out of plain sight

Kong Dongyue leaned on the sofa, smiling at the tangled eyebrows of the young man in front of him.With a dignified face, Kong Qi held the chess pieces in the air and scratched the bridge of his nose with his thumb: "I admit defeat."

"You're not good at chess, young man."

Kong Qi was extraordinarily serious when playing chess, but he was not obsessed with the result. He said with a smile, "Dad, it's rare for you to be free, and you just chase me and abuse me without doing anything. Is it appropriate?"

Kong Dongyue lowered his eyes and picked out the chess pieces: "Or instead of abusing you, I go shopping with my mother and sister instead."

"Don't! You still abuse me, I can't imagine you standing in a pile of baby products, just look at it." Kong Qi put his arms in front of his eyes, "Goosebumps."

"Who do you think chose your clothes when you were a child?" Kong Dongyue smiled, "Be nice to my sister, she can't steal yours."

"I simply don't like babies. She smells disgusting now." Kong Qi shook his head to avoid his hand and smoothed his messy hair. "When Xiao Jiu turns three years old, I will definitely be a good brother."

Kong Dongyue smiled: "What's next?"

"Do you dare to fight online? Let me abuse newcomers instead."

Kong Dongyue had no choice but to be dragged upstairs by Kong Qi's arm.

At the end of the year, entertainment journalists are destined not to be idle, and there are frequent major events in the entertainment industry, but Cai Chengmeng’s return is enough for a group of people to be so busy that their heels hit the back of their heads—the big boss of Tianming Culture failed in the capital game and returned to Beijing to take over Tianming will definitely be in a stalemate with Kong Dongyue.After all, he had ignored Tianming in the past ten years. Tianming was able to stand at the top in the melee of major performing arts management companies, all relying on Kong Dongyue to take care of him.

Kong Dongyue didn't make any resistance, and returned to Tianming without any complaints.

"It's your stuff, you give it to me, and I'll take care of it for you, so that my elder brother has enough confidence to go outside." Kong Dongyue opened the office that was renovated for Cai Chengmeng's return, and made a gesture of invitation from the side, " Return it to Zhao in its entirety."

He was able to gain both fame and fortune, after all, it was because Cai Chengmeng gave him a chance to prosper, but Cai Chengmeng was not stupid enough to take credit for it: "Dongyue, I still owe you."

"Don't be so polite."

The expected fight for power did not happen, and before the entertainment journalists could catch their breath, the relationship between Chang Kun and Li Wenhao, who was 11 years apart, broke out.Chang Kun didn't say hello to the company or even Li Wenhao, another party involved, and made it his own to announce the relationship at midnight on Christmas Eve.

It was deleted here, and Chang Kun continued to post it there. It was not until Li Wenhao called to open his door and slapped him in the face that the chase and annihilation war came to an end.

"If I don't take back that Weibo post, I'll be finished!" Li Wenhao's palms were hurting, his lips trembling, "Tomorrow..."

Chang Kun hugged her face and kissed her, grabbed his wrist and struggled desperately but couldn't break free from the young and strong man, and instead punched him: "Tomorrow," Li Wenhao pulled up the coat that slipped off his shoulders, looked Chang Kun covered his ribs, "The company will start your new album promotion in advance, and regard today's incident as hype."

"Don't expect me to cooperate!" Chang Kun said sharply, "Why should I engage in underground affairs? Why?"

"Because this is your job." Li Wenhao said every word, "First of all, your behavior violated the brokerage contract, and secondly, this matter will make me lose my head in the industry."

Chang Kun was annoyed, blushed and roared: "Why can't I lift my head up, am I so ashamed?"

"This violates professional ethics, and this is called a criminal record."

"Then it's okay to get married!" Chang Kun waved his arm violently, "Isn't it okay to let you have no next time!"

Li Wenhao was stunned, Chang Kun raised his chin and stared at her forcefully, gritted his teeth and said, "Is it alright?"

"No."

Li Wenhao's body temperature, which had risen due to emotional agitation, quickly dropped, and he vaguely felt the chill of winter, so he tightened his clothes, "Marriage is not a child's play. It is not suitable for us to get married. It should be said that it is not suitable for us to date."

"But I love you." Chang Kun stepped forward and grabbed her hand, "I love you, Li Wenhao, you are the best woman I have ever met, and I want to spend the rest of my life with you."

"You are too young, and you have met too few women." Li Wenhao withdrew his hand, "And you are marrying me just to win. Marriage is not a child's play."

Chang Kun grabbed her: "You come in with me first."

He took out a ring box from the drawer in the dressing room, still holding her firmly with one hand, and awkwardly opened the box with the other hand, knelt down on one knee and held it in front of her: "I secretly measured your ring box." Zhiwei, everything is ready. Wen Hao, will you marry me?"

Li Wenhao just rushed over from the company's Christmas party, his makeup was soaked in cold sweat, and his clothes were a little messy because of the torn just now. He stared blankly at the diamond ring and said "calm down" countless times in his heart, but what he said was: "I willing."

Chang Kun finally let go of his held breath, carefully let go of her, took out the ring and put it on for her, and kissed her finger: "I will make up for the ceremony another day, I promise."

Sun Jinghan stared dumbfounded at the photo of Li Wenhao wearing a diamond ring on Weibo and taking a group photo with the two, and returned the phone to Chen Moting: "Wenhao's boyfriend is Chang Kun?"

"Yes."

"You already knew?"

"I knew it a long time ago." Chen Moting said, "But I didn't know anything about today's matter in advance."

The two leaned against one end of the couch, their legs crossed together, thinking about this unexpected incident.

Chen Moting slid down and leaned on the armrest of the sofa: "I also want to disclose you."

"Disclose your friends with benefits?"

"Come on, Brother Sun, you don't think of me as a girlfriend." Chen Moting looked at the ceiling and smiled, "I really envy them."

Sun Jinghan also smiled: "Don't rush to envy, it's hard to say how it will end."

Chen Moting sat up and looked at him: "What you love and what I wish, couldn't be simpler."

"It's not that simple. The impact of this matter is too great. The brokerage company and the record company, Chang Kun's popularity and Li Wen's good reputation, you know how scary the public opinion is, and the parents of both parties don't necessarily have different attitudes, especially Chang Kun. The Kun family." Sun Jinghan took a puff of smoke, "Even if they overcome all difficulties to get married, how long the marriage will last is still a question."

"When will you stop being so pessimistic and stop always singing the bad news?"

"It's a blessing and bad news." Sun Jinghan looked at him through the smoke, "Think about how Chang Kun will be in his early 30s and Li Wenhao will be in his [-]s ten years later, unless they can grow old, it means they are making the right move gone."

"It's about holding the belief that you can grow old forever, instead of holding doubts about whether you can grow old forever, or you will spend your whole life preparing to break up, how sad." Chen Moting crawled up in front of him with hands and feet, and opened his mouth slightly: "Ah."

Sun Jinghan stuffed the cigarette into his mouth.

Chen Moting bit the cigarette, took two sips, and pouted: "Hmm."

Sun Jinghan took the cigarette back again.

"Is there any truth to what I said?"

Sun Jinghan looked at him and smiled: "I don't argue with people who have no love experience, the reality is much more complicated."

Chen Moting leaned forward to kiss him: "Every day adds up to a lifetime, how complicated can it be?"

His fingers moved up and down on the back of Sun Jinghan's neck, his eyes were full of unreasonable confidence, Sun Jinghan looked down at his lips, and whispered: "You are really my Christmas present."

Chen Moting was stunned for a moment, and hugged him with a blushing face: "Merry Christmas, Brother Sun."

Sun Jinghan patted him on the back with the hand holding the cigarette: "Merry Christmas, Surrealist."

Shi Xiang's parents flew to Beijing from the United States to spend Christmas with their daughter. His father had already returned to China because of work, and his mother wanted to meet this big star who was exactly like her daughter.Chen Moting received a call from Shi Xiang and agreed to meet without hesitation.

He was going to attend a commercial performance for the opening ceremony that afternoon, and to rehearse for the official stage of the Spring Festival Gala in the evening, so he asked Assistant Huang to make a reservation for a restaurant near the opening ceremony.He had always wanted to see Shi Xiang's mother, but there was no chance or excuse, and now that the other party came to his door, he naturally went along with it.

Shi Xiang and her mother were sitting on the same side of the square table. Chen Moting seemed to see his young and old self at the same time, and they were both of another gender. He smiled and walked over.

Shi Xiang's mother looked very uncomfortable, with a stiff expression and cold fingers.

Chen Moting took his seat: "Are you still used to it in Beijing? Classmate Shi Xiang."

"My mother told me why this name is so funny, you are all bad people." Shi Xiang said angrily, "My current Chinese name is Dingxiang, and my surname is my mother's old surname."

Chen Moting turned to her mother: "What is your Chinese name?"

"Mo Xiang." The other party closed his lips, paused, and said, "Ding Moxiang."

"The ink of pen and ink, isn't it?" Chen Moting's smile remained unchanged, "What a coincidence, I also have this word in my name. The three of us look so similar, and our names have something in common. If you don't know it, you must think it's a family."

Ding Moxiang's face became paler, and Ding Xiang was about to say something cheerfully, her eyes flicked across her face, she blinked, and kept silent with her hands clasped together.

"I met Mr. Chen Xiangting a few years ago. He is a very decent person, has a daughter, and is very happy. You should also abandon the past and go forward." Chen Moting picked up the menu on the shelf and handed it to The two of you keep a copy for yourself, "You two can order whatever you want, and I'll treat you to this meal."

Assistant Huang called 15 minutes later to urge him to rush to the scene as promised. Chen Moting bid farewell to the two politely, went to the front desk to pay the bill, and walked out of the restaurant.

He overestimated his hatred for Ding Moxiang. He thought he would be more or less angry when facing his biological mother, but he was even more indifferent than when he was facing Chen Xiangting back then.When holding Ding Moxiang's cold fingers, Chen Moting even felt that this meeting was ridiculous, and the guilt she showed did not make him feel that the trip was worthwhile.

Assistant Huang was wearing a small suit that day, Chen Moting thought it was Sun Jinghan sitting in the driver's seat at a glance, and a thousand words filled his heart.

Of course he won't be entangled in the past, because he is content.With a successful career and a lover by his side, maybe he should be thankful for Ding Moxiang's irresponsibility, thankful for Chen Xiangting's inability to support him, thankful for avoiding Chen Shuwei's accidental bump into the entertainment industry, and thankful for the killing of chickens and eggs by his previous managers. The successive bleak events were all paving the way for his encounter with Sun Jinghan.

It was because he met the right person that his misplaced life was back on track.

If Cai Chengmeng wants to take over Tianming completely, he needs to take over too many things, one of which is the human connection established by Kong Dongyue over the years.Sun Jinghan had a bad premonition at the beginning of his return, and within a few days the nightmare came true: history repeated itself, Cai Chengmeng "returned" Chai Ke to Wei Jing, and the purpose was self-evident-to please Ren Zhou.

Chai Ke was trembling with anger at his naked and shameless intentions, and forced his way into Cai Chengmeng's office, threatening not to renew his contract, and tried his best to oppose it, but Cai Chengmeng used his history of drug abuse as an excuse to put pressure on him.The result of the stalemate between the two was that Sun Jinghan was forced to take a vacation, and all the artists and managers under him were in a mess, busy looking for a way out.

Kong Dongyue, like a wild crane and idle clouds, chose to stand by at first, but a few days later he lowered his value and replaced Sun Jinghan to stabilize the microclimate.

Sun Jinghan thought of his phrase "I am the boss, not a soldier, and I will not fill the vacancy by myself", and said to himself that he had to bow his head under the eaves.Kong Dongyue couldn't see that Tianming was in chaos, Cai Chengmeng took advantage of his mentality to dare to make bold moves without fear.

Sun Jinghan has been busy for half of his life, and he was at a loss when he suddenly ushered in a vacation that he didn't know when it would end. He ate and slept for two days, and spent two days cleaning it. On the fifth day, he passed the study several times, and finally couldn't help it. Turn on your computer to track industry news.

The rehearsal scene of the Spring Festival Gala was leaked, the hype about Chen Moting was still indiscriminate, the love affair of Changhao was still entrenched in the topic list, Tianming’s super big movie was suspected to be wrong, and the price trend of maintenance under inflation... I don’t know why At the beginning, when Sun Jinghan came back to his senses, he was flipping through pictures and posts in the post bar where he appeared in full bloom. He spent more than three hours turning over more than 80 pages, and the hand supporting his chin was numb.

Sun Jinghan closed the computer and leaned back into the chair, took off his glasses, rubbed his sore eyes, and couldn't stop laughing.

He didn't notice at all that the direction of Chang Kun's relationship has changed. It was old news half a month ago that the fans went from being shocked and abusing to calm down and sending blessings. The reason why the topic became popular again was because the marriage was strongly opposed by Chang Kun's parents. .

Chang Kun's parents wishfully thought that this relationship was just a commercial hype, or that their son had fainted for 3 minutes and never thought that he would bring Li Wenhao home.Chang Kun's father was extremely calm, saying that he would give an answer after thinking about it overnight, but he found a few private security guards to restrain Chang Kun when they met the next day, and told Li Wenhao that Chang Kun would quit the entertainment industry to inherit the family business and let her go. Return to Beijing and calculate the liquidated damages before coming back.

"Don't be so rude." Chang Kun's mother, who had been sitting silently, stood up and walked in front of Li Wenhao, "Wen Hao, Xiao Kun is still young, and can let go of everything and carry everything. You are better than him." He is older and more mature than him, so he can't get a foothold in the industry because of him. In fact, it is his own fault, but his father and I are not unreasonable people. If your income is discounted because of this, let us make up for it. .”

Seeing that Li Wen was so silent, she smiled: "You are not dating Xiaokun for money. I understand that we let you give up not because we are afraid of you making money, but because we are afraid of everything except making money. Old age is a woman's fault." Achilles heel, not to mention you are more than ten years ahead, for your own good, don't be stupid."

During the entanglement with the security guard, Chang Kun was punched several times and his ears were ringing. He couldn't hear what his mother was saying. He could only watch Li Wenhao's face turn pale little by little, and he left without looking back. Calling her by name didn't help either.

The couple of Chang Hao visited their parents, and the photo of Li Wenhao leaving alone was taken by the paparazzi. The spectators who insisted on bad-mouthing the couple spread the news as soon as possible.

Chen Moting, who was busy during the countdown to the Spring Festival Gala, has been paying attention to the development of this matter through Assistant Huang. He was originally pleasantly surprised by the tolerance and blessings of the fans, but the situation took a sudden turn for the worse overnight.Chang Kun's new album that was ready to launch has completely disappeared, and news of Li Wenhao's resignation came out, all of which confirmed Sun Jinghan's pessimistic guess.

Just looking at Sun Jinghan's expression, Chen Moting knew that he was still at a loss for the ending, and swallowed the words several times when he wanted to speak.It is rare for Sun Jinghan to show his idleness, and Chen Moting likes to see him lazily yawning and smoking.

Living alone for so many years, Sun Jinghan watched the Spring Festival Gala on New Year's Eve for the first time.Even though Chen Moting's shots add up to less than 1 minute, even though he is no longer his manager, he still feels that he has no regrets in this life. The language programs with blunt jokes seem to be very interesting, and he even watched the singing and dancing with a smile.

Chen Moting, who finished work in the early morning, was lured upstairs by the light from Sun Jinghan's house, and said to the door with his hands folded: "Happy Chinese New Year."

Sun Jinghan handed him a red envelope: "Happy Chinese New Year."

Chen Moting took it and shook it, opened it and poured out a key, hugged him into his arms, buried his nose in his neck, held his breath, and sighed forcefully: "Happy Chinese New Year."

Sun Jinghan took a step back: "Let go, my neck is sore."

"I love you so much, Sun Jinghan." Chen Moting took a step forward, hugged him tightly, and the heat from his laughter warmed his collarbone, "I love you so much."

"Can those who celebrate Chinese New Year stop saying dead words?"

"I love you."

Sun Jinghan's body froze, Chen Moting let go knowingly: "Actually, today is the second anniversary of our first night, how about a hit in the new year?"

"It's a good sign."