Chen Dao is ill.
The news is spreading wildly, and some unscrupulous tabloids have even published obituaries.
"He won't die right now." Li Boyue put the contract in front of Ning Ning, "It is estimated that after the filming of this TV series, he will be almost there. There is nothing wrong in the tabloid, this work is estimated to be his life. The final work."
Or rather, legacy.
Ning Ning picked up the contract and looked at it, and asked casually, "What happened to the people in the village?"
A sentence without beginning or end, but Li Boyue picked it up.
"You came out without finishing "A Chinese Ghost Story"?" he laughed.
There is a saying that everyone in life is an actor.
Ning Ning never believed this, until now, she believed it.
The most powerful actor is by her side. Li Boyue has long known the existence of life cinema, and may even know that her mother relies on the cinema to hone her acting skills, and she also relies on the cinema to hone her acting skills.
"... There is one thing that I always think is a coincidence." Ning Ning said, "Every time I come out of the cinema, I can receive a character that I traveled through in the cinema, very similar to the movie character... "
Li Boyue looked at her with a smile.
This unsurprising expression seemed to have already revealed the answer to her.
"My father and my mother are from the same village." He put his hands on his knees and said slowly, "If the two of them stayed in the Ningjia Village and never came out, then they would probably have followed the village's rules by now. Traditionally married, you have to call me brother."
Ning Ning looked at him and said nothing.
"Of course, you can shout like that now if you want." Li Boyue said to her with a smile, "because even after he came out of the village, my father still cares about your mother and you very much, and of course I do too... I care about you. "
The ambition reflected in his eyes showed that he cared, not from sincerity... but from ambition.
Ningning stared at him for a while and asked, "What do you want?"
Li Boyue leaned back on the sofa, as if recalling and organizing words.
"For a long time, my dad and Pei Xuan have been studying the Ningjia Village and the drama of life." He said slowly, "At first I thought he was deceived, but later I found out... it's true. There is really a theater of life in this world, there is really a place where people can live forever."
... immortality
Ningning thought about it, but she didn't expect that his focus was actually this. She was shocked for a moment and said, "You... don't you want to be a mask person?"
"The masked man?" Li Boyue shook his head with a smile, "No, I think the gatekeeper is more suitable for me."
"...Do you know what you're talking about?" Ning Ning looked at him solemnly, "Do you know what the gatekeeper does?"
"I only know that everyone will die, Pei Xuan is like this, Director Chen is like this, and I am the same." Li Boyue said with the same solemn eyes, "Pei Xuan left earlier than Director Chen, he left last year, and your mother will tell you the time. Not far, do you know what he regrets the most?"
Shouldn't it be...
Li Boyue laughed: "He regrets coming out of the movie theater, no matter how rich he is, he will still get old, get sick, and die, but if he has always been the gatekeeper, then we are all dead, and he will not die."
"So you are serious?" Ningning looked at him in disbelief, "Do you really want to be a masked person?"
He didn't understand... Or Pei Xuan said something misleading him before he died, so that he only saw the advantages of being a masked person, but could not see the disadvantages of being a masked person.
"Masked people can't do it." Li Boyue shook his head, as if he had remembered something, and showed a lingering look in his eyes, "The group of people in Ningjia Village... collectively evaded fares, and it was too bad for the gatekeeper at that time. I don't want to be like them, if there are any. If you choose, people will choose to be the one who governs them, not the one who is controlled by them, right?"
He stretched out a hand towards Ningning.
As always, her face was the most familiar, ambitious and determined smile on her face.
"I've helped you so much," he said. "You have to help me too."
In the face of death, some people have foresight, and some people are on the verge of madness.
"Kaka!! Kaka!! Kakaka!!"
Two months later, on the set of "The Phantom of the Theater", Director Chen was sitting in a wheelchair and kept shouting cards. At the end, he coughed violently, and the assistant beside him hurriedly poured the medicine into his palm.
"Cough, cough, cough..." Chen Dao shivered and stuffed the tablet into his mouth, then took a few mouthfuls from the hot water cup, swallowed the tablet down the throat, and panted for a long time before he said to Ning Ning, "You talk to Ning Ning. I'll come over."
Ning Ning pushed his wheelchair and temporarily took a rest.
In two months, Director Chen lost a lot of weight, almost to the point of being out of shape. No matter who looked at him, he would persuade him to rest in bed quickly, not to consume the rest of his life, but he didn't listen, he would rather burn his life here. in the movie.
"Ningning." He sat in a wheelchair and asked with his back to Ningning, "Have you ever loved a man?"
Ning Ning recalled the fear of being forced to go on a blind date, the corner of her mouth twitched, and said, "I have loved."
Director Chen sneered: "It's not the kind of love that is like playing a family. Can you love someone like I love movies?"
Ning Ning was silent.
The wheelchair is parked by the corridor. The maple trees outside the corridor are scattered with red leaves, and the red leaves blow down the wooden corridor one by one. The former Qujia mansion and later the Orchid Theater, this is the place where "The Phantom of the Theater" was originally filmed. It was the last filming location for The Phantom of the Theater.
"...Go and love someone." Director Chen said suddenly, "I need you to love someone."
"... Who is it?" Ning Ning asked.
"Anyone can." Director Chen said, "I only need you to use this passion in this film after you have loved it, and make it happen, make it a Phantom."
The wind blew a red leaf across Ning Ning's temples, she raised her hand to fold her hair, and shook her head: "...I can't do it."
Director Chen looked back at her, and there was a terrifying light in his eyes that were extra large because of his thinness.
"Director Chen, you can do everything for a movie and ignore everyone, but I can't." Ning Ning said to him without changing his face, "I can't hurt another person because of a movie."
After all, a movie is a movie, and the truth is the truth.
Breaking up unhappily, her head was scolded with blood, and Ning Ning came out of the studio in a state of embarrassment, not without regrets in her heart, but again, it is estimated that she would still say and do so.
"After all, I still don't want to be like Director Chen..." she muttered.
"Ningning!"
Ning Ning looked back and saw a person waiting at the door.
"Why are you here?" she asked.
Wen Yu walked towards her with a smile. Aunt Xiaoning was a private address. In front of outsiders, he still called her by her first name to avoid attracting strange eyes from others.
"Here." He handed the gift box in his arms to Ning Ning.
Ning Ning took the box: "What is this?"
Wen Yu smiled: "Take it apart and see?"
Ning Ning opened the box and contained a set of costumes - the blue costume the Phantom wore in the play.
"I heard that the progress on your side has not been very good recently." Wen Yu smiled softly, "I was wondering if you would imagine that you would pretend to be a phantom in and out of the show, so that you can maintain your state."
Ning Ning had this plan in her heart, she closed the box and smiled at him: "Thank you."
"You're welcome." Wen Yu paused and said to her solemnly, "Also, you can call me at any time, and I will answer your call anytime."
Back at home, the box was placed on the chair, the clothes fell on the ground one by one, Ning Ning in the mirror put on the costume, and then reached out and touched herself in the mirror.
Ning Ning laughed: "In the future, will I only be able to wear this dress at home?"
With Director Chen's temper, even if she is the heroine, it is not impossible for her to be replaced.
"Alright, then show me the clothes, and I'll see it alone." Shi Zhongtang sat down behind her, clapping both hands, like an infatuated audience eagerly looking forward to her favorite actor on stage.
The lips in the mirror were upturned, Ning Ning turned around and tossed the long sleeves of water, and sang in his mouth a thousand times: "Dream returns to Yingzhuan, chaos is everywhere."
The water sleeve was thrown at Shi Zhongtang, he raised his head and smiled, letting the snow-white sleeve fall on the mask on his face, and then slowly slipped off the mask and landed on his chest, where he gently grabbed it and held it in the palm of his hand inside.
"Dream returns to Yingzhuan, chaos is everywhere." Peach Blossom looked at Ning Ning, he sang the same, more tender and more sincere, as if he broke his whole heart and put it in this song , sing and die.
The love words are touching, but also his singing.
Ning Ning paused for a while before continuing to sing: "Then you will be like flowers and beautiful family, like water."
"It's like a beautiful family for you, like water." Shi Zhongtang sang to her with a smile.
"It's Du'er who has been searching all over the place, pitying himself in the secluded boudoir."
"It's Du'er who has been searching all over the place, pitying himself in the secluded boudoir."
"Before turning around this peony column, it's close to the edge of the lake, mountains and rocks."
"Before turning around this peony column, it's close to the edge of the lake, mountains and rocks."
"It's the place where we met, and it's like looking at each other..." Ning Ning's voice became quieter as she sang, and finally became silent.
"Why don't you sing?" Shi Zhongtang pulled Shui Xiu in his direction, pulling her closer.
Ning Ning's chest rose and fell, staring at him without saying a word, how do you want her to sing? He didn't say a word of confession, but every word and every song he sang was telling her: I love you.
"...No need." Ning Ning hardened her heart and said coldly, "I don't need you to do this. There are so many scenes that I can play. I don't have to play Phantom."
After a pause, she lowered her head: "...Don't listen to what Director Chen said."
I don't want to love someone or hurt someone because of a movie.
Shi Zhongtang raised his head and looked at her for a moment, then got up and walked towards her, the water sleeve slipped from his fingers, and he raised Ning Ning's face with his hand.
"But you don't love me..." He looked down at her and said, "It hurts me."
After a while, he laughed helplessly again, and put his other hand on her face: "I'm joking, don't take it to heart... Don't cry, I didn't mean to make you embarrassed."