Cao Ye didn't go over the script for one night.
The news of the meeting between Liang Sizhe and Cao Xiuyuan was pushed on the mobile phone. Cao Xiuyuan returned to China after five years to prepare a new film, and every move attracted media attention. Liang Sizhe has always been the focus of attention. The two will talk about cooperation after many years. There is no reason for the media to let this hot topic go.
Which side will Liang Sizhe choose to stand on this time? Which theme does Cao Xiuyuan plan to take another path from? Cao Ye couldn't help guessing the content of the conversation when they met.
He tried his best to find reasons from all angles to persuade Liang Sizhe to play Lomon's film, but perhaps Cao Xiuyuan had already won the contest as soon as he opened his mouth.
From Liang Sizhe's point of view, Cao Xiuyuan is the mentor who made him the best actor twice, not to mention that even Liang Sizhe himself admitted before that his tacit understanding with Cao Xiuyuan in movies is comparable to "love".
I can't think of any reason for Liang Sizhe to reject Cao Xiuyuan.
Cao Ye thought that maybe he shouldn't pretend to be rational and generous and let Liang Sizhe compare the two scripts before making a decision. He should use this film as a bargaining chip for reconciliation and tell Liang Sizhe that if you reject me for the second time in five years, then Why do we need to be friends
But he seems to like being friends with Liang Sizhe. Whether it's when he was young or ten years later, being with Liang Sizhe makes him feel at ease.
Cao Ye absentmindedly flipped through the project planning book in front of him. When someone knocked on the door, he said "Come in".
"You're actually there?" Cheng Duan walked in, "I went to deliver films to Liang Sizhe in the afternoon, he didn't let you eat?"
"You didn't read tonight's push?" Cao Ye looked up at him.
"Look," Cheng Duan said with a smile, "so we are going to grab someone from your father, right? Tsk, the old lover who has returned to a good old lover and the benefactor who sent him one step to the sky, from Si Zhe's point of view, it is really impressive. hard to decide."
"If it were you, what would you choose?"
"What about me," Cheng Duan thought for a while, "in my opinion, the clothes are not as good as the new ones. The old lover is more important now. Besides, didn't he already repay your father's favor in Cannes? Speaking of which, I've been thinking recently, Liang Sizhe When I received "Darkest Choice", the reason I told the media was to repay my kindness. At the time, I thought he was repaying your father's kindness, but now it seems that it is not all?"
"Ask me," Cao Ye smiled, "I don't know what he thinks."
After Cheng Duan left, Cao Ye closed the project book, raised his hand and pinched his eyebrows.
Cheng Duan's words reminded him that when Liang Sizhe took over "The Darkest Choice", everyone in the circle was not optimistic about his decision to take over from Huang Qianshi to make up a supporting role. The idea of his own reconciliation, I am afraid that he will not even take a look at this film.
Liang Sizhe saved the movie "The Darkest Choice", and also saved Lomon from being acquired by Janis. After all, he should owe Liang Sizhe a favor now. There is really no reason to use "reconciliation" to blackmail Liang Sizhe Do the Lomon movie again.
Forget it, again, every film has its own destiny, let it go.
After leaving Lomon, Cao Ye drove to Yinsi. The rectification of Yinsi was completed in the past few days. Huang Ying found someone to clear up the relationship in the middle. Cao Ye intends to take a look.
The car turned into Yinsi, and Cao Ye saw the word "burn" at the end of the narrow street lit up again.
He parked the car on the side of the street, walked into the bar, and walked down the long spiral staircase. The deeper he went, the clearer the music became.
At the end of the spiral staircase, Cao Ye turned into the bar. Huang Ying was standing in the bar, lying on the table writing the wine list.
As soon as she looked up, she saw Cao Ye coming, she straightened up and raised her hand to greet him.
Maybe it was the reason why the bar was ordered to rectify. In the past, some loud dance music was played in the bar, and even if the resident singer was invited, it would sing some exhausting rock, but tonight they actually sang Cantonese songs. It's just that the song was supposed to be affectionate, but it was performed coldly by the resident singer.
Cao Ye walked over, glanced at the singer, and asked Huang Ying, "Where did you find the resident singer?"
"Is it okay?" Huang Ying smiled and asked for credit, "I applied for the job myself, and I used to be an actor."
"Looks a little familiar."
"How do you see everyone familiar?" Huang Ying pointed to the other side, "Then you don't see that person familiar?"
Cao Ye glanced in the direction she pointed, and said casually, "It doesn't look familiar."
"Have you seen it?" Huang Ying turned her face to look over, "Look carefully, doesn't it look like Liang Sizhe? That's what I said last time, the fake Liang Sizhe that Ding Mao and the others brought in to sit in town!"
Only then did Cao Ye turn his face to look at it. The glance just now was to send Huang Ying off, and he had no idea who she was referring to.
Seeing this, he was slightly taken aback. The man did look a bit like Liang Sizhe, especially with the long hair that Liang Sizhe wore at the awards ceremony. degree.
But Cao Ye still said: "I don't see any likeness."
"What's your look?" Huang Ying didn't intend to continue arguing with him on this issue, and stepped back, "Would you like to drink? Give you a lower degree?"
"Okay." Cao Ye responded and found a place to sit beside the bar.
He turned his face to look at the "fake Liang Sizhe". The man was probably not very old, and he also had a half-length broken hair. Looking at it from a certain angle, he really looked like the Liang Sizhe who was in Yinsi back then. .
Huang Ying brought the prepared cocktail over. Seeing that he turned his face to look at the boy, he said loudly in his ear, "I'll say it like it!" After speaking, he turned and left without waiting for Cao Ye to respond.
Cao Ye took a sip of his wine glass, and without avoiding his eyes, looked at the boy from a distance of a few meters.
Xu Shi noticed Cao Ye's gaze, and the boy also turned his head to look at him, then got up and walked over, walked over to him, and sat on the high stool.
Cao Ye didn't speak. Alcohol still worked for him. After drinking half a glass of wine, he was already slightly drunk.
The boy said, "My friend said that there is a handsome guy here who is always looking at me."
The closer I got, the more I felt different, and when I opened my mouth again, all the similarities disappeared.
"Guess why I look at you?" Cao Ye put the wine glass on the bar, looked up at him and asked.
"Because I'm good-looking?" The boy tilted his head to look at him.
Cao Ye smiled and shook his head: "Guess again."
"Because I look like Liang Sizhe?" the boy said with a smile, looking rather proud of this.
"Are you imitating him?"
"What," said the boy with some dissatisfaction, "I originally looked like him, so I still use imitation?" Probably this boy has been popular for his good looks since he was a child, and he can see some favor in his tone and demeanor. And proud means.
Cao Ye smiled, then took a sip of his wine glass and said nothing. Fakes can be so sought after, no wonder Liang Sizhe is regarded as the white moonlight in the eyes of countless people.
Cao Ye followed the crowd's gaze towards the direction of the singing platform. The resident singer left, and the background music suddenly became lively, beating the drums rhythmically.
The light suddenly dimmed, and the boy took the small glass of wine left in front of Cao Ye, turned around, and faced himself with the water-stained side of the glass, and then drank it with the edge of the glass.
This scene often appears in film and television works. At this moment, the boy in front of him is doing it skillfully. Although it looks a bit artificial and cheap, maybe the light hits just right, making him look down at the moment like Liang Sizhe, Cao Ye Inexplicably, he thought of the picture of Liang Sizhe biting a cigarette and leaning over to borrow fire on the day after the completion of the project.
A beam of light lit up on the stage, the music suddenly became noisy, and the people off the field seemed to be instantly ignited.
Cao Ye turned his head and glanced at it, and the resident singer actually started to dance a pole dance. It's hard to imagine that someone who just sang coldly on the stage would be able to dance pole dancing - obviously even a soulful Cantonese song can be so coldly sung.
Cao Ye didn't look at it much. When he turned around, the boy's eyes were also attracted by the resident singing on the stage.
"You didn't imitate the essence," Cao Ye said, looking at him, "It's not like that."
His volume was normal, but the noise in the arena was so loud that it completely drowned out his voice.
"Ah?" The boy realized that he was talking, and turned his head to ask him what he said. Seeing Cao Ye shaking his head, he leaned over and deliberately brought the distance very close, to the point of being a little ambiguous.
"Go find your friend." Cao Ye said.
"Do you want me to accompany you tonight?" the boy asked next to his ear.
Cao Ye frowned slightly and waved his hand in rejection.
Seeing his impatient expression, the boy walked away in disappointment, looking back at him from time to time as he walked a few steps.
After the boy left, not long after, another girl about twenty-three or four years old came over and sat beside him, asking him if he knew him.
This girl Cao Ye has met, Ding Mao's friend, when he went to the crew to visit the class, the girl once revealed some meaning to him, but he was with Lin Huan at that time. Respond more.
But maybe he was drunk tonight. Cao Ye thought that since Qin Zhenzhen's episode was over, maybe he could start the next one.
Probably because there are too few distractions in his life recently, he always thinks of Liang Sizhe when he has something to do, and he drives to Liang Sizhe's house one after another these days. This morning, he mistakenly thought that Liang Sizhe wanted to come over and kiss him, which is really crazy.
The empty window period after Mingming and Qin Zhenzhen ended was not too long, how could such an idea arise
He thinks that he may have been too short of love in the past few years, so he will continue to talk about love one after another, so as to fill the vacancy in life and emotions. It's just very strange that once a girl really loves him, he will soon have the idea of ending it - so what exactly he wants, even Cao Ye himself can't figure out.
He rarely analyzes himself. One and a half years after Li You's death, he went to a psychological counselor because of poor sleep quality, but he forcibly stopped the consultation halfway through because of the questions the counselor asked him. , all past experiences he didn't want to face.
I don't know since when, when he encountered problems he didn't want to face, he chose to avoid it. He probably tasted a little sweetness and felt that it would make life a lot easier. in that shell.
The shell is safe and concealed, with no wind or rain. He doesn't want to go out from it.
Too lazy to flirt, we drank a few glasses of wine together and chatted for a while, the girl asked for a chauffeur to take him home, and he agreed.
He wasn't too drunk, but when he went up the stairs, Cao Ye still felt a little dizzy. He raised his hand against the wall for a while, the girl leaned over to support him, took his arm and put it on his shoulder.
Cao Ye could walk by himself, without putting his weight on the girl, he just wrapped her arms around her.
The driver waited at the door, they got into the car, and when they got in, Cao Ye saw a Maybach coming in from the street, and suddenly thought that Liang Sizhe seemed to be driving a Maybach too.
Why did you think of Liang Sizhe again? Cao Ye sat in the car, leaned his head on the back of the seat, emptied all the thoughts in his mind, and chose to escape. The car started to start, and when he was about to leave Yinsi, he couldn't help but look back. The Maybach was parked on the side of the road, and no one got off.
He thinks that he can't seem to clear his mind. Those thoughts are like boiling water, bubbles keep floating from below, and then a lot of questions are exploded.
- Is the person sitting in that Maybach really Liang Sizhe
- The people who go to "Burning" are all frustrated underground filmmakers, who else would drive a Maybach there
- If it was Liang Sizhe, what would he do in Yinsi? Didn't he have dinner with Cao Xiuyuan and Zheng Yin tonight
- Did he also hear that the "burning" has been rectified and has started business, and wants to come and take a look
—Then why did he park his car on the side of the road and didn’t get off
- Did you see yourself
- The swaggering dark blue Aston Martin, you must have seen it
Cao Ye took out his mobile phone, but no news came. Old friends who pass by should say hello when they see each other, right
Say what? Cao Ye opened the chat interface with Liang Sizhe and typed a line: "Did you go to Yinsi just now?"
The girl leaned over to look at him: "Who are you messaging?"
"It's okay." Cao Ye stared at the words on the phone, and after a while, he turned off the screen and put the phone away.
The car drove for a few more kilometers. Cao Ye took out his mobile phone and deleted the words he just typed on the screen, word by word.
"Go back to Yinsi." He closed his eyes and said to the driver with a heavy voice.
"Go back?" The girl on the side looked at him in surprise.
"Well, back." Cao Ye said, he was too lazy to speak, and for some reason, his mood suddenly became a little anxious.
"Why go back?"
"I'll go back if I want to." Cao Ye said perfunctorily.
Ten minutes after the car drove into Yinsi, Cao Ye opened his eyes and saw that the Maybach had already driven away.
There was not a single car at the four gates of Yin, it was empty.