23 - Becoming everyone's Favorite

The pink man’s name was Gu [1] Junye and known as Brother Junjun in the inner circle. He was the Casting Director of Qianyi Studio where all the signed ups were under his charge.

This year’s audition had come to a close, and except for a few individuals signed through connection, he hadn’t pick out a good draft from the pile of copied and pasted cheap goods. He was on the verge of despair but suddenly there was a shine before his eyes as he discovered an odd alpaca youth.

He came from a talent scout background that had perused a lot of people. Although this type of bony kid was a little immature now, he would be extremely handsome after two years of full growth. The most passionate thing for fans was to watch their idol grow up, all the way from growing up to transformation.

Walking into the audition room, Brother Junjun pointed to the photos of three starlets on the wall, “Know them? Wu Wenxuan signed the contract the year before last and this year, he had acted as a second male lead. Our studio’s resources are very strong.”

Led to look around at the photos on the wall, Pei Xian was rather baffled. How can Gu Caocao act the role of second male lead? It can only act as second alpaca lead, ah?

“I’m sure you’ll be popular than them.” Brother Junjun raised his orchid fingers [2] and turned to point to him, “Later on, as long as you just stand in place, you don’t have to do anything and money will rain from the sky.”

“Ah?” Pei Xian’s brain was in knot, but he was very quick to say, “Are you talking about the tortoise in the wishing pool?”

“……” Brother Junjun rolled his big white eyes that said ‘in the light of your beauty, I’ll make allowances to your code of ethics’ .

“Mister Gu, I’m not here for the audition, I’m the parent of the auditioning alpaca.” Pei Xian finally realized that there was a problem and mended it up with a sentence while pointing to Gu Caocao, who was staring blankly, beside him.

Brother Junjun’s eyes fell on the top of the big white alpaca’s head, suddenly picked up the application form and looked at it carefully, “Gu Caocao? A Peruvian alpaca?”

“Ohn!” The wise Caocao answered with its face upward.

Brother Junjun was so angry that he must have had myocardial infarction as he twirled around in place while covering his chest with his hands, “I have never met anyone who mess around such as you! How can an alpaca become a contracted artist?”

Pei Xian took out his mobile phone and put on Wu Qianyi’s interview clip to him for specious arguments, “Although Caocao is an alpaca, the signing standard is beautiful, not species.”

Wu Qianyi’s video was cut by him particularly crafty, which repeatedly only ‘there is only one standard, which is being out of the ordinary beautiful’ sentence with speed up repetition that was more like a mantra.

Brother Junjun, who was famous for his good temper, had gone crazy due to being played with. He slapped the application form on Pei Xian’s chest and pushed him to the door, “Go-go-go! Which family’s child is making trouble! Take your alpaca and go!”

“What’s the matter? Making a racket in the afternoon?”

As soon as Pei Xian was drove out of the room with the alpaca, he saw Wu Qianyi in tall, thin and sexy high heels with sunglasses and scarf on being escorted by the assistant’s hand, coming like the Queen Mother of the West.

Without seeing Pei Xian, she saw the big white alpaca with fluffy soft wool and asked in surprise while lowering the sunglasses with a single finger, “Gu Caocao?”

Gu Caocao was an alpaca spirit who answered whenever it was called, “Ohn!”

Wu Qianyi came running on tiptoe, put her arms around its neck and began to check it out. She even boxed its ears right and left to smooch it, “Woah! Caocao, you are so beautiful and even softer than seen in the picture.”

Brother Junjun was dumbfounded. Granted that those coquettish girls got signed up through powerful connection, but how can even an alpaca go through the back door?

“Miss Wu, this Gu Caocao is here to audition as actor.” He was rather awkward to remind the boss who was having fun kissing the alpaca.

“Hm?” Wu Qianyi, who had endured all kinds of intimidation, was taken aback. Only then did she notice Pei Xian, who was squeezed into the corner by the alpaca’s lascivious butt.

She had a tall stature and with the pair of ‘almighty’ platform high heels, her height was straight up to 1.8 meter. In contrast, Pei Xian that squeezed by Gu Caocao on the aisle wall had become a small one at this time.

Surprise flashed in Wu Qianyi’s eyes. Why did this little face look like Xiao Yuhang? What’s his origin?

“Miss Wu, I’m here bringing Gu Caocao for the audition.” Pei Xian moved away from Gu Caocao’s smelly brazen big butt to step forward.

Wu Qianyi sized him up without comment. As if seeing a sweet and fragrant melon being delivered to the mouth, she hooked her fingers, “You come with me.”

Half of the second floor of the building was Wu Qianyi’s independent office. Coming through the door, it was a world of its own where the whole indoor floor was connected with the third floor. The floor-to-ceiling glass wall on the side was transparent and bright as the high sun in the late autumn was fully domineering.

Wu Qianyi held an exquisite coffee cup of H as she sipped slowly, “Little beauty, whose family’s child are you?”

Pei Xian sat in the sofa with his hands around the furry neck of Gu Caocao, “Miss Wu, my name is Pei Xian. I live at No. 1 Bolin Road.”

The wording could be rated as precise; not that “my family live in Bolin Road”, but “I live in Bolin Road”, which left a plot-filling space as big as a black hole.

Wu Qianyi’s ear tips moved like a fox. What? Isn’t No.1 Bolin Road the home of that blockhead surnamed Gu?

Without waiting for her to discharge quick-witted brain cells, Pei Xian said: “Don’t you think Xiao Yuhang looks a little like me?”

It was just that the order of the names was reversed that the meaning of the words let one’s imagination run wild.

Wu Qianyi’s hold of the coffee cup was petrified by the quick chop combo. “You-you-you?!”

Pei Xian lowered his eyes and caressed the soft back wool of Gu Caocao as he said without any change of expression, “Gu Han is my husband and Gu Caocao is his son.”

Wu Qianyi’s coral red lips slowly opened into an O-shaped which only closed after she strongly used her hand to prop up her chin, and then firmly said: “I don’t believe it!”

You’re joking. Gu Han and Xiao Yuhang were schoolmates, who he had been pestering for more than ten years. The kid in front of her was probably still drinking milk ten years ago!

Pei Xian took out his mobile phone with a poker face and turned on the hands-free, “Hubby, what are you doing?”

There was an obvious pause on the phone, and then a happy and pleasant male voice transmitted out, “Where did you go to play again? Uncle Lin said you didn’t finish your meal. Um… I’m going to have a meeting soon. By the way, I bought yellow oil crabs before I left, so ask the aunt to cook it for you in the evening. Is it time for Gu Caocao to take a bath? I’m not here, you don’t have to wash it by yourself, ask Xiao Liu and the others to help you. Be obedient, ah.”

“You’re busy, muah ~ I just want to call you.” Pei Xian’s facial expression had not changed much, but his voice was very sweet.

The person on the other side of the phone seemed in a seventh heaven. “Did you eat sodium cyclamate today? Come say, what evil things do you want to do? Give me a good time, or I’ll be too scared to sleep tonight.”

“Why would I? Bye-bye, hubby!” Afraid of revealing the truth, Pei Xian resolutely hung up the phone.

Then Pei Xian called Gu Han’s childhood friend to inquire about the decoration of the Alpaca Café. The other side readily called out ‘saozi’ in an eagerly attentive tone.

The single heroin Wu Qianyi was inexplicably slapped with dog food that she couldn’t utter a word with her mouth open which couldn’t be close even when she propped her chin up back.

The relationship by marriage between the wealthy and influential clans was complicated with many connections. Although she and Gu Han only exchanged nods and pretended to smile at each other when they met, their families had frequently dealt with each other. Moreover, Gu Han’s childhood friend Guo Fei was her sworn enemy that had been entangled with her for 19 years. Therefore, she would never mistake these two voices!

The heavy indulgence in the phone poured out in torrents like 100k tons of shoddy cream. Although Gu Han chased after Xiao Yuhang, somehow he still retained the face of a boss, where he wouldn’t have this terribly disgusting tone.

Kept a mistress in a love nest, the colored flag fluttered. Oh my mama… Does Gu Han has a hobby of collecting? Is he going to keep collecting this type of face to bring home?

Wu Qianyi was in a mess, “Then-then you are seeking me for…”

Pei Xian’s hand lingered on the back of Gu Caocao for a while before it fell on the side of the golden coffee table, rubbing it back and forth, and said word by word: “I want Xiao Yuhang to know what real multifarious favoritism is like.”

“……” Wu Qianyi internally laughed. Oh, I understood, you don’t need to say having a bitch fight in such exceedingly refined way.

Note:

[1] This Gu Junye is not the same as Gu in Gu Han

[2] orchid fingers—a lady’s hand gesture with the tips of the thumb and the forefinger touching and the other three fingers raised (usu.made on the stage to show delicacy and grace)