After Rebirth, I Decided To Inherit the Family Property

Chapter 71 – He likes this kind of unexpected surprise.

After eating, the two of them still watched the first two episodes of “After I Met You”.

Song Yunran was determined to show his professionalism as a president in front of Qin Ke, and he was in critic mode, boasting about himself the whole time.

“The first two episodes of the show are in the form of a short video. The director I chose has a very good camera aesthetic.”

“Wow, this crying scene of the female lead is perfect. This actress was really being overshadowed before, but fortunately I was able to see her and choose her to join the company, and even forced her to take the lead role.”

“This male supporting actor is also good, he is very close to the character without talking when he comes out, he is also the one I signed in.”

Qin Ke picked out a full sized strawberry from the fruit plate and fed it into Song Yunran’s mouth to shut him up for a while before he finally found a chance to speak: “You chose a good team, bringing out the best in Zhong Xiaofeng’s script.”

The strawberry was so big that Song Yunran’s cheeks puffed up on each side.

He couldn’t speak conveniently, so he simply nodded his head frantically, expressing his self-affirmation of this praise.

Qin Ke smiled and asked, “Do you still want to eat?”

Song Yunran swallowed the strawberries, “Can you peel some grapes for me?”

In fact, he sat not too far from the fruit plate, but he was too lazy to reach for it, so he simply sat cross-legged on the sofa, comfortably enjoying the personal service.

Qin Ke gave a “hmm”, took out another crystal round grape from the plate, and slowly tore off the outer layer of the surface.

He has long white fingers, doing these trivial things, but also has their own sense of beauty.

Song Yunran looked dumbfounded, thinking that Qin Ke’s bony hands, which were used to peel grapes, seemed to be a great waste, it would be more elegant to fall on the black and white keys of the piano, playing one beautiful piece of music after another.

Qin Ke himself did not show any unhappy expression, but rather enjoyed it, feeding him several grapes one after another.

After a while, Song Yunran finally got embarrassed.

“Forget it, I’ll do it myself.”

He changed to a regular sitting posture, while reaching for the fruit and said, “Your hands are too beautiful, you shouldn’t peel grapes, you should go play the piano.”

Qin Ke was caught off guard and lost the joy of feeding a small animal, and stopped moving with a bit of regret.

Song Yunran did not notice his sadness, and continued to ask: “But do you know how to play the piano?”

Qin Ke said, “I learned it for a few months when I was a child, but now I’ve long forgotten it.”

“Why don’t you continue learning?”

Song Yunran curiously inclined his head, his heart was full of regret, he was just thinking about helping Qin Ke make a movie with a musical theme.

But soon, he came up with an answer to his own question, “Ah I understand, children can’t sit still at all when practicing the piano, I was like this when I was a child, if my family didn’t force me to practice, I would have given up halfway.”

Qin Ke was silent for a few seconds and could almost draw a portrait of Song Yunran’s childhood from these two short sentences.

The pretty and mischievous little boy, who cries and fusses before every piano lesson, maybe even rolled on the floor in protest, but in the end was still unable to defeat the authority of his parents. In the end, he sat on the piano bench under the watchful eyes of his piano teacher, who was laughing in tears, and complained in a whisper while playing along with the metronome.

As expected, in the next few minutes, Song Yunran described his miserable past of learning the piano at a young age. It was exactly the same as the scene Qin Ke had imagined.

“But it turns out that you also have times when you want to be lazy.” Song Yunran said, “It seems that the protagonist in the book, when he was a child, also had a black history, it seems that we are similar.”

“……”

Qin Ke felt the need to anti-black for himself, and slowly opened his mouth to clarify: “I was not lazy.”

“Huh?”

Qin Ke said calmly, “Not long after learning, my parents separated, at that time my mother’s financial condition could not afford to pay for learning the piano.”

Song Yunran lowered his head in shame.

Is this the stark contrast between the protagonist and the tool man set in the original work?

Luckily, the book didn’t include all the details, otherwise he wouldn’t know where to put his face.

To cover up the embarrassment, Song Yunran cleared his throat: “Oh it’s okay, if you want to learn now I can also teach you. Don’t look at me so seriously, I can still play.”

Qin Ke looked at him and said with a smile, “I know.”

Song Yunran asked strangely, ” How did you know that?”

Qin Ke said, “One year, you performed a piano solo on stage at the New Year’s Eve party held by the CCTV.”

Song Yunran frowned, remembering that there was such a thing.

He had just made his debut and had only finished a movie, so he was not qualified to appear at the most popular New Year’s Eve party, but the agency he signed with had a strong background and helped him, who could neither sing nor dance, to get a piano solo stage.

In all fairness, that performance was almost perfect.

The most important thing is that the majority of people are focused on discussing whether he is a resource person sent by the top.

Other than his fans, no one seemed to care about the skill and emotion he showed in that solo.

Song Yunran had been depressed for a long time because of this.

But he never thought about the result ……

“So you were already paying attention to me at that time!”

Song Yunran’s eyes shone brightly, and he was extraordinarily cheerful, “I knew that an outstanding talent like me would attract attention wherever I went.”

Qin Ke was stunned for a moment, then he smiled dumbly.

As expected of his Xiao Song, he can always make his own unique insights from unexpected angles.

Although the main reason he noticed Song Yunran in the first place was because his manager reminded him that this person might be your rival in the future, at this moment, he did not want to say these spoiling words.

The reason for the beginning does not matter.

The reason for this is like the so-called original work which planned out the trajectory of their lives, no matter how it would not be written that one day he would fall in love with Song Yunran.

This is a picture that even the former Qin Ke himself had never imagined.

It was very unexpected, but also enough to surprise him.

He likes this kind of unexpected surprise more than being the protagonist of a planned life.

The next day, Song Yunran walked into the company with a smile on his face.

In the office building of Xinghe Entertainment, every employee who saw him also had a happy smile on his face.

But Song Yunran knew that his happiness was not exactly the same as others.

Everyone was happy that “After I Met You” was successful in its debut, and that the number of clicks and buzz on the night it was aired was skyrocketing, and that the video platforms, on top of the massive publicity they had already provided, had temporarily decided to increase their promotion efforts even further, in an effort to make this urban drama a breakthrough of the year.

Song Yunran is also pleased with his thriving career, but what makes him even more excited is ……

From last night, he was someone who has a boyfriend!

When he thought of this, Song Yunran couldn’t help but laugh out loud.

He leaned on his desk and snickered for a while, then took his phone and sent a message to Qin Ke: [Good morning!]

Qin Ke, who had only slept for three or four hours, got up early in the morning and went out to work: “……”

Good morning, he looked at the eleven o’clock displayed on the top of his phone and suspected that Song Yunran’s concept of time was different from ordinary people.

But he still kept his head down and typed back: [Good morning.]

Song Yunran stared at the screen and giggled a few times.

So this is what it feels like to be in love, he thought, just saying good morning to each other makes a person so happy.

If he had known that, he would have liked Qin Ke quickly.

Ah no.

Song Yunran thought for a moment and corrected his thoughts just now.

If the timeline is advanced, it might have affected his big plan to become a father.

This is not good, he wants to be both Qin Ke’s boyfriend and Qin Ke’s father, one cannot happen without the other.

So now, it’s good to think about it.

Song Yunran secretly finished sorting out his thoughts, and asked: [You have time to return my message, not busy at the moment?]

Qin Ke: [About to shoot.]

[Then we’ll talk when you’re done.]

Song Yunran sent out the message, thought for a while and added, [work well, remember to help dad earn money, but still take care of your body ha.]

Qin Ke replied: [You too.]

Song Yunran looked at the screen and felt hilarious for a moment.

Qin Ke is really stupid, how can “help daddy make money” followed by “you too”. People who don’t know may think he also has a dream of becoming a father.

Never mind, I’m president Xiao Song, I won’t bother with him.

Song Yunran magnanimously let Qin Ke off the hook, after turning off the phone and then thought back, vaguely realizing that his understanding had gone wrong.

The reply of Qin Ke’s phrase “you too” should be “take care of your body”.

Song Yunran blinked his eyes, and his cheeks flushed uncontrollably.

He cares so much about me, he must love me so much.

On the opposite side of the desk, Assistant Tang, who could not stand it, said, “…… Xiao Song, are you listening?”

Song Yunran sat up straight with a jolt.

He was like a student caught by his teacher who deserted in class, and hurried to collect his smile: “listening listening listening listening. Just now we talked about the additional subway promotion along the lines of “After I Met You”, right?”

Assistant Tang: “…… No.”

“?”

Song Yunran was silent for a moment and remembered: “Oh yes, it’s ‘The Legend of Nan Hua’ starting to shoot next month.”

“……”

“Still not right?”

Song Yunran was shocked, he racked his brain, recalling his assistant’s report that he had previously treated as a background sound, and finally decisively slapped the table, “The investment department met this morning and decided to cast two more dramas, this must be right now!”

Assistant Tang was numb, he pushed the gold-rimmed glasses on the bridge of his nose: “What I just mentioned is that after the broadcast of Slow Holiday Travel, many CP fans of you and Qin Ke appeared online. Do you think we should come out from the company and say hello to the program team and ask them to reduce these clips that are detrimental to your personal image.”

Song Yunran: “Huh?”

What? What the hell?

Assistant Tang’s working soul growled in anger, thinking that ‘if I hadn’t been withheld from my year-end bonus for the initial oops, I wouldn’t bother mentioning this to you! Aren’t you unhappy that I’m getting high with everyone!’

He took a few deep breaths to stabilize his emotions: “Have you not been on the Internet these days?”

Song Yunran really didn’t have much contact with the Internet, he blinked confusedly: “Yes, the second issue has been aired, right? How is the feedback online?”

“…… Why don’t you watch it yourself?”

Assistant Tang was tired, so he decided to be negative and directly clicked on the video that was saved in advance, titled ” Slow Holiday Travel Phase 2 Getting High and Dizzy Cut”, then put his phone on Song Yunran’s desk and let his boss review it himself.

Song Yunran was puzzled when he picked up his phone and found that the video was actually nearly half an hour long.

You should know that each episode of “Slow Holiday Travel” is only one and a half hours in total, in which there are many shots to be distributed to the other two groups of guests, can he and Qin Ke really have cut out more than 20 minutes?

Looking at it, Song Yunran seemed to have realized something.

How to say it, he now finally understands what the “same frame is candy” described in the previous dizzy group actually means.

As long as he and Qin Ke appeared in the frame at the same time, every time their eyes collided, physical contact, verbal exchanges, all made him feel from the heart, a subtle shyness and secret joy.

It turns out that there is nothing wrong with what was said on the Internet, you can’t hide the look in your eyes when you like someone.

Song Yunran silently pulled up the collar of his sweater to cover the corners of his uncontrolled mouth, and snickered as he watched the entire video before he put his phone down and decided to go back to the internet and get a clip for himself.

“This is what you see.”

Assistant Tang said, “This CP of you and Qin Ke, is now very hot online, and also according to our expectations, it played a significant role in promoting “After Meeting You”, but you are not an artist after all, and from the company’s long-term image, perhaps it is still necessary to guide public opinion.”

Song Yunran was still thinking about the shots in the video that made him blush, and vaguely said, “Well, hmmmm.”

Assistant Tang misunderstood his meaning and asked with a nod, “So Xiao Song, what are your thoughts on this matter?”

Song Yunran pursed his lips and said honestly, “Just, it’s pretty good to get high.”

Assistant Tang: “……”

Assistant Tang: “???”

The author has something to say:
Assistant Tang: one of us must have a problem.

T/N: My first language isn’t English, and there may be some grammatical errors. But I try not to deviate from the author’s narrative. If there are any errors or nonsensical sentences, feel free to comment.