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After finishing the food on the dinner plate, it was nearly ten o'clock.Zhou Nian got up to say goodbye after setting up the knife and fork. Pei Xun looked at him and asked politely, "It's so late, why don't you stay?"

"...No." Zhou Nian said, making up an excuse, "There is a dog at home, I have to go back and feed it."

"Is it the one on your screensaver?" Pei Xun asked.

Zhou Nian was stunned, and then said: "Yes." - maybe someone sent him a text message while he was asleep, and the screen turned on.

"What a coincidence." Pei Xun smiled.

"Huh?" Zhou Nian didn't understand what he meant.

Pei Xun didn't explain either.He put on his coat and walked to the door: "It's too late, I'll see you off."

Zhou Nian stood there, hesitating for a moment.After all, after being tossed about by him for so long just now, Pei Xun looked a little tired, and would occasionally put his hands on his waist when he was eating.Pei Xun noticed his gaze, shook his head and smiled: "It's okay, I'm not that fragile."

—I don't need to send it either, he thought.But Pei Xun was already prepared, and it would appear that he was ignorant to refuse at this time, so Zhou Nian said "hmm" and said, "It's troublesome."

He was actually a little uncomfortable.Ordering food, clothes, and sending them home, Pei Xun is very familiar with this process.How many times has he done these things?Has it been like this with every single female partner—and male—before?

He also thought of Pei Xun's smooth manner on the bed.How rich is this person's experience, and how many people did he practice on?Thinking about it, Zhou Nian became inexplicably irritable.

But these thoughts are undesirable.He shook his head, throwing it away.

They drive in the bright night of the city.It was the time when the bustling city was just taking a break, and the vehicles returning to their homes after enjoying themselves kept returning from the city to the outskirts of the city, running side by side densely.The dipped beam lights formed a sea of ​​waves, and the lampposts looked like rows of straight oak trees with moons on the treetops.

Pei Xun didn't speak, and the atmosphere in the car was almost awkwardly silent.His shirt cuffs were rolled up to his elbows, revealing a section of his fair forearm.Fingers rest on the steering wheel, and occasionally tap the side lightly, as if following a certain rhythm.

He gave birth to a pair of handicraft-like hands, which were conspicuously white in the dark car, as if they would glow.After a long while, Zhou Nian realized that he could see clearly, and hurriedly searched for a topic like a cover-up: "What do the words on the card mean?"

Hearing his words suddenly, Pei Xun froze for a moment, then remembered what he was referring to: "...Oh, it's a poem."

"'Among these pale roses, there is only one like your red ideal,'" he read, smiling. "To your acting—what do you think it is?"

"...I didn't expect it to be this." Zhou Nian said sincerely.

A benefactor sent flowers to a star he liked, and the accompanying card was filled with such sentences—this subtle incongruity is like a young man going to a girl’s house to woo her, not talking about love affairs, but only talking about ideals in life ... He thought it should at least be a love poem.

Respect my acting skills, he thought about this sentence, does the current sponsor still care about acting skills?

At the same time, he was also a little inexplicably happy.Like a feather on the tip of my heart gently sweeping, it was ironed in an instant.

"What are you laughing at?" Pei Xun looked at him from the central rearview mirror.Zhou Nian didn't answer, just smiled and waved his hands.After a while, he heard Pei Xun ask, "Is the filming of the drama you and Bai Wei collaborated on going to start soon?"

Zhou Nian nodded: "Join the group next week."

He only thought that Pei Xun asked about his schedule to make arrangements for the next meeting.Who knows, without waiting for him to think too much, Pei Xun actually turned the topic to Xiaobai: "Then what about that puppy when you were filming?"

"..." Zhou Nian couldn't guess what he meant by asking this.The current patron not only cares about acting skills, but also cares about pets?

However, Xiaobai just picked it up a month ago, and he has not met the time when he joined the filming group. "Let's foster it in a pet store," he said, "how...?"

He paused.The corner of the mouth of the person beside him suddenly turned up, as if he suddenly became happy for something.

"Don't be so troublesome." Pei Xun frowned, "Can you lend it to me?"

Until many years later, Zhou Nian will feel that this is more like an excuse to deepen the relationship between the two, and it is a ulterior motive... After all, Pei Xun has seen Xiaobai's photo, a baby that was abandoned at birth, The puppy that happened to be picked up by him was naturally not so noble.When I took it for vaccination, the veterinarians couldn't judge its breed, they only said that it was just a bunch of mixed blood.Why did such a little milk dog fall into Mr. Pei's eyes?

But he has been worrying about it lately.He has a tight schedule for the past few days, so he doesn't have time to investigate the pet store's foster care conditions one by one, but Pei Xun... may not be interested in such an ordinary puppy.He looked very interested, and one couldn't help feeling that his silence along the way might have been thinking about how to bring up this matter—maybe he had been thinking about it since he saw Xiaobai on the screensaver .

Although subconsciously knew that this was probably just Pei Xun's whim, but seeing his earnest eyes, it was always difficult for people to say no.Zhou Nian didn't hesitate for long, and surrendered under his gaze.

He thought that Pei Xun just mentioned it casually, and he might forget about it in a few days.Before joining the group, he called the female secretary to remind him without hope, but Eva said that Boss Pei had already given orders and had been waiting for his call for the past two days.Her work efficiency was quite high, and two cars were sent to pick up Xiaobai in a grand manner that day.

At that time, he had not seen Pei Xun for a full two weeks, and Pei Xun had not contacted him again.He doesn't know if Pei Xun treats every lover like this, neither hot nor cold, and leaves after sleeping, it seems that he has no intention of follow-up "cooperation".From this point of view, it seems that Pei Xun is more interested in Xiaobai than in him.

But Zhou Nian kept dreaming about him.

Even if the rationality knows that this is wrong, the body knows the taste through the marrow.It can still be controlled during the day, but at night when the will is relaxed, the situation of that day will be played repeatedly in the dream.Zhou Nian had never had such frequent erotic dreams even when he was a young boy who was just beginning to develop, but Pei Xun seemed to have a magical power that made people want to stop. Appeared in his dreams more clearly than a day.

The same goes for this night.The man was lying under him, with his hands around his neck, his body was as white as a fish.He saw a layer of mist steamed by lust in those impenetrable eyes, and his lips opened and closed, as if there were love words that were about to fall.He lowered his head to listen, but suddenly woke up at this moment.

After waking up, there were only four dark walls in front of my eyes, and the joy and tenderness that could drown people in the dream were all gone.Zhou Nian looked at the ceiling for a moment, then suddenly buried her face in the pillow forcefully.

——It's... too bad.

After entering the filming period, everything was complicated, and Zhou Nian devoted himself to the film, and finally he stopped thinking of Pei Xun so frequently.It was the first time for him to participate in the filming of a youth drama. He had heard Lin Chen complain about how sloppy and perfunctory this kind of filming was before, and he thought it was because he was exaggerating.After actually participating in it, I realized that what I said was true.

The heroine of this show, Bai Wei, had a lot of scandals before the filming started, and her reputation was bad for a while.But her team did a good job in crisis public relations. First, the heavenly king who was engaged to her publicly showed her love for the diamond ring. She posted a few microblogs praising how gentle and friendly she is on weekdays, and fired several studio staff who were in charge of publicity. Pushing all the faults on them, the voice of criticizing her was much smaller for a while.

And the most indispensable thing in the circle is the fresh drama that catches people's attention.The day before yesterday, the paparazzi just broke the news that Song Yuzhen, who just won the golden dragon actor last year, was exposed to wearing a cuckold, and his girlfriend hooked up with the popular niche while he was out filming—it was none other than the original "Seven Degrees of Youth" actor.Most of the cast of popular youth dramas are regular people. Although the actors come and go, there are only those fresh meat and florets who can carry the ratings. Even if they have never cooperated with each other, they have met each other more or less.The three protagonists in the scandal this time are all acquaintances, and the crew can chat a few words about it, and the topic after the scene can't avoid this matter—they are more concerned about the story than the filming story.As a result, Bai Wei's past was gradually forgotten.

The trend of the topic has changed, but how she acted before remains the same.Zhou Nian has only been in the group for seven days, and for four of those days he won't see the heroine who is full of appointments.When the filming started, her last film hadn't finished yet, so she joined the group two days late.In the middle, I asked for two days off to shoot commercials, so I saved up all the scenes, not to mention disrupting the original shooting plan, and made Zhou Nian only have to play with the supporting role in the four days, and only when she was there. I made up for the leading roles together, and I was so busy that I could barely get a chair.

When Bai Hua came, she saw such a scene.

The handsome young man was standing under the tree alone, gently pressing the center of his brow.He is the leading actor in this scene, but he stands alone, in stark contrast to the heroine on the other side.Bai Wei's seven or eight assistants were all around her, one was holding water, the other was holding her coat, and more people just chatted with her, full of posture.

The scene being filmed has already taken a total of seven shots.In fact, it was just a very simple scene. The heroine who had just been intimidated came from the side of the boulevard, covered her face and cried as she walked, and then slammed into the arms of the hero.The difficulty of this scene is that she found the way she raised her face after bumping into someone. In the storyboard, a close-up of this scene was given, and the heroine was required to perform the moment from being undefended and vulnerable to pretending to be innocent.The intention was to show the heroine's strength and self-esteem, but Bai Wei had already bumped into Zhou Nian's arms seven times, and she still looked like a female bandit robbing her way, not at all weak and charming.

Bai Hua took out her mobile phone and dialed Pei Xun's number.After waiting for almost 30 seconds, the person over there let out a sleepy "hmm".

"Master," Bai Hua said angrily to her childhood friend, "do you know what time it is?"

"Twelve o'clock?"

"I know I can't afford it? What did you do last night?" He snorted, "I went to watch Zhou Nian's play today, what is it all about...I think you will pay for my mental loss."

Pei Xun opened his eyes, and tapped the tip of the puppy's nose: "Baby, someone speaks ill of your master."

"...Are you still playing with his dog?" Bai Hua rolled her eyes, "I'm not talking about Zhou Nian, he acted in this play... Who is that heroine? It's a waste of eyesight. Just wait, I'll give it to you." Open your eyes."

The director was discussing something with the executive director, saying that the close-up shot of Bai Wei should be canceled and Zhou Nian's surprised close-up shot should be replaced.Taking advantage of the rest of the crew, Bai Hua switched the call to video mode, heard this and zoomed in on the camera, aiming at Zhou Nian.

The long-lost face appeared on the screen.Pei Xun glanced at it, and slowly raised the corners of his mouth.

Leaving other things aside, he likes Zhou Nian's face very much.Different from the popular creampie niche nowadays, Zhou Nian's good looks are of the "clean and handsome" line, with straight eyebrows and eyes when viewed from a close distance, and dignified manners when viewed from a distance.He stood under the sycamore tree, dressed in the white shirt and black trousers that are standard for male protagonists in youth dramas, and abruptly turned a corner of the campus into a paradise on earth.

The scene on the screen gradually expands.Pei Xun heard the director yell "start", the camera followed Bai Wei along the track, and the male and female protagonists collided as expected.Bai Wei shrugged her shoulders exaggeratedly and froze.A pair of hands immediately entered the camera and supported her firmly.

He couldn't hear the lines over there clearly, so he had to stop his eyes on those hands——Zhou Nian's hands are quite beautiful, why didn't he notice it last time?

The camera lens moved up slowly with the camera equipment on the set, aiming at Zhou Nian's face.Under the clear picture of the screen, you can almost count his drooping eyelashes.

As a TV series adapted from a popular romance novel, "Seven Degrees of Youth" has a variety of common eye-catching settings.Bai Hua had glanced at the synopsis before, and it basically said that the gentle senior met a young girl, and found that this girl with extraordinary appearance, talent and learning was quite inferior and sensitive. After digging, she discovered that she had suffered from school violence, so she gradually helped her resist Bullying, stepping out of the shadows - during this period, of course, you have to experience some love routines that domestic youth films cannot escape.What was used by the show to promote it was that the heroine had been hurt, but in the end she was able to straighten up from the suffering and walk towards the light-this gave the plot a bit of an inspirational halo.

The male lead played by Zhou Nian is an out-and-out campus male god, gentle and handsome with good grades, and after his name, he can add all the titles that a school can provide to outstanding students.Such a role setting, to use a word popular on the Internet a few days ago, is "Su".

Sud can do anything, Sud shines, everyone looks up to him, everyone adores him.

——It is precisely such a perfect to false setting that brings difficulty to the interpretation of the role.

The plot is monotonous enough, and the characters are even more so.The male protagonist in the original work is made up of adjectives one by one, with a rather flat personality, like a beautiful clip art.Why did he have a good impression of the timid heroine at first sight, and then why he stood up for this girl who he had only met a few times? There is no logical support for such actions.Even though the script has been polished by the new screenwriter, it is several times better than before, but because the important plot of the original work cannot be changed, it still seems a bit far-fetched.

But when Zhou Nian appeared on the screen, everything seemed to be as it should be.

He just stood there, making people believe that there are people like the hero in this world.In the camera, he looked down at Bai Wei, like looking at a weak deer. He was slightly surprised at first, but his expression gradually softened with the slight bend of his brows and eyes, meeting the eyes of the heroine, and the corners of his mouth were raised, forming a gentle expression smile.

"Not bad," Bai Hua said, "Micro-expressions are also passable."

Pei Xun didn't speak.His fingertips flicked across the screen and landed on the side of Zhou Nian's face.

He also didn't realize that Zhou Nian had such a pair of affectionate eyes.

*The original sentence is "For among these pale roses there is none like your bright red ideal", written by Baudelaire.