Mu Fengyin saw Ji Hengyun's Weibo post during a break backstage.

He wasn't very familiar with the other person, having only exchanged nods of acquaintance—but he knew that Ji Hengyun was a smiling tiger, someone who had truly worked his way up step by step. He knew that many people in the industry wanted to get along with him, but he rarely showed any overt closeness to anyone.

The staff around him were preparing his clothes and other things. He stood there adjusting his cuffs, seemingly lost in thought.

"My recent schedule..." he turned to ask his assistant.

This assistant had been with him for a long time and had come with him from his original agency. Upon hearing this, he immediately recounted Mu Fengyin's recent schedule.

According to the filming schedule, the role of Mu Fengyin was purely a cameo, so his scenes would only appear after the entire crew moved to another location.

For some inexplicable reason, he felt the urge to visit the film set. So, after learning he had a four-day break, he decided to visit the set of "Dog Journey," and he already had a reason in mind—

To find inspiration for the theme song.

...

Cen Yu learned from Ji Hengyun that Mu Fengyin was coming.

He swallowed the egg in one gulp before speaking, "What's he doing here?"

The entire crew ate in the hotel's cafeteria. Due to limited resources, the breakfast was fixed, one serving per person. Of course, if someone wanted a special meal, they could order something else separately... Cen Yu didn't care about that. As she was carrying her tray, she saw Ji Hengyun occupying the entire table by herself.

Ji Hengyun happened to look up and saw him, so she invited him to sit down with her.

After Cen Yu sat down, Ji Hengyun inquired about his injuries and, seeing that they weren't too serious, brought up the matter of Mu Fengyin.

"I heard it's to find inspiration for the theme song," Ji Hengyun said, peeling an egg.

Lin Meili finished filming and left a few days ago... The main characters in this movie are still Qian Aige and Sun Biao, so the others don't have many scenes. Zhuang Zemin, who plays Zhuang Ge, is not on set recently because he doesn't have any scenes, so he has temporarily gone back to dub the TV series he stars in.

After peeling the eggs, Ji Hengyun didn't really have much of an appetite. He had been eating very blandly for a while to control his diet... He glanced at Cen Yu, "I thought you knew."

"Know what?" Cen Yu pondered for a moment, "Teacher Ji... do you think we're best buddies?"

Ji Hengyun smiled and said, "I didn't say that."

"But I thought you two had a good relationship."

He spoke slowly and deliberately, first listing the mutual following behavior between Mu Fengyin after attending the banquet, and then mentioning the hot pot dinner and the variety show they participated in together.

Then he put down the eggs in his hand, "At least it looks like we have a better relationship than I do with Lao Gu."

Ji Hengyun was just joking, after all, everyone in the industry knows that he and Gu Hanyin are well-known long-time partners.

Cen Yu found it difficult to say what his relationship with Mu Fengyin was... After all, they weren't really close. In the end, he could only tell Ji Hengyun, "We are colleagues."

Ji Hengyun's smile remained unchanged. He leaned back slightly in his chair at the restaurant and looked up at Mu Fengyin, who was carrying luggage and looking travel-worn, by the door. "What a coincidence."

Cen Yu: "?"

He turned around with a sense of foreboding and saw Mu Fengyin, dressed in an oversized suit and hoodie, wearing a baseball cap, clearly having dressed up before arriving.

"Haha," Cen Yu chuckled dryly, "Isn't Teacher Mu cold wearing all this?"

Mu Fengyin took off his baseball cap. He didn't bring his assistant; he just glanced at Cen Yu.

Compared to the last time we met, Cen Yu looked completely different—

If in a variety show, even if the other person is disheveled, they are still a refined idol, then Cen Yu is more like the Qian Aige he played at this moment. Although he is still beautiful, he is far removed from the refined, expensive, and fragile idol image.

On his way here, on the plane and in the van, Mu Fengyin had imagined many times what it would be like to meet Cen Yu.

He finds it difficult to articulate his thoughts.

Collaborator? Friend? Or some other relationship... it doesn't matter anyway.

That day, Mu Fengyin watched the variety show featuring him and Cen Yu alone at home. He hadn't turned off the bullet comments, so he saw some of the comments. He found them somewhat amusing, but he couldn't help but think deeply about them.

However, he was too busy and had too many things to do, so he quickly put these things out of his mind.

Until he saw Ji Hengyun's Weibo post that day, something inexplicably popped into his head—

I had the urge to go and see.

He didn't want his fans to know about this trip, so his assistant bought multiple tickets for different time slots that day. In the end, he quietly arrived at the airport where the filming location was located through the VIP channel, and then had a pre-arranged van pick him up and take him to the county town.

When he arrived at the hotel where Cen Yu was staying, he asked the staff where Cen Yu was. When he arrived at the restaurant entrance, before he could even greet them, he saw that Ji Hengyun, who was sitting in a chair, had already spotted him.

Then, with a pointed remark, he asked the question from before.

Looking at Cen Yu's evasive and irrelevant manner, Mu Fengyin took off his baseball cap and looked at his own attire, finding it somewhat amusing.

They looked like peacocks eager to spread their tails.

Ji Hengyun sat there and said, "If Xiao Mu hasn't eaten, why don't you come and have some?"

Based on the time Mu Fengyin appeared, the other party was probably at the airport in the early hours of the morning.

Given his almost harsh self-discipline, it's absolutely impossible for him to be eating at that time.

Mu Fengyin looked at Ji Hengyun and said, "Then I'll eat something." He put his suitcase in the corner, picked up his baseball cap, and walked over. When he sat down next to Cen Yu, he said, "It's alright, it's not too cold."

“Young people have a lot of energy,” Ji Hengyun joked.

Just then, two more people arrived at the door: Gu Hanyin and Xie Jinshen.

"Old Gu, Little Xie," Ji Hengyun said, extending his hand. "Let's go together."

Mu Fengyin turned to look at Gu Hanyin, "Director Gu."

Gu Hanyin knew in advance that Mu Fengyin was coming... He heard that the other party was looking for inspiration for the movie's theme song, but there was still so much time before the movie wrapped up. After hearing this, he didn't say anything, only said "I know".

Xie Jinshen really didn't expect Mu Fengyin to come.

Looking at the smiling Ji Hengyun and Mu Fengyin dressed like a peacock spreading its tail feathers, he felt even more disgusted by the entertainment industry.

Before Gu Hanyin stepped inside, he suddenly spoke—

Whether a dog can remain a pet dog or not does not depend on what the dog does.

Xie Jinshen looked up at Gu Hanyin, who seemed to be having a casual chat.

"What do you want to say, Uncle Gu?"

Gu Hanyin didn't care about Xie Jinshen's deliberately chosen form of address. He looked at Xie Jinshen as if he were some immature child, a puppy that only bared its teeth and tried to steal milk, posing no threat whatsoever.

"It depends on whether the owner wants that dog or not."

"The choice always lies with the owner, not with the dog's desperate baring of its teeth."