"Pendant? What pendant!" Qin Xiao's face darkened and he looked at the boy in front of him with gritted teeth.
His expression was distorted and his voice was hoarse: "You came here just to ask me about that broken pendant?!"
Liu Yueran's eyes were red, and his fingers were clenched white: "If you don't answer the phone, I can only come to you..."
Qin Xiao raised his hand and picked up the medicine bottle on the table and threw it at Liu Yueran: "I'm not answering your call because I don't want to see you! Get lost!"
Liu Yueran pursed his lips and asked again: "Did you really not find the pendant?"
"If you dare to mention that pendant again—" Qin Xiao stood up suddenly, trying to flip the table, but failed. He was furious, "If you dare to mention it again, believe it or not, I will order a ban on you on the entire Internet! It's just a thing, and you dare to ask me? Ha, anyone dares to question me?! You...get out."
Seeing that Qin Xiao was unable to communicate, Liu Yueran lowered his head, turned around and left silently.
Coming out of the study, he slowly moved to the door of the villa. Seeing the man waiting there, he felt a little embarrassed for a moment: "Sorry, sorry for causing you trouble."
He came to the villa secretly today. If this person hadn't let him in, he probably wouldn't have been able to see Qin Xiao.
"No need to thank me." Chen Si said gently, "The young master was a little upset yesterday and was in a bad mood. He took his anger out on you. I apologize to you on his behalf."
Liu Yueran said anxiously: "It's okay!"
Unexpectedly, he saw the other party take out a small transparent ziplock bag from his arms, which contained several pieces of jade fragments.
"I'm sorry, I didn't know this jade was yours." Chen Si still maintained a distant smile, "Although it has been broken, I think it should be returned to its original owner."
With trembling fingertips, Liu Yueran carefully took the bag of broken jade. Finally, he could no longer hold back his tears: "This... This is what my grandma left for me... It's broken..."
Chen Si looked at Liu Yueran, his eyes without emotion: "I'm sorry, Master was just anxious at the moment and accidentally broke it."
Liu Yueran was shocked. He looked up at the man with tears on his eyelashes. "...He broke it?"
Chen Si replied: "I'm sorry."
Liu Yueran cried and asked: "Then why didn't he tell me!"
Chen Si was like a machine: "Sorry."
Liu Yueran wiped away his tears and took a deep breath: "I don't blame you, thank you for returning it to me. Even if it is broken, it is still my grandma's... I'm glad it's not lost. Thank you."
The moment he pushed open the door of the villa, Liu Yueran heard the man's gentle and calm voice: "People who can't control their own destiny will never be able to protect important things."
Chen Si watched the young man leave and turned back to the study in the villa. Pushing the door open, he bent over to pick up the medicine bottle that had fallen on the ground and put it back on the desk.
Qin Xiao looked at him coldly: "I'm not sick."
Director Chen always remained calm: "Master, please follow the doctor's advice. If mental problems are not treated, they may develop into mental illness."
Qin Xiao picked up the medicine bottle and smashed it to the ground again: "I said, I'm not sick, I don't need to take medicine!"
…
At this time, in Chu Yinlong's home fitness training room.
Jiang Dao was knocked to the ground once again and was pinned to the ground, unable to turn over.
He simply stopped struggling and lay there groaning, "No, it doesn't count this time! I've lost so much weight that I don't have any strength left. You're taking advantage of me."
In boxing, people are divided into weight classes. Having a few more kilograms of muscle fiber will give you an advantage in a fight.
Seeing Jiang Dao's look, Chu Yinlong knew that he was going to lie on the ground again and not stretch properly, so he simply picked up a fascia stick from the side, knelt between Jiang Dao's legs, and pressed the fascia stick on Jiang Dao's thigh muscles.
"Hmm!" Jiang Dao's body trembled, then slowly relaxed, and opened his legs a little more to facilitate Chu Yinlong's movements.
"You are quite self-aware." Chu Yinlong laughed.
"That's right," Jiang Dao said bluntly, "Myasthenia relaxation is so refreshing, and Actor Chu is personally serving me, so of course I have to be more conscious and enjoy it, and finally give it a five-star rating."
The fascia stick rolled along the muscles of Jiangdao's thighs, and he couldn't help but let out a muffled groan from his nose.
Chu Yinlong paused for a moment and asked, "Too heavy?"
Jiang Dao hummed: "It's okay, you can use a little more strength, I feel... no pain! Gently, gently, hiss, that was a bit heavy just now... Yeah, it feels better now, ah..."
Chu Yinlong suddenly felt bad, and with red ears, he lightly scolded: "Don't shout."
Jiang Dao stopped talking and lay on the ground laughing.
He didn't know what was going on in his mind, but he became more and more fond of provoking others in the past two days.
Maybe it had something to do with the script. The character that belonged to him was a very attractive person. After doing a lot of character analysis, he began to put himself into the role unconsciously... He found the tricks that the Little Gray Wolf played on Xia Tian interesting, so he wanted to try them on Chu Yinlong as well.
Chu Yinlong coughed lightly: "What are you laughing at?"
Jiang Dao couldn't see the person behind him, so he tilted his head and suddenly remembered a line from Little Gray Wolf: "Brother, do you like to hear my voice?"
Chu Yinlong: ...
Of course Chu Yinlong knew that this was a line. He also knew what Xia Tian would answer next, and he instantly thought of what the next plot would be... Tsk, this naughty kid did it on purpose!
He took a deep breath and pressed the fascia stick a little harder: "Shut up, from now on, don't talk."
Jiang Dao didn't want to tease people too much, so he chuckled twice and obediently shut his mouth.
Chu Yinlong focused all his attention on the rubber ring of the fascia stick, slowly helping Jiang Dao relax his legs, and finally calmed down.
He walked forward, straightened Jiangdao's arm, and began to press on his arm. After rolling twice, he saw Jiangdao tilting his head and staring at him with blinking eyes.
"Can you..." Chu Yinlong said helplessly, "Don't start imitating the little gray wolf now."
Discovered.
Jiang Dao's eyes immediately restrained and he said obediently: "Okay, Teacher Chu."
Chu Yinlong suddenly felt that the "brother" that Jiang Dao shouted when he was learning the lines just now... was actually quite nice to hear.
…
A busy and peaceful day passed.
In the evening, Jiang Dao finished washing up and curled up on the bed in the guest room, responding to the messages from Jing Yu, the chatterbox, while waiting for Chu Yinlong to come and chant sutras for him. After chanting sutras twice and discovering that Jiang Dao's sleep quality was surprisingly good, Chu Yinlong offered to provide this service to help him sleep.
Jiang Dao did not refuse. He just wanted to trouble Chu Yinlong for the three days he was staying here. He didn't have to wait for him to return to the apartment and chase him.
When Chu Yinlong knocked on the door and came in, he saw Jiang Dao holding his cell phone and grinning foolishly.
"What are you looking at? You look so happy." Chu Yinlong asked casually and plugged in the incense stick.
"This is the video Jingyu sent me." Jiang Dao didn't even raise his eyes. "The kitten he raised is so cute. It's so silly. It can't even walk after a note was stuck on its body. Hahaha..."
Chu Yinlong: ...
"Like cats?" Chu Yinlong asked.
"Of course, I like all cute little animals." Jiang Dao said, "In addition to cats and dogs, there are also war horses and falcons, elephants and bears... It's a pity that I don't have the opportunity to raise them. I can only envy them."
Whose elephant and bear are considered “small animals”?
And is it allowed to be raised?
Chu Yinlong laughed, lit the sandalwood, and sat cross-legged at the end of the bed.
Jiang Dao threw his phone away, lay on the bed and sighed: "I have no choice. The small animals hide when they see me. This time I can't raise them even if I have the conditions..."
Chu Yinlong said: "Okay, it's getting late, go to sleep quickly, you can raise anything you want in your dreams."
"Tsk, you!" Jiang Dao pretended to be angry and kicked Chu Yinlong on the butt with great ease.
Not until the sleep-coaxing service was over did Chu Yinlong slowly open his eyes and look at Jiang Dao who was sleeping.
This child is very well behaved when he is asleep. You would never guess that beneath his handsome appearance, he actually hides a mysterious and dangerous soul.
Thinking back to the phone call from Officer Xing this afternoon, Chu Yinlong couldn't help but tremble in his heart.
In order to avoid the Qin family's secret obstruction, he asked Officer Xing to check the surveillance footage along the way when Jiang Dao sneaked into Qin Xiao's villa that night, hoping to be prepared in advance to avoid being caught off guard again.
Who would have thought that the result of checking the surveillance footage was that Jiang Dao had never appeared again after he disappeared from the wall of the hot spring hotel. His figure was not captured in any of the surveillance cameras along the way, in the forest area, or in the villa community - Jiang Dao had performed a perfect infiltration operation.
Because of this investigation result, Officer Xing also reminded Chu Yinlong to pay attention to Jiang Dao's behavior and report it immediately if he finds any clues that he might be a spy.
At the same time, as a friend, Officer Xing also solemnly advised Chu Yinlong not to trust Jiang Dao too much.
But Chu Yinlong had no resistance to Jiang Dao's mysterious qualities.
He likes anything that can make him tremble. The more afraid he is, the more he wants to explore and touch it. The more the other person is beyond his control, the more he can't stop... He wants to protect Jiangdao, but at the same time he also wants to see Jiangdao's most deadly side; he likes Jiangdao when he is docile, but he looks forward to conquering that mysterious and dangerous soul even more.
At this moment, Chu Yinlong was even strangely a little jealous of Qin Xiao, because the other party must have seen Jiang Dao, whom he had never seen.
…
The three days passed almost in a flash.
In these short three days, many new things happened in the entertainment industry. This star's new drama was aired with explosive acting skills, that popular star got a new endorsement and his career soared. In addition, there were new CPs in a certain variety show, and beautiful faces in a certain fashion blockbuster... The hot searches on Weibo were refreshed several times in three days.
The quarrel between Longqi Entertainment and the director of "Love" has not yet come to an end, but people's attention has begun to be diverted. In addition, Chu Yinlong and the Qin family both intend to keep this matter out of the spotlight. After three days, the aftermath of the previous farce subsided very quickly... Even the news of the postponement of "Love" did not stay on the hot search for more than half a day.
Of course, there are many finishing details of this matter that netizens cannot see.
The traffic control department of Yanyi District responded quickly and dealt with a staff member who was bribed to retrieve surveillance footage privately; after receiving the lawyer's letter, the director of "Falling in Love" contacted Jiang Dao, returned the 200,000 yuan he had originally collected, and paid additional compensation of a considerable amount for various losses.
As for the fact that a senior executive of Tianqin Capital suddenly jumped ship with the company's key project team, and Qin Jiangshan's comeback and re-helming of Tianqin Capital... huh? What does this have to do with the entertainment industry?
Even if Qin Xiao smashed a whole set of precious bone china for this, he had no evidence to prove that Chu Yinlong was behind the executive's job-hopping.
In fact, it was not Chu Yinlong who did the job for him to be removed from office.
When Chu Yinlong heard this, he was also very surprised: "What do you think was the reason why Qin Xiao was dismissed?"
Lu Zhengrong's tone was strange on the phone: "It is said that his mental state is unstable. I can't find out the details for the time being, but Qin Jiangshan decided to give up the pleasure of being the emperor and go back to take charge of the overall situation... Qin Xiao must be seriously ill."
Upon hearing the news, Chu Yinlong glanced at Jiang Dao who was eating breakfast without leaving a trace.
As if sensing his gaze, Jiang Dao turned around to look at him and winked at him with a smile.
After hanging up the phone, Chu Yinlong returned to the restaurant and sat opposite Jiang Dao. He took a sip of soy milk and couldn't help but be curious: "What did you do to Qin Xiao that day?"
Jiang Dao asked: "What happened to him?"
Chu Yinlong: "He is ill. He has mental problems."
Hearing this, Jiang Dao laughed out loud: "Is he sick already? He is so timid. I thought the person who could become the president would have good psychological quality... But it's good, so that he won't cause trouble again in the future."
After saying that, he ate the last mouthful of oats, and his tongue quickly swept across the corner of his mouth, licking off the remaining milk on his lips.
Sure enough, Qin Xiao was scared by Jiang Dao.
Chu Yinlong was silent for a moment, then asked, "How did you scare him? Did you just drink a glass of wine?"
Jiang Dao tilted his head and smiled at him: "Curious?"
Chu Yinlong nodded: "Of course. I want to know how well you can play the villain."
Jiang Dao looked at Chu Yinlong for a moment, his eyelashes trembled, he curled the corners of his mouth, stood up and walked to Chu Yinlong, stretched out his hand to take the cup of soy milk.
"Brother, drink it."
The other hand gently placed on the back of Chu Yinlong's neck. Jiang Dao's eyes were dark and cold, and his tone was cold: "Otherwise, the next time I feed you, it will be poison."
His heart was beating violently, but his breathing subconsciously stopped. The tremor jumped from the back of Chu Yinlong's neck to his tailbone, and the coldness suddenly spread to his limbs and bones...
However, the brief fear disappeared almost instantly, and was followed by indescribable excitement.
Chu Yinlong stared at Jiang Dao's frosty face, looked at his deep eyes, leaned forward slightly, and took a sip of soy milk from Jiang Dao's hand holding the cup.
Jiang Dao couldn't help laughing.
"You really drank it." He put the cup back on the table. "Well, that's how I scared him."
As for the fact that he suddenly appeared in Qin Xiao's villa without any warning before, and later used the pendant to deepen the sense of horror, there is no need to go into details.
Of course, Chu Yinlong didn't believe that Jiang Dao's threat was that simple.
But that doesn't matter.
The important thing is, his purpose of bringing this up has been achieved, and it went better than expected - the Jiang Dao who just exuded a dangerous aura simply fascinated him, just like the few glimpses he had gotten on the set before.
After breakfast, Jiang Dao packed his luggage and drove back to the apartment with his assistant who had come to escort him.
Chu Yinlong stood at the gate of the villa, watching Jiang Dao's car disappear around the corner of the road, feeling a little empty.
Three days is indeed too short.
And it made him more and more greedy.
…
As expected, Jiang Dao suffered from insomnia on the first night back in the apartment.
Listening to the emotionless electronic reading in his headphones, he tossed and turned in bed several times, but still couldn't fall asleep. After thinking about it, Jiang Dao opened the music website, searched for a Buddhist scripture album, and started playing the album in a loop.
The result was useless.
I looked at the time, it was two o'clock in the morning.
You can't call Chu Yinlong at a time like this and ask someone to chant sutras for him over the phone, right?
Jiang Dao sighed, forced himself to close his eyes, and tried to relax and empty his mind. Even if he couldn't fall asleep, at least he could let his body rest well.
He was half asleep and half awake the whole night, and at dawn, Jiangdao got up on time and returned to his previous extremely regular life.
However, that night, although Jiangdao's insomnia symptoms improved slightly, he still woke up several times during the night and had difficulty falling asleep.
After going to bed the next day, Jiang Dao simply called Chu Yinlong.
He didn't want to resort to drugs, nor was he the type to torture himself silently. He had no one to turn to before, but now... since Chu Yinlong's sleep-inducing service was so effective, it would of course be his first choice.
"Can't sleep again?" Chu Yinlong seemed a little surprised.
"Yes, I've been spoiled by your sleep-inducing service. Now I can't sleep well even when listening to e-books." Jiang Dao wrapped himself in the quilt, pulling the earphone cord, speaking with a lazy nasal tone, "So I came to you to try, I don't know if chanting sutras over the phone will work."
There was a chuckle on the phone.
"Wait a moment, I'll finish the work at hand." Chu Yinlong said calmly, "No need to hang up, you can chat first, it will be over in a while."
Jiang Dao curled up in the quilt, thought for a while, and found a topic: "I watched a movie last night, called "Perfect Lover". At first I didn't realize it was directed by Director Mu. The story is too... weird. Have you seen it?"
Chu Yinlong said, "I've seen it. The movie won a lot of awards, but unfortunately the box office was not ideal."
Jiang Dao actually didn’t quite understand: “I don’t know why the movie is called “Perfect Lover”… Is the feeling of the male protagonist towards the female protagonist really love?”
There was a pause on the other end of the phone, and then Chu Yinlong asked with a smile: "What do you think?"
Jiang Dao closed his eyes and recalled the plot he saw: "I think he was more like hunting, or in other words, weaving a cage with illusions and locking the heroine in it for life."
Chu Yinlong agreed: "Yes, he has a strong control desire. Every detail of every day and every event will not exceed his plan. Even the surprise he prepared for the heroine, the time and place of the event, and even the foreshadowing and the heroine's emotions were all designed by him... I think this is certainly not love."
"Then why did you name it "Perfect Lover"?" Jiang Dao was curious, "From some perspectives, this story should be considered a horror story, right?"
"But, for the unsuspecting heroine, he is indeed the perfect lover." Chu Yinlong said with a smile, "We will never know whether our lives are arranged by the plot, and whether the surprises and encounters that happen in front of us are carefully designed... Maybe, the world we live in is actually a movie in the eyes of others?"
Jiang Dao was shocked!
He opened his mouth, but felt like he had nowhere to start.
This world is not a movie, but a book - he dare not say this casually!
Jiang Dao laughed a few times, and his voice was flawless: "You are right. If the heroine has been kept in the dark, she has indeed found the most perfect lover in the world."
Chu Yinlong continued, "Unfortunately, the word 'perfect' itself shows that this lover is actually fake. Real things are hard to be perfect, and when you encounter something perfect, you should be alert to whether it is a scam."
After chatting for a few words, the limousine finally arrived at the hotel and Chu Yinlong returned to his room.
Without having time to change clothes or remove makeup, he walked straight to the floor-to-ceiling window, closed the curtains, and sat on the floor.
"I'm fine." He whispered, "It's getting late. Let's talk tomorrow. I'll recite the sutra for you first."
"Yeah, okay." Jiang Dao also put the conversation aside, turned over and lay flat on the bed, closing his eyes.
Listening to the Buddhist chanting coming from the headphones, he actually relaxed quickly and gradually fell into a peaceful dream.
After coaxing the child to sleep, Chu Yinlong did not cut off the communication for a long time.
There was no sound coming from the receiver, but he seemed to be able to hear Jiangdao's long breathing and see the boy's extremely relaxed sleeping face.
The room was silent for a long time, and Chu Yinlong murmured, "Good night, Xiaodao. Have a good dream."
It was a good dream, but unfortunately it didn’t last long.
When Jiang Dao woke up in a daze, it was still pitch black outside the window.
I looked at the time. It was three o'clock in the morning.
Jiang Dao raised his arms and pressed them over his eyes, sighing helplessly - it seemed that the effect of the drug that had helped him sleep over the phone was only half as good! Sure enough, he is not as useful as the real actor Chu.
There was no other way, Jiang Dao could only take out his e-book and play it again, and began to catch up on his sleep in a half-asleep and half-awake state.
The next morning, as Jiang Dao just stepped into the studio, his assistant Xiao Yang handed him a long box.
"What's this?" Jiang Dao was puzzled.
"Sandalwood." The assistant was obviously used to it. "The boss asked me to give it to you."
"Oh, thank you." Jiang Dao took the box and put it in his coat pocket.
As he walked towards the physical education classroom, he sent a message to Chu Yinlong: "What do you want to give me sandalwood for?"
Chu Yinlong quickly replied: "If you chant the sutras over the phone at night, the effect may be better."
However, that night, it turned out that the sandalwood did not make the phone sleep-inducing medicine any better.
Jiang Dao reached for his phone in a daze. He had been suffering from lack of sleep for a few days and was feeling a little depressed. This time he didn't check the time and directly sent a message to Chu Yinlong: "I woke up in the middle of the night again. It turns out that only Teacher Chu's physical body can help me sleep best [grievance]"
At three o'clock in the morning, Jiang Dao was half asleep when he suddenly received a message from Chu Yinlong: "If you are still awake, come and open the door."
Jiang Dao opened his eyes wide immediately, got out of bed, ran barefoot to the entrance, and opened the door of the apartment.
Chu Yinlong stood outside the door with a cold dew on his body, lowered his eyes slightly, and looked at him with a smile: "Excuse me, is this the sleep-inducing service that Mr. Jiang ordered?"
The author has something to say: The turning point chapter is so difficult to write, I’m dying of writer’s block…QAQ
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