The Eye of the Storm

The silhouette of Liang Sizhe was traced in the night, it was obviously just a very common picture, but for some reason, Cao Ye felt that Liang Sizhe looked fragile and lonely in front of him.

It's like the boy who was on the rooftop ten years ago, strumming the acoustic guitar with his fingers jerky.

In the past ten years, Liang Sizhe has gone from a boy with nothing to a height that countless people in the industry look up to, and has become the wanton and arrogant young actor that the media likes to mention, but Liang Sizhe seems to have never changed at this moment. .

Cao Ye stood there watching Liang Sizhe for a while, then walked over and sat down next to him.

He couldn't figure out what Liang Sizhe was thinking, but he always felt that Liang Sizhe looked the same as ten years ago. He seemed to be aloof from others, but in fact he really needed company.

The beginning of September has turned into early autumn, and the weather has cooled down recently. The altitude of the mountain is high, and when the wind blows, it is actually a bit cool.

Their arms touched each other, and they could feel each other's warmth.

For a while, neither of them spoke.There was silence on the mountain, and the rustle of the wind blowing through the leaves was in my ears, which sounded a bit like the sound of pattering rain.

Liang Sizhe silently smoked at the side. He took out a tinfoil tray from the RV, and occasionally flicked the cigarette ash on the edge, and did nothing else.

The tinfoil plate was not big, Cao Ye didn't know how long Liang Sizhe had been out, but the bottom of the plate was already covered with a layer of soot.Liang Sizhe seemed to be like this all the time. He didn't usually smoke, and once he started smoking, he would smoke one after another until he had exhausted all the cigarettes in his hand.

After a while, Cao Ye spoke first: "Didn't you say that you don't usually carry cigarettes with you?"

"Well," Liang Sizhe said, "I took out a box of the ones provided in the caravan."

"Are you used to smoking?"

"I'm addicted to smoking, so I can't get used to it."

"Why didn't you smoke in the tent? It's still quite cold outside."

"Come out to get some fresh air. I usually have to be careful of paparazzi taking pictures wherever I go. It's nice and clean here." After smoking a cigarette, Liang Sizhe stubbed out the cigarette butt in the tinfoil tray, and took another cigarette out of the case. Bite in the mouth.

He took the lighter and lit it with a soft "click", and the flames sprang up. He was about to lower his head and get closer to light a cigarette, when Cao Ye raised his hand and smoked the cigarette from his mouth.

Liang Sizhe released the button of the lighter and turned to look at him.

Cao Ye took the cigarette case in his hand again: "Stop smoking, and get back all the quitting portion at once. Is this called quitting smoking?"

"It's more than that for quitting." Liang Sizhe looked at him, his eyes seemed to flicker in the dark night, and he retracted his eyes after a while, looking into the distance, "However, since you said that, it's considered No more smoking."

After a while, Liang Sizhe asked again: "I was in Yinsi back then, is the video tape you recorded still available?" He always wanted to ask this question but never asked. , the time they met each time was very short, and they often separated before they had time to ask. Later, they didn't ask because they didn't dare to ask, because they were afraid that Cao Ye would resist mentioning the time they spent together day and night.

But tonight Cao Ye said that he wanted to go back to that time, which was a bit beyond Liang Sizhe's expectation, but after thinking about it, it made sense, Cao Ye probably sealed all his emotions between Cao Xiuyuan and Zheng Yin before that happened.

"I can't remember clearly." Cao Ye lowered his eyes, and the cigarette cut from Liang Sizhe's mouth twirled a few times between his fingers, "Probably at home abroad."

Liang Sizhe said "Oh" and didn't ask any more questions.

Cao Ye didn't know why he was lying, but he actually knew where the video tape was.After leaving Yinsi that year, he went to learn film editing and edited those fragmentary clips into a documentary. It was the first film he edited. There was only one person in it, and the only protagonist was Liang Sizhe.He watched those videos repeatedly, subtitled them, and found suitable background music. He originally wanted to give Liang Sizhe a 19th birthday present, but after returning to China that summer, he witnessed the scene of Cao Xiuyuan and Zheng Yin.

After that, he put the videotape on the shelf and never watched it again. For some reason, he seemed to be a little scared to open the videotape.Sometimes he misses the time of Yin Si. He witnessed with his own eyes that after Liang Sizhe was awarded Best Actor for the first time, he returned home to the United States. He originally wanted to take out the videotape for a look, but before the screen jumped out, the voice rang out first. Get up—"Did you miss me? I miss you very much, brother Sizhe", he immediately closed the video interface while holding the mouse.

When editing the video, he thought that he would be very happy to see each other again after not seeing each other for a year, so he deliberately cut this sentence to the beginning of the video, but when he opened it again, his mood changed. Dare to face myself at the time, and never tried to open that videotape since then.

Cao Ye changed the subject: "Why is the phone turned off?"

"It was the media who came to ask about the scandal, and when they got upset, they shut it down."

"Tired, aren't you?" Cao Ye picked up a branch and scratched it on the ground.

"Ok?"

"Have you been tired all these years?" Cao Ye asked a little more completely.

"Why do you ask that?" Liang Sizhe turned his face to look at him.

"I wanted to ask this question a long time ago," he pinched the branch in his hand and pulled it aimlessly on the ground, "I didn't discuss it with you in advance before I left Yinsi. Thinking about it afterwards, maybe I should Let you choose by yourself, after all, being an actor has to pay the price of freedom and privacy, and it may not be an easy path... What are you looking at me like that for?"

Liang Sizhe smiled, looked away, and sighed softly, "Cao Ye, you..."

Others envy him and look up to him, only the person beside him who gave him the opportunity back then will ask, have you been tired all these years?

This person is really...how can he be so innocent as to be both cute and cruel, and let himself be so helpless?

"Let's go for a walk together." Liang Sizhe stood up while supporting the ground, "Do you often come here for drag racing?"

"It's not too often, maybe once in a while." Cao Ye also stood up with him, and the two of them walked along the road they drove by earlier.

"Call me if you come later." Liang Sizhe stopped a few steps away from the cliff and said.

"You want to race too?"

"I'm not interested in drag racing, but this road looks very dangerous. I think, if we die, we will die together," Liang Sizhe said with a smile, "Otherwise, there will be no one in the world who will ask me if I am tired. It's boring."

Cao Ye was taken aback for a moment, then forced a smile and said, "Didn't I drive steadily just now when I said such an unlucky thing?"

"More than ten years ago," Liang Sizhe said after a pause, and said in a very normal tone, "My parents had a car accident today. My father was nearly 20 years old, and no one thought that there would be an accident. When the accident happened, my mother He leaned towards me and blocked the impact of that moment for me, so in the end I only broke a few fingers on my left hand. After that, I stayed at home for nearly a year. I didn't know what to do in the future, until Teacher Cao came to the door , Said to take me to Beijing to try to see if I can act... So Cao Ye, Mr. Cao is very kind to me, I can't go to Yinsi without him, and when he had an accident, I can't just sit idly by."

Cao Ye looked at him, and the night wind blew his hair slightly, just like the boy who stood on the dilapidated Yinsi Street and looked up at a row of old doors.

"I know," Cao Ye looked away, "You have your difficulties."

"Later I heard a saying that everyone is like a moon, always has a dark side, which is never seen by others. I think Teacher Cao is like this. He is dark in his private life, but in the movie This side shines...sometimes I also feel conflicted, do you know what he said to me when we met that night?"

"Do not want to know."

"He heard that I was going to act in the film you voted for, so he didn't keep me at all, but let me act well."

"It's up to him to say that," Cao Ye replied a little bluntly, "You were supposed to act well."

Liang Sizhe laughed, and seeing that he didn't want to talk about this topic, he followed him and said, "Yes, I was going to act well."

The two returned to the tent and got into their sleeping bags.

Although I live in a big tent, the space is not so spacious.The two sleeping bags were side by side. I thought Cao Ye would be uncomfortable sleeping like this, but after lying down, he found that he was not uncomfortable at all.

Liang Sizhe didn't lie down, he took the script and sat aside, holding a pen to write and draw on it.

"Have you finished the script yet?" Cao Ye asked him while lying down.

"I've read it, but I haven't seen it through yet." Liang Sizhe turned over a page of the script and said, "You need to be familiar with the lines, and you should also read the part of Xiao Meng carefully, after all, to play with a young actor, you must be able to bring him up. "

"Are you going back to the set tomorrow?"

"Yes."

"I'll take you to the airport."

"Okay," Liang Sizhe looked down at him, "but maybe I need to go to my manager first."

"If I go to find her, can I take Xiao Xiaobai and raise her?"

"can."

"Then... good night, Liang Sizhe." Cao Ye said, his tone was the same as when he was at the Blue Banquet.

The pen in Liang Sizhe's hand paused for a moment: "Good night."

Cao Ye closed his eyes. He thought that he had to get sleepy earlier, otherwise Liang Sizhe would lie down after finishing the script and toss and turn himself, which might disturb Liang Sizhe.But I don't know if it was because he spent a lot of energy climbing the mountain during the day, and the drowsiness quickly hit him, and he fell asleep after a while.

The sound of breathing in the ear gradually became even, Liang Sizhe closed the script and put it aside.Reading the script was just an excuse. The real purpose was to make Cao Ye feel more comfortable when he was with him.

Liang Sizhe looked down at Cao Ye.Cao Ye slept with his back facing him, and his protruding shoulder blades held up his cotton T-shirt to hold up two small angular bags. He looked no different from Yin Sishi.

Ten years ago, when he turned off the lights and lay on the bed, he would often look at the boy on the opposite bed by the moonlight. At that time, he thought that every day he lived like this would be one day less, but he didn't expect that there would be such an opportunity ten years later.

Maybe I was too greedy. When they didn't contact each other a few months ago, they thought that reconciliation was already an extravagant hope, but now that they really reconciled, they couldn't restrain themselves from wanting to get and monopolize further.

Probably human nature is to push forward, but greed is not enough to swallow elephants...

Acting in the play, and acting outside the play, maybe by acting, one day I can become self-deceiving like Cao Ye.I really don't know if I should look forward to that day.

Liang Sizhe woke up first in the morning of the next day. At this time of the year, his mood would reach its lowest ebb, and he could not sleep well.

He sat up and looked sideways at Cao Ye.Cao Ye was still in a deep sleep, and he was not very honest when he slept. Half of his upper body got out of the sleeping bag, and the neckline of his T-shirt was slanted irregularly, exposing a large piece of skin around his collarbone.

Liang Sizhe looked at him for a while, lifted his sleeping bag and got up, went out to wash up, and calmed down his body reaction during sleep before returning to the tent.

Cao Ye may have turned over halfway, and now he is sleeping on his back, with a sizable small tent propped up under him.

Lin Yan called Cao Ye's name in the distance, and after calling "Yezi" several times, Cao Ye finally opened his eyes from his deep sleep, frowned slightly, and said in a hoarse voice, "Where is this..."

Turning his head, Liang Sizhe was sitting on the side, pulling his hair back into a tie.

Cao Ye's sleepy eyes woke up immediately, but his voice hadn't recovered yet, and he said in a hoarse voice, "Morning, why did you wake up so early?"

Liang Sizhe freed up a hand, took off the black hair tie between his teeth, and tied up his hair: "I will join the group in a few days, and I have to adjust my biological clock recently."

"Oh..." Cao Ye raised his hand and put it on his forehead. He hadn't slept so soundly for a long time, and felt that his brain would not be able to wake up for a while.

"Cough." Liang Sizhe coughed dryly on purpose. Cao Ye didn't understand, so he turned his face and looked at him. Seeing Liang Sizhe glanced under him, he followed suit. After realizing the reaction, he immediately sat up and talked. Clothes, got up from the sleeping bag, pretending to be natural: "Well... I'll go wash up first."

"Go." Liang Sizhe said calmly, as soon as Cao Ye left, he couldn't help laughing, it was so cute.

Although he knew that he should pay attention to the content and scale of the joke, he couldn't help but tease Cao Ye and then observe his reaction.

But didn't you often tease him like this ten years ago?It's not too much.

Liang Sizhe drove the car for the return trip. He offered to drive, and Cao Ye had no objection.Lin Yan didn't take the opportunity to ask him face to face, and sent a WeChat message: "How was last night?"

Cao Ye ignored it.He sat in the co-pilot seat, took out his phone and swiped for a while, and the news on Liang Sizhe was all on the push. Various self-media took advantage of this wave of enthusiasm from different angles, and the public opinion was also carnival.

——"From a movie queen to a young model, Liang Sizhe's aesthetics are really inclusive."

——"Didn't it be said that the young model was a misrepresentation? The real identity is a student of the acting department of Nortel, but he can join the group and act with the actor in his junior year. Couldn't this resource be given by Liang Sizhe?"

——"I heard that Liang Sizhe pushed Cao Xiuyuan's video for his new girlfriend, and it turned out to be true."

—— "So the audience bought tickets just to watch him fall in love with his new girlfriend? He has become so proud since Cannes. He has wasted all his talents. Why didn't Cao Xiuyuan scold him?"

——"Cao Xiuyuan scolded him, just kidding. When Liang Sizhe fell in love with Hu Yusi at the age of 19, Cao Xiuyuan said in an interview that actors should fall in love. Maybe he is applauding Liang Sizhe now."

——"The master and apprentice really cherish each other. Cao Xiuyuan was almost killed because of that dirty thing back then. Wasn't it the one who was saved by Liang Sizhe? To put it bluntly, the two of them are the same thing."

——"Some people speak too badly. Cao Xiuyuan slept with underage boys and was involved in sexual assault. Liang Sizhe is in a love affair between you and me. There is no need to splash dirty water so unreasonably, right?"

——"But was Liang Sizhe the only actor who publicly gave Cao Xiuyuan's platform back then? He was not wronged by saying that he was a scumbag, and I will say it clearly. Please, don’t waste these words like this.”

—— "Is there a conclusion on the matter of sexual assault? The police issued a notice back then saying that there was no direct evidence of sexual assault. After so many years, contemporary netizens are still enforcing justice."

I don't want to look down, but I can't help but look down.Cao Ye scrolled down the comments on the screen, one by one, scrolling down like masochistic.

That sentence is true, everyone is a moon and has a dark side.But all the dark sides of Cao Xiuyuan are coming towards him, and he has been shrouded in the shadow brought by him for several years. He no longer knows how to bypass this dark side and go to the other side to see how Cao Xiuyuan shines.

The phone rang suddenly, and the name "Xu Yunchu" popped up on the screen.

"Your manager called me." Cao Ye turned to look at Liang Sizhe, "Do you want to answer?"

"Pick it up," Liang Sizhe said while driving the car, "You press speakerphone."

When the phone was connected, Xu Yunchu's voice spread in the car: "Mr. Cao, are you with Sizhe?"

"What's the matter?" Cao Ye didn't say directly, "Is it about clarifying the scandal?"

"I've dealt with the scandal for many years. There's no need to find him. It's about the dog. It's urgent. Let him answer the phone."

"I'm here, what's the matter Yunchu?" Liang Sizhe asked.

"What's wrong with Xiaobai?" Cao Ye asked at the same time.

"It suddenly vomited all of a sudden this morning, and it foamed at the mouth after vomiting cleanly. Now it was sent to the hospital, and the doctor didn't dare to give it an answer," Xu Yunchu said in an anxious voice, "Sizhe, would you like to come and see?"

"Give me the address," Liang Sizhe said with a frown, "I'll go right away."