Half an hour later, Qi Chengyan took her to a Chinese restaurant.
The restaurant is facing the lake, and the location is very good. Walking all the way in, you will find antique ornaments everywhere, and each piece is of great value.
In fact, Guan Zhiyi is quite familiar with this place, because this restaurant has been open for more than ten years, and it is her brother Guan Yuanbai's most frequent visitor.
When he walked outside the door of the box he often went to, the waiter opened the door for him.
After the door is opened, a floor-to-ceiling glass window comes into view. Outside the window is a panoramic view of the lake, and the vision is extremely transparent.
And further inside is a red sandalwood table, the tea set on the table is steaming, and the fragrance is lingering. At this time, there was a man sitting at the table, with a handsome face and a dignified appearance, drinking tea quietly.
It was Guan Yuanbai.
"It came very quickly." Qi Chengyan walked over and sat down opposite him.
Guan Yuanbai hummed, and raised his eyes to look at Guan Zhiyi. His eyes were not scary, but Guan Zhiyi pursed his lips and sat next to Qi Chengyan without hesitation.
Guan Yuanbai snorted coldly: "I thought you would use hundreds of excuses for not coming."
A smile appeared on Guan Zhiyi's face: "Why, brother, you haven't invited me to dinner for a long time, of course I want to come."
"You're too busy, I can't make an appointment."
The corner of Guan Zhiyi's mouth twitched slightly, and the hand under the table grabbed Qi Chengyan's clothes. The latter understood, and cooperatively avoided the topic: "Have you ordered?"
Guan Yuanbai withdrew his gaze: "Not yet."
The waiter inside the door hurriedly took the menu and handed it to the lady first.
Guan Zhiyi was going to be a mess, so he immediately turned the menu and pushed it in front of Guan Yuanbai: "Brother, order."
Guan Yuanbai: "Order whatever you want."
"No, no, brother, I like everything you order."
Guan Yuanbai glanced at her and scolded with a smile: "Look at you, talk well!"
Seeing him smile, Guan Zhiyi felt relieved, "I'm not normal."
"Slick tongue."
Guan Yuanbai lowered his eyes to order. Although he was strict with Guan Zhiyi, he was really kind. After looking at the menu, he ordered a few items that Guan Zhiyi liked to eat.
After ordering, she handed it to Qi Chengyan: "If it weren't for you, she probably wouldn't have come today."
Qi Chengyan: "Oh? Really."
Guan Zhiyi: "No way... Can you be a little more confident?"
"Do you still dare to deny it?" Guan Yuanbai said, "How many times before I called you to go home or ask you to come out for a meal, you always pushed back and forth and said that you were busy."
Guan Zhiyi blinked her eyes and began to pretend to have amnesia: "Is there?"
Guan Yuanbai didn't bother to talk to her, and said lightly: "Cheng Yan, you remember, this person has been chasing you since childhood, and listens to whatever you say, and she doesn't listen to what I say."
Qi Chengyan looked at the menu, the corner of his mouth slightly raised.
Guan Yuanbai said: "When she was eight years old, I told her to take your surname and forget it as your younger sister. She actually took it seriously, and was so happy that she didn't fall asleep all night."
Old embarrassing things still have to be revealed? !
Guan Zhiyi looked at Qi Chengyan's eyes that seemed to be smiling but not smiling, and his ears turned red.
"Brother, can you say something good!"
"What's good?" Guan Yuanbai leaned back and said slowly, "Oh, let's talk about your boyfriend."
"..."
Qi Chengyan paused slightly, "Boyfriend?"
Guan Yuanbai had a cold face: "You don't know? Your cousin didn't tell you?"
Qi Chengyan hadn't contacted Hua Hongxi for many days, and he really didn't know what happened.
Seeing his appearance, Guan Yuanbai explained: "Your cousin is with Xiao Wu."
Qi Chengyan frowned, looked at Guan Zhiyi: "Really?"
Guan Zhiyi is actually not very good at lying in front of Qi Chengyan, he is usually nice and gentle to her, but if he is really unhappy, the deterrent effect on her is stronger than Guan Yuanbai.
So when she saw Qi Chengyan's questioning eyes, her voice froze: "Oh, this, this, we are together... right?"
Qi Chengyan narrowed his eyes slightly: "What is 'bar'."
"No, no, we're together." Guan Zhiyi remembered the agreement with Hua Hongxi, gritted his teeth and confirmed, "It's just a few days ago."
Qi Chengyan put down the menu, with a serious face: "How many times have you met together?"
Guan Yuanbai stared at her, obviously waiting for an answer.
Guan Zhiyi forcibly stabilized his mind: "Love at first sight sometimes takes a second."
Qi Chengyan: "..."
Guan Yuanbai: "..."
Guan Zhiyi took a sip of tea and calmed down: "Brother, how did you know, Dad told you?"
Guan Yuanbai: "Otherwise, heh, knowing that you are with that brat from the Hua family, he would be so happy."
"Really." Guan Zhiyi suddenly felt that it was all worth it, as long as Dad is happy, once Dad is happy, he won't bother her anymore!
"Xiao Wu, falling in love is not a joke, you are sure you like Hongxi."
Guan Zhiyi looked at Qi Chengyan, but she found that the more she looked at him, the more guilty she felt, so she just stared at her fingers: "I, like him very much."
"How well do you know him?"
"Don't you know him very well?" Guan Zhiyi muttered in a low voice, "Hua Hongxi is also your younger brother, so he should be pretty safe."
"Why, do you think my younger brother is a three-good citizen?"
"what… "
Qi Chengyan reached out and gave her head: "Be sober and understand first."
Guan Zhiyi flinched, covered her head and looked at him.
Qi Chengyan's eyes darkened slightly: "Did you hear that?"
"… I heard."
The dishes came slowly, during which time, Guan Yuanbai and Qi Chengyan trained her continuously.
Guan Zhiyi's face was full of heartache. She originally thought that Qi Chengyan would be less scolded by her brother when she was here, but it turned out that it was better now, and the two of them scolded together... What a mistake.
Finally, after it finally stopped, I finally started to eat.
She ate quietly to reduce her sense of presence, while the other two ate and chatted indiscriminately about what stocks were up and down, what company projects were in trouble...
Can't understand a word.
In the middle of the meal, Guan Zhiyi's cell phone rang suddenly, and it was Liu Yun who called her.
Guan Zhiyi picked it up, "Hello?"
"Zhiyi, Zhaoyang's character..."
"Has there been any results yet?" Guan Zhiyi raised her throat all of a sudden, "How's it going?"
Liu Yun hesitated for a while, then said in a deep voice, "It's gone."
"It's gone...how could it be."
Liu Yundao: "Looking at everyone's feedback during the audition, I thought it must be yours, but... hey, this kind of situation is not uncommon. Who knows what kind of Cheng Yaojin was killed in the middle."
The light in Guan Zhiyi's eyes went out little by little, she took a light breath, and endured the sudden surge of sadness and loss: "I see, then hang up first."
"Don't be too sad, this, there are other opportunities in the future, you should prepare to enter variety shows now."
"Um… "
Guan Zhiyi hung up the phone.
"What's the matter?" Guan Yuanbai asked seeing that her expression had changed.
Guan Zhiyi said sullenly, "The role is gone."
Qi Chengyan paused, and looked sideways at her: "The character you mentioned before?"
"Um."
Guan Yuanbai said lightly: "If it's gone, it's gone. It's nothing important. Let's eat."
It doesn't matter how.
She likes that novel so much, and wants to play that role so much. Since she knew she could start auditioning, she has been reading that script every day and acting out those plots in front of the mirror every day. , it doesn't matter much.
The loss and frustration in my heart were suddenly ignited by Guan Yuanbai's understatement. Guan Zhiyi suddenly put down his chopsticks and said angrily: "That's very important!"
Guan Yuanbai paused the hand holding the chopsticks, and raised his eyes to look at her: "Why are you so angry?"
Guan Zhiyi stared at him: "Brother, you don't know anything, why do you think it doesn't matter!"
Guan Yuanbai's face darkened slightly: "Then what do you think is important? There is no difference if you have this role or not. Xiao Wu, you have been tossing around in this circle for almost five years. When will you give up?"
"I won't give up!" Guan Zhiyi stood up, "Why do you ask me to give up, because you think I will be like my mother? Brother, mother is mother, I am me, I like being an actor, I really like it !"
"Guan Zhiyi!"
"I can't explain it to you!" Guan Zhiyi took her bag, turned her head and walked out.
Guan Yuanbai watched Guan Zhiyi slam the door and leave, a look of pain flashed in his eyes.
Qi Chengyan got up: "I'll go and have a look."
Guan Yuanbai pressed the center of his eyebrows: "It's troublesome."
Qi Chengyan didn't say anything, got up and went out.
The restaurant is next to the lake, and after walking out of the restaurant, there is a promenade facing the lake. After Qi Chengyan got out of the restaurants, he saw a figure in the corridor from afar.
He frowned and followed.
**
"Little Five."
His voice came from behind, Guan Zhiyi stretched out his hand to wipe his eyes, but didn't look back: "I can go back by myself."
Qi Chengyan took her arm, "Wait a minute."
Guan Zhiyi still refused to look back, Qi Chengyan had no choice but to go around in front of her.
The little girl in front of her had already put on a mask, but her eyes were red and her eyelashes were still stained with tears. She looked terribly wronged.
There is always nothing he can do about her crying: "Don't cry."
Guan Zhiyi turned her head away, and said in a muffled voice from the mask: "I didn't cry."
"It's all like this and you haven't cried yet?"
"..."
Guan Zhiyi was very confused at this time, she wanted the role of Zhaoyang too much, and thought that the role was probably her own, but she was not selected. It doesn't matter if she loses the election, she still has to find happiness with her brother, and she has nowhere to vent her grievances.
"What's going on, please tell me, I'll listen." Qi Chengyan held her face, and wiped the tears under her eyes with her thumb, "I've grown up so much, I still cry like a little kid."
Guan Zhiyi looked up at Qi Chengyan, for some reason, she wanted to cry even more. So in the next second, tears really burst out, and I couldn't control it at all.
Qi Chengyan froze for a moment: "Hiss..."
"Can you pretend you didn't hear what I said just now, woo woo woo woo..."
"What words?"
"As far as what we said in the car on the way here..."
Qi Chengyan thought for a while, and then remembered, on the way here, she confidently said that the role should be hers, and said that she would be rewarded when the list came out. But this time, the role is gone.
The little kid probably felt ashamed.
Qi Chengyan shook his head with a smile: "When did you still mention this?"
"I just want to mention, do you think I'm funny... no more... woo woo woo why should I be so confident..."
"No, I didn't think you were funny." Qi Chengyan coaxed while wiping away tears, "Be obedient, don't cry."
Guan Zhiyi was wearing a mask, so crying made it difficult for her to breathe, she pulled the mask down, revealing her red nose: "But I'm still sad, I'm like this, my brother is still mad at me—"
"It's his fault. I'll talk to him later."
Guan Zhiyi calmed down her breathing, and asked seriously, "Can you tell him better?"
Qi Chengyan paused, and laughed: "I will try my best?"
"Forget it...it doesn't make sense." Guan Zhiyi lowered his eyes, "Maybe he's right. I've struggled for five years and haven't achieved anything. It's because I have a problem and I've failed too much."
"No, it's just that the opportunity never fell on you." Qi Chengyan patted her on the head, "You are very good, and you have a little confidence in yourself."
Guan Zhiyi's heart trembled: "Really?"
"Um."
The suppressed emotions seemed to disappear in his gentle words, Guan Zhiyi looked into his eyes and felt her heart revived.
bang bang bang bang—
It dances loudly.
"Okay, I'll take you back, don't wander around here." Qi Chengyan said.
Guan Zhiyi let him clasp her arm and followed behind him foolishly.
"Brother Cheng Yan."
"Um?"
"I, nothing..."
Qi Chengyan glanced back at her, and smiled faintly, as if laughing that she still didn't care when she grew up and cried.
Guan Zhiyi lowered his head and heard his heart still beating vigorously and strangely.
Actually, I still have something to say.
She wanted to say that he was still as good as before.
No, it should be, even better than before...