The north was dry and cold at the beginning of winter, and the cold wind was blowing on his body. Qi Xingchen, who had successfully lost weight, wrapped himself in his coat and took one last look at his family members who were sending him off. Then he walked into the security checkpoint.
He still remembered the day when he went to film "Traveling Destitute", his family had also sent him off like this. But at that time, he had just transmigrated. No matter how good his family was to him, he always felt that they were the original owner's family, not his family.
But now, it was different. After getting along with them day after day, he had fallen in love with his family members, who were kind, sincere, and passionate.
When he left home, he could no longer leave as decisively as before. What was that saying again … Once you have an armor, you will also have a weakness.
But fortunately, he could still come back after filming. When he couldn't see his family members, he calmed himself down and told Bai Ye that he was safe.
Xing Xing: [Entered the security checkpoint.]
[Moon]: [Mhmm, are there many fans sending you off?]
Xing Xing: [I went through the VIP gate, so I didn't see any fans. But sister An Ran didn't tell the fan club in advance, so they probably didn't send me off.]
[Moon]: [Okay, remember to tell me when you get on and off the plane.]
Xing Xing: [Got it, I will report to you!]
[Moon]: [I asked you to tell me not because I want to know your whereabouts, but because I am worried about your safety.]
Xing Xing: [Got it, I will report to you!]
[Moon]: […]
Through the screen, Qi Xingchen could imagine Bai Ye's helpless expression and was in a good mood. An Ran came over with a few cups of coffee and handed him a cup. "Jiang Jiang and Old Qin will be here soon. Let's wait for them in the front."
"Mhmm … Sister An Ran, why is my coffee American? I want to drink hazelnut latte! "
"Hazelnut latte is too high in sugar," An Ran said cruelly. "You don't deserve to drink it now."
Xing Xing felt like crying.
But before he cried, he sent a few cute emoticons to his boyfriend to coax him. After he received a helpless reply from Bai Ye, he suddenly realized that he seemed to be getting more and more naughty in his communication with Bai Ye recently.
In the past, he would never have dared to joke with Bai Ye like this!
It must be that Bai Ye had been too gentle and indulgent during this period of time, giving him the illusion that he could be unbridled.
Qi Xingchen lowered his eyes and began to think about how to restore his image in Bai Ye's heart. An Ran took him to the departure lounge and sat down. Suddenly, she remembered something. "By the way, Xing Xing, how do you plan to celebrate your birthday? Do you want to hold a fan meeting? "
Birthday …
Qi Xingchen was stunned for a moment before he suddenly remembered that the original owner's birthday was on December 28th.
Today was the 3rd of December. There were only 25 days left until the original owner's birthday. It was neither too long nor too short. If he planned to hold a fan meeting, he would have to start preparing now.
Coincidentally, Qi Xingchen was thrown at the gate of the orphanage not long after he was born. When the director of the orphanage picked him up, there was a note in his swaddling clothes with his birthday written on it.
Just like the original owner, it was also December 28th, the day the year was about to end.
However, there were too many children in the orphanage. Some knew their real birthdays, while others didn't. In the end, the director decided to celebrate the children according to their admission date.
So for Qi Xingchen, he didn't have a clear idea of whether he was born or not. It was okay if he was born or not. If An Ran hadn't asked, he would have almost forgotten about this date.
"I should have a scene on the 28th." Qi Xingchen thought for a moment. "I can't delay filming for a birthday party. Let's not do it this year."
"Okay." An Ran had already guessed his answer.
"Tell the fan club, fan club and website not to organize any fund-raising or support activities. Don't accept gifts either," Qi Xingchen added. "If they insist on giving me something, write them a letter and give them the company's mailing address."
"Okay, I'll remember it."
After talking to An Ran for a while, Jiang Jiang and Old Qin arrived late. Jiang Jiang carried three big makeup boxes, and that was when more than 100ml of skincare products had been checked in.
Qi Xingchen hurriedly helped her carry two, in case his personal stylist's arm got injured and couldn't do makeup.
Three hours later, the plane landed and the four of them moved from the north to J City. An Ran called the crew who had arranged for them to pick them up at the airport. Before long, she saw the director's assistant outside the VIP exit holding the "Grey Track" sign.
"Grey Track" was the name of the web drama Qi Xingchen was about to act in.
The director's assistant was about 30 years old. When he saw them, he immediately ran up to greet them. He shook hands with them one by one and introduced himself. "Hello, Mr. Qi. My name is Li Zhuang. If you don't mind, you can call me Da Zhuang. The car is in the parking lot. Please follow me for a while. I'll take you to the hotel. "
"Lead the way." Qi Xingchen followed him to the parking lot and asked, "Brother Da Zhuang, where is Director Zhou now?"
"Director Zhou is on set watching the set and shooting a few sets of empty scenes."
"Then let's not go to the hotel first." Qi Xingchen thought for a moment. "Please take me to the set directly."
Generally, the male and female leads would go to the hotel first to meet the director and producer in the evening. The next day, the director would take them to the set to introduce them.
To put it bluntly, it was a matter of identity and status. The lead had to have the style of the lead. That was why when Qi Xingchen was filming "Heart of the Ocean", he went to the set to look for the director on his own.
However, Da Zhuang did not know why he was doing this, so he did not stop him. He took them to the car with the M1 logo.
The M stood for male, 1 was the number one, and M1 meant the male lead. This car was specially used to pick up and drop off Qi Xingchen. No one could get in, and no one was qualified to get in.
Qi Xingchen was enjoying special treatment for the first time. He was a little excited. Before Da Zhuang opened the door for him, he jumped in himself.
Da Zhuang was speechless.
An Ran looked at him as if he was the silly son of a landlord and sighed faintly.
After everyone was seated, Da Zhuang drove straight to the set. He was familiar with the roads, so he would drive today. Tomorrow, Lao Qin would take over the car.
When they got out of the underground parking lot, Qi Xingchen inadvertently looked outside. He realized that unlike H City, J City's sky was already covered with sporadic snowflakes.
"Brother Da Zhuang, when did it start snowing here?" Qi Xingchen asked as he blew out a breath of air.
"The temperature dropped a few days ago," Da Zhuang replied. "That's why I texted you yesterday to ask you to bring more warm clothes. It's minus nine degrees outside now. After this snow, I'm afraid it will drop to minus ten degrees. "
Hearing Da Zhuang's words, Qi Xingchen immediately thought of Bai Ye. It was close to the end of the year. New Year's Eve concerts and various award ceremonies were happening one after another. There were recordings and live broadcasts. There were also some platforms that had their own year-end inventory. They had all sent invitations to Bai Ye, so he had been flying around in the sky for the past few days.
Sometimes, it was inevitable that he would fly from the cold zone to the tropics. It was easy to catch a cold when the weather was hot and cold. Qi Xingchen stopped chatting and opened A Lun's WeChat message: [A Lun, give me the address of your hotel.]
A Lun probably had nothing to do, so he replied quickly: [XX Street, XX. Xing Xing, why do you want the address?]
Xing Xing: [I'm buying something for your boss.]
Most take-out apps now had a "Help Buy, Help Deliver" function. After Qi Xingchen sent the message, he opened Google Maps and searched for the local supermarket. He picked a series of products and medicine such as hand warmers, heat sticks, thermos flasks, cold medicine, and antipyretics.
Before he placed the order, he suddenly remembered that Bai Ye had said that he wanted to wear matching outfits with him.
At that time, he had thought of buying clothes for Bai Ye. However, Bai Ye was picky about what he wore, and he didn't know the exact size, so he didn't buy anything.
Now, there was a good opportunity.
His gaze fell on a large chain of shopping malls. In the end, he couldn't resist the temptation and ordered a woolen pajama.
Coincidentally, there was a similar chain of shopping malls in J City, so he bought one for himself with the same style and different patterns.
After everything was done, he told A Lun: [I'll be there in the evening. Here's your phone number. Please pick me up when you arrive. I'll treat you to a big meal when we meet!]
Xing Xing: [Also, don't tell your boss yet. Treat it as a small surprise. Hehe.]
A Lun replied with an "OK" emoji and turned around to betray the person who was going to treat him. He said to Bai Ye, "Xing Xing contacted me just now."
"Huh?" Bai Ye, who was waiting in the lounge, raised his left eyebrow. "Why did he call you?"
"He bought something for you and asked me to pick it up."
"What is it?"
"I really don't know. It's probably takeout or delivery in the same city."
Although he had been in a relationship with his little fan for a while, due to the nature of their jobs and their families, the two people who were so rich that they didn't lack anything basically never gave each other anything.
Bai Ye was really curious. "Let me know when it's here. I'll go pick it up myself."
A Lun was anxious. "Boss, the paparazzi …"
"It's okay," Bai Ye interrupted. "Don't worry about them."
After a pause, Bai Ye said, "When you go back tonight, send this month's notice to my email."
"Notice? Boss, do you have special arrangements? "
Bai Ye gave him a look that said, "Don't talk too much", and ignored him.
.
A narrow alley, a few dilapidated old buildings, piles of garbage, and a faintly smelling sewage pit formed the main scene of "Grey Track".
This was an urban village in J City. It was two o 'clock in the afternoon in early winter, and there were not many residents on the dirty streets.
Occasionally, a woman came out to take out the garbage. She was wearing a poor-quality fur coat and cotton slippers. She cursed as she walked past them. On the second floor on the left, a young couple quarreled, and the sound of a dog barking kept scratching everyone's eardrums.
Da Zhuang said embarrassedly, "The environment here is not very good. Sorry to trouble you, Teacher Qi."
"Brother Da Zhuang, just call me Xing Xing. It's too awkward to call me teacher." Qi Xingchen did not care. He looked around and praised, "Director Zhou chose a really good scene."
The protagonist of "Grey Track", Liang Xiaolong, was separated from his family when he was young. He was kidnapped by human traffickers to the countryside and sold to a farmer with the surname Liang.
On the first day he arrived at the Liang family, he fell seriously ill because he was not acclimatized to the environment and the bumpy road. After he recovered, not only did he forget his biological parents, but his intelligence was also damaged. It did not affect his normal life, but he was much slower than his peers.
Therefore, he failed the college entrance examination. He wanted to repeat his studies, but his family's conditions did not allow him to do so. Helpless, he came to the city and rented a one-bedroom apartment in the city. He worked to earn money for his school fees while he revised his high school content.
Because he was young and thin, the female protagonist, who was a police officer, brought him back to the police station as a child laborer during a spot check at a business venue. She accidentally found out that he was one of the victims of a child abduction case more than ten years ago.
Since the case was opened, two generations of criminal police officers had been exhausted by the abduction case. Seeing the light at the end of the tunnel, the female protagonist began to help him find his biological parents. She then took him on the long road of combating abduction.
The emotional parts of "Grey Track" were relatively plain. It was a typical sister-younger relationship and redemption route. The rhythm of the plot was tense and intertwined. It had the director's dark humor and was very infectious.
Seeing that Qi Xingchen did not mind at all, Da Zhuang secretly clicked his tongue and led him to the set.
At that moment, the director was shooting a set of empty scenes. Qi Xingchen signaled An Ran to keep quiet. He stood behind the director and silently observed his shooting techniques.
In less than half an hour, the set of empty scenes was finally finished. An Ran went forward to greet the director. The two exchanged a few words. Director Zhou waved at Qi Xingchen. "Little Qi, come here."
Qi Xingchen obeyed.
Director Zhou asked, "You've been busy all morning. Why didn't you go to the hotel to rest first?"
"I wanted to see Liang Xiaolong's living environment," Qi Xingchen said honestly. "So that I don't get into character slowly."
Director Zhou was stunned. He was thirty-six years old this year. Since graduating from university, he had filmed five or six movies and met no less than a hundred actors. This was the first time he saw a young actor thinking about how to get into character as soon as he entered the crew.
He did not know whether to laugh or cry. "You'll be shooting the final makeup photos tomorrow. The day after tomorrow, you'll be the female lead at the opening ceremony. Your first scene will be the day after that. You don't have to rush."
Qi Xingchen shook his head firmly. He had already decided that he would walk around the set more in the next few days. Only then could he figure out Liang Xiaolong's style of doing things.
After all, a character's personality was greatly affected by their living environment. Without practical experience, he would never understand other people's joys and sorrows.
That day, he stayed with the crew until eight o 'clock in the evening. After returning to the hotel, the director and the main staff of the crew gave him a simple reception. At ten thirty in the evening, in order not to affect tomorrow's shooting, the director stopped everyone in time and sent them back to their rooms.
Before the reception banquet, Qi Xingchen's phone ran out of battery. He hurriedly said something to his family and Bai Ye. He went back to his room to charge his phone and turned on his phone. In addition to his family telling him to take care of himself, there were three bright unread messages on the top of the dialog box.
Qi Xingchen quickly opened it:
[Moon]: [?]
[Moon]: [?]
[Moon]: [?]
It was actually three identical messages. Qi Xingchen's head was full of question marks: [Is your phone lagging?]
[Moon]: [No.]
[Moon]: [Is the reception banquet over?]
Xing Xing: [Just finished.]
Xing Xing: [Why are you sending so many question marks?]
Bai Ye: "…"
You still have the nerve to ask?
He helplessly typed: [I received your things. I like hand warmers and water cups. But … what's with the pajamas?]
Xing Xing: [You don't like them?]
Bai Ye fiddled with the coral fleece pajamas that were spread open on the bed. It was white with black flowers, but it was not an ordinary white with black flowers.
It was the kind of flower that cows wore.
That's right. Qi Xingchen chose a set of very cute cow pajamas with a tail behind the butt.
He had lived for so many years, but he had never worn such childish pajamas.
Bai Ye thought for a moment and carefully thought of words that would not hurt his little fan: [The pajamas are good, but they don't fit me.]
Xing Xing: [The size is not right, or the material is not right?]
Bai Ye thought to himself: [It doesn't suit my age class.]
[Moon]: [The size is very suitable, but the pattern is …]
However, the other party suddenly stopped replying. Bai Ye waited for ten minutes. The more he thought about it, the more regretful he felt.
Could it be that what he said had hurt the little fan's heart?
Thinking about it carefully, the little fan had worn zebra pajamas before. She must have a soft spot for black and white animal pajamas. If he said that, it could be easily misunderstood as criticizing the other party's aesthetic.
"…" The more Bai Ye thought about it, the more regretful he felt. He grabbed his phone and wanted to coax the little fan.
However, before he could send a video call invitation, the other party's video call popped up. Two seconds later, the culprit, the little fan, appeared on the screen.
Her nose and mouth were red, and her chest was heaving up and down. She was panting slightly, probably because she had just finished something in a hurry.
Her hair was slightly messy, but it was obvious that she had taken care of it with water. Her neck was white and slender. Looking down … it was a cow pajamas that was almost the same, but with smaller black spots.
Like a salesman, Qi Xingchen complained about the injustice of his product. "This pajamas is not bad. It's warm, fluffy, and delicate. I tested it just now. It's very breathable when it's sweaty. The quality is quite good. Also … it's quite cute. "
Bai Ye nodded. "It's quite cute. So you bought it too?"
"I bought both of them together." Qi Xingchen's voice lowered. "Didn't you say that you wanted to wear couple's shirts with me?"
Bai Ye was stunned.
"I didn't have your size, so I didn't dare to buy it blindly. I thought that pajamas are more elastic, so I bought couple's pajamas. "
"… Okay." Bai Ye's eyes softened. "I know. Wait for me."
Bai Ye got up and left the camera. Not long after, he came back wearing the disgusting cow pajamas.
"Thank you for the couple's shirt." He smiled. "I like it. I really like it."
The most difficult thing in love was to have a response to everything. The most reassuring thing was to have a response to everything.
You said that you wanted to video call every day. No matter how busy I was, I would take the time to accompany you. I said that I wanted to wear couple's shirts with you. You chose and sent them to me.
Maybe we don't spend much time together. Maybe we can only send a few messages a day when we're busy. But I never felt that you were distant.
Because you were always in my dreams and in my heart.
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