Proofreader: Prof. Zhu Yuan

When Qi Yan returns to the crew, he is in a daze.

Assistant Lily nudges him, quickly takes his hand back and says cautiously: “Qi Ge, the director asks whether you can still act or not.”

Qi Yan takes a look at Assistant Lily and suddenly gets angry. “Look at my face, do you think I can act now?”

Assistant Lily is about to cry. She says with a tearful voice, “I’ll tell the director to stop shooting now.”

Qi Yan stops her with the gloomy expression. “I should join an outdoor variety show next week? What’s the program?”

“Eliminate Tornadoes.” Assistant Lily answers in a low voice. Although she doesn’t know why Qi Yan asks that all of a sudden, she doesn’t dare to ask him the reason.

“Tell me about the guest list.” Qi Yan takes a sip of hot tea.

Assistant Lily whispers, “The director says that he has invited you, Bo Yu, Chu Wenwen and Mo Anyu.”

Qi Yan nods, and the gloom flashes through his eyes. “Give me my mobile. I want to make a phone call.”

Assistant Lily is stunned for a moment, takes his mobile phone and hands it to Qi Yan. When Qi Yan asks her to leave the rest room, she hurriedly backs out without any delay.

*

Bo Yu, who is filming in Xiaxian Town, looks at the gray weather and tightly covers his blanket. It is very cold to shoot the TV series in the deep mountains and forests in this season. Now it’s raining again. When the cold wind mixes with the drizzle, it’s cold to death.

Xiao Zhang takes his mobile and trots all the way. He graciously takes the umbrella in Xiao Li’s hands and says, “Bo Ge, the call from Zhang Ge.”

Bo Yu answers, “Hello, what’s up?”

Lao Zhang comes to the point, saying with the gloomy tone, “Have you offended Qi Yan?”

Qi Yan?

“What happened?” Bo Yu alerts.

“The directors’ group promise that you can join the first episode of Eliminate Tornadoes before. But they just called me that someone would replace you.” Mr. Zhang is furious. “I hear that it is Qi Yan who does that.”

Bo Yu squints and thinks, “Eliminate Tornadoes is the most popular outdoor variety show this year. Five men and one woman are regular MC. Different stars are invited to join in each episode.

It’s novel, funny and common touch, and the guests invited in each episode have a certain number of fans. So, it doesn’t take a long time for the program to be famous.

The reason why the directors’ group choose Bo Yu to join is that Bo Yu has a high popularity and hot topic, and just takes over a potential Xianxia TV series.

However, Bo Yu is more curious about how Qi Yan persuades the directors’ group instead of knowing the reason why the directors’ group go back on their words.

Mr. Zhang replies angrily, “Qi Yan just says that they can just choose one between Bo Yu and I, and then hang up. Bah! He is just like a shrew!”

Mr. Zhang has been in entertainment for so many years, and he has some human relations. So, after Bo Yu is replaced, he immediately finds out the reason by using some human relations――the cooked duck flies away, and it is unacceptable for him!

However, when Mr. Zhang knows that Qi Yan is the one who has tripped Bo Yu up, he is so angry that he can’t speak.

Bo Yu is very calm. He smiles, lights up a cigarette and holds it in his mouth. He says carelessly, “That’s all right. I can have a rest for a few days.”

Zhang spits at him angrily, “It’s a matter of face! No, we can’t just let the matter go. If others hear of that, we’ll completely be disgraceful.”

Bo Yu slowly spits out the smoke and lightly says, “By the way, who replaces me?”

Mr. Zhang’s attitude is very strange. He repeatedly stresses the word of “disgraceful”, so Bo Yu has suspicion.

“Ran Fei.” Mr. Zhang knows that he can’t keep it secret from Bo Yu for a long time and blurts out without hesitation.

Xiao Zhang, who eavesdrops, suddenly smiles with pride.

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