voice spread out, "You stole the money and still won't admit it, you've already been caught with the money but still pretend, do you think I won't call the police, to have you arrested and placed in jail!"

A person on the side persuadingly said, "Forget it, everyone here is classmates, Xia Teng, you give the money back to Li Li, apologize and admit to your wrongs."

"I never stole anything why would I need to apologize, you said I stole it, bring out evidence, or we can call the police to search for evidence." Xia Teng's voice spread out.

"Xia Teng, why can't you tell what's good for you, I am helping you talk here, in our class except for you who would steal money? If you didn't steal money, then where did the one thousand yuan in your bag come from? This is the money that Li Li's mom gave her to buy a phone."

Xu Lang felt that this voice was a bit familiar, then he remembered, this was that girl called Tian Tian.

"This was the living expenses I gave her, is there a problem?" Xu Lang pushed opened the door walking in, and said.

The several girls inside were all shocked. The classmates that were circling this bunch of people quarreling were also shocked. They all also thought that Xia Teng stole the money, after all Xia Teng just happened to have an extra one thousand yuan, and Li Li just lost her money. But now there was a new finding.

Tian Tian stammered while saying, "It can't be, why would you give her one thousand yuan for no reason......"

"I just said, it's living expenses." Xu Lang's tone of speaking started to become serious, "Without any evidence, just using your imagination to accuse people of stealing, what are you guys trying to do?"

"Then do you have evidence to prove that you gave her the money?" That girl named Li Li cast a fierce look that could cut at Xia Teng.

"Where's the note?" Xu Lang turned to Xia Teng and asked. At that time he had something to do and left, leaving a note for Xia Teng, stating the living expenses thing.

Xia Teng was who was confused, "......"

"The note I clipped between your books." Xu Lang continued to say.

"What books?" Xia Teng was completely at a loss at what was going on.

"The book materials I bought for you." Xu Lang felt strange.

"I didn't see any book materials......"

"Because I had something to do I went home, you weren't in the classroom, so I put your living expenses for this month and the book materials in your desk." Xu Lang explained, "You didn't see any of it?"

"There was nothing at my desk yesterday, coming back from the canteen during the afternoon today, I found that I had one thousand yuan in my bag." Xia Teng said, "I just took it out and was about to find the teacher, but instead I was stopped by them saying that I stole Li Li's money."

Xu Lang looked questioningly at the girls, especially seeing Li Li's dodging eyes, Xu Lang said, "You guys just said that this one thousand yuan was given by Li Li's mom to her for buying a new phone, since I can't prove right now that this money was given by me to Xia Teng as living expenses, why don't we change a way of thinking, Li Li, you call your mom, let her prove that she took out one thousand yuan, for you to buy a phone."

As Xu Lang was saying this he took about his phone, handing it over to Li Li.

Li Li was dodging his eyes, afraid and not daring to pick up the phone.

Xu Lang became more serious, "Call your mother."

He was hardly ever serious, but once he became serious, there was barely anyone who could match up to him.

Li Li immediately cried out, "No......my mom will hit me......"

Xu Lang never cared for tears, if he didn't coincidentally come back today, Xia Teng would have already been labeled as a thief, and no matter how glorious Xia Teng would become in the future, this would become a black spot, used to attack Xia Teng over and over again.

"You won't call, then how can you prove that the one thousand yuan is yours? If you won't call, I will go ask the class teacher for your mother's phone number." Xu Lang replied.

"That one thousand yuan, isn't mine......" Li Li stammered saying, "That one thousand yuan isn't mine......it's Tian Tian who saw the note, and told me to do so!"

Tian Tian heard Li Li confess that it was her, and immediately refuted, "You are lying, I thought that money was actually yours."

[1]So the author changed the director's name from Ye Ce to Lin Ce......there's no note on why the author did this. Some might have noticed this in the previous chapter it said that Xu Lang was talking on the phone with Ye Ce but then at lunch, it said that Xu Lang was looking at a contract from Director Lin instead. Confusing but basically it's Lin Ce now.

[2]China's Hollywood.

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