Love Apartment: South Wind Passage.

Chapter 704: Skyrocketing Ratings
"Where is Lu Ziqiao? Where is Lu Ziqiao?"

"I'm going to kill him!!!"

The next morning, Zeng Xiaoxian, who had searched the entire apartment but couldn't find Ziqiao, came to the Sunny Day Bar in a rage.

He growled at Guan Gu, Nan Feng, You You, and Zhang Wei fiercely, "Where the hell is Lv Ziqiao?

"Let him out now! I'm going to kill him!"

Youyou held the script in her arms, leaning on Guan Gu's shoulder with a helpless and haggard look in her eyes: "It's normal for Ziqiao to be away from the apartment occasionally. God knows where he's going to gallop on his horse again."

“Galloping on a horse? This time I will make sure he will never be able to ride a horse again in his life!”

Zeng Xiaoxian was filled with anger and sat down on the sofa in the bar.

"If you see him in the next two days, please let me know. I will kill him!"

"Oh."

Guan Gu and You You nodded perfunctorily.

Don't be fooled by Mr. Zeng's fierce words. With his fighting ability, I think he can only chop melons and cut vegetables.

Want to kill Zi Qiao?

If he is not careful, he will be killed!

"Forget it, I'll order a drink first. I'm dying of thirst."

Zeng Xiaoxian turned around and asked the waiter for a bottle of wine. It was only then that he noticed Nanfeng sitting in a wheelchair beside him out of the corner of his eye.

"I rely on!"

Zeng Xiaoxian was shocked by Nanfeng's miserable state: "Nanfeng, what happened to you? Did Yumo abuse you?"

"Do you think I'd be the kind of coward who wouldn't fight back if a woman hit me?"

"Too."

Xiaoxian looked at Nanfeng carefully and saw that he looked calm and the people around him did not look worried. He guessed that his injuries only looked scary but were not serious.

"So how did you get yourself into this state?"

Nan Feng sighed. He didn’t explain too much to Zeng Xiaoxian: “I don’t want to recall it now.”

"Ok."

Xiaoxian shrugged, then couldn't help but sneered: "Okay, another one in a wheelchair."

"Now it seems that this Flying Star Wheelchair is the most useful one of Xiao Hei's inventions to us. Sooner or later, we will have to worship it."

He looked doubtfully at Zhang Wei, who had a miserable face, unfocused eyes, and was hugging the sofa pillow and looking up at the sky.

"Zhang Wei, what's wrong with you?"

"Isn't today a workday? You don't have to go to work at the law firm?"

Zhang Wei turned his head mechanically and slowly when he heard that. For a moment, Xiaoxian seemed to hear the sound of rusty gears when his neck turned.

Zhang Wei said in a low voice: "I have asked for leave today. I have to go to the police station to apply for a new ID card in the afternoon."

"Oh?"

Xiaoxian asked in surprise: "Did you lose your ID card?"

Zhang Wei had a wooden face and smiled miserably at Zeng Xiaoxian: "I don't want to recall."

"hiss……"

Zeng Xiaoxian was so frightened by Zhang Wei's weird expression that his hair stood on end and he got goose bumps all over the floor.

He turned his head and looked at Nan Feng: "Did Zhang Wei not win the jackpot again yesterday afternoon?"

Nan Feng hummed: "Not only did he not win the prize, but he also damaged his ID card.

"Taking into account the deductions for attendance and performance for taking leave, I estimate that I will lose another 250 yuan."

Xiaoxian grinned when he heard this, and the resentment he felt for being cheated by Ziqiao was also dissipated a lot because of Zhang Wei's bad luck.

"You can lose 250 yuan by playing a scratch-off lottery ticket with no investment. Zhang Wei, you are such an idiot."

Zhang Wei's eyes twitched, and he glared at Xiaoxian unhappily: "Then you lose 500 yuan, isn't it just two idiots?"

"When did I lose 500..."

Xiaoxian paused, he remembered that he was the one who bought Ziqiao and Zhang Wei’s scratch tickets.

After doing the math, it seems that I have indeed lost five hundred.

It’s my grandfather’s, so that scratch ticket is not a wrong edition, but a warning to myself.

"Look, I was right."

Zhang Wei stared at Zeng Xiaoxian with his dead fish eyes: "Okay, I'm going to continue to be sad now, don't bother me if there's nothing wrong."

After he finished speaking, he returned to his previous sad look of looking up at the sky.

As a good man, Xiaoxian couldn't help but feel a little worried when he saw Zhang Wei like this: "Is Zhang Wei okay?"

"fine."

Youyou leaned in Guan Gu's arms and flipped through the script. She said in a tone of despair, "Zhang Wei was crying and shouting while sleepwalking last night, saying that he never wanted to play scratch tickets again."

Nan Feng also said: "Sadness is always inevitable, so we brought him to the bar to drink."

"Oh."

Xiaoxian nodded, then glanced at Youyou, who seemed to want to die more than Zhang Wei: "What's wrong with you?"

Youyou said with a fake smile: "I don't want to recall."

"Don't want to recall?"

Xiaoxian suddenly felt uncomfortable: "No, this will make me look redundant, understand?"

"Let me explain."

Guan Gu explained, "Youyou's agent got her a role in a drama, saying that he wanted to see if acting in a drama could cure Youyou's bad habit of always wanting to change the script."

Guan Gu pointed at Youyou, who was closing her eyes and hitting her head hard with the script. “It turns out that the lines in this play are too difficult to understand. She is memorizing the lines now.”

"Are you sure Youyou is reciting lines?"

Xiaoxian said in horror: "Why do I feel like she's trying to force the lines into my head!"

Youyou wailed, "Don't even think about typing the lines into my brain. As long as I can remember them, I'll dig a hole in my head and stuff the script in there."

"Tsk, tsk, tsk."

Xiaoxian sighed and said, "Youyou, you are so miserable."

"By the way, when will your play be performed?"

"One o'clock in the afternoon on the 29th."

"Oh."

Everyone nodded, and some continued to drink, some continued to recite the script, and some continued to drink lemonade.

Suddenly Xiaoxian said, "Isn't today the 29th?"

Youyou was startled when she heard this. Suddenly, the silence of the five people in the apartment seemed out of place with the hustle and bustle around them.

"Ruined!"

Youyou jumped up from the sofa and took out her cell phone which she had muted in order to memorize her lines. Sure enough, there were a bunch of missed calls on it.

"It's over! It's over!" Youyou cried miserably while holding the phone, "Teacher Zeng, you were faking it. My agent is really going to kill me this time!"

"The show is about to start at one o'clock in the afternoon. I have to rush over now to get ready!"

Youyou didn't even bother to say goodbye to everyone and ran towards the bar door without looking back.

"Honey, wait for me, I'll go with you!"

Guan Gu quickly grabbed Youyou's bag that she had left at the bar and rushed out with Youyou.

Looking at the backs of the two people leaving in a hurry, Zeng Xiaoxian rubbed his chin and said, "I wanted to ask you just now, why did Youyou come to the bar to memorize the script?"

Nan Feng chuckled helplessly: "Why else do you think Youyou couldn't memorize it?"

"……Too."

Xiaoxian raised his glass and clinked it with Nanfeng's lemonade: "I wish her good luck."

The two drank their drinks, and Nan Feng blinked his eyes: "Teacher Zeng, you just asked a lot of questions, so what's going on between you and Zi Qiao?"

Zeng Xiaoxian was stunned when he heard this. The corner of his mouth twitched as he said, "I don't want to go back either..."

"Ok?"

Nan Feng's eyes became sharp: "Stop it, Zhang Wei is now a silent sad machine. If you don't want to reminisce anymore, we can only sit here and drink in boredom."

"Right."

Zeng Xiaoxian curled his lips and told Nanfeng everything about the bet between him and Ziqiao and what happened yesterday.

"Pretend to be a listener and confess to the host?"

Nan Feng sighed upon hearing this.

Every time he thought he knew Ziqiao well enough, this guy would always unexpectedly refresh his bottom line in his mind.

"Hey, you three guys are drinking? Take me with you."

Speak of the devil, and here comes Ziqiao, whom Xiaoxian had been looking for for a long time and couldn't find, and now he slowly walks over with a bottle of wine in his hand.

"Lu! Zi! Qiao!"

Zeng Xiaoxian's eyes turned red when he saw his enemy. He stood up and pounced towards Ziqiao viciously.

"Eh."

Ziqiao had seen Zeng Xiaoxian from a long distance away, so how could he not be on guard at all?

"Teacher Zeng, calm down! Calm down!"

He walked Zeng Xiaoxian around the sofa in the bar, and said soothingly: "This is a bar. If you lose your composure here, it will affect your image as a public figure."

"I still have a shitty image!"

Zeng Xiaoxian said angrily: "Do you know how embarrassed you made me yesterday? All the listeners who called me in the second half of the night were asking me for gossip and laughing at me!"

Zi Qiao was puzzled: "It's a good thing that someone likes you, why is it embarrassing?"

"But you're a fucking man!!!"

Zeng Xiaoxian's roar immediately attracted the attention of all the curious people in the bar. They all turned their heads to look, their eyes full of curiosity and gossip.

Nan Feng turned his wheelchair around and helped explain: "Don't get me wrong, they are rehearsing a play."

"Cut~~~"

There were sounds of contempt coming from all around, and someone with sharp eyes discovered that one of the two men was the Sea King Lu Ziqiao.

It must be said that Ziqiao's credibility in this regard is comparable to that of Duan Zhengchun of Dali. Everyone confirmed in the shortest time that there would definitely not be any plot that they would like to see.

So the busybodies all withdrew their gazes.

Ziqiao sighed at Zeng Xiaoxian and said, "Teacher Zeng, you are such an old-fashioned person, you are just too conservative. What's wrong with a man liking you? As long as you are straight, can you be forced to become gay?"

"But you've ruined my reputation and my show!"

"The conscience of heaven and earth."

Zi Qiao was dissatisfied and said, "When did I ever ruin the reputation of you and your show? Were you punished by your superiors, or was your show said to have a distorted outlook on life?"

Xiaoxian lowered his voice a little after hearing this: "...That's not the case."

Although relationships between men do not conform to the station's value orientation, if the station can deal with the host and the program because of the confession of a fanatical same-sex listener, then all the hosts will be in trouble.

"Yeah."

Zi Qiao chuckled: "Don't worry, I'm the most reliable person."

"Cough cough cough."

Nan Feng reminded: "Keep your voices down, are you two really not afraid of being found out?"

"Yeah."

Zi Qiao smiled and said, "Teacher Zeng, how about we sit down and talk?"

Xiaoxian snorted, but was also worried that this matter would be known by other people, and then it would become a farce directed and acted by himself.

He took a few steps back and sat back down.

Seeing this, Ziqiao also smiled and sat next to Zhang Wei: "Teacher Zeng, don't just remember my bad side and forget my good side."

"My method may be bad, but can you tell me whether the ratings have gone up or not?"

Xiaoxian rolled his eyes at Ziqiao and said, "How would I know if the ratings went up last night?"

"You can call Lisa, she will definitely know."

Ziqiao raised three fingers and swore, "I guarantee you, the ratings last night definitely skyrocketed."

"If not, I will work like a slave for you this month and do whatever you want to do to make up for your loss."

"That's what human beings say."

Xiaoxian nodded with satisfaction at first, then he realized: "Lv Ziqiao you bastard! This month only has 29 days!"

Ziqiao blinked: "So are you going to make this call or not?"

Xiaoxian snorted and then dialed Lisa's number.

"Lisa~~~"

Whenever Nanfeng and Ziqiao heard Xiaoxian's flattering cries, they would tremble with disgust. Even Zhang Wei, who was in grief, shuddered, his whole face full of disgust.

"Zeng Xiaoxian? I was just about to call you."

Lisa said quickly and directly: "I know everything about the live broadcast last night."

"I'm telling you, Zeng Xiaoxian, this matter is extremely serious!"

"Leader, listen to me..."

Xiaoxian glared at Ziqiao fiercely. He lowered his head and said to Lisa aggrievedly: "This is none of my business, I..."

"Even if it's none of your business, you still broke the record."

"Break, break the record?"

"Yes." Lisa said excitedly, "Last night's ratings and audience activity were the highest you've had in all these years, and I estimate that tonight's initial ratings will at least double.

"Zeng Xiaoxian, seize the opportunity, you are the foundation of tomorrow..."

"Pah, rising star!"

(End of this chapter)