Under the attack of large and small typhoons from time to time, Anjiang City entered the late summer of 2018.
Before the end of the summer vacation, Tang Mo, who was already a college counselor, married her boyfriend who had been a long-distance runner for five years. Lin Xian agreed to attend the wedding as a bridesmaid. At that time, the TV series adapted by Lin Xian as the original novel and screenwriter had just won the ratings championship in the first half of the year. Immediately afterwards, the film version of the novel was about to be released. activities, and accepted an exclusive interview with a character from Satellite TV, so he is very busy.
Lin Xian stepped into the cultural and creative publishing circle a few years ago, and only learned from the few words of others that before Xiao Panpan left, he had already helped her to clear up the relationship, paved the way, and prepared to protect her. Escort preparations. After she left, Wen Tong was entrusted by Xiao Wanqing, looked at Xiao Wanqing's face, took over Xiao Wanqing's stick, helped her a lot, and made her go smoothly along the way.
In the past two years, due to the partnership, Lin Xian has stepped half of his foot in the mixed entertainment industry. Without Xiao Wanqing and Wen Tong's paving the way in this circle, she walked through hardships alone. At the beginning, I was ignorant of world affairs, I didn't know people clearly, I showed my sharpness, I was reckless, and I accidentally offended people without knowing it.
Later, after taking many detours and meeting more ghosts and ghosts, she gradually figured out the attitude she once saw in Xiao Panpan: often sit quietly and remember mistakes, chatting without talking about people's wrongs. Smile every time you meet someone, talk less and listen more, just go in and out. She can't be as good as her Panpan. She only wants to learn seven points, not to be slick, but to have no achievements.
Later, Xia Zhijin, who had always been tepid, made a blockbuster win by winning the double best actress of the film festival and gained a firm foothold in the circle. Although after Shiman went abroad, Lin Xian and Xia Zhijin had different social circles, and they only met a few times and chatted a few times in the past few years, but Xia Zhijin cared about the old relationship very much, and began to support her consciously or unconsciously within the scope of her ability, let her live in this world. The road in the circle gradually became wider and wider.
Before the official start of the movie promotional event, the film crew gathered for a dinner, and the cups were exchanged, and everyone was drunk, and began to chat with each other, and the topic gradually drifted away.
Lin Xian excused that he had just recovered from a serious injury and couldn't drink, so he just sipped his drink with little interest, wondering if it was time to run away. Suddenly, she heard a female voice asking the leading actor under Starlight Entertainment: "Recently, it has been rumored that your starlight is going to change heads, and the precious daughter of Shimowang is coming back to take over?"
Lin Xian paused holding the cup, is it full? Full coming back? She immediately cheered up and listened sideways.
The man shook his wine glass and mocked, "I heard that, the recent male artists in our company are more beautifully dressed than the women."
In the early years, it was widely rumored in the circle that if you got Shi Jinglan's phoenix bed, you could walk the avenue of starlight. Regardless of whether it is true or not, in the past few years, Shi Jinglan has changed his temperament, and has become a well-known in the circle. A clean person. Some people who signed in late, without a shortcut, secretly regretted that they were born at the wrong time. Now, it's time to change someone. He's still young, but his eyes are green.
The director was a little drunk, hearing the words as if he had heard some joke, he slipped his words after drinking, and said with a straightforward smile: "Don't think about that precious daughter Shi Jinglan, that guy likes women, and it's spread all over the study circle. gone."
"Wow, I heard..." A group of people suddenly became interested, followed the topic again, and chattered away.
Lin Xian was no longer interested in listening to the words that followed.
On the way home, she leaned on the back of the chair with only two thoughts in her mind, one was, is Shiman really coming back? The other is, does Xia Zhijin know
It's ridiculous to say that they had a partner early in the past, but in the end they all ended up being inseparable. Her Panpan disappeared, Shiman and Xia Zhijin broke up, and Tang Mo's marriage partner was not her first boyfriend in college. On the contrary, Chen Zhi, who had been single in college for four years, was ahead of everyone else half a year after graduation, got married and had a child in a hurry, and was stable and happy.
Manman is coming back, Xiao Panpan, how about you
The phonograph in the house was spinning endlessly round and round regularly, and the deep and magnetic female voice echoed and circled in the dark living room. On the small coffee table on the balcony, there was a strong fragrance of tea. Lin Xian hugged Xiao Wanqing's pillow, which had long lost Xiao Wanqing's breath, in her arms, and fell sleepily on the recliner, staring blankly at the endless night sky ahead.
Xiao Panpan... She murmured the name affectionately between her lips and teeth, and the gleam in her eyes gradually dimmed.
how are you recently
I feel bad. She curled up her legs, buried her face in the pillow, and muttered to herself, and finally fell asleep with tears in the corners of her eyes.
At the end of August, at Tang Mo's wedding, after many years of absence, Lin Xian finally saw Shiman again.
As a bridesmaid, Lin Xian helped Tang Mo, who had trouble walking around in the bride's room, to run back and forth. When she turned around, she saw that Chen Zhi was leading her daughter under the flower arch not far away, and was with a woman in stiletto heels and a short skirt. The slim woman with big wavy hair and a graceful long skirt around her waist are chatting affectionately.
The woman bent down and took out a big red envelope from her handbag as if to hand it to Chen Zhi's daughter, but Chen Zhi refused. During the back and forth, the woman took a step back, turned her body slightly, and showed a beautiful side face to Lin Xian, which was Lin Xian's familiar yet unfamiliar outline.
Lin Xian paused when he was about to turn around and leave.
From the corner of her eye, Chen Zhi suddenly spotted Lin Xian who was staring at them not far away, raised her hand and called Lin Xian with a smile, "Xian Xian, hurry up and see who is back."
Following Chen Zhi's voice, the woman turned around and looked straight at Lin Xian.
In the next second, she tilted her head, her gestures and gestures were full of Lin Xian's unfamiliar mature beauty, but her enchanting peach eyes were full of tenderness and nostalgia, she smiled at Lin Xian, and joked: "Lin Xiaoxian, I heard that you are now a great writer."
In the memory left by their last meeting that year, they were foolishly looking for a place to supper in the streets late at night, using the brightly lit bars as restaurants and KTVs, swaying their youth wantonly, laughing and cursing wantonly with. After years of separation, the girls have all disappeared, and the girl who shouted crazily until her voice became hoarse at the concert has become a wife and mother.
Obviously things are different, but Shiman's casual greeting and familiar tone seemed to bring them back to those intimate years in the past.
Lin Xian's throat twitched, and his thin lips gradually pursed into a straight line.
Someone behind him called Lin Xian's name, Lin Xian looked sideways, and heard that Tang Mo's mother was looking for her. Lin Xian turned back to look at Shi Man again, Shi Man waved at her understandingly, signaling her to go to work first. Lin Xian hesitated for a moment, and opened his lips to make an agreement with her: "If you don't have time later, after the banquet, wait for me."
Shi Man nodded, smiled and agreed, "Okay."
Afterwards, Lin Xian was really busy, when Shi Man and Tang Mo were chatting about the past, she was called away, so she had to toast with Shi Man again.
After the banquet was over and the guests were gone, Chen Zhi took the child and her husband and left first. Lin Xian tried her best to help stay until the end, bid farewell to Tang Mo, his wife and the old man, and hurried back.
Shi Man said, wait for her in the car outside.
Sure enough, just a few steps out of the door, the red sports car parked not far away flashed its lights at her.
When she approached the car, Shiman lowered the window and greeted her with a smile: "It's me, get in the car."
Lin Xian opened the car door silently and sat in the passenger seat. She took a deep breath, looked at Shi Man with one hand on the steering wheel and looked at herself leisurely, and asked her lightly, "When did you come back?"
"I just came back a few days ago. I couldn't find my previous WeChat. I added you with a new WeChat, but you ignored me. I added Momo back first. When I found out that she was just getting married, I let her Keep it a secret for now, I want to surprise you by the way today." Shi Man said calmly.
Lin Xian was stunned for a moment, and realized that a few days ago, there seemed to be an unremarked WeChat account that added her. But now, in order to avoid unnecessary troubles caused by the remarks in the circle of friends, unless it is necessary for work, she no longer passes strangers without notes.
"Sorry, I may have seen it that day, but I thought it was a stranger, so I didn't pass." Lin Xian replied politely.
Lin Xian has changed, he doesn't like to laugh anymore. In front of strangers, Lin Xian has always smiled appropriately, gentle and elegant, with just the right proportion. But those who are familiar with her can see that her smile doesn't reach her eyes at all.
Shi Man closed his eyes, brushed his curly hair that was blown by the night wind, curled his lips into a chuckle, and said with feigned anger, "Excuse me? Such a strange tone, Lin Xiaoxian, you are treating me as someone you are not familiar with now." Did someone come to see you? Tsk tsk, thank you I was so focused on looking for you as soon as I came back, and treated you as my best friend for life, you are too ruthless."
Lin Xian was so annoyed by her beating, he couldn't help but frowned, angry, and retorted unceremoniously: "You can't do it, treat me as your best friend in this life, just leave without saying goodbye, from now on unilaterally Cut off contact and disappeared for five or six years? Who is ruthless?"
"Puchi..." Shiman laughed happily, and said with satisfaction: "It's better for you to be like this, I'm more used to it."
She drove the car to the road around the island, and on this road, they went around and around.
"Back then..." She explained to Lin Xian: "I... On New Year's Day, I went to visit Zhijin's grandma who had a sudden cerebral hemorrhage. I ran into Zhijin and Fu Zhiqiong hugging each other, and got angry with her in the ward In the end, she broke up with me. She said that she was not good enough for me, that she didn’t want to be with me anymore, that being with me was too tiring, and that I was a burden on her way forward.” Speaking of The past was still a bit difficult for her, but she could face it after all.
"Later, I went to the first aid for a perforated stomach and lay in the hospital for two days. I didn't wait for her. I knew that this time, she really didn't want me. Most of my life was related to her. Yes, in desperation, I just want to leave her, leave everything related to her, and forget her. So, I obeyed my mother's arrangement, cut off all domestic connections, went abroad to study, started again, and learned to live by myself " After a pause, she apologized sincerely, "I'm sorry, I only found out about you and Auntie Xiao after contacting Tang Mo a few days ago. I'm sorry, I couldn't help you at all."
Lin Xian shook his head and said helplessly, "What does it have to do with you? It's me. I'm too weak to protect her." It's been so long, why only talk about her, about her and her parents? The injury caused by Panpan still feels like a piercing pain.
She turned her thoughts away, thinking of the woman who had become more and more cold and dignified over the years and the rumors about Shiman heard in the bar, and tentatively asked Shiman: "Manman, you...you these years..."
"What do you want to ask? Lin Xiaoxian, why have you become so coy." Shi Man said angrily.
"Have you been in love these past few years?" Lin Xian thought of Xia Zhijin's care for him, and thought of her lonely appearance all these years, and asked with a heartbroken heart.
"I thought you were going to ask something." Shiman parked her car by the beach, put one hand on her chin, listened to the sound of the waves, and replied casually, "Let's talk, let's talk." Don't be intimidated, I can't remember how many there are, there may be a dozen? Everyone is so happy to get together and relax."
Lin Xian choked for a moment, hesitated to speak, and didn't know whether to tell her what he wanted to say.
"However, it's all broken when I come back. I'm single now. If you have any suitable friends to introduce to me, I'd welcome them." Shi Man blinked his peach blossom eyes and joked.
"There is nothing to introduce. Although I don't know if you want to know, but I still want to tell you." Lin Xian stroked his hands and said frankly: "I have been in the same circle with Sister Zhijin these few years. She has always been in the same circle. They are all alone. No matter what the outside world says, in fact, she and Fu Zhiqiong have never been together. Fu Zhiqiong had a girlfriend two years ago, and it was Sister Zhijin who hooked up. In the past few years, Sister Zhijin has not changed her WeChat avatar , has always been the one with your couple. In the past two years, I have met her a few times. I found that she didn’t know whether she had changed her mobile phone or the model of her mobile phone. From the beginning to the end, she was a couple with you. And, when she's not working, she secretly prefers a necklace with a ring under the pendant. I asked her, and she said it was a gift that she didn't give away. I always feel that she... didn't forget you."
Shi Man thought that after so many years, after reading Qianfan, he heard her news again, and he should have calmed down a long time ago, but he didn't expect that she still couldn't help making waves. ring…
Obviously, she should have forgotten all about it long ago, but sadly, she found that she still remembered the details of their together so clearly. She remembered that when she got drunk and quarreled with her that night, Xia Zhijin seemed to have come up with something to give her...
Damn, she can't remember where that box ended up going.
She forced herself to be calm, pretended to be indifferent, and changed the subject: "You think too much, it's been so many years, it's already passed. Let's not talk about her, Lin Xian, do you... have any clues about Aunt Xiao's whereabouts?" ?”
When Xiao Panpan was mentioned, Lin Xian's eyes gradually became gloomy. She nodded, and replied weakly: "I can only confirm that she should have been to Changze, Chong'an, Guinan, and Yiping, and it is very likely that she is still in Yiping now. No matter how detailed it is, there is nothing. Yiping is too far away, there is almost no network of connections there, and I can't investigate many things." There are some things that money alone cannot touch. Besides, for the sake of Xiao Wanqing's privacy and safety, she can't trust others to check a lot of information, and because it can't affect Xiao Wanqing's normal life now and in the future, she can't use her own influence to start online investigations. strength to seek her.
She could only try to stand taller and more obvious, so that Xiao Wanqing could see her, see her looking for her, waiting for her.
Shiman's slender fingertips lightly tapped the steering wheel twice, and he took the initiative to ask Ying to say: "If it is really difficult to find a needle in a haystack, it will be much easier if you have a specific direction. Please sort out the clues you have found in the past few years and give them to me." Send a copy, and I'll help you find it. It's a bit far away from Yiping, and it's a little troublesome, but I remember that a few friends I know abroad seem to come from there. I'll ask them if they have any connections or channels. "
Hope was ignited again in Lin Xian's heart, his dark and quiet eyes lit up instantly, he held Shiman's wrist and said seriously: "Manman, how can I thank you."
Shi Man lowered his head to look at Lin Xian's hand, only to find that there were two shallow scars on her arm, similar to knife marks. Her face darkened for a while, and for a while, she pretended not to see anything, stretched out her fingers and gestured twice on Lin Xian's thin lips, and said with a light smile: "Smile at me more like you did before, no Just chat with me politely."
Lin Xian glanced at her, saw her playful smile, gave her a blank look, and finally smiled softly.