At the turn of Jinlan

After the recording was over, Meng Lian quickly removed her makeup in front of the makeup mirror with the help of her assistant. The oil paint on her face took more effort than the other teenagers who played together.

Today, Meng Lian participated in a variety show about outstanding young people in the performing arts field. The TV station invited a dozen boys and girls in various art fields at once.

He seldom participated in such shows, but the work arranged in the troupe was not something he could do arbitrarily.He is a student of opera. He has listened to opera since his mother's womb. He has been practicing basic skills since he was three years old.It was quite a coincidence that he walked all the way. At the age of six, he was photographed by Song Qiuting, a master of opera and Peking Opera of the Song School, and began to focus on the practice of flowered shirts for male roles. At the age of 12, he joined the Youth Opera Troupe and became a young actor. At the age of 13, he joined the troupe for the first time at the National New Year Gala. At the age of 14, he successfully closed his position and successfully passed the period of changing his voice. Now at the age of 17, he is already a regular visitor to the National Theatre.

This journey has been smooth and smooth, and Meng Lian's opera career has been smooth, not to mention that there are no steep slopes. This is not only due to his own hard work, but also the help given by his background in an art family. underestimate.

Meng Lian was born in a family of opera. His grandmother Zheng Shuhua was the former chairman of the Opera Artists Association, and his mother was a national singer and a soloist of the National Song and Dance Troupe.On top of Meng Lian is his older brother, Meng Yuan, who is seven years older than him. Last year, he won the best actor award for his starring role in the movie "Candlelight" and became a new best actor.

Meng Lian, who grew up in such a family, inevitably carried arrogance and dignity.

Among the boys and girls on stage today, he is considered the oldest and most qualified senior.

The theme of today's show revolves around the active new blood in the entertainment and art circles. The people who will be on stage together are basically limited to 16 and 17-year-old stars in the entertainment and art circles. In addition to Meng Lian, there is also Ji Chen, who is in charge of the popularity of the popular boy group Misty , a Chinese-English mixed race, handsome and tall, good looking, capable of playing, singing and dancing.Coupled with the experience of returning children who were born in the UK and did not return to the motherland until after graduating from high school, it added a layer of gold to his personality, which fascinated a lot of young women.

In addition to Ji Chen, there are also actor Chen Yiyue who was born as a child star, and a young singer-songwriter. All in all, Meng Lian is the only one who inherits traditional art, which seems out of place.

After the recording ended, Meng Lian was actually in a hurry to go home, but he was never careless about removing makeup.The recording location was in the old building of the TV station, and there was no sink in the dressing room. He asked his assistant to pack up his things, and went to the backstage bathroom with makeup remover to wash his face by himself.

Oil paint is more difficult to clean up than ordinary stage makeup. He just washed off the oil paint all over his face and turned off the faucet. The noise of running water disappeared in his ears, and the bathroom suddenly became quiet. At this moment, a low voice suddenly sounded behind him. male voice.

"Meng Lian, I just looked for you everywhere, so you are here." Ji Chen's voice sounded from behind Meng Lian who was buried in removing makeup, and really startled Meng Lian, whose face was full of water and her eyes were tightly closed.

He didn't hear footsteps, and he didn't know how long Ji Chen had been watching him behind him.

Meng Lian was subconsciously bored. Ji Chen had been pestering him intermittently and making trouble for him from the first semester of high school to the current second year of high school.

However, Meng Lian remained indifferent as always, leaving the handsome blond boy aside and doing his own thing.

He fumbled for a towel that lay aside.

"Here, here." Ji Chen got it first, and handed it to Meng Lian.

Meng Lian paused and said, "Thank you."

Wiping off the water droplets all over his face, Meng Lian opened his eyes to see himself in the mirror and Ji Chen standing behind him with a smile.

No wonder the girls in the audience screamed like crazy when Ji Chen came on stage today, if you want to blame it, blame Ji Chen for his attractive smile.

"We had a great time working together today, and I look forward to performing with you again next time." Ji Chen smiled lazily with a smug look on his face, staring intently at Meng Lian's dewy face just after taking off his make-up.When he was talking, he habitually reached out to wrap Meng Lian's shoulders.

Today, the two were arranged by the program group to sing together the theme song of a recently popular big IP web drama, a Chinese style song, Ji Chen was in charge of rapping, and Meng Lian was in charge of performing an opera singing part in the middle.

Seeing Ji Chen stretching out his hand to pat him on the shoulder, Meng Lian subconsciously backed away, seeming to resent Ji Chen's invisible contact while speaking.Although Meng Lian hated Ji Chen in his heart, the two of them had cooperated at work and were still in the same class at school, so they couldn't do things too badly, so they could only hold their faces and talk about the scene.Thinking of today's cooperation, he said to Ji Chen: "It's the first time I challenged this kind of repertoire, and the connection is quite in place, very successful."

After he finished speaking, he paused pretendingly, and without waiting for Ji Chen's reply, he took out his mobile phone to check the time and said, "It's very late, you're not in a hurry to go back? You still have class tomorrow morning, right?"

This is Meng Lian's old trick of not wanting to continue talking.

Ji Chen seemed to have expected it a long time ago, his smile became deeper, and he said, "Wait for you."

Meng Lian rolled her eyes in her heart when she heard the words, but still kept her attitude and said: "What's the matter, let's talk about it when we meet at school tomorrow. It's late, go to bed early."

He patted Ji Chen on the shoulder and left the bathroom alone.

Looking at the back of Meng Lian leaving, Ji Chen's mouth curved down, and those beautiful gray-blue eyes also dimmed.

He has noticed Meng Lian since he just entered school. It is recognized that Meng Lian has an outstanding temperament since he was in elementary school. Needless to say, but his appearance somehow caught his eyes, as if he grew up according to his preferences. The same as before, what concerned Ji Chen the most was Meng Lian's arrogant and superior attitude, as if except for opera, all the people around him couldn't arouse his interest.Meng Lian always put on a polite but distant attitude in front of others, which instead attracted Ji Chen's attention.

Meng Lian is a person with a very regular schedule. Except for today's unexpected work, he goes to bed at 11 o'clock every day, wakes up at 5 o'clock in the morning, and practice until 06:30. If there is a troupe rehearsal that day, he will rehearse in the morning before going to school .

As artists get younger, there are more and more young artists like Ji Chen and Meng Lian who are still in middle and high school.The high school they are attending now is the Jockey Club Senior High School, a private school for artists aged 15-18.

A private school invested and established by the Jockey Club in Z City.

The Jockey Club High School is more like a private service organization than a school.

Artists have their own schedules, and the school mainly focuses on the artist's announcement schedule, supplemented by study and education, which means that classes have to give way to work.

Although there is an administrative class, the classmates may not see each other for a month due to different schedules.

Therefore, the friendship between classmates is also weak and almost non-existent.

Meng Lian got up early today, he had to go to the troupe to practice in the morning, and then he could go to school in the afternoon.

He hangs his voice in the yard every morning to practice his vocalizations.The Meng family's mansion is a Chinese-style garden villa. It is a big family of three generations. Meng Lian's grandfather and grandfather died of illness one after another when he was young. Grandma and grandma are not lonely when they live together. .These two old ladies usually have nothing to do in their free time. Apart from pampering their grandson, they like to play with flowers and birds.Meng Lian's family has more than a dozen pots of orchids, a cockatiel, Ah Feng, and a small sunflower parrot, Kui Kui.

Although named like a little girl, these two little guys are real little male birds.

Every morning when he went to practice in the yard, he would feed the two little ones first.Over the years, the two little guys also learned a few monophonic sentences that Meng Lian practiced, and Meng Lian would sometimes take pictures of them and put them in Moments.

Compared with ordinary young people, Meng Lian's hobbies are not fashionable, and even a bit old-fashioned.He doesn't play games or chase stars, and he has nothing of interest except opera and bird walking.

Live like an old man.

I don’t usually like to play with mobile phones. If it weren’t for the two old ladies who love to play WeChat, Meng Lian might not even have his own WeChat account. His profile picture is a photo of two little parrots. In addition to the orchids raised in the circle of friends, they are Ah Feng and Kui Kui's photos and videos are only posted to share with a few friends and family members.

If he had to ask Meng Lian if he had any particularly good friends, Meng Lian would immediately think of someone.Although they were best friends, Meng Lian had hardly met this person, and did not know his full name.

This person's nickname is Utopia, and he was an accidental friend when he went to Austria to participate in a youth art exchange meeting when he was 14 years old.

At that time, apart from Meng Lian's youth opera troupe, there was also a group of Huaguo students who participated in the art summer camp and temporarily participated in this exchange.

Compared with Meng Lian's opera troupe, which was responsible for performing on stage, the team of this summer camp was just visiting. It seemed that there were not enough activities and items arranged during the summer camp, and it was used temporarily to fill in the time.The students in this art summer camp are all junior high school students who are the same age as Meng Lian.In short, most of the students take this summer camp as a test of water, and if they are satisfied, many of them will participate in the next long-term study abroad program.

Although the two teams are from the same country, they only met briefly on the day of the show.

After the performance, the organizer organized a buffet on the lawn of the activity center, providing a platform for young artists from all over the world to communicate.

Almost everyone in the audience is of the same age. Even though they have different nationalities, they all have the same love for art. After a while, everyone became one.But Meng Lian was not good at learning foreign languages ​​since she was a child, and coupled with her introverted personality, she saw that other friends in the youth league enthusiastically integrated into it.Meng Lian had no choice but to grab some sandwiches and a glass of juice and squat under the tree alone. During the period, several Chinese students from the summer camp saw that Meng Lian was also a Chinese, so they came to talk to him.The girls who came to chat were a few girls with more cheerful personalities, and some of them chatted a little more speculatively. Meng Lian exchanged wechat messages with them.

It wasn't until that night that Meng Lian received U's friend request.

Seeing that he was a student at the summer camp, Meng Lian agreed to the request without thinking too much.

Originally, Meng Lian thought that U would be one of the girls who spoke to him that day, but Meng Lian, who had been chatting attentively for several days, realized that U should be a boy.

It was some boy from summer camp, but he didn't know him.

U seems to be interested in opera, and often asks Meng Lian some related questions. Sometimes they will talk about the little parrots of Meng Lian's family. I found that U's performance is like a boy trying to get close to the girl he likes.

But Meng Lian simply thought that the other party was really interested in opera, and she was very patient with the other party's answers every time.Gradually, chatting with U on WeChat from time to time became a habit of Meng Lian.

Sometimes U would tell Meng Lian about his recent situation. After the summer camp, U stayed in Austria to study.Meng Lian had heard that U seemed to be learning piano before, so he thought he would stay and specialize in piano art.It was only later that I found out that U was studying in an ordinary middle school, and piano was just one of his hobbies, and he was not planning to develop into a major. However, he could find better private teachers in Austria, so his parents let him stay in middle school.

This occasional dialogue has continued from the age of 14 to the present. During the three years of communication, Meng Lian has gradually let go of U's wariness. He sometimes confides to U some emotions that he cannot tell anyone, such as in the troupe's practice. Suffering setbacks, disappointing master and grandpa Song Qiuting because of poor performance, or encountering obstacles that cannot be broken through in drama interpretation.Meng Lian often only confides these things to U that he cannot talk to his family, teachers, and colleagues.

And in the conversation, I can feel that U is a very well-bred boy, and his manners are just right.He is very good at observing the other party's thoughts and thus getting closer.

Until now, Meng Lian is satisfied with this. He has no intention of asking U's real name at all, and he doesn't even intend to know U's appearance.He is somewhat selfish, as if once U becomes authentic, he will lose a friend to whom he can confide.

Sometimes Meng Lian would also look through U's circle of friends. U is a boy with a wide range of hobbies and contacts, which is completely opposite to Meng Lian.In addition to the piano, U can often be seen swimming in the lake with his friends on weekends, and he often takes his surfboard and flies to an island in the southern hemisphere with his friends to surf in the summer vacation.

There are men and women in the photos, but U never likes to be in the mirror, at most he can show a part of his arm, and the most out of the country is his fancy and coquettish surfboard.

But as I grow older, watching U's arms gradually fade away from the youthful thinness and become strong and powerful, the boys and girls in the photos gradually mature.Especially for girls, the upper body covered by the bikini gradually became round and plump, and even began to exude the sex appeal and charm of an adult woman.

When faced with such a photo, Meng Lian's reaction changed a lot.He would blush quickly across it, and would want to take a closer look, wondering if there might be U's girlfriend among them.

Meng Lian guessed that U should be a girl with a regular relationship, because a boy like U is humorous, patient, and has a rich family background and a wide range of hobbies. It's impossible to have no contacts until now.

Although Meng Lian himself lived like a little old man, he knew best that 17- and 18-year-old boys and girls were in their youth, how could they not have any ideas.For example, the classmates in their school, who are busy with work and study, and are still under the strict control of their managers, have to spare some time to secretly fall in love in private.

But Meng Lian would never talk about this topic with U. He thought that these topics were too private, and if they were not properly handled, the balance they had maintained for so long might be broken.

In the end, Meng Lian cared a little more about his friend who had never met before than he imagined.