Hide and Seek
Su Wen rushed into the meeting room with her high heels clattering loudly.
She threw her purse at Lin Jingming: "You didn't go home last night! You stayed in the equipment room with that guy in canvas shoes until three in the morning!"
"I'm discussing the bombing budget with you." Xia Zhitang walked in with documents in his hands. "Miss Su, do you need any other witnesses or evidence?"
Gu Zian suddenly slammed the table and stood up, splashing the coffee in his hand towards Su Wen: "Oops, my hand slipped!"
He grabbed a tissue and wiped the table perfunctorily. "Last night, Tangtang and I were having a barbecue at the film and television city, and Director Lin insisted on joining us. I even complained to him about forcing Tangtang to work overtime, and you're the first to complain?"
Su Wen's mind was confused for a moment, and she ignored Gu Zian's offense and asked suspiciously, "You guys?"
"We!" Gu Zian put his arm around Xia Zhitang's shoulders.
Lin Jingming, who had been silent on the side, suddenly stood up and kicked the chair hard: "Enough!"
He pulled Su Wen by her tie and approached her. "Over the years, you've checked my phone's location, bribed the staff, checked the surveillance cameras, and I even had to report to the bathroom!"
Cheng Shubai coughed lightly and tried to smooth things over: "Husband and wife should trust each other..."
"Trust?" Lin Jingming grabbed Su Wen's bag and threw it to the ground. "Last Mid-Autumn Festival, I was singing at Qiangui, and you had the bodyguard lock the door and check my phone!"
"You suspect our Xia Xia?" Gu Zian grasped the key point and pointed at Su Wen angrily: "If you are sick, go get treatment as soon as possible."
He turned around, pulled Xia Zhitang over, pressed her against the wall and kissed her loudly.
Gu Zian, with an ambiguous lip print, turned around and looked at Su Wen provocatively: "Does your husband like to poach other people's girls?"
Su Wen angrily pointed at Gu Zian and cursed, "Shameless..."
"It's better than you throwing dirty water at me!" Gu Zian took two steps forward and confronted her unwillingly.
Lin Jingming pulled Su Wen over and protected her behind him: "That's enough."
Gu Zian snorted coldly, dragged Xia Zhitang out of the meeting room, and slammed the door loudly.
Lin Jingming sighed and softened his tone towards Su Wen: "Why bother with the younger generation? Go home and talk about it. Don't embarrass yourself here."
Cheng Shubai picked up Su Wen's bag and handed it to Lin Jingming. He turned to Su Wen and said, "Little Gu is young and impetuous. Sister-in-law, don't bother with him. Old Lin said last month that he would take you to Hokkaido..."
"Let's go now!" Lin Jingming pulled Su Wen out, "Book the nearest flight and have your assistant burn the divorce agreement."
Su Wen's steps became hesitant: "Are you not making trouble anymore?"
Lin Jingming put his arm around her shoulders and said, "Forget it. After all, a man should give in to his wife. Last time, I asked the screenwriter to add a role for the male lead you liked in the script you said you wanted to read."
Because Gu Zian had caused a scene in front of Su Wen, although Su Wen's female intuition still made her very wary of Xia Zhitang, her rationality made her feel that Lin Jingming would not compete for Gu Zian's woman.
But out of biological intuition, her heart was still wrapped in a sense of anxiety. In order to alleviate this anxiety, her behavior of monitoring Lin Jingming became more and more intense.
In order to avoid Su Wen, Lin Jingming flew to Chengdu with Xia Zhitang as the excuse that he had monitored the audio.
At nine o'clock in the evening, Lin Jingming, who had finished his film review work during the day, hid in Xia Zhitang's room.
As a light drizzle fell outside the window, Xia Zhitang's computer was flooded with messages. As she copied them, she asked Lin Jingming, "Is the hacker Cheng Shubai hired reliable?"
"Someone in his family works on network security." Lin Jingming read the message from Cheng Shubai on his backup phone, his brows relaxed a little: "Three warehouses of the Su family caught fire last night, and the logistics system was completely paralyzed."
A familiar sound of high heels came from the corridor, and Lin Jingming pulled open the wardrobe door like a frightened rabbit.
Xia Zhitang pulled him out: "Hide under the bed!"
She grabbed the phone that had been on the video call and whispered to Gu Zian's assistant to let Gu Zian appear on camera.
When the doorbell rang, Xia Zhitang was holding her phone in front of the makeup mirror, and the person on the other side of the video had changed to Gu Zian.
"Is Jingming here with you?" As soon as Xia Zhitang opened the door, he was faced with Su Wen's barrage of questions.
Xia Zhitang stepped aside to make way. "Director Lin said he was going to Qingcheng Mountain to relax. Didn't he tell you?" She deliberately raised her voice. "Zi'an, Miss Su is here."
Gu Zian said in front of the camera with a bad look on his face: "Auntie Su, if you're sick, you need to be treated. If you find someone else's girlfriend during your ward rounds, you'd better throw her away as a husband."
Su Wen ignored Gu Zian's sarcasm. She grabbed Xia Zhitang's phone and looked at the call duration - 1 hour and 27 minutes.
"Ms. Su, you don't suspect that Tangtang is hiding an old man in her house, do you?" Gu Zian continued to sarcastically speak from the other end of the camera.
She reluctantly threw her phone back onto the dressing table, accidentally knocking the lip balm off the table and causing a slight noise to come from under the bed.
"What's that sound?" Su Wen immediately rushed to the bedside vigilantly.
"The soundproofing in this crappy hotel is so poor that you can even hear people going to the bathroom upstairs." Xia Zhitang shrugged.
Gu Zian suddenly yelled into the video, "Sister, I found Director Lin!" He took his assistant's phone and pointed it at the camera. Lin Jingming was drinking in a booth, his glass raised, amidst the swaying lights. Cheng Shubai's assistant, with her back to the camera, was trying to persuade him. As the two men struggled, Lin Jingming's face appeared faintly through the blurred lens.
Su Wen grabbed the phone and held it close to her face: "Where is this?"
"Cheng Shubai didn't say anything!" Gu Zian shrugged. "Why are you asking me? It's not like I'm going out for a drink with your husband."
Su Wen's high heels spun half a circle before stopping. She quickly rushed to Xia Zhitang's bed and lifted the messy bedding. Xia Zhitang held her wrist with a cold face and said, "Miss Su, you passed."
Gu Zian cursed in the video: "Auntie, are you a pervert?"
Su Wen glared at Xia Zhitang, shook off her hand and rushed out of the room. After the door slammed shut, the room returned to silence.
"She's really perverted." Gu Zian patted his chest and sighed sincerely, "No wonder Lin Jingming has such a bad temper. Anyone else would go crazy."
"Shut up." Lin Jingming crawled out from under the bed with a dark face and dust on his head.
"Wipe it clean and don't dirty my room." Xia Zhitang threw the hotel towel at him.
"That's right." Gu Zian made a face at Lin Jingming.
"Alright, let's get back to work." Xia Zhitang turned to Gu Zian and said, "We still need to find someone to remove the surveillance cameras at the auto repair shop. The chain of evidence is almost complete. We can wrap up this line of inquiry and focus on the Su family."
"Got it." Gu Zian blew a kiss to Xia Zhitang, then turned to Lin Jingming and warned, "If you dare to touch Xia Xia, I, I..."
"Okay, we are grasshoppers on the same boat, so you should save some money." Lin Jingming rolled his eyes at the camera.
After hanging up the phone, Xia Zhitang and Lin Jingming occupied the sofa and bed respectively, and started to get busy.
At eleven o'clock in the morning, Xia Zhitang was about to send Lin Jingming back. She had just opened the door in her pajamas and popped her head out when she found that Su Wen's assistant had opened the door quickly and was staring at her with sharp eyes.
Xia Zhitang took out the room card without changing his expression, went to the convenience store downstairs, sent a message to Lin Jingming about what had just happened, then bought some snacks and returned.
Xia Zhitang returned to the room and looked at Lin Jingming with a wooden face.
"This woman is crazy!" Lin Jingming wandered around the room like a trapped beast.
"Okay, Zi'an said he'll pick you up tomorrow." Xia Zhitang threw the pillow to Lin Jingming, "You sleep on the sofa."
Lin Jingming hugged the pillow awkwardly, glancing at the bed with reluctance: "Your bed is quite big, it's not like you haven't slept in it before."
"Why don't you just get out now?" Xia Zhitang said, pointing at the door.
"Okay, okay, the sofa is the sofa." Lin Jingming stuffed the pillow on the sofa. "Where's the quilt? What if I catch a cold..."
"Please shut up!" Xia Zhitang took out the quilt from the cabinet and threw it at Lin Jingming.
"Be gentle, we are allies now." Lin Jingming hurriedly caught the quilt.
Xia Zhitang was too lazy to pay attention to him. He lay down on the bed and turned off the light.
In the darkness, Lin Jingming slowly climbed onto the sofa holding the quilt, but he couldn't suppress the smile on his face, like a cat stealing fish.
At nine o'clock the next day, Gu Zian and his team of assistants hurried to Xia Zhitang's room.
Assistants came in and out of the room in a grand manner, constantly delivering flowers and food to the room.
Su Wen's assistant was watching Xia Zhitang's situation warily at first, but then, seeing the curious gazes of Gu Zian's people, he finally realized how stupid his boss was.
Little Leo, with his kind face, pretended to come out for a smoke and handed a cigarette to assistant Su Wen in a friendly manner: "Brother, you look familiar. Have we met on Director Lin's set before?"
Su Wen's assistant took the cigarette and finally found someone to confide in about the grievances she had been holding in for the entire night.
Wang Ge saw Su Wen's assistant disappear into the fire escape through the crack in the door and waved back. Lin Jingming, who had changed into his assistant's clothes, hurriedly rushed to the elevator behind Wang Ge and his assistant Xiaoyuan.
"Is Su Wen waiting downstairs?" Xia Zhitang asked worriedly.
"It's okay. Last night's stand-in is dragging her around the world, putting on a bloody drama of you chasing me and me running away." Gu Zian closed the door nonchalantly. "Now please comfort your boyfriend."
He pushed Xia Zhitang in front of the mirror and said, "Sister, you were alone with him all night last night!"
"I was sorting out the evidence against the Su family, and he was changing the divorce agreement." Xia Zhitang hugged Gu Zian's neck, stood on tiptoe and kissed the corner of Gu Zian's lips, "Last night I slept on the bed and he slept on the sofa, and I even had a wolf alarm under my pillow."
"I want to check it out myself." Gu Zian licked Xia Zhitang's earlobe softly with a hoarse voice, "Where should I start?"
Xia Zhitang couldn't help but squint his eyes and scratch Gu Zian's neck with his nails.
Gu Zian chuckled and whispered in Xia Zhitang's ear: "Sister is so excited. Then..."
His kiss fell on Xia Zhitang's lips, and he kissed Xia Zhitang's soft moan into his mouth.
After a long while, he hugged Xia Zhitang who was leaning softly in his arms: "Next, where should we check? Is it..."
"Ding Dong!" The doorbell rang.
"Brother Gu, the panda doll has been bought!" Assistant Xiaoyuan's voice came from outside the door.
"Put it at the door and get a room to rest!" Gu Zian shouted while suppressing his anger.
Xia Zhitang buried his head in Gu Zian's chest, laughing so hard that he was shaking.
"Sister, let's continue." Gu Zian held Xia Zhitang's face and kissed her from the tip of her eyebrows to the tip of her nose, and then to the corner of her mouth.
"Zi'an." Xia Zhitang grabbed Gu Zi'an's clothes and his voice softened.
"Hmm?" Gu Zian responded with an upward sound at the end of the voice, and kissed all the way to her neck. He was finally satisfied to hear the soft hum that made him numb.
His hand touched the button behind him, and in just a moment...
"Lin Jingming! Where have you been?" Su Wen's angry roar came from outside the door, and a burst of noise was heard.
"I'm just going there to have a drink?" Lin Jingming yelled unconvinced.
"Where are your clothes? These are not the clothes you brought!"
"Throw it away if you vomit. Okay, let's go back to the room and talk about it."
"Explain it to me clearly..."
The door opposite slammed shut, and the noise of the two people quarreling became indistinct.
Inside the room, Gu Zian and Xia Zhitang maintained their previous postures, looking at each other in astonishment.
"His clothes seem to still be in my room..." Xia Zhitang said in a low voice, pointing to the plastic bag at his feet.
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