The Eye of the Storm

"That's the end of it, right?" Cao Ye turned his gaze away from the shooting site and asked Xu Anqiao, "Is there anything else?"

"No, the three scenes have been filmed, and it's enough to change the scene later. Many of the previous drag racing scenes can be kept. This time, we will mainly shoot Liang Sizhe's appearance, which will save more trouble than that time—" Xu Anqiao looked at it On Liang Sizhe's side, he suggested, "Sizhe has gone to the director's place, shall we go over and have a chat too?"

Cao Ye turned his face and glanced at Liang Sizhe. A few staff members stood a few meters away, blocking most of his sight, but he could still see Liang Sizhe bowing slightly, looking down at the monitor screen in front of the director. .

"You go. I'll go back when I'm done. I'm a little sleepy." Cao Ye said he wanted to leave, but just as he was about to turn around, he saw Song Qingyan trotting over. He was in a hurry, and he yelled before he got there. CEO Cao".

As soon as she came over, Cao Ye knew that Liang Sizhe had seen him. He hadn't looked in his direction just now, so he didn't know when he found out.

"Running so fast," Cao Ye stopped and looked at her, then smiled at her, "What can I do for you?"

Song Qingyan nodded hastily: "Brother Sizhe asked me to invite you over."

When Xu Anqiao heard this, she took advantage of the situation and persuaded: "Sizhe specially asked someone to come here to invite you, Mr. Cao, you have to give him this face."

"Did he say 'please'?" Cao Ye smiled, apparently not believing the words, "Can't you?"

"That's... that's what it means." Song Qingyan said with a sneer, recalling that Liang Sizhe didn't seem to really say please, his tone was clearly asking her to arrest Mr. Cao.

"Okay, I'll go over and have a look." Cao Ye said.It doesn't matter whether you are invited or not, since Liang Sizhe has asked someone to come over, he should go over and have a chat. The crew has a lot of people talking about it. If you talk about it later, who knows what kind of rumors will arise.

On the way, there were a few people waiting with cameras on the side. Seeing Cao Ye approaching, they all called out "Mr. Cao" in surprise. People outside the company may not know the division of labor of Luo Meng, but they all It was sent by the Luomeng Propaganda Department to follow the group, and I knew very well in my heart that according to the usual situation, Cao Ye would never appear on the shooting scene at this point.

Rao was surprised and didn't dare to ask more. Several people pulled Song Qingyan over and asked her if Liang Sizhe could accept a short interview on the spot for later publicity.

Song Qingyan showed embarrassment: "I don't dare to make up my mind. Do you have an interview outline? I'll show it to brother Sizhe."

"Just a few questions, nothing sensitive," the girl from the publicity team showed her the questions typed on the phone. "There was no pen and paper in advance, so I listed them on the phone temporarily."

Xu Anqiao gave them advice from the side: "Boss Cao is here, and I want to interview Liang Sizhe, it's not just a matter of him, the investor."

Several people in Luomeng immediately shifted their gazes to their boss's face, waiting expectantly for him to speak to deal with Liang Sizhe.

"Don't count on me," Cao Ye smiled at them and looked away, "I can't be Liang Sizhe's master."

If you want to put it on ordinary people, you have to bite the bullet and take things down to save yourself face in the face of your subordinates, but he doesn't seem to care at all, and there is no condescending meaning in his tone, as if he was making a leisurely speech joke.

On the contrary, Xu Anqiao was at the side to save face for him: "I said Mr. Cao, you are too modest. According to my opinion, if you open your mouth, Liang Sizhe will definitely sell your face."

"Is that so?" Cao Ye smiled and said to himself, "That's hard to say."

Liang Sizhe had already finished watching the replay when he walked over, and he was leaning against the edge of the table talking to Zeng Ran.

He just rolled several times on the rainy ground, and his whole body was soaked and covered with muddy water. He should have looked very embarrassed, but with the hideous scar that melted on the side of his face, he had a slightly ragged look on his body. temperament.

Xu Anqiao spoke quite loudly just now, but he heard half of it.Seeing Cao Ye approaching, he looked up at him and asked, "Why are you trying to save face?"

Xu Anqiao is a competent producer, not only worried about the production but also about the publicity. Seeing Liang Sizhe asking about it, he said: "The publicity team wants to pick up a film of yours, and I'm going to ask Mr. Cao to intercede with you. We're guessing. Will you sell his face?"

Liang Sizhe looked at Cao Ye, smiled and said, "Since I've already said that, then I have to sell this face."

"It has nothing to do with me," Cao Ye said, "I didn't agree to intercede. Whether you accept an interview or not is up to you."

"Come on, what interview?" Liang Sizhe tore off the bath towel on his shoulders, rolled it up and threw it to Song Qingyan in the air.The clothes on his body were soaked by the rain, and the black T-shirt stuck to his body, revealing the outline of his muscles faintly.

"Do you want to wrap the wound first before taking a picture?" Song Qingyan caught the bath towel, still thinking about bandaging the wound, "Should we not delay this for a while?"

"Can the medical staff come over and wrap it for Teacher Liang?" The girl who took the video asked with some hesitation, "Just... just take pictures while bandaging, okay?" She said without confidence, because she was not sure if this request would be acceptable. It will arouse Liang Sizhe's resentment.

Song Qingyan didn't dare to make up her own mind, so she looked up at Liang Sizhe.

"It's more gimmick, isn't it?" Liang Sizhe smiled, "Okay, that's fine."

Seeing that Liang Sizhe agreed to the interview, several people immediately became busy.Song Qingyan held up an umbrella and ran to the medical car to call the doctor over. The people who took the video quickly set up their tripods and set up the camera to adjust the focus.

Zeng Ran got up and talked to Cao Ye about the reshoots, and then discussed post-editing with the assistant director next to him.

Only the two of them were left idle in the busy scene. Liang Sizhe was still leaning on the edge of the table, looking at Cao Ye and asking, "Why are you here to watch the filming so late?"

Cao Ye glanced at him: "Aren't you also filming so late?"

"It's different," Liang Sizhe smiled, "I'm an actor, and I have to film in the middle of the night on a rainy day. Are you..." He looked at Cao Ye, and his voice paused intentionally. After dealing with the media for so many years, he knew why he was the most embarrassed Appetite.

Cao Ye originally looked away, but seeing him pause for a moment without speaking, his gaze returned to his face: "What about me?"

"Are you..." Liang Sizhe looked at him, leaned his upper body slightly towards him, and said in a low voice, "Come here to see me?"

When his voice is deep, he looks very textured. The media once commented that he has a good voice suitable for narration in literary films.Whether it's suitable to read it or not Cao Ye doesn't want to comment, but the voice is tickling his eardrums now.

Cao Ye laughed, "You think too much."

"Really?" Liang Sizhe also laughed, "Otherwise, I can't think of any reason for you to come here so late in the rain."

Here it is again, although the tone is commonplace, but the content of the speech is always a bit aggressive, as if he is trying to force him to admit something.Cao Ye didn't like this, and looked at the patter of raindrops falling outside the awning, and said in a normal tone: "It's easy to have accidents when filming such a fast-paced drag racing scene on a rainy day. I'll come over and have a look at it."

"Oh," Liang Sizhe nodded, and said, "Director Zeng said that you weren't there when the scene was filmed in the last version."

"The last edition..." Cao Ye was momentarily at a loss for words, frowning and explained, "I didn't come to the last edition, but something happened, this time—" He stopped in the middle of the sentence , I thought to myself what I was trying to get rid of in a hurry, it seemed as if I was guilty, and I really fell into Liang Sizhe's way.

He simply didn't explain, and changed the subject, and asked Liang Sizhe's question instead: "——All right, I just came to see you, what's wrong?" He wanted to see what Liang Sizhe wanted to say.

Liang Sizhe didn't speak, but looked at him with a half-smile.

Cao Ye also looked at him, and said calmly, "You initiated the peace request, so what's so strange about me visiting a class?"

Liang Sizhe laughed: "It's nothing strange to see me, but it's strange that I refuse to admit it." His voice was a bit deep, and his tone was slow, with a faint smile,

He made a chat like a chess game. Cao Ye felt that he was throwing chess pieces, step by step, step by step. He obviously seemed careless, but he had to surround himself to a dead end before he would give up.

This person really... When did he become like this?Feel like a prey under siege.As a man, this feeling is not very comfortable, and even makes him a little irritable.

He couldn't help but choke on Liang Sizhe: "You can talk at every step for a day, and you offend the media like that, right?"

Hearing this, Liang Sizhe was startled for a moment, then turned his face and smiled: "That's not true, I'm too lazy to use so much brain when talking to them."

"Are you tired of talking like this every day?"

"It's okay," Liang Sizhe turned to look at him, "Forget it, I won't tease you, are you really angry?"

"It's not..." Before he finished speaking, Song Qingyan brought the doctor over, and Cao Ye moved a step to the side to make room.

Seeing someone else approaching, the two of them fell silent in a tacit understanding.

The camera lights are in place, and the interview is about to begin.

The doctor sat on the stool and began to disinfect the wound on Liang Sizhe's arm. Although the wound was not deep, the area of ​​the scratch was quite large, and the gravel on the ground was also mixed in.

The doctor used tweezers and iodophor to treat Liang Sizhe's wound. Liang Sizhe didn't make a sound and his expression didn't change during the whole process, but the blue blood vessels protruding from his forearm let Cao Ye know that the process might not be so pleasant.

The interviewer asked questions according to the pre-planned outline: "Si Zhe, is it your first time to shoot a fight scene, do you have any different feelings?"

"Playing, the feeling is similar." Liang Sizhe's tone was relaxed, as if chatting, "acting is no different from other plays, if you have to say something different, it hurts, and it's a bit enjoyable."

The person who interviewed him continued his words and asked, "Did you enjoy the fight?"

"Yeah," Liang Sizhe smiled at the camera, "After all, you can fight freely without being stopped, and you don't have to worry about making headlines tomorrow. Thinking about it this way, it's especially enjoyable."

He took the initiative to mention the matter that made the headlines because of the fight back then, and everyone present was a little stunned for a moment. Even the doctor who was in charge of treating the wound paused for a while after hearing it.

After Song Qingyan came to his senses, he immediately came over nervously and stopped him: "Delete that paragraph just now, let's do it again."

"Don't, what are you deleting?" Liang Sizhe said with a smile instead of changing his expression, "The audience likes to watch this, so go ahead and ask."

Song Qingyan didn't have the courage of Xu Yunchu's one-sidedness. As soon as Liang Sizhe opened her mouth, she lost all momentum and turned to look at Cao Ye with pleading eyes.At this moment, she completely forgot that Cao Ye was on Luo Meng's side, and somehow thought that he would be on Liang Sizhe's side.

The girl in charge of the interview also turned her head to look at Cao Ye, waiting for him to speak up to support Xuanfa—Liang Sizhe took the initiative to cooperate to create a topic. Just based on the answer just now, the number of views and attention of this video can be imagined. This answer must not be deleted.

Cao Ye was a bit overwhelmed, obviously Liang Sizhe picked it up, but the pressure from both sides fell on him instead.

However, Liang Sizhe didn't think it was a big deal to watch the excitement, so he looked up at him and asked, "What do you think, Mr. Cao?"

I think you should stop talking nonsense, Cao Ye thought.This person has debuted for ten years, and he should know what to say and what not to say in front of the camera better than anyone else.What's more, with his step-by-step rhetoric, he should be handy in handling interviews—so what he said just now was intentional, right?Doing things on purpose to make him difficult, right?

But after thinking about it, he still didn't say the sentence "I think you're right". After all, he couldn't bear to see him being besieged by public opinion again. I will check and confirm with you before going out, don’t worry.”

"Ah, that's really great, thank you Mr. Cao!" Song Qingyan clasped his hands together and shook at him, it was obvious that he was really relieved.

Liang Sizhe looked away from his face, turned his face and smiled, and let out a slight snort in his nose. With his smile, Cao Ye realized that what he said just now had given him another shot.

If he knew it earlier, he should have let him suffer the consequences. What is he always rushing to save... Cao Ye thought to himself, when he turned around and cut the video, how could Xu Yunchu let such an answer flow out? It's not his turn to worry about it .

It's just that I witnessed Liang Sizhe being besieged and abused by the public in the hotel room many years ago, and I still remember the mood at that time very clearly.It happened once, and he couldn't convince himself to watch that scene happen again.

Although Liang Sizhe is not as isolated and helpless as he was then.