CH 50

Qin Ke watched Song Yunran’s face change from red to blue within a few minutes, so he thought he was in trouble at work and asked, “What’s wrong?”

“Don’t talk.”

Song Yunran leaned back on the sofa, his eyes staring blankly at the ceiling, and he couldn’t understand what was wrong with everyone.

He is handsome, tall, and rich, isn’t he quite a standard overbearing president profile?

Why is it that when other people’s bosses stomp their feet, a group of people can kneel down and call them dad. But when he only wants to concentrate on being Qin Ke’s dad alone, he always encounters layers of obstacles?

The original story’s will is also at work, right?

Song Yunran was shocked, and hurriedly consulted with his ally: “Speaking of which, have you encountered any abnormalities after you were reborn?”

Qin Ke asked, “Abnormal? What do you mean?”

“It means it’s out of the ordinary, beyond your understanding.”

After Song Yunran explained, he didn’t forget to worry about the child’s education, “How come you don’t even understand the meaning of abnormal, didn’t you listen to the teacher during the class?”

“……”

Qin Ke rubbed his brow and asked helplessly, “Did you encounter it?”

Song Yunran said, “Sort of. For example, I have a great purpose, which seems like it should be very achievable. But until now, I haven’t been able to achieve it, could this be a negative effect of being reborn?”

For some reason, Qin Ke seemed to guess what the so-called great purpose was actually about.

He didn’t understand where Song Yunran’s obsession to be his father came from, when he first heard about it he only felt ridiculous. However, now that he had experienced more, he only found it cute.

This is not the same as the Song Yunran he knew in his previous life.

It was more vivid, and more intimate.

He never thought that one day he and Song Yunran would be sitting face to face on the sofa, discussing such a fantastical topic as rebirth. Nor did he think that the unexpected encounter on the set of “Hong Bai Xi Xi” was a signal for the beginning of another journey.

It seems that it is indeed beyond his understanding of the past.

Song Yunran saw that he did not say anything for half a day, and impatiently came closer from the end of the sofa and said: “Is this question very difficult to answer, do you need to think for so long?”

Qin Ke looked at him with slightly lowered eyebrows.

A pair of round almond eyes should have been a good shape, but because of the impatient urging in Song Yunran’s expression, instead of looking very unkempt, he blinked his long eyelashes twice, making people not want to really do something to fix him up.

It is a very contradictory state.

Qin Ke staggered his eyes, his voice lowered: “If I must say, you are the abnormality I met.”

Song Yunran: “?”

He didn’t think it sounded like a positive word and suspected that Qin Ke was scolding himself in a negative way.

“But I don’t think it’s a negative thing.”

Qin Ke smiled, light and shadow in his eyes transformed into a different color.

It didn’t sound like scolding anymore.

Song Yunran froze in confusion for a moment, seemingly about to attend to something. At that moment, his thoughts were interrupted by the voice of his aunt calling them to eat.

Until the meal was finished, he didn’t figure out what Qin Ke’s words really meant.

Time flies to the middle of October, a week before the official release of “Hong Bai Xi Xi”, Xinghe arranged a few screenings in several major cities.

The purpose is to rely on professional critics and senior movie enthusiasts to spread the word of mouth before the official release, which can further attract the general audience and also allow theaters to decide the final release based on good reviews.

In the previous life, when “Hongbai Xixi ” was first released, it was because the creative team was not famous and ate the loss of schedule.

In this life, Song Yunran is full of ideas to make more money, and of course will not repeat the same mistake.

This Saturday, the first spot screening in Yan City opened.

As the biggest investor of the film, Song Yunran was naturally seated in the middle of the first row.

The director and producer, whom he had not seen for a long time, sat on his left side. The two of them looked back at the dark audience and turned back in unison. They were probably thinking about the cost that Xinghe had spent on the film’s promotion and distribution, and they could not help but start rubbing their hands uneasily in sync.

It’s like Zhong Xiaofeng, who just found out that “The Legend of Nan Hua” will be developed into a big IP.

Song Yunran turned his face sideways and asked Qin Ke on his right, “Are you nervous?”

“How about you?” Qin Ke asked in a soft voice.

Song Yunran spat: “originally not nervous, but looking at the two of them like that, made me a little panicked.”

As soon as the words left his mouth, the lights dimmed as the familiar dragon logo music sounded, symbolizing that the movie no longer had any chance to be modified for a redo.

The director on the left suddenly shook a little, and he turned his head in a panic: “Xiao Song, I’m scared.”

Song Yunran patted his shoulder: “Even if we lose money, it’s my money, calm down, okay?”

Not to mention the money is fine. After mentioning, the director looked like he was dying.

Song Yunran had to withdraw his hand.

The screenings were a bit cold, he pulled his jacket zipper up, and his body unconsciously leaned toward Qin Ke’s side, muttering in a low voice: “Can you persuade him not to scare me all the time.”

The jacket collar is very high, after the zipper is pulled all the way to the top, it covered a small half of the face. It made the voice a bit muffled, like a serious accusation.

Qin Ke held back his laughter and asked, “Are you scared too?”

“……”

Song Yunran’s heart surged with a burst of speechlessness, not wanting to admit that when things came to a head. He was actually under more pressure than the director.

As the netizens said, this promotion bundled the whole Ning Dong Group, if by then the box office and word of mouth fail miserably, it is not only him who will lose face, but also his parents.

At that time……

Song Yunran’s eyes, uncontrollably floated Bai Waning’s thunderous picture.

He sighed deeply and muttered to himself, “Don’t make it to the end, even kneeling down to beg my mother doesn’t work.”

“It won’t.”

The answer to his question was a low voice close to his ear, “I said I wouldn’t let you get down on your knees to beg Chairman Bai.”

Song Yunran’s fingertips on the armrest trembled.

He silently curled his fingers tightly and waited until the warm breath in his ears was far away before he nodded his head like a wandering soul.

A few seconds of silence, he pulled down his jacket zipper with a start.

It’s strange, how hot it is again.

For an hour and a half of viewing time, Song Yunran was unable to concentrate.

He was like an outsider forced to watch the movie, numbly tilting his head to look at the screen. He changed his sitting position every few minutes, and his head was full of thoughts about the words Qin Ke just said, always feeling that there was a deeper meaning in the tone.

But he and Qin Ke blew each other’s vest before. He alone had made up too much of what was or wasn’t there.

The unpleasant experience made him afraid to make a judgment at random.

After all, it doesn’t matter if you miss the key information given by Qin Ke. If you live as a brain mending maniac like Assistant Tang, it will damage his reputation as president.

Song Yunran was busy frowning and contemplating, not realizing that the director next to him was already on the verge of tears.

“Mr. Song, is the movie that bad?”

The director choked up and asked, thinking at the same time that it shouldn’t be, the audience were obviously laughing so loudly.

Song Yunran came back to his senses, turned his head and was about to open his mouth to explain, when he suddenly heard Qin Ke on his right laughing softly.

The audience was watching the movie calmly after the last laughing point, and this kind of movement was really suspicious.

Song Yunran redirected his eyes to the big screen and found that the plot was playing out when a supporting character accidentally fell down in front of the coffin.

Song Yunran became enlightened after a few seconds of silence.

It’s not a delayed laughter moment, but rather a moment when he thought of the scene where he was kneeling in front of the coffin in the prop room and couldn’t help but laugh.

For a moment, Song Yunran actually admired himself a little.

Some people do not appear in the film, but can entertain the audience in the cinema.

It is indeed a rare talent.

–No wonder!

Song Yunran was annoyed and his face immediately collapsed.

He said to the director indifferently, “The movie is good, but the lead actor is not good.”

Director: “……”

Qin Ke: “……”

After the screening, the audience was not yet released from the atmosphere of the movie, they were happily mingling with their companions, and looking around. The scene seemed like a sea of joy.

Next was the audience Q&A time, the creative team came on stage and lined up.

Qin Ke, whose appearance was already eye-catching, was even more eye-catching because of the brace hanging on his shoulder.

Even before he spoke, the audience had already made up the words “disabled and determined” for him.

And then thinking about his perfect acting skills in the film, everyone felt more and more admiration.

What an excellent actor, he deserves a louder applause!

In an instant, the sudden applause almost lifted the roof of the screening room.

It was not until the first critic who got the microphone stood up that the surroundings slowly quieted down.

The critic still had tears of laughter in the corners of his eyes: “I believe I don’t need to say much about the quality of the film. The applause just now has confirmed everything, congratulations, you have made a wonderful and interesting film.”

The director thanked him repeatedly, and his heart settled down.

Song Yunran lifted his head and inadvertently looked at Qin Ke on stage.

Not sure if it was an illusion, but he seemed to see some reassurance in Qin Ke’s eyes, as if to say, “Look, I told you it’s okay”.

Song Yunran was about to smile back, but suddenly remembered that Qin Ke had just laughed at him when watching the movie, and immediately restrained his smile. He grunted and turned his head away, From the corners of his eyes he saw Qin Ke hooking his lips, and seemed to be in a good mood.

This is not the first time you have experienced a movie in theaters, and you are still so happy?

Song Yunran proudly thought, if it were him, he would not be overjoyed because of this small scene.

But on second thought, depending on the response to this screening today, perhaps word of mouth will ferment online before the movie is officially released, helping them get more seats.

If the quality of the film is excellent, the more the number of seats, the more the box office.

And in Song Yunran’s eyes, that’s all a beautiful amount of money in the bank.

When he thought of this, he unconsciously raised the corners of his mouth, and his eyes blossomed with the desire for money.

Song Yunran thought about it more and more happily, and almost laughed out loud in his seat.

He pinched his wrist hard to remind himself not to lose face in public.

However, what he didn’t know was that he was sitting alone in the first row at the moment, and his every move was being watched by the creative team on stage.

The crowd: “……”

They silently withdrew their eyes and decided not to speculate on the fickle mind of Mr. Song.

The screenings were a great success, and when they returned to the backstage, everyone coaxed the director to treat them.

Song Yunran was naturally among those invited to attend.

The director happily booked a long-established restaurant, not far from the movie theater, just a ten-minute drive away.

After the group arrived at the parking lot, he counted the number of people and said, “The car is not enough, so why don’t you take the subway there?”

The latter remark was made to the two young people in the group.

Song Yunran swept a glance and said, “Don’t bother, you two can take my car to go.”

After saying that, he turned his head and asked Qin Ke, “You came here in the crew’s car today, are you going with them or with me?”

“With you.” Qin Ke said as a matter of fact.

Song Yunran nodded, and when he got into the car, he also paid attention to Qin Ke’s shoulder injury, and let him go in first and sit on the far right.

Then he turned his head to look at the other two fat young men, who were similarly fat. After thinking about it, he sat in the middle to avoid Qin Ke being squeezed by the others.

After the vehicle set off, Song Yunran regretted it.

The journey is full of turns. The originally spacious seat became extra cramped because of the size of the boy next to him.

He was squeezed in the middle, and wanted to ask the driver to stop several times, simply walking there himself is more comfortable than this.

Qin Ke noticed his difficulty and touched his arm, signaling him to lean over.

Song Yunran shook his head and declined.

Considering the fact that people can hear what is being said in the car, he clicked on the memo: [It’s okay, we’re almost there, you can take care of your shoulder.]

The driver saw a crooked bicycle coming against the traffic while he was looking down and typing. The driver didn’t have time to inform everyone to sit tight and hold on to their seats, so he held the steering wheel tightly and made a beautiful turning shift!

The boy in the back was unprepared: “Oh my God…”

Before the words fell, he crashed heavily into Song Yunran.

Song Yunran was even more caught off guard, he didn’t see anything, he was smashed to the side by a powerful impact.

The sudden change hit him dizzy, and when the car stopped, his eyebrows were about to frown in anger, but suddenly realized where something was wrong.

“……”

Song Yunran’s sanity returned at this point, he stared at the soft texture of the white sweater in front of him. He smelled the clean scent on the sweater that did not belong to him and finally understood.

He seemed to be lying in Qin Ke’s arms.

T/N: My first language isn’t English, and there may be some grammatical errors. But I try not to deviate from the author’s narrative. If there are any errors or nonsensical sentences, feel free to comment.