[258. Long time no see]

At seven o'clock in the evening, they arrived at the recording venue.

Their goal today is to finish recording before 11pm.

The recording location of "The Secret Detective" is in an empty villa in the suburbs of Qicheng.

This villa is still a semi-developed area. The first few villas are all usable, but the factory behind it still needs to be built.

As a relatively poor program crew, they only rented two villas.

One is used for scene shooting, and the other is the backstage room of their program crew, where monitoring and editing are all done.

Of course, this building also has a dormitory on the first floor. Workers who cannot go home after working overtime can find a dormitory to rest.

If an artist is too late to catch a flight or fails to book a hotel, he or she can rest in the dormitory area on the second floor for a night, as long as the other party does not mind.

Cheng Qingxing and Zheng Xuhe came together.

However, Zheng Xuhe is a big star. As soon as he arrived, he was pulled aside by the program crew, apparently to apologize.

He stood aside and felt that the surroundings were a bit desolate. After recording the show in the evening, he had no place to eat.

This is the suburbs, and it takes an hour to drive back.

When he was thinking about what to eat with Zheng Xuhe in the evening, Bai Zhian came over and leaned on him directly. "I didn't expect that I would have the opportunity to be a producer in my lifetime."

Bai Zhian was brought here by Li Mingle. She said that she was also the main creator of the first script "Dolls in the Amusement Park" and must come to the program team to take a look.

In fact, she is just a screenwriter, and not the main creator at all. She simply improved part of the character setting and included some of Cheng Qingxing's personal work.

Cheng Qingxing had a distressed expression on his face. "Thanks to our great screenwriter Bai for coming to work without any salary."

Bai Zhian could hear his sarcasm and rolled her eyes at him. She whispered, "If it weren't for Li Mingle, I would be doing this kind of work for nothing."

"Then who are you talking to? What's the point of telling me?" Cheng Qingxing said this deliberately to anger her.

Bai Zhian didn't say anything, and looked at him with deep resentment in her eyes, but in the end she could only shrug and sigh.

She was also aware of her own situation. She secretly glanced at the busy Li Mingle and fell into deep thought.

"Be more proactive." Cheng Qingxing bent down slightly, and then whispered, "How could he possibly see what you are thinking with his innocent and innocent appearance?"

Bai Zhian didn't respond to him, pouted, and tried to change the subject, then asked him: "What's the situation with your money? I won't be cheated, right?"

When he suddenly received a message from Cheng Qingxing asking for money, he thought Cheng Qingxing's account had been hacked, but after chatting for a while and confirming that it was Cheng Qingxing, he transferred the money directly.

"No, it's just that I met a difficult person." Cheng Qingxing picked it up when he remembered this.

I took out my cell phone and wanted to see if the man named Li Zi had received any money. If he had, I could block him.

"What's going on?" Bai Zhian came over curiously to see, "Are you being blackmailed?"

Cheng Qingxing told Bai Zhian the general situation. Bai Zhian frowned and cursed, "Why do people like this exist? They are really disgusting."

"Yeah, it's very rude." Cheng Qingxing said unhappily, "If I hadn't gotten the money yet, I would really like to use the money and throw it directly in the other person's face."

Bai Zhian nodded in agreement, but when she looked at Cheng Qingxing's chat interface, she felt that the other party's avatar looked familiar, as if she had seen it somewhere.

"I feel like I recognize this profile picture." Bai Zhian thought very hard, but still couldn't figure out who the other person was.

Cheng Qingxing was about to reply when he heard the director say, "Thank you for your hard work, now that everyone is here, let's gather in the living room."

So he also walked over, and Zheng Xuhe was waiting for him there.

In the past, he might have avoided danger, but everyone knew about their current relationship, so he didn't bother to avoid suspicion and just trotted over and followed him.

"You stand in the main C position." Zheng Xuhe asked him to face the main camera, and he stood beside him.

Yue Xiaoke, Zhao Mingle, and Bai Su, who were less famous, stood on the other side. When they walked over, they greeted Cheng Qingxing, bowed and nodded, and were very friendly.

In fact, before coming here, Cheng Qingxing didn't know who the other guests were except Yan Shenghui and Zheng Xuhe.

Today was the first time they met, and everyone was very friendly to him, so he felt a little relieved and nodded and bowed to them.

Yan Shenghui came over from the lounge nearby. His face didn't look very good, probably because he saw Cheng Qingxing and Zheng Xuhe being so affectionate, so he went straight to the lounge to rest.

He glanced at his position, hesitated for a few seconds, then stood next to Zheng Xuhe, smiled and said to Zheng Xuhe: "Long time no see."

Because it was work, Zheng Xuhe was very polite, nodded and said, "Long time no see."

But because she didn't like Yan Shenghui, she still moved a little closer to Cheng Qingxing, almost sticking to him.

Cheng Qingxing felt that this was a bit inappropriate, so he coughed slightly, then silently moved a little further away, leaving a small gap between the two of them.

"Hey, where is Li Jiuzhao?" the director called out, and then said to the assistant beside him, "Where is he? Hasn't he arrived yet?"

"He said he was going to the bathroom and will be there soon." A round-faced girl came over and explained, "Please wait a moment. I'll call him to urge him."

However, before the girl's call went through, she heard a low, laughing voice coming from the direction of the small corridor on the side.

"Here he comes, no need to fight." Li Jiuzhao's voice was impatient.

He was wearing a red jacket today, red earrings, and had his hair dyed short and flashy red. He didn't look like someone who was easy to mess with.

When Cheng Qingxing heard his voice, he felt it sounded familiar, a bit like——

"Ah!" Cheng Qingxing exclaimed. The voice came from the waiter that night.

At the same time, Bai Zhian who was in the backstage also uttered the same sigh.

Bai Zhian finally remembered who that avatar was.

She had seen him on Li Mingle’s WeChat, and the note Li Mingle gave to the other party was - the first guest Li Jiuzhao.

"What's wrong?" Zheng Xuhe subconsciously pulled him closer to him, "Do you know each other?"

Cheng Qingxing said in an uncertain tone, "I know him."

Li Jiuzhao looked at Zheng Xuhe's actions, and the displeasure in his eyes became more obvious.

Regardless of the two people's actions, he walked directly to Cheng Qingxing, stretched his hand between the two of them, and said to Cheng Qingxing with a smile: "Long time no see, Cheng Qingxing."