CH 12

Gu Zecheng, staring at the mobile phone presented in front of him, was just about to speak when his own mobile phone made a notification sound. He lowered his head, glanced at the screen, and replied to the message expressionlessly before looking back at Lin Zixi.

"What if I get it?" He reached out to take Lin Zixi's phone and asked while pressing the card drawing interface.

"I’ll follow your surname!" Young actor Lin replied with an expression like it had cost him so much, as if the man beside him was not his own dad.

Although Dad Gu was still kept in the dark, he obviously felt that this stake was nothing good, so he sneered and said, "You’ve become Gu Zeyi, and you still want to be Gu Zixi?"

It was indeed Gu Zixi, aka young actor Lin who spread his hands, "What do you want then?"

Gu Zecheng actually didn’t really want anything. The only thing he needed Lin Zixi to do was already written in the contract and signed by the two of them, but surprisingly, he was still a bit unwilling to let Lin Zixi forget about it. In the end, he pressed Ten Draws and said, "Write it down first, and we’ll talk about it later."

"Then you have to get it first before…. Oh my fucking god! " Lin Zixi barely spoke half of his provocative words, and he could not help but cry out after seeing the result of Gu Zecheng's card drawing this time. If it was not for the seat belt, he would probably jump up from the car seat.

Yes, that’s right, Gu Zecheng really couldn’t draw another purple this time. However, he drew an orange card.

The orange card with very powerful fighting strength and very cheating drop rate.

Lin Zixi reached out to get his mobile phone back and take a good look at this treasure card drawn by his dad’s golden hand. Gu Zecheng, however, avoided his reach and did not return the mobile phone to him. Instead, he did "Ten Draws" four times in a row.

Thus, in just a few minutes, young actor Lin had leaped from a poverty-stricken household with just a few purple cards to a big nouveau riche who had collected the entire seven orange cards in the mobile game.

Dad Gu stuffed the phone back to the dumbstruck Lin Zixi and asked with a smile, "Who is unlucky?"

"You...you..." Seeing that his own dad, who had passed on the Mercury retrograde to himself, actually turned his luck around, young actor Lin was stunned for quite a while, but suddenly his inspiration flashed, "You cheated! It’s definitely because the operator has increased my account’s drop rate!"

Gu Zecheng made a ‘please’ gesture, "Then you try it."

Of course Lin Zixi wanted to enjoy the feeling of going through the back door himself. He wiggled his fingers, took a deep breath, and pressed the Ten Draws button accurately.

Then, seven green cards and three blue cards were drawn out.

The contrast was too cruel, and young actor Lin was dazed all at once. He drew three more times mechanically, and, not to mention an orange card, he could not even catch a glimpse of a purple card.

Gu Zecheng used the file in his hand to tap Lin Zixi’s head lightly and asked again with something like a smile yet not a smile, "Who is unlucky?"

Lin Zixi racked his brains and refused to understand how his dad could really leave him alone to steal across the border from Africa to Europe and change his Mercury retrograde fate without saying a word, while he could only grit his teeth and admit, "It’s me...."

Young actor Lin was able to earn his living in the entertainment circle just by relying on how good-looking he was, which meant that his appearance was naturally top-notch and better than his peers. Now that he was showing an unreconciled as well as a bit aggrieved appearance, under the dim car lights, he really looked lovable and seductive.

Gu Zecheng could not help but rubbed Lin Zixi's head, but in the end, he still didn't tell him the content of the text message he had received before out of spite.

"You already have all the orange cards, so you can play well now. Anyway, your acting skills are so bad it’ll harm the audience watching your dramas. It’s enough to use it just to deal with the old lady." He turned his attention back to work again after speaking.

However, Big Boss Gu never expected that after two hours, Lin-the disgrace of CFA and the currently popular young actor-Zixi's terrible acting skills would also harm him.

The so-called harm did not mean that Lin Zixi made a mistake in playing the role of his little uncle—Gu Zecheng actually would prefer that. Instead, after dinner, Grandma Song, holding the remote control, turned on the TV and selected D Satellite TV under young actor Lin’s slightly alarmed eyes.

The current time was 7:58 pm, and only 2 minutes were left before the start of the Golden Theater of D Satellite TV. And what was scheduled by D Satellite TV to replace the urban drama that had just finished airing yesterday was the popular fantasy big IP drama Po Tian Ji, produced by Stars Entertainment, starring Lin Zixi, and completed at the end of last year.

Unlike The Legend of Concubine Ling, which completely lacked sincerity except for the Photoshop master who was in charge of the film stills, Po Tian Ji, as a key project of Stars Entertainment that had been promoted for a whole year, was still very diligent in regard to costumes and stage props, lighting and sound effects, martial arts design, post-production special effects, etc. Even the supporting roles and extras of this TV series had used many veteran actors.

However, this also brought out how much young actor Lin, the starring male lead of this drama adaptation of a stallion novel, had lowered the average acting value of the drama.

Gu Zecheng could not remember how many years he had not watched a TV series, but he still obediently let the old lady pull him to sit on the sofa. Because he lowered his head to reply to the text messages, he missed the important information on the opening titles. So when he watched the first twenty minutes of the first episode, he simply thought that his mom just wanted to enjoy the long-lost family pleasure of ‘watching TV together with the whole family’.

However, in the twenty-first minute, the male lead who was lucky enough to escape the disaster—the extermination of his entire family—appeared on the scene.

"Father! Mother..." Along with this heart-piercing cry was young actor Lin's very handsome but also very wooden face, and Dad Gu finally realized that the old lady was actually trying to drag the whole family to enjoy the drama performed by her ‘little son’.

Although Gu Zecheng already knew that Lin Zixi's acting skills were not good, it was also information obtained from the investigation result. Now that he was directly facing this scene, which made him instantly transported out of the play, on the 65-inch 4K HD TV screen, he just wanted to ask how the hell did some people graduate from the Central Film Academy?

Dad Gu twisted his eyebrows and looked towards Lin Zixi, who was sitting between him and his mother. Although the person being watched tried hard to keep his face calm, the blush on his face had long betrayed him.

When the male lead in the drama cried bitterly while holding the corpse of his baby sister and vowed to find the real murderer and take revenge, young actor Lin's ears already turned deep red.

Although Lin Zixi had no ambition, he still had some self-knowledge, so he seldom watched his own dramas except for watching the director's replay on the set.

And now he was not only watching how he was hanged and beaten by the previous generation of actors, but he was also watching it with his own dad and grandma. This feeling was no better than jail time.

Lin Zixi sat straight as if sitting on pins and needles for ten minutes until the scene finally changed, and the male lead exited. Only then did he dare to sneak a look at his left and right side to see whether the two people beside him were as extremely embarrassed by his acting skills as he was.

Then he saw his grandma's ‘my son was really great’ proud smile and his dad's ‘how could you be popular’ doubtful expression.

At this moment, Grandma Song wiped the corners of her eyes with her handkerchief and said, "Ze Yi acted so well, ah. I cried watching it."

"...Yeah, Xiao Yi's acting skills are really... impressive." After three seconds of awkward silence, Gu Zecheng, burying his conscience, still chose to say that word in the end.

"Then Zecheng, you’ll watch Po Tian Ji with me in the future." The old lady spoke while grabbing Lin Zixi's hand and saying to him, "And those TV series you’ve played, your brother and I must definitely catch up on them."

Young actor Lin, who had never caught up on those TV series himself and did not want his dad to catch up on them, turned his head stiffly to look at the expression on Gu Zecheng’s face and finally came to a conclusion—his gold master daddy must have been blaming himself very much for finding a ‘younger brother’ like him.