The Eye of the Storm

No one spoke for the rest of the road, and there was only soft music and buzzing vibrations in the car, and then the vibrations disappeared, and Liang Sizhe turned off the phone.

When the car stopped at the entrance of the hotel, Cao Ye glanced at Cao Yuning in the back row, and asked Liang Sizhe casually, "Is the hotel full?"

"You asked me if the hotel is full..." Liang Sizhe laughed, "Do you want to live here?"

"It's so late, I'm too lazy to drive back," Cao Ye unbuckled his seat belt, "I'll go to the front desk and ask."

"Let's get your cousin there together," Liang Sizhe said, "I live in a suite. If there is no room, I will spare a bedroom for you."

"One room is not enough," Cao Ye frowned, "I might not be able to fall asleep if I sleep with him." He is used to watching all kinds of boring movies to fall asleep, especially the one that Lin Yan invited him to watch tonight. It's boring and endless, and with the 360-degree surround sound effect, you're sure to fall asleep quickly.If he slept with Cao Yuning, he wasn't sure if he could sleep tonight.

"Then you slept with me?" Liang Sizhe looked at him with a smile, and joked, "Did you sleep well when you slept with me before?" Seeing Cao Ye looking up at him, Liang Sizhe explained before he could speak, " Just kidding, there is an extra bed in the living room, are you planning to drive to another hotel so late?"

Cao Ye didn't respond immediately, but he felt that what Liang Sizhe said was quite reasonable. He really didn't want to drive a drunk around looking for hotels at such a late hour.What's more, when booking a hotel at that time, it is said that the film crew chose the one with the highest specifications within a radius of [-] kilometers around the filming location. This place is in the wilderness, and maybe there is no other star hotel.

"Okay, let's go and have a look first." Cao Ye opened the door and got out of the car, and moved Cao Yuning out. Liang Sizhe helped him close the door, turned his head, and saw Song Qingyan not far away.

Song Qingyan was squatting in front of the hotel with a sad face, looking eagerly at the main road not far away, when she saw Liang Sizhe getting out of the car, she immediately regained her spirits and almost jumped up.

Song Qingyan felt that he had encountered the biggest career crisis in his life. He squatted here and waited all night holding his mobile phone, thinking that if Liang Sizhe took Cao Yuning away at night, and when the report came out tomorrow, she would be the culprit who didn't stop Liang Sizhe. At that time, Sister Yunchu would definitely take her for questioning, maybe she would be fired directly, and the consequences would be unimaginable...

After trembling all night, he saw Liang Sizhe getting off the car, followed by... Mr. Cao? !Song Qingyan almost wept with joy as if he had received an amnesty.

"Why are you squatting here?" Liang Sizhe stepped up the steps and looked up at her, "Wait for me?"

Song Qingyan stood on the steps and nodded hastily: "Brother Sizhe, you are back! Mr. Cao is here too? Oh, that's great!"

Liang Sizhe gave her a funny look: "What's the good thing?"

"Ah, it's nothing, I'm happy to see you and Boss Cao!" Song Qingyan thought well because Boss Cao came over. If Liang Sizhe carried the drunk Cao Yuning back to the hotel, then this scene would be her Ling Chi scene...

"Go and ask if there are any suites in the hotel." Liang Sizhe said.

"Decree!" Song Qingyan ran and jumped to the front desk, and quickly came back, "Brother Sizhe, there is still one suite left!"

"Okay, thanks." Cao Ye put Cao Yuning on the sofa in the hotel lobby and went to the front desk to check in.

When checking in, the hotel waiter came over and helped get Cao Yuning into the room in advance.When Cao Ye finished the formalities and came over, Cao Yuning had already been taken upstairs by the waiter.

The three of them took the same elevator. Song Qingyan stood beside Liang Sizhe, wrinkled his nose and sniffed twice, then raised his head and asked Liang Sizhe in a low voice: "Brother Sizhe, are you smoking again?"

"Smell it?"

"Looks like you're still drinking?"

"A dog's nose is so smart."

"I said I have poor eyesight but a super good sense of smell." Song Qingyan raised his hands and pushed the frame glasses, took out his mobile phone and flipped through the memo, "Let me do the math, you quit drinking for two and a half months this time, and quit smoking. Three months and 23 days, wow, a record breaking achievement in quitting smoking.”

Cao Ye stood by and listened to their conversation. At this moment, he looked at Liang Sizhe in surprise: "Quit smoking and drinking, are you serious?"

Liang Sizhe smiled: "You think I lied to you?"

Cao Ye didn't say anything, and said in his heart that I really thought you wouldn't have the truth in your mouth.

"I don't remember ever cheating on you." Liang Sizhe said again.

Song Qingyan buried his head in making notes on his mobile phone while muttering: "It's the seventh time to quit drinking, the ninth time to quit smoking..."

"Your elevator is here." Liang Sizhe reminded her.

"Oh!" Song Qingyan looked up, and the elevator door opened. Before she stepped out, she didn't forget to say, "Brother Sizhe, happy birthday, I'll give you a gift tomorrow! Mr. Cao, good night!" After saying that, the elevator door closed.

"How did you think of quitting smoking and drinking?" Cao Ye asked, and after asking, he felt that the question was useless, and Liang Sizhe answered him with two words-"Guess".

But this time he guessed wrong, Liang Sizhe didn't say that, but said flatly: "If you want to quit, then quit."

All the suites in the hotel were arranged on the twentieth floor. It was already dark, and the doors of the passing rooms were closed. The corridor was empty and silent.

This shoulder-to-shoulder atmosphere was so familiar that Cao Ye couldn't help thinking that they were like this ten years ago, passing through closed doors one after another, walking to the end of the aisle, and then pushing open the innermost door.

But the corridors at that time were dark, with only sparse chandeliers overhead, but today the corridors are brightly lit.

Cao Ye thought that if Liang Sizhe asks him for another birthday wish, then he should give it to him. Liang Sizhe is as good as his happy birthday, and he doesn't need to be stingy with giving this wish.

"My room is here," Liang Sizhe said, stretching out his hand to indicate the direction of his room, interrupting Cao Ye's thoughts.

"Oh." Cao Ye looked up at his door, "Good night."

"Good night." Liang Sizhe walked to the door of his room, took out the key card and put it close to the door lock, and the door lock made a "beep" sound.

Cao Ye continued to walk forward. His room was still in front of him. After walking a few steps, he stopped and turned around.

Liang Sizhe was holding the doorknob, and was about to open the door to enter the room when he heard Cao Ye calling his name from behind, "Liang Sizhe."

He turned to look at Cao Ye.

Cao Ye stood five or six meters away from him, and the warm yellow light shone on his face, making him look exactly like the gentle and handsome boy in Liang Sizhe's memory.

"Happy birthday." The shadows of the boy and the youth overlapped and intertwined, and Cao Ye stood under the light and looked at him and said.

Liang Sizhe was startled for a moment, then smiled after a while, shook his head and said, "Cao Ye, you are really..." Soft-hearted and cute, do you know that... He looked at Cao Ye and didn't finish his sentence.

"Thank you," he said.It's so easy to let me succeed, you really let me.

After Cao Ye finished saying "Happy Birthday", he turned around and left. The "Thank you" was left behind by him. He didn't look back at Liang Sizhe, and went straight to the door of the room, opened the door with the key card, pushed door to go in.

When the door was closed, Liang Sizhe looked away, smiled with downcast eyes, and pushed the door open to enter the room.

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The waiter placed Cao Yuning in the second bedroom, and when Cao Ye came in, he asked him if the arrangement was appropriate. Cao Ye went to the back room and took a look. Cao Yuning was lying on his back on the bed, sleeping unconscious.

Cao Yuning is actually gay?Cao Ye looked at Cao Yuning on the bed with complicated emotions. Maybe it was because Lin Yan accidentally made a joke about his homophobia at the dinner table when he was having dinner with Lin Yan before. Cao Yuning took it seriously and never talked to him. he said.

It's fine if you're gay, but you actually want to sleep with Liang Sizhe... Cao Ye looked at Cao Yuning who was sleeping soundly, and planned to have a good talk with him when he woke up, although he hasn't decided to talk to Cao Yuning yet. What.

Just as he was about to turn around and go back to his room, there was a knock on the door of the room. Cao Ye walked over and opened the door to see that Liang Sizhe's assistant, Song Qingyan, was standing at the door.

"Is something wrong?"

Song Qingyan handed him the medicine box in his hand: "Mr. Cao, Brother Sizhe asked me to deliver hangover granules."

"Oh, thank you," Cao Ye took it and looked down, "Did you just go out to buy it?"

"No," Song Qingyan explained, "I prepared it before coming to the set, in case of emergencies."

"It's really thoughtful."

"I'm an assistant." Song Qingyan said with a smile.

After closing the door, Cao Ye pushed open the door of Cao Yuning's room with the hangover granule: "Cao Yuning."

Cao Yuning fell asleep on his back, no response.

"Do you want to drink hangover granules?" Cao Ye asked again.

But it was useless to ask, Cao Yuning turned around and turned a deaf ear to his words.Cao Ye went over and put the alcohol-abuse granule on his bedside table, and then walked out of the bedroom.

After taking a shower, Cao Ye leaned on the sofa in the living room and recalled the movie he watched at Lin Yan's company tonight. Although he fell asleep intermittently at that time, he did not miss the general turning point of the plot.

He sorted out tonight's movie-watching experience and post-adjustment opinions on his mobile phone and sent them to Lin Yan. Lin Yan was still still awake. How is Liang Sizhe, have you slept through or not?"

Cao Ye only glanced at the message, then immediately pressed the few suggestions that had just been sent on the screen with his thumb, and clicked on the message to withdraw.

Lin Yan: "..."

Cao Ye threw the phone aside, went to the door and turned off the ceiling light in the living room, then picked up the remote control to turn on the projector, the hotel equipment is not very used to it, so he casually flipped through a Hollywood routine monster movie, leaned on Sitting on the back of the sofa chair, staring at the screen absently.

The mobile phone that was placed aside vibrated every once in a while. It is estimated that Lin Yan realized that he owed a moment and was trying to make up for it.

But Cao Ye ignored it.Although he knew that Lin Yan's jokes were not malicious, but occasionally he felt a little annoyed.

The phone vibrated again, and Cao Ye suddenly thought that Liang Sizhe's phone was buzzing in the car just now—how could his birthday be so deserted?A few years ago it was still very lively...

Probably because he drove too long at night, and his body was a little tired. Before the film got into the main line of fighting, Cao Ye leaned on the sofa and fell asleep.

After sleeping drowsily for an unknown amount of time, he heard an "ouch" in his ears, and he opened his eyes to see that Cao Yuning was standing in front of the master bedroom door.The film on the projection wall has finished playing, and it stays on the final "replay" interface. With the dim light on the screen, Cao Ye squinted his eyes, barely seeing Cao Yuning standing there and rubbing his forehead.

"Cao Yuning?" Cao Ye rubbed his eyes, his voice was a little hoarse from sleep, he resisted his drowsiness and got up from the sofa, "Are you sleepwalking?"

"Brother Sizhe?" Cao Yuning turned around and looked at him sleepily.

"..." Cao Ye frowned slightly and walked over, "Are you stupid, Cao Yuning?"

"...Brother? Where is this..." Cao Yuning looked confused, "Where's the toilet?"

"You don't even know if you've been betrayed?" Cao Ye grabbed his shoulder and led him to the side, "It's really good."

Fortunately, Cao Yuning was more worry-free than he was back then. After he finished solving the problem, he walked out of the bathroom, looked at Cao Ye very troubled and asked, "Brother, why are you here?"

Cao Ye leaned against the wall and waited for him to come out, grabbed him with his eyes closed and shoved him into the bedroom: "Let's talk about it tomorrow."

"Oh," Cao Yuning staggered onto the bed, "I'm so dizzy..."

Cao Ye closed the door for him, walked back to the living room by himself, picked up the remote control and turned off the projector.When he bent down to put the remote control back on the coffee table, he scanned the mobile phone beside him, picked it up, turned on the screen and glanced at it. Lin Yan sent a message on the whole screen:

"Don't withdraw it, Yezi, I haven't had time to read it yet!"

"Hurry up and send it again, I'm just worried."

"Brother is wrong, I won't make fun of you in the future, okay?"

"Brother, you are my brother, send it again brother!"

"Did you sleep, remember to send me when you wake up!"

As Cao Ye walked towards the bedroom, he lowered his head and dug out the late-stage suggestions written earlier from the memo on his mobile phone, and resent them to Lin Yan. He took off the robe, then threw off the quilt and lay down on the bed.

When I fell asleep, I vaguely noticed that it was raining outside, and the raindrops hit the window, making a small patter sound, so the last image in my mind before falling asleep was the one I saw when I looked up in Qingwei’s backyard a few hours ago. a cloud.Is that cloud floating over now, otherwise why would it suddenly rain?When he was half asleep and half awake, Cao Ye vaguely thought of Liang Sizhe who was smoking under the cloud.

Then he thought of the scene many years ago. The two people he hadn't seen for a long time were sitting on a wooden chair by the street. He lit a cigarette with a lighter, and after taking two puffs, Liang Sizhe stretched out his hand, and took the light between his fingers. The cigarette was taken away, and he took two puffs by himself, "How old are you to smoke?" Liang Sizhe bent down, pressed the half-burnt cigarette on the ground and extinguished it, "When did it start?"

Don't think about it, Cao Ye said to himself in his mind, go to sleep.