Qin Zhengchen? The name seemed familiar. Li Xuan felt like he had heard it somewhere before, but he couldn't figure it out. Yang Xu was cursing and making so much noise that he couldn't think.
"How dare he come in front of you? I remember he was not on the program list. What a shameless bastard." Yang Xu was so angry that he paced back and forth in the dressing room so quickly that he almost left an afterimage.
Li Xuan has always judged Yang Xu as someone with low emotional intelligence and a very slow reaction. Most of the time, his thoughts are so jumpy that people think he is joking on purpose. If he were to follow Li Xuan's standards, he would have been fired eight hundred times. His only advantage is that he really cares about Sheng Min. Whenever he encounters Sheng Min's affairs, he immediately gets angry. For example, he always thinks that "Li Xuan" has a problem with his character, and he is upset that he dared to quarrel with "Sheng Min" and took over her. Even so, it is rare for him to be so indignant.
Who was it because of last time? Li Xuan remembered. It was the so-called ex-boyfriend that Yang Xu had mentioned several times but Sheng Min denied.
This thought came to him suddenly. However, he didn't know why, ever since these three words came into his mind, he subconsciously avoided looking at Sheng Min.
"Don't go. You're making my eyes hurt." Li Xuan took a deep breath and called Yang Xu. "Didn't you go buy coffee?"
"I lost it in the store!" Yang Xu looked at him in surprise, "Why do you care about coffee? Brother, aren't you angry?"
"I'll die of thirst before I die of anger. If you lose it in the store, go buy another one. Don't look at me, just go."
Yang Xu still seemed unconvinced. She stared at him for two seconds, stamped her feet, and rushed out again just as she had just rushed in.
The door of the makeup stand swung back and forth several times before closing with a snap. Now they were the only two left.
"Who is Qin Zhengchen?" Li Xuan asked quickly.
Sheng Min must have been silent for a while, or it might have been Li Xuan's illusion. He suspected that he spoke too quickly and Sheng Min probably didn't hear clearly. But he was not sure whether to ask again. He rarely hesitated like this. Sheng Min's voice rang out: "It's my former teammate."
When talking about people he didn't like, Sheng Min was always very calm, and he didn't show much anger towards Zhang Zhihua or Wang Ran. But at this moment, he was closer to indifference than calm, both in his expression and tone.
teammate.
Li Xuan remembered that he had not only heard of Qin Zhengchen, but had seen him.
On the first night he met Sheng Min, he clicked on a video and saw Sheng Min dancing a duet with this partner. But at that time, Li Xuan was annoyed by the messy comments on the screen, and Sheng Min was too eye-catching, so he didn't pay attention to the people next to him.
"That's all?" Li Xuan was a little annoyed.
"That's all." Sheng Min nodded, and hesitated for a moment with his eyes visibly. "Yang Xu and the others have some misunderstandings. To me, he is just a former teammate."
"Misunderstanding?" Li Xuan frowned. "What misunderstanding? Why is it a misunderstanding?"
Sheng Min didn't speak immediately. She lowered her eyes and looked at a zircon that had fallen on the dressing table at some point and had not been taken away.
The clock on the wall made a ticking sound. It was strange that I hadn't noticed it just now, but now it became extremely harsh, like an anxious urging. I just didn't know who was urging me.
Li Xuan knew that he was in a bad mood. He shouldn't force Sheng Min to answer. Whether Qin Zhengchen was the so-called ex-boyfriend or not didn't affect anything at all.
"He..." Sheng Min finally spoke, seemingly determined, but was interrupted by Li Xuan almost at the same time.
"Never mind," he said. "I'm not curious. You don't have to tell me."
After saying that, Li Xuan stood up, his back hurriedly running away, as if Sheng Min was going to talk about some terrible thing: "The recording is about to start, I'll go over first."
There was still more than half an hour left before the recording, and the lighting and stage design were doing the final rehearsal. Li Xuan found a seat in the corner of the last row of the studio and sat down. It was so noisy that no one noticed him for a while. His mind was in a mess, thinking about everything, but he had no idea what to do. When he really calmed down, he found that Qin Zhengchen's information was on his mobile phone screen.
He is indeed Sheng Min's teammate. There were nine people debuting that year, Sheng Min was the runner-up and he ranked ninth. Compared to Sheng Min who has been offered many film contracts and quickly became famous, Qin Zhengchen's development is really lackluster. Forming the group was already the highlight. After the disbandment, he did not receive any dramas that were too popular. The few dramas he did receive were just for the fans to enjoy. But compared to so many unknown artists, he is quite lucky. At least he has been offered roles and has been frequently searched for hot topics.
Li Xuan read through the articles at a glance. Among the pile of soft articles that were obviously official, he found a few true or false gossips, such as a late-night secret meeting with a certain producer, and walking into a restaurant hand in hand with a mysterious woman. The scope was quite wide, including both men and women, but most of them had no evidence. When he clicked on them, the photos were also blurry. It could be said that he made up a story based on the pictures.
"Sheng Min? Why are you here?" Just after turning a few pages, Zhang Zhihua suddenly came over from the back door.
"I've been looking for you for a long time. You didn't answer the phone." He raised his hand to fan the air, his tone somewhat dissatisfied, "I went to the dressing room but there was no one there. Li Xuan said you were in the studio. I searched everywhere, but you were hiding here."
"What is he doing?" Li Xuan put away his phone as if nothing had happened.
"Him? Who? Oh, Li Xuan? I don't know. He's just sitting there. God knows what he's doing."
Li Xuan hummed; "What do you want from me?"
"Nothing." Zhang Zhihua looked around and asked him in a low voice, "Do you know?"
"What?"
"That's the guest star of this episode. It's Qin Zhengchen now!"
Li Xuan frowned. Zhang Zhihua knew Sheng Min's sexual orientation, and he was the one who first told Yang Xu about the ridiculous guess that the new assistant was actually Sheng Min's new boyfriend. If there is a new one, there must be an old one. Does this mean that Zhang Zhihua also thinks Qin Zhengchen is Sheng Min's ex-boyfriend
"Don't look at me." Zhang Zhihua felt guilty when he stared at her. "I didn't change it. I just found out and came to tell you right away."
"Do many people know about this?" Li Xuan suddenly asked.
"Ah? We'll know everything soon, the change of guest is so obvious..."
"That's not what I'm talking about."
“Then…” Zhang Zhihua seemed to have just come to his senses. He was so excited that he almost jumped up from his seat, but Li Xuan pressed him back by the shoulder.
"Speak nicely."
"How could that be possible?" Zhang Zhihua seemed to be frightened. "Besides the two of them, only you, Yang Xu, and Mr. Zhang knew about that. So, who else mentioned it to you?"
"No." Li Xuan had a feeling that Zhang Zhihua and he were talking about different things, so he repeated it without showing it, "The two of them?"
"Don't be stupid." Zhang Zhihua seemed very nervous. "I know you've been emotional recently, but you must stay calm about this matter. Anyway, he's in jail now, and Qin Zhengchen didn't become famous after all the trouble he's been through, so this is a relief for you. It's been so long, let it go. No matter how innocent you are, it's not good for you, our company, and everyone else if it gets out of hand. Besides, if you hadn't been dating this Qin guy at the time, you wouldn't have suffered this loss, right?"
The words were vague, and Li Xuan's frown deepened as he listened. He couldn't guess the whole truth from the vague words, but he always felt bad. But Zhang Zhihua was obviously not a suitable person to question.
"You have a good sense of the overall situation." Li Xuan sneered.
"It's all over anyway." Zhang Zhihua is a little afraid of him now, "Just go and record the show. Qin Zhengchen is only in this episode. I asked the production team, Feng Qin injured his waist during the rehearsal of the concert and couldn't come, so they asked him to save the show. He's just a flying guest, he won't be in the next episode."
Feng Qin was the original guest. He is a new star in the music scene in recent years and has won the Golden Melody Award for Best Newcomer.
"When did Feng Qin say he couldn't come?" Li Xuan's voice sounded a little tired.
"Yesterday?" Zhang Zhihua was not sure. "It seemed like yesterday."
"I told you yesterday, but you just found out and told me today?"
"No." Zhang Zhihua defended, "Yesterday he just said he couldn't come, and it was Qin Zhengchen who confirmed it just now."
"Feng Qin is far behind him in terms of status." Even someone like Li Xuan who doesn't really care about the entertainment industry has heard of Feng Qin's name. The song that won him the Golden Melody Award is quite famous. Zhu Zhou often played it at the front desk of the Internet cafe for a while. He could hear it every time he went there. "In one day, you can't find a guest who is a little bit important? So useless? You only decided on someone an hour before filming. Does Qin Zhengchen live in this building? Can he come whenever you call?"
Zhang Zhihua was confused by the series of questions: "Maybe there were other candidates, but he was chosen in the end."
"Why did they choose him? Isn't the popularity of "Picking the Moon" quite high? This is the first episode. Even if he is a guest star, it is still a good announcement, right? Why did they choose him?"
"I don't know." said Zhang Zhihua.
"I'm not asking you to say I don't know." In the darkness, Li Xuan's eyes were like a wolf ready to pounce. "If you don't know anything, there's no need for me to keep you as my agent."
He was always impatient, and today his tone was particularly hostile. Zhang Zhihua touched his chin and said, "Do you think there's something fishy going on? If Qin Zhengchen said so, it's not impossible..."
"This is something you should tell me."
"Okay." Zhang Zhihua gritted his teeth and said, "I'll ask around. I'll ask around, okay?"
The watch showed that there was still a quarter to eleven. Li Xuan adjusted his tie and stood up: "Before the end of the recording, tell me what's going on. Also, watch your mouth."