Capítulo 994: Chapter 371: Healing
[“Ji Xiaoxi’s Desire Roulette” has been destroyed]
…
Hearing this system prompt, Zhou Wang was left standing in place, dumbfounded.
Meanwhile, Wu Yanqiu continued talking on the phone, but Zhou Wang couldn’t hear her for the moment.
All he could think about was… how could this be possible?
Since the system had been activated, this was the first time he encountered such a situation.
The key was that [Ji Xiaoxi’s Desire Roulette] was a permanent item, not a time-limited temporary item, so how could it be destroyed?
Zhou Wang noticed there was an additional note from the system and hurriedly checked it.
[Detected that the object Ji Xiaoxi has severed social relations with the Host, causing the item to lose activation conditions and thus be automatically destroyed]
[Since the Host still had 1 unused draw opportunity, the unredeemed reward has been cashed out]
Not bothering to check how much the overseas draw opportunity was cashed out for, Zhou Wang just stared at the words “severed,” feeling a sense of melancholy.
He suddenly understood what Ji Xiaoxi’s “I am more awake than ever now” meant.
She handed over her most beautiful offering to Zhou Wang, like a sacrificial rite, yet it seemed to draw a certain conclusion.
Probably before she made that phone call last night, she had already decided.
He sat there for a while until Wu Yanqiu’s voice came through the phone again, “Mr. Zhou, Mr. Zhou, are you okay?”
“I’m fine.”
Zhou Wang snapped back to his senses, took a deep breath, “I got distracted just now, you can continue.”
“What I mean is, how do we handle this email?”
“What’s the usual procedure when an artist wants to terminate their contract?”
“That depends on the company’s—or your—stance, really…”
“What do you mean?”
Zhou Wang raised an eyebrow.
“While the company has different levels of contracts, some basic terms are the same. If it involves a lawsuit, it would be relatively favorable for the company. In previous termination cases, a peaceful termination like Hua Suisui’s is quite rare. It depends on whether you’re willing to pursue Ji Xiaoxi’s breach of contract responsibility…”
Wu Yanqiu spoke tactfully, but Zhou Wang already understood what she meant.
Crows are black everywhere, even if Wuyou Media is the industry’s number one MCN company with its own excellence, its constraints on its artists are relatively lenient, but running a company is ultimately not a charity.
After signing the contract, the company will provide corresponding resources. For the artists, having received the benefits, they must bear equal responsibility.
While not as exaggerated as various “slave contracts” in the entertainment industry, it’s still impossible for artists to leave the company at will.
The previously sensational online “Xiao Huijun” incident, at its core, was internet celebrity Xiao Huijun orchestrating a play to terminate her contract, even willing to tarnish her own innocence. Comparatively, the consequences of unilateral breach of contract are something she would be even less willing to bear.
So what Wu Yanqiu was hinting to Zhou Wang was that if he wanted, Ji Xiaoxi would have to pay a heavy price to terminate her contract with Wuyou Media, maybe even “destroy her”.
“Forget it, let’s put this matter on hold for now.”
Zhou Wang said, a bit impatiently after a moment of silence.
“Okay, rest assured, Mr. Zhou, I will inform you the moment I get in touch with Ji Xiaoxi…”
Noticing something was amiss, Wu Yanqiu didn’t push further and quickly replied.
After hanging up, Zhou Wang called for the suite’s butler and learned from him that Ji Xiaoxi had left around six or seven in the morning…
Last night, amidst Ji Xiaoxi’s painful yet yearning requests, their entanglement persisted until past five, which further indicated that Ji Xiaoxi indeed had a plan. Otherwise, who would leave without even resting when exhausted?
“Mr. Zhou, it’s lunchtime, and our hotel manager, Ms. Yang Qiu, would like to invite you to lunch. Would you have the honor?”
At this moment, the butler said with a smile.
Zhou Wang instinctively wanted to refuse, but suddenly, something came to mind, and he accepted.
It was then that Zhou Wang glanced at his phone, the remaining draw opportunity from the [Desire Roulette] had netted him 18.88 million, already deposited into his Zhao Hang account.
For some reason, Zhou Wang did not feel any joy; instead, staring at the long string of numbers, he inexplicably felt a sense of irony…
He had the money, but lost love—has my life turned so melodramatic?
A moment later, Zhou Wang met Ms. Yang Qiu in the hotel’s Western restaurant, who treated him with great enthusiasm. It wasn’t solely because he stayed in the Bulgari Suite the previous night; more importantly, Zhou Wang was a registered super VIC within the Bulgari Group.
This change stemmed from the time when Jean-Christophe Babin, the CEO of Bulgari, visited the opening of the Jingwang Club, and after bringing back the news of Zhou Wang’s development of the “Little Blue Bottle” to the group’s headquarters, Bulgari’s attention towards Zhou Wang personally had increased.
Originally, besides Hermes, deeply influenced by another “Zhou Wang,” other luxury brands paid him special attention because of his special status in the Paris Chamber of Commerce, but the presence of the Little Blue Bottle changed things.
At least for now, the Huaxia branch of the Bulgari Group is trying every possible means to facilitate their CEO joining the Wangyuan Commerce as an individual member.