Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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Qiao Yang was the new leading actor of “Palace Wall”. He had heard that in order to let Qiao Yang take over this role, Director Wang not only spent a lot of money and offered a sky-high salary, but also visited the Qiao family himself.
As a big shot in the film and television industry, Qiao Yang naturally brought a huge entourage.
According to Xiao Dengzi’s introduction, he not only brought his agent and three assistants, but also a makeup artist, a costumer, and a personal doctor, all of whom were fully equipped.
Judging from Zu Qi’s identity and qualifications, he should take the initiative to say hello to Qiao Yang, but seeing Qiao Yang, who was fully armed from head to toe and surrounded by assistants, Zu Qi suddenly hesitated.
At this time, Qiao Yang’s agent also saw them, but when his eyes fixed on Duan Kai’s face, he laughed in surprise: “Brother Duan? What a coincidence.”
Duan Kai seemed to know Qiao Yang’s agent and walked over to shake hands with him and exchanged a few words before saying: “I just decided to come here yesterday. Before I had time to say hello, I planned to come and say hello to you today.”
“Just tell me now, Brother Duan, if it’s too boring for you. Let’s have a meal together when we’re free, and you’ll have to drink three glasses of wine as a punishment.” Zhou Hai, Qiao Yang’s manager, said with a smile.
Duan Kai once again had a cold expression on his face but tugged at the corner of his mouth: “It’ll be fine tonight, we happen to be in the same crew.”
“Meitong is here too?” Zhou Hai poked his head and looked behind Duan Kai. After a moment, he suddenly remembered, “That’s not right… Meitong didn’t take a role in “Palace Wall”, right?”
As soon as he finished speaking, Zhou Hai saw Zu Qi and Xiao Dengzi, and was stunned for two seconds. Zu Qi’s face felt particularly familiar.
Duan Kai said: “I have brought a new person.” As he said, he waved Zu Qi over and introduced each other.
After hearing Zu Qi’s name, Zhou Hai suddenly realized – wasn’t this pretty and good-looking little star in front of him the partner of Xue Jue, who had gained a lot of attention on Weibo a while ago?
At that time, he was still thinking that Zu Qi’s method must be powerful. Not only did he catch Xue Jue, the diamond king who never had any scandals, but he also used this incident to become a hot topic on the Internet. He was afraid the next step would just be a comeback in filming and commercials.
Unexpectedly, he actually guessed it correctly.
But thinking about all these things, Zhou Hai didn’t like Zu Qi at all, who seemed innocent and harmless only on the surface.
Zu Qi was not blind. Even if Zhou Hai didn’t express his dislike for him directly on his face, he could still feel his indifference towards him. So after saying hello, he calmly retreated behind Duan Kai, completely putting himself in the dark, while pretending to be transparent.
As for the young celebrity Qiao Yang, who was jokingly called the 700 million movie king by netizens, he had always been hiding in the circle of assistants without saying a word. His mask and sunglasses almost covered his entire face, and it was impossible to tell what expression he was showing at this time.
But Zu Qi could still feel keenly that Qiao Yang seemed to be in a bad mood.
Moreover, Xiao Dengzi could identify Qiao Yang just by his clothes and accompanying assistant. Zu Qi was deeply impressed…
Seeing that Duan Kai and Zhou Hai were still planning to talk for a while, Zu Qi and Xiao Dengzi planned to first go upstairs to find a room to put away their luggage.
They completed the check-in procedures and when they walked to the elevator, they found that Qiao Yang and his party were also waiting there. Zu Qi knew that those people didn’t want to talk to him, so he nodded and said hello, then stood aside silently.
The elevator door opened, and Qiao Yang’s assistants pushed their suitcases into the elevator in an orderly manner. The makeup artist and costume designer hurriedly pulled their suitcases to follow, and even the personal doctor also carried large and small bags.
After the group of people entered, the elevator quickly ran out of room.
Zu Qi didn’t want to stay in the same space as Qiao Yang and others. When he saw this, he immediately waved his hand and said: “You guys go up first, we will wait for the next trip.”
Before the assistant on the outside could speak, he saw Qiao Yang, who was guarding the middle, nod and politely say: “Thank you.”
Zu Qi smiled: “It’s okay.”
When the elevator door slowly closed, Xiao Dengzi, who had been tense, relaxed and scratched his head strangely: “I thought the paparazzi were spreading rumors, but I didn’t expect it to be true.”
Zu Qi turned to look at Xiao Dengzi: “What’s true?”
“Did you see the doctor carrying the medicine box that I pointed out to you before? The man in black.” Xiao Dengzi said mysteriously, “Some paparazzi broke the news that Qiao Yang has a physical illness, and he always brings his personal doctor with him when filming or making announcements on shows.”
Zu Qi suddenly felt a little funny. It’s just a personal doctor. Is this big news worth digging for the paparazzi?
Xiao Dengzi sighed again: “It seems that Qiao Yang has anorexia and needs a doctor to help him. Look how thin he has become. If fans see him in real life, I don’t know how distressed they will be.”
Zu Qi didn’t know much about anorexia and couldn’t comment too much. He listened quietly to Xiao Dengzi’s chatter for a while before saying, “The elevator is here.”
The two of them quickly found the room, put their luggage in place, and returned to rest in their own rooms.
Zu Qi didn’t sleep well last night and was thrown around in the car for nearly three hours this morning. After taking a shower and changing clothes, he fell asleep not long after lying on the bed.
Duan Kai helped him call for room service for lunch. Zu Qi lingered in the hotel room until seven o’clock in the evening before he had to get out of bed – the crew’s dinner time was at 7:30, and he, as one of the starring team, had to be there.
As soon as they got dressed, Duan Kai and Xiao Dengzi knocked on the door.
Xiao Dengzi brought a portable makeup box and setting spray, and quickly prepared makeup and styling for Zu Qi. Then he leaned back against the wall and snapped his fingers with an astonished expression: “He’s so handsome. Our brother Qi is no worse than those little fresh meat.”
Duan Kai crossed his arms and looked at Zu Qi with leisurely eyes. He clicked his tongue and said, “If we really want to judge him by his age and appearance, he’s better than fresh meat.”
“Yes.” Xiao Dengzi smiled and patted Zu Qi’s shoulders, “Our brother Qi is less than twenty years old, much younger than the fresh meat. Brother Qi should be a handsome young man.”
Duan Kai glanced at Xiao Dengzi coldly: “He is younger than you.”
Xiao Dengzi: “…” Why did such a sad topic suddenly come to him?
Zu Qi also joked: “I almost forgot that you are older than me, otherwise I will call you Brother Deng from now on.”
Xiao Dengzi immediately shook his head like a rattle and refused righteously: “No, no, no, you better call me Xiao Dengzi, otherwise I will always feel like I am taking advantage of you.”
Zu Qi laughed and said, “Okay, Brother Deng.”
Xiao Dengzi spurted out a mouthful of blood.
The two of them walked out of the room laughing and joking, while Duan Kai followed silently. The crew’s gathering place was at a hot pot restaurant next to the hotel, not far away, just a few minutes’ walk away.
While waiting for the elevator, they met Qiao Yang and his group again.
This time, with Duan Kai and Zhou Hai chatting in the middle, the atmosphere between the two teams was not too awkward.
However, Qiao Yang still wore a mask and sunglasses, and was fully covered. He was carefully surrounded by three assistants, seemingly not letting anyone get close.
This posture…
I’m afraid it can’t even compare to the ancient emperors who went on tour incognito…
Zu Qi suddenly remembered what Xiao Dengzi had said about him suffering from anorexia and couldn’t help but look at Qiao Yang twice. Unexpectedly, when he looked over for the second time, he seemed to be aware of his gaze. Qiao Yang turned his head suddenly – and the next moment, their eyes met.
It seems that you can feel a slight embarrassment invisibly.
Zu Qi nodded hurriedly as a greeting, then turned his head to one side to avoid Qiao Yang’s direct gaze.
….
There were very few residential and commercial areas around the film and television city, and the film and television city had not been open to the public for a long time. Therefore, the main source of customers for the hotels and restaurants in this area were the staff of the film and television city and those crews who came to the film and television city for filming.
The business of the hot pot restaurant was much more deserted than Zu Qi had imagined. When he entered the store, there were only three tables of customers in the spacious hall.
The waiter led a group of them to the box. Many people had arrived early and sat in their respective seats to drink tea and chat. Director Wang and the two screenwriters had not arrived yet, so the director could only arrange for everyone to sit down and wait.
There were eight people in Qiao Yang’s group, plus the three people on Zu Qi’s side. Even excluding Zhou Hai who went to the bathroom, there were still ten people.
When they rushed into the box together, they instantly attracted the attention of everyone in the box.
Although Qiao Yang had the highest status among all the actors and was also the male protagonist, at this time, he had covered himself such that only his smooth forehead was exposed, and he was walking behind the chubby assistant. Naturally, no one could notice him at first glance.
Everyone’s eyes wandered around among the ten people who came in, and soon settled on Zu Qi and Duan Kai.
There was no other reason. These two were the most good-looking among them all. Duan Kai, a gold medal manager with equal looks and abilities, of course they knew each other. Almost everyone present had followed his Weibo.
But the handsome young man next to Duan Kai seemed familiar to everyone but couldn’t pronounce his name for a while.
Until the child sitting inside stood up, waved his hand and shouted: “Zu Qi! You are here!”
Everyone reacted instantly.
It turned out that this person was Zu Qi…
It was just that the Zu Qi in front of them seemed different from the black photos that were posted on the Internet. After all, Zu Qi had bid farewell to the entertainment industry for almost a year and had never posted photos on Weibo. Everyone was interested in this. Everything they knew about his appearance came from screenshots from previous movies and secret photos revealed by paparazzi.
Zu Qi in those photos… was hard to describe.
Although he was not very ugly, he was definitely not associated with handsomeness. On the contrary, the postures and expressions in some photos were particularly distorted.
On the other hand, looking at the person in front of them, his beautiful peach blossom eyes seemed to be filled with broken starlight, and like a whirlpool, they could attract all the attention of others. His lips were slightly darker, with full lip beads, perfect lip shape, smooth and white. His skin looked like it had a filter under the light, and the corners of his lips were always slightly raised, making it easy for people to feel good about him.
It was said on the Internet that Zu Qi’s height was no more than 1.75 meters. From a visual inspection, he was definitely 1.8 meters tall. He was the second tallest person among the more than ten people who came in, except Duan Kai, who was 1.87 meters tall.
The paparazzi were talking nonsense!
The girls present thought angrily.
Facts had proved that one’s face could be eaten. At least after seeing that Zu Qi’s appearance was not as unsatisfactory as what was reported online, everyone’s attitude towards him became much more enthusiastic.
People sitting outside gathered around and crowded Zu Qi and Duan Kai to sit down at the dining table prepared for the starring cast. Xiao Dengzi was arranged next to other staff members.
The female lead and the second female lead would join the cast a week late due to scheduling reasons. Excluding the male lead Qiao Yang, Zu Qi played the most important role here…even if he was just a newcomer.
Everyone was talking to Zu Qi. Zu Qi was flattered, but he also answered everyone’s questions.
Later, someone asked: “By the way, did you meet Actor Qiao on the way here? It’s so late and they haven’t come yet. Could it be that they forgot about the dinner party tonight?”
Zu Qi: “…”
Duan Kai, who had been drinking tea for a while: “…”
After a long silence, Zu Qi raised his hand and pointed a finger at Qiao Yang, who was arranged by someone to squeeze into the table of the props group: “Isn’t he here…”
Everyone: “…”
Just at this moment, Zhou Hai, who had returned from the bathroom, pushed the door open and entered. His eyes fell on Qiao Yang, who was as quiet as a chicken, and he frowned and said, “Aren’t you supposed to be sitting with Director Wang and the others?”
Everyone: “…”
After he said this, Qiao Yang finally returned to his correct position, but Zhou Hai seemed to be unhappy because of this incident and kept a straight face.
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