Chapter 51 The tips of my ears felt like they were on fire...
After coming out of Zhu Zhijun's office, Jiang Minyao felt a little guilty, thinking that her performance was too exaggerated.
But it was obvious that Bai You's unusually strong performance today made her words credible.
Although they are still skeptical, given Zhu Zhijun and Gao Lan's usual style of bullying the weak and fearing the strong, they will definitely restrain themselves before everything is confirmed.
Jiang Min-yao also thought that she was very clever about this "rumor".
After all, Zhu Zhijun and Gao Lan had no chance to contact Meng Qingyan at all.
Even if there really is one, they are too busy trying to curry favor with the other party and would not dare to use the other party's private affairs to test the other party.
In this way, everything will be much easier, and Jiang Minyao's requirements are not high. As long as she can hold on until Bai You terminates the contract, she will consider it a victory.
She took the elevator downstairs and returned to her office, where she saw the two scripts on the desk that she had just handed to Bai You today.
It was not until this moment that the fact that Bai You received the "fireworks" finally became real.
Jiang Minyao was silent for a while, remembering that she had suggested Bai Youfei to strive for this script abroad half a year ago, and she couldn't help but sigh.
She locked the door and made a call.
But after a moment, Bai You picked up the call.
"Have you completely fallen out with the company today?" she asked.
"Yeah." Bai You admitted it bluntly without sugarcoating the truth, and then asked, "Did they embarrass you?"
"What's the point of making things difficult for me?" Jiang Minyao laughed. "Besides, whether it happened or not, they have always made things difficult for me."
Hearing this, Bai You was silent for a moment.
Jiang Minyao didn't notice anything unusual and continued, "With these two blockbusters, Building No. 8 and Fireworks, you will be able to choose from any domestic entertainment company in the future. Have you decided where to go?"
She paused, "What I mean is that we can get in touch with him earlier. Even if Zhu Zhijun does something weird in the future, the new company can handle it, and you can worry less."
"I have no plans to sign with another company," Bai You said across from me, his tone as calm as ever. "From the time I was seventeen years old, I joined Yu Yan, to the time I was twenty-five when the contract was terminated next year. It's been eight years. I've been manipulated by others for too long. Enough."
Jiang Minyao was a little surprised, but when she thought about what Bai You had experienced over the years, she felt that it was reasonable for him to make such a choice.
“It’s not easy to be independent,” she said. “Without a strong backer, it’s easier for others to take you down when there’s a conflict over resources.”
"I understand." Bai You said, and then added, "It's much better than Xingyu joining forces with others to suppress us."
Jiang Minyao laughed.
"I don't plan to go back to the company recently," Bai You also laughed, "I'll send you the script I left with you later."
"Oh, yes, I was actually going to tell you this," Jiang Minyao said, thinking of the rumor she had made up, feeling extremely guilty, "I lied to Lao Zhu and Gao Lan, I'm telling you first, don't let them find out later."
"What's wrong?" Bai You asked.
"I told them..." Jiang Minyao felt truly guilty at this moment. She coughed and suddenly found it difficult to speak.
Bai You on the opposite side waited quietly for a moment, then said "Hello" with a bit of confusion.
"I told them," Jiang Minyao gritted her teeth, closed her eyes, and said boldly, "You and Meng Qingyan are in love."
The other side fell silent and did not speak for a long time.
Jiang Minyao thought Bai You would be angry, but she had already quickly organized a series of justifiable reasons and excuses in her mind, such as "I'm doing this for your own good."
But Bai You was not angry.
"You just saw that Zhu Zhijun was cowardly. If it were someone else, they would be able to see the flaws at a glance." After a while, he finally spoke, his tone still calm. "With his background, how could he possibly look down on me?"
"That's not the case. In this society, beauty is capital." Jiang Minyao disagreed. "Besides, Meng Qingyan can't just date as he pleases. It's not like you're getting married. At worst, you can just say you broke up later."
It was rush hour and traffic was light. Bai You, who was sitting in the back seat of a taxi, couldn't help but lower his eyes and smile when he heard the words.
The gap between him and Meng Qingyan is so big that even lying will only result in a BE ending.
Bai You didn't think of using Meng Qingyan, but Jiang Minyao had already said it, and he couldn't take it back for her.
So he warned: "Don't say such things again in the future, so as not to be taken advantage of by those with ulterior motives."
After hanging up the phone, the car had already stopped at the gate of the community. Bai first went to the supermarket opposite to buy some fresh ingredients, and then returned home.
He simply ordered some noodles for himself, sorted out the script that Jiang Minyao had handed over to him earlier, and then curled up on the sofa on the balcony to open the script of Fireworks.
As soon as I looked up, I saw the dusk falling and my eyes became sore.
Fireworks is an anti-Japanese war movie, which Meng Qingyan had mentioned to him before.
Bai You always thought that this might be like many mainstream movies he had seen before, but he never understood why it was named "Fireworks".
But after reading the script, he understood the meaning of these two words and realized the uniqueness of this script.
There is no smoke of war on the front lines, nor is there a very direct description of the sufferings of the people, but it is just as frightening and makes people's eyes tear up.
The protagonist of the story is Yuan Man, a young master from a wealthy family.
Just from the name, you can see how much the parents cherish their children.
The Yuan family is engaged in the business of fireworks and firecrackers, and their business is so big that it almost covers the entire East China region.
Mr. Yuan has connections everywhere and manages everything properly. Although it is a turbulent time, the Yuan family is able to live in peace in a corner, as if it is completely unaffected by the outside world.
Young Master Yuan has lived a life of luxury since childhood. Unlike the aspiring young people around him, he did not throw himself into the vigorous revolution or go abroad to learn new ideas.
He is satisfied with his current life and has a good-looking appearance, making him a well-known playboy.
But one day, the turmoil of the chaotic world finally affected the Yuan family.
In 1937, the Japanese invaders launched a massive invasion of China, with East China bearing the brunt of the attack.
Mr. Yuan donated the gunpowder for making fireworks to patriotic heroes to make explosives, which eventually brought disaster to the Yuan family.
On that day, only Yuan Man was still living a life of debauchery and indulgence, and barely escaped the disaster.
When Yuan Man returned home from the nightclub, he was still dressed in gorgeous clothes, and the handkerchief in his suit pocket was stained with women's lip balm.
The prosperity was shattered overnight.
His parents died, his family was destroyed, the Yuan family’s old house and factory were all blown to pieces, and Yuan Man’s world collapsed overnight.
Afterwards, Yuan Man changed his name and headed north.
With the rich experience he had when he was fooling around, he moved around in various circles of fame and fortune. Finally, he managed to infiltrate the puppet government and became a nail that wedged into the enemy camp.
Most of the stories take place in various circles of fame and fortune. Beyond the singing and dancing, there are hidden people freezing to death on the road.
Yuan Man died in 1944, at the dawn of his country.
In order to cover his colleagues who were delivering a piece of crucial intelligence that could even determine the entire war situation, he was exposed to the enemy.
The young master, who had been afraid of pain and had never suffered any hardship since childhood, was tortured to the point of being unrecognizable and blinded.
Before he died, he heard gunshots coming from all directions.
At that moment, he forgot all the pain and suffering. In front of the pitch-black eyes, huge fireworks exploded, and under the fireworks, his parents smiled and the people lived and worked in peace and contentment...
The grand fireworks displays that he had been accustomed to since childhood and once thought were nothing special finally exploded before his eyes once again.
…
The first time is still a rough read.
Bai You took a long time to calm down, until the lights outside the window gradually lit up, and then he slowly withdrew from the smoke of the chaotic world.
Everyone knew that period of history, but Bai You still got up, turned on the light, opened his laptop, and began to collect some relevant information.
Immersed in the "fireworks" for several days.
During this period, Bai You did not go out and even ordered door-to-door service for buying groceries.
Another evening, when the sunset sky just connected the sky and the earth, the doorbell rang.
Without leaving the house, Bai You was a little dazed. He completely forgot that he had not placed any order today, and went straight to open the door.
The door opened and the tall figure of a man appeared before him.
He was holding a cat in his arms. In the dim light of the corridor, the moment their eyes met, a faint smile appeared in his deep dark eyes.
"Meow~" Xiaoliang spoke first before the other two, stretching out his front paws towards Baiyou.
The stagnant air seemed to come alive in an instant. Bai You subconsciously reached out and held Xiaoliang's front paw.
"I missed you." Meng Qingyan lowered his eyes and looked at him, as if talking about Xiaoliang.
"Why did you deliver it in person?" Bai You took Xiao Liang into his arms, "Just let me know in advance, and I'll go get it."
"My car can come in," Meng Qingyan said, "it's more convenient."
Bai You pursed her lips, realizing that she had not revoked Meng Qingyan's access rights to the license plate number.
"I just took it to have a bath and deworm it," Meng Qingyan bent down and carried a bag behind him, "These are its food and daily necessities."
The bag was quite big and filled to the brim. Bai You was holding the script in one hand, and Xiaoliang in his arms weighed no less than five kilograms.
Seeing this, he had no choice but to move aside and let the person in.
"Would you like something to drink?" Although the two of them had done many excessive things in this room, Bai You's tone at this moment was particularly polite and distant.
"Is there any coffee?" Meng Qingyan asked.
It just so happened that the beans bought a few days ago had almost woken up. Bai Youdian nodded and went into the kitchen.
He ground the powder, boiled water, filtered it, and finally made thick milk foam and drew a simple cat head pattern.
"Thank you." Holding the coffee cup in his hand, Meng Qingyan couldn't help laughing after seeing the latte art. "Have you learned it?"
"Yeah." Bai You sat down opposite him, "I thought before that if I couldn't make it in the circle, I would open a store to pass the time."
The lights in the room were bright, and the dark circles under Bai You's eyes from staying up late to do homework in the past few days were particularly obvious.
Meng Qingyan's eyes moved to the script he had just put down: "He's reading the script."
"Yeah." Bai You responded briefly, neither avoiding nor saying much, acting calmly, "I'm looking up some relevant information."
At this moment, Xiaoliang had already patrolled Baiyou's room. It jumped onto the sofa, and Meng Qingyan naturally reached out and held it on his knees with just one hand.
It seems that she hugs him quite often.
"I have a lot of information. Some of it was collected by my assistants, and some was collected before Editor Lang started writing. A large part of it was collected by visiting relevant experts. It is much more comprehensive than what is available outside, and it is also very valuable." He said nonchalantly, lowering his eyes and teasing Xiaoliang, "I'll have someone send you a copy later."
Bai You felt that Meng Qingyan always seemed to have something in his hands that could tempt him.
He instinctively wanted to refuse, but when he heard that some of the information was obtained by visiting experts and might not be found outside, he instantly lost his nerve.
Bai You gave up struggling and thanked him politely.
Unlike his previous times when he was naked and straightforward, Meng Qingyan was very polite and gentlemanly today. He maintained a sense of boundaries and did not put any pressure on Bai You.
He slowly finished a cup of coffee, and after praising Baiyou's cooking skills, he put Xiaoliang down from his lap and prepared to leave.
"I'll come back to pick it up later." He said, "Thank you for troubling Teacher Bai for the next few days."
If we really have to talk about trouble, Bai You felt that he actually caused more trouble to Meng Qingyan.
Including Xiaoliang, who came to Meng Qingyan's house because of me.
As a result, when he was sick and needed care, I was unable to help at all.
He was about to say something polite, but he saw Meng Qingyan's gaze suddenly stopped at a certain place on the balcony.
Following his gaze, Bai You tilted his head and realized that he had been so busy recently that he actually forgot to put away Meng Qingyan's pajamas.
At this moment, the pajamas that I once wore carefree have been washed clean and are neatly folded on the back of the sofa, looking as if I cherish them very much.
Bai You's back stiffened in an instant, and the tips of his ears felt like they were burning.
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