The Big Boss' Medicine 9

"That..."

After thinking for a moment, Su Duan finally understood who Yan Shen was referring to.

Although he disliked that person at first, after meeting Yan Shen, he focused all his attention on the man and didn't think about Xie Zhu and his agent. If the man hadn't brought it up, he probably wouldn't have remembered it until Xie Zhu's agent contacted him.

"No, that's not it," Su Duan thought for a moment and said, "He's not my agent, he's someone else's."

"He's an agent, but not yours?" Yan Shen pondered for a moment. His hand that was originally holding Su Duan's loosened a bit. He flipped over the smaller hand in his palm, using his slender fingertips to pinch the soft palm, and asked, "Where is your agent then?"

The youth couldn't even attend a business dinner with his own agent and had to have someone else's agent stand in for him. His situation seemed to be even more miserable than he had thought.

Su Duan felt ticklish from the pinching, but he didn't dare pull his hand away. He nodded and honestly said, "I don't have an agent."

"..." President Yan felt that his speculation of "pitiful little unknown being oppressed by his agent" seemed to have greatly deviated from reality from the very beginning. He frowned and asked hesitantly, "Aren't you a celebrity?"

That dinner was hosted by the crew of "Becoming a Demon". Since Su Duan was sitting there, even if he was there in place of another celebrity, he should still be a celebrity himself.

Su Duan said honestly, "No, I'm a stand-in for someone, Mr. Xie. He wasn't feeling well today, so he had me go instead."

Having a stand-in attend a business dinner in place of the actual celebrity didn't sound good if word got out. The director was probably worried that the boss would think he was being brushed off and cause trouble, so when he introduced Su Duan to Yan Shen at the time, he used the relatively vague term "newcomer" to make it sound more proper.

In fact, calling him a newcomer wasn't really a lie. Compared to other professions in this circle, the line between stand-ins and celebrity actors was relatively blurred. There were quite a few celebrities in the entertainment industry who had been stand-ins before debuting.

Although he had bipolar disorder, his basic thinking ability was still there. After thinking it over briefly, Yan Shen understood the logic behind it.

However, there was still one question. Why would Xie Zhu, the male lead, let a stand-in attend such an important business dinner?

Promoting a newcomer in the circle could still be justified, but promoting one's own stand-in... Yan Shen asked himself, if he were Xie Zhu, he probably wouldn't have such magnanimity.

Unless he wanted to gain some benefit or avoid some trouble by doing this.

Relying on the intuition he had honed from dealing with people in the business world for so long, Yan Shen keenly sensed that there was something fishy about this matter.

He clasped the palm that he had been pinching for a while back into his hand and asked the obedient-looking black-haired youth, "Before you came, did Xie Zhu or that agent instruct you to do anything?"

Su Duan thought back to some of the phrases the agent had repeated at high frequency in the car and said, "The agent said to listen obediently and remember Mr. Xie's kindness."

Yan Shen asked further, "Anything else?"

Su Duan: "No, that's it."

Blinking, he paused for a moment, then said softly, "But..."

Yan Shen: "Hm?"

Su Duan licked the corner of his lips.

He had never had the experience of complaining to a lover before. This was the first time, and he didn't know if he could successfully tattle.

He felt a little inexplicably nervous.

"Don't be afraid," Yan Shen covered his entire hand with his larger palm. His thumb moved slightly, caressing the delicate skin on the inside of his wrist, and said in a low voice, "Say what you want to say, I'm listening."

Under the other party's encouraging gaze, Su Duan blurted out the rest of his complaint in one breath, "Before you came in, there was a person who kept staring at me."

"...I didn't like the way he looked at me."

Yan Shen's caressing motion on his wrist paused for a moment, and a hint of gloom flashed in his eyes. He tried to control his emotions and asked softly, "Where was he sitting?"

Sure enough, as he had guessed, this matter wasn't that simple.

At least for the black-haired youth, it wasn't that simple.

Although he had never personally participated in those shady dealings, it didn't mean he didn't understand them.

This time, Su Duan spoke very quickly, as if he had prepared in advance, like a little tattletale who had schemed, "Sitting to the right of the director, separated by one person, also an investor in the crew."

Yan Shen stroked the little tattletale's paw and thought back according to his description.

Because he was in a manic episode, his level of attention to his surroundings had decreased. He didn't have a deep impression of the person Su Duan mentioned, and now that he thought about it, he couldn't even remember what the other party looked like.

However, since he had no impression and the person was sitting in that position, he probably wasn't some big shot.

When he got home later, he would call Hao You and ask. He had been in the country for a long time and should know that person's identity.

"Okay, I understand," Yan Shen said. "I'll have someone look into it."

Su Duan blinked, feeling that he had successfully tattled, so he couldn't help but purse his lips and smile very slightly, the corners of his eyes also curving subtly, and he said, "Thank you."

"No need to thank me." Yan Shen couldn't help but reach out and touch the corner of his eye. The youth's appearance wasn't the type to stun people at first glance, and neither were his eyes. At most, one could only say they were neat and clean. But when he smiled, those crystal-clear black eyes were like stars had fallen into them, making one want to lean in and kiss them.

Yan Shen thought this way and did just that.

His lips fell on a small patch of tender skin at the corner of the youth's left eye, lightly pecking it, then wrapping around it and sucking on it a few times, finally sticking out the tip of his tongue and licking it, leaving a slightly wet trace.

He sat up, wrapping an arm around Su Duan's shoulders, pulling him into his embrace. He lowered his head and asked softly, "Mind if I collect a little thanks?"

"I don't mind," Su Duan said softly. Perhaps feeling uncomfortable with the wetness at the corner of his eye, he raised his hand and rubbed the corner of his eye with the back of his hand.

His skin was really too sensitive. Just from being held and teased a couple of times, the skin at the corner of his eye easily flushed pink.

Now that it had been rubbed with the back of his hand, it was even redder.

Seeing the black-haired youth making himself more and more disheveled, Yan Shen reached out and grabbed his thin wrist, stopping his movements. He pulled out a soft tissue from the storage basket in front of the car and gently pressed it against the small patch of skin that had just been left with a wet mark, wiping it clean with the gentlest force.

Then he lifted up Su Duan's hand that had just wiped the corner of his eye, and wiped the back of his hand as well.

Su Duan held his paw that had just been wiped with one hand, like a little hamster who didn't know what to do after being stuffed with sunflower seeds, and said, "Thank you."

Yan Shen still said, "You're welcome."

However, even though he said "you're welcome", he still asked for a thank-you gift for himself.

Yan Shen lowered his head again and kissed the other corner of his eye, but this time he didn't stick out his tongue, just lightly pressed on it.

No need to wipe, but it was itchy, and it became even more itchy when he paid attention to it. He couldn't help but reach out and rub it. Su Duan felt that the corners of his eyes were going to be rubbed broken.

Yan Shen grabbed his hand back and wouldn't let him touch it. He asked, "Did you sign a contract with Xie Zhu?"

Both of Su Duan's hands were grabbed by someone, turning him into a little hamster whose sunflower seeds had been confiscated and whose paws had been grabbed. He shook his head and said, "No."

The original body did not come from a dedicated body double company, but was accidentally discovered by Xie Zhu's agent and called over to be Xie Zhu's body double. He did not go through the formal hiring process.

Yan Shen: "It's good that you didn't sign. Don't be a body double in the future... Do you want to act on your own?"

Su Duan did not answer immediately. For the original body, the answer to this question was certainly yes, but for him, he was not so sure.

In fact, he had some interest in this kind of work that he had never been exposed to before, playing fictional characters, but now Yan Shen was sick and couldn't be left alone. He heard that filming was very busy and he had to go to faraway places with the crew, which would definitely mean being separated from Yan Shen.

Thinking about it this way, he didn't really want to go anymore.

As for acting, he could go whenever he wanted to. Between work and love, love was still a little more important.

No, it was much more important.

But the first glimmer of light that had flashed in his eyes had already fallen into Yan Shen's eyes. Before Su Duan could say that he didn't want to, Yan Shen had already started planning for him.

"Wait a few days, I'll find a company for you to join. I have a friend who does this kind of thing, and it should be handled quickly."

Of course, that friend was most likely Hao You.

Su Duan blinked, wanting to say that it was unnecessary, but Yan Shen seemed to have become interested and started talking one sentence after another.

"What do you want to act in? Are you interested in 'Becoming a Demon' that's being filmed right now? Do you want to play the male lead? Anyway, they haven't filmed much yet. Let the crew remove Xie Zhu and you go."

"It doesn't matter if you lack experience. We can hire a teacher."

Although it sounded like an exaggeration to remove the male lead of a big-budget movie just like that, considering that President Yan alone invested more than half of the money in "Becoming a Demon", if he was determined to remove Xie Zhu, then the crew probably had no way to deal with it.

The financial loss caused by reshooting the male lead's scenes was not a problem either. No matter how much was lacking, he could fill it up. Even if the money he had previously invested in "Becoming a Demon" was doubled, it would still be nothing to him.

As long as the youth was happy, then the money was well spent.

Moreover... finding something for Su Duan to do and keeping him away from himself for a while, he could take medicine for a period of time. By the time the youth's filming was finished, the illness should be under control.

First separate for a while, and when the illness was more stable, they could get closer again without worrying about hurting the youth.

From beginning to end, although President Yan appeared to be normal in front of the youth after the onset of the illness, he was actually in an extremely self-centered state and never considered how much chaos the "Becoming a Demon" crew would fall into because of his decision.

In this extremely self-centered way of thinking, only the black-haired youth was the sole exception, but apart from the black-haired youth, the feelings of others were not within President Yan's consideration.

However, Su Duan, who was exceptionally included in his "own people" category, listened and said, "..."

After listening to Yan Shen's seemingly logical but actually shocking plan, he was stunned for a moment, and quickly furrowed his brows in worry, slowly saying, "You can't do that."

Yan Shen: "Hm?"

Su Duan looked at him, organized his words a little, and rarely said clearly, "If we reshoot, the previous funds will definitely not be enough. 'Becoming a Demon' was already high-risk, and if we add more money to reshoot, it will be difficult to even recover the principal."

"We're here to make money, not to lose money, you know?"

Su Duan, who was afraid of being poor, solemnly educated the other party to work hard to support the family and not to waste money just because he was rich. "Let's talk about filming later. Making money is more important now."