Abstract Art Award Winner

Chapter 167 New Year's Eve Appointment
Since entering the martial arts gym, Zhou Le has been either hanging on wires or practicing boxing and kicking every day.

After a while, he felt that he had lost a lot of weight. The intensity here was much higher than that in the gym.

But although he is thin, he looks much stronger and the contours of his muscles are more obvious.

It's winter in BJ now, so it's very cold outside, but the venue is air-conditioned. Zhou Le started sweating while practicing, so he simply took off his training clothes and wore only his pants.

Li Xi would always reach out and touch it when no one was paying attention.

"It's great to have muscles, but it's a pity that girls can't develop them like this."

Zhou Le smiled and said, "Why are you training like this? Are you going to do bodybuilding? Well, it would be better if girls had a thinner waist with a little definition. It's not comfortable to touch if it's hard like this.

Besides, the abdominal muscles are okay, but if the chest muscles are like this, you won’t even have a place to cry.”

Li Xi's face flushed: "Who said pectoral muscles?"

"I didn't say it, but you touched it."

"Can't I just admire it?"

Zhou Le was a little curious: "I feel like you probably like the kind with a sunny and fair complexion. Do you like muscular ones too?"

"Of course, but he can't be a very big guy. In fact, the main thing is the face."

"I think you're right. I think my face is pretty good too."

Just saying this, Zhou Le suddenly said: "But you always touch me, I feel a little disadvantaged."

Li Wei heard this and crossed his arms over his chest: "What are you going to do?"

Zhou Le held out his hand. "Don't get me wrong. Although I'm not a good person, I'm not particularly presumptuous either. I just felt that you weren't feeling well, so I decided to use my internal energy to heal you."

This is Fan Xian’s line in “Joy of Life”.

"You're not filming right now, I'm in good health."

After saying that, he thought for a moment and said, "At least not here, there are too many people."

Zhou Le listened and his heart moved: "Okay, then you owe me this. Remember to pay it back later. I have always advocated for gender equality."

"We'll talk about it later."

Then Zhou Le looked up at Meng Ziyi who was practicing the movements hard in front of him.

Meng Ziyi was tired after practicing for a while, so he ran over to rest.

During this period, Meng Ziyi also contacted Li Qi every day, and the relationship between the two naturally got along well.

After coming over and drinking a sip of water, he chatted with Li Xi for a while before looking at Zhou Le: "Brother Le, where are you planning to go for New Year's Eve this year?"

"Ah, New Year's Eve, what's so good about it? I've been busy for so long, it's time to take a break. I plan to go back and have a good sleep for a few days."

Meng Ziyi immediately looked at Zhou Le with a look of dismay: "Brother Le, you are too decadent. The new drama is about to start filming, how can you sleep?"

"Why can't you sleep? It's not like the shoot is tomorrow. But what are you planning?"

"I was thinking, why don't we have an annual party?"

Zhou Le sighed, "There are only about ten people in our company. What's the point of having an annual meeting? Besides, we're going to Tencent to attend the Starlight Awards on the 2nd. We might as well use this time to prepare properly."

"I've already prepared it, and my dress is right here at home. I wasn't qualified to go before, but this year, with you, Brother Le, I can finally see the world.

But you really won’t hold the annual meeting?”

"Goodbye, let's talk about it later when we have more people. Anyway, everyone has things to do now. Xiaotian and the company's finance and copywriting are all in Hengdian, Yin Zheng is also in Hengdian, and we are in BJ.

Anyway, I've already prepared gifts for everyone, so let's have a meal together before the New Year and go to KTV for a night of singing."

"Alright."

Seeing that Zhou Le had no such idea, Meng Ziyi turned to look at Li Yan and said, "Sister Yan, why don't we go to celebrate the New Year together without him?"

Li Xi didn't care: "Okay, but where are we going to celebrate New Year's Eve?"

"Either we go to Shanghai, or find someplace more lively. Is there any place you'd like to go, Miss?"

"Well, I haven't thought about it that way. Otherwise, you decide. We'll go wherever you say."

"Okay, I'll arrange it then."

"But it's just the two of us, Ziyi? If you have friends over there, you can invite them along."

"Okay, then I'll call Xiaoye and Shuxin over later. They're both very nice people, too. Just come with us then, and I guarantee you'll have a great time."

Zhou Le looked at the two of them who had already started talking about New Year's Eve, and shook his head with a smile.

He really didn't want to join in the fun.

There are crowds everywhere on New Year's Eve. It's better to play with your phone at home if you have that time.

But that night, after they had dinner together and Zhou Le sent everyone back, he turned on the navigation and was about to go home.

Suddenly, I received a call from Nazha on my mobile phone.

"Le'er, are you done?"

"I just finished and sent them back. What instructions do you have, Sister Nazha?"

"Come to my place. No one is home today."

"Auntie has gone back."

"Yes, she just went back yesterday and didn't stay for a few days. She felt she couldn't get used to living here and wanted to go back to play cards with her old friends."

"Okay, I'll be there right away."

Now Zhou Le also has the key to Nazha's house, mainly for convenience. After all, Nazha is very busy now, and she gets busier as the year comes to an end. Sometimes when there is something going on at home, Zhou Le can go and help take a look, or if there is a courier, he can also help pick it up.

After all, I don't trust others with this kind of thing.

After driving all the way to Nazha's house, Zhou Le opened the door and went in. He found that the house was dark. He reached out to turn on the light and shouted a few times but there was no response.

Just as he was about to go to the bathroom to take a look, he heard the sound of the door opening again from behind.

This made Zhou Le feel nervous, but he felt relieved when he saw that the person who opened the door was Nazha.

"Why are you so nervous?"

"I'm just afraid that Auntie will open the door suddenly. It would be bad if she thinks I'm a thief."

"Haha, didn't I tell you, there's no one at home."

"Yeah, you said there was no one there, I thought only Auntie was away, who would have thought you weren't here either."

"I just went out to pick up a package. I bought something for you."

"What?"

"You'll know in a moment. Wait for me on the sofa for a while. I'm going to the bathroom."

Afterwards, Nazha changed her shoes, took off her down jacket, and went into the bathroom with the express delivery.

He came out after about ten minutes.

"Wait for me for a moment, I'll change my clothes."

Then he went back into the bedroom.

Another ten minutes passed before Naza came out.

She changed into a deep V green polka dot skirt, but just looking at the style you could tell that the dress must not be cheap, probably costing tens of thousands of yuan for one skirt.

"How's it going? Does it look good?"

"nice."

"Remember you said you liked polka dot skirts before? I've been keeping an eye on them ever since, but I never found anything I liked until I saw this one a while ago, so I bought it."

"So today you specifically asked me to come and look at the clothes."

Nazha came to Zhou Le and sat down on the sofa, then hooked her hand on Zhou Le's shoulder and looked at him lovingly: "If you only want to look at clothes today, you can go back first."

"If I go back, can I take this dress with me?"

"Want it?"

"good."

Nazha reached out and gently stroked Zhou Le's cheek, making it feel itchy.

Then Zhou Le grabbed Nazha's hand.

"Woman, you are playing with fire."

Nazha smiled, her breath as sweet as orchid: "I don't want to play with fire. Playing with fire will make you wet the bed, right? But now I want to play with something else."

"playing what?"

Zhou Le had to admit that this woman was really good.

If I were an ancient emperor, I would have to conquer Tubo.

"Play King of Glory for a while."

Zhou Le: “.”

I was about to take my pants off, and you told me you wanted to play Honor of Kings.

Is this game that fun?
But Zhou Le also looked at him affectionately at this moment: "Playing King of Glory is too boring, that's for kids, why don't we play something else." "Then what do you want to play?"

Zhou Le felt that if he were to be in college now, he would probably become pouty on the spot.

"Let's play chicken for a while."

Nazha gasped: "Such vulgar words? Are you really that impatient?"

Zhou Le: "???"

Then he picked up the phone and said, "I'm talking about this, Chicken Dinner, a battle royale-style shooting game."

Naza: “???”

I'm already prepared, but you're talking to me about mobile games?
But some things really cannot be rushed. Nazha quickly downloaded the game, set it up roughly, and then was invited by Zhou Le to get on the plane and start skydiving.

"Why am I wearing this? Can I quit the game now? I want to go out and buy some nice skins."

"No need to buy anything, we're in the square now, don't you think whose skin is the best?"

Nazha didn't know what Zhou Le was going to do, and thought she could buy it after the game started, so she ran around for a while.

Didn't find anything good.

"Forget it, let's just leave it at that."

Nazha was not very good at playing this game, so Zhou Le taught her step by step. The game itself was the same, except that Chicken Dinner had become 3D.

But while playing, Nazha put her feet on Zhou Le's body and stepped on it.

Just before their eighth skydive, Zhou Le said he didn't want to play anymore, but he had to take a shower.

It was only after taking a shower that Zhou Le found out what Nazha bought.

She said she bought it for herself, but it was worn by Nazha.

During the period of martial arts training, Zhou Le had to give Meng Ziyi a massage every now and then, but in order not to affect the learning progress, he always controlled himself.

After that, Zhou Le stayed here for two days. Fortunately, there was always some food at Nazha's house, so there was no need to go out.

Originally, I wanted to ask Zhou Le to go out for a walk and find a place to eat during the New Year's Eve in a few days, but Zhou Le didn't have the time. It was not until the morning of New Year's Day, January 1st, that Zhou Le left Nazha's house.

I went back to pack up and then visited my godfather's house.

I didn't return home until after dinner in the evening.

After waking up early the next morning, Su Yingxia washed up, put on some light makeup, and drove straight to the hotel.

Although this year's Starlight Gala will be held at Communication University of China and will not start until the afternoon, many friends have already stayed in the hotel today.

Zhou Le had to go over and take a look.

After arriving, Zhou Le went to visit Xu Zheng first, but they had met quite often during this period, so he left after chatting for a few words.

Then he went to visit Jin Dong and Wang Kai. There were also a few former artists from Noon Sunshine there. Zhou Le also expressed his gratitude to Jin Dong again for helping him last time.

But to be honest, the reason why Noon Sunshine signed Zhou Le was first to make money, and secondly to keep Zhou Le first.

To be honest, there was indeed some gratitude towards Noon Sunshine for its help, but later Zhou Le also helped Noon Sunshine to make the money back.

If I have to say, Noon Sunshine actually doesn't have very deep feelings for Zhou Le. Although the boss of Noon Sunshine also introduced Zhou Le to iQiyi more than half a month ago, they didn't say a word in between.

Later, Wang Zhonglei from Huayi said something, but Zhou Le understood the meaning. In fact, he was hinting that Zhou Le could sign with Huayi.

Just like Li Binbin and Feng Xiaogang, it’s okay to set up a personal studio.

But at that time Zhou Le just expressed his gratitude very politely.

He didn't dare get too close to Huayi. After all, they didn't even let their own people go. If Zhou Le went there, wouldn't he be completely taken advantage of?

Money can definitely be earned, but how much you get and whether you have freedom or not are not up to Zhou Le himself.

While walking in the hotel corridor, Zhou Le suddenly heard the laughter of many girls coming from a room in front.

I walked over subconsciously and found that the door was not closed, so I took a look inside.

It was at this glance that the people inside also saw Zhou Le.

"Teacher Zhou!"

After someone shouted, all the girls inside ran out.

"Teacher Zhou is so handsome, Teacher Zhou, why don't you come in and sit down?"

Zhou Le looked at the few people and had an impression of them in his mind.

This year, Tencent organized two large-scale talent shows in order to compete with iQiyi.

A boy group and a girl group.

Cai Xukun is the most famous member of the men's group right now, but Zhou Le is most familiar with Yang Chaoyue on the women's group.

But Yang Chaoyue somehow became famous despite not knowing anything but being very lucky.

"Everyone is very beautiful, much prettier than what I see online."

Zhou Le also complimented them casually, but in fact, Zhou Le had no interest in these idols who came from talent shows.

In fact, if you are interested, you can pick one. But if Zhou Le can choose, so can others.

But with this group of girls chattering around him, Zhou Le really didn't want to stay any longer, so after adding them on WeChat, he quickly ran away.

Afterwards Zhou Le went to Deng Chao's room.

"Brother Chao, did you bring any wine this time?"

"I brought it. I knew you were in BJ, so I brought two bottles of wine when I came."

"Okay, okay, the meeting is over today, and I'll be living alone at home, so we can come back and continue drinking."

"No problem, both bottles of wine must be finished."

After that, Zhou Le sat down here, but after a while, Zhou Le received a call saying that he could go and meet Mao Buyi.

After all, we are all family.

Although he is a singer and an actor, Zhou Le also has some works in the music industry. Although there is only one truly original song, "Dragon Scales of Heaven and Earth" given by the system, the rest are songs given by others.

But if they can cooperate across borders, it will not be bad for the development of both of them.

Mao Buyi made his debut in 17 by winning the championship in Tencent's variety show "The Coming One".

He didn't remember much else, he just remembered that Hua Chenyu, the only god in the Chinese music scene at that time, was one of the judges and criticized Mao Buyi's song.

Later, various problems arose, and it was only after Xue Zhiqian stepped in that he was able to save the person.

"Okay, which room is he in? I'll go check it out."

"Teacher Zhou, I'll send it to you later."

After hanging up the phone, Zhou Le sighed: "Brother Chao, the company asked me to meet Mao Buyi and get in touch with him. I'll go over first, and we'll have lunch together at noon."

"Okay, go ahead. Just do your thing. I'll go sit with them for a while. I'll call you when you're done."

Then Zhou Le came to Mao Buyi according to the room number sent by the staff on WeChat.

Zhou Le had seen the other person's photo on the Internet before.

He doesn't look tall and is a bit fat, but he looks very honest and simple, and he speaks with a northeastern accent.

Putting Mao Buyi and Hua Chenyu together, if Zhou Le has to find someone to make friends with, he would still prefer Mao Buyi.

At least it feels comfortable.

After meeting offline, Zhou Le found that the other person looked similar to what he saw on TV.

"Teacher Mao, I heard you were here, so I came to see you and wanted to get to know you."

Zhou Le spoke straight to the point.

Mao Buyi also looked very shy and quickly invited Zhou Le into the room.

"Teacher Zhou, I also really like the dramas you filmed. I was thinking of getting to know you this evening and adding you on WeChat."

"Haha, it's okay. Don't we know each other now?"

Zhou Le said this and added the other party on WeChat.

Zhou Le looked at him and said, "You said before that you liked the dramas I filmed. I wonder which one is your favorite?"

Mao Buyi thought for a moment and said, "Teacher Zhou, you've actually acted in quite a few dramas, and many of them are very popular. Maybe others like 'Dying to Survive' or 'Wolf Warrior', but to be honest, my favorite is your role as Dynamite in 'Sewing Machine Band'."

Zhou Le felt very familiar when he heard this.

Isn't this my word?

When did my words leak out?
"Haha, well, it's probably because we're both musicians, but Mr. Mao, I really like your songs too."

Mao Buyi also became interested: "Which song?"

Zhou Le laughed: "Maybe other people's favorite is "Xiaochou", but my two favorites are "If One Day I Become Very Rich" and "Please Remember Me" from the travelogue."

"Remember Me" is the theme song of that Disney animated film. Speaking of this, Zhou Le slapped his thigh and said, "Oh, isn't this perfect? I wonder if Teacher Mao would be interested in singing the movie's promotional song?"

(End of this chapter)