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Chapter 5

Wen Jinian caught up with Zhong Xingran at the bathroom door.

To be precise, it wasn't catching up, but because Zhong Xingran went in and stayed for a while.

Wen Jinian stood in the ventilated place at the door and waited for him.

Zhong Xingran washed his hands, and said to the person wearing glasses next to him, "Brother, do you have any cigarettes?"

The man glanced at him, handed him the cigarette hesitantly, and took out the fire to help him light it.

"Are you Teacher Zhong?" the man asked.

Zhong Xingran thought to himself, am I so famous?

He didn't answer, but nodded his thanks to the other party, and left the bathroom with a cigarette in his mouth.

As soon as he walked to the door, he saw Wen Ji Nian standing at the vent.

He walked over and asked vaguely, "Why are you running out?"

White smoke drifted over with his breath, Wen Jinian frowned, and took a half step back calmly, his eyes fell on his hand holding the cigarette.

Zhong Xingran's hands are of a very good-looking type. The knuckles of the fingers are protruding, and the veins can be seen on the knuckles and the back of the hand, which makes people feel full of strength.

His index finger and middle finger were close together, the fire light was flickering on and off at the fingertips, and the rest of his fingers were knocking on the window sill one after another, showing the master's impatience.

Suddenly, the direction of the cigarette butt deviated to his side.

Wen Jinian raised his head and met his dark eyes.

Zhong Xingran quickly looked away, and at the same time held the cigarette butt away from him.But as if for competition, he didn't put out his cigarette.

Something in Wen Jinian's heart loosened a little.

He thought about it and said, "Why don't you want to sign again?"

Zhong Xingran didn't intend to hide it from him, and said stiffly: "I didn't know you belonged to ZTR, I agreed to you on impulse yesterday, this matter is my fault, I apologize to you."

It was the first time Wen Ji Nian heard that someone could apologize so confidently, and the other party's blunt expression made people feel ashamed, with "I just want to break the contract" written all over his face.

Zhong Xingran had nothing to hide, and said straightaway: "Your boss is my own brother. When I was learning vocal music, my parents strongly opposed it. The reason was that one of my family members had already entered the entertainment industry, and there could be no second one." But they made a mistake, they said to Zhong Yunqi that the entertainment industry is his business empire, and to me, singing is my dream.”

He narrowed his eyes, "I made a bet with them, betting that I must be better than Zhong Yunqi, so I won't cooperate with ZTR."

Seeing the corners of Wen Jinian's mouth twitching, he said expressionlessly, "I'm just telling you this to explain why I broke the appointment. I have a valid reason."

Wen Jinian rubbed the center of his brows helplessly, "Being better than him doesn't mean you can't cooperate with him."

Zhong Xingran looked at him strangely: "I don't, my parents will think later that I depended on him to get along well."

When he talked about this huge bet, he looked like a kindergarten kid saying, I didn't get the little red flower because of his help!

Wen Ji Nian felt his eyelids twitch.

Well, you are lofty, you are amazing.

"By the way, you haven't answered my question just now, why are you cooperating with them so much?" Zhong Xingran asked him.

Wen Jinian said calmly, "I'm short of money."

"Ah? Hiss, fuck me..." Zhong Xingran didn't pay attention, and was burned by a cigarette.

From the very beginning, he didn't take another puff, and at some point, the cigarette had burned to the end.

He cursed and crushed the cigarette butt on the railing, and threw it into the trash can beside him.

"Are you short of money? How is it possible?" He turned around and said.

His net worth is already with Wen Ji Nian, so he still needs money?

Isn't this nonsense?

"Well, I have a lot of debts, and I really need this variety show to pay back the money." Wen Jinian said calmly.

"You don't have that many..." Zhong Xingran blurted out, then stopped abruptly.

He understood - it was impossible for Wen Jinian to use his money, and judging by his expression, it was estimated that the debt was not a small amount, and it could not be paid off with a few endorsements.

"You don't have bad habits like gambling, do you?" Zhong Xingran asked suspiciously, "You owe hundreds of millions of dollars in Las Vegas?"

Wen Ji Nian ignored his nonsense, and said to himself: "Leave my business alone, let's talk about you."

"In fact, maybe your parents are not opposed to your entry into the industry, but just hope that you can go smoothly in the industry they can protect." Wen Jinian said.

"Cooperating with ZTR does not mean relying on your brother to get along well, but it can bring you more exposure and traffic. Since you like to sing, you have to accept the sacrifices brought about by pursuing your dreams. And, your Not only do you have a contract with me, but you also have a team that depends on you for support, you can think about it before making a decision."

This was the first time Zhong Xingran heard him speak such a long speech, he didn't react for a while, and stared at him blankly.

Obviously he doesn't think about these things, he is different from Wen Ji Nian, who grew up struggling, he is a completely rebellious and flamboyant prince.

Seeing his appearance, Wen Ji Nian felt that with this person's IQ, [-]% of them didn't understand what he was talking about.

He sighed helplessly, stopped talking, turned around and walked towards the place he came from.

Forget it, this kid is too screwy.

Talking to him about the truth is like playing the piano against a cow, so let's discuss the countermeasures first.

After returning to the conference room, it was indeed a mess.

Zhong Yunqi sat at the table calmly drinking coffee, Zhang Keke stood aside and did not dare to breathe, and everyone else was discussing in a hurry.

Jiang Kun, Zhong Xingran's manager, also came. He was tall and strong with a beard. If Li Mingming hadn't introduced him, Wen Jinian would have thought he was a bodyguard.

Jiang Kun stretched out his hand to Wen Ji Nian and shook him, and said hastily, "Jinian, long time no see, how is Xing Ran doing? You Mr. Zhong are still waiting for him to sign the contract."

Jiang Kun is Xingyao's top manager, who brought out a lot of big traffic with one hand, and is now mainly responsible for Zhong Xingran and another female artist.

Wen Jinian showed an unfinished expression, Jiang Kun immediately turned pale with shock, and stomped his feet angrily: "This guy is really... A few partners came to the scene today, and I don't know if they will be unhappy."

He winked to the side, and Wen Jinian saw Li Mingming comforting his partner.

Jiang Kun asked in a low voice: "Where is he? I'll go and persuade him."

But when he thought that Wen Ji Nian hadn't persuaded him to come back, he felt a little emboldened.

"At the door of the toilet, I don't know if I left." Wen Jinian said.

Without saying a word, Jiang Kun got up and rushed out the door.

Wen Jinian walked slowly to the table and called out "Mr. Zhong".

Zhong Yunqi put down his coffee and glanced at him, nodded gently in his eyes, with an unhurried smile on the corner of his mouth.

Wen Ji Nian didn't know much about him, but he could tell that this man was a harmless old fox, especially with the expression on his face, "What should I do? If you can't complete the gambling agreement, you will have to work for me again." " chicken thief emoji.

"Xiaowen, sit down, come and taste the coffee your assistant bought." Zhong Yunqi said.

Although he is a brother, his voice is completely different from Zhong Xingran's.He is an ordinary male voice, while Zhong Xingran belongs to the voice that God is chasing to feed.

Wen Ji Nian suddenly thought of that cigarette, and a hazy idea appeared in his mind. He probably knew why there were several boxes of smoking cessation candy in his suitcase.

Maybe the self in five years' time really wants to protect Zhong Xingran's good voice.

He picked up another cup of coffee and tasted it, and the taste of bad instant coffee filled his mouth.He was figuring out how to speak, which would be polite enough.

Zhong Yunqi said: "It's terrible, how can you stand this assistant?"

Wen Ji Nian choked.

Zhong Yunqi smiled, and said without beginning or end: "Let Xing Ran try it later, we can't be the only ones stepping on thunder."

Wen Jinian just wanted to tell him that Zhong Xingran had probably taken a taxi and left, why don't you pack it up and give him a taste.

At this time, there was a sudden commotion at the door, he turned his head to look over, but stopped in shock.

Zhong Xingran walked in lazily with his hands in his pockets, followed by Jiang Kun, who was out of breath, surprised and happy.

The meeting room was full of noise, and after a few seconds of stagnation, it started to run quickly. The assistants rushed to get the contract, and the partners also shut their mouths of gossip.

Under everyone's gaze, Zhong Xingran walked to the table as if no one else was there, pulled up a chair and sat down, as if he was sitting in his own living room.

He closed his eyelids, exchanged a glance with Zhong Yunqi, snorted again, and turned his head away.

Li Mingming was frightened for a while and happy for a while, and was so tormented that he was about to cry. He ran over to show him the contract with his orchid fingers raised.

From the beginning to the end, Zhong Yunqi had the expression that everything was expected.

He pouted at Wen Ji Nian and said, "Go ahead and sign, congratulations in advance, Xiao Wen. As expected, my younger brother has never been your opponent."

The last sentence is not only redundant, but also not quite like what a boss would say to an employee.

Wen Ji Nian cautiously did not answer, nodded and went to sign the contract.

After the two parties finished all the procedures, Jiang Kun said to them: "The chief pd is not here today because he has something to do. He will discuss the procedures with us in the group, and the official blog will announce in the afternoon that everyone will leave for South Island this weekend."

"This week? In such a hurry?" Zhong Xingran frowned.

Song Yuzhen said: "This was discussed last year, and it was arranged according to the schedule of you and the guests."

She turned to Wen Jinian and said in a low voice, "I'm going to accompany the management and the others to have a meal with Mr. Zhong, can you?"

There was nothing wrong with Wen Ji Nian, so he agreed.

The place to eat is not far from this company, so everyone walked there together.

Zhong Xingran didn't really want to go with Zhong Yunqi, so he dragged himself to the end wearing sunglasses.

Wen Jinian walked beside him, thought for a while, and said, "Thank you."

Zhong Xingran sneered, "It's not because of you that I came back, but you're right, I do have a big family to raise."

In addition to Xingyao's people, there is also his band.

Because of this reason, he felt that he shouldn't be doing it for Wen Ji Nian, and he felt a lot more comfortable.

It wasn't the momentary palpitation when he saw him lose his mind.

It wasn't that he suddenly worried when he said he was short of money.

All in all, not for him.

Wen Ji Nian tactfully did not say another word, and quickened his pace to distance himself from him.

Zhong Xingran looked at his back, then took out his phone, and silently edited the unfinished message.

[No.1XR: Brothers, I won’t go to the party tonight. I’m going to record a variety show this week. I’m afraid I’ll get dizzy if I drink too much. ]

[Daystar: Heh, I knew it, this guy. ]

[Xiao Jia: Hahahaha I laughed so hard, Yanzhong’s reputation is well-deserved. ]

[Carrot: Brother Ran, let’s not go clubbing in the future, brothers can understand you. ]

Zhong Xingran looked puzzled, thinking that he would find out what it meant to rake ears later.

But before he opened the browser, Jiang Kun came over to tell him about the reality show, and he had to put the phone back in his pocket again.

After that day, the two returned to their homes separately.

Early on Saturday morning, I took a flight to the South Island.

The filming location of "Heart to heart" is set in a coastal city in southern China, and the location is an island that has not yet received a lot of tourism development.

After getting off the plane, they took a boat to the island.

It was August, and Yanzhong was surprisingly hot, let alone the coastal areas.

As soon as he got off the plane, Zhong Xingran howled that he was about to be cooked.

Before getting in the car, he asked Li Mingming to find out the hand-held fan and give it to him. As a result, the dog leg was smart and handed the only hand-held fan directly to Wen Ji Nian.

Then, with an expression of "I have eyesight, please praise me", she looked at Zhong Xingran in awe.

Wen Jinian naturally grabbed the fan and blew it towards his face, Zhong Xingran could only gouged out Li Mingming's eyes, thinking about firing him again.

After getting off the plane, everyone boarded the special car sent by the program group.

After bumping in the car for more than an hour, I changed to the boat again. Not long after, I saw the shadow of the island.

There is a small island hidden among the tall and green coconut trees, which is being developed as a new tourist attraction, so even though there are few residents on the island, there is still a newly built five-star hotel.

Zhang Keke hurriedly held up his umbrella to cover Wen Jinian perfectly, and took out the sunscreen spray, and sprayed it on his face that had already been covered with sunscreen.

Li Mingming also wanted to draw on the gourd, but was pushed away by Zhong Xingran.

"What's there to spray, a man is masculine only when he is tanned." He said impatiently.

While speaking, he casually glanced at Wen Ji Nian, feeling a little disdainful in his heart.This kid is too white, his skin is like cream frozen in the refrigerator, it is estimated that it will melt in the sun at such a high temperature, making him vulnerable to a single blow.

Maybe gays are like this, tsk.

As soon as they disembarked, they were taken to the entrance of the village. The hotel was near the entrance of the village, but they could not enter it yet.

Next to the hotel is a log cabin, which occupies such a small area that it looks like a dog kennel, I don't know what it is used for.

The girl who brought them over said: "The artist's manager and assistant, please come into the hotel with me, and communicate with the filming PD about the workflow. Artists please enter the village by yourself. The chief PD will wait for you at the village head's house, and he will tell you again. Notes again. The village head's house is in the east, a white house."

"Are we the first team here?" Song Yuzhen asked.

"Yes, the others haven't come yet."

"The live broadcast starts tonight?"

"That's right, eight o'clock tentatively."

Zhang Keke grabbed the umbrella, looked left and right, and then stuffed it into Zhong Xingran's hand.

"Brother Ran, you support Brother Wen first, I'll come as soon as I go." She finished speaking quickly, turned around and entered the hotel amid Song Yuzhen's urging.

Zhong Xingran, who was still chewing gum and blowing bubbles just a second ago, put his hands in his pockets and wore sunglasses: "..."

Dare to really treat him as a tool man?

Everyone else followed into the hotel to store their suitcases. Only the two of them walked towards the village step by step under the scorching sun.

Zhong Xingran despised the umbrella-beating lady, and asked with a frown: "Do you still want to beat me? If you don't, I'll take it."

Wen Ji Nian didn't really like to use umbrellas at first. If it weren't for being a celebrity now, he wouldn't even know how to wear sunscreen, so he shook his head: "No."

Before he could finish speaking, Zhong Xingran pressed the button.

The canopy retracted with a bang.

The dazzling sunlight poured down, covering Wen Jinian's cheeks hotly.

He squinted his eyes, covered his forehead with his hands, and looked into the distance, "Do you know where the village chief's house is?"

"To the east, it's a white house." Zhong Xingran naturally repeated what the girl said just now.

Wen Jinian stopped at the three-way intersection and asked him, "Left or right?"

Zhong Xingran was taken aback for a moment, and then said with an irritable expression: "To the east, why are you always thinking about going left and right?"

Wen Jinian didn't know why he suddenly lost his temper. In the past at this time, he might have responded with a few words, but today it is too hot, and there is no shade nearby.

He was too lazy to go around in circles, and said succinctly: "I can't tell the difference between south, east and north."

Even through the sunglasses, he could see Zhong Xingran's eyes widen.

"You are close to a perfect score in geography, and you can't tell the difference between southeast and north?" he shouted.

Wen Ji Nian pointed to the road, "I can only tell the difference in the book, the sun is in the east, but these two roads are both facing the sun."

He looked up at Zhong Xingran: "You should know."

Zhong Xingran got stuck.

He also hopes that he knows, so that he can pretend to be aggressive.

His face didn't know whether it was sunburned or something, but it slowly turned red with blood, and finally he replied dejectedly: "I don't know."

As if afraid that Wen Ji Nian would laugh at him, he added: "I have a score of 70 in geography, so it's not shameful not to know."

In other words, you are more embarrassing.

Wen Ji Nian quietly rolled his eyes, thinking that he shouldn't have any expectations of him.

"Then what should we do? Let's go separately?"

"Okay, I'll go left and you go right." Zhong Xingran threw the umbrella on his shoulder neatly, and walked to the left with his pocket in his pocket.

The weather forecast before coming here shows that the temperature in the South Island is close to 40 degrees.

But after they got here, it felt obviously more than 40 degrees.

Walking on foot under the scorching sun, even if you don't carry any heavy things, is quite uncomfortable.

Fortunately, Zhong Xingran was on the right path. He walked for less than 5 minutes before he saw the white house.

He took out his mobile phone and called Wen Jinian, telling him to come over quickly, and by the way, changed the note of "wife", which was very obtrusive, to "running dog".

After a while, Wen Jinian walked over slowly.

Zhong Xingran waited for him by the side of the road for a while, just about to urge him to speed up, but saw that he was completely different from before.

But within ten minutes of the journey, he was sweating profusely from the sun, his forehead and eyebrows were wet, his black hair stuck to his face one by one, and his delicate brows were wrinkled together.

The originally snow-white cheeks were flushed from the sun, the corners of the eyes were also red from fatigue, and the moist lips were open and panting, as if after some intense exercise.

Zhong Xingran's Adam's apple twitched, and he unconsciously closed his fingers, holding the hot umbrella handle in his palm.

When he called, he was not in a hurry, and wanted to take the opportunity to play tricks on Wen Ji Nian for a while and tell him to go away.

But when he saw that he was very uncomfortable in the sun, he lost his teasing intentions.

Wen Ji Nian was wiping his sweat with his head down. He didn't have a tissue, so he could only bear the dirt and rub his face with his cuff.

Suddenly there was a slight bang, and a shade spread over the top of the head.

He raised his eyes, and this time he did not come into contact with the rays of the scorching sun, but saw the dark bottom of the umbrella.The overwhelming sunlight was blocked out, and the umbrella cast a shadow over his head.

And the hand holding the umbrella handle is half in the sun.

Zhong Xingran turned the umbrella completely to his side, without looking at him, he said: "Hurry up, don't smear the ink."

Wen Ji Nian let out an "oh", and leaned against him unobtrusively, so that the umbrella could be tilted this way.

When they arrived at the village chief's house, the chief pd quickly greeted them.

Mu Xuru is the leading director of domestic reality shows, known as Xu Dao or Xu Zong.

In the past few years, live variety shows have gradually emerged. He immediately caught up with this wave and planned this first reality show that includes homosexuality and heterosexuality.

Mu Xuru wore a pair of washed and yellowed short-sleeves, paired with big colored pants exclusive to the seaside, his hair was messed up as if he had just been bombed, and he smiled and stretched out his hand facing them.

"Ran Ran, Ji Nian, long time no see. Come in, it's too hot outside."

They walked into the house. Although the facilities were simple, but fortunately there was an air conditioner inside, the temperature was much lower than outside, and both of them breathed a sigh of relief.

Wen Jinian and Mu Xuru shook hands, and politely called "Xu Dao".

Mu Xuru gave Zhong Xingran a smile, and said, "When did you get the certificate secretly? If Jiang Kun didn't mention it, I don't know. You kid didn't even tell the matchmaker, are you still a brother?"

Zhong Xingran's face changed, apparently he didn't expect Jiang Kun to tell him about it.

He and Wen Ji Nian will part ways sooner or later, of course the less people know about their marriage, the better.

Wen Jinian showed a clear expression and reminded him: "Our first variety show is a collaboration with Director Xu."

He glanced at Zhong Xingran suggestively, signaling him not to reveal his secrets.

Zhong Xingran had no choice but to endure the awkwardness, and hooked Mu Xuru's shoulders to call him brothers and sisters, "How can it be, isn't this my family who has a thin skin."

As soon as the words came out, both he and Wen Ji Nian were stunned.

He didn't expect that he would blurt out this sentence, and Wen Ji Nian looked like he had eaten something spoiled.

"Hey, don't be so showy when you two wait." Mu Xuru said, "Come on, let me tell you about the permanent guests and the general process this time."

He raised the script in his hand and regained his composure.

Mu Xuru was like this, he became disrespectful as soon as he started working, he even did such a thing as asking his star Fa Xiao to eat watermelon worms in the wild to survive.

"This time we have invited four couples including you, and there is another pair of boys, a pair of girls and a pair of opposite sex." Mu Xuru said while showing them the information.

"The live broadcast starts at [-] o'clock tonight and ends at [-] o'clock in the evening. Tomorrow's live broadcast time will be notified when it arrives. Because the format is different from the past, you need to pay attention to the temporary script throughout the process. I will give reminders outside the venue or send you a text message , pay extra attention when shooting."

"The theme of the first issue is "Island Meteor". The specific rules of the game will be announced when everyone arrives. Now I have called you here because I have something to say to you alone."

Wen Ji Nian approached the ipad to read the information, but Zhong Xingran didn't go close to it, raised one eyebrow, and asked with a vigilant expression: "What's the matter, you don't want to give us a special task, right?"

Mu Xuru snapped his fingers: "Bingo! In today's icebreaker game, there is a link of "Who is a Fake Couple". Fake couples must complete the specified requirements in the game and not be discovered by the other three couples. We will accept the punishment of sleeping in a log cabin at the entrance of the village tonight."

Zhong Xingran gave his response concisely and forcefully: "Are you sick?"

Wen Jinian pointed to himself and him, "So, we are that unfortunate fake couple?"

"Yes, the scenario set up for you by the program group is that you must have no tacit understanding with each other, and find a way to lose one of the rounds of the game." Mu Xuru suppressed a smile, "And you have to say the following three sentences. "

"1. This is mine, won't you take it yourself?"

"2. You are so annoying."

"3. I don't want to quarrel with you."

Wen Ji Nian: "..."

Zhong Xingran: "..."

Damn, he's doing something wrong.

"I've always been very active in playing games." Zhong Xingran said immediately, "If you lose on purpose, it's easy to be discovered as a fake couple."

Anyone who has been in contact with him knows that he has a strong desire to win, and he often fights desperately to win on the show. It is too difficult to get over this.

Mu Xuru looked like he had nothing to do with himself, spread his hands and said, "Then each depends on his acting skills, don't worry, your family is the best actor."

Zhong Xingran wrote "You are unreasonable" all over his face, Wen Jinian finally felt the viciousness of Xu Dao, and his face was speechless.

Mu Xuru answered the phone and said to Zhong Xingran, "Ranran, go to the entrance of the village to pick up the second couple, and take a promotional video by the way."

Zhong Xingran looked at Wen Ji Nian, the blush on his face had not completely faded.

He snorted, turned his head and walked out the door without saying a word.

Mu Xuru looked at Wen Jinian with a smile, and said, "The one who got in the way has finally left, now let me tell you about your mission."

Wen Ji Nian: "?"

Mu Xuru said: "You need to defeat Zhong Xingran in every game. In other words, whether it's a group game or a two-player game, you have to let him be the bottom one."

Wen Ji Nian thought to himself, is it still too late to terminate the contract? Before you came, you didn't say that this show is a gamble with your life.