Chapter 115

  For the next few days, Jiang Chuan seemed to be very busy. Except for occasionally showing up at lunchtime and eating a meal, he was basically not seen anywhere else. In order to produce the movie's theme song, Jing Yan and Xi De were always in the recording studio. Although Mr. Luo had said that pirates were people who wouldn't sing loudly with abandon, so in the theme song, he also hoped to restore that kind of original flavor. However, since Xi De was a professional, Jing Yan, an amateur, wanted to blend in when singing a duet with him without standing out too much, so they needed a lot of practice. Therefore, every day they were together from morning till night, either occupying a corner of the recording studio to ponder the connection between lyrics or sitting together silently watching various nautical documentaries.

  Jin Yan had to admit that he really didn't have much culture, anyway those documentaries were really boring in his opinion, several times Jin Yan almost fell asleep while watching them, after a few pecks at the rice, he opened his eyes dazedly and found that Xi De sitting next to him was watching very seriously - completely different from his usual careless and arrogant appearance.

  Utterly perplexed about this——

  "Good looking?"

  "Doesn't look good."

  "Why are you looking so serious?"

  "It's my first collaboration with Pangzi, and it's a field I'm good at. I promised to bring you fame, how can I not take it seriously?"

  He was stunned for three seconds, and after three seconds, he turned his head away with a red face, rubbed his ears and muttered something vaguely, then suddenly became wide awake and stared at the quiet red-haired boy beside him, continuing to watch those dull documentaries.

  This dry and monotonous life made Jian Yan have a misconception - for example, he was actually a singer rather than an actor. Jian Yan was very skeptical about how long he would stay in this ghost place Berlin, but every time he mentioned this, Fang Yu, as his agent, would say with ease: "Don't worry, except for one big movie directed by Kawahara, there are no other work arrangements for you domestically, the company plans to officially push you onto the international route within three years."

  Jian Ran: "......"

  Don't worry about it, he just wants to go back home.

  And now it's come to this, I've just realized that I seem to have ADHD.

  It's like torture for him to sit in one place doing one thing for a long time, while Xide is very good at it. He can sit there writing and drawing on the song list for an entire morning, and sometimes he doesn't even dare to get up and move around so as not to disturb him.

  "It doesn't matter, you can move if you want," Shi De said, "I'm used to it anyway."

  He subconsciously wanted to ask "what habit do you have that's not familiar with you", but later thought about it and remembered that a long time ago, Xiao Hei was quietly squatting in the cage watching him escape from various places. So... at that time, Xiao Hei was looking at him like an idiot, watching him type and communicate with the outside world on the keyboard?

  "...what are you looking at me like that for?" Feeling the suddenly not-so-right gaze, Shide subconsciously shifted his butt backwards a bit...

  "So at that time you were watching me with a playful attitude towards all my actions?"

  Xide felt that the other person's sudden anger was very inexplicable, and he looked a bit wronged as he narrowed his eyes slightly. He said, "No way."

  "I was still foolishly telling you that I'm human, with a look of deeply hidden secrets, and you... You must have been ridiculing me in your heart at that time, Ahhhhh how can such a thing happen in the world, how is it possible that only two people who turned into hamsters are locked in a cage like this, if I had known it was going to be like this, I definitely wouldn't..."

  "Nothing."

  He furrowed his brow, somewhat annoyed, and messed up some of his hair. At this time, he heard Xide lazily say beside him: "I saw it all, the thing about you sending an email to Jiang Chuan with a pen... Ah, from your conversation, I found out that he still doesn't know that the person who sent him the email is actually you..."

  He abruptly stopped scratching his head and stared at Hider with a shocked expression: "How can you tell him this kind of thing?!?!?!"

  "How can it be that you, who sacrificed your own interests to help him out of trouble, would make him feel especially moved?" Schied sneered.

  However, Jin Yan didn't think so at all. For some reason, he didn't want Jiang Chuan to know that the person who sent the email was him himself. Not to mention whether Jiang Chuan would believe in the "Hamster's Great Transformation into a Human" fairy tale, just thinking about Jiang Chuan's expression after knowing made Jin Yan feel his awkwardness and phobia relapse - because no matter whether Jiang Chuan showed "shock", "moved", or simply responded with a calm "oh", Jin Yan would find it very strange.

  In those days, he would press his face against the cage every day, making a big pancake shape with his saliva, secretly watching Jiang Chuan change clothes and run.

  If Jiang Chuan knew that the foolish mouse was actually Yuan Jinyan, he felt that he would not be able to hold his head up as a human being for the rest of his life.

  "In short, just don't say it."

  "I wouldn't say that," Hede said with a lazy glance at the tense-faced young man with black hair, "if I were you."

  ……

  He was tortured by Mr. Ross for a whole month, and he only had time to return to the country for five days to deal with the follow-up signing of the Chuan Na Da movie and the promotional photoshoot. After finishing, he rushed back to Berlin again. In this month, except for being tired, he found that except for the first few days when he made obvious progress, he was stuck in a stagnant stage every day, repeating the practice of those songs even during sleep, but he couldn't make any progress, which made him feel very depressed.

  "What's wrong with me?" Hyde thought for a moment, looked down and told him: "I don't know either. Mr. Ross doesn't let me teach you singing skills, so I can't make any technical changes to you - if there's anything wrong, it should be that the emotions haven't fully entered yet."

  Getting this answer almost collapsed his heart.

  He thought it wouldn't be good if he let him go and experience being a pirate for a few months before getting into the mood?

  Since entering the industry, Jian Yan has always felt that every day's work, every episode of TV drama or movie, is a cornerstone to support his progress. This is also one of the main reasons why he has always been highly passionate about his career. Now in this unfamiliar environment, facing an almost completely unfamiliar field of work, without guidance or care, blindly trying to find a direction to move forward, Jian Yan feels unprecedented anxiety.

  The worst part is that Mr. Ross seems to think this is the right way to discipline him.

  "I'm in no hurry, what's your rush?" Mr. Ross said.

  That's true, but Jin Yan's personality determined that he wasn't someone who could just get by - until about half a month had passed, Xi De's part of the song was basically okay, but Jin Yan's side still hadn't made any progress. Every day facing Mr. Luo's scrunched up face, Jin Yan almost started to regret not listening to Jiang Chuan and just going home to wash up and sleep, acting in movies would have been better than singing songs.

  He has been feeling down for several days in a row.

  The whole person is dizzy and confused.

  One day, when having lunch with Jiang Chuan, he directly tore open the sugar packet and sprinkled it on his beef patty without realizing it. It wasn't until he had eaten more than half of the beef patty that he seemed to react and licked his mouth, muttering: "Why is today's black pepper sauce so sweet?"

  "Because you sprinkled sugar on my coffee, your actions were so natural, I thought it was some kind of new eating method you invented." Jiang Chuan put down the knife and fork in his hand, elegantly wiped his mouth with a napkin, and gazed quietly at the lips of the black-haired young man sitting across from him, where he had just licked. "I'm about to vomit, seeing you eat so happily without any shame..."

  He let out a long sigh.

  Jiang Chuan paused for a moment, cleared his throat and said without any sympathy: "I finally managed to squeeze out some time to have lunch with you, so please put away your deadpan expression."

  "I think I'm a useless person."

  "There aren't many all-rounders in the world, acting and singing both have to be great, is that even possible?" Jiang Chuan seemed to have heard about Jin Ran's recent work not going smoothly, and naturally continued on the topic, "Besides, you're pretty talented at singing, didn't you do a good job with 'The Sound of Years Burning' and even won an award? The director had his reasons for letting you sing the movie theme song—"

  "I used to think so too," Jian Ran furrowed his brow and said, "until I stood next to Xi De, suddenly feeling like a nobody."

  Jiang Chuan pushed away the plate in front of him, and his tone was somewhat cold as he said, "Being diligent and enthusiastic is also a matter of degree. If you always compare yourself to the top-notch people in every field, don't you get tired living like this?"

  "It's not easy to see you once, so don't be like a father and educate me, okay?" Jian Ran said weakly, "Saying so much is no better than coming over to give me a hug."

  Jiang Chuan heard this, raised his eyelids and silently glanced at the row of bodyguards not far away from them, who were staring at them with a sharp gaze.

  Jiang Chuan: “......”

  "What's wrong?"

  Jiang Chuan stood up, paid the bill, and said calmly: "Nothing, let's go back. We won't work this afternoon. Let's take a look at the recording studio instead."

  It was inexplicable, but he was delighted to hear that the man could accompany him in the recording studio to pass the time. After all, facing the same scenery and people every day in the same room would drive anyone crazy. He still hoped that Jiang Chuan's appearance could give him some new inspiration.

  It wasn't until that afternoon when he returned to the recording studio that he realized he had thought too much, Jiang Chuan was not just "taking a look" at the recording studio as he said, in fact as soon as he returned to the Claire branch company's recording studio he threw down his bag and followed Mr. Ross and other high-level executives into the conference hall, only appearing until dinner time, then announced some major news: put the recording on hold for now, they decided to take the crew to the movie filming location for a trip, plus film the music video of this theme song.

  The reason sounds plausible, but even a fool can tell that this is just an excuse for a free trip - after all, it's just shooting an MV, do you need to arrange a whole month's itinerary?

  When Jiang Chuan mentioned this matter, the two were hiding in the bathroom. At that time, he was completely stunned.

  "It's too corrupt. The funds are being squandered and they actually agreed to it." Jian Ran said.

  "Go out and take a walk to relax, maybe you'll find some other inspiration..." Jiang Chuan said, "It's all my money being spent, what do they have to lose by agreeing?"

  His face suddenly went blank for two seconds, then he thought about it and seemed to agree, "Oh" sound, thinking that he could go to the beach with Jiang Chuan to relax and not have to face that gloomy recording studio all day. His heart, which had been depressed for several days, suddenly reignited a little, while pondering whether he should ask Fang Yu to buy a few sexy swimsuits, he walked out, when his arm was suddenly grabbed from behind by someone, he turned back in surprise, but before he could fully turn around, he bumped into a solid embrace.

  Jian Ran: "Huh?"

  "Let's hug here." Jiang Chuan's voice came from just above, sounding a bit depressed. "That old man has been staring at me tightly recently, I suspect he installed a miniature camera on the security guard's sunglasses..."

  Jian Ran: "Huh?"

  A few seconds later, Jin Yan felt the solid chest that his face was stuck to pull away, and the man slightly adjusted his clothes, cleared his throat, raised his chin slightly, and said expressionlessly, "Let's go out, what do you want to eat tonight?"

  She stared at Jiang Chuan for a while, then suddenly seemed to remember something and slightly widened her eyes, "Oh, you're referring to what I said at noon..."

  Jiang Chuan: "What's for dinner?"

  Jiang Chuan: "Your ears are a bit red."

  "Can't hear," the man said expressionlessly, "then Thai food is fine."

  The author has something to say: Sorry, it's not intentional that the update is so late. I'm really uncomfortable, had a high fever last night, and started coughing again after the fever went away today. I don't have much energy, took medicine and just want to sleep all the time, slept intermittently for a while, and typing is also very slow...

  Managed to update before 12 o'clock, sorry for keeping you waiting.