Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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Ever since Zu Qi took on the role in “Palace Wall”, his work had become more complicated. In addition to the various event announcements derived from the movie, he also had to shoot a lot of subsequent endorsements.
It was obvious that Xiao Dengzi alone was not able to handle the job, and Duan Kai, as the agent, also had to take care of Yu Meitong, so it was impossible for him to focus all his energy and time on Zu Qi.
Speaking of this, Zu Qi suddenly remembered that he hadn’t seen Yu Meitong for a long time, and he was even about to forget the existence of this heroine.
Moreover, there seemed to be no connection between Yu Meitong and Xue Jue.
Zu Qi recalled the direction of the original plot and found that his current life was very different from the life the original owner should have lived…
If he had followed the original plot, he would have been tortured half to death by Xue Jue, and the male protagonist who had never shown his face should have fallen in love with Yu Meitong a long time ago.
While Zu Qi was daydreaming, Duan Kai and Xiao Dengzi had already selected two assistants who were suitable in all aspects from several young people, one male and one female, with an average age of 25.
The woman was called Xiao Xiu, who would mainly responsible be for taking care of Zu Qi’s daily life. The man was called Da Wei, who would share one third of Xiao Dengzi’s workload.
After selecting the new assistants, Duan Kai instructed Xiao Dengzi to take the two newcomers to familiarize themselves with the company, its rules and regulations, and their future schedule, etc. Suddenly, Duan Kai and Zu Qi were the only ones left in the office.
Duan Kai leaned back behind his desk, took out a cigarette from the drawer, put it in his mouth, but did not rush to light it. Instead, he looked at Zu Qi: “What’s going on between you and Mr. Wang?”
Zu Qi faced this question for the second time, speechless and helpless: “Xue Jue sent me to the company that morning and was seen by Mr. Wang. Mr. Wang and I got into the elevator together and were seen by other people, so the story spread like this.”
“No wonder.” Duan Kai nodded.
Zu Qi asked: “What’s not surprising?”
“Don’t you think that the resources you have received recently have been much better? And you have been in the company for less than two years. Unless you become famous overnight, it is impossible to assign three assistants to you.” Duan Kai said, “Maybe Xue Jue greeted President Wang.”
Zu Qi scratched his hair and felt strange: “Isn’t this not the first day President Wang knew that Xue Jue and I were married?”
“It’s precisely because he has known about your relationship for a long time that he deliberately left you alone.” Duan Kai said with some meaning.
Even without Duan Kai’s explanation, Zu Qi instantly understood what Duan Kai meant.
In the past, Xue Jue’s treatment of the original owner was indeed not good. Although he gave the original owner everything materially, he always neglected the original owner spiritually and would not even acknowledge his relationship with the original owner to outsiders.
Coupled with the paparazzi and netizens’ exaggeration, as well as Xue Jue’s non-denial, the original owner was treated worse and worse in many places, and some people even deliberately bullied the original owner in order to win Xue Jue’s favor.
Of course, Xue Jue didn’t know what was happening behind his back.
Zu Qi sighed. He felt a little sympathy for the original owner’s experience, but he also felt that the original owner was asking for it. If the original owner had not used tricks to make Xue Jue have a relationship with him, so many chain events would not have happened later.
Seeing Zu Qi silent and having a complicated expression, Duan Kai thought he was worried about the rumors in the company, so he comforted him, “It doesn’t matter what those people say. What matters is whether your future achievements can live up to the criticism you are suffering now. Work harder and take advantage of this time when President Wang is bewitched.”
Zu Qi burst out laughing.
Then, he restrained his smile, rubbed his hands and asked softly: “Can I ask a very personal question?”
Duan Kai who was originally flipping through his schedule, paused when he heard this and answered: “Jin Yu and I haven’t confirmed our relationship yet.”
“…” Zu Qi was silent for a moment, then said, “I…”
Duan Kai said again: “If he and I don’t work out, you don’t have to feel embarrassed, just pretend that he and I have never known each other. That’s what he says now anyway.”
Before, Duan Kai still had a nonchalant smile on his face, but when he said this, his face gradually turned cold, and even the curve of his mouth seemed extremely forced.
“…”
Zu Qi had no intention of asking about Duan Kai’s personal affairs, but Duan Kai said it so proactively. He thought about it and decided to continue asking according to Duan Kai’s words: “I think Mr. Jin likes you very much. It can be said that the initiative is in your hands. If you nod, your relationship will easily succeed.”
Duan Kai lowered his eyes, picked up the cup and took a sip of warm water, only to feel that the liquid flowing into his throat was extremely bitter.
“I have already handed the initiative to him. If he doesn’t want to agree, there is nothing I can do.”
“Ah?” Zu Qi was a little confused and asked subconsciously, “Mr. Jin has fallen in love with someone else?”
Duan Kai said, “Maybe I made him angry.”
Zu Qi became more and more confused. That night in the bathroom of Xue’s house, he could feel that Jin Yu was very accommodating to Duan Kai, otherwise he would not agree to let Duan Kai do that to him.
In Zu Qi’s opinion, Jin Yu should be the kind of person with strong self-esteem.
As if he had noticed Zu Qi’s doubt, Duan Kai looked a little embarrassed. He put his fist to his lips and pretended to cough twice, then said with some embarrassment: “A while ago, I was not sure about my feelings for him, so I went for a blind date and was caught by him.”
Zu Qi: “…”
Ha, scumbag.
Zu Qi didn’t expect that Duan Kai was described as so cold and upright in the novel, as if he would never do anything that was not in line with the normal values and would actually be despised by others. Now that he had seen the real person, he found that the author really omitted a lot of things.
If he had written this paragraph in the novel, he wondered what those readers in the comment section who were clamoring to marry Duan Kai every day would think.
Zu Qi pursed his lips. He really didn’t know how to comfort Duan Kai. After holding it in for a long time, he could only say one useless sentence: “Let things take their course in matters of the heart.”
Duan Kai naturally saw Zu Qi’s dilemma. He thought that he was really making things difficult for him…
Before leaving, Zu Qi still reluctantly asked what he wanted to ask. In order to prevent Duan Kai from misunderstanding, he repeatedly explained that he was just asking about his idol’s relationship status on behalf of his friends who liked Yu Meitong.
Duan Kai was not a fool, he certainly didn’t believe Zu Qi’s flawed statement.
Just when Zu Qi thought Duan Kai would refuse to answer, Duan Kai actually answered concisely: “Meitong doesn’t have a boyfriend.”
Zu Qi was stunned, and immediately climbed up the pole: “Then does she have any ambiguous object?”
Duan Kai continued to answer: “No.”
Zu Qi said again: “What about a backup or someone she likes?”
“…” Duan Kai’s mouth twitched twice, and he roared on the spot in an unbearable manner, “Are you checking the household registration? Why are you asking so many questions? When I said no, I mean there is no close opposite sex, except her dad.”
Zu Qi touched his nose and ran out of the office in shame.
….
At noon, Zu Qi had lunch with Xiao Dengzi and others and got to know each other. In the afternoon, Zu Qi had no work arrangements, so he took a taxi to the suburbs to find Tang Yukuan.
In two days, those bosses would go to the orchard to get goods. He needed to go and see the situation of the orchard. If the apples produced were not as effective as the apples in the space, they would still need to continue to transport supplies out of the space.
The mushrooms that they had asked A Tao, A Shu and others to collect had been piled up in the warehouse. Zu Qi had asked Xiao Dengzi to help find a studio to take pictures of the products. If nothing went wrong, they would be on the shelves next month.
The cherry trees, peach trees, pear trees, etc. that had been brought into the space and planted one after another had all borne abundant fruits, which needed to be moved out together…
Zu Qi filtered through the work in the orchard in his mind, and when he took out his mobile phone, he saw Xiao Dengzi sending him WeChat messages from five or six studio owners.
He added the bosses’ WeChat accounts one by one, and while waiting for a response, he couldn’t help but search the names of Yu Meitong and Xiao Senxu on the Internet – there was no result. Although they were in the same entertainment industry, they were completely unrelated. The only connection between them was probably that they attended the famous charity gala hosted by Liu Jing together half a year ago.
Zu Qi searched again without getting discouraged but still couldn’t find any clues.
It seemed that Yu Meitong and Xiao Senxu were really two parallel lines that didn’t intersect.
At this moment, Zu Qi felt extremely strongly that the main plot of this novel world had undergone tremendous changes because of his appearance. Both the male and female protagonists in the novel and the two supporting characters, him and Xue Jue, all embarked on different life trajectories.
But…
Xiao Senxu.
This name really sounded familiar.
Zu Qi was very sure that he had heard this name somewhere before, but he couldn’t figure out where exactly no matter how hard he scratched his head.
An hour and a half later, Zu Qi arrived at the orchard. When he got off the car, he saw a dozen small trucks blocking the big iron gate of the orchard. Two middle-aged men with familiar looks were standing in front of the trucks and chatting.
After hearing Zu Qi’s approaching footsteps, the two men turned around at the same time and found that it was Zu Qi. Their eyes suddenly lit up.
“Boss Zu, long time no see! How have you been recently?”
“I heard that your new movie will be released soon. I will definitely bring my family to support you then.”
The two men came forward while greeting each other with smiles on their faces. Then they surrounded Zu Qi and started to speak a lot of flattering words, praising Zu Qi to the heavens.
Zu Qi was confused and waited patiently until they finished speaking before saying, “Why are you standing here? Let’s go in together.”
When the two men heard this, they both looked embarrassed. Under Zu Qi’s puzzled gaze, one of the men said, “Boss Tang is probably still resting in there. We called Boss Tang several times, but no one answered.”
As he spoke, the man sighed heavily, with an inexplicable resentment in his expression, and looked at Zu Qi from time to time.
Zu Qi was already confused by their reactions. Before he could say anything, he heard a noisy voice behind him. He turned around and saw a group of people standing not far away. Some of them were very emotional and seemed to be arguing about something.
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