"Xia, teacher."
"Hmm?" Xia Yitong continued to give a kind smile.
"I just came over to say hello to you." Cen Xi blushed.
"Would you like to come in and sit for a while?" Xia Yitong felt that she had to put a lot of effort into every word she said to ensure that she would not be led astray, but for the sake of being in front of the camera, she still politely invited Cen Xi.
Facing the invitation from her idol, no matter how nervous she was, Cen Xi would not refuse: "Okay."
He spoke a word very fluently.
Xia Yitong: “…”
I feel like I've dug a big hole for myself.
The cameraman who was filming Cenxi laughed so hard that he could barely hold the camera. Xia Yitong stepped aside and let the two of them in. The hotel rooms were all the same. They were just for one night, so Xia Yitong didn't even pack her luggage. It was just placed in the box. It was really nothing to see. But Cenxi still looked around and said, "It's clean."
Xia Yitong smiled and said, "Thanks to the program crew for their arrangement."
Xia Yitong poured her a glass of water. The two stood there and chatted awkwardly for a few sentences. Finally, Cen Xi left. Xia Yitong wiped the sweat from her forehead, ordered dinner and went to the room. After dinner, she took a shower and did not go out again. During this time, the door was knocked twice. Two other female guests came, one was seventeen years old, and the other was relatively the smallest in status.
Xia Yitong took advantage of Lu Yinbing's absence from work to catch up on variety shows on her tablet. She had watched quite a few before, and now she wanted to memorize all the performances of those artists who gained fans through variety shows.
Lu Yinbing called at one minute before nine.
"Are you done with work?" Xia Yitong asked immediately.
It was a meaningless sentence. Lu Yinbing must have been in a safe place to call her. During filming, the only safe place was after finishing work and returning to the hotel. But Lu Yinbing still curled his lips: "Well, how is it?"
"What?"
"That little girl." Lu Yinbing took a breath, took a cup and poured himself some water.
"Cenxi."
Lu Yinbing raised his eyebrows: “Hmm.”
"Nothing much."
"Hmm?" Lu Yinbing was obviously feeling a sense of crisis about this little girl from Cenxi, who was better seen in person than heard about. She had already had two encounters with Xia Yitong and only blushed at her. After all, this routine seemed so familiar.
"She said, 'Hello, Teacher Xia.' I said 'Hello.' She said she just came to say hello to me. I asked her if she wanted to come in and sit down. Then she came in and drank a glass of water, and that was it."
"She also drank the water you poured for her?" Lu Yinbing asked, "Did you pour it yourself?"
"No, I control it with my mind." Xia Yitong said seriously.
Lu Yinbing laughed, and her mood seemed to have improved a lot. Xia Yitong heard her drinking water and didn't speak for a while. Lu Yinbing put down the water cup and said in a low voice: "She drank the water you poured, and I drank your water."
"Ah?" Xia Yitong was still getting used to Teacher Lu's dirty talk. When she came to her senses, her face instantly felt hot as if on fire. She whispered, "Teacher Lu..."
"Why am I not telling the truth?"
"Yes..." She said even more quietly.
"Or do you not like it?"
Xia Yitong: “…” How should she answer this
"I miss you." Lu Yinbing did not dwell on Xia Yitong's answer after flirting, and hit another straight ball.
"Me too," Xia Yitong said word by word, "I miss you so much."
Because of her busy work, she often has to go to one place after another. In the past, she only regarded those as work and forgot about them as soon as she turned around. Now, she pays more and more attention to the city customs, shares them with Lu Yinbing, and wants to take her on a trip. When she sees something fun, she will think of Lu Yinbing, and when she sees something delicious, she will think of Lu Yinbing. When she is busy, she will think of her, and when she is bored, she will think of her even more.
Lu Yinbing, Lu Yinbing, Lu Yinbing, Lu Yinbing, every step she took seemed to bear the mark of Lu Yinbing. She was where she came from, and she was where she would return.
"Video." Lu Yinbing said this and hung up the phone. Immediately afterwards, a video invitation was sent. Xia Yitong answered the call. Lu Yinbing sat upright with his hands on the edge of the table.
"Now that you've seen me, are you feeling better?"
Xia Yitong stared at her, blinked, and said, "I miss you even more."
"In four months, you will be in my company."
Xia Yitong said frustratedly: "It's still a long time."
"How about breach of contract? I'll pay you the penalty?" Lu Yinbing made this suggestion for the third time in two months. Xia Yitong refused for the third time and with a more convincing reason than before. She said confidently, "I've already joined the crew and signed the contract for the TV series. Even if I change the agency, I can't break the contract. It will affect my reputation."
Lu Yinbing said: "Then why are you so depressed?"
Xia Yitong rolled over on the bed: "Teacher Lu, I miss you."
Lu Yinbing said: "Thinking about it."
It was too ruthless. Xia Yitong sat up again and saw Lu Yinbing staring at her on the screen. They both stopped talking and looked at each other. Five minutes later, Lu Yinbing broke the silence first: "Your tablet seems to be on. What are you looking at?"
"Watch variety shows." Xia Yitong asked desperately, "Teacher Lu, do you know how to play reality shows?"
Lu Yinbing was stunned at first, then raised his chin slightly, with his nostrils almost pointing to the ceiling: "You know I never accept variety shows, and I don't watch this. I don't have time, and I don't care."
"You don't want to see mine either?"
"It depends on my mood." Lu Yinbing snorted twice, saying one thing and thinking another. He disappeared from the camera and soon came back with a tablet. "Let me ask Xue Yao for you. There's a singer in the studio who seemed to have appeared on a variety show, the one on your channel, and gained quite a lot of fans."
Didn't she say she doesn't care about variety shows? She even knows which channel she is on. Xia Yitong smiled. Seeing her lower her head and send WeChat messages seriously, her eyes have a built-in shutter function and her brain has a built-in storage function. Click, it's beautiful.
Lu Yinbing frowned slowly, it looked good.
Lu Yinbing raised his eyes to look at her, she was so beautiful!
Lu Yinbing noticed her look and laughed at her: "What are you doing? The light in your eyes is almost blinding me."
"I'll blind you!" Xia Yitong bared his small white teeth, looking very fierce.
Lu Yinbing was not afraid of her. He raised his eyebrows, narrowed his eyes, and said in a dangerous tone: "If you look at me like this again, be careful or I will kiss you with my tongue."
Xia Yitong's attitude was extremely arrogant: "Come on! French kiss!"
Lu Yinbing said: "Then I bought the ticket."
Xia Yitong didn't believe it. She didn't have the schedule and it was impossible for her to come. But the next moment, Lu Yinbing showed her the interface of the successful ticket purchase. Xia Yitong became anxious. Why did this person say what he wanted to say? They were not ordinary people. She didn't feel any romance, but only panic.
"I was just bluffing you." Lu Yinbing was also frightened by her. He surrendered automatically without teasing her any more and smiled, "I'll refund the ticket now."
"There is a handling fee for refunding the ticket."
"It's only a few hundred yuan..." Lu Yinbing keenly noticed the sharp gaze from the other party's screen, and confessed sincerely, "A few hundred yuan is quite expensive, enough to buy a cheap lipstick. I will buy one less lipstick next month as atonement."
Xia Yitong laughed, but before her smile could deepen, she disappeared and said nervously, "Teacher Lu, it's not that I don't want you to come see me, I'm just..."
Lu Yinbing gently interrupted her: "Shh, I know everything."
Xia Yitong pursed her lips.
Lu Yinbing looked at her, curled the corners of his lips, and said, "I'll remember this meeting first, and I'll remember everything else. Next time we meet, make it up to me, double the amount, plus interest, triple the amount."
Xia Yitong looked at her smile and inexplicably felt a chill on her back, which made her waist and legs weak.
Xue Yao replied with a lot of words, but Lu Yinbing was too lazy to repeat them, so she asked Xia Yitong to add her as a friend. She would have to add her as a friend in the future anyway, so it would be better to move up the schedule so that she could get used to Xue Yao's way of leading people.
When hanging up the video, Lu Yinbing reminded again: "Remember to keep your distance from Cen Xi."
Xia Yitong agreed obediently and said that she would do so even if Lu Yinbing didn't say it.
Lu Yinbing's mood improved and she blew him a kiss as a reward.
It was already half past ten when they finished chatting. Xia Yitong lay in bed, listening to Xue Yao telling her about reality show techniques. Then she integrated the experience of predecessors that Su Han had taught her before the show, as well as the personal experience of some colleagues. She felt that she had mastered it about 70% of the time, so she locked her phone screen, turned on airplane mode, and went to sleep.
The next day was a sunny day. In the early spring, the quaint Jiangnan water town was full of vitality with new buds sprouting on the willows by the stream and rippling on the water.
The beautifully dressed actresses in the hotel lobby were also having a great time.
Where there are people, there is the Jianghu. Where there are women, there is the Jianghu of bloody storms and the battle between good and evil. Ten female stars lined up in front of the camera, their positions were based on their status and seniority. Xia Yitong stood second on the left. They all smiled politely at each other. The younger and less experienced ones shook hands one by one, expressing their admiration in various ways. The slightly older ones smiled kindly to support the younger generation.
Xia Yitong was embarrassed. Although she was young, she was a big star. Her pay was probably among the top three or four among the ten. Her qualifications were not light in comparison. Especially in a team without any top-notch figures to support the team, it was really difficult for her to find her own position.
Another first-line actress was just as embarrassed as her. But she was always more modest and simply shook hands again from the beginning to the end. The ten actresses kept exchanging pleasantries, and the production team had to interrupt them in advance to ensure the progress of the recording as they were enthusiastically trying to establish a fake sisterhood.
The director winked, and the senior host of xx TV came up: "Dear guests, and friends in front of the TV, welcome to xx TV's special large-scale outdoor adventure reality show "Mercury hits the Earth". The so-called Mercury, of course, refers to the goddesses who are as beautiful as flowers and as beautiful as water..."
Xia Yitong stood still, listening to the host's speech with her ears open. Her brain was working. She made a rough estimate. Among these nine people, she didn't know six of them and had only seen them on TV. She had just met Li Jue yesterday and didn't know how close they were. Du Ruohan had some conflicts with her. Cen Xi was a fangirl who she wanted to keep her distance from. The 17-year-old girl was a child star and looked quite innocent. As for the others, they were a little older than her, but less popular. They probably held a grudge against her secretly. One of them, Su Han, had clearly told her that her company had a group of black fans who specifically targeted her. There was a young actress who was 24 years old this year. She became famous through movies and had been shortlisted for the main competition unit of a certain A-class film festival abroad. She was cool and popular with the public. During the Chinese New Year, her first TV series since her debut was broadcast on ○○ Satellite TV. The word-of-mouth and ratings were explosive, so she could compete with her. Because it was competing with the hit drama "Bi Luo" which was also released in the New Year, and was dragged out by marketing accounts to lead the rhythm, the fans of the two people seemed to be fighting each other fiercely and irreconcilable.
It would have been fine if she hadn't analyzed it. Once she analyzed it, she suddenly felt that this variety show was filled with people who were either enemies or forbidden to contact. It was simply dark.
The host finished his opening remarks and said, "Okay, our adventure today begins now. Go!"
Xia Yitong came back to his senses.
A large group of men in black rushed in from outside the door. Even though Xia Yitong was mentally prepared, she was still shocked. The men in black blindfolded the ten actresses and "escorted" them out one by one.
Xia Yitong always felt that the host had forgotten something, but later she remembered that the rules of the game had not yet been explained!