Chapter 32
"Gu Zhun, get ready. There's a business dinner tonight and we need a few people to sing and liven up the atmosphere. The higher-ups asked you to go."
Gu Zhun was arranging a song, wearing headphones, immersed in his own world, and didn't notice Liu Weiwei's intrusion at all. It wasn't until she stood next to him, banging on the table, that Gu Zhun's attention was diverted a little.
He took off his headset, "What?"
Liu Weiwei repeated, "There's a business event tonight, you should go."
"No." Isn't this just acting as an clown for capital?
"You have to go. They give a lot, okay?" Liu Weiwei raised her eyelids and pursed her lips, looking helpless.
The higher-ups have spoken, so she has no right to choose.
Gu Zhun hesitated for a moment, "I——"
"Okay, I've already promised you this. Trust me, you won't lose anything if you go. And—" Liu Weiwei leaned close to Gu Zhun's ear, "It's really a lot. Who wouldn't want money, right?"
Things had come to this point, and Gu Zhun had no room to refuse. Besides, there was really a lot for Liu Weiwei to say, so it must be a grand dinner.
"Get ready. I'm leaving first and will pick you up later." Liu Weiwei didn't wait for Gu Zhun to answer. She just came to inform him. It was enough to inform him.
Gu Zhun could only nod and put everything away.
Now that his thoughts were interrupted, he had no mood to write songs.
To be precise, even if Liu Weiwei hadn't come to disturb him, it would still be difficult for him to continue composing this song.
He just wanted to find something to do to keep himself busy.
He has been feeling uneasy these past two days. A whole day has passed since he left City B and found out that Chen Shiman had deleted him.
Chen Shiman didn't come to work these days, and Xiao Jiang didn't receive any news from him. He even suspected that Chen Shiman had disappeared from the world.
But no, he knew clearly that the other person just didn't want to contact him.
It was at this time that Gu Zhun discovered that he only had Chen Shiman’s WeChat!
Even though they have been working together for such a long time, they have never exchanged phone numbers.
Gu Zhun was very puzzled by this and tried to get information from Xiao Jiang in a roundabout way.
Later he got the phone number, but he didn't know what excuse to use to call, and what to say first.
He couldn't ask the other party why he didn't come to work. After all, theirs was not a purely employer-employee relationship. He also had no way to reprimand Chen Shiman for his rude behavior of deleting his message. It was he who left without saying goodbye. In that case, what should he say in the first place?
yes--
"Why didn't you come to work? Are you not feeling well?"
still--
"I'm sorry, that day..."
Gu Zhun shook his head, as if no opening remarks could explain his leaving without saying goodbye after such an incident - and most importantly, Gu Zhun couldn't understand why he cared so much about the things that were deleted.
Or to be more specific, he cares about being deleted by Chen Shiman.
"Forget it." Gu Zhun shook his head, unwilling to think about these things anymore. He decided to deal with the evening's affairs first.
*
In the evening, Gu Zhun changed into a suit and glanced at his cell phone. There were no new messages. He then set his cell phone to do not disturb and left it in the car.
Liu Weiwei walked briskly, her head covered in sweat.
"What's wrong? Wipe it off." Gu Zhun handed her a tissue and gave her a bottle of iced water.
Liu Weiwei drank it without saying a word, and only licked her rosy lips after wiping off all the sweat on her head, "It's okay, that's enough, Master, let's go."
"Xiao Jiang, you stay in the car in a while. Gu Zhun and I will go in." Liu Weiwei instructed Xiao Jiang.
Liu Weiwei leaned against the window, her chest still heaving. It took her a long time to recover. "Where's Chen Shiman? Still on vacation?"
She asked suddenly.
I haven't seen this guy for several days, and I miss his chattering.
When Chen Shiman was suddenly mentioned, Gu Zhun was momentarily distracted, but he quickly adjusted his expression. "He had some family matters, so he took a few more days off."
This answer was perfect, and Liu Weiwei didn't think much about it, as it was just a casual question anyway.
Arriving at the venue, Gu Zhun took it and walked into the dressing room with brisk steps. When he raised his eyes, he saw Xu Ming who was looking complacent.
The two people's eyes just met in the air.
Xu Ming: ...
Gu Zhun: ...
Gu Zhun has always had nothing to agree on with Xu Ming except for Xu Wei's affairs. Now that he sees him, he naturally doesn't want to say a word.
Xu Ming's makeup was almost done, and he asked the makeup artist to leave. Gu Zhun felt puzzled because his makeup had not been done yet.
So Gu Zhun didn't look very happy.
Xu Ming looked at himself in the mirror, and waited until he had admired himself enough before speaking: "Xu Wei, how are you doing recently?"
"Very good, you don't have to worry." Gu Zhun replied coldly.
Xu Ming continued, "That's right. It must be nice to be with grandpa and grandma. Xu Wei should be on vacation now. Let her come over to my place in a couple of days. I don't have any announcements recently, and it just so happens that we haven't seen each other for a long time."
After saying that, Xu Ming turned around and looked at Gu Zhun with a smile.
It is natural for a father to see his daughter.
"You should talk to my parents about this. It's not something I can decide." If he intervened, it would only make the tense family relationship worse.
Then Gu Zhun didn't want to say anything more. He turned on his phone and asked Liu Weiwei to call the makeup artist in.
Xu Ming glanced at Gu Zhun's face and said, "I talked to my mother last time, but she didn't agree." Xu Ming felt a little regretful. He had finally had some free time some time ago, and there happened to be no new people around him. He wanted to bring his daughter over to play for two days, but was harshly rejected by his ex-mother-in-law.
Gu Zhun sneered when he heard this, "You asked for it."
Originally, the old couple of the Gu family didn't like the entertainment industry, a place full of mixed people. Back then, when Gu Gu found Xu Ming, a little-known rapper, it almost angered them to death.
At that time, Gu Zhun was still in high school, and Xu Ming was not as famous as he is now. He was just a young man singing on the street. It was normal for his parents to look down on him - and he also looked down on him, thinking that he was not worthy of his sister.
But women always do earth-shattering things for love. The stubborn little girl left home quietly and accompanied Xu Ming in his adventures outside.
The year Gu Gu left home happened to be the year Gu Zhun took the college entrance examination. No matter how much Gu Zhun begged, he would not let his sister stay.
She left for two years, and apart from messages during the holidays, there was no sign of her.
When he came back, Xu Ming had already made a name for himself in the entertainment industry, started making money, and sent money home intermittently.
Gu Zhun remembered that every time the family received money, his mother would make a fuss for a long time.
Until later, the elder sister became pregnant and brought Xu Ming to live with her. At this time, regardless of whether the Gu family agreed or not, the two had to get married.
Gu Zhun remembered that they did not hold a wedding. The two families had dinner together on a sunny day and went to the Civil Affairs Bureau to get their marriage certificate that same day.
Xu Ming should have stayed home with Gu Gu as her months progressed, but this man, citing tight schedules as an excuse, would be away for ten days or even half a month.
As the money grew, the family grew increasingly lonely. She watched her husband on TV becoming increasingly glamorous, yet no one knew that he had a wife who worked hard at home.
Gu Zhun and Xu Ming had argued several times about this matter, but nothing had happened. A man can find so many excuses, but he can't find a reason to stay.
Later, when the child was born, Xu Ming burst into tears in front of the delivery room, expressing his gratitude to Gu Gu for giving him a lovely daughter, and also bowed his head to write a novel about how regretful he was.
Gu Gu is a soft-hearted person. The safe birth of the child is the best thing for her. After that, the two of them lived a peaceful life.
But life is never lived alone. Gu Gu has no job and is alone at home. She has to face her child who can't speak and can only cry all day long, get up to feed him countless nights, and endure the scolding from her parents.
So she screamed at home. No one could see her inner pain, the people around her did not support her, and she had a husband who was never willing to return home. All these things finally overwhelmed her and made her commit suicide at home.
Gu Zhun remembered that day when Xu Ming was dominating the show and many people said he was talented, but his wife died tragically at home, leaving behind a hungry child.
Because of this, to this day, Gu Zhun still looks down on Xu Ming.
His success may have been inevitable, but it was built with the blood of his sister.
At this point, Xu Ming had nothing to say. It was indeed his fault in the beginning, and he was also trying his best to make it up to Xu Wei.
Seeing that Gu Zhun looked unhappy, Xu Ming no longer wanted to talk about the previous incident. He changed the subject and asked, "Why don't I see that assistant beside you? Um, that Beta?"
Gu Zhun immediately frowned and looked at him. How could he have forgotten that Chen Shiman was, in a sense, brought to him by this person? He had been so busy recently that he actually forgot to ask about this matter.
"How did you know he was the one filming it?"
Xu Ming shook his head and put his index finger to his lips. "This is a secret. How about it? He should be very compatible with your temperament."
When he first saw Chen Shiman's photo, he felt that she would be the type that Gu Zhun would like, so he took so much trouble to get her in front of Gu Zhun.
"As your brother-in-law, I saw that you were alone all the time, so I gave you a gift. Hmm? Do you like it?"
Gu Zhun suddenly felt a fire burning in his heart. How could this person treat Chen Shiman as a gift?
Although he was angry, in order to prevent Xu Ming from noticing something was wrong, he still spoke politely: "Of course, it's you who has to wander around like this."
Gu Zhun thought that he had to find an opportunity to ask Chen Shiman if he knew Xu Ming.
"You're welcome."
Boom boom boom——
The door was opened.
"Teacher Gu, do you have time now for me to put on your makeup?"
Gu Zhun nodded, "Okay."
The makeup artist didn't look around. Liu Weiwei had warned her before she came in not to look around and not to tell anyone what she heard.
At first she was confused, but now she understood: Xu Ming and Gu Zhun, wasn't that the uproar some time ago? She didn't even need to think about it, it must be that her son-in-law and brother-in-law didn't have a good relationship.
The makeup artist carefully applied foundation on Gu Zhun's face, but his ears still stood up.
"——Come to think of it, I didn't expect you to come back. Haven't you always looked down on these things?" Xu Ming sneered.
But before Gu Zhun could answer, Xu Ming asked himself, "Yes, it's a lot, and it's not up to you to decide."
Gu Zhun didn't want to show his displeasure in front of a third person, so he could only purse his lips and not look at Xu Ming.
But this guy didn't know what was going on, and he insisted on continuing to provoke, "After this is over, come back home with me, and I'll pick up Xu Wei."
At this time, Gu Zhun had to speak up: "Why don't you go by yourself?"
"Not on the way."
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