CH 80

When Tang San Yuan heard Xu Jiang Bai’s words, he wanted to laugh for a moment. He had seen similar dialogues countless times in scripts, but it was the first time he encountered such a thing in reality.

His footsteps stopped and he turned to look at Xu Jiang Bai, his expression not happy but not angry.

But Xu Jiang Bai smiled triumphantly and looked at him with impunity, asking eerily: “Are you scared now?”

Tang San Yuan’s expression showed a hint of impatience as he looked at Xu Jiang Bai and asked in a cold voice: “What do you want to say? If you have something to say, say it quickly, don’t waste my time.”

He seldom showed obvious impatience to a person, but Xu Jiang Bai’s strange attitude really made him feel annoyed.

Xu Jiang Bai looked at him, the corners of his mouth raised in a mocking smile, reached out and pulled out the necklace hanging around his neck, holding it in his hand and shaking it at Tang San Yuan confidently1有恃无恐 (yǒu shì wú kǒng): an idiom, This idiom means to have something to rely on and not to be afraid, describing having some kind of power to rely on and having nothing to worry about in speech or action. It is used as a predicate in sentences, as well as a definite article and a dative article, and often has a pejorative meaning., asking in a hateful voice, “Does it look familiar?”

When Tang San Yuan saw the necklace around his neck, his gaze changed slightly, the jadeite on the necklace was similar to the one he had seen around Gu An’s neck before. Although the patterns of the two pieces of jadeite are somewhat different, the texture and shape are exactly the same, and from one look, they are carved from a piece of jadeite.

Tang San Yuan still remembered that at that time Gu An told him that the necklace was very important.

Although he was a bit puzzled, he didn’t think much of it and looked at Xu Jiang Bai and asked: “It’s just a necklace, what are you trying to say?”

Xu Jiang Bai smiled quietly, “Did you know that my family and the Gu family used to be family friends?”

Tang San Yuan hesitated for a moment and nodded his head lightly, he had heard Gu An once talk about this matter, he did not know why Xu Jiang Bai would suddenly bring this up.

Xu Jiang Bai’s eyebrows were slightly smug as he looked at Tang San Yuan with his chin raised and his hands on his chest, saying slowly: “Did you know that Gu An and I had a marriage contract?”

Tang San Yuan’s whole body shook and he lifted his head to look at him.

Xu Jiang Bai watched his reaction with satisfaction and hummed a laugh: “He really didn’t tell you.”

Tang San Yuan pursed the corners of his lips and did not speak.

Xu Jiang Bai wasn’t prepared to let him speak and continued speaking on his own, “My Grandpa and Grandpa Gu have been old friends for many years, my mother and mother Gu are good sisters, our two families are closely associated, my parents have set a marriage contract for me and Gu An since we were young, if it wasn’t for…… ”

His complexion darkened, a gloomy colour with unknown meaning flashed in his eyes, then said: “If it wasn’t for that car accident, maybe Gu An and I would have gotten married long ago.”

Tang San Yuan’s hand clenched fiercely, his eyes fixed on him, his pupils twitching imperceptibly.

The corners of Xu Jiang Bai’s mouth lifted in a mocking arc: “Do you think Gu An really loves you? It’s just because after that car accident, Grandpa Gu has been refusing to accept me, so Gu An had to find you to confuse Grandpa Gu in order to make him happy.”

Tang San Yuan’s mind went boom and there was a momentary blank in his head, the reason why he and Gu An had worked together to fry CP in the first place, Gu An’s agent did say it was to deceive Grandpa Gu because Grandpa Gu was in a hurry to get Gu An to find someone, so Gu An wanted to make Grandpa Gu happy.

……Did it turn out that Grandpa Gu was in a hurry to get Gu An to find someone in order to break up Gu An and Xu Jiang Bai?

He unconsciously remembered Gu An’s reaction when Xu Jiang Bai came to the Gu family last time. At that time, although Gu An did not ask Grandpa Gu to let Xu Jiang Bai in, but after hearing about Xu Jiang Bai’s situation, he immediately said he wanted to go out and take a look, and later on he even led Xu Jiang Bai in. Gu An did not seem to be as disgusted with Xu Jiang Bai as Grandpa Gu, instead he had some concern.

Xu Jiang Bai looked at his slightly white face and smiled triumphantly: “Although Grandpa Gu hasn’t thought it through yet, but as long as I don’t give up and continue to persist in my efforts, there will be a day where Grandpa Gu accepts me, and by then what’s a worthless little star like you?”

Tang San Yuan’s fingers unconsciously clenched as Xu Jiang Bai’s words shook his heart violently, but he quickly calmed down.

Although his heart was now in a mess, he was an actor after all, and it was very easy to hide his emotions, and his years of acting experience finally came in handy.

His face only went white for a moment before he returned to his expressionless appearance and stared coldly back at Xu Jiang Bai.

Xu Jiang Bai had wanted to admire Tang San Yuan’s sorry expression, but he found that Tang San Yuan was just standing there breezily, without the slightest excess of emotion on his face, as if what he had just said was just a trivial matter of no consequence.

Tang San Yuan looked at him and spoke indifferently, “Have you finished? I’m going back if you’re done.”

Tang San Yuan’s reaction exceeded Xu Jiang Bai’s expectations, and Xu Jiang Bai was unable to speak for a moment.

Seeing that he didn’t say anything, Tang San Yuan turned around and walked away, leaving him with only a back view.

Xu Jiang Bai’s face could not help but look a little ugly, as if he had put on a play, but the audience did not give him the reaction he deserved, this feeling was really stifling and empty.

As soon as Tang San Yuan left Xu Jiang Bai’s sight, the indifference on his face instantly disintegrated and his steps became panicky. Xu Jiang Bai’s words just now kept echoing in his mind, like a small stone dropped in his heart, completely shattering the calmness in his heart.

He hurriedly spoke to the housekeeper and drove back home.

On the way, he received a message from Gu An, in which Gu An said that he was tired of practicing dancing and asked Tang San Yuan to take a picture for him, saying that he would be motivated to continue practicing when he saw Tang San Yuan’s picture.

Tang San Yuan looked at the coquettish intimate tone of his message, his heart was in a mess. He hesitated for a moment, but finally did not reply to Gu An’s message, he could not face Gu An properly now.

Once the seed of doubt is planted, it will grow bigger and bigger in the heart.

He unconsciously wondered, did Xu Jiang Bai and Gu An really have a marriage contract? Was it true that they didn’t get together because of Grandpa Gu’s opposition? So did Gu An ever like Xu Jiang Bai in his heart, or did he still like Xu Jiang Bai now?

He had too many questions and no answers.

Tang San Yuan went home and lay in bed alone for a long time, not even eating dinner, just looking at the ceiling of the house, unconsciously dazed, his mind was filled with Gu An’s appearance, obviously they had only known each other for a short time, but Gu An had firmly occupied his thoughts.

Midway, he received a call from the director of the new film. In the phone call, Li Xin Ran first expressed his gratitude to him for being able to take on the film, and then politely said that there would be some bed scenes in the film, and asked if he could accept it.

After thinking about it for a long time, Tang San Yuan agreed and said that he wanted to be on set soon, he couldn’t wait to get something done and he hoped that being busy would take him away from his troubled thoughts.

Li Xin Ran just happened to be anxious to start shooting, which coincides with his ideas, and he agreed to do so immediately and hurriedly began to prepare.

He spent another day at home muddling through and resting, and it was only after Li Xin Ran informed him that he was ready that he got up and cleaned himself up, and then hurried into the set the next day.

Lin Da Tian was surprised that he had ended his holiday early but did not raise any objections, he only saw that he did not look well and was a bit worried, asking him if he was sick and if he needed to go to the hospital.

As for Gu An, he would not be foolish enough to listen to only Xu Jiang Bai’s side of the story, but he decided to wait for Gu An to come back before asking for clarification.

Although he had made a decision, his heart was in turmoil now and he couldn’t face Gu An openly, so he just told Gu An that he was about to enter the set and that the filming of the drama would be very busy and he wouldn’t have time to contact Gu An, asking him to call him when he returned to China. Then, he threw the phone to Lin Da Tian and concentrated on filming and didn’t think about these things for the time being.

As the twelve-day date drew nearer and nearer, his heart became more and more anxious, but fortunately he happened to meet Tang Er Yuan who came to visit his set, and he had Tang Er Yuan and Li Can to banter with, making him forget his worries for the time being.

The anxiety in his heart continued to grow as Gu An was three days away from returning.

But soon he didn’t have time to think about Gu An, because Li Xin Ran said that the next scene would be preparing to start filming the bed scene. He didn’t expect the bed scene part to start filming early in the movie shooting and he sprayed a thick inhibitor on his body, but he still couldn’t help but be nervous. He didn’t have experience in bed scenes before, he had never been overly intimate with anyone else except Gu An, so even if it was acting, he didn’t know if he could accept another A man’s proximity.

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At the same time, Gu An stepped off the plane wearing sunglasses. With a cold expression, he took out his mobile phone and dialed Tang San Yuan’s number, the phone rang a few times, this time the other end of the line was still answered by Lin Da Tian.

His eyebrows involuntarily knitted together, these days he was keenly aware of Tang San Yuan’s detachment, first he rarely replied to messages, then he used filming as an excuse to even stop answering the phone, after that, every time he called, all the calls were answered by Lin Da Tian on his behalf. He knew that something must have happened during the time he was away, so he ended his trip as soon as possible and rushed back early.

Lin Da Tian had an extremely good impression of Gu An, although he was a little surprised that Gu An had called several times these days to find Tang San Yuan, and could not help but privately send a message to Tian Da Di and sighed that the relationship between the two was so good, as expected of a teammate who had fried CP together.

Lin Da Tian said in a pleasant voice, “An Ge, are you looking for San Yuan?”

“En, is he filming?”

Lin Da Tian said unconcernedly: “He just finished a scene and is changing in the dressing room to prepare for the next bed scene.”

Gu An keenly detected the key word and his voice sank, “A bed scene?”

Lin Da didn’t notice the change in his tone and still said with a smile, “Yes ah, San Yuan is doing his first bed scene today, I’m also a little nervous, luckily the co-actor is a Beta, it shouldn’t……”

Gu An interrupted him and said in a deep voice: “Send me the address.”

Lin Da Tian froze for a moment before he reacted that Gu An was asking for the address of the place where they were currently filming. He thought Gu An wanted to come and visit Tang San Yuan, so he agreed without much thought, “Okay, I’ll send it to you right away, do you want to come over?”

“En.”

He only heard a cold reply, the other end of the phone had already hung up.

Lin Da Tian looked at the hung up phone in surprise and couldn’t help but pick up his own phone to send a message to Tian Da Di to ramble2碎碎念 (suì suì niàn): transliterated from the Hokkien 踅踅念 (seh seh liām), lit means broken thoughts, fig. means always repeating trivial and meaningless things, describing a naggy person, a derogatory term..

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After hanging up the phone, Gu An’s lips tightened into a straight line as he walked out of the Interstellar Capital Airport with big steps.