After the empress transmigrated, she became the judge of the entertainment industry.

Chapter 307 I'll treat you to noodles

"Gentlemen...two bosses! Please don't call the police, since I've confessed honestly. I'm just trying to make a living. Please, gentlemen, don't hold a grudge."

Scarface Liu said with a bitter face.

He knew the chances of success were slim, since he had provoked the other party first. But he was willing to accept a beating or something similar, as long as it didn't escalate to the police.

He doesn't want to lose his job.

"You haven't finished explaining yet."

Ye Sanqing said calmly.

Sheng Hanyu stood next to her, looking down at her phone.

There was no other way; the only place to sit in the room was a chair and a bed, and he didn't want to sit on a bed with questionable hygiene.

However, this also inadvertently increased the sense of pressure Ye Sanqing felt while interrogating the other party...

Eight hundred thousand? It's impossible for Yoon Joon-gi to receive that much pay for starring in this drama.

Adding a comma between eight and ten makes more sense... which means tens of thousands of dollars... after all, he's just a guard. Although he appears on screen quite a few times, he doesn't have many scenes with lines.

Even Scarface Liu should know about this, so he definitely wasn't there to collect a debt from Yin Junqi, but rather had other demands.

Is he now planning to avoid talking about this and just consider the matter over?

Scarface Liu was still hesitating.

He realized that the other party was unlikely to use illegal means, such as torture.

If he hadn't spoken up, at most he would have been accused of being blind to someone's worth and of behaving rudely.

If he says it... he'll definitely lose his job, and he might even be disciplined by the company...

He hesitated, but Ye Sanqing had little patience and raised his phone to point it at him.

Face unlock!

Scarface Liu: ...You're being a bit unethical.

Although he probably uses code words when sending messages and has deleted most of them, there are still some clues.

Is stalling for time going to be of any use...?

Ye Sanqing picked up her phone and started looking at it. Actually, she wasn't really looking at it; she had Xiaochong quickly search for information.

This is when we need to leverage the power of artificial intelligence.

[Master, there is a suspicious location.]

The little bug analyzed Scarface Liu's movements directly from the phone's historical location records. Actually, this could also be analyzed using general technology, but the little bug was faster.

His activities covered several surrounding cities, and he basically focused on supermarkets.

The suspicious location Xiaochong mentioned is an abandoned mine about an hour's drive from here, where Scarface Liu appears every other Thursday evening at 7 pm.

In a different direction from the training ground, the area between the training ground and the town to the mine forms an irregular triangle.

What do you do every Thursday night at 7 PM?

Ye Sanqing asked directly.

Today seems to be Wednesday.

If Scarface Liu is going to a company meeting... well, a company meeting... then can we wipe out their entire hideout tomorrow?

I never expected that coming out with Yin Junqi would bring such a pleasant surprise...

Scarface Liu didn't hide his surprise. He should have deleted all the related information.

Isn't the other party a bit too well-connected?

Or is there some high technology he doesn't know about?

Thinking of this, Scarface Liu became even more terrified.

"It's no use you not telling me; the truth will come out sooner or later. I think we should just hand it over to the police..."

Sheng Hanyu added from the side.

Scarface Liu clearly wasn't afraid of them; all his actions were merely attempts to excuse his crimes.

To be honest, they just stumbled upon this incident by chance; a proper investigation should be left to the police.

For him, keeping Yin Junqi out of the film crew was the immediate priority, while cracking down on the criminal gang could be postponed or avoided personally.

Scarface Liu's eyes darted around.

He wasn't exactly a desperate criminal, but he knew that what he had done wouldn't make things easy for him.

It's better not to investigate these kinds of things. Once investigated, many criminal facts will be exposed.

And the other party seems to be really powerful...

Now his thinking has changed from "how to get away from these two" to "whether confessing now will lead to leniency".

"Why don't we just go and take a look?"

Ye Sanqing stood up and said.

Meanwhile, Yin Junqi, who was the focus of their attention, did not return to the film crew.

He knew that Sheng Hanyu and Ye Sanqing had come to the town, but he didn't think they would pay much attention to him.

It's normal for crew members to go out on their days off. Although he was worried when he noticed a car following him, he stopped caring once he got to town and realized it was just the two of them.

After all, Yin Junqi considered himself a nobody, so what merit did he have to receive the attention of these two people?

Besides, it seems like the other person is on a date; it would be incredibly inconsiderate of them to go over and say hello.

Sure enough, when he entered the video arcade, the other party did not follow him in, and Yin Junqi was relieved.

Contacting Scarface Liu wasn't what he wanted, but the other party sent him conditions he couldn't refuse.

After the conversation, Yin Junqi was able to pretend to drive away from the town normally, but he couldn't return to the film set. Instead, he drove to the entrance of the film set and stopped.

Yin Junqi got out of the car, leaned against the side, and lit a cigarette.

He never thought the entertainment industry was clean. He knew from a young age that if you don't fight for it, you won't have food to eat, and the entertainment industry is a place that perfectly embodies this.

If his father hadn't been in debt, he wouldn't have entered this circle that's supposedly a quick way to make money.

Once inside, he discovered that the legendary 208 million had nothing to do with him.

The absence of the "ten thousand" at the end reflects his true state when he first entered the industry.

He struggled and worked hard all these years to finally pay off his previous debts. Only then did his life improve a little, and he finally had extra money for cosmetic surgery.

Of course, for him, this was a necessary investment for advancement.

He even managed to get a role in the TV series "Ye Sanqing." He figured that if he could get close to the two of them, his life would only get better and better.

As a result... life always manages to deliver a blow to your head in unexpected ways.

Scarface Liu showed him a video of his father being held captive.

It was only then that Yin Junqi realized that his claim of "I will never gamble again" was a complete lie.

You can't believe a single word a gambler says.

When Yin Junqi recalled his father's tearful and oath-making appearance, he actually felt a bit of humor. Wasn't his acting better than his own?

Is his acting skill hereditary?

He watched the video while lost in these wild thoughts, and the other party immediately deleted it and threatened him that if he didn't want his father to "have any accidents," he should cause an accident on the film set.

Whether it's secretly filming, framing someone, or damaging props, the point is to hurt Ye Sanqing.

If he does it, the debt payment can be deferred.

That's right, it's a deferred payment, not a cancellation.

Yin Junqi tentatively agreed to Scarface Liu's request to appease him, because although his father was despicable, he also...

Whether he didn't want to see his father actually have an accident, or he didn't want such a scandal to tarnish his career, he couldn't say for sure.

But when it came to actually doing something so immoral, he hesitated.

Yin Junqi is good at flattery and building good relationships with everyone, but he has never actually harmed anyone.

Moreover, judging from Ye Sanqing's consistent style... he might end up shooting himself in the foot.

What should I do...? Yin Junqi stared blankly at the half-lit cigarette butt.

At this moment, two cars drove out of the venue.

One of the cars stopped next to him, and a man in black got out.

Just as Yin Junqi was wondering whose bodyguard it was, the other person spoke up.

"Mr. Yin, Master Sheng would like to invite you to have noodles."