celebrity effect

On weekday nights, there were a lot of people in Xie Ji Sheng, bustling and bustling.

Xing Yang was sitting at the bar, Boss Wei poured him a glass of wine, and asked insincerely, "What, broken love?"

Xing Yang sneered: "I haven't talked about it, how can I be broken in love."

Boss Wei said, "Didn't you say you were chasing the one last time?"

"I was chasing, but I didn't catch up." Xing Yang said nonsense, "People look down on me."

"Just fool me." Boss Wei is very shrewd. The last time the two got along, it didn't look like Xing Yang chasing someone, but rather like someone chasing Xing Yang.

Xing Yang shook his glass, and the spotlights above the bar reflected the liquid like a thick syrup of honey. He took a sip and narrowed his eyes: "Not bad."

The camera zooms out, and a young man who looks like a college student on the dance floor catches a glimpse of Xing Yang sitting at the bar alone.The young man abandoned his partner without hesitation, pushed aside the crowd, and walked to Xing Yang's side: "Are you alone?"

"Gary, it's you again." Xing Yang teased, "Have you found a partner yet?"

"In order to get in your line, I rejected a lot of people." Gary smiled and sat beside Xing Yang, beckoning for a cup of Long Island iced tea, "How do you compensate me?"

"Is kissing and hugging high enough?" Xing Yang asked.

"Not enough." Gary said, he tilted his head to look at Xing Yang with his cheeks on his hands, "I want to hug and hold each other high every day."

"No way." Xing Yang said with a good temper, "There are a lot of people queuing up, you have to give others a chance."

Gary's smile froze slightly, he covered it up well, and smiled shortly: "Why? Don't you like my type?"

"I can't say whether I like it or not." Xing Yang said, sliding his fingertips carelessly across the rim of the cup, and a faint dusty emotion floated in his dark green eyes, "It's just...not the time."

Xing Yang spoke vaguely, when will it be?What is the time? 30 or 40?What type of people do you meet?Wait until the person in your mind calls, or is there never an exact deadline?

Xing Yang didn't have an accurate answer to these questions.

He could only vaguely say that it was not time.

"But you are beautiful, little guy." Xing Yang's eyes were filled with a happy smile.

Gary hinted ambiguously: "There is a hotel nearby, should we..."

Before finishing speaking, Zongzhengqian called: "Where are you?"

"Xie Jisheng." Xing Yang picked up the phone in a hurry, "Sister—you can take care of it after get off work."

"I know you didn't do something good, come back quickly." Zong Zhengqian urged, "There is something urgent."

After hanging up the phone, Xing Yang sighed, looked up to Gary and said, "I'm sorry Gary, I have to deal with work."

"My name is Nie Haoyan." Gary said with a serious expression, "Can I add you on WeChat?"

Xing Yang waved his hand and refused: "I often come here, I use WeChat for work, it's not very convenient to add."

All fools know that he is lying, and he is lying extremely carelessly. Even if it's WeChat at work, it's okay to chat about private matters. He is clearly unwilling to add friends.

Nie Haoyan put away the phone in frustration: "Okay."

"Goodbye." Xing Yang hurriedly left the bar and headed straight for the subway station.

While waiting for the subway, Zong Zhengqian called again: "Don't come to the company, just take a taxi to Fengtai, and I'll send you the detailed address on WeChat."

"What happened?" Xing Yang asked.

"Tao Tong was driving drunk and didn't hit anyone. He crashed into the green belt." Zong Zhengqian said, "His manager is here and said that Tao Tong himself was fine, but he was detained by the traffic police. I have already found the surveillance records and so on. Someone helped to call it, you go and see how to tell the reporter."

"Okay." Xing Yang used his mobile phone to call a car, and when he ran out of the subway station, the car stopped at the side of the road and waited for him.

Xing Yang reported a string of addresses, bowed his head and fiddled with the phone.

Tao Tong's manager is called Li Mo, and he set up a three-person WeChat group to discuss things.

[Li Mo: Hello, Mr. Xing, Tao Tong was detained by the traffic police, and I am coordinating. 】

[Xing Yang: How is his mood? 】

Li Mo sent a piece of audio, the content was Tao Tong's exaggerated crying, continuous whining and uninterrupted sobbing, it sounded like he was about to choke to death.

【Xing Yang:...】

[Xing Yang: Do you want to call 120? 】

【Li Mo: ...I'm working hard. 】

Xing Yang crossed the chat window, opened Weibo, Douban, Zhihu, Tieba, Douyin, and various gossip forums to search Taotong's latest news, and only found a passerby with three-digit reading volume locating Fengtai's Weibo [Just now Passing through an intersection, it seems that someone was arrested for drunk driving. 】Pure text description, no pictures.

Xing Yang breathed a sigh of relief, and looked anxiously at the passing scenery outside the window.

The online car-hailing service delivered Xing Yang to the destination smoothly. Li Mo stood at the intersection and waited for a long time. When he saw Xing Yang, his eyes lit up: "Hello, is this Mr. Xing?"

"Yes." Xing Yang got out of the car and asked, "Where is he?"

"In the police car." Li Mo pointed to the blue and white seven-seater car parked on the side of the street in Da La La, "The police will detain him."

"I'll go take a look." Xing Yang walked towards the police car and knocked on the door, "Hi, my name is Xing, Xing Yang."

"Hello." The car door opened, revealing a straight-faced traffic policeman, "Who are you?"

"I'm Mr. Tao's publicist, and I need to say a few words to him." Xing Yang said, "He didn't hit anyone, he was only in the category of administrative detention. I should have a chance to meet him."

The traffic policeman sat aside and made room for a seat: "Come up."

Xing Yang put his foot on the car and pushed hard into the car, Li Mo followed him into the car.

"Tao Tong." Xing Yang reached out and pushed the middle-aged man curled up on the seat with snot and tears everywhere, "Wake up."

Tao Tong is 42 years old, a veteran of the first-line coffee industry.Xing Yang didn't expect his ability to resist stress to be so weak, so he handed out a tissue helplessly: "Don't just cry, what are you going to say when the reporter comes?"

"I, um, I won't say." Tao Tong belched every word, his eyes were red.

Xing Yang said, "Why are you drinking?"

"I..." Tao Tong's voice became smaller and smaller, "My wife wants to divorce me."

"..." Xing Yang rubbed his forehead, Tao Tong and his wife Yuan Youyou were childhood sweethearts, a well-known loving couple in the circle, and they got divorced for some reason, "Let's not talk about this, let's solve one thing at a time. Your wife wants Divorced you, so you went out to drink?"

"No, I went fishing." Tao Tong said, "There is a set of fishing gear in the trunk, and I caught half a bucket of fish." Recalling the experience, he gradually stabilized his mood, "Meet a fisherman, he persuaded me to drink two Cup, I thought the reservoir was not far from my house, so it should be no problem to drive the car back. As a result, the drink was so strong that I started to feel dizzy halfway through the drive.”

Xing Yang asked: "Then why did you bump into the green belt?"

"Because I saw a dark thing that flashed by." Tao Tong said, "In order to avoid that thing, I slammed the steering wheel and hit a tree."

Xing Yang's phone buzzed, he lowered his head and opened the chat box, and Zong Zhengqian sent a 5-second video file.Clicking on the video, a white SUV slowly moved across the intersection, a black cat hesitantly crossed the road, and the white SUV rushed into the green belt with a flick of its tail.

Xing Yang watched the video three times, then handed the phone to Li Mo: "Look at it." He turned his head to look at Tao Tong: "The wine has affected your judgment of speed. What you think is fast is actually slow. Slow is actually fast. The black thing you're talking about flashing by is a black cat."

Tao Tong looked at Xing Yang confusedly: "Huh?"

"Facing the reporter later, you said that you ran into the green belt to hide from a cat." Xing Yang confessed, "Try to minimize your drinking."

"Then I still need..." Tao Tong's eyes fell on the silent traffic policeman, full of expectation, "Do I still need to go to the Public Security Bureau?"

"Need." Xing Yang said, "You were drunk and driving, that's a fact."

"You have to stay in the office until you sober up," said the traffic policeman, "and pay the fine plus compensation for property damage in the green belt."

Xing Yang said: "I remember you raised a cat."

"I raised the pumpkin. The pumpkin passed away three years ago." Tao Tong was emotionally unstable, and when he mentioned his dead pet, he was about to start crying again.

Xing Yang said: "Yes, that's it, exaggerate your yearning for Watermelon when facing the reporter."

"Pumpkin, it's called a pumpkin." Tao Tong corrected.

Xing Yang ignored Tao Tong and looked at Li Mo: "Turn out the photo of that orange cat to make a splash, spend money to sponsor a few pet adoption days, and then go find Mr. Tao one that looks like a watermelon kitten."

"Pumpkin." Tao Tong persistently reminded.

"Concentrate on hyping Tao Tong's cat-loving complex, but don't deny drunk driving." Xing Yang said, "Take a photo of Mr. Tao's handwritten review and post it on Weibo, and post it on Weibo for a month."

"Okay." Li Mo said, "There are many reporters outside, should we go out now?"

"Let's go." Xing Yang slapped Tao Tong, "Crying to the camera with tears, crying with real emotion."

Crying is not a problem for Tao Tong, an old drama player. Standing not far away, Xing Yang watched Tao Tong surrounded by a group of reporters and burst into tears, and looked away with confidence——

He saw Shao Zhixing holding up the camera and standing at the back of the reporter circle.

Shao Zhixing also looked at him, his eyes were dark, like a leopard waiting for an opportunity.