Chapter 31 – Shang Chengze’s death begins

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“If I don’t come, what will you do after 9 pm?” Si Junduo questioned him.

Wen Mingyi had already figured out a solution for this. “I’ll say I was asleep. When the door is locked, no one else can get in.”

“What about when someone calls you?”

“I’m asleep, so naturally I can’t answer the phone,” Wen Mingyi said plausibly.

“Then I have nothing to worry about.” Si Junduo’s tone was steady.

Wen Mingyi smiled and leaned closer. “You worry about me?”

“I’m afraid you’ll fall into the tiger’s den again.”

As soon as he said this, Wen Mingyi thought of the dog dealers capturing him. “Aiya, that’s all in the past. It won’t happen again.”

“Really?”

Wen Mingyi nodded. “But Ge, I’m happy you came over. Will you be staying here tonight? Or at another hotel?”

Si Junduo ignited the car engine and told him, “Another hotel.”

“Then with you being here, are you going to take me there too?”

“Can’t I?”

“Can.” Wen Mingyi had no objections. He took out his phone and sent Cheng Lu a WeChat message. “Let me inform Cheng-jie, otherwise she might worry when I don’t return.”

“En,” Si Junduo responded.

When Wen Mingyi got out of the car again, he had turned into a little orange cat. Nestled in the arms of Si Junduo, with his head resting on his two paws, he thought that he needed a keyboard.

It couldn’t be helped, cat paws were not convenient. One paw down and half of the screen was gone. If he had a keyboard, words could be typed through the keyboard, making it easier to communicate with others. Then, even after turning into a cat or dog, he would be able to send WeChat messages.

Wen Mingyi thought this idea was good. As soon as they arrived in the hotel room, he jumped out of Si Junduo’s arms and wrote to him on the floor.

Seeing what the cat wrote stroke by stroke, Si Junduo asked, “You want a keyboard?”

Wen Mingyi nodded and continued writing about his request. After he finished, he turned his head and looked at Si Junduo with a face full of anticipation. Si Junduo had always given whatever Wen Mingyi requested. Not to mention, this idea was really good. So he nudged Wen Mingyi in the forehead and agreed.

Wen Mingyi meowed happily, and rubbed against Si Junduo’s fingers.

Si Junduo tapped his little pink nose, and took him into the bathroom to help him clean up. Once done, he called the front desk to send a pen and paper up, then traced the shape and size of his paw on the paper.

Wen Mingyi cooperated and let him trace each paw properly before urging him to go to bed.

At 8:30 the next morning, as soon as Si Junduo finished washing up, he heard Wen Mingyi’s phone ring next to his pillow.

He smoothly picked it up, and saw the words shown: Cheng-jie.

“Hello,” Si Junduo answered.

Cheng Lu was taken aback. She glanced at the name displayed on the phone. Seemed to be correct, Wen Mingyi.

“Wen Mingyi?” she tentatively asked.

“I’m Si Junduo,” as he spoke, Si Junduo walked to the suite’s living room. “Ming Ming is still sleeping. I’ll send him to the studio once he’s awake in a while’s time.”

The amount of information in this sentence stunned Cheng Lu. However, she had already met Si Junduo before she met Wen Mingyi, understanding the relationship between the other party and her own boss, and also about the relationship between him and Wen Mingyi. They did not have an ordinary relationship. Plus, Wen Mingyi did inform her last night that he was heading out with Si Junduo.

Hence, after the initial shock, Cheng Lu also calmed down. “Alright then, I’ll have to trouble Boss Si.”

“No problem.” Si Junduo hung up the phone.

At nine o’clock, Wen Mingyi changed back into a human. Si Junduo woke him up and brought him to the studio.

Before getting out of the car, Wen Mingyi asked him, “Are you still going to stay at the same hotel tonight?”

“En.”

“Don’t tell me you plan to stay there and accompany me while I film?”

Si Junduo: “Can’t I?”

Wen Mingyi felt it was unnecessary. “But you’ll be late for work in the morning.”

“The boss being late, can it still be called late?”

Wen Mingyi: …

His ge even made such a cold joke. How frightening!

“Then I’ll find you once I’m done with my scenes.”

“En.”

“Bye bye,” Wen Mingyi finished speaking and got out of the car.

Si Junduo was quiet for a while, then he turned around and drove back. When he arrived at the company, he handed the paw tracings for the keyboard to Lin Mu. “Go and customize a keyboard. The size of each button must be made according to the size mentioned in these drawings here. Choose the best material and align it properly. Must be soft to the touch.”

Lin Mu was dazed, but she still nodded in response. “Okay.”

Yet, when she unfolded the drawing, she hesitated. “Boss Si, in my opinion, these buttons are too big.”

“Not big,” Si Junduo calmly said. “You only need to follow the instructions.”

Lin Mu could only acknowledge him. In her heart, she questioned, such big buttons, who was the boss giving this to? These were obviously the fingers of a giant!

As soon as Wen Mingyi arrived on the set, Cheng Lu greeted him. Seeing he was still wearing his own clothes, she quickly instructed, “Go and change your clothes. It’s your scene next.”

Wen Mingyi followed her to a costume designer to change his clothes. After Shang Chengze was done, the makeup artist and stylist started to help him with the makeup and styling.

“Your skin is really good,” the makeup artist praised. “You don’t need to apply powder at all.”

Wen Mingyi smiled, sweetly saying, “Jie, your skin is good too.”

“Not mine,” The makeup artist drew his eyebrows while continuing, “This is the effect after applying on powder.”

“It still looks good.”

Seeing his good looks and sweet words, the makeup artist was happy, so when she was doing the makeup and styling for him, she was even more focused. When it was finally done, even Cheng Lu was dumbfounded. ——This was just too much of a pure sunshine look!

Shang Chengze’s brows dipped unconsciously when he saw Wen Mingyi after he finished his styling. He quickly turned his head away. In his heart, he could only secretly complain with much dissatisfaction.

At this time, Yan Feifei was standing next to the nanny car, talking to the agent when she spotted Wen Mingyi with his new look. She stretched her hand to greet him, measuring him as she looked him up, down, left, and right. “Not bad, Xiao Wen. Very handsome.” She smiled.

“Yan-jie, you are more beautiful,” Wen Mingyi said reciprocally.

As the two conversed, the staff in charge of pets brought out a mandarin orange cat, a ragdoll cat and a little corgi, lining them at Yan Feifei’s feet, and told her, “Yan-jie, these are all the pets in the show. Do familiarize yourself with them first. Once we start filming, it’ll be easier.”

Yan Feifei nodded. “Okay.”

She lowered her head to touch the little cat on the ground. The little cat unconsciously stepped back and leaned on Wen Mingyi.

The orange cat’s small nose twitched as it sniffed Wen Mingyi, and said in surprise, “There is a cat’s scent~”

But when it raised its head to Wen Mingyi, it was puzzled. “Not a cat.”

Ragdoll followed with, “En.”

Wen Mingyi: …

Wen Mingyi remained silent.

However, the two cats gathered at his feet. The corgi also leaned over, and sniffed Wen Mingyi’s bodily scent. It told the orange cat, “It’s a dog’s scent~”

“A cat!”

“A dog!”

Like this, one cat and one dog quarreled. The ragdoll cat stood on the side, persuading anxiously, “Don’t argue, don’t argue.”

But the orange cat and corgi didn’t listen.

Wen Mingyi helplessly looked up at the sky. Not a cat, not a dog. He was a human, okay?!

He squatted down, holding the orange cat on one hand, and the corgi on the other. He persuaded them, “Don’t argue. Be good.”

Saying three times, the orange cat and corgi understood. They turned to question him, “You answer, a cat or a dog?”

Wen Mingyi: … I am a human! I am a human who walks on two legs!

He patiently persuaded the orange cat and corgi for a while, and only then finally coaxed the two little guys together.

Yan Feifei looked at him in surprise. “You have such an affinity with animals. These cats and the dog really do like you.”

Wen Mingyi: …

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Wen Mingyi could only respond with a smile. It wasn’t that they liked him, but they just treated him as their own kind! He calmed the cats and dog in front of Yan Feifei, then got up and walked towards his nanny car.

Yan Feifei bent down and picked up the ragdoll cat on the ground, and carefully stroked its back.

Like Yan Feifei, Shang Chengze also received his pet. His pet was a Siamese cat, a cat that Mu Kai bought specifically to chase Mo Mo. Although Mo Mo did not chase after him, Mu Kai still liked this cat. However, though in the book Mu Kai liked it, that didn’t mean Shang Chengze, who played him, also liked it.

Bearing a black face, Shang Chengze was dissatisfied. “What kind of cat is this, it’s so ugly. Can’t you replace it?”

The staff reluctantly explained, “We can’t do that. The book has a Siamese cat written. If we change this, the book fans will make trouble again.”

Shang Chengze held it in a rather disgusted manner. After the staff left, he immediately put the cat on the ground again, disdainfully saying, “It’s so ugly and you want me to shoot with it? It’s so black, will the camera be able to find it?”

His assistant quickly persuaded, “No worries. Shang-ge, just hug it when you are filming. You don’t need to care about it at other times.”

“Of course. I’m not an 18-tier¹Like a third rate actor, not very popular. Where would I have the time to care about the cat.”

After he finished speaking, he headed for the nanny car. “You help me look after it. I’ll get in the car for a rest, don’t come in.”

When Wen Mingyi passed by Shang Chengze’s nanny car, Shang Chengze’s assistant was playing games. The thin Siamese cat meowed at his feet, shouting, “Hungry, I’m hungry.” But the assistant ignored it.

The siamese cat rubbed itself against his leg, wanting him to feed itself a little bit of food. But the assistant didn’t even look before he kicked it aside. “Scram. What are you shouting for? Such an ugly thing. Seeing you makes me annoyed.”

The little siamese stood aggrievedly nearby, not daring to approach. It lowered its head and licked the place where it was kicked, softly comforting itself, “Not painful, not painful. Hu hu~”

Seeing that, Wen Mingyi was slightly distressed.

He turned to the direction where the assistant was. As he passed by, he pretended to accidentally, deliberately hit the assistant severely. The phone fell to the ground, and Shang Chengze’s assistant instantly became furious. “What are you doing! You walk without looking?!”

Wen Mingyi hurriedly said, “I’m sorry, someone told me that the director called me just now. I was in a hurry to rush over, so I didn’t pay attention to the way.”

“Be careful next time!” the assistant said angrily. As he said so, he bent and prepared to pick up his phone.

Just as he bent down, he heard Shang Chengze’s contemptuous voice. “He knocked down your phone. Why are you picking it up? Let him pick it.”

The assistant was taken aback when he heard these words.

Shang Chengze got out of the car. “Walking without looking. Hitting another person and not even helping to pick up the phone? Even if you’re not attending school now, with nine years of compulsory education, this basic politeness, you should already know.”

Wen Mingyi heard these words and raised his eyes towards Shang Chengze.

Shang Chengze inserted his hands into his pocket. With disdain and ridicule clear in his eyes, he asked, “Or, you haven’t even learnt this kind of common sense?”

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  Like a third rate actor, not very popular