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"Yeah, long time no see."

Shen Qiao collected herself, sat opposite Zhao Wenyan and stared at his jade-like face.The last time they met was in Hong Kong 11 years ago. At that farewell in the hospital, he leaned in his arms and looked up at his brows and eyes, thinking that he would forget it soon, but he still remembers it now.

He had heard of his nickname in France, "Labeau à froid", which Hong Kong newspapers often translated as cold-faced beauty.He really hasn't changed much, even his cool and calm expression is the same as when he first saw him. Maybe when he looks at him, there will be tenderness and burning heat, but he no longer has the courage to respond to him.

Time is fair and unfair.When he was young, he had a single thought, and when he became famous, the years were quiet, and he struggled hard without recognition.He was still calm and composed, but he hesitated to meet again and again.

"If you're talking about Xiaolin, you don't have to worry." Zhao Wenyan picked up a cup of tea, his eyes still clear in the mist, "Duan Qingyao belongs to him, and Liu Rong, I will also help you connect. He will sign in the future Feifan will take care of all the affairs for Li Xiao, and I will try my best to help him settle the human relationships that need to be dealt with."

Duan Qingyao is the second male lead in "New Moon", the role that Li Xiao wanted Huo Lin to play.Liu Rong is the leading director of domestic TV dramas, and "Legend of Chong'an" is his new work that has been in preparation for three years.What Zhao Wenyan meant was that he would take care of all Huo Lin's affairs from now on, and he did have the ability to guarantee all of this.

The words say so.

No matter in that circle, the hardest thing to repay is favor.It is impossible for him to rely on his old lover's status to let Zhao Wenyan go to work for Xiao Lin. If he helps Xiao Lin, he must pay him back. After several exchanges, the involvement will naturally increase. The so-called Tangled is exactly that.

"Thank you very much." Shen Qiao said, her tone was still polite and unfamiliar, "If there is a need for me, I will definitely help."

What he meant was to lock their relationship on helping each other.Shen Qiao took a sip of tea, waiting for Zhao Wenyan to answer.

However, Zhao Wenyan did not follow the routine.

"You don't need to be so alien." Zhao Wenyan smiled slightly, "What is our relationship?"

"What do you mean?" Shen Qiao's voice was slightly cold.

"We're college roommates. I'm helping you, what are you doing so far away?"

"Why hasn't Uncle come back?" In the Shen family, Huo Lin was stroking Sophia's hair boredly, obviously on the verge of a princess' illness.

"He is talking about your affairs with your Uncle Zhao. You are too old, don't miss your uncle being with you all day." Li Xiao brought out a plate of pears that the servant had just cut from the kitchen, and tapped Huo Lin. "Your uncle has been busy all day for you, please be considerate of him."

"I know." Huo Lin let go of Sophia, wiped his hands with a towel, and asked seemingly casually, "Are uncle and Uncle Zhao on good terms?"

"No, how have you heard him mention your Uncle Zhao all these years?"

"Then what happened to the photos in his study?"

"He put that photo in the study because your dad is on it!" Li Xiao said angrily, "I'm still in the photo, why did you see your Uncle Zhao?"

"Maybe it's because he's better-looking?" Huo Lin shrugged, knowing that Li Xiao would probably be skeptical if he asked further questions, so he decided to change the subject, "Are you sure Director Liu's play is okay?"

"If you make mistakes during the audition, I can't help it." Li Xiao said, "You are also an excellent graduate of American TV dramas, and someone who has acted in American blockbusters. You can't even handle a TV series. Are you worthy of your education?"

"Education is important?" Huo Lin raised his eyebrows.

"Education is of course important. Don't you have graduates from various famous schools in your family?"

"I don't think my education has helped me much." Huo Lin snorted softly, eating pears casually, "Uncle only has a primary school diploma, doesn't he also get the best actor?"

Shen Qiao was adopted by a British adoptive father at the age of seven, entered Eton College at the age of 12, and dropped out of school to study in the United States at the age of 14 because he was admitted to the American Academy of Drama.

Then he met Zhao Wenyan, who came to be an exchange student, and eloped with him to China two years later for love, but he has not yet received his graduation certificate.

But the little princess doesn't know about these twists and turns. His only purpose is to bankrupt his academic qualifications: "Your uncle is a special case and is not taken into consideration. Besides, you haven't learned anything in the past four years in Meixi. Don't worry about it." Tell me you've been playing with the little duke."

"How do you know?" Huo Lin was surprised.

"...Your uncle shouldn't have put the two of you into his alma mater!" Li Xiao sighed helplessly, deeply feeling that Shen Qiao and Zhao Wenyan were at least serious in the field of art no matter how difficult they were. dedicated.

Look at the little princess and the little duke again... It's really not as good as one generation after another.

"After eating the pears, I went to watch the script, and soon I had an audition." Li Xiao hugged Sophia who was beside him, thinking about the meeting with Liu Rong tomorrow.The Russian blue cat is naturally arrogant and restless in Li Xiao's arms, "Have you finished writing the biographies of the three episodes of No. 20?"

"I stayed up late yesterday to finish writing, otherwise would I rest today?"

"..."

Shen Qiao felt powerless to refute Zhao Wenyan's words.

"You know what relationship we have other than our college roommates." Shen Qiao said, trying her best to avoid saying the word "old lover". "Too much contact is not good for us."

"I know." Zhao Wenyan nodded, he still had that calm, indifferent, idle look, "But Shen Qiao, I don't think you are my second brother's brother-in-law, my teacher's co-star, my first The leading actor in the movie, the uncle of the second leading actor in my new movie—what’s wrong with us if we have more contact with these relationships?”

"..." Shen Qiao was speechless, and Zhao Wenyan was calm.

The script was not quite what he had imagined.

In his cognition, what Zhao Wenyan wants to act with him is a literary film with obscure lines, or is relatively silent at all.Who would have thought that he would not play cards according to the routine at all.

It really forced him to speak directly.

"You are my ex-boyfriend." Shen Qiao took a deep breath, "Don't you think this relationship is very embarrassing?"

He was answered by an awkward silence.After a while, Zhao Wenyan said:

"It's been so many years since we fell in love, don't you still remember it?" Zhao Wenyan said lightly, "You told me 11 years ago that you don't need friends in the literary and art circles. You need them now, and I'm still willing to help you, what's your dissatisfaction?"

"..." Shen Qiao was speechless again.

He can speak with his tongue, and can often make others speechless.He never expected that it was Zhao Wenyan, who had always been in his memory who was not good at words, who made him suffer with his words.

In his memory, Zhao Wenyan was so quiet that he was almost indifferent. Even if they fell in love together, the role he played was that gentle and indulgent listener.He has never been so sharp, so sharp that he has a bit of a mean moment.

It turned out that 16 years later, he wasn't the only one who changed.

Suddenly there was an inappropriate desire to win in his heart, like the stubbornness that refused to admit defeat when negotiating with others, even if it was not suitable for the person in front of him: "I never knew you could say that. "

"It's just that you don't understand me." Zhao Wenyan chuckled, his eyes were thoroughly warm and cold, "I have never understood you either. This may hinder us from falling in love, but it will not prevent us from being friends."

"..." Shen Qiao was finally completely speechless.

He suddenly realized that he might have been wrong in the first place.

They broke up for 16 years, starting from his insistence on going his own way, and ending with him refusing to look back.He didn't need to miss him, and he was not qualified to ask for anything from him.

He may not be in love with others, but he may not care so much about the past anymore.

"Yes, we can be friends." Shen Qiao said, the corners of her mouth unconsciously raised a businesslike look, which was decent but unfamiliar, "I never thought of this."

"It's not too late to figure it out now." Zhao Wenyan chuckled, "Give me your mobile phone number, we can't rely on Li Xiao for every contact."

"it is good."

The two chatted for a few more words before the lights came on before they knew it.Zhao Wenyan looked at the watch on his left wrist and said, "It's getting late, how do you go back?"

"My driver is outside." Shen Qiao said, and added by accident, "What about you, do you want me to take you back?"

"No, my house is not far from here." Zhao Wenyan got up, took the coat from the tripod, "See you later."

He opened the door, said something to the waiter standing at the door, and glanced at him inadvertently, but there was no superfluous look.

He would never have done that before.But that's what normal friends are.

fair enough.Shen Qiao thought with a light smile.The sourness in my heart gradually expanded, and finally made that smile become self-deprecating and sarcastic.

Director Zhao: I want to be cold and venomous, don't look back at Shen Qiao with such a small expression --- Forget it, I'll take a sneak peek.