Chapter 136: Tongue Kiss Punishment
A restaurant near Hengdian World Studios.
He said he would not go home until he was drunk, but in order not to affect the filming the next day, Xu Kun finally only had a few bottles of beer.
Chatting about the past and eating the food, more than a dozen bottles of beer were quickly finished.
Xu Kun and Li Yixiang were fine, but Baoqiang couldn't take it anymore. He ran to the bathroom and urinated and vomited, but came back happy again.
He said that he met a fan who knew the "Golden Horse Best Newcomer" in the corridor and asked him for an autograph.
After he won the Golden Horse Best Newcomer award at the end of last year, he was extremely excited and felt that he had made it. However, reality gave him a heavy blow.
Apart from a few acquaintances around me, almost no one in the circle pays attention to this matter - not everyone knows who the Golden Horse Award for Best Actor and Best Actress are, let alone the Best Newcomer.
This made Baoqiang very depressed for a while.
So when he suddenly met a fan today who recognized him as the "Golden Horse Best Newcomer", Baoqiang was so happy.
He danced with joy and said, "Brother Kun, that handsome guy said he admired my acceptance speech at the Golden Horse Awards and even said he watched the live broadcast with you!"
"The live broadcast you watched with me?"
Xu Kun was stunned for a moment before he realized that he was talking about Hu Ge, who played Li Xiaoyao. He didn't meet him when he went to the cliff to scout the location last time, but he didn't expect to run into him in the restaurant.
But it's not surprising if you think about it carefully. Although there are many restaurants in Hengdian, there are only four or five high-end and famous ones.
Since Hu Ge only asked Baoqiang for an autograph and had no intention of establishing a relationship with him, Xu Kun did not go out of his way to look for him.
Instead, it was because of Hu Ge that I thought of Cai Yinong.
So he handed Li Yixiang a wet towel to sober him up a little, and said seriously: "Brother Li, there is something I have to warn you about. Cai Yinong from Tangren has planted a spy in our crew. I'm afraid he has seen your performance in the past few days."
Xu Kun once suspected that Zhu Yawen was a spy, but after investigation, it should not be this guy who did it - although he was Liu Yifei's bootlicker, Liu Yifei was not an artist of Tangren.
Moreover, there are many people in the crew who have worked hard to develop in Shanghai. It is normal for these people to be bribed by the Tang people.
"You mean?"
Li Yixiang frowned slightly.
"This Cai Yinong is a habitual offender of inciting public opinion. Now is not the critical moment yet. When the competition for ratings comes, she might make a fuss about this matter."
At this point, Xu Kun raised his hand and placed it on Li Yixiang's shoulder, apologetically saying, "Brother Li, you may need to come forward to clarify things when the time comes."
A trace of pain flashed across Li Yixiang's face, but he still said firmly: "It should be, this matter was originally my problem."
"Don't worry, we will work together to come up with a foolproof solution. It would be best if we can explain the matter in a decent way."
What Xu Kun meant was that clarification was one thing, but one couldn’t tell the whole truth. It would be best if the truth was 70% true and 30% false, so as to save face for Li Yixiang.
Li Yixiang nodded silently, and suddenly asked: "Should we tell Zeng Lai about this?"
"This one……"
Xu Kun hesitated for a moment, then said sincerely, "If she is still your girlfriend, I would definitely tell her in advance, but now... I think it's better not to affect her filming."
In fact, even if there was no news, Zeng Lai would still be affected.
When filming later, she was obviously emotional. Others might not feel it as deeply, but Xu Kun felt it clearly and truly.
When filming the kissing scene, she actually stuck out her tongue!
At that time, Xu Kun didn't know what to do. Although she has broken up with Li Yixiang now, she is still the former sister-in-law...well, at least the quasi-ex-sister-in-law!
He did not dare to make it public afterwards, for fear of irritating Li Yixiang again.
According to Xu Kun's own secret analysis, Zeng Lai must have come to take revenge on Li Yixiang, so he decided to just go for broke.
From Li Yixiang's perspective, it is normal that he would not be able to bear watching his girlfriend being intimate with her little brother.
But if we turn to Zeng Lai's perspective.
I had some concerns at first. It was you, Li Yixiang, who encouraged me to take on this role. But now you say you cannot accept it and unilaterally announce the breakup.
This is such a double standard. What on earth do they regard me and the relationship between two people as?!
It is normal for Zeng Lai to feel dissatisfied, resentful, and unwilling and want to take revenge.
But no matter how normal it is, you can't do it again and again, right?
How could Mr. Xu withstand such provocation?
However, due to the presence of Li Yixiang, he dared not to have any extra reaction. This was simply a torture, and it was not an exaggeration to call it "tongue punishment"!
By the third time, Xu Kun could no longer tolerate it and pretended to clench his teeth, hoping that Zeng Lai would give up.
Instead of backing down, Zeng Lai became even crazier. In the end, Xu Kun didn't know whether he bit Zeng Lai or Zeng Lai just scratched himself.
I just remember the slightly sweet smell of blood lingering in my mouth...
Afterwards, Xu Kun felt that he had to have a frank talk, so he quietly found Zeng Lai and prepared to persuade her to change her mind and stop.
Zeng Lai's face still had a somewhat sickly flush, but he challenged fiercely: "Why, are you scared?!"
"What have I to be afraid of? I'm a decent person - at least in this matter!"
The final "conditional limitation" made Xu Kun's words a little unconvincing, but if he didn't add this limitation, he would feel guilty.
"Then there's nothing more to say."
Zeng Lai said this and left without saying anything else.
Damn~
What if I owe you something?
You are not my sister-in-law now!
Xu Kun was just feeling unhappy when he suddenly received a call from a number that he had never contacted since it was saved in his phone.
…………
Ever since the breakdown of the "negotiations" with Zeng Lai, Xu Kun has moved up all of Baoqiang's scenes.
In the following half month, Baoqiang was treated completely like the leading actor, even more than the real protagonist Xu Kun.
Everyone thought that Xu Kun had come up with this delaying tactic out of desperation in order to avoid escalation of conflicts and embarrassment. The breakup of Li Yixiang and Zeng Lai was only known to a few acquaintances, and others thought that the three were still in a cold war.
Even those who knew about it felt that he wanted to take it easy.
Zeng Lai, who was stuck in a dilemma, admired Xu Kun's loyalty when he saw this scene, but he was also angry and unwilling to admit defeat. He thought to himself, "Let's wait until this scene is finished, and see what tricks you have up your sleeve."
March 7th.
That afternoon, all of Wang Baoqiang's scenes were finished, and he died without a doubt at the hands of Master Pingjing.
Xu Kun stuffed a red envelope into his hand, and Baoqiang said with a smile that he would go out and buy some fruit to reward himself - according to the rules, the red envelope for playing the corpse must be spent on the same day.
"Don't be in a hurry, open the red envelope and take a look."
Baoqiang followed Xu Kun's instructions and opened the red envelope. He found that in addition to ten yuan, there was also a plane ticket to Beijing tonight and an unfamiliar mobile phone number.
"Brother Kun, what does this mean?"
He looked up, his face full of confusion.
Xu Kun smiled and said, "Director Feng Xiaogang called me half a month ago and said that in his new movie A World Without Thieves, there is an important role that is very suitable for you - the protagonist is Liu Dehua, and Uncle Ge plays the villain. You should perform well when you go there, but don't ruin the reputation of 'Best Newcomer at the Golden Horse Awards'."
"real?!"
Bao Qiang widened his eyes in disbelief. Feng Xiaogang is the most popular director at the box office in recent years. Only Zhang Yimou's "Hero" can surpass him.
Now he is told that there is an important role for him, and he will be acting with Andy Lau and Ge You.
If it wasn’t Brother Kun who said this, he wouldn’t have believed it!
"Can I still lie to you?"
Xu Kun smiled and said, "We agreed to let you go there in mid-March. There are still three days left. When you arrive in Beijing, take a good rest and then call this number to contact Director Feng."
"Brother Kun, I, I..."
Baoqiang was so excited that he was incoherent and wanted to go up and give Xu Kun a big hug.
"Stop it."
Xu Kun pushed him away with disdain, hesitated for a moment, and handed over a plane ticket: "Ask Brother Li if he is willing to fight for a role in Director Feng's new film."
(End of this chapter)
