Chapter 30 Rules in the Circle
Chapter 30 Rules in the Circle
After the crew of "Touching the Spirit" moved from Longhushan to the film and television city, the shooting progress has accelerated a lot, and it is not uncommon to shoot until two or three o'clock at night.
Ye Tang was not good at staying up late, he dragged his tired body back home every day and fell asleep, and in the morning he was still so sleepy that he couldn't even open his eyes.
When the director delivered the completed bouquet to him, he realized in a daze that he had been filming for more than three months.
"Congratulations to Ye Tang for finalizing!"
Director Jiang took the lead in applauding, and all the cast and crew gathered around.
"Thank you everyone, thank you for your care all the time."
Ye Tang wore a Taoist robe and hugged a bouquet of flowers and bowed to thank the director and other staff members. After removing his makeup, he got in the car and continued to fall asleep.
Sitting in the passenger seat, Qin Yao said to Zhao Peng who was driving: "Slow down and let him sleep again. Don't call him in the morning if you don't work tomorrow."
"Have you not worked these days?" Zhao Peng asked.
Qin Yao smiled: "Don't accept work for now, let him rest for a while, he will be busy in the future."
Ye Tang rested at home for a few days and finally regained his energy. He tidied up a bit and went to the closing party of the crew of "Touching the Spirit".
In the evening, accompanied by Qin Yao, Ye Tang walked into the lobby of the hotel. He picked up the champagne from the passing waiter's plate and walked over to Director Jiang to say hello.
Director Jiang was sitting at the dining table chatting with a few middle-aged men who were smoking, when he saw him coming over, he smiled and waved, "Ye Tang, you're here."
Ye Tang nodded and smiled, "Sorry Director Jiang, I'm late."
"Hey, it's just a meal, there is no need to go online." Director Jiang said.
Ye Tang looked around. Liu Muqing and Shen He sat on the other side of the table and nodded politely to him.
Ye Tang asked, "Miss Song didn't come?"
"She's busy filming a new movie again, so she doesn't have time to come over." Director Jiang introduced the man beside him who was puffing and puffing: "This is Mr. Ge and Manager Fang from the film and television company, and this is Mr. Li from Lingshen Group. He is also the investor of our TV series."
Ye Tang understood that Director Jiang was trying to broaden his network for him, so he made a toast to several people knowingly.
In fact, Ye Tang is not very good at interpersonal communication. Basically, in all gatherings, he has to bite the bullet and say hello to unfamiliar people, and he has to pretend to be calm.
After finally surviving the party, Ye Tang stood up, accompanied by the middle-aged men from the producer and investor, who were dizzy from drinking.
"Director Jiang, then I'll go back."
"It's such a disappointment to go back now." Director Jiang leaned into his ear and said, "Mr. Ge and Mr. Li are going to sing, and you and Liu Muqing will accompany them."
"Is it just the two of us? Isn't Shen He going?" Ye Tang asked.
Director Jiang said: "Shen He drinks too much and doesn't want to go."
Ye Tang pouted helplessly: "Director Jiang, I also drank too much."
Qin Yao appeared behind him at some point, and lightly patted his waist with her arm to signal him to shut up.
"Fine Director Jiang, anyway, Ye Tang will be fine tomorrow." Qin Yao replied with a smile.
Ye Tang sat in the car with a sad face and let Qin Yao send him to KTV.
Qin Yao threw him a hangover medicine: "You just feel wronged and drink with the bosses of the producer and investor, it will be good for your future acting career."
"But if I drink any more, I'm going to throw up." Ye Tang took the water glass from Zhao Peng and swallowed the sober medicine.
When Ye Tang walked into the dimly lit KTV private room, several middle-aged men were already sitting on the sofa with their stomachs upright. The tea table in front of them was filled with beer bottles. odor.
Liu Muqing sat next to Mr. Ge and sang with a microphone, and glanced at him without changing her expression when she saw him come in.
Mr. Li raised his hand and ticked it off and said, "Ye Tang, sit here."
Ye Tang had no choice but to smile and walked over to sit next to him. Seeing that he was holding a beer bottle, he smiled and said, "Boss Li is really generous."
Mr. Li picked up the beer on the table and handed it to him: "The capacity for drinking is practiced, Xiaoye, you are still too young after all, come on, cheers."
Ye Tang bit the bullet and took the beer bottle, touched it and took a sip.
After Liu Muqing sang two songs, she took the initiative to drink half a bottle of beer on the table, and several middle-aged men immediately cheered and booed.
Ye Tang sighed softly, thinking that even if Liu Muqing had a fox fairy by her side, she still had to drink with these people for her own career.
Mr. Li handed the microphone to Ye Tang: "Sing a few songs too."
"I can't sing." Ye Tang shied away with a smile.
Mr. Ge poked his head out and said loudly: "I heard from Jiang Yang that you debuted as an idol. You should be good at singing and dancing, right? Let's dance one to cheer everyone up!"
"I..." Ye Tang was momentarily at a loss for words, sitting on the sofa without moving.
Mr. Li snatched the beer from his hand, forced the microphone into his hand and urged, "Don't spoil the fun, everyone is waiting."
Ye Tang bit his lip, resisting the shame, stood up, and sang and danced two songs under the wretched eyes of a group of middle-aged men.
Even Liu Muqing stared at him with pitiful eyes.
After dancing two songs, Ye Tang walked back to his original position with his head down and sat down without speaking.
Mingming was so happy singing and dancing in front of the fans during the concert, but she was disgusting to death when facing this group of fat men.
Mr. Li stretched out his hand and secretly pinched Ye Tang's back. With a face full of tobacco and alcohol, he leaned over and whispered, "Your little waist looks so good when you twist it."
Ye Tang shrank back into the sofa.
Shame, anger, disgust, unwillingness...
All kinds of complicated emotions rushed into his heart, Ye Tang trembled with anger, turned his head and glared at him with a sneer with red eyes, grabbed the wine bottle on the table and poured it into his mouth.
After downing a whole bottle of beer, Ye Tang wiped the corners of his mouth with his sleeve and gritted his teeth, saying, "I'm sorry, I'm not feeling well and I'm going back."
He pushed open the door of the KTV private room and rushed out, ran into the bathroom, vomited everything in his stomach, and then walked out swayingly with distracted eyes.
"Ye Tang?" Jiang Mingxu happened to come out of another private room, seeing him walking over in a daze, leaning on the wall.
"How do you drink like this?" Jiang Mingxu asked while supporting Ye Tang's shoulder.
Ye Tang drooped the corners of his mouth, and his tone couldn't hide the humiliation: "Xiao Ming, is it embarrassing for an idol to debut? Why do they look down on me?"
Jiang Mingxu instantly understood that he must have been bullied by those old fellows from the investors, after all, he had come here step by step.
"They won't treat you like this when you become stronger." Jiang Mingxu hugged him distressedly and said softly.
Jiang Mingxuan helped Ye Tang to lie down on the back seat of his high-end car, and the assistant turned around and asked, "Do you want to send Mr. Ye home?"
Jiang Mingxu looked at the sleeping Ye Tang and said in a deep voice, "No, go directly to my house."
Jiang Mingxuan helped Ye Tang home, put away the bath water and drove him into the bathroom.
"Hurry up and wash off the smell of tobacco and alcohol."
"Oh."
Ye Tang was slightly drunk, and he didn't realize that he was in someone else's house, so he walked obediently into the bathroom with the change of clothes that Jiang Mingxu handed over.
Ye Tangpao squinted his eyes in the bathtub and thought, the same surname is Li, and he is also in his forties, why is there such a big gap between Mr. Li and Daochang Li!
"Wretched old man!"
It wasn't until Ye Tang came out of the bathroom with a towel on his head after washing up that he regained his composure.
"Why am I at your house?" Ye Tang asked.
"You came here by yourself after drinking too much." Jiang Mingxu said without changing his face.
"Hey...that's really embarrassing, I'll be leaving right away." Ye Tang said as he hurriedly wiped off the drops of water on his hair.
"What's the hurry, I'm here, I'll stay here tonight." Jiang Mingxu pulled him into the bathroom and stood in front of the mirror with a hair dryer to help him dry his hair.
Ye Tang felt a little awkward, and reached for the hair dryer: "I'll blow it myself."
Jiang Mingxu gently patted his hand away and said, "Stand still."
He fiddled with Ye Tang's soft hair with one hand, and said, "Aren't you very busy recently, I asked you to come out to get together and you always pushed back and forth."
Ye Tang said: "I was busy filming a while ago, and I was so exhausted every day that I couldn't sleep enough."
"TV drama?"
"Well, "Touching the Spirit" directed by Jiang Yang." After Ye Tang finished speaking, he added: "Male No. [-]."
Jiang Ming continued with a smile and said, "Oh, not bad! Your new manager is more reliable than Zhao Peng."
Ye Tang smiled wryly: "Just like Sister Aida, she is strong and competitive, and never considers my thoughts when taking jobs."
Jiang Ming continued: "Zhao Peng knows how to respect you and love you, but if you look at what he brought you, it's almost worthless."
"I've said it all, not being popular is because I didn't do well enough, and it has nothing to do with Brother Peng."
After drying his hair, Jiang Mingxu put away the hair dryer, looked at the time and asked, "Are you sleepy? If you're not sleepy, talk to me."
"It's twelve o'clock at night, of course I'm sleepy." Ye Tang walked to the door of the guest room, yawned, opened the door and walked in: "Good night, Xiao Ming."
"Oh, that's right!" Jiang Mingxu knocked on the door of the guest room and said to him, "Don't forget about Lin Runzhi's wedding."
Ye Tang opened the door, with a bad expression on his face: "I'd have forgotten if you didn't tell me, he sent an invitation notice last month, I was too busy and forgot."
Jiang Mingxuan rubbed his hair and said, "Don't worry, I know you will forget, I have already booked the air ticket for you. Let's go to Bali together the day after tomorrow."
"Xiao Ming is still reliable, thank you." Ye Tang smiled and closed the door.
At this moment, Ye Tang's cell phone in the living room vibrated suddenly, and Jiang Mingxu walked over to pick it up and pressed the answer button.
"Ye Tang, are you home yet?" Zhao Peng called and asked.
Jiang Ming continued: "Ye Tang is staying at my house tonight, so don't call if you have nothing to do."
Zhao Peng could tell that it was Jiang Mingxu's voice, so he felt relieved: "Okay, I'll trouble you to take care of him if he drinks too much."
Jiang Mingxu hung up the phone, the photo on the phone wallpaper made his heart tighten.
He clearly remembered that Ye Tang's phone wallpaper used to be a group photo of the three of Phantom.
Now it has become a photo of that annoying magic stick.
Jiang Mingxu even wanted to delete Li Xuan's photo on his own for a moment, but he didn't do it after all with a gloomy face.
Jiang Mingxu smiled wryly and thought, it's time to recognize the reality. In Ye Tang's heart, he and Lin Runzhi are no longer the most important people, but the magic stick is.
The next morning, after Ye Tang got up early and washed up, he was busy making breakfast in the kitchen.
He put fried eggs and bread slices on the dinner plate, poured two glasses of milk, and opened the door to Jiang Mingxu's bedroom to wake him up when everything was ready.
Jiang Mingxu seemed to go to bed very late last night, and no matter what Ye Tang called him, he would lie on the bed and refused to get up.
"If you don't get up again, I will lift your quilt." Ye Tang urged, grabbing a corner of the quilt.
Jiang Mingxu covered the quilt tightly with his upper body naked, frowned and couldn't open his eyes and complained: "Why are you more annoying than my mother!"
"If you don't get up, I'll have breakfast by myself." Ye Tang turned to leave, but was pulled by Jiang Mingxu and fell onto the bed.
"Xiao Ming, you..."
"Sleep with me for a while." Jiang Mingxu opened his eyes slightly, raised an arm, lifted the quilt and hugged Ye Tang in.
Ye Tang struggled in his arms for a moment and said, "I still wear slippers on my feet, they will stain your sheets."
"Then take off your shoes." Jiang Mingxu continued to sleep with his eyes closed, but he didn't intend to let him go.
"Stop making trouble, I'll get angry if you do this again." Ye Tang frowned slightly and tried to push away his restraint.
Jiang Mingxu suddenly opened his eyes and stared at him, and said in a sad tone, "No matter how much I teased you before, you wouldn't resist, Ye Tang, you're almost becoming unknown to me."
Ye Tang buried half of his head in the quilt and chuckled: "I used to be most afraid of you, you would bully others. But now that we don't work together, I won't give in."
Jiang Mingxu unknowingly increased the strength of his arms and pressed him firmly in his arms.
"Put me up." Ye Tang continued to struggle with a displeased face.
"Where is that magic stick?" Jiang Mingxu asked in a cold voice with a sullen face.
Ye Tang froze suddenly, resting his head on the pillow and staring at him blankly.
Ye Tang didn't want to hide his feelings for Li Xuan, he thought for a while and said softly, "Daozhang Li is the only clean place in my heart."
As soon as Li Xuan was mentioned, Ye Tang's eyes softened. He thought for a while and continued: "I remember it was written in the book that Zhang Ailing used white moonlight and cinnabar mole to describe the person she loves. Li Daochang is my white moonlight."
"Then what about me, am I your cinnabar mole?"
Jiang Ming continued to sniff the sore nose and his tone was full of unwillingness.
Ye Tang smiled and said, "You and Xiao Run are my brothers who have worked hard together, they are my youth."
"So you can let me go now." Ye Tang pushed him away and sat up on the bed.
Jiang Mingxu also sat up from the bed and stretched out his arms to wrap around his waist, gritted his teeth and said, "But I just can't be reconciled, can't you see what I have done for you!"
Ye Tang turned around and stared at him: "Xiao Ming, I didn't know you had such feelings for me. I really just treat you as a friend, but I will pay back what I owe you."
"What do you pay for it?" Jiang Mingxu turned over and pressed him on the bed and asked in a deep voice: "Then I want you to use your body to pay it back or not."
Ye Tang was startled at first, turned his head away from him with a sneer and said, "Take it if you want it."
Jiang Mingxuan turned his face to force him to look directly at him, lowered his head and pressed his lips firmly.
After a while, Jiang Mingxu let go of his hands and sat up on the bed, scratching the hair on his forehead a little manically.
"You don't owe me anything, you go."
Ye Tang got up silently, and fled out of Jiang Mingxu's house in a panic without looking back.
Since Wang Tianshi was furious last time, Li Xuan never mentioned Ye Tang's matter again, and the next day he went to the temple, meditated, and read scriptures as usual, with no surprise in his eyes.
Wang Tianshi felt relieved when he saw that he had changed back to the original Taoist who only wanted to ascend.
Xuan Jian is the most proud student he has brought out by himself. If he really violated his master's sect for that man, nothing will be more painful than Wang Tianshi.
Outsiders naturally couldn't see the difference in Li Xuan, only he knew how difficult it was to get rid of someone once he got into his heart.
Every night when he was meditating in the house, Ye Tang's voice and smile would appear in Li Xuan's mind, and uncontrollable thoughts flooded up again and again.
He sat cross-legged in the center of the magic circle and opened his eyes again, just to secretly see how he was doing now.
The eyes of the sky opened slowly in the chaos, but what they saw was a strange room, and the picture of Ye Tang being pressed and kissed by Jiang Mingxu.
Li Xuan's blood surged up all of a sudden, and a wave of true energy was stagnant in his chest, which was hard to calm down. He almost wanted to suppress that maddening power, but finally spit out a mouthful of blood and fell to the ground with black eyes.
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