Boss

Qi Xingchen was shocked by Qi's logic, and remained confused until he hung up with his dad.

It doesn't matter to Xu Sheng, he's in the middle of a movie, he can't get away for a while, how can he run a diamond mine?

And even after Heart of the Sea, he doesn't want to go to South Africa.

The mine boss sounds good, he a wear books foreign population, familiar with the people are over here, go to South Africa is not familiar with the place ......

[Dad sends a message]

Qi Xingchen is struggling with how to deal with his gift, Qi's father also thought of this, and told him: "You don't need to worry about the operation, I have already found a suitable supervisor to take care of it, and the revenue will be paid directly to your bank account every quarter in the future. I will push the supervisor's microblogging to you, you have a work arrangement or want to diamonds, you can directly instruct him to do it for you.

Qi Xingchen: "......"

In just a week's time, from going to South Africa to buy a mine to choose a suitable supervisor, we all know how much Qi's father has suffered from it, how much he has been tired, how much he has been worried about it.

Qi Xingchen's heart was so soft that he was going to give ten or twenty of the best diamonds to his family when they came out, and the biggest one to his father!

After sending a friend request to the supervisor's micro signal and thanking Master Qi, he calmed down a bit and continued to worry about how to coax Bai Ye.

Lately they've been chatting pretty frequently for Bai Ye's workload.

He initiated messages most of the time, but if he needed to prepare for a play one morning, or accidentally fell asleep in the car and didn't hear from him all morning, Bai Ye would reach out to ask him around noon.

It seemed to have become a rule of engagement between them.

But after what he did last night, Bai Ye hasn't talked to him all day.

Must still be pissed off.

An Ran hadn't finished cleaning up her room, and Qi Xingchen, arms folded, was lounging on the balcony railing, her cell phone poking around on the screen, finally typing out three big, cheesy words.

Xingchen: [Sorry.]

Xingchen: [I drank too much last night [crying] [crying]]

After sending it, he stared at the screen.

After the three-minute auto-lock screen he had set, and repeating lock, unlock, lock, unlock four times, the chat screen finally changed.

Bo: [Uh-huh.

One single word, one period.

High school reading comprehension isn't even that hard okay.

Qi Xingchen thought that as long as the other party replied, their friendship would not be broken.

Now it seems that ......

But he felt he could salvage a little more, and typed stiffly: [I suspect the restaurant's wine is fake and bad for the brain]

Bo: [Uh-huh.

Xingchen: [I'll have to be careful when I drink next time]

Bo: [Uh-huh.

"......" How's this for coaxing!

Qi Xingchen, unable to stay down, braced himself and scuffed his toes anxiously on the ground.

Driving the legs and buttocks with a wiggle as well, from a distance it looked like a large dog attempting to budge and muddle through.

Bai Ye couldn't help but laugh.

After some trial and error, Qi Xingchen realizes that making excuses won't work, so he decides to straighten up his attitude and admit his mistake.

Xingchen: [I promise to be good from now on]

Bo: [How good?

Finally it's not "uh-huh," Qi Xingchen sees the silver lining and quickly promises: "I can't leave you alone, I'll do whatever you want, I'll get out of the pool if you want me to, and I won't bother you with the count of three.

Bai Ye: "......"

Bai Ye: [Is that all?

What else is there?

Qi Xingchen was confused. Wasn't Bai Ye angry at him for being rude and disobedient?

He scuffed his toes faster and said eagerly, [I'll listen to you if you say anything else]

Absolute, just absolute.

Bai Ye: [You come down, my license plate number is 365]

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Qi Xingchen froze for a few seconds before figuring out what the other man was talking about.

He peeked out and looked down, and saw Bai Ye's nanny car at the side door of the hotel. He stopped rubbing his toes, put his cell phone back in his pocket and stopped looking at it, braced his hands on the railing and poked his upper body out as hard as he could.

The driver was sent home by Bai Ye to take a rest, and A Lun has been driving the car for the past two nights. Through the one-way glass, A Lun was startled: "Oh my god, it's so dangerous! Xingchen won't fall down, what does he want?"

"Might want to say hello to us." Bai Ye frowned.

Luckily, the one on the top floor seemed to have reacted to the fact that it was invisible to say hello from so far away, and jumped back to the balcony, disappearing from view.

A Lun breathed out in relief at last.

He turned around and asked, "Eh, boss, did you notice."

"What?"

"Xingchen's usually pretty smart, but when it comes to you, he's a fool."

Is that so? An imperceptible smile spread across Bai Ye's lips.

Qi Xingchen ran back to her room, found her small backpack, opened the refrigerator to fill a few bottles of soda, and took two steps with her long legs to the shoe rack.

An Ran looked at his unusual behavior and wondered, "Xingchen, are you going out?"

Qi Xingchen "Uh-huh" and truthfully said, "Night is waiting for me downstairs."

"Oh, then be careful, don't get caught by the media. By the way," An Ran said, "Do you need to bring the shirt along to return it to him?"

Qi Xingchen's hand on his shoes paused, "...... Find a chance later, it's unorthodox to give it back to someone without ironing it well."

After that he quickly ran out and put on his hat and mask inside the elevator.

Just as he pushed open the side door of the hotel, the door of the nanny car opened with him, and he jumped in with one step.

Bai Ye looked at his slightly heaving chest and sighed, "Why are you running so fast?"

Qi Xingchen takes a seat in the same row as Bai Ye: "I'm in a hurry."

"What's the rush?"

"I'm afraid, I'm afraid," Qi Xingchen gasped, "I'm afraid you can't wait to go."

He looks like the impatient type? Bai Ye especially wanted to ask the little fan.

However, in the little fan's imagination, he was in a state of anger, and Bai Ye then obediently made a face and said nothing.

Qi Xingchen glanced at his face, his heart tightening as he pulled out the drinks he'd brought down, picking and choosing, tossing the normal flavors to A Lun.

Unscrewing the only bottle of unsweetened tea, he tentatively handed it to Bai Ye: "Thirsty?"

Looking into his bright, slightly apprehensive and expectant eyes, Bai Ye couldn't force himself to take a sip of his drink, "I heard from Lao Shang that you did well in the heavy today?"

"Uh-huh!" Qi Xingchen is proud, not forgetting to pat himself on the back by the way, "It's mostly because you gave a good talk yesterday."

"...... There's half a month left to kill the movie, so shoot the next scenes well. I'll ask the old merchant about you again in half a month, and if the old merchant is satisfied, you'll get your gift."

Before Qi Xingchen joined the group, Bai Ye had promised him a gift.

At the time, he thought that Bai Ye was just saying something to appease him, but he didn't realize that the other party had really put the matter on the agenda.

It made Qi Xingchen suddenly curious, wondering what Bai Ye would send him.

But he was too embarrassed to ask, and adopted a roundabout tactic: "Why are you here, looking for a business director?"

"If I'm here to see him, I'll just go straight into the hotel." Bai Ye raises an eyebrow.

"Oh, and who are you looking for?"

"......" Bai Ye thinks what A Lun just said is very true.

"I've come to raise hell with you and ask you why you hung me out to dry and why you didn't listen to me."

..... This seems to be what he just said in WeChat, Qi Xingchen frowned, feeling that Bai Ye's tone was wrong, as if he was saying the opposite.

"It's all my fault," Qi Xingchen hung his head, "It's two counts, what else is there to be sentenced together, pending execution in the fall."

Bai Ye laughed at his exasperation and said, "Then let me ask you again, when you went to the swimming pool, did you read the precautions?"

"Seen," Qi Xingchen struggled to recall, "no skin diseases, no heart patients allowed ...... Oh yeah, and drunks can't enter either!"

Qi Xingchen froze when he finished speaking.

He understood why Bai Ye was angry - it turned out it wasn't for being rude or disobedient, but for his lack of attention to safety.

"Drinking dulls your reflexes, and there are a lot of reports of drunken shipwrecks every year," Bai Ye said, "and it was so late yesterday, if I hadn't been there, who would you have gone to if you were in danger?"

Qi Xingchen rubs the tip of his nose.

"Next time don't do anything this dangerous, huh?"

"...... Okay."

"If you do it again, next time I'll be more than just angry."

"Got it, next time I won't ...... No!" Seeing Bai Ye raise his eyebrows, Qi Xingchen quickly changed his words, "There is no next time, this is the last time!"

Seeing him swearing, Bai Ye finally couldn't hold back and nodded with a smile.

With the warmth of the yellow light inside the car and the cicadas chirping outside, Qi Xingchen couldn't help but think of last night and lick his lips.

"Well, it's getting late," Bai Ye glanced at his wristwatch, "I've got a chorus I haven't done yet, so you should get back too."

Leaving so soon, Qi Xingchen picked up his backpack.

"No," not waiting to get out of the car, he remembered all at once, "who the hell are you here to see, are things done?"

"...... Dumbass."

Bai Ye was helpless, "I was passing by after filming and stopped by to see you."

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"I was passing by after a shoot and stopped by to see you."

Qi Xingchen's brain was like a jam, and this line popped into his head from time to time, and the frequency of replaying it the next day when he went into the theater was only reduced a little bit.

"Oh, here we are, Xingchen!"

He went into the dressing room in front of him, and the makeup artists and stylists surrounded him in the back, "Hey, Xingchen, how does it feel to have your video go viral and fire out of the ring?"

Qi Xingchen had never received such treatment and blushed, "Don't make fun of me, it's just a short film, not a movie."

"Movies don't even necessarily have as many hits as you do." The make-up artist took out his cell phone, "Look, Kouyou had the second most hits yesterday and the first page of total hits; Qiyi Ai had the third most hits yesterday and the first page of total hits; and there's Penguin Video ......"

Yesterday, when he came back from Bai Ye's car, he went straight to bed and didn't pay attention to the internet. Qi Xingchen opened the video apps on his cell phone and looked at them one by one.

As the makeup artist said, the clip of him going down didn't get to the point where it was on the front of the Hot 100, but it was extremely wide spread and on almost every video platform.

And basically ranked in the top three of yesterday's hits, and even reproduced by many foreign video sites.

Qi Xingchen stared slightly wide-eyed, not realizing that the short film could spread so widely.

At this time a footstep sounded at the door, and the assistant to the commercial director walked in, his eyes turning around, "Mr. Qi, you're really here. When there's no theater later you prepare for it, the media is coming over for a group interview this afternoon."

Group interview? Qi Xingchen wondered, "Why didn't the business director tell us in advance, it's too sudden. How many are there?"

As the name suggests, a group interview is a group of media interviewing together. The assistant said, "They were temporarily contacted by the business director this morning, and it was set quite suddenly. Now there are nine that can be confirmed, three live streaming platforms one paper media two self media, as well as traditional media and TV stations."

Nine now, and I'm guessing the number will have to double when word gets out that Heart of the Sea is going to be interviewed by a group.

Qi Xingchen wondered even more, "Then why do I need to go?"

The group interviews mainly interviewed the main cast and crew, unlike a single media visit, which caught who interviewed who for a couple of sentences and had little to do with him as the third male.

"You have to be there Mr. Ki, a lot of them are here for that short film of yours. I'm going to set up the venue, so I'll go first haha, you must remember to prepare."

The assistant had something to do and told Qi Xingchen that the group interview would be held at the Bird Garden Performance Hall and hurried away.

Receiving the bad news that he would have to participate in a group interview, Qi Xingchen, who doesn't know much about this area, sighed and began to think about what questions the media could ask, and how he would answer them if he was asked.

He's late to the game and still hasn't figured out the art of talking, and is prone to mistakes and will die of guilt if he gets the crew in trouble.

Luckily Shang Yuliang had the foresight to gather everyone together for a small meeting at noon. At the meeting, Xu Sheng and Qi Xingchen were specifically instructed not to talk nonsense, and not to choke each other.

The two nodded honestly.

2 p.m., Birds of Prey Indoor Performance Hall.

The rings and wooden frames that had been used for the birds to perform on the stage were removed and replaced with rows of long tables.

On the table were microphones and name tags of the creators of "Hearts of the Sea," in order of female three, Qi Xingchen, Feng Qingyuan, Shang Yuliang, Tao Tao, and Xu Sheng.

Xu Sheng was the first to enter, and when he saw the name tag, his face instantly sank.

In terms of brand name ranking, Feng Qingyuan and Shang Yuliang correspond to each other, which is an absolute one.

Tao Tao is the counterpart to Qi Xingchen, but since Tao Tao is literally the number one female character, it's also a bit.

And Qi Xingchen actually has a vague intention of doubling up.

Is it possible that the commercial director wants to give him an extra scene?

What's even more annoying is that he's sitting on the outermost side of the room with the third female, and has clearly been reduced to triple time.

It's just a short movie, if not for Qi Xingchen's good luck, how can he get so much exposure?

Xu Sheng closed his eyes and took a deep breath, and when he opened his eyes again, he had regained his composure and put on a cordial smile.

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In the afternoon, the Park was temporarily closed for the afternoon in order to hold a group visit meeting.

After feeding the birds and cleaning up the garden, the five bird tamer lads found it uninteresting to get together and gossip:

"Eh, I heard that there are a lot of big stars inside that theater group, there's just time, let's take a look and go."

"People are having a meeting, it's not good for us to go."

"What's wrong with that? It's okay to look at the door. I heard Tao Tao is here, don't you like her very much?"

"I, hey, I do want to see her, so come on, let's try it."

"Go!"

The five lads put down their own parrots, only for the parrots to see them going and fly back to their owners' shoulders in droves.

These parrots were all of purebred blood and were tamed by them to be quite resourceful. If it weren't for their bird skins, they would have become immortals, I'm afraid.

The boys saw that they couldn't shake it off, thinking that if they didn't speak, the bird wouldn't just make a sound, so they let the bird stand on their shoulders, and the five of them, nine birds, groped their way to the entrance of the auditorium.

Rightfully stopped by two bodyguards.

But it was so hard to come, they were not willing to go back, and finally decided to stand at the door and watch the fun.

The group interview was attended by nearly twenty media outlets, which is quite a lot for a satellite TV drama without a traffic star to carry the flag.

A couple of small sessions were successfully completed late under the auspices of the director's assistant, and we are now moving on to the free question time.

The front row media stood up, "Through the interview, I feel that our Heart of the Ocean cast is a very harmonious and loving group. So are there any funny things happening in life?"

These questions were relatively simple and were answered one by one in the order in which they were seated. Qi Xingchen spoke of the misunderstanding that nearly occurred when the commercial director asked him to go to his room for the night, and shortly afterward it was Xu Sheng's turn to speak.

Xu Sheng cleared his throat, "Speaking of which, let me take this opportunity to apologize to Xingchen. On my first day on set, I thought Xingchen was staying on the 23rd floor of the hotel like the rest of the supporting cast, and I kept dragging him to the 23rd floor, hahaha."

The media pressed, "And then?"

"Actually, Xingchen lives on the floor of the business director and theirs... now that I think about it, it's so funny haha!"

As soon as Xu Sheng's words left his mouth, the entire media audience laughed in cooperation.

After laughing, they realized that there was actually something wrong with that statement.

The fourth season of "Poor Tour" has been a successful hit, and along with it, the attention of the participating guests has risen quite a bit. Many people now know that Qi Xingchen comes from a working class family.

Why does a small newcomer from a working family have to get special treatment and live on the first floor with the chief director, instead of living downstairs like the other supporting characters?

Thinking about Xu Sheng's previous efforts to buy marketing to blacken Qi Xingchen and find Jin Zhu, perhaps it wasn't just a case of throwing dirty water.

A slap in the face doesn't make a difference. Xu Sheng doesn't blacken the male number one to get himself a chance to add to the drama, he goes to blacken the male number three, there's definitely a mystery in there.

Those who can be journalists are all smart people, immediately someone asked jokingly, "Xingchen, how does it feel to live next door to Director Shang, will he often pull you to talk about the movie?"

Qi Xingchen looks subtle, naturally hearing that the focus of the media is not on "talking about theater" but on "living next door to a business director".

He bowed his head close to the microphone, ready to answer still according to the rhetoric Qi Yuji had taught him. Just about to be born--

The bird tamers who saw his appearance were shocked beyond words.

"Boss?"

"If it isn't our boss!"

Immediately afterward, as they heard their master speak, the parrots followed suit:

"Boss! Gah!"

"Boss, gah!"

"Boss, boss, gah gah gah!"