"The contract has already been signed. Take the next two days to rest and adjust your state of mind, get familiar with the script, and practice the dancing a bit more. We enter the production crew the day after tomorrow, so remember to request your time off."
Bai Xinxin moved quickly; it wasn't long before she had the signed contract and found Li Feng.
"Um, how much is the pay?" Li Feng was more concerned about this.
"As for the pay, since you're a newcomer, it's only fifty thousand yuan." Bai Xinxin replied.
Li Feng did the math. "Half a month's time, fifty thousand in pay, minus the company's cut and taxes... okay, that's fine."
"Could you please focus on what's important? This is the third male lead in an S-tier drama. Compared to the pay, this is definitely the starting point of your career." Bai Xinxin said helplessly.
Shrugging, Li Feng said indifferently, "For me right now, making money is the most important thing."
"Alright, alright, let's not talk about this anymore. Let's go, you still have a role to play today, let's get moving." Bai Xinxin instructed.
"Let's go."
After returning from the set, Bai Xinxin left as soon as Li Feng got out of the car.
Meanwhile, Li Feng leisurely got on his electric scooter and prepared to head back to the school dormitory.
"Help! Help!"
Just as Li Feng was about to reach the school, a cry for help caught his attention.
Stopping the electric scooter, Li Feng listened carefully and confirmed that it was indeed a cry for help.
Without blindly rushing forward, Li Feng immediately used the Spiritual Detection Technique to scan the situation over there.
Although blurry, what Li Feng saw was four sturdy-looking individuals surrounding a petite person.
The strange thing was that those four people weren't making any move at all.
"Something's off." Li Feng frowned, sensing that things weren't right.
With such a bizarre situation, Li Feng had every reason to suspect this might be some kind of trap. After all, he had just offended a top-tier manager this very morning.
Li Feng was well aware of the cruelty of human nature.
Thinking of this, Li Feng took out his phone, opened the video recording function, and slid the phone into his chest pocket.
As for sitting idly by and doing nothing, Li Feng had never even considered it.
"What are you guys doing? Stop it all of you." As Li Feng walked into the alley where the incident was happening, he saw four burly men surrounding a girl.
However, unlike what he had detected earlier, this time the four big men were actually tugging and pulling at a young woman.
Seeing this scene, Li Feng immediately shouted to stop them.
Li Feng's appearance seemed to give the girl a ray of hope; she hurriedly ran over to his side and grabbed his arm.
Before Li Feng could shake her off, the girl suddenly screamed, "Help! Someone is sexually assaulting me!"
While grabbing Li Feng's arm, the girl cried out loudly for help.
Wrenching his arm free from the girl with force, Li Feng steadied himself against the wall and hurriedly pulled out an inhaler to spray into his mouth.
By the time he finally caught his breath, Li Feng discovered he had already been surrounded by the four big men.
"Kid, how dare you grope my woman—" Before Li Feng could speak, the ringleader shifted the blame, shouting, "Number Two, call the police."
At this point, how could Li Feng not realize he had been set up?
"Did Yao Xiaojiao send you?" Li Feng asked bluntly.
"I don't understand what you're talking about. Anyway, kid, I'm not going to let this go easily." The man replied evasively.
Li Feng said expressionlessly, "I've walked right into a trap today. Tell me, what do you want?"
"We won't do anything reckless; just let the law deal with you." The leading man smiled brightly.
Soon, two police cars arrived at the scene.
After the police officers who stepped out of the cars gathered the sequence of events from the framing party, they took Li Feng and the others to the police station.
"Speak, what on earth is going on?" After bringing Li Feng into the interrogation room, an officer questioned him.
Li Feng didn't waste words either. He said, "I was set up. On my way back to school, I heard someone calling for help. I went to check out the situation, and as a result, they shifted the blame onto me. Then, they called the police."
"That makes things tricky. There are no surveillance cameras in that alley. They have witnesses and a victim; all of this is very unfavorable to you." Perhaps because Li Feng didn't look like a bad guy, the interrogating officer kindly reminded him.
Before Li Feng could speak, another officer walked in and whispered a few words into the interrogating officer's ear.
After that person left, the interrogating officer spoke up, "Now the other party insists on pursuing legal action. The current situation is very unfavorable to you, so you need to mentally prepare yourself."
"Can I make a phone call?" Li Feng asked.
"Yes."
With permission granted, Li Feng took out his phone and called Bai Xinxin.
"Sister Bai, I've been set up and I'm currently at the police station." Li Feng briefly explained the course of events to Bai Xinxin.
"Got it. Don't say a single word right now, just wait for me to get there." Bai Xinxin instructed.
"Understood."
After hanging up, Li Feng explained the situation to the police, saying that whatever needed to be discussed would wait until his manager arrived.
Although surprised that Li Feng turned out to be an actor, the police didn't say much else.
After waiting for nearly half an hour, Bai Xinxin hurried into the police station.
"Li Feng, what's the situation right now?" As soon as she saw Li Feng, Bai Xinxin asked.
"The other party is dead set on sending me in and refused mediation." Li Feng said calmly.
Hearing this, Bai Xinxin rubbed her temples. "This Yao Xiaojiao, actually resorting to such dirty tricks. This is getting tricky."
"Actually, it's not like there's no way out," Li Feng said. "I kept my guard up at the time and recorded the entire process."
"……Why didn't you mention something like that sooner? Quick, show me the video." Bai Xinxin held back the urge to hit him, holding out her hand with a cold expression.
Unlocking his phone and handing it to Bai Xinxin, Li Feng said innocently, "You didn't ask, either!"
"……I'll deal with you later." Bai Xinxin's eyelid twitched.
After watching the video, Bai Xinxin finally let out a sigh of relief. "This time we should be in the clear. Just wait, I'll go handle this right now. If I don't make them rot in prison, my last name isn't Bai."
"Sister Bai," Li Feng called out, stopping Bai Xinxin. "Actually, I don't think it's any use making them go to prison; they were just taking orders from someone else. Even if we send them inside, it won't have any impact on Yao Xiaojiao at all."
"We can't just let it go like this, though. Your temper is way too good." Bai Xinxin frowned.
Bai Xinxin understood that Li Feng was right. As despicable as Yao Xiaojiao was, relying solely on this incident definitely wouldn't drag her down.
The final outcome would merely be punishing these few accomplices. For Yao Xiaojiao, it would just mean losing a sum of hush money.
Li Feng shook his head, smiling as he said, "I'm certainly not going to just let it go. What I mean is, why don't we go for something practical? For example, making them pay me a huge sum for emotional distress."
"……I see you really do have money in your eyes." Bai Xinxin said speechlessly.