CH 14

Another blue vein bulged on Ji Nan’s head.

Have known and liked him for so many years since childhood, yet “unknown” was only labeled on his likes?

Sure enough, he was merely deliberately venting his anger.

“Hey, it’s time to return the phone to me.” The tea worker said.

The tea worker naturally was someone who was also trained to watch a person’s every mood and because he obviously saw that this person was an unusual one, thus he let him hold the mobile phone, but he liked this mobile phone so much that he didn’t want to let him hold it all the time.

Give it back quickly.

Unwilling, Ji Nan glanced at it again. There were notes beside Hang Yuanting’s name also, it was only him who didn’t have one, which was unreasonable.

There was only one explanation for this. The app was not made by Gu Jinmian, but by Gu’s technicians and the company.

That’s right, what technology does Gu Jinmian know? This should have been organized by Secretary Gu after he said it.

Thinking of this, his complexion improved a lot. After giving the phone back to the tea worker, he saw that Gu Jinmian had already walked to another group.

During the few days that Gu Jinmian was here, he traveled all over the crew, to the tea workers, in charge of meals, camera operators, makeup, etc. not one was left behind.

In fact, he could directly go to the production director and ask the production director to give orders to solve all the catering and accommodation problems, but he didn’t. He went there in person, with sincerity and small gifts, and directly talked to the front-line staff. 

After he paid more attention, the other party also paid more attention.

After these, the remaining two big bosses were the director team and the screenwriters.

But he didn’t have to worry about the director team, Director Lin said to him. On the night he came to the set, the director sent him a message.

Director Lin: Gu Jinmian, I found that you have a pair of sharp eyes and are good at discovering the subtleties in life.

Gu Jinmian:?

Director Lin: After hearing what you said, I found that Han Yuanting’s face was slightly swollen, and the edges and corners were not clear enough. I think the shot I took before will be invalidated. I want him to lose weight and retake it.

Gu Jinmian:……

Hang Yuanting will surely hate him even more.

Gu Jinmian didn’t care, he enthusiastically told the director about Yin Moshu’s face, where his strengths were, and how he could contribute to screen classics.

As the two chatted for three hours, Director Lin liked him even more.

The relatively difficult to attack and seize was the screenwriter.

The first time they met, the screenwriter expressed her dissatisfaction with his investment on Yin Moshu to the group. Therefore he had to do his homework to eliminate this dissatisfaction.

That morning, Gu Jinmian went up to the mountain after getting up in the morning.

An hour later, he came back dirty, with a beautiful bunch of wildflowers.

There were no common roses and lilies in this bouquet, nor were there any expensive imported flowers. They were wild flowers that were not commonly seen in city flower shops and were not stunning. More than a dozen kinds of large and small were crowded together, and morning dew was scattered on them. There were even still mud spots on some leaves, it was full of mountain air, natural, fresh and lively.

Many people stared at the bouquet of flowers and Gu Jinmian who was holding them.

He was wearing a loose white shirt, a pair of light-colored jeans, and a pair of white sneakers today. He looked as fresh as the flowers and was full of youthful feeling.

It’s just that the white shirt and sneakers were now dirty, with mud and wet marks.

At first glance, one would naturally think that it was caused by picking the flowers.

Under the watchful eyes of many people, the boy walked up to screenwriter Liu Mengmeng with a paralyzed face, straightened his arms, and handed the flowers to her.

“Sister Mengmeng, here you are.”

The dirty boy in white, with dewy eyelashes, dull face and sweet words, brought a bunch of wild flowers in the morning.

Liu Mengmeng:”…..!”

She heard the gasps of many girls around.

Gu Jinmian kept holding the flower, yet she didn’t pick it up, and only looked at him with puzzled eyes, wondering if the flowers were the reason for the wet eyelashes. Those eyes really looked a little wet.

“What  beautiful flowers.” The first heroine who happened to be in the group couldn’t help praising the flowers after seeing it.

As a person that liked to collect flowers, she couldn’t remember how many flowers she had already collected, but there had never been a bunch like this.

“If Mengmeng doesn’t want it, can you give it to me?”

Liu Mengmeng:”….?”

Even this first heroine wants it.

This is the goddess in the hearts of countless men, will Gu Jinmian give it to her?

Gu Jinmian touched his face, and the little dirt on his cheek turned into a long strip, making people want to laugh and feel pity on his paralyzed face, “No, I picked this for Sister Mengmeng.”

Now Liu Mengmeng finally picked it up, and said arrogantly, “Why did you send me flowers?”

“Because the characters you wrote are wonderful.” Gu Jinmian said.

“I was very touched when I read it.” He opened a memo on his mobile phone, “Look, these are my thoughts and feelings. Is there any deviation in my understanding?”

Liu Mengmeng looked at it for a while, then looked at him seriously and became surprised, “There are a few points that I didn’t expect, let’s talk about it?”

“Good!” Gu Jinmian smiled at her with a cat face, the skin under the mud was as white as snow, and his eyes were as clear as a spring.

Liu Mengmeng:”…..!”

The DNA moved.

(t/n DNA moved/aroused- “Engraved in DNA” is meant to describe things or people that are ingrained in someone’s memory and impossible to forget. Following that logical train of thought, “DNA moved/aroused” describes when a part of that deep-down memory is triggered or jogged.)

Gu Jinmian didn’t even wipe his face, and happily followed the screenwriter.

He read all of Liu Mengmeng’s Weibo last night. Liu Mengmeng was a talented screenwriter, not only talented but also very serious. She was not short of money and hated people abusing their power for personal advantage. Like many girls, she also loved CP’s and had a girlish heart, and liked cute and beautiful little things.

–Use an expensive gift that couldn’t be bought with money to approached her–grasped her girlish heart and the spirit of studying the characters in the script, in which Gu Jinmian had already wrote an interpretation of the characters in her script overnight–picked wild flowers in the mountains early in the morning, just to chat with her about Yin Moshu’s role–

She was not a screenwriter who had no say in the crew, but a well-known talented screenwriter, and a relative of Director Lin, therefore it was not a problem if she wanted to add or change the drama.

As for the first heroine, Lin Mian, of course he would also not ignore her.

This was his cub’s first time making a movie, and it would be great to have seniors who could lead him, especially seniors who had already played villain roles in the past.

Hang Yuanting was no longer good, and the relationship with Lin Mian must not get stale.

He turned his little head around, thinking about how to get closer.

What Gu Jinmian didn’t know was that not long after he left, the tea worker brought a cup of tea to Lin Mian, who had just entered the set. After Lin Mian took a sip, she asked, “I haven’t even said it yet, but how did you know that I like drinking cucumber mint tea?”

The tea worker said cheerfully, “It’s Young Master Gu.”

He already knew that the person who gave him the phone that day was the young master of the Gu family. It was written in the phone app that this first heroine Lin Mian loved cucumber and mint the most.

“We also made some preparations yesterday.”

Lin Mian froze for a moment, the slight displeasure in her heart was ironed and smoothen out.

When she went out the next morning, she saw a huge bouquet of tulips at her door.

It was not a tulip whose petals were gathered together, instead, the delicate petals were unfolded one by one, revealing the light yellow stamen inside. The surrounding circle of warm orange petals was like a small sun, which made people feel happy just by seeing it.

The assistant said excitedly, “Sister, look how beautiful they are? I counted just now, and there are 825 flowers in total!”

“It should have been sent by air here early in the morning, I don’t know who did it.”

Lin Mian probably had a guess in her heart, but she only confirmed it after arriving at the set.

Young Master Gu was on the set early in the morning, gnawing on pig custard buns and pink rabbit bean paste buns with Lin Mengmeng.

When he saw Lin Mian, he greeted her, “Miss Lin, I ordered flowers for you overnight. Please ignore my not being sensible yesterday.”

Lin Mian laughed and said, “825 Dutch tulips, sent with such care, how can you say that you’re insensible?”

“I thought that August 25th is your birthday, so I chose this number.” Gu Jinmian said, “It’s a bit of a coincidence.”

Liu Mengmeng asked, “What a coincidence?”

Lin Mian said, “Young Master Gu’s birthday is August 26. I heard that the original design height of the Gu’s Building was 808 meters. Since Young Master Gu was born on August 26, the Gu’s family asked the designer to change it to a height of 826 meters, resulting it to be the tallest building in the country.”

Liu Mengmeng really felt how favored Gu Jinmian was, and the look of “evil capitalism” appeared in her eyes again, but there was no hostility in her words, “Ms. Lin’s birthday is one day older than yours.”

Gu Jinmian followed the words and handed Lin Mian a pig milk yellow bun, “Sister Mian.”

He held the soft custard bag in one hand, and the steaming milk in the other. The heat drifted to his dull face, and his eyelashes turned wet, just like a small fur animal that sneaked up the mountain behind him.

Lin Mian:”….. !”

If she had such a son and Gu’s financial strength, she would also be willing to build a 826-meter-high building for him.

In this way, there was another heroine among the people who ate custard buns together.

Later, many actresses, big and small, from the crew gathered around Gu Jinmian, wanting to play with him.

This was what Gu Jinmian did not expect.

It’s something other people didn’t expect as well.

The men sitting on the other side waiting for their meal were in mixed moods.

Bai Xinyu grabbed Du Bai’an’s arm and said, “Look, he is too terrible!”

Bai Xinyu was first frozen by Gu Jinmian’s eyes, next was violently attacked by words, afterwards was intimidated by force, and now, he was surprised by his methods.

It’s only been a few days, and yet there were already so many people in the crew who like him, especially women.

Du Bai’an envied, “He is really gifted with good popularity.”

“My perceptions never missed. Since childhood, my mother has said that I can achieve great things with my keen intuition.” Bai Xinyu said, “The first time I saw him, I already thought he was not simple, and the alarm bells in my head were ringing loudly!”

Du Bai’an didn’t really want to talk to him.

He looked at Yin Moshu who was next to him, and he seemed to be smiling, but Du Baian didn’t dare to look again after one glance, and his eyes merely passed by in a hurry.

Next to Yin Moshu was Director Lin, and Director Lin’s expression was hard to describe, but there’s no lack of distress on his face.

Every time he chatted with Gu Jinmian, he would be pleasantly surprised. After a few times, he really liked Gu Jinmian a little bit, thus he didn’t care about the rumors outside.

Now, he wondered if he had to consider Gu Jinmian’s reputation.

He was so blatantly hooking up with female stars on the set, was he treating his crew as a fish pond, and came here to be the “Sea King”?

On the other side of Director Lin were the silent Hang Yuanting and Ji Nan.

Gu Jinmian brought delicious desserts and fruits, as usual, first for the girls and then for the boys.

He found that the group of men looked at him in a wrong way.

It was Bai Xinyu who spoke first. He had a keenness that ordinary people couldn’t reach, and at the same time had the courage that ordinary people couldn’t understand.

He said, “Young Master Gu, I heard that you like men, this…are you really gay or straight?”

As soon as Gu Jinmian heard it, he knew that he had misunderstood their pure girl friend relationship, and he had no idea what was going on in his mind for the whole day.

He glanced at Bai Xinyu with contempt, “I’m paper-sexual.”

(t/n Paper-sexual-a buzzword on the Internet, refers to a type of person who only loves paper people (characters that only appear in non-realistic media such as literary works, games, animated comics, etc.), and has no interest in three-dimensional humans.) 

Bai Xinyu: “…..”

On Gu Jinmian’s eyes, he saw not only contempt, but also the truth from the depths of his soul.

“Oh, I believe you, what you said is true.”

Others:”…..”

When others became silent, a light sneer stood out.

Gu Jinmian followed the voice and saw Hang Yuanting and Ji Nan.

He was on the set because he had something to do, but how come Ji Nan, a busy man, hadn’t left yet?

Forget it, it’s not important.

Now that it was the period of reading the scripts, the major actors had also joined the group one after another.

It was normal to have many outsiders.

But the important thing was, to stomach his discomfort.

“What are you laughing at? What’s your opinion?” Gu Jinmian asked Hang Yuanting directly.

Hang Yuanting seemed to see through him, “I know that after being rejected, you want to prove that you are very popular to the other party, but while proving that you are very popular, and at the same time saying that you are paper-sexual, isn’t that boring?”

Ji Nan also thought the same way, the “unknown” of a few days and the excitement of the past several days, it was all the same, he was simply trying to prove himself in anger, “Gu Jinmian, it’s really unnecessary.”

Gu Jinmian: “???”

Fuck, how on earth is he going to prove that he doesn’t like Hang Yuanting at all!

Does he have to post a Weibo statement?

But he doesn’t have many followers on Weibo, it’s not even as good as WeChat, where there is a large circle of wealthy children and bigwigs of S City.

In front of Hang Yuanting, Gu Jinmian, who was so tired of it, directly sent a message to his circle of friends:

[Solemn declaration: I, Gu Jinmian, don’t like Hang Ting at all, I hope everyone, especially Ji Nan, will be aware of it.]