Chapter 86 I Love Breakups: "Your girlfriend went out to dinner with someone else again tonight."
"Will you still argue in the future?"
"Quarrel."
Qin Lan mischievously pushed hard.
"Are you still going to argue or not?"
"……Quarrel."
Qin Lan bent down and bit her.
Jiang Yan convulsed, weakly pushing her away: "You...don't touch me like that..."
Qin Lan raised her face: "Why not? I saw it jumping around..."
Jiang Yan's eyes were damp as if she had been drenched in rain, and she instinctively covered them with the back of her hand. Qin Lan, taking advantage of this, began to torment her in various ways.
"Where did you learn this? I remember you used to only use your hands." Jiang Yan couldn't take it anymore, her fingers slightly parted.
Qin Lan's throat felt sticky: "Super topics are a good thing, but many of them are inaccessible. I've tried several different addresses..."
Jiang Yan gritted her teeth, her expression making Qin Lan worry that she was about to die.
"Are you okay? Is it hard being a bottom?" Qin Lan asked her hesitantly.
"Teacher Qin, do you know what the standard for a good grade is?" Jiang Yan suddenly asked her.
Qin Lan hesitated for a moment: "Endurance?"
Jiang Yan shook her head: "Don't stop all the time."
Qin Lan suddenly realized.
After being up all night, Qin Lan didn't know when it was 3 a.m.
The food had long since gone cold, and the two of them were starving.
Jiang Yan prepared two plates of grass, which the two of them quickly finished eating before finally getting into bed.
The next time I found out the time was at 12:30 pm.
After spending half an hour filling their stomachs, no one had the energy to do anything else, so they leaned against the headboard in a daze.
Jiang Yan leaned against Qin Lan's chest, her fluffy hair arching against her chin.
Qin Lan absentmindedly played with her hand, and after a while, her fingertips were suddenly poked by something uneven.
She looked down and saw the scar on Jiang Yan's right wrist. It had been cut too deep and could not be removed.
Qin Lan stared at it for a while, then tenderly scooped it up and kissed it, her expression unusually gentle: "It doesn't hurt anymore, it doesn't hurt anymore."
Jiang Yan felt a pang of sadness and turned to bite her shoulder.
"Only at times like these can I feel that I am loved by you."
Silence fell over the room once again.
The problem has come full circle. Nobody wants to speak; everyone is too exhausted.
Qin Lan suddenly remembered Du Jin from last night, and sat up abruptly, glaring fiercely at Jiang Yan: "Did you reject Du Jin? If not, go reject him now."
Jiang Yan was puzzled: "What brocade?"
Two minutes later she finally understood: "You're doubting me?"
Qin Lan got angry again after being wrongly accused: "What do you mean by 'suspicion'? If I really suspected you, I would question you directly!"
Jiang Yan was no longer listening: "You're looking at my phone because you suspect me, aren't you? What did I do that displeased you?"
"I didn't look at it intentionally. His message came in right after I hung up the phone, and I saw it by accident." Qin Lan tried to explain, "Didn't you say before that you could look at my phone freely? What do you mean by this now?"
“I let you look around freely, otherwise I wouldn’t have taken your fingerprints. I don’t have any secrets,” Jiang Yan said. “But what do you mean by asking me about this? Do you not believe I can handle it well, or do you simply not believe I can handle it?”
They seemed to be caught in a vicious cycle, which made Jiang Yan sensitive and irritable, single-mindedly wanting to achieve her ideal state.
This made Qin Lan even more confused.
Although she vaguely sensed that something was wrong with her current situation, her confusion about her feelings made her completely unaware that she should try to find and solve the problem. She even thought that love meant constant arguments, since that's how it's portrayed in TV dramas.
Moreover, she felt that she was better than the main characters in TV dramas, who were always silent and kept their emotions to themselves.
She was different. She argued with Jiang Yan to her heart's content. She said whatever came to mind.
In early May, Yu Jintang brought good news: "The Era of Red Powder" successfully passed censorship.
"In other words, we're now entering the promotional phase!"
Yu Jintang enthusiastically tagged everyone in the group: "Intensive work is about to begin. Let's all work hard for the huge success of 'The Age of Red Powder'!"
Any later and it might miss the summer season, and winter break isn't the battleground for TV dramas. The official accounts were quickly set up, the entire production team became active, and intensive promotion began.
The interviews went on and on: "Ms. Qin, in your opinion, what is the specific emotional connection between your character and Ms. Jiang's character? Or is there a more subtle, abstract emotion?"
"The feelings between Shangguan and Jiang Yan, no, Taiping?"
Qin Lan, with her legs crossed, deliberately "misspoke" as part of the usual CP (couple) hype routine: "I think this kind of feeling transcends ordinary friendship and love. Both parties are in a state of being more than friends but less than lovers, and the meaning of love fades as time goes on. In the midst of the political vortex, their first priority is to survive."
The reporter opposite her visibly froze for a moment. Qin Lan pretended not to notice and continued, "Wan'er has relatively few lines, so the director will have me use more physical movements and eye contact to express Wan'er's inner world. These details need to be discovered by the audience themselves, and I look forward to everyone's feedback."
Jiang Yan also crossed her legs, staring at the camera with an official expression, only turning her head to glance at Qin Lan at the end and suddenly smiling.
Having seen this person's smiling face so many times, Qin Lan could tell at a glance how fake her smile was.
Qin Lan turned around and exchanged a very artificial smile with her: "Does Teacher Jiang have anything to add?"
"No, Teacher Qin spoke very well; she said everything I wanted to say."
Jiang Yan's tone was strange, as if she was deliberately going against her: "I really admire Teacher Qin."
"Hehe." Qin Lan smiled.
Seeing that the tone was about to change, the media quickly tried to steer the conversation back: "Hmm... okay, it seems that Teacher Jiang and Teacher Qin have a good relationship in private. I see that netizens really like the cat-shaped Teacher Jiang. Does Teacher Jiang ever feel that he looks a little like a cat?"
"Hmm, I think I'm more like Little Pony," Jiang Yan said with a smile.
Qin Lan couldn't sit still any longer. She turned her head and glared at her, but still managed to smile in a particularly kind manner: "Teacher Jiang's tastes are quite unique."
"No, it's all because Teacher Qin likes me as Xiao Ma." Jiang Yan said casually, "When it comes to being unique, Teacher Qin is definitely more unique."
"That was an accident." Qin Lan gritted her teeth. "Now I think Teacher Jiang is more like a dog."
All it does is bite, bite, bite. It's so clingy and loves to argue. What kind of cat is this annoying?
Jiang Yan asked knowingly, "Why not a cat? My fans think I look more like a cat."
Qin Lan: "This has nothing to do with our drama."
Jiang Yan: "How could that be? There are many people online who are imitating my character Taiping. Maybe it's because Taiping is noble and aloof and likes to lick her fur."
"That's a word used to describe peace and tranquility. What word has anything to do with you?"
When they looked at each other, their smiles were so innocent, but their eyes were practically spitting fire.
A tense atmosphere filled the room, making the media feel suffocated. These two were indeed unable to maintain peace for even a second.
Solo fans continued their wailing and lamenting, but seasoned CP fans had already sensed something was amiss: "Has anyone else noticed the atmosphere between Teacher Qin and Teacher Jiang is off?"
【My melancholy is all in the wind】: What's wrong? My nemesis is the sweetness in this gunpowder; I completely get it now.
[Life is as deep as the sea]: No, you didn't get it. Something's clearly wrong between them right now; it looks like they've had a fight.
New fans were utterly confused: "Aren't they always arguing?"
[Jiang1Qin0]: It's mainly a feeling. Before, their arguments were like flirting, with one always giving in to the other. Now, it's clear they're both a bit angry... the atmosphere is very tense.
The official team started releasing behind-the-scenes footage across all platforms. It was so delicious that [I Say Qinjiang You Say 99] wrote articles for three days and three nights in a row and ended up getting tenosynovitis.
Qin Lan's official account reposted the post, and Jiang Yan's official account reposted Qin Lan's repost.
Qin Lan's main account appeared in Jiang Yan's comment section: 【Scholarly Genius】
Jiang Yan replied: [A vicious and strange person]
Even the solo fans noticed something was wrong.
Although the two hadn't gotten along before, this was the first time they'd left written evidence. However, they refused to think it was a fight, stubbornly believing the two were planning a complete falling out, after all, "My sister doesn't want to put on this act with that woman!" and "My sister must be disgusted; we should comfort her now!"
So, a large number of fans flooded the screen with messages like, "[Waaaa, Lanlan, you've worked so hard]", "[Our Yanyan has been wronged]", and "[Taking Lanlan away, Lanlan is not interested]".
Qin Lan really wanted to say that she didn't suffer any grievances while filming, but now that filming is over, she feels almost wronged to death.
The show is about to air, so Yu Jintang led them to visit the buildings.
The lead actors took the observation elevator and ascended to the top floor amidst screams. Once the fans could no longer see them, the two who had just been laughing and joking immediately put on long faces.
Yu Jintang let out a sound of surprise: "If you guys do this... will we still be able to do any advertising later?"
Qin Lan: "No problem, I have a lot of professional ethics."
Jiang Yan scoffed, "That must be tough on Teacher Qin, having to put herself through the hardship of working with someone as annoying as me."
They started arguing again, making a buzzing sound in the elevator.
The others, annoyed, turned away and looked at each other in the mirror.
The elevator doors opened, and filming equipment was already set up on the terrace, with staff making adjustments.
The five main characters needed to film several short videos. The group video was a hand gesture dance, then it was the trio of Wu Wanping, the duo of Empress Wei and Anle, Wu Ping, Wu Wan, and finally Wanping…
"I didn't write a script for you two, so improvise." Yu Jintang waved his hand and pulled Xiahou Cheng aside to play games.
Qin Lan and Jiang Yan stared at each other, wide-eyed.
What are you filming?
Jiang Yan sullenly asked, "Hand gesture dance? Three consecutive heart gestures? Five consecutive acts of coquetry? Eight consecutive acts of cuteness?"
Qin Lan: "What are all these things?"
Jiang Yan: I don't know, netizens just like to see these kinds of things.
The two of them looked at each other for a long time but couldn't come up with a solution. Finally, Xiahou Cheng couldn't stand it anymore and came over to fix them up.
"Come here, lean against her like this, put your hand on her shoulder... from behind! Go around from behind!"
"Put your arm around her shoulder, okay? Be casual, don't act like you don't know her well..."
"Hey, Qin, don't look so sullen. And Jiang Yan, don't roll your eyes, I saw it."
"Any lollipops? Anyone have some? Hey Lao Qin, you hold a lollipop in one hand and put your arm around her with the other, both of you look at the camera... Quick, take the picture!"
The photographer took three consecutive photos.
Xiahou Cheng took off Yu Jintang's hat and put it on Qin Lan's head: "Props, give me a pair of gold-rimmed glasses."
Jiang Yan now wears a pair of glasses on her nose.
"Change the river view here, move two steps to the right... Why are you two still in the same pose? Find a few comfortable poses, something casual and cool, and let's do a three-two-one pose!"
"Tang and Glasses, switch places. This time, you two turn your bodies slightly to the side and look back at the camera... Yes, that's the angle with the disdain. Old Qin did a good job."
Yu Jintang walked over to Feng Manhong, who had been watching the show, and said, "She can take photos? She looks pretty good."
“Chengcheng can play a little bit of everything,” Feng Manhong said with a smile.
Liu Lü asked, "Are they still arguing?"
Yu Jintang glanced in that direction helplessly.
"Yes, they started arguing right after our variety show finished filming, and it's been going on for three or four months now."
"Perhaps Teacher Qin and Teacher Jiang's personalities are clashing lately." Liu Lü occasionally believed in metaphysics.
The solo stans downstairs are truly at their wits' end.
They were jumping around trying to get rid of the main character and keep him away, but when they turned around, their own main character was already hugging that woman.
The interview was also strange. Anyone with eyes could see that the two of them were acting differently than before. It was more tense than when they talked, more ambiguous than enemies, and more like love turned to hate.
Now that things have come to this, it's quite clear that both sides are trying to create a romantic pairing. Furthermore, the fact that the fan club administrators haven't commented at all suggests they were informed beforehand.
The solo fans quieted down for a while, but soon found a new way to compete: shipping each of the two male leads with Feng Manhong.
The two supertopics are called Red and Blue and Red Smoke, and their ranking is used to determine which side is better.
Bai Ai was truly exasperated with them. They'd rather ship Feng Manhong as a couple than treat the real couple any better. They even spent all their time trying to get attention in Feng Manhong's comment section, acting as childish as elementary school students.
A week before the broadcast, Qin Lan and Jiang Yan each posted a vlog. The background of the video seemed to be Qin Lan's house. At first, her fans were devastated, but they were relieved when they realized that the backgrounds of Feng Manhong, Liu Lü, and Xiahou Cheng's vlogs were the same. It turned out that the crew had gone to Qin Lan's house for a team-building activity.
It's fine as long as the two of them don't meet in private.
The two sat on the sofa, quite close together, but both wore stiff, fake smiles, looking as if they had broken up.
"Hello everyone, I am actress Qin Lan."
Then, the wheat was transferred to Jiang Yan.
She held it a little too far, so Jiang Yan had to lean forward: "Hello everyone, I'm actress Jiang Yan."
Qin Lan tried to keep her tone light: "Long time no see. I have something to announce to everyone today."
Jiang Yan simply grabbed her hand and moved the microphone closer to her: "We have worked hard over the past year, and now we have finally ushered in the moment of fruition."
The two leaned close to the same microphone: "The Age of Red Powder will be released next week!"
After saying that, they both grinned, looking incredibly awkward.
...
"See you next Friday at 8 PM on xx Video!"
Qin Lan threw down the microphone and collapsed back onto the sofa.
Yu Jintang let out a long sigh.
"I've never seen such a way of promoting a couple."
Jiang Yan shrugged: "It's not my fault, it's just that Teacher Qin didn't want to be near me."
"Who doesn't want to be next to whom?" Qin Lan snapped. "Who came in with that deadpan expression?"
"So Teacher Qin knew that this was a dead face. Someone has been wearing a dead face for so many years and I haven't said anything."
They had a huge fight this morning. This time it was about who should apologize first. Given that Jiang Yan had always been the one to back down first in their arguments over the past few months, Ms. Jiang exploded and refused to apologize this time. Incidentally, they made up yesterday, and both swore they would never fight again.
Yu Jintang asked Feng Manhong with a headache, "Won't our drama be canceled because of their breakup?"
Feng Manhong encouraged them, "Let them hold on for two more days, preferably until the broadcast is over."
Qin Lan turned her head: "Break up, break up, break up, can't you say something auspicious? Who wants to break up?"
"I," Jiang Yan suddenly spoke up, "I've had enough of arguing. Let's talk this out today. Can you please coax me?"
"What did I do wrong, Teacher Jiang?" Qin Lan asked, bewildered.
"You don't love me enough."
"Here we go again." Qin Lan was speechless. "Then why am I still sitting here doing business with you? Just go out and turn right. There are plenty of people begging me to create a CP (couple pairing)."
Jiang Yan's mind went blank for a moment, and the string finally snapped.
She stood up very calmly, even with a smile on her face, walked to the door, picked up her handbag, and politely said goodbye to everyone one by one. Finally, she said to Qin Lan, who had unconsciously stood up:
"Fine, then you can keep your head held high and just don't come looking for me to make up."
The door slammed shut, and for five minutes the entire living room fell silent.
Qin Lan stood there, it was hard to describe the expression on her face.
Yu Jintang turned her head, silently mouthing, "That's terrifying..."
Xiahou Cheng nodded frantically.
Liu Lü unconsciously moved a little closer to Feng Manhong, who took her hand reassuringly. Both couples nestled close together affectionately.
This is what Qin Lan saw when she turned around.
My mood immediately darkened further.
On the first day after Jiang Yan left, Qin Lan was consumed by anger.
The next day, she began to feel unconsciously anxious, pacing around the house and checking her phone every half hour.
At this point, she really wanted to contact Jiang Yan, but she was still bothered by what Jiang Yan had said before she left. Wouldn't taking the initiative to contact her now be the same as admitting her mistake?
She would rather die than back down!
On the third day, Ms. Qin, who refused to back down no matter what, couldn't take it anymore. She opened her phone and sent a message to Jiang Yan, only to find that Jiang Yan had blocked her.
Qin Lan was both angry and flustered, and for some reason, she had a bad feeling.
On the fourth day, she tried to remain calm, but she had already begun to think of a better solution.
Or just lower your head...
On the fifth day, Qin Lan called Yu Shan over and asked her if she was confident that she could follow Jiang Yan without being discovered by Ye Wei.
Yu Shan: "..."
She had to sacrifice her boss's reputation.
Yu Shan: "After the last accident, Ye Wei's vigilance has reached its peak. It's no less difficult for her not to notice me than climbing Mount Everest. Besides, I'm good at fighting..."
Qin Lan: "Fifty thousand."
Yu Shan: "Deal."
Then, he turned around and used 20,000 to hire the best tracking colleague in their base, and it was another day with a net income of over 10,000.
When news came in the evening, Yu Shan looked troubled: "Miss... Miss Jiang seems to be having dinner with someone else."
Qin Lan gritted her teeth inwardly.
"...Oh, I see. It's normal to have social engagements in our job."
Yu Shan closed her eyes and took a step back: "Um... there are only two people, the one opposite is a man."
"What?!"
Qin Lan's voice immediately rose eight octaves, and realizing her lapse in composure, she glared at the person threateningly, trying hard to cover it up: "For our work, having dinner alone with someone... isn't a big deal..."
She paced back and forth, agitated: "Who is that man? Find out for me!"
Yu Shan handed over the iPad: "It's him, producer Sun Hao."
He was also the producer of "The Age of Pink".
Qin Lan had nothing to say.
She sat on the sofa, her heart pounding with anxiety.
She had a feeling that Jiang Yan was about to leave her. She panicked and wanted to go find her immediately, but an unknown force held her back, preventing her from taking a single step.
"The Age of Red Powder" aired on time and became a hot topic.
Qin Lan was sending a congratulatory message in the group chat when a new notification popped up: Your special followers have posted on Weibo.
She clicked on it and saw that Jiang Yan's main account had posted two messages. The first was to promote the first episode, and the second was a photo of her with the producer, captioned: "I had a long chat with Producer Sun; it was a very rewarding day."
Qin Lan's eyes widened, and when she realized she had wasted her money and been tricked, she wanted to smash her phone to death.
She went to bed in a huff, but didn't sleep a wink all night.
Unexpectedly, bad news followed one after another: "Your girlfriend went out to dinner with someone else again tonight."
Qin Lan opened the app and saw that Jiang Yan had posted a new Weibo post, this time by director Wang Liang. The two had never worked together before, but judging from this, they would probably be collaborating soon.
On the third day, Jiang Yan posted another group photo of dinner.
Qin Lan was extremely annoyed: "Who is this? Why is he calling the boss?"
"Their company's CEO..."
By the fourth day, Qin Lan had already learned how to open the app at specific times.
He skillfully tapped into his alternate account and clicked into Jiang Yan's homepage. Oh, it's updated; this time she's the editor-in-chief of Only magazine.
Fans also noticed the unusual activity, and various speculations arose. Jiang Yan was very good at appealing to her fans and never posted anything that might make them jealous. Now, she had posted four in a row, driving her fans almost insane with envy…
[Because of Smoke, My Heart Flutters]: Ahhh, stay away from my sister, you ordinary guy!
【Qin1Jiang0】: Get out of here, Teacher Jiang can only belong to Teacher Qin!
Surprisingly, her die-hard fans didn't criticize her this time, and some bystanders even seemed to enjoy the drama: "I think she'd be better off with QL; she's much better than these old men and women."
#Jiang Yan went on four consecutive dates and became a trending topic, with everyone speculating.
Jiang Yan did not respond and instead intensified her actions.
On the fifth day, she actually posted a nine-grid photo collage.
Yu Shan looked flustered: "Oh no, Sister Qin, how come it's an ordinary person this time? We found out she's her high school classmate, who used to give Miss Jiang love letters..."
Qin Lan sneered: "Fine, fine, so you're starting to attract attention, aren't you!"
Enraged, she stormed into a bar and drank heavily, even deliberately smiling at a foreign model who approached her.
Xiaoqing and Yushan couldn't stop her, and by the time Bai Ai arrived, she was already trending on social media.
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Sorry I'm late, I had something to do during the day and had to go out. [Orange heart]
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