The Eye of the Storm

Within a few days, "The Darkest Choice" released a finalized trailer, announcing that it will be released on May [-]st.

The whole story of Liang Sizhe's pre-production re-shooting was revealed and circulated again. Many commentators suddenly realized that it was no wonder that Liang Sizhe had a homosexual relationship with President Luo Meng a while ago. It turned out to be a pre-heating hype for the film's release.

So starting from the Berlin Film Festival, the relationship between Liang Sizhe and Cao Ye appeared vigorously in the public eye, and was soon stamped as hype because of the release of "The Darkest Choice".

——"Fry it with homosexuality? Don't worry about it being fried."

—— "It's no wonder that this time he neither admits nor denies that Actor Liang is playing such a low trick for the box office."

——"If you think about it with your brains, you will know that Liang Sizhe didn't take the initiative to fry it. This film is produced by Luo Meng. Luo Meng started his promotion."

——"I heard that it was because Cao Ye wanted to make his debut. In order to repay Cao Xiuyuan's favor, Liang Sizhe not only accepted Luo Meng's film, but also cooperated with him in getting fired."

Cao Ye flicked the screen with his thumb, looked at a row of comments and thought, okay, as long as you are happy.

On the first day "Darkest Choice" was released, Liang Sizhe became a hot search. He played the role of a villain for the first time, and also played a lunatic with anti-social personality. His performance in the movie was extremely eye-catching.

During the film's release, Liang Sizhe was on several hot searches—"Liang Sizhe's Darkest Choice", "Liang Sizhe's Scar", "Liang Sizhe's Play", "Liang Sizhe's Remake", so it is also very popular to say that Liang Sizhe used homosexuality to hype the movie. Disappear quickly.

After that, while Liang Sizhe was in charge of the production of "Rhapsody on Stranger Roads", he read the scripts sent by Xu Yunchu and Cao Ye. Many directors threw olive branches at him and wanted to work with him, but he was not very interested in the roles, so he finally fell in love with them. He felt a little interested in a martial arts script about the love and hatred of the sons and daughters of the rivers and lakes, so he kept the script.

In mid-August, "Try One More Word" is scheduled for November.

Cao Ye used all his resources to increase the screening rate of theaters. He made an exchange with Chi Mingyao—as long as Mingtai Films agrees to his request, in the future when Li Yangxiao's "Rhapsody on Stranger Road" is released, Luo Meng will also be released. I will do my best to cooperate.

The brothers and the deal belonged to each other. When negotiating the conditions, Cao Ye said: ""Let's try again" is a joint venture between the genre film pioneer director Du Zhuixian and the actor Liang Sizhe. It's a collaboration between newcomer director Jiang Lang and newcomer actor Li Yangxiao..."

Before he finished speaking, Chi Mingyao got up to leave: "We won't talk anymore."

"Hey, don't go, I haven't finished yet," Cao Ye hurried back, "But because Liang Sizhe is the producer, it's also very attractive..."

Chi Mingyao sneered: "Cao Ye, you are always inseparable from Liang Sizhe now."

Cao Ye retorted: "Chi Mingyao, you just keep talking about Li Yangxiao now."

In the end, the deal was reached in this unhappy atmosphere.

After the announcement of "Let's try again", the video of Liang Sizhe and Qin Zhenzhen entering the hotel together was found out again. In every road show, someone intercepted the picture of them in the same frame, and analyzed the relationship between the two. Expired romance.

Some people accused Liang Sizhe of being too fickle, changing a girlfriend for a movie, and now they broke up, treating Qin Zhenzhen like an unfamiliar crew colleague.On the contrary, it was Qin Zhenzhen who seemed to be in an old relationship, and whenever he encountered a topic related to Liang Sizhe, he would dodge a little.

Following this wave of enthusiasm, Starbroadcast released another video - after a certain road show, Qin Zhenzhen and his assistant got into Liang Sizhe's nanny car, drove all the way to the hotel parking lot, and had a private meeting with Liang Sizhe in the hotel.

Someone broke the news that Liang Sizhe was cold on the surface, but he was actually good at playing in private. Otherwise, why would so many actresses fly to the flames for him?

In fact, during the road show that night, when Cao Ye drove to pick up Liang Sizhe, Qin Zhenzhen's car broke down, so the nanny car that picked up Liang Sizhe took Qin Zhenzhen back temporarily.

Public opinion began to rave again, saying that Liang Sizhe and Qin Zhenzhen suspected that their old relationship had rekindled.

Cao Ye looked at the comments under the video, and everyone analyzed it carefully, as if Liang Sizhe and Qin Zhenzhen were in love, and as for him, he had already become an old, fake, ex-boyfriend with the intention of hyping.

Cao Ye sat up from the bed and showed the video to Liang Sizhe: "Why is the fake one taken as the real one, but the real one is treated as hype? Didn't they realize that you weren't in that car? Didn't they realize that I was driving to pick you up? Didn’t you get a picture of us entering the hotel together?” Finally, he took his anger out on the paparazzi, “What kind of amateur paparazzi from Star Broadcasting is so useless?!”

After he finished this long series of words, Liang Sizhe couldn't help laughing, instead of being photographed, he blamed the paparazzi for being incompetent, this jealous jar.

At the end of the year, the Academy Awards announced the shortlist. Liang Sizhe was shortlisted for two awards for "The Darkest Choice" and "Try Another Word"-A Peng was shortlisted for Best Actor, and Scar was shortlisted for Best Supporting Actor.

Liang Sizhe has a close relationship with the Academy Awards. At the age of 19, he made his debut as the best actor of the Academy Awards with "Thirteen Days". At the age of 21, he was shortlisted for the best actor with "Red Man, Red Woman" but lost. Now he is 29 years old. Once again nominated for Best Actor at the Academy Awards.

On the day of the award ceremony, Liang Sizhe walked down the red carpet holding Xiaomeng's hand. The host handed him the microphone: "Sizhe, are you confident that you can win the actor this time?"

In the past, Liang Sizhe would throw the question back when encountering such questions that required predicting the outcome, and asked with a smile, "Do you think this actor will belong to me?" But this time he thought about it and said, "I'm almost I've been lucky all year, and I think that luck will continue to tonight."

"Wow," the host exaggerated, "it sounds very confident."

The red carpet session was going on, Cao Ye met Lin Huan around the award ceremony hall, Lin Huan was invited to be the award presenter this time, and the award presented happened to be Best Actor.

Lin Huan was chatting with someone at the time, and when she saw Cao Ye, she took the initiative to come over to greet him. She looked at Cao Ye in a suit and said, "I remember you said you didn't like this kind of occasion, why did you come here this time?"

Cao Ye smiled at her, and didn't intend to avoid it: "Come with Liang Sizhe."

There was something in Lin Huan's words: "What's the relationship between you two? You come with him?"

Cao Ye put his arms on the railing: "Guess."

Lin Huan didn't guess, and turned to talk about something else: "Hey, I lied to you once before, did you find out?"

Cao Ye turned to look at her. It has been a long time since the incident, and he can't remember the details of getting along with Lin Huan.

Lin Huan leaned against the railing and reminded: "Who is stronger."

Cao Ye immediately remembered this incident. When he didn't reconcile with Liang Sizhe, he asked Lin Huan who was stronger, himself or Liang Sizhe.He thought that Lin Huan was really bold, to mention this matter without hesitation on such an occasion.

"Actually, I never slept with Liang Sizhe." Lin Huan turned his face to look at Cao Ye with a smile, "Do you know why I said that?"

Cao Ye already knew that Liang Sizhe and Lin Huan were not on good terms. He actually didn't want to continue this topic. It was a bit strange to talk about it with his ex-girlfriend. He absent-mindedly asked, "Huh?"

At this moment, the agent came over to urge Lin Huan to go backstage. Lin Huan responded, then turned his head and continued with what he had just said: "Because... what you can't get is the best." After she finished speaking, she smiled at Cao Ye, Lingling followed the assistant away.

Liang Sizhe came down from the red carpet and saw Lin Huan chatting with Cao Ye.

He approached, greeted Lin Huan who was about to leave, walked over and stood next to Cao Ye, leaning on the railing: "Why are you so absorbed in your thoughts?"

"No." Cao Ye straightened up and subconsciously said.In fact, he was wondering what Lin Huan's last sentence meant. Could it be that she has always liked Liang Sizhe all these years?

"Reminiscing with my ex-girlfriend again," Liang Sizhe joked, "You're so aboveboard, you really think I don't care, do you?"

"I didn't catch up with her. It was Lin Huan who came to tell me—" Cao Ye stopped abruptly in the middle of his sentence. He suddenly didn't want to tell Liang Sizhe that Lin Huan might have lost his love for him. He always felt that Lin Huan just said The tone of those words is very meaningful, if there is a rivalry with Liang Sizhe in the future, wouldn't it be very dangerous?

"What?" Liang Sizhe asked following his words.

"Say she will be your award presenter in a while," Cao Ye evaded the important point, and then suddenly remembered, "—Liang Sizhe, you won't be on the hot search tomorrow, will you?"

"She's an award presenter..." Liang Sizhe tapped his finger on the railing, "That's really possible, but not necessarily, if I don't win an award, I won't be on the trending searches."

"That won't work... Forget it, let's go," Cao Ye said, "At worst, I'll spend money to remove it."

"Don't waste it," Liang Sizhe said with a smile, "tsk", "I have a trick."

"what?"

"I'll find out in a while," Liang Sizhe pretended.He turned his face sideways, his eyes slid down Cao Ye's jaw and Adam's apple, and stopped on his bow tie, "Cao Ye, let's exchange bow ties."

Cao Ye straightened up: "Huh?"

"Aren't you the mascot of Lomon? Lend me a little luck."

The dressing room backstage was crowded with tonight's awards presenters. Liang Sizhe and Cao Ye stood face to face, took off their bow ties, exchanged them, and tied them on for each other.

When Cao Ye helped Liang Sizhe tie his bow tie, Liang Sizhe suddenly remembered how he felt when he came to the Academy Awards many years ago.

At that time, he didn't have a separate makeup artist, and his tie was a little loose after walking the red carpet, and it was Zheng Yin who came over to help him tie it on.

At that time, he didn't know what happened to Cao Ye. When Zheng Yin helped him tie his bow tie, he asked, "Will Cao Ye come over today?"

"He is abroad," Zheng Yin said, "I don't know either."

Liang Sizhe remembered that he was a little nervous at that time. Cao Ye left the note telling him that he must win the best actor, but he was not sure whether he could win the award, and he was not sure whether Cao Ye would win the best actor or not even if he really won the best actor. Will be there to witness this moment.

He didn't just get that award for himself, Xiao Man belonged to the two of them, and he hoped to keep Yin Si's summer through this role.

Now that they finally came to the awards ceremony together, Liang Sizhe lifted his chin slightly, looked down at Cao Ye who was helping him tie the tie, and a line of lyrics popped up in his mind.There was a lot of noise around him, so he sang in a low voice: "Back to the original starting point..." He intentionally paused, Cao Ye paused slightly, and sure enough, he quickly continued, "Your youthful face in my memory... ..."

The latter line was sung together in a low voice: "We have finally come to this day..." Then the two laughed at the same time.

After they tied each other's bow ties, they went to the ceremony hall. More than half of the people were already sitting in the hall, chatting with the people around them. Many people greeted them along the way.

The matter between Liang Sizhe and Cao Ye is no longer a secret in the circle, after all, there are no secrets in this circle.But seeing them participating in the awards ceremony together, many people were stunned for a moment, probably thinking that they were too bold.

They walked to their seats, greeted Du Zhui and Zeng Ran who were sitting next to them, and then sat down.

Cao Ye turned his head to look at the scene, and the other actors nominated for Best Actor looked calm and calm at the moment.

The actors shortlisted for Best Actor this year are all experienced seniors in the industry. Cao Ye felt a little nervous. This was the first real cooperation between him and Liang Sizhe. He hoped that Liang Sizhe could win another Best Actor Award with this film.

But he knew that this kind of thing could not be forced, so he could only comfort himself to calm down. He tilted his head in Liang Sizhe's direction, and chatted with him: "Liang Sizhe, have you prepared your acceptance speech?"

Liang Sizhe lowered his head and straightened his cuffs: "It's ready."

"Then will you thank me?"

Liang Sizhe looked up at him, and asked with a smile, "How do you want me to thank you? Call me by name?"

This is indeed a problem. It seems that few people thank the investors of the film. Cao Ye knew something was wrong, so he had to give up: "Forget it, forget it. If you win the best actor, remember to go back to thank me at night."

Liang Sizhe laughed and didn't say yes or no.

The lights in the arena were dimmed, and the awards ceremony was about to begin.

A short video began to play on the screen, and the noisy conversations off the court quickly subsided. After the short video was broadcast, the host came out and gave an opening talk show, and the awards ceremony officially began.

The ceremony went smoothly according to the process. "Try One More Word" won the Best Film Award and Best Cinematography Award, and "The Darkest Choice" won the New Director Award and the Best Original Film Music Award.

When Zeng Ran took the stage, he specially thanked the producer Cao Ye, saying that the whole process of filming this film was thanks to Mr. Cao’s support and help, and he also thanked Liang Sizhe for his help when the film was most twisted. Close-up of man.

This was Cao Ye's first public appearance as a producer. He was still a little nervous when facing the camera, so he subconsciously straightened his back and tried to be as natural as possible.

Then the camera pulled back again, allowing Liang Sizhe and Cao Ye to appear in the same frame on the big screen. Seeing him and Liang Sizhe sitting together, Cao Ye felt a little less nervous.

Best Supporting Actor was announced in the first half. Liang Sizhe came on stage to accept the award. He thanked director Zeng Ran and rival actor Wu Baiyi, and naturally thanked producer Cao Ye. The whole speech was calm and decent.

Liang Sizhe won the Best Supporting Actor, Cao Ye became even more nervous. He searched the previous Academy Award ceremonies in his mind, but he couldn't remember anyone who won the Best Supporting Actor and Best Actor at the same time.

After the Best Supporting Actor award was over, several more awards passed. Lin Huan and another senior actress from Hong Kong stepped onto the stage as the award presenters and began to present the Best Actor award.

The performance clips of the award-winning actors were played sequentially on the screen, introducing the five shortlisted male actors. "Try One More Word" selected Liang Sizhe and Xiao Meng sitting in front of the store. Heartlessly gorging on ice cream.

Another guest on stage intentionally mentioned the relationship between Liang Sizhe and Lin Huan, and asked Lin Huanxi whether he wanted Liang Sizhe to win the award.

"Of course I do," Lin Huan said generously, "But I think the organizers of the award ceremony may be more hopeful than me. Otherwise, why would they invite me to be an award presenter?"

The whole place laughed.

Lin Huan asked another guest who he hoped to win.

"Since you want Liang Sizhe to win the award, then I hope Wang Xian, Lin Tianyuan, Zheng Dehao, and Yin Ning will win the award." Another guest mentioned the names of the remaining actors without offending any of them.

Cao Ye no longer cared about whether Liang Sizhe and Lin Huan would be on the trending searches tonight. He felt slightly sweaty, and his shirt felt a little uncomfortable on his back.

The screen switched to the close-ups of the shortlisted male actors one by one. When it cut to Liang Sizhe, Cao Ye noticed that Liang Sizhe seemed to have straightened his back a little bit. Although Liang Sizhe's face was calm and decent, he was still sensitive to Liang Sizhe's expression. It doesn't seem to be as calm as the one in Berlin.

Maybe Liang Sizhe was also a little nervous?Cao Ye wanted to shake Liang Sizhe's hand, but there were cameras everywhere, so he didn't dare to act rashly.

"The winner of the best actor is—" The guests on stage began to open the envelope, and the female guest from Hong Kong pushed the card with the winner's name in front of Lin Huan, "You have to come here."

In the next second, Cao Ye heard Lin Huan read Liang Sizhe's name aloud.

Amidst the thunderous applause of the audience, Cao Ye's tense nerves suddenly loosened, and he felt as if his whole body was stiff.

Liang Sizhe got up and hugged Du Zhui and Xu Yunchu, shook hands with the seniors in the front row who turned back to congratulate, and finally hugged Cao Ye who was sitting next to him.

They have hugged many times. Compared with those more intimate hugs, this hug is restrained but powerful, as if giving each other strength.No one spoke, and then Liang Sizhe let go of Cao Ye, turned around and walked towards the awarding platform.

Walking through the long aisle, Liang Sizhe stepped up the steps, shook hands with Lin Huan and another award presenter, took the trophy, and stood in the center of the stage.

The applause gradually subsided, and everyone looked at Liang Sizhe on the stage.

Ten years ago, 19-year-old Liang Sizhe stood on the stage like this. At that time, he had long hair, wore a suit, and was rebellious and sharp.The people in the audience quickly discovered that the 29-year-old Liang Sizhe didn't seem to have changed much, but now that he was a young boy with awards, he has become more at ease.

Liang Sizhe adjusted the height of the microphone, and then bowed slightly: "Before I went out, I deliberately dug out the suit from ten years ago, hoping it would bring me good luck."

There was a good-natured low laugh from the audience.

"But I didn't put it on, it's too small."

This time the laughter grew louder.

After the joke was over, Liang Sizhe started his speech: "Thank you Director Du Zhui, cameraman teacher Xu Ming, and martial arts teacher Xu Taoyang, thank you Xiaomeng for playing the role of Jiahao, and thank you for the crew of "Try Again" All staff."

After finishing his list of thanks, he continued: "Thanks to this podium for giving me the first award in my life ten years ago. It is a crucial affirmation for me, so I would like to use this stage to announce A piece of news that is very important to me..." He paused slightly, his eyes swept across the audience, then lowered his eyes, and said into the microphone under everyone's gaze, "...Yes, I'm in love."

The audience was shocked, and Cao Ye felt that he was no less shocked than the others.

After a moment of silence, someone screamed, and there was a commotion in the ceremony hall, and discussions gradually rose.No one expected that Liang Sizhe would announce his love affair on the awards stage.

Liang Sizhe raised his voice a little amidst the noisy discussion, and his deep voice spread through the large ceremony hall through the microphone, "So in the end, I want to thank my lover, thank you for loving me," he raised his hand The trophy, looking at Cao Ye in the audience, "From now on, I will share my success and failure, the trophy and my life with you."