The Eye of the Storm

As Liang Sizhe said, a few hours later, he hit the headlines without incident.

The first few hot searched keywords on Weibo are all related to Liang Sizhe, and at first glance it looks quite pompous.

"Liang Sizhe's Darkest Choice", "Liang Sizhe's Make-up", "Liang Sizhe's Repayment", "Liang Sizhe's Appearance at the Airport in the Early Morning", supplemented by a real video shot at the airport.

Xu, the editor who uploaded the video, is a fan of Liang Sizhe. The frame captured as the cover of the video is very reminiscent of a nostalgic old Hong Kong movie—under the dim streetlights, Liang Sizhe is lying sideways on the rolled-down car window. Light and shadow delicately outline the outline of his profile.

Amid all the speculation about the "benefactor" in Liang Sizhe's mouth, a completely irrelevant comment was pushed to a very high position-"Suddenly remembered the words Cao Xiuyuan said a few years ago, 'Look at the city of light and shadow. Be gentle with him.'"

——"Is this a personal revelation? Fans, don't take chances. Since Actor Liang has said that it's about repaying his kindness, it looks like he's close to accepting this film."

——"Curious about whom Liang Sizhe is repaying? I checked the relevant information, and there is no news that this film is related to Cao Xiuyuan..."

——"Liang Sizhe's benefactor is definitely more than Cao Xiuyuan. Just when he was 17 years old and won the best actor, there were more than a dozen people who thanked him on stage."

——"Supporting role + substitute, this kind of self-degrading repayment, the benefactor level must reach Cao Xiuyuan's level no matter what?"

The topic of public opinion that day mainly revolved around Liang Sizhe's "repaying kindness". Within two hours, a quick-handed entertainment blogger listed Liang Sizhe's benefactors in the circle over the years.

Arranged according to the degree of kindness and star rating from high to low, Cao Xiuyuan, as the Bole who single-handedly sent Liang Sizhe to the position of actor, deservedly ranked the highest, and Xu Yunchu accompanied Liang Sizhe all these years ups and downs. It is expected to be ranked second, and the rest are screenwriters, cinematographers, editors...all big names in the mainland film industry.

However, compared with the behind-the-scenes lineup of "The Darkest Choice", no one dared to say who the benefactor Liang Sizhe mentioned was.

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The place for the appointment is Su Sa, a private restaurant with Subang cuisine.

At eight o'clock in the evening, a silver-brown sports car slowly stopped at the gate of a private kitchen near the outskirts of the city.

Cao Ye got out of the car and tossed the key to the doorman who ran over.

Lin Yan was standing at the door chatting with Su Tang, the proprietress of the restaurant, and laughed when he saw Cao Ye: "At this point, can you drive [-] miles beyond the sixth ring road? You drive an Aston Martin with a manual transmission. Alright."

"Do you know what it feels like to feel better than dying?" Cao Ye walked over, hooked Lin Yan's neck and whispered in his ear, "It's so refreshing."

Lin Yan laughed loudly, and handed him a cigarette, "Yes, yes, I can assure you that no one in Beijing, with its population of tens of millions, can do more tricks than you. At that time, you changed the car and came here... Hey," before he finished speaking, his eyes passed over Cao Ye's shoulder, "Liang Sizhe is here."

Cao Ye followed his gaze and looked back.

Liang Sizhe was getting off the driver's seat, dressed casually, holding a coat in his hand, walking towards them.

"The difference between the two of you is less than 2 minutes. What is this called? Fate is destined," Lin Yan said with a smile, "Si Zhe, if you don't accept this film, you will be acting against the sky."

Liang Sizhe stepped forward and shook Lin Yan's hand, smiled and said, "It's not that exaggerated, at most it's predestined."

Su Tang also stretched out his hand to him: "Sizhe, long time no see."

"Yes, President Su." Liang Sizhe replied.

As usual, he wanted to shake hands with Cao Ye. After all, he was the main caster of "The Darkest Choice", but Cao Ye held a cigarette in one hand and pocketed it in the other. , he just came over to watch.

"It's too familiar, so there's no need to shake hands, right?" Liang Sizhe turned to him with a hint of a joke in his eyes.

They are close in height, and they look at each other almost at the same level.When Liang Sizhe said this, Cao Ye pulled his hand out of his pocket and put on a handshake gesture, his tone of voice was also ordinary and lazy: "You always have to start with a handshake, I haven't decided what to say yet."

"Then..." Liang Sizhe lightly held his hand, "Have a nice cooperation, Mr. Cao?"

"Okay." Cao Ye said.

"Let's go in and chat, the private room has been booked," Lin Yan handed a cigarette to Liang Sizhe, and seeing Liang Sizhe waving his hand to refuse, he was a little surprised, "You don't smoke?"

"I'm quitting." Liang Sizhe said.

"No wonder," Lin Yan understood, "I said, the news about your smoking was on the headlines of the entertainment section in the early years," he said, turning his head to look at Su Tang, "Su Tang, do you remember, "Beijing Morning Post" It took half a page to cover it, and the headline took up a quarter of the page, and the media at that time loved to make a fuss. We were still reading and we were like, wow, this dude is cool. .”

At that time, Liang Sizhe still had shoulder-length hair tied behind his head, and a lock of hair fell down on his forehead, slightly curled. He was squatting beside the grinning stone lion at the entrance of the theater, looking blankly into the distance. Smoke everywhere.

I don't know if it was the paparazzi's intention, or the angle of the candid shot was just right. In short, the young actor who appeared on the front page looks melancholy and rebellious. It is the appearance that the media likes the most, and it is also the appearance that the public is most curious about.

"Hi, actually," Liang Sizhe laughed, "At that time they secretly took pictures of me, and I noticed it early in the morning, so I deliberately posed like that for them to take pictures."

"Ah?" Lin Yan was stunned for a moment, "Really?"

"Really, the main reason is that when I found out that someone was secretly taking pictures, they had already taken a lot of pictures. Since I couldn't take the camera away in that situation, I could only try to let them take good pictures of me. So, what's cool? Ah, it’s all for posing, don’t believe it.”

"No, Sizhe," Lin Yan was dumbfounded, "You're playing tricks on those paparazzi when you say that, it's even cooler than that photo."

Liang Sizhe turned to look at him at this moment, and suddenly laughed out loud: "Boss Lin, do you really believe it?"

Lin Yan suddenly realized that he had been tricked and turned into himself.As the young leader of Dongsheng Group, Lin Yan has never been played like this by anyone. He was a little bit embarrassed for a while. If it was someone else in front of him, maybe his expression would have changed, but facing Liang Sizhe at this time, he could only Holding back his fire, he sneered and said, "Is it true?"

"Guess." Liang Sizhe looked at him with a smile.

Seeing Lin Yan's devastated face, Cao Ye, who was walking behind, couldn't help but smile as well.Only Liang Sizhe can control Lin Yan's temperament as a chicken thief.

There were still a dozen steps away from the private room when Cao Ye's cell phone rang suddenly.He took it out and saw that it was Cheng Duan calling.Cheng Duan would not call casually. Once he called, it was usually an urgent matter. He informed Lin Yan and walked to the window to answer the phone: "What's the matter?"

"Cao Ye, are you having dinner with Liang Sizhe tonight?"

"Yes."

"That's right, just now Xu Yunchu called and scolded me as soon as he came up, saying that our company leaked secrets, and they haven't decided whether to accept "Darkest Choice", so we let the rumors out early. This approach is too inauthentic...but the point is, I didn't tell anyone about Liang Sizhe's reading the script before, not even Xu Anqiao, so how could it be our company's rumors?"

Cao Ye thought for a while and said, "Either it's Lin Yan, or it's Zhao Chengdong, and He Fangwen probably won't."

"I guess so, the last time we worked together, Lin Yan and his company did a lot of things like this...Cao Ye, anyway, I think you need to explain this to Liang Sizhe face to face. Don’t have it, it’s not good for the company’s reputation if it spreads.”

"It's not us who should explain, but Lin Yan."

"what?"

Cao Ye remembered the scene in the corridor just now, and laughed: "I said why he picked up on Lin Yan for no reason."

"what?"

Cao Ye smiled: "It's okay, you don't have to worry about Liang Sizhe, you can just explain it to Xu Yunchu."

Cheng Duan was helpless: "I've sworn all the poison, but she, I guess she might be in a bad mood..."

"You tell her, instead of finding out who made the rumors, it's better to manage your own artist so that he doesn't talk nonsense to the media in the future."

"That's not too good," Cheng Duan smiled wryly, "However, Liang Sizhe also helped us, if "The Darkest Choice" was not because of him, it would probably be silent now, how could there be such a high degree of discussion. "

"Don't worry," Cao Ye said, "I will thank him well."

After hanging up the phone, Cao Ye walked towards the private room.

As soon as the door was pushed open, Lin Yanzheng persuaded Liang Sizhe to drink: "Really quit? I just said quit smoking, but now I say quit drinking. I don't believe it. Sizhe, I can see that you can't take what you say seriously. To take it seriously is to see you." outside, right?"

"I really quit drinking, you have to believe it," Liang Sizhe turned the back of his hand towards Lin Yan seriously, "I took disulfiram, the pinhole is still there, and something will happen if I drink it. Mr. Lin, I'm fine, but It’s about the reshoots of the film, so it’s better to be more cautious.”

"Either you are the film king, Sizhe, I'm not sure which words you should believe and which ones you should not believe." Seeing Cao Ye push the door in, Lin Yan looked up at him, "Come on Come on, Cao Ye, just in time for you to come over, and Sizhe said that he is quitting drinking, do you think you should believe it or not?"

Cao Ye didn't say whether he believed it or not, he walked over and pulled away a chair opposite Liang Sizhe, looked at him and said, "Quit smoking and drinking, you want to become a monk? Are you rebooting from sex?"

"Yes," Liang Sizhe said, "Didn't you see that I've been abstinent lately? To tell you the truth, after the airport video went online this morning, the crew of the new version of "Journey to the West" immediately sent an invitation, strongly inviting me to play the role of Tang Sanzang , what does this mean?"

Cao Ye was amused by him: "It means you can talk, which crew will get you involved with Tang Sanzang?"

"Don't believe me, it's nothing," Liang Sizhe said earnestly, "Last year "King Kong" intended to be remade in China, the producer saw me and insisted that I play King Kong."

No one would associate that giant chimpanzee with Liang Sizhe. Cao Ye hardly bothered to talk to him, and laughed, "Go ahead."

Liang Sizhe held the wine glass, gently swirled half a glass of red wine, and looked at Cao Ye: "The story of Beauty and the Beast, who do you think the heroine and the others want?"

Cao Ye didn't answer: "I'm not interested."

Instead, Lin Yan asked enthusiastically, "Who is it?"

Liang Sizhe put the goblet back on the table, pushed it in front of Lin Yan, and treated him like a man: "I'll tell you after you drink this glass of wine."

Knowing that the Chinese version of "King Kong" is talking nonsense, Liang Sizhe has the ability to whet people's appetite.Lin Yan picked up the half glass of wine he had just poured himself.

Liang Sizhe made a "please" gesture.

Lin Yan has always been refreshing when drinking, so he raised his glass, drank it to the bottom, and turned the mouth of the glass to Liang Sizhe: "Let's talk."

Liang Sizhe put his index finger in front of his lips in a mysterious way, and lowered his voice: "Hush, it's Lin Huan."

When Lin Yan heard this, he burst out laughing.

Well, it turned out that the joke was aimed at Cao Ye, this glass of wine was worth it.The relationship between Lin Huan, Cao Ye and Liang Sizhe is known to everyone in their small circle - about a few years ago, Cao Ye chased Lin Huan fiercely for a while, and seeing that he was about to succeed, the media suddenly revealed that Liang Sizhe and Lin Huan were hugging each other on the street. Kiss photo.

It would be fine if things were as simple as that. The key point is that just two weeks before the accident in "The Darkest Choice", Liang Sizhe and Lin Huan were named "the most unsatisfactory CPTOP1 in the entertainment industry" by a well-known magazine in the industry. Within a few days, Lin Huan was revealed to have entered a hotel late at night with a mysterious man.And that "mysterious man" was Cao Ye.

The media who exposed the video did not hesitate to exaggerate: "The man is tall and looks like a very male model. From the back, he looks young and looks like a 'little wolf dog'."

Although there was a lot of speculation on the Internet at the time, because Cao Ye rarely appeared in the public eye, the suspect never fell on him with much fanfare.But this matter is not a secret among Cao Ye's circle of friends. For a while, several of his friends jokingly called him "little wolf dog", but Cao Ye scolded him back with a black face of "Get out".

The joke was played on his own head, Cao Ye retaliated against Liang Sizhe without hesitation: "I don't care who plays the beauty, I just want to know if you really want to climb to the top of the Empire State Building and jerk off."

He was talking about a classic scene in "King Kong", with a pun, and everyone present laughed tacitly.

Liang Sizhe also laughed, and when he had laughed enough, he said slowly, "Well... because of the localization process, they plan to let one of my landmark buildings in Beijing, the Luomeng Building, show it, and then I will invite Mr. Cao to appreciate it Borrow a venue."

Cao Ye smiled: "It's easy to say."

Lin Yan enjoyed watching the fun, and poured wine for Cao Ye with a smile: "Sizhe, you are so good at stalking people, Cao Ye usually has a very sharp mouth, how can you see him being slapped like this, Come to Cao Ye, you can be regarded as an opponent in chess today, let's have a drink."

"Others call him the 'king of hatred', Lin Yan, you think highly of me when you meet your opponent." Cao Ye still took the wine that Lin Yan handed over, and took a sip.

The ice water Liang Sizhe ordered was brought up at this time, and he picked it up and took a sip: "Well, speaking of it, I must be Cao Ye's teacher in this respect. When I first met him, he was very obedient."

"Good?" Lin Yan glanced at Cao Ye, thinking that this statement was quite new, "When did he ever become good?"

"Ten years ago?" Liang Sizhe looked at Cao Ye, "Isn't it?"

"Maybe." Cao Ye said absently as he put the vegetables into a bowl.