6.1 The Modern Entertainment World

Qiao Chen felt a very uncomfortable and nauseating feeling the moment he entered the world. His body felt burning hot, but he couldn't move very well. A cloudy drowsiness hit him hard. Qiao Chen had the system perform a check up on him. It told him that he wasn't ill, but that he had been drugged with and aphrodisiac.

Qiao Chen forced his bleary eyes to open and saw what looked like a hotel room.  His brain was still fuzzy, and he couldn't think properly at all. Qiao Chen had the system begin to force the drugs out of his body while simultaneously looking up this world's story.

Qiao Chen watched the images in his brain and immediately sat up. Then he looked at the bathroom's direction. The rapist would exit the bathroom in three minutes. Unfortunately for him, the system needed at least ten minutes to fully disperse the drugs from his body. He knew that he needed to quickly leave the room. If he didn't get out fast, then he'd probably end up like his last life and jump out the window again. He didn't want to do it, but he'd rather die than be raped.

Qiao Chen weakly propped his body up. The system had only forced out a small portion of the drugs, so he had to use the wall for support as he walked out. Qiao Chen quickly stumbled to the door. The moment he exited the room, Qiao Chen heard the sound of the bathroom door opening. He forced his body to speed up and tried to reach the elevator. Unfortunately, the drugs in his body made it feel like his legs had turned into jelly. Every step felt like his feet had sunk into the ground.

Qiao Chen finally reached the elevator door and mashed the button. The elevator doors finally opened, and Qiao Chen forced his heavy head up. He saw the person standing inside, and his face lit up. It looked like he had found his savior. Qiao Chen dove into the man's arms.

"Save me." Qiao Chen said with a pleading look.

Du Jingnan was stunned by Qiao Chen's sudden embrace. However, he quickly pressed the elevator buttons to close the doors the moment he saw Qiao Chen's red face and misty eyes.

Du Jingnan would normally have sent the such a person to where ever they said they wanted to go at the most. However, Du Jingnan watched as Qiao Chen trustingly leaned into his arms and was bewitched. Du Jingnan decided to take Qiao Chen back to his home to care for him.

Qiao Chen was taken to the car. While he sat there, he had the system give him this life's information. He was also able to determine that Du Jingnan was his lover in this lifetime. Qiao Chen realized that he didn't have to waste energy in forcing the drugs out. Du Jingnan could personally help him do it instead, so he terminated the process.

Du Jingnan had seen his fair share of beautiful people in his life, but thought that Qiao Chen's face was exceedingly beautiful right now. He thought that he'd seen them all. In fact, he had even seen Qiao Chen's beautiful face before. Du Jingnan thought that the man was surprisingly gorgeous. However, wasn't enchanted like he was now. There was something missing from the man before. Du Jingnan remembered thinking that it was a pity how the man lacked the proper temperament and aura even though he was so attractive. They reached Du Jingnan's house, and he walked Qiao Chen in.

Du Jingnan helped Qiao Chen lay down on the bed. He looked into Shu Qichen's pure and charming eyes as he sprawled across the bed. Du Jingnan thought that Shu QiChen's eyes glittered like a starry sky and sparkled like the shimmering waves in the sea. He looked at Shu QiChen again. His skin was smooth and pale like a piece of white jade. Du Jingnan couldn't help himself and gently touched Shu Qichen's face. He inwardly sighed. How could a man develop such gentle and beautiful features like this?

Qiao Chen grabbed Du Jingnan's wrist and pressed his face into Du Jingnan's hand. The drugs were coursing through his body at full speed. Every breath and touch was getting more and more unbearable. Qiao Chen rubbed his face into Du Jingnan's palm and impatiently whined in a sweet voice, "I can't take it anymore. Help me, please."

Du Jingnan stopped breathing. It felt like he was hit by lightning. His heart beat faster and a tingle spread from his heart to the tip of his toes. He never considered himself a frigid, upright gentleman. There were some unsavory things he would do to get the things he wanted. He had already known that Qi Chen had been drugged, but it felt like Shu Qichen delivered himself straight to his door.

Du Jingnan embraced Qiao Chen. He kissed him and tasted alcohol. Du Jingnan sucked and licked Qiao Chen's sweet, sweet lips. Du Jingnan's hands roamed around has he continued to kiss Qiao Chen. Eventually, those hands had stripped Qiao Chen down to his underwear.

The moment Qiao Chen's pants were removed, he immediately wrapped his legs around Du Jingnan's strong looking waist. Qiao Chen enthusiastically responded to Du Jingnan's kiss.

"Don't worry. The night is long. Let's slowly enjoy it together." Du Jingnan chuckled. Then he took off his own clothes and the rest of Qiao Chen's as he slowly traveled down Qiao Chen's neck with kisses.

"Anh! Mmmh~" Qiao Chen moaned. This was the first time Qiao Chen decided to sleep with his husband immediately after meeting for the first time. However, Qiao Chen didn't plan on establishing the relationship that quickly. This life's husband had a difficult character and was a difficult person to handle. Qiao Chen decided that if he was too easily obtained, then Du Jingnan wouldn't spoil him as much as he preferred.

Qiao Chen and Du Jingnan temporarily put aside their future schemes and plans aside and immersed themselves with the task at hand. Both of them passionately enjoyed each other's embrace for the entire night.

...

Du Jingnan lazily woke up and reached out to the person beside him. His hands didn't meet with the man, so he opened his eyes. He hadn't realized when the man who he had been passionately entangled with had left.

Du Jingnan sat up and leaned against the headboard. He lit a cigarette and inhaled the smoke as he thought about the man who had been enthralled with him throughout the night. Du Jingnan had had embraced countless men and women before, but none of them had even come close to what happened last. Du Jingnan had lost himself in the passion. He had never lost control like that before.

Du Jingnan narrowed his eyes as he thought about how good it would feel if he could press that body underneath him every night.

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Qiao Chen had left Du Jingnan's residence before dawn and returned to the small apartment he currently lived in.

It was a single room apartment with a small living room and bathroom. There wasn't even a kitchen. Qiao Chen opened the door to his room. He didn't even need to look around to see everything in it. He did have quick observations skills, but his room was just too simple.

There was an old-ish desk pushed against the wall. His daily objects were there with his laptop. There was one closet in the room too. Qiao Chen didn't feel much of a connection or sense of familiarity with the room, even though the room was simply decorated.

Qiao Chen walked to the living room and plopped onto the sofa. Then he carefully recalled the memories related to this lifetime.

This universe was very similar to Qiao Chen's original world, before he began this whole transmigration. However, it wasn't exactly the same. This universe's technology was much more advanced. The economy should be more developed too, and same-sex marriage was already legal.

Qiao Chen in this world was called Shu Qichen. He was an actor, but wasn't very good at it. He had a deep love and appreciation for the craft even though his skills were poor, and even though his acting was sub-par, the company would always be able to find some parts for him to play. This was because Shu Qichen's father was a very good man to him and very rich. His father was one of the largest shareholders in the broker company. The company would find some lower tier dramas, which only needed a pretty face, for Shu Qichen to act in just to appease his father.

Shu Qichen lived a very good life under his father's protection. There were many people in the company who curried favor with him even though he wasn't that famous.

Unfortunately, one of Shu Qichen's father's business partners ran away with all the money not too long ago. His father tried his best to recover the money that was stolen. He borrowed money from left and right to fill up what was lost, but ultimately failed because he died in a car accident.

Creditor started knocking. They went to Shu Qichen and tried to get the money back from him. Shu Qichen didn't know what to do. Xu Jiemin coaxed and convinced him to sell all the company shared to him at a very low price. Then he even sold his family's mansion and properties to pay all the money back.

It was like people said; You only needed to pull on the thread before it would all unravel . All the properties and assets were sold off to pay of his father's debt after he died, so Shu Qichen was left penniless. Then, his contract was expiring, and the company wasn't going to renew. After, the skeletons in his closet began appearing publicly. Rumors popped up one after the other. They were saying that he was a poor actor but relied on nepotism to claim the leading roles. People claimed that he had a bad temper and basically worked his assistant like a slave. Claims of a chaotic private life also popped up. It was a never-ending onslaught as his world crumbled.

However, the only one that was true was that he was a bad actor and relied on his father's connection. The rest were all lies. Shu Qichen's father didn't spoil him to the point of turning him rotten. Shu Qichen never really got angry at people over little things. He was taught to respect everyone no matter their job or financial background. He would never even think about abusing the assistants who helped him or even lead a life of debauchery.

Unfortunately for Shu Qichen, the people who spread those hateful rumors and lies weren't even strangers. The ones who destroyed Shu Qichen were his childhood best friend, Liu Yi, and his idol, Xu Jieming. These were the two people he trusted in the most, and they were the ones who hurt him the most too.

Shu Qichen had nothing else to fall back on. He couldn't do anything else but act. In order to survive, he began to work as Liu Yi's stand in. While he did stand in work, Liu Yi plotted against him. One day, Liu Yi pushed Shu Qichen from a high point and caused him to fall on his head. If he didn't undergo immediate surgery, then Shu Qichen would have gone permanently blind.

The worker's compensation from working with the crew wasn't enough. Shu Qichen needed to ask Xu Jieming to borrow money for him to get treatment abroad. However, Xu Jieming didn't help him. In fact, he was the one who sent Shu Qichen to Li Huang to be raped in order to get more money for a movie. Shu Qichen jumped from that room on the 16th floor that night to escape his rapist.

Qiao Chen felt a heavy, stabbing grief tear through his heart as he recalled his life: His pain and sadness when his father died- that helplessness that he felt. The anxiety he faced when he thought we was going to go blind. His resentment and anger as he jumped from the 16th floor- everything, all of those emotions ripped through him as he clearly remembered each and every one of those incidences.

Qiao Chen was shaking. He went to the bathroom and took a cold shower and tried to calm down. Qiao Chen didn't have much of an interest in acting anymore, but he did like it when he was Shu Qichen. This scar had probably been embedded deep in his soul. However, Qiao Chen decided that he would fulfill this unfinished dream of his in addition to completing his main task and getting revenge on those who caused him to fall so far.

Qiao Chen finally calmed down enough. He turned off the water and exited the shower. He wiped himself off and then looked at himself in the mirror. God had given him such a beautiful face in this world. Even though he didn't care too much about looks, he still didn't want to look ugly. However, he needed this face in order to go into the entertainment industry. Qiao Chen knew that he would be able to go pretty far with half the work if he added in some good acting abilities because of this face of his.

Qiao Chen walked out of the bathroom and got dressed. Then he walked over to his desk and turned on the computer. Qiao Chen remembered that he'd write some scripts to kill time when he was bored. However, Shu Qichen never really showed other people because he didn't think his writing was good enough. Besides, it was only a hobby that helped him pass the time, so no one had even known that he wrote.

Qiao Chen found some scripts he had written a few years back and looked over them. Most of them were scripts with plot holes and some poorly written parts. However, some of them were unexpectedly good.

Qiao Chen started up the system and his fingers flew across the keyboard. A few hours had passed and a fully and thoughtfully fleshed out Chinese screen play was displayed out on the screen.

Qiao Chen cut the script in half and then saved it in his email. Then he mailed the first part of it to Xingyu Film and TV Investment Company. This was one of the largest film and television companies in China. They received hundreds if not thousands of scripts daily. It would take at least two days for someone to take a look at the script even though they had a staff that was fully dedicated to receiving and reading screen plays.

The Xingyu Film and TV Investment Company was one of the Du Conglomerate's industries. The Du Company's chairman was Du Jingnan's oldest brother. Du Jingnan was also one of the major shareholders too. His biggest hobby was making movies and directing them. Therefore, the president of Xingyu Film and TV Investment Company was none other than Du Jingnan himself.

Even though Du Jingnan was Xingyu Film and TV Investment Company's president, he usually delegated the all of the company's affairs to the vice president. He very seldom went to the company on his own unless there was a script that caught his attentions. He only physically entered the building to arrange filming matters.

Naturally, Shu Qichen had never cooperated with Du Jingnan because of his poor acting skills. However, he did meet Du Jingnan once or twice when he attended a banquet with his father. Du Jingnan usually showed him the films he had made.

Every single one of Du Jingnan's films was box office hits and won numerous awards. There wasn't a director who had his same capabilities to make great selling movies.

This was also due to Du Jingnan's notoriously high, high demands. He was very particular with the scripts' plots. He was also very particular with the actors that he chose.