There’s always an impulse to call Zhou Yun, but she has to restrain herself all the time.
At this moment, her companion returned.
"Xiao Chi, you can really hold your liquor."
The companion is a man in his early forties, well-maintained with a rosy complexion.
Song Chi snapped back to reality, smiled and said, "It’s delightful to drink with you."
In the wee hours, Zhou Yun finally arrived at the hotel.
Zhou Lan and the others were staying on the floor below and left the elevator first.
After Zhou Yun reached her floor and stepped out of the elevator, turned into the corridor, she suddenly heard a rustling sound. Startled, she snapped to full alert and her legs trembled.
Ahead, Gu Huaichun and Yu Yhan were in a tight embrace, deeply kissing. Gu Huaichun held Yu Yhan with one hand while the other fetched a room card from his pocket, fumbled to swipe it, entered the room with her, and the door clicked shut.
The two paid no attention to Zhou Yun’s presence at all.
Zhou Yun was dumbfounded.
It wasn’t the first time she had seen such a scene in real life, but never had it struck her heart .
Why could these two act indifferently during the day, and like hungry wolves preying at night?
Zhou Yun returned to her room, took a bath, dried her hair, and stepping out of the bathroom, sure enough, heard that familiar sound again.
This time, Zhou Yun couldn’t take it anymore. After adding Gu Huaichun on WeChat, she reprimanded: Do you not realize that this hotel has terrible soundproofing?!!!
She threw her phone onto the bedside table like deflating, plugged it in to charge, lay down on the bed, and covered her head with a pillow.
Despite the lingering tiredness and the poor soundproofing of the hotel, the pillow did a great job muffling noise. Zhou Yun drifted off into a heavy sleep, feeling as if she had barely closed her eyes when the alarm went off.
Before long, Zheng Xiaojue came in too. She had another room card and could swipe it to come in directly.
"Sister Xiao Yun, wake up, it’s time to head to the set."
Zhou Yun sat up rigidly like a corpse, expressionless and bleary-eyed.
"I feel so exhausted, I just can’t get up."
Zheng Xiaojue patted Zhou Yun’s head like comforting a child and said, "Sister Xiao Yun, wake up, you’ve already gotten up."
Zhou Yun looked at her and asked, "You came back with me yesterday, how come you’re so energized?"
Zheng Xiaojue beamed brightly and said, "Because this is my job, I get paid for it."
Zhou Yun slapped her own face, "That’s right, I’ve received my acting fee. I’m getting up."
Talking to herself, Zhou Yun got out of bed and finally seemed to come to her senses as she let out a long yawn that lasted nearly ten seconds.
After finishing her yawn, Zhou Yun turned to see Zheng Xiaojue gazing at her with big eyes.
"Sister Xiao Yun, that was a really long yawn."
Dawn was not yet fully here.
Zhou Yun, with droopy eyes, left; just as she did, she ran into Gu Huaichun who was also heading out.
Gu Huaichun seemed a bit off-color and hesitated as if wanting to say something.
Zhou Yun at first didn’t realize, but upon reaching the elevator and recalling the message she sent to Gu Huaichun last night, she instantly woke up.
Gu Huaichun must have seen the message by now, right?
Zhou Yun suddenly felt too embarrassed to look at Gu Huaichun.
Neither spoke from the time they got on the elevator until they got off.
On the production team’s shuttle bus, Zhou Yun suddenly thought of a serious problem.
The camera in her room was always on; at most, she’d cover the lens with clothes from time to time, but the sound couldn’t be blocked.
If she could hear sounds from next door, could the camera have recorded them?
Thinking that the editors must watch and cut the footage every day, Zhou Yun was shocked and hurriedly told Zhou Lan what she thought, asking her to confirm with the production team that these clips must never be aired.
Zhou Lan, who hadn’t considered this possibility, replied with a string of "ha" laughing emojis, commenting: If it really goes on air, Gu Huaichun could be socially dead.
Zhou Yun: He probably didn’t expect there was a camera filming 24 hours in my room.
Zhou Lan: Why not scare him a bit?
Zhou Yun: Let’s not, better to be kind-hearted.
Zhou Lan: Got it, I’ll talk to the production team.
Zhou Lan: President Huang also messaged me, explaining why you had so few scenes in last night’s premiere episode. Mainly because you had too much negative press in June, the platform felt it was inappropriate to feature too much of you, hence your reduced screen time. But, from the second episode, your screen time will return to normal.