The Eye of the Storm

Liang Sizhe got up and stopped, raised his eyes to look at the screen.

In Lan Yan's shabby room, the afternoon sun flooded the room. Liang Sizhe from ten years ago appeared in the camera. He had just washed his face, his hair on his forehead was stained with water, and there were also drops of water on his face.

His reaction to the camera was unnatural, he turned his face away, and his eyes deliberately avoided the camera: "What do you use the camera for?"

"Isn't it going to be an audition later? Get used to the camera in advance... Don't turn your face away, just say something."

They chatted for a few words, then Liang Sizhe leaned over and took the camera from Cao Ye.

The camera focused on Cao Ye, who also had drops of water on his face. The young man's hair was sun-tanned into a fluffy and soft chestnut color. There was a playful expression on that face, which looked lively and agile.Then he moved closer, with one eye on the camera: "Hey, am I on camera?"

He was laughing when he spoke, his eyes curved beautifully, and the amber-like eyeballs were glowing with moist light.

The one-hour video recorded their moments on Yinsi Street.

Liang Sizhe didn't even know that Cao Ye took so many shots at that time—Caesar, Xiaobai, the fruit shop across the street, Lao Du's noodle shop, and Xiaoke's video studio next to the street were all captured in his shots.

Other than that, it was all Liang Sizhe.

When he came out of the bathroom in the morning, Liang Sizhe had water droplets on his face and his hair was not tied.

Sitting on the opposite bed, Liang Sizhe held his hair together by biting a black hair tie.

Pushing the door open, Liang Sizhe came in with breakfast in hand.

Leaning on the pillow with bent legs and looking down at the script, Liang Sizhe looked down.

Liang Sizhe was strumming the acoustic guitar with his fingers jerky.

Liang Sizhe squatted down to feed Xiaobai ham sausage.

The two of them stayed together, Yin Si, but only Liang Sizhe was installed in the camera, and as for Cao Ye, it was always a voice-over outside the camera:

"Morning, Liang Sizhe, you woke up earlier than me..."

"Should I check my lines today? Let me be Peng Yan...why can't I be Peng Yan?!"

"Xiaobai's belly has grown a bit bigger again. Hey, do you think the baby will be like Xiaobai or Caesar?"

"Are you still afraid of the camera?...Don't be afraid, the one you want to take a picture of you with is me."

At the end of the video, Cao Ye finally appeared in the camera. He was sitting on the sofa facing the camera, his bent legs looked very long.

Liang Sizhe recognized at a glance that it was not Cao Ye from the fourth Yin period. On the screen, Cao Ye was still a teenager, but he was wearing a school uniform, and he looked obviously grown up.

He faced the camera solemnly, and waved his hands: "Morning, Liang Sizhe. It's a morning in March, and I heard from Uncle Yin that more than half of your movie has been shot, it's so slow... When will I be able to watch it?" The movie you acted in? Uncle Yin said that you acted very well and are very talented..." He seemed to be stuck when he said this, and he stood silently facing the camera for two or three seconds, then raised his hands and inserted them into his hair Scratching a few times, he turned into Cao Ye who was Yin Sishi again, "Ah, I forgot the words!!...Forget it, the original words are awkward to memorize...I'll just say whatever I think of."

"What am I going to say...Happy 19th birthday, Liang Sizhe. After I came back from Yinsi, I made a few new friends, but they are not as good as you. I miss you so much Brother Sizhe...how about , you finish "Thirteen Days" and come to college with me, you can study acting... Well, do you still want to continue acting? It's up to you... Anyway, I think you will definitely win Best Actor, on the day of the awards ceremony , I’ll call all my friends to cheer you on, okay? Also, can I go to your celebration banquet after the awards ceremony? Surely I can, right? You’re the movie king, who will invite you to the celebration banquet? Isn't it up to you?"

"Hey, what am I talking about... Forget it, let's talk about it when we meet." At this point in the video recording, Cao Ye's hair was messed up by himself, he leaned closer, squatted in front of the camera, his eyes crooked again with a smile, "Brother Sizhe, I wish you good morning, good afternoon and good night."

The screen on the screen turned black, and the title of the film - "Yin Si" jumped out.

Sitting next to him, Cao Ye had been observing Liang Sizhe's expression at first. Liang Sizhe's gaze was always on the screen, and he looked focused. His Adam's apple rolled up and down occasionally. Cao Ye knew that meant his emotions were fluctuating.Liang Sizhe is used to hiding his emotions, but Cao Ye can still detect his emotional fluctuations exposed to the details from his trembling eyelashes, rolling Adam's apple, and blue blood vessels on the back of his hands.

Later, when Cao Ye faced the camera alone and said that long series of words, Cao Ye was not ashamed to observe Liang Sizhe. He felt that he was really stupid at that time, and his words and deeds were all foolish.

He propped his forehead with his hands, and didn't look at the screen or Liang Sizhe, but he could still hear Liang Sizhe laughing beside him, sometimes in a soft breath, sometimes in a low nasal voice, and when Cao Ye started to speak incoherently, Liang Sizhe laughed There was a sound.

After the video was played, Cao Ye's embarrassment hadn't subsided. He propped his forehead and slowed down for a while.

He could feel Liang Sizhe turned his face sideways, and his eyes fell on his face, his eyes were as focused as just looking at the screen.

"Aren't you stupid?" Cao Ye put down his hands, "I was..."

Before he finished speaking, Liang Sizhe watched him open his mouth and said with a light smile, "Cao Ye, why are you so cute?"

He leaned over to kiss Cao Ye, his palms fell on the back of Cao Ye's head, his breath intertwined, wrapped in hot emotions.

Seeing that the gun was about to go off, Cao Ye woke up from his indulging desire and said, "Wait, Liang Sizhe..."

"Huh?" Liang Sizhe lightly pressed Cao Ye's Adam's apple with his fingers, "Is there no surveillance here?" He whispered in Cao Ye's ear, "Tonight you can..."

"But..." Cao Ye struggled to make a choice, but...he hasn't made up Liang Sizhe's birthday tonight!

"Oh..." Liang Sizhe responded quickly, and smiled, "You have other plans, don't you?"

"Well," Cao Ye raised his hand and scratched his forehead, "This is just...your 19th birthday. I wanted to come here for you, but it didn't work out, Liang Sizhe," he looked into Liang Sizhe's eyes, "19th birthday hapiness."

"Thank you." Liang Sizhe said, he turned back to the 19-year-old Liang Sizhe, looking at the 17-year-old Cao Ye, "Then what have you been doing this year?"

Cao Ye was startled for a moment, and then continued politely: "I learned how to edit films, and edited our videos in Yinsi into a documentary. Brother Sizhe, have you missed me this year?"

"Yes," Liang Sizhe looked into his eyes and smiled, "Often."

Cao Ye stood up, tidied his clothes, and dragged Liang Sizhe to the shooting studio on the third floor of Wutuo. He stepped up a few steps like he hurriedly stepped up the stairs of Lanyan ten years ago: "Liang Sizhe, walk slowly. , I'll go up first."

"Okay." Liang Sizhe raised his chin and looked at him, and replied.

"The slower the better..." Cao Ye quickly ran up and dropped a sentence.

Liang Sizhe guessed that he needed some time to prepare. He slowed down and walked to the corner of the second floor. Several heads poked out from the editing room on the second floor. They were people from the "Mandala" crew. They first saw Cao Ye striding up the stairs, Seeing Liang Sizhe appearing in Wutuo again, someone was about to scream, but another person quickly covered his mouth.

Liang Sizhe smiled at them and continued to walk upstairs.

Pushing open the iron door of the recording studio, only a few warm yellow wall lamps were lit in the large and empty space. Cao Ye was sitting on a high stool, with a violin on his shoulder, holding the bow and lightly placing it on the strings .

Liang Sizhe appeared at the door, Cao Ye began to pull the bow, and the melodious music of the violin rang out. The tune was buried deep in Liang Sizhe's memory. He knew it when he thought of the tune. The whistle for Cao Ye.

Liang Sizhe walked over, and within a few steps of Cao Ye, he saw Cao Ye's forehead hair shaking slightly as Cao Ye played the violin.He stopped in front of Cao Ye and looked at his boy.

After the melody was finished, Cao Ye put down his hand holding the bow, and jumped off the high stool, as if he was a little embarrassed, but his eyes were bright under the light: "I picked up the score from memory, there may be some No." He handed the violin to Liang Sizhe, "Liang Sizhe, happy 17th birthday."

Liang Sizhe took the violin and looked down. The dark red glaze on the violin had faded slightly, and it looked a little different from ten years ago, but he could still recognize it at a glance. It was the violin he used back then.

At that time, he carried it to and from school every day, and participated in rehearsals, performances and competitions.

After the accident, he learned that he would never be able to play the violin again, and when he had nowhere to go, he broke it in a fit of anger. He still remembers that scene, the neck of the violin was smashed hard on the ground by him, and it broke with a bang.

But now that Cao Ye has connected it, if you don't look carefully, you won't even see the trace of connection.

He did not expect that Cao Ye would make up his 17th birthday for him. He no longer remembered what he did on his 17th birthday. Experience the adversity of life. t

"Liang Sizhe, don't be sad," Cao Ye stood in front of him, Liang Sizhe's slightly red eyes made him feel distressed, he whispered, "You will act in movies in the future, you will win the best actor, and you will become very powerful..."

"I will also meet a kid named Cao Ye." Liang Sizhe continued his words.He put the violin on his shoulder and put the bow on the strings. This action is both familiar and unfamiliar. Ten years ago, he put the violin on his shoulder countless times, "I haven't played the violin for a long time. , many songs have been forgotten.” Some things have to come out.

Liang Sizhe continued: "But those who have a score still remember it very clearly."

With his injured left hand, he pressed the notes one by one, and pulled the bow with his right hand. The music sounded. He remembered the clear and clean tone of the boy back then. Then he looked at Cao Ye and sang in a low voice:

"Up above the world so high, Like adiamond in the sky."

"I taught you." Cao Ye said.He looked at Liang Sizhe. Liang Sizhe, who was playing the violin with his head tilted slightly, seemed to be glowing, so beautiful that he couldn't move his eyes.

"Hmm." Liang Sizhe took the violin off his shoulders and looked at the body of the violin, "How did you get it?"

"Let me admit my mistake first..." Cao Ye didn't want to spoil the scenery, but he had to say this, he raised his hand and scratched his hair, "In order to get this violin out, I removed the lock on your house..." He Observing Liang Sizhe's expression, he was afraid that he would cause trouble, so he quickly added, "But don't worry, after taking it out, put the lock back on..."

"It's demolition," Liang Sizhe was amused by him, looked at him, and said softly, "As long as you're happy, it doesn't matter if you demolish the house."

"I won't demolish the house." Cao Ye retorted softly.

Liang Sizhe looked at Cao Ye. He thought that the 17-year-old Liang Sizhe had encountered a great misfortune, but he didn't expect that there would be great luck waiting for him in the future.

"It's coming." Cao Ye suddenly lowered his head and said.

Liang Sizhe also lowered his head, following his gaze and looking down, a small dog was rubbing against his trousers.

He bent down and picked it up carefully. It was a little husky.

"Does it look like Caesar?" Cao Ye gently stroked the puppy's head with the back of his hand.

"Like." Liang Sizhe laughed, "So it's called Little Caesar?"

"Why are you so smart!" Cao Ye said, paused and then lowered his voice, "Happy 28th birthday, Liang Sizhe, let's raise him together, shall we?"

"Okay." Liang Sizhe replied.

"And more," Cao Ye said, pulling out the hidden contract from behind, with a pen pinned to it, "Mr. Liang Sizhe, Mr. Cao Ye invited you to be the boss of Luomeng. If you agree, you can sign it." your name."

That was the equity transfer of Luo Meng, and Cao Ye gave up half of his share to Liang Sizhe.Liang Sizhe knew that this contract meant that he would share everything in Luomeng with Cao Ye.Even he himself felt that this contract was too risky for Cao Ye.

"Sign it," Cao Ye urged, seeing that he hadn't written for a long time. He was inexplicably nervous, and said in a lively atmosphere, "You are not afraid that Luo Meng will go bankrupt one day, are you? Don't worry..."

Liang Sizhe looked up at Cao Ye: "Cao Ye, I was thinking, you don't need to do this to give me a sense of security, there is still a long way to go, and falling in love with me may be very tiring..."

"There is still a long way to go," Cao Ye interrupted him, "So Liang Sizhe, don't you want to walk with me? Don't treat me like a child, I am not the Cao Ye of ten years ago, no I need to hide behind you all the time so that you can protect me. Liang Sizhe, I can stand side by side with you and face everything."

"You will be photographed, you will lose your freedom, and you will be involved in the whirlpool of public opinion. Does it matter?"

"I don't care about this." Cao Ye said, "On the contrary, you are more adventurous, okay? But I have also thought about it. If something really happens, we will go abroad to develop. Anyway, you have won Cannes Best Actor. You can also get a good role, and, at worst, you can cooperate with Cao Xiuyuan again, he will definitely not care about public opinion, and then I will sway in front of him every day, and piss him off."

Liang Sizhe was amused by him.He squeezed the contract and looked at Cao Ye standing in front of him.

He thought Cao Ye was right. Subconsciously, he always regarded Cao Ye as the little playboy back then, but he kept ignoring the fact that Cao Ye grew up as fast as him. He was no longer the little playboy back then. With Liang Sizhe's overprotection, they can stand together and face all the turbulent future.

He turned to the last page of the contract and joked, "Luomeng's wife... can the boss be okay?"

"Hey... you and your benefactor are vying to be a father, is that considered ungrateful?"

"I helped him adopt his son. It should be regarded as kind and righteous..." Liang Sizhe wrote with a smile, signed his name on the back of Cao Ye, and handed it to him, "Come on, Xiaoye, call Dad."

"You don't have to go too far!"

Taking Little Caesar home at night, Liang Sizhe was driving on the way, Cao Ye felt overexcited and couldn't calm down for a while.

They talked about how to deal with the media in the future, and they easily reached a consensus - they don't need to deliberately avoid the media, they can talk about a secret love affair that everyone knows as before, and let the media and public opinion go without guessing. Bar.

But even so, Cao Ye still couldn't hold back his emotions.The group is full of friends who have played since they were young. Cao Ye talked to Liang Sizhe and typed a sentence in the chat box: "Are you all there? I have an important announcement to make."

"Tell me." Dabai replied, "What's important?"

Cao Ye solemnly typed out a line: "I'm with Liang Sizhe." After reading for a few seconds, he confirmed that there were no typos before clicking send, and then waited excitedly and anxiously for the replies and blessings from others.

But the enthusiastic response he expected did not appear in the group.

"Oh, what did I think it was?" Dabai said, "Is there anyone else who doesn't know?"

Cao Ye: "..."

After a few seconds, someone replied: "I'm more interested in when you two were together."

Cao Ye: "Eleventh."

Dabai: "... so late, you two didn't call each other before?"

Fang Yixiang: "This has to be announced... Only you and Liang Sizhe in the whole world know this news just now, okay?"

He Fangwen: "Eleven? Are you slow to react, and you just woke up?"

Chi Mingyao: "Oh, I thought you guys have been separated and reunited eight hundred times."

Cao Ye: "..."

After a while, Lin Yan also replied: "So who is going up and who is going down?"

The group suddenly became lively, and only then did the lively scene Cao Ye expected before appear.

Dabai: "Hahahahaha, I want to know too."

Chi Mingyao: "You can guess it, too."

Dabai: "Chi Mingyao, guess who is on top? Do you want to bet? I'll bet on Liang Sizhe."

Chi Mingyao: "Liang Sizhe +1"

He Fangwen: "Liang Sizhe +1"

Lin Yan: "Liang Sizhe +1"

Fang Yixiang: "Liang Sizhe +1"

Cao Ye: "...Get lost."