Chapter 3320

Mitsui Yoshitaka never expected Ye Chen to be so domineering, directly forcing Tawana to perform, secretly thinking: "Such big stars have huge tempers; you don't coax her, you actually threaten her? She's young and easily makes hundreds of millions of dollars a year, she looks far inferior to big conglomerates, but she's just a young lady with no family to support behind her, earning hundreds of millions a year, taking out a bit for her parents as pocket money, the rest fully at her disposal—this kind of life is truly blissful to the extreme; canceling one concert only loses her tens of thousands, her temper flaring up, being able to listen to you is already strange!"

At this moment, upon hearing Ye Chen so overbearing, Tawana was naturally quite dissatisfied in her heart.

Having been famous for so many years, wherever she went wasn't she the center of attention? Even Bill Gates in front of her had to call himself a fan, but in front of Ye Chen, she seemed to become his employee, being summoned and dispatched, ordered around—how could she bear this?

So, the temper of a big shot, a young lady, in her heart flared up again.

She couldn't help but angrily question: "What right do you have?! What right do you have that after I suffered such a fright, I still have to obey your demand to continue performing?! I just won't perform!"

Trevor beside her, seeing her bickering with Ye Chen, hastily grabbed her arm, earnestly saying: "Baby, Mr. Ye saved our lives! You can't talk to him like this, you must give him enough respect, Respect, you know?"

Tawana stomped her feet in anger: "But he threatened me! What right does he have to force me to continue performing?"

Ye Chen coldly said: "What right? Because I bought the tickets today!"

Tawana was momentarily speechless, not knowing how to respond.

Mitsui Kokimi beside her couldn't help but raise a hand, timidly saying: "Um…… Mr. Ye…… I dare to say one thing, all guests who could attend today's party received complimentary tickets……"

Ye Chen countered her: "What about complimentary tickets? Do I not need to spend money flying and staying in hotels? Is my precious time not worth money? She earns hundreds of millions a year, I saved her life—at least it's worth her annual income? Throwing hundreds of millions of favors here, I still can't let her perform a show?"

Mitsui Kokimi somewhat embarrassedly said: "Mr. Ye…… I…… I didn't mean that…… I just simply wanted to clarify the ticket matter……"

Mitsui Yoshitaka seeing his daughter spouting nonsense, hastily opened his mouth again to explain for his daughter: "Mr. Mitsui, you manage such a large family, how is your memory so poor? Just half an hour ago we told you we were invited by Miss Sachiko Sasaki of the Sasaki family, you mean you think Miss Sachiko Sasaki sold your complimentary tickets to us?"

Ye Chen gave him no pleasant expression, coldly saying: "Mr. Mitsui, you manage such a large family, how is your memory so poor? Just half an hour ago we told you we were invited by Miss Sachiko Sasaki of the Sasaki family, you mean you think Miss Sachiko Sasaki sold your complimentary tickets to us?"

Ye Chen couldn't be bothered to give Mitsui Yoshitaka a pleasant expression.

The more such a person, the more they cannot be indulged, because if you give them a bit of sunshine, they not only become radiant, they also think they are the sun.

If you don't retort him twice, make him look bad, he might still think you saved Tawana and Trevor just to curry favor with him.

Many high-status, powerful people easily have this excessive self-confidence, so Ye Chen must constantly use various ways to convey two core ideas to him:

First, I'm not helping you, don't be sentimental;

Second, no matter how capable or high-ranking you are in Japan, in my eyes, you're just a fart.

Mitsui Yoshitaka was also quite embarrassed now; although he didn't know Ye Chen's background, he indeed saw that Ye Chen fundamentally didn't care about him.

In the past, whoever helped him with something, as long as he said one sentence "I'll remember this," the other would feel grateful, as if helping others was himself, not them.

But Ye Chen is different; Ye Chen everywhere shows disdain and contempt for him, and crucially, he himself is indeed weak, this time being deceived is like taking a big dump in front of Ye Chen and Fei Keyin.

So he could only force a smile and say: "Mr. Ye's criticism, I will definitely actively correct in the future, and also properly improve my memory……"

Ye Chen ignored him, but looked toward Tawana, coldly saying: "Put aside me accompanying my wife from afar to watch your concert not speaking, do you think I saved you for nothing? I and you are neither related nor did you give me a penny, and I have consistently maintained a reserved attitude toward the position you advocate; in our terms, we two couldn't even piss in the same pot—I saved you not out of overflowing justice, but for my wife's sake, my wife came from afar to watch your concert, if you suddenly collapsed before the concert began, I feared her emotions would be affected, so I saved you two!"

Pausing, Ye Chen again said: "Let me be even more blunt—I saved you just so you could finish today's concert; if tomorrow someone wants to kill you, I might not even bother to glance, let alone lend a hand—do you understand?"

Tawana instantly felt wronged, big tears dropping patter patter.

Although she knew Ye Chen might not like her, she didn't expect the truth spoken to hurt this much.

Mitsui Yoshitaka hastily turned to Tawana and said: "Miss Svetlana, you still listen to Mr. Ye's arrangement, perform well tonight, safety issues you needn't worry about, I will mobilize the best security team entirely, fully protecting your safety, after the concert ends, you return with us to the manor, absolutely no one will be allowed to harm you."

Tawana sobbed softly: "I'm almost scared to death, my heart is still racing now, how can I perform?"

Ye Chen said: "How to perform is your matter; I just said, as long as you sing all the songs on the setlist, it's fine—if really impossible, you can half-sing or lip-sync, anyway such things we've seen plenty of in our place, we can accept, as long as the person on stage is genuine, whether others are genuine or not doesn't matter, watching concerts, the main point is just to enjoy the atmosphere."

Tawana felt insulted, choking up: "I am a professional singer with professional ethics! Moreover, a professional original singer! How could you humiliate me like this……"

Ye Chen held his hands in front of him, very seriously clarifying: "I never meant to humiliate you, what I said are sincere words; perhaps your side artists have higher ethics, we indeed have seen everything and grown accustomed, your American actors and singers' private lives are indeed quite despicable, but at least they specialize in their craft, many of our singers and actors, setting aside private lives, many actors don't even know lines, spouting nonsense on stage, relying entirely on post-dubbing, many singers hold concerts half-singing or even lip-syncing, we've long been used to it."

Tawana seeing Ye Chen spoke sincerely, this eased her a bit, she lightly wiped her tears, aggrievedly saying: "Performance can be persisted with, no need for fakery, just I'm not in good shape today, if the performance effect is discounted, you guys don't blame me, okay."

"Won't." Ye Chen waved his hand: "You just need to perform."

Tawana glanced at Ye Chen wistfully, murmuring softly: "Alright…… then…… tonight's performance will still proceed as planned normally……"