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    Chapter 18

    The minor disagreement between Jiang Yifeng and Xie Jingshen was resolved in just half an evening.

    Zhao Panyang’s affair frightened Jiang Yifeng, and Xie Jingshen earnestly advised, “The entertainment industry is dangerous, don’t trust others easily.”

    Jiang Yifeng curiously looked up at Xie Jingshen, who earnestly continued, “Many bosses who like to mingle in the entertainment industry are not good people. Don’t trust them casually.” Like the boss who wanted to invite Jiang Yifeng to a wrap-up banquet last time.

    Jiang Yifeng’s eyes curved into crescents.

    “Are you jealous again?”

    Jiang Yifeng found it amusing.

    Xie Jingshen immediately denied, “I am not.”

    “Then do you count as a boss who mingles in the entertainment industry?” Jiang Yifeng tilted his head to look at Xie Jingshen, “Xie Jingshen, do you?”

    Xie Jingshen looked into Jiang Yifeng’s eyes, his heart skipped a beat, and after a long while, he said, “I’m different.”

    “Why?”

    “I only focus on you.”

    This time it was Jiang Yifeng’s turn to be shy.

    His eyelashes fluttered, and his gaze darted around.

    Originally, the two were about to quarrel, Jiang Yifeng felt wronged and unhappy, and Xie Jingshen was also unhappy, but in the end, both of them had smiling eyes and couldn’t hide their laughter.

    Jiang Yifeng chatted with Xie Jingshen while still wearing makeup, talking about his annoyance with Zhao Panyang’s harassment, and also about his visit to Xu Chen to discuss the script.

    “You’re so brave.” Xie Jingshen was particularly concerned about the movie plot Jiang Yifeng mentioned, “Why does the script have to design such a person?”

    “I don’t know, Director Xu said he discussed it with a friend and set the reversal point on the BOSS’s background and identity.”

    Xie Jingshen grumbled with dissatisfaction.

    As a domineering CEO and an adult, his subconscious constantly reminded Xie Jingshen that it was too childish to be jealous of a plot in a play for a paper lover.

    Therefore, Xie Jingshen behaved very generously and naturally throughout, all of it was a kind reminder to Jiang Yifeng to be careful of being tied up for hype.

    Jiang Yifeng felt that Xie Jingshen was probably overthinking.

    He slowly got up to remove his makeup and take a shower until bedtime.

    Xie Jingshen was also urged by Jiang Yifeng to drink a glass of milk and even soaked his feet in a health-preserving manner before going to bed.

    Jiang Yifeng happily said good night to Xie Jingshen, and the originally irritable mood was released during tonight’s conversation.

    Exiting the chat, Xie Jingshen silently added another cup of coffee and planned to review a few more documents that had been neglected due to his recent irritability.

    Ten o’clock at night is the time for all social animals to get off work and rest. After a busy day, ten o’clock is exactly the time to eat dinner and supper, and they need to hold their mobile phones to enjoy some nighttime entertainment.

    And all kinds of big and small gossip in the entertainment circle also like to choose ten o’clock in the evening to let all heroes enjoy a good meal.

    A senior paparazzi had predicted explosive news in the morning, and many people were waiting on the paparazzi’s homepage.

    As soon as ten o’clock passed, netizens refreshed and immediately saw the Weibo post that had just popped up.

    Countless people exclaimed “Holy crap.”

    The paparazzi revealed that a certain male star in the entertainment circle used his prestige to attract all kinds of newcomers, and used the name of signing a contract to lure the other party and rely on drugs to induce and control them.

    Although the language was written in a secret way, in order to highlight the meaning of “lure,” the paparazzi also specifically added the label “This male star is gay.”

    The revelation immediately rushed to the top of the hot search list.

    The explosiveness of its content and the boldness of its wording are simply the best entertainment news in recent years.

    “Crazy, crazy, is it real? I just want to know if it’s real?”

    “If you don’t have news, can you not make it up? If you have time to post revelations online, you don’t have time to call the police offline?”

    “Has the male star been arrested? Has he been arrested? I just want to ask if he’s been arrested?”

    “For the sake of traffic, you don’t even want your mother. If you don’t report a crime to the police, you’re going to post a revelation, are you planning to let me eat a melon and get a stomach full of anger?”

    Netizens and passers-by were all attracted by such explosive language.

    The routines on the Internet are half true and half false, and no one dares to believe what the other party is saying, let alone this time the material released is so explosive that people feel that it is just released to tease people.

    “Are you kidding me? It’s true that you don’t even want your face for the sake of popularity.”

    “I don’t even know who it is that you’re talking about in such a vague way.”

    “I’ve called the police for you. Concealing information is a crime of shielding. Let’s see what you say to the police.”

    Netizens scolded while expecting the other party to really throw out some material.

    And some people who go to nightclubs and browse the news are not so relaxed.

    Zhao Panyang didn’t take it seriously when he first received the paparazzi’s message. He was sure that that group of people would never tell the story for the sake of their star path—after all, men know best what kind of gaze they will face after this matter is revealed.

    However, he didn’t expect the paparazzi to conceal his name and reveal the matter.

    Zhao Panyang almost immediately looked for relationships to start public relations, and at the same time contacted the paparazzi, promising to buy the material.

    It’s just that buying the material again is not the original price.

    The other party almost raised the price on the spot. Seeing that the matter was getting bigger and bigger, the scolding on the paparazzi’s homepage was everywhere, the reposts of the blog post exceeded 100,000, and there were even many bloggers helping to call the police, Zhao Panyang’s emotions also reached the extreme.

    He quickly browsed through the case backup sent by the other party, and after looking at it again, he took a deep breath.

    “Got it, I agree, I’ll transfer the money to you right away.”

    Zhao Panyang immediately transferred the money from his account.

    However, there was no response from the other side for a long time.

    Even the blog post on the homepage was not deleted, still allowing the time bomb to hang on the homepage.

    “You’re playing me!” Zhao Panyang was almost exasperated.

    There was no scene for him the next day. Zhao Panyang stayed up until five o’clock in the morning, but the paparazzi didn’t give him any response.

    Just when he was so angry that he planned to go directly to the other party’s company, several policemen poured in from the nightclub door and showed him their police warrants.

    “Mr. Zhao, we have a case that we hope you will cooperate with the investigation.”

    The other party did not give Zhao Panyang any time to react. The handcuffs hung on his wrists, two or three people stood around him, and he was escorted into the car and never came down again.

    Jiang Yifeng didn’t wake up until eight o’clock.

    The first scene today doesn’t start until noon. He had a good sleep. When he returned to the hotel with breakfast, he saw that the set was already surrounded by many people.

    The crew, stagehands, and props had to arrive in advance to set up, but the director, assistant director, and several main actors were also gathered together.

    Jiang Yifeng originally planned to slip away, but was spotted by the sharp-eyed Xu Chen.

    Xu Chen immediately waved to him.

    Jiang Yifeng realized that Zhao Panyang was not there after he arrived.

    Thinking of his conversation with Xie Jingshen last night, Jiang Yifeng suddenly figured out something was wrong.

    “Zhao Panyang is in trouble, his agent called and said he was taken away by the police last night.”

    Xu Chen lowered his voice and said, “I don’t know when the police will issue a notice, but he can’t shoot anymore.”

    “Then what about the previous scenes?” Jiang Yifeng asked cautiously.

    “Sorry to trouble everyone to work a little harder, we will find another actor to play Zhao Li, and sorry to trouble everyone to reshoot the shots.” Xu Chen put his hands together in a pleading gesture, and the other actors all said it was no problem.

    Jiang Yifeng also had no problem—Zhao Panyang’s withdrawal made him relieved. Now that person is in a mess, he probably has no way to entangle himself in his affairs.

    Just…

    Jiang Yifeng thought of Xie Jingshen, who had a sore hand from drawing cards last night, and the smile in his heart deepened.

    ——It seems that he has to thank Xie Jingshen properly.

    The news of Zhao Panyang’s accident has not been announced, and the crew has already found an actor to replace him.

    Fortunately, Zhao Panyang’s scenes were not many. The other people only reshot a few scenes, only Jiang Yifeng was more miserable. The scenes with Zhao Panyang were dense, and the shooting time was mostly squeezed into the gaps between other people’s shooting, so he had to concentrate all day long.

    The one who replaced Zhao Panyang was a younger boy, not very famous in the entertainment circle, but he was clever and handsome.

    And Jiang Yifeng recognized the other party at a glance.

    “You are, Qiao Ran?”

    Qiao Ran was extremely surprised: “You know me?”

    “I’ve seen your plays.” Jiang Yifeng’s eyes lit up.

    Qiao Ran played a lot of children’s dramas when he was a child, and can be considered a child star, but he completely lost his fame when he grew up.

    His face is exactly the same as when he was a child, still round, but his jaw has edges and corners.

    Jiang Yifeng was quite excited to see his childhood idol. When he was acting with the other party, he could also feel that the other party was more familiar than Zhao Panyang, and even grasped the small details very accurately.

    This person was very close to Jiang Yifeng when he was acting, and behaved awkwardly and obsessively. Once off the set, he immediately became a good young man, happily playing games and chatting with the other members of the crew, and was very easy to talk to.

    Jiang Yifeng also rarely had a good friend in the crew.

    Qiao Ran and Jiang Yifeng were about the same age, and they had many scenes together. The camera recorded many scenes of the two hooking up after filming, and also complained that if they didn’t know they were filming, they would think that Jiang Yifeng was playing hard to get based on his attitude towards Qiao Ran.

    Jiang Yifeng was busy for more than half a month to complete the scenes.

    In this half month, he was almost non-stop, shooting night scenes until after midnight every night, and having to get up early in the morning to shoot during the day.

    He and Qiao Ran relied on energy drinks to survive for half a month.

    As soon as the scenes were completed, Xu Chen gave him and Qiao Ran a day off.

    “Get a good sleep, rest, and it won’t be so urgent after that.”

    When Jiang Yifeng returned to the hotel, he fell on the bed after washing up, and didn’t want to move at all.

    However, as soon as he closed his eyes, the system prompted him that Xie Jingshen was waiting for him.

    “Um…” Jiang Yifeng opened his eyes in a daze: “I’m so tired.”

    He had mentioned to Xie Jingshen on the night of the start of filming that he would be very tired in the future, but he didn’t expect that for more than half a month, he didn’t even have time to say a word to Xie Jingshen.

    ——He is still Xie Jingshen’s paper lover.

    The spirit of dedication made Jiang Yifeng struggle to get up from the quilt, and when he raised his head, he met Xie Jingshen’s deep eyes.

    “I have a day off tomorrow.” Jiang Yifeng’s eyes curved: “Xie Jingshen, I haven’t talked to you for a long time.”

    “Yes, I saw that Zhao Panyang has been detained.” Xie Jingshen supported his chin: “Are you very tired?”

    Jiang Yifeng’s eyelids were red, and even red blood streaks could be seen in his eyes.

    He fell on the bed, lazy, not even lifting his hand.

    That appearance was not like an AI person at all.

    He even experienced time in the game as the real world.

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