The Eye of the Storm

"What's the matter?" Seeing Cao Ye's expression changed, Lin Yan leaned over to look at his phone interface and recognized him immediately, "Hey, isn't this Liang Sizhe?"

"Ah." Cao Ye responded, and then turned off the screen.

Lin Yan hurriedly glanced at the last two words: "Sleep with me? Why sleep with me? Liang Sizhe wants you to sleep with him???" His voice was very low, for fear of damaging his dignity in front of the employees, but his tone couldn't hide gossip excitement.

Cao Ye glanced at him: "Do you think everyone is like you?" While talking, Liang Sizhe sent another voice message, and it was not convenient to open it in front of Lin Yan. Cao Ye got up and left his seat, and walked towards the entrance of the theater .

"Hey, don't be in a hurry!" Lin Yan stood up.

The project manager in charge of production in the back row stood up and called "Boss Lin", and Lin Yan waved at him: "Come to my office in a while and talk to everyone first." Then he strode up to Cao Ye, "How can you help me?" Some comments, hey, the source of this internal film has been leaked to you, you can't watch it for nothing..."

"I'll think about it when I go back and sort it out for you." Cao Ye said as he walked.

"Success." After Lin Yan finished his business, he still didn't forget to gossip, "Hey, why are you leaving in such a hurry? Are you going to sleep with Liang Sizhe?"

Cao Ye turned to look at him: "Are you sick, Lin Yan?"

"Hey, hey, it exploded again." Lin Yan deliberately teased him, "Tsk, sleeping Liang Sizhe is not bad, do you want to sleep, let me if you don't sleep?"

"Didn't you say you don't like Liang Sizhe?"

"I quite like him when he's not showing off, but he can't be showing off on the bed, right?"

"Go away, don't be so disgusting, okay?"

"Hahaha, what are you pretending to be innocent, Mr. Cao..." Lin Yan laughed loudly, "Seriously, are you reconciled?"

The theater is located on the first floor of Dongsheng Media, and it took a few steps to reach the lobby. Cao Ye quickly walked down a few steps at the door, went to the car and opened the door to sit in: "Just add it, okay? He asked I have something to do."

"Yo, what's the matter so late?"

"Brother Yan," Cao Ye looked at him and said sincerely, "When our cleaning lady listened to gossip, she had exactly the same expression as you do now."

"Fuck, fuck off."

Cao Ye closed the car door, rolled down the window and smiled at him: "I'll take a picture later and send it to you for comparison. It's very similar, really."

"How dare you!" Lin Yan glared at him.

Cao Ye laughed loudly, started the car and drove away.

After driving out of the park, Cao Ye slowed down the car, touched the phone and clicked on the voice message from Liang Sizhe.

The mobile phone was automatically connected to the Bluetooth in the car, and Liang Sizhe's voice spread in the car: "What's the matter? Shall I take him back?" It sounded a little distorted, with a deep voice and a frivolous tone. Cao Ye didn't remember Liang Sizhe using such a voice before. The tone spoke to itself.

So Cao Yuning didn't go after girls these days—Cao Ye remembered the noise from the phone that day—but went after Liang Sizhe?

Cao Ye hasn't completely escaped from the shock yet. He didn't expect that Cao Yuning pestered him to see Liang Sizhe again and again because of the relationship between men and women... Oh no, the kind of liking between men and men, he thought it was just Simply chasing stars, after all, there are too many people in this world who are dying for Liang Sizhe.He didn't expect that Cao Yuning would actually have the idea of ​​wanting to sleep with Liang Sizhe. He really... is young and ambitious.

Cao Ye was thinking about how he would respond to this news. Liang Sizhe said to take Cao Yuning back, where?He wouldn't really want Cao Yuning to sleep, would he?He's not double... is he?

Suddenly he realized that he knew very little about Liang Sizhe. Although he decisively denied the rumor that "Liang Sizhe is a double" that Cao Yuning said at the time, thinking about it now, he felt uncertain—they He didn't talk about this issue, so he didn't know what Liang Sizhe's sexual orientation was.

Counting it, they are not that familiar, but they got along day and night in a dilapidated alley when they were young. It's just three short months.

Three months is too short a time in his 26 years of life, and it can barely be regarded as "a short time".

But in Liang Sizhe's 28 years of ups and downs, those three months of unremarkable life may be too long to be described as "frozen".

Cao Ye frowned slightly, and took out his mobile phone to call Cao Yuning, but no one answered the beep on the receiver for a long time, and after a while, a mechanical female voice rang out, telling him, "The number you dialed is temporarily unanswered ".After hanging up the phone, he made another call.

This time, after a few rings, Liang Sizhe sent another voice message.

Cao Ye hung up the phone and clicked to listen—"Stop calling, he was drunk by me."

Cao Ye pressed the screen with his thumb, and sent a voice message to the microphone at the bottom: "Where are you? Send me your location."

A moment later, Liang Sizhe received the positioning information, Cao Ye clicked on it, and the car navigation voice sounded, he stepped on the accelerator a little bit, and the speed of the car quickly reached [-].

The location sent by Liang Sizhe was farther than the last time he went to the filming studio. It was almost located at the junction of Beijing and Tianjin. It was after nine o'clock in the evening, and the evening peak tide had not yet ebbed. Mixed in the congested traffic, Cao Ye drove a bit. irritable.

For some reason, it was extremely difficult for Liang Sizhe to take Cao Yuning back to bed, and he was even a little annoyed.

Mr. Lin Yan always joked that he was homophobic, but in fact he was only at a level that he could not accept. As for whether the people around him liked the same sex or the opposite sex, it didn't have any influence on him. He didn't care or talk about it at all. disgusted.

But thinking of what might happen next, he couldn't accept it from the bottom of his heart.He took the phone and sent Liang Sizhe a message: "Don't touch him, I'm on my way."

Liang Sizhe didn't reply to the message, which made the anxiety in Cao Ye's heart worse.

When the car drove out of the city, he couldn't hold back and made a voice call to Liang Sizhe, but he didn't answer.

Cao Ye threw the phone aside, patiently drove for more than ten kilometers, then took the phone and dialed it.

After a while, the other side finally picked up, with a smiling voice: "Are you in such a hurry?"

"Don't touch him," Cao Ye said.

"What's the reason?"

"He is Cao Xiuyan's son, you will get yourself into unnecessary trouble."

"Oh, are you afraid that I will cause trouble? This trouble is nothing to me, is it?"

That's right, no matter how big troubles he caused, he is now the actor Liang Sizhe, so even Cao Xiuyan might not be able to do anything to him, right?Cao Ye realized that the reason he made was really useless, and he said, "Also, he is my cousin, and I would feel disgusted if you slept with him."

"Like those two dogs?" Liang Sizhe asked again, his voice still seemed to be mixed with a smile, as if he was deliberately teasing him.

"Yes," Cao Ye said in a deep voice, "just like those two dogs." I didn't expect Liang Sizhe to still remember what he said many years ago.Back then, he was outspoken, but now Liang Sizhe said it with a smile, which made him somewhat unable to guess what Liang Sizhe was thinking about.

"Don't worry," Liang Sizhe said after a while, not smiling this time, his tone sounded very ordinary, low, and slow, just like he said calmly in the movie, "I don't move him, you slowly Come on, I'll wait for you to come and pick him up."

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It was past eleven o'clock at night when the car drove to Qingwei, Cao Ye threw the car keys to the doorman to let him park the car, and walked into the store by himself from the main entrance.

From the front hall to the private rooms in the back row, you have to pass through a quiet gravel road. The Japanese grocery store is close to closing time, and only the last wave of customers are left. The back garden is quiet and silent, and the little night lights dotted among the grass make the night even darker. Seeing Cao Ye On the floor-to-ceiling balcony obliquely opposite, someone was leaning on the wooden railing with his elbows, smoking one puff at a time, the golden sparks were looming, and the curls of white smoke passed the side of the person's face in the wind.

This scene made him suddenly think of the scene of Liang Sizhe standing in the dilapidated narrow alley at dusk, looking up at a row of doors. This association of ten years ago made him slightly fascinated.

Liang Sizhe seemed to feel his gaze, and turned his head to look at him at this moment. They looked at each other for a moment, Liang Sizhe straightened up, looked up at the sky, then extinguished the cigarette in his hand, turned and walked into the box Inside.

What was he looking at just now?Cao Ye unconsciously raised his head and looked up. He couldn't see anything above his head except the night sky and clouds, but the moonlight was very good tonight, and the cloud above his head seemed to be shining.

He retracted his gaze, lowered his head slightly, and quickened his steps.Walking to the corridor leading to the private room, Cao Ye suddenly felt that he was a little impulsive. Would Liang Sizhe sleep with Cao Yuning?Calm down and think about it, this kind of speculation is a bit absurd, no matter how you look at it, it's just a joke made by Liang Sizhe casually, but I actually took it seriously.

Cao Ye collected himself, sorted out his chaotic emotions, and pushed the door open to enter the private room. Liang Sizhe was putting the tinfoil tray used to hold the cigarette ash on the table. He heard the movement and looked at him, and said with a smile: "Come here quickly enough, Are you still worried about your cousin?"

"It's my cousin anyway." Cao Ye walked over and saw that the tinfoil tray was full of cigarette butts and ash, and the cigarette case on the table was empty. He looked up at Liang Sizhe, "Didn't you say you're quitting smoking?"

"Yeah," Liang Sizhe smiled, with a hint of helplessness on his face, "It seems that quitting smoking failed."

It seems that quitting smoking and drinking is just a pretense, Cao Ye thought, everything Liang Sizhe said now can only be believed at most three points.

"You quit smoking and still carry cigarettes with you?" Cao Ye smiled and exposed him.

"It's your cousin's cigarettes." Liang Sizhe tapped his finger on the empty cigarette box, "He wasted my whole night, so I smoke a box of cigarettes from him, isn't it too much?"

Cao Ye frowned slightly: "You smoked it all?"

"Yes."

Cao Ye wanted to say something, but he didn't say anything after thinking about it. He reached out to pat the back of Cao Yuning's head: "Cao Yuning, wake up."

Cao Yuning turned to look at him, opened his eyes, and woke up for a moment: "...Brother?!"

"Quickly stand up and follow me," Cao Ye urged.

"No, I'm so sleepy..." Cao Yuning finished speaking in a daze, then closed his eyes again.

Liang Sizhe was leaning against the table with his back, seeing Cao Yuning's reaction at this moment, he laughed from the sidelines.

Cao Ye turned his face to look at him.

Liang Sizhe explained with a smile: "I just thought that you were not much better than him when you were drunk."

When he said this, Cao Ye suddenly remembered that he was carried back by Liang Sizhe when he was drunk for the first time. In this respect, he really couldn't gain the upper hand in words, so he could only retort reluctantly: "You can send him away. Come on, there's no need to get him drunk, right?"

"If you send him away today, he won't come tomorrow? You have to find someone to come and take him away..."

"If you don't get him drunk, I will come over too."

"Really?" Liang Sizhe looked at him with a smile, "But if I don't get him drunk, he might not go with you, right?"

"Forget it," he said quite logically, but Cao Ye felt that he couldn't get past him, "Are you reasonable?"

"Are you letting me go?"

"Correct."

"Haha, Cao Ye, you..." Liang Sizhe laughed a few times, and continued what he said just now, "But your cousin's drinking capacity is much better than yours, and it took me a lot of work to get him drunk."

"Then I should really thank you." Cao Ye moved Cao Yuning's seat a bit, made him face the table sideways, then bowed down and put one of Cao Yuning's arms on his shoulders. Let him go out.

Cao Yuning was just over 1.7 meters tall and very thin. Cao Ye carried him with ease, but Cao Yuning was half a head shorter than him, so he had to bend his back slightly to accommodate Cao Yuning's height.

When he was about to walk to the front desk, Liang Sizhe was going to check out, Cao Ye called him, "Hey."

Liang Sizhe stopped and turned to look at him.

"Is it convenient for you?" Cao Ye turned his head and gestured to Cao Yuning who was on his back, and said, "Help me up for a while, and I'll tie him up."

Liang Sizhe raised his eyebrows: "Okay."

Cao Ye put Cao Yuning down and asked him to stand against the wall. Liang Sizhe didn't show politeness to him. He walked over and leaned his back against the wall, supporting Cao Yuning with his shoulders.

He looked at the back of Cao Ye, who was lying at the front desk to check out.There was a new waitress at the front desk, and she was looking this way, probably wanting to ask for an autograph, but Cao Ye seemed to say something, which made the girl laugh, and didn't look at her again.

This attractiveness really hasn't changed at all... Liang Sizhe thought, but it's the same when he thinks about it. Although most of the youthful temperament that belonged to the youth has faded away, there is now a cynical slack in Cao Ye. The temperament, casual and delicate, is more eye-catching than when he was a boy. No wonder Lin Huan changed his mind after a few years.

Cao Ye came over after paying the bill. He was wearing a gray cotton T-shirt and light-colored ripped jeans today. He might have opened the car window on the way here. His hair was a little messed up by the wind, and he looked very ugly. refreshing.

The aesthetics have not changed for ten years, and the preference for ripped jeans seems to have remained the same. It seems that there is no trace of the president... Liang Sizhe looked at him and thought.

Cao Ye came over, and when he bowed down to put Cao Yuning back up again, he asked, "Don't you usually wear a mask and sunglasses when you come out?"

"Dai."

Cao Ye carried Cao Yuning to the door: "Then why didn't you wear it today?"

"Today, I often come to this store, so it doesn't matter if I wear it or not."

"You come here often?" Cao Ye turned to look at him and realized, "Then it's not inconvenient for you to check out by yourself just now?"

"Huh? Just now..." Liang Sizhe laughed, "You took the initiative to pay the bill. I thought I treated you to Japanese food before, but this time you want to treat me back. Isn't that the case?"

Cao Ye was sure he didn't remember it: "When did you treat me to Japanese food?"

"I can't do anything about your plan to renege on your bills for so many years," Liang Sizhe said with a smile, "But you maxed out one of my cards back then and made me walk around with a drunk on my back all night. I remember this very clearly. .”

Cao Ye paused, and the few words Liang Sizhe revealed were enough for him to connect the memory of that night. He was a little incredulous: "Did you swipe the card that night?"

"Yes." Liang Sizhe looked at him with great interest, and the disbelief in Cao Ye's eyes made him look as lively as ever.

"Why didn't you mention it..." Cao Ye turned his face away, avoiding his eyes, "I don't even know about it."

"There are so many things you don't know." Liang Sizhe said with a smile.

While talking, they walked to the side of the car. Cao Ye stretched out his hand and opened the car door, stuffed Cao Yuning into the back seat, got up and asked Liang Sizhe, "How did you go back?"

"Do you mind taking a ride?"

"Then get in the car." Cao Ye opened the front door and got into the driver's seat shortly. Liang Sizhe sat in the passenger seat next to him.

"Can you open the window?" Liang Sizhe pressed his fingers to the button on the door that controls the window, "The smell of cigarettes on my body may be a bit strong."

"Up to you." Cao Ye said and started the car.The window on the side was lowered, Liang Sizhe opened the window to the maximum, and Cao Ye also opened the window on his side.

Cao Ye, the hotel where the crew stayed, knew that every time the company made a large budget, he had to sign for confirmation at the end. Liang Sizhe didn’t need to report the name of the hotel, so he called up the navigation map, swiped to look at the route, and then turned the steering wheel. into the road.

The car started to run. The roads in the suburbs of the city were very spacious. There were few people and cars on the roads, and the cars drove unimpeded along the way.

At the beginning of June, the summer heat is not too arrogant, and the night wind blows in, making people quite comfortable.

The two of them didn't speak for a while, Cao Ye heard the sound of the phone vibrating, he glanced at his phone which was placed in the groove under the center console, it wasn't his own, it looked like it should be Liang Sizhe's.The vibrating sound didn't stop for a moment, but Liang Sizhe turned his face and looked out the window, but he didn't intend to pick it up to look at it. I don't know if he didn't hear it or didn't want to answer it.

"Your phone is vibrating." Cao Ye reminded him.

Probably because the sound of the wind pouring into the ears was too loud, Liang Sizhe didn't hear what Cao Ye said clearly, turned his head to look at him, said "Huh?", and stretched out his hand to close the car window.

"Your phone," Cao Ye reminded again, "has been vibrating."

"Oh, let's watch it when we go back." Liang Sizhe picked up the phone and glanced at it.

Cao Ye glanced at the time on the display in the car. It was 6:3 am on June [-]. No wonder the phone was vibrating non-stop. Most of the entertainment industry might be stuck at this time to wish Liang Sizhe the birthday of his accident.

"Cao Ye." Liang Sizhe called out his name.

"What?" Cao Ye drove the car, his gaze fell on the road ahead.

"I think the smell of smoke may be gone. Why don't you close the window and let's chat for a while?"

Cao Ye drove forward for a while, and closed the window after a while: "Okay, what are we talking about?"

Liang Sizhe didn't speak immediately. The woody finish of the men's perfume was very light, mixed with the faint smell of tobacco pervading the car. Cao Ye wasn't sure if the smell came from Liang Sizhe or himself. He also smoked two on the way here. cigarette.

The space inside the car was airtight, Cao Ye raised his hand to turn on the air conditioner and the stereo, the pure music would not be too noisy, and it could relieve some of the awkward atmosphere in the air.

Time seemed to pass very slowly when the two were silent. "Don't you want to chat for a while?" After waiting for a while, Cao Ye turned his face to look at him.

"Yeah," Liang Sizhe said with a smile, "but I haven't talked to you for so many years, I don't know what to talk about at the moment, or... come on from last time, you didn't wish me a happy birthday that day, did you? "

Cao Ye didn't speak, and seemed to be concentrating on driving as if he had never heard of it.

"Am I not going to open which pot and carry which pot?" Liang Sizhe laughed again.

The vibrations in the car came and went, filling the gap when no one spoke.Familiar and unfamiliar, sincere and not sincere, the support of the elders, the blessings of the peers, the admiration of the younger, all hidden in this vibration, but Liang Sizhe insisted on asking him for an overdue happy birthday.

After a while, Cao Ye said, "There are many people who wish you a happy birthday, so I shouldn't be short of this one, right?"

"It's just you." Liang Sizhe leaned against the back of the seat and looked out of the car window with his face slightly sideways. "Otherwise, why would I have to call you over in the middle of the night?" His gesture of begging for blessings and The tone seemed casual and relaxed, far less aggressive than what he said.

"Cao Ye," Liang Sizhe leaned on the back of the chair, turned to look at him, "I'm going to catch you with your cousin, you're so smart, you can't fail to see it, right?"

Cao Ye was speechless for a moment, then laughed "chi" and said, "How do you know I'm not trying to catch you with him?"

"You will not."

"Why not? Didn't you take the initiative to put down your body and come to me for peace?"

"I took the initiative to ask you for peace, but you don't know how to do it, Cao Ye. From what I know of you, you don't know how to use others to do anything."

"Don't call me a saint," Cao Ye chuckled disapprovingly again, "What about you, what's the matter with you using Cao Yuning?"

"Am I..." Liang Sizhe looked out of the car window and said softly, "I'm a bad person, and I should do everything as it should."