Act I: First Encounter at the Dinner Party (Part 2)
Bing Jie has been exposed to elite education since he was a child, and he has mastered various skills easily. Now he is asked to perform without knowing how to play the piano, and he does feel a little unnatural. When he hesitated, Qi Jixin smiled and covered his right hand, leading him to play.
When the big hands surround the small hands, there will be endless tension. It is a moment that Bing Jie often recalls and feels happy about.
Now, looking at her slender, white hands placed on the back of his hands, just covering the back of his hands, he had to admit that there was a unique charm.
How could the male protagonist still be in the mood to play the piano? Thinking back to what she had just said, his body became more and more stiff, but the room was eerily quiet except for the sound of the piano keys.
Finally, he couldn't stand it any longer and stared at her, asking puzzledly: "Do you like me?"
Qi Jixin raised his eyebrows calmly, his expression unfathomable: "Maybe."
Bing Jie lowered his head with mixed feelings, in his heart cursing his former self for being so pretentious. He obviously liked her so much that he took the initiative to invite someone who had never seen him, but he still pretended to be reserved in front of her.
Bing Jie was speechless as he thought that he could still win her over despite all this. She must love him terribly.
The first scene ended here, and all the staff came up in a hurry. Those who needed to touch up their makeup did so, and the props team was busy fiddling with the objects on the scene. In short, the scene suddenly became noisy.
As soon as Bing Jie appeared, the air pressure around him dropped a lot. Qi Jixin withdrew his hand in disappointment and turned to look for Sister Zhuo. Bing Jie stood up and left with a gloomy face. No one knew what he was thinking.
No matter how busy Xuan Jiazhuo is, she has to go to the scene. She has to guard against it strictly and not give Bing Jie another chance to hurt Qi Jixin. As soon as the filming was over, she rushed to her side before Qi Jixin found her.
Seeing Sister Zhuo, Qi Jixin made a face at her and whispered something to her in a low voice. Bing Jie sat on the lounge chair and stared at them until Qiu Hongbo called him in a low voice.
"Boss, that's too serious."
If Bing Jie hadn't entrusted him to remind him all the time, Qiu Hongbo wouldn't have dared to say this to the president even if he had ten times the courage.
Bing Jie simply closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and exhaled slowly, trying his best to calm his emotions. After a few times, he was indeed much calmer.
At this moment, a cheerful piano sound came. He suddenly opened his eyes and saw the person playing the piano. A chill suddenly came from behind, passing through his limbs and bones, freezing Bing Jie in place and unable to move.
"No, how is this possible?" he murmured to himself in amazement.
Qiu Hongbo had never seen him like this before, so he turned his head and looked in the direction he was looking - wasn't that Qi Jixin playing the piano?
When he came to his senses, Bing Jie had already walked over there, and the two people over there had not noticed at all.
Xuan Jiazhuo stood beside the piano with a smile on his face, his thoughts racing. He recalled the year he first met Qi Jixin. The two guys, who had skipped classes, bumped into each other in the music room, and it was hard to tell who was more embarrassed for a moment.
That year, Qi Jixin was still the precious daughter raised by her parents, and Xuan Jiazhuo was a rebellious but wealthy young woman from a very affluent family.
After all, Xuan Jiazhuo was more experienced. She drove Qi Jixin away with confidence. Qi Jixin also had a bad temper, but the two of them did not get to the point of fighting. They both snorted coldly and left.
Qi Jixin sat down at the piano, wanting to take the opportunity to practice the birthday song she wrote for her mother. In order to keep it absolutely confidential, she had never practiced it at home.
The rock queen on the other side was more familiar with the place. Xuan Jiazhuo raised her hand to lock the door, then walked towards the drum set.
Thanks to the wealth of the aristocratic school, the entire school was built to very high standards, and the music room was also very soundproof. Unfortunately, no matter how good the soundproofing was, it could not separate the conflicting two sounds in the room.
Xuan Jiazhuo was furious as she held the drumstick. She had come here to vent her dissatisfaction, but ended up running into a little girl scammer who was against her. Who could stand this?
She stood up angrily and walked over, ready to argue with her, but the twenty or thirty steps she took calmed her down. When she reached Qi Jixin, her mood had calmed down.
Xuan Jiazhuo held the drumsticks in his left and right hands, clasped his hands in front of his chest, and listened to her finish the entire song.
Finally, he was able to play it well in one go. Qi Jixin showed a satisfied smile. When he was about to applaud himself, someone knocked on the back of the piano with a drumstick.
"What song did you play? It's quite nice."
Qi Jixin was in a good mood and looked at her hopefully. "Really? This is the birthday song I wrote for Mom, and you're the first one to hear it!"
In just two hours, the two of them became good friends. Many years later, Xuan Jiazhuo told Qi Jixin the truth. She originally wanted Qi Jixin to compose a song for her so that she could be good friends with her.
Later, the lie was forgotten in a corner of their minds, and the two really became good friends. Then, as fate would have it, problems arose in Qi Jiaxuan's family one after another, and the life trajectories of the two were completely changed.
The gifted pianist passed away quietly, and the designated leader of the Xuan Group also disappeared. However, as time went by, the friendship between the two became stronger.
Qi Jixin glanced at her during a break in her playing and knew that Sister Zhuo must be reminiscing about the past. She smiled and cleared her throat: "Why, Sister Zhuo, do you want me to find you a drum set so you can play a few times?"
Xuan Jiazhuo gritted his teeth and waved his fist at her, trying his best to look fierce on his round face that had no killing power: "You deserve to be punished, don't you?"
The mere mention of this made Sister Zhuo jump up and down. Qi Jixin withdrew her hands from the piano and focused on confronting her: "My dear sister, how come your rock soul has awakened? Are you going to look down on us piano-playing antiques again?"
Qi Jixin burst into laughter after she finished speaking. Xuan Jiazhuo became anxious and pretended to hit her. She stood up and ran, almost bumping into someone. The person's long arm held her waist, and she was able to stand steady.
"Thank you... Hey, Bing Jie, why are you here?" Qi Jixin was a little surprised, but the next second he was pulled away by Xuan Jiazhuo.
The moment Xuan Jiazhuo saw Bing Jie, she felt very upset, but he also naturally put his arm around Qi Jixin's waist! Xuan Jiazhuo was not an old-fashioned person, she could accept such an action of hugging someone, but not Bing Jie.
She protected Qi Jixin behind her, like a cat with its fur standing on end but still protecting its cubs. It can be said that she was in a terrible mood: "Bing Jie, please respect yourself."
Qi Jixin frowned in confusion. Sister Zhuo was usually very stable, so why did she suddenly get so angry?
Bing Jie had been staring at Qi Jixin. Seeing her staggering after being pulled so hard made him very worried. Xuan Jiazhuo's words were almost a roar, which forced him to look at Xuan Jiazhuo.
"Can I say something to her?" Bing Jie asked Xuan Jiazhuo, the person who was about to enter combat mode, very politely.
"certainly."
"Of course not."
Qi Jixin agreed quickly, but Xuan Jiazhuo flatly refused. After being glared at by Sister Zhuo, Qi Jixin immediately pursed her lips and stopped talking.
Without intending to embarrass Qi Jixin, Bing Jie immediately made concessions: "Okay, then Agent Xuan, can I talk to you?" He looked at Xuan Jiazhuo with determination, he knew that Xuan Jiazhuo would definitely agree.
Xuan Jiazhuo pondered for two seconds and snorted in response. Bing Jie's willingness to give in was completely unexpected, and she was just looking for him to talk.
Qi Jixin looked at the two people who left one after another and stood there in confusion. Qiu Hongbo found the right time and walked towards her.
"Madam, please." Bing Jie pushed open the door of the conference room in front of him. The shining key in the keyhole was turned by the neat movement, making a jingling sound.
Xuan Jiazhuo had never met him twice in private, and coupled with what had just happened, she was in a very bad mood. She walked towards the meeting room in her low heels, and every step where her heels hit the ground was a roar of dissatisfaction on her behalf.
She walked to the table, slammed it in frustration, then turned and pointed at Bing Jie: "You're a dishonest person... Hey!"
The moment she turned around and got angry, Bing Jie closed the office door, turned the key and locked the door completely. Fortunately, there was a piece of glass embedded in the door panel, which allowed Xuan Jiazhuo to see his lip movements clearly.
【Feel sorry】
When he returned to the set, Bing Jie saw Qi Jixin sitting on his lounge chair, chatting with Qiu Hongbo. As if they had a sense of each other, Qi Jixin looked up and saw him. Bing Jie walked over quickly, and Qiu Hongbo wisely left quickly.
Watching Bing Jie take his seat, Qi Jixin felt his eyebrows throbbing. He had come back so quickly, perhaps he had offended Sister Zhuo in some way...
"I heard from your assistant that you have something to ask me?" She asked while looking towards the door, afraid that Sister Zhuo would rush in the next second.
Bing Jie nodded: "When did you learn to play the piano?"
Qi Jixin was puzzled by the fact that after all this time, it was just this kind of trivial stuff. "Ah, you learned it when you were very young, what's wrong?"
Bing Jie's pupils shrank slightly, but before Qi Jixin noticed anything unusual, he blinked twice, hiding all his thoughts, and then he changed the subject: "Nothing, I've been away from acting for too long. Regarding the scene just now, can you give me some advice?"
Qi Jixin is a workaholic, Bing Jie knows it very well. Before she married him, she was a rising star. It was only at his request that she retired from the world.
Using this excuse to change the subject, she will definitely not notice anything.
As expected, Qi Jixin nodded without any guard. She was about to say this, but was having trouble speaking. "This is my personal understanding. I think your emotions in the piano scene are different from what I imagined."
Bing Jie looked at her deeply. After realizing that she was not a subordinate that he could control with just a glance, he added, "Well, tell me."
"You're right to be stunned and surprised. I think we should be more resistant and cautious. Our statuses are extremely unequal. I'm the host of the banquet, but how will these little celebrities who have been brought here position themselves?"
"The chosen prey." Bing Jie hit the nail on the head, and Qi Jixin immediately gave him a thumbs up.
"Ordinary people who want to climb the social ladder would easily accept this identity, but the little star created by the script, that is, you, has great ambitions. He disdains to rely on nepotism to achieve resource advancement, right?"
Bing Jie's heart felt as if it were filled with lead, becoming heavier and heavier.
Qi Jixin continued, "So, it's not wrong for you to show a little more resistance." Seeing him pondering something, she changed the subject and comforted him, "But it's not your fault. I think there's something wrong with the script. That fleeting moment between us on the stairs shouldn't have happened. At the very least, you shouldn't have looked at me. Your character dictates that in our relationship, I have to be the one who's assertive and proactive. Otherwise, your character will be ruined."
Bing Jie forced himself to nod. As expected, he didn't understand her at all. She had concealed the fact that she could play the piano because it was her pride and resistance.
I originally thought that she loved me so much that she was willing to do anything for me, but unexpectedly, she still retained a bit of arrogance.
Two years ago, Bing Jie would be burning with jealousy and angry that she didn't love him enough, but now, he could only be unwilling but sincerely happy for her. The hardships he brought her did not make her break down, and the once sincere Qi Jixin was still living with dignity.
After instructing Qi Jixin to revise the script, Bing Jie left again. He thought it was time to have a good talk with Xuan Jiazhuo.
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