Male Sing and His Pet Owner: Chapter 24

The next day Zhan Hang noticed that Zhao Kaile had become much less talkative. He didn’t know if his daily lectures had finally started to take effect.

The filming of the female lead’s scenes went more smoothly than anyone had anticipated. Yao Min’er gradually found her previous form. Sometimes when she couldn’t remember her lines she would improvise on the spot. Most remarkably, she and Zhan Hang had great chemistry, and they could both smooth things over. Zhang Zheng’s face finally showed more smiles than before.

This scene was filming Shen Qing being captured, with Xiao Yao confronting the villainous second male lead. The sky even cooperated by drifting with a light drizzle.

Zhan Hang landed gracefully on a wire, his expression tense. He raised his sword slowly pointing at the second male lead, and said in a deep voice: “Chen Anhe, let her go!”

Chen Anhe sneered: “Let her go? On what basis? Xiao Yao, what do you think you are?”

Up to this point everything had been going smoothly. However, the second male lead delivered this line with too much emotion, and the last word suddenly cracked. Among the extras playing henchmen in the background, one had already broken character and laughed. Then Yao Min’er, who was being held by the throat, also couldn’t hold it in, and with a puff she broke character too.

Zhan Hang: “…….”

Zhang Zheng: “Cut!”

Yao Min’er hurriedly apologized. The second male lead and she bowed to each other: “No no, I didn’t deliver the line well. Sorry jie, sorry Hang-ge…….”

Zhan Hang walked back a bit. Zhang Zheng instructed everyone to readjust their state and camera positions, preparing to do another take.

A few minutes later, starting directly from the dialogue, Zhan Hang closed and opened his eyes, his anger even greater than before: “Chen Anhe, let her go!”

“Let her go? On what basis?” The second male lead sneered, gripping Yao Min’er’s neck even tighter, his tone mocking: “Xiao Yao, what do you think you are?”

Zhang Zheng nodded, feeling that this take was better than the previous one.

Yao Min’er put on a state of difficulty breathing, and said with effort: “Ge……. don’t worry about me……. just go…….”

Zhan Hang was visibly so angry his hands were even trembling, his eyes slightly red, grinding his teeth: “Don’t touch her…….”

Chen Anhe’s hand relaxed somewhat. He frivolously patted Yao Min’er’s face with the back of his hand, and said provocatively: “Touch her, so what? Don’t touch her, so what?”

At these words, Zhan Hang was thoroughly enraged. Like a furious lion, he gave a great shout, raised his sword and charged forward, hacking at Chen Anhe recklessly! Chen Anhe was extremely cunning, dodging left and right, using Yao Min’er as a shield in front of him, completely treating her as a human shield!

Zhan Hang roared: “Despicable!”

Then he swiftly withdrew his sword, and struck a palm toward Yao Min’er’s left shoulder. Chen Anhe completely didn’t expect that he would be willing to strike his own lover so ruthlessly. The secret affection he had previously harbored for Shen Qing suddenly acted up. He embraced her waist and spun to dodge, his figure extremely elegant and graceful.

However, for this fighting sequence the second male lead did not personally perform, using a stunt double instead. Zhang Zheng had no choice but to have the cameraman constantly cut between shots. Even getting the male and female leads in the same frame was difficult.

Several girls in the set gasped softly, all calling out handsome. Zhao Kaile watched completely absorbed, nervously breaking into a cold sweat on Zhan Hang’s behalf.

Fatty sat beside him eating melon seeds, clicking his tongue: “As expected of a trained martial artist. I heard this action sequence was designed by Hang-ge and the martial arts director together. These days there are too few people who don’t use stunt doubles for fight scenes.”

Zhao Kaile nodded.

Fatty glanced at him somewhat puzzled: “What’s wrong with you? Why no nonsense today?”

Zhao Kaile let out an ah, belatedly saying: “Handsome!”

Fatty: “…….Are you okay??”

“Fine.” Zhao Kaile thought for a bit, then asked: “Have you always done this line of work? Um, have you ever worked as an assistant or something?”

Fatty said: “Yes, I was an assistant for a newly debuted female idol. So exhausting, my god……. So I changed careers long ago.”

Zhao Kaile: “I see.”

“Yeah.” Fatty asked mysteriously: “What’s wrong with you, is Hang-ge especially difficult to serve in private? You’re so exhausted you’re dumb?”

Zhao Kaile: “……..No no.”

Fatty patted his shoulder sympathetically: “You’re not bad either. In this situation you can still be cheerful every day. You have quite a bit of Ah Q spirit. Jie has high hopes for you.”

Zhao Kaile hesitated: “Um…… thank you.”

Why did that not sound like a compliment?

Hat Guy came off set to rest, squeezing Zhao Kaile to the side. He twisted open a bottle cap and drank some water on his own: “What are you chatting about?”

Fatty said: “Contemplating life.”

Zhao Kaile sat between the two of them, propping his chin and sighing.

During the afternoon break there was suddenly a commotion outside. Zhao Kaile instinctively craned his neck to look, and was slapped back by Zhan Hang.

Several curious girls all looked outside, and realized that Zhang Wenqian had arrived.

Zhang Wenqian had arrived!

Zhao Kaile’s heart thumped once, then he immediately restrained his excitement, trying hard not to show it in front of Zhan Hang.

Zhan Hang sat drinking tea, looking him up and down, repeating: “Zhang Wenqian is here.”

Zhao Kaile calmly gave a hm, remaining unmoved as steady as Mount Tai.

Zhan Hang gave a hmph laugh, then said in a teasing tone: “Your goddess.”

Zhao Kaile: “Oh.”

Heh, so what if she’s my goddess? She’s not here to see me. Why are you provoking me, really.

Zhan Hang thought, little rascal, then elegantly set his teacup aside, looked up, and put on a surprised expression: “Wenqian??”

“Hang-ge!~” Zhang Wenqian came running over, giggling as she hugged him: “Last time I said I would come visit you on set! So here I am! Kaile!~”

Zhao Kaile’s carefully maintained composure instantly melted: “Goddess……..”

Zhang Wenqian’s assistant chased after her with an umbrella, then checked her makeup, then took tissues to wipe her sweat, attending to every detail.

Zhan Hang said with a laugh: “Female assistants are still more attentive.”

“No no.” The girl hurriedly waved her hands shyly: “You overpraise me.”

Zhang Wenqian sat down drinking the water Zhao Kaile handed over, and let out a sigh: “Your family’s Kaile is also very considerate, not inferior to a girl at all!”

Zhan Hang: “Him? All day long he just knows how to space out. And last time the snacks you gave him, he deliberately saved them and ate them over three days. What a character…….”

Zhao Kaile immediately wanted to find a place to dig a hole and bury himself, his scalp tingling with embarrassment: “Hang-ge don’t say it out loud!”

Zhang Wenqian burst out laughing: “Were they that delicious??”

As they chatted, Yao Min’er also came off set to greet them. She and Zhang Wenqian had previously played sisters in a drama, so they got along fairly well. Several people sat chatting about recent film awards. After a while Zhang Zheng and the assistant director also came over. Zhang Wenqian stood up to greet them. The two drank some water and then went back to work.

“Why do I feel like you two look real?” Yao Min’er said while eating melon seeds: “Could it be that after all this fake dating it becomes real?”

Zhang Wenqian smiled but said nothing, giving her a playful wink. Zhan Hang had no particular expression, telling her to drink more tea.

A few minutes later Yao Min’er got up to use the restroom. As she went out she tripped over a stool. Zhan Hang stood up to help her. Everyone was chatting or working. But Zhao Kaile inexplicably heard an extremely faint click sound. He looked around left and right, but didn’t discover anything unusual. So he bent down and moved the stool a bit further away for Yao Min’er.

When they wrapped for the day Zhang Wenqian walked out arm in arm with Zhan Hang. The fans waiting outside instantly erupted in screams, wildly waving their support light signs in their hands. Flashlights kept shining in the two people’s faces. The CP fans were screaming so hard their throats were about to go hoarse. It was simply a mountain calling and a sea roaring, deafening.

Zhan Hang smiled politely at the fans, waving his hand. Then under the gaze of thousands he considerately sent Zhang Wenqian to her nanny van, before walking back himself.

Zhang Wenqian rolled down the window and blew kisses to the fans to say goodbye. The screams instantly seemed about to lift the roof off. Security personnel could barely hold back the surging crowd of fans. The nanny van left the passage with a fright but no harm.

Just at this moment, an egg shot through the air and smashed violently against Zhan Hang’s back, then exploded into countless bits of shell and egg liquid, flowing down his back.

Zhan Hang’s whole body stiffened, stopping in place.

No one had expected this. Zhao Kaile immediately reacted, turning around to search the crowd with his eyes, but failed to lock onto the suspect. He could only shout loudly: “Who!?”

The crowd instantly exploded in commotion. Everyone looked around themselves, cursing angrily. Unexpectedly, taking advantage of this chaos, a second and third…… several more eggs were thrown toward the center. This time Zhao Kaile reacted extremely quickly, grabbing Zhan Hang and pulling him forward, holding his bag up in front of him, protecting him as they walked toward the car.

The fans instantly went mad, cursing angrily: “Who is it?!!” “Which bastard?!?!” “I f*** your @!#￥#%!”

The SUV left the scene in a chaos. Little Li saw the expressions of the two people in the back seat through the rearview mirror, and his heart was extremely uneasy. He carefully spoke: “Hang-ge.”

Zhao Kaile took tissues to wipe the egg liquid off his back, but was silently pushed away by Zhan Hang.

“Hang-ge.” Zhao Kaile said: “Let me wipe it for you, otherwise this outfit is finished.”

Zhan Hang looked up at him, his eyes full of anger, his eyes already somewhat red. He had originally wanted to get angry, but seeing the bits of broken eggshell on Zhao Kaile’s forehead, he also somewhat wanted to laugh.

Zhao Kaile knew that at this moment he was the most upset, and could only try hard to comfort him: “Hang-ge don’t be angry. There are cameras all around. They will catch them. Don’t be angry…….”

Zhan Hang didn’t respond. He took a tissue and wiped the mucus off his forehead for him, then looked down and discovered that Zhao Kaile’s arms and back were also covered with bits of eggshell and egg liquid. So he couldn’t get angry at all anymore.

Zhao Kaile saw him not speaking for a long time, and was nervous to death: “Hang-ge…….”

“I’m fine.” Zhan Hang said: “Next time don’t come over to block it yourself. Weren’t you holding a coat? How foolish.”

Zhao Kaile hearing him speak finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Zhan Hang then said with a dark face: “Li Siyi.”

Zhao Kaile was stunned: “What?”

It’s Li Siyi again!

How does this woman haunt him like a lingering ghost!

Zhan Hang said coldly: “The drama hasn’t finished filming yet. There are still plenty of opportunities to meet. How dare she do this to me.”

Zhao Kaile was about to speak when Bai Li’s call came in very quickly. She first tested Zhan Hang’s emotions, and seeing he was fine, also breathed a sigh of relief.

“Before I told you to bring bodyguards but you wouldn’t listen. Now you know??” Bai Li scolded: “I’ll have them come over tomorrow.”

Zhan Hang: “Will it be useful?”

Bai Li softened her tone: “Listen to me on this matter, Zhan Hang. This is not a small matter. Right now the internet is all guessing about the reason you were pelted with eggs. I still need to handle this. Don’t get emotional for now.”