soul collector

I haven't seen him for more than a month, but Jiang Qiao seems to have lost some weight.After being injured for a hundred days, only the left arm of the down jacket he was wearing was put into the sleeve, and the right side was draped over the shoulder.His assistant, carrying a large bag in his hand, swiped his card to open the door for him, and then the two went in together.

The door was ajar, and Tang Xiu watched quietly through the cat's eyes. After waiting for about ten minutes, the ajar door was pushed open, and Jiang Qiao and his assistant came out again.Jiang Qiao took off his coat, exposing the bandage wrapped around his right arm. He waved his left hand with his assistant, urging him to go back to celebrate the New Year, and leave him alone.

That's right, it's past twelve o'clock in the evening, and it's already New Year's Eve.

Tang Xiu subconsciously pressed his ear to the door, trying to hear what those two people were saying clearly.

"Director, I'm going back for the New Year. Is it really okay for you to be alone? Let me help you contact your family."

Jiang Qiao said in a gentle voice, "It's okay. I won't go back and make the old man cry when I get hurt. Go back and enjoy the New Year." He took out the prepared big red envelope from his trouser pocket with his left hand and stuffed it in the assistant's hand. Yue has worked hard on you, for the children."

The assistant quickly declined, but Jiang Qiao said, "Don't argue with me, I don't know how to use my hands."

The assistant said gratefully: "Then I'll go first, Director Jiang, happy new year!"

"Happy New Year." Jiang Qiao slightly curled his lips, watching his assistant walk to the end of the corridor and get on the elevator.

In the middle of the night, the corridor fell silent again, only the voice-activated lights on this side were still on. Jiang Qiao didn't go directly into the house. He stepped out from the door and stood firmly in front of Tang Xiu's room, staring at the closed door. .

There was no light on or any sound in Tang Xiu's house. He knew that he would not be found peeking through the cat's eyes, but Jiang Qiao stood outside the door and looked at him like that, which made him very uncomfortable.

That figure was a bit too lonely.

Tang Xiu felt tormented, he wanted to turn around and go back to the room, but his feet seemed to grow in the doorway.He subconsciously licked the dry corners of his lips, but Jiang Qiao opened his mouth outside the door.

The silent four words, safe New Year's Eve.

Then the man turned around, opened the door with his left hand, and pushed it gently from the inside.

After a long time, the ancestor who seemed to be frozen in front of the door exhaled lightly, turned back and leaned against the door panel, suddenly felt that he was covered in cold sweat, and his whole body seemed to collapse.

The palm of his hand trembled again, and Li Ziping sent a voice over.Tang Xiu usually didn't like to listen to audio, but it was probably too quiet in the house, making people flustered, so he clicked play almost immediately.

"The first premiere of "Fox Killing Terrace" has already started. Both you and Jiang Qiao will go to the celebration tomorrow night. Is it okay?"

Tang Xiu looked at the voice, but didn't reply.

This night, the ancestor who had never suffered from insomnia suffered from insomnia.So much so that he knew very well that at two in the morning Jiang Qiao called for housekeeping, at three in the morning he ordered takeaway, and at four in the morning, the director with a disabled arm carried a large pile of takeaway fast food boxes with one hand and went to the trash lane .

In the middle of the night, the patient didn't know what he was doing, making the old ancestors sleepless.

Tang Xiu's mind was in a mess, probably because he stayed up late, and he hadn't thought clearly yet. Hearing the sound of Jiang Qiao's slippers coming back from the garbage road, he couldn't help but pull out his phone to edit the news.

This is the first active contact in more than a month.After he typed out the line "Li Ziping said you were discharged from the hospital", he stared at it for a while and thought about it, then added a title in front, and then perfected the sentence structure.

- "Director, Li Ziping said you were discharged from the hospital, is that right?"

After clicking send, Tang Xiu felt that he was not relieved, but even more anxious.He hated this emotion very much, an emotion that had never been cultivated in his heart for thousands of years.

However, it didn't take long for Jiang Qiao to reply.

- "Well, he recovered and was discharged from the hospital." At the end of the sentence, a silly smiley expression that comes with the system was added.

Tang Xiu stared at the little smiling face on the screen for a long time, with some confusion in his eyes. After a while, he put away the phone and whispered to himself, "Heal? Sure enough, it's still the virtue of trying to save face."

The next night, Li Ziping came to pick Tang Xiu up for the premiere celebration ceremony. "Fox Killing Terrace" has only been released for 22 hours, and the box office has exceeded 4.8 million. The score of a certain website has already reached [-]. When Tang Xiu got out of the nanny's car, the swarm of reporters crowded the entrance of the hotel to the point where even a narrow road for one person could pass. Can't get out.

During this time, Tang Xiu's popularity was like the sky, and his accumulated energy since his debut for so long seemed to explode. When his works were released on the market, and the topic was on the list, he would be a live target for the camera at that stop.Li Ziping was protecting him as he walked in with a big smile on his face. Outside the hotel were small media who were not qualified to enter the venue, and the people were mixed, so they couldn't randomly accept interviews.

"Let's give in, let's in, thank you."

"You can't shoot here, please turn off the flash, please."

"Hey, watch your step, don't squeeze."

Finally, they were escorted into the hotel lobby, and the security guards stopped those journalists who had beaten their blood. Li Ziping took a deep breath, rubbed his face with a stiff smile, and said to Tang Xiu: "You are too popular, your manager It's a bit overwhelming."

This was a cold joke, Tang Xiu had no intention of laughing at all.As an artist who quickly became popular, Li Ziping felt relieved that he didn't linger on camera and talk nonsense.But he kept a cold face, which made Li Ziping very worried.

Li Ziping sighed, and said in a low voice: "Don't be unhappy, ancestor, you have been cold-faced for more than a month."

Tang Xiu said indifferently: "I'm not unhappy, I've always been like this?"

"You used to be expressionless, but you were gentle. Now you..." Li Ziping clicked his tongue and shivered, "Live ice, I'm going to get frostbite."

Tang Xiu glanced at him, but said nothing.

Jiang Qiao was already at the venue, and there were still many supporters from various companies who came today. Tang Xiu's fans accounted for a large area, and it was the one closest to the rostrum. As soon as Tang Xiu stepped on the stage, there was a deafening cheer.

Tang Xiu smiled politely every day, and greeted everyone.When he turned his head, Jiang Qiao was looking at him from behind him, slightly lost in thought, and when he saw him looking over, he nodded and smiled back.

The media immediately captured this moment, and the frozen director and actors smiled at each other. The scene was harmonious and friendly, and there were many, many stories to write.

According to the prescribed procedure, Tang Xiu briefly introduced Xiaobai's role, and then listened boringly to the staff reporting those numbers that sounded beautiful.The organizer kept raising the profile, and the champagne in the glass was refilled again and again. Jiang Qiao sat next to Tang Xiu. His right hand was still not good, so he held the glass with his left.

He didn't look over the whole process, but when the host occasionally needed to interact, he would interact normally with Tang Xiu.

The celebration ceremony was clichéd and nothing new, and it finally came to an end after two hours, but at midnight, the latest data suddenly came out. The momentum of "Zhan Fox Terrace" was extremely fast in the last two hours, and the total box office on the first day of its release broke. [-] million, a record high.

Praise and congratulations flooded in instantly, and several big investors who were about to leave, now they all raised their glasses to celebrate with Jiang Qiao.Jiang Qiao led the investment in this film, but with such a good result, the few follow-up investors will definitely make a lot of money.Tang Xiu was sitting next to Jiang Qiao. He could feel that Jiang Qiao was relieved when it was about to end just now, but it didn't end again.

When those people raised their glasses, Jiang Qiao sighed resignedly and poured another glass of wine for himself, but before he could raise his glass, he saw the young man beside him who hadn't shown much all night suddenly stood up and took the initiative to say goodbye to them. An investor said with a smile: "Thank you to the directors for giving Tang Xiu this opportunity to become famous, and toast everyone."

With that said, Tang Xiu took the initiative to toast.Li Ziping next to him was taken aback, it was the first time he saw his own artist so good at it.

Jiang Qiao didn't lose his composure, and just stood up with a smile, "I arranged the casting, so you have to bring me too."

Tang Xiu didn't say a word, and watched Jiang Qiao drink another glass of champagne, then smiled and said, "Isn't the director's injury healed? Stay away from bars."

It was only now that the few investors came to their senses, and said repeatedly: "Director Jiang, pay attention to your body."

Jiang Qiao just smiled and said nothing.

The two left the venue almost at the same time, and the two cars entered the same community one after the other, and then entered the same basement.Tang Xiu didn't let Li Ziping go up with him, got out of the car by himself, and saw Jiang Qiao waiting for the elevator not far away.

After hesitating for a while, he walked up as usual, and said lightly, "Director."

Jiang Qiao hummed, "Thank you."

"It's just a matter of time."

When the elevator arrived, Tang Xiu waited for Jiang Qiao to go up before following, and pressed the floor.Jiang Qiao stood half a step behind him on the left, and the two watched the floors jump up one by one. When they reached the fourth floor, Tang Xiu suddenly said in a low voice: "Since the director has just been discharged from the hospital, he shouldn't drink too much alcohol. , I’ll block it for you today, you just sit and don’t talk.”

Jiang Qiao didn't say a word, Tang Xiu looked back at him, "Are you unwilling to owe me a favor? Or are you unwilling to have any further entanglements?"

Jiang Qiao said in a low voice, "I'm not the one who doesn't want to get involved again. If I owe you this kind of love, I'll pay it back. If I don't pay it back, I'll feel awkward. You..."

Before he finished speaking, the elevator stopped suddenly on the sixth floor, the elevator door opened, and the man in suit that Tang Xiu met in the elevator last time came in.

When he saw Tang Xiu, he froze for a moment, "Is that you?" He smiled and said, "The last time I saw it in the elevator, I felt familiar. You are Tang Xiu! I just watched "Fox Killing Terrace" with my girlfriend today. It's really good."

Tang Xiu forced a smile, "Thank you."

"You actually live in the same building as me..." The man looked up and was even more surprised, "Jiang Qiao? You two really live opposite each other as rumored?"

Tang Xiu didn't answer, but said indifferently: "The last time I heard you called, you were working in an investment bank, and you actually still have the energy to pay attention to gossip after work."

The man laughed, "Last month, I did work in an investment bank, but now I've jumped to a venture capital investment. It's a lot easier to be the buyer myself."

Tang Xiu smiled and said nothing, the man asked again, "Did you have a headache when you shook your head desperately last time? Are you tired from work? It's not easy to do any job these days."

Tang Xiu glanced at him, "Well, it's not easy."

After getting off the elevator, Jiang Qiao and Tang Xiu walked home side by side, silent all the way, until they reached their respective doors, Jiang Qiao suddenly asked, "Shake your head desperately?"

To be honest, he couldn't imagine that scene a little bit.No matter what the ancestor thought, he was not a person who would make such an action, whether it was in private or in public.

But inexplicably, Jiang Qiao felt a little cute. He thought of a Maltese dog raised by his cousin.After the dog had a pet ion perm, its hair was flowing, and its whole body was full of fairy spirit, which was very similar to the ancestors, but the dog would shake its head and roll when it played crazy, it was very cute.

Thinking of this, he suddenly slipped away, thinking about that night, the old ancestor was moaning and playing tricks in his arms, his voice was waxy and soft, and he poked his chest with his fingertips, making it tickle.

If it wasn't for him to make a mistake that night, if Tang Xiu was sincere that night... how wonderful it would be.

Seeing this guy's absent-minded expression, Tang Xiu subconsciously frowned, "Director."

"director."

Jiang Qiao snapped back to his senses, "Huh?"

Tang Xiu glanced at him expressionlessly, and taunted him lightly, "You haven't healed from your injury, have you? You're mentally weak, and you're always wandering away. Did you take too many painkillers and your nerves were damaged?"

Jiang Qiao didn't speak, and waved his left hand to enter the door, but Tang Xiu stood at the door of his house and watched him try to bend his right arm and take out the room card from his pocket clumsily. After Jiang Qiao tossed a lot, he said, "Wang Yu's I haven't found out his whereabouts yet, before he is caught, please bring more people with you when you travel."

Jiang Qiao hummed without turning his head, "Got it."

Tang Xiu suddenly came around from behind and reached into his trouser pocket to take out the key card, and swiped the card to open the door for him with a beep, "Anyway, your injury was done for me, before the injury heals, if there is any inconvenience, You can call me."

Jiang Qiao paused, "Thank you."

Tang Xiu took out a card from his trouser pocket and threw it on the shoe cabinet of his house, "I hired a nanny to cook three meals a day, but I'm not busy eating at home recently, and there will always be food left in the refrigerator at home. If you If you’re hungry, come and browse by yourself, no need to say hello.”

Jiang Qiao was stunned when he heard that. The one on the shoe cabinet was the spare key that Tang Xiu had given him before. After the quarrel that day, he left the key at Tang Xiu's house.

The black eyes suddenly darkened for a moment, Jiang Qiao whispered: "Thank you, but now it's not the same as before. It doesn't make sense to let me leave the key. You can take it away. If I need to contact you again, I can also order takeaway."

Tang Xiu curled his lips into a chuckle, "Now? In the past?"

"how?"

Tang Xiu said lightly, "Jiang Qiao, do you really think there is any difference between now and before?"

Those black eyes startled, and Jiang Qiao licked his lower lip lightly, feeling a little helpless.The tip of his tongue diffused a bit of the smell of champagne at the dinner party, and the residual wine on his lips had been in contact with the air for too long, and the taste was a bit strange, and he frowned subconsciously.

Tang Xiu looked at him calmly, and after a long time, he said lightly, "If I tell you to get out, you will really get out. I take that sentence as a sentence of anger, and I accept it. Are you going to be hospitalized?" Let me visit you, and I will treat you as if you were hurt one after another, and I will endure you. Tonight, it is for your own good to help you stop the drink. If you really want to draw a clear line from now on, why not give me a happy word now. Old man My ancestors have lived for thousands of years, and they are impatient to guess people's minds."

Jiang Qiao was silent for a long time, then said in a low voice: "I am patient to guess your thoughts, but I can't guess, and I can't figure it out for sure. Just like I thought we were just unspoken lovers, and it was just what I thought. That's all."

Tang Xiu looked at him, "It's the first time in my life that I've been drunk, but even if I'm not clear-headed, I'm still half-sane. I should restrain my indulgent impulse, but I didn't do it. I folded your arm because I thought As an old ancestor, I should do the minimum thing to maintain my identity, but I haven't been able to do it..."

"Jiang Qiao, you are a character." Tang Xiu turned back lightly, held the door and looked back at the frozen Jiang Qiao, and said softly, "I leave the door card to you, if you really don't want it, put it in before dawn tomorrow." At my door."

As he spoke, he opened the door and entered the room, leaving the people behind him alone in the corridor.