CH 79

When this news reached Song Yunran’s ears, he was at the opening ceremony of “The Legend of Nan Hua”.

In addition to the cast members, there were also a large number of journalists present.

Xinghe and Zhong Xiaofeng’s first web drama “After I Met You” had just finished airing at the beginning of the month, with an average broadcast of nearly 200 Million, and the reputation and topic of interest were far ahead of other web dramas during that period, so it was a time when the buzz was in full swing.

Therefore, media from all walks of life have high expectations for the second cooperation between the two parties.

After the opening ceremony, Song Yunran, as the producer, was also invited to participate in the group interview session.

He took this opportunity to present the “Legend of Nan Hua” IP Spin-off Plan to the public, and was greatly satisfied by the chatter that resounded on the scene.

Who would have thought that a year ago, Xinghe was a company that everyone avoided?

Thanks to me, a business genius, the company has grown to this point.

It’s a pity that the presidents don’t have the habit of handing out the best newcomer award, Song Yunran thought regretfully, otherwise with his excellent performance, wouldn’t he have been able to take the trophy home as a matter of course?

While he was drifting in his imagination, a reporter asked Zhong Xiaofeng, “This is your second collaboration with Xinghe, are you confident that “The Legend of Nan Hua” will surpass the performance of “After I Met You”?”

Zhong Xiaofeng is now a screenwriter with a masterpiece, although he will no longer buy a standing ticket to escape overnight because of excessive pressure, but the salty nature of his bones has not changed at all.

Facing the reporter’s expectant gaze, he scratched his head and said, “I will be confident if Xiao Song is confident.”

The reporter smiled: “It seems that you trust Mr. Song a lot.”

“That’s for sure.”

Zhong Xiaofeng turned his head and met Song Yunran’s gaze, “The person I should thank most for my current achievement is Mr. Song.”

Song Yunran nodded: “I think so too.”

The crowd: “……”

Song Yunran lifted his chest, what’s wrong, did he say something wrong?

He looked around at the directors and actors who were suffering to hold back their laughter, and suddenly understood.

Yes, I can’t take all the credit for myself.

“But the main reason is that you have written the script very well.”

Song Yunran promptly returned to compliment, “And you can not just thank me, but also thank the crew and actors who presented the script from their hearts, as well as Qin Ke who recommended you to me.”

The reporter’s curiosity was piqued and he asked about Qin Ke’s role in the story.

Zhong Xiaofeng then told the story.

“So there is this kind of friendship.”

Another reporter raised his hand to ask a question, “Speaking of Qin Ke, does Xiao Song mind talking about your ‘scandal’?”

Even before the words fell, the crew members present were all shocked.

Xiao Song had a scandal, and it sounded like it had something to do with Qin Ke.

This is much more interesting than the opening ceremony!

Song Yunran was flabbergasted, and the first thing he remembered was the mom fan he met at the airport, and immediately his pupils shook, thinking, No way are you a mom of such?

The next moment, the reporter was kind enough to explain: “It seems that you do not know that you were photographed by netizens in the X City district?”

Song Yunran quietly sighed with relief.

It turned out that it wasn’t the mom fan who broke the news, it was him who wrongly blamed the innocent little sister.

But on reflection, the situation seems to have gotten worse ……

In the heat of the moment, Song Yunran barely managed to steady his mind and replied, “That’s it, I thought there was a real scandal, scared me to death.”

He marshaled his whole body’s acting skills and continued to say, “It’s not a big deal, I just went to Qin Ke’s house for a few days on New Year’s Eve, didn’t you ever go to your best friend’s house to play?”

It’s okay, it’s good, hold on.

Song Yunran secretly reassured himself, don’t be guilty of treachery, you have been on the variety show with Qin Ke as a friend, what’s wrong with paying a visit on New Year’s Day?

The reporter originally intended to ask questions with the intention of making big news, but ended up being choked by Song Yunran’s frankness.

He held the microphone tightly and asked again with determination: “There are so many artists in Xinghe, how come you only went to Qin Ke’s house?”

Song Yunran said with conviction, “Of course, because the others didn’t invite me.”

“?”

A few of Xinghe’s artists were collectively speechless. They just couldn’t figure it out, they were halfway into eating melons up close, when a black pot fell from the sky, they looked at each other with the same confusion in their eyes.

Is it our fault?

But …… who has no problem inviting the boss to his home for the New Year?

Just your Qin Ke is the most outrageous.

The interview ended, and when all the reporters left, Song Yunran hurriedly took out his phone to catch up.

He stared at the screen and couldn’t help but feel intensely stunned.

They actually thought of using the shape of the ear to identify the authenticity.

With such technology what entertainment forum are you still surfing, why don’t you join the great people’s police force as early as possible?

What a waste of talent, a pity.

“They have a microscope in their eyes, I can’t even recognize myself.” Song Yunran honestly commented.

Assistant Tang, who had come with him, was silent for a moment and asked, ” Why did you just admit it?”

Song Yunran said, “Who knows if there is any other material in the hands of netizens. If I have the cheek to falsely clarify, in case someone picks it up eventually, won’t it be a big slap in the face?”

Assistant Tang could not refute, he personally made the booking for the flight to X City.

But at that time, he thought that little Song was just traveling to X City on a whim, how could he have expected that he would actually go to celebrate the Spring Festival with Qin Ke.

He looked ahead in confusion, and there were crew members who were moving away the props used in the opening ceremony.

Xinghe’s biggest investment project in history is about to start filming officially. After much negotiation, this ancient attraction belonging to the Ning Dong Group has helped the crew a lot.

Everyone is working as a team, the film set is thriving, but in the midst of the cheerful atmosphere around him, he was ushered into a difficult juncture in his career path.

As the president’s assistant, he couldn’t understand what his boss was up to.

Why is it Qin Ke? Why is it Qin Ke again? Why is it always Qin Ke?

Could it be that ……

Assistant Tang sucked in a breath of cold air: “I told you that this image appeared strange! Could it be that Qin Ke found someone to take the photo and then released it for hype during the opening of “The Legend of Nan Hua”, how dare he!”

“……” Song Yunran was not happy, “Don’t say bad things about him!”

Assistant Tang: “?”

Song Yunran pursed his lips, his white face reddened by the early spring’s warm sun.

He looked at the busy crowd around him, and kept the volume to the minimum, as he explained, “I took the initiative to go to his house to play, he didn’t use me.”

Assistant Tang stared at Song Yunran in dismay, a trace of sympathy surging in his heart.

Do not know what tactics Qin Ke used secretly, so much so that Xiao Song was also helping to count the money after being sold.

It seems that the time has come for him to report to Mr. Song and Ms. Bai once again.

This thought just circled in the mind of Assistant Tang, when he heard Song Yunran pick up a sentence: “You do not tell others, in fact, in fact, I am in a relationship with Qin Ke, he is my boyfriend.”

Assistant Tang was frozen on the spot.

There are people coming all around, Song Yunran did not dare to talk about it for a longer time, and anxiously threatened: “Anyway, just don’t let my parents know for the time being, or I am afraid they will hit me …… not and criticize me. I dare say your lifetime year-end bonus will be gone, and remember ah, no problem, right?”

Assistant Tang thought in a daze, this is too big a problem.

The rumor is that the last ten girlfriends in your network are going to lose their powder directly…… forget that’s not important, but what makes me an assistant, in addition to my job I also had to work hard to help the boss conceal the romance.

What’s more, you have the nerve to threaten me with the year-end bonus, shouldn’t you give me a hush money?

Really worthy of being the foolish prince of Ningdong Group.

So foolish that one can pity him.

Assistant Tang’s shoulders suddenly sank, and a sense of responsibility was aroused: “You do not worry, I promise not to tell anyone!”

Song Yunran does not know what the assistant Tang’s brain is making up about himself, but in any case, he is very pleased.

In the afternoon, taking advantage of the presence of Ningdong’s top tourism executives, he and Assistant Tang met with the other side to discuss the details of cooperation in the development of the high-end tourism route of Hualing Village.

When the meeting was over, it was already 8:00 pm.

The set of “The Legend of Nan Hua” is located in an ancient scenic spot under Ning Dong, and near the spot is the Ning Dong Hotel, which looks like an architectural landmark, providing a place for the crew to stay during filming.

The hotel was very perceptive and learned that Song Yunran would not be returning to the Yan City tonight, so they arranged for him to have a presidential suite on the top floor in order to show off his noble crown prince status.

However, they did not expect that once the prince returned to his room, he did something very not noble.

He locked the door, flung himself onto the leather sofa imported from Italy, covered his head with a cushion, and belatedly expressed his heart’s astonishment: “Oh my God! How can I get caught on camera!”

Song Yunran has been holding back this astonishment for several hours, and now he finally let it out alone, his heart thumping along.

Because of the arrangement of the original work, Song Yunran was a scandal insulator in his previous life, and he was dedicated to being a tool for Qin Ke throughout his life.

So he had never experienced that it was such a stimulating experience to be hounded by reporters for gossip to his face.

Very afraid to be seen as a problem, but also afraid to be too clean, which led to a gap in someone’s heart that was not on-site.

Song Yunran buried his face in the pillow for a long time quietly, and then raised his head. From the ear to the back of the neck was red because of lack of oxygen or other unspeakable emotional impact.

He thought, ‘my answer today was still quite decent, not only did he not deny the truth, but also protected Qin Ke’s reputation.’

If Qin Ke saw that interview, he would definitely be moved by it and thus be more devoted to himself. Maybe he will come back in a couple of days and help me out…

Song Yunran patted his cheeks and tried not to think about the ambiguous images from New Year’s Eve.

He sat down again, pulled a pillow and grabbed it in his arms, and sent a message to Qin Ke: [Have you seen today’s news?]

There was no reply even after a few minutes.

Song Yunran skimmed his mouth, guessing that Qin Ke should be still working at this time, and after thinking for a while, decided to go online to see the effect of his clarification today.

When he opened the forum where the news was reported, there was already a new spin-off post: [Report! Song Yunran has responded!]

The first page released a two-minute interview video, not long, but the amount of information provided is enough to build a huge story.

[…… the good guy directly admitted it?

[Who knows, I said this morning that the same city does not mean anything, and the result is who was hit in the face, it turned out to be myself.]

[I always thought they were learning from the thousands of soldiers in Slow Holiday Travel to have a CP bonus, I didn’t think their personal relationship was really that good?]

[It’s hard to imagine that Qin Ke would take the initiative to invite people to his house.]

Song Yunran slid on the screen and was very puzzled when he saw this.

What’s so hard to imagine?

Although the timing of the Chinese New Year was a bit special, He Ziyou had also visited the Song family for the New Year, and he couldn’t see where it was strange.

It must be that the forum passersby don’t know enough about Qin Ke.

Song Yunran moved his fingers and switched to his small Weibo account, trying to seek answers from the dizzy fans.

Even though he was mentally prepared, when he opened the group chat, Song Yunran was still shocked by the rate at which the chat logs were swept up.

His latest cell phone lagged for a few seconds, and he had to wait for it to return to normal before he struggled to see the latest message.

[Help, I just want to get high on candy not thinking about the real thing, you two do not force me!]

[Wuuuuuu me too, I’m so scared, I’m really scared, it won’t really get real.]

Song Yunran is so anxious, what a roundabout way of talking here.

Could you say something useful?

As if hearing his heart, someone finally came forward and commented: [If Ran Ran invited Qin Ke to his house, I would only treat it as ordinary candy, but I didn’t expect the one who took the initiative this time would be Qin Ke!

The following people immediately replied: [Sister, I know what you mean, it’s better once you think about it in this way.]

Song Yunran: “……?”

Sorry, the person in question didn’t understand.

In his opinion, today’s clarification of the concept is actually very simple.

It’s just plainly telling everyone that we are close and like friends we can just invite each other over to our houses to hang out.

How did this become more high?

A strong sense of frustration instantly surged to the forefront of my mind.

He couldn’t understand the idea of the CP fans on sugar candy.

Song Yunran pondered for a moment and finally decided to turn into a high school girl and innocently asked: [Why is it better?]

The CP fans, who were so eloquent just now, went silent for a few seconds.

The short pause on the screen made Song Yunran’s heart desolate. He didn’t understand, was it that bad to talk about this sentence?

Fortunately, a veteran fan recognized him: [Little Eleven, are you busy with the college entrance exams and have not been online for too long?

Song Yunran’s face was expressionless: [Yes.]

The other party said: [So you haven’t watched much of “Slow Holiday Travel”, no wonder, you must not know enough about Qin Ke’s character.]

“……”

What a joke, how dare you say I don’t know Qin Ke!

Song Yunran clenched his fist, and then held back: [Then you tell me more?]

[In fact, Qin Ke is quite aloof. If you try to put yourself in the shoes of the school flower, you will understand that he is not the kind of personality that will warmly invite friends to play at home.]

[It’s also clear from the usual interviews that he rarely mentions his family and clearly says he wants to protect his mom and won’t let his mom get involved with people and things in the entertainment industry.

[BUT, Ran Ran is his boss, the type of person who is closest to the core of the entertainment industry! Qin Ke is willing to take him back to meet his parents! This must be too much special treatment!

[I’m not able to type these lines, my hands are shaking, he loves him so much.]

A long analysis finally made the person concerned realize.

Yes, how did he not think of it himself?

When he was in X City, Qin Nianrong mentioned that he was the first friend Qin Ke brought home.

And today during the interview, looking at Zhong Xiaofeng’s face full of envy, he should have realized earlier that Qin Ke indeed never brought anyone home.

“…… So in his heart, I am actually so special.”

Song Yunran was surprised at Qin Ke’s deep love and his own retardation, “I’m so stupid, I actually had to rely on outsiders to analyze to understand how much he loves me.”

He lowered his head, said thanks to the unknown master of the group, and hesitated for a moment, adding: [This is too good to get high.]

The message had just been sent when his phone suddenly rang.

Song Yunran fixed his eyes and found that it was a video call from Qin Ke, he couldn’t help but feel nervous for a moment, and had the illusion of being caught on the spot by the main character for secretly getting high on candy.

He rubbed his hands sheepishly, and the second he clicked to start the conversation, the tension on his face disappeared instantly.

In place of that, there is a surprise that can’t be hidden.

Qin Ke probably hasn’t finished filming yet, he is still dressed in the movie’s costume.

The white shirt with tie around the collar is against the middle of the neck, making the already obvious throat knot even sharper than usual.

The badges on the chest shimmered with light, allowing Song Yunran to feel the elite police temperament of the character through the screen.

Qin Ke’s temperament is already outstanding, after wearing this police uniform, it seems to become even more upright and handsome.

This is too handsome, right?

Song Yunran blinked, and could not wait to get into the phone to see more clearly from a close distance.

Qin Ke stared over lightly: “…… dad, be more reserved.”

Song Yunran choked for a moment, and all the subtle atmosphere of seduction was ruined by a particular honorific.

“Are you being polite?” He puffed out his cheeks, complaining, “I’m just looking at it, and didn’t do anything, where is it not reserved.”

Qin Ke hooked his lips very lightly.

He woke up at four this morning to put on makeup, and shot until late at night and still hadn’t finished, if it weren’t for the fact that the machinery on set had broken down and needed temporary repair, he’s afraid he wouldn’t even have had a chance to sit down and catch his breath.

He was particularly tired, but his boyfriend just looked at him with a blunt look, like a silly puppy, and made his otherwise tired mind feel a little relaxed.

Song Yunran only had the time to distract himself by surveying the environment at the other end of the phone: “You were alone in the RV?”

“Um, Xiao Ke went to buy water for me.”

Qin Ke said, “It’s just an intermission, I guess I have to stay up all night tonight. Luckily you’re still awake, otherwise we’d have to wait until tomorrow for a video call.”

Song Yunran skimmed the corners of his mouth, suspecting that Qin Ke was using this opportunity to sell misery again.

When he was an actor in his previous life, he had also experienced many overnight shooting situations, but he was a person with a lot of energy wherever he was going, and now he doesn’t feel much tired when he looks back.

How is it that once I heard that Qin Ke had to stay up all night, I was vaguely distressed.

In the past, Song Yunran would certainly put up a fatherly front and criticize, ‘Don’t sell yourself in misery there. Since you are paid for the film, it is right to work harder.’

But as soon as he thought of the previous CP fan’s analysis, his heart felt like it had been touched by a kitten’s paw and softened indisputably.

“Why do you have to stay up all night at the beginning of the shooting? What is the production team doing? Aren’t they afraid of wearing the artists down?”

Song Yunran unhappily muttered, “You have to attend the award ceremony in two days, in case you get sick can they be responsible?”

Qin Ke quietly felt that Xiao Song was particularly well-behaved tonight.

He laughed softly and asked, “Are you …… sneaking out the door and accidentally got photographed and have a guilty conscience, so you are trying to act like a good boy?”

Song Yunran’s soft-heartedness level directly declared to be zero.

He raised a single eyebrow and said angrily, “Sober up a little bit, I went out on the street, there is nothing to feel guilty about!”

Qin Ke said, “Then it’s like Xiao Ke said, you made an invalid clarification at the conference, so now you’re embarrassed?”

“……”

Song Yunran was numb, although he himself also felt that the clarification did not work at all, instead it made the world more and more high on it, but how can Qin Ke speak to his dad like this.

“I advise you not to stay out of it.” He said, “Be careful of people’s brain holes getting bigger and bigger, and finally it becomes ‘popular male stars willing to accept unspoken rules for the sake of resources’, then can you still laugh out loud?”

Qin Ke pondered for a moment, “It doesn’t seem too bad.”

A flirtatious smile swept under his eyes and his tone was sincere, “Which day does Xiao Song intend to practice unspoken rules on me?”

Song Yunran was shocked: “Crazy, how dare you say such things, do you know what is the meaning of unspoken rules?”

Qin Ke raised his eyes slowly and methodically, indicating with his eyes that he knew exactly what unspoken rules meant.

Perhaps it was the effect of that straight uniform that added to the effect, Song Yunran’s cheeks burned as he looked at him.

The image of Qin Ke wearing the uniform and carrying out the unspoken activities with him that cannot be depicted in a normal green website appeared uncontrollably in his mind.

Calm down, calm down.

Song Yunran took a deep breath and changed the subject: “By the way, the day after tomorrow will be the ceremony, are you ready to give your acceptance speech?”

Qin Ke replied: “It still needs to be prepared?”

Song Yunran froze, then realized that Qin Ke did not need to prepare.

In his last life, he had already won the Best Newcomer, and in this life, he would only be saying the same acceptance speech again.

“The last time you won an award, you didn’t know me.”

Song Yunran seriously reminded, “this time do not have to thank me, but I have invested 20 million.”

Seeing his aggrieved and pitiful look, Qin Ke couldn’t bear to lie to him anymore and admitted, “Don’t worry, your name is definitely on the thank you list for the best newcomer award.”

Song Yunran curved the corners of his mouth, “That’s more like it…Huh, it’s not right.”

He plopped down on the sofa and tilted his head strangely, “There’s also the best actor, you didn’t forget, did you?”

There was a short knock on the door from the phone.

Qin Ke signaled him to wait, turned to open the door, took a bottle of ice mineral water from his assistant Xiao Ke, then closed the door again, sat back and drank a few mouthfuls.

It is only about a minute of silence before and after.

The anxious Song Yunran couldn’t wait any longer, and he guessed with surprise, “You can’t be sure you’ve forgotten too? This is a bit too much, right?”

He shook his head repeatedly and said with hatred, “Son, dad is very disappointed in you, with this goldfish brain memory, are you sure you can remember the lines?”

Qin Ke helplessly put down his water bottle and looked him in the eyes, “I didn’t forget.”

“?”

“Only it might disappoint you, the odds are that I won’t get the award.”

Qin Ke leaned back in his chair and continued frankly, “In terms of the rules, the judges usually don’t award the best newcomer and the best actor to the same person. Besides, the competition for this award is very fierce, even with my current level, it would be hard to win over Mr. Zhou Qingyan.”

Zhou Qingyan was the actor who won the title of the Best Actor in his previous life.

A famous veteran actor in the circle, who has been acting for more than forty years in movies. He has won awards both at home and abroad, and anyone who mentions him will praise him for his reputation.

Song Yunran gave an “ah”, and he acknowledged that Qin Ke’s analysis was very reasonable, but he still couldn’t help but regret: “I forgot that there is still Mr. Zhou this year, too bad, originally I thought, if you can get two awards in one go, you can definitely be a god with one film. ”

A moment ago the small animal was still full of confidence, in a flash the mood went down.

Qin Ke lightened his voice and said in a gentle tone, “Don’t be sad, all I want is to act well.”

Song Yunran shook his head: “This may not be up to you, after all, you are the main character in the book, according to the development of the original work, in the future you can one day walk on the altar of God.”

Qin Ke: “on the altar of God, and then what?”

“And then …… will be the big ending ah.” Song Yunran confusedly asked, “What else do you want?”

“So you see, how meaningless that is.”

Qin Ke pointed at him across the air, “It’s better to be an ordinary person and have more fun chatting with you like this.”

Song Yunran: “……”

Song Yunran: “!!!”

Is this the love from the main character?

So does he count as …… pulling the protagonist down from the altar ah?

Hmm, that’s nice, as expected of me.

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.