Chapter 16 (1/2)

Xu Ran was furious.

He had spent hours climbing to

the rooftop and used a personal favor to finally locate the perfect filming

spot. Granted the building he was on was lower than the commercial building, he

felt his result was impeccable.

This was the first time Xu Ran

felt the adrenaline rush during the chase for news since he became a reporter.

Now, not only did Se Cai refuse to accept Director Bai’s kindness, he wanted

him to join his script?! No wonder he was mad.

“Xu Ran, the precious shot you

got was when the plainclothes policeman tackled the jumper right? Could you

pull it up for me?”

Se Cai walked calmly to Xu Ran’s

side and said.

“The video is short and is

blocked by the rooftop’s exhaust shaft but you could still see what’s

happening. I don’t believe you have better materials…”

Xu Ran remarked sulkily as he

pulled the video to the frame in question. Then he stopped talking, suddenly feeling

ill at ease.

“Why is that plainclothes police

so familiar…”

Hai Dong pulled himself closer

to the computer screen and asked.

Xu Ran frowned. In a cartoonish

way, he flitted between the ‘plainclothes police’ on his screen and Se Cai that

stood before him. He felt an ice shard lodged in his heart.

Both Se Cai and the ‘plainclothes

police’ were wearing the same striped T-s.h.i.+rt and faded blue jeans.

Even though the shot was taken

from a distance away and thus was heavily pixelated, Xu Ran realized with a

sinking feeling that the 2 persons were one and the same!

“He’s wearing the same clothes

as you… You’re him, isn’t it?”

Xu Ran finally spoke his mind,

it was too much of a coincidence to not be true.

“You’re right. Where do you

think I was? I schlepped through 33 floors of stair and an air duct to procure

the best angle! Also, as luck would have it…”

Se Cai briefly went through

everything that had happened in the past few hours. Zhang Xin Yu even let out a

scared cry when he got to the dangerous parts.

When Se Cai pulled out his

camera and transferred its storage into the computer, everyone, Station manager

Wei included stood up with bated breath!

From the video, everyone saw Se

Cai put the camera down before he flew out to tackle w.a.n.g Da Fa. When the video

showed Se Cai came back to retrieve the camera, a collective sigh of relief was

heard.

When the video finished playing,

the newsroom was as still as a funeral…

“Splendid! This is superb!”

Director Bai’s loud cheer broke

the silence.

“Just how did you manage to do

all these and record them…”

Xu Ran breathed incredulously.

The tables had turned. He

thought himself lucky but Se Cai had completely showed him up.

His materials were taken using a

long focus from a street away. His pictures were fuzzy and he had no sound

recording. The 2 were incomparable.

The fact that Se Cai still

offered him the chance of a joint script showed true grace on Se Cai’s part.