Sui Si sat for a while, then reached out and opened the car door.
The assistant never dared to talk to Sui Si like that. He hid aside, eyes wide open, and watched Teacher Sui get out of the car as Special Assistant Yu said.
"Special Assistant Yu is so good." The new assistant didn't dare to show up, and secretly asked the people who were already in the studio, "Why did Teacher Sui fire him?"
The person next to him didn't say anything, but gestured towards the phone he was holding.
Sui Si was very careful with Ke Ming. He was afraid that if he used his mobile phone to contact Ke Ming, the information might leak out and affect Ke Ming's future. To be safe, he specially prepared a completely clean mobile phone, which he only used to talk to Ke Ming in a warm and intimate way.
Yu Tang was the one who bought the new phone. He also went to open a phone card account, register information, and go through all the other tedious processes, all using Yu Tang's identity information.
"It's only a matter of time." Someone nearby said, "Teacher Sui likes Mr. Ke and wants to be with him. Special Assistant Yu will have to leave."
The assistant whispered, "If Special Assistant Yu really leaves, can we take good care of Teacher Sui?"
This time the person next to him also frowned and shook his head as if he was hesitant to speak.
Sui Si is the boss in the studio. If the boss wants to fire someone, the people below him certainly cannot say much.
But of course anyone could leave, but Yu Tang had to be expelled.
No one in the studio dislikes Yu Tang, as they spend every day together. Even if we ignore this, without Yu Tang, the team's functions would be paralyzed by at least half, and work efficiency would definitely plummet.
Yu Tang was ill and hospitalized these days, and Nie Chi divided Yu Tang's work among five people, but none of them could handle it properly.
The new assistant was only responsible for running errands, and didn't feel deeply about these things. He was just instinctively grateful for Yu Tang's help. He was ordered by Sui Si to pass on the message, and he had accumulated a lot of cold and harsh scolding for Yu Tang. When he saw the real person again, he felt a little reluctant: "This shouldn't be like this. Special Assistant Yu can't do without Teacher Sui."
"With Yu's work ability, he can easily get an A-level leadership position in any artist team?" The person next to him said disapprovingly, "Do you know how many management companies have gone to great lengths to offer ten times the annual salary just to poach Yu?"
The new assistant hadn’t thought about this, and for a moment he was stunned, looking at Yu Tang.
The situation that was in a mess just now has now been settled properly. Not only the people in the studio, but also the old-timers in the official channel production department who had been stern with them for the whole afternoon, when they saw Yu Tang, they actually smiled and talked with a smile.
"Assistant Yu has been in our team for five years, but he is still getting paid the same salary as five years ago, and is doing half of the work of other people's studios."
The people next to him whispered, "If Special Assistant Yu really leaves, he must be living a better life than he is now."
Sui Si got out of the nanny car and was taken by Yu Tang to a free parking area not far away. Many people from the studio followed him. The man didn't say anything else, took the phone from the assistant, and ran over to him.
As this industry develops into a complete commercial model, what the circle lacks most is not actors and stars, but the operators behind the stars.
A special assistant who can calmly deal with reporters, media, and gossip tabloids, can get along well with fan clubs, can properly contact partners, and can coordinate cooperation among various departments at the same time, what level of salary and benefits can be obtained? The newly hired assistants don't know, but most people in the studio know it well.
If Yu Tang really wanted to leave, he would definitely live a better life than he does now.
…
But after Yu Tang leaves, it is hard to say what will become of Sui Si's studio, which is well-run and second to none in the circle.
"Teacher Sui, don't be anxious. Listen to me first." Yu Tang got in the car and sat in the passenger seat. He turned around and said to Sui Si, "Today is December 13th, Mr. Ke's birthday."
Sui Si's heart skipped a beat and he sat up straight.
He had completely forgotten about the incident, but now that he remembered it and saw the sky darkening outside the window, he knew that things were bad.
Ke Ming grew up in an orphanage. Even though he was strong and resilient, he still had some psychological trauma that was difficult to shake off.
Especially on birthdays, Ke Ming once told Sui Si that what he feared most was an empty room on his birthday.
The Sui family didn't have the habit of celebrating birthdays for the younger generation, and Sui Si never cared about it. But he liked Ke Ming and really cared about Ke Ming's concerns. He didn't think Ke Ming's concerns were hypocritical, but felt particularly distressed when he heard about them. He promised that he would spend every birthday with Ke Ming in the future.
"What time is it?!" Sui Si shouted, "Why is there no one here—"
"It's five o'clock in the afternoon. There's still time."
Yu Tang's voice was steady. He lowered the anti-peep window, signaled the driver to drive, and handed Sui Si an exquisite box: "This is a birthday gift for Mr. Ke, a new limited edition tie from W&P. Open it and take a look at the pattern so that Mr. Ke can guess it later."
All his anxiety was suddenly extinguished. Sui Si was stunned for a moment and took the tie.
"I've already ordered the cake and sent it home first." Yu Tang said, "Time is tight, so I only bought a bottle of red wine from Gorbo Winery and a bouquet of flowers. You may need to write the greeting card inside the flowers yourself."
Sui Si frowned and looked at Yu Tang.
In the past few years, Sui Si has devoted all his attention to his career, determined to earn a free future for the two of them. He often asks Yu Tang to prepare Ke Ming's birthday presents.
Yu Tang has always been like this, taking care of every detail, never missing a single thing.
As his spouse, Yu Tang never said a word and never made any demands on Sui Si.
Sui Si took the bouquet and for some reason, he thought of the bouquet that fell from the bridge.
At that time, Yu Tang was still very young, with childish eyes and eyebrows, and a little bit of immaturity from a boy to a young man. A group of people were making a fuss, and Yu Tang was slow to react. He watched Sui Si's bouquet fall over him, and almost without thinking, he rushed over and wanted to jump into the river to catch it.
The others were startled by him and hurriedly grabbed him. The production director laughed and joked that they were a bunch of ungrateful people, and only the assistant of the actor Sui knew how to care about the props of the crew.
…
Sui Si actually knew that what Yu Tang cared about was not the props of the crew.
Yu Tang even forgot to save his life. What he only wanted to catch was the inconspicuous bunch of baby's breath that he had casually given away.
As if he had noticed his gaze, Yu Tang raised his head and looked at him quietly and inquiringly.
Sui Si's hands moved, slowly clenched, and hung at his sides.
Yu Tang looked concerned, as serious and focused as ever, as if his eyes could only hold Sui Si. But after Yu Tang was rescued and woke up, his eyes were no longer gentle, and it seemed that only calmness was left.
So calm that there is no unnecessary emotion, so calm that it seems like there are no longer any expectations.
"You didn't bring a pen?" Yu Tang lowered his head. "I have some here: fountain pens, gel pens, portable brushes..."
"Yu Tang." Sui Si called him.
Yu Tang stopped talking.
Sui Si looked at him for a while, took out the greeting card from the bouquet, and crumpled it into a ball in his palm.
That night, he fished Yu Tang out of the river. Yu Tang's chest and shoulders were cold and he could not make any sound.
Yu Tang just wanted a bouquet of flowers.
Yu Tang had bought flowers for Ke Ming for so many years, but he had never actually received even a single branch or petal of them.
"For you."
Sui Si handed over the bouquet: "You have worked hard over the years."
Sui Si's voice was low, and he spoke softly and slowly, which seemed to stir up some difficult-to-identify emotions in the dim light in the car.
Yu Tang was startled, and immediately typed in the system in his mind: "Quick."
The system was chewing bubble gum when it was poked by the host's emergency command and quickly entered combat readiness: "Host, what happened?"
"Can I see how much Sui Si likes me?" Yu Tang said, "I feel like the atmosphere is not right."
The system alarm sounded loudly, and the newly purchased favorability rating monitor was called up at light speed. After trying to debug it for a long time, "No, host, we are just supporting role tools, and tools are not worthy of calculating favorability..."
"Change it." Yu Tang made a prompt decision, "Check Sui Si's favorability towards Ke Ming."
The system responded quickly this time: "90, fluctuation of 5, minimum value 83."
Yu Tang breathed a sigh of relief.
It is neither too high nor too low, and is still within a reasonable range, which does not affect the normal progress of the plot.
But Sui Si's attitude today was really too abnormal.
While buying gifts this afternoon, Yu Tang was doing two things at once and urgently watched the videos of the past few years at double speed.
The acting skills of the system hosting are better than his. In the past few years, Yu Tang has been guarding Sui Si, enduring quietly and silently giving, and the emotions in his eyes cannot be hidden.
Sui Si always turned a blind eye to it, handled his business impartially and kept people at a distance, without giving even the slightest response.
I don’t know how, but he, the protagonist with questionable acting skills, just stared at Sui Si, and unexpectedly, he received a bouquet of flowers.
…
"Don't be nervous. I'm not mad at you, nor am I dissatisfied with the flowers you bought."
Sui Si looked at Yu Tang who suddenly stopped talking for some reason, suppressed his temper, and explained patiently: "I just feel that I owe you a bouquet."
Yu Tang was at the edge of the ooc detection bar of the Supervisory Department and tried his best to smile at Sui Si.
That smile was not natural enough, it was hasty and stiff, as if it was trying hard to please someone.
"If you don't want to laugh, then don't laugh."
Sui Si said: "In front of me, you can relax a little and don't have to do everything according to my preferences."
Yu Tang had just seen off the satisfied supervisory department when he heard Sui Si talking. He regained consciousness while holding the bouquet of flowers and nodded.
"I promised to take you home."
Sui Si whispered: "Not today, sorry."
"Don't worry." Yu Tang shook his head, "I have somewhere to go."
"Where?" Sui Si asked, "Do you have a place to live?"
He had never asked this question before, and Yu Tang was not prepared, so he paused for a moment.
"System." Yu Tang asked in his mind, "Besides Sui Si's house, do I have any other place to live?"
"There is nothing prepared for us, host."
The system exported the timeline of the four books: "Our schedule is full, and we don't have time to stay idle in this world, so we didn't generate a place to stay..."
"Yes." Yu Tang lied with his eyes open, "I have saved some money over the years and bought myself a small apartment to live in in the future."
Sui Si looked at him for a while, then looked away without asking any more questions.
The phone vibrated twice. It was a message from Ke Ming, asking him when he would be home.
"Ask the driver to take you there."
Sui Si lowered his head and replied to the message, saying, "Your body is not well yet, remember to rest."
"It's not far, I can just take a taxi." Yu Tang shook his head and smiled. "This car is not as conspicuous as a nanny car, but it is also registered with several paparazzi. It's normal to drive it home from outside. If you drive it out of the house, there is still a certain chance of being followed and photographed."
Yu Tang pulled up the map, took a quick look, and pointed to an intersection: "Drop me here, and you'll be there at the starting price."
Sui Si paused and put down his phone: "Okay."
Yu Tang has several secret contacts under his command, and his mind is filled with the entire circle of gossip paparazzi secret network. If Yu Tang hadn't protected him, the affair between him and Ke Ming would never have been kept secret until today.
Sui Si didn't say anything more and let the driver drive the car to the intersection designated by Yu Tang. He looked at the gift Yu Tang left for Ke Ming, then got out of the car alone, holding the paper bag and the bouquet of flowers.
The anti-peeping window slowly rose up, separating Yu Tang's figure and the night from the invisible corner of the street.
"Host, where are we going next?"
The system asked: "Housing is a reasonable request. Do I need to report to the Chuanshu Bureau and apply for a house?"
"Hit it." Yu Tang said, "Turn it back when it's approved, and it will all be converted into experience points."
system:"… "
In order to divorce Sui Si, its host developed a rare high level of enthusiasm for work.
Yu Tang was holding a paper bag in one hand and a bouquet of flowers in the other, which was very annoying. He was allergic to pollen and sneezed a few times. Finally, he couldn't stand it anymore and aimed at the poor girl who was staring at the flower shop in the cold wind on the side of the road.
"I gave the flowers to them." Yu Tang asked, "Does this count as a breakdown of my character?"
"We are acting alone now. There is no protagonist around us, and the regulatory department is not in charge."
The system was also unsure, so it gave him some advice: "You can give it a try. If you exceed the OOC limit, your actions will be automatically restricted."
Yu Tang took a few steps and handed over the flowers.
The next second, his arms had a mind of their own and hugged the flower back to his chest.
Yu Tang didn't give up. He changed the angle and handed the flowers out again.
His arms remained frozen in the air for two seconds before he held the flower tightly against his chest and refused to let go.
Yu Tang: “…”
The system comforted him: "Host, I'll give you some anti-allergic bubble gum."
Yu Tang stood on the street, holding the bouquet tightly involuntarily, sniffing his nose which was severely allergic to pollen, and chewing bubble gum with the system in the cold wind.
…
Out of his sight, the driver took off his mask and quickly ran back to the car.
"Did he get a taxi?" Sui Si asked.
"No." The driver hesitated and said, "Assistant Yu..."
Sui Si frowned.
Yu Tang had a strange obsession with saving money. Apart from being generous to Sui Si, he hardly spent a penny of the rest of his money and deposited it all in the bank.
Sui Si knew that Yu Tang was reluctant to spend money, and he was worried, so he asked the driver to go and take a look. If Yu Tang wanted to walk back, he would force him to get a taxi.
Sui Si put down his phone and asked, "What happened to Special Assistant Yu?"
"Assistant Yu stood on the street corner for a long time."
The driver said, "There was a little girl from a poor family who had been lying outside the flower shop looking at the flowers. Special Assistant Yu must have felt sorry for her and wanted to give the flowers to her."
"It's already been given to him." Sui Si didn't care. "I've already given him the flowers, so I won't care what he does with them."
"No." The driver whispered, "Twice... Special Assistant Yu couldn't bear to part with the flowers and brought them back."
Sui Si paused slightly and raised his head.
"Assistant Yu... is standing on the corner."
The driver said: "Standing there for a long time."
Driver: "He was holding the bouquet and looked like he was crying."
"system."
Yu Tang was checking the favorability detector. He opened Sui Si's panel and suddenly found a new data he had never seen before: "The regret value increased by 30. What does it mean?"
The system came over, unfolded the manual, and studied it carefully with him for a long time: "It is an additional function. It can check the degree of regret of the protagonist for his own behavior. It is mainly used for those hosts in the face-slapping and scum-abusing group."
The system guessed: "Is it because Sui Si regretted not spending his birthday with Ke Ming?"
Yu Tang nodded, quite happy, and put the panel away.
When he was training employees, he also attended the class of the slapping and bullying group.
The regret value and favorability are linked through a complex formula. If Sui Si has a regret value of 30 towards Ke Ming, with a little push, it can be converted into a favorable impression of Ke Ming that he likes him even more.
As the favorability increases, Sui Si and Ke Ming will be able to achieve their goal faster, and he will be able to divorce me happily.
"Host, your body data is fluctuating." The system asked, "Are you feeling uncomfortable?"
“It’s too cold.”
Yu Tang asked, "Can I go back to the first book and be left alone and dried out on a small island in the Great Star Ocean?"
"The time is too short." The system called up the rules. "There are no emergencies in other books. We have been here for no more than three days. As long as the character is not unconscious or dead, we cannot leave on our own."
Yu Tang pressed his forehead and looked towards the end of the alley.
The system adjusted its angle and looked at the end of Yu Tang's sight, a little worried: "Host, don't run to get hit by a car again..."
"Don't worry." Yu Tang said, "Combine work and rest, relax."
"That's good." The system was somewhat happy. "Host, where are we going?"
Yu Tang stood in the cold wind. He had been standing there for ten minutes and missed the jacuzzi in the third book.
There is no flower petal bath here, but there are flower petals and there is a bath. Making do with what he has, he decided to make some concessions and relax some of the conditions appropriately.
Yu Tang felt the money in his pocket, held the flowers, and walked into the public bathhouse on the corner of the street.