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In fact, most people should see another child at first sight. There is no reason, that child is really good-looking.It is one of the two most famous child stars this time, named Michael, who looks only four or five years old, Qin Yue laughed when she heard the name, and confirmed it again, the child's real name is Michael? wrong.

That’s right, now child stars like to give an impressive name, Zixuan and the like are outdated, the common ones are four characters, and you can’t read them well, you must be confused, forget and forget Just don't drop it.

It is obviously his mother who named Michael this name. She is very young, 26 years old, without makeup, a little haggard, wearing a famous brand, but her voice has a sense of presence. She is very skilled in these photo routines. In the separate dressing room, she directly asked, "Which one should I change first?"

This time it was the makeup artist hired by Qin Yue. Lin Sa had never made a child before, and was still hesitating about the ingredients of the cosmetics. Over there, Michael’s mother had stripped him completely, leaving only a pair of diapers, and the movements were familiar Michael was also very obedient, he raised his hands high and clenched his fists as if surrendering, he was a mixed race, he mixed very skillfully, with light brown curly hair piled on top of his head like a cloud. The face is fleshy, the facial features are big and delicate, and full of childishness, the skin is milky white, and the belly is round. Even Huang Lei couldn't help but go over to tease him: "Ah, who took off his clothes, shame face .”

Michael looked at her carefully, his mother dressed him very neatly, she was very shrewd and had sharp eyes, knowing that Huang Lei was Li Shang's assistant, she smiled and said, "Call my sister quickly. "

Michael suddenly laughed, and obediently called his sister, Huang Lei couldn't stand this, she suddenly became star-eyed, and the rest of the girls came over and teased him too.The child's nickname is Xiaomi, and his mother introduced herself as Mi Ma. She looks very sophisticated. Among so many parents of child stars, she is the one who is the best at communicating. She took out her phone and added a bunch of WeChat.He was especially enthusiastic about the girls and photography assistants on Li Shang's side. In his busy schedule, he went to Li Shang's side and asked, "Ms. Li, Xiaomi likes you very much. May I ask if we can take a photo together?" At the age of [-], how can you like celebrities? It's just an excuse to take a photo.Li Shang was in a bad mood at first, his face sank like water, and he didn't bother to raise his eyes. Seeing this, Huang Lei quickly disassembled it, and brought her back with a smile.She just froze, but soon became active again.Although compared to the people in the entertainment industry, they are not enough to look at, and their words are not measured, but they have a good attitude with a smile on their faces, and there is a beautiful child like an angel next to them, whose lethality is still great, making it very lively. The cold assistant was also attracted, and pinched Xiaomi's face.

However, what Su Rong was looking at was not Xiaomi, nor those other beautiful and lovely child stars.He was looking at the little boy.

It was a little boy of seven or eight years old, very tall, with the feeling that a little boy at this age was starting to grow taller, and he was very sloppy in his clothes.She was wearing a down jacket that almost reached her ankles, and she was ripped off by Mi Ma when she came in. Inside was a set of one-piece pajamas, dark in color, like a set of long johns, without socks, and her feet were still paired. Sneakers, a little dirty.It's the kind of mess that no adults take care of, and the hair is a bit long.

He was holding a big toy truck in his hand, and he was picking it with his slender fingers. It seemed to be the logo of a certain brand. In fact, the clothes on him also seemed to be sent by the brand, because it was just a mess. What I put together is the style of children's clothing advertisements, which is not suitable for daily wear.He sat on the ground alone and played with the toy truck for a while, then ran to Mi Ma's side and shook her arm.

"Mom, look at this." He stubbornly wanted to show Mama Mi the pickup truck he had reassembled, and desperately handed it to her. Mama Mi just pushed it away impatiently and continued to talk to Huang with a smile on her face. Lei was telling funny stories about Xiaomi, and the boy was still making trouble. She frowned, and while saying this, she twisted his arm without changing her expression.

The boy let go of his hand in pain, he seemed a little scared, looked at her timidly, and stopped talking, but Xiaomi suddenly laughed, he probably thought it was fun for his brother to be like this, also called "Mom", Mi Mom responded quickly.

"Mom hug." Xiaomi opened his hands, looking very cute, the girls next to him made "aww" sounds, and there was a video recorder, Mi's mother smiled and hugged him, Xiaomi leaned her head on her shoulder, very With a cute look, he made faces at the boy.

The boy's expression suddenly became gloomy, and he called his mother twice, but there was no response. When Mi's mother put Xiaomi on the ground for him to play with, he suddenly rushed over and pushed Xiaomi.

Xiaomi fell to the ground and burst into tears. Everyone around was startled. Just as he was about to speak, Mama Mi quickly picked up Xiaomi, then turned around and kicked the boy.

This kick hit his stomach, and the tall and thin boy was kicked and fell backwards, as if flying out. This scene was a bit scary, the strange thing is that the little boy didn't cry or make a fuss, and he didn't make any noise. On the other hand, Xiaomi cried so loudly that a few child models also made a fuss.

Wherever the girls had seen this scene, they were a little scared. The studio was very quiet for a moment, but Huang Lei reacted quickly and smoothed things over: "It's normal for children to play and fight, just teach them."

"You don't know, he bullies Xiaomi every day, and he pinched Xiaomi's face red yesterday, you see." Mi's mother was still furious, and showed everyone a little pinch mark on Xiaomi's cheek, and Xiaomi curled up like a pretty kitten In her arms, like a cherub with milky white skin, sobbing pitifully, the girls couldn't help but waver, looking at the boy, he got up from the ground as if he had nothing to do. Head back into his corner, continuing to fiddle with his pick-up truck.

"Look, he's like this. He made his younger brother cry, as if nothing happened, and said he couldn't hear." Mama Mi continued to count his crimes in detail: "As long as you don't see him at a glance, you will bully and beat Xiaomi. The teachers at the school said he was bad and bullied his classmates, saying that he had never seen such a bad child."

"Is he also a model?" Huang Lei felt that she had found the key.

"I've been photographed before, but now I'm too tall, no one wants him to be photographed. He is not as good-looking as Xiaomi, and he is disobedient and bites the photographer. He is just jealous of Xiaomi. When he hears others praise Xiaomi, he will bully Xiaomi later."

"It's just that little boys are jealous." Huang Lei laughed, walked to him, saw that his hair was messed up, and it was not easy to do anything, so she touched his shoulder: "Apologize to my brother, jealousy is not good .”

The boy didn't speak at first, but when he touched him, he suddenly raised his head and gave her a fierce look.

"Ugly."

"What did you say?" Huang Lei was stunned.

"Ugly, stinky witch, get out of here!"

The scene was very embarrassing for a while, and Mi's mother was in a hurry to apologize. Fortunately, Huang Lei reacted quickly, laughed, and said, "What a bad boy." You", Xiaomi also said "brother is bad", a bunch of people chatted and laughed and changed the topic.It just so happened that Qin Yue also called to start filming, so no one cared about the child anymore.

So he sat alone behind the machine, took his pickup truck, and drove the wires on the ground like rails.In fact, Su Rong knew what he wanted to show his mother. That toy truck was a copycat Transformer. He dismantled the truck and assembled it into a small robot. When he found no one was interested, he kicked him again. Fight back.

Su Rong raised her head and met Li Shang's eyes.The word empathy has always been a false proposition in this world. How can people who have not experienced it understand many things.

And in the entire studio, the only people who could understand it were the two of them.

Fortunately, Qin Yue started shooting soon. Li Shang and a bunch of children took turns to take hard photos. The background was similar to the gorgeous interior of a castle. Li Shang looked disgusted. Qin Yue took two pictures and smiled angrily: "Li Shang, please Are you in a good mood?"

"Didn't you say that there is no need to interact?" Li Shang frowned.

"I mean there is no need to interact, and you don't have to react at all." Qin Yue said helplessly, "You are not a single father, you are simply widowed and raising children."

After saying that, Li Shang finally felt better. After finishing the set, Qin Yue retreated behind the screen to smoke, and did not forget to take advantage of Li Shang's make-up to tease Su Rong: "Why doesn't my sister talk?"

"Did your last set follow Hideaki Hamada's style?" Su Rong asked her.

"Why, I want to be lazy and take a set of Japanese sugar water movies, can't I?"

Su Rong didn't answer her words, but said: "Can you use that child for the last set?"

"Which one?" Qin Yue pretended to be stupid.

Su Rong had no choice but to point it out to her: "That one."

"Wheat?"

"His name is Mai?"

"Yes, he used to be a very good-looking child model, who knew that he suddenly became taller and disabled, and now no one is looking for him to take pictures. Children grow up fast. Originally, Sister Qin was looking for this time He took the picture, but he didn't expect it to look like this. Fortunately, his younger brother is good-looking, and he filled the gap." Qin Yue's assistant added beside him.

"What gap?"

"Child models are like this. The family doesn't go to work, and the children make money. You don't know how expensive they are to take photos. The red ones cost hundreds of dollars for a set of clothes, and hundreds of sets can be photographed in a day. It's a pity that children grow up fast. It won’t look good after a while.” Qin Yue’s assistant was very gossipy: “There are rumors that some child model parents feed their children growth-inhibiting drugs in order to earn more money for a few years, otherwise they would be shorter than children of the same age.”

"Where did you hear the conspiracy theory?" Qin Yue frowned: "Children don't get enough sleep and eat on time, so they don't grow tall. It's not as scary as feeding medicine."

"Really." The assistant swore: "I've been in charge of contacting the model agency all year round, it's much darker than this. Sister Qin, do you still remember that little grapefruit?"

"I remember, the one who was sick. Later, I asked her sister to come over to take pictures."

"Do you know how she got sick?"

"What's wrong? Her parents are feeding her medicine?" Qin Yue scoffed at her conspiracy theory.

The assistant was very anxious: "Miss Qin, go to the children's clothing city to have a look. They use new clothes from the factory to take pictures. They must not have time to wash them. They are full of dyes and formaldehyde. We usually have to put new clothes in water before wearing them. , Children’s skin is so tender, they can be worn directly, hundreds of sets a day, and the end of the year is photographed. Formaldehyde is carcinogenic, otherwise, how could the little grapefruit get leukemia. Wasn’t I the one who sent the donation? Her mother wasn’t there, I took her sister, Xiao Chengzi, to take a photo, accompanied by the nanny, such a small villain, not to mention how pitiful she is."

A passage silenced both Qin Yue and Su Rong. Qin Yue was hard-hearted and mature. She lit a cigarette and said with a sneer, "I'm really obsessed with money. It's only a few million a year. I trade children's lives for money."

What she said was a bit out of this world, ordinary families, the temptation of a few million a year is really hard to resist, not to mention that the entertainment industry is so lively now, who would not want to sharpen their heads and squeeze in, become a child star, and pave the way for the future.

"Where did you come from as a child." The assistant came over and said mysteriously: "For example, Xiaomi and Mai are not the same father. His mother was born by a foreigner. The mixed race is good-looking and can be a child at the age of three or four. Child models make money, and the Whitetrash gene is not so good, otherwise they will collapse when they grow up."

While talking, the scenery was ready, Qin Yue went to take pictures, the assistant left after a few words of emotion, leaving Su Rong here alone.He stood for a while, then suddenly walked towards Huang Lei and the others.

This set has nothing to do with Xiaomi, and they gathered next to Mi Ma and Xiaomi to play with him. Xiaomi looks cute, but in fact he has a spoiled temper. I don’t know who gave him a bottle of yogurt. He doesn’t know how to lose his temper. Come on, take the yogurt and throw it on the ground.The girls all laughed and evaded, and Mi Ma apologized repeatedly and couldn't clean up.It can be seen that she is also irritable, and she may not have enough sleep. She was about to pinch Xiaomi, but held back, took a paper to wipe the floor and wiped it at Mai. Not knowing what Mai said, she suddenly picked up Mai and went to the clothes rack He picked up a broad-shouldered clothes hanger, grabbed him and walked out of the studio.Mai Mai's clothes were picked up, revealing the old bruises on her waist.He was used to being beaten, and knew that the more he begged for mercy, the harder the beating would be, but he was still afraid, trembling all over, but he gritted his teeth and refused to speak.

Seeing that he was about to be dragged outside, there were two slender legs in front of his eyes, wearing suit pants, looking up, he was a thin young man with a very indifferent expression, his complexion was cold and pale, and his eyes were light amber color, with a small mole on his nose.

"What did you do wrong?" He calmly asked Mama Mi: "Are you going to hit him again?"

Mi's mother was inexplicably afraid of this strange young man, and knew that he was an important role, because Huang Lei and the others were a bit obedient to him, so she apologized and said with a smile: "The child is disobedient, I will discipline him."

He didn't answer, just said "oh".

This "oh" made people's backs hurt, and Mama Mi had no choice but to stop her hands resentfully. Mai escaped unharmed and slipped away like a loach. He didn't slip away, and hid behind the machine again, knowing Those wires and machines are his protectors, and Mother Mi dare not go there to catch him.He has a kind of vigilance like a small animal, using these things as a cover to secretly look at Su Rong, but it is not a cute little animal, and occasionally has a hint of viciousness.

Su Rong didn't speak, pulled a chair, and sat down not far from him. Huang Lei had prepared hot milk tea and handed it over. After a while, she came over to play with him with Xiaomi in her arms: "How about it, Brother Rong, isn't it cute?" cute?"

"It's not cute when it's disabled."

This is a taboo among all child actors. Originally, the parents of several child actors are here, so it is a bit embarrassing to hear this.It’s no wonder that they are fishing in the wild. They have used high-tech methods such as growth inhibitors. The child star growth rate is too high, and there are no rules to follow. It is equivalent to metaphysics. Years of quick money is more real.

Huang Lei and the others didn't dare to answer these words. Fortunately, just after a set was taken, Li Shang came down to touch up her makeup, and Lin Sa also came over. Hearing this, Lin Sa smiled and asked, "How does Xiao Rong know who will be disabled?" ?”

Appearance has always been a taboo topic in the entertainment industry, only makeup artists say it is not sensitive at all, because they are in this industry, and their brothers and sisters have commented on entertainment stars since childhood, let alone child stars, even anyone whose face will collapse within a few years. gambling.When Lin Sa said this, it seemed a little bit like a senior was going to test his homework.

Huang Lei and the others knew that Vincent's disciples were very good at seeing bones, and those parents even pricked up their ears to listen.

"It's normal for a child star to grow old and disabled. Many of the facial features of a person stop developing when they are young. For example, the eyeballs will never grow bigger, but the bones of the face will continue to grow, so the size and layout of the facial features that look comfortable when you are young , as the bones grow, the sense of beauty is lost, and many child stars look big, square, and bulky when they grow old, and it is because of this reason."

"Then is it true that people who were not good-looking when they were young will become good-looking when they grow up? Is there any rule?"

"There are many types of good-looking when you grow up, and there are many types of looks when you are young, but there is a rule that the proportions are generally not harmonious. There are also good-looking when you are young, but it is not a good-looking with harmonious proportions, but the eyes It’s very big, and the distance between the eyes is relatively narrow. When a child star with a harmonious proportion grew up, it’s not easy to get plastic surgery, because the layout is broken, unless you change the head. So there is a very interesting phenomenon, between brothers and sisters, when they were young, they looked good. , It is very likely that you will become ugly when you grow up, but it is not good-looking when you were young, and you will become popular when you grow up. The most typical example is the Fanning sisters, Dakota Fanning was good-looking when she was young, but now Elle Fanning is even more popular.”

He gave an example from Hollywood, but everyone's eyes are on the two brothers Xiaomi and Xiaomai. Xiaomi doesn't know if he understands, but he is a little timid. wheat.

Mai Mai is the kind of disharmonious and ugly. He is in high school, like a stickman, tall and thin, and his face is too thin, like a monkey, and the big eyes of a mixed race look more and more ghostly. He was tanned and looked like a Southeast Asian, but when Su Rong said this, everyone couldn't help but feel that he also seemed to have potential, and there was a tendency to overtake him.Even Mi's mother was vaguely moved.

This small talk passed quickly, and everyone started chatting about new topics, as if Su Rong's words had never happened, and the only person who understood his intentions, after taking four sets of hard photos, took advantage of Su Rong passing by him During the interval, he sneered at him coldly: "You think you are the savior? Can you even make up such a nonsense?"

The two were still in a cold war, Su Rong didn't bother to look at him, and just said coldly: "So you're happy to see that kid being beaten to death?"

"It's not so easy to kill." Li Shang said indifferently: "When he survives, these things will only make him stronger than his peers."

The gap between people is so big, in the whole studio, except for them, no one can experience what is happening to this child.Recently, it is very popular to talk about the original family. Although the studio's online marketing has always been in charge, Su Rong is always on the Internet when she has nothing to do. The original family is a big traffic topic besides love, and common people are arguing under the marketing account.Under every tree hole that was beaten, someone always jumped out and said, "My parents also beat me for being naughty when I was young, and the broom was broken, so I don't bear any grudges against them."

Human empathy has always been a paradox. For those who have never experienced it, there is actually a difference between how to imagine being beaten and being beaten. Being beaten for a reason is called punishment, at least there are rules to follow, and a kind of beating is purely to vent. [-]% is still beaten, because the outside world will vent it on you.Many people imagine that abused children are always weak and pitiful curled up in a corner. They don’t know that even stray dogs who have been abused know how to bite people, so Huang Lei and the others can’t understand the hostility in Mai. They don’t know that it is actually a kind of stress reaction.They were only surprised, and their thoughts were logically rationalized in an instant, and they no longer felt that he was a victim, but that he deserved to be beaten.

No one is more sensitive than a child who knows they are not loved.Physical abuse is just one, like an intense and familiar form of communication, growing up to be the abuser or the masochist.There is also pure indifference, or expulsion, so that children who grow up like this will stand and look at the world from a distance, like Li Shang.

Destiny diverges here. Some people are rescued early, get all the love, and grow up to be beloved sisters. However, there is still a corner in the heart that hides ruins and cannot be told, because saying it is like saying it. Denying the love he has received, even feeling alone feels like a betrayal to Vincent and the others.So he didn't say anything, but instinctively chased those people who also had ruins in their hearts, like a good person falling in love with a hopeless bad person, because there is always an outlet for the dark side of the heart, those old wounds, the unspeakable loneliness , and his distrust of the world in his bones, Li Shang spoke out for him.

Li Shang is the child who didn't wait for the hero to appear. He grew up in this unloved indifference all the way, survived many violence and neglect, and became an out-and-out supporter of social Darwinism.He despises love, and has a scrutiny attitude towards the world. He stands here calmly, like a survivor in the ruins, as if saying: Yes, I had a difficult time when I was a child, but so what , I survived, I am strong, beautiful and dazzling, I don't need anyone to love me.

He doesn't care about old scars, and he doesn't have the idea that scars are medals. To him, scars are just an objective existence, just like he himself is a distinct and powerful existence, like some unique and dangerous animal, walking through this place carelessly. In the jungle called showbiz.

So he laughed at Su Rong's small thoughts, and said in a mocking tone: "You are really nosy, do you think that woman will treat him better and beat him less after you said those few words? This has nothing to do with placebo What's the difference, it's better to let him understand that he is a money-making tool to be eliminated earlier, so he won't be sad."

What he said was cruel but realistic, long-term pain is worse than short-term pain, but Su Rong was instantly irritated.

"You think that's all I can do?"

"Hey, what are you going to do? Establish a Children's Protection Bureau?" Li Shang smiled disdainfully: "Don't be too whimsical. If you have this time, why don't you donate some money to charity, sister."

After mocking Su Rong, he lazily went over to take his photo. Su Rong sat there for a while with a sullen face, seeing that the last set had been taken. Li Shang's time was very tight, and the whole shooting took only two hours. , This is still a temporary squeeze out of time, and I will soon have to catch up with the next schedule.As Li Shang said, with this time, it is better to earn more money and donate it to save more children.

But the rules that Su Rong believes in are not like this, and the rules on the ninth floor are not like this either. The teenagers on the ninth floor come and go, some stay behind, and some stay for a while before disappearing without a trace.At most, there were only a few dozen, including boys and girls. Obviously, it was impossible to take in all the children from the fringes of the city. Vincent will not deliberately look for it, but when he sees it, he has a responsibility.It is a different concept to hear about someone being victimized through the newspaper than to witness it with one's own eyes but not to help.

But how to help.

Li Shang laughed at him for opening the Children’s Protection Bureau, which hits the pain point. There is no such thing in China as the Children’s Protection Bureau. Children are almost the property of their parents. Accidental death is only a moment of sadness, and even condemnation is like adding fuel to the fire, so he can’t even reprimand him. Don't dare, for fear of arousing Mama Mi's anger, go back and close the door to fight.He only dared to increase the value of wheat by insinuating on the sidelines, and was ridiculed by Li merchants.

Seeing that the last set was being filmed, and everyone was watching the filming, Su Rong stood up from the chair, quietly approached the little boy named Mai, and squatted down beside him.

Children who had a hard time when they were young are mostly sensitive, because they need keen insight to escape the beating that they don’t know what will happen, so they are also very sensitive to kindness, but they just can’t believe it, and they still look at him vigilantly.

"What's its name?" Su Rong asked.

Mai Mai's fingers holding the pickup truck tightened immediately, staring at Su Rong, as if judging whether he would snatch his toy away.But this strange young man looked at him with such gentle eyes, almost with a little sadness, Xiaomai instinctively felt that he should be trustworthy.

"Thomas," Wheat said, and then he regretted his decision, took the pickup truck back, and held it tightly in his arms.

Su Rong smiled.

"I also had a favorite toy when I was a kid. It was a set of toy soldiers. I named each of them and taught them how to fight every day." His eyes are downcast and his eyelashes have soft shadows.

Mai just stared at his face, as if judging whether he was lying or not.

There was a lot of noise behind the scenes, and the filming would soon end. There was a brand meeting in the afternoon, and I flew to S City in the evening to record a promotional film for a new movie.Now is not a good time, but there is no other time either.

Su Rong reached out and took out the wallet from his pocket.

"Is Xiaomai's memory good?" He is naturally good at coaxing children like this: "Can you remember a string of mobile phone numbers?"

"I can't remember!" Mai Mai said deliberately in a fit of anger.Children are born with this kind of keenness, and they instinctively know which adults will not be angry with them. Children who are treated poorly need this kind of experience more, because the sense of confidence makes people feel safe and loved. .However, most adults forget that they have also experienced this kind of time, and instead think that he is a bear.

Sure enough, Su Rong was not angry.

He just smiled and took out a pen and wrote his number on a piece of money, he doesn't use business cards, it's a bad habit.He folded the money into a tiny roll and put it in the back of Thomas' pickup truck.

"This is my mobile phone number. If Xiaomai encounters danger in the future, or gets injured or gets lost, remember to call me here, give the money to adults like the supermarket owner, and borrow their mobile phone to call me , no matter where you are, I will find you, you know?"

Children who have been in the entertainment industry are much smarter than ordinary children, so they don't need to explain it carefully, but Xiaomai obviously hasn't been taught this way for a long time, so he listens very carefully.It's just that the expression is still very alert, looking at him with a bit of viciousness.

He won't make this call, Su Rong knows.He will only live like what Li Shang said, survive, grow up, and become a cold and hostile adult.It is more likely that this number was discovered by her mother and misinterpreted as some kind of dirty intention, or it was used by him to buy candy or toys, passed by a stranger, and someone called curiously one day, becoming an embarrassing person. And the mediocre ending.

But Su Rong didn't say anything.

He just rubbed wheat's head, then stood up with a smile.The filming was over, and he still had a schedule to catch up, so he couldn't stay longer.