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    Chapter 72 The Art of Love and War

    After several days of night scenes, Xia Xiqing was seriously deprived of sleep, and his overall condition was not good. Yesterday, in order to shoot a rain scene, he was soaked in artificial rain for a whole night, and he could not return to the hotel that night.Today’s scenes were all scheduled during the day. Xia Xiqing got up at five o’clock in the morning and drank three large glasses of iced Americano until 2:30 in the afternoon.

    After finally finishing filming his part, Xia Xiqing sat on the steps in a daze. The afternoon sun made his eyes dizzy, and he felt like he was about to turn into a wisp of smoke.

    “Xi Qing, you have so many dark circles under your eyes. Do you want Sister Cindy to cover it for you?” Xiaoxiao squatted in front of him and held a small fan for him, with a worried expression on his face, “Are you still sleepy? Do you want to eat something?”

    Xia Xiqing shook his head and held his cheeks with his palms. He was weak when speaking, “With dark circles under my eyes, I look more like Jiang Tong. Anyway, Sister Cindy came and made me look ugly. You go and sit in the car. I’ll get up after a short rest…ah-” he suddenly sneezed and asked nervously with a smile, “Is it possible that you caught a cold in the rain yesterday?”

    “No,” Xia Xiqing rubbed his nose with his hand and yawned loudly again, “It’s from the sun.”

    Xiaoxiao went back after urging her. Xia Xiqing stood up and stretched. Zhou Ziheng was filming, and he could only stand aside and watch.

    This scene is about Gao Kun going to see a doctor at a black clinic after discovering that he is unwell. The clinic is also a small rented room in Hua’anli community. It is decorated like a small clinic. There are a few extras sitting in the room. There is only an old ceiling fan in the whole room.

    Xia Xiqing stood next to the director and looked at the monitor screen.

    “It hurts when I swallow something.” Gao Kun frowned and explained to the doctor at the clinic across a small wooden table, “It hurts like scratching. My throat, just here, seems to be swollen.”

    The doctor was a middle-aged woman who looked to be in her fifties. She was wearing reading glasses and a white coat. She reached out and touched Gao Kun’s throat and said, “Open your mouth.”

    After watching it, I said, “You’ve got bubbles inside.”

    She stood up and went to the medicine cabinet behind her to find two boxes of medicine, and threw them in front of Gao Kun, “Two pills a day for the blue pills, three pills a day for the green pills.”

    “You didn’t tell me what’s wrong with me?” Gao Kun touched his neck, glanced at the two boxes of medicine, and then looked at the doctor.

    “I’m angry.” The middle-aged woman rolled her eyes. It took a long time for her bloated body to turn around from the narrow gap between the medicine cabinet and the table, and sat down again. “Do you want this medicine or not?”

    Gao Kun’s brows were still furrowed, and he reached out to get the medicine, then pulled back a little, and looked up at her, “Is it really just a case of anger?”

    “Should you see a doctor or should I?” She pushed her eyes and said in a mean tone, “Why, it’s not enough to get angry. You still want to be terminally ill.”

    Gao Kun’s temper suddenly became angry. He slapped the table with his hand, causing everyone around him to look over. The children who had closed their eyes and were using the bottle opened their eyes and began to cry. The crying became louder and louder.

    “Sixty-five.”

    “Sixty-five? Why don’t you go and grab it?”

    “Are you going out to inquire? Isn’t this too expensive?” She glanced at Gao Kun’s face like a knife, wanting to tear off two pieces of flesh, “You still have trouble here if you don’t have money. Do you want it or not!”

    Gao Kun had no choice but to pull out a stack of banknotes from his trousers pocket, which he earned from doing temporary work last time. He put the banknotes under the table and counted them. He took out several and slapped them on the table. He grabbed two boxes of medicine and walked out the door, making the wind chimes on the door jingle.

    “What are you trying to do? If you can afford it, go to a big hospital. You will be poor and ill for the rest of your life.”

    “Cut!” Kuncheng shouted, “Take a rest. This is good, passed.” He turned to look at Xi Qing, “How are you, are you used to the life of an actor?”

    Xi Qing smiled bitterly, “I’m used to it, but I can’t be called an actor yet.”

    “I think you are quite talented.” Kuncheng said with a smile. The assistant director came over with a girl beside him.

    “Director Kun, I just arrived at noon, I’m sorry.”

    Kuncheng stood up, “It’s okay, we happened to be delayed for a while. It’s your scene with Gao Kun later.” After saying that, he walked to the assistant director again, and the two of them discussed other matters.The girl turned to look at Xia Xiqing, smiled broadly at him, “Hello, I’m Song Nian, I play Lingling.”

    Song Nian?Xia Xiqing reacted quickly. No wonder she looked familiar. He seemed to have seen her before when he was browsing Zhou Ziheng’s acting collection on station B. She was probably a female artist he had worked with several times.He stretched out his hand generously and said with a gentle smile, “I am Xia Xiqing.”

    “I know, I also like to watch your variety show.” Song Nian’s mouth was painted with bright red lipstick, which made her teeth look very white. Her appearance is definitely not a beauty in the entertainment industry, but her smile is very lovable and she has a relatively comfortable appearance. “You are really good-looking, more beautiful than me.”

    This word is Xia Xiqing’s minefield, but when Nian met for the first time, he just smiled and said thank you. The two of them didn’t chat for a few words before Zhou Ziheng came over.

    “Hey, Song Nian, you’re late…”

    Before he finished speaking, the cheerful Song Nian rushed to Zhou Ziheng, jumped up and hooked his neck, “Long time no see!”

    Zhou Ziheng’s first reaction was to pat Song Nian’s arm and look at Xia Xiqing.

    Xia Xiqing’s first reaction was to turn away his face and sneeze with his head sideways.

    After sneezing, he still lowered his head, rubbing his nose and thinking about why he turned his face away just now, which seemed like he didn’t want to look at it.

    “Your hair is dyed cool, like Sakuragi Hanamichi,” Song Nian stood on tiptoe and reached out to touch his hair, “If I had known that I would also dye it red, wouldn’t we act as a couple?”

    Are they a couple?We are afraid that it is not a script.Xia Xiqing complained in his heart.Lingling, played by Song Nian, met Gao Kun during a group fight when they first came to the big city. The two had a crush on each other and had an affair for a while. It was Lingling who told Gao Kun that there was a way to make money quickly, so Gao Kun found a way to sell his blood.

    But later, after learning that Gao Kun was infected with AIDS, Lingling moved overnight and was nowhere to be found again.

    “Your color looks pretty good too, better than the red one.” Zhou Ziheng stood half a step away, still looking at Xia Xiqing, but Xia Xiqing ignored her, covering her eyes with the palm of her hand to block the sun. A makeup artist happened to come over, and Xia Xiqing stopped her, “Xiaoyue, help me take off my makeup.”

    “Okay, let’s go.”

    Before Zhou Ziheng could say anything, he watched Xia Xiqing follow the makeup artist girl with his hands in his pockets, without even looking back or saying a face-to-face greeting.He suddenly became irritable. Song Nian kept talking beside him, and his usual good manners were no longer useful at this time.

    “I’m going to take a rest over there, the heat makes me dizzy.”

    Song Nian said awkwardly in the middle of his words, “Then… then you go ahead.”

    Zhou Ziheng found a place to sit in the shade of a tree, took out his phone and checked the time, and happened to see the message from Zhao Ke.

    [Ke Zi: Are you coming in double row?No one can be found!]

    Just looking at it makes me angry.Zhou Ziheng typed a line of words and said something to him.

    [Hengheng: Are you confused? Do you think an actor who is filming in the group has time to play games with you?]

    Not long after the call was sent, Zhao Ke’s call came in, and after Zhou Ziheng answered the call, he said angrily.

    “Yo yo yo, who made our Brother Heng become like this?” Zhao Ke was also very angry and confused, “Brother Heng, it seems that the filming of this scene was not going well.”

    “Get the hell out of here.” Zhou Ziheng’s accent came out loud, “Aren’t you playing games? What are you calling?”

    “Playing games is not as fun as watching our Hengheng’s jokes. Hey, let me tell you, what happened to you? You are so angry that I can feel my ears burning through the phone.”

    “It’s nothing…” Zhou Ziheng’s tone lowered, and Zhao Ke could tell something was wrong as soon as he heard it. Although he was usually poor and poor, he always took care of his own little things. Who is Zhou Ziheng? He is an angel who is nowhere to be found with a lantern. He never gets angry or quarreled with people, and usually doesn’t even have a small emotion.

    There is probably only one person who can make he so angry that he can type without punctuation.

    “What about that? Did you quarrel with Xia Xiqing?” Zhao Ke said tentatively. Hearing that the other end didn’t speak for a long time, he knew something in his heart. “I said, I went up in the afternoon and spent a long time with Xi Qing to clear my anger.”

    Zhou Ziheng gave a low hum and said nothing else.

    “Why?”

    Zhou Ziheng lowered his head and looked at a group of small ants crawling towards him not far away. He sighed in a muffled voice, and the cicadas chirping behind him made people feel panicked.

    Just like that, after being bored for a long time like a man holding a phone, Zhou Ziheng finally spoke.

    “I like Xia Xiqing.”

    He was waiting for Zhao Ke to react, but he heard a sigh coming from the other side of the phone.

    “Hey, Zhou Ziheng, is there something wrong with you? I won’t play games and I’ll wait here for a long time and you tell me this!? Who can’t see that you like Xia Xiqing!”

    This time Zhou Ziheng was stunned, “Is it, is it that obvious?”

    “Super-super-obvious.” Zhao Ke was so angry that his head hurt. “The Invincible Spin Thomas of the Universe turned 780 degrees for three and a half weeks and had the highest total score.”

    “…” Zhou Ziheng swallowed, “Then do you think Xia Xiqing can see it?”

    “…Damn it, I’m going to play games.”

    “Hey, hey, wait a minute.”

    Zhao Ke was finally convinced, “You two haven’t been in love for a long time. I thought you two were returning to your parents’ home at public expense this time. This makes me so angry. Xia Xiqing is such a smart person, how could he not see that you like him? You are so greedy.”

    That’s true. Seeing that the little ant was about to reach him, Zhou Ziheng raised his feet and said, “Actually, I don’t want him to know. If he knew that I liked him, he would definitely avoid me. He only likes to tease people who haven’t fallen in love with him yet.”

    Zhao Ke was silent for a long time, “What does he mean to you now? Where have you two reached?”

    “It has reached the point where even lovers may not reach it.”

    “Okay, I didn’t ask.” Zhao Ke patted his mouth, “Then what are you worried about?”

    “I think he’s relationship with me is very strange now. I think he has some other feelings for me, but I’m not sure. An actress I worked with before came to me just now, and he ran away as soon as he saw her.”

    Zhao Ke became excited when he heard this, “No, with Xia Xiqing’s energy, I should be teasing you. Maybe he is really interested in you.” He immediately changed into a calculating tone, “How about you test it out?”

    “How to test?”

    “Hey~ I just read a tweet from a public account, that’s what I’m talking about, I’ll send it to you.”

    Zhao Ke hung up the phone with a click.Zhou Ziheng looked puzzled, and the little ants on the ground also left. He leaned against the big tree and knocked the trunk a few times with the back of his head.My phone vibrated and I clicked it to take a look.

    [Ke Zi: Pan he!”The Art of Love” teaches you how to make your romantic partner jealous and take the bait, and your success or failure depends on this!]

    What the hell… Zhou Ziheng frowned.What kind of messy public accounts does Zhao Ke usually follow…

    Just click it and take a look.

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