He slowly comes closer to me. I step back. Then again he comes closer to me one more step, then I take one more step back. He bends down to meet my eye level, and now his face is just in front of me, so close. My Mr. Heart starts fluttering more and more. Then he says, "You need to answer me. You are answerable to my questions."
I get a little shocked. What questions? Which questions? Why am I answerable for it? Then I slowly speak and ask him, "I am answerable to you for which questions?"
He exhales sharply and says, "Don't you know what happened last night? Do you really forget that?"
My eyes go wide. My whole body feels like it left its soul for a few seconds after hearing what he just said. Then I look down at the floor and nod my head. He starts moving towards his makeup room, and I follow him while clutching my bag tightly.
We finally reach his makeup room. We both enter. He sits on his couch with crossed legs. Then I say slowly in a low voice, "Ask what you want to ask."
He says, "What do you think happened yesterday? That's what I want to ask first. Tell me this. I want to know what's going on in your mind right now."
Then I take a deep breath and say without a pause, "I'm sorry, Xu Yuan. So, so sorry. I know yesterday I got drunk. I shouldn't have behaved like that with you. After all, you are a big star and I am just an ordinary girl in front of you. If I vomited on you yesterday, then sorry for that. And if I took advantage of you, then please forgive me. I was drunk. I really didn't mean that."
He stands up from the couch and comes towards me and says, "Do you really think that yesterday you did something wrong with me?"
He says to himself in his mind that even in that state you are thinking that you might have done something wrong with me, and not even thinking about yourself, that what if something happened to you. You didn't even bother about it. Here also you are just thinking about me, only me.
Then his own self-talk gets interrupted by me. "Xu Yuan, what happened?" I ask him in my tiny voice. "Did I do anything more wrong to you?"
He shakes his head and says, "You didn't do anything wrong with me yesterday. You didn't even throw up on me. You got drunk, I don't know how, but you got so high that you started arguing with anyone on the road. First with one uncle, then with one lady whose child's snacks you took."
"What? I took snacks from a child?" My eyes go wide. This is so embarrassing. How could I? I can't even imagine it. "Then what did you do?"
"I was just passing by that road and I saw you while you were doing these things with others. You were not able to even stand properly. Then I carried you and took you to your dormitory."
"Carried me? What? Carry me where? I mean, how?" I ask him shockingly.
"Of course I didn't carry you on my head. I carried you on my back," he says casually.
"What? What did you say?" I immediately hold his hand and say, "Xu Yuan, we need to visit a good doctor first."
"For what?"
"For checking your back. Maybe some kind of injury occurred or maybe any bone got twisted or something. We need to do a proper check-up of your back."
He holds my wrist to stop me and says, "Why are you out of your mind?"
"Of course not. You are taking your health lightly. What if any kind of fracture occurred on your back? We need to know it on time before it gets worse," I say in panic mode.
"But why would my back get hurt?"
"Of course it would get hurt. You just said that you carried me on your back last night."
"So what?" he asks shockingly.
"So this means I am too heavy for you. You won't be able to manage the weight of my body."
He looks quite pissed off at me. Then he says, "How much do you weigh?"
"I weigh 47.63 kg."
"Do you know how much I weigh?"
I nod and say, "62 kg."
"Wow, Miss Zhao Shiza. You said you didn't watch my dramas, but you know how much I weigh. Isn't it quite strange?"
I get a little panic because it feels like someone caught me red-handed, but I still stabilize myself and say, "We need to get your check-up done."
"Hey, you silly girl. You weigh just 47 and I weigh 62. Do you know how much difference there is between us?"
I say, "No, my maths is weak."
He smiles lightly and says, "There is a difference of 15 kg between us. I weigh 15 kg more than you, but you still say you are heavy for me to carry on my back. Do you think I am that kind of fragile man who can't carry just your 47 kg weight?"
I look down at the floor and say, "But your female leads in every drama weigh less than me. They are like 45 kg, 42 kg, or 40 kg. And I weigh more than them, so I thought you don't have the habit of carrying this much weight."
"You even know the weight of all my female leads from other dramas. Quite strange again. I think Miss Zhao likes surprising me with her huge treasure of knowledge that she gathered in her little mind. So for your kind information, I tell you that your weight is light for me. Maybe your bones are not heavy, but you are the most lightweight and easiest to carry among anyone I have worked with."
I go into huge shock after hearing what he just said.
"Tell me how you got drunk last night. Did anyone—"
"No, no. No one forced me to drink. I don't even know how I got drunk. Last night I was just going to my bus stop while eating strawberry cupcakes sent by Yang Lulu. After that, I don't remember anything."
"So it means Yang Lulu gave you those cupcakes. She must be answerable to me. And if she did it purposely, then why? Why would she do such a ridiculous thing purposely? She seems to be a good friend of Zhao Shiza. No, no, something is missing."
He starts thinking on his own.
Then I ask him, "Xu Yuan."
He doesn't reply.
Again I call his name, "Xu Yuan," in a louder voice.
Then he gets startled, looks towards me, and I ask him, "Did you say something?"
"Did you hear something?" he ask me.
I replies, "No."
Then I don't say anything.
Then I say to Xu Yuan, "Xu Yuan, I am going. I need to change my costume for shooting. It's getting late. Director Li can call us anytime for the scene."
He doesn't reply, just says, "Hm, you can go."
It seems like he is lost in his own thoughts.
I leave the room. Then I see a notification on my phone. I open it. It's from Yang Lulu on WeChat. It says, 'Zhao Shiza, come and meet me inside your makeup room now.'
I feel a little strange while reading it and start thinking that now what does she want to ask me? I think today is my answerable day. The moment this day started, everyone just kept asking me questions. First Xu Yuan, and now Yang Lulu too.
Then I enter my makeup room, where Yang Lulu is standing and waiting for me. The moment I enter, she comes near me and locks the door behind us. She never behaves like this, and she is looking quite strange today as well.
I ask, "Yang Lulu, what happened? Is there anything wrong?"
She holds both my hands in hers and says, "Zhao Shiza, now listen to me very carefully…"
I nod.
Then she continues and says that...