The Eye of the Storm

The anti-theft door slowly went up, Huang Ying walked over and pushed the door open, letting Liang Sizhe go in first.

Huang Ying walked into the room and turned on the light, Liang Sizhe stood at the door and looked at the space.The two-storey low-rise building looks inconspicuous from the outside, but once you enter it, you will find that there is something special about it. The LOFT layout, the first floor and the second floor are connected, and the glass rooms are independent of each other. The internal mechanical equipment is unobstructed, like a sophisticated and complex building. The movie studio looks quite design at first glance.

"Is there someone upstairs?" Liang Sizhe looked up.The glass room on the second floor near the stairs has shutters drawn on all sides, and only the light from inside can be vaguely seen.

"Oh," Huang Ying also looked up, "Recently, a crew was in the post-production stage and came to stay up all night to edit the film."

"The movie that Cao Ye voted for?"

"That's right, a student crew has a lot of ideas, so Cao Ye voted for it."

Liang Sizhe walked inside to visit, and asked as he walked, "Who thought of the design of the all-glass room?"

"It's also Cao Ye," Huang Ying followed and introduced to him, "They all use sound-proof glass, which has a good sound-proof effect. If you want privacy, just close the blinds on all sides, just like the upstairs... ...isn't that special?"

"It's quite Cao Ye's style."

"However, there are also a few rooms that are not glass rooms, such as the dubbing room and the film room, which require relatively high airtightness, are all on the second floor."

"What is this place mainly used for?" Liang Sizhe pushed open the door of a glass room and went in to have a look around. "Rent it to the crew and film production team?"

"It's not wrong to say renting, but the rent is very cheap. Most of the time, it is equivalent to lending to those crews who have ideas to make movies. Do you know what those students named this place? Utopia, Utopia Utopia, they I feel that this place is like a piece of pure land, as long as you have ideas about movies, everything can be realized here.”

Liang Sizhe repeated in a low voice: "Wu Tuo..."

"The director of "The Darkest Choice" Zeng Ran went out from here. At that time, he made a CULT film. Cao Ye liked it very much, so he chatted with him for a long time, and then "The Darkest Choice" came out, so Zeng Ran is a rookie director who was single-handedly discovered by Cao Ye."

"Zeng Ran and those in his team are pretty good," Liang Sizhe nodded, "They have ideas and execution ability."

"Cao Ye said the same thing. You don't know. At that time, many film companies came to poach Zeng Ran's team. The conditions offered were very attractive. But after chatting with Cao Ye all afternoon, Zeng Ran didn't hesitate at all. I signed a contract with Lomon."

Huang Ying talked endlessly about what happened in Wutuo, and Liang Sizhe listened attentively, occasionally asking a few questions.

"People who came to Uto like Cao Ye very much. When they saw him for the first time, they were all surprised. They didn't expect him to be so young. When "The Darkest Choice" happened, those students were worried about Cao Ye, I was afraid that Luomeng would really be acquired by Janis, and their pure land would cease to exist. Thinking about it, I knew that Janis would not allow such a place to burn money, so Cao Ye was very anxious at the time, and this was also the reason exist."

Liang Sizhe said "Yes", he could understand the thoughts of those students—presumably there would not be another company like Luomeng that would support new directors like a charity, and even if there were, there would not be a boss like Cao Ye In this way, give them such freedom, tolerance, and do whatever they want.He was obviously doing a great thing, but he was drunk last night and said that he was nothing without Cao Xiuyuan.This person is really... Liang Sizhe shook his head almost imperceptibly, to belittle himself to such an extent.

When we reached the end of the space while talking, Huang Ying raised her hand to signal: "Here, this is the small theater where Cao Ye often comes to sleep. In fact, it's just a theater for internal screenings, and there's nothing special about it."

The iron door was pushed open, and Huang Ying fumbled to turn on the chandelier above her head, and the dim yellow light illuminated the confined space.There is not much space, and there are three rows of leather seats. Huang Ying sat on it and demonstrated it: "But the seat is very comfortable, you can sit or lie down." She said and pressed the button on the side of the seat, and the seat back slowly relaxed. Put it down and it becomes a reclining chair.

"The first time I saw this kind of seat was ten years ago." Liang Sizhe smiled, "The principle is similar, you can sit or lie down, but the structure is much simpler than this."

"Cao Ye said that too," Huang Ying said with a smile, "Did you two see it together ten years ago?"

"Really." Liang Sizhe walked to the square table next to the wall. There were more than a dozen Blu-ray discs piled up in a mess on it. Looking at the "Thirteen Days" CD, looking at Xiao Man carrying a violin on the cover, she asked Huang Ying, "Who brought these CDs?"

"Oh, those students from the film crew brought them here," Huang Ying explained, "They are your fans, but they like you. As long as they talk about the movies you acted in, they will talk for a long time without stopping."

"Where's Cao Ye, what movies does he like to watch?"

"He, the movies he comes to this theater to watch are mainly for hypnosis, some monster-fighting movies, he tends to fall asleep watching those kinds of movies, but the movies are so good that he can't fall asleep."

Liang Sizhe gave a "hmm" and put the CD back on the table.

Huang Ying stacked the discs together and looked at Liang Sizhe, seemingly hesitating to speak.

Liang Sizhe looked up at her: "What do you want to ask?"

Originally, she had swallowed the question back, but she didn't expect Liang Sizhe to see through it so easily. Huang Ying asked hesitantly, "It's nothing, I'm just suddenly curious... Are you reconciled?"

"Huh?" Liang Sizhe looked up at her, "Cao Ye told you that we are not getting along?"

"No," Huang Ying hurriedly denied, "I guess, he didn't tell me about this."

"Really?" Liang Sizhe smiled, found a seat in the first row and sat down, leaned his elbows on his thighs, raised his chin slightly to look at Huang Ying, "Since you guess that way, there must be a basis, right? explain?"

Huang Ying was a little confused: "I'm not sure if Cao Ye wants me to say..."

"Why not sure?

Being watched by Liang Sizhe with such eyes, it is really difficult to stand firm. Huang Ying feels that compared to the silent and sharp boy ten years ago, Liang Sizhe is now gentler but also stronger, giving her a kind of aura full of openness The feeling is obvious, but the tone is normal, but it gives people a sense of oppression for no reason.

Huang Ying said hesitantly: "How should I put it, he is a bit resistant to talking about you, and sometimes I will mention you to him, but he always quickly turns to other topics, so I seldom talk to him later. I mentioned you before."

Liang Sizhe nodded thoughtfully.

The mobile phone in his pocket suddenly vibrated, Liang Sizhe took out the mobile phone and looked down, looked at the display on the screen and said: "Dawn, my manager called, it seems that those photos were indeed posted on the Internet. "

Huang Ying was a little nervous for him: "Then what should I do now?"

"It's okay." Liang Sizhe's tone didn't seem to change. "Just a clarification. I'll answer the phone."

Liang Sizhe picked up the phone, and Xu Yunchu's tone on the other end seemed to suppress his emotions deliberately: "Sizhe, where are you now?"

-

A splitting headache.It was as if an electric drill was buzzing into the temple.

Cao Ye frowned and opened his eyes in pain, the hangover feeling was too uncomfortable.

The curtains were drawn so tightly that no light could come in, so he couldn't tell whether it was morning or afternoon.I took off my shirt and shoes, but my lower body is still tightly dressed. What's going on?Who brought him back?Cheng Duan or Lin Yan?

Forget it, don't think about it, I get a headache when I use my brain.

The room was pitch black, and it was impossible to see the time on the watch.Cao Ye wanted to take out the phone from his pocket, but he couldn't find it. He groped around on the bed, but still couldn't find it.He had no choice but to support the bed and sit up, got out of the bed and walked barefoot to the edge of the bed, and opened the curtains with a slam.

The sun was so dazzling that he subconsciously squinted his eyes - judging by the bright sky, it should be noon.

After looking around in the room, Cao Ye saw his mobile phone was placed on the bedside, and it was actually turned off.He couldn't remember the last time his phone was turned off.

Cao Ye turned on his phone, and at [-]:[-] in the afternoon, he really slept for a long time.

The messages on the notification bar popped up one by one, Cao Ye only glanced at them, and suddenly came to his senses.

——"Liang Sizhe appeared in the bar in the early morning and was taken away by the police for investigation, suspected of being involved in drugs"

——"The re-shooting of "The Darkest Choice" is in crisis again! On the night of the finale banquet, Liang Sizhe was arrested for suspected drug use"

Cao Ye suddenly lost all sleepiness, clicked on a message and glanced quickly.

The message is very concise, but with several pictures.Under the dim light in the middle of the night, Liang Sizhe followed the two policemen to the side of the police car. Although he only took a side view from a long distance away, he could still clearly identify that the protagonist of the photo was indeed Liang Sizhe.

Swipe further down, and on the far left of the picture, a ostentatious blue Aston Martin looks extremely familiar.Cao Ye is sure that this car is his own, because the lights have been modified by him, and there will be no second identical sports car.

Come to think of it, it was Liang Sizhe who sent me back last night.

He was also splashed with milk by Liang Sizhe, that's why he was topless now, it should be Liang Sizhe who helped him take off his shirt.

——Liang Sizhe took drugs?How can it be?

Cao Ye took a closer look at the accompanying picture, the background looked familiar, and it looked like Yin Si.The underground bar mentioned in the news, wouldn't it be "burning"? !

He called Huang Ying, and the call was connected. Before Huang Ying could speak, he asked, "What happened to the bar? Why is Liang Sizhe here?"

"You've turned it on at last." Huang Ying also sounded anxious, "I've been calling all morning to tell you about this, but you've always been turned off."

"Liang Sizhe turned off my phone, tell me what's going on."

"Yesterday, someone in the bar was carrying drugs, and I don't know who reported it. The police suddenly came and searched, and took everyone out. I had to ask you to come and cooperate with the investigation, so I had to call you. I didn't expect to answer the phone. It was Liang Sizhe, as soon as he heard about it, he said he would come over immediately..."

Before she finished speaking, Cao Ye frowned and interrupted: "He said he wants to go, but you really let him go? With his status, there are so many people, and the police are here, so you don't have to think about it. You know that you will definitely be photographed. Why didn't you stop him on the phone?"

"Yes, yes, yes," Huang Ying consciously admitted his mistake, "I was also confused at the time. He said he was Liang Sizhe. I didn't realize it. I was so surprised. After I realized it, he had already hung up the phone. I also wanted to let him Don't come over, but the call came, your cell phone has been turned off, and I don't know his number..."

Cao Ye felt his head hurt even more, raised his hand and pinched the center of his brows: "I see, I can't blame you for this."

"I took a look at Weibo in the morning, God, you don't know what the public opinion is like now, I didn't have the heart to look down after a few glances...By the way, Cao Ye, go to the police station as soon as possible to cooperate with the investigation , although Liang Sizhe helped settle the bar affairs yesterday, and only need to suspend business for ten days for rectification, the police still need you to take notes."

"Well, I see." Cao Ye said.

After hanging up the phone, Cao Ye looked at the relevant comments on his mobile phone. Just like what Huang Ying said, the public opinion is now unsightly, and some fake stories are actually made up with nose and eyes:

——"After I heard about Cannes, Liang Sizhe turned down all the film appointments. In name, he wanted to be the director himself. In fact, he wanted to quit drugs. Because Cao Xiuyuan was banned for five years and could not develop in China after that, he would definitely cooperate with other directors. If you don’t detoxify, you will be exposed, and you have no choice but to be forced by your manager to detoxify.” This retweet and comment have already exceeded [-].

——"The film "The Darkest Choice" is enough to memorize, even the two film stars were arrested for taking drugs, who would dare to take it..."

——"Liang Sizhe has been taking drugs all the time, you don't know? He beat people at the press conference because of drug addiction."

——"Actor Liang is indeed a nightclub guy, and he was photographed going to a nightclub again. If it was ice skating, there would be an NP after the event. This would match up with the previous revelations. It was said that his private life was chaotic, but someone even cleaned it up. I don't have to wash it this time."

What is it all about... Cao Ye turned off the phone and threw it on the bed, without continuing to look down.

Angry, upset, anxious for no reason, and my head hurts even more—why didn't Xu Yunchu clarify?

Unable to hold back, he leaned over and picked up the phone again, looking for clarification of the news, and he did find it, it was released at nine o'clock in the morning.

"The reporter contacted Liang Sizhe's manager, Xu Yunchu, and the other party said that Liang Sizhe showed up at the bar in the early morning to help his friends deal with related matters. Liang Sizhe himself has never been involved in drugs..."

But the comments below the clarification report did not seem to buy it:

——"This is too unconvincing. I don't even have a picture. Is it because I haven't released it yet at the police station?"

——“Why did the police take me away for investigation after helping a friend with something? I must have a problem with myself.”

——"So Liang Sizhe's friends are all friends who run bars, and the nightclub coffee is solid."

——"What important friend, who showed up in the middle of the night to help deal with it, didn't actor Liang know that he would be filmed? Probably Xu Yunchu couldn't get in touch with Liang Sizhe, so he made up a cover to fool the reporters and waited for the police announcement."

Another push message popped up at this time: "The producer of "The Darkest Choice" said that there is no reshoot plan for the time being."

Cao Ye clicked and glanced: "Cheng Duan, the person in charge of publicity and distribution of "The Darkest Choice" and vice president of Luo Meng, said that he had already contacted Liang Sizhe himself. Liang Sizhe was just helping his friends to assist the police in investigating the bar. Walked out of the police station at about 4:[-] in the morning, "The Darkest Choice" has already finished filming, and the re-shooting has not been affected. But when asked if he had met Liang Sizhe himself, Cheng Duan said that he hadn't for the time being."

After quickly reading a few lines, Cao Ye called Cheng Duan: "What does the title mean?"

"You've turned it on at last." Cheng Duan breathed a sigh of relief on the other end of the phone, "Have you seen the news? The reporter called for an interview just now, and I made a simple clarification."

"It's okay to clarify the content, but the title is too vague. People who clicked in knew that Liang Sizhe was fine. If they didn't click in, they just read the title, thinking that we were discouraged and didn't want to do another reshoot."

"Yes, I realized this problem when I saw the push just now. The media want to attract attention and earn clicks, and this is something that can't be done... Everyone is paying attention to this matter now, and they should be patient to read the content."

"The content is not very good," Cao Ye said in a bad tone, "I haven't met with you in the last sentence, so it's clear that you don't know if Liang Sizhe is still locked up."

"This is indeed the media's unkindness. I clearly said that I didn't meet but it was over the phone. They deleted the second half of the sentence. I was just about to call their editor-in-chief to scold him, and you called."

"The news has already been pushed, and it's useless to scold me."

"Yes," Cheng Duan comforted him with a good temper, "Next time I have exclusive news, I won't give this company any more information, and cancel the in-depth cooperation with them... How is Si Zhe now? I can't hear him from the phone I'm in a good or bad mood, but I always feel that this kind of thing is pretty bad. He sent you home and helped you deal with the bar. He probably didn't sleep a night. It was already eight o'clock in the morning when I called him. You still haven't slept, do you want to go and see him?"

"I..." Cao Ye paused, "Maybe he's already asleep. Besides, I don't have his address."

"You can just ask him on WeChat, he will reply to you naturally when he wakes up," Cheng Duan laughed, "You are willing to go over and stare at the shooting in the middle of the night in the rain, Liang Sizhe, because you have such a big thing, I don't believe you will Be patient and don't look at him."

Being guessed by Cheng Duan, Cao Ye really couldn't bear his temper.He was not a person who could bear his temper, and now Liang Sizhe had this kind of thing because of him.

After leaving the bedroom, Cao Ye saw a half cup of milk on the coffee table in the living room. Through the glass door of the kitchen, he saw a small pot sitting on the induction cooker. Liang Sizhe helped him heat the milk last night.

Cao Ye stared at the glass of milk in a daze for a while, then walked back to the bedroom, picked up his phone and sent Liang Sizhe a message: "Where do you live? Send me the address."

There was no immediate return.Cao Ye held the phone, stared at the screen and waited for a while.

what are you doing?asleep?

Forget it, let's take a shower first, what's the matter with waiting for the other party to reply?

While taking a shower in the bathroom, he thought of the scene at the finale banquet last night. Liang Sizhe stood upright in the banquet hall holding the wine glass, listening soberly and calmly to Lin Yan's accusations of whether he was right or wrong.

Why didn't he justify it?It is said that "Red Man Red Woman" is owed to him by Cao Ye who got into trouble when he was young and ignorant, and he didn't help him out of good intentions for no reason.

He was so annoying to Liang Sizhe at that time, why would he help him find resources for no reason?

After taking a shower, Cao Ye walked out with a towel around him, picked up his phone and looked at it again, Liang Sizhe sent a message back: "Planning to visit to say thank you?"

It's still the same kind of tone as if nothing happened, joking, and through these few words, he can make up for his half-smile expression when he said this.

There is also a positioning message below, and a "Come on, your car is still with me".

Cao Ye didn't reply to the message, so he made a phone call to call the driver over, then went to the bedroom to get dressed, took his mobile phone and went out.

The address Liang Sizhe gave was in a secluded villa area on the outskirts of the city. It was a little far away, and it took nearly 40 minutes to arrive by car.

On the way, Cao Ye dug up the news from last night and read it several times. I have to say that the photo was taken quite well. Liang Sizhe, who was following the policeman, had broad shoulders and long legs, and the angle was a bit far away. The two long legs were very conspicuous. .The profile of the face looked sharp, and the line of the jaw was sharply outlined by the night. Although there was no expression on his face, Liang Sizhe in the photo looked straight and straight—how could anyone suspect that he was taking drugs?

In the summer of July, the trees are densely shaded, and after entering the villa area, you have to turn around to find the house number given by Liang Sizhe. The driver almost lost his way and went back to the exit.

It looks like a maze, Cao Ye looked at the environment of the villa area and thought, maybe Liang Sizhe also had considerations of hiding from the paparazzi when he chose this place - it is really easy to get lost when you first come in.

When the driver walked around the path looking for the house number, the phone in Cao Ye's hand vibrated again. He looked down, and another notification popped up——

"Liang Sizhe picked up the dog's head on the street and confirmed that he was not detained for drug involvement"

Cao Ye touched the screen with his finger and clicked on this push: "At about [-]:[-] in the afternoon, the reporters squatting near Yunchu Media finally waited for Liang Sizhe, the protagonist of the drug-related incident. After Liang Sizhe got off the car, Manager Xu Yunchu, who had been waiting by the side of the road, handed the dog to Liang Sizhe..."

In the photo, Liang Sizhe was wearing a simple white T-shirt, gray sweatpants, and a baseball bat. He squatted down and touched the dog's head. The dog was also very close to him, and leaned over to put his head on his shoulder. superior.

Liang Sizhe seemed to be in a good mood. Rumors about his drug use were raging outside, but he, the protagonist of the incident, didn't seem to be affected by the public opinion in the slightest, and he still remembered to pick up the dog.

This dog...is Xiao Xiaobai?Cao Ye stared at the photo. In fact, he didn't look like Xiaobai, but more like Caesar. He had the same body shape, the same hair color, and the posture that likes to pounce on people is also quite similar.

For a moment, he thought of Liang Sizhe walking down the stairs of Lanyan, and was pushed back by Caesar. He still remembered Liang Sizhe in that scene, and it was a very rare appearance of Liang Sizhe who was very happy.

"Mr. Cao, we're here." The driver said from the front.

Cao Ye came back to his senses, answered, opened the door and got out of the car.After stepping on a few stairs and walking to the door of Liang Sizhe's house, when he rang the doorbell, he suddenly thought whether he should find an excuse to come.

I don't know why, but I just don't want to say that I came to see him out of worry.

Before he could think of an excuse, the door opened, and Liang Sizhe was wearing the clothes in the photo just now: "Are you here? It's pretty fast."

The dog in the room probably sensed that a stranger was coming, and stood at the entrance behind him, barking at him.

Cao Ye took advantage of the situation and found an excuse: "Well, that... I'll come and see the dog."

Liang Sizhe leaned against the door frame and looked at him with his arms crossed, with a half-smile.

Cao Ye was a little scared by him, and just about to say something, Liang Sizhe asked leisurely, "Where are you cursing?"

Cao Ye was caught off guard and was amused by him.