we are not friends anymore

"Brother Feng, I went downstairs to your company."

"What? I'm in a meeting, you can come up directly."

"Oh."

After hanging up the phone, Qiao Mingxi stood at the gate of Dongxing Entertainment with her mobile phone in her hand, and sighed sadly.

He came here to find Dongxing's boss, Lou Feng. Lou Feng and his sister Qiao Mingyue were friends who fought together in the world back then, and they had a lifelong friendship with his sister, so he always regarded him as a younger brother.

He was no stranger to Dongxing's office building, but the occasional reporters who appeared around were somewhat curious about him, thinking that this slender and handsome young man was a newcomer to Dongxing.

Qiao Mingxi didn't sleep well last night, and entered Dongxing's building like a sleepwalker, turning a blind eye to the handsome and beautiful faces around her, and went straight into the elevator to press down on the floor where Feng's office is located.

There were still people in the elevator, and there was a faint smell of perfume. Qiao Mingxi frowned, and took another step aside.The phone vibrated twice in the pocket of the sweater, and he took it out to see that it was a text message from Qiao Mingyue.

【go out? 】

Qiao Mingxi lowered his head and pressed his phone to reply.

【Well, we're at Brother Feng's company. 】

The notification sound of the reply to the text message almost overlapped with the ding-dong sound of the elevator door opening. Qiao Mingxi followed the text message and got out of the elevator.

【Okay, tell him to drive slowly. 】

【understood. 】

Qiao Mingxi replied to the text message with his head down, then turned off the phone and stuffed it into the pocket of the sweater. He looked up but was a little dazed.

The surrounding decorations seem to be different from the previous visits.

He retreated to the elevator entrance to look at the numbers, and realized that he had gone to the wrong floor. He was about to press the elevator when he heard another ding, and the door of the elevator next to him opened again, and a group of people came out.

It was a group of young men and women who were about the same age as him, all about ten years old. The girls all had exquisite makeup, and the boys were all well-dressed, looking like undebuted entertainers.

They walked past Qiao Mingxi talking and laughing. Someone inadvertently met Qiao Mingxi's eyes, and quickly took them away with a faint inquiry from a stranger.

Qiao Mingxi glanced at the backs of them passing by, and took two steps to the side to look at the LED display on this floor, and saw "11l artist practice room" written on it.

He tilted his head, and in a strange way, he also turned and walked towards the corridor.

This whole floor is full of rooms that look like exercise rooms, which seem to be the daily gathering places for undebuted artists.Qiao Mingxi hid his face in the hood of his white sweater, and it didn't violate the harmony among the artists coming and going.

Every practice room is not much different, either young boys practicing dance music neatly, or slender girls stretching their limbs in front of the mirror, Qiao Mingxi walked all the way to the innermost room, and felt bored after watching too much.

He stood at the door for a while, stuffing his hands in his pockets. The smell of different perfumes on the girls here became stronger and stronger. He sneezed and turned to leave.

When he turned around, he bumped into the person walking behind him.

He hit the man's strong chest muscles, the tip of his nose brushed against the soft fabric of the T-shirt, and a strong hand firmly supported his arm.

"Be careful."

A deep voice sounded above his head, Qiao Mingxi raised his head, and bumped into a pair of light brown eyes.

In front of him was a young and tall boy, very different from Qiao Mingxi or the handsome Korean boy he saw on the road. This man had a handsome face that is not mainstream nowadays, his facial features were slightly more three-dimensional than ordinary people, and he had dark brown hair. Slightly messy, the whole person is handsome with strong hormones.

"Sorry, are you okay?"

It was originally Qiao Mingxi's carelessness, but the visitor apologized first, with a humble smile on his face.

"...It's okay." Qiao Mingxi shook his head and distanced himself from him.

The boy nodded to him, and walked sideways into the practice room.

Qiao Mingxi's eyes followed his back subconsciously. This boy was very tall. When they bumped into each other just now, the tip of Qiao Mingxi's nose only reached his chest.He was simply wearing a T-shirt and trousers, but the muscle lines on the shoulders and back were faintly revealed.Qiao Mingxi saw him walk in, greeted the people he knew briefly, took off the earphones hanging around his neck, and moved his hands and feet.

He stood by the window, and the sunlight outside the house shone in, casting a warm light on his dark brown hair.

Qiao Mingxi looked at him, but forgot to look away.

There are tens of thousands of people in this world, and the beginning of you and a certain person may be nothing more than the glance that meets your eyes.

"Hey, what are you doing standing here?"

A strong slap on the shoulder made Qiao Mingxi tremble in fright, and turned to face a strange smiling face.

"..." Qiao Mingxi didn't answer, but took a step aside.

"Aren't you going in?" The round doll who came came with a pair of smiling eyes, "Then are you looking for someone? Who are you looking for? Although I don't necessarily know each other, I can give you a call."

Qiao Mingxi shook his head: "Just take a look."

"Oh--then look, I have to start practicing." The enthusiastic boy patted his shoulder again, turned around and jumped into the practice room.

Qiao Mingxi tilted her head to look at his jumping back, then looked at the boy by the window from a distance for a while, then turned around and walked away with her head down.

When he went up to the top floor, Lou Feng had already finished the meeting and was coming out of the meeting room, talking to the company executives beside him as he walked.Qiao Mingxi simply stood at the elevator entrance and waited for him, Lou Feng turned his head and saw the sleepwalking boy with his face hidden in the hood.

"What are you doing standing here?" After Lou Feng gave his last instructions to his subordinates, he walked up to Qiao Mingxi and pressed him on top of his head. "Come on, there will be no traffic jams when you leave the city at this point."

Qiao Mingxi pulled his hand off and followed him into the elevator: "Brother Feng, can you stop touching my head all the time."

"Why, are you afraid you won't grow taller?" Lou Feng laughed, "Young man, you are born tall."

Qiao Mingxi didn't bother to talk to him. He used to only have Qiao Mingyue, a taciturn elder sister. After getting to know Lou Feng, it took a long time to get used to such a "brother" who loved to make fun of him.

The two went directly to the underground parking lot and got into Lou Feng's car. It was a birthday party for a good friend of Qiao Mingyue's, and the place was in the suburbs. .

As soon as Qiao Mingxi got into the car, he curled up in the back seat and dozed off. He didn't sit in the passenger seat, because someone opened the door and got in soon.

"You're early today." The girl who got into the passenger seat said to Lou Feng, turned around and put her backpack back on the back seat, and saw Qiao Mingxi shrunk behind, "Hey, Ah Xi is coming with us? "

"Sister Shi." Qiao Mingxi slowly opened her eyes.

The girl smiled at Qiao Mingxi, took out a piece of chocolate from her coat pocket and threw it to Qiao Mingxi: "Here, it's a gift from a customer. It's quite delicious."

Qiao Mingxi subconsciously took it, peeled off the package and stuffed it in his hand, it tasted really good.

He turned his head and looked out of the car window. The tall building of Dongxing Entertainment was far behind the car. In fact, he couldn't see anything clearly, but he turned his head to look at the position on the 11th floor inexplicably.

Looking at the outside in that practice room, what kind of scene will it be?

The host of the birthday party set up a BBQ by the lake, Qiao Mingxi didn't know anything, stayed with Lou Feng's girlfriend Yan Shi and only ate.Qiao Mingyue also came not long after, sitting in a wheelchair and talking to Lou Feng.

"You don't look very good recently." Qiao Mingyue said lightly, "Did you sleep well?"

"Stop talking." Lou Feng yawned in response to the situation, "Nana and Alian are arguing in my ears every day, making me want to leave the company."

Qiao Mingyue said: "Gold medal managers always have a bit of a temper."

"Then it's difficult for me." Lou Feng shrugged, "Although the company can operate the talent show on the TV station, there is only one champion. It's a question of who to send to the competition. Nana wants to send One, and Alian wants to give the other one, they can decide on this kind of matter themselves, but I have to make the decision—I really don’t have any prestige as a big boss.”

While talking, he took a bite of the kebab that Yan Shi handed over, without any trouble at all.

"Brother Feng, you don't seem to be indecisive at all." Qiao Mingxi ruthlessly exposed it from the side.

"That's right." Lou Feng admitted grinningly, "Don't give it away as I want, and choose another one. I want to form a group with the two newcomers they want to promote. The company should also try to create male group."

Yan Shi listened with great interest: "Boy group? Do you have any photos? Let me have a look."

"I don't have any photos." Lou Feng said, and suddenly remembered something, "Oh, Nana gave me a tablet just now."

He turned around and took out a tablet from his bag, opened it and swiped a few times: "This is the one Nana wants to push, and the next one is Alian's favorite."

"Yi—Huan—" Yan Shi read the name on the photo, "He's very handsome, creative type? Isn't it good to go to the talent show?"

As she spoke, she swiped two pages back and suddenly exclaimed: "Wow——"

Qiao Mingxi looked over curiously, and there was an unbelievably beautiful face on the screen: "...a girl?"

He looked at the photo suspiciously, and Yan Shi smiled and rubbed his hair: "It's a boy! It seems to be a neutral route."

She flicked her fingers back and forth on the photos of the two of them, and murmured analysis: "If this Yi Huan is really talented and creative, it would be a good choice to go to the draft, and if he wins the championship, he can show his strength; but Lin Zining's face Definitely crushing all the players, just relying on appearance can attract many fans to enter the top three—it’s really not a good choice.”

"So, what do you think of the combination of these two people?" Lou Feng looked at Yan Shi with a smile on his face, "Based on your idol experience in the 36th line many years ago?"

Yan Shi raised her head and gave him a white look, and then said seriously: "The talent show has a process of accumulating popularity, and it can let fans see the advantages as quickly as possible, but the talent from the talent show must be low in the eyes of passers-by."

"It's good to directly form a boy group and let the company forcefully overthrow it, but two people are definitely not enough? Do you have other candidates?"

"This." Lou Feng took the tablet away from her hand, "Let Nana choose it, let's go, eat meat."