One of them was standing in the flower bed, and the other was standing outside the flower bed, about two meters apart, looking straight at each other without any obstruction.
Sawyer Ji's reaction arc was a little long, and he couldn't think of any other way to deal with it in a short period of time except running away. Could he stand in the mud and say to Graham Qin: "Hey, why are you here again?"
"Ji Xiaoxing." Graham Qin called again.
Sawyer Ji's heart skipped a beat again.
No, I can't face this guy again. His condition is too abnormal.
Sawyer Ji decided to put aside his old face that had lived two lifetimes for the time being and run away first.
This time he was finally blessed by God. Just as he turned around and stepped out of the flower bed from the other side, a patrol car slowly drove over from the south end of the road.
The patrol car in the community is an electric car with only two seats and no doors. Sawyer Ji ran over in two steps, holding the door frame and jumping onto the passenger seat. His whole set of movements was smooth and flowing. He felt that he could go and make a spy movie in the future, the kind where they drive cars and shoot at the same time on the road.
The security guy in the car was so scared that he stepped on the brakes and asked, "What are you doing?"
"Drive, drive, drive faster, there is a bad guy chasing me." Sawyer Ji got into the role very quickly, stuck his head outside and looked back, and sure enough, Graham Qin, the lingering guy, was following him.
The security guard didn't suspect anything, stepped on the accelerator and drove away. He looked at the rearview mirror in shock and then asked in confusion: "Hey, isn't that Mr. Qin?"
Sawyer Ji was surprised: "Do you know him?"
"Yes, Mr. Qin's house is being renovated recently, and he often comes here. The security guards in the community all recognize him." After the young man finished speaking, he turned his head, leaned out half of his body, and waved to the person behind him, "Mr. Qin, you are here again! Do you need any help..."
Sawyer Ji hurriedly hugged the security guard's waist and pulled him back to the cab: "Take me out first, and then come back to help your Mr. Qin, okay?"
The young security guard then turned his gaze to Sawyer Ji's face. After looking at him for a while, his cheeks flushed and he nodded stupidly, "Okay, okay."
It was already past eight o'clock in the evening when he returned to his residence. After a chaotic day, Sawyer Ji just wanted to take a shower and have a good sleep.
Of course, you also have to order some takeout first to fill your stomach after a day of hunger.
The phone was plugged in and turned on a few minutes later. As soon as Sawyer Ji opened the food delivery app, the phone rang loudly.
Sawyer Ji just answered the call and said "Hello" when Harper on the other end started yelling, "Oh my god! Someone is pretending to be dead!"
Sawyer Ji's head hurt from her shrill voice. He put the phone away, turned on the speakerphone, put it on the table, and rubbed his temples: "Let me talk about it."
Harper immediately stopped talking: "Teacher Ji, where are you? Why can't I get through on the phone?"
Sawyer Ji was furious when he heard this. He snorted and said, "I'm lost and still in the hospital."
"Ah?" Harper jumped up, picked up her bag and was about to go out. "I'll be right there. Don't hang up the phone. Just stand there and don't move!"
Sawyer Ji heard the door closing on the other end of the phone and the noisy clamor outside, then he said slowly: "Ah, I found the door, you don't have to come over."
Harper, who had already gotten into the taxi, was silent for a moment: "Teacher Ji, are you kidding me?"
Sawyer Ji snorted without comment: "A small punishment but a severe warning. Who told you to leave me in the hospital?" Then he picked up the ointment from his pocket, lifted the gauze and applied it to the wound, frowning as he did so. It smelled strange, like sesame oil.
Harper, wearing a bulky quilted pajamas, got out of the car and walked back in a dusty manner: "Your husband is here, why am I still staying there? Like a kilowatt light bulb?"
Sawyer Ji was even more annoyed when she heard the words "your husband": "Doesn't he have a name?"
Harper didn't know what he was angry about, and thought they had quarreled today, so she tactfully avoided the topic: "By the way, Sister Felicity Zhou is looking for you. She said she has something important to discuss with you."
Not long after Lili hung up the phone, Felicity Zhou called: "Where have you been all day? Lili and I almost went to the police station to report a missing person."
Sawyer Ji blew on his hands after applying the ointment and said, "I am an adult, how could I be kidnapped in broad daylight?"
Felicity Zhou immediately denied it: "No, we are afraid that you will self-immolate at home again."
Sawyer Ji: ...
Felicity Zhou: "Let's not talk about this for now. I got a new script. Go to WeChat first and I'll take a few pages for you to see."
Sawyer Ji opened WeChat and clicked on the picture. When he saw the title of the drama on the cover, he was stunned.
This was a drama he had filmed in his previous life, a large-scale costume historical drama. Felicity Zhou asked him to audition for the role of the third male lead, a young counselor under the prime minister. It seemed like an ordinary role, but the plot laid a lot of mysterious background for him. He made all kinds of calculations in the ever-changing court, and even had a lingering but unrequited love story. In this male-dominated drama, his proportion was almost equal to that of the second male lead.
In his previous life, Sawyer Ji was able to get this role, in large part because his image and temperament matched the role. In the director's words, "there is spirit in his eyes, and he looks like a wise man." Felicity Zhou also has high expectations for his role, saying that such an opportunity is very rare, and if he performs well, he will be better than the male lead or the second male lead, and he may even win the Best Supporting Actor award.
The play is naturally a good one, Felicity Zhou does have a unique vision, and Sawyer Ji knows that the ratings of this TV series will steadily increase after it is broadcast during the Lunar New Year holiday next year, and it will sweep almost all TV drama awards by the end of the year.
But he did not win the Best Supporting Actor award, and was not even nominated. The only one nominated was the second male lead of the show.
The reason is ridiculous, because he didn't put his mind on acting at all. He had just married Graham Qin at that time, and he was the only one in his mind all day. He was absent-minded on the set, and he had to fly home even if he had a day off, not to mention studying the script carefully. He spent all his time in the kitchen, learning to cook Graham Qin's favorite dishes and soup from his aunt. He could recite the recipes by heart, but he still couldn't recite the lines well.
The director naturally noticed that his mind was not here, and after several reminders, he found that there was not much effect, so he just let him go. It was not until the show was released that Sawyer Ji discovered that a lot of the third male role was cut from the show. Later, Felicity Zhou told him that in the middle of the filming, the director asked the screenwriter to change the later plot, delete many of the third male role's scenes, and add other characters' emotional lines to fill in the gaps in the plot.
Although Sawyer Ji was devastated at the time, he still did not regret it. He believed that when two people are together, someone has to make sacrifices and give more to the family. Graham Qin is so busy, it is only natural for him to give up some work and accommodate him more.
After the drama became a big hit, almost all the main actors became famous, but he alone did not have a positive effect. Later, Sawyer Ji saw a post on Weibo where a well-known film critic reviewed "recommendations of good domestic dramas over the years", which included this drama. The critic gave the drama a very high evaluation, and after praising it throughout the article, he wrote at the end: "If I have to find fault, it's that the wrong actor was chosen for the third male lead", and specifically said that Sawyer Ji "played a good hand badly".
Since then, his career has gone downhill. Although he is only 22 years old and should still be on the rise, he has been idle at home, unable to get any good scripts. He can only maintain his popularity by posting selfies like an internet celebrity.
Thinking of this, Sawyer Ji laughed at himself. You deserve it, Sawyer Ji. You really deserve it. It was your own fault. You can't blame others.
My phone vibrated, and Felicity Zhou sent me a message: [Have you seen it? What do you think? ]
Sawyer Ji leaned back on the sofa and took two deep breaths. When he calmed down a little, he raised his phone and replied with three words: [I want to act]
Since I have a second chance to live my life, no matter what the outcome, I should try my best to make up for the regrets of my previous life.
In the next few days, Sawyer Ji stayed at home reading the script and the information Felicity Zhou sent him, learning from other people's successful experiences and trying to figure out the character he was going to play.
He had always been interested in acting, and this time he was trying his best to make a comeback to prove that he was no longer the silly and useless guy in his previous life. Except for sleeping, he held the script in his hands all the time and was reluctant to put it down even when eating. He was like a man obsessed with it.
"The audition is next week, Mr. Ji, don't be so nervous." Harper washed an apple and stuffed it into his hand, "Sister Felicity Zhou said that among the actors who auditioned this time, you have the strongest overall ability... Oh, she didn't let me tell you because she was afraid that you would get cocky. Just pretend you didn't hear it."
Sawyer Ji didn't even raise his head, but muttered something. Harper leaned closer to listen, and found that it was all lines from the play.
She didn’t know whether she should be happy that her child had finally grown up, or whether she should be concerned like a fan and feel sorry for our super hardworking Nanbao.
After eating the apple, Harper stood up and decided to fulfill her duty as an assistant and help Sawyer Ji clean up the house. As soon as she cleaned up the coffee table in the living room that was piled with takeout boxes, she took out a vibrating mobile phone from under a fast food box.
"Teacher Ji, someone sent you a message." Harper handed the phone to Sawyer Ji.
Sawyer Ji tilted his head to avoid the phone screen and continued reading the script.
The phone was still vibrating, and Harper couldn't bear to watch it any longer: "Teacher Ji, can you please check it? What if there is something urgent?"
Sawyer Ji was watching a crucial scene with a big conflict. Felicity Zhou told him that this scene would most likely be selected in the audition. He picked up a pen and quickly made notes on it, saying, "Help me look at it."
Harper unlocked her phone after receiving the instructions and clicked on the unread message. Sawyer Ji didn't have many friends, and few people contacted him. This was not the first time that Harper had helped him relay the content of a message.
After reading seven or eight messages, Harper blinked, a little undecided.
"Uh...he asked you if you like it." Harper held the phone in front of Sawyer Ji again.
"What do you like?" Sawyer Ji asked.
"Look up. I'm not sure if you like it or not..."
Sawyer Ji finally looked up. Harper swiped the screen to show him several pictures one by one at a steady speed. They were some decoration design drawings. Sawyer Ji looked through them casually and nodded, "Very good, I like it."
"So this is my reply?" Harper asked while typing.
"Yeah." Sawyer Ji went back to the script.
After a while, Harper hesitated and said: "He asked you
, bath...how big should the bathtub be."
Sawyer Ji finally finished reading an obscure line and frowned, "Of course it's the biggest."
"Okay." Harper continued typing her reply.
"He asked you what you wanted to eat."
Sawyer Ji felt his stomach and felt a little hungry. He put down the apple in his hand with disdain and said, "Chocolate cake."
An hour later, Harper left. Sawyer Ji took a break, stood up and stretched. Then he remembered that he was still hungry, so he opened the food delivery app to search for food.
Just after typing the word "chocolate", there was a knock on the door. Then a strange phone call came in on his cell phone. Sawyer Ji vaguely remembered the question Harper had asked him just now. He thought that Harper was considerate enough to order takeout for him. He felt relieved and lamented that although this girl was unreliable in normal times, she was still very useful at critical moments.
"The takeaway is in the bamboo basket at the door, thank you."
He was afraid of being recognized, so he always took takeout in this way.
Generally, the delivery guys will question the safety issues, but as long as he repeatedly assures them that he will give them a five-star rating, they will put down their food and leave.
However, the delivery guy this time was different. After hearing such a request, he neither agreed nor questioned it, and remained silent on the phone.
Sawyer Ji took the phone away and saw that it was still on the phone. He thought the delivery guy didn't hear him clearly, so he repeated loudly: "Put it in the bamboo basket at the door. I will give you a five-star rating. Thank you for your hard work."
The other party still didn't speak.
Sawyer Ji felt strange: "...Isn't it the delivery boy?"
The other end was silent for a moment, and then slowly said, "It's me, open the door."
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