Chapter 16: Story 16 (1/2)
Translator: Du Yiran
Proofreader: Zhu Yuan
Ran Fei pushes the door from outside and comes in the office after he guesses that Bo Yu has already come in.
Mr. Zhang breathes a sigh of relief.
“Bo Ge, long time no see.” Ran Fei comes over and stretches out his hands to Bo Yu.
The daze flashes in Bo Yu’s eyes, but he chuckles, “Hello.”
Ran Fei’s facial expression is stiff for a moment, and then he says as if nothing has happened, “We’ve met at the audition of The Man’s Survival.”
With such clear reminder, Bo Yu remembers him soon, “Are you Ran Fei?”
Ran Fei is the trainee who provokes him again and again when he auditions for the role of the tech geek last time.
Even if Bo Yu is impressed by Ran Fei, he hesitates for a moment and speaks out the name.
Ran Fei sits next to Bo Yu, playing with small ornaments and says casually, “Congratulations on Bo Ge’s web series with the high ratings, which I watch every week.”
“Thank you.” Bo Yu says indifferently. He is disgusted with such impolite trainee.
It seems that Ran Fei doesn’t understand Bo Yu’s perfunctory words, and Ran Fei says, “By the way, Mr. Liu assigns me to Zhang Ge’s team. Bo Ge, nice to meet you.
Bo Yu feels very awkward and looks up at Mr. Zhang.
Mr. Zhang keeps avoiding his eyes. After a while, he says awkwardly, “The Man’s Survival web series will be on the air after two days. Director Wang invites you to follow the crew to publicize it, so I take a variety show and interview for you.”
People in the entertainment is so realistic. If it had been two months ago, the crew would only inform Bo Yu to forward the Weibo message, but would never invite Bo Yu to participate in the publicity.
Ran Fei says happily, “It happens that I have another fifth male role in the web series. Fortunately, I can also join the publicity with the crew because of Bo Ge.”
Bo Yu’s face cools down all of a sudden.
To be honest, Bo Yu doesn’t mind helping trainees. As long as Ran Fei doesn’t have any maliciousness, he doesn’t mean to help Ran Fei.
However, Bo Yu is reluctant to participate in the conference and variety publicity for the urban web series named The Man’s Survival.
Because the protagonist of the play is Qi Yan, his rival in love. In the process of filming at that time, he can also deceive himself, pretending that he hangs off the arms off Qi Yan as good brothers.
But now the web series are wrapped up, Bo Yu thinks that he can’t pretend that nothing has happened and plays with Qi Yan in front of the camera.
Mr. Zhang and Ran Fei doesn’t know what Bo Yu is thinking. They think that Bo Yu must be unwilling to help trainees and so refuses them with silence. Mr. Zhang and Ran Fei are immediately unhappy.
Ran Fei bites his teeth and thinks, “If Bo Yu doesn’t have lots of publicity and high popularity at present, I won’t want to be bundled with you!”
Mr. Zhang looks on coldly. Although he is unhappy that Mr. Liu forces him to help Ran Fei, Bo Yu’s silent attitude makes him even more unhappy.
Bo Yu comes to his sense and drinks all the tea in his cup. “Okay, I see.”
Mr. Zhang picks up a form from the desktop. “Here’s your schedule for this week. The company has arranged an assistant and a driver for you, and they are waiting for you in the lobby.
Bo Yu nods and accepts the company’s arrangements with pleasure.
After Mr. Zhang calmly enjoins him, he takes his timetable and leaves the office with Ran Fei.
When they walk out of the office, Ran Fei whispers, “Bo Ge, are you unwilling to take me with you?”
Bo Yu says vaguely, “Not bad.”
Ran Fei suddenly approaches Bo Yu’s ear and says, “Bo Ge, you don’t have other choice even if you don’t want to take me with you. Because it is Mr. Liu who asks Mr. Zhang. You can’t do anything about it.”
Bo Yu goes into the elevator and presses the floor button with the unchanged facial expression, “Is your donor Mr. Liu?”
Ran Fei smiles without saying a word and looks at Bo Yu complacently.
The elevator door is opened.
Bo Yu says, “Mr. Liu has oily skin and beer belly, looking slightly old. You even can kiss such a person. Is your aesthetic taste be eaten by the dog?”
Ran Fei’s facial expression suddenly changes. When he just wants to say something, he sees several employees at the ground level coming into the office from the outside and immediately keeps silent
No matter how angry Ran Fei is, he can’t argue with Bo Yu in front of so many people. He can only swallow his anger with restraint.
Bo Yu, standing aside, smiles.
*
Bo Yu’s scheduling for the next week is very full. He will audition for three big-budget historical costume TV series, attend the conference of The Man’s Survival and join two or three interviews and variety shows, so there is little rest time for him on the whole.
Ran Fei is very satisfied with that scheduling.
Because Ran Fei wants to be as popular as Bo Yu. But in addition to getting a good script, he needs someone to help him appear before the public frequently.
He thinks that Bo Yu is a good candidate for him on first sight.
The premiere of the Man’s Survival led by Director Wang officially begins at 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday.
Director Wang sits in the middle with the male and female protagonist occupying one side, while Bo Yu stands next to Qi Yan.
Ran Fei in the web series just takes the fifth male role, which is insignificant. But he brazenly stands next to Bo Yu and describes euphemistically as “Bo Ge says that he will take care of me”.
As the young general, Bo Yu has occupied the Weibo hot search list for half a month, and all flashlights and microphones in the hands of journalists intentionally or unintentionally lean towards him that night.
The smile on Qi Yan’s face becomes more and more stiff, but there are few journalists who ask him questions.
Qi Yan has really good performance opportunities, but the popularity and activeness is much less than Bo Yu at present.
The female journalist with ponytail says excitedly with the blush, “The young general, what kind of role do you play in this web series?”
Bo Yu says, smiling, “You must be in the wrong place. The premiere of the young general isn’t here. Remember to pay more attention to my new web series, thank you.