Male Sing and His Pet Owner: Chapter 127

Qihua Entertainment.

Zhan Hang walked into the company wearing sunglasses, his every gesture still carrying an understated swagger, but Zhao Kaile could still detect a slight change in him. These changes were impossible to resist. Once a person has been injured and undergone a major surgery, spent a long time sitting or lying down, and had no opportunity to exercise regularly, no matter how high spirited they were before, when they recover they will more or less be shrouded in a sense of gloom.

Walking through the corridor that was both unfamiliar and familiar, the staff members and other artists they encountered mostly first showed expressions of surprise, then reacted to what was going on, hurriedly greeted them, and then pulled their companions away to walk quickly off, beginning to whisper excitedly.

Zhao Kaile: “…”

What kind of expressions are those! Haven’t you seen a male celebrity recovering from a major illness before!

When they entered the office, Bai Li was frowning and saying something into the phone. Seeing the two of them come in, she slightly raised her chin to signal them to find somewhere to sit on their own.

Zhan Hang went straight to her desk and picked up a magazine to flip through. One glance at the cover showing Zhang Wenqian and Zhao Jingran, and instantly all his good mood was gone. He flipped the magazine face down.

Bai Li hung up the phone and asked Zhan Hang, “How are you feeling?”

“So so.” Zhan Hang knew what she was worried about and said directly, “I can join a film crew and attend events. No problem.”

Bai Li slightly raised her brow and looked at Zhao Kaile.

Zhao Kaile hesitated and said, “Um… the doctor said it’s best to take things gradually. Don’t start with high intensity exercise right away. Take it slow.”

Bai Li got a sense of the situation from this, lowered her head to flip through a stack of documents, and said, “Then let’s push back the dramas with fight scenes. Film something light first. Let me see… Chen Fang has a business war drama on hand. Take it back and read it first. I’ll discuss the specific timing with him later.”

Zhao Kaile took it and flipped through it. After a few pages he realized it was yet another idol drama wearing the skin of a professional drama, all about romance. He immediately found it rather bland and passed it to Zhan Hang with little interest. Zhan Hang took one look at his expression and knew this drama wasn’t anything special, so without thinking he waved a hand at Bai Li. “Switch it.”

Bai Li: “…”

“??” Zhao Kaile hurriedly gave Zhan Hang a meaningful look. “This drama is pretty good. No action scenes. Let’s go with this one.”

Bai Li said, “The most intense action scene in the entire drama is when the female lead gets angry, turns to leave, and the male lead catches up and gives her a princess carry.”

Zhao Kaile laughed awkwardly. “I think it’s pretty good, Hang. Let’s go with this one.”

Zhan Hang leaned in close to his ear and whispered, “Didn’t you find it boring?”

“But it’s easy.” Zhao Kaile also whispered, “Anyway, you have to film something. First or later doesn’t matter.”

Bai Li looked helpless, watching the two of them whispering to each other as if no one else was present. She sighed, “Zhan Hang, I’m definitely anxious too. I’m more anxious than you are. This month you’ve been recovering has been a huge loss for many people. But your health always comes first. We don’t need to strain ourselves to film some masterpiece, to create something that will be remembered forever. Who can stand forever at the top of the pyramid? Right now you just need to show your face in front of fans and passersby from time to time, let them know you’re still putting out work.”

Zhan Hang said rather ungraciously, “Thanks for your kindness, but I’ve already filmed enough garbage.”

Five years since debut, over fifty TV dramas filmed. As a supporting role, seven passed the passing grade. As a lead, only two passed the passing grade. He didn’t think he was that short on money.

Zhao Kaile immediately sensed a hint of trouble upon hearing this. Every time a disagreement appeared, it was the beginning of a cold war between Bai Li and Zhan Hang.

“Let’s take it back and read it. We haven’t read much of it yet. It’s too early to make a judgment!” Zhao Kaile hurriedly said. “What if there are some small surprises later on, hehehe…”

Bai Li was used to this. She nodded and said, “You also don’t need to directly answer the questions on Weibo. Anyway, you’re back now. Just post daily stuff at a normal frequency.”

Zhao Kaile tucked the folder into his bag and said, “Understood. Handle it vaguely.”

However, he still felt a bit unwilling. Zhan Hang had clearly done something enormously good, nearly lost his life, yet because of various interests involved the news had to be suppressed and he couldn’t tell everyone. He only received a verbal thank you from the person involved and some rather expensive looking gifts. Mo Xin hadn’t even been able to find an opportunity to thank him in person.

Zhan Hang clicked his tongue, a bit dissatisfied, and said, “Go find someone to control the comments. Can’t you see my fans are getting crushed by Zhao Jingran’s fans? Do they really think their brother has unlimited resources and can snatch roles from me?”

Zhao Kaile: “…”

Bai Li didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. “Got it.”

The two returned home. Zhan Hang went to the cat room in high spirits to play with the fur babies.

After a month apart, KIKI and TITI seemed to have somewhat forgotten his scent. They observed from a distance for quite a while before slowly creeping over to rub against his pant legs.

Zhan Hang hummed, poked the two little things on their heads, and said, “Heartless little things. Do you know who provides for your food and drink?”

KIKI and TITI seemed to somewhat understand what he was saying, so they raised their tails and meowed twice.

Zhan Hang: “!!”

Zhao Kaile was scooping cat poop on the side. When he saw this, he began sighing and sighing, thinking to himself that even cats know to respond to those who treat them well, yet many people are worse than cats.

Zhan Hang emotionally hugged them for a while. TITI got bored first, kicking his arm away with her back legs and returning to her cardboard box house. KIKI obediently lay in her owner’s arms.

After Zhao Kaile finished his work, he pulled out his phone and snapped a photo of the father and son.

Zhan Hang asked a bit worriedly, “Do you know how to edit photos now?”

Zhao Kaile went over and sat beside him, handing him the phone to look.

In the photo, Zhan Hang was slightly bowing his head, a smile at the corner of his mouth as he petted KIKI’s head. His fingers were long and slender. Sunlight streamed in softly through the floor to ceiling window, casting a hazy and gentle golden glow over his entire person. This bright atmosphere completely masked the slight gloomy aura that his recovery had brought.

“It’s already very good looking.” Zhao Kaile said. “No need to edit, right?”

Zhan Hang turned his head to look at him, raised his brow, and asked, “When we entered the company today, they were all staring at me. Did I get ugly?”

Zhao Kaile put on an act of examining him for a moment, then analyzed with mock seriousness, “Your double eyelids haven’t turned into single eyelids. You still have plenty of hair… Not ugly.”

Zhan Hang hmphed, lowered his head, and kissed him.

With the number of kisses increasing, Zhao Kaile wasn’t as shy as before either. He accepted the kiss openly.

KIKI lay on Zhan Hang’s knee, looked at the two two legged creatures kissing with no understanding of what was going on, then turned her head and began licking her own fur, grooming herself seriously.

After this unedited photo was posted, countless Hang fans flooded the Weibo comments with strings of crying emojis, all saying Hang you’re finally back, be honest, were those Weibo posts from before written by someone else, it was like you’d been possessed by someone else. Zhao Kaile’s face went dark, thinking to himself you guys are amazing, you even guessed that.

Zhao Kaile picked one of the hot comments and replied: Hehe no, I wasn’t feeling well this month. Now I’m better. I’ll check in with everyone on time. Don’t worry at all. You all take care of your health too!

Once these words came out, thousands upon thousands of Hang fans finally felt like they had found home. They poured out all kinds of grievances they had suffered over the past month in the reply threads. First, the drama preview super topic was blown up by Ran fans bringing Zhao Jingran and Mo Xin’s ship. Then, a huge Zhan Hang Weibo fan group had a spy who was actually a Ran fan infiltrate it, and their home base was stolen within a week. Then there were some young, obsessed Hang fans who went to Mo Xin’s Weibo to demand answers, only to be ruthlessly torn apart by Mo Xin’s fans… All sorts of messy stuff like that.

When Zhao Kaile first entered the fan circle, he would feel sorry for them along with everyone else. Now when he looked at these things, he genuinely couldn’t empathize anymore. At most he would hehehe and treat them as jokes.

That night, according to his rough estimate, Zhan Hang’s Weibo follower count had dropped by about ten percent over the past month. Setting aside some bandwagon fans, such a large drop was truly painful enough to make him wince.

Zhan Hang leaned beside him, watching him scroll through Weibo while sucking in air, and found it amusing. “Don’t feel bad. They’ll all come back. My road is still long.”

Zhao Kaile: “This is too many dropping… These people change their minds too fast!”

Zhan Hang reached out and patted his back, unconcerned, and said, “Weren’t you still lying beside me comforting me before? Now you’re more anxious than I am.”

Zhao Kaile didn’t say anything. Of course he had been pretending. After all, if even Zhan Hang was panicking, and he panicked too, the situation would be completely out of control.

Zhan Hang took his phone away, put it to the side, then dragged him into the blanket, saying, “Enough talking. Sleep, sleep.”

“I still have things to do!” Zhao Kaile struggled to crawl out, but was pulled back into the blanket by Zhan Hang. After much tossing and turning, they finally quieted down.

A few days later, the business war drama “Chasing Dreams in the Business World” directed by Chen Fang officially began filming, and Zhan Hang officially joined the crew.

What surprised both of them was that the originally scheduled female lead couldn’t make it due to scheduling conflicts, and the new female lead became Ou Xiaoqin.

During the pre filming interview, facing the cameras, the male and female leads were clearly a bit nervous.

The media asked, “Have you worked together before?”

“My first time meeting Hang was during ‘Extreme Run.'” Ou Xiaoqin was still a bit shy as she answered. “That counts as working together, I suppose.”

The media then asked Zhan Hang, “What is your impression of Xiaoqin?”

“She’s a very good girl. Very sporty.” Zhan Hang said as such.

Ou Xiaoqin immediately caught on and smiled, reaching out to lightly pat him. It clearly gave people the impression that they had pretty good private rapport.

The reporter immediately stirred things up, “Looks like you can continue your previous fate in ‘Chasing Dreams in the Business World.'”

Ou Xiaoqin hurriedly laughed and said, “I’m very much looking forward to working with Hang this time. Everyone look forward to it too!”

So the old photos and old videos of Zhan Hang carrying Ou Xiaoqin on his back to finish half the race were immediately dug up again by people with ulterior motives, slowly climbing up the hot search rankings.