The Eye of the Storm

Cao Ye suddenly lost interest.

He doesn't know what he's doing.The girl next to him has only met once, he doesn't know her, he doesn't like her, and he doesn't even know her name—is it Xu Ke or Xu Ke?Never asked, never thought to ask.

Probably the temperature of the car's air conditioner was adjusted too low, and Cao Ye felt a little cold.

He opened the door and got out of the car, and the girl followed. She sensed that something was wrong with Cao Ye, and asked him, "What's wrong?"

Cao Ye didn't speak, walked a few steps, sat on a wooden chair by the side of the street, and looked at the empty street in front of him.

The warm wind of midsummer night blows gently, and the hot and humid dog days are not pleasant. Cao Ye was afraid of the heat when he was a child, and he never liked summer, but now he feels that the summer night with the warm wind blowing on his face is better than the air in the closed car. The space is much more comfortable.

"It's so hot outside." The girl tried to talk to him.

"Is it hot?" Cao Ye asked casually.

"It's 39 degrees today, and it's impossible to stay without an air conditioner."

"Yeah, it's impossible to stay without an air conditioner." Cao Ye repeated her words.He was wondering where did Liang Sizhe's air conditioner in Lan Yan'an ended up?At that time, Yin Si didn't know that Liang Sizhe's family members were gone. Many years later, Liang Sizhe had already won Cannes best actor with "Wangchuan Zhichuan", and he happened to see a report that before Cao Xiuyuan chose Liang Sizhe, the young Just went through a life change.

At that time, Liang Sizhe had no father or mother, and he probably didn't have much money, so he actually installed an air conditioner for him in the name of Cao Xiuyuan.At that time, Cao Ye had made up his mind not to associate with Liang Sizhe, but after reading this report, he still couldn't help but soften his heart.

Cao Ye didn't take the girl back that night, he sent the girl away, and went to the small theater by himself, looking for boring movies to hypnotize.After Cao Xiuyuan returned to China, his sleeping situation started to deteriorate again.Thinking about the time when she slept the best last time, it was actually in Liang Sizhe's RV.

Before falling asleep, Cao Ye said to himself that the person sitting in that Maybach may not be Liang Sizhe, there are tens of millions of people in Beijing city, maybe some boring passer-by drove a Maybach into Yinsi by mistake at night.

What's more, even if Liang Sizhe was indeed sitting in that Maybach, what should I care about?They are all adults, get drunk late at night, and go home with a girl they don't know. Didn't Liang Sizhe do such a thing?Hu Yusi, Lin Huan, Liu Jing... Even if he hasn't paid much attention to Liang Sizhe's related reports these years, he can mention a lot of Liang Sizhe's rumored girlfriends without thinking.

Cao Ye consciously convinced himself, and took advantage of his drunkenness to fall asleep after a while.

After that day, Cao Ye never received any more messages from Liang Sizhe.

Cao Ye thought that Liang Sizhe might be reading the script and couldn't spare time to send a message.He settled down to work, thinking that no matter whether he answered "Try Another Word" or not, Liang Sizhe would always send a correct answer, so he just waited.

But three days later, Cheng Duan came to his office to congratulate him. As soon as he entered the door, he said that Mr. Cao really had a lot of face, and he could really snatch someone from Director Cao.

Cao Ye was stunned for a moment: "What do you mean?"

"Aren't you pretending to be stupid with me?" Cheng Duan laughed, "You didn't inform me of such good news at the first time. I only found out about Song Qingyan's initiative to come to me to discuss the contract."

"Liang Sizhe took "Try Saying One More Sentence"?"

"You really don't know?" Cheng Duan realized that he wasn't joking, and said in surprise, "He didn't tell you, but asked Song Qingyan to ask me who the person in charge of the project is?" He observed Cao Ye's expression and guessed He asked, "Are you in a cold war?"

"What cold war?" Cao Ye categorically denied, "Don't guess."

Cheng Duan "tsk": "You won't offend Liang Sizhe, right? But you shouldn't. If you really offend him, he can still take the resources you handed over? Can the temptation of these resources be so great?"

Cao Ye didn't bother to talk to him, and watched the trailer just sent by the publicity director: "I haven't contacted him for many days, how can I offend him?"

"You haven't contacted for many days?" Cheng Duan was amazed, "It seems that there is really a cold war."

Cao Ye laughed and perfunctorily let him go.

After Cheng Duan left, Cao Ye closed the trailer, touched the cigarette case from the table, lit a cigarette and smoked.

Perhaps Cheng Duan had just announced the good news, when suddenly there was a burst of noise outside, mixed with applause and screams. Luo Meng's working atmosphere is free, and when he encounters good news about projects or box office, he often makes strange things. little movement.

But for some reason, Cao Ye himself couldn't be happy.This film is the key project of Luo Meng in the second half of the year. Getting Liang Sizhe to sign means that more than half of the project has succeeded, and it is a good thing to celebrate for both the company and the film; Five years later, Liang Sizhe chose him between him and Cao Xiuyuan. From any point of view, this was the best news, but for some reason he felt depressed.

Why didn't Liang Sizhe directly inform him, but asked Song Qingyan to negotiate a contract with Cheng Duan instead?Of course, according to the general process, the executive agent contacts the project leader to discuss the contract matters. This process is very normal, but Cao Ye just feels that it is not the case.

After work in the evening, Cao Ye drove the car to Liang Sizhe's villa area. The guard recognized his car and raised the barrier, but Cao Ye changed his mind temporarily, reversed the car, and went back home.

He didn't think about whether to go to Liang Sizhe, but he always felt that after opening the door, everything was unknown, and he hated losing control.

But he couldn't figure out Liang Sizhe.Just on the way home, my mind changed more than once.

For a while, I felt that Liang Sizhe simply hated himself.It was utterly disappointing to think of him coming home drunk on a midsummer night on the Insiere Street where they had spent together, with a girl in his arms whom he had known for only a few hours.

For a while, he felt that Liang Sizhe was hiding like himself.It's not that Liang Sizhe didn't escape. The 17-year-old Liang Sizhe often climbed onto the rooftop by himself, licking his wounds like a wounded beast. ——But why is he hiding this time?Is it because I couldn't choose Cao Xiuyuan's film?Or is it because they are no longer the innocent, pure and innocent teenagers on Yinsi Street, and he is escaping from the past that cannot be returned?

After a while, I felt that Liang Sizhe did it on purpose.He deliberately didn't contact him, hung him up, upset him, and then waited for him to take the bait himself, and took the initiative to contact him.This seems to be the case with Liang Sizhe, whether it is reconciliation or no contact, he is always in control of the rhythm.

They didn't see each other for the next few days, and neither of them took the initiative to send messages to each other.This seems to have turned into a contest inexplicably, and whoever takes the initiative will lose.

Liang Sizhe didn't show up during the whole process of signing the contract. Xu Yunchu and Song Qingyan came over to discuss the specifics of the contract. After the two parties signed it, Song Qingyan took the contract to Liang Sizhe to sign.

The returned contract had Liang Sizhe's signature on it. The handwriting was simple and beautiful, and it penetrated the back of the paper. It was signed next to Cao Ye's name.

Cao Ye took it and stared at Liang Sizhe's name for a few seconds. He flipped through the contract and asked absently, "What is Liang Sizhe doing at home?"

"He was reading the script when I went," Song Qingyan said truthfully, "I don't know about other times."

"Oh." Cao Ye responded.

"Why didn't you go to see Brother Sizhe again?" Song Qingyan asked.

"He's busy reading the script," Cao Ye looked up at her and smiled, "I've been pretty busy recently too."

"That's right." Song Qingyan said.

Cao Ye stamped Luo Meng's seal on the contract and made two copies, one for Song Qingyan and the other for his assistant Xiao Meng.

After the contract was signed, half a month later, the launch time of "Try Again" was set, just a week later.

The background city of this film is set in Shanghai, which also means that after a week, all the staff and actors of the film crew will leave for Shanghai.

Du Zhui sent a message to Cao Ye about the start time. They chatted for a while, and Cao Ye asked him, "How long are you going to shoot this film for?"

"It's three to six months. It's hard to say. It depends on whether the shooting goes well."

The shooting intensity of the crew Cao Ye knew that, if not for extreme weather or special circumstances, generally speaking, everyone would have been working continuously in the past few months from the start of the film to the finale, especially with Liang Sizhe as the lead actor.

So when does Liang Sizhe plan to find herself?Cao Ye slid down the chat interface, staring at the back of Xiao Man on Liang Sizhe's profile picture.I haven't contacted him for more than half a month, and the chat with Liang Sizhe has been pushed to a very low position.

Ever since the media reported the meeting between Liang Sizhe and Cao Xiuyuan last time, Liang Sizhe had disappeared from the public eye.Occasionally, Cao Ye would enter Liang Sizhe's name in the search box to see if there was any new news about Liang Sizhe, but he never found it once.The only latest news is about "Try Again". The media analyzed from various angles why Liang Sizhe did not accept Cao Xiuyuan's film in the end, but chose Du Zhui, a cutting-edge director in the industry.

Do we have to wait a few months for the filming to finish before we meet again?Obviously it was Liang Sizhe who proposed to reconcile, so what is it that they are not in contact with each other now?Cao Ye stared at their last conversation, Liang Sizhe asked himself to go to his house to deliver the film, and suddenly there was an indescribable anger in his heart.

Forget it, Cao Ye thought, what a contest or not, he should take the initiative to find Liang Sizhe and ask him face to face why he suddenly cooled their relationship.

Cao Ye clicked on the chat interface with Liang Sizhe, and typed a few words: "What are you doing at home?" After thinking about it, he deleted it, and changed a sentence: "In two days, I plan to go hiking with some friends. Don't want to be together?"

There are two options, yes and no, simple and clear, which prevents Liang Sizhe from playing tricks.If Liang Sizhe refused, then it would be considered that there was no such thing as reconciliation.Cao Ye thought.

Liang Sizhe didn't reply to the message immediately, Cao Ye was dealing with work, and checked his phone every once in a while.

A few minutes later, a video invitation popped up on the phone—Liang Sizhe sent a video call.

Cao Ye hesitated for a moment, but the message was sent by himself. He stared at the interface for a moment, then touched the screen with his finger and connected the video call.

Liang Sizhe's face was shown on the screen, his hair was tied up, his hair had grown longer in the past half a month, and the broken hair on the side of his neck was less.He seemed to be sweating a lot, and the sound of rapid panting breathing was extremely obvious through the receiver.

"Are you working out?" Cao Ye looked at him and asked.I have to admit that after seeing Liang Sizhe, the feeling of anxiety was immediately relieved, but as for the anger that just came to my heart, there was no trace of it.

"Yeah, playing an underground boxer, you have to look decent no matter what." Liang Sizhe held his mobile phone and looked at the camera as he walked. The black headphone cable runs along the line of the mandible and ends below the collarbone.Xu Shi's movement just now was so violent that Cao Ye could see his chest rising and falling through the screen.

"How are you practicing?" He looked at Liang Sizhe on the screen and asked.

"Alright."

"To what extent do you want to practice? Apeng is not a very exaggerated muscular man, is he?"

Liang Sizhe took a bottle of water, unscrewed the cap and took a few sips. The rolling Adam's apple was very obvious on the screen. Hearing what Cao Ye said, he put down the mineral water and coughed twice with a smile: "No If you want to gain muscle, you mainly learn boxing from the coach, practice skills and moves, and as for training muscle lines, it’s all by the way.”

"Oh..." Cao Ye said.

"You think I'm going to train like a bullfrog?"

Cao Ye thought about what he said, and felt that the metaphor was really vivid, so he burst out laughing.This unexpected laugh made him feel a little embarrassed, he was obviously going to question Liang Sizhe, why did he make him laugh again?

No one mentioned the matter that they hadn't contacted each other for more than half a month, and they chatted very normally.

"Where are you?" Cao Ye looked at the environment behind him.Liang Sizhe was leaning on the window sill behind him. Outside the window were row upon row of high-rise buildings. It didn't look like the villa he lived in in the secluded suburb of the city.

"Hotel." Liang Sizhe put the bottle of water on the window sill.

"not at home?"

"I've already come to Shanghai."

"So fast?" Cao Ye was a little surprised, "Didn't you say it will start up next week?"

"Half a month ago, the crew had a script reading session. I want to practice boxing again. I found a teacher and stayed here."

"Then, what about Xiaobai?"

"The foster care is with my agent."

"Oh."

Liang Sizhe raised his hand and wiped the sweat that flowed down the side of his face to his chin: "By the way, didn't you just say you want to climb a mountain, which mountain to climb?"

"The mountain without a name was privately hired by a friend." Cao Ye thought that since Liang Sizhe had already gone to Shanghai, wouldn't it be too much for him to come back just to climb the mountain?But he continued to ask, "Can you come?"

"The day after tomorrow, right?" Liang Sizhe said, "OK."

Cao Ye didn't expect Liang Sizhe to agree so simply, but he had to admit that Liang Sizhe agreed to come over, and all the anxiety and displeasure caused by him these days disappeared.

Cao Ye decided not to worry about these things with Liang Sizhe.Liang Sizhe had to read scripts and practice boxing. Thinking about it, he was really busy, so it was understandable that he didn't send a message.

"Then let's talk about it like this." Cao Ye said.

"Well, as long as the weather doesn't get worse, the flight can take off normally."

"The flight did not take off normally, so I used a giant magnet to attract the plane back." Cao Ye suddenly thought, this is what he had when he was a child when the plane back to China was delayed, but he suddenly remembered it now.

Liang Sizhe looked at him and laughed, "Why are you so cute, Cao Ye."