Pei Yi discovered that Feng Nan had changed a lot in the six months since he found her.
When she went on stage to play Beggar B and recited lines with another Beggar A, he was sitting in the audience, watching her standing on the stage and acting opposite another boy who played the beggar. He couldn't recover from the shock for a long time.
He recalled his previous impression of Feng Nan, and Jiang Se who was harassed by Yao Xiang in the St. Regis Hotel. Then he saw Jiang Se curled up on the stage, playing a cold and hungry beggar. He remembered that when he asked her why she entered the entertainment industry, she smiled and said "lack of money", and he felt uncomfortable.
According to the investigation information, Jiang Se's background was not good. She was only the stepdaughter of the Du family and her life in the Du family was not easy.
Wen Gang, the rehearsal director of "Returning Home on a Snowy Night", understood Chang Yuhu's intention after knowing that Jiang Se was only in the theater for practice. After Jiang Se finished rehearsing the role of "Beggar B", he arranged for her to try out other roles in the next round of rehearsals.
The rehearsal lasted until about six in the afternoon, and then everyone in the theater dispersed.
When Jiang Se stepped down from the stage, Pei Yi was still sitting in the audience, looking a little dazed.
He looked dazed, as if he had suffered a great shock. He had been sitting here for nearly three hours and was probably getting tired of waiting.
"If you were bored of waiting, you should have left first."
Jiang Se took his coat and hung it between his arms, sweat appearing on his forehead.
Pei Yi reached out to take her bag. It wasn't that he was particularly considerate, but he was afraid that she would run away because he thought about the two times Jiang Se wanted to leave with her bag during lunch.
"It's not that I'm bored..." He held the strap of his small satchel on his fingertips, feeling a little depressed. He felt sorry for the suffering she had endured, but he couldn't say it out loud:
"Leave."
He waited for a long time, but he showed no intention of parting with her. Jiang Se glanced at him. He lowered his head, his eyes looked a little dim, and his whole aura was low.
"What's wrong?"
The two entered the garage. Jiang Se took her hair, which had become somewhat loose, and let it down. She reached out to scratch it, and turned around to see Pei Yi still looking at her.
His eyes were so infatuated that it made her scalp tingle.
Pei Yi hesitated for a moment before asking:
"Are you going to come again? I don't think they treat you well."
When she came to rehearsal, even if she was not going to snatch the roles from the people in the theater in the end, no one could be sure whether what she said was true until the moment the show started.
Therefore, when Wen Gang arranged for her to audition for the role in "Returning Home on a Snowy Night", many of the people who were auditioned by her replacement inevitably felt a bit repulsive to her. During the break, the people in the theater sat on one side, and she sat on the other side with the script in her hand, obviously rejecting her.
When he saw this scene from the audience, his heart was burning with anger. For a moment, he was so angry that he wanted to let her be the heroine and kick all the people out of the theater. On the other hand, he was worried that she would be angry with him for acting on his own initiative.
Watching her rehearse for several hours in the afternoon made his heart beat fast.
"I took on a play for Shangjia Company, "Beijing Events" written by Hou Xiling, but I had never acted before, so my acting skills were not good. Teacher Hou specially invited Teacher Chang to teach me."
Jiang Se heard the worry in his words and couldn't help but explain:
"Teacher Chang arranged for me to study in the theater for a period of time, which is also a training for me. Of course I will come again."
She reached out to put her hair up again, but the cell phone in her bag started ringing.
Jiang Se let go of her hands, and the hair fell down again and fell on her shoulders.
She turned around to look for her bag, and Pei Yi handed her bag to her. Then she remembered that he had taken the bag to her when she came out of the theater.
After taking out the phone, he saw the old-fashioned phone that Jiang Se was holding, and his hand tightened.
The call was from the crew of "The 99th Love Letter". "99th Love Letter" was released in January, and the crew called to remind her that the promotion period of the movie might be advanced, around the end of November to December, and she might be asked to cooperate with the promotion.
She tilted her head and talked to someone very seriously. The carriage was not big, and the fragrance from her body seemed to invade Pei Yi's sense of smell everywhere.
He looked at her fair profile. Under the dim light, her eyes were half-closed, and her eyelashes were long and curly, blinking.
A few strands of hair fell on her chest, and his heartbeat became faster and faster, "boom, boom, boom", almost drowning out her soft voice.
Pei Yi plucked up his courage, raised his hand tremblingly, and tried to hook the strand of her hair that had fallen down. She did not dodge.
When his fingertips touched the slightly cold hair, his legs tensed up.
Pei Yi's mood was very complicated at this moment.
He knew who Jiang Se was, and Jiang Se also knew who he was.
When I touched her, she didn't dodge, which proved that in her heart, she had no defense or resistance towards me.
But he didn't dare to do so before, and he didn't even try.
If he had been bolder before, perhaps Feng Nan would have been his long ago.
He withdrew his hand, his toes trembling. Just this small intimate gesture made him savor it again and again.
She hung up the phone. She didn't notice Pei Yi's little move, but she felt that his expression was a little strange. After putting the phone back in her bag, she asked him:
"What's wrong?"
"Nothing." He shook his head and stammered as he tried to start the car, but his hands were shaking so badly that he missed the button several times. He looked as if he had done something wrong and didn't dare to look at her.
Jiang Se scratched his hair twice again, lowered his head and asked:
"What does the caller want to see you about?"
In just half a year, there were suddenly many people and things around her that he didn't know about, which made him feel a sense of crisis.
It's not easy to get into the entertainment industry. She used to be very gentle and pretty, very likable, and now she's even more beautiful, which makes it easy for her to be coveted by others.
"Yeah. A movie I starred in is about to be released, and the crew reminded me to help promote it."
After Jiang Se finished speaking, he leaned his head back on the chair and turned to look at him: "Are you busy tonight? I'll treat you to dinner?"
He treated her to lunch and waited for her for half a day. Although he had said before that he wanted to pursue her, which made her feel a little headache, overall, they were so familiar with each other, and Jiang Se was very happy to have the opportunity to have dinner with him after her rebirth.
Pei Yi certainly wouldn't refuse to have dinner with her, but thinking that it was not easy for her to make money nowadays, he reluctantly refused:
"I don't seem very hungry."
As soon as he said it, he regretted it: "How about I treat you." (To be continued)