Chapter 51 – Meeting Kang Jian Again (1/2)

Bai Lang had come to Full Circle to attend a shareholders meeting. Just by himself he represented two-thirds of the total share so if he didn’t come then their voting of matters wouldn’t be able to achieve an over 50% agreement rate and they could directly declare the meeting failed.

So as soon as Bai Lang stepped into the new building built last year by Full Circle, a skinny man with an employee swipe card around his neck, wearing denim jeans and a T-shirt came hurrying out of the elevator towards him. He wore a familiar smile to welcome him. “Ai, ai, young master Bai, we’re just waiting on you. This way, this way.”

These words “young master Bai” caused Kang Jian, who was waiting to be called in on the other side of the large and spacious reception room, to turn his head around.

Right now around Kang Jian there were several good looking young people gathered.

Today one of the departments of Full Circle was doing early tryouts for a brand commercial. It hadn’t gotten to the stage of auditions yet, so they were simply holding it in one of the offices on this lower level floor.

They were all in the same entertainment circle. When the young people who had come to try out saw their senior Kang Jian also appear in the same place, they all naturally got very excited. They all rushed over to greet him and try to get familiar. After chatting they realized that the reason Kang Jian had come to Full Circle today was to talk business. This must be high boss-level discussions. These young and lowly newcomers all felt they couldn’t compare to Kang Jian, so their eyes when they looked at him were filled with envy and admiration. Their words also become more and more respectful and pandering.

This new wave of newcomers to the entertainment world were all around seventeen to eighteen years old, because that was one of the requirements of Full Circle’s tryout. Three, four years ago, when Bai Lang was famous, these young fellows probably were still in middle school. They probably could only recall a few idol singers from that time, as for Bai Lang who was primarily an actor, they didn’t have any strong memories of him.

Thus when they saw Kang Jian behaviour change, they all asked curiously, “Senior Kang, do you know that person?”

“Is he also from our circle?”

“How come I don’t have any impression of him? Is he a newcomer?”

These seven or eight tongues were talking at the same time. In the tall and wide lobby the voices echoed loudly, until the sound even reached Bai Lang and he looked over together with the man who had come to receive him.

When their eyes met, Kang Jian felt as though something was squeezing his heart painfully.

It had been a long time since he had seen Bai Lang. When compared to three years ago, he hadn’t changed much but at the same time felt different. His skin was still white and delicate, his hair and brows dark and pure, everything about him was clean and elegant. When looking at him it gave one the feeling looking at a beautiful and translucent jade, you couldn’t help but want to get close. At this time the habitual smile on Bai Lang’s face hadn’t disappeared. Even though when he met Kang Jian’s eyes, it faded slightly however it was enough encouragement for Kang Jian to hurry over.

Kang Jian ignored the voices around him and as though he was being hypnotized, directly walked towards Bai Lang. “Ah Lang, it’s been a long time.

Bai Lang nodded his head. “Mr Kang.”

Kang Jian’s eyes immediately lit up. Because ever since Bai Lang became cold towards him, this was the first time he had shown him a friendly gesture!

Could, could it be because these years he had obtained some small results, hence Bai Lang’s misunderstandings towards him had faded!?

Kang Jian’s feelings towards Bai Lang right now were very complicated. Within his admiration there was mixed feelings of jealousy and unfairness. That’s why he had not objected to Li Sha making trouble for Bai Lang. However right now, Kang Jian felt his popularity exceeded Bai Lang’s. So once that jealousy was removed, the Bai Lang that evoked his dream desires now occupied the greater part of his thoughts. Now when Kang Jian stood in front of Bai Lang, his heart raced quickly.

So unable to help himself, Kang Jian quickly glanced down at Bai Lang’s hand.

He saw that the same white gold ring from three years ago that was still being snugly worn around Bai Lang’s finger.

Three years ago, Bai Lang had rushed out the award ceremony. Three weeks later, most people knew that Qiu Qian had been involved in an accident overseas. The original poisonous remarks that Bai Lang had “fled after losing” all immediately changed to praises for his love and loyalty. After that there was no more news about Bai Lang in the entertainment circle. Even Chaos Street, which was halfway through promotions, disappeared. All the way up until a few days ago, when Total Entertainment made a simple announcement that Chaos Street would re-commence filming after three years.

When he saw the ring, Kang Jian’s eyes went dark. He also discovered two shadows coming closer. It wasn’t until then that Kang Jian saw two tall and big bodyguards following Bai Lang from behind. Since Bai Lang had been stopped by someone they didn’t recognize, they came closer to make sure everything was okay.

Kang Jian quickly organized his expression. He smiled at Bai Lang again. “It was only a little while ago I heard that you returned to the country and now we already met again. It must be fate so we definitely need to find a day to have a good chat. It’s been three years, things have changed a lot in China. There’s alot of news within the circle that you might not know and I can catch you up. That way you won’t make any mistakes.”

After talking Kang Jian took out his phone, intending to ask Bai Lang for his phone number again. However at this time another unfamiliar voice interrupted them. “Mr Kang? You’re here ah.”

Everyone turned around and saw a man in a suit coming towards them. He looked like some type of manager and he was also wearing an employee pass around his neck. He bowed respectfully at them, then turned to Kang Jian. “Mr Kang, the Vice General Manager has been waiting in the meeting room for you for quite a while. You….” He respectfully let the rest of the words trail off.

Kang Jian paused then remembered he had come here on business. His was representing his new trading company and had come to Full Circle to discuss and sign a contract regarding warehousing and logistics. When he turned around, he saw that surprise flashed through Bai Lang’s eyes. So Kang Jian narrowed his eyes at the skinny man who had come receive Bai Lang. He saw that he was wearing casual clothes and assumed he must be a low level employee. Feeling good, Kang Jian stood up even straighter and said importantly, “Ah Lang, I have a meeting to go to now. Let’s talk next time. My phone number hasn’t changed, you should know it. So I’ll wait for you call?”

After he spoke, the small manager in the suit gently called him again. Kang Jian then walked away. But he didn’t walk a few steps before turning back around to wave at Bai Lang. Bai Lang only blinked. Of course he wouldn’t make any gesture in response.

After Kang Jian was taken into the elevator and disappeared from sight, the employee in the casual clothes beside Bai Lang asked, “Is that some young master Bai knows? Should I make some kind of arrangement?”

Bai Lang smiled. “Indeed. Tell the Vice General Manager to delay things and not to take his business. In a few months his company will go under.”

The employee went still. Then he blinked his eyes and then laughed mischievously. “Is Boss Qiu going to make trouble again? This time you should let us help too ah.”

Bai Lang didn’t agree. He patted this small employee’s shoulder. “Let’s go. These type of small matters isn’t something that needs to worry you, Chief Financial Officer.”

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After telling Qiu Qian everything, Bai Lang’s antagonism towards Kang Jian actually faded a lot.