The Eye of the Storm

Liang Sizhe appeared on the podium twice that night.

Once for Best Actor, and once for Best Picture.

After the Best Actor award was over, Liang Sizhe stepped off the stage holding the trophy, and the people in the rows before and after his seat stood up and shook hands with him.

After that, several awards were announced, and the best picture award was announced in the third from the bottom. As soon as the title of "Thirteen Days" was announced, the audience applauded like thunder, mixed with cheers and whistles .

The 39-year-old Cao Xiuyuan won the third best film award in his life, and sent a young man with no acting experience to the position of best actor. He deservedly dubbed the title of genius director by everyone.

The applause continued for a long time. Cao Xiuyuan took the main crew of the crew to the stage. More than 30 people occupied two rows. Cao Xiuyuan stood behind the microphone in the middle, and Liang Sizhe and Zheng Yin stood beside him.

The surrounding applause was overwhelming, and Lin Yan and Dabai were also applauding. Cao Ye thought that he was probably the calmest person in the audience.

Sanctimonious.He looked coldly at Cao Xiuyuan on the stage.

Cao Xiuyuan looked very happy. After receiving the trophy, he said into the microphone that Liang Sizhe would be the most impressive actor on the big screen in the past ten years.

After he delivered his acceptance speech, the host standing by the stage said, then, director Cao, do you want to hug tonight's best actor, and let the media friends off the court take a photo for tomorrow's headline?

Cao Xiuyuan was probably in a good mood. It was rare for him to cooperate with the host's request. He turned around and hugged Liang Sizhe. He lifted Liang Sizhe off the ground with one hand and quickly put him down again.

At this moment, the flash flickered crazily, and the click of the shutter was drowned in the applause and screams.

After the awards ceremony, Lin Yan dragged the group of them to the backstage.

A large group of people gathered in the background, and the media interviewed tonight's winners with cameras and microphones.

As soon as he entered the backstage, Cao Ye saw Liang Sizhe, who stood out from the crowd surrounded by the media, from a long distance away.

He held three trophies, Best Actor, Best Picture, and Best Director were all held in his arms, and the favor of the whole world seemed to be concentrated on him.

The media was full of curiosity about this dazzling newcomer, and all the microphones were stuffed in front of him, scrambling to ask him questions.

"May I ask how Director Cao Xiuyuan chose you?"

"Before this, did you ever think about winning the best actor?"

"What do you think after getting the actor?"

"Why did you thank Xiao Man for the role at the end?"

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Facing the swarming media and the swarming questions, Liang Sizhe's reaction was still green, and he didn't know how to answer one question first.

Looking up, he glanced over the heads of several rows of reporters in front of him, and saw Cao Ye, a young man in a white shirt who was out of place with the adults in suits and leather shoes around him.

Obviously, Cao Ye also saw him.

They stared at each other for a second, then Cao Ye looked away and turned to talk to the person next to him.Liang Sizhe had never met his friends, so he didn't know which one he often mentioned was the person standing next to him.

"Sorry, I'll go over here." Liang Sizhe turned sideways to squeeze out of the media.

When the entertainment reporters saw that he was about to go out, they all took a step back to make way for him, but they didn't intend to let him go, but followed him.

Liang Sizhe felt a little helpless, and said as he walked, "Can you not follow me? I'm just going to meet a friend."

"What kind of friend?" A reporter gossiped, "A very important friend?"

"Could it be a girlfriend?" Another voice interjected.

Cao Ye was talking to Lin Yan, and Lin Yan touched his arm, motioning him to look forward.

He turned his head and looked over. Liang Sizhe took a few steps in his direction, but he couldn't seem to get rid of the reporters beside him, so he had to stop again to deal with the media.

"Does the little beauty want to come to you?" Lin Yan looked in Liang Sizhe's direction and asked Cao Ye.

"I don't know." Cao Ye said this, but he knew very well in his heart that Liang Sizhe should have come to find him.

He thought that if Liang Sizhe came to look for him, he would say congratulations.Giving up the role of Xiaoman to Liang Sizhe is the most correct decision he has made so far—but even if he didn't, Cao Xiuyuan would probably choose Liang Sizhe in the end.

Putting his own son by his side, how could he have an affair with a producer who has worked so well together?

It didn't take long for the four of them to stand together before they all dispersed.

Dabai met an old friend and found a secluded corner to chat. Lin Yan hooked up with a female award presenter in the blink of an eye, and after a while made the opposite person giggle non-stop. Chi Mingyao was dragged away by Chi Mingkai Take him to introduce seniors in the industry.

For a while, only Cao Ye was left leaning on the stone pillar, looking around idly.

In a blink of an eye, he saw Zheng Yin and Cao Xiuyuan standing together for an interview. Why are they always together?Afraid that others don't know that the two of them love each other more than Jin Jian?

Out of sight, he straightened up, asked Lin Yan for the car keys, and planned to sleep in the car in the underground parking lot for a while.

Liang Sizhe dealt with several questions from the media, and when he turned his head again, Cao Ye was no longer standing in the original place.The place is now empty.

He looked around, and a reporter asked him curiously who he was looking for, and if he was looking for Director Cao Xiuyuan. He ignored him and walked towards the person who had just talked to Cao Ye. The reporters still followed him, and they couldn't shake him off. .

Lin Yan was having a heated fight with the female celebrity in front of him. When he saw Liang Sizhe walking over, he raised his hand and greeted him: "Looking for Cao Ye?"

"Where did he go?" Liang Sizhe asked.

"Go to the car, I just asked for the car keys."

The lost filmmakers left the scene one after another, and the underground parking lot was not so clean.

Cao Ye got off the elevator and walked towards the place where he had parked before, but found that he couldn't find where Lin Yan parked the car.Looking at the past, Yi Shui'er's black cars all looked alike, so he could only look for them one by one according to the license plate number.

I don't know if I remembered the wrong location. After searching for a long time, my eyes were blurred, but I couldn't find the car that Lin Yan drove.

He called Lin Yan: "Where did you park the car? Isn't it the fourth row near the entrance? Why can't I find it... the fifth row? Did I remember wrong?"

While on the phone, someone behind him suddenly called him: "Cao Ye."

The underground parking lot was dimly lit, and as soon as he turned his head, Liang Sizhe, the new movie star, was standing a few steps away from him.

"How did you get rid of those reporters?" Cao Ye turned around and asked, he was really curious.

"Guess." Liang Sizhe walked towards him with a smile in his eyes, but he didn't really mean to ask Cao Ye to guess, and soon revealed the answer, "I didn't take the elevator, I ran down the stairs, and ran very fast. Quick, they didn't catch up."

After finishing speaking, he also stood in front of Cao Ye: "You have grown taller, Cao Ye."

"Haven't you grown taller too?" Cao Ye looked at him.He remembered that when they first met in Lan Yan, Liang Sizhe, who had his hair tied up, didn't seem to have changed much from that time, but his temperament was very different. He was taciturn then, but now he is full of vigor.

"Yes," Liang Sizhe smiled at him, and spread out a palm to him, "You haven't congratulated me yet."

Cao Ye looked at the hand, hesitated for a moment, then reached out to hold it, their bodies leaned towards each other, shoulders collided, Cao Ye said "Congratulations", Liang Sizhe replied "Thank you".

Then Cao Ye quickly let go of his hand.Since the scene where he bumped into Cao Xiuyuan and Zheng Yin more than half a year ago, he is now somewhat sensitive to physical contact with the same sex.

Liang Sizhe didn't pay much attention, looked at him and asked, "What are your plans for tonight?"

"There is no arrangement." Just as he finished speaking, someone hurriedly ran over from behind: "Sizhe!"

Liang Sizhe turned his head, and the man came over and pulled his arm: "We found you, why did you come to the underground parking lot? Director Cao and the others are looking for you."

"I'll go up in a while." Liang Sizhe said.

"That's right, you don't need to go up, just go to the car, we will go to the celebration banquet together later, we can't do without you tonight." The man glanced at Cao Ye, "Is this your friend?"

Liang Sizhe said "Yes", then looked back at Cao Ye and said, "If there is nothing planned, why don't you go to the celebration banquet with us? You will be eighteen in half a year, right? Let's go drink."

The tenderness in his eyes made it impossible for Cao Ye to refuse directly.

"Hey, it's supposed to be a celebration party within the production crew," the man seemed a little embarrassed, "But since we're friends of Sizhe, we can go together..."

Liang Sizhe turned his head to look at that person, and smiled: "Brother Lei, he is not an outsider, he is Cao Ye, the son of Teacher Cao."

The man suddenly realized, and immediately changed his attitude: "Oh——I said it looks so familiar, but I still think it's a newcomer actor. It turns out that it's Xiao Ye. I often hear Brother Yin mentioning you, so we should go together. We are all on our own. Let's go." let's go."

Unexpectedly, Cao Ye took a step back as if he had been stepped on his tail, and forced a smile: "You go, the celebration banquet, I don't have any credit, I still won't go."

"Drinking in the name of the celebration banquet," Liang Sizhe reached out to shake his wrist, "Come on, you will have a table with me in a while, and your father and uncle Yin, if they don't let you drink, I will intercede for you .”

"Farewell," Cao Ye broke away from his hand, "I have already made an appointment with Lin Yan and the others, we will go out for a drink tonight, you go quickly." He said, seeing Lin Yan who was walking towards here Yan, raised his arm and waved at him, "Brother Yan, here."

"What's your situation? I can't even find the car..." Lin Yan approached and glanced at Liang Sizhe, "Yo, you two met."

"Where is the car? Take me to look for it," Cao Ye said, then looked at Liang Sizhe and said, "I really can't go. I want to go out with my friends tonight. How about you go with us?" After asking, he himself felt a little hypocritical, Liang Sizhe, as the protagonist tonight, how could he leave the crew and go with them?

Sure enough, before Liang Sizhe could speak, the person next to him became anxious: "This is impossible, Sizhe, you must go to the celebration banquet tonight, otherwise I can't explain to Director Cao."

Cao Ye didn't intend to embarrass Liang Sizhe, he smiled and said, "Well...then I'll leave first, and you all go to the celebration banquet quickly." After speaking, he turned and left, grabbing Lin Yan's arm.

"What's the situation? Why are you hiding from him?" Lin Yan looked back at Liang Sizhe who was still standing there.

"Is there? Where did I hide?" Cao Ye denied.

"He confessed to you?"

"roll!"

After going back that night, Cao Ye regretted it a little. Even a person as big as Lin Yan could see that he was hiding from Liang Sizhe. Liang Sizhe was sensitive and could not fail to notice the change in his attitude.

In fact, he didn't want to hide from Liang Sizhe, but when he heard that he was going to meet Cao Xiuyuan and Zheng Yin, he instinctively wanted to escape.

——Yes, Liang Sizhe has nothing to hide. After the filming of "Thirteen Days", he took over the new film, so he can stay away from Cao Xiuyuan and Zheng Yin, and they can still be good friends.

Thinking of this, Cao Ye was in a better mood, and planned to call Liang Sizhe before leaving and ask him to come out to meet him, so as to prove that he did not hide from him.

Early the next morning, the scene of Cao Xiuyuan hugging Liang Sizhe spread all over the streets.The combination of a genius director and a young actor made everyone talk about it, and the media spared no effort to describe how wonderful the awards ceremony was this night, and how eye-catching the new actor Liang Sizhe was.

Liang Sizhe has become an instant hit since then. He is too young and too dazzling for people to ignore his sharpness.

Leveraging on the momentum of winning awards, "Thirteen Days" also started to be hyped. Cao Xiuyuan took Liang Sizhe to attend various interviews, and praised him without hesitation, saying that he will bring a long drought to the big screen this year. surprise.

The morning before leaving Hong Kong, Lin Yan got a gossip tabloid from somewhere, and read aloud at the dinner table with great interest: "Any ambitious director hopes to find a new actor like a blank sheet of paper. Write your own traces in one stroke, and outline the shape you want. Liang Sizhe is the blank paper that Cao Xiuyuan wants most. It is both talented and clean enough to be easy to shape..."

This bitter and malicious style of writing makes it difficult to stay in the literal meaning and not think elsewhere.

Before he finished reading, Cao Ye snatched the newspaper from his hand, tore it apart without saying a word, then got up with a sullen face and stuffed it into the trash can.

Probably because the breakfast was a bit greasy, Cao Ye felt his chest start to churn again, and the feeling of vomiting came up again.

This feeling made him extremely uncomfortable. His entire face was as pale as a piece of transparent paper. He frowned and wiped out the two people who caused this disgusting feeling without distinction, and turned to his friends. Said: "Don't mention them in front of me in the future."

He has always been able to take jokes, and he was never seriously angry. His face suddenly darkened, and the other three people at the table were all taken aback.

Cao Ye got up and went back to his room without eating a few mouthfuls of breakfast.Before going downstairs to eat, I left the TV on. The screen showed the reporter interviewing Cao Xiuyuan and Liang Sizhe. Liang Sizhe was holding the microphone and said that Mr. Cao was very patient in the crew and took the trouble to teach him how to act over and over again.

Before he finished answering the question, Cao Ye walked over and took the remote control to turn off the TV screen, then he lay down on the sofa and covered his face with a pillow.

He thought he was tired of Liang Sizhe.

This feeling of irritability is inexplicable and inexplicable, and it seems to come for no reason.

But this burst of anger was more violent than all the previous moments, so much so that he didn't want to see any pictures of Liang Sizhe, or hear any news about him.