He Zengren

On the day when the closure of the city was completely over, a passer-by at the airport took photos of Zeng Luli, a popular and purple star in recent years, boarding the plane.He posted a few photos on Weibo, and within a few seconds, fans came over and commented:

"Is this Zeng Luli?! Where is he going from Qingnan?"

"He finally appeared, oh my god! It's been more than a month since he posted on Weibo."

"Brother, is there any new play that you want to join the group recently? Why is there no news?"

"It's really tiring to be an actor..."

……

A passer-by turned on Weibo and saw so many comments below. He was a little shocked and slowly replied: "I saw that he took a direct flight to Beishi. This trip should be to Beishi."

There was a lot of discussion on the Internet over there, and Zeng Luli, who arrived in Beishi here, didn't realize that his itinerary had been photographed and posted on the Internet.Because I had been tested in Qingnan before coming here, and the test result was negative, so I quickly walked out of the airport after showing my ID to the staff at the airport.

There is a nanny car waiting for him in the parking lot of the airport.Zeng Luli pulled the mask up and got into the car.The people sitting in the car saw him and teased aloud: "How is it, is it difficult to be quarantined at home this month?"

"Director Xu," Zeng Luli turned his head and said with a smile, "It's really cool not to come out to work for a month."

"Then you have to make adjustments, this drama of mine is quite torturous." Director Xu said.

Zeng Luli smiled: "Why did you suddenly decide to start directing again after so many years?"

"I can't be idle," Director Xu sighed, "I was teaching at the Film Academy, and seeing my students shooting works made me feel itchy. In the end, I became a director because I liked directing. After so many years, I never thought I would still like it.”

Now Director Xu changed his tiredness, after years of recuperation, he no longer looked worried like when the two of them first met.He looked at Zeng Luli with satisfaction, knowing that his best work was not a movie, but that he found this person among the thousands of people in Baicheng University.For so many years, Zeng Luli has made steady progress in every step, starting from acting in his first film, to directing commercial films, and then to cooperating with international first-line directors.Except for the omission of a web drama many years ago, there are almost no stains in his career.

What's more, it was Zeng Luli who he discovered, so Zeng Luli was willing to spare a period of nearly half a year to star in a work that he started to direct again after many years.The mutually beneficial relationship between them is the most stable, but the better Zeng Luli develops, the more honor he can enjoy.

"You should have read the script, right?" Director Xu asked.

Zeng Luli nodded.The script given by director Xu this time is still based on a male protagonist as the main line to promote the development of the plot, and the content is probably about the short-term emotional problems of the parents.He has acted in many such plays over the years, so he should already be familiar with it.

Director Xu looked at his face and said, "Have you acted in many such plays?"

"No," he just shook his head this time and said, "When I used to act in these love scenes, I really put my heart into believing them. Now when I see such a script again, I feel like putting it on the screen. It’s frighteningly fake in reality. Tell me, how can there be so many loves that can’t survive or die?”

"That's why there are movies." Director Xu said, patting him on the shoulder as comfort.

He Ren left in a hurry that day, and only a few pieces of clothes that he could see at a glance were scattered in the suitcase, and the rest were left in Zeng Luli's room after he left.Zeng Luli didn't tidy them up, nor did he intend to throw them away, so he covered his face with a book and lay down on the chair.

After a while, he took the book off his face, and the words in the book made people's eyes hurt:

"Our rough, unfortunate and heart-wrenching friendship has ended with my ruin. However, that long-term relationship is always with me in my memory, and when I think of the place in my heart that once held love I would be deeply saddened by hatred and bitterness, contempt and humiliation forever."

He has a talent for acting that surprises others, probably because of his natural emotional sensitivity, so reading a book and watching a movie can consciously put himself into it, and experience the pain that others have experienced.

But after reading all those sage books, none of them is as painful as the lesson he learned personally.He was confident at first, thinking that he would never fall into the quagmire, but then he suddenly realized that he had been played down-to-earth and was thrown far away.

Director Xu sent him to the hotel, and gave him the last sentence: "I have a reception with the investors tonight, so you must come." He knew Zeng Luli's temper, and he was willing to keep a low profile in the early years. For the sake of acting, he became famous later, and won awards and got soft hands, so he never cared about these things anymore.

"Understood." Zeng Luli had a headache and was thinking of finding a reason to break the appointment at night.

Director Xu said to him: "The heroine will also come tonight. Guess who it is? The one who has acted with you."

Zeng Luli gradually understood, and said with a wry smile, "Zhong Cheng?"

"It's her."

"I've seen her previous movies, and her acting skills have really been carefully considered. When she first debuted, she acted more skillfully than some actors who have debuted for several years."

It's because Zhong Cheng's acting skills are not good.Zeng Luli thought in his heart.Over the years, she has experienced ups and downs in the entertainment industry. At the time when she had the best momentum, she terminated the contract with Bai Zhicheng's entertainment company. A month later, the news of Bai Zhicheng's engagement hit the headlines, and all kinds of dirty water were poured on Zhong Cheng.That year, almost everyone felt that she could not go on in this circle, but in the movie released the next year, she was widely acclaimed for her tough and coquettish character, and directly won the highest domestic award in one fell swoop.

Put it to death and live later.That's her.

Zeng Luli's attitude towards her was very complicated, and it could be summed up as "hate". Even so, he had to admire Zhong Cheng's ruthlessness towards himself and others.They have known each other since she was about to graduate, and the energy has followed her, and even intensified.

Beishi is full of jewels at night, even after such a big ups and downs, there are still people coming and going on the street.Zeng Luli felt amused when he saw the name of the hotel he was going to.He is very familiar with this hotel, because isn't it owned by He Ren's family?

He was wearing a suit that he had borrowed from the brand just this afternoon. The size was not right, and the sleeves drooped directly to the knuckles of his fingers.Zeng Luli then pinned up the shirt behind his waist, and put on a windbreaker over his suit jacket to keep out the cold.The image of the whole person immediately looked very casual, and there was no invitation card, so that the waiter hesitated for a moment when he was about to enter the hotel, and did not let him in until Director Xu came to pick him up.

"Everyone is here." Director Xu said, the implication is that everyone can come on time, why are you late? My little ancestor, he is not punctual every day.

Zeng Luli was stunned for a moment, then subconsciously explained: "Taxi fare time." It means that I'm just an out-of-town guy who doesn't know where I've been born, and no one cares about my late arrival, so don't worry.

Director Xu glared at him, and quickly took him up the elevator.The hotel was booked out today. On the surface, they were talking about things like movies, but in fact they were using this excuse to talk about some unexplainable things.Zeng Luli is an actor. He is glamorous on the surface, but in fact it is just a tool used by others to make money and block guns. He knows it well.This is also the reason why he decided to set up an independent studio despite all the opinions. Since he must go to the entertainment industry to take a dip in the muddy waters, he must also understand the principles of being wise and safe.It is too much to go too far in everything, fame and fortune are too full, and it will overflow.

They walked into the banquet hall together, most of the people inside were unknown people who participated for the first time, standing by the table, holding wine glasses and laughing.The fairness of this world is precisely that most people are ordinary people, and only a few are lucky or capable.They prefer to come late and mix in the whole body with simplicity, because they know that everything is hard to get and they are cautious, for fear that they will be hated by others if they act high-profile, and then the accumulation of years will be ruined.

Zeng Luli took advantage of the fact that he had nothing to do, so he found a corner to stay, but happened to bump into someone who came out of that corner.

He Ren was already in a bad mood, and rushed all the way to Beishi to deal with the company's affairs. Unexpectedly, he just came out of the bathroom after washing his hands, and happened to collide with a figure.He raised his head, the first thing he did was nothing else, subconsciously took a few steps backwards, and then looked for the person he bumped into with his eyes.

That person was also looking at him without blinking his eyes. He obviously looked very formal in a suit and leather shoes, but he had a random brown trench coat on the outside. The color of the clothes didn't match at all, which was very weird.

This incident made him feel that they were destined or enmity.He Ren gritted his teeth, and in the next second he clarified to Zeng Luli foolishly: "I didn't know you would come here today." Then he looked at his whole body from top to bottom, and said sarcastically, "Your clothes are really good. Ugly enough."

Zeng Luli twitched the corner of his mouth, he really didn't expect that he just said harsh words to this person, and the two of them would meet in an unrelated city after thousands of miles away.

He Ren asked him: "I heard from Chen Yao that Director Xu brought his crew here tonight. You are the actor that Director Xu brought, right?"

Zeng Luli nodded and explained, "You forgot, he was the director of my first movie, and you even invested in his movie."

He Ren slapped his head, really forgot about it.No wonder Zeng Luli has always disliked such occasions, and it will appear today. It turns out that the director who has been kind to him has invited him to come.On this side, he figured it out by himself, so he also explained to Zeng Luli in the tone of reporting to his family members: "Chen Yao and I were planning to buy a company together recently, so we came here today."

Zeng Luli just nodded calmly, indicating that he knew it, and didn't notice anything wrong.

The two of them walked in the crowd one after the other, and quickly arrived at a box at the back.He Ren turned his body sideways and urged Zeng Luli to go in first before he entered the house.

Zeng Luli walked in, and saw six people sitting beside a round table in the room, half of whom he knew when he was with He Ren.Among these men, Zhong Cheng was a girl sitting inside, but she had a proud face, and she no longer had to look at other people's faces like before.