Chapter 52: Huo Chen Buys Flowers
And to be honest.
It wasn’t that he didn’t enjoy it at all.
Lin Huaizhi stood there thinking for a good while. Finally, he successfully talked himself down, turned around, and walked to the entryway.
“I forgi…”
Let alone a person outside the door, there wasn’t even a ghost’s shadow.
Lin Huaizhi cursed under his breath and slammed the door shut directly. “Dog! Just you wait!”
Five minutes ago.
Facing the tightly closed door, Huo Chen fell into silence for a moment.
In terms of interpersonal relationships, he always knew how to maintain boundaries. Now holding a high position, he could do as he pleased. Even if his words were harsh, there were still many people fawning over him.
But Lin Huaizhi was different.
From the very beginning of approaching him, Lin Huaizhi had bluntly stated it was to gain his affection.
He had plenty of money.
But affection—he didn’t even have it himself, so how could he give it to Lin Huaizhi?
Of course, Huo Chen didn’t deny that Lin Huaizhi was indeed special to him, and he was willing to indulge Lin Huaizhi’s tantrums. It was just… wasn’t Lin Huaizhi’s temper a bit too big, refusing to even let him finish speaking?
Huo Chen thought for a moment, then took out his phone and contacted Zhou Ning.
Zhou Ning was watching a movie with his girlfriend. Seeing the incoming call, he hurriedly walked out of the theater. “What does the Boss like? Which aspect are you asking about?”
Huo Chen’s tone was indifferent, sounding less like he was asking about preferences and more like he was asking about work. “Any aspect.”
Zhou Ning: “…”
Zhou Ning shivered, provoked by this CEO aura. “If it’s food, the Boss isn’t picky. He eats everything, but likes meat the most. If it’s clothes, the Boss isn’t picky either…”
Speaking of this, Zhou Ning scratched his head. “Now that you ask, I realize the Boss doesn’t seem to have any particular thing he likes especially.”
Huo Chen frowned. “He doesn’t like anything?”
Zhou Ning nodded. “No. I thought about it, and from the time I started following the Boss until now, whether it’s food, clothing, housing, or transportation, as long as the basic conditions are met, the Boss is okay with it.”
Huo Chen fell into silence again.
Zhou Ning paused. “If you insist on asking what the Boss likes, then there does seem to be something that is very different to him.”
Huo Chen: “What?”
Zhou Ning: “You.”
Huo Chen thought seriously for a second, then rejected the idea. “Liking me probably won’t work right now. He is angry with me.”
Zhou Ning: “???”
Zhou Ning sat up in shock from his deathbed. “The Boss has a very good temper! Except during meetings, and when you were filming the romance variety show encountering Chu Xiaoran and Fang Mo, his emotions were extremely stable!”
“And with you, he has never been angry! You could say the Boss uses all his tolerance on you, and you actually managed to make him angry?”
“What on earth did you do?”
Huo Chen spoke bluntly. “I said he was ugly.”
Zhou Ning: “…”
Zhou Ning only felt suffocated. “How dare you… being called ugly by the person you like, anyone would explode.”
Thinking of Lin Huaizhi’s emotional change at that time, Huo Chen also knew it was the fault of that sentence. “That was not my intention.”
Zhou Ning: “Forget about whether it was your intention or not. Right now, go buy a bouquet of flowers immediately—roses. And bring the Boss lots of good food, especially meat! Lots of meat!”
Zhou Ning sighed deeply.
“Brother, I can only help you this far. Good luck!”
Huo Chen ultimately adopted Zhou Ning’s suggestion.
He had originally intended to ask Zheng Xiuang to order a meal, but a second before dialing, he decided to do it himself.
Entering late autumn, Dragon City had been overcast for several days. Finally, in the evening, a torrential downpour began.
The flower shop and the restaurant were in two different directions. Huo Chen took the elevated highway and was stuck in traffic for over an hour.
Three hours later.
Huo Chen, holding a bouquet of fiery red roses and a large bag of various meats, returned to the place he had been kicked out of.
He reached out.
And rang the doorbell.
Lin Huaizhi was having an online meeting.
Aside from Dreams Knowing Dawn, Chu Xiaoran had quite a few upcoming shoots.
Advertising endorsements could wait until the contract period expired to recommend other artists from the company, but movies and TV dramas couldn’t wait.
Especially a movie with a deaf-mute theme prepared by Li Jianhua, which was set to start filming after the New Year. If the actors weren’t selected first to study the script and figure out the roles, it would be a mess when filming started.
After the meeting, the directors exited the conference room one after another, leaving only Li Jianhua.
“Are you really determined?”
Li Jianhua was the director who had once asked Lin Huaizhi to audition for Wei Qing.
This director was now sixty-six. He hadn’t signed a contract with any company, but in his forty-plus years in the industry, he had won almost every award. Basically, for every movie he filmed, the protagonist became famous. As long as it was his play, countless actors would sharpen their heads trying to squeeze in.
The movie Lost City that made Chu Xiaoran explode in popularity was his work.
In Lin Huaizhi’s company, a portion of the actors were those who had been extras with him back then, and now they all had a place in the entertainment industry.
Li Jianhua hadn’t signed with Huameng.
But he had no children, and he and Lin Huaizhi were friends despite the age gap; their relationship was very good. For almost every play he filmed over the years, Lin Huaizhi was the biggest investor. Otherwise, with so many people back then, he wouldn’t have chosen Chu Xiaoran, whose acting skills were terrible, to play the stuttering brother in Lost City.
As soon as Li Jianhua spoke, Lin Huaizhi knew what he was asking.
The young man leaned back in his chair. He hadn’t turned on the camera, so the other side couldn’t see his dreadfully ugly face. “Uncle Hua, you don’t also think I’m deeply infatuated with Chu Xiaoran, do you?”
The old man with graying hair wore a baseball cap and looked very trendy. “Whether there are deep roots of affection, I can’t say. But in all these years, you’ve only begged me once for his sake. It’s obvious he held some weight for you. Now that you’ve pulled him down, have you really moved on?”
Lin Huaizhi smiled.
“There’s nothing to move on from. There is no emotion in this world that can last forever without mutual effort. Even parents and children can turn against each other, let alone him, Chu Xiaoran.”
Hearing his voice, Li Jianhua knew he was truly relieved.
Having worked in the industry for so many years, he had seen countless people. Chu Xiaoran was too conceited and extremely self-centered. Lin Huaizhi getting involved with him was not a good thing.
But Lin Huaizhi had fallen so deep before that he couldn’t say anything. Now that this kid had figured it out himself, it saved him the effort of talking.
Only…
Li Jianhua recalled the romance variety show he watched recently and asked in a teasing, elder-like tone, “No emotion can last forever without mutual effort… then what about that man named Huo Chen?”
“I see his attitude towards you is lukewarm. Don’t you still like him to death?”
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