CH 4

Zhang Li : ? ? ?

Where was this going on?

Zhang Li interrupted reluctantly, “Teacher Shan, you go to talk with him, what about the other audition participants?”

Shan Qikun said with a smile, “Do you mean that Director Wang’s just a decoration?”

Zhang Li quickly said, “Of course, I didn’t mean that. I just…”

“Do your own business. My business, I don’t need to be reminded by you.”

After he finished speaking, he looked at Tang Ziyou, “Let’s go.”

Tang Ziyou had to follow him tremblingly.

Shan Qikun’s assistant was not in a hurry to follow Shan Qikun, but pointed to Zhang Li and said to the staff on the other side, “What is this? Find someone to change her. Don’t let her show up in front of Brother Shan again. It’s troublesome.”

Shan Qikun took Tang Ziyou into the office not far away, pulled a chair to sit down, and said to him, “Sit.”

Tang Ziyou had to sit down cautiously.

“I know you.” Shan Qikun said.

Tang Ziyou : ! ! !

Tang Ziyou was so scared that he almost jumped out of the chair.

He looked at Shan Qikun. His heart was full of worries.

If he told Liu Xu that the reason for his failure in the audition was that he, as Gu Jiuci’s fan, once beat Shan Qikun and offered another stumbling block of blood and tears for his fans, Liu Xu might have to shut himself up on the spot.

Tang Ziyou regretted it. On the day of his rebirth, he only took off his identity as a Gu Jiuci’s fan, but now, he wanted to turn black to Gu Jiuci!

Garbage Gu Jiuci! Mislead my youth, ruined my career!

What a mistake!

Tang Zi smiled awkwardly: “Really?”

Shan Qikun nodded, “You may not believe it, but Gu Jiuci and I are not as stated on the Internet. We have a good relationship and get together when we are not busy.”

Tang Ziyou : ? ? ?

Tang Ziyou asked his soul, “Huh?”

Shan Qikun smiled and said frankly, “So, I know the relationship between the two of you. I’ve also seen you on his phone.”

In his last life, Tang Ziyou would probably focus on the second half of the sentence. He would be surprised that Gu Jiuci’s mobile phone actually had himself and his friend even knew him.

But the current Tang Ziyou only found it ridiculous.

He and Gu Jiuci said that they were the fiancé and they’d known each other for a long time. However, whether it was before or after the rebirth, he didn’t know that Shan Qikun and Gu Jiuci were friends.

Poor him, he once naively asked Gu Jiuci if he had a bad relationship with Shan Qikun and reminded him not to get too close to Shan Qikun. He always wanted to touch him (like he wanted to get in his popularity).

How did Gu Jiuci reply back then?

He didn’t reply, just chuckled slightly.

Tang Ziyou thought he didn’t believe in himself. He chased him and swore, “Really, I won’t lie to you. His fans hate him very much.”

But now, it seemed that he just laughed at himself for being stupid.

Tang Ziyou smiled and said to him, “Really?”

He said, “I don’t know. Gu Jiuci never mentioned you to me.”

Shan Qikun sensitively heard a hint of embarrassment from his words and added, “Probably because we have publicly said several times that we have a good relationship, but the fans don’t believe it.”

Could the fiancé and fans be the same? As long as Gu Jiuci told him once in front of him that he and Shan Qikun were friends, he would believe it.

However, not once he said it.

But all these were in the past. Tang Ziyou was too lazy to turn over the old accounts again.

He even gave up on Gu Jiuci. There was no need to worry about these past things.

Tang Ziyou nodded perfunctorily, “Maybe.”

“So, you came to audition this time, does he know?”

“He doesn’t know.”

“Then are you serious?”

“Of course.”

Shan Qikun looked at him and leaned on the back of his chair, “To be honest, you just performed well. I am willing to protect you, but I’m very worried that you have not acted for so many years. This time, if it’s just a whim, then…”

“It’s not a whim.” Tang Ziyou interrupted him, “I’m serious. I want to return to the entertainment industry.”

“Then what if he doesn’t want to?”

Tang Ziyou chuckled, “He is in this circle himself, why does he not want to?”

“So, even if he told you not to take part in the show in the future, you wouldn’t agree, would you?”

“Of course.” Tang Ziyou said calmly.

“That’s good.”

“Also,” Tang Ziyou looked at him and said calmly, “Gu Jiuci may hasn’t told you, but Teacher Shan, I have broken up with him. We have nothing to do now.”

“If you think that my acting skills are pretty good and you are willing to give me this opportunity, I am very happy. But if you give me this opportunity because of Gu Jiuci’s face, then there is no need.”

“We are no longer in the kind of relationship as you think anymore.”

Shan Qikun looked at him in shock and almost didn’t control his instinctive reaction to look at his phone.

“You broke up?” Shan Qikun asked in surprise, “Don’t you like him very much?”

Tang Ziyou smiled, “He even told you this, did he tell you that he doesn’t like me?”

Shan Qikun : ……

“He doesn’t like me, so I don’t like him anymore. It’s fair and reasonable. I take it for granted, don’t I?”

Shan Qikun : “…your idiom is pretty good.”

“Thank you.” Tang Ziyou accepted his compliment.

Shan Qikun laughed instantly. He looked at the person in front of him and felt that Tang Ziyou seemed a little more interesting than he thought.

He was good-looking and had a good personality. He also liked Gu Jiuci very much. He didn’t know what Gu Jiuci thought, so he had come to the point of breaking up with him.

Would he really regret it?

The two talked for a while. Shan Qikun opened the door and asked his assistant to send him away.

He closed the door, took the phone out of his pocket, and asked, “Did you hear it? Xiao Tang doesn’t like you anymore.”

Gu Jiuci on the mobile phone was still recalling Tang Ziyou’s sentence. “He doesn’t like me, so I don’t like him anymore. It’s fair and reasonable.”

“Speak?” Shan Qikun urged, “Why, heartbreak?”

Gu Jiujiu chuckled, “Why do I have a heart, whether he likes me or not, can I not know? It’s just that he reluctant to admit his mistake.”

“Tsk, tsk. You know him better than Xiao Tang, you are really amazing.”

Gu Jiuci frowned, “What is your tone? And is Xiao Tang called by you? You call him his name.”

“Aiyou, you’re even not his fiancé, but you still care. I don’t just call him Xiao Tang. When the shooting starts, he has to call me ‘brother’. Do you want to see our script? In the play, we are master and apprentice. I’m the light of his character that will always exist in his heart, his lifelong pursuit of faith…”

Before Shan Qikun’s last “Sui (随)” was spoken, the phone was hung up.

Shan Qikun chuckled. It seemed that someone was upset.

* * *

Gu Jiuci sat on the sofa and clicked on Tang Ziyou’s WeChat impatiently. The conversation between the two remained on the WeChat where Tang Ziyou said he left last time.

He held the phone, hesitated for a long time before finally decided to reply: [Got it.]

Gu Jiuci finished replying. He stared at his mobile phone, waiting for Tang Ziyou’s reply.

Tang Ziyou’s reply had always been very fast, almost in seconds. If there was no second reply, he would reply as soon as he saw it and explain that he was busy or the phone was not around just now.

However, one second had passed, two seconds had passed, three seconds had passed, three minutes had passed, and thirty minutes had passed. Tang Ziyou didn’t reply.

It shouldn’t be, Gu Jiuci secretly said, are you busy? What are you busy with?

He stayed at home every day and didn’t do anything.

Gu Jiuci stared at his mobile phone, scratching his heart, ears and cheeks, but there was still no movement.

He leaned on the sofa depressingly, thinking about whether Tang Ziyou really planned to start filming again.

He was thinking about it, suddenly WeChat rang.

Gu Jiuci immediately picked up the phone on the table to see what Tang Ziyou had sent him.

However, it was not Tang Ziyou who sent the message, but his assistant.

Xiao Zhao: [Brother, what would you like to eat at noon? From hotel or order takeout?]

Gu Jiu was so angry that he threw his mobile phone aside, what to eat, what to eat, not eating!

* * *

Although Liu Xu did not go to the audition with Tang Ziyou, she took Tang Ziyou for dinner after the audition.

“Either you say that your fate is red, I think what happened this morning, eighty percent precisely because of you.” She smiled.

“Not necessarily.” Tang Ziyou said.

“Teacher Shan asked his assistant to see you off, so I am very satisfied with you.”

“He knows my relationship with Gu Jiuci.” Tang Ziyou calmly said, “Moreover, he also knows that I broke up with Gu Jiuci.”

Liu Xu was surprised, “How does he know?”

“He and Gu Jiuci are friends.” Tang Ziyou blinked and said with a smile, “I can’t think of it.”

Liu Xu heard the words and felt sorry for him again, “Are you okay?”

“Of course, what’s the matter.”

As he said, he went to eat the fish in front of him.

Liu Xu looked at his calm appearance and said with emotion, “Xiao You, you seem to have really grown up.”

When she first met Tang Ziyou, Tang Ziyou was young and shy. He looked innocent and clever at the first glance.

But now, he had slowly become mature and stable. Even if he broke up, he could deal with it calmly, saying indifferently, “I don’t like him”.

Liu Xu was happy with his growth, but she was glad about what he experienced in his growth (kind of glad that he just experienced the breakup event which not as bad as she thought).

“It’s okay. If it doesn’t work, I will find you a new script.” Liu Xu helped him pick up a chopsticks dish, “Come, eat.”

Tang Ziyou and Liu Xu had a meal. When he returned home, he noticed that Gu Jiuci had replied to his WeChat.

Three simple words, as before: [Got it]. (知道了)

It was almost the same with the meaning of have read it, let’s quit it.

Tang Ziyou put the phone aside and didn’t care about it anymore.

* * *

The next night, there was a post on the forum that broke the news: 《It broke the news late at night, the first TV series of a movie café came down had an unexpected male partner. 》(T/N: a movie café meant that Shan Qikun, who always played in the movie, now took a part in the TV series, kind of a downgrade from movie to TV series)

Main building: The set male partner is very good, but it is very surprising. I didn’t expect that he would really act again.

“What do you mean, isn’t this male partner an online niche?”

“The first TV series of a movie café, is it Shan Qikun?”

“If the male lead is Shan Qikun, I am not surprised who the male partner is.”

“That is, the LZ’s description makes people curious. It’s surprising and said pretty good.”

“Who? Can’t the host just put the name directly?”

“Couldn’t it be the eighteenth line?”

“Fuck, it can’t be Tang Ziyou. I guess he’s going to come back before. I didn’t expect that he would really act again. It’s a bit interesting.”

“Impossible, Tang Ziyou was fermented by the forum, and exported to domestic sales. He should not come back.” (T/N: I… kind of don’t understand this)

“If it was Tang Ziyou, it would be pretty good. Tang Ziyou’s ancient costume is unique, match with Shan Qikun, what the fuck, it would be a godlike combination!”

“Oh my god, I didn’t think so at first, but when you said that upstairs, it was really amazing!”

“I remember Mr Shan’s drama is still an ancient style with master and apprentice, right?”

“Fuck, master and apprentice are coming!”

“Wake up upstairs, Teacher Shan is so aggressive, Tang Tang is so beautiful. This must be the year of master and apprentice.”

“kswl, kswl.” (T/N: It’s killing me, Chinese slang)

“Tang Ziyou’s fans are still shameless, so you just slapped it directly? Over bound (越级捆绑啊)!”

“Take Tang Ziyou away, hiding in the snow, don’t cue.”

However, within two days, Tang Ziyou saw a video of him and Shan Qikun at a certain station.

The video was cut very well, because he only had the ancient costume materials, so Shan Qikun also chooses the ancient costume materials.

In the year of master and apprentice, they fell in love and killed each other. The barrage was full of screams of “Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah” and yelling “kswl”.

In the end, the black technology was in the same frame. When he was blood-stained in white clothes and died in Shan Qikun’s arms, there were so many bullet screens that he and Shan Qikun’s face could hardly be seen.

“Uhhhh, three years, I am still crying for Xiao Tang’s beauty.”

“What kind of fairy is Xiao Tang, please come back!”

“Can I see Teacher Shan cooperate with Xiao Tang in my lifetime? Please.”

“Like a cult, as deep as the sea, especially the Arctic Circle, I hate it!”

Tang Ziyou: …no need!

He was looking at it when WeChat rang. Tang Ziyou took the phone and glanced at it. It was Gu Jiuci’s WeChat.

Mr Gu : [Is there a copy of 《Count of Monte Cristo》(基督山伯爵) in my study? Please help me to have a look.]

Tang Ziyou had no reason to do it, he said, he moved out, there was no study room.

He calmly continued to scan the website.

On the other hand, Gu Jiuci was still waiting for his reply. He waited for a long time, but he couldn’t wait for Tang Ziyou’s reply anymore. Instead, he waited for Shan Qikun’s WeChat.

Shan Qikun: [Fuck, now the netizens are really amazing. My sister sent me, you see, it’s really black technology.]

Shan Qikun: [Video]

Gu Jiuci was too lazy to pay attention to him, but when his eyes glanced at the video link, he saw it was written—《Beautiful love, Shan Tang (simple sugar) CP fairy face value, crying… 》

The following words had been replaced by an ellipsis.

Gu Jiuci angrily clicked and he saw that the barrage was overwhelming: “If Heaven had feelings, it also would age, I will continue for a second for monosaccharides.” (T/N: Again, it’s kind of poem?)

He was so angry that he immediately closed the barrage, but without the barrage, Tang Ziyou and Shan Qikun’s superb love in the past year became clearer.

Gu Jiuci who was speechless replied Shan Qikun: [Are you crazy? Watch this kind of video too!]

Shan Qikun: [Hahahaha, isn’t it great?]

Gu Jiuci: [Ugly!]

Shan Qikun: [Why are you so excited? It’s not you and Xiao Tang. You don’t like me and Xiao Tang together either?]

Gu Jiuci: ? ? ?

Gu Jiuci: [Don’t deceive your friend’s wife, I hope you know it.]

Shan Qikun: [Didn’t you break up? Xiao Tang said it himself, you heard it too.]

Gu Jiuci: ……

Gu Jiuci cut out the chat page with Shan Qikun and reread Tang Ziyou’s WeChat again, only to find that Tang Ziyou still had not replied to his WeChat.

What the hell was going on with him?

There should be a degree of tantrums. ‘Playing hard to get’ was not like this.

Gu Jiuci called his assistant, “Book a ticket and go back tomorrow.”

“Noon or evening flight?” Xiao Zhao asked.

“Morning!” Gu Jiuci said angrily.