Chapter 88

  "What?" Jing Yan raised his head and looked at Jiang Chuan in a daze, "Who provoked you?"

  "Just kidding."

  Jiang Chuan simply replied to Jin Ran, then turned his head to talk to Bai Mei Mei who came over to chat with him - compared to Jin Ran who had many burdens on her body, Bai Mei Mei was young and beautiful, lively and energetic, naturally very open-minded. Jin Ran remembered that it was only after Jiang Chuan saved her from the desert dance incident last time that she became so attentive, plus the two of them had a kissing scene the next day...

  He felt a bit suffocated, looked around and it seemed like everyone had something to do, even Fang Yu found another agent to gather in another corner to play cards, he was the only one who seemed to have nothing to do...

  Beside my ear, Bai Mei and Jiang Chuan were chattering away in hushed tones. Jiang Chuan would occasionally respond with a murmur, but I had no idea if he was actually listening or not. Feeling utterly bored, I pulled out my phone to continue playing games, only to discover that I couldn't concentrate at all right now.

  Annoyed.

  Leaning against the dim light of KTV, Jian Yan slightly furrowed his brow, took out his phone and went online to browse aimlessly. As a result, he accidentally stumbled upon Jiang Chuan's Weibo - these days, his updates weren't few, most of which were related to "Qing Shi Hong Yan". The top post was a bit silly, with Jiang Chuan wearing armor and taking a photo with the horse that he rode back and forth every day. Jian Yan opened the comments to take a look, and below were all -

  "Handsome, even with a helmet covering his face, he's still handsome."

  "Your brother looks just like you."

  "Brother Chuan, I didn't realize it before, but after comparing, I found that your face is quite long too. It must be an illusion."

  "Look at this beautiful hair, handsome face, strong physique... guess who I'm talking about?"

  "Is Ma Ta Gao or are you too short?"

  "Where is my brother? Is he blocked by you?"

  He silently thanked the little buddy who mentioned him in his heart, exited this Weibo and looked at other content, then started a "guess whether this is Fang Yu or Jiang Chuan" game with great boredom. After playing for a while, he suddenly felt a head on his shoulder, turned around, and almost touched the nose of the red-haired boy who was putting his head on his shoulder. The latter didn't dodge, but looked at him and smiled, saying in English: "He's right here, why are you still reading his blog?"

  "It's boring, just take a look."

  "Bored?" Hyde smiled, "How about keeping me company for a drink?"

  As he spoke, the red-haired youth raised his wine glass and swirled it around, then downed it without hesitation. Hid sat beside him, letting out a soft chuckle. As Jin Yan bent to place the cup on the tea table in front of him, he felt a scorching gaze land on his back. He turned around, bewildered, but saw nothing. From the direction where the gaze had come from, Jiang Chuan was sitting with his back against the chair, playing with his phone, the screen's light illuminating his face. Jin Yan noticed that there wasn't much emotion on his face.

  Bai Mei was still beside him, chatting with him, seemingly talking about some interesting stories during the shooting. At this moment, she was laughing so hard that her body was shaking... and thus, another Ronnie was born.

  On this side, Jin Yan was sourly standing by, on that side, Xi De brought over the second cup of wine. Just as Jin Yan had just put the liquor to his lips, he suddenly paused, turned his head and glanced at Xi De with a smile that wasn't quite a smile: "Why aren't you drinking?"

  Xide heard this, stared at Jianran's eyes for a long time, then without hesitation leaned over and borrowed Jianran's hand to drink the wine in his cup in one gulp. This time it was the turn of the black-haired young man to be embarrassed, he slightly widened his eyes, he couldn't believe that Xide hadn't seen him touch the cup to his mouth earlier - and he remembered that before when he was testing whether Xide was Little Hei or not, he had specifically looked up information about this guy, many places said that he had mysophobia...

  It seemed that he had seen Jian Ran's surprise, and at this time the red-haired youth raised the corner of his mouth to reveal his white canine teeth: "I've already shared a drink with you from the same container, I don't despise you."

  “……”

  He remained frozen in place, still holding the cup, his brain struggling to process the information in Hideo's words. His hand tightened slightly around the cup, and he didn't have time to consider whether Hideo's action of drinking from his cup would seem overly familiar to others. He heard himself ask in a calm voice, "What do you mean by that?"

  "Literal meaning." Xi De's smile remained unchanged, "Guess?"

  “……”

  "Weren't you guessing happily just now?" The red-haired youth leaned in closer to him - at this point, the two were already extremely close, although from a distance, others might think that one of them was being coquettish or whispering secrets, but only the two of them knew that they were so close they could smell the wine on each other's breath.

  "Weren't you having a great time guessing earlier?" Xi De said calmly, "And even had someone investigate me..."

  “………………”

  His tone was laced with a hint of mockery, but that piercing gaze still sent shivers down his spine... He moved his lips, suppressing the wildly beating heart in his chest, and forced out a strained smile at the handsome young man leaning in close. Just as he was about to say something, he suddenly felt the phone in his pocket vibrate, and with an unsteady hand, he fished it out and opened it to find a text from Jiang Chuan: "Is this what you called me here for?"

  “？”

  A very timely intervention.

  Jian Ran was frightened by Xi De's few words and lost his soul, then he lowered his head and was confused by Jiang Chuan's text message. Subconsciously, he turned his head to look at Jiang Chuan, but found that the latter had already put down his phone. At this time, he was chatting with Li Rui, the director of "Star Fire". It seemed as if he felt Jian Ran's gaze, and his eyes swept over once. Jian Ran immediately seized the opportunity, pointed to the screen of his still-lit mobile phone, and mouthed to him: Did you send a wrong text message?

  Jiang Chuan ignored him and directly withdrew his gaze.

  Having been treated so coldly, Jian Ran felt as if he had been punched in the face. He was anxious and couldn't sit still, and with Xi De's previous words, he felt like he was about to explode. He replied to Jiang Chuan with a [what do you mean?]. Since they were not far apart, even in the noisy KTV room, he could hear Jiang Chuan's phone vibrating when he received the text message.

  Jin Yan didn't know if Jiang Chuan took out his phone to look at it, because for the next hour and a half, he resolutely didn't glance in the man's direction even once. In order to retaliate against Jiang Chuan's cold reaction earlier, he even somewhat childishly directly turned off his phone to indicate refusal to continue communicating. Coincidentally, it was during the brief moment when two songs were switching, and the private room fell silent for a bit. Feeling satisfied with himself, Jin Yan heard the sound of his phone turning off loudly in the KTV private room, and he turned around to tell Xi De: "Go get more wine."

  This time, even if he felt the strange gaze from before falling on his back again, and it was about to burn a hole in his back, he resolutely did not turn around.

  Jian Ran continued drinking with Xi De, during which Fang Yu came over to disturb him and asked him to drink less after all, there was still work to be done tomorrow. Jian Ran used the "you're interfering with my national affairs" gaze to drive away the agent, then scooped up his sleeve and continued drinking!

  Since Fang Yu couldn't do anything about it, he could only bypass the young man with black hair who was so drunk his eyes were red and go find Jiang Chuan: "You go take care of him."

  Jiang Chuan: "You're the agent."

  "... Fang Yu was almost driven mad by these two stubborn and obstinate guys. "What's wrong with him, why is he drinking like that?"

  "I don't know, probably because we had a fight."

  Fang Yu felt like he was about to suffocate.

  Uncertain whether to pay attention to Jing Yan or Jiang Chuan, or simply ignore himself, just as the broker was hesitating, he heard Jiang Chuan say: "His phone is turned off, he must be in a bad mood, let him drink."

  "What if something happens?"

  Jiang Chuan: "What's going on?"

  Fang Yu: "......Just indulge him then."

  "What's this called indulging?" asked Jiang Chuan calmly.

  "Fang Yu: 'Then you go stop him.'"

  "I won't go."

  "Why?"

  Jiang Chuan: "Because I am also angry."

  Fang Yu twitched the corner of his mouth and suddenly felt that the "little devil officer and ancient general leaning together in a blue sky eating boxed lunch" he had posted was not as embarrassing as he thought: at least these two people's steps were so neat and uniform.

  So, under Jiang Chuan's "tolerance and indulgence", when the time was approaching half past eleven, everyone had played enough. Jin Yan and Xi De were drinking one cup after another, almost drunk, but since there were not a few people who had already gotten drunk that night, they didn't stand out too much either.

  When Ding Pangpang stood up from the table and shouted that he wanted to go settle the bill, Jin Yan's head was dizzy and swollen - although his alcohol capacity was still good, but because he knew very well that he would behave strangely after getting drunk, so he rarely got himself drunk. In the end, seeing that there seemed to be little hope of getting another word out of Xi De's mouth, he had slowed down his drinking speed, and instead cruelly poured wine for Xi De - watching those amber-colored pupils become more and more blurred, the originally well-behaved boy sitting next to him got closer and closer.

  Until the end, he put one hand on Xide's shoulder, panting with a coarse breath full of alcohol, and asked Xide: "Hey, I ask you, are you Xiao Hei?"

  Xide smiled and replied in a slightly tongue-tied voice: "Who's Xiao Hei? Your family's little dog? Then I am, most fond of my master, woof."

  “……”

  This is brainwashed, completely drunk.

  In front of a middle school student who is hostile to the world, the old man Yuan Jinyan was completely defeated.

  Between the crushing defeat, Jian Yan was quite disappointed to let go of the red-haired youth, who got up dizzily and patted his butt, saying he was going to the bathroom. Watching as Xide stumbled out, Jian Yan suddenly felt a little urge to urinate himself, getting up to follow Xide together. Opening the door to the private room, he didn't walk far before seeing Xide, looking at his somewhat floating gait, and Jian Yan also felt a bit guilty for getting him that drunk. Slightly quickening his pace, wanting to go catch up and support him so as not to let this little devil fall, but just then, he heard the phone of the person walking in front, Xide, ring.

  He instinctively stopped in his tracks, and the next second, he saw that Hede, who had been walking lightly, suddenly stopped and leaned against the wall in the corridor. He raised his hand to brush back his bright hair, picked up the phone, and said in a very calm and sober German tone: "Hello, what's up?"

  She slightly widened her eyes.

  Take three steps back in succession.

  He directly retreated back to the KTV suite, flopped onto the sofa, and Fang Yu walked over to see him with a face that looked like he was on the verge of death, shocked, and hastily asked: "What's wrong? What's wrong?"

  He remained silent for five seconds, then looked up at the sky and sighed: "...... failed to tame the monkey, ended up being played by the monkey."

  Under intense stimulation, the monkey man was drunk with wine, his rationality flew away, and he fell asleep in the KTV with a cushion, holding onto the thought of "how stupid he looked when he was being smart earlier". When Xi De walked in, he saw a young black-haired man curled up on the sofa like a shrimp. He closed the door, let out a turbid breath, and asked with a voice that didn't contain any hint of drunkenness: "What's wrong with Ran Ge?"

  "...... got drunk." Xu Le's face was shocked, "I thought you also got drunk, I saw that you guys didn't listen before."

  "Oh, I'm fine." Xie came to Jian Ran's side, bent down and looked at the black-haired young man sleeping on his side on the sofa. After staring for a moment, he slightly narrowed his eyes and smiled, "I'll send Ge back?"

  As soon as the words fell, he felt that the light from his opposite side was suddenly blocked. Xi De seemed to have a sudden realization, and his lips flattened slightly, making a small "tsk" sound before raising his head to look at Jiang Chuan who had appeared in front of him with no expression - The two locked eyes for several seconds, Xi De raised an eyebrow, reluctantly stepped back, while the latter took a step forward, with a look of utter disgust, grabbed the person sleeping on the sofa.

  At this time, the latter was still holding onto something like a lifesaving straw and grasping the KTV seat cushion.

  Jiang Chuan stretched out his hand and pulled it, but couldn't pull it open. He impatiently patted the young man's cheek: "Let go."

  The young black-haired man with his eyes tightly closed smacked his lips and replied without hesitation: "No way."

  Jiang Chuan: “......”

  He probably didn't even realize who was talking to him - finally, under the ktv waiter's eerie gaze, Fang Yu took out his wallet and spent 150 yuan to buy that cushion - of course, this money would be charged to the account and deducted from Jian Ran's pay later.

  So, two crews of over a dozen people each dressed up brightly and burst in through the main entrance with great fanfare, only to stumble out through the same entrance at dawn, disheveled and exhausted.

  ……

  He was dragged back to the hotel by others.

  It was as if it happened in an instant for him - with a brief period of beautiful fragments in between, and when he opened his eyes, he was shocked to find that one second ago he was rolling around on the sofa at KTV, and the next second he was already rolling around on his bed in his own room.

  The good man who brought him back was still in his room and hadn't left, slowly opening his eyes in a daze. However, he found that the lights in the room were not on, and he couldn't see clearly who the other person was. After thinking for a moment, he called out: "Brother Fang?"

  The latter suddenly lifted the quilt to cover his hand, and reluctantly took it as a default. He hehe smiled and stretched out his hand to grab the person standing in front of the bed: "Fang Ge, you're still good, after all these years of relying on each other, not leaving me behind..."

  The other party seemed to wave his hand away with great disgust.

  A young man with black hair lay on the bed, his four limbs pointing towards the ceiling like a dead frog, letting Fang Yu cover him with a quilt. He muttered to himself: "Last time I asked you to investigate Xi De's news, did you find an unreliable person to do it? I didn't get any information out of it today and was questioned by Xi De, you don't know how embarrassing I am. That kid even pretended to be drunk to deceive me... And Jiang Chuan, Jiang Chuan is also a bastard..."

  He had barely finished speaking when he felt the other person's hand, which was covering him with a quilt, press down on him a bit too heavily. He let out a pained "uh-uh" and struggled for a moment before the other person's hand seemed to accidentally touch him, then quickly pulled back as if only just realizing he wasn't comfortable. Jian Ran took a deep breath and continued: "I'm telling you, Jiang Chuan is also an idiot. If he didn't want to come, he shouldn't have come! As soon as he arrived today, his face was all sour. Hmph! And this...this is just ridiculous, he even sent me threatening texts halfway here, out of nowhere! What's the point of coming to KTV if you're not going to enjoy it? I'm also very innocent, do you think I wanted to invite him? Me, me, me...I hadn't spoken to him properly for a whole week, and now all that effort has been wasted!!!"

  “……”

  He let out a long sigh: "Originally I thought Jiang Chuan would definitely not be able to bear it and take the initiative to find me, but later I found that I was thinking too much."

  “……”

  Jian Ran: "Fang Ge, if I didn't want to be popular for another 500 years, as soon as the sky brightens tomorrow, I would take Jiang Chuan out of the closet."

  “……”

  "Oh no, haha, mom's old man won't come out with me anyway. After all, you're a big straight guy, right?" The person on the bed rolled over with difficulty, their words becoming increasingly unclear as if they might bite off their own tongue at any moment. As they stopped moving, they listened intently for a while and found that the person behind them who was helping them take off their shoes had also stopped. As the room fell silent, they let out a long sigh, hugged the blanket tightly in their arms, and muttered to themselves, "You're right, I don't want to come out with a big straight guy either."

  As soon as he finished speaking, he felt Fang Yu lower her head and continue to help him take off his shoes.

  It just so happens that tonight Fang Yu's strength is great, as if preparing to let Jian Ran spend the rest of his life in a wheelchair.

  After taking off his shoes, Fang Yu seemed to be leaving, and Jin Ran suddenly heard the rustling sound of his footsteps on the carpet. He felt a sense of emptiness and loneliness in his heart, and muttered "don't go". Half-opening his eyes, he saw the person standing at the foot of the bed stop, and weakly opened his arms: "I'm not feeling well tonight, give me a goodnight hug?"

  The room then fell into thirty seconds of silence.

  Jian Ran also maintained a "hug" posture for 30 seconds.

  Until thirty seconds later, he saw the person standing by the bed coming back, the black shadow covering him again. He was prepared to accept a hearty hug from his best friend, but at this moment, the other party directly patted open his hand, stood by the bed with one hand in his pocket and the other hand grasping his hair, half-bending down, and covered his lips with his own.

  Jian Ran: "What?"

  Jian Ran: "!!"

  Jian Ran: “……………………………”

  After three seconds of stunned silence, the other person let him go.

  When the young man with black hair collapsed onto the bed, the latter turned around and left the room without looking back.

  With a loud "bang", the earth-shaking sound of the door closing echoed, and the room fell back into a dead silence.

  The person lying on the bed still maintained the stiff posture of falling back onto the bed, and after a few seconds, he struggled to get up, pulled out his phone, turned it on, and rummaged through the call log to find Fang Yu's phone number. He dialed the number - the phone rang twice before being picked up, and from Fang Yu's end came the sound of rushing water that sent chills down his spine.

  "Hey, what's wrong with you? Are you taking a bath or just being a drunkard?"

  “……………”

  Even if Fang Yu could move instantly, he couldn't possibly rush back to his room on the fourth floor below where Jian Ran was, take off his clothes and wash up in ten seconds.

  Suddenly heard his own heart from high altitude crashing into hell issued a sound.

  "I'm sober, I'm sober, I'm sober..." He tightly hugged the phone and slowly retreated back into his bed, wrapping himself in the blankets. In a low voice, he said, "I was scared awake, I've lost face, Fang Yu, I've lost big time..."

  "Do you have a problem?" Fang Yu asked bluntly on the other end of the phone, "How embarrassing do you want to tell me? Are you talking about the time you rolled around on the KTV sofa? Or when I spent money to buy you a KTV cushion and you refused to let go? Or maybe it's when you came back and didn't want the cushion anymore but instead hugged Jiang Chuan like a koala bear and refused to let go again?... Anyway, no matter which one, you were surrounded by onlookers all the way home, wait for tomorrow's headlines."

  "You said Jiang Chuan——"

  "It's not easy for others to carry you all the way back, remember to kneel down and thank him tomorrow. Oh right, you didn't vomit on his body—"

  Fang Yu hadn't finished speaking when the phone was hung up on the other end.

  The agent, with one leg outside the bathtub, stared at his phone for a while, then tossed out a sentence "You're really seriously ill" and put the phone back on the edge of the washbasin.