Recalcitrant

On the day Lu Shaoheng left the set, Ling Xiao specially drove over to pick him up. Before that, Lu Shaoheng had been on the set for more than half a month.

His leg injury has healed, and the sutures on the wound have been removed. In the next time, as long as he pays attention to not going out to make things happen, there will be no more problems.

The scar on his leg couldn't go away, Lu Shaoheng was relieved and didn't care much.

Ling Xiao's car stopped at the entrance of the hotel early, and Lu Shaoheng was still upstairs being entangled by the camera crew, and hadn't come down yet.

During this short period of time, he was called aside by Chen Zhuo.

Chen Zhuo was originally taller than Ling Xiao, but now he put his hands in his pockets to stand on the side of the road, and the oppressive feeling was so strong that it was hard to ignore.

"Recently, he has to take sleeping pills every night to be able to fall asleep. Do you know this?" Chen Yao asked.

He rarely communicated with Ling Xiao, and he never seemed to take him seriously. It was the first time in several years that he talked to him in private like this.

Hearing what Chen Zhuo said, Ling Xiao was a little surprised. He never knew that Lu Shaoheng needed sleeping pills to fall asleep.

Although Chen Zhuo's condescending attitude made him very uncomfortable, he suppressed the sense of urgency in his heart and shook his head truthfully, expressing that he didn't know.

"When the bottle of medicine in his current bag is finished, put this on for him." Chen Zhuo took out a medicine bottle from his coat pocket: "The name of the medicine is on the bottle, and you can buy it in pharmacies."

Ling Xiao looked at the medicine in Chen Zhuo's hand with a hesitant expression.

"It's vitamin tablets. It's better than taking sleeping pills every day." Chen Zhuo knew what Ling Xiao was worried about, and smiled: "Don't worry, I won't do anything to him."

Only then did Ling Xiao take the bottle from Chen Zhuo's hand and put it in his pocket.

Lu Shaoheng came down from the hotel upstairs, and through the glass door, he saw Chen Zhuo and Ling Xiao very close to each other, and they quickly clasped hands.

Seeing this scene, Lu Shaoheng was so excited that he even forgot the doctor's order. Like a gust of wind, he inserted between the two of them, grabbed Ling Xiao's shoulders, and brought him to the other side of him.

"Hey." Lu Shaoheng raised his eyebrows and asked Chen Zhuo, "Is Director Chen looking for something with Ling Xiao?"

Lu Shaoheng's question was full of precautions. Chen Zhuo is not someone who has never pried Lu Shaoheng. He usually touches him when he touches him. Everyone is an adult. What matters is that I am willing to come and go as I like, or it is the first time I see him. This is the attitude towards a person.

It can be seen that this Ling Xiao has an extraordinary status with him, otherwise he would not have stayed by his side, and the area would last for two or three years.

"Just chat with Assistant Ling." Chen Zhuo took out a cigarette from his pocket and put it in his mouth: "No?"

"No." Lu Shaoheng patted Ling Xiao on the shoulder and told him to get in the car first: "The car is here, let's go."

Chen Zhuo took a puff of cigarette, looked away from the two of them, and said "hmm" in a flat tone.

"Wait a moment."

Just before Lu Shaoheng left, Chen Yao stopped him and asked casually, "My mother wants to go to New Zealand for the Spring Festival this year. She asked me to ask you if you want to go together."

Lu Shaoheng's reaction was like a CD stuck, he was stunned for a second with his back to Chen Zhuo before turning around, and the expression on his face became serious.

"Auntie... invited me?" Lu Shaoheng asked again uncertainly.

"En." Chen Zhuo responded vaguely, took two steps closer to Lu Shaoheng, and said, "She said that she had a rare vacation at the end of the year, and she hasn't seen you for a long time."

This was not the first time that Chen Zhuo invited Lu Shaoheng on an important festival. The two of them were in the same circle, and Lu Shaoheng often dealt with Chen Zhuo's relatives.

Especially in some activities on the scene, they need each other's "boyfriend" to cooperate with each other to perform a loving scene.

But Lu Shaoheng has almost never had any contact with Chen Zhuo's mother. His mother is a scientist who devotes herself to scientific research and never mixes with their father and son's messy social circle. Her invitation is entirely from the perspective of a mother. More personal and more intimate.

Lu Shaoheng didn't understand the deep meaning of her move, but his first reaction was instinctive resistance.

And with Chen Zhuo's style of handling things, he should have rejected it on the spot, so he shouldn't have passed this untimely invitation to Lu Shaoheng.

"Who else?"

After a brief silence, Lu Shaoheng finally picked up a little smile.There was an enthusiastic smile on his face, showing full interest in this plan, but the words that came out of his mouth pushed people away invisibly: "Xie Siwen, are they going?"

"No." Chen Yao looked at him firmly and said, "Only my parents, and you and me."

A little lamb from a herdsman's house stumbled into the conversation between the two of them. Chen Yao took his eyes away from Lu Shaoheng, squatted down, and touched the head of the little wool fluffy.

"Your family is reunited, and I'm an outsider. It's not suitable. It won't be good if there is any misunderstanding."

In just a few seconds, Lu Shaoheng had cleared up his conflicts and hesitation, and his politeness was a bit obedient: "Say sorry to Auntie and me, I will definitely come to visit in the next year."

Chen Zhuo had known for a long time that Lu Shaoheng would answer in this way. He could enter into an intimate relationship seemingly without any burden, but he always had his own safe zone.Once outsiders try to cross that red line and pry into the sincerity wrapped inside, he will stay far away.

Chen Zhuo didn't force it, and hugged the lamb into his arms, stood up and said to Lu Shaoheng, "Got it, I will tell her."

Lu Shaoheng was about to leave, and everyone in the crew who could talk came to see him off. Chen Yao stood alone outside the crowd, watching Lu Shaoheng bid farewell to everyone.

The car drove away slowly, and the crowd dispersed quickly. Chen Zhuo finished smoking the cigarette in his hand facing the colorful prayer flags in the temple.

The smoke rose into the air and dispersed, as if turning into clouds in the sky.

When he turned around, he saw Zhou Yang standing behind him, looking at him with a half-smile.

"What kind of eyes are you looking at?" Chen Zhuo asked.

Zhou Yang smiled and said, "Look at the eyes of a fool."

Chen Zhuo didn't want to listen to Zhou Yang's high opinion, so he turned his head and left.

"As someone who has had an affair with you, I remind you." Seeing that Chen Yao was unwilling to talk to her, Zhou Yang followed and said to him, "Smart people must know how to face up to their own hearts."

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Chen Zhuo and Zhou Yang did have a past.

Their story is as simple as a high-spirited actor and a straight-faced artist who hit it off at a friend's party, rolled in bed, and dated for a while.

This feeling came and went quickly, and after the novelty passed, the two of them broke up tacitly and never met again.

Until Lu Shaoheng brought her in front of Chen Zhuo.

It was when Chen Yao was preparing for "Long Road". One day, Lu Shaoheng suddenly excitedly informed him that he would introduce a very good editor to him, and see if there was any chance of cooperation in the future.

The great success of the first two films made Chen Zhuo a new star in the director circle. All parties offered him an olive branch, but he still chose to cooperate with Lu Shaoheng.

Since it was the person recommended by Lu Shaoheng, there was a high probability that he couldn't be wrong. Chen Yao asked him to take him home and talk about it in detail.

Recently, he didn't live in an apartment in the city center, but at his parents' house in the suburbs. After hanging up the phone, Chen Zhuo told his aunt to set up a table of Lu Shaoheng's favorite refreshments in the small garden at home.

Chen Guangyu had a good impression of Lu Shaoheng. He always said that the child had spiritual energy, and called him back for dinner from time to time, so after a while, Lu Shaoheng became familiar with the whole family.

Not long after the refreshments were served, Lu Shaoheng arrived with people. Chen Yao never expected that the editor Lu Shaoheng wanted to introduce to him was actually Zhou Yang, whom he hadn't seen for many years.

Taking advantage of Chen Zhuo standing in a daze at the door, Lu Shaoheng led Zhou Yang into the door familiarly.As soon as he stepped into the living room, the big Samoyed raised by Chen Guangyu jumped up happily, wagging its tail.

"The two of you probably don't need my introduction." Lu Shaoheng squatted down and was thrown into his arms by the overly enthusiastic dog.

Of course Lu Shaoheng knew about the past relationship between Chen Zhuo and Zhou Yang. When he learned that Lu Shaoheng wanted to recommend Zhou Yang to Chen Zhuo, Xie Siwen's big mouth had already made a fuss and told him.

"Zhou Yang." Chen Zhuo recovered from this unexpected "surprise" and said to Zhou Yang, "Long time no see."

"Long time no see." Zhou Yang shook Chen Yao's hand generously, and said with a smile, "I didn't expect you to be a director now."

"I also saw your award-winning work last year." Chen Zhuo didn't know whether it was sincere or flattering: "The cut is very good."

"Zhou Yang is the editor I was talking about." Lu Shaoheng licked the dog's head twice, tore it off his body, stood up and said, "I think Zhou Yang's style is very suitable for "Long Road"."

The three came to sit in the garden, and Chen Zhuo first showed Zhou Yang the script.This script was written by Chen Yao when he was still an actor. It was created many years ago, even before he made his first movie. It is about a woman named Ni Tang who was sentenced to prison for manslaughter Ten years after she was released from prison, she met a girl from a red-light district who was also a marginal figure, and the girl took her to reintegrate into this strange society.

Zhou Yang was very interested in this story, and just turned a few pages before discussing it with Lu Shaoheng.Sitting in the middle, Chen Yao looked at the two people who were talking happily, but he seemed like an outsider.

Chen Zhuo observed Lu Shaoheng calmly, and found that he really didn't seem to care about the relationship between Zhou Yang and himself.

After thinking about it, Chen Yao felt nothing strange. Lu Shaoheng didn't even care about him, so why would he care about such a love history.Not to mention that Zhou Yang was only an "ex" with him for a short period of time, even if someone brought a child here today to confess their relatives, Lu Shaoheng might not take it seriously.

Thinking of this, Chen Zhuo lost interest in the conversation between the two.

In the evening, Lu Shaoheng still had an appointment, so he didn't stay at Chen Yao's house for dinner, and Zhou Yang didn't intend to have dinner with his ex. After asking Chen Yao for a script, he took Lu Shaoheng's car and left.

The car quickly drove out of the Chen family's mansion. Zhou Yang looked at the green bricks and green tiles on both sides of the road that were gradually receding, and asked Lu Shaoheng: "Mr. Lu, I'm actually very curious."

"Huh?" Lu Shaoheng glanced at the rearview mirror and turned on the turn signal.

Zhou Yang paused, and thought of an appropriate wording: "I know the relationship between you and Chen Zhuo now, do you really not mind at all when you introduce me to work for him?"

Lu Shaoheng did not answer that Zhou Yangjie didn't mind, but asked, "Has he ever liked you?"

Zhou Yang shook his head. The relationship between her and Chen Yao was not even considered a formal relationship, and it was over. So as far as she was concerned, she didn't mind cooperating with Chen Yao. For Lu Shaoheng She is not disgusted, on the contrary, she quite likes to associate with Lu Shaoheng.

"That's it." Lu Shaoheng laughed, followed the instructions of the navigation, and drove onto the auxiliary road: "He doesn't like me either, and you don't mind, so why should I mind?"

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