A yellow taxi was bumping down the road.
A man in the back seat shook out a newspaper in his hand, which covered his face.
"Have you seen today's headlines?" The driver also subscribed to the same newspaper and chatted with him through the headlines, "Shi Zhongtang and Yin Xiuzhu broke up."
"Yeah." The man replied, his voice was very nice, lazy like the afternoon sun.
"Cui Hongying, Lin Xi, Liu Yiyi... Oh, all the beauties in the entertainment industry have been soaked in by him." The driver clicked his tongue twice, "Even a singer like Yin Xiuzhu can't keep him, I really don't know this. How long will the prodigal son go?"
"It won't be long." The car had arrived at the destination, and the man smiled and put down the newspaper, revealing a handsome face.
The driver felt that this face was a little familiar. When he handed the fare and got out of the car, he turned his eyes to the newspaper in the back seat, and suddenly said, "It's him!"
The front page headline, a black and white picture, with the profile of a handsome man - Shi Zhongtang.
Taking off his sunglasses and hanging them on his chest, Shi Zhongtang took out the key and opened the door in front of him.
"Why is it you again?" When the woman who heard the door opening saw him, her face was frosty, "Get out of here!"
The corner of Shi Zhongtang's mouth twitched, and he leaned against the door lazily: "Lingling, if you really don't want to see me, why don't you change the door lock?"
You Ling bit her lower lip, tears stubbornly rolling in her eyes.
"You've been waiting for me to come back." Shi Zhongtang sighed and told her the embarrassing truth, "You want to see me."
"...Do you think I'll forgive you?" You Ling interrupted him coldly, "Including Yin Xiuzhu, you've broken up with me for the tenth time."
Shi Zhongtang smiled slightly.
He is handsome and can really do whatever he wants... This is what many people say about his smile.
Toutiao likes to chase him, because he is always surrounded by fresh faces, new actresses, veteran singers, socialites, and real estate developers' daughters, he can support a dozen gossip tabloids alone.
Gradually, his reputation was mixed, and many people in the industry sighed for him. Said that if it wasn't for the disorder in his private life, he would have reached a higher position than he is now.
Shi Zhongtang knew things that outsiders knew, of course, but he couldn't change it. In recent years, he even became more aggressive. When he was with different types of women, he broke up when he was tired of it. Then he took out the key and opened his eyes. this door.
Every time he was greeted by the same face.
More and more painful, more and more intolerable faces.
"... I know." Shi Zhongtang stared at the face in front of him fascinatedly, "You will definitely forgive me."
Unable to bear, Yu Ling raised his right palm and threw it towards his face.
That hand was held by Shi Zhongtang, and regardless of her struggles, she pulled it in front of her. The other hand fumbled in her breast pocket a few times, and she took out a diamond ring that had been prepared and put it on her ring finger.
"Look, mine is a couple." Shi Zhongtang raised his right hand and showed her his ring finger. The identical diamond ring shone on his finger, illuminating his smile, "Miss Youling, marry me. Bar."
An unexpected wedding.
The prodigal son returns to his heart, and everyone is curious about who has such a great charm.
There were more women than men, and everyone was dressed up to show their beauty, as if to compare with the bride.
"How could it be her?" As soon as You Ling came out, this sentence echoed in every woman's heart, "What is she better than me?"
Compared with beauty, You Ling is not the opponent of a generation of jade girl Liu Yiyi. Compared with temperament, she is not comparable to talented girl Lin Xi. Compared with talent, she is not even comparable to Cui Hongying, who debuted five years later, let alone Yin Xiuzhu, a generation of singers.
"A Tang." Yin Xiuzhu even found Shi Zhongtang privately and asked him, "Did you have any reason to... Was taken by her?"
Apart from this, everyone couldn't think of any other reason to bring these two disproportionate people together.
"No." Shi Zhongtang smiled meaningfully, "I love her very much."
But if you really love her, how can you cheat one after another.
The wedding didn't change him.
Just like before the marriage, Shi Zhongtang only had three minutes of enthusiasm for You Ling, and once the enthusiasm passed, he would leave without saying goodbye and threw himself into the arms of other women.
"...Tell me." The villa was in a mess, and You Ling stood in the middle of broken dishes and bowls, with a broken cake at his feet, with the words "Happy Newlyweds" written on it, "Why do you always leave me?"
The suit was placed on the right shoulder, and there was still a deliberately protesting hickey on the neckline of the white shirt. Shi Zhongtang walked towards her step by step, his voice very calm: "I always feel boring when I'm around you."
Yu Ling's face instantly turned white.
It was as if the blood in his body was drained by his words, and he died instantly, becoming a ghost.
But the next moment, a warm hand touched her face, and Shi Zhongtang looked at her intently: "But if I leave you, I will become more and more anxious, no matter who I am with, I just want to come back to you in the end. ."
Is he sincere or fake
Yuling couldn't tell the difference.
In other words, she never saw him clearly, never really understood this person.
Not surprisingly, this incident made headlines, and within three months, the two remarried.
On and off, quarrels and quarrels, these two are always divorcing and remarrying, cheating and quarreling. Gradually, even the most gossip tabloids lost interest in the two of them, because everyone knew that no matter who Shi Zhongtang chose to be with today, he would eventually return to You Ling.
In the blink of an eye, twenty years have passed.
"Who is she?" The wrinkle has climbed up the corner of You Ling's eyes. It has been twenty years. Time has worn away her face and her temper. Now she can calmly discuss his new love with Shi Zhongtang.
The suit was placed on his right shoulder, and there was still a deliberately demonstrative hickey on the neckline of the white shirt. Shi Zhongtang walked towards her step by step, the wrinkles also crawled into the corner of his eyes, but what he did was still the same as it was twenty years ago.
"I forgot." Shi Zhongtang smiled, took out an exquisite small gift box from his pocket and handed it over, "Celebrate our 20th marriage."
"Just right, one hundred." You Ling took the gift box and opened it. Inside was a sapphire necklace. She asked with a smile, "I booked two movie tickets. Will you accompany me or her tonight?"
Shi Zhongtang picked up the necklace, walked behind her, and put it on for her: "To accompany you."
When the two came to the cinema and saw the giant poster standing in front of the door, Shi Zhongtang was stunned.
"The Man in the Picture".
"The film I invested in." You Ling took his arm and sighed, "The two of us met when we made this film..."
"Do you remember what happened when the film was made?" Shi Zhongtang asked coldly.
You Ling was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "How many years ago, I can't remember exactly."
Shi Zhongtang smiled unconcernedly, yes, what happened many years ago, she has forgotten everything, and his memory has been blurred.
Until the lights dimmed, the screen turned on.
Above the execution ground, the guillotine fell.
A beautiful head rolled to the ground, and her hair was spread on the ground like a fine black satin.
"Okay, fifty taels of gold."
The executioner took the purse with one hand and handed it a strand of hair cut from his head with the other.
The man wearing a bamboo hat seemed to have found a treasure, and he took his hair to the city overnight to find it in the Taoist temple.
"It's done." The mad Taoist used this hair to make a paintbrush and hand it over to the man, "From today onwards, you will use your own blood to mix ink, and then paint with this brush. It's like a dream, and after seven, seven, forty-nine days, she'll be alive...in your painting."
With blood as ink, day and night are turned upside down, so that the shape is pinned to the bone, and it is haggard.
The admonitions from his parents and his friends were completely ignored. Everyone thought he was crazy, and even he himself thought he was crazy.
Until seven, seven and forty-nine days later, he slowly hung the scroll on the wall.
The picture scroll was like a waterfall, dripping from top to bottom, and a woman in white suddenly opened her eyes on the painting, her eyes seemed to be looking at him across thousands of mountains and rivers.
"Lingshan..." the man muttered.
"Lingshan..." In the audience, Shi Zhongtang suddenly stood up and murmured.
He thought he had forgotten, but he never forgot.
He thought it was just a dream, but it wasn't...
The woman in white walked down from the painting. It seemed that she hadn't walked for a long time. She suddenly fell to the ground, frowning slightly, she slowly raised one hand and said in the direction of the screen: "Come here. "
The man walked over almost uncontrollably, knelt down on one knee, and held her hand.
"Where are you going?" Yuling turned his head and shouted in surprise.
"Let me, please." Shi Zhongtang anxiously walked out of the auditorium.
No one knew what he was looking for, even he himself didn't know what he was looking for. For 20 years, he had been in a daze, always hanging around among different women, none of which he wanted.
Finally, he gave in.
He said to himself, maybe that's Yuling, her appearance in the play, and he fell in love with her... in love with the person in the picture she played.
But is this really the case
He stumbled out of the cinema, and he never put down his mobile phone. In just ten minutes, it was enough for him to find out everything about the starring.
Ning Ning, the daughter of Ning Yuren, a former queen of bad movies, and now a new favorite at the box office... Shi Zhongtang suddenly stopped and turned to look.
In the dark night, a woman passed him by and walked deep into the alley.
"... Ning Ning?" Shi Zhongtang followed suit, just like Li Zhongtang in "The Man in the Picture" was bewitched by Lingshan, and went on a road of doom.
This road is not long.
Following her, he ends up in front of an old movie theater.
Two slender lanterns hang down, swaying around the door, with a dark red light.
He saw her go in, but when he tried to follow him, he was stopped by one.
"You don't have a ticket," the masked man told him.
Shi Zhongtang looked at him for a long time, and suddenly laughed: "Did you say the same thing to me back then?"
The other party didn't answer, just looked at him indifferently, like a stone statue of a gatekeeper.
"...I remember." Shi Zhongtang sighed, "Twenty years ago, I did the same thing, followed her, came here, and then I hesitated... I finally didn't have the courage to walk in."
No sensible person would rush into this place rashly.
Because he turned his face and looked, behind the door stood one after another masked people. They were separated by the door, separated by an invisible line, quietly watching him, waiting for him to cross the line and walk into them.
"It's right not to come in." The masked man finally replied, "You seem to be doing fine now."
After becoming famous, the family has a beautiful wife and even a lot of lovers. I don’t know how many people will be jealous beyond recognition when they mention Shi Zhongtang, and the walls will be separated.
"Is it good?" Shi Zhongtang laughed, "Actually, I was always dead, and I didn't come back to life until I met her."
Twenty years ago, he stood here and made a choice. This choice made him lose a piece of memory, and also made him a kite that lost its string. It kept flying, flying higher and higher, more and more The farther you go, the more you never stop.
"You really want to come in?" The masked man looked at him sarcastically, "You may die, and it is more likely that life is better than death."
"The last time you said this to me was 20 years ago." Shi Zhongtang laughed and put the suit he took off on his shoulders: "I don't know if I have 20 years left, so... please let me Let it go."
all night
The moment Shi Zhongtang pushed open the door and entered, a sigh sounded in your ear.
You turned your head and saw Shi Zhongtang stroking the mask on his face quite narcissistically: "Fortunately, come in, from now on, there is a new male god in the world."
At that moment you don't know what kind of expression you should make... Forget it, just smile.
"It's getting late." Ningning said to you, "It's time for you to go back to sleep."
You looked at the clock on the wall and complained that it was only eleven o'clock. As a cultivator, you usually go to bed at three o'clock...
"Isn't there a movie you haven't seen yet?" You really didn't want to go to bed so early, so you simply asked, "I remember what it was called, "Stop Me"?"
Ning Ning and Shi Zhongtang looked at each other.
"This movie... can't be released." Ning Ning said to you with a complicated look.
"Why?" you asked suspiciously.
Ning Ning didn't speak, just picked up the remote control and clicked the screen direction, zizizi, the screen lit up, a snowflake.
"The signal is not good?" You think it's unbelievable, thinking that this is not good in the age of technology, and even the movie theater of life will encounter the problem of disconnection...
"No." Ning Ning shook his head, "This film can't be released because its starring... can't get in."
You seem to have guessed who that is...
In order to confirm your guess, you choose to walk home, but you start to regret it when you go out, because you remember that you are wearing pajamas...
"Need help?" A gentle voice called out in front of you.
You look at each other: "Brother Wen Yu!"
"Do you recognize me?" The other party was stunned and looked behind you thoughtfully, "...Did you just come out of the movie theater?"
You nodded hurriedly. In the whole novel, you like two men, one is Shi Zhongtang, and the second is Wen Yu. There is no way, the author actually gives you two choices, the others are crazy.
Wen Yu took off her shirt and handed it to you, lest you catch a cold from the night wind.
"…Are they okay?" he asked, his voice as warm as his smile.
"It's very good, very good, in good health, and in good spirits. I just watched a movie with them." You are like a fan girl who has seen a star, and incoherently recounts your evening experience.
Before you knew it, you and Wen Yu were sitting on the stool under the street lamp, he gave you a cup of hot milk tea, and then listened to you quietly, with a focused expression, it seemed that every word that came out of your mouth was a no-brainer for him. Foot is important.
You finally stopped and asked, "You... think about them so much, why don't you go in and see for yourself?"
"I can't get in." Wen Yu smiled helplessly, looking in the direction of Life Cinema, "In my opinion, there's nothing there... I can't see or hear anything."
Hearing this, you sighed: "Maybe the movie theater is a jealous woman. He is afraid that you will take away Ningning and Brother Stone, so he stops you from seeing them."
The description of the jealous woman made Wen Yu burst into laughter.
"Okay, it's time for you to go back." He patted your head, "It's so late, girls, don't hang out alone, I'll take you home."
You pity him a little, think for a moment, and suggest, "You know, tonight, I'm a VIP at the movie theater... So, if it's my request, the movie theater might agree."
After a pause, you asked cautiously, "… Shall I take you to the cinema?"
Wen Yu was silent for a long time, then smiled: "No."
You are dumbfounded: "Why, you don't want to see them... see your brother?"
"... He chose to be in the movie theater." Wen Yu looked behind her with a complicated expression, "Then there must be one person outside the movie theater, so that if something happens to the movie theater in the future, there will be at least one other person, at least me. …”
You look at him, a little sad: "... But it's not very pleasant, is it?"
"Well, it's not a good feeling." Wen Yu admitted calmly, but in turn comforted you and said softly, "But I have to do this, I have to stop myself... missing them."
Stop chasing, put down the hands that want to hug, and close the mouth that wants to say those three words, he will banish himself forever, miss them, guard them, but not approach them.