Cao Ye suddenly lost interest.
He didn't know what he was doing. The girl around him has only met once. He doesn't know her, doesn't like her, and doesn't even know what her name is - is it Xu Ke or Xu Ke? Never asked, never thought to ask.
Probably because the temperature of the car air conditioner was set too low, Cao Ye felt a little cold.
He pushed the door and got out of the car, and the girl followed. She noticed that something was wrong with Cao Ye and asked him, "What's wrong?"
Cao Ye didn't speak, walked a few steps, sat on a wooden chair by the street, and looked at the empty street in front of him.
The warm wind on a midsummer night blows gently, and the hot and humid summer night is not pleasant. Cao Ye was afraid of heat when he was a child, and never liked summer, but now he feels that this warm summer night is better than the inside of a closed car. The space is much more comfortable.
"It's so hot outside." The girl tried to talk to him.
"Is it hot?" Cao Ye said casually.
"It's thirty-nine degrees today, I can't stay without air conditioning."
"Yeah, I can't stay without air conditioning." Cao Ye repeated her words. He was wondering where Liang Sizhe's air conditioner in Lan Yan'an ended up? At that time, Yin Si didn't know that Liang Sizhe's family was gone. Many years later, Liang Sizhe had won the Cannes Film Award for "The River of Wangchuan". He just happened to see a report saying that before Cao Xiuyuan selected Liang Sizhe, the young Liang Sizhe Just went through a life upheaval.
At that time, Liang Sizhe had no father or mother, and probably didn't have much money, but he installed an air conditioner in the name of Cao Xiuyuan. At that time, Cao Ye had already made up his mind to stop contacting Liang Sizhe, but after seeing this report, he still couldn't help but soften his heart.
Cao Ye didn't take the girl back that night. He sent the girl away, and went to the small theater to find a boring movie to hypnotize. After Cao Xiuyuan returned to China, his sleep condition began to deteriorate again. Thinking about the last time I slept the best, it was actually in Liang Sizhe's RV.
Before he fell asleep, Cao Ye said to himself that Liang Sizhe might not be sitting in that Maybach, there were tens of millions of people in Beijing, maybe some boring passerby drove a Maybach into Yinsi by mistake at night.
What's more, even if the Maybach is really sitting in Liang Sizhe, what should I care about? They are all adults, get drunk in the middle of the night, and go home with a girl they don't know. Didn't Liang Sizhe do such a thing? Hu Yusi, Lin Huan, Liu Jing... Even if he hasn't paid much attention to Liang Sizhe's related reports in recent years, he can still name a lot of Liang Sizhe's rumored girlfriends without hesitation.
Cao Ye consciously persuaded himself, and he fell asleep after a while due to his drunkenness.
After that day, Cao Ye never received any news from Liang Sizhe.
Cao Ye thought that Liang Sizhe might be reading the script and didn't have time to send messages. He worked hard, thinking that whether he accepted or not to "Try One More Word", Liang Sizhe would always send an accurate sentence, so he just waited.
But three days later, Cheng Duan came to his office to congratulate him, and as soon as he entered the door, he said that Mr. Cao really had a lot of face, and that he could really snatch someone from Director Cao.
Cao Ye was startled for a moment: "What do you mean?"
"Are you pretending to be stupid with me?" Cheng Duan said with a smile, "You didn't notify me the first time with such good news, or Song Qingyan took the initiative to come to me to discuss the contract."
"Liang Sizhe took "Try One More Word"?"
"You really don't know?" Cheng Duan realized that he was not joking, and said somewhat surprised, "He didn't tell you, but asked Song Qingyan to ask me who the project leader is?" He observed Cao Ye's expression and guessed. He asked, "Are you in a cold war?"
"What is the Cold War?" Cao Ye flatly denied, "Don't guess."
Cheng Duan said with a "tsk": "You won't offend Liang Sizhe, right? But you shouldn't. If you're really offended, he can still pick up the resources you handed over? Can the allure of this resource be so great?"
Cao Ye was too lazy to pay attention to him and looked at the trailer just passed by the director of Xuanfa: "I haven't contacted him for many days, how can I offend him?"
"You haven't been in touch for a long time?" Cheng Duan was amazed, "That seems to be really a cold war."
Cao Ye laughed and let him go perfunctorily.
After Cheng Duan left, Cao Ye closed the trailer, touched the cigarette case from the table, lit a cigarette and started smoking.
Maybe Cheng Duan just announced the good news. Suddenly there was a loud noise outside, mixed with applause and screams. Lomon's working atmosphere is free. Usually, when he encounters good news on projects or box office, he will often come up with bad news. Small movement.
But he couldn't say why, but Cao Ye couldn't be happy. This film is a key project for Lomon in the second half of the year. The completion of Liang Sizhe means that more than half of the project has been successful, which is a good thing to celebrate both for the company and the film; besides, Liang Sizhe accepted the film contract he handed over, which also means that Five years later, Liang Sizhe chose him between him and Cao Xiuyuan. From any point of view, this was the best news, but for some reason he felt depressed.
Why didn't Liang Sizhe inform himself directly, but asked Song Qingyan to negotiate the contract with Cheng Duan? Of course, according to the general process, the executive agent contacts the project leader to discuss the contract matters. This process is normal, but Cao Ye just thinks that is not the case.
After work in the evening, Cao Ye drove the car to Liang Sizhe's villa area. The guard recognized his car and raised the gate, but Cao Ye changed his mind temporarily, reversed the car, and then went home.
He didn't think about whether to go to Liang Sizhe or not. He always felt that after opening the door, everything was unknown, and he hated losing control.
But he couldn't guess Liang Sizhe. Just on the way home, my mind changed more than once.
For a while, I felt that Liang Sizhe simply hated himself. On the Yinsi Street where they shared, on a midsummer night he was very drunk and went home with a girl he had known each other for only a few hours. It was extremely disappointing to think about.
For a while, I felt that Liang Sizhe was hiding like himself. It's not that Liang Sizhe didn't escape. Seventeen-year-old Liang Sizhe often climbed to the rooftop by himself and licked his wounds like a wounded beast. - But why did he hide this time? Because I couldn't choose Cao Xiuyuan's film? Or is it because they are not the pure and innocent teenagers who were focused on Yinsi Street back then, and he is escaping from the past that cannot be returned
For a while, I felt that Liang Sizhe did it on purpose. He deliberately doesn't contact him, hangs him, upsets him, and then waits for him to take the bait, and takes the initiative to contact him. Liang Sizhe seems to be like this, whether it is reconciliation or not, he has always been in control of the rhythm.
They didn't see each other for the next few days, and neither took the initiative to message anyone. This seems to have turned into a contest inexplicably, and whoever takes the initiative will lose.
Liang Sizhe did not appear during the whole process of signing the contract. Xu Yunchu and Song Qingyan came over to discuss the specific matters of the contract, the two sides signed it, and Song Qingyan took the contract to Liang Sizhe to sign.
On the returned contract, there were more words signed by Liang Sizhe. The handwriting was simple and beautiful, and it was strong enough to penetrate the back of the paper. It was signed next to Cao Ye's name.
Cao Ye took it and stared at Liang Sizhe's name for a few seconds. He flipped through the contract and asked absentmindedly, "What is Liang Sizhe doing at home?"
"He was reading the script when I went," Song Qingyan said truthfully, "I don't know about it any other time."
"Oh." Cao Ye responded.
"Why didn't you go to see Brother Si Zhe again?" Song Qingyan asked.
"He's busy reading the script," Cao Ye looked up at her and smiled, "I've been very busy recently."
"Yes." Song Qingyan said.
Cao Ye stamped Lomon's seal on the contract, in duplicate, one for Song Qingyan and the other for his assistant Xiao Meng.
After the contract was signed, another half a month passed, and the start time of "Try Again" was set, just one week later.
The background city of this film is set in Shanghai, which also means that a week later, all the crew and actors will leave for Shanghai.
Du Zhui sent a message to Cao Ye about the start time. They chatted for a while, and Cao Ye asked him, "How long are you going to shoot this film?"
"Three to six months, I can't say, it depends on whether the shooting goes smoothly or not."
The filming intensity of the crew Cao Ye knows that unless extreme weather or special circumstances are encountered, generally speaking, in the months from start to finish, everyone is working continuously, especially Liang Sizhe as the starring.
So when does Liang Sizhe plan to find himself? Cao Ye slid down the chat interface and stared at Xiaoman's back on Liang Sizhe's avatar. I haven't been in contact for more than half a month, and the chat with Liang Sizhe has been brushed to a very back position.
Since the media reported last time that Liang Sizhe and Cao Xiuyuan met, Liang Sizhe has disappeared from the public eye. Occasionally, Cao Ye would enter Liang Sizhe's name in the search box to see if there was any new news about Liang Sizhe, but he never read it once, and he didn't know whether Liang Sizhe was too skilled at hiding from the paparazzi or the paparazzi were too incompetent. The only latest news is about "Try Again". The media analyzed from various angles why Liang Sizhe did not accept Cao Xiuyuan's film in the end, and instead chose Du Zhui, a cutting-edge director in the industry.
Do we have to wait a few months after the filming is over before we meet again? It was Liang Sizhe who clearly offered to reconcile, so what is it that they are disconnected from each other now? Cao Ye stared at their last conversation, Liang Sizhe asked himself to send the film to his house, and suddenly an unspeakable anger surged in his heart.
Forget it, Cao Ye thought, what a contest is not a contest, but he would take the initiative to find Liang Sizhe and ask him why the relationship between them suddenly cooled down.
Cao Ye opened the chat interface with Liang Sizhe, and typed a few words on it: "What are you doing at home?" After thinking about it, he deleted it, and changed the sentence: "In two days, I'm going to climb the mountain with some friends. not together?"
There are two options, yes and no, which are simple and clear, making Liang Sizhe unable to play tricks. If Liang Sizhe refuses, then there is no such thing as reconciliation. Cao Ye thought.
Liang Sizhe didn't reply immediately, Cao Ye was working on his work and checked his phone every once in a while.
A few minutes later, a video invitation popped up on the phone—Liang Sizhe sent a video call.
Cao Ye hesitated for a moment, but he sent the message himself. He stared at the interface for a moment, then touched the screen with his finger and connected the video call.
Liang Sizhe's face was displayed on the screen. His hair was tied up. It has grown longer in the past half a month, and the broken hair on the side of the neck has decreased. He seemed to be sweating a lot, and the sound of his rapid breathing was very obvious in the receiver.
"Are you exercising?" Cao Ye looked at him and asked. I have to admit that after seeing Liang Sizhe, the sense of anxiety was immediately relieved, and as for the anger that had just surged into my heart, there was no trace of it.
"Yeah, to play an underground boxer, you have to look a bit like it anyway." Liang Sizhe took his mobile phone and looked at the camera while walking. The angle was not very good. The black headphone cable runs along the jawline and ends under the collarbone. Xu Shi's exercise just now was too intense, and Cao Ye could see his chest rise and fall across the screen.
"How is your practice?" He asked while looking at Liang Sizhe on the screen.
"Alright."
"How far should I train? Appeng is not a very exaggerated muscular man, is he?"
Liang Sizhe took a bottle of water, unscrewed the bottle cap, raised his head and took two sips. The rolling Adam's apple looked very obvious on the screen. Hearing Cao Ye say this, he put down the mineral water, laughed and coughed twice: "No To gain muscle, the main thing is to learn boxing from the coach, practice skills and moves, and as for the muscle line, it is a matter of the way.”
"Oh..." Cao Ye said.
"You think I'm going to be like a bullfrog?"
Cao Ye thought about what he said, and felt that the metaphor was really vivid, and laughed out loud. This unexpected laugh made him feel a little embarrassed. He was obviously going to question Liang Sizhe, so why was he laughing again
No one mentioned the matter that they had not been in contact with each other for more than half a month, and they chatted normally.
"Where are you?" Cao Ye looked at the environment behind him. Liang Sizhe leaned on the window sill behind him, and outside the window were row upon row of tall buildings, which did not look like the villa he lived in on the outskirts of a secluded city.
"Hotel." Liang Sizhe put the bottle of water on the windowsill.
"not at home?"
"I have come to Shanghai."
"So soon?" Cao Ye was a little surprised, "Didn't you say it won't start until next week?"
"The crew had held a script reading meeting half a month ago. I want to practice boxing again. I found a teacher and stayed here."
"Then, what about Xiao Xiaobai?"
"Foster care with my agent."
"Oh."
Liang Sizhe raised his hand and wiped the sweat that was running down the side of his face to his jaw: "By the way, I didn't say I was going to climb a mountain, but where is the mountain?"
"The mountain without a name was privately packaged by a friend." Cao Ye thought that since Liang Sizhe had already gone to Shanghai, wouldn't it be too much for him to come back just to climb the mountain? But he continued to ask, "Can you come?"
"The day after tomorrow?" Liang Sizhe said, "Okay."
Cao Ye didn't expect Liang Sizhe to agree so simply, but he had to admit that when Liang Sizhe agreed to come, the restlessness and displeasure he had brought him these days were all gone.
Cao Ye decided not to bother with Liang Sizhe about these things. Liang Sizhe had to read the script and practice boxing. Thinking about it, he was really busy, but he could understand why he didn't send a message.
"That's fine then." Cao Ye said.
"Well, as long as the weather doesn't get worse, the flight can take off normally."
"The flight didn't take off normally, so I took a giant magnet and pulled the plane back." Cao Ye suddenly thought, this was the idea that came to him when he encountered a delay in the flight back home when he was a child, but he suddenly remembered it again.
Liang Sizhe looked at him and laughed: "Why are you so cute, Cao Ye."