Chapter 320 Hua Rong’s Finishing Touch
In the teahouse private room that only regular customers can have, Su Yun ordered the food and drinks she wanted, then looked at Chen Boyang again: "What do you want to eat?"
Chen Boyang stretched out his hand somewhat awkwardly, took the snack list handed to him by Su Yun, and then acted as if he was immersed in the snack list and ordered more than ten dishes in a row.
"We two can't finish so much, right?" Even someone with a good appetite like Su Yun was surprised by Chen Boyang's way of ordering almost all the savory and desserts.
"This week's glutinous chicken rolls with mushrooms and milk pie with jujube paste are both very good. I'll pack them for you to take back. Your mother-in-law likes these two flavors very much." Chen Boyang said, asking the teahouse auntie who was familiar with him to help pack a portion of pig lung soup. "Lesley has been busy practicing the songs that will be the A side before joining the group. Pig lung soup is the most suitable for him."
The snacks at Luk Yu Tea House still follow the "weekly snacks" style of old-style teahouses in the Cantonese area, with the snack menu updated once a week.
Apart from some of the signature traditional dim sum that are always on the dim sum menu, the other part is a rotation system. If you miss this week, you may have to wait for several months to get the one you want. Some raw materials are seasonal, so they are only available in the corresponding season.
"You are really thoughtful." Su Yun smiled: In her early years, she often stayed away from home because she flew back and forth between Hong Kong, Japan and the United States. The two sisters, Damei and Xiaomei, were busy with their careers and studies and could not get away. Only Chen Baiyang, who was rich, had free time, was talented and had no worries about work, and had time to accompany Grandma Su out for tea.
In the past, when Su Yun was not so famous, Grandma Su would often go out with her old neighbors, the Wang family, or go back to Su Uk Estate alone to kill time; later, Su Yun gradually became a new generation of rich, and Grandma Su, as her important relative, gradually reduced the frequency of going out to avoid causing any unnecessary trouble to Su Yun.
It's not that I don't go out, but I drastically reduce the number of times I go to those old places where the crowds are relatively chaotic. Instead, I go to more famous teahouses and restaurants like Lu Yu Tea House, where the flow of people is not that complicated and the security is relatively higher.
"You know, my relationship with my father is not very good, it's just better than that of Leslie's family. And my mother is often away from Xiangjiang. Sometimes she wants to drink soup, so she has to shamelessly go to Ah B's Or grandma Su's house." Chen Boyang smiled, "So naturally I will have more contact with your mother-in-law... But besides these, you should also know why I do this."
Ever since he spoke out what he had hidden in his heart for many years, it seemed that everything else that he had always wanted to hide but couldn't in the past, all came out as he let go.
Seeing Su Yun move her mouth to say something, he quickly rushed to the front to explain his feelings over the past few days: "I'm sorry, I know I have caused you trouble, but there is one thing I always want to let you know - my affection for you is not sudden, but growing day by day."
"You don't need to give me an answer right now. What I said that night was just what I wanted to tell you, not to force you to make any response." Chen Boyang said very seriously, "I can afford to wait, and I am sure that I can afford to win or lose."
Hearing him say this, Su Yun was silent for a moment, then slowly revealed a relieved smile.
Seeing Chen Boyang's eyelashes drooping slightly because of her response, Su Yun said softly: "I can't deny that I have a certain affection for you."
Chen Baiyang raised his eyes suddenly, with an unknown light flashing in his eyes.
"But..." Su Yun changed the subject and continued, "As you said, I also need to add one more thing - we are still young and can afford to wait."
"I want to focus on my career right now and have no intention of getting married or dating for the time being."
"Maybe in the future, I might change my mind, but not now." Su Yun cautiously probed, "I hope we can take a step back and return to our previous friendship, because I don't want to lose you either."
"If the pursuit fails once, as long as the boy is not embarrassed and the girl doesn't mind, you can go back to being friends as before." Chen Boyang was very easy to talk to at this time.
However, before Su Yun could even smile "relieved", he slowly added: "However, I have already revealed my identity as a pursuer to you, so I hope that while we can restore our friendship, you will also reserve my right to pursue you."
"Is there any difference between the two?" Su Yun was slightly stunned.
"Yes." Chen Boyang answered decisively, "As a suitor, I have a legitimate right to be jealous."
Su Yun is really too extravagant. Although she herself doesn't have such intentions, there are always many beautiful women around her. In the past, she was secretly in love with him so she couldn't show it too obviously. Now that he has made his feelings clear, she has to give up and of course she has to stand in a position where she can legitimately squeeze out her rivals!
"You don't want to express this in public, do you?" Su Yun stepped back slightly.
"Of course not. This will definitely cause you trouble, so I will definitely not do such a thing before I achieve my goal." Chen Boyang immediately expressed his intention, "I just want to let my friends know that I am pursuing you, so that they don't have any worries."
When a boy expresses his intention to pursue a girl, generally people will not compete with him unless she is really shameless or has no self-awareness.
Chen Baiyang is still somewhat confident in his own quality and competitiveness: apart from those so-called young men from wealthy families, there are very few young people in Hong Kong who can compete with him.
If Zhang Querong and others also expressed their affection for Su Yun, it was not impossible for him to compete fairly with them - however, Lesley was his good brother, and he had given him advice before. He must have done this because he had no interest in Su Yun, so there was no need to worry!
"Okay, whatever you want." It was a blessing to be able to return to this point, and Su Yun also recognized today's two-way efforts: someone pursuing her, especially a pursuer of Chen Baiyang's quality, would not cause much trouble, and maybe she could find some fun in her busy work...
The idea was nice, but in reality, everyone was exhausted by Zhao's daily pressure. After the filming of "Sister Exorcist" started, the two had fewer opportunities to get together than when they were just friends. Occasionally, when they had a break in the morning or afternoon, they would both be tired after playing for a while. So in the end, everyone chose to meet in hotels, teahouses, massage parlors, and foot baths...
Sometimes there are only two or three people, sometimes there are many people gathered together, they can relax and chat about gossip, the scene is really full of joy.
Because "Bad Girl" is Mei Yanshuang's character song in the drama, and a little funny thing happened in the recording studio before, Mei Yanshuang would tease Chen and Zhang every time she finished recording a song at a party: "Hey! You said you want to sing this one too, let's go to the recording studio together tomorrow night to record a version!"
"No need for that. We're very busy lately, preparing for a new album." Afraid that Mei Yanshuang, who was fearless when excited, would really drag them into the recording studio to sing "Bad Girl", Chen and Zhang shook their heads desperately.
Especially Zhang Querong, who is going to release his long-awaited new album in mid-July, shook his head and said with particular confidence: "I also shoot movies during the day and record songs at night, and I have recorded more songs than you, where do I find the time?"
Feeling Mei Yanshuang's eyes on him, Chen Boyang immediately followed his good brother's words and said, "Although I don't have any movies to shoot, I have to help him choose songs and audition, and I also have to compose music for myself. I am also very busy..."
"You have no eloquence! No loyalty!" Mei Yanshuang curled her lips. Just when she was about to find Su Yun to help her squeeze the guy out, she looked up and saw Su Yun mingling between Lin Qingxia and Zhang Wanyu with a big smile on his face.
This is a one-stop leisure bathing center. After everyone has soaked their feet, a technician will come up to do essential oil massage. Su Yun recently used the excuse of helping others apply essential oil to touch three young and beautiful female protagonists, so that he was nicknamed "Sex Maniac (Knowing Mo)" producer...
It has to be said that the sight of a few pretty girls gathered together, chatting and laughing, was indeed pleasing to the eyes and refreshing - while Su Yun was touching others, she was also touched a lot. After all, she was the youngest among them, and as long as it was not working hours, the other three could touch her in the name of sister to avenge their hard work.
I didn't realize how time passed by, and in the blink of an eye, spring had gone and summer had arrived.
Tomorrow's filming is a night scene, and the set will not start until at least the afternoon, so Su Yun plans to stop by Zhang Querong's house to help check out his new album, and then return to her old home in Kowloon Tong to rest.
Zhang Querong's new album is taken from his English name "Leslie", and the title song is "Monica", which they spent a long time to get the cover rights for. According to Chen and Zhang, this song is very dynamic, and if it performs well, it may open up a new direction for Zhang Querong's singing career.
Of course Su Yun was also very happy to see the birth of this song. After finishing the plan for the next day in the small dark room, he drove to Zhang Querong's house overnight without caring that it was almost one o'clock in the morning.
As soon as he entered the door, Zhang Querong greeted him warmly, "Come in!"
Su Yun's heart skipped a beat when he saw such a kind and attentive attitude.
After walking in suspiciously, I saw Chen Baiyang sitting at the big table in the living room, struggling to tidy up the pile of scattered albums on the table.
"I'm going to sell 20,000 copies tomorrow, and I need to sign at least half of them at the book signing event, so I brought them all back. Please help me!" Zhang Querong begged, and said that his agent, Mrs. Chen, had already helped buy midnight snacks and coffee...
"Since it's you, just bear with it for the sake of loyalty!" Su Yun said unhappily, and then sat down on the chair next to Chen Boyang with a serious face.
It just so happened that when it rains, Chen Boyang suddenly held up an album and said, "Look, is it me who is dazzled... or is it this album?"
"What's going on?" Zhang Querong looked out and his expression changed immediately: the cover of his album was a photo of him swimming freely in the water, but due to various reasons he was unable to actually dive and shoot the photo, so he took the photo from behind a large fish tank.
Unexpectedly, a small bubble happened to block his right eyeball, turning one of his eyes into a "white eye".
The three of them were shocked, but after a quick inspection, they discovered that the albums they had brought back all had covers with one black and one white Yin-Yang eye...
"Can it be returned and remade?" Chen Boyang asked cautiously.
"We can't make it in time..." Zhang Querong shook his head sadly, "Even if the batch in the factory can be delayed, the batch for the book signing event tomorrow must follow me to the scene..."
"I'll make a phone call and ask them to seize the batch from the factory first..." Faced with the silence of the other two, Zhang Querong forced himself to calm down, stood up and said that he would contact the broker to settle the other half first.
After the call, Zhang Querong managed to force a smile: "It doesn't matter. I will go to the concert tomorrow to sing, and then apologize to the fans who came to the concert. I will tell them that I made a small mistake this time, so I was unable to present the new album to everyone in time..."
"They will definitely be very angry. If you are there at that time, it will be very dangerous!" Chen Baiyang has already held personal concerts and large-scale autograph sessions in Hong Kong, so he has rich experience in being tortured by fans.
"There's nothing I can do..."
"There is a way!"
A sudden voice interrupted their thoughts. Chen and Zhang subconsciously looked at Su Yun, and saw her pick up a thin-tipped black ink pen, and with a light stroke, she successfully removed the "eye roll" that shouldn't exist.
"This is the legendary finishing touch!"
They both stayed in silence for a second, then came back to their senses in the next second. Then they rushed over to grab the album that Su Yun had "addressed" and looked at it carefully for a long time, before looking at each other and nodding heavily.
Time was running out, and the three of them had no time to think about other things. They immediately split up and acted separately: Zhang Querong contacted his agent, Mrs. Chen, and asked her to arrange the signing event directly after she finished dealing with half of the goods from the factory, while they would order the remaining 9,999 album covers' "eyes" overnight, and then pack up both the people and the goods and send them over.
It's already past two in the evening, and the others are either out of town or have an early show, so I can't get in touch with them right away. And it's not a good idea to tell anyone about this...
When working against the clock, time flies by without one noticing it. When the first ray of sunlight in the morning came through the gap in the curtains outside the window, the dazed Zhang Querong finally woke up from his trance.
I subconsciously glanced at the albums on the table - fortunately, all of them had been "finished", and they had also been sorted and packed into bundles.
The two people sitting across the table were so tired that they were barely awake yet: Yes, he was busy communicating with the agent about other issues while doing the eye-dotting last night, and most of the work was done by Chen Boyang and Su Yun.
This seemingly easy operation actually requires great eyesight and precision, and is especially mentally demanding. No wonder the two have not woken up since they finally finished it.
After standing up and stretching his body a little, Zhang Querong closed the gap in the curtains to prevent the merciless morning sunlight from waking others, then tiptoed to Su Yun's side and quietly moved the album package behind the door.
When he turned around to pick up the pen, he inadvertently saw half of a beautiful woman's face, which looked fresh, refined and even a little childish after she had washed off her makeup.
Seeing that the zipper of her jacket sleeve had left a faint red mark on Su Yun's face, Zhang Querong chuckled and planned to poke her face so that she could change to a position where she would not be left with a mark.
What she didn't expect was that when her fingertips touched that jade-like cheek, Su Yun murmured in annoyance: "Don't mess with me... I'm so tired. If you mess with me again, I'll arrange for you to go on stage and play Zhu Bajie!"
The tone is a bit too intimate.
Although there were no personal references in these words, Zhang Querong immediately understood who Su Yun was talking about - she had been very close to Chen Boyang recently, and Chen Boyang had also relaxed a lot from his previous extremely reserved state of secret love, and would tease Su Yun from time to time. So Su Yun decisively used the most effective trick to deal with handsome young men, and made Chen Boyang, who was embarrassed to play an ugly role in front of the public, return home empty-handed.
Just as my heart sank, the agent Mrs. Chen came over with Chen Cheng to open the door.
After placing two still warm breakfasts on the table where he had sat before, Zhang Querong took a last look at the two people who were immersed in a dark and sweet dream, then he abandoned his loneliness and distress and closed the door silently.