Exclusive Model for the Top Painter Chapter 86

Victory Song for the Reversal of the Situation

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When Liang Jin arrived at Tian Han, the normally orderly reception hall looked unusually depressed.

When he met Wen Di, he was signing documents in his office. Saying goodbye to the clean and tidy style of the past, his desktop was actually a mess.

Liang Jin said, "Wen Di, do you need me to help you tidy up a bit?" Just as he was about to make a move to tidy up, Wen Di immediately shouted in a frightening manner, "Don't touch these things!!! I had a hard time sorting them out!!!"

Liang Jin once again glanced towards the desk, how can you call this mess sorted?

Why does it feel like Tian Han suddenly became disorganised when Ji Shen was away?

He adjusted his mind and said to Wen Di, "I'm here to resign with Tian Han."

Wen Di looked up at him in surprise, "Are you serious?"

"How can I lie about this?"

Wen Di pointed to the pile of paper documents in the corner of the desk that was as high as a small mountain and said, "See this stack of contracts? They are all applying to terminate their contracts with Tian Han."

"This... so many?"

Wen Di pointed to the cardboard box in the corner, "There's more in there."

"They're them, I'm me."

"Have you really thought this through? Joining Tian Han now is like getting caught in the freezing rain when you go out in the cold winter months."

"You're so full of nonsense."

Wen Di laughed and pulled out a document from his desktop, "Okay, since you're so anxious, I'll do your entry first. How many years do you want to sign?"

"How many years can I sign for?"

"Tian Han's contracts are divided into three categories, short-term, medium-term and long-term, which are three, five and ten years respectively."

"I want to sign for fifty years, is that okay?"

The hand Wen Di was holding the mouse with trembled: "Are you joking?"

"Do I look like I'm joking?"

"Fifty years? Are you selling yourself to Tian Han?"

"Not only that," Liang Jin solemnly said, "amend the terms, all the income I personally earn will go to Tian Han. Tian Han will just pay me some food expenses every month, after all, I can't starve to death."

Wen Di carefully surveyed Liang Jin for a while with the eyes of one who cares for a cherished animal: "Liang Jin, has anyone ever said that you're foolish?"

"So what?"

"Not only foolish, but also stupid."

"Thanks for the compliment."

"Honestly, you being like this has moved me wholeheartedly." Wen Di sighed while printing the contract, "If Director Ji knew, he would definitely shed tears on the spot."

"He won't."

"I mean," Wen Di stamped the contract and handed it to Liang Jin to sign, "Director Ji didn't believe in you wrongly, Tian Han didn't choose you wrongly, and I didn't look at you wrongly either. A friend in need is a friend indeed."

"I'm just doing what I can, you'd better think about how to bring down Ji Wenbin."

Wen Di hesitated for a while and said meaningfully, "In this matter, you have to trust Director Ji, everything is within his plan, there will be no problems."

"Mhmm, I trust him."

Liang Jin signed the contract and ran away, and Wen Di asked from behind, "Where are you going?"

"I just received several job offers, Ji Shen is not here, I need to make money to support Tian Han!"

Wen Di: ......

———

Liang Jin worked hard throughout the whole next day.

At around nine in the evening, he came down from the office building with the materials for the next day's advert modelling shoot in his hand.

Tired and sleepy, Liang Jin thought about drinking a cup of coffee to wake up.

Choosing a quiet spot in the corner of the coffee shop, Liang Jin drank his coffee while studying the material.

Perhaps he was too tired, it hadn't even been half an hour before he fell asleep on the pages of the book.

The shop assistant just wanted to remind him to be careful of catching a cold, but she was stopped by someone.

That person made a silent gesture towards her, quietly took off his jacket and tenderly draped it over Liang Jin.

And then sat beside him, quietly accompanying him.

Liang Jin was originally immersed in sleep when the scent of his lover suddenly filled his nose.

It was the unique scent of Ji Shen's body, which resembled the thick end notes of patchouli and cedar, elegant and steady.

His eyelashes fluttered as he woke up from his shallow sleep, his voice tinged with a hint of huskiness, "Ji Shen?"

Ji Xiuyuan held his hand, "I'm sorry, did I wake you up?"

"It's really you," Liang Jin's tiredness seemed to have swept away, his eyes staring brightly at him, "I missed you so much! Ji Shen!"

"Mhmm, me too." Ji Xiuyuan leaned down and kissed him on the forehead, "Let's go back and rest."

"Okay. By the way Ji Shen, how did you find me?"

"GPS location."

"Yuan Yuan, I thought you didn't have this particular surveillance fetish anymore."

"Xiao Jin, it was a measure that had to be employed for your safety."

"Seeing how much you care about me, I'll reluctantly forgive you."

When he came out of the office building, light snow was falling outside.

Ji Xiuyuan held his jacket open, just enough to cover the two of them.

On the snowy evening, Ji Xiuyuan said, "Xiao Jin, I heard that you mortgaged yourself to Tian Han."

"Yeah."

"Why did you do that?"

"You tell me."

"Xiao Jin, I'm sorry."

"What are you apologising for?"

"I cancelled your contract earlier because I was afraid that you would be implicated by me."

"Mhmm, I know, I don't blame you."

"It's all over." Ji Xiuyuan paused for a moment, gazing earnestly at Liang Jin's face, "In the future, I will never let go again."

Travelling to the parking lot, Wen Di was already waiting there. As the two of them got into the car, Liang Jin couldn't help but ask: "Ji Shen, what does it mean that everything is already over? Ji Wenbin is finished? Tian Han is fine?"

"Mhmm, Xiao Jin, have you had dinner?"

"I've been working all day today, so I didn't have time to eat at all. Wait, don't change the subject. Wen Di said that all of this was your plan, so what exactly is the situation now?"

Ji Xiuyuan clearly had no interest in this topic, so Wen Di had to interject and say, "Ji Wenbin's money is money involved in blackmail in the US, and he's already been arrested. The charges against Tian Han are completely groundless. In fact, we grasped the relevant evidence a week ago, we just haven't been able to show our cards."

"Are you guys playing Internal Affairs?" Liang Jin poked Ji Xiuyuan's face in dissatisfaction, "Yuan Yuan, you actually hid it from me! I thought that Tian Han was really finished!!!"

Ji Xiuyuan held his fingers and kissed them, "Xiao Jin, this matter is very risky, and I don't have the certainty of winning. I didn't want you to get involved in it, and I didn't want you to be affected in the slightest."

Wen Di's tone was filled with a sense of relief after disaster: "Ji Wenbin is indeed difficult to deal with. His previous gesture of frantically investing US dollars was like the US money printing plant was run by his family. That's when we felt something was wrong. It was only later that we found out that he was involved in blackmail in the US and had somehow managed to get a large sum of money from somewhere, his son was also doomed because of this. He had no choice but to escape back to his country, wanting to use the name of investment to launder money."

Liang Jin asked, "Then why was he targeting Tian Han?"

"He has been away from the country for so long, and Tian Han is the company he knows best. Besides, only a company as huge as Tian Han can be a cover for his money laundering. All in all, he's just making a desperate attempt."

"Then why did you guys let him have the chance to sue Tian Han if you have the evidence?"

Wen Di knocked on the steering wheel and said smugly, "Director Ji's move is called playing the cat and mouse game! I've long been unhappy with the group of old men on the board of directors who are two-faced and have evil intentions. Only when the tide goes out will we know who is swimming naked. When Tian Han was strong, each one of them relied on their old age and pretended to be a human being. In the face of the crisis, they immediately show their true colours, eating inside and outside, tearing off their faces, and beating them down with a rake. Tian Han simply doesn't need such people."

Liang Jin understood that Ji Shen was using this crisis to purge Tian Han of its traitors!

Before the crisis, Tian Han was still the old Tian Han.

After the crisis, Tian Han would definitely rise from the ashes and truly become the pure art palace in Ji Shen's vision.

———

After returning to the villa, it was nearly eleven o'clock at night.

Ji Xiuyuan was cooking congee in the kitchen, and Liang Jin was sitting on the carpet playing with Amber.

Ever since Amber swept his Lego motorcycle construction apart with its tail, Liang Jin had been extraordinarily vindictive and secretly competed with it. Every time, he teased the silly cat to the point of dizziness, staring with big, innocent eyes that doubted its life, and then he would laugh, lift Amber high in the air, comfort it for a while, and unilaterally announce that the two of them had reached a reconciliation.

Just when he was having fun, his cell phone suddenly rang with continuous beeps.

Liang Jin picked it up and saw that 99+ new emails had been received in his mailbox.

His heart thumped and he secretly gulped.

Tapping the inbox and scanning the subject of the emails, he really didn't know whether he should be happy or sad.

Previously, he had mistakenly thought that Tian Han was in a crisis, so Liang Jin had gone crazy and put in his resume for all the recruitment projects of almost all the companies in the industry, seeking job opportunities.

Even the international first-tier brands, such as Christian Dior, Chanel, Elie Saab, Valentino, Givenchy and so on, which he did not even dare to think about before, have all received his resume.

Liang Jin had thought that his job search information would sink into the sea, but he didn't realise that these brands were actually interested in him and actually threw him an olive branch.

If he took these job offers, it would mean that he would have to start working twenty-four hours a day.

If he refused, he was not willing to do so. It was an offer from a major international brand in the fashion industry!

So he could only agree with tears in his eyes and complained to Ji Xiuyuan, "Yuan Yuan, Christian Dior actually fancies me!"

Ji Xiuyuan brought the cooked congee to the table and gave Liang Jin a bowl, "This shows that they have good eyes."

Sitting at the table, Ji Xiuyuan scooped up the congee with a spoon, blew on it and handed it to Liang Jin.

Liang Jin bit down on the spoon and swallowed the congee, and at the end, he licked the spoon out of habit.

Ji Xiuyuan looked at him with a devious gaze.

Liang Jin was completely unaware of it and continued to talk, "Chanel actually fancies me too!"

"Xiao Jin, you already had this strength."

"And Elie Saab, Valentino and Givenchy!!!"

"So many invitations? Don't get too tired, just pick one or two."

"But the prices they're offering are so high!"

"Xiao Jin, do you remember, the contract you signed this morning, all your money goes to Tian Han, hmm?"

"Isn't Tian Han's money your money? Your money equals my money, isn't it all the same?"

Ji Xiuyuan smiled and rubbed his hair, "Mhmm."

Watching Liang Jin finish his congee, Ji Xiuyuan asked, "Xiao Jin, are you tired today?"

"A little bit, why?"

"Then do you still want to..."

"Want!" Liang Jin insisted, "I'm not tired when I see you, Yuan Yuan! In fact, after coming out from the cafe, I wanted to kiss you, and also wanted to make love in the car! But wasn't that light bulb Wen Di there? So I didn't have the nerve to tell you."

Wen Di: ...???

The bottom of Ji Xiuyuan's eyes flooded with some scorching heat: "I understand. Xiao Jin, go wash up first. There's still a lot of time left tonight."

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Translator Notes

Please feel free to comment any mistakes I made so I can improve and do better as I go through the book.

Translated: November 6, 2023