"You accepted this script?"
Wen Liangtian came over to Chu Xinghui after finishing his scene, still wearing his makeup. He looked at the script in Chu Xinghui's hands in shock.
"I remember this movie's director is supposed to be really good, right? He picked you?"
Chu Xinghui nodded and handed Wen Liangtian the script to read.
"Speaking of which, we've both landed roles. Why hasn't Lan Xiangxian?"
Logically, now that he had appeared on the variety show, Lan Xiangxian should have gotten a piece of the pie, even if it was only a tiny role.
But not only had he failed to land anything, even his previous role as a corpse was gone.
Since finishing the variety show, Lan Xiangxian had been living in the house Gu Chupei had prepared for him.
"Could Gu Chupei be stopping him from acting?"
Off to the side, Gu Kai voiced a guess he could hardly believe himself, then shook his head.
"No way."
Why not?
Even Pei Hanmo, his boss, couldn't talk him around. Gu Chupei really might keep Lan Xiangxian shut up at home.
Chu Xinghui took the script back from Wen Liangtian and asked,
"Do you know where Lan Xiangxian lives?"
Wen Liangtian nodded, also realizing something was wrong.
"Wait for me to change. We'll head over right away."
The three of them took a car to a relatively out-of-the-way neighborhood.
Small villas lined the area. It looked like the sort of place rich people lived.
Checking the address Lan Xiangxian had sent him earlier, Wen Liangtian walked up to one of the small villas.
"This is it."
He stepped forward and knocked lightly, but there was no movement inside.
He knocked a few more times. There wasn't a sound.
"Could they both have gone out?"
Only then did Chu Xinghui