Chapter 254: Ambiguity, backstage, dawning realization.

The elevator goes up.

Chi Xiaochi and Song Zhihuai stood side by side, and next to them stood Lou Ying, who was invisible to anyone.

Chi Xiaochi, who was extremely bored, looked straight ahead and stood on tiptoe, intending to get even with Song Zhihuai, who is nearly one meter nine, but Song Zhihuai raised his elbow and pushed him down.

Ever since she saw Song Zhihuai's handsome face, Lou Ying's face had been so cold that it could have formed a layer of frost.

Chi Xiaochi's small gesture breaks the silence in the elevator, and Song Zhihuai gets a chance to speak.

He takes off his glasses and wipes them gently with a cloth.

Song Zhihuai, without his glasses, is less elegant and more suave.

But his tone was unusually polite and distant.

"...... for the third time." Song Zhihuai courteously inquired, "Mr. Ji, are you on the outs with our company's artists?"

Chi Xiaochi shrugged, "Aren't Nebula's artists extraordinarily fond of me?"

Song Zhihuai smiled, not commenting.

To Lou Ying's credit, there was more than one of them.

Chi Xiaochi sits at the table in the small conference room that comes with Song Zhihuai's office, takes a cigarette out of a translucent black Marlboro box, taps the tobacco on the box, and asks each of the people in the room one by one for their opinion before lighting up.

Citrus-flavored white smoke lingered in his fingertips as he picked up the bone china tea set on the table with the hand that held the cigarette and tasted it, "The color of this tea set is much better than the last one."

Song Zhihuai showed a false business smile and responded with a sparing, "Really."

In contrast to Chi Xiaochi's relaxed face, the faces of the others on the other side of the room did not look so good.

The PR manager considered his words for a while before saying, "Mr. Chi, what do you think about this Nina matter? I'd like to hear your opinion."

Nina, the one Chi Xiaochi claimed to be holding with her for three years.

"I don't like to think, I like to do." Chi Xiaochi says, "Nebula Entertainment's publicist was so slow to follow up, I had to come up with my own way to rush things."

The PR manager took a small breath.

He blew up the internet with his "whatever" comment.

"But you can't ......" run under the marketing number and spout nonsense.

The manager settled down and said as politely as he could, "You ...... do make it difficult for us."

Lucas was about to open his mouth when Chi Xiaochi spoke again, "Go for it."

Nina's agent was also present. She had been working on this matter for two to three days, her eyes were black and blue, and when she heard Chi Xiaochi's sarcastic tone, she finally couldn't stand it anymore and exploded: "July, we want to solve the problem now, not to expand it further! Do you know how much your message has bothered my Nina? All the media are calling non-stop, and her live fans have dropped thirty thousand! If we hadn't tried to control ......"

Song Zhihuai and the PR manager couldn't stop them in time, and at the same time closed their eyes slightly with a look of intolerance.

"Ah, was I mistaken?" Chi Xiaochi puffed on her cigarette and said lightly, "When she bought my trip and invited the paparazzi to photograph me, it turned out that she didn't want to marry me."

The agent was dumbfounded.

Lucas squeezes Chi Xiaochi's arm and glares at him playfully.

Chi Xiaochi glanced at him, then to the hand he held his own, and shook her head disapprovingly.

Lucas understood and let go of his hand, but still stared worriedly at Chi Xiaochi, fearing that he might say something more provocative.

In the ravenous conference room, Chi Xiaochi exhaled a puff of smoke, rubbed his thumb repeatedly over his soft lips, and looked to the agent, whose face was white for a moment, red for a moment, in the hazy smoke, "You have your channels, and I have my own. Don't think that what you guys are doing is so secretive."

"As for dropping fans, isn't it because she's selling the Iron Straight T persona? She ate the dividends and sucked in the fans before, and now that public opinion can't be controlled, attracting the attention of the higher-ups, and affecting the advertisements and new dramas on air, she wants to find a male to spread rumors about so she can get through this period, and then finally clarifies that we're in a 'good brother' relationship. It's really attackable and defensible, isn't it?"

At some point, Chi Xiaochi's face lost the smirk of a false story.

He dusted off the ashes of his cigarette and held his chin up slightly as he looked across the room at the agent, the somber, reticent aura in his eyes had an air that screamed out for the wrong kind of scalp.

"...... The question is, why do you guys think I would go along with playing this game with you."

Song Zhihuai coughed, "That's enough."

Chi Xiaochi's eyes curved beautifully, sweeping away the haze, and said cordially: ''Yes, words are enough. We'll all listen to Mr. Song next. How is this matter going to be handled?"

In the end, they negotiated an outcome that was still satisfactory to both parties.

Nina's side released an official message clarifying their relationship on the condition that Chi Xiaochi never speak out on the matter again.

"If I hadn't been free lately, I wouldn't have bothered with this kind of thing." Before leaving, Chi Xiaochi laughed at Nina's bespectacled agent, "If you guys still have similar needs, you can get this next time when I'm in the group."

Song Zhihuai escorted the man to the elevator, and after asking how many floors below ground his nanny car was parked, he gentlemanly pressed the elevator for him.

As the door was about to close, Song Zhihuai reached out and blocked the retractable door again, "Mr. Ji, it's not like we don't know each other, so next time you screw up, can you let me know out of courtesy."

Chi Xiaochi smiles and says, "Definitely."

After sending Chi Xiaochi away, Song Zhihuai was visibly relieved.

To the side, Song Zhihuai's special assistant laughed, "Mr. Song, after meeting Mr. Chi so many times, don't you still know him?"

Song Zhihuai shook his head, "This person is really killing me. There's no telling what's going on in his head."

"It's also quite interesting." The special assistant joked, "Other than that, Mr. Song, you and he seem like a good match. Won't you consider it? I heard that he's also ......"

"I won't be looking in the entertainment industry." Song Zhihuai's attitude is categorical, and as he unbuttons his cufflinks and turns back toward his office, he calmly says, "Trouble like this is not something I want to bring into my life."

Lou Ying listened in silence to the conversation between Song Zhihuai and the Special Assistant before going downstairs to catch up with Chi Xiaochi.

Chi Xiaochi is already on level B2, looking for his nanny van.

Lou Ying's phantom followed him, recalling everything he had just heard, his palms unconsciously clenched into fists in his pockets.

Lucas and Chi Xiaochi's height and leg length are not on the same level, so they can only run after him, "Ancestor, my dear ancestor, we are here to negotiate, not to feud, what did you just do? Do you know that Nina has a gold master behind her, the backstage boss."

Chi Xiaochi asked rhetorically, "What happened backstage, didn't I?"

Lucas: "......" He almost forgot that in front of him was July Chi, who entered the top crew of the Chinese movie industry right after his debut, and met all the VIPs with big roots.

Lucas said sharply, "Then you can't offend people to death. What do you want?"

Chi Xiaochi: "Cool."

Lucas: "......" OK.

Seeing that he couldn't reach an agreement with Chi Xiaochi on this topic, Lucas changed the topic: "Do you know that handsome guy just now?"

In the conference room, there were only Chi Xiaochi and Song Zhihuai who could be called handsome.

"We've both met before." Chi Xiaochi said, "I think it was when I was seventeen, walking a commercial show, and he was on the bottom and I was on the top."

Lucas: "Wow, Bamboo Horse Bamboo Horse."

Chi Xiaochi looks at him, "Do you know what bamboo horse means?"

"Almost almost, meant to be." Lucas's nose was burning, "And?"

"And then-" Chi Xiaochi glances at Lucas and subtly changes her tone, "someone introduced us. We hit it off right away, dry humping, you and me, condoms thrown all over the place, only to have him lift his pants and disown me the next day, leaving me to pretend it never happened, and never see him again."

Lou Ying clenched her teeth hard so she could suppress the intense soreness in her chest.

Lucas' mouth and nostrils dilated together as he listened, "Really?"

Chi Xiaochi: "False."

Lou Ying: "......"

Lucas : "...... grass."

Chi Xiaochi found his car and threw the keys to Lucas: "He's not interested in people like me."

Lucas with a look of regret, "Really? You two looked really good together when he pulled you into the elevator ......"

Chi Xiaochi leaned against a wall post and calmly pointed out Song Zhihuai's opinion of himself, "He just thinks I'm too much trouble."

Luca was a bit disappointed, after all, it wasn't a great feeling to have a CP that had just stood up to crumble.

He pulled the car door open for Chi Xiaochi, "So what do you like, I'll look for you in the circle later."

Chi Xiaochi leaned back into the comfortable soft leather seat and closed her eyes, "I don't like anyone."

At these words, Lou Ying's heart, which had just shown a hint of joy, fell into an empty valley.

Lucas said, "Didn't you have a fantasy when you were doing that? It's good to have a template for me."

Chi Xiaochi closed his eyes and took another cigarette out of the box, as if he was missing someone, his expression gradually softened.

He took his dry lips and pursed his cigarette, smiling vaguely, "Can't tell you ah."

The car drove off, leaving Lou Ying standing in the same spot.

After a few more moments of unbearable soreness, Lou Ying could barely lift his head to look in the direction of the disappearing car.

From what he had seen over the years, Lou Ying could vaguely guess that Chi Xiaochi's orientation toward his lover was not quite the same as most people's. So he was not surprised to hear him speak positively about it. So he wasn't surprised to hear him talk positively about it.

He was surprised at his own reaction.

The lump of soft flesh in his chest constricted uncomfortably, and an intense insecurity wrapped itself around him, telling him to lose control of himself, to want to go after him, to sit down next to Chi Xiaochi and ask him after him what he really liked, what kind of people he could really like.

It was to curb this dysfunctional emotion of his that he chose to stay.

Lou Ying looked at his hand and frowned thinking, what's wrong with me.

He lost his purpose for a moment, not knowing where else he could go.

But it's a little too silly to stay standing around.

Lou Ying took two steps with his back to the direction of the departing vehicle, wondering with amusement if he should go back to the system.

Suddenly, a thought flashed through his mind like electricity, and he could no longer move his feet.

Lou Ying turned around and looked incredulously in the direction Chi Xiaochi's vehicle had disappeared, her heart thumping wildly.

...... It's impossible, isn't it?

How did he ......