Recalcitrant

In the middle of the night, in Tokyo, Japan, Chen Zhuo was awakened by a sudden ringing of the phone.

Chen Zhuo stretched out his long arms, glanced at the name on the screen, and hung up the phone.

This time participating in the film festival, Chen Zhuo didn't have any expectations, it was just to promote the film and sell it.In order to cooperate with the publicity work as much as possible, he was interviewed by the media during the day, participated in various interviews, took the time to run through various links of the film festival, and turned himself into a salesman.

As soon as the mobile phone stopped here, the hotel's phone rang again tirelessly. Chen Yao couldn't bear it anymore, turned over and answered the phone.

"You better have something important to say."

At this time, Jiang Xiaobo couldn't take care of Chen Yao's waking up: "Chen Yan?! Don't sleep, get up quickly! The judging meeting has been announced! Our film has won an award!"

"Oh." Chen Zhuo hadn't woken up yet, and his brain couldn't activate the ability to process information for the time being, so his reaction was a little cold.

"Oh what, hurry up and confront—"

Before Jiang Xiaobo finished speaking, Chen Yao hung up the phone again, fell asleep and continued to sleep.

Almost at the same time, the news that "No Man's Land" won the award also spread back to China.

It was purely unintentional that Lu Shaoheng reported the overseas film festival for Chen Zhuo. Apart from his selfishness of wanting to give Chen Zhuo a strong medicine and push his comeback work after many years to the international world, more of it was from the From the perspective of promoting and selling films.

Originally thought that this film could be selected in the eyes of the filmmakers, and it was very lucky to be shortlisted for several sub-units of film festivals. Unexpectedly, two months later, there was good news ahead, and "No Man's Land" not only served as It won the opening film of the Asian Film Festival, and also won a special jury award.

Chen Zhuo has been out of acting for many years, and his first work after his comeback won an international award, which is indeed a good gimmick.

Xuanfa immediately followed up, and with Fan Jinzhong, Chen Yao's fan, running around to tell the story, the topic quickly became hyped, and an Asian film festival was abruptly hyped up as an Oscar.

As the old saying goes, flowers bloom outside the wall, and fragrance inside the wall. The premiere of "No Man's Land" at the film festival has achieved great response. Taking advantage of the enthusiasm of marketing, the domestic release date has also been set.

"No Man's Land" shined brilliantly at overseas film festivals, but Lu Shaoheng, who was supposed to stand together under the spotlight, completely disappeared.He didn't fly abroad to accept the award together, didn't appear in front of the media, and refused all interviews, and didn't even say a word of congratulations to Chen Yao.

This seems to have become a habit of Lu Shaoheng, and it has always been like this since the first movie he and Chen Yao collaborated on.His personality seems to be ostentatious, and there are a lot of gossip news, but whenever it comes to the real attention, he always isolates himself from the eyes of everyone, and he is unwilling to have too much stickiness with the outside world.

The day of the domestic premiere happened to be Shi Qing's birthday.Lu Shaoheng did not attend the premiere that day, but arranged all the work in person, and then left work early.

After leaving the company, Lu Shaoheng stopped by the flower shop, arranged a bouquet of flowers carefully under the suggestion of the little girl in the flower shop, and then drove to the cemetery alone, without even Ling Xiao taking it with him.

It's not the New Year's Eve right now, and the cemetery is extremely quiet, and there is only Lu Shaoheng on the hillside at a glance.There was a breezy night on the slope, and with his back facing the bright lights of the entire city, he stood silently in front of a tombstone, his figure blending into the chilly night.

What Lu Shaoheng held in his arms was a bunch of lily of the valley, a bunch of white buds wrapped in green leaves, making the flowers extra delicate.He first carefully wiped his mother's tombstone, then placed flowers carefully, and finally took out a lighter and alcohol, and lit the lovely bouquet of flowers expressionlessly.

The flames ignited, and the tender leaves became scorched and curled before Lu Shaoheng's eyes. Lu Shaoheng looked at it indifferently, then took out a stack of newspaper clippings from his arms, and threw them into the fire with his hands.

These newspaper clippings reported news related to Juxing, and the top one was about the news that Lu Heping, the president of Juxing, was seriously ill earlier.As if to highlight the impermanence of the world and the uncertainty of good and bad, the editor specially selected a photo of Lu Heping in high spirits when he was young as the headline, which is particularly embarrassing.

When the newspaper caught fire, it was quickly licked by the flames. The fire light illuminated Lu Shaoheng's eyes, and the night wind picked up smoke and ashes that scattered everywhere.

He watched his father's photo burn to ashes in the fire, and never said a word.

**

Yang Xinyi traveled abroad for two months and participated in several film festivals. She didn't return home until the day of the domestic premiere.

The last time she departed from this airport, she was still a fledgling female student at the film school. When she returned here again, she was already one of the leading actors in the award-winning film at the Asian Film Festival.

Today's flight was delayed by two hours, and as soon as we got off the plane, the main creator and his team went straight to the theater without stopping.

On the way out of the airport, Yang Xinyi heard Chen Zhuo in the front row ask the staff who came to pick up the plane: "Where is Mr. Lu?"

The staff member said: "Mr. Lu has other arrangements today and did not attend the premiere. Do you need to contact him?"

Later, Yang Xinyi didn't hear what the director said.She only saw Chen Yao leaning on the back of the chair, turning his head to look out of the window, his shadow was reflected on the window glass, and there was something in his eyes that she couldn't understand.

Despite rushing all the way, Yang Xinyi and his party were still late.When they arrived, the host was already talking about the opening lines.

The auditorium was full of people, most of whom were media, journalists, and film critics who were invited to watch the film, and among them were many fans who bought tickets from scalpers.

This was Chen Zhuo's first show in China after his comeback, and the atmosphere at the scene was very enthusiastic.After a two-month overseas trip, Yang Xinyi has acted very calmly and generously in the face of such a scene, but today they returned to China with honors to promote the movie, facing the domestic audience, she was still very excited, she even saw There are also several light boards with his name on them in the auditorium.

"Nervous?" Chen Zhuo's voice sounded beside her.

Yang Xinyi came back to her senses and replied, "No."

"Let's go." Chen Zhuo stretched out his hand towards her.

Amidst the warm applause, Chen Zhuo politely took Yang Xinyi's hand, and led a group of creators onto the stage surrounded by flowers and flashing lights.

Standing on the stage, Chen Zhuo looked at the enthusiastic faces in the audience. Suddenly, he seemed to see Bai Jie sitting in the crowd, smiling and applauding him.

His appearance has not changed, he is still so young and full of enthusiasm.

With a sound of "click", he heard the shackles in his heart fall down as the figure disappeared.

After a brief opening appearance, the film will begin, and the questioning and interaction will be held after watching the film.When everyone left the stage one by one, Yang Xinyi suddenly noticed that the director glanced in one direction off the stage, and then stopped.

Yang Xinyi was about to ask Chen Zhuo what happened, when she saw Chen Zhuo put a bunch of flowers in her hands, threw down the main creator who was unknown on the stage, and strode off the stage.

Realizing that Chen Yao was walking towards him, Lu Shaoheng stood up straight, wondering if he should sneak away before the others noticed.

But the sky did not fulfill his wishes, and within a few seconds of his hesitation, Chen Zhuo had already brought everyone's attention to him and came to him.

"Didn't you say you're not free today?" Under the watchful eyes of everyone, Chen Yao walked through the auditorium and stood in front of Lu Shaoheng and asked.

"The matter ended early, I happened to be passing by, so I came in to have a look." Lu Shaoheng said.

Facing the sudden gazes of the audience and the camera turning around Qiqi, even with a thick skin like Lu Shaoheng, when he was not mentally prepared for business, he was a little embarrassed.

In previous years, Lu Shaoheng always lived alone on this day. Today, for some reason, after he came out of the cemetery, he realized that it was still early, so he just came here.

After Lu Shaoheng came to the theater, he didn't disturb anyone. He sneaked into the movie theater with his work permit, and stood alone in the last inconspicuous corner of the movie theater, watching Chen Zhuo on the stage from afar.

He also didn't know how Chen Yao saw him at a glance when he was among such a large audience.

"What a coincidence." Chen Yao tentatively believed his words, laughed, and looked at him intently.

Lu Shaoheng was dazzled by this smile. In front of so many people, he couldn't be shy. He stepped forward generously and hugged Chen Zhuo lightly.

It was a polite hug, restrained, polite, and well-proportioned, but Lu Shaoheng's whole body suddenly came alive the moment he got close to Chen Zhuo.

Some audience members recognized Lu Shaoheng, and his relationship with Chen Zhuo is well known.The audience didn't think it was a big deal to watch the excitement, they all stood up from their seats and booed: "Kiss! Kiss!"

Chen Yao let go of Lu Shaoheng first. Facing the audience's request, he neither agreed nor objected. Instead, he stood aside with an ambiguous attitude, with a smile on his lips, waiting for Lu Shaoheng to express his opinion.It seems that as long as Lu Shaoheng doesn't object, he doesn't mind giving up his life to accompany the gentleman.

Lu Shaoheng is not a person who shows his emotions. After a hug, he has returned to his true colors as a playboy.Taking a kiss in public is a piece of cake for him, but for some reason, he just doesn't want to show Chen Zhuo like this to others.

"Director Chen is shy, so I won't accept this kiss in front of your faces. We will kiss again after we go back and close the house." He turned his arms around Chen Yao's shoulders and said, "The movie will start soon. I hope everyone likes Chen Yao." directed this work."

During this period of time, Lu Shaoheng was busy with company affairs and had been in hiding for a long time. Since he showed his face in front of the public today, the media did not let him go.

After the film began to be screened, he was held up by the media, and he and Chen Yan came to the lounge of the theater to accept interviews from various platforms.

After the interview, Lu Shaoheng and Chen Zhuo sneaked out of the lounge and returned to the theater, taking advantage of the time when the media was interviewing other main creators, and hid behind the curtain behind the stage to observe the audience's reaction.

"The response at the scene was pretty good." Lu Shaoheng carefully observed the expressions on the faces of every audience member, and said to Chen Yao, "You shouldn't have to worry about the domestic box office."

Every country has a different market and different tastes in movies.Many films have a good reputation at the box office overseas, but they met with coldness when they returned to China.

Regarding the later publicity, Lu Shaoheng had some new ideas. He made several points one after another, but Chen Yao didn't respond for a long time.

He turned his head wonderingly, and found that Chen Zhuo's attention was not on the auditorium, but staring at him.

"What's wrong?" Lu Shaoheng asked.

Chen Zhuo asked irrelevantly: "Have you visited your mother today?"

"How do you know?" Now it was Lu Shaoheng's turn to be surprised.

Chen Zhuo reached out and wiped his eyes, and said, "Looking at your eye sockets, you can tell that you have cried."

Hearing what Chen Zhuo said, Lu Shaoheng quickly turned his head to look at the glass on the wall. He didn't see any abnormalities in his eye sockets, but found that Chen Yao was secretly holding back a smile.

"Okay, Chen Zhuo, are you interested in playing tricks on me?"

Lu Shaoheng was furious and was about to get violent, but Chen Yao avoided it with a smile, and began to change the subject: "You still owe the audience one thing that you haven't done yet."

"What?" Lu Shaoheng's attention was diverted as expected, and he lowered his fist.

Chen Zhuo didn't answer, just looked at him like this.

Facing Chen Zhuo's gaze, Lu Shaoheng instantly understood. He smiled a little, leaned over to Chen Zhuo, and touched his lips.

"I haven't said congratulations to you yet." Lu Shaoheng's movements were too light to be counted as a kiss. He slightly distanced himself from Chen Zhuo, looked into his eyes, and said with a smile: "Congratulations, Director Chen It’s a new beginning, and it will get better and better in the future.”

As soon as Lu Shaoheng finished speaking, Chen Zhuo grabbed his hand and pressed it behind him, then pulled him around and turned him around, pressing him into layers of curtains.

A firm kiss fell like this, and Chen Zhuo lowered his head, pressed against Lu Shaoheng's lips tightly, and stuck the tip of his tongue into his lips.

After all, it was in a public place, and there were hundreds of media audiences outside. Lu Shaoheng subconsciously leaned back, and was caught by Chen Yao again.

"Don't bite." Chen Zhuo knew his habits too well, and coaxed softly.

Lu Shaoheng really settled down.

Chen Yao opened his eyes and glanced at him, held his face in satisfaction, and kissed him carefully.

During the period when Chen Yao was abroad, he probably had a lot of exchanges with foreigners, and in a few strokes, Lu Shaoheng's legs were softened.

He lifted his head feebly, with most of his body hanging on Chen Zhuo's body, and said intermittently in his throat: "You said before that after the filming of this movie, I want me to promise you something."

Chen Zhuo gave a vague "um", and continued to lick and bite Lu Shaoheng's tongue, indicating that he still remembered this incident.

Lu Shaoheng took a deep breath from the boss, tried to hold his breath, and was able to continue: "You can speak now."

Chen Zhuo stopped when he heard the words, but he didn't back away, his lips touched Lu Shaoheng's lips in a nonchalant way.

However, at this moment, the screening of the film ended, the lights in the theater came on, and the anxious voice of the staff came from not far away: "Where's Director Chen? Who saw Director Chen meeting Mr. Lu? It's time for them to go on stage."

"It seems that today is not the time." Chen Zhuo raised his hand to wipe his red lips, and said with a smile, "Let's talk about it later."

After finishing speaking, he took Lu Shaoheng's hand, turned around to face the light, and walked onto the stage.

Until the end of the whole premiere, he didn't let go.

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