“It must have been Ye Zhi!” Nina was furious.
Cen Ya froze, about to say something, when Ou Minghan cut in, “She’s always been like this!”
With Ye Zhi to blame, it saved him the trouble of explaining. Cen Ya understood his meaning and remained silent.
After cursing a few times, Nina looked at Ou Minghan and asked directly, “Have you contacted Bai Xuan again during this time, tried to poach her? Although she misunderstands me, as long as she can feel our sincerity, I won’t have suffered this for nothing.”
Ou Minghan was stunned. He hadn't expected Nina to still be thinking about it.
He immediately passed the buck to Ye Zhi, “Sorry, we haven’t had the chance to contact Bai Xuan again. Ye Zhi noticed our intention, helped Bai Xuan move, and moved her to a place where all the neighbors are Taoxun employees. She’s probably trying to prevent us from poaching people further.”
Nina’s face immediately turned unpleasant, “Then didn’t you try to find ways to poach other employees?”
Ou Minghan perfunctorily replied, “Ye Zhi is keeping a close watch, and she’s given raises to employees in key positions, which is meant to increase our poaching costs. In this situation, poaching people would be too costly and not worth it.”
Nina became agitated, “Forget it, how are the projects at Feilong Film and Television going?”
Ou Minghan was silent for a moment before truthfully stating the situation.
This was different from poaching from Taoxun. Even if he found an excuse to hide it now, Nina would still get the truth from the company herself.
“What?! Several movies are going to be postponed?” Nina was shocked and enraged. “Filming a movie burns money every day! Actor salaries, accommodation, props, venue rentals, etc., these are not small expenses! Some are even postponed for three or four months. Even if the Cen family has money, they can’t withstand this kind of turmoil! Ou Minghan, what exactly is going on?!”
Ou Minghan quickly explained, “Auntie, someone wants to suppress Feilong Film and Television, so they’ve colluded with the entertainment industry to ostracize us. The actors who originally agreed to cooperate with us are either demanding exorbitant prices or have temporarily reneged. Now that we can’t find suitable actors to film, that’s why the movie production has to be postponed…”
“It’s Ye Zhi again, isn’t it?!” Nina gritted her teeth in anger. “Why is she always against the Cen family?”
“She’s always been vengeful. Now that she has the upper hand, she definitely won’t back down easily,” Ou Minghan added fuel to the fire. “She’s burning money so fiercely now because she wants to maintain her advantage. However, at this rate of spending, she can’t last long…”
Nina’s face darkened, “If you add more money, can you solve the problem of movie postponements?!”
“Of course!” Ou Minghan’s eyes lit up. Nina was really on the ball!
However, this time, after he got the money, he decided not to hire those celebrities from the entertainment industry; their demands were too high!
Besides, there were plenty of students in film academies. Finding ordinary people willing to act in movies wouldn’t be that difficult!
Moreover, he still had the contestants from the previous beauty competition, as well as some female anchors signed by Feilong Live. Among the short ones, he could always pick someone suitable to act in movies!
Even if the quality of the movies was poor, he wouldn’t release them in cinemas. He could directly broadcast them online and make them into online movies!
There were still profitable online movies nowadays. If the ones he invested in made money, that would be great. Even if they didn’t, he could present good data to Nina as a report.
“Alright, leave this matter to you,” Nina said irritably. “Don’t worry about the money. This time, we absolutely cannot let Ye Zhi have her way!”
Ou Minghan made a confident promise and left with satisfaction.
Cen Ya also wanted to leave with him, but Ou Minghan stopped her. Nina had just been released from the police station and definitely needed the company of her family. Ou Minghan asked her to stay with Nina and foster their mother-daughter relationship.
After he left, Nina thought about it more and more angrily, “No, I can’t swallow this! Daughter, I’m going to tell your father and brother about this!”
“Ah?” Cen Ya looked at her blankly. “But didn’t they say they were busy recently and asked us not to contact them unless it was important?”
“I’ve been bullied like this, and it’s not important?!” Nina felt extremely wronged. As a Duchess, when had she ever suffered like this?
Seeing that she had made up her mind, Cen Ya could only say, “Mom, let’s contact my brother then. But Mom, can you not tell my brother about Minghan?”
“Why?” Nina asked in confusion.
“My brother… he still can’t accept Minghan. I don’t want this matter to make my brother unhappy,” Cen Ya said somewhat shyly.
“Alright,” Nina nodded. “Your brother still doesn’t know that Ou Minghan would risk his life for you. We’ll tell him slowly later.”
Hearing Nina’s assurance, Cen Ya smiled happily.
Afterwards, Nina returned to her room and immediately called Cen Xiucheng. To her surprise, the call went through quickly.
“Mom, what’s wrong?” Cen Xiucheng asked, sounding a bit tired.
“Son, Mom has been bullied!” Nina complained with great grievance, pouring out her heart. She told Cen Xiucheng everything about how she was bullied everywhere by Ye Zhi and even imprisoned because of it.
Cen Xiucheng listened quietly. After a moment of silence, he asked with confusion, “Mom, the Cen family’s business is jewelry and tourism, which has nothing to do with Taoxun’s business. Why did you go to the homes of Taoxun employees to poach their people?”
“I, I recently established a game subsidiary and plan to enter the gaming market. Poaching people is a common business practice…” Nina stammered. Suddenly, she became annoyed, “Even if I was poaching, Ye Zhi had no reason to set a trap and send me to the police station! She’s going too far!”
Cen Xiucheng was not swayed by her. He asked sternly, “Mom, why did you suddenly want to establish a game company? The Cen family has no business in this area, and you’ve always been uninterested in these online things, haven’t you?”
Nina remembered her promise to Cen Ya. She said with a lack of confidence, “Of course it’s because games make money! I’m not interested in the internet, but I’m interested in money!”
Cen Xiucheng fell silent again. He wasn’t stupid; he could tell that Nina was hiding something important from him.
“Mom, I’ll come to see you and your sister in half a month,” he said in a deep voice.
He couldn’t leave Country K right now. Although Nina and Cen Ya seemed to be hiding something from him, the situation probably wouldn’t get much worse in another half a month.
Hearing Cen Xiucheng’s promise, Nina happily went to Cen Ya to share the good news.