"What about your grandparents?"
"Grandma? You mean grandma?" Xia Yitong shook her head and said, "I don't know. I haven't seen them much since my mother passed away."
Looking at Xia Yitong's expression, she had already let go of the past. Lu Yinbing thought that there was no need for him to comfort her. She didn't need it, and it would seem that the comfort was too superficial. Life was all about looking forward, and he would just be extra nice to her in the future.
"Teacher Xia." Lu Yinbing looked at her through the camera.
"ah."
"When are you going to take me to see your dean? Didn't she say she wanted to see me last time?"
"We'll go when we're both free."
Lu Yinbing imitated her and counted on her fingers: "One, two, three..." He counted on one hand and then put another finger together, "In six months, you will be mine."
"It's someone from your studio." Xia Yitong corrected her with a smile.
"The people in my studio, or my people for short, will be known to the whole world in time." Lu Yinbing said as he reached for his cell phone and opened the memo.
"What are you doing?" Xia Yitong asked curiously.
“Write a coming out statement.”
"What?!" Xia Yitong almost jumped out of the bed. In an instant, countless reasons rushed into her mind to persuade Lu Yinbing not to be so impulsive.
"Your contract announcement." Lu Yinbing smiled and looked up at her, then lowered his head to type, "I'll suffer the most if I come out. I've saved some money over the past few years. If you're forced to come out, I can support you. Don't worry."
"I have my own money."
Lu Yinbing's eyes were still fixed on the screen of his mobile phone, and he smiled to himself, "I remember now. You have enough wealth to look at me for five minutes. You have been looking at me for such a long time, so you are not prepared to pay a little bit of money?"
"You have to pay to see your girlfriend?" Xia Yitong muttered, and said without hesitation, "Then I'll give you all my bank cards next time I go back. You just need to leave me one with a few million for daily expenses."
"Aren't you afraid that I'm a liar?" Lu Yinbing laughed after saying this, "Forget it, forget it. I'm much richer than you. If I accuse you of cheating on me, I'll be at a disadvantage. I can't even play this joke anymore."
"Teacher Lu."
"Um?"
"Hey, Mr. Lu."
"explain."
Xia Yitong was jealous of her as she kept typing with her head down. She said sourly, "Can you look at me?"
"Ah?" Lu Yinbing reacted for a moment, then quickly raised his head and said, "I've looked. I'm looking now. Where are you looking?"
"My face."
Lu Yinbing stared at her face intently, looking left and right, up and down, and in spirals. Hmm... she is so beautiful.
"I haven't finished yet. I was just talking about Qiao'er from Shuijing Village."
"Then go on."
The two of them went through a lot of twists and turns and returned to the stage where Xia Yitong confessed her eight-year secret love for him.
"I swore to the dean that I would marry you when I grow up."
Lu Yinbing was stunned and said, "No, are all your ten-year-old children so precocious?"
"At that time, I didn't like you that much. I just vaguely felt that I really liked seeing you on the screen." Xia Yitong waved her hands and said, "But the day you married Xishun on TV, the dean said that I burst into tears and was so sad that I didn't eat for the whole day. It was just like an adult who had just broken up."
Lu Yinbing couldn't help laughing: "What happened next?"
"Later on, I stopped liking you. I always felt that you betrayed me and were with another man." Xia Yitong said with a puffy face.
Lu Yinbing laughed: "What the hell? Don't you think it's overbearing for you to unilaterally announce that you and I are together? Overbearing President Xia fell in love with me."
"I was young at that time, and my feelings came and went quickly." Xia Yitong raised her hand and rubbed her nose embarrassedly, "But I still watched "The End of the World" every time it was replayed, and I cried when I saw the wedding. It can be said that I brought it upon myself. The dean once wanted to hire a psychologist to see me."
Lu Yinbing clenched his fist with one hand, pretending to hold a microphone, and pointed it at Xia Yitong's mouth on the screen: "Excuse me, President Xia, when did your domineering CEO mentality get better?"
"It took a year or two."
"Wow, that's really long."
Xia Yitong pretended to push her microphone away and said, "Don't tease me. If you tease me again, I won't be able to continue. It's all black history."
Lu Yinbing sighed: "How can the history of having a crush on me be a dark history?"
Xia Yitong bit her lower lip to stop laughing, paused for a while, and said, "By chance, I saw an interview program of yours on TV, CCTV's xx. Shocked by beauty, oh, this word doesn't seem to mean that. Anyway, I was shocked to find out that Qiao'er didn't live in Shuijing Village! I hurried to tell the dean the big news. I still remember that day when the dean was washing clothes, leaning against the sink and laughing, then he touched my head and said you are an actor. It was from then on that I gradually understood what the acting industry is about."
Some children, when watching TV series as children, always cannot distinguish between reality and performance, and think that if someone dies on TV, they are really dead, and they cannot accept it if they see the same person in another TV series. Lu Yinbing sighed and said, "Fortunately, I am not dead, otherwise you would think I am a reborn corpse."
Xia Yitong smiled and said, "This is the beginning of my career as a fan. It was only after watching the interview that I learned that you live in Beijing, which is very far away from me. You are seventeen years old, a young lady, not married, and not yet of legal marriage age."
"And then you unilaterally declare that I have to be with you?"
"No, I'm not that stupid. I'm already in the first grade of junior high school." Xia Yitong said, "I secretly collected your posters and stuff, and pasted them all over...ah, I can't paste them, or they will break them. I put them in the dean's room. When I went to the computer room for class, other students played Minesweeper and King of Fighters, and I searched for news about you online. You were filming a new movie, wow, so beautiful, attending an event, wow, so beautiful, recording a new show, wow, so beautiful."
As she spoke, Lu Yinbing was earnestly recalling the events of more than ten years ago in his long memory. He laughed instantly when he heard this simple and crude adjective.
"I've been following you for about four years. Everyone around me knows that I like an actress. My notebooks are covered with stickers with her portrait. Her name is Lu Yinbing." Xia Yitong said, "I really realized that I was attracted to you during the summer vacation after I graduated from junior high school. Your new movie was released. The dean took me on an hour-long car ride to the largest cinema in the city. The movie was called "Moonlight in the Sky" and you played the daughter of a blind man. I conservatively estimate that my heart rate never dropped below 120 throughout the whole movie."
Lu Yinbing couldn't help but curl the corners of his mouth.
"From that day on, I always dreamed about you. I had dreamed about you before, but you always asked me for autographs and took photos with me. But after that, the content of my dreams was very... I matured early and had more opportunities to go online than other children, so I naturally knew what was going on. I sealed up all your stuff because I was afraid of my feelings. When I liked you, I wanted everyone in the world to know about it, but when I really liked you, I didn't dare to let anyone know. After entering high school, I never told anyone that I liked you."
Lu Yinbing sighed imperceptibly.
"I was in this dilemma one semester. At the end of the semester, just after the final exams, a rich guy in my class invited us to watch a movie in a private theater."
Lu Yinbing raised her eyes and had already foreseen what would happen next.
Xia Yitong smiled, "Yes, it was your movie. The little rich guy is your loyal fan. I really didn't have the courage to refuse. I haven't seen you for half a year. The feeling of missing you is so real that it makes me panic. After watching the movie that day, my hands and feet were weak, and I had only one thought in my mind: I'm done, I'm done, I'm really done. I went home and didn't sleep all night. Finally, I figured it out. If I like someone, I like them. I can like whoever I want. Forget about my worries. Not only do I like her, I want to be with her! I can definitely do it!"
Lu Yinbing frowned slowly, feeling as if he had vaguely grasped something.
"Fortunately, I set my life goal early, and I was fully prepared for the art exam. I did well in my academic subjects, and I entered the Capital Film Academy without any problems." Xia Yitong looked at her and said, "To this day, I still remember every movie you have made, every scene, every line. Except for the latest one, I have only watched it a dozen times, but I have watched the others at least thirty times, and some of them hundreds of times."
Xia Yitong said: "I have liked you for so many years..."
"Wait, wait a minute..." Lu Yinbing interrupted her and extracted a clear and shocking theme from the chaotic and complex information, "Did you enter the entertainment industry for me?" she said in disbelief.
"Yes, for you."
"I..." Lu Yinbing's eyes flashed with surprise for only a moment, but soon sank and turned into a cramped look. He said with difficulty, "I need to digest it."
"Teacher Lu," Xia Yitong called her, "Look at me, listen to me and digest it."
Lu Yinbing raised his head.
Xia Yitong said: "You don't have to have any other thoughts about my choice. This is my own choice, my life. From the moment I decided to step in, it has nothing to do with you. If you feel sympathy or guilt for me because of this, it would be the greatest injustice to me.
"You said you are not used to life being out of control and full of variables. I am not telling you these things to show how much I have given, but to tell you that I have liked you for so many years, and I have never changed even when I didn't get any response. I didn't change before, I won't change now, and I won't change in the future. Wherever you are, I will be there. I am not a variable, I am the constant in your life from now on."