King of Hollywood

Chapter 125

That's the plan.

Adrian knew what she was thinking and what was going on, and in fact, he was the one who condoned it. After all, as a well-known media outlet, People is different from those in the tabloids, and if the negative news involved has a significant impact on celebrities, they all notify each other a few days in advance to get them ready to respond, as was the case the last time the American Weekly reported on Lily.

So Adrian had been informed before the story came out that, as chairman of the board of directors of AC Media, he was naturally treated differently from ordinary celebrities. But he didn't care, just to be implied that it was best to have a smaller scale, so there was the story in People Now, and there was the situation.

Therefore, it is not wrong to say that this was condoned by him, and that is because Adrian had his own considerations.

“Don't worry, Jesse, although I haven't responded, I've been watching," he said with a smile to Jessica, "you can always press the stop button. ”

After a pause, he continued, and the smile on his face brought a reassuring feeling: “I know what you're thinking, Jesse, don't worry, wait for Mary to be able to run around in two or three more years, and then bring it to your parents. If you see such a lovely granddaughter, Mr. Alba won't be happy or mean to each other anymore, it's not... hey! ”

He was saying that Marie in her arms was getting naughty again, biting him in the face with her mouth open, and Adrian could totally feel the little guy's teeth moving up and down, seemingly really trying to bite one down.

“Don't beam there, give me a hand.” Adrian couldn't push his daughter hard enough and could only scream at Jessica next door.

Jessica beamed for a few seconds, then chuckled and, after hearing Adrian call for help, not only stood still, but clapped her hands: "Well done, Marie. ”

The unbearable look made her look pretty sweet and Jessica was essentially a playful young girl.

Perhaps it was an illusion that Adrian always felt that Marie was chewing harder after getting her mother's encouragement... but when he tried to convince Jessica to help him further, the doorbell suddenly rang, and the young fiancée slipped out under the pretext of opening the door, making Adrian couldn't help but flip her eyes.

“Well, little fella, you should have had enough.” I finally got rid of my daughter's mouth, Adrian, while walking out and pinching her little face, "are you a puppy? You weren't born in dog years. ”

Mary threw up her tongue and giggled, completely unable to understand what Dad was saying, and then she heard Jessica shouting from the door, followed by a man's voice: "Surprise! ”

Adrian picked his eyebrows and walked past with his daughter in his arms, then saw an 18- or 9-year-old holding Jessica with enthusiasm, while Jessica looked panicked to Adrian's side. Without waiting for Adrian to react, the young man noticed Jessica's anomaly and then looked over there.

He was stunned for a moment, some wondered why a man appeared here with a child in his arms, but when he recognized the man, he thought of the entertainment headlines for a few days and opened his eyes. Though somewhat incredible, he did grasp the truth in an instant, and perhaps every brother-in-law with a harmonious family relationship would see a hole in his sister's life. That's right. The young man who broke in screaming "surprise” was Jessica's brother, Joshua? Alba.

“Jesse... Jesse... sister... you...” Joshua looked at Adrian, looked at her sister again, stuttered and didn't say a complete word.

He managed to find out from other people that his sister rented an apartment here, and that Jessica would inevitably reveal some unusual joy before coming home. He concluded that she already had a boyfriend. After recovering from the blow, Joshua snuck up and wanted to “expose” her sister. I didn't expect to see such a picture.

“What's up, Joshua, you got... what's up?” Jessica barely smiled and wanted to struggle again, but Adrian broke her hopes with one word: “Look who's here, Mary, that's Mom's brother. ”

Marie curiously opened her eyes and gauged Joshua, suddenly happily waving her arms up for a moment, screaming with her big tongue: "Mom's brother, Mom's brother. ”

“Look, Joshua, Mary loves you.” Adrian added immediately to the snow.

“Sister... this is all... this is all...” Joshua shook her fingers up at Adrian and Marie, still unable to say a complete word.

“I… I can explain Joshua…” Jessica sighed very helplessly and then turned her head to stare at Adrian, "I will explain to you in a quiet room. ”

She said that, and Adrian naturally avoided her daughter, and it only took 10 minutes for Jessica to make the whole thing clear. The whole process was not complicated: she met Adrian, then she was attracted to him, then she had a relationship, and she was accidentally shot, and with Adrian's promise, she gave birth to the baby.

Of course, in Joshua's ears, these are no less than a glimmer of thunder.

“No wonder you - haven't been home for a while under various pretexts... and my mother was rather unhappy about it...” Joshua said in a somewhat disillusioned manner.

“I'm sorry, Joshua,” Jessica shrugged helplessly, "you know how Dad would react if he knew about this, and I dare not...”

“So you live with Adrian?” Joshua had a dark face, some incredible and some teeth bitten, you know that my sister was only 20 years old! I'm only 20 years old and I have a child who is almost 2 years old. This is...

“Do you know he's a playboy, his rumors are pretty much true, and he's got other kids, haven't you seen the latest entertainment news?” Joshua said urgently.

“I know, Joshua, I know all this,” Jessica calmed down, “I know more than you, his woman, his child. ”

“Then you still...” Joshua gestured, not knowing how to face her sister.

“I...” Jessica mumbled her lips, "I think this is good, Ed was nice to me, never made me angry, would have fooled me on the phone even if I wasn't around, and I tried so hard to arrange the right role for me, I felt safe with him, and... I would never let Mary leave me. ”

“He threatened you?” Joshua only listened to the last sentence.

“Joshua!” Jessica screamed angrily, but her heart trembled slightly. When she was scared to ask for help because of her pregnancy, Adrian gave her a deep impression, especially those three conditions, which made her irresistible, presumably one of the reasons why she remained with him in obedience.

Of course, Jessica knew that, and although she was not very smart, she saw it clearly after the Penelope incident - and Adrian borrowed Penelope to warn her of it. But it also has nothing to do with his constant attitude towards women, who, as Jessica said, have never been very angry because of his jealousy, anxiety, dissatisfaction with things, and these negative emotions have not lasted long, so she has grown accustomed to all of this and is not used to comparing certain things.

“It's my choice, Joshua,” Jessica said at the end, "I have the right to choose my life, and I want you not to tell Mom and Dad about it for now, okay? ”

Joshua opened her mouth and probably wanted to ask her when she was going to tell her parents, but eventually she didn't ask. She just sighed: "I'm going to talk to Adrian, alone. ”

Adrian was naturally obliged to do so, and even if Joshua did not do so, he would have offered to do so.

“Try it, I cooked it," Adrian brought a cup of coffee to Joshua, "privately I enjoyed doing some chores on my own, which felt good, especially when someone was with me. ”

Joshua took the cup and put it down, and looked at him and asked, “Don't you think it's bad, Adrian? ”

It has to be said that young people are impulses, and if they were to change to someone else, even if they were unhappy, they would not question Adrian in this way.

Adrian, of course, doesn't compare these, just smiles: "What do you mean? ”

“Anything else to say?” Joshua, open your hand. "You're a playboy, Adrian. You've been having sex with so many women, and now you're hooking up with my sister...”

“Hitching is not a good word, Joshua. Jesse and I were in love.” Adrian straightened out when interrupted.

Joshua, who was held up, coughed up dry and swallowed his saliva and went on without hesitation: “Well, even so, it's just a one-night stand, but you made her pregnant and gave birth to her...”

“Are you going to have an abortion if you're not born?” Adrian interrupted him again.

Joshua stared at him, so halfway out of breath, and his breath softened a lot: "Why are you doing this, Adrian? Until then, I've always admired you, but... why did you keep Jesse? Can you make my sister happy? ”

“Happiness is a feeling, a very personal feeling, when a person thinks she is happy now, perhaps she is not happy at all in the eyes of others," Adrian smiled softly, "You are not your sister, Joshua, you are not sure if she is happy or unhappy. Of course, I don't know either, so I can only observe as much as I can and give her everything she wants. ”

He sat up straight and looked at Joshua without blinking: "I know what you're trying to say, Joshua, but as a man, especially a powerful man, the pursuit of beauty is natural, and you and those two girls had a good time at Wendell's. ”

The young man was a little blushed when he got excited about talking to the two girls at the bar and then left to play with the threesome. He was one of the few ridiculous things, but... How did he know? By this time, after being interrupted twice, the accumulated momentum had been revealed to Joshua, which suddenly realized that the man in front of him was not a normal person, speaking of which, he was able to get a few good characters in popular TV shows, and had nothing to do with him.

“But... but...” Joshua began to run out of gas.

“I do have a lot of work to do, and I do love to play, and I never deny it, but I'm not the kind of person who likes to get away with it, and as long as it's my responsibility, I'll take care of it, like Mary.” Adrian said in a calm and sincere tone, "No doubt she is my child and she is my treasure and I will not let her get hurt, I hope she will grow up healthy and happy. ”

He said he adjusted his sitting position and leaned forward slightly to make him look more credible: "During this period of entertainment news should you--, Joshua? I can make it clear to you that Lily is my child, which is why I have not responded, and I cannot deny my child, but if I do, what will Mary do in the future? Where's Jesse? ”

After all, Joshua was a furry boy, and although he had been acutely aware of what had happened, it was because he cared about his sister. And now he only questioned with anger. At one time, he could not be so cautious in logic. Adrian quickly switched the concept and avoided the weight to silence him.

“You should also understand Jesse's attitude, and I can't say that I put my mind on her, but I try to make her happy, protect her from harm, and let her do a career. If she gets tired of this life one day, like hating me, she could have told me and left, and I would never stop.” Adrian then added.

Of course, he neglected it directly because of Natalie, and didn't mention Mary's belonging. And these Joshua couldn't have imagined, and they were suppressed by Adrian's bandages, and eventually they had to be admitted temporarily with frustration.

The accident was resolved temporarily, but Joshua promised not to tell his parents about it, and he would hide one or two for Jessica if necessary, but it would be hard to say if he could grasp the wind at other times. After all, there was no one deep in his knowledge of Adrian - in the Hacker Empire crew, Dava and Juliet had no idea how many times Adrian's father had been called in public, how many times Sophie and Monica's mother had been called, and so far no news had come out, because all the collaborators were old people.

However, this was one of Adrian's plans, and Joshua's arrival was an accident, but during this time he has been thinking about how to better control the current storm and move it forward as he thinks it is, and Joshua's appearance is just as distorted and exploitable.

From the day Lily was exposed, Adrian knew that some things were sooner or later, after all, an era of entertainment to death, when entertainment journalists had an extraordinary obsession with celebrity * * digging. If Adrian was only behind the scenes, no one would risk going with him, but the problem was that he still had one foot on the front desk and the miracle director's halo was glowing, so he had to follow the rules of the game.

However, in his capacity and power, he could use the rules to maximize his service, which was only a dilemma this time.

Admit that Lily is her own daughter, so what about Dave, Juliet, Marie, Eleanor and them? Knowing that American society as a whole tends to be conservative, that attitude to life is strongly promoted by mainstream society, despite the fact that there are few real Puritans anymore. Although many millionaires also have a number of bastards, ready to march into California Governor Schwarzenegger, bastards are about several years old, but there is one thing, being exposed is another, and Adrian can't control all the media after all. Uncle didn't teach him a lesson on this either. If it weren't for Lily and Deva and Juliet, his attitude would definitely be tougher than it is now.

But admitting it or not, Adrian promised Kate that he would not deny his children, or that he was a jerk, but the responsibility, the promise, would never escape, and those words to Joshua were not just words. Besides, he's got more than one kid. Why not let Monica down while he lets Kate down? Besides, as one woman gets the best actress, and one pregnancy at a time —— and Adrian would never refuse if they wanted a child —— it's not safe that the media won't notice the cat getting tired of it, so what then?

To think about it, Adrian finally came up with a solution that turned the matter into a public secret. Simply put, everyone knows Lily and then these kids are his, but no one will talk about them publicly. So he let "People" do the story, even pushed it in the back, then carefully guided public opinion, didn't admit it, didn't deny it, when the time was ripe to kill a chicken for monkeys to see, and let people secretly convey their thoughts.

The candidate was still under consideration, but Joshua crashed into the door and asked him to take up the role. Anyway, Jessica's story had to be revealed for another two or three years.

Of course, the main part of the plan was the cooperation of other media groups, and as I said before, Adrian had no control over all media. But that's the most troublesome thing, but the simplest thing, because he does it in a way that gives a handle. Nobody likes it, including Lei Shidong, which is equivalent to having a bargaining capital with AC Media or Adrian to reassure them.

And for Adrian, it didn't seem passive, but it didn't really matter much. Even if they throw it out because of certain circumstances and make a big scene, it is only his personal reputation that is damaged. It is no big deal to resign from the board. Everyone knows that Claude is nominally vice-president of the board, but in many cases, even if he leaves office, Adrian will not have much impact on the group. And Adrian always holds more than 30% stake in AC Media, and whoever uses it against Adrian will face a mad backlash from AC Media.

It's no big deal to make a small sacrifice for one's own woman. Besides, it's also possible to pose to other media groups: Look, I didn't mean to be your enemy.

However, this approach is based on strength, in the vulgar sense of putting an egg in someone's hand while putting a pistol over the other person's head. Without this pistol, you'd be dead.

In short, everything went according to plan, and although there were some surprises, such as the situation in the media right now, where Joshua broke into her sister's house to see Mary, it had no impact. It's just that Adrian had no idea that Lily could be so... hectic!