Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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After everyone was seated, Director Wang, two screenwriters and other talents who were temporarily busy arrived belatedly.
Zu Qi was not an outgoing person, so he was not used to this kind of social occasion. He just followed Duan Kai’s instructions and toasted to the director and screenwriters one by one, and then asked the director for help. And after a reminder, the WeChat accounts of everyone present were added, and he was also dragged into various WeChat groups.
After going through such a process, there was no place where Zu Qi needed to come forward, so he sat quietly next to Duan Kai and ate hot pot.
Eating steaming hot pot in the dead of winter was a pleasure. Zu Qi took off his heavy down jacket and wore only a thin sweater, then he lifted up his sleeves and opened his arms to eat.
The heating in the private room was turned on at full speed, and not long after, Zu Qi was suffocated by the heating mixed with the heat from the pot, causing a layer of sweat to overflow on his forehead.
Duan Kai was chatting with the screenwriter. When he saw this, he pulled out a tissue and handed it to Zu Qi: “Take it.”
Zu Qi quickly put the cooked duck intestines into the oil dish and took the tissue from Duan Kai with his other hand. After wiping it haphazardly on his forehead twice, he picked up the duck intestines, rinsed them in a dish of oil, and then put them in his mouth.
It was so delicious…
Zu Qi felt that his whole body had been sublimated, and the enjoyment on his taste buds seemed to drive away the fatigue of running around during the day.
He picked up another chopstick of duck intestines and put it in the red soup pot to rinse. He took the time to fish it out. Just as he was about to put it into his own bowl, he suddenly noticed an extremely intense gaze.
Zu Qi paused, then subconsciously turned his head to look – and then met a pair of clear and bright light brown eyes.
Zu Qi suddenly remembered that the 700 million actor Qiao Yang was still sitting next to him, but this actor was so quiet and insignificant that Zu Qi forgot about him after toasting…
When toasting, Qiao Yang had off all the heavy coverings on his body and head, and now he was wearing only a loose black cashmere sweater, which made his skin seem even whiter.
Although Qiao Yang had already won several Best Actor awards, he was only a young man in his twenties after all. His appearance was more clean and handsome, but his temperament was much more mature and stable than the current young man.
When Zu Qi learned that Qiao Yang would play the leading role in “Palace Wall”, he checked his information privately. But when he saw his appearance again, he was shocked.
Just because Qiao Yang was too different from his appearance on the Internet… No, to be precise, it should be that Qiao Yang was too different from his previous appearance.
In the past, Qiao Yang had a sunny, beautiful and boy-next-door image, but now, he had become incredibly thin.
His eye sockets were slightly sunken, his cheeks were slightly sunken, and there was a thick circle of black and blue under his eye sockets. It seemed that it should be the result of not having a good rest for a long time.
Qiao Yang’s skin was extremely white, like snowflakes, so every feature could be clearly reflected on his face.
Zu Qi suddenly remembered what Xiao Dengzi had said in the morning when he gossiped about Qiao Yang having anorexia, and he suddenly felt relieved. He quickly put away the surprise in his eyes and smiled calmly on the surface.
Seeing that Qiao Yang’s eyes were always fixed on the chopsticks holding the duck intestines, Zu Qi shook his chopsticks and asked cautiously: “Do you want to eat this?”
Qiao Yang had a hint of desire in his expression, but he shook his head and politely declined: “No, thank you.”
Zu Qi guessed that Qiao Yang might mind the chopsticks he used, so he didn’t insist. He put all the blanched duck intestines into his bowl and rinsed two pieces in the oil dish.
Just as he was about to put it in his mouth, he felt Qiao Yang’s naked gaze.
Zu Qi paused and quietly moved his gaze to the side.
Then he saw Qiao Yang turning around to face him, looking straight at him with his eyes.
Zu Qi: “…”
No matter how thick-skinned he was, he couldn’t eat calmly amidst Qiao Yang’s undivided attention. Thinking that Qiao Yang had anorexia, Zu Qi couldn’t eat even more.
So Zu Qi silently put down his chopsticks, picked up a tissue and wiped his mouth.
Seeing this, Qiao Yang hurriedly said: “You don’t need to pay attention to me, just pretend that I don’t exist.”
Zu Qi thought that a super celebrity was sitting next to him and staring at him intently. He was not that big-hearted yet. To the point of turning a blind eye to everything.
“I’m full.” Zu Qi said.
Qiao Yang seemed to realize that it was not good to look at others like this. He smiled awkwardly, then turned his head and stared at his empty bowl in a daze – he never moved his chopsticks.
There was laughter all around, but their small area seemed to be enveloped in an invisible low pressure.
Maybe other people noticed something strange about Qiao Yang, so they didn’t dare to come forward to strike up a conversation. In addition, the tall and thick Zhou Hai was sitting nearby with an unsightly expression, so everyone stayed as far away as possible.
Zu Qi was bored and embarrassed to leave early, so he could only take out his mobile phone and check Weibo.
As a result, this brush caused a problem.
Originally, the controversy over Yu Meitong and Duan Kai’s job hopping caused a stir on Weibo. Later, Zu Qi was inexplicably pulled out to block the gun, and netizens’ attention gradually shifted to him.
According to Duan Kai, netizens all had goldfish memories. Moreover, these unsubstantiated rumors would not last long on the Internet. Just treat them as if you haven’t seen them.
Zu Qi also listened to Duan Kai’s words and saw that his enthusiasm had finally subsided. Who knew that just one meal later, his name appeared at the top of the hot search again.
Following closely was Tang Moning’s name, as well as words such as “Zu Qi is playing a big role”, “Zu Qi and Tang Moning have a complete falling out”.
Zu Qi: “…”
He suddenly felt that he should buy a lottery ticket, he was hit by two cauldrons falling from the sky at the same time in one day.
When he clicked on it, he found that several marketing accounts mentioned that Tang Moning went to the hospital to see him more than a month ago but was turned away. They also posted nine candid photos of Tang Moning walking out of the hospital dejectedly.
The comments below were divided into several groups.
There were crazy fans of Tang Moning who bit and sprayed whoever they caught;
[It’s just a bus that hugged Xue family’s thigh through his belly, it’s like holding a chicken feather as a command arrow to show off, inside and outside the circle who doesn’t know what kind of pissed-off grandfather is? He doesn’t know how to do anything, but he can just act like a big name and get away with it.]
[Please don’t take our Ning Ning with you if you quarrel or fight or anything like that, okay? [Smile][Smile] Our Ningning is different from some male green teas. He doesn’t understand anything and is just a child.]
There were also netizens who had turned to fans or negative followers of Zu Qi because they were fans of meditation powder;
[Ouch, he is only a 26-year-old kid, who is not a baby these days? I am also just a 240-month-old baby! [dog head]]
[To be honest, I didn’t really like Zu Qi at first, I could even say I hated him. But then I bought his stuff and naturally paid more attention to him. I found that he is really a very Buddhist person. You can count the number of Weibo posts posted every month on one hand, and they are all related to work. Can you please stop those who insist on using Zu Qi’s hype?!]
[Same upstairs, if Zu Qi really wants to increase the popularity, he can just post photos of Xue Jue and their son every two days. The popularity of a national husband is always much higher than that bastard Tang Moning, right?]
There were also passers-by who were messing around;
[Waiting for the reversal…]
[There is also a fart reversal. Anyway, I am standing with Zu Qi this time. If I were Zu Qi, it would be fine if I didn’t slap him twice. At the beginning, he relied on Shi Hao and Chen Meixin to step on Zu Qi and now he still wants Zu Qi to support him as his ancestor? I advise him to have a more realistic dream.]
[If nothing else, Tang Moning’s crazy fans really opened my eyes… I can’t afford to offend them, so I just ran away.]
[Wow! Since when did Zu Qi have fans to defend him?! And isn’t Tang Moning a popular idol?! How did he become a fool?! I feel like I have been derailed from this world or2]
[My friend upstairs finally joined the Netcom Village? Let me tell you some popular science. Not long ago, Zu Qi, who was ridiculed by many people, made a comeback with his Taobao store. As for Tang Moumou, a has-been little fresh meat, he has long been confused.]
Although the comment area was occupied by some idiot fans of Tang Moning, most of them were relatively sensible passers-by. In just a few words, they were able to see through the purpose of the marketing accounts being bribed and controlled by Tang Moning.
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