The Eye of the Storm

Chapter 4

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As Liang Sizhe said, a few hours later, he made the headlines without incident.

The first few hot search keywords on Weibo are all related to Liang Sizhe, which is quite pompous at first glance.

"Liang Sizhe's Dark Choice", "Liang Sizhe's Supplementary Filming", "Liang Sizhe Repaying His Grace", and "Liang Sizhe Appearing at the Airport in the Early Morning" are supplemented by the actual shooting video of the airport.

The editor of the uploaded video is probably a fan of Liang Sizhe, and the frame that he took out as the cover of the video looks like a nostalgic old Hong Kong movie - under the dim street lights, Liang Sizhe was lying on his side on the rolled down car window, the light and shadow of the night and the lights. Carefully outline the outline of his profile.

Among the speculations about Liang Sizhe's "beneficiary", a completely irrelevant comment was pushed to a very high position - "Suddenly I remembered what Cao Xiuyuan said a few years ago, 'Look at that light and shadow are right He's very gentle.'"

- "Is this a personal revelation? Fans don't take any chances. Since Emperor Liang said it is about repaying his gratitude, it seems that he will be inseparable from this film."

- "I wonder who Liang Sizhe is repaying for? I looked through the relevant information, but there is no news that this film is related to Cao Xiuyuan..."

- "Liang Sizhe's benefactor is definitely more than Cao Xiuyuan. Just when he won the Best Actor Award at the age of 17, there were more than a dozen people who thanked him on stage."

- "Supporting role + substitute, this kind of repayment of gratitude to the level of self-depreciation, no matter what the level of benefactors must reach the level of Cao Xiuyuan?"

The topic of public opinion that day mainly revolved around Liang Sizhe's "repaying kindness". Within two hours, a quick entertainment blogger listed Liang Sizhe's benefactors in the circle over the years.

According to the size of the kindness, and the stars are arranged from high to low, Cao Xiuyuan, as Bole who sent Liang Sizhe to the position of the best actor, deserves to be ranked at the top, while Xu Yunchu has accompanied Liang Sizhe over the years, and he has not come out. Unexpectedly ranked second, and the rest are screenwriters, photographers, editors... They are all big players in the mainland film circle.

However, compared with the behind-the-scenes lineup of "Darkest Choice", no one dares to say who the benefactor Liang Sizhe is talking about.

The place for the dinner appointment was in Su 30, a private restaurant with Su gang cuisine.

At eight o'clock in the evening, near the entrance of a private kitchen club in the suburbs, a silver-brown sports car slowly stopped.

Cao Ye got out of the car and threw the key to the doorman who trotted over.

Lin Yanzheng was standing at the door chatting with Su Tang, the proprietress of the restaurant, and laughed when he saw Cao Ye: "At this point, can you drive 30 miles beyond the sixth ring road? You drive an Aston Martin with a manual transmission. Right."

"Do you know what it's like to be more cool than being cool to death?" Cao Ye walked over, hooked Lin Yan's neck and lowered his voice in his ear, "It's so cool that I want to die."

Lin Yan laughed and handed him a cigarette, "Yes, yes, I can guarantee that, with a population of tens of millions in Beijing, no one can do more tricks than you. This is exactly what is blocked in the city. At that time, you should come over in a different car... hey," before he finished speaking, his eyes crossed Cao Ye's shoulder, "Liang Sizhe is here."

Cao Ye followed his line of sight and glanced back.

Liang Sizhe was getting off the driver's seat, dressed casually, clutching a coat in his hand, and walking towards them.

"The difference between you two is less than two minutes. What is this called? Fate is destined," Lin Yan said with a smile, "Si Zhe, if you don't accept this film, you will be acting against the sky."

Liang Sizhe stepped forward and shook Lin Yan's outstretched hand, smiled and said, "It's so exaggerated, at most it's a fate."

Su Tang also reached out to him: "Si Zhe, long time no see."

"Yes, President Su." Liang Sizhe responded.

As usual, I want to shake hands with Cao Ye. After all, he is the main caster of "The Darkest Choice", but Cao Ye has a cigarette in one hand and a pocket in the other. , he just came over to watch.

"It's too familiar, so there's no need to shake hands, right?" Liang Sizhe's eyes turned to him with a bit of a joke in his eyes.

They were close in height, and looked at each other almost at eye level. Liang Sizhe said this, and then Cao Ye took his hand out of his pocket and took a handshake gesture. His tone was also ordinary and lazy: "When shaking hands, you always have to say some opening remarks. I haven't thought about what to say."

"Then..." Liang Sizhe held his hand lightly, "Happy cooperation, Mr. Cao?"

"Okay." Cao Ye said.

"Let's go in and talk, the private room has been booked," Lin Yan handed a cigarette to Liang Sizhe, and when he saw Liang Sizhe waved his hand and refused, he was a little surprised, "You don't smoke?"

"I'm on the alert." Liang Sizhe said.

"No wonder," Lin Yan knew, "I just said, the news of your smoking made headlines in the entertainment page in the early years," he turned to look at Su Tang, "Su Tang, do you remember, "Beijing Morning News" At that time, it took half a page to report on this, and the title alone took up a quarter of the page. At that time, the media liked to make a big fuss. We were still studying at that time, and we thought, oh, this dude is cool enough. ."

At that time, Liang Sizhe still had shoulder-length hair, which was tied behind his head, and the strands of hair fell from his forehead and curled slightly. smoke anywhere.

I don't know if it was intentional from the paparazzi, or the angle of the candid shot was just right. In short, the young actor who appeared on the front page looked melancholy and rebellious. He was the favorite appearance of the media and the most curious appearance of the public.

"Hey, actually," Liang Sizhe laughed, "I noticed it early in the morning when they secretly photographed me, so I deliberately set it up for them to photograph."

"Ah?" Lin Yan was stunned, "Really?"

"Really, it was mainly because when I found out that someone was secretly taking pictures, they had already taken a lot of pictures. In that case, since I couldn't snatch the camera over, I could only try to let them take me as good-looking as possible. So, what's cool? Ah, it's all posing, don't believe it."

"No, Si Zhe," Lin Yan was stunned. "You said that, and you played with those paparazzi. It's cooler than that picture."

Liang Sizhe turned to look at him at this moment, and suddenly laughed out: "Mr. Lin, do you really believe it?"

Lin Yan suddenly realized that the one who had been tricked had become himself. As the young head of Dongsheng Group, Lin Yan has never been tricked like this before. He was a little uneasy for a while. If there was someone else in front of him, maybe he would have changed his face, but facing Liang Sizhe at this time, he could only Holding back the fire, he smiled and said, "Is it true?"

"Guess." Liang Sizhe looked at him with a smile.

Seeing Lin Yan's shriveled face, Cao Ye, who was walking behind, couldn't help but smile. Only Liang Sizhe can resist Lin Yan's thief's temperament.

There were still ten steps away from the private room, when Cao Ye's cell phone suddenly rang. He took it out and saw that it was Cheng Duan who called. Cheng Duan would not call at will. Once he called, it was usually an urgent matter. He informed Lin Yan and went to the window to pick up the phone: "What's the matter?"

"Cao Ye, are you and Liang Sizhe having dinner together tonight?"

"Yes."

"That's it, Xu Yunchu called me just now, and he scolded me in front of his face as soon as he came up, saying that our company leaked secrets, and they haven't decided whether to pick up "Darkest Choice", so we let the rumors out early, This is too inauthentic... But the point is, Liang Sizhe was reading the script, I didn't tell anyone before, not even Xu Anqiao, how could it be rumors from our company?"

Cao Ye thought about it and said, "Either Lin Yan or Zhao Chengdong, He Fangwen should not."

"I guess it's the same, the last time we cooperated, Lin Yan and his company have done this kind of thing... Cao Ye, anyway, I think it is necessary for you to explain this matter to Liang Sizhe face to face. It's better not to have this kind of misunderstanding. Yes, it is not good for the company's reputation if it is spread out."

"It's not us who should explain, it's Lin Yan."

"what?"

Cao Ye remembered the scene in the corridor just now, and laughed: "I said why did he pick up Lin Yan for no reason."

"what?"

Cao Ye smiled and said, "It's okay, you don't have to worry about Liang Sizhe's side, you can just explain it to Xu Yunchu."

Cheng Duan was helpless: "I've made my oath, but she, I guess she might be in a bad mood..."

"You told her that instead of finding out who made the rumors, it's better to take care of your artist and let him not talk nonsense with the media in the future."

"That's not very good," Cheng Duan smiled bitterly, "How can Liang Sizhe help us, if it wasn't for him, "The Darkest Choice" would have been silent now, how could there be such a high degree of discussion. "

"Don't worry," Cao Ye said, "I will thank him well."

After hanging up the phone, Cao Ye walked towards the private room.

As soon as he pushed the door, Lin Yan was persuading Liang Sizhe to drink: "Really quit? I just said quit smoking, but now I say quit drinking, I don't believe it. Sizhe, I can see it, you can't take it seriously when you say it, you can only see it if you take it seriously. outside, right?"

"I really quit drinking, you can believe it," Liang Sizhe turned the back of his hand to Lin Yan in a serious manner, "I have quit alcohol and the pinhole is still there. If you drink it, it will cause an accident. President Lin, I don't mind, but It's better to be cautious when it comes to reshoots of the film."

"Either you are an actor, Si Zhe, I'm not sure which words you should believe and which ones you shouldn't believe." Seeing Cao Ye pushing the door in, Lin Yan looked up at him, "Come on. Come to Cao Ye, just when you came over, Si Zhe said he was quitting drinking, do you think he should believe it?"

Cao Ye didn't believe it or not. He walked over and pulled out a chair opposite Liang Sizhe. He looked at him and said, "Quit smoking and drinking. Are you going to become a monk? Are you quitting sex?"

"Yes," Liang Sizhe said, "Don't you see that I have few desires recently? To tell you the truth, after the airport video was posted on the Internet this morning, the crew of the new version of "Journey to the West" immediately sent an invitation and strongly invited me to play Tang Sanzang. , what does that mean?"

Cao Ye was amused by him: "It means that you can talk, which crew will associate you with Tang Sanzang?"

"Don't believe me, this is nothing," Liang Sizhe said with concern. "Last year, "King Kong" intended to remake the Chinese version. When the producer saw me, he must reward me for the role of King Kong."

No one would associate that giant chimpanzee with Liang Sizhe. Cao Ye almost ignored him and laughed, "Crap it up."

Liang Sizhe held the wine glass, gently swayed half a glass of red wine, and looked at Cao Ye: "In the story of Beauty and the Beast, who do you think the heroine wants?"

Cao Ye didn't answer: "I'm not interested."

Instead, Lin Yan asked enthusiastically, "Who is it?"

Liang Sizhe put the goblet back on the table, pushed it in front of Lin Yan, and treated him with his own way: "I'll tell you after you drink this glass of wine."

Knowing that the Chinese version of "King Kong" is nonsense, Liang Sizhe has the ability to whet your appetite. Lin Yan picked up the half glass of wine he had just poured himself.

Liang Sizhe made a "please" action.

Lin Yan has always been refreshing when drinking. At this time, he raised his glass and drank to the bottom in one breath. He turned the mouth of the glass to Liang Sizhe: "Speak."

Liang Sizhe put his index finger in front of his lips mysteriously, and lowered his voice: "Shh, it's Lin Huan."

When Lin Yan heard this, he burst out laughing.

Well, it turns out that this joke is aimed at Cao Ye, this glass of wine is worth drinking. Lin Huan's relationship with Cao Ye and Liang Sizhe, everyone in their small circle knows about it - about a few years ago, Cao Ye chased Lin Huan for a while, and he was about to succeed. The media suddenly revealed that Liang Sizhe and Lin Huan were kissing on the street. Photo.

If things were just that simple, it would be fine. The key point is that just two weeks before the incident of "Darkest Choice", Liang Sizhe and Lin Huangang were rated as "the most disturbing entertainment CP TOP1" by well-known magazines in the industry. A few days later, Lin Huan was revealed to be in the hotel late at night with a mysterious man. And that "mysterious man" is Cao Ye.

The media who exposed the video were exaggerating: "The man is tall and looks like a very male model. From the back, he looks young, like a 'little wolf dog'."

Although there was speculation on the Internet at the time, because Cao Ye rarely appeared in the public eye, the object of suspicion never fell on him with much fanfare. But this is no secret in Cao Ye's circle of friends. For a while, several of his friends jokingly called him "little wolf dog", but Cao Ye scolded him back with a black face.

When the joke hit him, Cao Ye hit back Liang Sizhe without any hesitation: "I don't care who plays the beauties, I just want to know if you really want to climb to the top of the Empire State Building to have a plane."

He was talking about the classic scene in "King Kong", with a pun, and several people present laughed tacitly.

Liang Sizhe also laughed, and after laughing enough, he said slowly: "This... Because of the need for localization, they plan to let one of my landmark buildings in Beijing, the Lomon Building, come to me, and then ask President Cao to appreciate the light and borrow it. a venue."

Cao Ye smiled: "It's easy to say."

Lin Yan watched the fun and enjoyed it, and poured Cao Ye a drink with a smile: "Si Zhe, you are so hard at beating people, Cao Ye usually has a good mouth, how can you see him being bullied like this, Come to Cao Ye, you can meet your opponent today and have a drink."

"Others call him 'The King', and Lin Yan, you look down on me too much." Cao Ye said this, but he still took the wine that Lin Yan handed over and took a sip.

The ice water Liang Sizhe ordered was brought up at this time. He took it and took a sip: "That's right. Speaking of which, I have to be Cao Ye's teacher. When I first met him, he was very good."

"Good?" Lin Yan glanced at Cao Ye and thought this statement was quite new, "When has he been good?"

"Ten years ago?" Liang Sizhe looked at Cao Ye, "Really?"

"Maybe." Cao Ye said absentmindedly, taking the dishes into the bowl.