out of plain sight

Chai Ke poured out a thin line of white powder from the plastic bag, rolled up a banknote and bent down to suck it up, then pulled out a piece of tissue paper to cover his nose and leaned back on the back of the sofa.

"Chen Moting...I'm so fucking miserable."

It was not the first time he took drugs in front of Chen Moting, Chen Moting was used to it, and stood in front of him boredly watching his ugly appearance: "You shouldn't find me for pain, find a confidante."

Chai Ke wiped away his snot and sniffled: "If I were a woman, I would have gotten wet when you stared at me like this."

Chen Moting smiled: "Then do you think hard?"

"I really want to." Chai Ke threw the wet tissue into the trash can, "I'm paralyzed when I'm so poisoned, you're telling me to find a woman, that's bullshit."

His hair was greasy and messy, his eyes were red and his beard was unshaven, his clothes were disheveled and smelly, he was not at all like a popular singer who had been on the music scene for many years.Chen Moting waited for the illusion in his eyes to fade away, bent over and stretched out his arms through his armpits, carried him into the bathroom, grabbed his collar and pressed it under the shower to turn on the hot water to the maximum.

Chai Ke immediately screamed from the heat.

Chen Moting forced him to rush for a minute or two, then let go of his hand and pulled a towel to dry off the water droplets on his body: "Take a shower and prepare to go out. Manager Liu has been waiting outside for a long time."

He came here unwillingly to persuade Chai Ke to attend the new album signing, but Chai is Tianming's cash cow, and as soon as he said he wanted to see him, he had to interrupt the acting class and rush over.

Manager Liu found him for the first time because Chai Ke temporarily refused to appear on the variety show, and he was willing to move after calling Chen Moting by name.Chai Ke's reputation in the circle is extremely bad. Everyone said he was nervous, difficult to get along with, and arrogant. Chen Moting had made sufficient mental preparations in advance, but he never expected that he would dare to take drugs in front of his face.

Seven or eight years ago, some people said that Chai Kejiang was exhausted, but his album results slapped those people time and time again. Now that he is being praised, he is really about to destroy his future.

"Chen Moting," Chai Ke leaned out and threw him with a towel, "Call Lao Liu."

Chen Moting took off the bath towel covering his head with a good temper, dialed the number of Manager Liu, accepted his gratitude frankly, and hung up to say goodbye to Chai Ke.

"Say hello to Manager Sun for me."

"I will."

When Chen Moting went down to the parking lot, the elevator doors slid open to both sides, and Kong Dongyue's cold eyes met his eyes.Chen Moting immediately mobilized his smile, called out "Brother Dong" respectfully, and moved out of the elevator sideways.

Kong Dongyue stood still, and Manager Liu who was following him blocked the elevator door that was about to close, and waited with arms raised.Chen Moting caught a glimpse of the manager's terrified expression, and suddenly had an ominous premonition: "Brother Dong, is there something for me?"

"I'm here to find Chai Ke. I heard that you have a good relationship with him."

Manager Liu's face turned pale again, and Chen Moting guessed that Kong Dongyue should have lost his temper just because of this - one more person who knows about the scandal will bring more trouble, not to mention the content of the scandal is about drug use, and the person involved is Chai Ke.

"Brother Chai thinks highly of me."

Kong Dongyue smiled abruptly: "There are many people who think highly of you."

He meant something, Chen Moting didn't know why, but firmly believed that he was talking about Qin Hao.

"Tell Sun Jinghan, don't neglect your backer."

After Kong Dongyue said this, he walked into the elevator, and Chen Moting stood there for a long time, until he felt severe pain in his knuckles, only to realize that his fists were clenched so tightly that his muscles spasmed.

Sun Jinghan's backer, who else could it be if not Qin Hao?Qin Hao has Kong Dongyue's relationship, which can bring too many benefits to Sun Jinghan. In comparison, Chen Moting has no competitiveness.

Chen Moting felt ridiculous for himself--compete for what?Sun Jinghan is a straight man, Qin Hao is his old friend, and in his eyes, he is probably just a child who can be coddled.

Qin Hao's call came at an untimely time, Sun Jinghan apologized to the person he was talking with, left the bar and walked two steps towards the alley, when he got through, he said gloomy "How did you solve that matter".

"What does Mr. Qin refer to?"

He calmly pretended to be confused, and Qin Hao became more and more angry: "I warn you Sun Jinghan, don't make me angry, how did you settle the matter that you begged me before?"

On the day he refused Sun Jinghan's embrace, he regretted it as soon as he stepped out of the hotel, but he didn't look back when he thought that Sun Jinghan had no one to turn to, and only waited for him to come to the door again.But after a few months, everything was calm, and the dignified president of Xinyi Network used the crawler program to refresh Chen Moting's keywords every day, which he thought was ridiculous.

He drank a few more drinks that day, and was furious for a while, so he called the teacher to ask the crime.

"The person who broke the news has a conscience, and if nothing happens, Mr. Qin is bothered."

"I heard you fart!" Qin Hao roared, "Who the hell did you sleep with!"

"...Mr. Qin, not all bigwigs are interested in men. Even if there are, they won't be as unique as you. You want me, an old man with a lot of meat."

His words were very convincing, Qin Hao was speechless, and also felt lost and mad: "That's right."

"If nothing else..."

"Jinghan, we never said we'd break up."

Sun Jinghan paused with his hand rubbing his forehead: "Of course, we have never dated before, so why break up?"

In fact, he no longer remembers the scene of the breakup, but Qin Hao remembers it, and inexplicably remembers it firmly.At that time, a large amount of investment came into place one after another, which was a good opportunity to give it a go. Several partners decided to move out of their small dwellings and rent a decent villa to save time and communication costs.On the day when it was Qin Hao's turn to move, Sun Jinghan came back from get off work, looked at the few people who came to help, and asked, "Move?"

Qin Hao straightened his waist, looked at the few people around him, did not introduce them, turned around and continued to work: "Yes."

After saying these two words, goodbye is more than ten years later.

Sun Jinghan's indifferent expression at that time is still vivid in his memory.

"Then what is between us?"

Sun Jinghan looked at the cloudy sky and thought for a while: "Mutual help objects."

The flesh that can be picked up at hand filled the emptiness of the two of them at that time. Qin Hao was able to take in and out freely, but Sun Jinghan was stuck in a quagmire and couldn't extricate himself.Qin Hao's departure was a kind of relief for him. Pain is inevitable, but it was considered a way out for him.

Qin Hao wouldn't understand all of this, just like he didn't understand why Qin Hao was pestering him so hard.

"Jing Han, can we start over?"

"Boss Qin's condition is so good, it's too late for so many people to back up, why insist on bending yourself?" Sun Jinghan couldn't control himself, and smiled wryly, "I can't accompany you in emotional matters, but I'm an old hand at going to bed, if..."

There was a busy tone from the other end of the phone.

Feeling relieved, Sun Jinghan smoked a cigarette and went back to the bar at the end of the alley. The man he was chatting with just now disappeared without a trace, and the wine on the table was taken away.He bought another bottle of wine, took out a cigarette and put it on the cigarette case, and leaned on the wooden round table to play with the lighter.

A man paraded to his side, picked up the cigarette he had prepared and stuffed it into his mouth. Sun Jinghan looked him over from head to toe, lit him with a lighter, brought it over and took a puff himself, and twisted it into the ashtray.

The man pressed his lower back to embrace him, and the hard object between his crotch pressed against the base of his thigh.

Seeing his lips come together, Sun Jinghan suddenly remembered that the promotion of "A Brother Like a Father" will start within two weeks, his sexual interest disappeared, he avoided the other party's kiss and said "I'm sorry", turned and left.

Today is clearly not a good day for a one-night stand.

As soon as the release promotion was launched, the main creators began to rush to the scene in [-] cities, and sometimes even traveled to two cities in one day.Qiao Zheng's care for Chen Moting is obvious to all, and occasionally he would tease him unscrupulously. Chen Moting is very disgusted with the same-sex ambiguous hype, but since the audience is talking about it, the homophobic Qiao Zheng has no complaints, so he can only cooperate.

"The second emotional line in the play is our two brothers. You probably haven't fully experienced the feeling of deep love and deep hatred." Qiao Zheng naturally put his arm on Chen Moting's shoulders, looked at him and smiled, "Because this is not the theme of the movie, many important scenes between me and Mo Ting were deleted."

There was a burst of booing regretfully.

The host leaned forward and looked at Chen Moting's face: "Mo Ting is blushing?"

The big screen played a close-up shot of Chen Moting. Chen Moting took the microphone from Qiao Zheng with one hand, and set up a pergola to cover his eyes with the other: "The light is too hot, it's too hot."

The host laughed along with the audience: "Is there anything particularly regrettable in the deleted scenes?"

Chen Moting cleared his throat: "It's a pity that it's all necessary for the plot, there's no way. If I don't delete it, my younger brother will be suspected of being a mistress."

Qiao Zheng pushed him and bent over with a smile.

The host turned his face away and covered his eyes and said, "You shouldn't have been allowed to play at the same time. On behalf of the program team, I would like to apologize to the audience who have uncomfortable eyes."

Qiao Zheng pressed down on the back of Chen Moting's head who came back together, and the two bowed to the audience in unison: "I'm sorry everyone."

Sun Jinghan tapped the keyboard a few times to fast-forward this flirting.

After watching the sample of the show twice, the interaction between the two was a bit too much, but the promotion of the film itself was sufficient, the heroine was not low in activity, and the editing of the show did not put the cart before the horse. It is worthy of being a channel for entertainment professionals.

Sun Jinghan sent a confirmation email to the program team, stood up and leaned back, emptied the ashtray full of cigarette butts and cleaned it, and returned to the table to see a Weibo reminder popped up on his mobile phone, it was Chen Moting who sent a sentence "Happy birthday, memoda", fans are frantically guessing who this microblog refers to.

Sun Jinghan made a phone call.

Chen Moting answered immediately: "Happy birthday."

Sun Jinghan called and scolded people, he was taken aback when he heard his words, and then remembered that today is his birthday, and Chen Moting would post a birthday greeting on Weibo every year: "What are you doing?"

"Show cute and incite fans."

Sun Jinghan took off his glasses, leaned on the edge of the table with one hand and laughed silently: "If you don't tell who it is, the fans will go crazy."

Chen Moting was still serious: "It's customary for me to post this Weibo, many fans know that today is your birthday."

"There are too many new fans this year, and you posted three more words."

"Then I'll send another explanation."

"Forget it, let's see the wind direction tomorrow. It's past twelve, go to bed early."

"Sleep after masturbation." Chen Moting's painting style changed suddenly, and he moaned frivolously, "Good night."

Sun Jinghan hung up the phone.

Chen Moting laughed to himself for a long time, walked to the floor-to-ceiling windows and overlooked the brightly lit city night scene, the face reflected on the glass gradually turned into Sun Jinghan's facial features.Chen Moting put his fingers on the shadow's lips as if possessed, and leaned forward to kiss her.

Chen Moting was recognized at Changsha Airport, and within two hours of arriving in Beijing, the fans who got the news were also blocked at the airport. There were not many people, and they were dismissed in a few minutes, not even a breakout.

It was the same scene when Chai Ke first became popular. Sun Jinghan felt a lot of emotion and stepped forward to take over his luggage cart.

Chen Moting maintained his shining star demeanor all the way, and when he got into the car and closed the door, he returned to his original shape, lying on the back seat and covering his face with a hat: "This plane is so fast, my butt hurts."

"Thanks for your hard work."

"Brother Sun doesn't think about compensating me?" Chen Moting turned over and sat up, "Are you free tonight? I invite you to watch the movie just released, it's very touching."

"An elder brother is like a father?"

Chen Moting was exposed by him, "hahaha" laughed out loud: "Let's have a meal by the way, I know your birthday must not be a good one."

Sun Jinghan glanced at him in the rearview mirror: "Why are you so happy?"

"I've forced a smile on my face for more than half a month. Seeing you with a straight face, I feel like I'm home. Of course I'm happy." Chen Moting lay on the back of the chair, tilted his head to look at him, "I'll drive downstairs and wait for you to get off work. Ok, deal."

Sun Jinghan glanced at him: "Okay."

Not many managers can enjoy the treatment of being picked up by an artist's car. Chen Moting's hospitality is just right, and Sun Jinghan has no resistance to it.

When the two first started working together, Chen Moting once asked him which restaurant he wanted to go to the most, and he patted his chest and promised that he would definitely treat him to dinner when he had money.Sun Jinghan casually mentioned a hotel with a thousand yuan per person, but he didn't expect that he really remembered it. He could afford more expensive ones, but he still chose this one.

After Chen Moting finished ordering, he asked abruptly, "How much is your house worth now?"

"Less than 200."

"No matter how much more than 60 square meters, it should be 200 million."

"The market is not good recently, not to mention the old house of more than ten years, and the location is outside the Fifth Ring Road."

"How much did you pay for it?"

"One flat is less than three thousand."

"so cheap?"

"The price was already very expensive back then, and my salary was only so much."

When it comes to the house, Sun Jinghan is quite proud. He gritted his teeth and bought a house just to have a shelter. He never thought that this barren land would be connected to the subway in a few years and his value would skyrocket.With the backing of this real estate, he is not afraid of anything, the worst is to sell the house and leave Beijing, and still be able to live alone for the rest of his life without worrying about food and clothing: "Why are you asking, thinking about buying a house?"

"I don't think about it, a house outside the fifth ring road in Beijing is enough for me to buy a villa in Qingdao." Chen Moting poured wine for him, "I finally asked you out and wanted to talk about things other than work, so gossip about Qiao Zheng ?”

"Still reluctant to part with him?"

"How is it possible, I love you with all my heart." Chen Moting stretched out his hand to touch the back of Sun Jinghan's hand with a playful smile, but failed, he could only rub his fingers resentfully, "I'm just curious, even if he was hidden by Tian Mingxue, Qiao Zheng can be considered successful now, It stands to reason that if you are so awesome to the extreme, shouldn't you just laugh away your grievances?"

Sun Jinghan picked up the wine glass: "I don't know if you ask me. Qiao Zheng left early when I joined Tianming. I also heard from my master."

"Then listen to your master's version."

Sun Jinghan thought for a while, and there seemed to be no other ready-made topics to talk about, so he rationalized his thoughts and said, "Qiao Zheng first joined Tianming in the early 90s, and the company structure was very chaotic. Boss Cai personally acted as his manager, but in the end the two only cooperated. After one movie, they turned against each other. Qiao Zheng signed a contract with the company for five years, and kept it in hiding for four years."

"Has he never thought of leaving?"

"Maybe it's because he couldn't pay the liquidated damages, and Tianming was much more powerful then than it is now, and the issuing company had to look at Boss Cai's face. If he dared to leave, no one would dare to take over." Sun Jinghan laughed at the naivety of this question, Chen Moting was always too young , The world is difficult and dangerous, he only knows one thing and does not know the other, "Boss Cai often gets involved in his artists, but he has never touched a man before Qiao Zheng. It is said that he used all the resources at hand to pursue Qiao Zheng, but in the end he was rejected by Qiao Zheng Outside the door, that's why I became angry and hid the money tree in the snow."

Chen Moting's eyes lingered on the wrinkles at the corners of his eyes and mouth: "It's really exciting."

"It's just a rumor, the truth may not be so bloody." Sun Jinghan noticed his gaze and frowned, "Anyway, Boss Cai must be ashamed, otherwise he wouldn't turn a blind eye to Qiao Zheng's recent actions Close your eyes. Kong Dongyue can't take sand in his eyes, if Boss Cai hadn't stopped him, Qiao Zheng's studio would have been played to death by him long ago."

"The two bosses disagree on Qiao Zheng's matter?"

"What do you think? Ever since you got involved with Qiao Zheng, you have been trying to survive in the cracks, and you can still reap the benefits without becoming a victim. I guess you burned high incense in your previous life."

The topic still turned back to work, Chen Moting smiled helplessly: "I have had a hard life since I was a child, so God has pity on me. I have been a lucky star since I met my dad, and then I met you."

Sun Jinghan ignored his last sentence: "Don't talk so full of words, beware of retribution."

The two finished their meal chattering around, and then walked to the theater not far away.There were quite a few passers-by on the road, some of them even recognized Chen Moting, and one of them secretly followed behind the two of them trying to cover up, but never took any further action.Chen Moting noticed it, and Sun Jinghan also noticed it, they looked at each other and smiled, thinking in their hearts that when someone is really hard to control, it would be the best to rush forward regardless.

As a person in the entertainment industry, Sun Jinghan seldom goes to theaters, and he has never watched any of the works of his actors.He originally thought that the protagonist sitting next to him would appear in the play at any time, but he was unknowingly attracted by the plot and entered the emotions of the characters in the play. When he came back to his senses, the movie was over.

The story is smooth, the camera is beautiful, the editing is wonderful, and the acting is real.Sun Jinghan wrote a few dry film reviews in his heart, saying in his heart: This movie will continue to be popular.

The end credits were still rolling, the lights in the screening room were brightly lit, and the audience got up and left.Sun Jinghan also stood up, and looked down to see Chen Moting's half face buried in the scarf, who had slept for an unknown amount of time, and his usually lively face showed a bit of weakness and innocence.

At the age of 22, if it is an ordinary life trajectory, it is mostly busy looking for a job, busy bumping into walls everywhere, busy learning how to behave in the world, but Chen Moting has already mastered maintaining hypocrisy to please people, and it is rare to have the opportunity to let go of his defenses.

"Brother Like Father" is sure to win. As long as "Sun Zhongmou" released next year is a big success, they can bid farewell to the days of looking for roles everywhere, and they can confidently reject commercial performances and commercials that are not up to standard. Chen Moting will be able to completely Getting rid of the fourth line is not in vain for his diligence and dedication.

As soon as the music stopped, Chen Moting woke up, his eyes squinted by the light: "What are you laughing at?"

Sun Jinghan wanted to put away his smile, but it was in vain: "Laughing, you can still fall asleep watching your own movie."

"Sitting next to you makes me fall asleep." Chen Moting cleared his throat, "I'm thirsty, please drink something."

Sun Jinghan picked up the coat on the back of the chair: "Let's go."

The two passed through the aisle between the two rows of seats, and Chen Moting raised his hand to gently push him behind the back. This tentative force was cautious and ended in a few seconds.