Male Sing and His Pet Owner: Chapter 17

The two got into the car heading back. Xiao Li saw that Zhan Hang’s complexion didn’t look too good, so he drove slightly slower, very steadily.

Zhan Hang propped his chin in the back seat and asked rather mockingly: “What’s wrong Assistant Zhao, did I offend you?”

Zhao Kaile said listlessly: “No.”

Zhan Hang: “Then what kind of face are you making at me again?”

Zhao Kaile stopped talking, still looking depressed.

Zhan Hang: “Speak.”

“I……. when I went to the bathroom, I heard two people talking bad about you.” Zhao Kaile deliberated for a long time, and when he said it, he was still indignant: “They actually said……. actually said your acting is no good! Said you are a resources star!”

“……..” Zhan Hang: “And then?”

Zhao Kaile said with righteous indignation: “When they walked out, they saw me, so they didn’t dare keep talking.”

Zhan Hang reached out to cover his eyes, turned his head away, and held back laughter.

Zhao Kaile looked at him puzzled, and called out: “Brother Hang.”

Zhan Hang turned his head back, and said indifferently: “There are plenty of people online cursing me. Some say my acting is terrible, some say I’m a vase, and some say I’m ugly. But being a vase and being ugly are fundamentally contradictory. Do you think their cursing makes any sense?”

Zhao Kaile scratched his own finger, made a sound of agreement, and didn’t know how to respond.

Zhan Hang said mockingly again: “If you’re really angry, just go over and swing two punches at him. Worst case, we meet at the police station.”

Zhao Kaile felt this was quite feasible, and said excitedly: “Right! I just reacted too slowly!”

“Right my ass.” Zhan Hang educated him unceremoniously: “You really want to go sit in there? When you hear this kind of talk, just pretend you’re a deaf person and a mute person. Understand?”

Zhao Kaile: “……..Oh.”

When getting out of the car, Zhan Hang saw that Xiao Li had no intention of getting out, so he asked one more question. Xiao Li smiled and said: “I’ll just sleep in the car for a night.”

Zhao Kaile asked: “Didn’t Sister Jiayin book a room for you?”

Xiao Li smiled again, and didn’t speak.

Zhan Hang slapped the back of Zhao Kaile’s head, signaling him not to talk too much. Then he took out his own card, gave it to Zhao Kaile, and had him book a room for Xiao Li too. Then he put on his sunglasses and entered the elevator first to go upstairs, not giving Xiao Li a chance to speak.

Zhao Kaile touched the back of his head puzzled, then looked at Xiao Li, and said: “Then let’s go?”

Xiao Li hurriedly said: “No need no need, thank Brother Hang for me.”

“Then you sleep in my room? Sister Jiayin already paid for it.” Zhao Kaile somewhat understood, and said: “Sleeping in the car definitely won’t be comfortable.”

Xiao Li: “Really no need. It’s a common thing. I’m used to it.”

Zhao Kaile deliberately put on a troubled expression: “Please brother, if a room really wasn’t booked for you, Brother Hang will definitely scold me again.” Xiao Li thought about it, turned off the engine, and followed Zhao Kaile inside.

After settling Xiao Li, Zhao Kaile went to return the card, and in his heart gained a bit of new understanding of Zhan Hang. Zhan Hang opened the door for him, his upper body already stripped clean, turned around and continued taking off his pants.

Zhao Kaile felt a bit awkward, and hurriedly said: “Brother Hang, I’ll leave the card here for you.”

“Don’t ask people that kind of stupid question.” Zhan Hang said while taking off his pants: “Qi Hua is exactly that kind of stingy company. If you weren’t personally hired by me, you’d be the same as him.”

Zhao Kaile’s eyes widened slightly, thinking, so that’s how it is?? He had thought all his expenses were covered by the company. Turns out they were charged to Brother Hang’s account.

Zhan Hang turned around wearing only his underwear: “Come in and help me massage.” He finished speaking and entered the bathroom, removing his last covering, revealing his entire fit and athletic body.

Zhao Kaile tried hard to avert his gaze, and stammered his agreement.

A moment later, Zhan Hang stretched out his body lying in the bathtub, arms resting on both sides. Zhao Kaile moved a small stool and sat nearby, working hard to massage him. He knew that although Zhan Hang exercised on the treadmill every day, after filming such large scale action scenes, if he didn’t get an appropriate massage, his muscles would still be very sore.

“Use more force.” Zhan Hang asked: “Have you gotten your driver’s license?”

“Got it.” Zhao Kaile wiped sweat with the back of his hand: “But I haven’t been on the road. Do you need me to drive?”

Zhan Hang made a sound of agreement: “Find time to practice.”

Zhao Kaile agreed, his face still puzzled, thinking, does this profession really have free time? Isn’t it twenty four hours on call?

Zhan Hang could tell at a glance what he was thinking, and said disdainfully: “I’ll give you time. Do you think I’m Huang Shiren?”

“Oh, thank you Brother Hang.” Zhao Kaile nodded, then smiled.

Zhan Hang frowned at him: “What are you laughing at again?”

Zhao Kaile said: “I think you’re actually very nice to everyone, but on the surface you’re very fierce. It’s quite funny.”

Zhan Hang looked at him for a while, reached out and grabbed the back of his neck, pressing him into the bathtub. With a splash, foam and water splashed all over the floor. Then he said in a punishing manner: “Quite funny right? Hmm?”

“Sorry!” Zhao Kaile straightened up with foam all over his face, spat water to the side, held back laughter and coughed wretchedly: “Sorry……. I won’t do it again!”

Zhan Hang ignored him, got up to shower, and rinsed the foam off his body. Zhao Kaile washed his face, turned around, and was directly facing Zhan Hang’s standing there. He was instantly speechless.

And the party whose important part was being observed had no sense of shame whatsoever, and even asked politely and haughtily: “Finished looking?”

Zhao Kaile came back to his senses and apologized repeatedly, then rushed out of the bathroom like a whirlwind, sprinting back to his own room.

That night before sleeping, he opened various beauty compilation videos trying to dilute his memory. However, that scene kept popping out and drilling into his mind, tormenting him until past one o’clock.

It was also quite strange. Clearly every man has one, but some men’s there is quite intimidating.

At one thirty, Zhao Kaile finally had a bit of sleepiness. Before sleeping, he habitually checked his messages to see if Zhao Kaiming had remembered his younger brother.

This past month, apart from that call mistakenly answered by Zhan Hang, he had not heard any news from Zhao Kaiming at all. He thought today would be the same.

However, unexpectedly, the messages showed an unread red dot.

Zhao Kaile became alert again, hurriedly sat up, and clicked to look.

Zhao Kaiming: Bro, how did you pay it off? I’m still not convenient right now. I’ll come back next month, then contact you.

This text was sent during the day. However, Zhao Kaile hadn’t clicked to look at it until now. He immediately called back, but the other end was powered off again.

Zhao Kaile: “…….”

He threw his phone aside and sat disappointedly, inexplicably remembering a time when they were little. Zhao Kaiming had finished his own portion of food but was still not full, so he took the meat from his bowl.

He suddenly felt like he didn’t really want this brother anymore.

Zhao Kaile lay on the soft big bed, looking at the ceiling expressionlessly, and cursed Zhao Kaiming out in his mind once more.

The next day Zhan Hang’s scenes were in the afternoon. There was nothing in the morning, so he gave Zhao Kaile the morning off, had Xiao Li accompany him to practice driving on the road, while he himself stayed in the room reading news.

Xiao Li followed instructions and led Zhao Kaile onto the road. Only when they reached a section with few people did he let him take the driver’s seat.

Zhao Kaile concentrated hard, and quickly recovered the state from when he was practicing driving. He drove quite steadily.

Xiao Li didn’t talk much, had a relatively shy personality, was reserved and proper, looking like a typical honest young man. But he was very dull, couldn’t squeeze out a fart for half a day. Zhao Kaile was truly bored and wanted to find topics, but usually he asked three sentences and Xiao Li answered one. He couldn’t extend the conversation even if he wanted to.

Zhao Kaile had to give up the idea of chatting, and focused on looking at the road ahead.

When they returned at noon, Zhao Kaile had already ordered lunch for Zhan Hang. He himself casually bought some food by the roadside and went back to the hotel. When entering, he discovered Li Siyi wearing a light yellow long dress negotiating with the girl at the front desk, her expression still somewhat displeased. She said two sentences, then turned to walk outside, and happened to come face to face with Zhao Kaile.

Both sides paused for a moment, simultaneously stepped to the left. Li Siyi frowned and stopped in place, as if she hadn’t recognized who he was. Zhao Kaile gave way, looking calm on the surface but uneasy inside as he watched her leave with her several assistants and get in the car.

After she left, the front desk girl complained softly: “Really hard to serve……..”

Zhao Kaile asked her: “Did Li Siyi change hotels?”

“Yeah.” That girl made a thank heavens expression: “Our manager was almost tortured to death by her. She changed through every grade of suite, and still wasn’t satisfied. I heard she’s a celebrity? My god, I haven’t even watched her dramas. Don’t know where this floor traffic crawled out from.”

Zhao Kaile smiled bitterly: “You guys have it hard too.”

That girl added: “It’s fine. The service industry is about communicating with weirdos every day. Got used to it. Are you also here to film nearby? Did you just sign with an agency?”

Zhao Kaile hurriedly waved his hand: “No no no, I’m just an odd jobs worker.”

The girl laughed: “Stop joking. How could an odd jobs worker stay in our hotel.”

“……..” Zhao Kaile thought about it: “You’re right.”

After saying goodbye to the front desk girl, Zhao Kaile went upstairs to deliver food to Zhan Hang.

An odd jobs worker couldn’t stay in a big hotel every day. A driver couldn’t stay in a big hotel every day. Only Zhan Hang would pay out of his own pocket for them.

Zhao Kaile took a moved breath, just about to knock, when the door opened from inside.

Zhan Hang was shaving, but even with stubble the male celebrity was still devastatingly handsome.

He touched his chin and looked in the mirror, and asked casually: “How did the learning go?”

“Okay I guess…….” Zhao Kaile set out the food: “Should be fine in a few more days.”

Zhan Hang made a sound of agreement: “Uncle Jiang is getting old, inconvenient to drive at night. You’ll drive the night roads from now on.”

Uncle Jiang was the driver uncle who had been picking them up at the beginning.

Zhao Kaile finally understood, and felt a bit moved again. However, the moment Zhan Hang opened the lunch box, he started picking and choosing with disgust, this not eating that not eating. After being picky, only one dish remained.

…….

Thus the bit of emotion Zhao Kaile had just accumulated instantly scattered completely. He reined in his expression, resignedly cleaned up the parts Zhan Hang didn’t want.