This weekend, Xiang Chai and Cen Manchuan have a date.
Xiang Gu bought two NT live tickets, and made an appointment with Cen Manchuan to meet directly at the subway station.
Because Cen Manchuan is now an intern teacher in an elementary school and lives in the dormitory arranged by the school, while Xiang Guai is busy with the graduation drama, the two have been together for the past two months.
It was not easy to date, and both of them cherished the opportunity.
On the phone, Cen Manchuan asked, "Live? What live?"
Xiang Gu replied: "Les Miserables 25th Anniversary Concert, tickets are not easy to grab, I still asked a friend to grab the two best spots."
Cen Manchuan hurriedly said, "Then I will dress up well, and I will definitely live up to the two tickets you grabbed!"
Xiang Gu smiled: "Okay, then I look forward to Teacher Cen's cool debut."
In a blink of an eye, it's the weekend.
When Xiang Chai walked out of the subway station, he saw at a glance that his boyfriend was waiting for him with his back on the dazzling red motorcycle.
Cen Manchuan was like a huge luminous body, and he stood in the most conspicuous place as soon as he came out of the subway station. Everyone who passed by Cen Manchuan turned to look at him subconsciously, and some even secretly raised their mobile phones to take pictures of him.
And the reason why Cen Manchuan is so conspicuous is not because he is handsome and tall, but because—
"Why are you dressed like this?" Xiang Gu smirked. In this hot summer, his boyfriend dressed up as a walking feather duster, wearing a colorful Indian-style robe with sequins and feathers, and wrote a row of English in colorful paint on his face. "we will rock u".
Cen Manchuan was like a big dog who had done something wrong. He looked vigilantly at the passers-by and asked in a low voice, "Didn't you mean to come to the concert live... Why is there no one around with light sticks and light signs? ."
Only then did Xiang Gu know what he had misunderstood.
Xiang Guess explained, "It's NT live, not live! Simply put, it is to record foreign musicals, import them into China like a movie, and then play them on the big screen."
NT Live is a non-profit show broadcast program for cultural promotion in the UK since 2010. When there are musicals and plays in the West District, there will be more than a dozen cameras on the scene to record together, and after editing, it will be made into a movie-like effect.
And "Les Miserables" is a long-lasting classic musical. On its 25th anniversary, a commemorative concert was held at the London Coliseum. All the actors gathered together to sing all the music in the musical. of classic songs. And what Xiang Gu and Cen Manchuan are watching today is such a "concert".
"...So that's how it is." The physical education teacher who didn't pass the culture class scratched his head and said dejectedly, "I also thought, the name of this rock band sounds so sad, it's actually called 'Les Miserables', or else it's been 25 years since its debut. Still not red…”
This is not the first time that Cen Manchuan has made such jokes.
The worlds of the two of them are too far apart, and Cen Manchuan has not yet figured out how he broke down and guessed this flower.
Seeing that he was downcast, Xiang Gu hurriedly apologized: "I'm sorry, I didn't make it clear."
"How can I blame you? If I Baidu in advance, it will not be a joke."
"It's my fault, I didn't do my boyfriend's duty to remind you."
"No no no, it's my old hat who can make a mistake between musicals and concerts."
The two apologized to each other for a long time, and finally laughed out loud at the same time.
Xiang Guai thought that his depressed appearance was very cute, so he stood on tiptoe and touched his furry head, but accidentally found a hand of gold dust.
"..." Xiang Guess, Mr. Cen really dresses up too carefully.
The theater is still some distance from the subway station, and the small motorcycle is galloping, and it takes less than ten minutes to reach the destination.
When entering the arena, Cen Manchuan really caught the attention of many people. There were originally many female audience members, but Cen Manchuan was 1.95 meters tall and stood out from the crowd, and many girls were secretly watching him.
Cen Manchuan was downcast, and even the sequin feathers on his body dimmed a lot: "Do they all think I'm funny?"
"Why," Xiang Gu took his hand and comforted him, "they only peeked at you because they thought you were handsome."
After entering the venue, the two took their tickets and sat in a good position in the center of the theater.
Cen Manchuan was very tall, and even when he sat down, his head stood up abruptly, blocking the sight of the audience in the back row.
The little girls in the back whispered: "What can I do, this person is so tall, I can't see anything."
After hearing this, Cen Manchuan hurriedly sat down, curled up his long legs in aggrieved, and hunched his upper body.
Xiang guessed for a while, and said, "Why don't you lean on my shoulder, it will be more comfortable."
So Cen Manchuan immediately leaned on her boyfriend's shoulder happily.
As a result, the girls behind him were even more unhappy.
"Hey!" they said, "why do you have to endure the moving light waves of a dog boy when you come to see Dabei?"
Xiang Guess: "… "
The whole live was about three hours, and less than half an hour after the opening, Cen Manchuan, who was on Xiang Guai's shoulders, had already let out a long breathing sound.
Xiang Guai looked sideways, and sure enough, Cen Manchuan closed his eyes and slept soundly.
When he fell asleep, he breathed, and the feathers on his chest also rose and fell. The English letters of rock on his face were actually written with luminous paint, and they glowed in the pitch-dark field. Xiang Guai was a little helpless, but also a little affectionate, and wrapped his coat for him, worried that he would catch a cold from the air conditioner.
Three hours passed in a flash.
When the last song "do you hear the people sing" sounded, all the audience in the theater were sing-along. Everyone laughed, cried, and sang loudly. Xiang Gu was so excited that he imagined that he would one day be as great as he is. A splendid stage, starring in a masterpiece.
The applause woke up Cen Manchuan, who was sleeping soundly.
He was dizzy, he only felt that the sleep was extraordinarily sweet, and the sweet and soft scent of his boyfriend was still lingering in his nose.
After the show was over, he still had a red mark on his face, and he followed Xiang Guai out in a daze.
Xiang Gu asked, "Are you busy lately?"
"No, not busy..." Cen Manchuan blushed. But he really has no interest in musicals. His usual favorite type of movie is the kind of bombastic popcorn movie, and the actors he admires are muscular guys like Dwayne Johnson.
He and Xiang Gu have not been in a relationship for a long time, and they have been trying to find the balance of each other's hobbies. Xiang Gu had watched "The King of the Circus" with him before. The actor was his favorite muscle man, Wolverine, in the form of Xiang Gu's favorite music movie.
It's a pity that he still looks drowsy when he sees such works. He must admit that he Cen Manchuan may indeed be an artistic insulator.
"It's okay, you don't have to force it if you don't want to watch it." Xiang Gu said understandingly, "I can't understand basketball or football either. Everyone has something they're not interested in."
Cen Manchuan felt even more guilty after hearing this. Although Xiang Guess wasn't interested in a few men chasing a ball, he wouldn't see half asleep.
After the two walked out of the theater, they went to a restaurant next to them for dinner.
This restaurant has a romantic setting and is a great place for couples to date. When the waitress saw two men coming here to eat together, it was inevitable that they would take a few more glances.
The domestic atmosphere is conservative, but Cen Manchuan is carefree and does not care about the eyes of the people around him.
After the two finished ordering, Cen Manchuan took out his mobile phone and called friends to play games. Who would have thought that just after pushing the first little boss in the dungeon, he suddenly had stomach cramps and went to the bathroom.
The signal in the bathroom is poor, and if the call is dropped, it will definitely pit teammates. Before leaving, Cen Manchuan threw his phone to Xiang Guai and asked him to help him play a game.
Xiang Gues panicked and said, "How can I know that?"
Cen Manchuan was anxious: "I've taught you several times, how come you still can't learn it! Just press this, press this, and this, and finally see that the boss's blood is almost gone, and then hit this, this, and this in a row."
"..." Before Xiang Guess could figure out which one this one was, Cen Manchuan had already run away with his stomach covered.
In the Canyon of Kings, Xiang Guai was staring at his phone, not knowing what moves to make to keep his boyfriend alive.
Fortunately, although he is not strong, his teammates are very strong.
Xiang Guai hid in the last row and paddled all the way, but he really depended on luck to get to the last round.
Also known as: lying to win.
Seeing the words "you win!" pop up on the screen, Xiang Gu Chang heaved a sigh of relief, and found that the back of his palm was hot and humid. He felt that playing a game was more tiring than performing on stage.
He was about to go offline when a sentence suddenly popped out of his teammates channel.
@MaoTao: Stupid, are you there
@MaoTao: Are you there, idiot
@Mao thigh: Talk back and talk back.
@MaoTao: What the hell, are you really mad at your grandfather
@MaoTao: I apologize, okay
@MaoTao: We have a conflict to resolve offline, can you stop playing and paddling
Xiang Guess: "...???"
What's the matter with this man
Xiang Guai knew about this hairy thigh. He was Cen Manchuan's junior high school classmate who practiced long-distance running. Because of his surname Mao, Cen Manchuan affectionately called him hairy thigh.
Where did Xiang guess know that scolding each other as a fool and being a father, grandfather and ancestor is the daily routine of contemporary male college students. He didn't want to rashly get involved in his boyfriend's circle of friends, so he could only angrily quit the game, out of sight.
Who would have thought that just after exiting the game, WeChat would automatically pop up, and the page that stayed was actually a private chat between Cen Manchuan and Mao Thigh.
Looking at the time, the last sentence of the dialogue stopped twenty minutes ago.
Mao Mao Mao's thigh: Son, what have you been doing recently
Teacher Cen: It's not like you don't know what your father and I have been doing lately. You are taking the children at home in elementary school.
Mao Mao Mao Thigh: Let me ask you something!
Teacher Cen: If there is any problem with the grandson, just say it. Grandpa is your 100,000 why.
Seeing this, Xiang Gu couldn't help laughing.
Mao Mao Mao Thigh: Come on, don't take advantage of Lao Tzu.
Mao Mao Mao Thigh: What, I heard Lao Gao say...
Mao Mao Mao Thigh: Have you been perverted recently
Teacher Cen:
Teacher Cen: What is it that I have changed recently
Hairy Thighs: That's it.
Teacher Cen:…
Teacher Cen: I'm fucked.
Teacher Cen: You guys are fucking perverted.
Teacher Cen: I have nothing to do and do a few more papers. I'm almost graduating and I haven't passed the make-up exam yet.
Teacher Cen: Don't pay attention to your father's bed.
Seeing this, what is it that Xiang Guess doesn't understand
After all, homosexuality is a minority, and for the vast majority of people, this is still an "unspeakable" thing.
Xiang Chai is in the field of culture and art, and it is not surprising that he is gay. His sexuality did not affect his interpersonal relationships, and even after he interacted with the basketball captain of the Sports University, many girls came to "learn lessons" from him.
But on the other hand, as a sports student, Cen Manchuan faces far more pressure than him. Basketball is a kind of group confrontation game. Before playing, it is normal for teams to talk trash to each other. This is a place that pays too much attention to "male hormones". As the captain, Cen Manchuan suddenly dated a boy of the same gender. How many people would look at him with glasses.
Mao Mao Mao Thigh: Brother, doesn't this care about you
Mao Mao Mao Thighs: And your former girlfriends are all fair-skinned, beautiful and long-legged.
Mao Mao Mao Thigh: You have suddenly become gay, doesn't Dad care about your mental health
Teacher Cen: Lao Tzu's current boyfriend is also fair-skinned and beautiful with long legs.
Teacher Cen: You are concerned about my mental health. It is better to go to the hospital to treat baldness and premature ejaculation.
Mao Mao Mao Thigh: Did you take gun medicine
Mao Mao Mao Thighs: Get out next Saturday and get beaten.
Mao Mao Mao Thigh: Playing at Nanmen Stadium at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, my brothers are all here, it's been a long time since we got together.
Mao Mao Mao Thigh: If you don't teach you a good lesson, you will even dare to contradict your father.
Teacher Cen: Can you bring a partner
Mao Mao Mao Thigh: Bring a fart, we don't bring it.
Mao Mao Mao Thighs: A group of big men play ball, what girls are they calling
Teacher Cen: My target is also the big men.
Mao Mao Mao Thigh: Fuck, that's even more inaccurate!
Teacher Cen: Then I won't go.
The last conversation ended with two idiots throwing a bunch of shit emojis at each other.
After Xiang Guai read this conversation, his heart was in a mess, but he couldn't sort out a clue.
He just found out that Cen Manchuan had dated girls before he dated him.
He just realized that in the eyes of Cen Manchuan's friends, his boyfriend is actually synonymous with perversion.
He had mixed feelings in his heart - if he hadn't met him, Cen Manchuan could have had a perfect life script in the eyes of other brothers.
Xiang Gu locked the screen of the phone and placed it on the table.
At the same time, he also threw the words "perverted" and "sick" into the distance.
He is a very qualified actor. He is very good at hiding his thoughts. When he puts on a smiling face, Cen Manchuan, a silly straight man, can't see the waves under the calm water anyway.
When Cen Manchuan returned to his seat, the dishes had already been served.
While the wind was blowing the clouds, he shaved the shrimp for Xiang Guai.
As he ate, he asked, "Where are we going to play next weekend?"
"..." Xiang Guess remembered the chat record he just saw, stopped his chopsticks, and said, "Chen Ziran has a show to be recorded next week. He asked me to go over and be a cheerleader for him. I'm sorry I can't accompany you."
"Ah, it's okay!" Cen Manchuan said, "Just right, Thigh and Lao Gao told me to play ball, then I'll go with them."
"Yeah." Xiang Guai took a chopstick of meat for him and pressed it in his bowl, "After all, it's small, so let's go."
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In the outer room of the recording studio, Gu Liang took off his monitoring headphones and made a gesture like Tan Yiming in the studio.
When the recording was over, Tan Yiming walked out of the studio and took a sip of the coffee on the table.
Gu Liang shouted, "Shut up! That's the love coffee that my wife made for me!!"
Tan Yiming: "What do you do with your own hands? It's obviously a taste of Nestle Instant 1+1."
"The hot water she burns with her own hands, even the hot water is not good for her hobbies!" Gu Liangzhen said with plausibility.
Gu Liang—or "Lone Wild Goose"—was Tan Yiming's first friend when he set up his studio.
Gu Liang has a good voice, and the standard clear and beautiful voice is full of temptation. His wife used to be a plan to move Jiuxiao, pulling her boyfriend to fill the hole, until the two had a baby after marriage, and they really couldn't take care of the network and then quit the circle.
After Tan Yiming returned to China, he was in urgent need of manpower, so he threw an olive branch to the couple. The cost of raising children is too high now. The couple are just ordinary employees of a small state-owned enterprise, earning that little money in a month. Once the couple combined, they simply resigned and changed jobs, becoming two generals under Tan Yiming.
Now Gu Liang is the dubbing director of the blockbuster studio, while his wife Ye Ye is in charge of the business department and holds several positions.
Gu Liang asked, "Old Tan, what's the matter with you recently? Why are you so lost?" He tapped on the screen, "Look, how many times have you matched these few sentences?"
Tan Yiming was silent for a while, then suddenly said, "I found him."
"He? Who? - Ah! You mean guess?" Gu Liang was shocked, "How did you find it?"
Gu Liang was deeply impressed by the guesses of the Five-Year Advance Group. The child has a good voice and a good personality, especially the emojis of his swans, which are still in his QQ.
At Tan Yiming's farewell song meeting, Guess suddenly left without saying goodbye after singing a "Song of Roses".
He withdrew from the group, logged out of Weibo, and deleted everyone's QQ, as if returning to the little prince of planet b612, he disappeared from everyone's sight without a sound.
Only the songs and emoticons he left behind can prove that he really existed.
In recent years, Tan Yiming has been looking for Guess.
Gu Liang asked Tan Yiming, what is his relationship with Guess? Tan Yiming said he was a friend.
But Gu Liang felt that if it was just a friend, Tan Yiming would never be so obsessed with it.
Now that Tan Yiming has found Guess, Gu Liang is really happy for him: "Isn't this a good thing? That's how you say it - there is no work that can't be done, only dogs who don't work hard!!"
"..." Tan Yiming had a headache, "You watch too much of "The Wangwang Secret Service" with your son, it's worth your time."
"Almost." Gu Liang asked. "Now that I found it, did you ask him why he said he would leave and deleted everyone's contact information?"
Tan Yiming replied: "... He was still a high school student at that time, and he was too busy with his studies, so he deleted it if he couldn't take care of the second dimension."
He gave a random reason, it was so fake, so fake that Gu Liang could hear that he was lying, but Gu Liang looked at his face and didn't expose it.
Gu Liang was already an emotional person.
He vaguely guessed something and asked tentatively, "Now that you have found the guess, you should be happy."
"...I thought I would be happy too." Tan Yiming thought, he really should be happy.
To get their wish, to get rid of their inferiority for Gu Guai, and to move forward on the road of life in the past five years - but in fact, Tan Yiming fell into a deeper loss.
In a few days, he completed all the information related to Xiang Guai that could be found on the Internet, and made up for the past five years little by little.
Douban, Weibo, school post bars, all the places where he might appear, he turned over inch by inch.
He heard that there are many art college students who like to play "Douyin". He made one for the first time in the world. Sure enough, he followed the vine and found a lot of small videos targeting Huacheng Dance Academy.
Thanks to the Internet and the desire to share from the current children. Xiang Guai has a classmate who happens to be a small internet celebrity on Douyin, with 20,000 to 30,000 fans. Recently, the updates have been very frequent, and almost every day, they share a small clip of their musical major’s graduation drama.
In those clips, Tan Yiming saw a different Xiang Gu—he was not wearing the sequined skirt that day, but, like the other boys in the class, topless, wearing loose sweatpants, in the dance classroom Dance and sing.
He and the other dancers stepped on high-heeled boots and jumped up and down the table. During the fight, there was nothing charming and charming on the stage, only full of cheerfulness. Because of a lot of exercise, his hair is always wet, with the vigor that only boys of this age have.
But in the video of that Douyin little internet celebrity, Xiang Guess is not always there. Sometimes Xiang Guai only appeared in the corner for a second, but even so, Tan Yiming still took it seriously.
Young colleagues are complaining about him, saying that he has become a middle-aged strange uncle who lives by "Learn to Meow" on Douyin every day.
Tan Yiming thought, this is obviously "The Swan", it's just right to "quack quack" together.
Gu Liang sighed helplessly when he saw Tan Yiming fell into his own world inexplicably.
Many times, the authorities are fans. As an outsider, he should wait patiently for the development of things. The window paper should be pierced by the parties themselves, and the help of outsiders will only be counterproductive.
Just then, there was a knock on the door of the recording studio.
Ye Ye poked his head in through the crack of the door, first flew a kiss with his husband, and then turned to Tan Yiming.
"The class leader." Ye Ye said, "Just now, the program team of "Sound into the Ear" contacted me and said that they would like to invite us to join the group next week. I saw that the appearance fee is OK, and it is also a good promotion, you see... ? "
Ye Ye is the company's commercial director, and she is required to check the related program cooperation.
Now the commercial distribution industry has gradually moved from behind the scenes to the front of the stage, and many commercial voice actors also have their own fan groups. Well-known commercial distribution companies such as Blockbuster Studio have also sent invitations to many variety shows before, inviting them to appear on the show. .
"Oh oh oh, this show is very popular now!" Gu Liang said, "Xiao Qing took a few children from Zeng Yinan's studio to the show before. This is a show where voice actors will dub on the spot, and a few stars will also be invited. ... If the old show bones are okay, those traffic stars will basically only be stepped on the ground and rubbed on the ground."
Tan Yiming nodded: "Okay, Ye Ye, if you think it's worth it, send a few people there."
Ye Ye: "Aren't you going this time?"
"No. I'm not the only CV in our company. Give the children below more opportunities to show their faces." He turned to Gu Liang, "If you are free, lead the team."
Gu Liang asked his wife: "Do you know who the stars are? If there are those bastards, I won't go."
"Assholes" - refers to those idiot traffic stars who can't speak their lines well and only recite one, two, three, or four nonsense from their brokers.
"..." Ye Ye showed a helpless smile, "You have the first place on the list of 'I never want to dub again in my life' - Chen Ziran."
"!!!" Gu Liang immediately changed his face, "Don't go, I will accompany my son to the Lego class."
In fact, he had never met Chen Ziran himself, but he had a direct confrontation with Chen Ziran's agent in the shed, and since then the name Chen Ziran has been blacklisted by him.
Seeing that the couple was about to quarrel over this matter, Tan Yiming next to him sighed and said, "Chen Ziran, right? ... I'll go."
Even if he can no longer get close to Xiang Gu, it is good to be able to get closer to the people around him.