Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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After all, Zu Qi was a public figure, and Xue Jue was very careful when doing it so as not to leave any traces on Zu Qi.
But sometimes Zu Qi couldn’t control himself and would hold Xue Jue’s shoulders and bite his neck.
When he got up in the morning, Zu Qi saw Xue Jue button his collar tightly to the top button. Before he thought much about it, he saw Xue Jue unbuttoning his collar because of the warm wind, revealing an unusually obvious red mark on his neck. His cheeks suddenly felt hot.
While waiting for the red light, Zu Qi reminded uncomfortably: “Button your shirt.”
Xue Jue turned his head and raised his eyebrows in confusion: “Huh?”
“On your neck…” Zu Qi pointed at Xue Jue’s neck, cleared his throat and said, “There’s something.”
Xue Jue’s face became even more confused.
Zu Qi pursed his lips.
“Okay.” Xue Jue responded, but before he could do anything, the red light in front turned green, so he had to start the car.
Then the two of them put the matter behind them in a blink of an eye.
When they arrived at Zu Qi’s company, Xue Jue parked the car on the side of the road. As soon as Zu Qi got out of the car, he met President Wang coming out of the black Audi behind him. After glancing at Xue Jue’s license plate, he immediately came up to him with a smile.
“Mr. Xue.” Mr. Wang rubbed his hands, changing his usual noble and cold image, with a flattering smile on his face, “Why are you here?”
Hearing this, Zu Qi paused in his action of closing the car door, then stepped aside and watched Mr. Wang bend down and lean towards the driver’s seat.
Xue Jue had not planned to stay here for too long, but since Mr. Wang had taken the initiative, he had no choice but to smile politely and nodded.
“Mr. Wang, long time no see.”
Mr. Wang didn’t notice Zu Qi standing next to him at all, and greeted him: “Are you here for business? If you have time, let’s have a meal together. The last time we met was half a year ago. Sometimes I wanted to find you to reminisce about the past, but Xiao Zhao told me that you were very busy.”
Xue Jue was indeed very busy, and he was still very busy now.
Many people wanted to get in touch with Xue Jue, but they were troubled by the fact that Xue Jue did not have any free time. After calling Xue Jue’s assistant Xiao Zhao, there was no response, let alone making an appointment with Xue Jue in person.
And Mr. Wang was one of those “many people” with money.
In addition, there were rumors online that Xue Jue and Zu Qi had always been at odds and their marriage was in jeopardy, so Mr. Wang subconsciously thought that Xue Jue was here to do business and that Xue Jue’s trip had nothing to do with Zu Qi.
It was not until Xue Jue said, “I’ll send Zu Qi over and will go to the company soon. Let’s make an appointment another day when we have time” that Mr. Wang noticed Zu Qi behind him.
Zu Qi smiled awkwardly and waved: “Good morning, Mr. Wang.”
“…” Mr. Wang’s eyes widened instantly, his expression was quite frightened, and he even stuttered, “Zu, Zu Qi?! Why are you here?!”
Zu Qi said speechlessly: “I was standing here just now, but you were busy talking to Xue Jue and didn’t see me.”
Mr. Wang was stunned, his suspicious eyes wandered between Xue Jue and Zu Qi for a moment, and then suddenly fixed on the conspicuous red marks on Xue Jue’s neck.
In an instant, Mr. Wang understood something.
After Xue Jue drove away, Mr. Wang and Zu Qi walked towards the company gate together.
It was not like Zu Qi had never run into Mr. Wang in front of the company’s gate before, but at that time Mr. Wang would never take the initiative to greet Zu Qi. When the employees greeted him, he would just nod lightly, acting very arrogantly.
Naturally, Zu Qi thought that Mr. Wang would leave on his own after a while, but he didn’t expect that he and Mr. Wang walked to the elevator side by side. And Mr. Wang showed no intention of leaving first and chatted with Zu Qi very intimately.
Talking about the script he had accepted last time, Mr. Wang patted Zu Qi on the shoulder and said, “If you feel those scripts are not suitable for you, I can help you get some new scripts, or tell me which directors you admire and which actors you want to work with, and I’ll keep an eye out for you.”
Zu Qi looked at Mr. Wang strangely for several times, and after a long silence, he politely waved his hand and said, “Brother Duan has already picked out a good script for me, and I’m still negotiating with the director. I think it will work out.”
Mainly because of Mr. Wang’s sudden enthusiasm, Zu Qi was uneasy.
Mr. Wang showed a disappointed expression, but he quickly cheered up, patted his chest and promised Zu Qi: “Don’t worry, if I get any good endorsements, I will be the first to recommend you.”
Zu Qi: “…Thank you, Mr. Wang.”
Mr. Wang smiled like a blooming flower: “You’re welcome, you are mine after all, it’s only right that I take care of you.”
“…” Zu Qi had a black question mark face.
After a pause, Mr. Wang realized that he had said something wrong and hurriedly corrected himself, “You are from our company. It was just a slip of the tongue. Don’t take it to heart.”
….
Nine o’clock in the morning was one of the peak hours for the company’s traffic. Even the elevators were more crowded than at other times, and there were even long queues. You may have to wait for two or three elevators before it was your turn.
Originally, Zu Qi was planning to go and queue up obediently, but President Wang insisted on taking Zu Qi to his special elevator for the president to play. So Zu Qi followed President Wang in the empty elevator upstairs under the envious gazes of everyone.
After getting out of the elevator, President Wang personally escorted Zu Qi to the door of Duan Kai’s office before preparing to leave.
Duan Kai inside heard Mr. Wang’s voice. He pushed the door open and saw Mr. Wang’s smiling face. He was stunned for two seconds and thought he had recognized the wrong person.
“Mr. Wang?”
Mr. Wang seemed to be in a good mood. He waved to Duan Kai and then instructed: “Come to my office after the morning meeting. We will discuss Zu Qi’s future work and schedule.”
Duan Kai nodded and said, “Okay.”
After watching Mr. Wang walk away, Zu Qi followed Duan Kai into the office and sat on the sofa. Zu Qi thought of the purpose of looking for Duan Kai, and somehow he felt a little aggrieved.
“Qiao Yang and I are really innocent.” Zu Qi couldn’t understand why he got into trouble when he was filming honestly in the crew and didn’t make any trouble or do anything else.
“I know.” Duan Kai walked behind the desk, took out a stack of photos from the drawer, put them on the coffee table in front of Zu Qi, then lit a cigarette against the window, “But netizens don’t know that as long as these photos and the recording are spread, it will definitely cause a stir and will be very detrimental to the upcoming movie.”
Zu Qi picked up the photos and flipped through them. The protagonists on them were all him and Qiao Yang, and they were indeed taken secretly when he and Qiao Yang went to the food stall to eat skewers that night.
However, the poses and eyes of Zu Qi and Qiao Yang in the photo were extremely ambiguous, just like a couple in love, and their every move seemed to be filled with little pink bubbles.
But Zu Qi knew very well that the paparazzi was able to take photos with such effects only by using shooting techniques such as borrowing positions and angles. In fact, the way he and Qiao Yang got along was very normal.
“Now that things have come to this, don’t think too much about it. Mr. Wang has already bought the photos, so just pretend nothing happened.” Duan Kai comforted him as he took the photos from Zu Qi’s hand, put them back into the paper bag and locked them in the drawer.
Zu Qi sighed. This was all that could be done.
He even suspected that Mr. Wang’s attitude towards him suddenly changed 180 degrees because he was furious about this incident. After all, 50,000 yuan was not a small amount of money…
In just a few minutes, Zu Qi had a lot of random thoughts. The more he thought about it, the more uneasy he felt. He felt that Mr. Wang’s attitude was like the calm before the storm.
Duan Kai knew what Zu Qi was thinking at a glance, and said, “Mr. Wang wouldn’t go to such lengths to make things difficult for you for the sake of 50,000 yuan. At most, your days ahead will be a little difficult. I’ll help you find out when I go to Mr. Wang’s office later.”
Zu Qi nodded nervously.
Afterwards, the two chatted about the new script. At 10:30 in the morning, Duan Kai went upstairs for a morning meeting, while Zu Qi and Xiao Dengzi attended the new training session organized by the company.
Participating in the training was Zu Qi’s main purpose of coming to the company today. Hearing that the lecturer was a very famous Chinese director abroad, President Wang and his people visited him three times before finally inviting him.
Zu Qi and Xiao Dengzi arrived half an hour early. The huge conference hall was already full of people. They found a seat on the far left of the three rows from the back, which was far away from the podium, but at least they could hear the lecturer’s voice.
In such occasions, everyone was very quiet, with only the sound of low voices around.
Zu Qi was bored and was playing with his mobile phone with his head down. Suddenly, Xiao Dengzi next to him bumped his arm. He turned around and saw Xiao Dengzi winking and sticking his lips at him.
“In front.” Xiao Dengzi mouthed the words in an exaggerated manner.
Zu Qi followed Xiao Dengzi’s gaze and saw a densely packed back of heads with different hair colors in front of him…
“Tang Moning.” Xiao Dengzi continued to mouth the words and secretly stretched out a finger and pointed forward like a thief.
Now Zu Qi finally found the direction that Xiao Dengzi pointed to. After looking for a long time, he slowly realized that the back of the head in front of him looked very familiar. And when he looked over, the person turned his head and talked to the person next to him.
The next second, Zu Qi recognized the profile.
Hey.
It was really Tang Moning.
But the current Tang Moning was so different from his past self that Zu Qi almost didn’t recognize him.
In the past, Tang Moning had the persona of a sunny and cheerful boy. He was always very well-behaved in interviews and variety shows. Whenever someone even mentioned love or his ideal type, he would blush.
Now, Tang Moning had dyed his hair purple, which made him stand out in the crowd. In fact, Zu Qi had noticed his hair color as early as when he sat down, but he did not recognize that the man was Tang Moning.
“What is he wearing? Who would expose their arms in the middle of winter?” Xiao Dengzi quietly leaned close to Zu Qi’s ear and complained in disgust.
Zu Qi was calm. He glanced at Xiao Dengzi who kept clicking his tongue and said, “This is not your first day in this circle. Many people wear clothes against the season.”
However, Tang Moning’s clothes were even weirder.
“It doesn’t look good.” Xiao Dengzi curled his lips and stopped talking after reaching his conclusion.
Soon, it was time for the lecture to start. The famous Chinese director slowly walked onto the stage amid warm applause from everyone. He first showed off his English skills and then began to introduce some of the knowledge points he was about to talk about in Chinese.
Ever since the director came on stage, Zu Qi had moved his eyes away from the back of Tang Moning’s head.
But within a few minutes, Zu Qi’s attention returned to Tang Moning.
Because Tang Moning suddenly stood up from his seat and his chair rubbed against the ground and made a harsh sound. Not only Zu Qi and Xiao Dengzi in the back, but everyone including the director on the stage looked at Tang Moning.
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