Chapter 395: Chapter 395: 243: Young Master Zou broke his leg, the New Year's Eve is approaching, Xu is starting to worry about the popularity of "Decorum" being crushed_2

As a key member of the creative team, he naturally had to stay on site, ready to communicate and solve all kinds of problems at any time.

Xu Qingyan originally planned to return to Xinghai in a few days, but now… with Pei Muchan flying off to the south and Lin Wanzhou to Capital City, there was no point in him going back since everyone was gone.

He unintentionally worked until seven in the evening, rested for a while, and glanced at the messages he had received on his phone.

Pei: “The plane tickets are booked.”

“Okay.”

Xu Qingyan got up and walked to the window, opening a crack, and the cold air hit his face. He could vaguely hear the sound of the television from the next room’s technical team leader’s blasting TV.

Almost without warning, the rain started to fall.

During his month-plus stay in Chang’an, he often encountered rain and casually sent a photo to Pei Muchan. With a bang, he closed the window and continued to concentrate on skimming the script.

The company had been established, and the next step was to ask two shareholders for money. But as it stood, the two shareholders didn’t have much liquidity either, so the only option was to save up first.

Even if there wasn’t enough money and the actors weren’t decided, it wasn’t a big deal if the script wasn’t ready.

Like carting grain before the oxen, once shooting started, money would burn fast. Half of the actors’ fees had to be paid when filming began, and no one could withstand all the other various expenses.

All these things needed to be taken into consideration.

….

The next day, Xu Qingyan received a package.

It was square and somewhat light. Seeing that Li Yang was the sender, he suddenly remembered that a few days before, Li Yang mentioned sending something. Upon opening it, he found a scarf.

At first, he thought it was bought online, but after a closer look, it didn’t seem to be the case.

Scratching his head, he set the express package aside at his workstation and first sent a photo to Li Yang.

“A scarf?”

A few seconds later, the other side showed that they were typing.

Li Yang: “Yes.”

“Is this hand-knit by you?” Xu Qingyan had just typed this message, not yet sent, when he glanced at his last reply to her.

He immediately stopped typing, frowning at how he could have sent such a message. After a brief recollection, he inhaled sharply.

He scrolled up through the chat history.

Xu: “It’s okay, you control your own money, don’t be so anxious.”

Half a minute later.

“I will pay it back.”

Xu: “It’s up to you, right now you should focus on your studies, plan your future path, and find an industry that interests you.”

Li: “Okay.”

He tapped his head, greatly annoyed. At that time, he was bombarded with messages and too busy to reply mechanically, so much so that even the usual advice about studying hard had come out.

But looking back now, he realized that what he said wasn’t quite appropriate.

Even though he thought of Li Yang as a little sister in his heart and didn’t actually care about the money he lent her, which was lent in his mother’s name,

he knew from the limited interactions they had that she was someone who could be very stubborn.

In the past, he would fight on the streets over a hundred yuan, fists flying and getting bloodied. Now, with money, he had become somewhat numb to smaller amounts, but that didn’t mean he had changed his nature.

Having been caught in the rain himself, he understood others’ cautiousness all the more.

He deleted the word “hand-knit”, guessing that the time was about right. Thinking that Li Yang might not have class, he sent her another message.

“Do you have time to take a call now?”

After sending it, Xu Qingyan also felt a little anxious. Although it wasn’t a big deal, he wondered how he, being so young, was going to apologize in the manner of an elder.

Damn, this really was a life lesson.

The feeling was a bit twisted, as they were close in age. Just five years difference… still felt a bit old though; time had flown by in the blink of an eye.

He had hardly any memorable experiences from college, as it wasn’t a time of strict discipline.

Besides the few times he went to work during holidays and returned to find his roommate on lonely islands, free as a bird, there weren’t many profound memories.

It was during the second semester of his senior year, he remembered, a farewell dinner with his roommates. That night, the roommates who normally had conflicts but were not that close ended up saying everything they wanted to say.

College and farewells indeed were strange things.

As he was lost in thought, his phone buzzed, and Li Yang replied.

“I’m free, no classes in the morning.”

Xu Qingyan stood up and walked outside the office, near the stairwell, to make a call using his data… he wasn’t sure if Li Yang’s campus card included data.

This girl was a bit obtuse and would exceed her data limit but still answer calls.

It was free for her if he called, and this amount of money was nothing to him now. It was better to be considerate and save her every bit he could.

After all, ever since Li Yang entered Xinghai University, she hadn’t caused any trouble. Even knowing he was in Xinghai, she never bothered him.

Remembering his mother mentioning “take good care of her,” he suddenly felt a sweat break out on his back.

After a few rings, the phone connected.

Li Yang’s voice came through, soft, calling him brother.

“Hmm…” Xu Qingyan stood by the window of the stairwell looking at the wet ground outside after the rain, not knowing what to say, and awkwardly asked,

“Mainly… there’s something I want to tell you, uh…”

He felt a bit silly about what he was doing, maybe it was all in his head. The other person might not have cared at all or even forgotten it after all these days.

“Yes?” Li Yang responded.

“It’s just…” Xu Qingyan looked at the few people below in the courtyard and, after some hesitation, said, “Last time we texted, I was a bit busy.”

“The replies I sent you might have seemed perfunctory, not quite right.”

On the other end of the phone, Li Yang’s voice tensed up, but she still asked,@@novelbin@@

“It’s fine.”

“Uh… I just want to explain, I didn’t mean anything by it.” Xu Qingyan fumbled for a while but still spoke honestly, “When I said ‘it’s up to you,’ I meant you don’t have to worry about it.”

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