Second Take On Romance - The A-List Actor Wants Me-Chapter 288 : The Kunlun Snow Lotus Award Ceremony (3)

Chapter 288: Chapter 288 : The Kunlun Snow Lotus Award Ceremony (3)

"Shen Jingwei..."

"Don’t you dare call my name!"

Shen Jingwei swung another fist at Shang Ruohai, but this time the latter managed to dodge it.

"You cost me not only my career but my father’s life!"

"Shen..."

Shang Ruohai ducked to dodge a kick.

Even dressed in a suit, Shen Jingwei still knew how to fight. Shang Ruohai did not know whether to praise him for his skills or stop him from going rampant.

But in the end, he chose the latter.

With a series of calculated movements, he expertly deflected Shen Jingwei’s blows, ultimately forcing him against the wall.

Slammed against the wall, Shen Jingwei let out an exasperated cry.

"Listen to me!" Shang Ruohai hissed into his ear. "I admit everything. Yes, I am the bastard who ruined your career three years ago! I am guilty, but you have a bright shining career ahead of you! Why must you dwell in the past???"

Shen Jingwei responded by wriggling himself free and elbowing Shang Ruohai in the gut.

Shang Ruohai fell to the ground, heaving and panting from the pain.

"Return to me the three years I wasted," Shen Jingwei said with a trembling voice. "Return to me my father’s life."

Shang Ruohai clenched his jaw and glared at him.

"I am deeply sorry for your father’s passing, but his heart condition was not my doing."

"Right."

Shen Jingwei dragged Shang Ruohai to his feet by his lapels.

"But your dirty tricks made him lose a son, and made me lose a father. He would have lived longer if he didn’t find out that his son was gay through Weibo."

"..."

The two men locked gazes, their eyes filled with unspoken emotions, colliding in a silent battle.

"I am sorry," Shang Ruohai said. "Sincerely, I am sorry. I didn’t know how bad it would be."

"Why me?" Shen Jingwei shook at his opponent’s collar. "Why must you frame me? Why not anyone else? I was just a small fry."

He still felt like one.

"Because the timing and the circumstances fit," Shang Ruohai helplessly said. "Look, I am not trying to defend myself in any way. I did frame you and ruin your career. But at the very least, you should listen to my side of story."

Shen Jingwei slowly nodded, his eyes never leaving Shang Ruohai’s face.

"Very well," he snarled.

He then released Shang Ruohai and pushed him away like the latter suffered from a particularly contagious and deadly disease.

"Start speaking."

Shang Ruohai took a deep breath before he dug into the memories of the past and told the story from his perspective.

Shang Xiaoyi had two sons from two different wives.

The main wife was the daughter of a tycoon, whom he had to marry in a loveless arranged marriage.

The woman never loved him and cheated on him with many men, but she still gave birth to a son he named Shang Ruohan.

The second wife used to be an actress under CNC Studio.

Their affair started around the same time the main wife began cheating on Shang Xiaoyi. Although the couple were very careful at the beginning, they slowly began more and more careless, until the actress fell pregnant with Shang Xiaoyi’s second son.

Shang Xiaoyi thus married her and brought her into the Shang household.

It turned out that the main wife, known as First Madam Shang, might not be possessive of her husband, but was very possessive of her position as the most powerful woman in the Shang household.

She bullied the Second Madam Shang anytime she could, eventually driving both her and her son out of the Shang mansion.

Shang Ruohan and Shang Ruohai knew of each other’s existence, but they did not maintain any contact whatsoever. Not until they became teenagers.

Even from a young age, they knew that there could only be one person to inherit their father’s successful entertainment company, and so they each carve their own paths to secure that future.

At that time, Shang Xiaoyi started to contract an incurable illness, forcing him to select an heir as soon as possible.

In order to keep up with the competition, Shang Ruohai slowly retired from the entertainment industry to join CNC Studio’s management level.

At that time, Shang Ruohan had already worked at CNC Studio for some time, but he severely lacked practical experience to survive the stormy winds that blew through the entertainment industry continuously.

In their father’s eyes, each of his sons had the potential to lead CNC Studio, but they each needed to address their flaws beforehand.

And so Shang Xiaoyi came up with the champion idea.

Each son was asked to select a champion and nurture them to success.

The previous Kunlun Snow Lotus Awards had just been distributed, leaving the other celebrities to work harder and strive the greater heights within the next five years.

"As you know, the champion I selected was Yan Renzhong, and the champion Shang Ruohan selected was Wu Jin."

Shang Ruohai took a deep breath at this junction.

"I was too naive at that time. Having lived a sheltered life and enjoyed a smooth-sailing career thanks to my father’s support, I didn’t realize how dirty the fight at the upper management level could be. And I inadvertently fell into Shang Ruohan’s trap."

Shang Ruohai still recalled the details of that day vividly.

He probably wouldn’t forget them in his entire life.

That day, he attended a networking party as a representative from CNC Studio.

It was the first time he attended such event after retreating from his acting career, so he was quite nervous.

Most players in the entertainment industry were old and experienced, while their heirs were still pursuing their education in colleges or below.

There were only two men in their thirties in the party -- Shang Ruohai and the new CEO of Yunhuan Entertainment, Feng Jieyun.

In fact, it was their closeness in age that facilitated a polite introduction between them.

Shang Ruohai did not remember much from his superficial chat with Feng Jieyun, but he recalled feeling dizzy at the end of the night.

The night went by in a blur, but the next morning, he was lying half-naked on a bed, next to a similarly half-naked Feng Jieyun.

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