They walked towards the backstage, where those departing fans glanced back and called out reluctantly, “Teacher Zhang Yue, keep it up!” Zhang Yue stumbled, nearly falling. Qi Shejiang led Zhang Yue to a roast duck restaurant. His guests had already arrived in a private room. The waiter guided them over, opened the door, and Zhang Yue saw a person sitting inside—just one person, wearing a trench coat, young, no more than twenty-four or twenty-five, looking fair and pleasant. Zhang Yue didn’t know this person. He was preoccupied and thought upon arriving, who is this, a relative or friend of Jesse? “This is my friend Zhang Yue.” Qi Shejiang began the introductions, finishing with the young man who stood up and then turned to introduce Zhang Yue, “Zhang Yue, this is my partner introduced by Teacher Meng, Xu Siyu.” Zhang Yue: “…………” Xu Siyu extended his hand: “Hello, hello, you’re Zhang Ge, right?” Zhang Yue: “………………” Zhang Yue felt a bit insane. What kind of tone is this from Qi Shejiang? Is he introducing his partner or his love interest?
Besides, who’s in the same generation with you? “Zhang Yue?” Qi Shejiang waved his hand in front of Zhang Yue’s face. “…Oh.” Zhang Yue snapped back to reality from his thoughts. He shook hands with Xu Siyu but couldn’t help but smile wryly as he said, “First meeting, Jesse didn’t mention you at all. So, you two are going to be partners from now on?” “Hey, it’s just thanks to the elders’ favor. I’m currently in touch with Jesse Shishu and feel it’s going okay so far. If we become partners, we’ll still need to work on our compatibility.” Xu Siyu said quite politely. Xu Siyu counted as his uncle’s apprentice, coming from a family of comic dialogue artists. Although he wasn’t very old, he had been immersed in it since birth, growing up running around backstage, performing well in the traditional style, aligning pretty well with Qi Shejiang. The two met through introductions from friends and relatives and felt pretty good about it; they had also worked together at Meng’s family.
One could say there was a seventy to eighty percent chance of becoming partners. Hence, Qi Shejiang would introduce him to Zhang Yue; otherwise, it wouldn’t be certain, and introducing would be awkward.
