CH 28

The agent also immediately agreed, “Xiao Ni, your bonus for this month is gone. If you do something like this in private, please reflect on yourself!” Xiao Ni heard the implication. She didn’t hesitate to put the pot on her body, “I’m sorry, Sister Rongrong. I’m sorry Sister Shu. I was so fascinated for a while. I was wrong.”

She turned to look at Tang Ziyou and Cheng Feng, “This matter has nothing to do with Sister Rongrong. What she doesn’t know is that I want to make extra money. It’s me who is greedy. Sister Rongrong doesn’t know anything.”

Xiang Rongrong pretended to be like, “Why are you so ignorant.”

She looked sad and seemed to cry for her assistant’s mistake in the next second.

Tang Ziyou watched her acting, speechless.

Cheng Feng said in her heart, it was really a big show. I have never seen Xiang Rongrong acting so well and powerful at ordinary times.

Seeing that Cheng Feng didn’t speak, Xiang Rongrong was afraid that Cheng Feng would believe it. She turned her head and told Tang Ziyou (in the original, it wrote “Director Wang”), “Tang Ziyou, this matter really has nothing to do with me. Take a step back and say, whether this matter has anything to do with me. You shouldn’t just bully me like that just now. Is there anything you can’t sit down and talk about? What kind of a man are you to bully a woman!”

Li Shu heard the words and followed her words to lead the topic to Tang Ziyou, “Yes, even if you are dissatisfied with Rongrong, you can’t insult her!”

Tang Ziyou was speechless, “I didn’t.”

“Of course, you won’t admit it. Which thief would admit stealing!?”

Tang Ziyou raised his right hand holding the phone, “I recorded it.”

Xiang Rongrong: ? ? ? ?

Li Shu: ? ? ? What was the meaning?

Tang Ziyou turned on the audio just recorded. Cheng Feng heard a knock on the door from his phone, followed by the sound of the door opening.

Xiang Rongrong’s voice came from the phone, “What are you doing?”

—“I want to ask you, what are you doing? Just because of a Li Ke, are you trying to embarrass me again and again?”

—“What nonsense are you talking about?”

Then there was the quarrel between the two, until Cheng Feng appeared and asked: “What’s the matter?”

Xiang Rongrong and Li Shu looked at Tang Ziyou in disbelief, completely unexpected that he still kept such a hand.

Tang Ziyou was very calm and he wasn’t stupid. He was an actor and an actress in private (私会一个女演员, not sure). The two were about the same age and Xiang Rongrong was still hostile to him. If he didn’t leave some evidence for himself, he couldn’t tell how he would be bitten by Xiang Rongrong in the future.

So he turned on his phone to record before knocking on the door. Sure enough, it really came in handy.

Xiang Rongrong and Li Shu couldn’t say anything when listening to his recording.

Cheng Feng laughed and said sarcastically, “I didn’t see it. You are quite good at screenwriting. You play the script you wrote yourself, but it is much more vivid and lifelike than the one I wrote.”

“I didn’t mean it.” Xiang Rongrong explained, “I…”

Cheng Feng raised her hand to stop her pale explanation, “Don’t tell me. Talk to Director Wang.”

After she finished speaking, she turned and left the door of Xiang Rongrong’s room.

Tang Ziyou also followed.

Cheng Feng looked back at him and said in surprise, “You are wary.”

“I have been targeted by her three times. If I’m not wary, I should pack up and leave the crew.”

Cheng Feng heard this and thought he was really pitiful and cute, “Don’t worry, I will tell Director Wang the truth and won’t let you suffer in vain.”

“Thank you, Teacher Cheng.”

“You’re welcome.”

When Director Wang heard Cheng Feng’s words about this, he was so angry that he asked his assistant to find Xiang Rongrong on the spot.

Recently, he himself was upset because of Xu Sijia’s affairs. Now there was another Xiang Rongrong. It was almost like a wave of ups and downs!

“What do you want to do?” Director Wang looked at Xiang Rongrong, “Do you still want to act? Do you still want to play this drama?”

“Of course, I do.” Xiang Rongrong cried, “I was confused for a while. I was wrong. I will never do that later.”

“Still later!?” Director Wang said angrily, “Do you know that Tang Ziyou almost had an accident that day? If he had an accident, the crew would either change or wait for him to recover. Will you reimburse me for the expenses incurred in the process?”

“I said as soon as you joined the crew, you are not allowed to privately spread the shooting arrangements of the crew. You are fine and let the assistant sell it to the scalpers. Why, you still want to earn money for a play, is it double insurance!?”

“I was wrong.” Xiang Rongrong cried pitifully, “Director Wang, please forgive me this time.”

“This time!?” Director Wang said angrily, “Okay. Who asked us to sign the contract? Anyway, you don’t have many roles, so let’s do it. Don’t worry, this is our first and last cooperation. Don’t let me see you again in the future.”

Xiang Rongrong cried and shook her head, but Director Wang was too lazy to talk to her anymore.

Li Shu followed her to say this for her, but was driven out by Director Wang.

“Why do you bother?” Li Shu asked as soon as she went out, “Why are you so good to provoke Tang Ziyou? It’s all right now. In the future, Director Wang and Cheng Feng will definitely not cooperate with you anymore. If they say it in their own circle, you…”

Li Shu sighed, “What do you think you want?”

“I just can’t be reconciled.” Xiang Rongrong said, “This is obviously Li Ke’s opportunity, so why was he cut off?”

“So you are targeting him everywhere?” Li Shu shook his head helplessly, “You are so stupid, Rongrong. Li Ke never planned to disclose your relationship. Believe it or not, if your resources become worse and your reputation drops in the future, he will dump you first.”

“No.” Xiang Rongrong didn’t believe it. “He’s not such a person.”

Li Shu frowned and looked at her, only thinking that she was really stupid.

“You will regret it,” she said.

Xiang Rongrong’s mouth turned flat line. She regretted it now. She didn’t hurt Tang Ziyou. Instead, she made herself into a lot of trouble. From the director to the screenwriter to Qu Wenyi, the crew now had too many people who had opinions on her. She would definitely not be better in the future.

Xiang Rongrong covered her face and started to cry slowly.

* * *

When they went to film again in the afternoon, Xiang Rongrong and Xu Sijia both sat quietly in their chairs, one with her head down and the other looking at the script.

Xu Wangyang obviously felt that the atmosphere of the crew was somewhat depressed and asked the agent to know what happened.

He really didn’t expect Xiang Rongrong to do such a stupid thing, but…

Xu Wangyang looked at Tang Ziyou, he was smarter than he thought. Whether it was Xu Sijia’s sudden trouble yesterday or a bite from Xiang Rongrong, Tang Ziyou didn’t suffer any harm. Instead, the person who troubled him didn’t come to a good end.

Thinking like this, his heart that was planning to find trouble to Tang Ziyou had temporarily suppressed it.

Xu Sijia was beaten by Qu Wenyi and Xiang Rongrong knew that the director didn’t like her now, so the two of them started filming this time very seriously. When work ended in the evening, it was nearly an hour earlier than expected.

Tang Ziyou stopped work and went back to the hotel. He was stopped by Liu Xu as soon as he walked to the door of his room.

“You come with me.”

“What’s the matter?” Tang Ziyou asked her.

“You’ll know when you get there.” Liu Xu looked a little embarrassed.

Tang Ziyou was puzzled but followed her to Xiao Lu’s room.

As a result, he understood as soon as he entered—Gu Jiuci stood in Xiao Lu’s room, looking at him in the distance.

Tang Ziyou was stunned.

Liu Xu whispered, “Young Master Gu came in the afternoon and saw that you were filming, so he didn’t bother you.”

Tang Ziyou sighed and asked, “What’s up?”

“I want to talk to you.”

“Didn’t we talk about it before?” Tang Ziyou whispered.

“That was before. I have something else to say to you now.”

Tang Ziyou didn’t really want to hear it, but Gu Jiuci came all the way. It would be okay.

So he didn’t refuse, “Okay.”

In the quiet room, the lights were very bright and there were two silent faces reflected on the coffee table where the light could be seen.

Tang Ziyou sat quietly, waiting for Gu Jiuci to speak.

Gu Jiuci didn’t know how to speak for a while. He opened his mouth several times and closed it silently.

Tang Ziyou waited for him for five minutes. Seeing that he hadn’t spoken yet, he said, “If you have nothing to say, I will go back first. I have a play tomorrow morning.”

“What time?” Gu Jiuci asked.

“Shoot at nine o’clock and need to put on makeup at eight o’clock.”

Gu Jiuci nodded. He looked at Tang Ziyou for a long time before speaking again, “I came to tell you that Grandma agreed to dissolve our marriage contract.”

Tang Ziyou was surprised. He didn’t expect Gu Jiuci to tell him this. In the previous few meetings, Gu Jiuci didn’t accept this at all. He kept saying that he was his fiancé. He thought that Gu Jiuci would reject to dissolve his marriage contract. Unexpectedly, he came to him to tell himself about this.

Sure enough, Tang Ziyou thought that he really didn’t like him at all, so after a few symbolic retentions, he couldn’t wait to let his grandma know about it and ran to tell him the good news.

“That’s good.” Tang Ziyou said, “You are free and so am I.”

Gu Jiuci nodded, unconsciously his hand beside him clenched.

“So…” He looked at Tang Ziyou, took a deep breath and asked, “So, can I chase you from today?”

Tang Ziyou was stunned.

He blinked, not sure if he had heard it wrong.

“What did you say?”

“I said can I start chasing you from today?” Gu Jiuci looked into his eyes and said seriously.

The doubts in Tang Ziyou’s eyes were even worse, “What are you talking about?”

He looked at the person in front of him in puzzled, “You don’t like me, why are you chasing me?”

“I like you. It’s just that before, I was biased against you and against our engagement, so I don’t want you to see how much I like you or admit that I really like you.”

Tang Ziyou felt that he became more and more confused, “Do you like me?”

Gu Jiuci nodded.

Tang Ziyou laughed, “Gu Jiuci, this kind of joke is really not funny at all.”

“I’m not joking.”

“So your like is you don’t contact me once you go out of the house? Is it that you and Shan Qikun are good friends and don’t tell me? Every time, except when I’m sick, you’re not willing to have the slightest intimacy with me? Is that what your like is!?”

“As I said, I was prejudiced against you before and had opinions about our engagement. As you know, I didn’t want to get engaged at the time. It was you and Grandma who forced us to get engaged. So I don’t want to admit my feelings and dare not admit my feelings.”

“When you just moved in and I didn’t have feelings for you, I can treat you normally. But when I realized that I had a good impression of you, my heart felt awkward and twisted me in the other direction. The more I understand this kind of affection, the more I remind myself to stay away from you. That’s why I didn’t contact you after I went out, didn’t let you enter my circle, and didn’t dare to have other intimate behaviours towards you.”

“Then you have no prejudice against me now!?” Tang Ziyou said sharply, “At this time, do you have no opinion on our engagement!?”

“You fulfilled your promise, so I erased the prejudice against you. It was my fault. I shouldn’t think that you really want to bind me for the rest of my life. I should trust you.”

“My promise?” Tang Ziyou was puzzled, “What promise do I do.”

“You said if we aren’t suitable after the engagement, you will be separated from me.” Gu Jiuci looked at him, “I didn’t believe it before. I think it’s just you doing me perfunctorily, but you did it. So, yes, I was wrong and I am sorry for you.”

Tang Ziyou was stunned. At this moment, he finally remembered. Yes, he once said something like this, saying, “If we are really inappropriate, then it won’t be too late to break up.”

However, he failed to do so.

Tang Ziyou stared at Gu Jiuci in a daze, at the handsome young man in front of him.

He asked him, “Did you just say you like me?”

Gu Jiuci nodded.

“Do you want to chase me?”

Gu Jiuci nodded again, “If you want.”

Tang Ziyou laughed suddenly, very ugly. He lowered his head silently and tears slowly appeared in his eyes.

Gu Jiuci wasn’t wrong. He didn’t read him wrong. His prejudice wasn’t wrong. Because he had never done that sentence at all!

In his last life, he pursued Gu Jiuci for nearly a year. In the past year, he had clearly realized countless times that Gu Jiuci didn’t love him and that they weren’t appropriate, but he was still reluctant to let go and stubbornly hug him. He even wanted to get married because of their marriage contract.

He had long forgotten what he once said, which might have been his promise, but in his obsession day by day, it had become the least careless perfunctory.

He really never thought of letting go.                            

If it wasn’t for the accident, if it wasn’t for Gu Jiuci who hung up his phone before his death, if it wasn’t that death was really near him, he looked back on his life and found that he had nothing.

He won’t and can’t let go.

He just suddenly became sober when facing death.

However, if there was no such death, he would only continue to live in his own persistence, knowing that it wasn’t appropriate, but also insisting on it.

Tang Ziyou felt ridiculous and sad at that moment.

He had been begging for the love of his whole life, but in fact, it was handed to him a long time ago. As long as he could think more about Gu Jiuci at that time and could do what he promised to Gu Jiuci at the time, then he could have it.

However, because of his selfishness and obsession, he had missed what he wanted most.

He and Gu Jiuci were actually the same.

He complained that Gu Jiuci had never cared about him and complained that he didn’t love him.

But in fact, he hadn’t even considered Gu Jiuci.

He was immersed in his love, knowing that Gu Jiuci was unhappy and upset, but still didn’t let go. He didn’t love him as much as he thought.

Tang Ziyou lowered his head, his eyes blurred with tears. He saw a hazy white appearing in front of him—the tissues that Gu Jiuci handed out.

He took the tissue, wiped his tears and asked, “If I never propose to dissolve your marriage contract with you, would you never say you like me?”

Gu Jiuci was silent for a moment and replied, “Neither.”

He thought for a while, “After we got engaged for more than a year, I will slowly stop resisting you, and then treat you well and create a kind of feeling ‘I didn’t like you early, but I spent a long time together then fell in love with you’.”

“More than a year later?” Tang Ziyou smiled bitterly, “You don’t worry about any changes this year, in case something irreparable happened?”

Gu Jiuci was stunned for a moment. Obviously, he didn’t expect him to ask that way.

For him, more than a year had passed very quickly and a few films had passed in a hurry. What irreparable things could happen?

Tang Ziyou looked at the shock on his face and shook his head slightly. He said, “Gu Jiuci, I don’t accept your pursuit. Since the marriage contract has been terminated, we will have nothing to do in the future.”

The author has something to say:

Xiao Jiu: Is it so firm? Think about it again, kiss!!

Xiao You: No need to think about it, that’s it.

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