After hearing this, Zongye still looked at her steadily, "Sister Yin, can you lower your voice a little?"
"Are you afraid of being heard by others?" Li Heyin made a surprised expression. "It's incredible that you still feel ashamed."
"No." Zong was not embarrassed at all, "I was afraid you would scare my girlfriend."
Li Heyin's mouth twitched, his eyes showing changing emotions, on the verge of exploding.
While they were talking, Jiang Chuyi took her feet away and pulled Zongye, "You get up first."
Wang Tan leaned on the sofa, still not in a serious state, "Okay, Sister Yin, don't bother with young people. Understand that at our age, if we don't go crazy, we will get old."
"You think you're quite humorous, don't you, Wang Tan?"
Wang Tan, just shut up.
Li Heyin tightened his jaw, took a deep breath, and exhaled slowly. After doing this several times, he pulled a chair and sat down.
"I, Li Heyin, am so lucky to have two infatuated men under my command." She sneered and crossed her arms. "Tell me when it all started."
This woman is well-known in the industry for her decisive and swift actions. She is ruthless and impartial. Even Xin He was intimidated by her aura and replied weakly, "It hasn't started yet."
"It hasn't started yet." Fu Cheng seemed to be thinking about something. "You don't remember what happened two days ago? Is it you who has lost your memory or me?"
Xin He: “…”
Li Heyin ignored the two men and turned to Zong Ye, "What about you?"
"Me?" Zongye thought for a moment and gave a very sincere answer, "I started when I was thirteen."
Li Heyin suppressed the urge to curse.
Pressing her forehead, she stood up and said, "Come on, follow me out."
Taking Zong Ye back to the next room, Li Heyin lowered the temperature of the air conditioner by a few degrees, threw away the remote control, sat on the swivel chair, and shouted: "Speak, are you mute?"
"What?" Zongye asked.
"I don't know what to say. Okay, let me ask you."
"You have stopped renewing contracts with all the brands you own since some time ago. Why?"
"You applied to the company for payment of liquidated damages last year. Why?"
"Why did you choose to fall in love at the peak of your career?"
"Why? Ah? Zongye." Li Henan shook his head, his tone full of confusion, "You don't want any future at all, right? Are you sick?"
"Sister Yin."
Zongye's expression remained calm.
"I wasn't kidding when I said I've liked her since I was thirteen."
“Maybe you sound incredible.”
"I entered the circle." Zongye pointed at himself, "It's for her."
Li Heyin was so shocked that she was speechless and doubted her own ears. She suddenly laughed, "For her? You are so infatuated, what kind of idol are you? Why don't you sit in the Yue Lao Temple and be a love saint?"
As if he didn't hear the sarcasm in her words, Zongye explained, "My original plan was not to be an idol. I thought about becoming an actor, but I debuted late and didn't have much education. I couldn't get into her university. I also bought a few books on how to hone my acting skills, but in the end I realized that I really didn't have the talent to be an actor. Later, a talent scout stuffed an IM recruitment ad in my pocket, and I tried it out, but I didn't expect to be selected by you."
After a pause, Zong Ye said, "Sister Yin, there are only a few months left. I am very grateful for your care for me over the past few years, so I will cooperate with the company's arrangements and complete the remaining schedule. After the tour starts next year, when everything is over, I will make our relationship public."
Li Heyin was confused by his long words. His temples were throbbing, and he had a bad feeling. "Announce your relationship? You still want to announce your relationship? You are only 25 or 26 years old. Do you know what it means to announce your relationship at this time? Don't you know your own fans?"
Zongye's expression did not change: "I know what I want."
When he saw the fireworks exploding on the stage of a concert with tens of thousands of people, when he walked across the red carpet surrounded by flowers, when Souya's name resounded on major radio stations, when he picked up the microphone and carried a guitar, in countless moments of glory that attracted everyone's attention, he still felt extremely empty.
Without any hesitation, Zongye smiled and said, "No matter what it means, even if I quit the entertainment industry for her, what does it matter?"
At this moment, Li Heyin finally realized that something was wrong and warned, "Zongye, don't go crazy."
Zong didn't say anything either.
The two faced each other in silence.
Li Heyin inexplicably recalled the summer of 2015, when she first met Zong Ye at the Beijing branch.
At that time, he was brought to her by a scout, wearing very old clothes and carrying a bag.
Li Heyin looked him over and asked, "Where are you from?"
The thin boy answered: "Shanghai."
"You came to Beijing specifically for the interview? Do your family members know about this?"
"I'm not here specifically for an interview. I have a classmate who is studying at a university in Beijing, and I want to come and see her."
"Take off your glasses and let me see them."
The boy took off his glasses.
Li Heyin's heart moved, and he spoke directly, "Why do you want to get into this industry? Your family conditions must not be very good."
I thought he would be like many people before him, saying that he was doing this to realize his dream, or to be more direct, to make money, to pursue fame and fortune. But the young man in front of me was silent for a long time, and gave an answer that Li Wenyin did not expect.
"My classmate is a star, I want to join the industry and have the chance to see her more often."
Li Heyin asked: "Which star? What's his name?"
The boy never told her the name of this classmate.
Li Heyin always thought that Zong Ye wanted to use this statement to make her think that he had some connections in the circle, and she even laughed at his naivety in her heart.
It wasn't until today that Li Heyin thought about the time of Jiang Chuyi's debut and finally understood everything.
She was completely convinced.
Li Heyin shook his head repeatedly and sighed.
Zong was also brought up by her own hands. Li Heyin knew his character better than anyone else. She had a headache and waved her hand, "Forget it, I can't control you anymore, go away."
Souya whispered another apology.
When he turned around and grasped the door handle, Li Heyin couldn't help but be moved and called out to him, "I'll ask the company to notify the media, so don't cause any trouble for me."
Jiang Chuyi didn't expect that Li Heyin would leave her alone to chat.
I don’t know what Zong Ye said to her, but the agent’s emotions seemed to have cooled down and she was no longer as aggressive as before.
Jiang Chuyi was stared at by her for a while, and took the initiative to speak: "Let me first say sorry to you, I know that Zong Ye is someone your company has spent a lot of time to cultivate. In my current situation, it is indeed a bit incompatible with him. Don't worry, no matter whether we break up in the future, after the promotion period of this movie is over and the variety show is over, I will never use Zong Ye's name to hype up popularity or anything like that."
"You misunderstood. I didn't come to you to teach you anything." Li Heyin didn't dwell on this topic too much. "They have been a relief to me in the past few years. I think you and Zong are just playing around... Never mind. I can't say more. Just keep an eye on him to prevent him from going crazy."
"How about this, let's add each other on WeChat first. If he has any problems, remember to notify me immediately."
"Ah?" Jiang Chuyi was puzzled. "Will something happen to him?"
Li Heyin smiled but said with a vague meaning: "Hasn't he made enough decisions that shocked the world and made the ghosts cry?"
*
After the premiere, the crowds outside were still crowded with people watching. Meanwhile, the war on Weibo subsided.
Just when the fight with the toxic fans was going on, the artist of Yijian Zongqing's super topic made a picture of the expedition, which was replaced by the host as the avatar.
The original picture is from BloodxGentle's Shanghai premiere. At the end, the whole audience started to sing "When the Stars Tremble" in chorus. Zong Ye squatted on the edge of the stage, holding the microphone with one hand, looking at the audience with a smile.
A sharp-eyed fan followed the direction he was looking and, as expected, found the blue figure hidden in the audience.
There are two lines of watermarks in the lower right corner of this long-range image:
He was born to be the center of attention.
But my eyes are only on you.
—《this is what you came for》
In the car arranged by the organizer, Jiang Chuyi and Zong Ye sat in the last row.
She was tense all night, so she was inevitably a little tired. She looked out the window and saw through the reflective glass that Zongye squinted his eyes, as if he was about to raise his hand to rub his eyes.
Jiang Chuyi immediately turned aside and stopped his movements, "Don't rub it."
Zongye paused, letting her hold his hand, and finally met her eyes. He asked, "What did Sister Yin say to you just now?"
"Do you want to know?"
"A little curious."
Sensing his nervousness, Jiang Chuyi had the unprecedented intention of teasing him, "Your agent asked me to name a price. Is five million enough for me to leave you?"
"So what do you say?"
Jiang Chuyi thought she had tricked him, and said seriously: "I said I need to think about it."
Zongye smiled easily: "Really? Then what do you want to consider?"
"Considering the money and you, which one should I choose?"
Zongye looked at her seriously, "Am I worth so much money in your heart?"
Jiang Chuyi: “…”
She really gave in and stopped teasing him, "I was just kidding you. Even if you gave me 10 million, I wouldn't break up with you."
Jiang Chuyi lowered her head and said in a very soft voice: "After all, money is only a thing outside of our body. You are much more precious."
She spoke in a natural tone, but Zongye was just stunned.
Jiang Chuyi lowered her eyes and looked at the hands she held. There was a delicate chain hanging on the wrist as an ornament, the arc of the joints on the back of the hand was very beautiful, and the index finger was slightly bent with a ring.
A very beautiful pair of hands that can play music that touches many people's hearts.
Jiang Chuyi stared at it for a while, and suddenly a little joy and worry emerged in her heart. She knew that besides herself, there were many people who loved these hands, loved Zong Ye...
In his ear, Zong Ye didn't respond for a long time. Jiang Chuyi turned his head and asked, "What are you daydreaming about?"
"I was thinking about what you said."
"What?"
"You said, I'm... precious?" He confirmed carefully.
Ji Kai, who was sitting in the front row, glanced at them, and seeing Qing Zongye's worthless look, he immediately turned his head away in unbearable pain.
Jiang Chuyi: “Yes.”
"If you say something like this to me next time, remember to notify me in advance."
"What's wrong with that?" she was puzzled.
"It's a bit too much for my heart."
Seeing her smile, Souya's lips slowly curled up, "You are my idol, different from others."
Jiang Chuyi's heart skipped a beat and her thoughts drifted away.
She really felt that Souya was a very contradictory person.
Sometimes it's very straightforward and erotic, and sometimes it's so innocent that it's unbearable...
"Then I have something else to say. You'd better prepare yourself mentally."
"What?"
Jiang Chuyi stopped laughing and said seriously, "Zong Ye, I think you are a very powerful person."
"Although we are in different fields, our professions are similar. It took you several years to reach such a high position. You said that you regard me as your idol, which makes me feel a little unworthy."
She said bluntly: "From an objective point of view, our current conditions are actually no longer compatible."
She was shy, especially when he was staring at her intently, which made Jiang Chuyi a little embarrassed. "Although I know that no matter what, most of your fans will not accept me after the public announcement, but at least, you have come this far for me, so I have to work harder, stand higher, and try not to hold you back."
It took Zongye a long time to understand what she said.
He was defeated.
In a dark corner where no one was paying attention, Zongye sighed and leaned over, placing a light kiss on her fingertips.
"Chu Yi, you have always been at a very high place."
She has been at a very high place.
A place he had never reached.
Even though times have changed, even though he has undergone tremendous changes, Jiang Chuyi has not changed at all in his heart.
—She always shines and never sinks.
*
Ever since Zong Ye admitted the relationship in front of his agent, Jiang Chuyi went home and thought about it carefully. During a break from filming a commercial, she went to Kaijun's company to have a heart-to-heart talk with Gao Ning.
While the two were chatting, Gao Ning was also distracted by replying to work messages and checking notices.
When Jiang Chuyi said she didn't plan to take on any more variety shows or TV dramas, Gao Ning was stunned. "You're just starting to gain popularity, what nonsense are you talking about!"
"Don't worry." Jiang Chuyi handed her the printed schedule. "Brother Jin told me a few days ago that one of his students wanted to make a movie about a niche theme. The script is pretty good. I'm very interested and want to give it a try."
"Oh my god." Gao Ning lamented, "You spent more than half a year making this kind of movie, but you still didn't make as much money as appearing on two variety shows. There are so many quick bucks to be made now, why are you planning to make a movie again?"
"I'm not depressed." Jiang Chuyi was quiet, "I want to win a prize in the next few years."
Gao Ning: “…”
"No, can you tell me what happened that made you make this decision?"
"Because I'm in love with Souya."
These words were like an atomic bomb, accurately hitting Kaijun's conference room. There was a dead silence, and Gao Ning was so shocked that he didn't say a word for a long time.
After a long while, she slowly stood up and found her voice again, "Who are you dating?"
"Zong Ye and I." Jiang Chuyi repeated calmly, "His agent told me that he plans to go public in the future."
Gao Ning: “…”
"Gao Ning, I believe you, so I told you, but you must not use this matter for hype. I don't want to consume any more popularity from Zongye. In fact, even without Zongye, I also want to continue making movies. In the past few years, I have paid off most of my mortgage with the money I received from TV dramas, and my daily expenses are basically no problem. You are gradually getting on the right track in Kaijun. After falling in love with Zongye, I thought about my career plan again. I want to continue to concentrate on making movies."
Gao Ning was choked for a long time, mumbling: "I really am, you really are..."
After finishing what she wanted to say, Jiang Chuyi stood up and said, "Please take a good look at my schedule later. If you have anything, please ask me on WeChat. I have to go to the airport later. I'm leaving first."
As the most powerful company in the entertainment industry, IM has strong public relations skills and subsequently arranged several promotional activities for "Catching the Stars" to minimize the negative impact of the premiere.
The second show was in Wuhan. Xin He and Jiang Chuyi got into IM’s nanny car as soon as they got off the plane.
Li Heyin gave notice in advance, and the driver did not take them back to the hotel where they were staying, but took them to the filming location of Xibao's advertisement.
The first rainstorm arrived in early autumn. I don’t know if it was good luck, but the rain stopped as soon as the car arrived at the venue.
Jiang Chuyi and Xin He were taken to the edge of the venue by the staff.
On the red track, there were four heavy motorcycles speeding along, with the rumbling sound bringing up smoke from the exhaust pipes. Each of them was wearing a black helmet and a very handsome riding suit.
"So cool." Xin He exclaimed.
Jiang Chuyi was horrified by what she saw.
The director called for cut.
Jiang Chuyi mingled in the crowd, staring at the blue-tailed motorcycle. Zong Ye stepped off the motorcycle with his long legs, took off his helmet, and shook his black hair.
I don't know what the filming was about, but soon a girl came up and put a hand on Souya.
He smiled and threw the helmet to others.
A few people around were talking in low voices. Xin He looked at Jiang Chuyi's reaction and asked mischievously, "Are you jealous?"
Jiang Chuyi shook her head, "No, I just think Zong Ye is quite handsome now."
"Is that so?" Xin He was surprised. "You said Zong Ye is so simple, how can he have such a temperament?"
simple…
Several images flashed through Jiang Chuyi's mind, and for a moment she did not agree with Xin He's evaluation.
She asked, "What temperament?"
"Scumbag temperament." Xin He retracted his gaze, "Look, just like now, it feels like he is not shooting a commercial at all, it seems like he is originally flirty, just short of writing "I have a lot of girls" on his face."
Jiang Chuyi actually agrees with this.
She was not familiar with Zong at the time and suspected that he had 30 girlfriends in private. He must be promiscuous.
Jiang Chuyi smiled: "He is indeed very popular with girls."
The two of them watched for a while, and the filming of Zongye and Wangtan was almost finished.
After sitting on a lounge chair and drinking a sip of water, Zongye said hello to the director and walked towards them as if no one was around. "What are you talking about?"
Xin He was not happy, "I said you are handsome, are you satisfied?"
Zong Ye smiled and said to Jiang Chuyi: "Shall I take you somewhere?"
"Where?"
Jiang Chuyi followed him and went around to the back of the filming location, climbed up a staircase, and walked across an empty small rooftop.
Zongye suddenly covered her eyes and said, "I'll take you two steps, we'll be there soon."
Jiang Chuyi obediently grabbed his clothes and followed him closely.
Zong Ye would remind her to lift her feet from time to time.
Zong Ye: "Chu Yi, can you close your eyes for a while?"
Not knowing what he was doing, Jiang Chuyi just followed his lead and closed her eyes obediently.
She waited for a while, and was suddenly picked up by someone.
Before Jiang Chuyi could scream, she suddenly opened her eyes and was placed on a table against the wall by Zong Ye.
She stared blankly, looking around the place curiously. It looked like an abandoned classroom, dyed golden by the sunlight after a sudden rain. There were books and draft papers on the floor, and a BloodXGentle combination pattern drawn on the blackboard with chalk.
Jiang Chuyi looked around: "Where is this?"
“A place that was just filmed.”
"Then why are we here?"
Muneya: "Look down."
Jiang Chuyi lowered her head and found herself sitting in a rainbow refracted by the glass.
She was a little touched and wanted to laugh.
"Do you know what this is?" Souya asked.
"rainbow?"
"This is you."
Jiang Chuyi was puzzled: "Why?"
Zongye bent his waist slightly and supported his hands on both sides of her, "Because Chuyi came from the sky."
Jiang Chuyi's ears instantly turned red. She quickly glanced at him and stammered, "You're going to take me to see the rainbow?"
"No, just find an excuse." Souya observed her expression, "I want to be alone with you for a while."
He was still wearing the motorcycle suit he had just taken the photo of, his black hair was slightly damp, and his eyes were looking up with a smile on their faces. He really looked like the scumbag who could seduce women as Xin He said...
Jiang Chuyi leaned against the wall and swallowed, "So what should we do now..."
"What can I do?" Zongye's eyes lingered on her face.
Her heart tightened for a moment, "How do I know what you are going to do..."
Zongye hesitated for a moment, "If I want to kiss you, would you mind?"
Jiang Chuyi: “…”
Her nails dug into her palms, and she thought in despair, why did Souya even ask for her opinion on such a thing...
A shadow fell in front of him, and Jiang Chuyi whispered: "You, you can kiss me if you want, we are already in love anyway..."
Zongye still didn't move, his breath was burning: "Chuyi, if I do something, you may not be able to stop it at will."
"for example?"
"For example." Souya rested one hand on the wall behind her, and his other hand slid down her slender neck, slowly stroking her beating pulse, "like this."
Jiang Chuyi felt weak all over and forced herself not to move.
As if he knew how powerful his bass voice was, Zongye repeatedly confirmed in her ear, "Is it okay?"
Jiang Chuyi hummed.
The next moment, Zongye covered her mouth with his palm, preventing Jiang Chuyi from making any sound. He tilted his head and bit her earlobe.
(End of this chapter)