Summer is coming. This is the season that Xia Xiqing dislikes the most. The sticky sweat, the endless chirping of cicadas, and the sun that is about to melt people, even finding a place to hide from the heat has become a luxury.
He had been thinking about Zhou Ziheng's swimming pool, and finally one night he took off his clothes and jumped in to swim. The guilt of entering the house without permission made him very happy. He pulled his hair back, took a selfie with his upper body naked in the swimming pool, and shared it directly to Zhou Ziheng on WeChat.
Ah, he doesn’t have a mobile phone now, and I can’t see it.
What a pity.
After receiving the final version of the script sent to him by Xu Qichen, Xia Xiqing spent a whole night reading it. He felt complicated, but he felt that if the core of the script could be well filmed, it would be very exciting.
"I think you have a lot of selfish motives. This script sounds gay just by reading it." Xia Xiqing opened a tube of beer and took a big sip. "I can even imagine the discussion among the CP fans."
Xu Qichen sounded very happy on the phone. "It's OK. I think I just wrote them as a relationship of mutual dependence. As for what kind of feelings they have for each other, I haven't decided yet. I think it depends on how you two put your own feelings into the performance, and then it depends on how the audience understands it."
"Understand?" Xia Xiqing smiled helplessly, "Self-study girls have first-rate imaginations. In their eyes, a glance is equivalent to having sex."
Hearing Xia Zhixu's urging voice on the other end, Xia Xiqing glanced at the clock. It was almost eleven o'clock in the evening. It was indeed not right to disturb them any longer. He found an excuse to hang up the phone. Unable to sleep, he opened Weibo and found a very strange hot search - Dongming Group evaded taxes.
Isn’t Dongming the makeshift team of Wei Min
This is so interesting. When Xia Xiqing clicked on the hot search, the first few posts were from official blogs of People's Daily and Caijing Daily, all of which published the same news, with the title [Dongming Group evaded taxes of up to 120 million yuan, and the company's legal person Wei is waiting for court summons]
"The lawyer of the company's legal representative Wei said that Wei is now... hospitalized due to illness, and will fully cooperate with the investigation of the procuratorate after recovery..." Xia Xiqing couldn't help laughing as he read the news. However, judging from the tone of his lawyer, this Wei Min must have really cooked the accounts, otherwise he would never admit it. Now he is so ambiguous, he must be afraid that he will not be able to settle it when the time comes.
But Wei Min is a local tyrant after all. He has considerable power and his father is protecting him. Who can uncover this matter
Xia Xiqing thought of Ruan Xiao. Although he didn't think it was Ruan Xiao who made it happen, he always felt that she must know something. He found Ruan Xiao's WeChat and asked her out for coffee. But when they met the next day, Ruan Xiao showed up with a man.
"Aren't you going to explain it to me?" Xia Xiqing smiled and took a sip of coffee, his eyes falling on the two people sitting opposite him, "Why are you here together?"
Ruan Xiao remained calm, "I know why you are looking for me. Haven't I brought the culprit to you?" The young boy glanced at Ruan Xiao after hearing what she said. Xia Xiqing looked at the boy sitting opposite her who was wearing a hooded sweatshirt and black-framed glasses. He looked familiar.
This dressing style is similar to Zhou Ziheng's.
He suddenly realized that this was the boy who stared at him at the last dinner, "Are you Zhao Ke?"
Zhao Ke nodded, pushed up his glasses, and spoke with an authentic Beijing accent. Xia Xiqing couldn't help wondering, they are all from Beijing, why doesn't Zhou Ziheng have an accent? Is it because he has been acting since he was a child
"Your body... Are you okay?" Zhao Ke smiled awkwardly. Xia Xiqing was drinking coffee and almost choked when he heard what he said, "Hey, can we not talk about this?"
It was finally over, but now it's happening again.
"Are you asking me out because you want to know about Wei Min's tax evasion?" Ruan Xiao brushed her hair and smiled slyly. She touched Zhao Ke's arm with her shoulder and said, "He did it."
"Him?" Xia Xiqing suddenly remembered that Zhao Ke was Zhou Ziheng's childhood friend. Although he still didn't know how powerful Zhou Ziheng's family was, it seemed that Zhao Ke's family should be quite powerful.
Ruan Xiao waved at Xia Xiqing, moved closer to him across the table, and said in a low voice, "He is Director Zhao's son."
As soon as Xia Xiqing heard this, Ruan Xiao was pulled back by Zhao Ke, who tugged at her off-shoulder T-shirt, "Your back is showing!"
"It's not that exaggerated. This is the design." Ruan Xiao made a mouth shape towards Xia Xiqing again, saying the name of Zhao Ke's father's department. Xia Xiqing immediately understood. He said why Wei Min's matter was revealed at such a late time. It turned out to be because of Zhao Ke.
"How did you convince your father to investigate him?" Xia Xiqing asked.
Zhao Ke scratched his hair. "Not really. I mentioned this to my dad during dinner. My dad had no idea that he was secretly colluding with people in the bureau, and he was pretty angry. It just so happened that my dad and the second-in-command had been at odds with each other recently, and he was about to be promoted. Before he left, he wanted to take advantage of this incident to destroy that person's prestige and find a chance to punish him." He stirred the iced Americano in his glass. "In fact, he was just using a knife to kill someone. Wei Min was at best just that small blade."
This Wei Min, he gave himself such a big face, but in fact everyone treated him as a pawn. Xia Xiqing felt ironic, but also thought that these people were quite funny, "I didn't expect the world to be so small, and all of us at this table are background people."
Ruan Xiao flicked the cup lightly with her fingers, "Everyone hid it well. I really didn't expect your family to be so wealthy at first." She turned her head and asked, "Is Zhou Ziheng's family the same as yours?"
"No, no, no, they are very different." Zhao Ke lowered his voice and made an analogy, "My family is a civil official, and his family is a military general. They are the third generation of the red family. His brother is a big shot in the financial world. Even TV dramas don't dare to write about them like this."
Ruan Xiao was a little confused, "With his family background, why would he go into the entertainment industry?"
"His sister-in-law is a very powerful agent in the entertainment industry, Sister Yin, I don't know if you know her."
"Jiang Yin?" Xia Xiqing had never expected this. "Jiang Yin is his sister-in-law?"
"You know him." Zhao Ke continued, "Anyway, Ziheng was brought up by his sister-in-law. Otherwise, you can imagine that he has been in the industry for so many years and has such good resources, but he has no scandals at all. The only time he hyped himself up was with you."
Xia Xiqing was a little confused when Zhao Ke cue him like this.
"But there are two reasons why that boy is determined to act. One is that he feels that the power of a star is actually very great and can influence a lot of people. He hopes to use the idol effect to make more people understand and pay attention to some neglected social phenomena. To put it bluntly, it is to spread positive energy. On the other hand..."
Ruan Xiao urged him to continue, and Zhao Ke finally spoke, "He liked a little girl when he was a child. He said that the girl encouraged him when he was most scared, so he had the courage to stand in front of the camera. He didn't want to disappoint the girl and hoped that one day she would recognize him on the screen." Zhao Ke sighed, "Although I think maybe she has already forgotten that he got married and had children."
"What kind of love at first sight plot is this? I can't believe Zhou Ziheng is such a pure-hearted person."
The two chatted enthusiastically, not noticing that Xia Xiqing, who was sitting opposite them, seemed reluctant to talk. Even Xia Xiqing himself didn't know what was wrong with him. He was furious when he mentioned his first love. He lowered his head to play with his phone, scrolling through WeChat and Weibo, trying to ease his negative emotions.
"But he seems to have changed his mind now." Zhao Ke glanced at Xia Xiqing who was sitting opposite him without saying a word. "He hasn't mentioned that young lady for a long time. He keeps talking about someone else."
"Who is it?" Ruan Xiao asked in a roundabout way, and the ending tone seemed to be ringing to the sky.
“Everyone knows who it is.”
Xia Xiqing pretended not to hear the two people's singing in unison, but suddenly he found that the Weibo hot search list had changed. The first place was [Sanqing cp] and the second place was [Zixi cp].
"Has this episode of 'Escape Plan' been broadcast?" Xia Xiqing asked, looking up.
Ruan Xiao took out his phone and glanced at the date. "Really? It's over. I'm definitely going to get scolded this time."
Zhao Ke asked, "Why?"
"I almost voted Xi Qing out, but Ziheng protected him. I really admire Ziheng. He finally got to be the killer, but he protected Xi Qing everywhere. In the end, he got him out. He was sure to win."
Xia Xiqing's ears went numb at these words. He pretended not to understand and clicked on the hot search for him and Shang Sirui's CP. The first one was a screenshot of Shang Sirui's Weibo posted by a big fan of the CP. It was the selfie that Xia Xiqing took last time, leaning on Shang Sirui's shoulder in order to piss off Zhou Ziheng.
[San San and Qing Qing got married immediately: Oh my god, this is an old candy!! It turns out that the "self-destructing player" San San mentioned is Xi Qing! I only understood it after watching this episode. It turns out that the spoiler was revealed so early. San San's tone is too doting. ]
[San San is a beautiful boy: Is there any doubt that San Qing is always sweet? A certain CP always climaxes when there is nothing going on, and the main character probably never even held hands once in the show.]
Xia Xiqing felt a bit complicated when she saw this comment. It seems that they didn't hold hands on the show... But in private...
[Study Girl Go: Why are you being so jealous? What can two people do together?]
Xia Xiqing: Little sister, although you are a self-study girl, I am not happy with what you said. Who is the one who receives the reward
[Sanqing Saigao: Besides the phrase "two losers can't be happy together", what other new tricks can a certain CP dog have? Aren't you tired of the daily routine? Why come to other squares to hang out when you have nothing to do!]
[Self-study is my little baby: the cheap one will tease me first and take me home to study.]
The CP fans on both sides quarreled more and more fiercely, and the battle situation escalated suddenly. The three fans of only one person also joined in. The situation was out of control for a while. Xia Xiqing didn't understand why in the end, his own fans and Zhou Ziheng's fans were fighting the most fiercely, like a group fight.
Now he finally understood how embarrassing it was for the person involved in a quarrel in the fan circle.
Originally, he wanted to share it with Zhou Ziheng, but then he remembered that he was still in solitary confinement and couldn't use his cell phone, so Xia Xiqing had to settle for the next best thing and sent a WeChat message to Shang Sirui.
[Xi Qing: The fighting power of star-chasing girls is truly terrifying.]
I didn't expect that Shang Sirui, such a busy idol, could reply immediately.
[Si Rui: I’m used to it, hahaha.]
[Xi Qing: I don’t know what happened, but the scolding turned into a quarrel between me and Zhou Ziheng’s fans.]
[Si Rui: You scold me and I scold you, we two brothers sleep together.]
I go.
Xia Xiqing was completely convinced by Shang Sirui. He returned to Weibo and checked whether he had liked any Weibo posts while watching melons, so as not to cause a bloody storm without knowing it. Unexpectedly, Ruan Xiao, who was sitting opposite him, suddenly said, "Oh my god, Zhou Ziheng posted on Weibo?"
"That's impossible. He doesn't even have a phone. How can he post it? Could it be that Xiao Luo posted it for him?" Zhao Ke logged onto Weibo and took a look. "What the hell? He really posted it?"
Xia Xiqing originally wanted to refresh Weibo to see what Zhou Ziheng had posted, but the two people opposite him just stared at him with unspeakable smiles on their faces.
It’s totally the smile of a CP fan…
"The photo you two took last time! He actually posted it!" Ruan Xiao pushed the phone in front of Xia Xiqing and showed off to Zhao Ke happily, "I told you that I witnessed them taking this photo with my own eyes. Do you see the red sleeve in the lower left corner? That's my sleeve!"
Without bothering to listen to the two people opposite him, Xia Xiqing stared blankly at Zhou Ziheng's Weibo. There was nothing written on it, only sharing the group photo. He looked a little at a loss in the camera. Zhou Ziheng used his big hands to force his head onto his shoulders, smiling to himself with a sunny face.
Fool.
Xia Xiqing was complaining in his heart, but at the same time he was a little curious about how Zhou Ziheng posted on Weibo since he clearly didn't have a mobile phone.
"The case is solved, it's really Xiao Luo." Zhao Ke showed them his WeChat chat interface. "Xiao Luo went to deliver the script to him, and chatted with him for a while at his house. He mentioned the show to him today. Unexpectedly, when he was leaving, Zhou Ziheng dragged Xiao Luo to log in to his Weibo account and send out the Weibo in the draft box."
Draft box? Xia Xiqing squinted and glanced at Xiao Luo's chat history.
[Xiao Luo: I don’t know what’s wrong with Ziheng, he insisted that I post it right now. I looked in my draft box and there was only one Weibo post from half a month ago. And it was a photo of him and Xi Qing. I was confused. If I didn’t send it to him, he would get angry with me.]
Zhao Ke and Ruan Xiao were laughing so hard that their teeth were showing. Only Xia Xiqing didn't react. What the hell was Zhou Ziheng doing? Did he think the fan fight wasn't chaotic enough
After laughing enough, Zhao Ke's expression calmed down a little, "I just heard from Xiao Luo that Ziheng has lost a lot of weight in the past two days. I wonder if he is on a hunger strike at home."
"How is it possible..." Xia Xiqing snorted and lowered his head to take a sip of the already cold coffee.
"How is that impossible? I'm telling you, Zhou Ziheng and I have been best friends since we were wearing open-crotch pants. I've never seen Zhou Ziheng get so angry in almost 20 years. You were in the car that day and didn't see what Zhou Ziheng did. Ruan Xiaoke and I saw it all and were terrified." Zhao Ke pouted and bumped Ruan Xiao's shoulder. "Really? Zhou Ziheng smashed Wei Min's grandson's windshield with a baseball bat. Awesome."
Ruan Xiao nodded, "This is the first time I've seen Ziheng act like that, too, really."
Xia Xiqing propped his chin on his hand and stared at the foam rising in the coffee cup. "With his kind-hearted personality, shouldn't it be normal for him to stand up for what is right?"
Zhao Ke shook his head. "Come on, when I was in the third year of junior high school, I got into a fight with a bunch of hooligans from the high school next door. He didn't even come to help me, but called the police. I was almost killed by my dad. After that, he gave me a lecture, saying that I shouldn't have fought with those guys. That was really mean."
Recalling the expression on Zhou Ziheng's face that night, Xia Xiqing could probably imagine how Zhou Ziheng got him back from Wei Min. But Zhao Ke's indirect questioning was too direct, and Xia Xiqing didn't know how to respond.
Seeing that he was still silent, Zhao Ke simply changed the subject and went straight to the point, "Do you want to go to the prison with us?"
Xia Xiqing frowned and looked at the two guys opposite him with a look of disdain, "Visiting the prison?"
Zhou Ziheng has been at home these days, and it is more accurate to say that he has been suffering both physically and mentally than being confined. In order to better fit the character of Gao Kun, his sister-in-law even hired a nutritionist to force him to eat some extremely unpalatable meals every day.
It happened that his father had a day off these two days, and he used the family precepts to educate him every day, sometimes talking about family traditions and sometimes about traditional Chinese traditions. In the end, he was forcing Zhou Ziheng to apologize to the victim, Wei Min.
"Tell me, when I asked you to train with the team members, to practice fighting and kicking, did that mean I asked you to beat people up? Huh? I asked you to help others when you see injustice."
Zhou Ziheng knelt on the ground listlessly, "I can only encounter fans on the road, but I can't encounter injustice..."
"Hey, you're still arguing with me! It's wrong for you to hit someone, I have to drag you over to apologize. Zijing, drive him there."
Zhou Zijing had just hung up the conference call and came down from upstairs. When he heard what Lao Zhou said, he turned around and pretended he saw nothing and went straight upstairs.
"I'm not apologizing, Dad. He really deserves a beating. Not only do I want to beat him, I even want to..."
Lao Zhou kicked Zhou Ziheng in the waist, "What do you want to do? I think you want to piss me off to death."
"He's really not a good person!"
On the third day, Zhou Ziheng, who was confined at home and jumping rope, was listening to the TV news when he suddenly heard a familiar name. Without saying a word, he threw away the rope and ran straight to Lao Zhou's room, shaking Lao Zhou awake who was taking a nap.
"Dad! Look! I told you that Wei Min is not a good person. He evaded 100 million in taxes! Tell me, should this kind of person be beaten?"
Old Zhou squinted his eyes and watched the TV. It turned out that Wei Min's company was being investigated. "One hundred million? How could someone do such a thing?"
"Yes! How could he be so bad? I think I should have beaten him to death that day." Zhou Ziheng said gritting his teeth.
"Alas, young people nowadays are... impetuous."
The apology was finally over, and he felt relieved. Unexpectedly, when Xiao Luo came, he mentioned it casually, and Zhou Ziheng knew that the photo of Shang Sirui and Xia Xiqing was re-examined on Weibo. Xia Xiqing provoked him that day and deliberately behaved intimately with Shang Sirui, which made him delete the photo of himself and Xia Xiqing in anger.
Who knew that night, Xia Xiqing got drunk and cried in his arms all night. Zhou Ziheng felt pity and distressed, so he turned around and secretly restored the photo. He wanted to send it out, but he hesitated for a long time and finally did not send it out. He just let it lie quietly in his draft box and did not care about it anymore.
"Xiao Luo, you must send it to me, don't forget it."
"Why."
"Just... just promote the show!"
There was such a big fire in the backyard, Zhou Ziheng didn't even have a mobile phone to post on Weibo, and he was so angry that he couldn't eat the fat-reducing meal. He propped his chin up with his hand, picked up a piece of broccoli with a fork, and stared blankly.
"This is what Xia Xiqing dislikes the most. He won't even touch it with his chopsticks." He muttered to himself as he stuffed the broccoli into his mouth. The more he chewed, the less flavor it tasted.
"He doesn't like carrots either..."
"Celery, if you put it in your mouth, you will spit it out..."
Zhou Ziheng looked at a plate of vegetables and raised his head to the ceiling in annoyance.
Why is Xia Xiqing so picky about food
When he was away, Xia Xiqing must have gone out to drink again, and maybe even hung out with some questionable people. He is so handsome, anyone who sees him would have improper thoughts about him. Now that he is locked up, who will protect him
The more I think about it, the more upset I get.
Suddenly, something hit the window. Zhou Ziheng tilted his head to glance, but didn't see anything. He looked at the ceiling with a sad face.
boom-
Another sound.
Who is it? Which naughty kid
Zhou Ziheng stood up. The balcony door was locked from the outside and he couldn't push it open. He could only stand at the glass door and look at the balcony. There was nothing.
It was scary. Zhou Ziheng got goosebumps all over his body. He quickly pulled the floor-length curtains on both sides of the glass door. He thought he was probably missing Xia Xiqing too much, so he decided to take a shower to calm down.
When he finished his shower and came out wrapped in a bath towel, he found a person's shadow faintly visible outside the curtain, squatting stealthily on the balcony. Zhou Ziheng walked around the bedroom and approached the glass door of the balcony with a baseball bat.
The shadow huddled together in the middle of the double glass doors.
Zhou Ziheng held his breath and walked up to him, holding the baseball bat in one hand and grabbing one side of the curtain with the other.
With a swish sound.
Zhou Ziheng was stunned.
Xia Xiqing, the person he had been thinking about, was actually half-kneeling on the wooden floor of the balcony, holding the door lock in his hand. He seemed to be startled as well, and looked up at himself standing behind the glass door, holding a rose in his mouth that he had just stolen from Zhou Ziheng's garden, still covered with night dew.
He was so scared that he dropped the baseball bat in his hand.
"You... why are you here?"
Xia Xiqing couldn't hear his mumblings clearly through the door, but he could probably guess what he was saying. He stood up, pinned the rose to his ear, blew on the glass door, and wrote and drew on it with his slender white fingers.
Zhou Ziheng took a step closer and carefully read the words he had written.
[Burglary.]
After writing, he raised his eyebrows, as if to provoke me.
This person is really...
Zhou Ziheng's lips curled up unconsciously.
He also imitated Xia Xiqing, blowing air on the glass and writing a line of reply. There were a lot of words, Xia Xiqing squinted and read carefully for a long time. This little action was very pleasing in Zhou Ziheng's eyes, and matched with his fluttering eyelashes and the beautiful red roses blooming beside his ears, it was very cute.
Reciting it silently in his mind and piecing together the answers, Xia Xiqing finally understood the answer given by Zhou Ziheng.
[This is all I have, do you want it?]
His eyes stayed on the question mark at the end of the sentence. Xia Xiqing was full of doubts. Just as he was about to look up, he saw Zhou Ziheng reaching out again and drawing a heart on the glass. His art skills were not very good, and the painting was crooked and not standard, but very cute.
Through that heart, Xia Xiqing saw his bright and gentle smile. His eyes were like a lake in the dark night, sprinkled with elusive starlight.
The author has something to say: Xia Xiqing climbed up to the second floor with the thought that "only a top would do something like climbing over the wall to tease a guy", and even stole a small flower (she originally wanted to tease Hengheng but ended up putting it on her head), it was so sweet.
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Next, please allow the self-study CP fan leader Zhao Ke to speak:
Zhao Ke: The sweetest study couple, and the prettiest study girl.
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