Hong Dou watched Qin Wei forget to cry again, staring at her with his mouth open, somewhat at a loss.
He had never seen an adult cry in front of him in his life, with big tears falling, seeming quite sad.
"Oh I'm so tired, I haven't had a good rest in a long time, I want to lie at home and be a lazy fish, I also want to watch TV series mindlessly while eating chips and drinking coke hic hic hic...
I don't even remember when I last drank coke hic hic hic hic hic...
Who doesn't want to watch entertaining shows hic hic hic...
Can't I just close my eyes for a blink and a whole drama is finished filming hic hic hic...
I also want to go to Disneyland I've never had fun properly there hic hic hic..."
Hong Dou: "......"
Hong Dou silently brought tissues for his sister to wipe away her tears, carefully.
"What are you talking about I don't understand..."
Hong Dou wiped away his own tears while wiping away hers for her, and patted her back to comfort her at the same time, but he couldn't hold it in himself either, so he just threw himself into her arms crying, saying while crying,
"Don't cry anymore...I won't cry hic hic hic hic, I'll read books with you okay?"
The aunt on the side was shocked, but never interrupted their interaction, silently capturing video on her phone of the two of them sobbing and sent it to Qiao Sixiao via chat app.
【Shang Shan Ruo Shui: Miss Qiao look at your nephew [video]】
【Qiao:..............................】
Hearing his promise, Qin Wei's sobs slowed slightly:
"You promise?"
"Mhm!"
Hong Dou nodded vigorously.
Only then did Qin Wei stop crying, wiping away tears while pointing to his snack cabinet:
"Get me a pack of rice cakes, oh I'm so hungry from crying..."
Without another word, Hong Dou ran to grab them.
...
At 9pm, Hong Dou started rubbing his eyes, obviously sleepy.
Qin Wei looked at the aunt, and got up to leave, but was grabbed by the hem of her clothes by a small hand.
"Can you stay with me tonight?"
Hong Dou sincerely asked, looking at her expectantly with bright eyes.
"Of course not."
Qin Wei rejected immediately.
Hong Dou didn't let go: "Why not?"
Qin Wei: "I sleep too deeply at night to take care of you."
Hong Dou's mouth turned down:
"Hic.................."
Qin Wei sat back down and adjusted her emotions:
"Your request is going too far, I won't compromise, don't cry by yourself! If you want to cry let's cry together."
Hong Dou: "!!!"
Letting go, flattening out the wrinkles on the hem he was grabbing, Hong Dou said in a small voice:
"Can you at least read me a story? I'll say goodnight after hearing a story."
Qin Wei had him lie in bed, randomly grabbing a picture book to sit next to the bed and start telling him a story.
"A long long time ago, there was a turtle and a rabbit, and they said they would race..."
...
At 10pm, little brother Dou finally fell asleep, Qin Wei bid the aunt farewell and left the room.
So tired...sleep...
Just after getting back to her own room, her phone rang.
Looking at it, it was a video call from Sun Tiantian.
Qin Wei lay on the couch and picked up the video.
Sun Tiantian looked at Qin Wei on the other side of the screen expectantly:
"Started filming right! Have you started shooting yet? Oh, why are your eyes swollen? I know, crying scenes, great work."
Qin Wei looked at herself in the video, her eyes were indeed swollen, clearly from crying, but she was too embarrassed to tell her that she was moved to tears by a little kid's crying, so she evaded and distracted:
"Haven't started shooting yet, still training, I had a scene with the second male lead today, got emotional and cried...
Oh right, why did you suddenly video call me alone? We're usually in the group chat?"
Sun Tiantian stared at Qin Wei for a while, giving a serious evaluation:
"Hmm...not bad for the empress, usually looks like a lazy fish, but very professional, directly got into character for the scene, great!"
Hearing her words, Qin Wei didn't know how to respond, just scratched her nose.
Sun Tiantian asked again:
"Oh right, where's teacher Qiao?"
As soon as she asked about teacher Qiao, Qin Wei knew her intention, so she clearly told her:
"She went to Shanghai a couple days ago, it was her birthday right? Her company held a birthday party for her, and to shoot a magazine cover, anything else specific you'll have to ask her assistant.
Also, don't expect me and her to have any scenes together in this drama, I'll spoil it for you now, I'm the male lead's current girlfriend and she's the ex, we don't even meet let alone have scenes together, you..."
"Oh come on I was just casually asking."
Sun Tiantian impatiently interrupted her words, then moved in close and asked her,
"Have you met the male lead yet? Is he as handsome as on TV? Can I get an autograph? Oh I've been really into him lately!"
Sun Tiantian, a completely ordinary actor, relied on her shocking performance in "Against the Wind" and some absurd side jobs to gain quite a few fans and popularity. Adding to her average acting skills and both laidback and prudent personality, plus no negative news herself, she had gotten more attention from the company in recent months.
She was clearly on the rise in her career, so she was able to say this, which really shocked Qin Wei.
Either she really trusted Qin Wei, or she really liked that male actor.
"Su Yang? He hasn't arrived yet..."
Qin Wei didn't know him, but his resume really left an impression——
Highly educated, very good looking, handsome, charming smile.
And looking at videos of him online, though not many, the view counts were quite high. Great at singing and dancing, appearance very favored by young girls, clean and refreshing with a dash of handsome.
With his 183cm height, he attracted a lot of attention wherever he went.
After graduating last year he returned to China, debuted through a talent competition show, and was signed by Happy Entertainment at the time, highly valued by He Hong. This was his first work.
So even though he didn't have any works out yet, it didn't affect his high popularity.
Originally Qin Wei didn't want to look into him, she felt that since they weren't dating, just cooperating, knowing roughly who he was would be enough. But Li Yao was very diligent this time, preparing materials for her and insisting she look, so she had the chance to learn so much about Su Yang.
Sun Tiantian rested her face in her hands leaning on the bed, infatuated:
"Tsk tsk tsk, that blessed face, trust me, one look and you'll fall for him."
Qin Wei thought for a bit:
"Then...I'll introduce him to you later using my position? But whether anything comes of it depends on your fortune."
"Oh no no no you misunderstood."
Sun Tiantian quickly denied and clarified,
"Any fool knows, in our industry, if a female artist still wants to develop her career properly, she has to keep away from men...
It's not being anti-men, which girl doesn't like good looking guys, but it really can become unfortunate. I don't know about other companies, but the male artists at ours are really...I didn't say anything huh, I'm just saying, love might be sweet or not but careers get obstructed...
Such obvious reasoning even you understand, how could I not understand?
I just appreciate handsome looks, Su Yang has that standard idol handsomeness, I just think that him acting across from you would look so good together!!"
"Oh please show mercy teacher Sun!
To be honest with you, every time you write QinXiao, I'm terrified, scared you'll write some inappropriate plot and fans will blame me for it.
Qiao Sixiao is fine, she's lucky, not afraid of you teasing her, but I'm afraid!
Not everyone can separate fiction and reality. Just the other day I saw online, someone righteously telling me to compensate money to Qiao Sixiao, because I sat in her Cadillac's leather seats while still wet from the rain...
I already had Li Yao look for a house I want to buy, don't write fanfiction cutting off my fortune...
Su Yang is an idol, I've decided, other than acting together, I won't interact with him normally at all. There are so many paparazzi at the studio town, I won't let them write a single article about 'affection from acting together'!"
"Ugh come on I was just saying casually, how come you got so agitated like you were bitten by a dog?"
Sun Tiantian sighed, little Qin was abandoning romance for her career, she didn't want to make it hard for her, so she changed the topic,
"Speaking of which, for teacher Qiao's birthday, I sent her a vlog edit I made of our competition footage, and a set of scented candles, what did you give her?"
"Compact snacks."
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