Lu Yinbing's fingers began to tremble slightly, and an indescribable sourness suddenly surged into his eyes.
"sorry."
She didn't remember, and even if she saw the photos and those words, she couldn't match them with her memories from many years ago. But she could imagine a little 17-year-old girl sitting timidly in a lively occasion, holding a secret desire, and only daring to watch her from a distance.
-Minors are not allowed to drink alcohol.
It was just a casual remark she made, but the other party wrote it down with a pen, noted the date, and put it in a beautifully decorated wishing bottle, which has been preserved to this day.
Lu Yinbing suddenly looked at the stars scattered on the bed. What are these
She grabbed the star closest to her almost roughly, but her movements of opening it were extremely gentle. It took a full ten minutes before all the thirty or so stars in the bottle were opened one by one and spread out next to Lu Yinbing's hands.
—The girl in yellow? 20080706.
—Minors are not allowed to drink alcohol~20100727.
—They are over there. 20100727.
—Thank you all for coming. 20100727.
—Thank you too, I like it very much. What is your name? 20110729
—Okay, I'll remember it and look forward to seeing you next time. 20110729
—Who said that? The girl in the first row is pretty. 20120505
…
"Here," everything in it was so unfamiliar to Lu Yinbing. She was happy and worried at the same time, with mixed feelings. Finally, she smiled bitterly and picked up two from it. "Did I actually ask you what your name is?"
Xia Yitong touched her face and smiled, "I did ask, and I said my name was Xia Tong, Xia for summer and Tong for tung tree. I hadn't changed it to a stage name at that time."
"Can you describe to me what the scene was like?" Lu Yinbing asked her. Even if there was a slight possibility, even a little clue, she would find those memories through it.
It's so unfair that only one person remembers the memories of two people.
Xia Yitong smiled and said, "You were attending a business event one time, outdoors. When you came out from backstage, you were surrounded by many fans. Everyone was pushing forward, holding all kinds of gifts they wanted to give you. Then I don't know how things got chaotic, and I was pushed forward by the crowd. I don't know who tripped me or if I didn't step well, but I fell to the ground. I don't know why it was such a coincidence, but a pair of hands helped me up. I said thank you, and when I raised my eyes, I found it was you."
Lu Yinbing closed his eyes and followed her description back to that summer many years ago.
It seems that it was like that. In July and August, it was very hot. She was the same as Xia Yitong when she just acted with her. She was 22 or 23 years old at that time. She wore a light T-shirt and shorts and stood on the stage. As long as she didn't speak, there were countless fans shouting her name in the audience. Although it was almost evening, the weather was still stuffy. She was sweating all over. She was very uncomfortable. After the end, she couldn't wait to get some fresh air to feel comfortable.
When she was leaving the backstage, her way was somehow blocked by fans who had heard the news. A stream of people like the sea kept pouring in from the front. Several tall and strong bodyguards surrounded her, struggling to stop the fans who wanted to approach her.
"Everyone, don't push, and be careful." Lu Yinbing shouted at the top of his voice.
But no one could hear her speaking. Even if those in the front row heard her, those in the back row could not hear her amid the noise. They only knew that Lu Yinbing was in front of them and kept moving in.
Many people were staggering, and Lu Yinbing was frightened. At the same time, he felt a surge of anger in his heart. He wanted to take a whip and beat all these fans who couldn't distinguish the priorities and told them to squeeze.
Don't let any stampede happen.
Lu Yinbing prayed in her heart, and then she saw a girl of medium height stumble and uncontrollably break through the bodyguards' defense line and fall in. Lu Yinbing rushed forward and supported her before she fell.
Lu Yinbing: "Are you okay?"
Xia Yitong: "Thank you."
The two sentences came out at the same time, and one person was stunned.
"You were very close to me, only about ten centimeters away. I could even see the fine hairs on your face, and your eyes were very deep. I felt like I had been staring at your face for ten thousand years, but I couldn't tell how long it was. Guess what I was thinking at the time?"
"What are you thinking about?" Lu Yinbing asked softly.
"I didn't think about anything. It was as if I was struck by lightning in an instant. I felt numb from my hair to my heels. I went back and thought about it for a month. Whenever I thought about you looking at me like that, my fingers went numb and my whole body trembled. Maybe this is the feeling of being in love." Xia Yitong's eyes were filled with nostalgia.
"Did you give me a gift?" Lu Yinbing asked.
"Do you remember?" Xia Yitong never expected her to have any impression. She has been given many gifts by fans since her debut, but no one remembers what they look like. However, Lu Yinbing's reaction still surprised her.
"No." Lu Yinbing pointed at the note and said, "It seems to say that I accepted your gift."
In fact, the hint on the note was not obvious, but Lu Yinbing had that kind of subconsciousness. She seemed to have helped a girl up. She closed her eyes and frowned and said, "Well, are you wearing long pants, black casual style?"
"Yes!" Xia Yitong's eyes lit up.
"And then... wearing a black shirt with one row of buttons down the front."
"What else?"
Lu Yinbing recalled for a long time, then opened his eyes in distress: "No, I don't remember anything else. Even the clothes you wore, I don't think I remembered it, but it was an intuition."
"If we can't remember, then let's just forget about it. It's all in the past anyway."
"No, if I think about it, there must be some key clue that I have forgotten." Lu Yinbing's attitude was very firm this time. Xia Yitong had done so many things, and finally there was something she had a vague feeling about, how could she let it go.
"Give me some time to think about it." Lu Yinbing raised her hand to stop Xia Yitong from speaking, her brows furrowed with a thoughtful look. Her eyes fell on the open photo album, and she stared at it for a long time, as if in a trance.
Xia Yitong followed her line of sight and handed the photo album to her. Lu Yinbing did not take it. She remained in her original position and muttered, "Wait a minute, wait a minute. I will definitely remember it."
Five minutes passed and the two of them remained in their original positions, staring at each other.
Lu Yinbing: “…”
Xia Yitong: “…”
Lu Yinbing: “…”
Xia Yitong: "... or let's continue going down."
Lu Yinbing: “…”
Nodded.
Since that year, when Xia Yitong turned eighteen, she had not put anything new in her wishing bottle. When she was nineteen, she had seen her at a lecture at school. Knowing that Lu Yinbing was coming to give a lecture, everyone was excited and eager to grab a good seat the next day. She did not leave the concert hall the night before, and secretly hid in the toilet, hiding from the eyes of the school staff. At nine o'clock the next morning, when the classmates swarmed in to take seats, she had already calmly sat in the first row, the most conspicuous position, the position where she could see Lu Yinbing most clearly.
Lu Yinbing is a native Beijinger, she is lazy and slack-minded, and we have seen many private Reuters photos of her, but it is completely different when she is giving a speech. She stood on the podium with her back straight for two and a half hours without even changing her posture to be lazy.
After the show, everyone went to ask Lu Yinbing for autographs. She also went, but missed the show. Lu Yinbing answered a phone call, and her eyes swept across the countless enthusiastic faces in front of her. Without staying for a second for anyone, she said politely, "I'm sorry, classmates. I have something to do. See you next time."
From that time on, Xia Yitong knew that she had never remembered herself. There was no disappointment or resentment, but only hard work after setbacks. That year was the year when she was most seriously injured while filming. She stayed in the hospital for a month, and she waited until she had money to have scar removal surgery on her back.
After that, she never saw him again. Lu Yinbing suddenly stopped filming and never appeared in public. There was only one leaked Reuters photo of her, in which Lu Yinbing looked haggard and thin, and no longer had her previous charm.
There were rumors that Lu Yinbing had depression, and some people took the opportunity to maliciously spread rumors that Lu Yinbing had taken drugs, which was why she became like this, but this matter was suppressed and had been banned. Not long after, the studio dug out the rumormongers and brought them to court, and by the way, brought down a group of studios that had turned black into white and tried to gain popularity, and the rumors finally died down.
More than a year later, Lu Yinbing reappeared on the screen. She was no different from before, but there was a difference in that she seemed a little more mature than before. The first movie that Lu Yinbing made after her comeback crowned her with the Best Actress award at the Berlin Film Festival, successfully silencing all those who doubted her.
At that time, Xia Yitong's "The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber" was a huge hit, and she received many commercial and film offers. She became the hottest traffic star and the money-making queen at that time.
In the 2016 film "Breaking Snow", thanks to Xia Yitong's efforts, the two met on a completely equal footing.
It took Xia Yitong eight years to finally succeed in getting himself and her on the same side.
—Who are you? 20160617
—You disturbed my sleep. 20160617
—Aye. 20160621
—Xia Yitong. 20160621
—You are so beautiful, why do you keep your head down? 20160621
—Isn’t this much better? With beautiful eyebrows, red lips and white teeth, she looks really pretty. 20160621
—Your iron head skill has become even better. Can you show it to me one day? 20160621
—Your audition was great, don’t relax. 20160621
—Then I'll leave first. Are you so happy? Let's go back and eat. It's hot. 20160621
…
"Hey," Lu Yinbing sat on the bed and laughed, "I can't take it anymore. I think I was too stupid at that time. What do you mean you disturbed my sleep? If I could go back now, I would pull you over, strip you naked and pounce on you. Where are you running? Come and sleep with me!"
"You even said that I almost cried at that time." Xia Yitong wrinkled her nose in dissatisfaction and poked her chest, "I mustered up a lot of courage to go upstairs to find you, but when you opened the door, you had a fierce face that looked like you were ready to hit me at any time."
"Poke somewhere else." Lu Yinbing curled his lips and held her finger and moved it a little. "I was wrong. I admit my mistake very sincerely. I hope you can forgive me."
Before Xia Yitong could say anything, Lu Yinbing started to brag: "Look, these are all pretty good. I praised you for your good looks. How could I have such good taste at that time?"
"You asked me to demonstrate the Iron Head Skill. Aren't you afraid that I might hurt my head? It's written in black and white. Have you forgotten?"
"I asked you to go back for dinner. I care about your health. Now we're even." Lu Yinbing threw a tantrum and tried to force the issue.
Xia Yitong reminded: "There are three more falls..."
Lu Yinbing yelled, "I don't want to listen, you little dog is just talking nonsense. What do you mean by slamming the door three times? That's not happening!"
Xia Yitong smiled and didn't argue with her. She found her phone from under the pillow, unlocked WeChat, looked at Lu Yinbing's name, and was stunned for a moment: "The child's mother? When did I change it?"
Shouldn’t it be called three door slams
"You changed it last year," Lu Yinbing jumped onto her lap and glanced at her phone. "How come your memory is worse than mine? I'm the child's mother, and you're the child's father."
"Oh oh oh." Xia Yitong suddenly realized and didn't know whether to laugh or cry. This happened before the Chinese New Year this year. Lu Yinbing was lying on the bed fiddling with his phone. While fiddling, he opened Xia Yitong's account and looked down the chat messages one by one. Seeing that he was still unhappy with calling her "Three Door Slammers", he secretly changed his note on his own initiative and called her "the child's mother".
The two of them were always together, not chatting on WeChat. When Xia Yitong returned home after her vacation, Lu Yinbing sent a message to her who was already at the boarding gate. The chat window that popped up showed "the child's mother". Xia Yitong was like: "???"
Lu Yinbing wanted to give her a couple name and considered "the child's mother", "the child's aunt", "the child's stepmother", etc. Finally, Xia Yitong chose "the child's father". Although she played more of a mother role in the ordinary society at home, as long as Lu Yinbing was happy, everything was fine.
It was just last year, so why was she still stuck at the stage of “slamming the door three times”? Not only that, she even felt that she was getting younger and younger. Many mornings when she woke up, she felt like she was lying on the water bed in the hotel with Lu Yinbing during the filming of “Snow Breaking”.
What kind of scenes will Director Qin arrange today? I hope there will be a kissing scene. I feel like I will be so nervous that I will faint.
Should I stick out my tongue? If I do, will Teacher Lu think it’s impolite? If I don’t… She was very proactive last time. Should I stick out my tongue? Should I not stick out? Should I not stick out? Should I stick out
I turned over and found that the air-conditioning temperature had turned to 28 degrees again. It was so hot that I wanted to sleep on the floor.
I'm going to buy a fan tomorrow.
Teacher Lu kicked me again last night. He is such a bully and can't even get close to anyone.
Set the alarm for tomorrow, right? You must get up when it rings for the first time, otherwise Teacher Lu will get angry if you wake him up.
When Lu Yinbing woke up and kissed her, the feeling of being swept away by the distant past would suddenly be pulled away, and with a strong feeling of falling into the air, she would return to the reality of having a family and a daughter.
This is a very strange feeling. Xia Yitong read in a book that once a person starts to miss the past frequently, she is getting old. Is she getting old
She was thirty-five years old, Lu Yinbing was four years older than her, and would be forty in another year. They were not old, but they were not young either. They had been together for many, many years, and every year after that was the same, until they were too old to walk or have fun, and then on a sunny day, they sat on a bench hand in hand, smiling as they welcomed the end of their lives.
"What are you thinking about?" Lu Yinbing had discovered more than once that she loved to daydream in the morning. His favorite thing to do was to pinch both of her cheeks until her eyes went from dazed to focused.
“Think about fifty years from now.”
"Um?"
“Fifty years from now, what will this world be like when we leave it?”
Lu Yinbing laughed, continued to knead her face like dough, and asked, "Are you afraid of getting old? And having wrinkles?"
"I don't know, but you will also be covered with wrinkles, and each wrinkle will be engraved with my name and carry our memories. You should not be afraid." Xia Yitong's fingers slowly climbed up to the corners of her eyes and stroked them carefully.
No matter how good a woman is at maintaining her skin, she won't have skin as tight and smooth as a girl in her early twenties when she's nearly forty. There's already a fine wrinkle at the corner of Lu Yinbing's eye.
But Xia Yitong still stroked it gently with her fingers, her love for the wrinkle was beyond words, and finally she even leaned forward to kiss it twice.
"Mom, mommy, I want to watch TV. What's the name of the TV that shows mommy?" There was a knock on the door, interrupting the sweet love between the two people in the room.
Lu Yinbing shrugged helplessly, held down Xia Yitong's shoulders as she was about to get up, and said, "Lie down for a while, I'll go downstairs and put on the TV for them. What would you like for breakfast?"
"I want to drink porridge."
"Okay, I'll do it." Lu Yinbing bent down and kissed the woman's forehead, turned and walked to the window, raised his hand outside, and pulled open the heavy curtains with a swish.
She squinted her eyes, stretched her arms and legs, and stretched her body so long that it could stretch her three meters long.
The sun is shining outside.