Chapter 587: Lawlessness

Pan Jinlong naturally couldn’t stand being surpassed by others.

“You just recharged 500 bucks? Well, I’ll recharge a thousand to crush you,” he thought to himself.

So, after recharging a thousand, Pan Jinlong’s character’s combat power skyrocketed. He became an existence that could annihilate heaven, earth, and air in seconds and was worshipped by everyone as the most badass character.

This feeling was exhilarating for Pan Jinlong, even more thrilling than reading online novels!

He went on to seek this thrill in even higher-level worlds, continuously spending money, continuously enjoying the rush.

Amongst this euphoria, he played the game for an entire night.

From 9 p.m. until 7 a.m. the following morning.

Eventually, he was so exhausted that he had to stop.

After rubbing his face, he checked how much money he’d spent.

Unbeknownst to him until he checked, it gave him quite the shock.

He’d actually spent ninety thousand in one night!

“Holy shit, how could I have spent so much money?!” Pan Jinlong, who was extremely cautious with his finances, snapped back to reality. “Damn it, this game is addictive. I spent so much without even realizing it!”

He felt as if he’d been duped, which made his complexion turn rather unsightly.

When it came to reading online novels, he’d rather endure ads than spend over a hundred bucks to become a member.

And yet, he’d spent ninety thousand on some damn game in one night.

He couldn’t handle it.

“No, I can’t play this game anymore. If I keep on playing, all my money will go into this. I must quit this game!”

Before sleeping, Pan Jinlong murmured nonstop.

But in his mind, he kept revisiting the scenes where he dominated the game and received countless people’s admiration.

That sensation was just too awesome.

As for whether or not to continue spending money on the game after waking up, that was a decision to be made after he awoke.@@novelbin@@

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Harbor City.

Gu Tianle was an old artist from Harbor City.

Like most old artists in Harbor City, Gu Tianle was incredibly hardworking, rivaling the model laborer Liu Dehua.

Even Liu Dehua once said in public that Gu Tianle was more tenacious than him.

The current film industry in Harbor City was lacking fresh talent; there were no promising newcomers to boast of.

There was a time when Xie Tingfeng was highly regarded, and even Zhou Runfa said in an award ceremony that Harbor City’s next twenty to thirty years would be reliant on Xie Tingfeng.

But Xie Tingfeng found filmmaking too exhausting and not very lucrative, so he simply stopped acting and went into the culinary business instead.

Cooking was not only easier, but it also paid better. Occasionally, he would be a judge or a guest on a show, making easy money.

Of course, he would occasionally return to filmmaking as a diversion.

Chen Guanxi, too, was once entrusted with high hopes by the Harbor City film circle.

Unfortunately, following a scandalous photo leak, he completely left the entertainment industry and turned to designing clothes.

Another one named Du Wenzhe was also highly anticipated.

However, this artist named Du Wenzhe preferred to be a lapdog for foreigners rather than be a dignified Chinese person, so he could no longer continue acting.

Now, the Harbor City film industry was still being supported by the older generation of artists, with Gu Tianle being one of the representatives.

The new Harbor City films, especially those with significant investments, were led by just a few old actors.

Gu Tianle, Liu Qingyun, or it would be Zhang Jiahui, Liu Dehua, Guo Fuchen, Zhou Runfa—just these few familiar faces.

As for movie themes, it was always the same: cop movies, gangster movies, action movies, and gambling movies.

Those people, those themes, they kept on recycling.

Even if these movies were of high quality, audiences grew tired of them.

Not to mention, many of the films were downright terrible.

Thus, the decline of Harbor City’s film industry seemed inevitable.

Gu Tianle was a Harbor City filmmaker who produced the most films every year, without equal.

As the year was coming to an end, Gu Tianle had basically finished shooting all the films that needed to be done.

No matter whether they were terrible or not, the point was, he had no more films to shoot for the rest of the year.

He was just at home, playing his favorite video games on his console.

But just as he was really getting into his games, his agent arrived.

Bringing along news that infuriated him.

His agent actually said he was “cucked”!

When he heard that he had been “cucked,” Gu Tianle promptly dropped his game console, grabbed his agent by the collar, and asked with a furious face, “What’s going on? How have I been ‘cucked’? Did you see my girlfriend with someone?”

Gu Tianle, though quite old, wasn’t married but had a girlfriend.

His girlfriend was very mysterious; most people knew nothing about her.

He and his girlfriend were very much in love, and he was already thinking about picking a time to give her a wedding.

He really couldn’t believe his girlfriend would cheat on him.

He knew the entertainment industry was a mess.

For women in the entertainment industry, it was very hard to stay out of trouble.

Some didn’t want to, but simply had no way to resist.

Just like Liu Jialin back in the day, with certain unsuitable-for-children photos spreading everywhere.

Liang Chaowei could be magnanimous, and not mind.

Gu Tianle asked himself, and admitted he couldn’t be that forgiving in this regard.

So, he thought having a girlfriend from the industry was risky, as it was easy to get cheated on, and chose a girlfriend outside of it.

If even she cheated on him, he really wouldn’t know how to stop crying.

“Brother Le, don’t get agitated,” his agent Xie Jinghang, seeing Gu Tianle’s murderous look, knew he had misunderstood and quickly explained, “It’s not you who’s been ‘cucked’, but there’s an ad involving you that’s unauthorized. This ad has gone viral, and the slogan ‘Gu Tianle got cucked’ is now known by the whole nation.”

Upon hearing this, Gu Tianle finally took a deep breath of relief.

Well, as long as his girlfriend hadn’t cheated on him, that was what mattered.

Otherwise, he really would have had to find a place to cry.

Letting go of Xie Jinghang’s collar, he asked in confusion, “What’s the situation exactly? Tell me quickly!”

Xie Jinghang opened his phone and typed in the five characters “Gu Tianle got cucked.”

Then an advertisement popped up.

“Gu Tianle got cucked! Gu Tianle got cucked!”

“Surprises abound, earn tens of thousands a month!”

“A green game where you don’t spend money but still earn money, waiting for you to play!”

“Exchange equipment for cash, trade freely, withdraw cash anytime!”

Hearing each of these ridiculous ad phrases, Gu Tianle’s face turned black: “I never endorsed this game at all!”

Xie Jinghang said, “Yes, you didn’t endorse it. The game company just took your picture, did a simple Photoshop job, then found someone to dub over it, and created this vulgar advertisement. Now your image has been greatly affected!”

Gu Tianle angrily said, “This is preposterous, they are lawless!”

Xie Jinghang said, “Truly lawless. If it were a regular copyright infringement, we might overlook it, but this infringement has become nationally known, it’s just too lawless. The impact is too malicious, even worse than the Michael Jordan copyright case!”

The Michael Jordan copyright case was a particularly notorious infringement.

When the Jordan sports clothing brand emerged, everyone thought it was founded by the famous American basketball star Michael Jordan.

Only after basketball star Michael Jordan took the Jordan sports clothing company to court and the media exposed it did people realize that the Jordan sports clothing brand had no connection whatsoever with Michael Jordan.

It also led people to exclaim that the person behind the creation of the Jordan sports clothing brand was incredibly audacious!

The egregious copyright infringement of “Greedy Play Today,” so unbashedly blatant and lawless, infuriated Gu Tianle to the point of outrage.