bait [entertainment circle]

◎It’s not bad if the fish dies and the net breaks down◎

The weather in city B has always been sunny these days. Seeing Shang Lingjue threatening to stop the car, the taxi driver thought that the young man was chasing the car romantically.

"Little girl, which car is chasing in front? As long as you tell me, I will definitely catch up."

The driver looked at Shang Lingjue in the back seat from the rearview mirror, and found that the girl was wearing a black mask, with a few strands of hair hanging on her delicate eyebrows and eyes, and there was a hint of hostility hidden in her beauty.

Hearing the mandarin with a slight accent from the driver, Shang Lingjue was stunned for a while before he realized, and said quickly:

"Master, I didn't want to chase the car. Didn't I just say to go to the city center?"

"Oh, I forgot. I'm old and have a bad memory. Seeing your anxious look, I thought there was some romantic story," the driver pushed the sunglasses on his face, with a somewhat fashionable expression trendy breath.

"Well, I misunderstood you, I'm sorry," Shang Lingjue frowned and smiled, his eyes drooping, showing an absent-minded look.

The phone kept vibrating, Shang Lingjue glanced at Ji Xiao's caller ID, and immediately answered the call.

"You...run so fast, what are you doing?" Ji Xiao's voice was a little panting, "Can you respect the old and love the young, my lungs are about to come out."

"Then don't run away, I'm just going to find... She asked her face to face," Shang Lingjue didn't say Si Er's name directly, fearing that someone was there, "You should understand what I'm talking about."

"Whatever you want to ask, there is nothing to ask. You should come back quickly and collect everything. These antique musical instruments are priceless, and I am very tempted to see them."

"I want to ask her why she did this," Shang Lingjue said softly but firmly while holding the phone, "I really want to know why she is so...stupid."

"Sier...stupid?" Ji Xiao was stunned for a moment, "Xiaoshang, are you right?"

Shang Lingjue raised his eyebrows and looked at the thin sunlight outside the window with a gloomy expression, "Maybe I'm the only one who thinks she's stupid."

So stupid that I can't see my sadness, jealousy, and anger, but I remember such a small thing that I only said once.

Probably S Er hadn't been jealous much before, so he didn't know if others were jealous.

Isn't this stupid?so stupid.

Shang Lingjue never had any hope for the "little thing" of recovering a merchant's musical instrument after losing it, but this stupid person made a note to help him realize it.

The person you think doesn't care about you at all, actually doesn't care that much, it's just that you often don't get on the same channel as you.

Shang Lingjue chuckled silently, with a fierce and sentimental expression between his wild and unruly eyebrows, like a creamy sword flying towards the past, quenched with blood and yearning.

Burn away the fog and incomprehension of the past, leaving some calm truth.

"You're not joking, are you so stupid?"

"She's just stupid and doesn't accept rebuttals."

Ji Xiao: "..."

She doesn't understand.

S Er asked her to bring the things to Shang Lingjue, and now Shang Lingjue was going to find S Er again.

Come and go, boy, she's the single clown here.

"However, I still want to thank you, senior."

"No, no, you are too polite."

Ji Xiao, who was exposed face to face, never figured out how Shang Lingjue knew that the auctioneer was Si Er.

Therefore, Ji Xiao could only chuckle, hiding his deep embarrassment.

"Senior, I'm going to hang up first, and I'll treat you to dinner when I come back later."

"Okay...okay," Ji Xiao stood in the midsummer sun, feeling dizzy from the heat, but a free meal is still very good.

Sure enough, it is worthwhile to be friends with Si Er. A certain person who called himself a clown just now changed his mind very quickly.

After hanging up the phone, Shang Lingjue happened to catch a glimpse of the old red string on his left wrist.

After a few years, the red color on the rope has faded a little, and the old color just proves the time between people.

Shang Lingjue never thought that there would be a day when he would reunite with the old things at home.

She has always believed that there is always a banquet between people, and everything will be lost.

Even people will be lost, let alone such objects that are not brought with life or taken with death.

Once her parents died, the business ended, and the tea was served cold, and she was left alone to clean up the mess left by people at the funeral.

Except for a place of garbage, the house is bare.

Although these musical instruments and manuscripts are just dead things, the final outcome is to be sold by those people for higher profits.

In the eyes of those people, they are things that can be exchanged for money at most, and the collection is more of a kind of vanity.

But for Shang Lingjue, this is a connection that reminds her of her childhood. It is not precious, worthless, gray and full of dust.

How important is it?

Who would think that these things are important to Shang Lingjue?

If you really want to pursue it, they only have so much meaning as Shang Lingjue's reminiscing about the past.

For others, such meaning is less than or equal to zero.

A long time ago, when Shang Lingjue first lost her hearing, she always mourned the loss of all the people and things in her family.

Great mourning, but unable to cry.

For her, the world is really cruel. There are not as many people who really love you as you imagined, but they leave one after another.

Life is lonely, always lonely.

However, for some reason, she suddenly felt that she could cry loudly, as if a person had been walking on the road for a long time, tired and suffering, and suddenly found that beam of light again.

Maybe, there is indeed someone in this world who really loves her.

The pale golden winter sun outside the car window shone on Shang Lingjue's cold, white and deep side face, interlaced with light and shadow, reflecting the girl's complicated facial expressions at the moment.

Like crying and laughing, like an old dark golden key, the dust is blown away by the sun, reflecting a stunning and noble light.

"How do I think you look a bit like the celebrity who was scandalized a while ago?" The driver drove leisurely, chatting with Shang Lingjue casually.

Hearing this, Shang Lingjue was startled, stretched his brows and eyes, and smiled in a casual and relaxed tone:

"You're not the only one saying that, my friends say that I look a lot like that so-and-so every day, and there are people chasing after me for my autograph."

"Well, you're really not a star?" the driver muttered, hesitant, "I also want to ask you to sign your name, my daughter likes that girl group called Mitt, you look very good Like the people inside."

"If I were a celebrity, how dare I take a taxi so casually." Shang Lingjue hesitated for a few seconds, but decided not to expose himself, "Aren't you afraid of being recognized?"

"It's true. These days, some fans are very fierce, chasing celebrities and running on the street."

Shang Lingjue smiled unnaturally, thinking that what the driver said was that she and Si Er were chased by fans before.

One street away from the destination, Shang Lingjue paid the fare in advance and got out of the car. After thinking about it, he took off the red string on his wrist and put it in his pocket.

It's not far from Sier's single-family apartment. From a distance, you can see that the white walls are covered with dark green creepers, winding and twisting, and there are a few small yellow flowers dotted among them.

Turning on the secluded path leading to the apartment, Shang Lingjue saw that the gate outside the garden was open, and the crimson cobblestone path loomed on the emerald green lawn.

Shang Lingjue stepped into the garden and walked all the way to the gate, but unexpectedly saw the nanny carrying luggage and coming out of the house with Si Er's cousin and cousin.

The two of them changed from their high-profile appearance before, but instead dressed very...plainly, and there was no such domineering expression on their faces.

"Hello, is Si Er at home?" Shang Lingjue felt that something was a little strange, so he went up to ask.

"Who, how could you enter someone's house so casually? Believe it or not, I'll tell you—" Sister-in-law Si Ertang looked up and saw that it was Shang Lingjue, she immediately stopped talking, her face flushed, like a choked bird Goose, "It's Shang Lingjue. Do you need our help when you come here? We are happy to help."

Shang Lingjue could hear the inexplicable flattery in Mrs. Si Ertang's words, she frowned tightly and asked:

"Excuse me, is Sir at home now?"

"Sir, she doesn't live here recently, why don't you go and look elsewhere?" Sister-in-law Si Er's face was full of smiles, which was completely different from the previous high-spirited and domineering face.

Somewhat surprised by Sister-in-Law's attitude towards him, Shang Lingjue suddenly squinted his eyes, his cold white skin was so clear under the sun that it almost shimmered.

"Did something happen to her?"

The cousin and sister-in-law looked at each other and shook their heads at the same time, "We don't know either, but she asked us to come and get some things back to the old house."

"That's it, thank you." Shang Lingjue walked outside a little disappointed, the sun was shining directly on her eyes, so she had to raise her hands to cover them.

"Hey, that Shang Lingjue, can you give us some kind words in front of Si Er in the future? It was my cousin sister-in-law's short-sightedness before, and it was all my fault."

Three steps behind Shang Lingjue, Si Ertang's sister-in-law clasped her hands tightly, the expression on her face was full of awkwardness and anticipation.

Hearing this, Shang Lingjue showed a strange smile. Why does she feel that she is like Si Er's favorite minister, the kind who is under one person and above ten thousand people.

Then all the people who offended him from all sides came to curry favor with him.

"A few nice words?" Shang Lingjue couldn't help but laugh. What kind of strange words are these?

It seems that the Si family has absolutely no idea about the current relationship between her and Si Er.

"Yes, yes, I'm sorry to trouble you." The smile on the cousin's face widened, and she continued, "Where are you going, let us drive you?"

"It's too troublesome, no need."

"No no no, it's not troublesome at all. We really want to drive you for a ride. It's our honor. After all, we used to be a family."

family?Shang Lingjue raised his brows with a cool arc on his lips, and said with a half-smile:

"But after all, it's just the past, so it's so inconvenient now, isn't it?"

The cousin sister-in-law and cousin suddenly smiled awkwardly, wanting to say something, but didn't dare to say anything.

Shang Lingjue couldn't digest the sudden enthusiasm of the Si family. He glanced at them coldly and waved goodbye.

Because she received a call from Lin Tang, telling her to go back to the company quickly, Shang Lingjue had no choice but to take a taxi again and went all the way back to the company.

Walking on the road inside the company, Shang Lingjue hesitated for a long time, but still took advantage of 10 minutes to go, and dialed Chen Yan's number.

"Sister Chen Yan, hello, I'm Shang Lingjue."

Chen Yan, who was sitting at home applying a facial mask, was also full of surprise and surprise when he received a call from Shang Lingjue.

She was so shocked that the mask almost fell off.

"What's the matter, do you have anything to do with me?"

"Well, actually," Shang Lingjue stood under the shade of a tree that was not too sunny, and the warm wind was blowing, bringing with it the fresh breath of leaves and grass, "Is Sier with you now?" ?”

"Sir?" Chen Yan thought for a while before answering, "I'm on vacation recently, I don't know where she is."

"Really? That's really bothering you," Shang Lingjue was a little disappointed. She looked up at the blue sky through the gaps in the leaves.

The skylight and cloud shadows were cut into countless pieces by the edges of the leaves, as if wrapped in irregular bamboo cages.

Countless streams of light want to pour down, most of them are still blocked by curved, slender leaves.

The world suddenly looks like a cage woven of light. Sometimes it's the world that binds you, and sometimes it's you.

"You have changed your mind about looking for Si Er, and you plan to make up with her?" Chen Yan asked Shang Lingjue expectantly, "Then you have to hurry up."

This unexpected question stunned Shang Lingjue for a while, before slowly shaking his head, "I don't know, I just have something to ask Si Er and Sister Chen Yan, hurry up, what do you mean?"

"Oh, that's not interesting, I'm talking nonsense," Chen Yan smiled wryly, "I don't know her schedule today, you might as well call her directly, don't hesitate, in the information age, speed is what matters."

"Call Sier..." It's not that Shang Lingjue didn't think about it, but she hesitated after looking at the note on the phone several times.

She wanted to see Si Er, but after the impulse disappeared slowly, Shang Lingjue could feel the hesitation deep in her heart.

What on earth did she go to see Sir, and what did she ask?Those musical instruments were auctioned by Sier from abroad for himself over the years.

When two people meet, what should I say, a non-painful and vague "thank you"?

Or add a faint "I am very happy"?

These two sentences are like fireworks and bubbles. They seem to be brilliant in the world for a while, and then disappear quickly without a trace.

Shang Lingjue knew that he was clearly not ready for anything, but he just wanted to see Si Er out of an inexplicable impulse.

"Hey, hey, Shang Lingjue, why don't you talk?" Chen Yan keenly sensed that something was wrong with Shang Lingjue, and she had a vague sense of urgency—she should tell Si Er about it immediately.

However, before that, she still wanted to ask Shang Lingjue clearly, so as not to confuse things.

"Do you really have no intention of reconciling with Si Er? In fact, the conflicts between you are much less now, why don't you try again? Si Er, now she is delicate and soft and easy to push down, and Gao Leng only faces him. Others, absolutely new experience, not to be missed."

Chen Yan's turbulent tone and content inexplicably made Shang Lingjue feel that she was like a prostitute in a brothel, who dutifully lured customers to pay a lot of money to buy their beautiful oiran's first wife.night.

"Sister Chen Yan, are you sure? She is delicate and easy to push down?"

"Yeah, I guess it was you, and it fell down without pushing."

"Sister Chen Yan, what you said..." Shang Lingjue was even more disturbed by Chen Yan's words, so he could only casually reply and then hang up the phone politely.

Listening to the busy tone on the phone, Chen Yan almost turned off the phone and told Si Er that Shang Lingjue had been looking for her.

Still, don't give Sir an empty joy.

Si Er couldn't get out of it, so why should she give him such illusory hope?

After hanging up the phone, Shang Lingjue ran for a while, and came to the building that Lin Tang and the others had made an appointment with to wait for the elevator.

The elevator stops at the 27th floor.

After pressing the button, the elevator came down soon. Shang Lingjue took a deep breath and walked into the elevator, suddenly smelling a familiar fragrance.

She lowered her head and smiled, feeling that she was having some kind of phantasm.

When she came to the gymnasium on the 10th floor, there were only the four of them, Meet, in the huge room.

Lin Tang, Qi Meng, and Xia Zhixiao were sweating desperately on the treadmill, and they didn't stop the machine until they heard Shang Lingjue's footsteps.

Sensing that the atmosphere of these three people was unusual, Shang Lingjue calmed down temporarily, and then sat cross-legged on the clean yoga mat.

"What's wrong with the three of you? It looks like the sky is about to fall."

After a long time, Lin Tang finally looked up at Shang Lingjue with an expression on the verge of crying.

"That our sub-group, Meet-u, is now robbing us of resources every day, and they snatched away a perfume brand that Xiao previously endorsed alone."

Shang Lingjue nodded. It is not new for Meet-u to steal resources from them overtly and covertly.

"Listen to what they say every day. They say that we are old and ugly, and we can only rely on selling. Meat is loved by fans. In a few years, I will definitely not be able to dance. It is better to give way to them as soon as possible. Let's go home and have a baby."

"Did you record it?" Shang Lingjue looked calm.

"The Meet-u we met at the entrance of the cafeteria didn't have time to record, and it's not easy to go to Sister Yang to complain," Qi Meng said helplessly.

"There's no need to sue for recording." Shang Lingjue leaned back lazily, straightened his slender and perfect legs, and blinked his eyelashes slowly, "Wouldn't it be better to post it online?"

"Shangshang, this is a bit of a dead end. If Meet-u's reputation is damaged, we don't think it will do any good," Xia Zhixiao analyzed with a frown.

"It's not bad if the net is broken." Lin Tang's face was full of anger, "I don't want to do it anyway, next week's performance, sister Yang told me that my spot was taken by the captain of Meet-u, ha ha."

Hearing this, the others also let out a long sigh, with a faint feeling that the mountain rain is about to come and the wind is blowing over the building.

Chatting until six o'clock in the evening, the four members of Meet came out of the gym.

Qi Meng and Luo Yiyu made an appointment for dinner and left first.Lin Tang and Xia Zhixiao didn't have any appetite for dinner anymore.

On the wide street, Shang Lingjue was left standing alone under the shade of a tree, feeling a little confused for a moment.

After a while, Lin Tang suddenly called her again.

"Shangshang, Zhi Xiao and I ordered hot pot takeaway, come back quickly and eat together, it's at Zhi Xiao's side on the second floor."

"Okay, I'll be right back," Shang Lingjue hung up the phone, his slender fingertips resting on the call interface.

She remembered Si Er's phone number, and now she only needs to press the eleven digits, or directly find the note of "42 disinfectant", and ask where Si Er is.

It was a bright summer day, the last rays of the sun were still there, and the stars and the moon were already high in the sky.

The leaves on both sides of the street swayed with the night wind, light green, like translucent emeralds.

A black Rolls-Royce drove slowly on the silent road, the speed of the vehicle was not fast.

After passing by Shang Lingjue, the speed of the vehicle slowed down visibly.

"Miss, I saw Shang... who is that, do you want to get out of the car?" Driver Jin deliberately slowed down and looked at the woman in the back seat through the rearview mirror.

At this moment, the night was as cool as water, and under the dim light in the back seat, the woman's noble and beautiful face was almost coquettish, with a seemingly calm look on her face.

"Miss, are you sure you don't want to stop? We met by fate, why don't you go and say hello? After all, we've known each other for so many years."

Driver Jin can't be blamed for his gossip, it's because since Si Er and Shang Lingjue divorced, as a driver, he has seen the two entangled too many times.

From the entanglement between these two people, he tasted some evil fate.

It doesn't matter whether it's evil fate or what kind of fate, as long as they can come together, it's fine.He and his wife quarrel every day.

Si Er turned his head slightly, looking at Shang Lingjue who was getting farther and farther away from him outside the car window.

The last sunlight of the day shines through the gaps in the leaves and shines on the girl's fair side face, revealing a bit of youthful innocence and loneliness.

The two of them haven't seen each other for a long time, and it seems that the long time is just a moment.The woman clenched the keychain in her palm, her fingertips turned white, but she still didn't speak.

Until the Rolls-Royce stopped, the driver Jin shook his head and said, "Miss, there is something wrong with this car, why don't you get out of the car and go for a walk? Anyway, it's still early to go to the airport, so there's still time for a delay."

Seeing that Si Er was still hesitating, Driver Jin got out of the car and opened the door for Si Er, "Miss, there is no one here, go and have a look."

As the night wind blew, Si Er seemed to be bewitched. When she realized it, she was already standing ten steps behind Shang Lingjue.

In the summer night, the scent of flowers permeated the mist, and the chirping of cicadas and birds was like light smoke. It was as vague as her mind at the moment, folded and folded again and again.

An urgent thought came to her mind:

Just walked over so easily, patted that person on the shoulder, and said long time no see to that person.

One sentence, four words, very simple, isn't it?

But the next moment, she remembered what Shang Lingjue had said on her birthday.

"Sister, I sometimes wonder if our encounter is destined to be a tragedy. If we know the ending, should we continue?"

If their encounter would cause Shang Lingjue pain, why should he selfishly let this person see him.

In her field of vision, this person is the shore she cannot reach.

Maybe it will never arrive.

However, it is good to keep this person in your field of vision all the time.

It's good to keep looking at Shang Lingjue from a distance, no matter when, where, or in any way.

Thinking of this, the woman's eyes flickered, and a broken light flashed in her peach blossom pupils.

Ten steps away from Si Er, Shang Lingjue curled his fingertips back and forth, the light on the phone screen was dimmed, and she turned it on again, and so on.

She was hesitating again whether to dial the eleven-digit number that she knew so well.

The author says:

感谢在2022-04-2022：00：04～2022-04-2122：00：05期间为我投出霸王票或灌溉营养液的小天使哦～

Thanks to the little angel who threw the grenade: 1 in the sky;

Thanks to the little angel who threw the mine: ? , Silent Roarer, Panicked Horse, Yuwen**, Bird and Donkey, I Over the Mountain, Wei Madcwy, 498519871;

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