Xu Bei?
Yan Ting's gaze lingered on this name for a few seconds.
Qin Xiao introduced the identities of the six artists. When he introduced Xu Bei, he did not directly say his name: "I have checked this artist. He is an artist of Ziqie Entertainment. He had an ambiguous relationship with Chen Hang before, but since he invited Chen Hang and his son to have tea last time, Chen Hang has become more distant from him. This person has bought articles many times to promote himself and bring down Mr. Li, but because of his lack of ability, he was always severely suppressed by Mr. Li, and he was the one who lost face several times."
Yan Ting handed the list to Qin Xiao: "You go and deal with it."
"Okay, sir." Qin Xiao put away the list, preventing Yan Ting from seeing the word Xu again.
The day before joining the crew of "Seven Boyfriends", a male artist from Strawberry Entertainment suffered from acute appendicitis and was admitted to the hospital. However, this male artist is going to be a guest on a variety show. He doesn’t want to give this resource to others, but he also has no way to go to the scene.
Finally, his agent discussed with Luo Rong and wanted to ask Li Zhao to replace the male artist for one episode.
It would be safest to ask Li Zhao to help for one episode. As he is an artist from the same company, Li Zhao will be joining the crew soon, so there is no need to worry that Li Zhao will snatch away this resource.
The most important thing is that although Li Zhao has only been a rescue guest for a few episodes of "Return to the Mountains", his sense of variety show is fully demonstrated in the show. Many variety show producers have extended invitations to Li Zhao, but unfortunately Li Zhao turned them all down.
If Li Zhao is pushed to participate in this program, the program crew will definitely have no objection, but I don't know whether Li Zhao will agree.
Li Zhao agreed because he had nothing to do at home and Yan Ting called him and said he would be back very late.
Since Yan Ting is not at home, he might as well go record a show for an afternoon and earn some money.
This program is an indoor variety show of Beijing TV Station. It has regular guests every season and has good ratings and reputation.
Li Zhao arrived neither too early nor too late. The staff of the program team received him and gave him the script.
After reading the script, the staff took Li Zhao to meet other guests.
In the guest lounge, the guests were chatting. After the host greeted them, he smiled and explained, "Dear teachers, because Teacher Wang has acute appendicitis, we have arranged a temporary guest for this episode. Can you guess who this artist is?"
The guests expressed concern about the health of the artist surnamed Wang and began to speculate on the identity of the temporary guest.
"Lao Wang is a man, so the temporary guest this time must be a man."
"Lao Wang is a handsome guy, so this temporary guest must be very handsome."
"Xu Bei, what do you think?" One of the artists saw Xu Bei in a daze with the camera next to him still on, so he spoke to draw his attention back.
"This... I can't guess it either." Xu Bei felt a little strange in his heart. This artist didn't have a good relationship with him in front of the camera, so why would he suddenly help him find topics in front of the camera?
The artist who reminded Xu Bei was called Cen Han. He was over 30 years old, a comedian, had a harmonious family, and an easy-going personality. He was from the same company as Song Yu.
Cen Han is friends with Song Yu. He received favors from Song Yu's father in his early years, so he has always been caring towards his younger brother Song Yu.
Which brother would like to bully his younger brother?
Xu Bei didn't attract many fans in the variety show "Love", so he found a way to enter this indoor variety show. Although Cen Han never deliberately targeted him in the show, under the camera, Cen Han's cold attitude towards him made almost everyone see that Cen Han didn't like him, which made him very embarrassed in the program crew.
"It seems that no one has guessed it." The host laughed, "Come on, let's applaud and welcome this episode's temporary guest."
Everyone applauded and looked towards the door. When the door opened and the temporary guest walked in, the smile on Xu Bei's face almost froze. How could it be Li Zhao?
"Welcome Zhao Zhao."
Several cameras in the room were working simultaneously, capturing the expressions on each guest's face.
"Thank you everyone." Li Zhao walked into the room and bowed to the guests.
"Welcome, welcome." Cen Han stood up and asked Li Zhao to sit down next to him. He said to Li Zhao, "Seeing you reminded me of someone."
"Who?" Li Zhao was a little curious.
"Me more than a decade ago." Cen Han sighed, "Back then, I was as handsome as you."
"Brother Cen, you are too modest. You were more handsome than me more than ten years ago." Li Zhao smiled at Cen Han, "Your image as a gentleman in Shadow Hero is still popular among many girls."
"It's a pity that life was a little cruel to him." Another female comedian waved to Li Zhao: "Come, Zhao Zhao, come sit next to me. I can protect your handsome face from being infected by Cen Han."
"Go away, go away. I see that you are clearly coveting our Zhao Zhao's face." While joking, Cen Han introduced Li Zhao to other guests. I don’t know if it was a coincidence, but when introducing others, Cen Han always had a lot to say, but when introducing Xu Bei, he only said a few polite words, and it was obvious that he had a cold relationship with Xu Bei.
"Hello." Li Zhao smiled and shook hands with Xu Bei.
"Hello, Brother Li." Xu Bei shook hands with Li Zhaoxu with a forced smile.
"Brother Xu, you are too polite. You are two or three years older than me. I feel embarrassed if you call me brother." Li Zhao smiled and said, "Just call me by my name."
He has already built a radar to be wary of this artist named Xu Bei, who has been trying to scam people online every other day.
The smile on Xu Bei's face became even more stiff, and the two men let go of each other's hands and stopped communicating.
Facing Li Zhao, Xu Bei felt guilty and disgusted. This complex emotion almost reached its peak when Li Zhao was in the same room with him.
However, when the activity officially started, he and Li Zhao were actually assigned to the same group.
"Brother Xu, please take me with you."
Looking at the smile on Li Zhao's face, Xu Bei inexplicably had the illusion that he was being watched.
Could it be that Li Zhao already knew that he was the whistleblower behind the scenes?
During the game, Xu Bei was already exhausted and out of breath, but seeing the energetic Li Zhao, he gritted his teeth and persevered. The moment he fell into the inflatable trap, Li Zhao suddenly rushed over and grabbed his hand.
"Brother Xu, don't worry, I will never let go."
"No, don't worry about me." Xu Bei was stunned for a moment, and then he saw the camera next to him and said, "Go first, don't let the opponent find you."
But as soon as he finished speaking, Li Zhao dragged him out of the pit.
He weighed more than 100 kilograms and was dragged out of the pit...
Xu Bei looked at Li Zhao's fair arms and felt a little cold on his back. It must be because the air conditioning in the room was too strong.
"Brother Xu, I won't let you have such a bad outcome." Li Zhao showed Xu Bei a brilliant and dazzling smile, "Let's go."
Bad results?
What bad results?
What is Li Zhao hinting at?
As if he didn't notice Xu Bei's dazed look, Li Zhao pointed to a room and said, "Let's go. I suspect the truth is inside."
Xu Bei followed Li Zhao blankly, watching him flipping through the books on the bookshelf and muttering some funny jokes. He felt guilty that he couldn't fit in.
In the monitoring room, the program director was very dissatisfied with Xu Bei's performance: "What on earth is Xu Bei doing? This is a variety show shooting site, not a wardrobe display. What is he doing standing there?"
Variety shows are not afraid of guests talking too much, but they are afraid of guests acting like fools and standing there like wooden stakes.
"I should have known I shouldn't have grouped him with Li Zhao." The program director cursed quietly, "Luckily Li Zhao has a lot of jokes, otherwise this group would be unwatchable."
Speaking of Li Zhao, the program director expressed some regret: "It's a pity that he is not a permanent guest, otherwise our program would have more highlights."
Li Zhao's expressions are very contagious, and it's easy for the audience to empathize with his emotions and involuntarily develop a favorable impression of him. If an actor possesses this trait, it is equivalent to being blessed by God.
Looking at the surveillance camera again, Li Zhao was still trying hard to pass on the joke to Xu Bei, but Xu Bei looked reluctant and unwilling to pay attention to Li Zhao, which made the director so angry that he drank several sips of ice water before he calmed down.
If he had known earlier, he should not have agreed to the request from "Fairy Girlfriend" and arranged for the person to join the program team.
With his dull appearance and the way he doesn't work seriously, I'm afraid the drama he produces won't be very good.
At dinner time, the guests stopped filming and the program team prepared a luxurious working meal for them.
The guests sat together, eating and chatting. Li Zhao heard several female guests praising each other's lipstick colors. He took a quick look and couldn't tell the difference between the colors.
The female guest noticed Li Zhao's blank look and took out a few lipsticks from her bag and unscrewed them: "Zhao Zhao, can you tell these colors apart?"
"Aren't they all red?" Li Zhao stared at the lipsticks for a long time. "Is there...a difference?"
"Tomato red, rouge red, bright red." Cen Han took a look and patted Li Zhao on the shoulder. "Don't look at it. A boy like you who doesn't have a girlfriend won't understand it."
Li Zhao suddenly realized: "Brother Cen seems to understand it very well."
"How can I not understand that?" Cen Han took a sip of soup. "Every time your sister-in-law buys a new lipstick, she asks me if it looks good. Of course I have to say it looks good. But saying it looks good is not enough, I have to tell you why it looks good. If I can't even tell the difference between the colors, how can I please your sister-in-law?"
When Li Zhao looked at Cen Han, his eyes were instantly filled with admiration.
And he secretly sighed in his heart that falling in love is harder than the college entrance examination. He really doesn't understand the difference between these reds.
Otherwise,... let’s not have a relationship anymore, right?
The show is recorded at night in a famous haunted house in Beijing.
Xu Bei and Li Zhao walked into the door. Before Li Zhao could react, he heard him scream and ran into the side road like a gust of wind. Li Zhao still couldn't react.
The camera gave a close-up of his confused face, and then also filmed the room with green lights and only a few props.
"Brother Xu, don't be afraid. Everyone in the haunted house is a liar." Li Zhao had no choice but to chase after Xu Bei along the route he took. As soon as he stepped through a door, a "female ghost" with disheveled hair and wearing a red dress appeared in front of him.
The two looked at each other silently for three seconds. Li Zhao moved two steps to the side, and the female ghost sister followed suit.
"Beautiful lady, I'm here to find a living person. Do you know where he went?"
There are three passages in this room, and Li Zhao couldn't figure out where Xu Bei went.
The female ghost looked at Li Zhao.
Li Zhao looked at him.
After half a minute of silence, the ghost girl pointed to one of the doors in order to avoid laughing.
"Based on my experience of reading horror novels, the path the female ghost points to must be wrong, so I choose this one." Li Zhao took two steps and found a hanged ghost sticking out its long tongue.
He rolled up the tongue prop and stuffed it into the actor's hand: "Don't stick out your tongue. It's dusty outside and unhygienic."
The actor who plays the hanged man holds up the tongue prop: "..."
Young man, can you please respect my profession and be afraid?
Li Zhao stepped into the dark passage, which was only lit by a few dots of green fluorescence. The cameraman asked in a low voice: "Zhao Zhao, aren't you afraid of these?"
"When I was in school, I often ranked first in the class in ideological and political courses?"
Photographer: “So?”
"So I am an excellent successor of socialism." Li Zhao said seriously: "I can overthrow all monsters and demons."
Photographer: “…”
Awesome, awesome.
"ah!"
Li Zhao heard Xu Bei's screams. He ran over quickly and saw Xu Bei standing in the corner with his head in his hands. Hearing footsteps behind him, Xu Bei's face showed ruthlessness. He threw the bone prop that had been hidden in his arms towards Li Zhao, and then kicked him hard.
Clang.
The bone was hit empty, and when Xu Bei's foot touched the corner of Li Zhao's clothes, Li Zhao fell to the ground.
"Zhao Zhao!" The cameraman was behind Li Zhao and only saw Xu Bei kicking him hard. Seeing Li Zhao falling to the ground holding his stomach, he was so scared that he couldn't hold the camera steady. He quickly carried the camera with one hand and supported Li Zhao with the other.
This sudden change made the staff member who played the ghost and the security guard following the guest all angry: "Zhao Zhao, are you okay?"
Xu Bei looked at Li Zhao, who had a painful and pale face. He didn't kick Li Zhao at all just now!
He had intended to use the excuse of being too frightened to make Li Zhao suffer a loss, but he had not hurt Li Zhao at all, so why did Li Zhao look like he was gasping for breath in pain?
"I..." Just as Xu Bei started to speak, Li Zhao spoke first: "I'm fine, I'm fine. Brother Xu didn't do it on purpose. He must have been too scared just now, so he took self-protective actions reflexively."
Seeing that Li Zhao was in so much pain that he couldn't speak clearly, everyone knew that Li Zhao was kicked hard. They were worried that something might happen to the guests, so they suggested suspending the filming.
"It's okay, keep shooting." Li Zhao shook his head. "Don't let me affect the shooting progress. If we finish shooting sooner, we can go back and rest sooner."
The staff of the program were very touched. Li Zhao was so dedicated and considerate.
In the monitoring room, the program director and several other staff members had grim expressions. They are all veterans in producing variety shows and have seen many ways of secretly competing with each other. Xu Bei's reaction just now... was clearly intentional.
If he was really afraid of "ghosts", he would have shown fear when Li Zhao fell to the ground and the staff dressed as ghosts rushed over. However, after he kicked Li Zhao, he did not avoid or dare to look at the staff dressed as ghosts.
"Director, do you want to keep this part?"
"Keep it, put some in the promotional footage, and some in the main film." The director was disgusted by Xu Bei's methods. If every guest did the same thing as Xu Bei, how could they shoot this show?
Xu Bei knew that he had never felt so aggrieved as he did now, but with Li Zhao's excellent performance, no one would believe him even if he said that he had not hurt Li Zhao at all. He was afraid that these people would think that he was ungrateful.
Listening to Li Zhao speaking "good words" for him in front of the staff and comforting him with a smile that it was okay, Xu Bei wanted to tear off the mask on Li Zhao's face.
I didn't kick it at all, so of course it's okay.
This bitch!
"Brother Xu, don't blame yourself." Li Zhao put his hand on Xu Bei's shoulder and said with a smile: "I have thick skin and flesh, so a kick like this is nothing."
The cameraman who was following the filming recalled that Li Zhao was abused as a child and was beaten black and blue every day. Compared with what he experienced in his childhood, Xu Bei's kick was really nothing.
But it is precisely because of this that it seems even more sad.
The other groups of guests had finished filming the haunted house segment and were sitting in the house to rest.
Cen Han checked the time and said, "Zhao Zhao and Xu Bei are the two young men who are most afraid of ghosts. They haven't come out yet."
The staff came out and quietly apologized to several guests and explained the whole story.
After hearing the whole story, the guests all looked unhappy.
He hit people with props and kicked people. Was it really accidental?
After the filming was over, when the cameraman closed the lens cap, Xu Bei's face suddenly darkened. He looked at Li Zhao gloomily and whispered, "Li Zhao, you are so cruel!"
Li Zhao smiled: "Xu Bei, what are you talking about?"
"You relied on this innocent smile to seduce Qin Xiao?" Xu Bei bit his cheek and spoke word by word, "Just wait, you won't be so proud for long."
Li Zhao smiled but said nothing.
Xu Bei was irritated by his smile: "Just wait, when Cang Huan changes its master, you will be in trouble."
After saying that, he pushed Li Zhao and turned away.
"Zhao Zhao, are you okay?" A staff member who came out of the haunted house helped him up.
"I'm fine, thank you." Li Zhao thanked the staff, feeling a little strange in his heart.
Cang Huan changes its owner?
Isn’t Canghuan Tingting’s company? Why does it need to change ownership?
Xu Bei...
Xu.
Could it be that Xu Bei is Yan Ting’s relative and wants to divide up Ting Ting’s company?
Countless plots from TV dramas about the struggles among the rich and powerful emerged in Li Zhao's mind.
Back in the lounge, Li Zhao and other guests shot the closing shots and hurried home.
It was late at night when Li Zhao returned home and found that Yan Ting was still in the company. The housekeeper prepared a midnight snack for him. He was surprised to see that Li Zhao was not in a hurry to eat it. "Mr. Li, is the midnight snack not to your liking, or are you feeling unwell?"
Li Zhao shook his head and asked the housekeeper, "Uncle housekeeper, is there a relative named Xu Bei in Tingting's family?"
"Xu Bei?" The housekeeper's smile became a little strange, even with a little contempt, "Those people in the Xu family are not really relatives. If someone says something nonsense to you, don't take it to heart."
Li Zhao nodded ignorantly.
"However, Xu Bei is indeed a descendant of the Xu family." The housekeeper said, "But the master never associates with those people, and does not like others to mention the Xu family in front of him."
"Okay, then I won't mention it in front of him anymore." Li Zhao thought, no wonder Tingting didn't want to associate with the Xu family. Even he thought the Xu family was disgusting.
It is really disgusting that relatives keep staring at other people's companies every day and wish they could replace them.
Li Zhao called Zhang Xiaoyuan and told him what happened during the recording of the show tonight.
"Well done. To deal with such a villain, you have to use villain tactics." Zhang Xiaoyuan felt very happy. "The studio has already investigated clearly. The one who paid for the marketing account to slander you is Xu Bei. This guy has a pointed face and is as ugly as an orangutan. He even dared to slander you. I don't know who gave him the courage."
"You found out so quickly?" When Xu Bei implicated him and Qin Xiao tonight, he suspected that the leak was related to Xu Bei, but he didn't expect it to be true.
"Cao Jia got the news and told the studio." Zhang Xiaoyuan didn't know how the higher-ups found out the news, but it was a good thing that they were willing to spend the energy to seek justice for Zhao Zhao.
"Forget it, don't let this kind of rubbish affect your mood." Zhang Xiaoyuan changed the subject: "In a few days, we will fill out the college entrance examination application form. Do you have a favorite university?"
"Shuimu University and Jingshi University are both good." Li Zhao was slightly stunned. He seemed to have never seriously thought about which major would be more suitable for him as an actor now.
"Jingshi University has departments related to film and television, and Shuimu also opened majors related to performing arts last year. They are both suitable for you." Zhang Xiaoyuan was in a complicated mood. When he took the college entrance examination, he was anxious about where he could go with his score, but Zhang Xiaoyuan was anxious about which of the top universities to choose.
The differences between people are so great that people don't even have the energy to eat lemons.
Yan Ting came back very late. When he came back, Li Zhao was covered with a thin blanket and fell asleep on the sofa.
He walked to the sofa, looked at Li Zhao's peaceful sleeping face, bent down and smelled the faint scent of shower gel on his body.
He was asleep and knew nothing.
Yan Ting wanted to touch his cheek, his lips, and his soft hair.
The warm breath brushed his cheek, and he wanted to... kiss him.
"Tingting?" Li Zhao opened his eyes and looked at Yan Ting's face, which was very close to him, in a daze: "What are you looking at?"
Yan Ting stared at him for a few seconds, then slowly stood up and said calmly, "Look at your face to see if you have any moles."
"There's none on my face." Li Zhao unbuttoned the top button of his pajamas and pointed to the side of his neck: "Here, there's one."
Looking at the slender white neck, Yan Ting quickly pulled up his collar: "Why are you unbuttoning it? Button it up!"
"You want to see if I have a mole?" Li Zhao yawned. "Is there a lot of work at the company that brings you back so late today?"
"Well, I need to make good money." Yan Ting looked at Li Zhao.
Li Zhao: “…”
Tingting is not rich enough?
He really doesn't understand the world of rich people.
The author has something to say: Baby Tingting has been very attentive in kindergarten classes recently.
The child asked: Why are you so serious? We are still babies.
Baby Tingting: I want to get more red flowers and get lollipops as rewards.
Child: Can you give me one of your lollipops?
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