Chapter 36

At eleven o'clock in the evening, the award ceremony ended successfully, and all the guests left the stage one by one. Jiang Liushen stood up suddenly, and was the first to leave the hall.

"No, but it's definitely still in the stadium. The bodyguard said that he didn't see him going out through the front and rear doors. I searched the backstage and couldn't find it. Maybe it was in the auditorium just now? I originally wanted to go to the monitoring room to watch, But..." Xu Yang hesitated slightly.

"But what?"

"The Duan family is inside, don't let me in." Xu Yang said cautiously.

Duan Mingyang, the second son of the Duan family, and Jiang Liushen had a relationship in the early years. As Jiang Liushen's assistant, Xu Yang was naturally not welcome.

"What kind of thing is he? You have to let it go."

Jiang Liushen hung up the phone and ran quickly down the stairs to the main monitoring room on the third floor. The staff guarding the door recognized him and did not dare to stop him. door.

Everyone inside was startled when they heard the loud noise, except for a man in a suit sitting on the sofa at the back.

The man's face was tough, and there was a looming hostility between his eyebrows and eyes. When he saw Jiang Liushen, his eyes were full of coldness, and he was not angry or arrogant.

Jiang Liushen turned a blind eye, and first found a person in charge: "Help me check if Xia Xiai is still on the scene."

The person in charge was frightened by the momentum of his kicking the door: "I, I'll see, Brother Shen, wait a moment..."

Jiang Liushen patted his shoulder, then raised his eyebrows at the man on the sofa: "Duan Mingyang, let's talk?"

Duan Mingyang stared at him for a few seconds, stood up, and entered the rest room in the monitoring room.

Jiang Liushen followed and walked in, closed the door, the air pressure all over his body dropped suddenly, and he punched Duan Mingyang in the face.

Duan Mingyang staggered and took a step back. He stood still, but he didn't look embarrassed. He said coldly, "Is this what you call 'talk'?"

Jiang Liushen sneered: "You do such a disgusting thing as replacing the winner, and you still expect me to talk to you calmly? I didn't give up, you are already kind."

"I'm so angry for a little singer, how about your demeanor and your calmness, Jiang Liushen?"

Jiang Liu's deep forehead stretched terrifying blue veins, and the anger that had been suppressed all night finally erupted, and he grabbed the collar of the person in front of him: "Duan Mingyang, don't think that you can do whatever you want with your own half of the Duan family. Clearly, you illegitimate son has not yet obtained the right of inheritance, and I want to destroy you as easily as before. I warn you, don't touch people who shouldn't be touched!"

Duan Mingyang is not timid: "I didn't make adjustments because of your personal grievances, and any other boss who thinks about the company's interests would not be happy to see his sponsored event being affected by a guest who is riddled with negative news. "

He grabbed Jiang Liushen's wrist and exerted force: "If I really wanted to harm him, I wouldn't give him a chance to negotiate with me."

Hearing this, Jiang Liushen loosened for a moment, and was pushed away by Duan Mingyang.

"He... negotiated with you? What?"

Duan Duan Mingyang calmly tidied up his collar: "This little singer is interesting. I thought he was desperate. He wanted to go back to Longxing to plead with me, but he came to reveal to me how despicable and incompetent Zhao Jianhua is."

"He said that Zhao Jianhua relied on others to develop the company, which shows that he does not have the ability to manage the company independently. Moreover, he does not give the correct positioning to the artist, and only thinks about making money quickly, burying the potential of the artist. When the artist wants to terminate the contract, he does not want to Instead of thinking about how to keep him, he wants to destroy others, such a ruthless and unscrupulous person who is black with history will drag down the company sooner or later, and persuade me to fire him as soon as possible and stop the loss in time."

"If it weren't for him having no intention of returning to Longxing, with his eloquence and calm attitude, I would have signed him back.

Jiang Liushen was stunned for a moment.

How could he forget that Xia Xiai was not a person who would let himself sink into the quagmire and wait for the slow decay.

Compared with the pains he suffered in the past, this incident may be insignificant to him at all, and missing the award may be a motivation for him to work hard to prove himself.

Jiang Liushen's dangling heart finally settled down a little. Since he learned that the Best Newcomer Award was not Xia Xiai at night, he was in a state of extreme irritability, and almost tore the envelope in front of nearly 100 million people on stage. But doing so will only cause a wider range of public opinion heat again, which will do no good to Xia Xiai.

At this time, the person in charge just now knocked on the door: "Brother Shen... I found it, Xia Xiai went to the backstage after coming out of the auditorium halfway, maybe in the lounge, there is no surveillance there, I don't know if it is still there... …”

"Thank you." Jiang Liushen put his personal grievances aside for the time being, and even Duan Mingyang didn't bother to scold again, and hurriedly pushed the door out.

The person in charge still had lingering fears until he left: "I used to see Brother Shen being peaceful, what's wrong today..."

"I'm so angry that I'm a red face..." a staff member whispered.

The person in charge gave him an elbow: "Go, go, go! You can eat and talk nonsense, but you can quickly finish the work and call it a day!"

Jiang Liushen ran out of the monitoring room all the way to the backstage.

It was past twelve o’clock in the evening, and the guests had basically left the venue. Only some staff were left packing and packing valuable equipment. The rest of the trivial items and garbage were left to be cleaned up tomorrow. After the heating was turned off, the entire backstage was empty and deserted. .

When Jiang Liushen went in, he met a few staff members, startling them. Seeing him looking for something, he asked, "Brother Shen, have you left something? Let's help you find it. "

"It's okay, you are busy with yours, I will find it myself, remember to leave a door for me before leaving."

The staff agreed again and again, but Jiang Liushen didn't bother to return, and walked straight to the lounge.

When standing in front of the lounge door, he was nervous for no reason, his heart rate was rapid, and there was only one thought left in his mind:

His little friend is inside.

He failed to protect him well, so he had to apologize first, and then take the person back, so that the children would not suffer any more harm.

As for why he did this... He was not slow, and he already had the answer in his heart.

Jiang Liu took a deep breath, stretched out his hand, twisted the door, pressed the light, and looked around.

Not even a shadow was seen.

already gone...

He was lost for a while, but he had no choice but to turn off the light, turn around and leave, wanting to search elsewhere. But just as the door was about to close, a small sound suddenly came from the corner of the lounge.

Jiang Liu was stunned for a while, and after confirming that he heard correctly, he turned on the light again, and slowly walked around behind the sofa step by step.

The window here was opened with a slit, and the cold wind came in from the outside, and the chill was so cold that it blew the curtains up a little.

Under the curtain, a figure in a pure white suit was sitting on the ground with his legs folded, curled up into a ball.

"...Sia?" He called softly.

The figure trembled, but buried his head deeper, clenched his sleeves tightly with his hands, and clenched the originally straight suit and dress into a wrinkle.

Jiang Liushen's heart seemed to be clenched tightly by those hands, and it was tangled up in a ball.

"Xiai, it's me." He crouched down, stroked Xia Xiai's hair, and said softly, "I'll pick you up and go back to my house, okay?"

Xia Xiai shook her head, her voice was muffled and seemed a little hoarse, but she was calm: "No need, I have a place to stay, you can go back, it's very late."

"Then can I take you home? Get up first."

"No, the outside media hasn't finished, you will be photographed. I... I'm a little sleepy. I'll go back when I lie down. You don't have to worry about me."

Jiang Liushen stood up: "Okay, then I'll go back first."

Xia Xiai didn't speak, and after a few seconds, she nodded slightly, and the fingers clutching the sleeves trembled slightly.

Jiang Liushen turned and left without hesitation. The sound of footsteps drifted away. When he reached the door, he turned off the lights, and the lounge returned to darkness.

With a bang, the door was also closed.

The lounge was silent, except for the whirring of the cold wind from outside.

Two minutes later, there was a suppressed sob.

"Snapped!"

The ceiling light suddenly turned on, Xia Xiai raised her head in astonishment, Jiang Liushen, who hadn't gone out at all, had already strode in front of him, grabbed his arm and dragged him up, pressing him into his arms.

Wrap him tightly with a firm chest and a warm coat.

"Don't be afraid." Jiang Liushen rubbed the top of the hair of the person in his arms without leaving a trace, "Don't be afraid when I'm here."

The body of the person in his arms trembled, and he didn't speak for some reason.

Jiang Liu sighed deeply: "Little boy, why are you trying to be brave in front of me? If you have something to do, just call Brother Shen, everything can be solved for you, so why keep it in your heart and make yourself suffer?"

Xia Xiai tried her best to endure, but she couldn't hold back, and the overflowing tears wet Jiang Liushen's shirt.

"Brother Shen..." He choked and shouted, clutching the shirt of the person in front of him, like a drowning person grabbing a driftwood, "You still..."

Do you still want my friend? Do you still want to sign with me? Do you still trust me?

Thousands of words rushed to the lips, and finally turned into a soft sentence:

"Do you still... want me?"

"Yes, I want, why would I not want you." Jiang Liu deeply caressed his back, "I am late, it makes you uncomfortable and makes you think, I'm sorry, give me a chance to atone for my sins ,OK?"

Xia Xi'ai shook her head: "It will cause you trouble... I am satisfied with your words, thank you, you don't need to worry about my affairs in the future..."

"How can I not care?" Jiang Liu Shen closed his coat, "I said I want to cover you, look, didn't I cover you here?"

Amused by his pun, Xia Xiai choked and chuckled softly under the cover of the coat.

Jiang Liushen's heart was beating again.

The way Xia Xiai looked up at him just now broke his heart. He was dressed in white like a desperate angel who fell into the world but couldn't go back. His little face was covered with tears, and his big black eyes were red from crying. It was swollen again, and there was still helpless pain in his eyes, so he looked at him in such a panic, and cut a hole in his heart.

Sad to look like this, how did you just say those words calmly...

Jiang Liushen recalled the cry of Xia Xiai that he had fantasized about, and found that he guessed it quite accurately. It was indeed in a place where others could not see, curled up to cover his face, and wept silently.

But he still guessed a little wrong. The child is not born with strong willpower and fearlessness, but it is forced by reality, and he actually took it for granted, thinking that the other party can handle it all alone.

Such precious little angels are not used for tempering, but are clearly used to protect and pet.

After laughing, Xia Xiai started crying, clutching Jiang Liushen's clothes, and gradually stopped her tears. Only then did she realize how rude she had just been, and she was immediately embarrassed and wanted to break free from her coat.

Jiang Liushen freed one hand and quickly closed the window, pressing the person on the window sill and wrapping him even tighter.

"Jiang Liushen..." Xia Xiai was so suffocated that she finally raised her head, her eyes and nose were red, but she still wanted to put on a cold face: "Let me go."

Jiang Liushen was very close, and his lips could touch the wet eyelashes as soon as he lowered his head, his Adam's apple rolled, suppressing the restlessness in his heart, and whispered, "Why don't you call Brother Shen?"

The deep magnetic voice surrounded this small corner, and Xia Xiai's face was inexplicably hot.

"I was just taken away by you just now. It's all right now. Go back."

"Wow, is it too quick to turn around? Ruined my custom dress like this and drove me away?"

"I'll pay you back..."

"That's not enough." Jiang Liushen leaned into his ear and chuckled, "I want you to help me wash it yourself, don't go back if it's not clean, it just so happens that a certain child needs me very much now and wants to stay with me. ,Right?"

"Who needs you—"

Before Xia Xiai finished speaking, the door of the lounge was suddenly knocked twice with a "dong dong".

"Brother Shen! We're leaving! Have you found anything?" the staff outside shouted.

Jiang Liushen hugged the child who jumped into his arms tightly, and shouted back, "I found it! I want to rest for a while, you go first, I'll close the door!"

"Okay! You've worked hard, then we won't disturb you!"

After the footsteps of the staff could not be heard, Xia Xiai raised her head cautiously and looked around vigilantly. Her hair was pulled up by the coat and swayed in the air.

Jiang Liushen was almost mad at his cuteness.

"You don't need me, eh?" he teased deliberately, "then why are you hiding in my arms?"

Knowing that she was powerless to defend herself, Xia Xiai bit her lip and did not speak.

Jiang Liushen continued to persuade him in a warm voice: "Go back with me, we will deal with this matter together, we will definitely restore your innocence, get rid of the big bad guy who harmed you, and trust your big boss, okay?"

Xia Xiai was silent for a while, and finally nodded.

"It's so good." Jiang Liushen kissed the top of the hair of the person in his arms this time, so shocked that he almost ran out.

"You, what are you doing!"

"What's wrong?" Jiang Liushen blinked innocently, cheeky and nonsense: "A way to express feelings between friends, I often do this with friends when I'm abroad, aren't you?"

Xia Xi'ai didn't want to be regarded as less knowledgeable, so she replied bravely: "Maybe some people do this... But I'm not used to it."

"Just get used to it slowly. You can see that we are still hugging each other now, can you feel my fast heartbeat? This is my excitement about the lost friendship between us."

Xia Xiai was skeptical after hearing what he said. Their chests were pressed against each other. From his understanding, this hug seemed too close... But Jiang Liushen's heartbeat was really fast and strong, and it hit him. of the right atrium.

And his own left atrium was beating violently uncontrollably.

Did Jiang Liushen also feel that he cared about his friend...

As if her mind had been betrayed, Xia Xiai's face burned completely.

Jiang Liushen looked at the embarrassed look of the person in his arms, and raised the corners of his lips silently.

He finally understood where the throbbing that was not right came from, and hugged the person who made him throbbing, and would not let go again.