The Eye of the Storm

Cao Ye didn't get past the script all night.

The news of the meeting between Liang Sizhe and Cao Xiuyuan was pushed on the mobile phone. Cao Xiuyuan returned to China after five years to prepare a new film, and his every move received media attention.Liang Sizhe has always been the focus of attention. The two will talk about cooperation after many years. The media has no reason to let go of this hot topic.

Which side will Liang Sizhe choose to stand on this time?Which theme is Cao Xiuyuan planning to find a new way of doing?Cao Ye couldn't help guessing the content of their conversation when they met.

I tried my best to find reasons to persuade Liang Sizhe to act in Luo Meng's movie from various angles, but perhaps Cao Xiuyuan had already won the contest as soon as he opened his mouth.

From Liang Sizhe's point of view, Cao Xiuyuan is the mentor who made him the actor twice, not to mention that even Liang Sizhe himself admitted before that the tacit understanding between him and Cao Xiuyuan in movies is comparable to "passionate love".

He couldn't think of any reason why Liang Sizhe would reject Cao Xiuyuan.

Cao Ye thought maybe he shouldn't pretend to be rational and magnanimous, and let Liang Sizhe compare the two scripts before making a decision. He should use this film as a bargaining chip for reconciliation, and tell Liang Sizhe that if you reject me a second time in five years, then What else do we need to be friends?

But he seems to like being friends with Liang Sizhe, no matter when he was young or now ten years later, being with Liang Sizhe makes him feel at ease.

Cao Ye absently flipped through the project proposal in front of him, when someone knocked on the door outside, he said "Come in".

"Are you here?" Cheng Duan walked in, "I went to deliver the film to Liang Sizhe in the afternoon, and he didn't invite you to eat?"

"You didn't watch tonight's tweet?" Cao Ye looked up at him.

"Look," Cheng Duan said with a smile, "so we're going to rob someone from your father now, right? Tsk, the old lover who got back together and the benefactor who sent me to the sky, from the perspective of Sizhe, it's really impressive. hard to decide."

"If it was you, how would you choose?"

"Me," Cheng Duan thought for a while, "I think clothes are not as good as newcomers, and old lovers are more important now. Besides, didn't he already repay your father's favor at the Cannes show? Speaking of which, I've been thinking recently, Liang Sizhe At that time, when I received "The Darkest Choice", the reason I told the media was to repay your father's kindness. At that time, I thought he was repaying your father's kindness, but now it seems that it is not all?"

"Ask me," Cao Ye smiled, "I don't know what he thinks."

After Cheng Duan left, Cao Ye closed the project book and raised his hand to pinch the space between his eyebrows.

What Cheng Duan said reminded him that when Liang Sizhe took on "The Darkest Choice", everyone in the circle disliked his decision. It would not be a wise move to succeed Huang Qianshi in a supporting role. With the thought of reconciling himself, he probably wouldn't even take a look at this appointment.

Liang Sizhe saved the film "The Darkest Choice", and also saved Luo Meng from being acquired by Garnis. After all, he should owe Liang Sizhe a favor now. There is really no reason to use "reconciliation" to threaten Liang Sizhe Play Lomon again.

Forget it, the same sentence, every film has its own destiny, let it go.

After coming out of Luomeng, Cao Ye drove to Yinsi. Yinsi had completed rectification in the past few days, and Huang Ying found someone to clear up the relationship. The police sent someone to check. I heard that the inspection results passed and the business has reopened ahead of schedule. Cao Ye planned to take a look.

As the car turned into Yinsi, Cao Ye saw that the character "burn" standing at the end of the narrow street was lit up again.

He parked the car on the side of the street, walked into the bar, and walked down the long spiral staircase. The music became clearer the deeper he went.

At the end of the spiral staircase, Cao Ye turned into the bar. Huang Ying was standing at the bar counter, writing the wine list on the table.

When she looked up, she saw Cao Ye approaching, she straightened up and waved her hand to him to greet him.

Maybe it was the reason why the bar was ordered to rectify. In the past, some noisy dance music was played in the bar. Even if the resident singers were invited, they would sing some rock and roll, but tonight they actually sang Cantonese songs.It's just that the song was supposed to be affectionate, but it was performed coldly by the resident singer.

Cao Ye walked over, glanced at the singer, and asked Huang Ying, "Where did you find the resident singer?"

"Is it alright?" Huang Ying said with a smile, "I applied for the job by myself, and I used to be an actor."

"It looks familiar."

"How do you think everyone looks familiar?" Huang Ying pointed to the other side, "Then do you think that person looks familiar?"

Cao Ye glanced in the direction she pointed, and said casually, "I don't look familiar."

"Did you see it?" Huang Ying turned her face and looked over, "Look carefully, isn't it like Liang Sizhe? It's the one I mentioned last time, the fake Liang Sizhe that Ding Mao and the others hired to sit in the town!"

Only then did Cao Ye turn his face and look at it. The look just now was to dismiss Huang Ying, and he didn't know who she was referring to.

Seeing this, he was slightly taken aback. That person did look a bit like Liang Sizhe, especially with Liang Sizhe's iconic long hair at the awards ceremony. From a certain angle from the side, it was almost as real as the real one. degree.

But Cao Ye still said, "I don't see anything like it."

"What's your look?" Huang Ying didn't intend to continue arguing with him on this issue, so she stepped back, "Do you want to drink? I'll adjust you to a lower temperature?"

"Okay." Cao Ye agreed, and found a place by the bar to sit down.

He turned his face to look at the "fake Liang Sizhe". The man was probably not very old, and he also wore a piece of hair that was not too short. Looking at it from a certain angle, he really looked like the Liang Sizhe who was in Yinsi back then. .

Huang Ying brought over the prepared cocktail, saw him turn his face to look at the boy, and said loudly in his ear: "I'll just say it's like it!" After finishing speaking, before Cao Ye could respond, she turned and left.

Cao Ye picked up the wine glass and took a sip of the wine. He didn't deliberately avoid his eyes, and looked at the boy from a few meters away.

Xu Shi noticed Cao Ye's gaze, the boy also turned to look at him, then got up and walked over, walked in front of him, and sat on the high stool.

Cao Ye didn't speak. Alcohol still worked for him. After drinking half a glass of wine, he was already slightly tipsy.

The boy said: "My friend said that there is a handsome guy over here who is always looking at me."

The closer I got, the more I didn't feel like it. When I opened my mouth again, the resemblance disappeared.

"Why do you think I'm looking at you?" Cao Ye put the wine glass on the bar, looked up at him and asked.

"Because I'm pretty?" The boy tilted his head to look at him.

Cao Ye smiled and shook his head: "Guess again."

"Because I look like Liang Sizhe?" the boy said with a smile, looking quite proud of it.

"Are you imitating him?"

"What?" the boy said dissatisfied, "I look like him, so I still have to imitate him?" Probably this boy has been praised for his good looks since he was a child, and he can be seen in his tone and demeanor. And the meaning of pride.

Cao Ye smiled, took another sip from his wine glass, and said nothing.Fakes can be so sought after, no wonder Liang Sizhe is regarded as the white moonlight in the minds of countless people.

Cao Ye followed the eyes of the crowd and looked in the direction of the singing stage. The resident singer left the stage, and the background music suddenly became lively, beating the drums very rhythmically.

The light suddenly dimmed. The boy took the small glass of wine in front of Cao Ye, turned around, turned the water-stained side of the glass to himself, and drank it with his mouth in his mouth.

This scene often appears in film and television works. At this moment, the boy in front of him is doing it skillfully. Although it looks a little artificial and cheap, maybe the light is just right, making him look like Liang Sizhe and Cao Ye at the moment he lowered his eyes. Inexplicably, he thought of the scene of Liang Sizhe leaning over to borrow a fire while biting a cigarette on the day after the finale.

A beam of light was lit on the stage, the music suddenly became noisy, and the people off the stage seemed to be instantly ignited.

Cao Ye turned his head to take a look, and the resident singer actually began to dance a pole dance.It's hard to imagine that someone who just sang indifferently on the stage will dance pole dance - obviously even a soulful Cantonese song can be sung so coldly.

Cao Ye didn't look too much, turned around, and the boy's eyes were also attracted by the resident singing on the stage.

"You didn't imitate the essence," Cao Ye looked at him and said, "It's not like that."

His volume was normal, but the noise in the arena was so loud that it completely drowned out his voice.

"Ah?" The boy realized that he was talking, turned around and asked him what he said. Seeing Cao Ye shaking his head, he leaned over and intentionally drew the distance very close, so close to a somewhat ambiguous level.

"Let's go find your friend." Cao Ye said.

"Do you want me to accompany you tonight?" the boy asked close to his ear.

Cao Ye frowned slightly, and waved his hand in rejection.

Seeing his impatient expression, the boy walked away disappointed, looking back at him from time to time during the few steps he walked.

After the boy left, not long after, another girl about 23 or [-] years old came and sat next to him and asked him if he recognized her.

Cao Ye has seen this girl before, Ding Mao's friend, when he went to visit the crew, this girl once revealed something to him, but at that time he was with Lin Huan, and now he just made a few jokes to get past it, no Be more responsive.

But maybe he was drunk tonight, Cao Ye thought that since Qin Zhenzhen's part had ended, maybe he could start the next one.

Probably because there are too few pastimes in life recently, he always thinks of Liang Sizhe when he has nothing to do, and these days he drives to Liang Sizhe's house again and again, and this morning he mistakenly thought that Liang Sizhe wanted to come over and kiss him, he was a little crazy.

It's not too long after Mingming and Qin Zhenzhen ended, so how could this kind of thinking come about?

He thought that he probably lacked love in the past few years, so he continued to talk about one after another, so as to fill the vacancy in life and emotion.It's just strange that once a girl really loves him, he will soon have the idea of ​​ending it - so what he wants, even Cao Ye himself can't figure it out.

He seldom dissects himself. One and a half years after Li You's death, he went to a counselor because of his poor sleep quality, but he forcibly stopped the consultation halfway through because of the questions the counselor asked him. , all past experiences that he did not want to face.

I don't know when he started, he chose to avoid the problems he didn't want to face, probably because he tasted a little bit of sweetness, and felt that it would make his life much easier this way. In that shell.

The shell is safe and hidden, there is no wind or rain, and he doesn't want to go out from it. He dissects himself clearly. It is easy to live clearly, but it is too difficult to live easily.

Too lazy to flirt, drank a few glasses of wine together, chatted for a while, the girl offered to find a substitute driver to take him home, and he agreed.

He wasn't too drunk, but Cao Ye still felt a little dizzy when he went up the stairs.He raised his hand to support the wall for a while, and the girl leaned over to support him, picked up his arm, and put it on his shoulder.

Cao Ye was able to walk by himself, and he didn't put his body weight on the girl, but just put his arms around her.

The surrogate driver was waiting at the door, and they got into the car. When they got in, Cao Ye saw a Maybach turning into the street, and suddenly thought that Liang Sizhe seemed to be driving a Maybach as well.

Why did you think of Liang Sizhe again?Cao Ye sat in the car, leaned his head on the back of the seat, cleared all the thoughts in his mind, and chose to escape again.The car started to start, and when he was about to leave Yinsi, he couldn't help but look back. The Maybach was parked by the side of the road, and no one got out.

He thought that he couldn't empty his mind completely. Those thoughts were like boiling water, with bubbles constantly floating up from below, and then blasting away many problems.

——Is the person sitting in that Maybach really Liang Sizhe?

——The people who went to "Burning" were all frustrated underground filmmakers, who else would drive a Maybach there?

——If it was Liang Sizhe, what did he do in Yinsi?Didn't he have dinner with Cao Xiuyuan and Zheng Yin tonight?

——Could it be that he also heard that "burning" has been rectified and has opened for business, so he wants to come and have a look?

—Then why did he park the car on the side of the road and not get out?

—Did you see yourself?

——The ostentatious dark blue Aston Martin, you must have seen it, right?

Cao Ye took out his mobile phone, but no message came.Old friends who pass each other should say hello when they see each other, right?

What do you say?Cao Ye opened the chat interface with Liang Sizhe, and typed a line: "Did you go to Yinsi just now?"

The girl leaned over to look at him: "Who are you messaging?"

"It's okay." Cao Ye stared at the words on the phone, and after a while, he turned off the screen and put the phone away.

The car drove a few more kilometers, Cao Ye took out his phone, and deleted the words he just typed on the screen word by word.

"Go back to Yinsi." He closed his eyes, and said to the driver, his voice was a little heavy.

"Go back?" The girl on the side looked at him in surprise.

"Well, come back." Cao Ye said, he was a little too lazy to speak, and for some reason, he suddenly became a little anxious.

"Why go back?"

"I'll go back if I want to." Cao Ye said perfunctorily.

The car drove into Yinsi within ten minutes, Cao Ye opened his eyes, and from a long distance away, he saw that the Maybach had already driven away.

There is no car at the gate of Yinsi, it is empty.