Bewildered

Qi Xingchen has lived with Bai Ye before, they slept in the same bed during the recording of "Poor Traveler", but they didn't know each other well at that time, plus there were cameras all over the room, they slept in their own beds, and didn't communicate with each other at all.

Today was different, it was just the two of them. Qi Xingchen hesitated for a fraction of a second, reluctantly accepting the so-called exclusive fan benefits.

A Lun helped An Ran to get a room in the same hotel, but not on the same floor. A Lun was in charge of showing An Ran to her room, and Qi Xingchen followed Bai Ye obediently.

Entering the room, Qi Xingchen remembered his fear, "If we waltz in here like this, will the paparazzi catch us?"

"Take all the shots you want," Bai Ye closed the door behind him, "now that everyone knows you've come to see me, it's normal for me to entertain you."

"...... I didn't come to see you, I came to see the music festival." Qi Xingchen protested in a small voice.

Bai Ye snorted and didn't say anything.

This suite was Bai Ye's temporary place of stay in S-city, and there were not many traces of his life. But Qi Xingchen couldn't help but look around curiously, and found some interesting details.

For example, Bai Ye, a child raised in an upper-class family, should be less capable of taking care of himself, but his room is clean and his clothes and socks do not fly about.

Bai Ye, for example, doesn't use skincare products - the sink is clean, with just a toothbrush tube, an electric toothbrush, a bottle of what looks like makeup remover, and cleansing pads, but nothing else.

"The big bedroom is full of my stuff, so you can stay in the small bedroom tonight, is that okay?" Bai Ye asked.

Qi Xingchen immediately nodded, "Yes, no problem."

"Go ahead and wash up then, I'm going to wipe my face, rather slowly."

Qi Xingchen reacted for a moment, realizing that Bai Ye was removing his makeup when he said "wipe his face", and couldn't help but laugh a little.

"By the way," Bai Ye chinned his thick sweatshirt, "you're not comfortable sleeping in that, are you, let me find you a T?"

Gloving Bai Ye another dress out of his empty hand, Qi Xingchen nodded feeling like he was about to be smashed by the gift.

Bai Ye throws him a white short-sleeve, a sequined Gucci cat's head style. The collar and cuffs are intentionally old, but judging by the wrinkles and signs of wear, Bai Ye probably hasn't worn it once.

Qi Xingchen threw the bag into the small bedroom, grabbed the short sleeves and drilled into the bathroom. Wash very quickly, less than ten minutes will come out.

Bai Ye had just finished a phone call and looked up to see him, raising an eyebrow, "This dress suits you."

"Sequined kitty cat head? For me?" Qi Xingchen couldn't believe it.

"Uh-huh," Bai Ye ascertained, "you wear it to look clean."

Qi Xingchen could only accept it in silence, but he was curious: "This T-shirt is just the right size for me, but it should be shorter for you, right?"

"That's why I haven't been wearing it, and I wouldn't have worn something so ...... cute as this."

Qi Xingchen is even more curious: "Why buy it if you're not going to wear it?"

"My mom bought it and told me to give it to some other pretty kid sometime after she found out it didn't fit me," Bai Ye said truthfully, "I suspect she used it as a gift on purpose, and now it's just right."

He put the phone down and got up, "Here you go."

Indirectly complimented as a "beautiful child", Qi Xingchen immediately felt that the sequined cat's head was very nice and cute.

How in the world can there be such a cute dress?

Seeing Qi Xingchen bowing his head and pursing his lips with the look of a landlord's stupid son, Bai Ye looked for mineral water, "I didn't know you were coming, I didn't prepare milk in advance, so I'll just quench my thirst."

After Bai Ye walked towards the sink, Qi Xingchen wondered why he was associated with "love of milk", and sipped on a bottle of mineral water while looking at Bai Ye with a squint.

I just saw the man sprinkle makeup remover on a cotton pad, slap it on his face, and start rubbing it in hard.

Qi Xingchen could even hear the sound of a makeup sponge scraping across the skin's texture and ran over in shock, "Don't you do that!"

Bai Ye: "?"

"You can't rub your skin like that," Qi Xingchen snatched the cotton pad, "I'll do it for you."

He doesn't know how to remove makeup himself, but he's been observing his makeup artist sister's techniques a lot over the past while, and has learned a thing or two.

First, pour the Makeup Remover Oil into the palm of your hand, gently rub it in, open your hands and press it onto Bai Ye's cheeks.

Then the slightly cool temperature of the other man's skin came from his palm, and lifting his eyelids, he realized how close he was to Bai Ye.

Close enough to even feel, the other's warm nostrils.

Qi Xingchen didn't dare to look any further and hurriedly lowered his eyebrows and restrained his eyes. After applying the make-up remover, I put some water in my palm and rubbed it on the other side of my face.

He didn't know that this step was called emulsification, and was simply following the example.

Bai Ye suddenly spoke, "You ......"

"Almost done unloading, now!"

"No," Bai Ye cried, "you got a nosebleed."

Qi Xingchen : "......"

Qi Xingchen: "Huh?"

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Qi Xingchen feels like he's lost all his life today.

Scrambling to help Bai Ye remove his makeup, he rolled back into the small bedroom, covered his nose with a tissue, and stared at the ceiling in tears.

Geez, when is a nosebleed a bad time to be that close to Bai Ye?

How ugly and embarrassing must it be?

The image was too beautiful for him to look at!

Not long after, there was a knock on the bedroom door. The most unwanted voice at the moment sounded outside, "Xingchen, did you stop your nose from bleeding?"

"Stop the bleeding!" Qi Xingchen shouted.

"Don't hold on if it's hard, I'll take you to the hospital."

"It really doesn't matter, it's probably all the ginger soup I drank last night!"

Yes, Qi Xingchen thought angrily, blaming the bowl of ginger soup!

And it's not because Bai Ye is so charming!

Presumably Bai Ye was fooled by him and gave up pursuing the matter, and silence returned to the room.

Seeing that Bai Ye really didn't care, Qi Xingchen inexplicably felt a sense of loss. With his arms under the back of his head, he continued to stare at the ceiling.

I don't know how long it took, but there was another rustling sound from outside the door. But this time Bai Ye didn't say anything, Qi Xingchen sat up with his arm on the bed and looked toward the door.

There is a flat box and a note lying under the door, which Bai Ye must have slipped in through the doorway.

He went down and picked up the two items; the flat box was cold medicine, and the note was written in strong, sharp handwriting:

[Two pills at bedtime, water on nightstand]

It turns out that Bai Ye didn't ask, but guessed he had a cold through the "ginger soup" and helped him find medicine.

Qi Xingchen instantly understood what it meant to be blown away.

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Early the next morning, Bai Ye insisted on not letting Qi Xingchen drive back and sent his own chauffeur to take him back to H city.

The trip to the music festival was like a shot in the arm for him, and Qi Xingchen performed quite well over the next few days, with a maximum of four NGs, while Shang Yuliang was a real pain in the ass.

In the last scene, Shang Yuliang said, "Xiao Qi, I hope you can bring Lin Xiao to a successful conclusion."

Qi Xingchen "Uh-huh."

Shang Yuliang picked up the walkie-talkie: "Is the scene ready?"

"Crowd in position!"

"Bubble machine in position!"

"Machines 2, 3, and 8 in position!"

The wedding march resonates throughout the open-air manor as the groundskeeper hits the boards. Ji Yan takes her father's arm and walks step by step towards the man she loves.

Lin Xiao was sitting at the bottom of the field, watching the couple take their vows and couldn't help but be mesmerized.

"Pick it up, pick it up!"

"Ji Yan, why did you throw it so far!"

"Please God let me get it, I want to get married oooooo."

"Why is it flying that way - look out handsome!"

In the midst of the clamor, Lin Xiao felt something coming straight at his face. He subconsciously reached out to catch it, and the rich fragrance filled his nostrils.

Looking down, it's Ji Yan's bouquet.

Ji Yan held Feng Qingyuan's arm and walked to Lin Xiao: "Lin Xiao, after receiving my bouquet, you will be very happy in the future."

"Okay, thanks." Lin Xiao smiled and took one last look at the girl she loved so much.

Where am I going to find happiness without you.

"Cut!"

Shang Yuliang rushes Qi Xingchen and gives him a thumbs up, "No insults, you can kill the movie early!"

Upon hearing this, everyone in the venue put down their things and gathered around Qi Xingchen.

"Xingchen, congratulations on the kill!"

"Can you leave a day later, I can't bear to see you go!"

The assistant director took out the pre-prepared bouquet and handed it to Qi Xingchen: "Xingchen, you've been doing great this time, we all love you."

"Yeah, yeah," everyone on the set shouted together as if it were an explosion, "we all love you!"

For the first time in her life, Qi Xingchen had always thought that the kill would be quick and easy. Now, when he heard the shouts, his chest was not as sore and swollen as he thought it would be.

He took the bouquet and bowed solemnly to the crowd:

"I'm very happy that the first time I played an important supporting role was with all of you, because of my green acting skills, I brought you a lot of trouble, thank you for your willingness to tolerate me and help me, I will always keep it in my heart, and I wish you all the best of luck in your future."

"Don't be modest," said the head of the camera crew, "you're better than most new actors. ...... Come on guys, let's give Xingchen a shout out!"

The head of the photography team waved his hand and a group of big boys crowded into the crowd. Qi Xingchen is wondering what "like" means, and the next thing he knows, he's out of breath--

Everyone threw him high in the air, "Xingchen, we love you!"

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Male number three doesn't deserve a wrap party, so Shang Yuliang asked the assistant director to organize the next scene and personally escorted Qi Xingchen to the parking lot.

Before getting into the car, Shang Yuliang called out to him, "Xiao Qi, to be honest, I wasn't very satisfied when I first saw your profile, but then you gave me a big surprise. There were even a few moments when I thought you were the living Lin Xiao, and that you had given the character a soul."

"I know you've put a lot of effort into playing Lin Xiao, and if you don't forget that and continue to work hard, I'm sure I'll see you in higher places in the future."

It wasn't easy to get Shang Yuliang's approval, Qi Xingchen took a deep breath and nodded.

"However," Shang Yuliang paused for a moment, "you have to restrain your temper, and don't do things like forcing directors to publicly apologize in the future. The water in the entertainment industry is very deep, you can only see the surface now, if you offend a big director with a strong background and a wide network, you will probably never get a movie again."

"Thank you for the reminder," Qi Xingchen said in a sincere tone, knowing he meant well, "but if I had to do it all over again, I would still choose to do that - no one is allowed to hurt my family. "

Shang Yuliang was quite helpless by his words, "Okay, okay, okay, you're the ancestor, get in the car. Remember to come back and play when we have the celebration banquet!"

"Uh, thank you, Mr. Shang." After thanking him again, Qi Xingchen turned around and got into the car.

At this point, the experience of filming "Heart of the Ocean" had officially become the past in his life. Qi Xingchen's nose was sore, and the reluctance he had been suppressing finally broke out.

He pulled the blanket over his head.

An Ran sees that he is in a bad mood and puts a packet of tissues in his hand.

However, Qi Xingchen didn't move the tissue, he doesn't cry easily, he just doesn't want to show the vulnerable side.

In the same city of H, it took forty minutes to arrive at the neighborhood where he got off every time. Old Qin stopped the car and An Ran pushed his arm, "Xingchen, we're at the place."

"Well," Qi Xingchen burrowed out of the blanket, "It's been a hard time, I'll give you guys a few days off, go back and get some rest."

"Thank you Xingchen ......" An Ran hesitates for a moment, "Xingchen Do you think the company will draw me and Uncle Qin back?"

She chatted with Old Qin and found Qi Xingchen to be a good and hardworking person, and she wanted to work with him all the time.

But if Qi Xingchen is delayed in getting a job, there's a high probability that the company will pull the two of them out for another artist, which is a headache to think about.

Qi Xingchen understood An Ran's meaning and smiled, "Don't worry, it won't happen, and I have other work arrangements for you."

"Other arrangements?" An Ran froze.

"Yes, Sister An Ran, do you have any thoughts of moving towards being an agent?"

An Ran didn't expect Qi Xingchen to want her to be an agent. She's a fresh graduate with no experience and no qualifications, why should she be an agent?

"Agents make a lot of money and have good prospects, so of course I want to be one," An Ran said timidly, "but I don't have the capital."

"Who says you don't have capital? When I say you have it, you have it. Recently at home to look for books in this area, by the way, help me keep an eye on the mailbox, I'm leaving first, if there is something in time to contact."

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Afraid that An Ran would grind him, Qi Xingchen hurriedly dragged the box to escape.

The bodyguard opened the door of his house, Qi Xingchen saw Qi Yuji sitting in the courtyard drinking tea.

Maybe siblings are connected, Qi Yuji also saw him in the next second, dropped his book and ran over, "Xingchen, why didn't you tell me you were coming back!"

"I have a driver to pick me up, I don't need you to go there. Besides, I'm in the city," Qi Xingchen changed the topic, "Sister, let's go in first, I've bought gifts for you."

Hearing the word "gift", Qi Yuji's eyes brightened up and he followed his brother step by step.

Qi Xingchen dragged the suitcase into the living room; he hadn't taken much when he left, but it was twice as heavy when he returned with the gifts.

Qi's father and Qi Yunxiao were at the company, and Qi Yuji was the only one at home. Qi Xingchen opened the box and took out the gifts one by one, "This is Jiaze's, this is big brother's, this is father's ...... Sister, this is yours."

He gave Qi Yuji a photo album he had printed out of his own photographs of marine animals.

Xiangxiang, in particular, is so naive that when you are not happy, even your mood can be changed from cloudy to sunny by taking a look at it.

Qi Yuji was looking at the photo album with great interest when, out of the cold, she realized that there was a piece of clothing in her brother's suitcase that didn't look right.

"Xingchen ...... Have your tastes changed that much?" Qi Yuji gestures to the cat-cat head t-shirt.

"...... No, this one was given to me by a friend."

Qi Yuji patted his chest, "I knew it, you always choose solid colors or clothes with few patterns, how can you suddenly like sequins. I was so scared, I thought I bought new clothes for nothing."

Qi Xingchen: "You bought me clothes again?"

"I went to Paris last week well, not much, I bought you about two dozen pieces. A couple of them are super duper swag, I can already imagine how good you'll look in them!"

Qi Xingchen was speechless, Qi Yuji finished his excitement, and then noticed something else: "Huh, Xingchen, do you have a cold."

"Nope."

"Then why bring back the leftover cold medicine? Medicine has to be taken freshly dated to be good."

Not needing to hide anything from her own sister, Qi Xingchen replied, "This box of pills is also a gift from a friend."

Qi Yuji looked at him with strange eyes for a long time.

And then she said, "What about this one, the Mi Qi hair band, or is it from a friend?"

Qi Xingchen: "No, we bought it ourselves."

Qi Yuji: "Wearing it for a friend?"

Qi Xingchen was stunned.

"My God ......"

Qi Xingchen's reaction was so obvious that the sky dropped a huge thunderbolt, and Qi Yuji was struck with a heartbreaking "We Xingchen have someone we like, I'm not Xingchen's favorite anymore, boing boing ......"

Favorite?

He likes Bai Ye?

No way!

Leaving aside the fact that Bai Ye is the hero of Peaches of the Night, he's the one who came in through the book and Bai Ye is the paperboy, there's no way they can be together.

Does he have to like a paperweight?

"Sis, don't talk nonsense!" Qi Xingchen hurriedly clarified, "He and I are just ordinary friends!"

Qi Yuji didn't stop: "Then tell me, did you go to him that time you sprayed perfume?"

Qi Xingchen : "......"

"You're happy to see him and miss him when you don't; you explode with embarrassment if he's overly close to someone else, and the slightest little gesture of warmth from him towards you makes your heart sing; you want to collect everything related to him, and you often look for every opportunity to meet him ......"

"...... Don't say it."

Qi Xingchen couldn't help but interrupt Qi Yuji, looking bewildered.

Seeing him like this, Qi Yuji sighed, "Alright, I won't talk about it. You can always come and ask me if you have any questions, I'm willing to be the trash can for you to talk to, and don't forget that your family is always your strongest support."

"...... Okay, thanks sis."

Qi Yuji has also loved people, understand that some things can not be thought through in a moment, uncovered the topic, "By the way Xingchen, have you received Xiao Jing's message."

Xiao Jing ...... Qi Xingchen was in a state of panic, and it took him half a day to realize that by "Xiao Jing" she meant Liang Jing.

"Xiao Jing returns to H City the day after tomorrow, if you're free, let's go pick him up together."