When Careeraholic Meets Workaholic

"Bai Lian, I'm not feeling well, pour me a glass of water."

Zhou Yao lay down on the bed and relaxed slowly, letting the surging soreness flow through his body, but his consciousness was extraordinarily clear.

2: 18.

late at night.

The curtains reflected the starlight, and a warm yellow strip of light surrounded the room. Zhou Yao leaned on the stacked pillows and drank the water in the cup that was just right in temperature.The water temperature was low, but it was not too cold to hurt his stomach. Zhou Yao swallowed the water in his mouth, and as the sweat pores stretched out, it seemed that his spirit returned along with him.

Bai Lian took the water glass and pressed the back of his hand to his forehead. Zhou Yao raised his eyelids to look at him and asked, "Did you sleep?"

Bai Lian shook his head, frowning tightly: "The temperature is very high. I didn't find a medical kit in the house before. Call the guest room to bring it over. Can I take antipyretics?"

"Yeah." Zhou Yao didn't care too much, "Thank you, I'll take a shower first."

Zhou Yao has been very independent since he was in college. He bought a house after earning money by writing articles, and got used to living alone early on.Living alone these years, how could it be possible that he didn't have a little headache and brain fever. He had a fever at night and went to the hospital to dislike the trouble. He had his own solution, taking antipyretics and taking a bath.

Zhou Yao drank water to build up some strength, got out of bed and went to the bathroom, Bai Lian followed behind and said uneasy: "Is it okay to be alone?"

"Ah."

"It's burning a bit high, don't wash it for too long, call me if you need something, I'll be outside."

"Ah."

"Mr. Zhou, are you locked up? Don't lock it up. Just in case... I won't be able to get in."

Zhou Yao silently opened the locked door again.

The bath water was deliberately adjusted to be very hot, rolling over the same hot skin, it also took away the temperature of his body's skin, and the water pouring down from the top of his head even made him feel a comfortable shivering feeling.

Before I knew it, the washing time was a bit long.

Bai Lian knocked on the door again: "Mr. Zhou! It's almost 10 minutes, don't wash for too long."

Zhou Yao rubbed his face and didn't want to speak.

After a few seconds, Bai Lian said again: "Mr. Zhou, are you okay? Are you all right?"

"Yeah." Zhou Yao replied, but his voice was covered by the sound of the shower, and the people outside did not hear it.

"Mr. Zhou? Mr. Zhou! Mr. Zhou!!"

Zhou Yao woke up with a throbbing throat, simply turned off the water, and was about to open his mouth, when the door over there was turned open, and Bai Lian jumped in like a bunny with a panicked face, and met Zhou Yao's eyes, rising Water mist lingered between the two of them, and the damp breath rushed towards them. Under the light, Zhou Yao's complexion was white and his lines were smooth. Came vaguely, "Uh, hug, hug, sorry!"

"Click." The door locked.

Zhou Yao withdrew his gaze expressionlessly. Although he had never bathed with other people after he left the infant state, he also knew that both of them were men, so there was nothing to make a fuss about, so he did whatever he wanted and wiped them methodically. After drying his body, he put on his clothes again, and finally even dried his hair with a hair dryer before walking out slowly.

And outside the door.

Bai Lian has adjusted his mentality 18 times, and his expression is still not natural enough.

He knew that he was finished, and the behavior of walking the bird, which was taken for granted, has now been marked with an "X" in his heart, because Mr. Zhou has other purposes for him, and he can no longer face the man's body calmly. ah!

This is simply a bad omen!

I don't seem to be so straight...

It was already 10 minutes later when Zhou Yao came out of the bathroom. When he walked into the living room, he saw a glass of water on the table, and antipyretics covered with tissue paper. There was also a stainless steel oval lunch box next to it. It's half a bowl of mushy, unidentified objects.

Bai Lian was peeling an apple to sort out his expression. When someone came out, he got up and smiled like a movie star and said, "Mr. Zhou, I see that you didn't eat much today, and you vomited before, so you added some lotus root powder. It's too late now." If you don’t have anything to eat when it’s late, you can take lotus root powder to fill your stomach, so you can take medicine.”

Zhou Yao had never eaten lotus root starch, and he was not interested in lotus root starch, so he sat down with a big sword, and took the antipyretic medicine and a glass of water into his stomach.Then he smashed the taste of medicine in his mouth, and his eyes fell on the apple in Bai Lian's hand.

Bai Lian said, "You can't eat it now. Eating apples on an empty stomach hurts your stomach."

"..."

"I peeled this for myself. If you want to eat it, you can eat lotus root powder."

"It's okay, give me the apple."

Bai Lian frowned: "No, it hurts my stomach."

"Give it to me." Zhou Yao grimaced, he doesn't want to eat lotus root powder, it looks sticky and disgusting!

Bai Lian pursed his lips tightly, then bit the apple, praised his wit, and said with a little pride: "I've already eaten it."

Zhou Yao stared at him for two seconds, snatched the apple with lightning speed, and bit it down. The sweet and sour taste of the apple washed away the smell of medicine in his mouth, and he finally felt much better.

Bai Lian looked at the apple in Zhou Yao's hand, helplessly: "I've already bitten it... ah."

"Is the saliva poisonous?" Zhou Yao raised his eyebrows.

Bai Lian pursed her lips, of course not, forget it, let's not talk about it, whoever says it is embarrassing.

Zhou Yao not only took a bite of the apple, but also slowly ate the rest. He wanted to avoid the part bitten by Bai Lian, but when he thought that Bai Lian was the company's first choice, he was his "cash cow." ", it's not good to show disgust, so I ate the whole apple blankly.

When throwing the fruit core, Zhou Yao noticed Bai Lian's posture with his heels raised and his toes stretched. From a psychological point of view, this should be a defensive posture.

Raising his eyebrows, Zhou Yao straightened up, his eyes fell on the script on his desktop, and he asked, "Have you been reading it? It's so late, pay attention to rest."

"Yeah." Bai Lian looked around the script for a while, he is the only one who can be so mesmerized by watching a dry script, but the more he likes it, the more he wants to read the script , but how should I say this?

Seeing Bai Lian lost in thought, Zhou Yao remembered that after he was awakened from a nightmare, Bai Lian seemed to bring light to his eyes, and when he spoke again, his tone softened unknowingly: "I'm fine, don't worry, if you want Take a good rest so you can have energy for filming."

"Uh, oh." Came back to his senses, Bai Lian smiled shyly, and gave up his plan to ask for the manuscript to be deposited.

Zhou Yao, who had just taken a shower, was in good spirits, and didn't want to sleep for a while. He reached for the script, flipped through it casually, and asked, "Is there anything inappropriate?"

"There are, not many." When it came to work, Bai Lian's thoughts were diverted. He twisted his body and sat next to Zhou Yao, flipped through the script with his hand and said, "It's still an old problem. Your dialogue is very good. But there are certain plots where actors have to be trusted.”

Zhou Yao raised his eyebrows: "I've been restrained this time."

"There are not many places left for the actors to play. You know, rather than talk about some places dryly, it is better to use the post-set stage and the performance ability of the actors to show the plot."

"Where?" Zhou Yao asked the question directly.

"In..." As he spoke, Bai Lian tilted his body to the extreme, raised one hand and flipped over the script until he found the problem, raised his voice, raised his head and said, "Here!"

But when he raised the volume, it disappeared in the next second. The tip of his nose was not even ten centimeters away from Mr. Zhou, and he could easily smell the scent of Mr. Zhou after taking a bath at such a close distance.

The smell of lavender was sweet, and it was carried by the water vapor and drilled straight into his nose.

From such a distance, he could even see the man's eyelashes, which were not very long, but thick and presented a cold and hard texture, just like this person, it seemed that they would be tied if they got close.

The eyelashes droop slightly, covering the long and narrow eyes. The single eyelid is very thin, so when you are stared at, you will feel sharp. But at this moment, in the dead of night, the eyes that have just been moistened with water are hazy, so the vigor is exhausted. Instead, because of that Eyes that are too dark, like the starry sky at midnight, vast and mysterious.

And in the next second, those eyes suddenly raised up, and the moment they looked over, there seemed to be the sound of metal and iron ringing in their ears, and a sharp weapon was slashing towards him.

Bai Lian almost instinctively avoided meeting those eyes.

Then, a man's low-alcohol voice sounded in his ears: "Here, what's the matter?"

Bai Lian's Adam's apple slid, blinked, and in order to suppress the inexplicable guilty conscience, he pointed to that part and tried to focus and said: "The lines here are too long, although because of the transition, you think there needs to be a pre-story here." Confession, but I can't imagine how I feel when I say this long line..."

"Stupid?" Zhou Yao chuckled.

"Yes, it's silly." His ears seemed to be scratched, and there was an inexplicable itchiness. His eyes swept across the man's face. In a blink of an eye, the man's side face was branded in his heart, as if thick The relief on the copper plate can't remember more details, only the sharpness and depth of the lines.

The two talked about the script for another half an hour, and the antipyretics took effect. Zhou Yao could no longer support his body, so he went into the room and fell asleep.

Bai Lian was also a little sleepy, but he was lying on the sofa tossing and turning but couldn't fall asleep. Thinking about how sweet he was sleeping on the hard bed in the rented house a few months ago, but now he couldn't sleep on the soft sofa. It's hard to go from luxury to frugality.

Turned over and sat up again, turned on the living room light, hesitated for a moment when passing by the bedroom, walked lightly to the bed and touched Zhou Yao's forehead, but touched the sweat with his hands, but at least the fever subsided.

Finally, when he returned to the living room, Bai Lian leaned on the sofa and opened the script again, but he no longer paid attention to the plot, but studied the lines seriously, and then wrote and drew with a pen. On the sofa, fell asleep.

……

The next morning, Bai Lian was woken up by the phone ringing. He picked up the phone from under the pillow, closed his eyes and said "Hello".

The voice of the drama manager rang on the phone, asking him if he wanted to eat at noon.

It's already noon?

Bai Lian thought for a while, then said hoarsely, "Can you deliver my food to the 22nd floor? Yes, Mr. Zhou's room. I'll order porridge and pickles instead of spicy."

After hanging up the phone, Bai Lian sat up from the sofa with an uneasy face, and saw Zhou Yao, who also woke up when he heard the voice, also staggered to the bathroom with his feet limp.

Bai Lian hurriedly got up and chased after him, holding him up, for fear that he would fall on the road.

"Thank you." Zhou Yao said.

"Is it better?"

"It's okay, it's better than last night." Zhou Yao smiled bitterly. He had a fever last night, and today he was dizzy and his feet were weak. It's hard to say which is more uncomfortable. "Is there any medicine for altitude sickness? Give me some more." .”

"If you still can't get used to it today, you can go back first, your body is important."

"En." Zhou Yao answered vaguely.

Once Zhou Yao was sick, he loved to take a bath as long as he could move. When Bai Lian came out of the bathroom, the sound of water in the bathroom started again. Bai Lian rubbed his eyes and took care of others, but he didn't tidy up.

So when the theater manager brought over lunch, Bai Lian still looked like he had just woken up. The key point was that he slept too late last night, and the sofa was really uncomfortable to sleep on. That's why the haggard face with blue and black eye circles opened the door , the drama manager let out a "huh".

Bai Lian took the lunch from the hesitant theater manager, thanked him, and was about to close the door when Zhou Yao called out, "Lunch?"

"Ah."

"I want to drink some porridge."

"I called you." Bai Lian answered as he closed the door, the last thing he saw was the burning face of the drama manager, a gossip soul, the door closed with a "click", Bai Lian thought it was wrong, but again Opening the door to explain seems to be trying to cover up, forget it, so be it.

Waiting for the two of them to finish their meal, Bai Lian talked about Zhou Yao's situation in the core group of the crew. He is not afraid of some messy news in the crew. The entertainment industry has always been more gossip than other fields, especially the crew is the forefront of gossip. , there is no wind and three feet of waves, not to mention knowing that Mr. Zhou has a little bit of meaning for him, and he even signed with Mr. Zhou's company, which is not very clean.

But it doesn't matter what other people say, but the core members must have the correct information, which can be regarded as the last clean place Bai Lian prepared for himself.

After learning about Zhou Yao's altitude sickness, Jin Yi responded the fastest and biggest.

[What's going on here?Well, let Mr. Zhou come back quickly, leave Lao Zhang over there, and I can deal with it by communicating directly with him. 】

Lao Zhang is Jin Yi's assistant, and his job title in the crew is: Deputy Producer Director.

Immediately afterwards, she started nagging like an old lady, 【Have you taken your medicine?Have you got a meal yet?The fever last night should be gastroenteritis, don't take the wrong medicine, buy some medicine to treat the stomach and take it first.Hurry up, buy today's plane and come back, don't get sick. 】

Turning around, he began to tell Bai Lian again, [Xiaobai, you are by Mr. Zhou’s side, take good care of him, if not, go to the hospital with him, and you should also pay attention to your health, eat well and rest well, don’t take care of the patient and make yourself sick up. 】

In the entertainment circle, there are also female producers, but the proportion has never been large, but women who are qualified for this position have always been very capable, and they also have the "maternity" that male producers do not possess. Zhou Yao and Bai Lian treated them as their own children, explaining in bits and pieces, wishing they could buy a plane ticket and fly over immediately.

Bai Lian really likes the atmosphere of this crew, whoever left that indifferent company and came to such a warm and humane place would be attached to it.

What's more, he signed a ten-year contract, and this company is like home in his heart.

Therefore, he and Jin Yi chatted back and forth, patted his chest and promised that he would take good care of Mr. Zhou.

The news of "Ding ding dong dong" kept ringing on the two mobile phones. Zhou Yao, who was already uncomfortable, twitched his eyebrows, and finally picked up the mobile phone and sent a voice message.

"Okay, I'm fine, you don't need to come here, go and rest."

After Jin Yi listened, she replied, 【Okay, Xiaobai, take good care of Mr. Zhou. 】

It's right to think about it, what did she do in the past, the young couple who love each other, how easy it is to take care of behind closed doors, she is an aunt running around the house to keep busy, isn't this a big light bulb for the catch-up?Look at Dao Mei who knows very well. He obviously lives upstairs and downstairs, and he didn't say he has to go up to take care of others. No matter how worried this outsider is, it's not as good as a look from the person in his heart!

Director Mei said, "No, I didn't. I'm just a little confused. Why did someone in the crew spread the word that Mr. Zhou is the one below...the matter of people closing the door on the bed, how did this conclusion come about?"

Where there is no wind, there are no waves, hey, this is an eye-opener.

Nearly 01:30, the phone quieted down. Zhou Yao pinched the bridge of his nose and asked, "Do you need to take a break?"

Bai Lian shook his head, he was indeed sleep-deprived, but now he couldn't sleep even now, so he sat down beside Zhou Yao: "Fix the script?"

"Yeah." Zhou Yao picked up the script and opened it. He raised his eyebrows after just a glance. He clearly remembered that the script was clean when he woke up last night. When he read it again today, there were many more words. Bai Lian's handwriting.The black fonts are squeezed into the gaps in the text, densely packed and you need to look carefully, the white fonts are similar to small round fonts, and all the characters for "口" have become circles, like big mouths that are smiling. Both childish and cute.

Zhou Yao looked up at Bai Lian again, smiled, "When did you sleep last night?"

"Around four o'clock."

"The dark circles under my eyes are all coming out. If you feel sleepy in a while, just tell me at any time, and we will stop."

"Ah."

Just like that, the two of them revised the script in the house, and slept when they were sleepy, no matter what time it is, let alone day or night, when Bai Lian returned to the crew to film on the third day, everyone saw his face dark circles.

But it's only been half a month since we separated, so why fight so hard?

The make-up artist pressed the fingers of the powder puff on Bai Lian's under-eye circles, and coaxed softly: "It's okay, the powder will cover up if it's thicker, don't worry."

Holding the script to be filmed today, Bai Lian thanked with a smile.

Wearing a thick military overcoat, Zhou Yao shrank his neck and covered his sleeves, and communicated with Mei Guangxuan.

The chief director's eyes frequently fell on Zhou Yao's haggard face, and he couldn't help saying: "Pay attention to your body."

"Well, it's okay, I'm much better today." Zhou Yao waved his hand indifferently, and then turned the topic back to work, "I'd better slow down the progress here, the location costs tens of thousands of dollars every day, it's really not good, let's add more scenes tonight."

"Some scenes can be completed in post-production." The implication is that it is your old decision to go out and shoot on location. I also want to shoot green screen in the studio, which is simple and not tiring.

Zhou Yao frowned: "Now the level of post-processing is not good, I would rather spend more money to make a realistic shot."

Capital Dad is very demanding. A TV series that doesn't even have a star has to be made into a movie. Anyway, Mei Guangxuan didn't refute it. He just added two more scenes to the movie that will be filmed today. Fortunately, with the capital, Dad was in charge of the field, and there was one in front of the director's machine, which was placed on everyone's neck like a big knife, and the work efficiency was surprisingly high.

In this way, the exterior scene, which was supposed to be delayed for a week, only took four days after Zhou Yao came over. The fifth day was declared a day off, and the sixth day was the return trip.

As soon as the holiday was over, the production crew ran out early in the morning as if they were released, clamoring to bring gifts back to their families.

Zhou Yao went to bed late the night before, and woke up late today. He didn’t even have breakfast when he went out at nine o’clock. He rubbed his stomach and said in the core group of the crew, [Is anyone out?Let's go for a walk together. 】

Jin Yi replied, 【I've been working for two hours, my child was a little sick last night, come and see my dark circles. 】

Liu Tian replied, [I can't accompany you, I will continue filming today. 】

Mei Guangxuan said, 【I have already gone to the city, do I need to go back to pick you up? 】

Xia Rui finally said, 【I'm with Brother Bai and I'm going to the city too, are you coming? 】

Zhou Yao said, [downstairs lobby, how long will it take? 】

But 10 minutes later, a large off-road vehicle stopped at the door, the co-pilot's window slid down, Xia Rui and Bai Lian smiled at Zhou Yao.

The car is rented. Xia Rui's family background is better than Bai Lian's, and his spending power is also stronger than Bai Lian's. Although the salary for filming is only one-tenth of Bai Lian's, he never wrongs himself. The rented cars are all nearby. The best fit I've found.

Xia Rui got out of the car, "Mr. Zhou, are you driving?"

Zhou Yao waved his hand and opened the door of the back seat: "First find a place to eat."

It wasn't until the eating place that Zhou Yao found out that Xia Rui was going to take Bai Lian to the snow mountain, saying that he was going to go skiing. As a sports enthusiast, he set his sights on the ski resort in front of the snow mountain.

Bai Lian smiled: "I don't know how to skate either, so I just play with him."

Zhou Yao said: "They all went to the city to buy gifts, why don't you buy something to go back?"

"I bought it before and sent it back." Bai Lian said with a smile.

Bai Lian is a North drifter, and his hometown is a fourth-tier city. The information on his parents is very simple, and there is nothing more to talk about, so this topic is over.

Xia Rui said a bit embarrassed: "Mr. Zhou is going to the city to buy gifts? Or let's go to the city."

"No, it's okay to go to the ski resort." Zhou Yao said and put down his chopsticks, "Let's go, it's a bit late to go up the mountain now." He can make money and spend money. After spending more than half of the time, he didn't know how many gifts from Xueshan brought home. His mother felt a headache when she saw it. Later, he only bought postcards and sent them home, believing that there should be some on the mountain.

It takes four to 10 minutes to drive around from the residence to the front mountain, and then take the cable car up the mountain. Xia Rui drives in front, and Bai Lian switches to the back seat to accompany the boss.

But Zhou Yao saw the red skis standing behind the car and said, "Xiaoxia should be good at skiing."

Xia Rui smiled and said, "I've become a member of two ski resorts in city A, but there aren't many ski resorts of this kind, so I know the basics, Zhou Hui? I'll give you the board later."

Zhou Yao smiled and shook his head: "Let's talk about it, I don't have to be skating yet."

Xia Rui smiled: "Why don't you ski? You must have fun when you're at the place. Skiing is really fun. I especially like the feeling of sliding down the mountain. The wind is fast, and the cold wind is crackling on the face. It's very enjoyable. "

Zhou Yao said "hmm" and didn't say much.Xia Rui probably thought that Zhou Yao could not ski, so he kept saying that he must let Zhou Yao experience the fun of skiing.

Bai Lian, who had been silent all this time, smiled and said at this moment: "That's it, I was tortured like this two days ago, I said I can't skate, I don't want to skate, I have to let me go, show off! Mr. Zhou, let him skate soon, we will Just walk around the novice area."

Xia Rui giggled.