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Chapter 64 Backstabbing? Li Xi Was Prepared
The next day, Li Xi got up early.
She quickly applied light makeup, changed into a slightly more formal outfit, and headed straight for the high-speed rail station.
W City, High-tech Zone.
Around noon, Li Xi appeared in front of the Guanman headquarters building.
She went to the front desk and told them, "Hello, could you please contact your editor-in-chief, Dixie, and tell him that Li Xi has arrived?"
"Hold on."
The receptionist looked very young, probably around twenty-seven or twenty-eight years old. She was wearing a white office lady outfit, with slightly wavy black hair, and her striking features were further enhanced by her exquisite makeup, making her even more beautiful and charming.
As expected of the receptionist, the face of the company, her appearance is impeccable.
The receptionist looked Li Xi up and down curiously and couldn't help but ask, "Miss, are you a contracted cartoonist with our company?"
People who come to Guanman Company looking for editors are usually comic artists.
The cartoonists who requested to meet with editor-in-chief Dixi were at least cartoonists from the website V4.
Li Xi nodded: "Yes, that's me."
"What is your pen name?" the receptionist asked shrewdly. "If it's convenient, could you tell me so I can pass it on to Editor-in-Chief Dixie?"
Since Li Xiren is here, there's no need for him to hide his identity.
"Yun Ge".
"Okay, Ms. Yun Ge." The receptionist replied casually, picked up the landline, and dialed the internal line of Editor-in-Chief Dixi.
"Dishie, there's a lady named Li, whose pen name is Yun Ge, who wants to see you..." As she spoke, the receptionist belatedly realized something, her eyes widened in surprise, and she exclaimed, "You're Yun Ge, the great lady!"
Li Xi: "..."
She did just say her name was Yun Ge, didn't she?
The receptionist was a bit slow to react; it wasn't until this moment that she connected the young and beautiful woman in front of her with Yun Ge, the comic artist of "Seven Days of Nightmare".
On the other end of the phone, Dixie was flattered: "Wait, I'll be right there!"
Dixie hung up the phone immediately.
As the receptionist listened to the dial tone, she snapped out of her daze, covered her mouth, and her eyes welled up with tears of emotion.
"Teacher Yun Ge?"
"Are you really Teacher Yun Ge?"
"Yun Ge, the cartoonist who created 'Seven Days of Nightmare'?"
The receptionist couldn't contain her emotions, and her voice choked with sobs.
Realizing that the girl might be a fan of her comics, Li Xi smiled and nodded, saying, "I am Yun Ge, the creator of 'Seven Days of Nightmare'."
The receptionist was almost in tears.
She stamped her foot, looked up at the ceiling, fanned her eyes repeatedly with her hand, and said in a choked voice, "Yun Ge, I'm your fan!"
"I've been following your series since chapter 18 of Seven Days of Nightmare, all the way to the end. Do you remember me? My reader account is 'ChiuChiuTangAh,' and I was even in the top five of your fan rankings!"
"I came to work at Guanman specifically for you!"
Tang Jiujiu started crying as she spoke.
Li Xi was somewhat surprised. "So it was you. I remember that Christmas during the first year of the serialization, you gave me a Christmas tree worth five thousand yuan as a reward."
"To be honest, that was the first large donation I ever received, and I've always been very grateful to you."
A Christmas tree is worth 5,000 RMB.
At that time, Li Xi was still a newcomer, and she split the revenue from tips 50/50 with the website.
I'll only get 2,500.
That year, she returned to her hometown with only a few thousand yuan in her bank account, along with her father's memorial tablet, and burned paper money at her grandmother's grave.
Holding the father's memorial tablet back to see the grandmother, it would be as if the mother and son were reunited.
Later, "Seven Days of Nightmare" became a hit, and Li Xi earned tens of millions of yuan. To date, she has earned more than 30 million yuan from this work.
But Li Xi always remembered the few comic fans who supported her work in the early days.
"Stop crying." Li Xi felt a pang of sadness in her heart.
She rummaged through her bag and found a pack of tissues, which she handed to the receptionist.
Staring at the nameplate on the other person's chest, noticing that the receptionist's surname was 'Tang', and then thinking of her reader name, Li Xi tentatively asked, "You wouldn't happen to be named Tang Jiujiu, would you?"
The receptionist nodded vigorously, "Yes, my name is Tang Jiujiu. As expected of Yun Ge, who creates suspense comics, you are really smart."
"Hello, Jiu Jiu." Li Xi extended her right hand to Tang Jiu Jiu. "Let's get acquainted. I am Yun Ge, and my real name is Li Xi."
Tang Jiujiu held Li Xi's hands with both of hers.
You can call me Jiu Jiu!
Releasing Li Xi's hand, Tang Jiujiu glanced at the elevator lobby and suddenly lowered her voice to tell Li Xi, "Yun Ge, several film and television company executives have come to our company these past few days, all vying with the boss for the film and television rights to 'Seven Days of Nightmare'."
"Just over ten minutes ago, the person in charge of Zhaixing Entertainment also arrived."
"I've heard from the editors in the editorial department that you seem to have no intention of cooperating with Zhaixing Entertainment."
"However, it seems that President Wan is very optimistic about Zhaixing Entertainment. Knowing that you would be coming today, he specially called over the person in charge there, saying that he wanted to sit down and talk face to face."
Upon hearing this, Li Xi's expression darkened.
Mr. Wan is the owner of Guanman. Li Xi had added him on WeChat, but they had only chatted a handful of times.
She would receive New Year's greetings via WeChat during the Spring Festival each year.
Never empathize with capitalists.
Li Xi is indeed the cash cow of Guanman Company, but with the influence of "Seven Days of Nightmare", Guanman Company has also signed many excellent comic artists in the past two years and created several hit works.
While those works weren't as phenomenally popular as "Seven Days of Nightmare," they still made a fortune.
To put it bluntly, if Li Xi really doesn't listen to discipline and refuses to cooperate, then President Wan might very well turn against her for the sake of profit.
Mr. Wan summoned the person in charge of Zhaixing Entertainment without consulting her opinion today, which shows that his patience is running out.
Mr. Wan is going to betray her!
Thinking of this, Li Xi made a decision.
"I need to go to the restroom first."
Tang Jiujiu quickly pointed to the left side of the lobby on the first floor, "The toilet is over there."
Li Xi went into the restroom and sent Jiang Xinghe a message: 【Do me a favor.】
Jiang Xinghe: [Hmm?]
Li Xi said: "I'll tell you the password. Go to my apartment and open the white folder on the third shelf of my study."
Find someone trustworthy to leak what's inside.
Jiang Xinghe had just woken up and was still groggy.
He stared at Li Xi's comment for a few seconds before realizing that Li Xi was trying to sabotage someone. [You're trying to sabotage someone?]
Li Xi: [Be a beast.]
The Xie family, that bunch of morally bankrupt bastards, don't deserve to be called human.
Jiang Xinghe replied with a brief "hmm," then put on his coat, slipped on his slippers, and prepared to go downstairs to room 2201.
Patrick Star is lying on the floor in the entryway chasing a small ball with a moving bell.
Hearing the sound of the door to 2302 opening and closing, Patrick looked at the door behind him in confusion, then suddenly shouted, "Meow!"
Master, the lazybones next door, wake up!
Gu Zhen was having lunch.
Seeing Patrick Star meowing incessantly, he got annoyed, got up, picked up Patrick Star, and planned to put it in the cat room first.
Hearing the commotion outside, Gu Zhen subconsciously peeked out through the peephole.
Seeing Jiang Xinghe standing in the elevator lobby, disheveled and wearing slippers.
He was about to return to the restaurant when he heard Jiang Xinghe say to the person on the other end of the phone, "Hey, Brother Xi, Sister Xi, why don't you send me your home password?"
Sister Xi?