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Chapter 654: Chapter 656: Ambush, trouble at the company!

Watching Fan Xue walk past him as if he wasn’t there, Qin Tian was utterly confused.

Awkward again.

He had just been sure that she was Fan Bing, so how come it was Fan Xue again?

”Hee hee, are you blind?”

Fan Bing, wearing a gray coat, looked at Qin Tian’s stunned expression and couldn’t help but laugh, ”Because my sister and I look very much alike, we basically never wear the same clothes, and we also don’t work in the same domain. This way, outsiders can tell us apart.”

”Look at Ye Fan, the third young master of the Ye family last night. Why did he recognize me as Fan Bing right away? Because he might seem young and naive but is actually very cunning. I am not surprised. The character of our Fan Family people—he must understand it very well.”

”Xiao Xue is the kind who doesn’t appear in public often and she’s calm and composed in her actions. Whereas, I can sometimes be impulsive. So, when Ye Fan saw me take out a gun yesterday, he must have concluded that it was not in Xiao Xue’s character to do such a thing.”

Looking at Qin Tian’s serious face, Fan Bing said, ”So, now you know how terrifying Ye Fan is, right? He is hailed as a once-in-fifty-years genius of the Ye Family. Thanks to Ye Fan’s rising reputation in Beijing in recent years, the Ye Family has rapidly become one of the biggest among the major families after the big four. So, it’s better if you don’t mess with this Ye Fan.”

Qin Tian, thinking of something, asked, ”Then, does Ye Fan know Martial Arts?”

Fan Bing thought for a moment, then shook her head, ”I’m not sure. As far as I remember, I have never heard of him practicing Martial Arts. But he does have two bodyguards... you must have seen them last night, Yang Lianting and Dongfang Bai, their Martial Arts are very good. The three of them often move around together.”

”Ye Fan is shrewd in handling matters, he can achieve his goals without having to lift a finger. And with those two bodyguards around, anyone who thinks of messing with him is bound to fail. Over the years, at least more than twenty assassins who went after them have ended up dead.”

Fan Bing’s words seemed like a warning to Qin Tian. Hearing this, Qin Tian nodded without saying anything.

”Are you guys leaving or not?”

While Qin Tian and Fan Bing were chatting, Fan Xue, who had been waiting outside for a while without seeing the two of them come out, came back and asked them.

Looking at Fan Xue’s expression, as if he owed her two hundred bucks and hadn’t paid it back, Qin Tian felt that this woman was incredibly arrogant. He asked Fan Bing in a low voice, ”Sister Bing, has Sister Xue not gotten married yet?”

Hearing this, Fan Bing glanced at Fan Xue and said softly, ”Don’t even talk about marriage, she doesn’t even have a boyfriend right now... Sigh, our family is worried about this. But you’ve seen her personality... at home, she always acts like a leader. Which man could tolerate that?”

Hearing her words, Qin Tian inwardly sneered, knowing he had guessed right. With Fan Xue’s domineering attitude, which man could stand it?

”Damn it...”

Thinking about it, Qin Tian couldn’t help but snicker. When he looked up, he saw Fan Xue staring at him, as if she knew he was laughing at her. Qin Tian quickly put on a straight face.

Fan Bing originally planned to book a private room at a hotel for lunch, but Fan Xue insisted on having Korean cuisine. Unable to persuade her sister, the three of them ended up at Fan Xue’s favorite Korean restaurant.

The mood at the table was somewhat awkward, mainly because Fan Xue barely spoke. Most of the atmosphere was maintained by Fan Bing, with Qin Tian occasionally chiming in, which made it rather lackluster.

Qin Tian learned from Fan Bing that Fan Xue worked at the state’s Propaganda Department and was already a department-level official, which for someone just over thirty, represented an incredibly fast rise through the ranks.

But Qin Tian wasn’t surprised, after all, considering the status of Fan Xue’s father and grandfather.

During the meal, Lin Yu called to say they were going back to Zhonghai City; Zhou Yang needed their help there.

The incident with the Ye Family was settled for now, thanks to the Fan Family’s intervention, so Qin Tian let them go back.

After a peaceful lunch, Fan Bing suggested they go see a movie together, but Fan Xue refused, and Qin Tian suddenly received a call from Zhou Minghong, which meant he couldn’t go either.

”Mr. Qin, our company’s latest projects, when sent up for review, weren’t approved by the higher-ups,” Zhou Minghong reported in a very serious tone on the phone.

For an entertainment company, if its projects aren’t approved by the broadcasting and censorship department, they can’t start production or be broadcast, and that’s a colossal waste of resources for an entertainment company.

”What happened? Haven’t they always been approved before?” Qin Tian asked.

”Exactly,” Zhou Minghong was puzzled, ”The review department upstairs replied that our planned TV dramas and movies contain too many negative images, which can have a bad influence on society. But we don’t have any! Other companies with more serious violations got approvals, and ours, which didn’t violate, somehow didn’t get through. It’s baffling...”

”Is it because the bribe wasn’t enough?” Qin Tian asked.

Such matters related to reviews usually require the company to spend some money to bribe the review departments so that, as long as there are no serious infractions, the review departments would tend to turn a blind eye.

”It’s strange,” Zhou Minghong said, ”This month, when old Wang went to bribe them, they didn’t accept anything from us...”

Zhou Minghong seemed thoughtful and then said, ”I think there must be something fishy going on. Old Wang said he knows a friend who works in broadcasting and is not very close, but he has managed to get his friend to meet and find out what’s happening. Mr. Qin, our company would face huge losses if these few projects don’t pass the review.”

”I understand, I’ll be back soon to work on a plan,” Qin Tian replied, fully grasping the gravity of the situation. The projects in question included Tianyun Entertainment Company’s major production, ’The Story of the Revered Consort in the Imperial Harem,’ which involved a massive investment, and which Qin Tian had planned to use to promote Liu Fei’er.

If they couldn’t even pass the preliminary approval, that would be a disaster.

”Damn it, with so many palace dramas like ’The Story of the Imperial Concubine,’ ’The Story of the Palace Matron,’ and ’The Story of the Palace Eunuch’ getting approved, why is it that our company’s ’The Story of the Revered Consort in the Imperial Harem’ can’t get through?” Qin Tian felt extremely frustrated. Right away, he informed Fan Bing and Fan Xue and promptly left in a taxi.

Fan Bing initially refused to let Qin Tian go, but when she understood it was about his company’s business and saw his serious expression, she compromised and let him leave.

While still in the cab, Qin Tian received a call from Wang Chenggong, ”Mr. Qin, I’ve got to the bottom of it. Liao Entertainment is sabotaging us! Liao Entertainment is the one messing with us behind the scenes!”