Male Sing and His Pet Owner: Chapter 45

For two consecutive months, Zhan Hang shuttled back and forth between two production crews, barely getting six or seven hours of sleep each day. If he unfortunately suffered insomnia, the next day he could only gulp down coffee to stay awake. By the end, brewed coffee no longer had any obvious energizing effect on him, so he started chewing coffee beans directly.

As filming approached its final stages, more and more fans came to watch and visit the set from beyond the safety line. No one knew where they got their information from, and they became increasingly difficult to control. Wang Hua had no choice but to move the night outdoor scenes to a different location and continue shooting with indoor sets.

Several artists on set were taken back to their cars to rest. Zhao Kaile sent Zhan Hang a message saying he was going to the bathroom, then wandered around the enormous filming base, directly wandering himself into getting lost.

He called to heaven and heaven didn’t answer, called to earth and earth didn’t respond. There was no one passing by either. Searching on his phone couldn’t precisely locate the bathroom’s position either. He could only walk forward blankly for a stretch.

Passing by a house with a quaint design, he suddenly heard a girl’s crying.

Then a familiar male voice rang out, surprised and carrying a bit of impatience, “How did you find this place? Didn’t I tell you the time for our next meeting?”

“I missed you too much.” The girl sniffled and said, “Online they say you and Zheng Keke developed real feelings from acting together. Is that true?”

Zheng Keke was the female lead of this drama, and the male voice speaking was none other than the male lead of this drama, Li Yang.

Zhao Kaile was stunned. He carefully crept over, crouched in the bushes and peeked out. He saw a girl wearing a support badge standing before Li Yang. She looked like a fan.

“Of course not.” Li Yang also seemed unable to bear watching her cry like this, and hurriedly coaxed, “You don’t understand that pre broadcast routine? It’s just pairing a CP to stir up heat, building momentum before the broadcast. Don’t believe everything.”

That girl wiped her tears on her own, looked up at him, “Then you swear. You’re not allowed to like Zheng Keke. In your heart you can only have me alone.”

Li Yang cupped her face, his eyes full of sincerity, “I swear! In my heart there is only Xiao Ran alone!”

The girl named Xiao Ran finally smiled through her tears, reached out and hugged him, “Yangyang, I know our relationship can’t be made public, but I really miss you… My best friends all say I’m so petty, not daring to bring my boyfriend out to meet people.”

“But you’re the luckiest girl in this world.” Li Yang lowered his head to hug her, comforting her, “You’re Li Yang’s girlfriend. No one can compare to you.”

Zhao Kaile crouching in the bushes, “…”

Brother, your acting skills are much better than what you just showed on set.

Xiao Ran hugged him for a while, finally relieving some of her longing, then proactively stepped back. Her eye sockets were red as she said, “Alright, I’m leaving. Film well. You got this!”

Li Yang nodded, stepped forward and lowered his head to kiss her, then let go and said in a low voice, “Go.”

Xiao Ran’s face was completely red. She nodded, her whole body radiating pink bubbles of happiness.

After she walked far away, Zhao Kaile’s legs were almost numb from crouching. Li Yang walked away slowly. Right at this moment, a phone ringtone suddenly rang out.

Zhao Kaile, “!!!”

He immediately pressed hang up.

Li Yang heard it. His mind instantly buzzed, and he hurriedly followed the sound to search.

Zhao Kaile didn’t have time to run. The moment he stood up, he collided head on with Li Yang.

The two looked at each other. Zhao Kaile said awkwardly, “Hi…”

Seeing it was him, Li Yang’s tense expression clearly relaxed a bit. He smiled politely, “Hi. You saw everything?”

“Uh.” Zhao Kaile couldn’t quite smile anymore. He only nodded timidly, thinking that this is a society ruled by law after all, you wouldn’t kill me to silence me over this kind of thing right.

Li Yang’s gaze swept toward his phone. He raised an eyebrow and asked, “There shouldn’t be any recordings or videos or anything right.”

Zhao Kaile waved his hands in shock, “No no no, how could I do that kind of thing!!”

“Sorry, you know, doing our line of work, we’re quite afraid of this kind of…” Li Yang walked over slowly, seemingly with the intention of pressuring him to proactively hand over his phone for inspection.

The phone rang again. Zhao Kaile answered in one second.

Zhan Hang’s voice came from the other end, furious, “Are you fucking constipated?! Twenty minutes and you’re still not back!”

“Right away right away!” Zhao Kaile said, “I’ll be done very soon Brother Hang!”

Hearing it was Zhan Hang, Li Yang’s brows furrowed slightly and he stopped speaking. Zhao Kaile said, “I’m looking for the bathroom right now, I’ll be back immediately!”

The call hung up. Li Yang reached out toward him.

Zhao Kaile honestly handed over his phone. Li Yang flipped through the photo album and discovered it was full of Zhan Hang’s photos and videos. He was relieved and returned the phone.

“Your photography skills aren’t very good.” He evaluated thus.

Zhao Kaile, “…”

Believe it or not, I’ll go back and embellish what I just saw, exaggerate the facts, write a ten thousand word short essay and post it on Weibo, buy promoters to push it hundreds or thousands of times!

Li Yang said, “That person just now was my non industry girlfriend. I’m keeping this relationship hidden, first because I’m in a rising period of my career, second also to protect her personally. You can understand right?”

“Understand understand.” Zhao Kaile hurriedly said, “Brother Yang rest assured, I absolutely won’t go out and talk randomly. If I go out and talk randomly, may I be struck by heavenly thunder, blasted by five thunders, and die a terrible death!”

Li Yang smiled lightly and patted his shoulder, “Having your word is enough. I’ll go first.”

Zhao Kaile watched him walk away with a head full of cold sweat, then turned around to continue looking for the bathroom.

When he returned, Zhan Hang was waiting with a face full of impatience. Seeing him come, he only snorted. The car drove out the entrance, and a group of fans holding support badges surged up like zombies besieging a city. The warning line was trampled on the ground, covered in footprints.

Security personnel kept shouting to block them, but all were drowned out by the mountain shaking and sea roaring screams.

The driver said in terror, “Damn, so many people. Where do we drive Brother Hang?”

Zhan Hang was looking at messages in the production crew group chat. He discovered that every assistant was talking about this. Messages kept scrolling. Representatives from various companies and the base were urgently mobilizing security personnel. Several familiar or unfamiliar avatars were discussing calling the police.

Zhao Kaile looked at the countless hands beating against the window, and for the first time felt fear from humanity, “We won’t be unable to get out…”

“Someone’s stirring things up.” Zhan Hang frowned and said, “It must be some family’s fans selling our schedule again.”

Zhao Kaile was shocked, “Schedules can be sold?!?!”

“Of course.” Zhan Hang looked out the window with a face full of anger, seemingly brewing something.

Zhao Kaile faintly sensed something was off, but couldn’t grasp that elusive thought. He annoyedly patted his own head.

Outside, fans from various families still held up light boards and shouted their idols’ names. Some people even directly pulled out speakers to play music. For a time, more and more onlookers who didn’t know the truth gathered, three layers inside and three layers outside, completely surrounding the entire exit. The artists’ vehicles couldn’t enter or exit, and could only awkwardly stop in place, waiting for security support teams to come save them.

The situation fermented very quickly, reaching the trending hot search on the artificial ranking within minutes.

Zhan Hang pressed his hand on the door handle, his rage about to burn to its peak.

Zhao Kaile finally knew where that bit of unease he had just felt came from. It was Zhan Hang! Zhan Hang was basically a powder keg. Encountering this kind of thing, he would explode at the slightest touch!

His eyes were quick and his hands were fast. He hugged Zhan Hang from behind, pulling back with all his might, “Brother Hang don’t do anything rash!! If you go out they’ll directly swallow you whole!!”

Zhan Hang said angrily, “I’m not going out to fight! Let go!”

“Let’s just wait for people to come save us.” Zhao Kaile whimpered, “We can’t even push the door open!”

Zhan Hang, “…”

He frowned and tried to push the car door outward. Sure enough, it was pushed back by the fans squeezing back and forth outside.

Night fell. Outside, the buzzing sound of microphone testing rang out. Then an older male voice began directing the scene evacuation, finally covering over the waves of screaming and shouting.

After a while, the road ahead was finally cleared. The driver slowly drove out of the crowd and let out a breath of relief.

Zhan Hang was about to explode with anger. He lowered his head to edit his Weibo. Zhao Kaile was communicating with Bai Li on WeChat, occasionally switching to Weibo to check the hot search situation. The next second, he refreshed and saw the post Zhan Hang had just sent out.

dearHang: Learn to be a proper person before chasing stars. Please certain brainless fans stop following the crew and following cars at will. Didn’t your parents teach you how to respect others’ privacy? Please don’t use the name of liking to excessively interfere with my life. Otherwise I really will have you escorted to the police station.

Comment 1: Well scolded!

Comment 2: Front row! Pet our wuli Hang Hang, what happened!

Reply to Comment 2: It’s about the XX filming base fan sea traffic jam thing just now, look at the hot search.

Comment 3: Oh my… Brother Hang are you okay?

In just one hour, twenty thousand reposts, ten thousand comments. The reposters included Zhang Wenqian, Li Yang, Yao Min’er, Zhao Jingran, and numerous other artists. For a time, the topic of resisting sasaeng fans was also pushed by overt and covert promoters to the cusp of Weibo’s hot search.

Of course, voices of dissent quickly appeared.

The most popular comment was: #Laughing, bro, most of them were there to see Li Yang, not you. What are you jumping around for? That’s just being self indulgent.

Fortunately, after posting that message, Zhan Hang didn’t look at his phone again. He only sat on the bed with a blank face watching the news.

Zhao Kaile clicked into that person’s homepage and looked. He discovered it was a small account specifically dedicated to hating on Zhan Hang. No matter what Zhan Hang posted, this person would screenshot it and comment on it from head to toe every single time. The account actually had nearly ten thousand followers too.

Two hours later, Bai Li called over, “Kaile, delete the post Zhan Hang just sent. It can’t stay up.”

“??” Zhao Kaile, “Why?”

“Too emotional. Bad for his image.” Bai Li said, “The last wave of hot search is enough. Delete it and repost a new one to placate the fans.”

Zhao Kaile, “Okay…”

He went to Zhan Hang’s room to ask for the phone with a guilty conscience.

Zhan Hang seemed to have long known he would come. He stubbornly shook his head.

Zhao Kaile buried his face in his mattress, whimpering and playing the victim, his mouth babbling nonstop, attempting to persuade him with reason and move him with emotion. Zhan Hang was truly annoyed listening to it and interrupted, “Alright alright, here.”

Zhao Kaile got the phone as he wished, immediately reining in his distressed expression. He deleted Zhan Hang’s post and edited new text.

dearHang: I’m doing well, no need to worry. Next I will sort out my mood and work hard to bring you all better works.

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