Chapter 3 – Little White Rabbit

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The phone had still been held in his hand for too long and it was slightly hot. Bai Lang paused for a few seconds and then finally decided to dial a number.

In his previous life, he had never once before called this number voluntarily.

However it had always been saved inside his phone.

[Du–du–du—], then there was the sound of the call being connected. "Who is it!?"

The deep and husky voice sounded angry, it seemed like the person on the other end hadn't even had time to open their eyes yet.

"It's me, Bai Lang." Bai Lang looked again at the digital clock. It was still August 23rd 20XX, 4AM in the morning.

"Does Mr Chou have time to talk?"

"Do you have something in the afternoon? Brother Lang, are you going somewhere ah?"

The young voice on the phone belonged to Bai Lang's assistant Xiao Yang, Yang GuoZhong.

Bai Lang had previously considered Yang GuoZhong a faithful and loyal assistant who had helped him in many situations, even down to the details of selecting his lunch boxes and creating multiple accounts to help talk for him on the internet. Once Bai Lang had completely trusted him and had no guard against him at all.

However after the incident regarding the video of the yacht party, his assistant was suddenly changed from Xiao Yang to Er Hong, whose real name was Hong Hong. {T/N: "Er" means two, referring to the fact that Hong Hong's name has 2 Hong's. They are different characters but pronounced similarly.} It was not until then that Bai Lang knew that other than being his assistant, Xiao Yang had another job, and that was selling news about the private lives of stars to the paparazzi.

He clearly had such a friendly and happy face, with a liveliness that brightened the atmosphere everywhere. However in reality he was doing all he could to get close to the assistants of other famous stars, and through casual conversation he was trying to glean information that he could sell. Until that moment Bai Lang finally realized that the news about Bai Li's debt was leaked most likely because Xiao Yang was by his side and overheard Bai Lang to Bai Li when the other person was yelling at him and begging for help.

Because after all when an underground money lender was trying to chase a debt, they would keep it secret from the outside world. They obviously knew that Bai Li had Bai Lang behind him to help repay his debt, so the underground money lender would not do anything so stupid as to destroy Bai Lang's fortune and also expose themselves in the process. {T/N: It's underground because it's illegal, hence the huge interest rate. A loan shark. Probably I should have used that term instead haha, but the Chinese "underground money manor" sounded more sinister lol.}

Originally Bai Lang had been suspicious that it was Chou Qian who had leaked the news. After all Bai Lang had no choice but to ask the company to lend him money. He had also received a phone call from Chou Qian asking him if he wanted to reconsider the matter of being a kept lover. But now that Bai Lang thought about it, it was more likely that Chou Qian only had a passing interest. But because of that, in this life, Bai Lang finally had the courage to make that phone call last night.

Towards Xiao Yang's question, Bai Lang only said vaguely, "I'm going to see the boss. I have some things to discuss with him."

"The boss!? Big boss Chou?!" The voice on the phone rose two octaves. "How come ah!? Is it a new drama or what? You should tell me these kinds of things ah! Okay, is it tomorrow afternoon? I'll take brother Lang there. Where are you meeting?. I'll take you brother Lang, you don't have a car right?"