One morning in June, the premiere ceremony of "Mei Qi" was held at the x Exhibition Hall in Beijing. The attendees were all well-known figures in the circle. The stars were shining, and when the camera occasionally swept across them, everyone was dazzling.
Xia Yitong, who was in the center of the camera most of the time, was dressed in a refreshing outfit, a knitted top and light blue jeans, with a sweet smile, attracting all the attention of the women in front of the TV.
"As a traditional martial arts drama, "Mei Qi" should have a lot of sad moments, right?" the host asked.
Xia Yitong listened attentively, holding the microphone with one hand, and said with a smile: "Will it be cruel? I don't know about this. You should ask Editor Zhou, he wrote the script."
Zhou Yiwen had a stern face as usual, and Qin Hanlin teased him as usual, "Say something, everyone is looking at you, why are you shy?"
Zhou Yiwen said: "I adapted it. You can ask the original author. Anyway, I like it very much."
Lu Yinbing remembered that she had dinner with the original author. The original author was a lesbian, and was a couple with the investor. She seemed to be her fan. They took photos together and signed autographs. Before leaving, she seemed to want to ask for her phone number, but she didn't say it in the end. Lu Yinbing turned down the volume of the TV, looked at the sky outside, and sent a WeChat message to Xia Yitong - When are you coming home? What do you want to eat
Xia Yitong was not so free when she started working. She didn't come back until an hour later. After ten o'clock, you can eat first. I'll order takeout for you. Do you want spicy crayfish
Mother Xue is still here with me, so I asked her to make soup for me.
That won't affect your eating of crayfish. The season is almost here. I'll have someone send you eight kilograms. Is that enough
I'll ask Mrs. Xue.
OK
Mother Xue said she wanted six kilograms, and she would eat six kilograms by herself.
Then ten kilograms? Xia Yitong knew that Lu Yinbing was not big, especially now that he had not fully recovered. He ate even less at night and had basically no appetite. Let alone four kilograms, two kilograms would be enough.
Lu Yinbing replied: About 12 kilograms, with Xue’s mother and I weighing 6 kilograms each.
Xia Yitong—Okay.
She threw the phone to Fang Hui and said, "Order twelve pounds of spicy crayfish to be delivered to my home, along with ten pounds of minced garlic and two pounds of salted egg yolks."
Fang Hui: “…Okay.”
After Xia Yitong finished recording the show, she looked at the time on her phone and it showed 10:03 pm. She was anxious to go home. There happened to be a director at the TV station who was her fan and came up to her to ask for autographs and photos. She suppressed her eagerness to go home and cooperated with him with a smile. The director kept chatting with her about this and that and she couldn't understand his expression at all. More than ten minutes passed and he was still expressing his ideas enthusiastically.
Xia Yitong winked at Fang Wei, Fang Wei took out her cell phone to dial a number, then put it back in her pocket. Xia Yitong answered the call and pretended to have something to do and left first.
It was exactly eleven o'clock when I got home. Lu Yinbing was still sitting in the living room, holding a Kindle in his hand. The TV was on, but the volume was turned very low and there were commercials playing. I guess Lu Yinbing didn't pay attention to what was playing, he just wanted to listen to it.
Xia Yitong: "I'm back."
"Have you eaten?" Lu Yinbing put down his Kindle and walked over.
Xia Yitong took off her shoes, stepped into slippers, and handed her the bag in her hand. "I ate the lunch prepared by the production team." She yawned as she said this. "You don't know that when I came back from the recording, a TV station director said he was my fan, and then he said a lot of nonsense. I thought about it and it was..."
She paused, and Lu Yinbing continued for her: "They want to ask you to act in a play, right?"
Xia Yitong exclaimed and looked towards the TV.
Lu Yinbing said, "Many young directors are like this. I guess that's the new director that the TV station just signed. He looks quite young, isn't he? He must be in his thirties."
"Um."
"Maybe he had a TV series with good ratings, which was bought by a TV station, and then the director was signed. There were many celebrities there, and he went to meet each one of them shamelessly to expand his network. It was quite hard work."
"Um."
Lu Yinbing put her bag away, pretended not to notice her unnatural behavior, and went into the kitchen.
Xia Yitong's attention was on the TV, which was playing a program from a long time ago. It featured a friend of hers. She watched it for a few more times, moved her nose, and smelled the aroma of food.
Lu Yinbing came out with a large plate of steaming spicy crayfish. Xia Yitong smelled the aroma of garlic, soup, and crayfish. She felt hungry again. "Didn't I come here to feed you?"
As she spoke, she had already put on her gloves spontaneously, picked up one, and it made a "hiss" sound, and immediately threw it back because it was too hot.
"Go slowly, I'm not going to snatch it from you." Lu Yinbing squatted down and said, "You bought too much, I saved some for you as a midnight snack, don't you like garlic sauce?"
Xia Yitong smiled at her and sat on the ground as well. Lu Yinbing brought the trash can to her.
The two of them watched and ate. Xia Yitong ate very happily, with oil all over his hands and mouth. He handed Lu Yinbing a piece of shrimp dipped in garlic. Lu Yinbing shook his head: "I brushed my teeth."
Xia Yitong ate at least three pounds of lobster by himself. Even without the shells, he was still full and half leaned back on the sofa to rest.
"Don't leave any for me next time. You'll gain weight if you eat so much at night." He did not forget to remind Lu Yinbing after finishing the meal.
"I just want you to gain some weight. I'll come back tomorrow night and make chicken soup for you." Lu Yinbing measured her wrist with his fingers. "Don't you see how much thinner you are now than before?"
Xia Yitong tilted his head and looked at her for a while, his eyes were blurry, and said, "Did you put wine in the lobster?"
"Hmm?" Lu Yinbing didn't know what she meant.
"Why do I see you..." Xia Yitong looked up at her, his expression really like he was drunk, "like a fairy descended from heaven."
"You are sleepy." Lu Yinbing said.
"Really? I'm sleepy?" Xia Yitong slowly moved her face closer to the sofa, her eyelids moving closer together. "Maybe I'm really sleepy."
Lu Yinbing patted her cheek. Xia Yitong's eyes widened for two seconds before closing again. Lu Yinbing helped her up from the ground helplessly: "At least take a shower before going to bed."
Lu Yinbing guessed that Xia Yitong might have suddenly returned to high-intensity work after resting at home for such a long time. Although he was mentally prepared, his body had not yet adjusted. That was why he felt so sleepy after returning home after a busy day. It would probably take some time for him to adapt.
Xia Yitong was half asleep and half awake, standing under the shower head yawning continuously, her hands hanging naturally and her eyes closed. Lu Yinbing was applying shower gel to her. The bubbles followed the curves of her body and were washed away by the water, relieving her tired body. As soon as she touched the soft bed, she fell asleep spontaneously and her brain stopped thinking completely.
Lu Yinbing wiped her wet face, rinsed it briefly, and lay down in bed.
Xia Yitong was clearly asleep, but subconsciously she hugged her when she lay down in the quilt, first the waist, then the shoulders, until half of her body was lying on Lu Yinbing.
"Teacher Lu..."
Lu Yinbing was trying to control her wandering thoughts and focus on sleeping when she heard Xia Yitong mumbling to herself. She lifted Xia Yitong's long hair from her forehead, her eyes softened by the warm light. Was she calling out to herself in her dreams
"Teacher Lu..." Xia Yitong's lips moved.
Lu Yinbing leaned close to her ear, his eyebrows slightly curved, wanting to hear what she was talking about, whether she had dreamed of something unhealthy. After all, the last time she told him about something more comfortable in her dream, it was still vivid in his mind.
"I miss you so much..." Xia Yitong frowned in her sleep and rubbed her face into Lu Yinbing's neck. It didn't look like a good dream.
Right next to her, what is there to miss? Lu Yinbing laughed at first, then slowly frowned, and put his palm on Xia Yitong's shoulder, trying to push her awake. Xia Yitong spoke again, the same sentence, "I miss you so much." She sniffed, looking sad.
Lu Yinbing was stunned and looked at her for a long time. He slowly sat up from the bed and turned to look at the darkness outside the curtains.
Ten minutes later, the light in the study came on and went out until dawn.
Xia Yitong's biological clock was completely disrupted. She fell asleep without any notice in the morning. At one minute to eleven, she sat up from the bed, stroking her long hair. The bed next to her was cold. She put on her clothes and went downstairs. Lu Yinbing was reading a book on the sofa in the living room. The TV was still on, with the volume turned very low.
Xia Yitong walked up to her. She raised her eyelids and smiled, then continued to read a thick paper book called xxx Psychology. Xia Yitong sat down and asked her, "Are you feeling good today?"
Lu Yinbing reported: "I'm fine. I had milk and cake for breakfast. I've been in a good mood all morning. I just went for a walk." He saw a little bird. It was amazing that there were birds in this weather.
"How long has it been since the last attack? Has it been five days?" Xia Yitong asked.
"That's about right."
Lu Yinbing answered lightly, but Xia Yitong was delighted with this progress: "Will it not relapse in the future?" Depression can also cause memory loss. Lu Yinbing's memory has declined so much that it may not be just a problem of brain damage. Perhaps after she has basically recovered, there will be improvement. Even if she cannot recover to her original state and can be the same as a normal person, or even slightly worse than a normal person, Lu Yinbing can overcome it.
Maybe soon, she will be able to return to the big screen and become the brightest star among the crowd again.
Xia Yitong was about to go outside for a run when Lu Yinbing stretched out her finger and tapped her forehead. Xia Yitong looked up at her finger with her eyes crossed, and grinned with an exceptionally happy smile.
Lu Yinbingxin said: How can it be so easy to recover? If it were so easy to recover, there wouldn't be so many people suffering from it. The disease will generally recur. This is just the beginning.
But since Xia Yitong is so happy, don't spoil her fun. She will fight the next battle by herself.