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A Contractual Marriage with the Best Leading Actor Chapter 159
Ability to Imitate (2)
Meanwhile, netizens were still waiting for confirmatory news.
【What is the title of Director Zheng’s new movie? Why haven’t I heard anything about it?】
【Is Bai Qi really on set? Xi Chengyun’s name holds great weight in the industry】
Countless questions were tossed towards the account holder. In the end, after thousands of comments later, they finally replied.
【Anyone who’s worked on the set would know that we signed NDAs. I won’t take any pictures, so I’ll just give a verbal answer. Xi-laoshi personally taught Bai Qi how to act. As to exactly how he taught him, you’ll need to wait for them to post the BTS scenes.】
【My gosh, I’m intrigued】
Reply from account owner:【Bai Qi is so good looking, his outfit design is also very special， it’s an interesting one to say the least】
【？Oh, now I’m awake. I want to know in what way is it ‘interesting’? 】
The owner of the account didn’t reply to the question, instead they commented:【If you know Director Zheng, you’d know that he’d take any opportunity to sit and lie down. He’s a sloth】
【Lol. A level 10 useless man】
The owner continued: 【However, he stood on set for 2 hours straight today! He asked Bai Qi to use his chair! He even allowed Bai Qi behind the cameras and taught him how to look out for the cameras!】
【???】
【Ahh, I’m truly envious. Bai Qi has been getting the best treatment. If I were him, I wouldn’t accept Bu Xiao’s offer either】
【Poor Bu Xiao, he’s has received countless whippings from the comments】
Of course, there were also critics who criticized the owner of the post: 【What proof do you have, you’re just making things up. You don’t even have a picture to show】
【Weren’t they saying that Director Zheng even smashed a megaphone in anger?】
Some of the netizens started to speculate about the likelihood of Bai Qi joining the entertainment industry in the future.
【Will he take advantage of Xi Chengyun’s kindness of getting him his first acting gig and start to steal jobs from other actors?】
【What’s wrong with having another celebrity who’s highly educated and sweet? Isn’t he better than SOME people who haven’t even bothered to finish primary education?】
Most of Xi Chengyun’s fans had Bai Qi’s back, and the smell of gunpowder in the comments section thickened once they appeared.
They came to realize that if they didn’t help Xi-ge out, they’d be at a loss if someone like Bu Xiao were to appear and try to seduce their sister-in-law.
The netizens were at each other’s throats about whether Bai Qi will join the entertainment industry.
Someone connected the dots between Zheng Ming’s supposed anger on set and the inappropriateness of Xi Chengyun’s actions. They concluded that Bai Qi shouldn’t even make a cameo in the movie and it’s more appropriate for him to make a cameo in Bu Xiao’s MV.
Bai Qi sneezed. He rubbed his nose and said, “I’ll go and change.”
“Alright,” the assistant of the director replied. Anyhow, Bai Qi was already done for the day.
One of the crew members escorted Bai Qi back to his personal room.
When Bai Qi changed back into his sweater, the door suddenly flung open.
“Mn?” Bai Qi looked up and saw Xi Chengyun standing at the door.
He looked calm, but one could tell that his muscles were tense.
Xi Chengyun sized Bai Qi’s up, as if he was trying to ascertain his feelings. “I realized that you were gone when I finished my part.”
“I was a little cold,” Bai Qi said.
Xi Chengyun looked at the hanfu that was hanging on the chair. His lips curved into a gentle smile as he laughingly said, “Mn, are you still cold?”
“Not anymore.”
Bai Qi walked forward and touched Xi Chengyun’s hand. The latter’s eyes twitched, and he instinctively grabbed Bai Qi’s fingers.
“Your hands are a little cold. Try to get changed soon,” Bai Qi said.
Xi Chengyun released Bai Qi’s hand, feeling a sense of loss in the process.
Bai Qi watched as Xi Chengyun headed to change. He slowly took a seat. Then, he had a sudden thought and quickly searched it up — ‘Why do we smell a smell that we like on another human being?’
「That’s not a smell, it’s the hormones talking」
The first answer popped up before Xi Chengyun was back, dressed in his casual clothes. “I bet you’re hungry.”
Bai Qi paused for a moment and clicked his phone’s power button. “Mhmn, a little.”
“Alright, let’s go and eat. I’ll ask Zheng Ming to drive.”
Director Zheng, who was still on set, suddenly sneezed.
In the end, he grudgingly made his way to his car and asked, “What do you all want to eat?”
Xi Chengyun turned to Bai Qi and asked, “What would you like?”
“Barbeque?”
“Alright, let’s have barbecued meat.”
They followed the GPS to a nearby BBQ restaurant in the suburbs. There was a primary school nearby, and they could hear the chatters of children from the restaurant. The children had just gotten off from school.
There weren’t many customers in the restaurant. Although the owner’s eyes immediately grew bigger when he saw Xi Chengyun, he didn’t do anything to attract the attention of others. After all, the rest of the customers were very much indulging themselves in the good meat.
The restaurant owner escorted them to a private room and personally brought a menu along. “Who will be making the decision of what to eat?”
“Him,” Xi Chengyun and Director Zheng said in unison while pointing at Bai Qi.
Bai Qi didn’t hold himself back, either. He took the menu and started ordering without even looking at the restaurant owner. “Please do tell me if there’s anything that the two of you dislike... Hm alright, give me a portion of beef tenderloin, pork belly, mushrooms, and prawns…”
While he was ordering, Director Zheng also commented on his choices.
“Oh yes, I like this.”
“I don’t mind this either.”
Bai Qi looked up and smiled. This proved Xi-laoshi’s statement. Director Zheng was a person who would say that poop tastes nice.
Bai Qi didn’t think much of it.
To find similarities between two individuals’ likes and dislikes. This was the fastest way to become closer to one another in a social setting.
Bai Qi passed the menu back to the restaurant owner after he was done ordering. He looked out from the glass walls of the private room before suddenly standing up. “I’ll head out for a minute to grab something.”
“What? Let me,” Xi Chengyun said.
Bai Qi ushered Xi Chengyun to sit down. “Xi-laoshi, better not. You’ll attract too much attention.”
Xi Chengyun bit his lower lip as a sign of unhappiness.
His reaction was entirely different from his usual calm and collected self.
‘Xi-ge... is kinda... cute?’ Bai Qi smacked his lips and thought.
On the other hand, Director Zheng courteously offered to go as well. “Let me, I’ll help you buy whatever you need.”
“It’s alright. I’ll be back in a jiffy,” Bai Qi said as he turned around and walked away.
Soon, Bai Qi found a stationery shop situated near the primary school, and found what he was looking for.
Within 5 minutes, Bai Qi was back in the private room. He took out a box from his bag and passed it to Director Zheng. “This amplifier is smaller than the other one you have. I don’t think you’ll drop it as easily.”
‘Portable Voice Amplifier’ was printed on the packaging of the box.
The corners of Xi Chengyun’s mouth twitched.
This voice amplifier was regularly used in schools. Teachers used them during classes so that they wouldn’t have to shout as much.
However, outside of the school setting, users of this amplifier were usually scammers who falsely advertised for a product that doesn’t exist.
Director Zheng looked as if he’d never seen something like this.
He cautiously opened the packaging and laughingly said, “Ah... I like this a lot!”
Bai Qi nodded and said, “As long as it does the job.”
Right after, the server came to serve the dishes and Xi Chengyun gracefully folded his sleeves before barbecuing pieces of meat for Bai Qi.