Chapter 78

  Jiang's words fell, and for a moment, he saw Jian Yan's face suddenly turn very ugly. Xu Wenjie revealed an awkward expression: "It's nothing, Brother Jiang, don't say that..."

  "What did I say?" Jiang Chuan asked coldly.

  Xu Wenjie heard this and initially thought the man was helping him, but before he could even feel happy, the other party suddenly spoke to him in a cold tone. He turned his head and looked at Jiang Chuan with some confusion, only to find that the latter wasn't looking at him at all - from start to finish, he had been staring at Yuan Jinyan, and even reached out to take away the dessert in front of him, calmly saying: "Do you want to let him finish speaking?"

  Jian Ran moved his lips but didn't speak, at this time Xu Wenjie stood up, looking flustered and frightened like a startled rabbit, with slightly red eyes: "Brother Jian doesn't want to listen now, I'll talk about it later. It was my fault for rushing over today, and I will try not to trouble Brother Jian during the rest of the filming."

  Jian Ran: "......"

  Xu Wenjie bowed again: "Then I'll be off."

  He sat still with a cold face, but actually he sometimes admired Xu Wenjie, who could always put on an air of being wronged, and would speak two sentences with red-rimmed eyes, making people who didn't know think that Xu Wenjie had suffered greatly...

  However, he always inadvertently reveals some of his true thoughts, such as the excitement when people call him "Little Yuan Zhenran", or reminding Zhenran not to suppress his play, otherwise it would be a private revenge at the expense of the crew's interests...

  The more I think about it, the angrier I get.

  After Xu Wenjie left, Jin Ran immediately kicked Jiang Chuan under the table and said very discontentedly: "Are you a human with your elbows outward?"

  "You just got taken advantage of and you're so easily bought off?"

  "I'm having you get me some sugar."

  “……”

  "Are you blaming me for your own short arms not being able to reach?"

  "Your mother is the one with short hands!"

  Jiang Chuan leaned on his chin with one hand: "I saw Xu Qianqian's Weibo last night, and the happy and joyful look she had with you... As a result, her brother came to your door the next day to shake hands and make peace, with an anxious expression. I just want to know what he wants to do."

  "What's going on?"

  "I don't know," Jiang Chuan replied expressionlessly, "you've driven everyone away."

  Jian Ran: "............"

  Kang Chuan said as he stretched out his arm and waved it, then subconsciously sat back a bit, before asking: "Wha...what's wrong?"

  "No," Jiang Chuan said calmly, "I just want you to see if my elbow is bent outward."

  Jian Ran: "............"

  "Has she been kidnapped?"

  "Seriously: ....................Ahhhhhhhhhh, I'm so annoyed with you!"

  Jiang Chuan withdrew his arm and smiled: "It's obviously your own fault."

  The broker shook his head and sighed beside him, while the young man with black hair was uneasy and regretful, using a fork to stir the cake on the plate in front of him. Jiang Chuan picked up the tea and took another sip: "You need to calm down."

  "Next time I won't speak, is that okay?"

  "No, and remember to smile."

  Can't laugh.

  "Then just wait to be shaded."

  “……”

  ……

  A pleasant holiday always passes quickly.

  Jin Yan felt that he hadn't even had time to rest well, and the crew of "Star Fire" had already started filming. As a latecomer, Qi Tao didn't have any scenes in the first three days, so he followed the crew for three days, watching other actors perform, and concluded that...

  Bai Wenqi is indeed a great brother, his acting skills are top-notch, and his lines are solid. He can really help the crew save on tape costs; Bai Yan Song and Li Rui personally directed with remarkable results, and compared to Ding Pao's side, it's a stark contrast, making me want to march in step even when walking normally. Finally, Xu Wenjie's acting doesn't seem that bad either.

  Tanaka, who is not excluded from being timid and weak but sinister and venomous, is the true nature of this guy's performance. In short, in the first few days of filming, he didn't drag his feet much, and occasionally even received praise from the director teachers.

  From head to toe, he was calmly watching from a distance.

  One day, at the dinner table, Shirai Kaoru encouraged Xu Wenjie, saying that he didn't expect him to have some acting skills after all, and Tanaka's role was played well by him... In the end, he even joked that if it weren't for Jingyan, the role of Saito might have been given to him.

  That's just an unintentional joke.

  However, no one around laughed - basically everyone knew that Soo-jin was quite particular about this, and at this moment, Baek Rock-soo, although a senior, said something like this which was somewhat inappropriate.

  Xu Wenjie raised his head, a pair of black eyes shining exceptionally bright under the restaurant's lights, smiled and said to Bai Yan Song: "Thank you teacher for your affirmation, I will continue to work hard."

  Not mentioning a single word quietly.

  Quietly telling myself to "keep calm", I slowly sipped a mouthful of White Fruit Old Duck Soup, the white porcelain spoon in my hand clinking against the rim of the bowl with a crisp sound, and then said: "This soup is not bad."

  The atmosphere on the scene became even more awkward.

  Li Rui disagreed and looked at him, muttering: "Old Bai, don't talk nonsense, we've been choosing the role of Saito for a long time.

  "How can you just give away something that has been chosen for Xiaoyan? It's not like it can be replaced by anything else!"

  Bai Yan Ge seemed to realize that he had said something not so good, and immediately laughed it off, telling Jin Ran not to take it to heart. Jin Ran shook his head, glanced at Xu Wen Jie's embarrassed face, and smiled: "How could I? Teacher, you're my senior, and this play was also recommended by you to the investors for me to act in, so I have this opportunity. Whatever you say, I won't blame you. Besides, Xu Wen Jie is after all my former junior from the same company, and I'm still happy that he's made progress."

  The first sentence, it seems that Baiyan Ge is also quite happy, and hurriedly raises his wine cup to toast with Jinyan.

  Everyone also chimed in with words of praise, saying that he was a good-tempered person and the like. The originally somewhat stiff atmosphere softened once again, and someone clever quickly changed the subject, and this page was thus turned over.

  After dinner, Mr. Fang Yu said with a lingering fear: "I thought you would be blown up by anger."

  "Calmly and lightly replied: 'What's there to be angry about... He's just not that bad, I'm so envious and resentful that I'd explode in anger?'"

  Fang Yu thought for a moment and also made sense, feeling emotional: "What did Jiang Chuan feed you? You seem to have grown up overnight."

  Jian Ran: "......"

  ……

  A few days after the opening, Xu Qianqian also arrived in H city, with Jiang Luocheng following behind her. The two, who had recently made their relationship public, were affectionate and sweet, saying they came to H city to cheer on her brother and incidentally do some solo activities.

  Vacation.

  Unexpectedly, he had just finished mocking "which actor would come to H City Film and Television Base for vacation" due to the previous trial role in "Star Fire", and then someone really came with such a reason.

  Moreover, it's just one director and one actor.

  One year three hundred and sixty-five days can't help but have three white days eating and living in this place of professional ethnicity.

  Thinking of Jiang Chuan's words "to endure humiliation or be humiliated", I suppressed the urge to burst out laughing on the spot, and solemnly walked forward to shake hands with them under Jiang Luo Cheng's strange gaze, welcoming their arrival.

  Jiang Chuan is right.

  Xu Wenjie doesn't care about it.

  But at the moment, he and Xuan Xuan are in a life-and-death struggle, and they can't afford to have even a slight carelessness - no matter how deep their hatred or malice is towards each other, they must endure.

  On the contrary, he noticed that Xu Wenjie, who used to be enthusiastic about his sister, suddenly became less passionate about her.

  Xu Qianqian came over but he also made excuses that he was busy filming and basically didn't come over to talk to her.

  This is somewhat strange.

  But what's even more curious is, what did Xiu Qianqian come here for... And the fact proves that an important trigger for promoting the development of events is: accidentally eavesdropping on a conversation in a corner.

  It's the hotel's fault for having poor soundproofing.

  That day, there was no scene for Xu Wenjie, but the crew suddenly changed the schedule for the next day and needed him to arrive on set earlier than previously agreed. Xu Wenjie's room was right next to Jianran's room. After finishing his own scenes, Jianran was sweating profusely and applied to leave early to rest, also telling Xu Wenjie about the change in schedule. As he arrived at Xu Wenjie's door, his hand hadn't even knocked yet when a loud "slap" sound came from inside, followed by Xu Qianqian's sharp scream.

  "I originally let you come to my economic company because I saw that you were bullied by Yuan Jinyan and had nothing to eat, not even as good as a dog. That's why I helped you out of kindness! Xu Wenjie, the fact is that people who are pitied must have something despicable about them. You don't appreciate me, that's fine, but wasting company resources to help you get the role of Chuan Na? Do you know how long I've been waiting for this opportunity?"

  Jian Ran: "............"

  What's this song from?

  He put down his hand, and soon heard Xu Wenjie say inside: "I'm not using company resources, you don't have to think so much, besides, didn't you also take on that foreign movie?"

  "That's what Yuan Jinyan didn't give me!!!!! Don't you dare mention this again, it makes me want to vomit!!!!! You said you didn't use company resources, tell me what you used?"

  "Xu Qianqian, I am also a professional actor from a drama academy, and I also have acting skills."

  "Ha! You?! Xu Qianqian sneered, "You have acting skills, why don't you go act as Saito?! Acting as a trashy villain and thinking you're some kind of treasure?! You're just a stray dog following Yuan Chen's behind! With him around, you'll never be able to turn things around!!"

  Xu Wenjie hadn't spoken for a long time. After a while, the black-haired young man leaning against the door finally heard him ask coldly: "How do you know I can't act?"

  Jian Ran: "……………………"

  He stopped listening right here.

  He turned around abruptly, rushed downstairs and ran back to the video base, eager to share this gossip with Jiang Chuan: it turned out that Xu Qianqian was not there to bully him, but to find his own brother to tear apart. Xu Wenjie also expected this point, probably based on the idea that "the enemy of an enemy is a friend", came to talk to him.

  Everyone was unfazed when Jianran hastily put on her costume and ran to the neighboring crew to find Jiang Chuan.

  After the start of "Star Fire", the crew kept frequent contact with the neighboring "Qing Shi Hong Yan", occasionally passing by to greet each other or borrowing something, because they were all newly started works with no conflict in terms of audience type. Plus, Ding was quite popular, so "Star Fire" and "Qing Shi Hong Yan" crews became like close brothers in a short time, with Yuan Jinyan taking the lead, often visiting each other - for example, during dinner time now, people can often see someone wearing ancient general armor sitting together with someone wearing little devil officer uniform, eating takeout together in an unusually intimate manner.

  This photo with a strong sense of time travel was taken and posted online - ancient armor-clad men and military uniformed men sitting shoulder to shoulder, one slightly taller than the other by half a head, with a ray of sunlight shining down on them from above, in the distance is the clear blue sky above the film base...

  That sneaky guy is quite playful.

  His name is Li Gou Hai.

  Li Gou's "exclusive sneak peek" triggered a wave of "233333" frenzy, with many fans of Jing Yan and Jiang Chuan's CP shouting "officially releasing sweetness", while other fans like the "Chuan Mo" party from "Republic of China Mystery Record" were so envious that they followed behind, yelling "you're not even in the same drama group, can you still release sweetness? Do you have any humanity left?"

  "Kanayan" fans are extremely pleased, twisting their hips and ridiculing "Of course, who made us publicly confess in front of everyone"; "Nakayan" fans look at their own CP, with the attacker being half a head shorter and one circle thinner, feeling resentful and frustrated, shouting loudly under Li Dog's Weibo "No matter! Nakayan! Hold me tight!"

  Sometimes there are one or two unknown black fans who suddenly appear and throw out a sentence "You won't really be together, will you? Jiang Chuan is nothing, but Yuan Jingyan is also bent, right?" People like this will immediately be attacked by the CP fans.

  "You're still so openly affectionate even when you're together, waiting for someone to come and mock? Do you think everyone's IQ is on the same level as yours?"

  Reasonable and convincing.

  After chatting with Jiang Chuan about gossip, I saw that the other party didn't have much reaction, so I could only quietly play with my phone and browse Weibo. Accidentally, I saw Li Gou's "photography masterpiece" and thought it was pretty good too. I downloaded it and set it as my mobile wallpaper - locked screen, swiped open, locked screen, swiped open... After playing around for a while, I put down the phone but still felt unsatisfied. The uniformed man poked the armored man next to him: "Where's your phone?"

  Jiang Chuan didn't even think about it and handed his phone to him - after "The Republic of China's Strange Record", his blue-and-white screen was replaced with the latest smartphone model under the instigation of Manager Fang, who said on the day of purchase with a meaningful tone: "Welcome back from Mars to Earth."

  He carefully took Jiang Chuan's phone, set the desktop in a flash, and after finishing, he saw that Jiang Chuan was still eating his rice seriously without any intention of taking his phone back. So, he took Jiang Chuan's phone and shamelessly looked through it everywhere - only to find out that this guy's phone was spotless, with only dozens of text messages opened in the inbox, including the nonsense he had sent him before and Fang Yu's work content. The rest, including weather forecasts and texts from Ronnie and other ambiguous strangers, were all unopened...

  Gangchuan

  "Uh-huh."

  "How did you reply to my message?"

  "Tomorrow, you won't come back and squat in front of my house making a fuss."

  After thinking about it, I feel that Jiang Chuan's words are quite vivid and impressive. Although I was being roasted, the corners of my mouth involuntarily curled up: "Who are these strange numbers anyway?"

  "'The Republic of China's Strange News' has finished filming, and Xu Qianqian's family invited other female celebrities. They asked for my phone number." Jiang Chuan replied without lifting his head, and casually picked out the green peppers from his lunchbox and threw them back in.

  "Oh, so they sent you a message and you didn't reply?"

  This time, Jiang Chuan's movement of eating rice paused, he wiped his mouth and raised his head to glance at the young man with many problems sitting next to him, after a moment, he said expressionlessly: "Physiological needs were met last time, no need to go back."

  He subconsciously wanted to ask "which time" was the last time, but a few seconds later, when Jiang Chuan finished answering and continued to lower his head to eat rice, he suddenly realized which time he meant by "last time".

  He rubbed his slightly hot face, lowered his head to end his own ten million why mode, and absent-mindedly slid his fingers on the man's screen. Soon he realized that Jiang Chuan's mobile phone software had nothing except Weibo.

  The album is also empty.

  There is only one video.

  Driven by morbid curiosity, he cautiously poked his head in to take a look. Then, accompanied by the familiar sound of music, he almost threw away the phone in his hand in excitement. At the same time, he saw the person sitting next to him eating stop moving and raise their head.

  Staring at the screen with a ferocious expression, competing with its owner for potato chips, the fat raccoon dog said: "...... Ah, this is..."

  "My first ad," Jiang Chuan paused and said, "and also the first hamster I raised."

  “……………”

  I knew all these, what I'm asking is that you sent it to your phone, won't you take it out every night and cry silently while covering yourself with the quilt?

  He always felt that he shouldn't be so cheap - yes, from the perspective of being Ah Fei in the past, he has always been guilty towards Jiang Chuan, so regarding the matter with the hamster, except for that one time when his brain had a hole and he wanted to reveal his identity to get acknowledged by his master but was ruthlessly rejected...

  About Jiang Chuan's hamster, he'd rather not mention it if possible.

  And today Jiang Chuan looked like he had a lot to say, he lit a cigarette and held it between his lips, speaking in a slow and somewhat ambiguous tone.

  "Afterwards, Ah Fei ran away and didn't come back before I came to H city. I put a lot of hamster food in its cage and also asked the aunt who comes to clean regularly to pay attention if there's any decrease in the food... but now that there's no news, it's all right."

  He suddenly felt his stomach churn.

  "I also don't know why it ran away, from the beginning it disappeared"

  "Missing for a few hours, then disappearing for half a day, and eventually disappearing for several days or even a week..."

  The man's voice sounded very calm ——

  "Sometimes I even suspect that these seemingly gradual behaviors are paving the way for it to leave thoroughly for the last time..."

  "How is that possible?" The young black-haired man sneered, his face growing more and more horrified as he listened. "It's just a hamster, probably it just thinks the outside world is getting better and better, so it stays out for longer and longer..."

  "It's not impossible."

  “……”

  The man pinched off the cigarette butt and narrowed his eyes slightly: "They say hamsters have the intelligence of a six-year-old child..."

  "That's Totoro, the pet store owner cheated you."

  “……”

  "By the way, did you know that if a hamster is outside for too long, within three generations it will become a wild grey rat? Maybe one day you'll see a hamster leading a group of grey rats to your doorstep, and that's Ah Fei bringing his descendants to thank you for raising him..."

  "...Jiang Chuan turned his head, swept Jian Ran with a particularly disappointed gaze, then reached out to grab his phone back and put it in his pocket. After a moment of silence, he said: "I think Ah Fei is still alive."

  “……”

  Yes, jumping around in front of you, just being looked at with disdain by you, just because I said the unbearable truth.

  The atmosphere on the scene was also unbearably heavy.

  He furrowed his brow, thought carefully for a moment, and suddenly slapped his thigh: "Right, Jiang Chuan! Let's not talk about the gossip of hamsters and those annoying people. Let's talk about something manly - have you ever seen a real gun?!"

  Jiang Chuan's action of lighting a cigarette paused, he turned his head and slightly narrowed his azure eyes to look at the young man with black hair: "No, what?"

  "I'm telling you, Jiang Chuan, the crew of River Flows in You is really high-end and state-owned. Today I saw a gun, a real one..."

  He slowly spoke while digging into his pocket, and under the speechless gaze of Jiang Chuan, he magically pulled out an old-fashioned gun, weighing it: "See? This is it! I secretly brought it out to show you, if I get caught, I'll probably be scolded to death. You take a quick look, I'll put it back later. Haven't seen one before, right? Tsk tsk tsk, this thing is as old as my grandfather. It's already loaded with blank rounds. Tomorrow, all Teacher Bai needs to do is pull the trigger, and at the sound of my 'ah', I'll also pull the blood bag on my shoulder - bang!"

  He spoke with great eloquence and enthusiasm.

  Jiang Chuan took the gun with a completely uninterested expression.

  After a moment's consideration, his expressionless face suddenly changed color.

  As the young man with black hair beside him opened his hand to make a bloody flower bloom, he suddenly heard the sound of "click" from the gun being cocked next to him. Before he could react, he saw the man sitting beside him aim the gun at a certain empty trash can.

  "Bang!"

  Sulfurous smoke filled the air as the deafening gunfire sent countless lunchboxes flying out of people's hands.

  When the crew of "The World's Most Beautiful Woman" dropped their lunch boxes and stood up to see what had happened, they looked in the direction of the sound source, but saw that the black-haired young man who was talking with flying colors just a second ago was sitting still on the spot, staring at the trash can that had been blown away, his eyes wide open.