Chapter 36: Only Worthy of Junk Food

In the following days, the crew noticed that Pei Lang answered the phone frequently and spent more and more time holding his phone. Of course, it never affected his work.

"What? Are you in love?" During the break, Zhong Yixiu asked the question that had been on his mind for days.

He sat side by side with Pei Lang, and couldn't help but feel his Adam's apple rolling as he watched Pei Lang's neck exposed as he lowered his head to reply to the message.

"Is it really like that?" Pei Lang replied, turned off his phone, and raised his smiling eyes. "No, but it's harder to deal with than the person you're in love with."

It's a contract couple.

When he heard that it was not the case, Zhong Yixiao was actually a little relieved. There was a strange feeling when he was with Pei Lang. The longer he spent time with him, the more he wanted to get closer to him. His personality and appearance could not be described in words. Only by knowing him in person could you know. Zhong Yixiao was paying more and more attention to him. Once he was out of the play, he could not help but follow him with his eyes. He could always accurately locate Pei Lang's position at the first time.

Pei Lang was very easy to get along with. He was the same to everyone, always polite and gentle, yet distant and cold, making it difficult for people to get close to him.

Noticing that Zhong Yixiao's eyes were fixed on his face for a long time, Pei Lang frowned unconsciously, and took out a small mirror to examine himself in front of Zhong Yixiao. "Did I ruin the character's makeup?"

They had just filmed a scene where they went into the woods to collect herbs to treat the male lead. His hair was indeed a bit messy, so Pei Lang carefully combed it with his fingers.

Zhong Yixiao withdrew his gaze in a daze, and then found that Pei Lang put the small mirror back into his sleeve, then took out a bag of potato chips from the other sleeve, scanned it, tore it open, and started eating without any scruples.

Zhong Yixiao: “…”

Due to the role requirements, Pei Lang's sleeves are wide, so he can hide a lot of things. Unlike the male and female protagonists on the run, their clothes are crisp and neat for the convenience of fighting.

Who would have thought that Pei Lang hid so many personal belongings in this costume.

"Didn't you eat enough just now?" The rehearsal was very tight just now, and everyone was eating boxed lunches on the spot, and Pei Lang didn't eat less.

Pei Lang stuffed another piece of meat into his mouth. "I'm hungry again."

"That's right. I usually see you eating a lot, but you've been eating less these days." There was a hint of pampering in Zhong Yixiao's smile, and Pei Lang didn't understand why.

Pei Lang didn't care about his image and often ate snacks on the set. He ate less recently... That was because Lu Lu was supervised by his agent Sister You and was not allowed to eat. He had to wait until Lu Lu was not around before he could eat.

Pei Lang was crying. He had always felt aggrieved as a boss. Being controlled by the assistant he hired with his own money was such a miserable life.

This was not the worst. The worst was that Yan Han had somehow developed a trick and was talking more and more. He sent messages and made phone calls every day, and his words were not so ruthless. In order to deal with his father, Pei Lang had no choice but to play along.

I really act all day and night, and even when I act a little bit like myself I still have to be supervised by my assistant.

At night, after a day of filming, Pei Lang was tired, so he had a meal at the crew and went back with his assistant. He told Lu Lu to rest early and went back to the guest room.

An hour later, a man wearing sunglasses, a mask, and a blue hooded windbreaker came out of Pei Lang's room. The hood of the windbreaker was buckled on his head, wrapping him up tightly. The phone rang, and it was particularly loud in the hotel corridor. The man in the windbreaker immediately pressed the answer button. "Don't rush, don't rush, come down immediately."

He hung up the phone in a hurry. The elevator happened to stop at this building. He ignored the strange looks in the elevator, got out of the elevator, made a deal with the errand boy on the right side of the hotel entrance, hid the bag of things in his arms, wrapped it in his windbreaker, and went back.

He missed the elevator and the floor was not high, so he decided to take the emergency ladder.

It was late at night, and in the summer, and it was really strange to dress like this. He lowered his head and didn't pay attention. He accidentally bumped into someone coming down the stairs. His sunglasses fell off, and when he looked up, he saw Zhong Yixiao.

Zhong Yixiao stared at the man in confusion. He recognized him with just his eyes. "Pei Lang, why are you dressed like this?"

"Ah haha~~" Pei Lang was embarrassed in his heart, but his face was calm. "I'm going out to do something, and I'm going back to my room."

Zhong Yixiao smiled and was about to speak when a woman came to his side. She looked at him unkindly and spoke loudly. Fortunately, there were not many people on the stairs. "Are you Pei Lang? Haha~ What? Yan Xiuyuan ignored you and planned to seduce Zhong Yixiao to get attention?"

The woman was Zhong Yixiu's agent. She came to talk to him today about something and they talked in the stairwell.

Pei Lang smiled and looked at Zhong Yixiao, as if to say: Look at you, you really know how to joke.

This look was a provocation in the woman's eyes, and it was a naked charge of seduction in front of her. Instantly, the woman's eyebrows were raised, and she looked at Pei Lang as if he was looking at something dirty. She even exaggeratedly pulled Zhong Yixiao away, for fear of getting rubbed against the dirt on Pei Lang. "You thought you were a star after playing the role of Wen Yan. There are stars everywhere in the film and television city. Only you went out to get something and were fully armed, afraid of paparazzi following you. You take yourself too seriously."

The woman's words became more and more sharp. Pei Lang did not fight back for Zhong Yixiao's sake and to avoid causing trouble for the crew. He was just helpless: "I'm not hiding from the paparazzi, I'm hiding from..."

"I'm curious about what's in your arms." The woman's nails were exaggerated, like the Nine Yin White Bone Claws, and she grabbed Pei Lang's windbreaker unexpectedly, revealing some messy snacks and milk tea. The woman was disdainful. "Haha~~ You are only worthy of eating these junk foods."

"Enough!" Zhong Yixiu finally spoke. It was rare for her to get angry, so the woman calmed down a little, but still looked disdainful and unconvinced.

"Brother Lang, why are you here? I knocked on your door but no one answered. You didn't answer my phone call either." Lu Lu didn't know how he got here. He rushed over worriedly. Seeing the pile of things in Pei Lang's arms, he put one hand on his forehead and the other on the wall. "Brother Lang, why did you buy all this junk food again?"

Pei Lang was afraid that his things would be stolen, so he held it tighter. "I'm hungry."

Lu Lu put his hands on his hips, looking like a cute child scolding an adult. "No, these puffed foods, sweet milk teas are bad for the skin and make you gain weight. Confiscate them all."

Pei Lang was unhappy when he heard this. He had never felt wronged when a woman said that to him. At this moment, his eyes suddenly turned red, tears welled up in his eyes, and his voice softened a little. "Really? I have so many fighting scenes during the day, and I have been in various camera positions over and over again. I have been sweating in front of the camera without complaining about being tired. Why do I work hard to make money? It's just to live and eat. And now, at this moment, you, the assistant I hired, have deprived me of my freedom and right to eat. I can't spend the money I earn on my own preferences, so what's the point of me making money?"

Lu Lu had never seen Pei Lang like this before, and was speechless and at a loss for words. He wanted to comfort him but didn't know how, and was anxious. "I'm doing this for your own good, Brother Lang, you know I don't have any bad intentions, so... you can eat it, only tonight, and don't eat spicy noodles and milk tea behind my back anymore."

Pei Lang nodded with tears in his eyes. "Okay, I will eat openly in front of you from now on."

"Brother Lang!" Lu Lu puffed out his cheeks. He was angry but didn't dare to be really angry. He just stared.

"I know, I know. Go back to your room quickly. I have something else to do." Zhong Yixiao and his agent were still there. Pei Lang urged the simple Lu Lu to go back quickly.

If Lu Lu knew the insulting words the woman said to him, he would be so angry that he couldn't sleep. The next day, Lu Lu would be slow to react when he had to work under the panda's eyes.

"Okay, Brother Lang, I'm going back to my room first. You are not allowed to eat too much tonight, okay?"

After repeated warnings, Lu Lu finally left.

Pei Lang, who had succeeded, curled his lips into a smile and cursed him as a fool.

The woman hadn't been humiliated enough. Seeing Pei Lang like this, she felt disgusted again. She felt that Pei Lang was two-faced and even lied to his assistant. "I can understand your desire to whitewash yourself. Hehe~ But you can't rely on the character of a foodie. This character is too old-fashioned. Fans don't buy into it anymore."

Many celebrities have their own personas, and the foodie persona is also a popular one in the entertainment industry. A body that can eat a lot without gaining weight, and a silly and cute look that only sees eating, can indeed attract fans, but that is all in the past.

Today's fans are not so easy to fool.

Pei Lang finally couldn't listen any more, frowned, and told him politely not to fight with women. "Auntie, you must be in pain. You must have been hungry for half your life to maintain such a figure. Sigh~ I don't know what the meaning of living is."

"Who are you calling Auntie? I'm only thirty years old." The woman was anxious and pointed at Pei Lang's nose and cursed. To be honest, as a famous agent like her, her social status was higher than Pei Lang's current status, so she didn't respect Pei Lang at all.

"Don't be angry, don't be angry. When you frown, the wrinkles on your forehead are very obvious. Besides, thirty years old is still older than me."

This sentence directly ignited the woman, and she took out her phone to film Pei Lang's affairs and expose his face, even though Pei Lang didn't have a good reputation to begin with. "If you can't learn to respect others, I will teach you on behalf of your parents. Don't think you can get away with it just by climbing into someone else's bed. There is no shortage of people like you in the entertainment industry. Your sponsor can like you or others. A slut like you, who knows how many people have played with you, and you still think your sponsor will be devoted to you."

"Zhong Yixiao, your words seem to be a bit dirty." Pei Lang was smiling, but his eyes were cold. Zhong Yixiao frowned and took away the agent's phone.

"Sorry, it's my problem." Zhong Yixiu apologized, and the woman was very dissatisfied.

"Why are you apologizing to him? You are the best actor, who is he? How can he deserve your apology? Besides, did I say anything wrong? Isn't everything I said known to the whole internet?"

"That's enough. If you say one more word, I'll leave the company as soon as the contract expires."

Sure enough, this sentence made the woman shut up. Zhong Yixiao decided to sincerely apologize to Pei Lang. Pei Lang seemed to have received a call, ignored the two people, and returned to his room openly.