we are not friends anymore

Qiao Mingxi called Lin Zining twice, but they didn't answer.

He stood in the corner holding his mobile phone for a while, and the screen flickered on again, a string of unfamiliar numbers, but the prefix of country r at the beginning.

Qiao Mingxi looked down at the phone screen quietly, and pressed hang up without hesitation.

The man in front of him is the kind that is rarely seen walking on the street. He has muscles that can't be trained in the gym anyway. Although he leans on the car door with a cigarette in his mouth and hangs around, his whole body exudes a fierce aura.

Lin Zining took a step back warily.

The entertainment industry is one of the most chaotic circles. He has seen all kinds of people, and he has an intuition that this man is not an ordinary person.

The man saw his reaction and was not surprised. He just turned around and took out something from the car, and threw it at Lin Zining with a wave of his hand.

Lin Zining subconsciously picked it up, and looked down, it was a button phone that looked so retro.

"Zhuo Xiuyan can't help you, call the phone inside if you need it." The man waved his hand, opened the car door and sat in the driver's seat.

Lin Zining said expressionlessly: "I need money, Zhuo Xiuyan has money, why can't he help me?"

The man put his hands on the steering wheel and glanced at him when he heard the words: "What you need is not money."

A sneer appeared on Lin Zining's face, the man didn't say much, he turned the steering wheel and drove away.

Lin Zining watched the off-road vehicle drive out of the parking lot, still holding the old-fashioned mobile phone in his hand.

"……Neuropathy."

It happened that I met Shen Jiaen today, and Qiao Mingxi told him about "Friends' Apartment". Shen Jiaen agreed very readily. He is now a very popular variety show star, and he is also very good for the program team Candidates.

Qiao Mingxi didn't know what was going on with Lin Zining and Zhuo Xiuyan. After returning home, he sent a message to the well-informed Xing Yao, but the other party didn't know about Zhuo Xiuyan's recent gossip. Put it to the back of my mind, and concentrate on preparing for the recording of the last episode of "Friends Apartment".

The day before the recording, the six resident guests first went to record an indoor variety show to make the final publicity for the show.

This show is a very old indoor variety show in China. The three hosts are all big names with top business capabilities in the industry. Qiao Mingxi is just a junior in front of them.

When c.air made its debut, it also appeared on this show, and received a lot of care from the host.

"Xiao Qiao is also an old friend of our program." Su Miao, one of the hosts, smiled, "Come to us again, is there anything you want to say to the audience friends?"

The audience was full of audience. Qiao Mingxi took the microphone from the side and said slowly, "Hi everyone, I'm Qiao Mingxi."

As soon as the name was said, the audience was already screaming.

Qiao Mingxi knew that there would be fans of his own coming this time, but he didn't expect so many to come. He smiled a little embarrassedly: "It's a pleasure to come to "Laughter Tonight" again..."

He paused and said, "I'm here to promote "Friends' Apartment."

There was a burst of laughter from the audience, and the three hosts laughed and said, "We haven't asked any questions yet! What should I do if this guest is too self-conscious, director."

Qiao Mingxi tilted his head. The auditorium was very close to the stage. He could see a girl wearing a t-shirt from his support club holding a camera in front of him to take a picture, so he looked at her camera.

The girl quickly pressed the shutter button and waved to him excitedly.

The atmosphere of the show was very relaxed, and Qiao Mingxi couldn't cope with the noisy hosting style of the three hosts, and the audience basically stayed quietly aside as a humanoid background.

Even so, he still couldn't escape the host's question when it came time to break the news.

"The next question is from the audience, and everyone has to answer it." Fang Miao glanced at the device in his hand mysteriously, and said with a smile, "I asked——what kind of person is first love? ?”

"Wait a minute, let me add a condition!" Li Sensen, another host, stood up and said, "Don't say that you have never been in a relationship, do you believe it?"

The last half of the sentence was addressed to the audience, and the audience immediately burst into "I don't believe it!"

Then another female voice shouted: "Your Highness is not there!"

Li Sensen turned around and asked Qiao Mingxi, "Have you really never done that?"

There is actually a script for this passage, Qiao Mingxi showed a bit distressed expression when he heard this, Li Sensen said: "There must be someone who has a good impression before?"

Qiao Mingxi hesitated for a moment. At this moment, Xue Qiao who was beside him handed him the microphone, but he didn't give it to him. He just put the microphone to his mouth. Before Qiao Mingxi could respond, there were screams from the audience.

The host also had a meaningful smile on his face. Qiao Mingxi was taken aback, took the microphone from Xue Qiao, and said softly, "Probably... someone I will never see again."

After speaking, he tilted his head and smiled, but the smile didn't reach his eyes.

The host is used to being funny, and immediately interpreted his words as a sentence of cleverness. The three of them echoed and complained, and the audience laughed again.

When the question came to Xue Qiao, he smiled, and the fans in the audience screamed before he could speak.He made a gesture of silencing them, and said with a smile, "He is a very quiet, kind, and lovely person."

The audience immediately screamed again.

"It turns out that Da Qiao likes the quiet type." Li Sensen said, "Then I have no chance!"

Fang Miao said to the audience: "Did you hear that? Are you still calling? The girl in the red sweater, what about you—"

When the camera showed the girl he was talking about, the girl covered her mouth and shook her head violently.

Xue Qiao added to the fans: "Fans are different, you are all good."

The screaming sounded again, and Li Sensen pretended to cover his ears and said, "I'm afraid I will have tinnitus for a week after I go back tonight."

After laughing again, the question came to Yin Yi, it was no secret that she married into a wealthy family and already had a lovely daughter.

"I don't need to say more? You all know how handsome my husband is."

He held his face while speaking, looking like a little girl.

Everyone laughed, and it was no secret that Yin Yi was the chief fan president of her husband.

Mo Yu was also married, and there was still nothing surprising in his answer. On the contrary, the answers of Ye Qiyuan and Fang Ling, who had hardly heard any gossip, were more exciting.

"Actually, when Lao Xue spoke just now, I almost thought we had been rivals in love." Ye Qiyuan laughed, "My first love was also a very quiet, kind, and lovely person."

The host immediately booed: "Maybe it's true! What should we do? Who should we help when we fight?"

"It seems that male gods like gentle types now." Li Sensen said.

"Fortunately, I was born early." Yin Yi laughed.

When it came to Fang Ling, she replied with the same content as Qiao Mingxi: "My first love is also someone I will never see again."

She had a faint smile on her face, and her voice was soft. Like Qiao Mingxi, she didn't look like she was joking, but intervening in the style of the show, the host once again followed the previous atmosphere and played this sentence into a joke .

The recording of the program went smoothly, and in the end it was still a promotion of "Old Friends Apartment".After the end, the audience left in an orderly manner from the exit, and several guests and hosts went to the lounge from the other side.

Ye Qiyuan left the stage as soon as he got off the stage. A short and small boy was standing in the corner waiting for him, but he stretched out his long arm to hook him, and they walked out together.The staff next to him didn't seem to see it.

The boy turned his head inadvertently, and Qiao Mingxi happened to meet his gaze. His eyes were peaceful and clean like a child who hadn't entered the society.

Qiao Mingxi blinked her eyes, and felt that this boy was the "very quiet, very kind, very cute" first love that Ye Qiyuan said just now.

He turned his head to look at Xue Qiao, Xue Qiao also saw the boy, raised his hands innocently and said, "I don't need to fight Lao Ye."

"I think it's your thief, imitating Xiaoye's language." Yin Yi jumped from behind and patted him.

Xue Qiao laughed and said, "Don't expose me, Miss Yi."

The three of them walked out of the backstage together. Qiao Mingxi entered the waiting room to remove her makeup. Xiao Yan was waiting there and fell asleep. When she saw him, she stood up: "Brother Mingxi, is the recording over?"

"Well, it's been hard work." Qiao Mingxi said, "Please wait for me a little longer, it will be fine soon."

"By the way, your cell phone rang just now." Xiao Yan said, and took out Qiao Mingxi's cell phone from his backpack, "I thought it was an unfamiliar number, or an international one, so I didn't answer it, and I don't know if there was any delay."

Qiao Mingxi took the phone from him, and there was indeed a missed call. He looked at the prefix belonging to country r on it, and turned off the phone expressionlessly.

"Probably a sales call."

It was late at night when Qiao Mingxi arrived home, but Qiao Mingyue, who should have fallen asleep, opened the door and came out, followed by two of the best bodyguards, and there was a car waiting at the door.

"Sister?" Qiao Mingxi looked at them suspiciously.

"I'm back." Qiao Mingyue patted his arm, "Rest early, I'll go out for a while."

"It's so late." Qiao Mingxi said.

"It's more urgent, not a big deal." Qiao Mingyue said, "Go in."

After speaking, he took the bodyguards and went out. Qiao Mingxi watched the car go away, thinking of the two calls from country r, he felt inexplicably uneasy.

He returned to the room and stood by the window for a long time, the hour hand had already pointed to 12, Qiao Mingyue still did not come back.

The uneasiness in Qiao Mingxi's heart spread again. He stretched out one hand to grab the curtain, as if grasping a kind of support, and the other hand held the mobile phone. His fingers stayed on the string of strange numbers for a long time, and finally Pressed play.

There were only two rings before someone picked up the phone, and a male voice that surprised Qiao Mingxi but was not unfamiliar: "Finally willing to answer the phone?"

The hand holding the curtain suddenly tightened, but Qiao Mingxi's expression was a little cold.

What was said there again, Qiao Mingxi listened to him patiently, and then said coldly: "Impossible."

He hung up the phone and looked up at his face reflected in the window glass. It was Qiao Mingxi with cold eyes that no one had ever seen before.

When a string of unfamiliar numbers jumped into the screen of the phone again, Ji Yan remembered that it had also appeared in the missed calls before, so he reached out for the phone and answered it without thinking too much.

There was a question over there, and he said lightly, "It's me."

Then there was a long passage over there, Ji Yan frowned, and his voice was a little cold: "You have found the wrong person."

He hung up the phone without hesitation, but he didn't move for a long time and stood there for a long time.

After a long time, he skillfully pressed a string of numbers, and Qiao Mingxi's name popped up on the screen.

There were many rings, but no one answered.