Chapter 32: Gift

Heart of the Sea" is a story about an actor who performs a human-whale dance at an oceanarium, falls in love with a beluga whale in the process of getting along with this angelic species, and begins to protect the beluga whale, and after a lot of suffering, finally makes the United Nations legislation to protect the beluga whale in the wild.

The show is called "Heart of the Ocean", named after the two performers who make a heart shape with the beluga whale at the end of the show.

Tao Tao plays the female lead who works at the oceanarium, and Feng Qingyuan plays the male lead, who is a marine biologist with a family of miners.

At the same time, this is Tao Tao's first starring role as the female lead. After the review, "Heart of the Ocean" will be aired in non-prime time on local stations.

Feng Qingyuan is 35 years old and comes from the central theater. His acting skills and virtues are excellent, and he can be considered as a mainstay of the middle-generation actors, and his character is very elegant and gentle.

Qi Xingchen looks at the script and the cast bios, and she doesn't look too good.

In the original book, the play was a career turnaround for the heroine.

In order to learn how to dance with whales, Tao Tao went into the water again and again, choked on the water, and even drowned and got up from the ground to continue the training. The director was so moved by her dedication to her art that he cut a film for her.

It is also this piece of film, so that netizens finally know the original showbiz there is such a pure and beautiful second-tier flowers, laid the foundation for her to go up to the first line.

Meanwhile, in the relationship thread, the male lead is filming his new song's music video at the location of the cast of "Heart of the Ocean" and comes to visit the director halfway through, right in the middle of the scene where the female lead is diving in the water over and over again.

Naturally, the hero, like the director, appreciates the heroine.

Of course, the heroine has nothing to do with Qi Xingchen no matter how she escalates. As a friend for a month and a half, Qi Xingchen wishes her the best.

But this episode has something to do with the Qisas!

It was during this play that Qi Jiaze fulfilled his mission as cannon fodder!

"Qi Xingchen?" Seeing that he was gripping the script and lost in thought, Du Lanxin reached out and shook his hand in front of his eyes twice, "What are you thinking about? Have you finished reading the script yet."

"...... Well," Qi Xingchen responded perfunctorily, "read it."

"Okay, this drama I'm getting you the male third. The male third of a starring drama is generally good for boosting popularity, but it's helpful for boosting nationalities, and you've just gotten a wave of fans, so you need to use your work to solidify them."

"Thanks," Qi Xingchen presses her brow, "I know."

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Heart of the Sea" will start in three days and Qi Xingchen has a full schedule, so the director decided to let him enter the set a week later.

On the way home from the office, Qi Xingchen WeChat knocked Zhang Yunfei: [Brother Yunfei, busy?].

Zhang Yunfei, presumably in the middle of filming, replied half an hour later: "It's okay, let's talk".

Xingchen: [Recommend me some textbooks to learn acting]

Zhang Yunfei: [Are we Xingchen going to be strong?]

Qi Xingchen and Zhang Yunfei bantered a bit and then received the names of several books.

Zhang Yunfei is also from the science class, and what he recommends is correct. Qi Xingchen asked Qin to stop by the bookstore and buy them all, then got off at the entrance of the next neighborhood and continued walking home.

Holding the book pushed open the door, Qi Laozi actually did not go to the company today, and Qi Yuji sitting in the living room sofa chat at both ends.

"Xingchen, you're back. How was the interview?"

Qi Xingchen said, "It went well", and after a few words of explanation, he went back to his room with a book in his arms.

Watching his back walk away, Qi Yuji muttered, "Dad, don't you think Xingchen is in a bad mood, as if he has something on his mind."

"I can see that the boy, hey," Qi's father sighed, "probably misses his mother again as the day of her sacrifice approaches."

"Then how can I make him happy?" Qi Yuji blinks his eyes, "Xingchen has changed a lot, just like a different person, more mature and understanding than before, and not so easy to coax. In the past, I knew what he lacked or wanted when I saw his eyes, now ......"

She frowned slightly, "Now it seems like I don't want anything, instead it hurts me more."

"Either ......" Qi's father suggested, "Either I try it, and you get Lao Sun to prepare the car for me."

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Unbeknownst to the Qi family, they were worried about Xingchen's unhappiness, and Xingchen was worried about their lives.

He remembers why Qi Jiaze became cannon fodder - as an actress in the midst of her career, Tao Tao didn't have much time to watch over her younger brother Tao Xuan, who was transferred to a boarding school, Qi Jiaze's school.

Qi Jiaze is a bad-tempered man, and anyone who messes with him will not have a good time. With his good looks and good family background, he is a proper school bully in the school literature.

The story just happened.

Tao Xuan doesn't know what pissed Qi Jiaze off and was beaten up by Qi Jiaze and sent to the hospital. Tao Tao and the director take time off to go to the hospital to take care of his brother. The director is so angry that he sends out a tweet insinuating school violence, which the male lead helps to retweet.

So Qi Jiaze was raked over the coals by the savvy netizens, and there was a continuous stream of operations such as cyber-violence, sending wreaths, and making harassing phone calls.

Eventually Qi Jiaze couldn't take it anymore and, on the verge of a nervous breakdown, crashed his car into Tao Xuan.

Tao Xuan is fine. He died a gruesome death himself. He's the first one in the cemetery.

Presumably to heighten the coolness, the author also wrote out the reactions of netizens after learning of Qi Jiaze's death.

Summed up in eight big words: Karma is a cycle of retribution.

When I first read this, Qi Xingchen and the author thought the same thing. Violence in schools is of such a bad nature that the victims may be under the shadow for the rest of their lives, and the abusers are not worth dying for.

But thinking about how Qi Jiaze treated his classmates yesterday, Qi Xingchen is a bit confused.

Was his brother really that bad, bad enough to beat someone up and put them in the hospital?

Is it possible to try to steer it?

He skimmed through the script while pondering how to channel Qi Jiaze. Then he opened a book recommended by Zhang Yunfei and read it until he was about to eat his dinner.

Rubbing his eyes, he was about to take a break before continuing to read, when he suddenly remembered that he hadn't gotten close to the male lead yet today.

It just so happened that the morning tweet hadn't been answered, so he could continue chatting, he took his cell phone and typed, [Sorry, I've been busy in the morning, and I'm just now free. It's already late at night on your side, right?

The time difference between Washington and Beijing is thirteen hours, and it's five in the afternoon now, so it should be four in the morning on the hero's side.

After sending this message Qi Xingchen, press the cell phone, four o'clock in the morning, the other party must be asleep, may reply.

But to my surprise, a few seconds later, [Bo sends a voice]

Qi Xingchen flipping the book hand shaking, after adding WeChat, because every day can see, the two exchanges rarely, only a few times.

Send a voice, this is a solid first.

Qi Xingchen unconsciously licked his tongue over his lower lip, lifted his cell phone to his ear, and pressed play.

"Well, just finished a set of shots and headed for the hotel."

Bai Ye's voice was already low in magnetism, and it sounded even better after the electric current treatment, Qi Xingchen hurriedly took the earpiece away from him and rubbed the tip of his ear.

With that, another picture appeared on the call screen.

It was taken from inside the car window looking out. Above the old building, a curved moon hangs over a cross, a few stars dot the scene, and the image is quiet and romantic.

Qi Xingchen was thinking - it's so late and he's still up, he must be very tired.

Leaving the set of "Poor Traveler" and immediately hoofing it to Washington to shoot, he's mortal too, won't he get tired?

Qi Xingchen felt a tightness in his chest and got up to open the window.

After the boredom faded a bit, he took a picture of his desktop like the other guy: [Look how hard I'm trying]

The chat screen showed that it had been sent successfully, and he realized in hindsight that it sounded like an invitation for a compliment, and hesitated for a few seconds before withdrawing it.

Unfortunately, Bai Ye has already seen this tweet, which is similar to a child begging for praise from his parents.

Psychologically, this is a time when parents must appropriately

Give encouragement so as not to demotivate your child.

Bo: [The company gave you a movie?]

Xingchen: [Uh, making a last-minute effort]

Bo: [Great]

Qi Xingchen : "......"

Bo: [Read the book well and give you a gift if you make progress]

Qi Xingchen was speechless, why is this fake Ai Dou acting like a child?

However, he actually had a billion points heartbeat, left hand on the cheek, right hand index finger on the phone one word by one word poked: [what reward ah]

[Xingchen withdraws a message]

The tone of the one just now was wrong too, it sounded like petulance, it needs to be re-sent.

Xingchen: [What reward]

Bai Ye was conquered by his ability to bite off more than he could chew, and cried and laughed: [Seeing how you've finished, it must be what you want]

What he wants ...... What could it be?

Okay! I'll finish it before I join the team!

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Xingchen said to screw, put down the phone to see the middle of the night.

Without the program's loud speaker calling, without Du Lanxin's life-threatening serial calls, he finally got a ten-hour long restful sleep after reading his book and lying down on his bed.

When he opened the door in the morning and saw Auntie Zhang, he was in a happy mood and stretched a big waist, "Huh, Auntie Zhang, did you go for Botox."

"What's that?"

"Celebrities get shots all the time, a wrinkle remover."

"Why, you child, how can we common folk use a punch in the face!"

"Don't lie to me," Qi Xingchen reasoned, "How can you possibly be getting younger and younger without Botox, come on tell me the truth!"

Oh, so the second young master is beating around the bush and praising her, Auntie Zhang let out a "pfft" and immediately burst into laughter.

In the past, the second young master was rebellious and rarely spoke at home, and he was even less close to the servants. Recently, the rebellious period may have passed, and he has become more and more cheerful. Who wouldn't like this kind of beautiful and smart young man?

Aunt Zhang waved her hand, "Alright, alright second young master, don't tease me, go eat, after eating go find the master, the master is calling you."

Father Ki is looking for him?

Afraid of something big, he thumped his way to the dining room and gulped it down into his mouth.

After breakfast, the driver, Lao Sun, came in and called him, saying that Qi Xiaoming was waiting at the Baisha Harbor Marine World and asked him to go there.

Baisha Harbor Marine World is a large-scale tourist attraction built near the sea, with a zoo, an oceanarium, a museum of marine animals and plants, and other recreational venues.

When foreigners come to travel in H city, nine times out of ten, they will come to Baisha Harbor to make a card, if it were not for the fact that it was established by private funding, with the degree of its scenic beauty, it could even be rated as a national 5A level scenic spot.

The main filming scene of "Heart of the Sea" is also at the Pak Sha Harbor Oceanarium.

Qi Xingchen did not dare to delay and immediately got into the car. An hour later, he saw Master Qi on the seashore of Baisha Harbor at East Jieshi.

"Dad," Qi Xingchen walked up behind the old man and called him softly, "I'm here."

"Okay, come to Dad, let's have a nice chat."

Qi Xingchen walked to Qi Xiaoming's side as he said, Qi Xiaoming's eyes were far away: "Xingchen, I remember when you were a kid, you loved to come to the Oceanarium to see the rays and seals, but so many years have passed, and it seems like we haven't been here for a long time."

The memories of her childhood Qi Xingchen's mind was very fuzzy, so she could only nod her head to show that she was listening.

"Now that I think about it, Daddy hasn't been sweet enough to you all these years, so Daddy decided to give you a gift."

Another gift? That pile of sneakers is still sitting unopened in the stockroom!

"No, Dad, you've been good to me, you really don't have to." Qi Xingchen quickly refused.

"It's late," Qi Xiaoming shook his head, "I'm done shopping."

Qi Xingchen : "...... Okay, what do you want to give me?"

Qi's father had his hands behind his back, and the sea breeze ruffled his shirt and made it hunt.

"See this White Sands Harbor Sea World," Qi's father said, "From today, it's yours."

Qi Xingchen : "......"

Qi Xingchen : "????"