Male Sing and His Pet Owner: Chapter 19

“If this is your attitude, why did you fight for this role in the first place?” Zhang Zheng cursed out Lin Yiyi’s agent in the lounge until their face was covered in blood and dog’s head: “Have you seen her performance today? What is all this garbage??”

The agent hurriedly apologized: “Director Zhang, sorry, sorry, I will have a good talk with her. She has some personal matters and is in a bad mood.”

Zhang Zheng: “Work is work. Personal matters should be handled on your own time. Why bring them to affect work?!”

The agent: “You are absolutely right, my apologies! Let me make it up to you!”

However, this kind of pretty talk that could only be used to fob someone off was clearly not enough to extinguish Zhang Zheng’s fury. He pointed at the agent’s nose and continued cursing them out, his words extremely vicious and unpleasant.

Zhao Kaile heard everything clearly from next door, thinking to himself, my god, being an agent is really not easy.

But agents get to interact with many stars, so it should still be pretty fun, right?

When he returned that evening, Lu Jiayin asked about the situation as usual, and Zhao Kaile answered one by one. He suddenly wanted to ask whether he himself had any chance of applying to be an agent, but when he was about to ask, the image of Zhan Hang’s ferocious face popped into his mind with that line “Don’t tell her everything,” so he held his tongue.

Zhan Hang seemed very exhausted that day, falling asleep in the car. Zhao Kaile did not know whether he should wake him, sitting in the passenger seat and staring at Xiao Li with wide eyes.

Zhao Kaile hesitantly asked, “Should we wait here for a bit?”

Xiao Li said awkwardly, “We can, but we can’t park here for too long.”

“Then drive around a couple more times?” Zhao Kaile said. “Sorry for the trouble.”

Xiao Li nodded and continued driving as instructed.

Zhan Hang did not wake up until after eight o’clock. He opened his eyes halfway, looking irritable, and asked, “We haven’t arrived yet?”

“……” Zhao Kaile hurriedly said, “We’re here, we’re here.” Xiao Li understood and turned around, parking at the entrance and getting out to open the door for Zhan Hang.

Zhao Kaile once again helped Zhan Hang out of the car as if supporting the Old Buddha, and Zhan Hang did not notice anything unusual even when going upstairs to shower. It was only halfway through his shower that he realized the time was already approaching nine o’clock. So Zhao Kaile, who was outside sorting dirty clothes, heard his earth shattering roar: “It’s already nine o’clock?! How many matches have already finished by now??”

However, Zhao Kaile had no idea what competition he was talking about. He only watched as Zhan Hang, wrapped in a towel, came out furiously, then went back in furiously with his phone.

Zhao Kaile asked from outside, “What competition, Brother Hang? Tell me and I’ll help you note it down.”

Zhan Hang said distractedly, “We’ll talk about it later.”

He had originally wanted to have Zhao Kaile remind him, but once he got busy he forgot again. It was a case of reaping what he sowed, and for the moment he could not think of any reason to blame his little assistant, so he temporarily gave up on blaming him and focused on watching the game competition.

Zhao Kaile let out a guilty breath and ran off.

Close to eleven o’clock, Zhao Kaile wrote for a while as usual, then went to apply body lotion for Zhan Hang. Zhan Hang was lying on the bed watching the competition, then turned back and looked at Zhao Kaile with confusion. Zhao Kaile averted his gaze slightly, pretending not to see.

“Did I sleep in the car for a long time?” Zhan Hang finally grasped the root of the problem: “You didn’t wake me?”

Zhao Kaile immediately said with grievance, “Heaven and earth bear witness, Brother Hang, you were simply too tired and sleeping too deeply. I couldn’t wake you at all! You can ask Xiao Li if you don’t believe me!”

Zhan Hang: “Continue.”

Zhao Kaile: “……..”

What was going on? Normally at this point shouldn’t it have directly moved to the “this won’t happen again” stage?

“You usually don’t get much high quality sleep anyway. It’s rare to sleep well once, so isn’t it……” Zhao Kaile said with a stiff scalp, “Brother Hang, games aren’t as important as sleep.”

Zhan Hang hissed, flipped over, and frowned at him, “I find that you’re getting more and more glib, Zhao Kaile. Who did you learn that from? Didn’t I tell you not to get too close to Lu Jiayin?”

Zhao Kaile: “Influenced by what I see and hear, influenced by what I see and hear.”

Zhan Hang examined him for a while longer, let out a contemptuous snort from his nose, and let him off. He put his bathrobe back on by himself.

Zhao Kaile was a bit puzzled, “Brother Hang, why are you so guarded against Sister Li and Sister Jiayin?”

“This isn’t called being guarded, it’s just telling you to stay clear headed,” Zhan Hang said. “We are fundamentally just an interest community. Bai Li gives me resources and popularity, provides me with channels to earn money, and the money I earn goes back to her and the company. If one day I have no popularity and can’t earn money, or if I don’t renew my contract with Qi Hua, her attitude toward me won’t be like this anymore.”

Lu Jiayin was her personally trained disciple. Although her personality was a bit warmer, there was no guarantee that one day she wouldn’t transform into someone like Bai Li.

Zhao Kaile recalled Bai Li’s warm and friendly appearance when greeting him, and found it somewhat hard to accept.

Zhan Hang looked at his expression and mocked, “This makes you uncomfortable? There will be more uncomfortable times ahead.”

Zhao Kaile thought for a moment and said seriously, “Brother Hang, rest assured, I will always stand behind you!”

Zhan Hang said, “Isn’t that obvious! You still owe me over a million, okay!”

Zhao Kaile: “……..”

This person being able to live peacefully to this age, he really ought to thank his own face!

After several days of running in, Lin Yiyi barely managed to enter a state where she recovered a bit of professional standard, but only a bit. Zhang Zheng went from jumping in rage at the beginning, to shaking his head and sighing, to now having a blank expression, seemingly utterly disheartened. Everyone prayed every day that Lin Yiyi would not perform abnormally, lest she delay progress again.

That day, filming was halfway through when a sudden downpour began. Zhang Zheng hurriedly directed the staff to move props and equipment under the rain shelter. Everyone was so busy they were dizzy, and several extras also went down to help.

Zhan Hang saw this, took off his outer robe, and was about to go out too. Zhao Kaile was startled and hurriedly said, “Brother Hang, I’ll go!”

“What are you going to do? Do you even know what is what?” Zhan Hang was only wearing a close fitting inner garment, the fabric clinging to his powerful back muscles. He did not turn back and said, “Stay put obediently.”

Zhao Kaile hugged his costume and waited dryly under the eaves, scanning the crowd with his eyes. The second male lead, second female lead, and third male lead were all honestly hiding from the rain on the side, but Lin Yiyi was nowhere to be seen.

However, this rain had come too suddenly. Several important pieces of equipment got water in them and had to be sent for repair. After a period of chaos and confusion, everything that could be salvaged was salvaged. Zhang Zheng repeatedly thanked everyone for their hard work. Especially when he saw Zhan Hang completely soaked, his opinion of him fundamentally changed from the bottom of his heart.

He was about to speak to Zhan Hang when he heard another commotion from the crowd, followed by a clamor of shouts.

“What’s wrong with her???” “What happened?? Don’t push!” “Lin Yiyi fainted!” “She’s been lying in the rain for half a day! Quick, call 120!” “Yiyi! Hang in there!” “Help her up! Quick! Take my car!”

Hearing this, Zhang Zheng nearly collapsed. However, he was someone who had seen great winds and waves, so he forced himself to calm down, took the megaphone, and told everyone to disperse, making way for the assistant carrying Lin Yiyi. During this time, busybodies constantly pointed their phones at the fainted Lin Yiyi and took photos wildly. Those closest to her were fiercely cursed at by Lin Yiyi’s other assistants.

The female lead’s scenes would be delayed again. Zhang Zheng had no choice but to push the indoor scenes of other supporting actors ahead again. He saw that Zhan Hang was completely soaked and directly gave him a day off: rainy days made it impossible to film outdoor fight scenes, the female lead’s absence made it impossible to film emotional scenes, and the remaining scenes were not enough to grind through before the wrap party. So Zhang Zheng simply let him rest.

That evening, news came from the hospital that Lin Yiyi had merely fainted from overexhaustion and could return to work after a few days of IV drips. But Zhang Zheng did not want to show her any more patience, and was strongly inclined to advise her to withdraw.

Once the news came out, Lin Yiyi’s fans could not sit still again. Some cursed Zhang Zheng for his harsh words and abusing actors. Some cursed the production side for lacking responsibility and not protecting the artist’s safety. Some cursed the assistants and agents for treating Lin Yiyi as a money making tool and not caring about her physical and mental health. Some even cursed Zhan Hang, as the on screen CP, for not protecting the female lead. It was simply absurd.

After showering, Zhan Hang was in his room eating and reading the news, while Zhao Kaile sat on the side scrolling through Weibo. Looking at the constantly refreshing Weibo messages, he was about to laugh from anger, and kept sending WeChat messages to Li Wenyao to complain.

Li Wenyao: Lin Yiyi is quite pretty, isn’t she? I quite liked that “Bottom Line” she acted in.

Zhao Kaile: You actually like Lin Yiyi!!!

Li Wenyao: Hahaha, I like all beautiful women.

Zhao Kaile: Let’s sever our friendship!

Li Wenyao: ……..Hey! Zhao Kaile! You can’t be like this!

Zhan Hang saw him messaging so intently and could not help asking, “Who are you chatting with?”

Zhao Kaile hurriedly looked up, “No one, my classmate, that cousin of Sister Li’s……but don’t worry! I won’t talk to him about your matters!”

Zhan Hang let out a “yo”: “Why so nervous? Afraid I’ll make you distance yourself from him too?”

“Hehehe……” Zhao Kaile thought to himself, isn’t that exactly it? You’re suspicious like Cao Cao every day.

Zhan Hang asked, “Where do you want to go play tomorrow?”

Zhao Kaile: “???”

He looked around and pointed at himself, “Me?”

Zhan Hang: “…….Otherwise? Besides the two of us, who else is here??”

Zhao Kaile could not believe it. He had really been prepared for having no rest days after entering the industry. He did not expect a vacation to come so suddenly.

Zhan Hang saw him not speaking for a long time and directly said, “Answer time is up. You have no choice anymore. Tomorrow we follow my route.”

Zhao Kaile: “……………….”

Please, this is foul play, okay? You didn’t even say there was a time limit for answering this question!!!!!

But! Anyway, it’s all play, and he didn’t know any fun places himself, so anywhere was the same!

Zhao Kaile instantly convinced himself and excitedly agreed, “Okay!!”

Zhan Hang made a soft sound, tossed the leftover food to him, and Zhao Kaile swiftly cleaned up, then ran out lightly to throw away the garbage, looking to be in an extremely good mood. Zhan Hang could not help but let out a hum of laughter, thinking to himself, so childish, just like an elementary school student going on a spring outing tomorrow.