“I♥U”, it’s not a lie! [boyxboy]✔️ - 12 Welcome To Peace Hotel!

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After a restless night, Yibo was the first to arrive at the filming location from that first day, a famous luxury hotel.
He was led by a hotel employee to the private dining saloon, rented by the Xiao Company to be converted into a filming studio.

~Yibo’s POV~

Before anything else, the director gathered the whole crew to explain to us the concept of the “Welcome to Peace Hotel!” CF( A/n: CF stands for “Commercial Film”, those advertisements that you see on TV) that we’ll be going to work at, for the next two weeks.
That’s how I found out that Zhan’s family is rich beyond my imagination, the American Xiao Company detaining various business branches, from hotel chains all over the world, food chains, tourism agencies, to pharmaceutical, cars, clothes businesses and whatnot.

This CF is for a hotel chain that the company intends to open in Shanghai and Beijing, called Peace Hotel.
The story of the CF is a love triangle between my character, Zhan Zhan’s character and a girl acted by Miss Jing-Hua, a random student actress who will come to the studio starting tomorrow.
My character is falling in love with the girl, but the girl is in a love relationship with Zhan’s character.
The girl will flirt with both male characters.
The two men will get into a physical fight and, also, both will leave the girl.
But in the end all three characters will reconcile and become best friends, enthralled by the Peace Hotel’s peaceful and comfortable environment they were staying in, and by the Xiao Company’s whisky brand that they were indulging with, ha, ha.

The hotels will be completely ready to be opened only two weeks from now, that’s why we are not filming in the location of one of the Peace Hotels.
And also, that’s why we must finish the CF in two weeks from now.

After reading the script of this first filming day that I was given, I ascertained with great disappointment that me and Zhan will have separate scenes to shoot for today.
It’s not like I was hoping for forgiveness or anything, after all he didn’t spare me not even with a glance since he stepped inside the studio, accompanied by his best friend, the composer, who was the only one to greet me good morning.
But…wouldn’t it be wonderful to be allowed to drown myself into those magical eyes one more time, even if only in an acted scene?

My part was first to be filmed.
Oh, he hates me so much, that he detests even to look in my direction!
He was reading his script, sitting in a chair with the back turned to the filming stage.

Unlike me, who planted myself right behind the filming crew, when it was his scene’s turn to be filmed.

The composer came near me and whispered in my ear that nobody knows that Zhan is the son of the Company’s owner, besides me, not even the director, and asked me to keep the secret to myself.

“Oh fu*k my life, he is so, so beautiful…and so, so s€xual!”, I couldn’t stop myself from speaking aloud my thoughts, earning from Xia Zhiguang, a chuckled approval.

“Sorry.”, the actor mumbled, when the director asked for the shoot to be repeated, as he wasn’t supposed to smile in that scene.

Did Zhan catch my words and that’s why he was smiling?
No, it can’t be, he hates me!

But at least I am able to feast my eyes freely with the fascinating beauty of
my boyfriend, ermm…ex boyfriend… now that it was Zhan Zhan’s individual scene to be filmed, a longer and more complex scene than mine.

“Wait, that lipstick on Mister Xiao Zhan’s lips is too faded, I want a soft shade of red!”, the director requested, his eyes searching for the makeup artist in charge.

“We apologize Mister director, Xuan Lu will be back in a second, she is in the lobby, talking to the phone with her mother who has just been taken to the hospital.”, a filming crew member explained.

This was definitely my train to catch!
I jumped to grab the kit from the makeup artist’s table and ran excitedly to the filming stage, tripping in the lots of cables and almost kissing the ground:
“No need to wait for Miss Xuan Lu, I can take care of that, I did my sister’s makeup many times, I’m good with that stuff!”

“Are you sure, Mister Wang Yibo, that is not just another lie about you doing your sister’s makeup?
Anyway, too much bother for you, Mister Wang Yibo, a mirror would be enough and I could do it by myself, I’m good with that, too, you know.
Don’t forget that I’m an actor and I…”, Zhan snapped, slightly angry, but I dared to bring him to silence, my trembling fingers pinching his lips closed.

Luckily Xuan Lu’s makeup kit was very well organized, therefore I found easily the needed lip wipes and the color of lipstick asked by the director.

First he avoided meeting my eyes, he even hissed in annoyance when I rubbed the wipes over his lips…his perfectly sculptured, kissable lips…ahhh.

“I’m so so sorry, I know I don’t deserve your forgiveness, but please believe me that I have never intended to hurt you or lie to you.
It was just a chain of happenings dogged by misfortune…it was just…but…but…trust me when I tell this one thing, at least!
It’s not a lie that I lo…”, I kept whispering, until he finally locked his eyes with mine.

I had instantly frozen into a mute, inert dummy!

He held my wrist, for moving away the lipstick and allow him to speak:
“Don’t worry Mister Wang Yibo, you didn’t hurt me, I’m not made from glass, to get hurt from a lip wiping.
You were actually right when saying you are good with this stuff, not only with the makeup thingy, ha ha.
With the lying thingy, too, I mean.”

“No, no, I was talking about…”

But he cut me off shortly and firmly:
“The director is getting impatient, please Mister Wang, act professional and step aside, thank you for your help.”

I muttered one last silent sorry, before walking away like a zombie, halting only in a corner with walls covered in mirrors.
“I hate you Wang Yibo, good to nothing, filthy liar, disgusting creature!
I hate you so much!”, I kept whispering to the multiple reflections from the mirrors.

Minutes later, maybe hours later, I was snapped off from the black, deep abyss that I was fallen in, by the CF director’s voice:
“…And…Cut!
Thank you everyone, you were great all of you, now we should take a well deserved break.
You are all invited to the hotel’s restaurant to take the lunch, you can order anything you want, except alcohol, of course.
We still have work to be done and we need our minds clear, sorry folks.
Enjoy the meal, we will meet back here in an hour and half from now!”

I didn’t feel at all like eating, but I couldn’t miss this one more occasion to be in the same room with him, or even sit close to him if I’d be lucky enough.

I pretended to be interested in the huge poster advertising the Xiao Company, plastered on the filming studio door, as to wait for the crowd to be settled in the restaurant room.
I wanted to be alone in the restroom, to put order in my thoughts…
Thoughts that keep bringing in my mind painful memories about us eating happily together, uncle Li Jie’s pork chops.
He loved me then and I was so happy…
I lost him…
I lost myself…

“Wang Yibo, what are you doing here?
Come in, the waitresses have already collected everyone’s orders.”, Xia Zhiguang startled me, when I was still hesitating at the restaurant entrance, if to step inside or not.

I don’t know why I expected to find a big long table with the whole crew sat together, but instead there were tables of four.
I followed the composer, as he kept talking to me, but when he took a seat at the table across from Zhan, I halted and looked around like a lost alien.

“What are you waiting for?
Sit with us, we still have a free seat, besides mine, Zhan Zhan’s and Lu’s, the makeup stylist, she is in the lobby, talking on the phone again.
The waitress will come to take her order, so you can order too…”, he said.

My heart leaped out from my chest when Zhan snapped angrily at his friend:
“Xia Zhiguang, stop it, I don’t want him to sit with us!”

“Zhan Zhan, what the hell?
Why are you so rude?
I thought that you said that you two were…getting well along…
Besides, you know very well that tomorrow it will be the song recording, and I need to settled some details with my singer.”, Xia said.

“Guang Guang!
I saw that you already gave him the sheet song!
And the details you are talking about, can be discussed tomorrow, between you two alone.
But if you insist on having him here, I will go sit somewhere else!”, Zhan Zhan spitted out, trying to pull a fake smile on his face, as the Lu girl was now back at the table.
Then he stood up hastily.

“No need, Mister Xiao Zhan, please forgive me for upsetting you, there are many free tables, I can sit and eat anywhere else.
And do not worry Mister Xia Zhiguang, we can meet tomorrow thirty minutes earlier than the established hour, for those details, if you would be free.
Enjoy your meal Miss, and gentlemen!
And sorry once again for bothering you.”, I managed somehow to speak, even if I kept clearing my cracked voice and kept batting my eyelashes to prevent the captive tears from bursting out.

My legs were getting on the verge to go weak, so I just collapsed in the closest chair I noticed, at the table from behind Zhan’s seat.

Someone spoke something, I don’t know what, as I wasn’t able to focus on anything else than on the sharp pain from my chest.
I thought it was the waitress, so I grumbled an “I’ll take anything”, from behind the sheet music where I was trying to hide the tears that I couldn’t hold anymore.

“Can I sit here with you?”, the petite makeup artist spoke, louder this time, bringing me to her attention.

“Of course you can, but weren’t you sitting at Mister Xiao’s table?
Phew, is it just me, or it’s too hot in here?”, I replied, taking a paper napkin and pretending to wipe my forehead, to be able to wipe my teary eyes in the process.

“I was sitting with them, but I felt like the two gentlemen were having some important things to discuss about and I was intruding.”, the nice girl smiled.

“I heard that your mom was taken to the hospital, I’m sorry for that, hope she will be getting well soon.
But what happened, was she sick before?”, I started to talk with Miss Xuan Lu , who seemed to be very pleasant and friendly.
Actually I was happy that she kept me company during the lunch break and distracted me from the pain puncturing my heart.

This sweet girl has managed to even make me laugh with her stories experienced when doing the makeup to some divas, too full of themselves.
My heart pounded in my chest when Zhan turned around and threw at me a fuming glance, as I laughed probably too loud at Lu’s funny telling.

But right after, he was distracted by a phone call and he almost hit the phone against the table if Xia wouldn’t have grabbed it from his hand.
Probably a call from his mother again.
He hates me now even harder than he hates her.
He was hurt by people supposedly to give him only love, not lies and pain!
I ​​​​​wonder why is Zhan Zhan so angry with his mother, did she lie to him about something, too?
Anyway he will forgive her eventually, unlike me, after all she is family…unlike me…

My phone buzz startled me off from my thoughts, lao lao was calling!
I hope there is no bad news!

“Miss Xuan Lu, please excuse me, my grandmother is calling, I’ll go outside to pick up the call.”

But lao lao called just to tell me that she was waiting for me in front of the hotel.
Why is she here, at my working place?
Hopefully nothing bad has happened, but at least she is not in the hospital or something, as I was afraid of.

I didn’t even have to walk outside, as the hotel doorman led her already to the filming studio.
I found her staring at the Xiao Company poster from the door, with an extreme shock written all over her face, and massaging her chest at the heart level!

“Lao lao, oh my god, what’s wrong?
Are you feeling sick?
Should I call the ambulance?”

She didn’t answer, but just propped her weight against my chest and poked with her walking stick the picture from the poster:
“Who’s that man?”

“He is the owner of the Xiao Company, Zhan Zhan’s father.
I mean the father of Xiao Zhan, the man I love and I told you everything about last evening, when you came to my place…”

But she interrupted me, violently screaming at me:
“Bo Bo, you must forget this love!
You must forget this man!
Yibo, Bo Bo, Wang Yibo, if you love me and care about me, please promise me!
Promise me, you’ll forget about this Xiao Zhan person, promise that you’ll forget that you have ever met this man!
Yibo, my beloved, please promise me that you’ll forget that this man had ever existed!”

~End of Yibo’s POV~

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After a restless night, Yibo was the first to arrive at the filming location from that first day, a famous luxury hotel.
He was led by a hotel employee to the private dining saloon, rented by the Xiao Company to be converted into a filming studio.

~Yibo’s POV~

Before anything else, the director gathered the whole crew to explain to us the concept of the “Welcome to Peace Hotel!” CF( A/n: CF stands for “Commercial Film”, those advertisements that you see on TV) that we’ll be going to work at, for the next two weeks.
That’s how I found out that Zhan’s family is rich beyond my imagination, the American Xiao Company detaining various business branches, from hotel chains all over the world, food chains, tourism agencies, to pharmaceutical, cars, clothes businesses and whatnot.

This CF is for a hotel chain that the company intends to open in Shanghai and Beijing, called Peace Hotel.
The story of the CF is a love triangle between my character, Zhan Zhan’s character and a girl acted by Miss Jing-Hua, a random student actress who will come to the studio starting tomorrow.
My character is falling in love with the girl, but the girl is in a love relationship with Zhan’s character.
The girl will flirt with both male characters.
The two men will get into a physical fight and, also, both will leave the girl.
But in the end all three characters will reconcile and become best friends, enthralled by the Peace Hotel’s peaceful and comfortable environment they were staying in, and by the Xiao Company’s whisky brand that they were indulging with, ha, ha.

The hotels will be completely ready to be opened only two weeks from now, that’s why we are not filming in the location of one of the Peace Hotels.
And also, that’s why we must finish the CF in two weeks from now.

After reading the script of this first filming day that I was given, I ascertained with great disappointment that me and Zhan will have separate scenes to shoot for today.
It’s not like I was hoping for forgiveness or anything, after all he didn’t spare me not even with a glance since he stepped inside the studio, accompanied by his best friend, the composer, who was the only one to greet me good morning.
But…wouldn’t it be wonderful to be allowed to drown myself into those magical eyes one more time, even if only in an acted scene?

My part was first to be filmed.
Oh, he hates me so much, that he detests even to look in my direction!
He was reading his script, sitting in a chair with the back turned to the filming stage.

Unlike me, who planted myself right behind the filming crew, when it was his scene’s turn to be filmed.

The composer came near me and whispered in my ear that nobody knows that Zhan is the son of the Company’s owner, besides me, not even the director, and asked me to keep the secret to myself.

“Oh fu*k my life, he is so, so beautiful…and so, so s€xual!”, I couldn’t stop myself from speaking aloud my thoughts, earning from Xia Zhiguang, a chuckled approval.

“Sorry.”, the actor mumbled, when the director asked for the shoot to be repeated, as he wasn’t supposed to smile in that scene.

Did Zhan catch my words and that’s why he was smiling?
No, it can’t be, he hates me!

But at least I am able to feast my eyes freely with the fascinating beauty of
my boyfriend, ermm…ex boyfriend… now that it was Zhan Zhan’s individual scene to be filmed, a longer and more complex scene than mine.

“Wait, that lipstick on Mister Xiao Zhan’s lips is too faded, I want a soft shade of red!”, the director requested, his eyes searching for the makeup artist in charge.

“We apologize Mister director, Xuan Lu will be back in a second, she is in the lobby, talking to the phone with her mother who has just been taken to the hospital.”, a filming crew member explained.

This was definitely my train to catch!
I jumped to grab the kit from the makeup artist’s table and ran excitedly to the filming stage, tripping in the lots of cables and almost kissing the ground:
“No need to wait for Miss Xuan Lu, I can take care of that, I did my sister’s makeup many times, I’m good with that stuff!”

“Are you sure, Mister Wang Yibo, that is not just another lie about you doing your sister’s makeup?
Anyway, too much bother for you, Mister Wang Yibo, a mirror would be enough and I could do it by myself, I’m good with that, too, you know.
Don’t forget that I’m an actor and I…”, Zhan snapped, slightly angry, but I dared to bring him to silence, my trembling fingers pinching his lips closed.

Luckily Xuan Lu’s makeup kit was very well organized, therefore I found easily the needed lip wipes and the color of lipstick asked by the director.

First he avoided meeting my eyes, he even hissed in annoyance when I rubbed the wipes over his lips…his perfectly sculptured, kissable lips…ahhh.

He held my wrist, for moving away the lipstick and allow him to speak:
“Don’t worry Mister Wang Yibo, you didn’t hurt me, I’m not made from glass, to get hurt from a lip wiping.
You were actually right when saying you are good with this stuff, not only with the makeup thingy, ha ha.
With the lying thingy, too, I mean.”

“No, no, I was talking about…”

But he cut me off shortly and firmly:
“The director is getting impatient, please Mister Wang, act professional and step aside, thank you for your help.”

I muttered one last silent sorry, before walking away like a zombie, halting only in a corner with walls covered in mirrors.
“I hate you Wang Yibo, good to nothing, filthy liar, disgusting creature!
I hate you so much!”, I kept whispering to the multiple reflections from the mirrors.

Minutes later, maybe hours later, I was snapped off from the black, deep abyss that I was fallen in, by the CF director’s voice:
“…And…Cut!
Thank you everyone, you were great all of you, now we should take a well deserved break.
You are all invited to the hotel’s restaurant to take the lunch, you can order anything you want, except alcohol, of course.
We still have work to be done and we need our minds clear, sorry folks.
Enjoy the meal, we will meet back here in an hour and half from now!”

I didn’t feel at all like eating, but I couldn’t miss this one more occasion to be in the same room with him, or even sit close to him if I’d be lucky enough.

I pretended to be interested in the huge poster advertising the Xiao Company, plastered on the filming studio door, as to wait for the crowd to be settled in the restaurant room.
I wanted to be alone in the restroom, to put order in my thoughts…
Thoughts that keep bringing in my mind painful memories about us eating happily together, uncle Li Jie’s pork chops.
He loved me then and I was so happy…
I lost him…
I lost myself…

“Wang Yibo, what are you doing here?
Come in, the waitresses have already collected everyone’s orders.”, Xia Zhiguang startled me, when I was still hesitating at the restaurant entrance, if to step inside or not.

I don’t know why I expected to find a big long table with the whole crew sat together, but instead there were tables of four.
I followed the composer, as he kept talking to me, but when he took a seat at the table across from Zhan, I halted and looked around like a lost alien.

“What are you waiting for?
Sit with us, we still have a free seat, besides mine, Zhan Zhan’s and Lu’s, the makeup stylist, she is in the lobby, talking on the phone again.
The waitress will come to take her order, so you can order too…”, he said.

My heart leaped out from my chest when Zhan snapped angrily at his friend:
“Xia Zhiguang, stop it, I don’t want him to sit with us!”

“Zhan Zhan, what the hell?
Why are you so rude?
I thought that you said that you two were…getting well along…
Besides, you know very well that tomorrow it will be the song recording, and I need to settled some details with my singer.”, Xia said.

“Guang Guang!
I saw that you already gave him the sheet song!
And the details you are talking about, can be discussed tomorrow, between you two alone.
But if you insist on having him here, I will go sit somewhere else!”, Zhan Zhan spitted out, trying to pull a fake smile on his face, as the Lu girl was now back at the table.
Then he stood up hastily.

“No need, Mister Xiao Zhan, please forgive me for upsetting you, there are many free tables, I can sit and eat anywhere else.
And do not worry Mister Xia Zhiguang, we can meet tomorrow thirty minutes earlier than the established hour, for those details, if you would be free.
Enjoy your meal Miss, and gentlemen!
And sorry once again for bothering you.”, I managed somehow to speak, even if I kept clearing my cracked voice and kept batting my eyelashes to prevent the captive tears from bursting out.

My legs were getting on the verge to go weak, so I just collapsed in the closest chair I noticed, at the table from behind Zhan’s seat.

Someone spoke something, I don’t know what, as I wasn’t able to focus on anything else than on the sharp pain from my chest.
I thought it was the waitress, so I grumbled an “I’ll take anything”, from behind the sheet music where I was trying to hide the tears that I couldn’t hold anymore.

“Can I sit here with you?”, the petite makeup artist spoke, louder this time, bringing me to her attention.

“Of course you can, but weren’t you sitting at Mister Xiao’s table?
Phew, is it just me, or it’s too hot in here?”, I replied, taking a paper napkin and pretending to wipe my forehead, to be able to wipe my teary eyes in the process.

“I was sitting with them, but I felt like the two gentlemen were having some important things to discuss about and I was intruding.”, the nice girl smiled.

“I heard that your mom was taken to the hospital, I’m sorry for that, hope she will be getting well soon.
But what happened, was she sick before?”, I started to talk with Miss Xuan Lu , who seemed to be very pleasant and friendly.
Actually I was happy that she kept me company during the lunch break and distracted me from the pain puncturing my heart.

This sweet girl has managed to even make me laugh with her stories experienced when doing the makeup to some divas, too full of themselves.
My heart pounded in my chest when Zhan turned around and threw at me a fuming glance, as I laughed probably too loud at Lu’s funny telling.

But right after, he was distracted by a phone call and he almost hit the phone against the table if Xia wouldn’t have grabbed it from his hand.
Probably a call from his mother again.
He hates me now even harder than he hates her.
He was hurt by people supposedly to give him only love, not lies and pain!
I ​​​​​wonder why is Zhan Zhan so angry with his mother, did she lie to him about something, too?
Anyway he will forgive her eventually, unlike me, after all she is family…unlike me…

My phone buzz startled me off from my thoughts, lao lao was calling!
I hope there is no bad news!

“Miss Xuan Lu, please excuse me, my grandmother is calling, I’ll go outside to pick up the call.”

But lao lao called just to tell me that she was waiting for me in front of the hotel.
Why is she here, at my working place?
Hopefully nothing bad has happened, but at least she is not in the hospital or something, as I was afraid of.

I didn’t even have to walk outside, as the hotel doorman led her already to the filming studio.
I found her staring at the Xiao Company poster from the door, with an extreme shock written all over her face, and massaging her chest at the heart level!

“Lao lao, oh my god, what’s wrong?
Are you feeling sick?
Should I call the ambulance?”

She didn’t answer, but just propped her weight against my chest and poked with her walking stick the picture from the poster:
“Who’s that man?”

“He is the owner of the Xiao Company, Zhan Zhan’s father.
I mean the father of Xiao Zhan, the man I love and I told you everything about last evening, when you came to my place…”

But she interrupted me, violently screaming at me:
“Bo Bo, you must forget this love!
You must forget this man!
Yibo, Bo Bo, Wang Yibo, if you love me and care about me, please promise me!
Promise me, you’ll forget about this Xiao Zhan person, promise that you’ll forget that you have ever met this man!
Yibo, my beloved, please promise me that you’ll forget that this man had ever existed!”

~End of Yibo’s POV~

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