out of plain sight

Qingdao in June is refreshing and pleasant, and Beijing, which is like a steamer, is a completely different world. The breeze eased Sun Jinghan's anxiety along the way.In order to prevent Chen Xiangting from asking reporters to take pictures, he flew to Qingdao without prior notice.When Chen Xiangting received his call, he had already taken a taxi to the city and ordered a cup of coffee in a coffee shop.

Ten minutes later, Sun Jinghan saw Chen Xiangting himself.

Chen Xiangting looked less than 40 years old, with a neat suit, a white shirt without any wrinkles, and a tie that was tied meticulously. On his business card was the title of manager of a well-known company.

"I won't give you your business card, it's inconvenient." Sun Jinghan skipped unnecessary greetings, trying to keep his attitude mild, "Can you show me your ID card?"

Chen Xiangting was slightly stunned, smiled considerately, and did as he said: "You sound very young on the phone."

Sun Jinghan returned his ID card to him: "You were only 17 when he was born?"

"Yes, I was still in college at that time." Chen Xiangting raised his hand and said to the waiter that he would not order, "You said that he would not be able to finish the film until October at the earliest, so he didn't come today?"

"Yes, I came alone."

"Are you trying to verify my identity or is there something else? I have provided enough evidence. If you are determined to doubt me, it is useless for me to say more. The most convenient solution is to do a paternity test, you guys in the hospital Designate, I will pay the fee."

Chen Xiangting looks weak, but he is obviously used to negotiating, and he is aggressive immediately when everything gets down to business.Sun Jinghan was caught off guard and frowned: "Let's not say whether your identity is true or not, I want to know what your purpose is?"

Chen Xiangting smiled gently again: "Mr. Sun, I am not a person of status or status, but I still have a car, a house, and food and clothing. If I was doing it for money, I would definitely not be so calm at your mercy. It’s the right thing to do to make you suffer. I’m not like the kind of clown who wants to be famous or crazy, right?”

The focus of Sun Jinghan's eyes was constantly shifting between Chen Xiangting's eyes, and he didn't speak.

"I have a happy family of three. I don't want to recognize another son, and I don't want others to know that I have an illegitimate child. The purpose of my meeting with him is to tell him the ins and outs of the matter. I don't want to vomit."

"Now that technology is so advanced, you can make phone calls and write emails. Why bother telling him face to face?"

Chen Xiangting's eyes turned cold: "Do you think it's easy to abandon a baby? It took me more than ten years to finally let go of this matter, but he had the same face as that woman, and used With the name I gave him, he appeared in the news on TV every day, and even my daughter mentioned him from time to time. I couldn’t avoid it even if I wanted to. I didn’t want to carry the inexplicable guilt, so I had to make it clear to him face to face. "

He spat out the last sentence fiercely, and Sun Jinghan burst into anger, and said with a suppressed temper: "He has a good life, he doesn't care about being abandoned, and he hasn't blamed anyone. You don't need to feel guilty. The biological father suddenly appeared after so many years , and that's what hurt him the most."

Chen Xiangting laughed again: "You didn't understand what I meant. My guilt has nothing to do with how well he lives or whether he is hurt or not. It is purely my own knot." On the table, I stood up and looked down at Sun Jinghan, "I will always pay attention to his movements. If he doesn't come to me after the film is finished, I will use other means to achieve my goal. At worst, both sides will suffer, and maybe I can still benefit from it."

Sun Jinghan suppressed his anger and watched him walk out of the coffee shop, punching the table.

Chen Xiangting firmly stepped into his minefield.

From the time Sun Jinghan can remember, the family is supported by the mother alone, and the father shows up only once in a few months, and leaves with the money.Such a hopeless scum is protected unconditionally by his mother, as if everything is taken for granted.Sun Jinghan dropped out of high school and went to Beijing alone to beg for a living. The so-called father came to borrow money to pay off the debt according to the address on the letter, but he punched him back.From then on, Sun Jinghan only paid his mother monthly living expenses, regardless of whether the money was spent on that scumbag, he treated him as dead.

Chen Xiangting didn't show the slightest bit of remorse, he was nothing more than a more decent bastard, he now claims that he has no intentions, and once he succeeds, he will make progress, sucking blood for a lifetime like a leech that cannot be shaken off.

Sun Jinghan did not allow this to happen.

After three months of retreat, Qin Hao reappeared in the public eye. The Internet giant Xinyi Network held a strategic adjustment conference, which caused an uproar inside and outside the industry.Sun Jinghan arrived at the hotel at the appointment and opened the door of the room. Qin Hao embraced him without a smile on his face.

"If I make a wrong bet this time and lose everything, would you stay by my side?"

"Don't fool me, Boss Qin." Sun Jinghan has brought more actors than Qin Hao, so it's easy to see through this poor acting, "A skinny camel is bigger than a horse, it won't be so miserable, Boss Qin It's not that easy to be defeated."

Qin Hao smiled and said, "Your heart is really hard now."

"I'm smarter than I was before."

His sarcastic remarks did not affect Qin Hao's good mood. Qin Hao patted him on the back and let him go, poured two glasses of wine: "In a few days, they will know who will have the last laugh. I owe you a meal before." Celebration wine, make it up this time."

Sun Jinghan didn't remember the celebration wine, so he toasted perfunctorily: "Congratulations, Mr. Qin."

Qin Hao covered his cup with his hand: "You don't have to talk to me, don't talk to Mr. Qin one by one, isn't it good to go back to our original relationship?"

Sun Jinghan, who hadn't even touched a drop of alcohol, felt a burning pain in his stomach.

He is sure that Qin Hao only likes women, if he is not poor and has nowhere to vent, he will never touch a man in his life.Although the two had slept together, Qin Hao kept resisting the light, and even didn't allow Sun Jinghan to make a sound, only willing to insert it from behind.Sun Jinghan recalled the humiliation back then, and wished he could go back and slap him awake.

He didn't respond for a long time, and Qin Hao didn't force it: "Forget it, it's not hard for you. Come on, cheers."

Sun Jinghan raised his head and gulped it down: "Qin Hao, I have called you several times before..."

Hearing him call his name, Qin Hao was ecstatic: "I was busy at that time, not against you."

Sun Jinghan unbuttoned a few shirt buttons and smiled: "I know, it's not too late to meet, I want to ask you something."

Qin Hao's smile overflowed from his eyes: "Say it."

"Xinyi's blog and news have the greatest influence on entertainment. In case there are unfavorable remarks against Chen Moting in the future, can you find a way to control them?"

Qin Hao's face turned cold, and he crossed his arms and folded his arms: "What kind of speech, who wants to post it?"

Sun Jinghan's body was flushed red from the strong alcohol, he loosened all the buttons of his clothes, and the hot air he exhaled hit Qin Hao's face: "No one wants to post at the moment, it's just that someone is using this as a threat, I want to be in case, I don't want the news to explode Come out and press down again, I will make these news not even appear."

Qin Hao grabbed the open skirt to cover his body: "Didn't you always reject sleeping with me?"

"Didn't you always want to sleep with me?"

"I don't want you to have sex with me for Chen Moting!" Qin Hao brought him up in front of his eyes, "You must be fucking sick! The Internet is not my family! If I don't report my blog and news, won't others? You Can they sleep their bosses one by one?"

"I'm doing it for myself." Sun Jinghan held his wrist calmly, "Chen Moting is my only chance to stand up, and to keep him is to keep myself."

"I don't play logic games with you!" Qin Hao pushed him away, pointed at his nose and growled, "What good price do you think you can sell? Am I worth your ass? I fucking want you to change your mind! "

Sun Jinghan slumped into the chair, looked at the ceiling "haha" and laughed dryly: "Boss Qin, you said you are a high-ranking..."

A loud slamming door interrupted him, Sun Jinghan took off his glasses, covered his eyes and burst out laughing.

He is an agent, not an actor, how could he act that way?

It was the end of September that Chen Moting's role in "Sun Zhongmou" was finished.When Sun Jinghan received his call late at night, he was standing at the gate of the community, blocked by the gate guard.

"In the middle of the night... go back to your own home."

"Your house is closer to the airport than mine. I'm so sleepy that I want to go to bed early. And it's the middle of the night, how can I take a taxi home?"

Sun Jinghan struggled to get out of bed, and walked to the gate of the community, with messy hair, looking at Chen Moting in a singlet and shorts across the iron railing.

At this time in Beijing, the autumn tiger was raging, but Chen Moting was wearing a long-sleeved T-shirt, with his right sleeve rolled up above the elbow and his left sleeve covering the scar: "I'm back."

Sun Jinghan swiped his card to let him in, took the suitcase and walked in front.

Chen Moting hadn't seen him for a long time, swaying left and right behind him for a while, said with a playful smile: "Your new hairstyle..."

"I failed to settle the matter with Chen Xiangting, he still wants to meet you."

Chen Moting stopped laughing: "What does he want to do after seeing me?"

"He said he just wanted to talk to you."

"You believe him?"

"Do not believe."

"But there is no other way."

"Yes." Sun Jinghan sighed, "I'm sorry, I'm not capable enough."

Chen Moting lowered one eyebrow, put his arms around his shoulder and smiled, "Be optimistic, maybe he just wants to chat with me to relieve his depression."

He said it casually but hit the right one. Sun Jinghan thought that it was indeed father and son, and his train of thought was exactly the same: "Don't tell me you are going to see him."

"if not?"

"I do not know either."

"Otherwise, it's hard to guarantee that you will go to pretend to be a grandson with Qin Hao again, and watch some striptease."

"..."

Every time he mentioned Qin Hao and Sun Jinghan, he didn't know how to react, so he could only reply silently.Chen Moting followed him upstairs and entered the door like a tail, put down the sofa bed in the living room familiarly, and took out the mattress and quilt from the closet in the bedroom. Seeing that Sun Jinghan was still standing there distressed, he touched him casually face: "Stop worrying about things, go to sleep."

Sun Jinghan was full of entanglements and didn't want to react to the prank, so he said "Wash up and go to bed early" and went back to the bedroom.What he didn't know was that Chen Moting, who was making the bed with his back to him, felt his heart beat faster just because he touched his face, and couldn't face him.

Tired from the journey, Chen Moting slept until the afternoon of the next day, ate some snacks and continued to sleep until the third day, got up to go to the toilet as if he was disintegrated, and was sobered up by Sun Jinghan standing in front of the mirror shaving his beard .

Sun Jinghan tapped the foam-filled razor on the edge of the sink: "Big ones and small ones?"

"……big."

"Then wait until I'm done washing up."

Chen Moting exited the bathroom, looked at the wall clock on the wall, it was less than seven o'clock, of course Sun Jinghan was still at home.

It has been a few months since he confessed to Sun Jinghan with a feverish head. The night before yesterday, he just touched his face with his hand, and something was wrong with Chen Moting. Fortunately, Sun Jinghan was calm enough, so he did not open the window and jumped from the ninth floor.

Why am I always interested in impossible people? Chen Moting stretched his face with his hands: I can hide from Chen Shuwei, but I can't hide from Sun Jinghan.

"Chen Moting," Sun Jinghan snapped two fingers in front of his eyes, "I've thought about it seriously, this matter must be resolved quickly, so as not to cause long nights and dreams."

Chen Moting's expression changed: "What do you mean?"

"I'll see if I can book a plane for tonight or tomorrow morning. I'll go to Qingdao with you."

"Oh, you said Chen Xiangting." Chen Moting smiled, "It's a trivial matter."

He is not pretending to be free and easy, but in his more than 20 years of life, there is no Chen Xiangting at all. To him, he is no different from an ordinary fanatic. Except for worrying that he will not be able to get rid of it, he has no more emotions , not even disgust.On the contrary, Chen Moting can't understand those abandoned children who are looking for blood parents, as if they can live a more relaxed and happy life after condemning their parents.

His life does not need Chen Xiangting to add to the liking.

This time, Chen Xiangting still attended the meeting by appointment during work hours, still dressed in a neat suit, and handed over his business card like a business meeting.Although Chen Moting heard Sun Jinghan's description, he was still a little surprised, took the business card and smiled: "Hello."

"Hello." Chen Xiangting looked at his face, turned his eyes and looked around, "You are really cautious when you open a hotel room to chat."

"No matter how cautious you are, you will guard against a gentleman, not a villain."

Chen Xiangting heard what he meant, and didn't care about it, and handed him a photo: "You really look like her."

This photo is clearer than the scanned copy in the previous letter: a woman in a red dress stands on the Great Wall with her arms outstretched, her long hair and skirt fluttering in the wind, like many photos of that era, with the words "Nineteenth" written on the lower right corner "Ding Moxiang in May of [-]", the woman's face is seven or eight points similar to Chen Moting.

Chen Moting returned the photo, and Chen Xiangting pushed it back: "I don't need it, you can keep it."

He began to tell his own story in plain sight: he fell in love with an older woman, had a relationship the summer of his freshman year in college, and soon broke up due to age and distance.A few months later, Ding Moxiang suddenly appeared, took care of a newborn baby, and then disappeared without a trace.Chen Xiangting raised the child while arguing endlessly with his family, and finally abandoned him at the gate of the orphanage under pressure.

There is not much emotion in his narrative, no nostalgia or resentment, only a little confession.Chen Moting held back his yawns and looked down at the photos on the table to avoid falling asleep.

"Actually, you can't be mine. If you really want to do a paternity test, you will definitely reveal your secret." Chen Xiangting smiled, "But you are the son of my first woman and the life I abandoned with my own hands. Let me tell you the truth, and you can judge whether it is true or false."

After he finished this sentence, he let out a long sigh: "I hope you didn't suffer too much."

"I'm doing fine."

In fact, Chen Moting only met Chen Shuwei when he was 12 years old. Before that, his life was not good at all, and now he is just wearing a layer of glamorous skin, precariously walking on thin ice, but there is no need for a stranger to know: "Thank you for telling me this .”

"Thank you for giving me this opportunity." Chen Xiangting stood up, "I named your name, and Ding Moxiang didn't know about it, so you can rest assured that no one will disturb you anymore."

Chen Moting stood up, "Thank you for taking care of me back then."

"A long time ago." Chen Xiangting said, "Let's just leave it at that. There will be no future."

Sun Jinghan listened dumbfounded to Chen Moting's retelling of the meeting, and realized that the traffic light had turned green amidst the piercing honking of the horn, and hurriedly shifted to a higher gear to drive.

"Turn right at the intersection ahead."

Chen Moting didn't have much breakfast, and now he was starving. After meeting with Chen Xiangting, he immediately drove Sun Jinghan to a small restaurant. Suddenly I knew how to write the word "Xiaoyao", and then I knew why the Laoshan Taoist priests in Qingdao were able to become immortals.

The restaurant's storefront is small, but its business is booming in a remote location.The two sat in the chaotic hall majestically, without being recognized.No wonder, Chen Moting wore a crumpled long-sleeved plaid shirt with long pants and flip flops, plus a pair of dark circles under his eyes from day and night, he didn't look like a star at all.Sitting next to him was Sun Jinghan, who was dressed as an office worker with a dejected look, like an elder brother who had just bailed his younger brother out of the prison.

"What's the matter, Brother Sun? Eat."

"Yeah." Thinking that he almost got into Qin Hao's bed because of this, Sun Jinghan was so annoyed that he wanted to bang his head on the table, and forced himself to pour a glass of Tsingtao beer, "It's rare to go back to Qingdao, stay a few more days with your dad Well, anyway, there is no work arrangement for the time being."

"My dad has a family, so it's inconvenient."

Sun Jinghan was stunned for a moment, and raised the wine to cover his mouth.Chen Shuwei is in his 30s and must have married. He also said that Chen Moting became an actor to escape from his family.Sun Jinghan couldn't imagine how heavy the adoptive father's marriage was to Chen Moting, but he just exposed Chen Moting's scars.

Chen Moting watched him drink two cups, and smiled while holding his chin: "Sun Jinghan, before I said I liked you, you were going to pretend nothing happened?"

"That's the plan."

"..."

If he pretends to be confused or speaks sternly, Chen Moting has many ways to argue, but when he throws such a decisive and rigid reply, Chen Moting has nowhere to go, so he can only use a hooligan trick to deal with him: "I can Thinking of you masturbating?"

"Whatever, I can't control your thoughts, but I want to remind you," Sun Jinghan put down his glass, "Excessive masturbation can lead to premature ejaculation."

Chen Moting turned his head and sprayed all over the floor.

"Your concern for me is really down-to-earth." He blushed and coughed while laughing, "You are amazing."

Sun Jinghan took a large piece of elbow meat and put it into his mouth: "Even you can't control it, so I don't have to hang out in the circle."

Chen Moting refilled his beer respectfully: "Yes, yes, Brother Sun is the best."

His confession hadn't been planned for a long time, otherwise he wouldn't have taken him by surprise, but if it was a trick on a whim, he wouldn't still have a wave of fierce emotions rushing up after a few months.Chen Moting looked at Sun Jinghan, who was eating meat, and raised the corners of his mouth—at least this time he could speak his mind, instead of becoming another secret that cannot be disclosed, and it doesn't matter whether he accepts it or not.Chen Moting didn't expect that he could break Sun Jinghan, as long as he casually changed the topic like this instead of running away.