Chapter 378: Incident
Hearing the sound of Su Yun knocking on the door outside, the two looked at each other.
Although it was already past one and almost two in the morning, there were many people from the entertainment industry living upstairs and downstairs. If Su Yun knocked on the door so recklessly, she might wake up others and they might come over following the sound...
Well, they probably won’t be able to escape the headlines of tomorrow’s newspapers.
However, if after the door is opened, Su Yun really comes in to "teach" them a lesson - God, thinking about it like this seems to bring back the unforgettable memories of being oppressed by Su Yun, the tyrant on the set...
Suddenly, the person outside the door no longer seemed to be the beloved one they fought for, but the boss they tried to avoid...
"Open the door! Don't think you can get away with it by not making any noise. I know you are all in there!" Su Yun repeated, and then took up her stance, "If you don't open the door, I'm going to kick it down!"
She didn't want to suddenly become a tyrant at the door, she was simply afraid that something might happen to these two people in there, so she had to temporarily put aside her reserve and cultivation and transform into a powerful person.
While knocking on the door, Su Yun secretly glanced at Block A on the 2nd floor at the back: this building named Grandview Court is located in Kowloon Tong. It is one of a number of high-end western-style buildings newly built in Kowloon Tong in recent years. Many TV artists like to buy or rent a unit there. It is close to the TV station and has convenient transportation. The confidentiality is also quite good.
Buildings in Hong Kong are divided into Western-style buildings and tenement buildings. Tenement buildings are Chinese-style buildings that do not have elevators and have fewer floors. The method of calculating floors is basically the same as in mainland China. The lowest floor of a tenement building is called Tenement Floor 1, and the floors above are Tenement Floor 2 and Tenement Floor 3.
As for Western-style buildings, the floors are generally calculated according to the British method. The first floor in mainland China is the Ground floor, G/F, according to the British floor counting method. The second floor above is the First floor, 1/F, commonly known as the "1st floor".
Therefore, although Zhang Querong's newly rented house is located in Block B on the second floor, it is actually three stories high.
Block A on the second floor opposite had not yet been rented out, and the tenants of the two units downstairs were all people in the same circle. Moreover, when Su Yun went upstairs with her things, she saw that the lights of the units on both sides of the downstairs had been turned off, so she dared to knock on the door loudly to call for help.
Controlling the strength and volume, Su Yun was knocking on the door vigorously when the door was suddenly opened from the inside.
Su Yun was unable to stop herself and fell forward. Fortunately, Zhang Querong, who came over to open the door, was quick-witted and caught her, preventing her from falling forward.
Looking up, Zhang Querong, who was hugging her, also had a look of surprise on his face, but his eyes were inexplicably complicated, as if he wanted to let her go but was reluctant to do so. When he was unable to make a decision for the moment, he could only continue to stay as they were.
A deliberate cough was heard from the front, and Su Yun and Zhang Querong were startled and came back to their senses. They quickly separated and slipped into the house. At the same time, Su Yun did not forget to close the door very smoothly.
"Why are you here?" Zhang Querong asked somewhat uncomfortably.
Su Yun took out a wallet from her handbag unhappily and said, "I don't want to come here either, but the problem is that if this thing is not delivered overnight, someone won't be able to enter the TV station tomorrow."
If it was just for money, she wouldn't have to come here in the middle of the night. Unfortunately, in addition to cash, her wallet also contained several documents. If Zhang Querong went to the TV station to report tomorrow without his ID to go through the verification machine, it would slow down the pace of the crew.
Zhang Querong took the wallet sheepishly and put it in his trouser pocket. Then he couldn't help asking again, "When did you come here?"
"Start from the time you said I was a free agent." Su Yun looked at them and found that they still had a look of dissatisfaction in their eyes. So she took the initiative to pull a high chair next to the small bar and sat down. Her voice was very gentle, "Come, sit down, and we will talk slowly."
Compared to the ferocious aura with which Su Yun had knocked on the door before, this greeting was extremely gentle - but the two of them, who had followed Su Yun to film a movie since she was a teenager and had seen the storm brewing beneath her gentleness, became even more nervous.
So much so that when we sat on the sofa facing each other with our faces scrutinized, we almost unconsciously wanted to hug the person next to us, and comforted and encouraged each other out of habit...
However, after realizing that they had almost gotten in the habit of naturally acting intimately with their love rival, the two of them looked even uglier.
"I...we, never thought it would turn out like this." After a while, Chen Boyang said something ambiguous.
"To be honest, I didn't expect that either." Su Yun sighed and looked at the two people sitting opposite her seriously. "At this age, it's easy to have feelings for people of the same age, but Lesley has always acted as if he was helping you..."
"So he is so scheming. You and I have been deceived by him!" Chen Boyang said indignantly.
"Hey, can you please get this straight? I've said before that I didn't want to ruin you guys, and I even wanted to help you get Mary!" Zhang Querong quickly interrupted, "I've always considered you to be very good friends, and I don't want to hurt any of you..."
"As for why it turned out like this, besides the fact that I discovered that an outsider had intervened and got there first—" Zhang Querong said this, and his eyes turned to Su Yun again, "and also, I can't deceive myself anymore."
"I really like the way you focus on your career, as if the world is not worthy of you, but you never give up on this world, but work hard to make it a little better..."
Although we don’t know whether Su Yun really has memories of the future, this feeling of transcending this era yet deeply in love with this era always carries a contradictory attraction.
This contradictory attraction is most obvious when Su Yun is immersed in her work: the person in front of her is clearly in front of her, but her thoughts seem to be in a very far away place, looking back at this chaotic era.
That was why, on this rare night when the two of them were alone, he couldn't help but secretly kiss the person he loved who was so far away and yet so close to him.
It was as if a devout believer finally had a chance to get close to God, and the deep love that had been suppressed for a long time naturally gave rise to the desire to get closer.
Even if the ensuing flames would burn all the fiery emotions, they could not resist the desire of this moment.
Perhaps when you truly fall deeply in love with someone, you are not afraid of any difficulties or obstacles.
Chen Boyang looked at him quietly and lowered his eyes slightly: "Actually... you could have said it earlier..."
"I'm not the kind of unreasonable person, and there's no such thing as first come first served in love..." Chen Boyang sighed slowly, "Just like when you and I went to places like Lan Kwai Fong to party, if I saw someone I liked, I would definitely go up and chat with her..."
"It seems like we always set our sights on the same target." Zhang Querong suddenly laughed.
"So this is why you two came up to me and chatted me up when I went to the bar wearing a mask?" The sadness in their memories made the two of them sigh, but Su Yun's sudden interruption brought them back to reality from their memories.
"We agreed at that time that we would compete fairly based on our abilities." Zhang Querong touched his nose and began to explain.
"That's why I said you've been so wrong all along!" Chen Boyang looked at him with complicated eyes, "If you could be a little braver and speak out your thoughts earlier, we wouldn't have come to this point today!"
"Then tell me, what should I say - Hey, Danny, I'm sorry, I also like the person you like this time. Can we continue to maintain our brotherly friendship while competing for Mary based on our own abilities?" Zhang Querong said angrily, "You told me before that you liked Mary, and I told you the same thing later. You really won't hate me?"
"Of course not... To be honest, it is very likely." Chen Boyang thought about it seriously, and then leaned back on the sofa somewhat absentmindedly.
"That's it. Although there is no first come first served in love, we were so close at that time, and you were not just flirting with her casually like usual, but you really had feelings for her and wanted to pursue her seriously..." Zhang Querong looked at his tangled look and felt helpless. "Under this premise, if I say that I also want to pursue the same person, it will be difficult to end it."
"Although I don't have such a great sentiment, but at the beginning, I really didn't want to hurt others...especially you and Mary." Zhang Querong lowered his head.
Seeing his distressed expression, Su Yun was thinking about what to say next when suddenly she sensed something strange, which made her alert instantly.
"What are you cooking?" Su Yun habitually looked at the open kitchen on the side, and when she found that it was so deserted as if no one had ever lived there, her brows furrowed even deeper.
"What's wrong?" Zhang Querong asked in confusion.
"What did you find?" Knowing that Su Yun's five senses were more sensitive than ordinary people, Chen Boyang also asked.
"It seems like there's a smell of gas leaking..." Su Yun stood up, looked around and found nothing, then continued to follow the smell towards the window with a frown, "It seems to be coming from downstairs... Who lives in the unit downstairs?"
Zhang Querong was stunned at first, then he glanced at the clock which was close to three o'clock in the morning. After thinking for a while, he replied to Su Yun, "It's Auntie. She seems to have had a big fight with her boyfriend recently. She often doesn't cook but just orders takeout. Maybe she suddenly felt hungry so late at night and got up to cook a midnight snack..."
When she said this, Su Yun had already pushed the window open with force.
The strong smell of gas that came with the night wind immediately changed the expressions of the three people.