At three in the morning, Beijing was snowing heavily. After finishing the program recording, Ethan got in his agent's car and went back to the dormitory. He stared out the window in a daze. The concrete forest after the snow was extremely silent, and he felt like a stiff limb that was finally covered with a quilt and waiting to rest.
The program was recorded for too long, and the indoor competition games made Ethan exhausted. He was not good at socializing, but he had to compromise with exposure.
"Juexia, are you tired? How long have you been recording this time? It's really..." Manager Leo Cheng glanced at the rearview mirror. He was covered by a large, fluffy black down jacket, and his pale face was almost sinking into the darkness. It was as if he was just a beautiful shadow, sealed in the mirror.
Ethan's face was half turned sideways, and the light red birthmark outside the left eye was revealed from his forehead. He vaguely glimpsed a faded maple leaf buried in the snow outside the window. The late autumn that fled in a hurry forgot it here, leaving a touch of red in the ice and snow.
Or maybe he was mistaken.
"Eight hours and forty-two minutes." He said it accurately, in a low voice, and then answered the first question, "Not bad, not tired."
"Next time, sleep a little longer before recording, and don't go to the practice room." Leo Cheng changed the subject while turning the steering wheel, "But you hardly said anything afterwards, this won't do. The TV station didn't give you many shots in the post-production, and if you don't say anything, it will be cut out. You are someone who can attract a lot of fans with just your face, so as long as you have shots, you win."
Ethan knew that Leo Cheng was thinking about him, so he forced a smile and said in a gentle tone, "Okay, I'll do it next time."
Hearing this, Leo Cheng couldn't say anything else. Ethan is a member of the six-member boy band Kaleido. He can be regarded as a treasure that their company picked up at that time. After all, he was a trainee in the top domestic entertainment company Astar. He had a fan support club before his debut. It was rumored that he would debut as the center of the company's new boy band. Who knew that something happened? Ethan actually left his original company on the eve of the group's formation and came to Xingtu. After two years of training, he debuted from Kaleido as the main dancer and deputy lead singer. He is the soul of the group.
There was also a big splash at the beginning of his debut. After all, Ethan's popularity as the strongest trainee had not faded, and he had loyal fans who had been waiting for him. When Leo Cheng first took over the group, he was also full of enthusiasm and expectations. After all, these kids had good looks and strong abilities. But he did not expect what happened later.
The feeling of premature death is not pleasant.
He suddenly remembered something, "Oh, by the way, we were supposed to shoot for the magazine pages tomorrow..." Leo Cheng still felt upset when he thought about it, but he didn't want to affect Ethan's mood, so he informed her in a relatively relaxed tone, "You don't have to go, they have other arrangements."
Ethan actually found out in the afternoon. During the break, he heard his assistant Owen on the phone, cursing "interception", "the five major magazines are amazing, the traffic is amazing, etc.", and seemed very angry. Later, he asked and found out that the inside page shooting and interview that had been finalized earlier was intercepted by a male actor who had recently become famous for a popular online drama. Losing the job opportunity should have been a discouraging thing, but Ethan was relieved.
"It's okay. There will be opportunities in the future. The magazine owes us a favor now." Leo Cheng comforted, "It's fine now. You don't have work tomorrow morning, so you can sleep in and eat something good. You've lost weight recently. By the way, go back and tell Max Ling that if he orders takeout in the middle of the night again, I will force him to lose weight. He has no sense of being an idol. His face is full of flesh when you pinch it. Is he going to transform into a comedian..."
Listening to his agent's chatter, Ethan's phone suddenly vibrated. He took out his phone and took a look. The words "Assistant Director Yang" flashed on the screen. After two seconds, he pressed the side button to turn off the screen, pretending that he hadn't seen it.
But less than a minute later, the phone vibrated again, this time it was a text message.
[How not to answer the phone?]
[How do you think about the matter I asked you to consider last time?]
[Call back, quick!]
[Don't worry, I will definitely not treat you unfairly.]
Text messages poured out one after another, like snakes jumping out of a hole in the dark.
His fingers were frozen and he typed slowly.
[I rejected what you said last time.]
Less than two seconds after sending the message, the phone rang again, and Ethan had no choice but to answer it. The middle-aged man on the other end said angrily, "I'll give you one more chance. This won't do you any harm! If you still want to continue participating in the show, you better be obedient."
"Sorry." Ethan's calmness seemed out of place at this moment. Leo Cheng saw something was wrong and glanced at him again, "Who?"
After half a month of coercion and inducement, Deputy Director Yang lost all his patience and started to say nasty things. "Do you know how many useless people are following me? Do you think you are a clean person?"
here we go again.
"I asked you to follow me because I respect you and your face. Why would I come to you? Bah, you B!tch, don't come to record in the future! Get out of here, you are so shameless!"
Ethan listened to him cursing quietly without saying a word. Only when the other party hung up the phone in frustration did he feel relieved.
"What's wrong? Who is it?"
"Assistant Director Yang." Ethan announced the result nonchalantly, "He asked me to leave this program."
"What?!" Leo Cheng braked and turned his head, "No, what's going on?"
Ethan licked her dry lips and simplified the process as much as possible, "He has always wanted me to follow him. I disagree, and now he wants to kick me out."
This word was said calmly, but Leo Cheng's expression changed and he was speechless for a moment.
"This is no joke. We actually signed a contract for six episodes, and we've only recorded three! This is a violation of the contract."
Ethan said calmly, "This is not the first time they have done this. There is no point in talking about the spirit of the contract with scoundrels."
Indeed, Leo Cheng rolled down the window and lit a cigarette. The cold wind rushed in, scratching his face. "They might blame you when the time comes. For sure, they will have to make up a reason for suddenly getting off the car... No, I have to contact the TV station. I can't just let them do whatever they want."
Hearing this, Ethan's indifference broke. Sometimes he wished he was not a member of the group, so that he could take on everything without having to implicate anyone.
"Sorry to trouble you, Brother Leo Cheng." He finally sighed, breaking the calmness of an outsider.
Leo Cheng's hands tightly gripped the steering wheel, he cursed something indistinctly, frowned and then relaxed, quickly put out his unfinished cigarette, rolled up the window and started the car again, "It's okay, this crappy show has messed with us more than once, and nothing happened last time."
Last time...
A tall figure walked by the roadside, and Ethan, distracted, suddenly recognized the wrong person. He raised his hand to wipe away the white mist, and the person turned around. It was not the person he thought of. His mood calmed down.
Of course nothing will happen. Who would dare to provoke a powerful little devil?
After a while, Leo Cheng heard a "sorry" from behind. This made him feel even more powerless. Outside the windshield, the night scene of the city kept moving backwards, and the light circles cast by the street lights blurred his vision. Suddenly, the scene when Ethan first came to the company appeared in front of him. At that time, he was pulled by a female colleague to chat about gossip, saying that the company had a very awesome trainee who was simply amazing.
He wanted to know how exaggerated it was, so he put down his work and ran to take a look.
It's really good-looking, very good-looking, so good that the scout can be put on the company's annual commendation list.
At that time, Ethan was only 18 years old, wearing a black hooded sweater. He even thought that even this sweater with no sense of design looked good. The boy's skin without makeup had a transparent feeling, and there was a pink birthmark the size of a little finger near the temple at the corner of his left eye, which was very special.
In this circle, beautiful people are always in oversupply. They are exquisite and friendly, attracting you and inducing fantasies.
What’s special about Ethan is that he is so beautiful yet distant.
He naturally has a temperament that keeps people at a distance, like a low-saturation, cold and silent work of art.
Leo Cheng sent him back to the dormitory. Although Ethan was tired, he was restless. After taking a shower, he sat at the desk and silently opened the Sudoku book. He held the pen and calculated quietly, filling the blanks with numbers one by one. His heart gradually calmed down. After finishing the Sudoku game, Ethan went to bed and covered himself with the quilt. The sleepiness came like a tide and drowned him in an instant. I don't know how long I slept, and I heard a familiar voice in my blurred consciousness.
"Feel the summer? Feel---the summer---"
He opened his eyes with difficulty, and saw a face covered with a facial mask in front of him. Ethan blinked twice as if focusing a lens, then crawled back into the quilt and asked vaguely, "What time is it?"
Max Ling pulled off his facial mask, "It's time for afternoon tea!" As the lead singer and the high-pitched singer, he shouted in a high-pitched voice, reaching his cold hands into the quilt to pull out Ethan, "Don't sleep with my brother, something big has happened!"
The three words "big event" stung Ethan. He woke up, wiped his face and got out of bed, "I'll go wash up."
"How come this guy is always so calm..." Max Ling sat up from the bed and ran back to the living room. There were two young men sitting side by side on the sofa in the living room. They were Kaleido's main dancer Dylan Lu and the deputy rapper Zane He. They were staring at the laptop screen with great interest.
"Are you up?" Captain Mason Jiang said, holding a soft cloth in his hand, having just finished wiping the zither placed in the corner of the living room. "I'll go heat up some soup for him. He's slept for so long and hasn't eaten anything."
Ling Yifei nodded quickly, his eyes following Mason Jiang who was walking towards the kitchen, "Brother Mason Jiang, I want a bowl too!"
Dylan Lu exclaimed, "These girls are really amazing! How can they be so talkative!"
Zane He, who was standing next to him, joked, "Dalian city grass, please speak Mandarin."
Dylan Lu: "I speak Mandarin!"
Max Ling squeezed over with a grin and imitated his accent, "That's not right, oh oh, it's standard!"
"piss off!"
Just as they were yelling, Ethan came out, and the three people on the sofa all looked up with subtle expressions.
Ethan knew what was going on, and apologized before anyone else could speak, "Sorry, I've caused you trouble again."
The three people on the sofa looked at each other, then looked at Ethan, their faces full of question marks.
"No, shouldn't we be the ones to thank you?" Zane He said with a smile, "I didn't expect our group to go viral with this gesture."
Thanks?
Ethan vaguely realized that everything seemed to be different from what he expected, "What big event are you talking about?"
Max Ling turned the laptop around and faced Ethan, "The fan-shot video of you and Xiao Pei at the airport has become a trending topic! Look, it has been forwarded 30,000 times now!"
And Finn Pei?
Ethan narrowed his eyes slightly and looked at the video playing on the screen. It was a video taken when he and Finn Pei were waiting for a flight at the airport the day before yesterday.
In the picture, Finn Pei, wearing a black coat and sunglasses, walked with long legs step by step towards Ethan who was looking down at the ticket, forcing him to lean against the wall. His height of nearly 1.9 meters gave him a strong sense of oppression. He casually took the ticket from Ethan, held it in his hand and smiled at him, seeming to say something. He raised his hand and gently slapped Ethan's cheek with the ticket.
The straight and sharp lines of the ticket slid across his fair cheek, and the papers collided unscrupulously, hitting each other's bottom line.
This is Finn Pei's usual bad style.
But no one expected that this scene was actually captured on camera.
Ethan on the screen raised his head slightly and stared at Finn Pei, only to see that the smile on his face became more arrogant. He remembered the atmosphere at that time, and also remembered that Finn Pei actually forced him to change seats. At that time, he adhered to the consistent rule of getting along with Finn Pei - hide if possible, and never cause trouble. So he took the plane ticket back by himself, held it in his mouth, adjusted his clothes with both hands, and then raised his head, and gave a soulless smile to the youngest of the group and the devil of the world.
Max Ling, who was lying on Ethan's shoulder, stared silently at him as he carefully watched the video. He saw that this living Bodhisattva had a solemn expression and was silent for a while before speaking.
"Are netizens saying Finn Pei bullied me within the team? Has the company done any public relations?"
Teammates: …
"Juexia, wake up!" Max Ling shook his shoulders vigorously, "They are talking about the couple you and Finn Pei are together!"
"Knock..." Ethan was stunned.
How could there be people in this world who ship the couple with the worst relationship in the team?
Cao Dylan Lu from Dalian City won the mouse and clicked on the comments, "Oh my god, you didn't see what those netizens said, come on, let me show you, it's really exciting."
[Arctic Circle Licking Sugar: Ahh ...
Just by seeing the first one, Ethan felt what the higher-ups meant.
[First-level member of the Peking Duck Association: Why can a plane ticket be used in such a lustful way by these two?]
[77 to 77: Oh my god, the guy in the black coat is so tall and handsome! Who is he!? ]
[Player12: I’m shocked. The girl in black is so aggressive. The plane ticket shot on her face is so cool…]
[Has Kaledo returned today: fjx is indeed the only cool and cool guy among the active male idols. He holds a plane ticket in his mouth, looking cool and lustful. It is a beautiful sight.]
[Putuo Temple believer: It’s Finn Pei, the 19-year-old youngest rapper of our obscure band Kaleido! The dream of the rich nth generation, let’s learn more about Putuo Temple! Xiao Pei, Xiao Pei, you won’t lose money if you invest! ]
[A Level 1 Scholar in the Handsome Guy Appreciation Program: The scenery of Putuo Temple, hahahaha, the secret code for the group card is too stupid! ]
[I am Fang Juexia’s beautiful birthmark: Get to know Ethan, the natural idol! The team’s main dancer, lead singer, and all-around ace!]
[Love Me Forever Ka: Is our Ka finally going to go viral (tears welling up in my eyes), although the double aces are not really an official pair, they should be the coldest CP in the team... a combination that will be a must as soon as they debut]
[I hate the Pythagorean theorem the most: WOC is so good together, but he was a failure as soon as he debuted?]
[The clever little guy is me: A passerby fan Hong Kong said that there have been rumors of discord between the two since their debut. PTS doesn't live in the group dormitory. Some people also say it's because Finn Pei lives outside for school. Anyway, it's true that his family is rich. It seems that he went to the United States when he was very young and just came back recently. I guess he debuted just for fun, so he doesn't take it seriously. However, his strength is really better than most idols. He is very talented.]
[Beautiful scenery: Isn’t the discord due to someone’s sudden appearance?]
[With money, you can do whatever you want: I have the ability to parachute in, and you don’t accept it? You can cook and sing, so why don’t you sing rap? If you don’t accept it, hug the thighs of the senior management and kick the young master out.]
[Very good at blacklisting: Where did this third-tier unknown person buy this trending search? I am speechless.]
[Walls flying all over the sky: Is my Arctic Circle auditory CP finally going to be popular? u1s1 This pair is really amazing once you get it. The devilish and handsome top x the cold and beautiful abstinent bottom, isn't it delicious? ]
[Who says it’s not true: Is the person wearing the hat the face of Ka? Even though he’s just a passerby, I’ve always thought his face is absolutely beautiful! Especially the birthmark! It’s simply amazing!]
[Little melon eater: I have heard vaguely that the front man of the Ka Tuan group was S3xually exploited by the senior management of the former company. Is it true?]
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