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The first day of winter in the north is dry and cold, and the wind is swirling around. Qi Xingchen, who has successfully lost weight, wrapped up her coat, took one last look at her family, and entered the security checkpoint with three steps forward and three steps back.

I remember the day he went to record "Poor Traveler", his family also sent him to the airport with a large number of people, just like now. But at that time he just put in, the family treats him well, he always felt that it was the original owner's family, not his family.

Now it was different, day after day, he had fallen in love with these exaggerated, sometimes Ma Lisu, but kind, sincere, warm-hearted Kis.

So when you have to go out to work, you can't just leave as decisively as you did when you went into the Poor Man's Show. What's that saying ...... With armor comes weakness.

Luckily, she was able to come back after the movie, until she couldn't see her family, Qi Xingchen gathered her emotions and called Bai Ye to tell him that she was safe.

Xingchen: [entering security]

[Moon]: [Uh, how many fans are there for the drop-off?]

Xingchen: [I went through the VIP pass, and I didn't see any fans. But An Ran didn't tell the support group in advance, so I don't think she'll organize a drop-off.

[Moon]: [Okay, let me know when you get on and off the plane]

Xingchen: [I know, will definitely report to you!

[Moon]: [I asked you to tell me, not to keep track of your whereabouts, but to worry about your safety]

Xingchen: [I know, will definitely report to you!

[Moon]: [......]

Even through the screen, Qi Xingchen could think of the helpless expression on Bai Ye's face, and was in a good mood. At that moment, An Ran came over with several cups of coffee, and handed him a cup, "Jiang Jiang and Old Qin will be here soon, let's wait for them at the front for a while."

"Hmmm ...... An Ran sis, why is my coffee Americano? I want a hazelnut latte!"

"Hazelnut lattes are too sugary," An Ran said cruelly, "and you don't deserve one right now."

...... Xingchen Kind of want to cry.

But before he cries, he throws a few cute emojis at his boyfriend to cajole him, and after getting a helpless reply from Bai Ye, Qi Xingchen realizes that he seems to be getting more and more skinny in his interactions with Bai Ye.

He would never have dared to joke with Bai Ye like that before!

It must be that Bai Ye was too gentle and indulgent during this time, giving him the illusion that he could be reckless.

Qi Xingchen lowered his eyebrows and began to think about how to try to salvage his image in Bai Ye's mind. An Ran took him to the waiting room and sat down, and suddenly remembered something: "By the way Xingchen, what are you going to do for your birthday? Do you want to have a fan meeting?"

Birthday ......

Qi Xingchen stared blankly and suddenly remembered that the original owner's birthday was December 28th.

Today is December 3rd, which means there are twenty-five days until the original owner's birthday. Time is not too long and not too short, so if there are plans to have a fan club, preparations need to start now.

Coincidentally, Qi Xingchen was dropped off at the door of an orphanage not long after he was born. When the director of the orphanage found him, there was a note in his swaddling clothes with his birthday written on it.

Like the original owner, it was also December 28th, the day the year would soon end.

There were just too many children in the orphanage, some knew their real birthdays and some didn't, so finally the director decided to celebrate the children uniformly according to the date of admission.

So for Qi Xingchen, there is no clear concept of whether it is a birthday or not, it can be celebrated or not. Even if An Ran hadn't asked, he would have forgotten about this day.

"I should have a part on the 28th," Qi Xingchen thought, "I can't delay filming just to have a birthday party, so let's forget about it this year."

"Ok." An Ran had already guessed his answer.

"Inform the back-up clubs, fan groups, and individual stations not to organize any fund-raising and support activities, and gifts will not be accepted," Qi Xingchen added, "If they have to send me something, just write a letter and give them the company's mailing address."

"Okay, I'll make a note of that."

After talking to An Ran for a few more minutes, Jiang Jiang and Old Qin arrived. Jiang Jiang carried three big suitcases - and that's even after checking in more than 100ml of skincare products.

Qi Xingchen rushed to help her carry two, so that his royal stylist's arm would not be stretched, and it would not be good if she could not put on the makeup.

The plane landed three hours later, and the four of them moved from the northern side to the northern side of J City. An Ran called the crew's pickup staff, and not long after, the director's assistant appeared outside the pickup gate holding a sign for Gray Tracks

Gray Trace is the name of Qi Xingchen's upcoming web series.

The director's assistant was about thirty years old, and when he saw them, he immediately ran up to greet them, shook hands with each of them and introduced himself, "Mr. Qi, my name is Li Zhuang, if you don't mind, just call me Da Zhuang. The car is in the parking lot, I still need to trouble you to walk with me for a while, I will send you to the hotel."

"Lead the way," Qi Xingchen asked as she followed him to the parking lot, "Da Zhuang, where is Director Zhou now?"

"Director Zhou is on set looking at the sets and shooting a couple of empty shots along the way."

"Then don't go to the hotel first," Qi Xingchen thought for a moment, "Please take me directly to the movie set."

Generally male and female leads into the group will first go to the hotel, and so on the evening and the director and producer and so on after meeting, the next day by the director to take to the set to do the introduction.

To put it bluntly, it's a matter of identity and status. The main character has to have the look of a main character, and only a small actor would go to the set to look for the director like Qi Xingchen did in "Heart of the Sea".

But Da Zhuang didn't know what his purpose was and didn't stop him from taking a few people to the car with the M1 logo on it.

M stands for male, 1 is the first, M1 means Male One. This is the car that is specially used to transport Qi Xingchen, no one can get on it, and no one is qualified to get on it.

Qi Xingchen was a bit excited to enjoy special treatment for the first time, and jumped on the car without waiting for Da Zhuang to open the door for him.

Da Zhuang: "......"

An Ran gave him the look of a landlord's stupid son and sighed quietly.

Once everyone is seated, Da Zhuang drives straight to the set. He knows the way, so he'll be driving today and Old Qin will take over from tomorrow.

Going out from the underground parking lot, Qi Xingchen inadvertently looked out and found that unlike H City, the sky of J City had already been filled with scattered small snowflakes.

"Brother Da Zhuang, when did it start snowing over here?" Qi Xingchen said, a wisp of haze drifting out from the side of his mouth.

"The temperature dropped a few days ago," Da Zhuang replied, "that's why I sent a message yesterday asking you to bring more warm clothes. Now it's nine degrees below zero outside, and after this snow, I'm afraid it'll go down to ten degrees below zero."

Listening to Da Zhuang, Qi Xingchen immediately thought of Bai Ye, who has been flying around in the sky for the past few days as the end of the year approaches, with New Year's Eve concerts and awards ceremonies of all kinds, both recorded and live, as well as some platforms' own end-of-year roundups, all of which are basically sending invitations to Bai Ye.

Sometimes it's hard to avoid flying from the frigid zone to the tropics, and it's easy to catch a cold when the weather is cold and hot. Qi Xingchen stopped chatting and pulled out A Lun's WeChat: [A Lun, give me the address of your hotel].

A Lun, probably in a hurry, replied: "xx street xx, Xingchen, what do you need the address for?

Xingchen: [Buy something for your boss]

Now most of the takeaway software has opened "help buy help send" function, Qi Xingchen hair, open the Gaode map search local large supermarkets, pick and choose, selected hand warmers, heat stickers, insulation cups, cold punch, fever stickers and a series of cold supplies and medicines.

Before placing the order, he remembered that Bai Ye had said he wanted to wear a couple's suit with him.

At that time, he thought of buying clothes for Bai Ye, but Bai Ye was quite picky about her clothes and couldn't buy anything without knowing the exact size, so he never did.

Now there's a good chance.

Qi Xingchen eyes fell on a large chain of shopping malls, and finally could not resist the itch to order another fleece pajamas.

It just so happened that the same chain of malls existed in J. He followed the same style and different patterns and bought himself a single one as well.

After it was all done, he told A Lun: [Almost evening can arrive, contact information left your phone. Please pick up the phone, and we'll treat you to a big meal when we meet!

Xingchen : [And don't tell your boss yet, think of it as a little surprise heh heh.]

A Lun returned a small "ok" expression, turned around and betrayed the person who was going to treat him, and said to Bai Ye, "Xingchen contacted me just now."

"Huh?" Bai Ye, who was waiting in the lounge to record, raised his left eyebrow, "What did he want with you?"

"He bought you something and asked me to pick it up."

"What is it?"

"I really don't know about that, I guess it's takeout or home delivery or something."

Although he had been in a relationship with his little fan for a while, because of the nature of his work and family factors, the two people who were so rich that they didn't lack anything hadn't given each other anything yet.

Bai Ye was genuinely curious, "You let me know when it arrives and I'll go get it myself."

A Lun anxious: "Boss, by the paparazzi ......"

"It's okay," Bai Ye interrupted, "don't worry about them."

After a pause, Bai Ye said, "When you get back tonight, send a list of this month's announcements to my e-mail."

"Announcement list? Do you have a special arrangement, boss?"

Bai Ye gave him a "talkative" look and ignored A Lun.

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Narrow hutongs, a few dilapidated old buildings, piles of garbage to the left and right, and cesspools that smell vaguely rancid make up the main scene of Gray Tracks.

This is a piece of urban village in J. At two o'clock in the afternoon of early winter, a few residents could not be seen on the trampled and dirty streets.

Occasionally there are women who come out to take out the garbage, wearing poor quality furs, shuffling with cotton slippers, cursing and grumbling as they pass by; on the second floor on the left side, the sound of a couple quarrelling accompanied by the barking of a dog constantly scratches the eardrums of the crowd.

Da Zhuang apologized, "The environment here isn't very good, so it's hard for Mr. Qi to take it easy."

"Da Zhuang brother, you call me Xingchen, call me teacher or something too awkward," Qi Xingchen but does not care, while looking around and sighed in admiration, "Director Zhou chose the scene reproduction is really high. "

Liang Xiaolong, the protagonist of Gray Trace, was separated from his family at a young age and was trafficked into the countryside by human traffickers and sold to the family of a farmer named Liang.

On the first day he arrived at Liang's home, he became very ill due to the lack of soil and water, and the bumpy road. After he recovered, he not only forgot who his real parents were, but also suffered some intellectual damage. It does not hinder normal life, but it is much slower than the reaction of people of the same age.

So he failed in the college entrance examination and wanted to repeat, but his family's condition did not allow him to do so, so he had no choice but to come to the city and rent a one-bedroom apartment in the middle of a city village, preparing to work to save up for tuition fees while reviewing high school content on his own.

Due to his small size and thin body, during a random inspection of a place of business, the heroine, who is a police officer, brings him back to the police station as a child laborer, and accidentally discovers that he is actually one of the victims of a child abduction and trafficking case more than ten years ago.

Since the case was filed, two generations of criminal police officers have been exhausted over this trafficking case. Seeing the light of the case being solved, the heroine begins to help him find his birth parents and takes him, with her, on the long road of fighting trafficking.

The emotional part of Gray Trace is rather tame, a typical sibling love plus redemption route. The plot part is tense and interlocking, with a bit of black humor that is very infectious.

Seeing that Qi Xingchen didn't mind at all, Da Zhuang secretly "tsked" and led him to the movie set.

On the set, the director is shooting a set of empty shots. Qi Xingchen instructs An Ran to keep quiet and stand behind the director, silently observing his shooting technique.

In less than half an hour, this set of empty shots was finally finished. An Ran went up to greet the director, and after the two of them talked for a few moments, Director Zhou waved his hand toward Qi Xingchen: "Xiao Qi, come here."

Qi Xingchen followed his words.

Director Zhou asks, "Why didn't you go to the hotel first to rest after a long morning?"

"I wanted to come and see Liang Xiaolong's living environment," Qi Xingchen said truthfully, "so that I wouldn't be slow to get into the movie."

Director Zhou froze, he is thirty-six years old this year, since graduating from the university since the shooting of five or six plays, seen no less than one hundred actors, this is the first time to see a young actor into the theater first thing is to figure out into the scene.

He cried and laughed, "We'll shoot the finalizing photos tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow, the opening banquet is for the female one's part, and you'll have your first scene only the day after tomorrow, so there's no need to be in such a hurry."

Qi Xingchen, however, shook his head firmly, he had already decided that he would spend more time on and around the set in the next few days, in order to understand Liang Xiaolong's character.

After all, the character's personality is most affected by the living environment, and you can never understand the joys and sorrows of others without experiencing them firsthand.

He stayed on the set until 8:00 p.m. that day before wrapping up, and returned to the hotel, where the director brought the main crew members to give him a brief pick-me-up. At 10:30 p.m., in order not to affect tomorrow's shooting, the director called a halt in time and dismissed everyone to their rooms.

Before the reception, Qi Xingchen realizes that his cell phone is about to run out of battery, so he quickly sends a message to his family and Bai Ye to tell them he's okay. After eating, he went back to his room to recharge his phone, and when he turned it on, in addition to his family telling him to take care of himself, there were three unread messages on the top dialog box.

Qi Xingchen quickly poked away:

[Moon]: [? ]

[Moon]: [? ]

[Moon]: [? ]

There were actually three identical messages, Qi Xingchen was full of questions: "Do you have a cell phone card?

[Moon]: [Nope.]

[Moon]: [The reception is over?]

Xingchen: [Just finished]

Xingchen: [Why are you posting so many question marks]

Bai Ye: "......"

How dare you ask?

He helplessly typed: [I received your things, hand warmers water cups those are very like. But ...... What happened to the pajamas?

Xingchen: [Don't you like it?]

Bai Ye ruffled the coral-fleece pajamas spread out on the bed-white background, black flowers, but not just any white background and black flowers.

It's a cow kind of flower color.

--That's right, Qi Xingchen chose a very kawaii cow pajama set, the kind with a tail behind the butt.

In all his years of living, he had never worn such childish pajamas.

Bai Ye deliberates for a moment, carefully coming up with a wording that won't hurt his little fan: [Pajamas are nice, but they might not suit me]

Xingchen: [The size doesn't fit or the material doesn't fit?]

Bai Ye thought to himself: not quite my age group.

[Moon]: [The size is perfect, it's just the pattern ......]

As a result, the opposite side suddenly did not reply. Bai Ye waited for ten minutes, and the more he thought about it, the more he regretted it.

It couldn't be that what he said broke the little fan's heart, could it?

Come to think of it, the little fan originally wore zebra pajamas, so I'm sure he has a soft spot for black and white color scheme animal pajamas. For him to say that could easily be misconstrued as bashing the other side's aesthetics.

"......" The more Bai Ye thought about it, the more he regretted it, and fished out his cell phone with the intention of coaxing someone in a hurry.

However, without waiting for him to send a video invitation, the other party's video popped up first. Two seconds later, the culprit little fan appeared on top of the screen.

His nose and mouth were red, and his chest was heaving, probably from something he had just done in a hurry, and he was panting in a small voice.

The hair is slightly disheveled, but you can tell it's been dipped and tousled. The neck was white and slender, and further down ...... was an almost identical cow pajama top with slightly smaller black spots.

Qi Xingchen pointed to herself, like a salesman for her product: "This pajama is good, warm and fine fur. I tested it just now, it's very breathable when you sweat, the quality is quite good. And ...... And it looks cute, there are a lot of favorable comments under the item."

Bai Ye "hmmm", "It's cute, so you bought it too?"

"I bought both of them together," Qi Xingchen's voice lowered, "You wanted to wear a couple's shirt with me."

Bai Ye was stunned.

"I didn't have your size and didn't dare buy blindly. Thinking that pajamas are stretchy, I bought couple's pajamas."

"...... Okay," Bai Ye's eyes softened, "I know, wait for me."

Bai Ye gets up and leaves the shot. He returns a short time later, wearing the immensely disliked cow pajamas.

"Thanks for the couple shirts," he laughed, "I like them, I really do."

The hardest thing to do in love is to respond to everything, and the most reassuring thing is to respond to everything.

You said you wanted to video every day, and I made time for you no matter how busy I was. I said I wanted to wear a couple's shirt with you, so you chose it and sent it to me.

Maybe we get together less often, maybe busy only send a few messages a day, but I never feel that you are very far away.

Because you are in my dreams and my heart at all times.