Mr. Zhou Doesn’t Want to Work Hard Anymore!

The harder others work, the luckier they are. The harder I work…

Zhou Chenxi fell into thinking about why his life was so miserable. He heard a strange voice from the phone on the ground. After the elevator stabilized, he hurriedly picked it up.

Lu Ji sat for a while after watching Zhou Chenxi’s performance, when his assistant suddenly came over and whispered a few words to him.

Lu’s business partner arrived early. They were going to talk about a big project today, so Lu Ji had to leave.

The vice president sighed that Mr. Lu was always busy, and he sat for a while then left, standing up and sending him to the door.

Someone had waited by the elevator to press the button for Lu Ji as he arrived.

But the elevators that were fairly fast in the past had been waiting for a long time and hadn’t come up yet.

Lu Ji didn’t come to this office building often so the company didn’t install direct elevators for him. There were two public elevators in place. One of them wasn’t moving, and not even the lights were on. It was obviously broken.

The staff member who was in charge of pressing the elevator for Lu Ji turned around and quietly asked into the headset, “What’s the matter with the elevator in the office building? Ask someone to repair it immediately.”

With a ‘ding’, the elevator next to it came up and a sweaty man came out, “Where are you? I’m on the twentieth floor…what?”

Maybe the other party’s voice was too loud, so Lu Ji looked at him.

“The elevator is broken? What floor are you on now?” Zhi Qi glanced at Lu Ji and others next to him while holding his mobile phone.

“Where I am…I am with someone!” Zhi Qi put down the phone and asked the people who looked at him, “Can you help, my artist is trapped in the elevator, are you…?”

Zhi Qi felt that the man in front of him was a bit familiar.

Lu Ji turned his head to the people behind him, “When will the maintenance personnel arrive?”

When the staff member heard that someone was trapped in the elevator, he ran to the side and made a call again.

Zhi Qi didn’t know Lu Ji, so he handed out a business card unconsciously, “I am Zhou Chenxi’s agent at Tianwang Entertainment. Oh, Zhou Chenxi is an actor who came to audition today.”

“Zhou Chenxi?” Lu Ji took the business card and looked at it, “Is he trapped in the elevator?”

“Yes!” Zhi Qi wiped his sweat anxiously, “I don’t know what’s going on.”

Lu Ji was silent.

After a while, the person in charge who went to call came back, “Mr. Lu, the repairman has been contacted and he is on his way, but he reminded us to pay attention to the safety of the elevator personnel.”

Mr. Lu?

Zhi Qi was taken aback.

This isn’t the CEO Lu that he was thinking of, right?

The tall man turned around to the staff, “Go and see which floor the elevator is stopped at.”

“Oh, I can ask him directly,” Zhi Qi recovered and spoke to the phone, “Chenxi, do you know which floor you are on?”

Zhou Chenxi replied on the phone, “It should be the eighth floor…”

Lu Ji turned to walk towards the stairs.

“Hey, President Lu!” The staff behind him hurriedly followed.

When he reached the eighth floor, Lu Ji was about to start when someone nearby came up to help him open the elevator door.

Lu Ji looked inside. There was no elevator car, it was on the below floor. He called out, “Zhou Chenxi?”

“I’m here!” A crying voice came up from below immediately, “I won’t act anymore! Wuwuwu, mom! I don’t want to work hard anymore, I’ll go back just to eat and wait to die wuwuwu!”

Lu Ji, “…”

He turned his head and said to the person behind him, “Tell the man who’s repairing the elevator to come straight up to the seventh floor.”

After that, he went down to the next level.

He was tall with long legs, the people behind him could barely keep up.

Waiting for someone to go up and help open the elevator door, Lu Ji squatted down and asked half of the exposed elevator car, “Zhou Chenxi, can you see me?”

Zhou Chenxi raised his head in the elevator.

Lu Ji’s well-defined chin and dark eyes caught his eye, and his body seemed to be covered with light.

Zhou Chenxi was holding a bag of tears, and the short hair on his forehead was wet with sweat. He hiccuped while crying: “I see you.. hic… Mr. Lu…”

“…..”

“Mr. Lu,” someone came over next to him, “The repairman is still on the way, we found someone to fix the elevator car as he told us, and they said we should pull the person up first.”

Lu Ji had already taken off his suit jacket.

He only had on a light-colored button-up shirt inside. He unbuttoned the first button, rolled up his sleeves, stretched out his hand to Zhou Chenxi, “Hold onto me, I will pull you up.”

“Mr. Lu, I’ll do it!” The person next to him came up to help.

“Mr. Lu, that’s enough!”

Zhou Chenxi stood on his tiptoes and grabbed Lu Ji’s hand. After being pulled, he struggled to grab the edge of the floor and crawled out of the gap with the help of the crowd.

Lu Ji’s exquisite and high-end clothes were dirty, but Zhou Chenxi had already thrown away his image, kneeling on the ground, and saying weakly, “The harder others work, the luckier they are. The harder I work, the more unlucky I am. Brother Qi, I give up. I am going home to farm!”

Zhi Qi: “…”

“Didn’t you win this audition?” Lu Ji didn’t know where he got so much poisonous chicken soup from, “Just go back and prepare well. How do you know you can’t succeed if you don’t try?”

Zhou Chenxi raised his eyes to look at him with some teardrops stuck on his curled eyelashes, and muttered to himself, “I tried it, but it doesn’t work…”

But Zhi Qi noticed what Lu Ji said, “What? Zhou Chenxi! You got the role? Great!”

He hurriedly helped Zhou Chenxi up, thanked Lu Ji and the other staff again and again. In fear that Zhou Chenxi would talk nonsense, he helped him downstairs from the safety exit.

When they got downstairs, Lu Ji patted the dust on his suit, and said to the assistant, “Add a personal insurance to Zhou Chenxi’s contract… we’ll pay for it for him.”

On the way back, Zhi Qi was extremely excited and quite proud. “the child is finally promising” he thought. It must be said that Zhou Chenxi was really unlucky before. From the perspective of Zhi Qi as an agent, Zhou Chenxi is not bad. He’s talented, his strength and appearance are also ranked high in the circle, but his luck is a little bit bad. For example, joining 《I Am an Acting School》 was very fierce and he would always get caught in strange situations.

But it was all right now, finally a big rock in his heart was dislodged.

Zhi Qi opened Weibo and posted on Zhou Chenxi’s account that had 50,000 zombie fans bought by the company, “I’ll edit a draft for you, and when Lu sends the contract over, you can post this on Weibo.”

Zhou Chenxi was disinterested, “Oh”.

Those who pay attention to him were all zombie fans. What was the difference between posting or not?

After bidding farewell to Zhi Qi and returning home, the housekeeper had been waiting at the door and told Zhou Chenxi that Zhou Mingxuan had returned from the company.

Zhou Chenxi snuck around the living room and saw Zhou Mingxuan sitting on the sofa. He didn’t intend to disturb him and was about to go upstairs quietly, when Zhou Mingxuan stopped him, “Where are you going?”

Zhou Chenxi turned around silently.

Zhou Mingxuan was looking through the newspaper in his hands. He raised his head and glanced over Zhou Chenxi, “Sit.”

“Where did you go today?” Zhou Mingxuan turned a page of the newspaper.

Zhou Mingxuan looks a bit like Zhou Chenxi, but his facial features are stronger. Perhaps because of his status as president, Zhou Chenxi thought Zhou Mingxuan looked closer to Lu Ji, but when Zhou Mingxuan looked at people indifferently, Zhou Chenxi couldn’t help but feel a little nervous.

“I… went to an audition.” Zhou Chenxi thought for a while, but decided to tell the truth.

“Didn’t you say that you don’t plan to be in the entertainment industry anymore?” Zhou Mingxuan asked.

“But…” Zhou Chenxi couldn’t find any reason.

He thought, if his brother disagreed this time, he would really just give up. Nothing was more important than his family. He didn’t want to be so nervous that they would have a tragedy like in his previous life.

Really, he had enough for today. It’s hard to guarantee that it wouldn’t happen again.

“Go ahead,” Zhou Mingxuan turned another page of the newspaper and said in a low voice, “Anyway, I can’t hold you back, but don’t run out without a word this time. The company position is still reserved for you. I’m telling you before-hand so you can’t push it off next time you come to the company to work.”

A thrill of joy rushed Zhou Chenxi. He didn’t expect that his brother was so good to him in life. He really ignored the feelings of too many family members. Chenxi couldn’t help but rush up to hug Zhou Mingxuan, “Brother, you are so good!”

“Tsk…” Zhou Mingxuan pushed him away, “Don’t be sticky, what do I look like!”

Zhou Chenxi saw his red ears, stepped back, and laughed a little. He calmly thought about it, and reminded Zhou Mingxuan, “Brother, do you know Lu’s?”

“Of course,” Zhou Mingxuan put down the newspaper, “What’s the matter?”

“It’s nothing…” Zhou Chenxi said hurriedly, “I mean, it’d be better to stay away from Lu Ji.”

Zhou Mingxuan thought about it, “Lu Ji? I’ve heard of him. His ability and skill are quite high. The composition of the Lu family is complicated. Unlike our family, he was not liked by the previous Master in the Lu family, but he climbed to this position somehow. Our family has nothing to do with this person in terms of business or other aspects, but you, I heard that the variety show that you participated in before was sponsored by Lu’s?”

Sure enough, nothing can escape my brother’s eyes.

Zhou Chenxi was a little weak and hesitated, “Yes, anyway, I heard about him, and I know he’s not a good person. Brother, you must be careful not to confront him.”

Zhou Mingxuan said helplessly, “You little fool, still need you to remind me? If you have the leisure to help me take care of the company, the parents will definitely be happy.

Zhou Chenxi got a headache when he heard about the company, and yawned, “Brother, I’m tired. I’m going up to sleep first, so I won’t bother you!”

After speaking, he rushed upstairs like a rabbit.

Zhou Mingxuan shook his head.

At this time, on the other side of the city, Lu Ji, who was busy in a meeting, suddenly sneezed inexplicably.

“President Lu,” the assistant beside him hurriedly asked, “Do you need to see a doctor?”

Mr. Lu hadn’t taken a good rest for a few days. Did he catch a cold?

“It’s okay.” Lu Ji thought one sneeze was because someone scolded him, two sneezes were because someone missed him, and three sneezes were a cold.

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The author has something to say: Yes, yes, Mr. Lu has a brilliant plan.

Note: After much scientific research, one cannot directly climb out of a failed elevator so the plot has been slightly changed.