dark fire

In the following week, Ling Zhuo only had a few scattered schedules, and on the 31st, he had to rehearse for the second concert.

Lu Chixie was the driver and took him to the place, but he didn't follow him this time. On the way, he received a call from his brother asking him to go back to his parents' house.

"I'll pick you up later." Lu Chixie said after parking the car.

Ling Zhuo nodded, and was about to open the car door. After thinking about it, he turned around and kissed Lu Chixie on the face.

Lu Chixie raised his hand and pinched his earlobe: "See you tonight."

Ling Zhuo got out of the car, and when he raised his eyes, he saw Zhong Yiran who also just got out of the car not far away, and the other party was also looking at him.

Ling Zhuo was a little embarrassed, wondering if Zhong Yiran had seen his actions just now, it wasn't that he had something to do with Zhong Yiran, but he was somewhat uncomfortable being seen by outsiders making out with Lu Chixie.

"Ling Zhuo." Lu Chixie put down the car window and called him.

Ling Zhuo turned his head, Lu Chixie pushed open the car door and got out, walked around the front of the car to his side, and helped him tie the scarf he got off the car.

Finally, he stretched out his hand to hug him, and the voice fell next to Ling Zhuo's ear: "I'm not here, so be conscious."

Ling Zhuo: "When did I become unconscious?"

Lu Chixie: "You know what I mean."

Ling Zhuo laughed, turned and went in.

Zhong Yiran had already entered the elevator, and waited for him while pressing the door button, Ling Zhuo went in and thanked him.

As the elevator went up, Zhong Yiran was hesitant to speak, but seeing Ling Zhuo kept staring at the phone with his head down, he seemed to be smiling, and he didn't say what was on his lips.

Lu Chixie sent a WeChat message, reminding Ling Zhuo to be more honest today.

Ling Zhuo replied: "You can't stare at me, you don't know what I do, you can concentrate on driving."

At 08:30, all personnel arrived.

Without Lu Chixie's tight marking, everyone was relieved.

The subsequent rehearsals went smoothly, and at noon, a few people ordered takeaway together as usual.

While eating, Ling Zhuo took a photo of the food he ordered and sent it to Lu Chixie, who quickly replied: "Eat more, don't dance hungry in the afternoon, I will pick it up around 05:30 you."

Ling Zhuo: "Okay."

Qi Liangli caught a glimpse of the words Lu Chixie on his WeChat dialog box, and couldn't help complaining to him: "The big devil finally didn't come today, doesn't he have to work? Why is he always following you?"

Ling Zhuo: "...he's just bored, he came to pass the time with me, and didn't do anything else, won't he bother you?"

Qi Liangli really wanted to complain, so he hummed a few words and let it go.

Zhong Yiran lowered his head to eat in silence, Deng Lanluo glanced at him, and asked Ling Zhuo: "I'm actually a little curious, are you two serious?"

Ling Zhuo nodded, and didn't deny it. Anyone with a discerning eye could see his relationship with Lu Chixie, so it would be pointless to deny it.

Qi Liangli's eyes widened: "Really? Brother Zhuo, what do you like about him? I thought you were kidnapped by him."

Ling Zhuo couldn't help laughing: "What do you mean being kidnapped by him?"

Qi Liangli: "That's because he was deceived by his face."

He wouldn't suspect that Ling Zhuo fell in love with him because of Lu Chixie's background, and in Qi Liangli's eyes Ling Zhuo was not that kind of person.

Ling Zhuo: "He's pretty good, it's because you have prejudice against him."

Qi Liangli touched the goosebumps on his arms unbearably: "He's all right? Love is so blind and terrible."

Deng Lanluo also laughed: "I also didn't expect that someone with your personality would be with the Great Demon King. I remember that when we didn't know him before, didn't we discuss him? What did you do at that time?" It’s true, if you see someone like him, you have to walk around.”

Ling Zhuo explained embarrassingly: "That's also prejudice, I really didn't know him at that time."

Qi Liangli: "Brother Zhuo, you just filmed a scene with him, and we've been together for a few months? No wonder people say that filming is easy to fake and the relationship is true. Oh, that's not right, you two are not actors. Rival?"

Ling Zhuo: "Just, fate."

He himself didn't expect that in just a few months, another person could replace the shadow he had hidden in his heart for seven years. He dismissed what Lu Chixie said before as "willingly", but now he really believes it. Xie did have this confidence, and he did it.

"Let's eat, don't keep saying that there is nothing left." Zhong Yiran interrupted them.

Ling Zhuo quietly lowered his head to eat, Qi Liangli and Deng Lanluo also shut up.

Rest for an hour after eating, and then continue to rehearse until the evening.

After a timeout, Ling Zhuo went to the corridor outside to answer the phone, Lu Chixie called and asked him how long it would take, and said he would pick him up in 10 minutes.Ling Zhuo glanced at his watch and replied: "Hurry up, it should be about half an hour later, wait for me downstairs when you arrive."

After hanging up, he went to the bathroom, and when he came back, he heard Deng Lanluo and Zhong Yiran's voices in the corridor, so he stopped subconsciously.

It was Deng Lanluo who asked Zhong Yiran: "Did Brother Liu tell you that he wants to take you?"

Zhong Yiran: "Well, he said that if our group really disbands, he wants to take me alone, let me think about it."

Deng Lanluo: "That's fine, brother Liu is quite capable, you don't think you want to leave the company, do you?"

Zhong Yiran: "No, I don't want to bother."

"In fact, there is something that I should tell you after thinking about it." Deng Lanluo hesitated, paused, and then said, "The endorsement of CL perfume, the day we went to shoot the commercial, I heard People from the brand business secretly discussed that the endorsement was for our group on purpose, and they also mentioned Shangxun. At that time, I didn’t quite understand what they meant, and I didn’t think about it carefully until Zhang Xun suddenly told me a few days ago , He originally thought that Xingyao was interested in him, so he poached him away, but he inadvertently found out that it was Shangxun who greeted Xingyao and called him by name."

"Zhang Xun was very happy, and thought that Shangxun had his eyes on him, but don't you find it strange? Your variety shows and my dramas are all Shangxun's resources, and there have been rumors in the company that there are also behind the new shareholders. For Shangxun’s capital, Brother Liu also hastily decided not to take our group after the new shareholder came, and all these things seem to be related to Shangxun.”

"If you think about it carefully, it should have something to do with the prince next to Ling Zhuo, right? Although I think it's an exaggeration to speculate that he is investing so much money into the company and stuffing us with resources just to make our group fall apart. But if he really did it, it doesn't seem very unusual. Looking at how hard he is pestering Ling Zhuo, I think he should know that Ling Zhuo likes you, and even knows that you like Ling Zhuo, so he deliberately used this extraordinary method. to separate you."

At the end, Deng Lanluo seemed helpless: "He must have calculated our thoughts. Such a person is quite scary when you think about it. Captain, will you regret it? At that time Brother Liu told you that the new shareholder was against Ling Zhuo If you are dissatisfied and want to give up on him, you don’t dare to see Ling Zhuo, if this was arranged by that person, will you really not regret it?”

"...Actually, I didn't intend to tell you this, but I always feel uncomfortable if I don't say it, especially at noon today when Ling Zhuo talked about him and the prince, I thought you were very uncomfortable, so I thought I should tell you One word, as for Ling Zhuo, whether you want to tell him or not is up to you to decide."

Zhong Yiran was silent for a long time, and finally only said: "Go in first."

Deng Lanluo sighed: "Okay."

They turned around, only to see Ling Zhuo standing behind the corner of the corridor.

Ling Zhuo seemed a little dazed, Deng Lanluo probably didn't expect to be heard by Ling Zhuo, his expression was awkward, Zhong Yiran frowned, before they could speak, Ling Zhuo seemed to come back to his senses suddenly, and said: "Rehearsal It's about to start, don't dawdle, go in quickly."

He turned around first, Zhong Yiran called him subconsciously: "Ling Zhuo."

Ling Zhuo didn't stop, and quickly walked into the dance practice room.

In the subsequent rehearsals, he was absent-minded and obviously out of shape.

Twenty minutes later, Zhong Yiran said it was over ahead of time, and Ling Zhuo went to get his things. Lu Chixie called and said that he had arrived and was in the parking lot downstairs, and told him to go down after finishing.

Ling Zhuo hung up the phone without saying a word.

"I go first."

Ling Zhuo put on his coat, picked up his backpack, nodded to the others, and opened the door first to leave.

Qi Liangli didn't understand, so he asked, "What happened to brother Zhuo? Why is it so strange?"

Seeing Zhong Yiran's sullen face, Deng Lanluo shook her head, and suggested: "It's nothing, New Year's Eve tonight, why don't we go have a meal together and call Zhang Xun."

Qi Liangli curled his lips: "Then why isn't he called Brother Zhuo?"

Deng Lanluo smiled: "It's okay, why don't you call him and see if he is willing to go."

Lu Chixie's car was parked in the parking lot downstairs, and he narrowed his eyes slightly as he looked at the screen of his mobile phone that showed the end of the call.

Five minutes later, the door of the passenger seat was suddenly pulled open. Ling Zhuo sat in and closed the door forcefully.

Lu Chixie turned his head and reached out to touch his face, but Ling Zhuo avoided it.

"Unhappy?" Lu Chixie withdrew his hand, his eyes lingering on his face.

Ling Zhuo looked indifferent, and asked him: "CL perfume changed from my personal generation to the group generation, you made it?"

Lu Chixie was surprised at first, but then understood, there was no panic on his face, and he turned off the fire: "You know?"

Ling Zhuo: "Zhang Xun went to Xingyao, the personal resources obtained by Zhong Yiran and Deng Lanluo happened to coincide with the concert schedule, and you did it?"

Lu Chixie responded casually, "Yes."

Ling Zhuo: "You also let people buy Haitian's shares. At this juncture, brother Liu is not allowed to take us again, just to make it impossible for us to hold this concert?"

Lu Chixie: "You already know, why bother to ask."

Ling Zhuo: "You—"

His voice was raised, as if he was angry and trying to endure: "What else did you do? You exposed these things on Weibo hot searches before, bought marketing accounts and sailors to lead the rhythm, and made our fans tear up. It was also you who did it." ?”

Lu Chixie admitted frankly: "Yes."

He recognized it so easily, Ling Zhuo felt that he couldn't get up and down: "Are you interested? What's your attitude now? Do you still think you're doing the right thing?"

Lu Chixie: "I didn't do it right? If I don't do these things, when will you know that this group is not suitable for you? Besides, I have told you the truth, my personality is just like this, let you be mentally prepared, I won't change."

Ling Zhuo: "If you can't change a word, you can do whatever you want?"

Lu Chixie: "So what if I do whatever I want? What I did didn't cause any substantial harm to your teammates, right? Didn't they all reap benefits?"

Ling Zhuo: "You're just arguing! Why do you control everything, meddle in my affairs and arrange the people around me? What do you think of me?"

Lu Chixi lowered his voice: "Are you angry?"

Ling Zhuo: "Shouldn't I be angry? You don't respect me at all! From the beginning to the end, you only want to achieve your goal and use any means. If I didn't know this today, are you planning to keep it from me?"

"Are you angry because of this?" Lu Chixie sneered, "Actually, you are angry that I ruined your first love of seven years, right?"

Ling Zhuo was taken aback.

He clenched his fist hard: "Is this your purpose?"

Lu Chixie: "Yeah, who told you to like someone else? I don't like him, so I can only kick him away from you. I haven't done anything to him now. If he doesn't know how to pester you, I will Make him feel bad."

"Don't threaten me with him," Ling Zhuo said angrily, "You have something wrong with you, your brain is seriously ill, I'm blind to fall in love with you!"

Lu Chixie grabbed his wrist violently, and said with a dark face, "You still think about him?"

Ling Zhuo: "What are you doing?"

Actually not, if it wasn't for Lu Chixie's reminder, he would not have realized it until now, before Deng Lanluo said that Zhong Yiran liked him, and Zhong Yiran didn't come to see him on the night of Qixi because he was hindered by the people in front of him... ...It turned out to be like this, it turned out to be like this.

Lu Chixie stared at him, and slowly increased the strength of his hand. Ling Zhuo's wrist hurt from being pinched. During the stalemate, the phone rang suddenly.

He looked down at the screen, it was Qi Liangli calling, he clicked to answer, Qi Liangli hesitated on the other side of the phone and asked: "Brother Zhuo, we will have dinner at night, Zhang Xun will also come, will you come?"

Ling Zhuo: "Okay, I haven't left yet, where are you, I'll go find you."

Seeing him hang up the phone, Lu Chixie asked coldly, "Where are you going?"

Ling Zhuo: "I went to dinner with my teammates, do I have to report to you?"

Lu Chixie gripped him even tighter: "Don't go."

Ling Zhuo lowered his head and bit the back of his hand hard. Lu Chixie let go, and he immediately pushed the man away, opened the door and got out of the car.

Lu Chixie drove up and walked around in front of him to block him, Ling Zhuo didn't dodge, standing still in front of the car, looking at the people in the car silently through the car glass.

When the call came, he pressed to answer it, Che Neilu Chixie looked at him with his phone up: "Do you have to go?"

Ling Zhuo: "We must go."

After a silent confrontation, Lu Chixie lowered his voice: "When will you be back?"

Ling Zhuo was startled, he was even ready to fight with Lu Chixie, but Lu Chixie backed down?

Ling Zhuo: "Let's talk after dinner."

Tomorrow is Lu Chixie's birthday, and he will never forget it.

There was silence again, and after a while Lu Chixie hung up the phone, the car backed up for a while, then drove forward again, bypassing Ling Zhuo, and drove towards the exit of the parking lot.

Ling Zhuo looked back, Lu Chixie's car had already driven out of the underground parking lot.