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After working as a manager for almost three months, Su Rong certainly wouldn't believe in any fairy tales where friends and foes could sit down and have afternoon tea. She was unavoidably wary of Zhan Xingzhou's phone call, but maybe the young man's tone was too magnanimous , he even replied calmly: "It's so late, what's for supper?"

"What do you want to eat?" The other side seemed to be flipping through the menu: "There are fish ball seafood noodles, siu mai, raw porridge..."

"I want to eat barbecue."

"Barbecue? I just saw a house at the end of the street. I'll ride my bike to buy it for you?" Zhan Xingzhou still had a gentle voice with a smile.

But I've only met him twice, where did he come from such a natural and familiar tone, Su Rong raised his eyebrows, and asked him directly: "Where did you get my phone number from?"

"Qin Yue gave it to me."

Qin Yue is the boss of Baili Media's studio, a well-known photographer in the industry, she likes to find boyfriends of little wolf dogs, Pei Yin is mean, saying that she chooses a virgin boy every month, but in fact, like Rita, she is a high-cold, glamorous royal sister , nor is it purely unspoken rules.That day when Zhan Xingzhou was sending Su Rong back, he was bumped into by Qin Yue. The young man was riding a Harley scooter. He was very loud and had a pretty face that resembled Li Shang. It was inevitable that he would be attracted to him.Su Rong left at that time, presumably they are the contact information they left at that time.

"Oh, you just asked her for it today?" Su Rong was obviously not the Su Rong of three months ago, her words were much sharper.

It was rare that Zhan Xingzhou was not angry, and still said with a smile: "I want it a long time ago."

"Do you want to fight early?"

"It was inconvenient earlier." Zhan Xingzhou was really frank.

The two armies are at war, not to mention that they are both central figures in the vortex, so it is really inconvenient to communicate with each other. This is true, but Su Rong just doesn't like to listen, so he asked directly: "Oh, what's inconvenient?"

Zhan Xingzhou smiled.

"It's mainly because you are inconvenient."

"What's wrong with me?"

"I'm afraid that if I make a call, you will be embarrassed to hack me online."

Su Rong's face turned red, but fortunately, the other party couldn't see her through the phone.Boyi gave up Zhan Xingzhou so quickly, not just because of the failure of sniping Li Shang. Mr. Yan is always devolved from the head office, and he is not yet familiar with the rules of the entertainment industry. Giving up a project is not as fast as they give up a star they can't afford. When Xiao Su came out, Li Shangfeng's comments rebounded, Boyi was still supporting Zhan Xingzhou, Su Rong continued his efforts, and used the classic methods in the circle, the package that the seniors suppressed newcomers of the same kind: digging out the dark history of ordinary people, and taking the initiative to put the two of them together. Linked together, implying that Zhan Xingzhou is a pirated version with low distribution.The marketing account ended up sparking a war, causing fans to clash and bite back at the other party's leapfrog, and then the trolls ended up killing them all.

He now has a dozen or so pages of Zhan Xingzhou's background investigation lying on his phone, otherwise how would he know where Zhan Xingzhou's name came from.

But it is one thing to know, and another thing to be pointed out. The first second he picked up the phone, he thought that maybe Zhan Xingzhou was going to call himself out to beat him up to vent his anger. He also knew that this speculation was vicious and It's unreliable, but speculating about this bright young man makes people feel like destroying something beautiful. He instantly understands where Li Shang's sometimes inexplicable sharpness and pleasure come from.

It's one thing not to be popular, but it's another thing to be broken in the middle when it's not popular. This is not a simple grievance. It's not as cruel as the entertainment industry.Eighteenth-tier artists live on the fringes of the circle, and if they get mixed up within the third-tier, they are the masters. There is at least a zero difference in appearance fees between the third-tier and second-tier artists.There is a natural difference between first-tier traffic and top-level traffic. Zhan Xingzhou has fallen directly from the successor of Li Shang to the second-tier.

Why did you call today, because Boyi didn't completely give up on him until today. Less than an hour and a half ago, Su Rong had just pushed Mu Jie to his original position. The fate of the two young people who came out of the same program was on this day. The difference is instant.

It's not that Su Rong has never seen it before. He's used to the warm and cold people in this circle since he was a child. Maybe Zhan Xingzhou's agent just received a call asking him to move out of the high-end duplex apartment rented by the company and move back to the company dormitory——Zhan Xingzhou Xingzhou lives in a high-end community that is as suitable for celebrities as Li Shang, and is a neighbor with Tong Xiaojia.Perhaps more directly, he doesn't even have an agent, and since then he shares an agent with several artists, and can only find out about performances in the group, like falling from the clouds to the mortal world, there have never been many people who have fallen into trouble in this circle, Besides, he fell from the most proud situation, who can't help stepping on his feet?In the days to come, the sour words Zhan Xingzhou heard would probably lead to the publication of "Three Hundred Sentences of Criticism and Satire". If he shoots his life for two days, it can be used in an inspirational documentary.

It's not strange if he wants to beat himself up, but it's not normal if he doesn't want to beat himself up.

He didn't speak for a long time, Zhan Xingzhou over there waited until he became confused, and asked a few words, "Hello? Can you hear me?" Su Rong just didn't speak, Zhan Xingzhou probably realized it, and hung up the phone.

This is the most stupid way, Su Rong grew up in this circle and knows this clearly.A smart person should be a smiling tiger like Rita. After stabbing the knife, he will look surprised, "Ah, why are you bleeding?" It makes others feel at a loss and wonders if they have made a mistake.If you are smarter like Mr. Yin, with a calm expression and a compassionate attitude, your grief and indignation cannot be appeased. He talks about the laws of nature, "the world is not benevolent, and everything is a humble dog", which makes you feel ashamed.

But he didn't know how to face the man who had stolen the apple with him.

Zhan Xingzhou asked a few questions, but there was no response, so he had to hang up. Su Rong put the phone on the desk and watched the screen slowly turn off, and the laptop screen also went dark.

However, he didn't have time to be sentimental, the next second the phone lit up again, and it was still Zhan Xingzhou.

Su Rong waited for the bell to ring three times before answering it.

"Is the signal better now?" Zhan Xingzhou's voice was panting slightly, but still smiling: "I ran outside, it's really cold, it might snow today."

"Where are you?"

"I was drinking tea, and ran to the entrance of the alley, standing under a persimmon tree."

As expected of his background in the music department, his voice has a sense of imagery. Su Rong can almost see him stomping his feet under a persimmon tree while making a phone call. It's cold in winter, and his breath should be like white mist. After running for a while, Should be sweating, but people are always smiling.How can I feel that he looks like Li Shang?

"Are there persimmons on the tree?"

"You want to climb a tree again?" Zhan Xingzhou should be looking up at the tree, and smiled: "Yes, come here, I'll take you to pick persimmons."

It’s no wonder that Zhan Xingzhou didn’t even bother to report the address. This Cantonese-style morning tea house is famous in Beijing because it’s near Boyi. I’ve been to countless kings and queens. I’m used to seeing celebrities, but privacy is guaranteed. There’s a joke , Said that a starlet came to eat with full armor, mask and sunglasses, consciously concealed, but ended up eating, and was still ignored throughout the whole process, even the waiter didn’t see it, and didn’t ask for an autograph. He wondered: “You don’t know me Do you?" The waiter said, "I know you." The little star laughed and said, "Do you want to take a photo together?" The waiter said, "No, it won't fit on the wall."

The joke is of course just a joke, but Zhan Xingzhou was at least eligible to go on the wall when everything went well, but now he is gone.

It was almost five o'clock when Su Rong arrived, so this should not be called supper, but morning tea.

He was so tired that he was too lazy to drive by himself, so he took a taxi, and the driver reserved it to take Li merchants to the company, and the taxi only delivered to the entrance of the alley. , The tree is very tall, the leaves have all fallen, and a few persimmons are dotted on the branches, like balls of fire.

Su Rong was very sleepy, it was cold outside, his face was wooden when he got out of the car, he was in a hurry to go out, he grabbed a coat casually, he didn't feel it when he was at home, but now he felt thin, and finally walked not far from the persimmon tree , finally saw Zhan Xingzhou.

He was wearing a down jacket and a red Canada goose. He stood under the frosted persimmon tree and looked up. He was not cumbersome at all. He was tall and slender. When he heard the voice, he turned his face and smiled dazzlingly, then ran towards Su Rong .

"Why are you dressed so lightly?" He stretched out his hand and held Su Rong's face: "Your face is red from the cold."

Su Rong's face was numb from the cold, and he didn't feel it until he touched it. It was nice to be young when he held it in his hands. The palm was warm and dry, and his hands were big. He held his ears together, and suddenly felt his face was icy cold. The feeling of being burned.

Su Rong was also too sleepy, her whole body was slow to react, she didn't expect him to attack directly, she was stunned for a moment before breaking free, glaring at him: "What are you doing?"

Zhan Xingzhou just laughed and didn't speak. He still hid when he saw him, so he simply took off his hat and put it on his head. Although he was tall, he was an artist and his head-to-body ratio was suitable. His stylist Su Rong I also know that the youthful sense is still sufficient. I wear a baseball cap for him all day long. His face is beautifully contoured. Under the cheekbones, the lips are just right, just like the mandible. It is the best-looking Asian. Differentiating from Li Shang, what he is wearing today is a woolen cap.

"Let's go," he said, not giving Su Rong a chance to resist.Grab his wrist and drag him into the alley: "Run, don't freeze."

He gave the hat to Su Rong, and he put on the hat of the down jacket. The fluffy coyote circled a handsome face, smiling brightly, and dragged him across the alley in a hurry, like a picture in a pictorial.

On the way, I stopped once to get a barbecue. The owner of the barbecue restaurant is a woman in her thirties. Bought by a friend."

"How do you know he doesn't..." Zhan Xingzhou's joke stopped abruptly, because Su Rong's elbow hit his ribs, and he hissed in pain.

The female boss smiled, wrapped the grilled squid and kebabs of lamb and beef, and started to wrap other things, including grilled oysters, scallops, grilled fish, leeks and enoki mushrooms.Su Rong was surprised, Zhan Xingzhou just smiled: "You don't want to say what you want to eat, and it will be too late to bake it, so I have to order all the delicious food."

The female boss was packing very quickly, when she heard this, she said angrily, "Everything in our shop is delicious."

"Yes yes yes." Zhan Xingzhou just smiled.

"At this point, I went back to bed early. I thought you bought it for your girlfriend, and you are still polite," the female boss said, "He is also handsome."

With this appearance, this age, and such a bright and bright temperament, no one can't help but tease him a little bit. Even if he is sleepy, he has to do his business before leaving get off work.Only Su Rong, unmoved by the beauty, felt sleepy waiting, and put her head behind the computer screen at the cash register.Zhan Xingzhou looked amused, and put his palm between his forehead and the machine.

"Why are you so sleepy?" He turned Su Rong around and teased him: "Can you still steal persimmons?"

"Steal your head." Su Rong cursed in sleepiness.

When Su Rong put his head on Zhan Xingzhou's shoulder and dozed off, the barbecue was finally packed. Zhan Xingzhou carried a bunch of things in one hand and led him to the morning teahouse with the other. The street lights were dim, and he walked to the destination with deep steps and shallow steps, entered the private room, and became more sleepy when the heating was smoked. Zhan Xingzhou was not angry, and sat opposite him, taking the roasted mutton off the skewer, Divided into mutton and mutton oil, Su Rong glanced at it while dozing off, and smiled angrily: "You are really a genius at eating barbecue."

"Then sister teach me?" Zhan Xingzhou looked at him with a smile.

Li Liang in the box, he is tall, and Su Rong is lying on the table again, he was talking to Su Rong, leaning down deliberately, it was really joking, Su Rong didn't bother to scold him, called the waiter, and asked: "Is there any coffee?"

"Aren't you going to sleep?"

"I'm too lazy to sleep. I'll go to work later. If I don't sleep enough, I will wake up uncomfortable. It's better not to sleep."

Zhan Xingzhou laughed when he heard it, and imitated Su Rong's words: "Sister is really a sleeping ghost."

"You call me sister again, and I'll stick a stick in your mouth."

The coffee is instant coffee. After drinking a cup, Su Rong cheered up and started to eat. This barbecue shop is really good. After eating two garlic-roasted oysters and demonstrating what is called "skewers", Su Rong's raw porridge was also left to dry It was almost done, so he started to fight left and right. He was the mascot of the company since he was a child. He was fed by all parties and ate a lot of good things.So it was delicious, but I thought the morning tea ordered by Zhan Xingzhou was too amateurish, so I called the waiter and asked, "Is there any kueh juice?"

The waiter was as cold as the rumors said, maybe the cup of coffee was misleading, so he smiled and said: "Sir, we have Cantonese morning tea, no juice."

Su Rong was not angry immediately, and changed to Cantonese: "One rice roll with base."

The waiter froze for a moment and asked, "Sir, what did you say?"

"Strange, don't you guys have Cantonese style morning tea?" Su Rong emphatically emphasized "Cantonese style" in her tone, and looked puzzled: "Why can't you understand Cantonese?"

The waiter blushed. Fortunately, Su Rong didn't make things difficult for her. He wrote the word "粉" on the napkin and asked her to ask the kitchen if there was any such thing as Kueh juice.Zhan Xingzhou watched the whole process from the side, and smiled: "My sister is so fierce."

When he said these five words, he lowered his voice, and his eyes also smiled, which looked like a certain person.Su Rong's mood suddenly turned bad, and said: "Yeah, I'll post a draft later when I get back. Zhan Xingzhou played a big role in the Cantonese morning tea shop and cried to the waiter."

Zhan Xingzhou didn't believe this at all, and was still smiling, eating his grilled squid. Seeing his displeasure, Su Rong wanted to provoke him: "You really don't care? If you are so indifferent to fame and wealth, why do you want to enter the entertainment industry? You don't want to buy a sports car to live in?" Big villa?"

"It's not something I can decide. It's useless to care about it." Zhan Xingzhou was open-minded.

"Then why don't you sleep in the middle of the night and come here to have morning tea and drink away your worries? Vent your pain?"

Zhan Xingzhou smiled helplessly.

"No, the agent has been controlling me for the past few months, and I'm not allowed to eat. I'm starving, so he said that the company doesn't favor me anymore. My first reaction was that I can finally eat a decent meal. The first time I finished filming, I had breakfast here with the director. They ordered a large table. I was so hungry that I could only boil green vegetables. Watching them eat, I was so impressed by the braised seafood noodles and siu mai here. So after the ban is lifted, we must come here to have a meal as soon as possible to make up for the regret of last time."

As he said, he munched on siu mai, and it was good for young people to eat, because he felt alive, and he was well-educated, and he ate cleanly and neatly.Although it is not as good as Li Shang's eating salad, it still has its own style.

"Nothing." Su Rong laughed at him, and ate it himself: "If you want me, I'll run to eat barbecue, eat hot pot, and have a chocolate brownie, energy bomb, and gain three catties a day, so happy!"

Zhan Xingzhou laughed while listening to him, he was really hungry.Su Rong asked him: "Is your nutritionist also surnamed Feng. You are required to strictly abstain from carbohydrates, eat only protein and vegetables, a small amount of fat, and fast one day a week?"

"Seems to be."

"I knew it was her." Su Rong has never been starved by her, but she has taken Li Shang's recipes from her every month, and has long experienced her cruelty. In fact, it is not easy for a star to make a lot of money. This kind of recipe can be maintained Not many people came down.This is still a male celebrity, some female celebrities are more ruthless, relying on vitamin pills to maintain their daily maintenance, Huang Lei gossips last time, saying that few have normal menstrual periods, Su Rong used to be a make-up artist, and she also thinks that all of them are really skinny, size zero Clothes must be clipped.

Zhan Xingzhou just smiled and didn't speak, Su Rong Coffee got excited and teased him again: "By the way, have you heard what Pei Yin said?"

"What?"

"Tantai said that the lack of carbohydrates can damage the brain, and even cause permanent damage. Pei Yin said, it's no wonder celebrities are so stupid. They read typos all day long, and talk incongruously. In fact, they are not to blame. It should be considered a work-related injury."

Pei Yin's harsh words are always irritating and funny, Zhan Xingzhou, as a star, also laughed when he heard Su Rong showing off his senior brother, he was very proud, and told him with a smile: "That Doctor Tantai, I Recognize."

"How do you know him?"

"My agent wants to take me for plastic surgery. I have consulted him, but I refuse to do it."

"Where is it?" Su Rong has always had a different focus from others, and stared at Zhan Xingzhou to size up: "The nose is not enough, your outline is fine, and the brow bone is fine. Do you want to move your jaw? It's not enough, your cheekbones Bones are fine too..."

As he spoke, he couldn't help playing with Zhan Xingzhou's face, turning him at a 45-degree angle to look at the highest point of his cheekbones. laugh.

"You really think I'm pretty?"

"Of course." Su Rong only looked at the corner of his jaw. His fingers were long and slender, and they were the hands of a makeup artist. They were pressed against his face coolly, and his movements were very light. From a close distance, he could see that he was frowning seriously. look.

"Who looks better, Li Shang or I?" Zhan Xingzhou asked him with a smile, his eyes focused.

Only then did Su Rong realize that she withdrew her hand resentfully, and said without words: "You dare to disagree with your manager, are you so bold?"

"I still want to sing, it's not good to move anywhere."

"So you're going back to singing now?"

"That's right." Zhan Xingzhou smiled and said, "It can be regarded as returning to the original heart."

What a young man. It is not an exaggeration to say that the music scene is a stagnant pool. Copyright protection is poor. There are not many good songs released in a year.It’s better to be an idol, with millions of copies in one album, I can’t even remember the melody of Li Shang’s two songs from the year before last, and they are still on the sales list. In fact, it was Rita who came out to announce him at the party. For performances, actors can’t always perform skits at the party, they always sing, and it’s not very good to always sing other people’s songs, and it’s easy to be compared with the original singer’s singing skills, which is too inconvenient.

Li Shang, Xia Yi, An Yunlin...these people are acting, they are acting as idols, and whoever plays a few songs?The producers are all top-notch, no mistakes can be made, and the tuner is good, after all, they are all top-notch works, and the fans are also stubborn in the charts, and spend a lot of money.It is really a mistake to concentrate on singing like Zhan Xingzhou.

What's more, it's a pity that he is so good-looking.Being a singer doesn't really need good looks, what a waste.

At the beginning, I operated it by myself, ruthless and ruthless, without any psychological barriers, thinking that it would be someone else anyway.But now, Su Rong felt that she really shouldn't.

Zhan Xingzhou also saw his thoughts and laughed.

"Don't be stupid, I asked you to come out for no other reason than to see you." He turned to comfort Su Rong with a frank smile: "Maybe I should thank you for helping me find my original intention. Without this opportunity, maybe I I changed my career to become an actor.”

"The key is……"

"The point is that I'm not a genius like Chen Jing, maybe I'll be quiet from now on, right?" Zhan Xingzhou asked him with a smile.

Su Rong was caught in the middle of his thoughts, and his cheekbones suddenly turned red. He is a professional manager, and he always starts from the most practical point of view. In the current entertainment industry, good singing skills may not have a way out, one must have creative talent. , because there are too few good songs, how many songs are waiting for the king of songs, where is it the turn to get newcomers, unless you write it yourself.But why does the singer-songwriter have to be so good-looking...

This is not the era of singers.It's not even the era of actors, it's the era of idols.

It's not that Zhan Xingzhou can't be an idol. Even under such a heavy blow from Su Rong, his personal qualities are still better than many newcomers. The only problem is that he is too much like Li Shang.

As long as Li Shang is here, Su Rong will not let him go. This is the most fundamental conflict of interests.So Zhan Xingzhou's agent wanted him to have plastic surgery, probably for the sake of recognition. He and Li Shang are most similar in the eyebrows and eyes. They both have the same three-dimensional brow bones, deep eye sockets, and the delicate and elongated eyes. It tends to look long and narrow, but with a slight transformation, it looks like a red phoenix, which is most suitable for ancient costumes. If Zhan Xingzhou makes a fuss about the eyes, give up this similarity, and become peach blossom eyes suitable for modern outfits, and concentrate on being an idol, there may be a way out .With Tantai's technology, it is not impossible.

It's not that Zhan Xingzhou doesn't understand, he just understands too much, that's why he asked that sentence.

It wasn't an accident that he and Su Rong went to steal apples, they were the same people, they had many useless things hidden in their hearts, what is the most useful thing in this world?Money, fame and fortune, attention, eight-figure sports cars, and mansions within the second ring road where apple trees can be planted in the garden are enough to arouse the desire/desire in every young man's heart and drive countless people forward.

They are not saints, they also have these things in their hearts, but there is always something else, like Su Rong who always wants to support his master to support the ninth floor, like Lin Sa who spent seven years for eight characters, or like they are sitting here, facing each other Speechless, yet needless to say anything.This thing is really interesting, I tell others, but in exchange for ridicule, when I meet someone who understands, I don't need to talk about it.

Language is the most useless thing in this world. Only a fool thinks that he doesn't understand clearly or not enough. In fact, everything is doomed in the dark.

It’s almost dawn, the box is on the second floor, the night outside the window is fading, and soon there will be morning light, the sun will come out, the frost will melt, the city will wake up, the crowd will be surging, and they will return to the crowd to do something useful thing.

He turned his head to look out the window, and Zhan Xingzhou followed suit. In fact, he was looking at Su Rong. The young man lost a lot of weight. Because he was sleepy, he was a little lazy. He has amber eyes, which always makes people feel a little careless. .

"What are you thinking?" Zhan Xingzhou asked.

"The persimmons from that tree are so good." Su Rong replied, "Let's go and steal one."