Chapter 188 Condoms and Xin Zixing
Lu Yanhe is thin-skinned and he didn't dare to hide this matter from the beginning because he couldn't hide it.
Shame is something that you either have or don't have. It's innate, and to cultivate it, you have to go through mountains of swords and seas of fire.
Lu Yanhe didn't know what would happen to him in the future. Anyway, he didn't have the nerve to build a wall now, so he pretended that he knew nothing and hadn't heard anything.
After Jiang Yuqian finished filming her last scene, Lu Yanhe stood by and waited for her.
Luo Xiaoyu stepped forward and handed Jiang Yuqian a tissue.
After one scene, Jiang Yuqian's face and neck were covered in sweat.
"Sister Yuqian." Lu Yanhe called her.
Jiang Yuqian looked at Lu Yanhe in surprise, and asked, "Is there something you want to talk to me about?"
Lu Yanhe glanced around, a little hesitant, but still said, "Recently, there have been some discussions about you and me on the set. Did you know that?"
Jiang Yuqian was stunned at first, then she smiled and nodded, "Is this happening? I know about it. I heard about it a couple of days ago. Did you just find out?"
"Yeah." Lu Yanhe nodded, looking a little uneasy. He said, "I'm sorry, Sister Yuqian, I'm sorry that you've been misunderstood."
"Misunderstandings are all too common. Don't take it to heart." Jiang Yuqian gave him a soothing look. "Don't think too much. We finally finished work. Go back and rest early."
Jiang Yuqian didn't intend to talk to him about this matter any further. After she finished speaking, she took Luo Xiaoyu and prepared to leave.
The crew provided her with a car, so she didn't have to wait for the shuttle bus and could just get in the car and go back to the hotel.
Lu Yanhe breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that Jiang Yuqian really didn't seem to take this matter to heart.
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"Hey, did you see that?"
On a bus parked nearby, Cao Yong sat in the driver's seat and raised his chin to the person next to him.
Following his gaze, I could just see Lu Yanhe.
"Look at the look in his eyes. Who would believe him if he said he didn't like Jiang Yuqian?" Cao Yong said calmly, with the air of a seasoned veteran. "Even actors who have been acting for a long time can't avoid falling in love with a role, let alone a young man like Lu Yanhe who's acting for the first time. He plays a couple with Jiang Yuqian in the play, so how could he not be moved? I don't believe it."
The people around him thought what Cao Yong said made sense.
"Apart from the big age gap, they're actually quite compatible in other aspects and look alike."
"You are just being womanly. What level of star are Jiang Yuqian and Lu Yanhe? How many pairs of a weak man and a strong woman can make it to the end?" Cao Yong retorted immediately.
"That's true."
Cao Yong looked at Lu Yanhe who was still standing stupidly in front of him and clicked his tongue twice.
This young man is just beginning to fall in love.
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Lu Yanhe took the shuttle bus to the hotel, but instead of going in directly, he went to a nearby convenience store to buy some food.
He had to shoot a scene in the evening and missed dinner time. When he could eat, there were no more dishes in the cafeteria, only a few packed lunch boxes left for them.
Lu Yanhe ate a box, but he still wasn't full. He had been filming until after eleven o'clock in the evening, so he was already hungry.
As soon as he entered the convenience store, Lu Yanhe bumped into Huang Kairen.
He was wearing a hood and a mask, making him almost unrecognizable.
But because Lu Yanhe bumped into him at the door, he happened to see his eyes and recognized him.
"Brother Ren!" Lu Yanhe greeted him with surprise.
Huang Kairen quickly put the things he bought into his pocket.
Lu Yanhe could only vaguely see that it was a dark blue object and couldn't tell what he bought.
Huang Kairen looked at him, smiled, and asked, "Are you done with work?"
"Yeah." Lu Yanhe nodded.
"Go to bed early." Huang Kairen nodded to him, "I'll go upstairs first."
"Oh, okay." Lu Yanhe nodded, stepped aside, and Huang Kairen hurried away.
Lu Yanhe felt a little strange.
He seemed to be in a hurry, as if he was in a hurry about something.
But it's late at night, what else could be more urgent?
Lu Yanhe went to get a sandwich and went to the counter to pay. He caught a glimpse of it out of the corner of his eye and was stunned.
There was a small shelf next to the counter, on which was placed a row of small boxes in dark blue packaging. The words "double lubrication" were clearly written on the top, and the brand name was written below. Below that was a line of small white words, including the word "condom".
"..." Lu Yanhe looked down and was stunned for a while.
Did he see it wrong?
Did he see it wrong?
Lu Yanhe recalled the moment when he bumped into Huang Kairen just now, and the blurry shadow that flashed past his eyes.
Not sure.
Isn’t Brother Ren... single?
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After dropping everyone off, Cao Yong drove back with several other drivers, and then found a small roadside restaurant. They sat together, ordered a plate of edamame, a dish of peanuts, and each opened a can of beer. They drank and chatted, and ended up talking about the rumors on the Internet again.
"You haven't seen the innocent look on Lu Yanhe's face." Cao Yong said firmly, "Don't make blind guesses. He is definitely in love with Jiang Yuqian."
"So, according to what you said, he and Jiang Yuqian are really in love?"
"That's nonsense!" Cao Yong nodded immediately. "Look at Jiang Yuqian's reaction. The news has been circulating online for a few days. If there was no such thing between them, would Jiang Yuqian not stay away from Lu Yanhe? Lu Yanhe is a young boy who knows nothing. Doesn't she understand anything more?"
"The main thing is that they don't look alike at all." A burly guy nearby said in disbelief, "Jiang Yuqian is such a noble woman, how could she like a young boy like Lu Yanhe?"
"Who told you that they won't like young boys? Nowadays, rich and powerful women also like young and handsome men." Someone said immediately.
Cao Yong: "Exactly. These people in the entertainment industry all look glamorous, the men are handsome, the women are beautiful, and they're all clean and innocent. But how many of them are truly clean and innocent? Aren't they said that those queens often date male models? It's just like the emperor choosing his concubines. When you have money, regardless of gender, you'll be tempted by beauty. Who knows, there might be someone lying in someone's room in that hotel right now."
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Huang Kairen looked at the woman in front of him.
The woman in front of him was also looking at him.
In the room, the curtains were closed and they were lying on the bed, their skin touching.
After they were done, their bodies were covered in sweat, but no one was willing to separate. They still hugged each other, their breaths disturbing each other's atmosphere.
"What if the news on the Internet is really about us?" Xin Zixing asked with her wet eyes looking at the man in front of her.
Huang Kairen didn't say anything. He was silent for a long time before he said, "Then admit it."
When Xin Zixing heard Huang Kairen say this, tears seemed to flow in her eyes.
She hugged Huang Kairen and whispered, "It doesn't matter even if you deny our relationship to others. Kairen, I just hope everything is going well for you."
Huang Kairen sighed lightly.
"I'm sorry for wronging you all these years."
"As long as you love me, I won't feel wronged." Xin Zixing smiled, her eyes full of Huang Kairen.
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Early morning.
Huang Kairen has fallen asleep.
Xin Zixiong suddenly opened her eyes and, with the little light coming in from the window, silently stared at the man in front of her.
They have been in love for four years, which can be considered a long-distance relationship.
She's not an entertainer, she doesn't work in front of the camera. When they first met, Huang Kairen wasn't as famous as he is now. He was just a small-time actor, mostly unemployed, so he stayed indoors. Back then, they spent a lot of time together and were deeply in love.
Later, Huang Kairen became famous.
After becoming famous, Huang Kairen's agent asked them not to make their relationship public, as it would affect Huang Kairen's career development. After that, they kept it a secret from everyone, and Xin Zixing didn't even tell her family that she had a boyfriend.
Xin Zixiong has experienced all the ups and downs of dating a celebrity.
She also changed from a confident girl to a worried and anxious girl.
Huang Kairen has become the perfect male god in the hearts of countless girls. In comparison, Xin Zixing, who is also a standard beauty in reality, has become much dimmer.
Xin Zixing glanced at Huang Kairen who was sleeping, got out of bed, picked up the phone that was charging on the bedside table, and walked towards the bathroom.
She logged into Weibo and switched accounts.
Soon it will show that the login is successful.
There are still a lot of new comments today, and the private messages are about to explode.
Every day, countless people ask her who the person she is going to expose is and who is pretending to be single.
Xin Zixiong glanced at the private messages, then looked at the newly added comments, and then she looked up to the right.
There was a frosted glass on the right, blocking her view of the bedroom, but her eyes seemed to be able to penetrate the glass wall and see the person on the other side.
--It doesn't matter.
——It doesn’t matter even if you deny our relationship to others.
——Kai Ren, I just hope everything is going well for you.
——As long as you love me, I won’t feel wronged.
She meant what she said, but years of anxiety, worry, and panic made it impossible for her to remain rational at all times.
She sat in the bathroom for ten minutes, and finally made up her mind to log out of her account.
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The day after returning from Nanhe University, Lu Yanhe slept in for a rare time.
However, what he called sleeping in actually meant waking up at 8:30 in the morning.
In the past few days, I had to get up early almost every day to film and come back late at night, so I was already tired.
There is no scene with Lu Yanhe today, not only today, but also tomorrow and the day after tomorrow.
Lu Yanhe's main roles are the school scenes, and then he will shoot a conflict scene in the classroom, as well as the most important scene of protecting Guan Zhu. His filming in this drama is over.
Simply put, it is a role with very few scenes.
But the character's personality is so good and he is so important to the heroine Guan Zhu of this drama, so he is given so much attention.
Since there was no filming to do these two days, Lu Yanhe decided to take a walk around the city of Langhua.
I have always had a dream of traveling around the world, but before I could realize it, I traveled through time.
I don’t know if it will be possible in the future.
Lu Yanhe went to the hotel restaurant to have breakfast first.
It feels so good to not have to rush and be able to have breakfast leisurely.
There were a lot of people in the hotel restaurant, coming and going.
Many people also recognized Lu Yanhe.
The drama "The Golden Age" booked three floors of rooms in this hotel, and the guests staying in this hotel all knew that there were stars.
Different from the scenes in many movies and TV dramas where "wherever the stars go, there are crowds of fans", in most cases, unless you are extremely famous, when you go out on a daily basis, the most you will do is be recognized, and people will ask you to take a photo with them or ask you to sign an autograph.
Lu Yanhe was also recognized. Halfway through breakfast, he was asked to take a photo. Lu Yanhe was in a good mood, so he happily agreed. However, what was more embarrassing was that a mother with a junior high school student suddenly came over, pointed at Lu Yanhe and said to her son, "This brother has great grades. He scored 657 on the college entrance examination, which is enough to get into Zhenhua or Yuming. You should learn from this brother and stop playing games all day long."
It was not strange to be said such words to one's face, but what embarrassed Lu Yanhe was that the mother did not even say hello to him in advance. She treated him as a decoration and pointed at him to educate her own child. He did not know whether to respond or not.
There are many things like this, and Lu Yanhe is getting more and more used to it.
But at this moment, a bright and beautiful woman with long black hair suddenly sat down opposite Lu Yanhe, holding a plate with toast, jam and a fried egg on it.
She smiled at Lu Yanhe and asked, "Is there no one else sitting here?"
Lu Yanhe looked at her. Her smile made him lose his mind for a moment. He came back to his senses when he heard someone's voice. He nodded and said, "No."
"Don't be nervous. I'm not a reporter, and I'm not here to ask for your autograph. Of course, I know you. You're Lu Yanhe, a celebrity. I know."
Xin Zixing said this generously, with a calm and frank attitude, which made Lu Yanhe feel a little pressured for some reason.
Lu Yanhe nodded, smiled, and continued eating his noodles.
Xin Zixing was curious and pointed at the noodles in front of Lu Yanhe. She said, "I saw online that celebrities rarely eat staple foods and only focus on carbohydrates to maintain their figure. You actually still eat noodles?"
Lu Yanhe groaned and shook his head, "I'm not like that."
"It seems the online rumors aren't true." Xin Zixing laughed. "I heard you're filming right now. Don't you have to shoot today?"
Lu Yanhe: "I don't have any filming assignments today."
"So that's how it is." Xin Zixing finished the toast and fried eggs in front of her while chatting with Lu Yanhe, wiped her hands, and said, "Then you take your time eating, I'm done, bye."
Xin Zixing stood up, smiled at Lu Yanhe, turned and left.
Five minutes after everyone left, Lu Yanhe was still in a state of inexplicable confusion.
What puzzled him was why a stranger would chat with him for ten minutes in a very confident and relaxed manner from the very beginning, as if they were very familiar with him.
Moreover, he actually continued chatting with her by asking and answering questions.
Lu Yanhe was not an outgoing person, nor did he have the ability to chat and laugh with strangers. He was puzzled by this beautiful woman and also puzzled by his own behavior just now.
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After breakfast, Lu Yanhe put on his schoolbag, put on his fisherman's hat, and left the hotel.
He didn't notice that there was a tail following him.
It was completely accidental that Xin Zixing noticed Lu Yanhe.
Huang Kairen went to film and was not in the hotel, so she was alone.
Xin Zixing had originally planned to leave today. She couldn't stay overnight at Huang Kairen's place any longer. This morning, when she came out of Huang Kairen's room, she was very cautious, as if she was guilty, for fear that the people next door would see her coming out of Huang Kairen's room.
But the moment she saw Lu Yanhe in the restaurant, Xin Zixing had another idea. She had always been hiding by Huang Kairen's side with a transparent identity, and she didn't even dare to appear next to him when there were other people around. Why not give herself a legitimate reason?
Xin Zixing knew Lu Yanhe because Lu Yanhe has been really popular recently.
She followed Lu Yanhe in order to create an encounter with him.
Too much is as bad as too little. After a few chance encounters and becoming familiar with each other, she can naturally get to know Lu Yanhe better.
Xin Zixing is a website editor. She used to work for a fashion magazine. Later, the fashion magazine didn't sell well and was discontinued. So she changed her job and became an editor for a website, responsible for the clothing and fashion section.
Because of her work and her relationship with Huang Kairen, Xin Zixing knows much more about the entertainment industry than ordinary people.
Even without Huang Kairen, Xin Zixing would still want to get to know Lu Yanhe, a top academic idol who suddenly became popular this summer.
Because he has a story.
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Lu Yanhe had his first chance encounter with Xin Zixing in a second-hand bookstore.
He was surprised, and Xin Zixing's expression was even more surprised.
"What a coincidence! Did you come to this bookstore specifically for this purpose?" Xin Zixing asked Lu Yanhe.
In her hand she held an old fashion magazine.
Lu Yanhe shook his head and said, "I just walked here, what a coincidence."
He felt an indescribable confusion.
Xin Zixing nodded. "I thought you were here just like me, looking for used books. I've watched your livestreams and heard you really like reading novels."
"I... usually read novels when I have nothing to do." Lu Yanhe's eyes fell on the fashion magazine in Xin Zixing's hand. It was a magazine from more than ten years ago. He was a little surprised and said, "You still want to read a fashion magazine from more than ten years ago?"
Xin Zixing said, "Oh, it's for my job. I used to work for a fashion magazine, but now I've switched to being a website editor. I'm still responsible for fashion, and I'm currently working on a topic that wants to dig out some classic fashion elements from old magazines."
Lu Yanhe's face showed a look of realization.
"So that's how it is."
Xin Zixiong took the magazine and went to the boss to pay the bill.
"I'm leaving. Bye." Xin Zixing nodded to Lu Yanhe and left.
Lu Yanhe looked at her leaving figure thoughtfully. She was very thin, wearing a white slim vest. As she walked into the sunlight, she seemed to blend into it.
At this moment, the phone rang at an inopportune time, interrupting his thoughts.
"Old Lu, are you filming on the set now?" It was Li Zhibai.
Lu Yanhe: "I don't have any scenes today, I'm just going to take a walk outside."
"What a coincidence! Yan Liang and I are in Langhua, ready to visit you on set." Li Zhibai said, "Where are you now? Send me your location and we'll come find you."
Lu Yanhe was pleasantly surprised.
Half an hour later, Li Zhibai's car appeared on the side of the road.
Lu Yanhe got into the car, feeling quite excited.
"You two are very thoughtful. You chose the right time to come visit the set." Lu Yanhe chuckled.
Yan Liang was sitting in the passenger seat. He said, "We were originally planning to go to the set to find you and bring you a cart of milk tea and snacks to give to the crew to eat and drink, just to give you some face. I didn't expect you to not be filming today."
On the set, friends of the actors often come to visit and bring everyone snacks and drinks.
At this time, there will also be banners that say "XXXX invites everyone to eat XX/drink XX".
I met Lu Yanhe once on the set of "The Golden Era". That was when Huang Kairen's friend came to visit the set and gave everyone iced sour plum soup and fried chicken.
But more often than not, the leading actors pay out of their own pockets to give benefits to everyone.
Lu Yanhe listened to them, smiled and said a few thank yous, then said, "It's better not to spend money. It's just to make a splash, it's too much of a loss."
He is not the leading actor in "The Golden Age", so there is no need for him to steal the limelight from the leading actors.
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Because Li Zhibai drove the car, Lu Yanhe's range of activities expanded.
He searched online for places worth visiting in Langhua, but all he found were tourist attractions or landmark buildings.
These are not places Lu Yanhe wants to go.
He would rather go to a place like the second-hand bookstore he had stumbled upon that morning.
"Don't you have work these two days? How come you have time to come to me?" Lu Yanhe asked.
Yan Liang said, "It just so happens that both of us don't have work today or tomorrow, so we have nothing to do, so we came here. However, we have to go back tomorrow afternoon, as Li Zhibai has a photoshoot the day after tomorrow."
"The timing is really fortuitous. I haven't been filming these past two days." Lu Yanhe said, "Have you been to Langhua before?"
"without."
"Then we can go shopping together."
"By the way, wasn't there someone named Victor online saying that the lead actor in your production of 'The Golden Age' wasn't single? That person deleted his account late last night," Li Zhibai said. "They say it was a successful PR move. You're on set, have you heard anything?"
Lu Yanhe shook his head and said, "Stop talking about it. Many people on the crew actually think this news is about Sister Yuqian and me. Just because Sister Yuqian usually takes care of me, it ended up being called an ambiguous relationship."
"You and Jiang Yuqian? Huh? Who said that?" Li Zhibai asked in disbelief. "I've seen similar claims online before, but isn't that just nonsense?"
"No one in the crew thinks so." Lu Yanhe sighed helplessly.
Li Zhibai's face became even more confused.
"I thought you were on the crew and knew more about this matter," he said.
Lu Yanhe also felt strange: "Why are you so curious about this?"
Li Zhibai is actually not that gossipy about people and things that have nothing to do with him, and most of the time he is too lazy to listen.
This time he was so proactive in wanting to know the details.
Li Zhibai: "Just ask."
As soon as he finished speaking, Yan Liang came to interrupt him.
"He's so curious about this because Sister Qiu Ling asked him." Yan Liang said immediately, "Officer Qiu is a fan of Huang Kairen, and she really wants to know if this person who is no longer single is Huang Kairen."
Lu Yanhe originally wanted to say it was impossible, but the dark blue thing from yesterday suddenly flashed through his mind, and the words were on the tip of his tongue, but he couldn't say them.
Huang Kairen may not be impossible.
Lu Yanhe clicked his tongue and immediately looked at Li Zhibai with disdain.
"Sister Qiu Ling, why didn't she ask me, someone who works on the Golden Age crew, but asked you instead?"
Li Zhibai sighed impatiently and said, "It's just a casual question, why bother asking so many questions?"
Yan Liang is here to sabotage again.
"That's because he chats with Officer Qiu every day."
Lu Yanhe looked at Li Zhibai in disbelief, "Do you have to be so exaggerated?"
The age gap between Li Zhibai and Qiu Ling is not that big, but... they really don't seem to be a good match.
Li Zhibai is just a standing-up lion dog, and it is totally inappropriate for him to appear in the same screen with Officer Qiu Ling, who sometimes looks like a queen.
Lu Yanhe knew before that Li Zhibai was attracted to Qiu Ling, but he didn't expect him to be so attracted to her?
Do you send messages to people every day?
Li Zhibai glared at Yan Liang in anger and shame.
"If you don't speak, no one will think you are dumb!"
Yan Liang laughed and made a gesture as if he was zipping up his mouth.
At this time, Lu Yanhe finally found a place on the Internet that he was quite interested in.
"There's a place called Qingshi Bridge here. It's a stone arch bridge that's over 200 years old. Why don't we go take a look?"
There is nothing wrong with Li Zhibai and Yan Liang.
The bluestone bridge is just a twenty-minute drive away.
The corridor area is not very developed to begin with, and it looks even less developed around here.
Even a little desolate.
There are low-rise houses on both sides of the road.
When they arrived at the bluestone bridge, they saw that it was actually just a small stone bridge about five meters long. It didn't feel like there was a river under the bridge, just a wider stream. The water level was probably no more than half a meter, and the stones and water plants at the bottom of the river were clearly visible.
A bit disappointed.
But at least I've been here.
The three of them still took a selfie together, smiling brightly in front of this bluestone bridge with a history of more than 200 years.
When they are together, there are actually many surprising places that they don’t need to go.
As long as they are together, they will be happy wherever they go.
For lunch, they returned to a more prosperous area in the city.
The restaurant was chosen by Yan Liang.
There is an antique building by the river. As I climbed the steps, I saw a figure in the outdoor atrium that looked particularly familiar.
Lu Yanhe looked at her in surprise, and his expression was so surprised that Li Zhibai and Yan Liang were confused.
Although that woman was beautiful, Lu Yanhe didn't know her. Why was he so surprised?
At this moment, the woman seemed to notice the gaze. She raised her head from her mobile phone and looked at him with some confusion.
She and Lu Yanhe's eyes met.
This time, even she herself was a little surprised.
After watching Lu Yanhe get on the car, Xin Zixing originally wanted to take a taxi to follow him, but after failing to get one for a long time, she gave up and came here alone to have lunch and read for a while, planning to go back in the afternoon. Unexpectedly, Lu Yanhe appeared here.
This fate was so coincidental that she wondered for a moment if he was following her while she was following him?
He wouldn't fall in love with her, would he?