Zero-sum game

Shen Yan has been looking for a house for the past two days.

During the summer vacation, non-graduate students are not allowed to stay in school, he has to find a place to live near the school - he has no plans to go home at all.

After all, I haven't contacted my parents for almost a month, but they don't care much about his life or death.They divorced when he was in junior high school. Since then, Shen Yan has lived on campus, and his parents give half of the living expenses each month.In the past few years, they each had their own families, and Shen Yan never asked them for money since he was in college, and became a free man.Seeing that it was time for the summer vacation, both parents hadn't even called, obviously they didn't want him to bother them, Shen Yan didn't intend to go either, and planned to rent a short-term rental house and find a part-time job along the way.

Although Boss Chen over there gave a lot, but the work was not always available.He still has some money on hand, which is for the next semester to pay tuition fees, and he has to work part-time to make up for it.

But even after searching for several days, there was nothing suitable around the school.Either it is a well-decorated single apartment or a community house, but the rent is too expensive, or it is a cheap private rental house, but it is really dirty and messy, and there is no air conditioner. In this summer, Dingchuan’s solar energy bakes eggs. half life.

After seeing that the house was too hot, Shen Yan found a milk tea shop to turn on the air conditioner. When the iced lemon tea he ordered was served, the phone rang, and it was Tian Xin who asked, "How is the house search? The rehearsal will start the day after tomorrow." ha."

Less than a week after the college entrance examination ended, Tian Xin got the accurate information through his powerful contacts, and the theater tour was confirmed to be their "Daydream".It is said that the judging group was at loggerheads between them and the "Secret Love" group, but a big figure from above appointed them. Before the official announcement came out, Tian Xin had already started to rehearse.

Shen Yan truthfully replied that he hadn't found it yet, and Tian Xin immediately made a video call.

She seemed to be in a shopping mall. As soon as she connected, she signaled the person next to her to lower her voice, "Why haven't you found it yet? There should be quite a lot of houses around the school, right?"

Shen Yan heard her friends whispering something, and then laughed together, Tian Xin rolled her eyes at them.

"It's quite a lot, but it's a bit expensive."

Tian Xin suddenly seemed to think of something, "By the way, isn't there an empty room in Zhou Xingchuan's place? It's a waste for him to live alone in such a big room. I'll let him rent it to you for 200 yuan."

No matter whether Zhou Xingchuan agrees or not, Tian Xin has already made arrangements for him clearly.

Shen Yan hurriedly stopped, "No need, no need, his friends often live there, I'd better look for it myself."

Tian Xin knew who he was talking about, "Are you talking about Mo Qiang? Zhou Xingchuan didn't want her to pass by in three days. Don't worry about it. I'll tell Zhou Xingchuan for you."

After speaking, she hung up the video call.

Shen Yan stared at the chat interface with Tian Xin for two seconds.What surprised him was that Tian Xin also knew Mo Qiang.

He remembered that Tian Xin and Zhou Xingchuan seemed to belong to the same society, and they were quite familiar with each other before the joint entrance examination rehearsal.

Shen Yan remembered that when he saw Zhou Xingchuan in the past, there was always a large group of noisy friends around him.If it wasn't for the coincidence that he joined the group this time, it is estimated that he would not have any intersection with them.

Thinking about it this way, he had the feeling that he was an outsider who wanted to squeeze into the circle.

His fingers hesitated on the keyboard, but he still sent a message to Tian Xin, saying that he would look for it again and not bother her and Zhou Xingchuan.

At this time, his lemon tea was also served, and he looked up only to notice that a few girls at the next table seemed to be looking at him intentionally or unintentionally, and they were discussing something enthusiastically with their voices pressed.

A few sporadic words popped into his ears, something like "the second man in women's clothing".Shen Yan felt a little uncomfortable, picked up his drink and was about to leave, when one of the girls suddenly stood up and stopped him.

"Hello, little brother, are you the male lead of "Daydream"?" The girl was wearing a skirt with a square collar and a ponytail, her clavicle exposed was very eye-catching, "Can I add a WeChat account?"

Shen Yan stared at her for two seconds and said, "Yes."

The girl smiled, looking a little complacent, as if she was sure that he would agree. After scanning the QR code, she asked again: "I heard that the theater tour has been booked for you, are you going to start rehearsing?"

Shen Yan glanced at her, and said lightly: "If you want to see Zhou Xingchuan, I guess you can't. Our rehearsal is closed."

"Huh?" The girl was a little surprised, as if she didn't expect Shen Yan to see what she was thinking in an instant, her cheeks flushed slightly, "Actually, it's not..."

Shen Yan looked at her, "And Zhou Xingchuan already has a girlfriend."

After speaking, he opened the door and went out.

The moment he lightly ignored the girl's friend request and put the phone in his pocket, Shen Yan felt a bit like a vicious supporting actress in a vulgar romantic drama.

But he didn't feel guilty at all, after all... Zhou Xingchuan couldn't have all the good things in the world, so why should everyone fall in love with him and revolve around him?

The midsummer sun is very hot, and the moment he walked out, the heat wave evaporated all the coolness just now, leaving only the cup of iced lemon tea in his hand still a little bit cool.Shen Yan walked back to school quickly.

Zhou Xingchuan, who was sitting in the living room, was blown by the cold air from the air conditioner, and shivered unconsciously. His mother patted him on the shoulder and said, "Did you hear me, go see Mo Qiang off."

"Huh?" Zhou Xingchuan didn't listen to them at all, and was confused by his mother.

"I've been talking about it for a long time. Mo Qiang is going to Turkey for a trip. I want you to see her off on the flight tomorrow afternoon." Mother Zhou said.

"Just ask your dad's driver to deliver it." Zhou Xingchuan put down his phone, stood up and poured himself a glass of water.

"Forget it, auntie," Mo Qiang said angrily after hearing what he said, "It's fine if you don't send me there. I don't care about it. Auntie said just now that you are going to start rehearsing again. If you are exhausted, forget it. I am I won't visit you."

Mother Zhou heard the bickering between the two of them, and said with a smile: "Anyway, you are free and have nothing to do, so go and see Mo Qiang, and she will cook for you."

Zhou Xingchuan put down the water glass, the taste of the fruit tea was not to his liking, "I didn't ask her to go."

Seeing his performance, Mo Qiang suddenly became angry, and threw the mobile phone on the coffee table, "Do you think I want to?! I'm afraid that you will act too much as a man, and you will be fascinated by the fake show." Already!"

"What do you mean?" Zhou Xingchuan looked at her.

Mo Qiang snorted, "It's nothing interesting, just to remind you, your junior is too 'beautiful', looks like a girl, maybe he likes boys too."

Zhou Xingchuan frowned, "Don't say anything without grounds."

"You know I'm groundless again?"

"Okay, okay," Zhou's mother smoothed things over, "I'm still arguing at such an age."

Zhou Xingchuan didn't intend to argue with Mo Qiang at first, but his cell phone rang at this moment, and seeing that it was Tian Xin calling, he went to the balcony to answer the call.

Tian Xin really didn't know how to tell Zhou Xingchuan about this matter.

Originally, she thought that the theater tour was a certainty, but a friend from the judging panel suddenly sent a message that some bigwigs there would invite her to have a private dinner with the two leading actors today.

This made Tian Xin conflicted.What does this mean?According to the general rules, this is like asking for a private gift, but for these poor students, the sponsors can only bring a few bottles of drinks, so they can't give them away.

She had no choice but to discuss with Zhou Xingchuan first, to see if they wanted to attend this unknown banquet.

Zhou Xingchuan hesitated when he heard it, and said, "I think it's better to go and have a look, otherwise I don't know what's going on."

Tian Xin said: "That's fine, I'll call Shen Yan again."

"No, it's better not to call him," Zhou Xingchuan said, "He's young, we just go talk about it."

"Tsk, you're quite protective of her," Tian Xin said with a smile, "Then it's settled, I'll send you the address, and we'll see you when we arrive."

After answering the phone, Zhou Xingchuan returned to the living room, and Mo Qiang had already left, probably because of his anger.

"I'm going out and staying at school tonight." Zhou Xingchuan picked up his bag.

Just about to go out, Zhou's mother said: "You should go see Mo Qiang tomorrow, and help carry luggage or something."

"Understood." Zhou Xingchuan agreed and walked out.

Zhou Xingchuan arrived at the place given by Tian Xin on time, and she was late after waiting for a while, followed by Shen Yan who was carrying a shoulder bag.

"Didn't I tell you not to call him?" Zhou Xingchuan asked when he saw Shen Yan.

"I want to come here myself." Shen Yan said.

Tian Xin didn't intend to tell Shen Yan about this at first, but who knew that she happened to meet him at the school gate when she went out by such a coincidence, and he found out that she was lying after going back and forth, so he had to bring him along.

The location of this Hongmen banquet was in a well-known hotel in Dingchuan. When we went up to the fourth floor, as soon as the elevator door opened, we could hear ghosts and wolves coming from different boxes inside.

"Why is it a KTV?" Tian Xin muttered in a low voice, "I still expected to come over and have a good meal."

He was ushered in by the waiter to a VIP box, which was surrounded by clouds and mist, and there were already a circle of people sitting there.

Someone who looked like Tian Xin's friend led them in and introduced several people related to the judging panel one by one, but did not introduce the two people sitting on the couch on one side.

The three of them were pulled to sit down, all a little uncomfortable, after all, they were a bit out of place compared to this group of people.There were only a few female accompaniment singing, drinking and singing, and the scene was quite lively.

Shen Yan sat on the side, Tian Xin was pulled by her friend to sit there, so he sat with Zhou Xingchuan, the other side was the couch.

The waiter served their drinks, and Shen Yan just took a sip when the man in the suit on the couch spoke to him suddenly, "We seem to have met before, don't we?"

Shen Yan glanced at him, just about to say no -

The man said firmly, "Zaixiang, you are Mr. Shen who writes calligraphy."

Shen Yan's smile froze.