How To Say I Love You [BL]

Chapter 3《Entertainment Circle》

She had told him that he was coming to the company to take a look… And he truly was taking a look. Just a few minutes after Xiao Jiashu sat down, his mother sent him out, and a secretary took him around to tour every floor. While he was walking along the corridor, many people craned their necks to look at him, all of them lamenting inside  that their old chief had once again discovered another newcomer with maximum potential. With those looks, that temperament, his popularity would skyrocket with just one light push.

Xiao Jiashu was after all, a member of the Xiao Family and had attended in many big social occasions in the past. This small amount of attention was nothing to him. He continued along without a side glance. Meanwhile, Xue Miao took out a box of cigarettes and asked, “Want one?”

Xiu Changyu readily accepted a cigarette. While he smoked, he exclaimed, “I thought you quit a long time ago.”

“An unhappy person can’t quit smoking.” Xue Miao lowered her eyes slightly to prevent the fumes from going into her eyes. She held a cigarette holder between her slender fingers, her bearing graceful but revealing a sense of melancholy. Her days had been unhappy. She could hide that fact from other people, but couldn’t hide it from Xiu Changyu. Thus, she calmly confessed. Besides, there was nothing that they couldn’t say to each other. After a moment of silence, she continued, “Just then, I told you to help arrange a position for Xiao Shu. Don’t take those words seriously. I don’t want him to become a nine to five office worker.”

“You mean you’re?” Xiu Changyu realised something, and couldn’t help but feel stunned.

“That’s right. I want him to act.” Xue Miao slowly released a mouth of smoke, her tender and luscious lips shrouded within the fog. “Help me casually arrange a position for him first, have him stay with the cast and crew for a period of time. When he’s become familiar with the process, then help him find a suitable character to play.”

“Don’t you think you’re deciding too much on your own? Aren’t you going to ask Xiao if he’s willing or not? He’s the young master of the Xiao Clan, yet you’re letting him enter the entertainment circle. Won’t his father and grandfather in a fit of anger strip him of inheritance rights? You’re endured for so many years, is it really worth it?” Xiu Changyu earnestly dissuaded.

However, his well-meaning advice was not gratefully received. In front of Xiu Changyu, Xue Miao was a completely different person, intense like fire, mighty with no equal: this was her original self. “For myself, I can endure, but for the sake of my son, I cannot endure any longer. Do you know how hard he worked, and how outstanding he is? But in the end those so-called close-relatives are all forcing him to conceal his own radiance, and become a mediocre piece of rubbish drifting along waiting for death. For the past few months, he locked himself inside his room every day playing games, not eating, not sleeping, not bathing. A person who loves to shamelessly flaunt his looks as much as him, had actually turned himself into less than a ghost. Seeing him like that, it hurt as if someone had dug out my heart! In your people’s eyes, he is indeed wealthy, without even working, he has enough money to waste for his entire lifetime, but who actually knows what he truly wants?”

“How do you know that he wants to act? An actor isn’t something you can just become. You should understand clearer than me how difficult it is.” Xiu Changyu urged again.

“I gave birth to him, how could I not know? Do you still remember? When he was three, your company was preparing to invest and film a child fantasy drama and wanted to find a suitable child actor. I read out the script to him like a bedtime story. He was instantly able to imitate the plot, one moment acting out a grandpa tortoise leaning against a crutch to walk. Even if you hadn’t read the script you would still be able to feel as if he was truly carrying a heavy big tortoise shell on his back. The next moment, acting out a little dragon boy, hugging me bawling, crying out, Mummy, mummy, don’t die, the emotions abundant and genuine. He practically became whatever he was acting. He was born to act. If a servant hadn’t disclosed my plans of taking him to the audition to the Old Master, the child who later rose to fame due to that drama would definitely have been my son instead. I sent you a video at that time. Even you were praising him, saying that he had inherited my genes. He also said to me, “Mummy, acting is very interesting. When I grow up I’m going to become a big star just like you!” When Xue Miao said those words, her face finally showed a look of joy, but it quickly fell again. “But the Old Master looks down on me, and in turn looks down on Xiao Shu. As soon as he heard Xiao Shu say those words, he beat Xiao Shu up with his cane. Mercilessly scolding him, saying that he’s good-for-nothing. As time passed, Xiao Shu became more and more taciturn. He stopped imitating little animals, little old men, little old ladies….. And stopped watching TV. After he grew up, even he forgot his original self. That’s how they forcibly killed a child’s innocence, and now they even want to cut off his future.”