Male Sing and His Pet Owner: Chapter 20

The next morning, the weather was clear and sunny. Zhao Kaile held one piece of clothing in each hand and cast an inquiring look at Zhan Hang.

Zhan Hang, still drowsy in bed, randomly pointed at one piece. Then he reacted, opened his eyes wide to check the time, and raged, “It’s only seven thirty, what are you knocking on my door for?!?!”

Zhao Kaile looked innocent, “Don’t we usually get up at seven thirty and go to the set at eight?”

Zhan Hang said, “But today is a day off!”

Zhao Kaile could only hang the clothes and walk away dejectedly.

Zhan Hang said helplessly, “Come back, come back.”

“Oh.” Zhao Kaile returned with wild joy in his heart but an innocent expression on his face. Zhan Hang pulled him aside, went into the bathroom to wash his face and brush his teeth, then tossed the two flashy, eye catching pieces of clothing from Zhao Kaile’s hands to the side, and randomly pulled out a casual outfit for himself.

“Going out to play and dressing all flashy, are you afraid people won’t recognize me?” Zhan Hang adjusted his clothes in front of the mirror, cursing under his breath, “I haven’t fallen to that extent yet, okay?”

Zhao Kaile: “Yes, yes, yes, I didn’t think of that, my fault, my fault.”

Zhan Hang casually slung a bag over his shoulder, put on his semi permanent sunglasses, struck a pose at the mirror, and slightly raised an eyebrow.

Zhao Kaile understood and gave a thumbs up, “Handsome!”

Zhan Hang tilted his head, “Let’s go.”

In the parking lot, Xiao Li had been waiting for a long time. He had gotten up earlier than both of them, sitting in the car eating a steamed bun. When he saw them coming, he hurriedly greeted them.

Zhao Kaile closed the car door and looked at Zhan Hang with delight, “Brother Hang, where are we going?”

“My plan starts after ten o’clock. That place isn’t even open yet.” Zhan Hang propped his chin and said, “You think of a place yourself.”

“……” Zhao Kaile opened his phone and started searching for nearby attractions.

Zhan Hang: “You’re actually searching? Go eat breakfast first! Do you want to starve your boss to death??”

Zhao Kaile looked pleading, sweating profusely as he changed to searching for nearby food.

However, this was not even the hardest part. First, he had to filter out a decent breakfast that could be fed to a picky male star from the various roadside stalls that had already set up early. Then he had to spend a tiny bit of time driving there during morning rush hour and a tiny bit of time queuing in line. Finally, after respectfully presenting it to the hungry male star and getting cursed at, by the time Zhan Hang finished eating, it was almost nine o’clock.

Zhao Kaile was squeezed by the sea of people until he lost all interest, directly collapsing in the back seat, not wanting to go anywhere.

Zhan Hang elegantly drank a mouthful of porridge and mocked, “What’s the point of getting up early? Still ended up wasting time on the road.”

Zhao Kaile was on the verge of tears.

Xiao Li weakly suggested, “How about we go to the nearest park? There shouldn’t be many people at this hour.”

Zhan Hang neither confirmed nor denied. Zhao Kaile leaned over the back of the seat and asked him, “Is there anything particularly famous there?”

Xiao Li said, “There’s a stone carved carp, the kind that spouts water from its mouth. It became popular recently because of a short video, so now it’s kind of an internet famous spot.”

Zhao Kaile asked in confusion, “This can become popular? What’s so special about this carp?”

“There is.” Xiao Li replied, “It’s especially ugly.”

Zhao Kaile: “………………”

That park was indeed not far, as Xiao Li had said. When they entered, they saw a few elderly men and women who had just finished practicing sword and fan dances, packing up to go home. The closer they got to the carp stone carving, the more people there were.

Zhao Kaile followed Zhan Hang with a heart full of trepidation the entire way. Whenever someone stared at Zhan Hang a bit too long, he would glare back sternly, and the other person would only roll their eyes and walk away.

Zhan Hang was speechless, and could only lower his head and say, “Can you act normal?”

Zhao Kaile said nervously, “Brother Hang, I’m a bit scared.”

Zhan Hang: “I’m not even scared, what are you scared of? Who would randomly rush over and take off my sunglasses? Hmm?”

Xiao Li held back a laugh on the side and said, “It’s fine, generally people wouldn’t think they’d run into a celebrity in a place like this.”

Zhao Kaile barely convinced himself and calmed down a bit. The three of them slowly followed the sparse crowd to the front of the carp stone carving. Sure enough, quite a few people were holding selfie sticks and taking photos. During this time, Zhao Kaile had been thinking, how ugly could a carp statue possibly be? Now seeing it in person, he fell silent.

Xiao Li had not lied at all. Those who knew would say this was a carp statue; those who didn’t would think it was a toad with a tail.

“Are fish eyes supposed to bulge that much……” Zhao Kaile pondered for a moment, but this carp stone carving seemed to have some magical power that attracted him, making him involuntarily pull out his phone and take a photo of it.

Right at that moment, it happened to be fountain time. The fish’s mouth began opening and closing, water splashing everywhere, making it look even funnier.

Zhao Kaile laughed out loud, “Help, it looks so stupid.”

“Interesting, right? My girlfriend saw it in a video and has always wanted to come.” Xiao Li smiled and asked shyly, “Can you help me take a photo with it?”

Zhao Kaile said, “Sure.”

Zhan Hang was completely uninterested, treating it entirely as accompanying elementary school students on a field trip. With one hand in his pocket and the other holding his phone, he scrolled through Weibo on the side, just in time to see a trending search headline: “Lin Yiyi suspected of withdrawing from ‘The Green Robed Guest’ production crew.”

Zhao Kaile turned back and asked, “Brother Hang, want a photo?”

“You guys play by yourselves.” Zhan Hang was very disdainful and decisively refused.

Zhao Kaile stretched his arm out again, put his arm around Xiao Li’s shoulder, and took a group photo with the carp as the background. The two of them said “cheese” in unison toward the camera.

Zhan Hang: “…….”

What era is this??

The atmosphere was still relatively harmonious. Not far away, a little girl around three or four years old was running wildly through the crowd holding a lollipop. Her parents were anxiously chasing behind her. The little girl giggled and thought her parents were playing with her. Not paying attention for a moment, she crashed headfirst into the back of Zhan Hang’s knee.

Zhan Hang was completely unprepared, nearly knocked to his knees. He instantly exploded, turned around and glared fiercely, but did not see anyone at all.

The little girl, through the interaction of forces, sat back down on the ground with a plop. She looked up at Zhan Hang, who towered over her and was wearing sunglasses, and intuitively felt she had bumped into someone terrifying. She immediately started crying loudly in fear.

Zhan Hang finally looked down and discovered the culprit, also seeing the lollipop stuck to his pants. So his mood became even worse.

Zhao Kaile witnessed the entire scene, hurriedly went over to pick up the little girl, and Xiao Li handed him tissues. Zhao Kaile took them and dabbed the lollipop off Zhan Hang’s pants, looking down then up, not knowing who to comfort, “Don’t cry, don’t cry……. Brother Hang, are you okay???” The child’s parents ran over, took the child, and apologized repeatedly, saying they would compensate Zhan Hang for his pants.

Zhao Kaile said, “No need, no need, check if the child is okay, did she fall anywhere?”

The mother said, “No, she probably just scared herself. This child really is…….”

Zhan Hang had a face full of dark lines, but did not lash out.

After that family finished apologizing and left, Zhao Kaile sighed that the three of them were a harmonious and happy family. He turned back to see Zhan Hang’s face full of resentment, and immediately cowered, “Brother Hang…… that little kid doesn’t even look four years old, don’t hold it against her.”

“Oh, you’re quite polite, aren’t you.” Zhan Hang said sarcastically, “Guess how much these pants cost?”

Zhao Kaile shook his head guiltily and honestly.

Zhan Hang said, “Eight thousand five hundred.”

Zhao Kaile: “……..”

Why, why did I stop that family from paying just now!

Zhan Hang then said amiably, “Guess how much your monthly salary is?”

Zhao Kaile: “…………………”

At this moment, two girls who looked like university students walked over, sized Zhan Hang up for a moment, and asked timidly, “Hello……. are you Zhan Hang?”

Zhan Hang reacted, casually said, “No.” Then he gave Zhao Kaile and Xiao Li a look. The two immediately understood and followed Zhan Hang forward as if nothing had happened.

Those two girls were a bit suspicious, but did not follow them insistently. They only looked at him a while longer from behind, then left reluctantly.

The three returned to the car. Zhan Hang took off his sunglasses, checked the time, and said, “Go back and change pants, the time is about right.”

Zhao Kaile was still muttering calculations about his salary.

“……” Zhan Hang said, “I was joking! You’re actually calculating?!”

Zhao Kaile immediately clutched his heart and breathed heavily, struggling to say, “Brother Hang…… please don’t make this kind of joke again in the future.”

“So useless.” Zhan Hang lectured, “Work hard properly. You’re young, don’t always think about money money money, so vulgar.”

Zhao Kaile mumbled “mmm mmm mmm” with his mouth, but cursed in his heart, you were the one who brought up money first, okay!

After Zhan Hang freshened up again, it was already past ten o’clock when they set out. Xiao Li was very familiar with the roads in the surrounding city, so they saved a lot of time driving in circles. Before long, they arrived at their destination: a large local shopping mall.

Xiao Li had no interest and stayed in the car to wait for them.

Zhao Kaile carried both their bags and followed behind Zhan Hang, thinking to himself, how strange, this is like serving a girlfriend on a shopping trip.

Fortunately, Zhan Hang was not as fussy as a girl when browsing stores. He entered a shoe shop, casually stated Zhao Kaile’s shoe size, then pointed out the styles he liked one by one and had the shop assistant pack them up, told Zhao Kaile to hold them, swiped his card, and left. Then he led Zhao Kaile to a clothing store in the C position on the second floor of the mall, indicated for the shop assistant to bring a few suitable pieces for Zhao Kaile, and did the same thing again. When they came out, there was another pile of large and small bags.

After brutally and simply browsing several stores, Zhao Kaile already had no hands free to hold extra shopping bags. He only looked at Zhan Hang pitifully.

Zhan Hang made a phone call to Xiao Li. Xiao Li ran over according to the location, and Zhao Kaile’s hands briefly regained their freedom.

Zhan Hang nodded and said, “Continue.”

Hearing this, Zhao Kaile nearly collapsed, “Brother Hang, don’t we still have several big boxes of new clothes at home??”

Zhan Hang said, “You still want to keep wearing mine?”

……..

What does that mean?

All of these were bought for me?

Zhan Hang saw him not speaking and said irritably, “Did I ask you to pay? Really.”

He continued walking forward. Zhao Kaile reacted, hurriedly rushed forward and hugged his waist to stop him, and cried out extremely pitifully, “Then no need to buy anymore! Even if you have money, you can’t burn it like this!”

Passersby could not help but turn their heads to look. Several girls wearing hanfu passed by them, whispering and laughing.

“……” Zhan Hang’s ears turned slightly red, and he scolded in a low voice, “Let go! Zhao Kaile! If you embarrass me like this again, I’ll throw you here!”

Author’s Note:
His ears turned red because he felt embarrassed, yes yes yes.