On the way to the airport, the sporadic light rain became heavier and heavier. The raindrops fell on the glass of the car and splashed into water. The taillights of the car in front were blurred, and the mist covering the windows was again and again by the rapidly swinging wipers. Scrape the sides.
Cao Ye felt that his current state was probably not suitable for driving. He was full of Liang Sizhe. As soon as he stopped at the traffic light intersection, he would fall into a state of daze. Several times, the car behind him honked several times before he noticed. The green light has been turned.
But he couldn't stop, the thought of seeing Liang Sizhe became stronger and stronger in his brain since it appeared.
After more than half of the journey, Cao Ye remembered to call his assistant and ask her to book the earliest flight to Shanghai tonight.
"Tonight?" The assistant reminded as if he had heard it wrong, "It's raining outside, should the flight to Shanghai be suspended tonight?"
Only then did Cao Ye realize that he was completely irrational. He drove all the way in the rain, but he had to wait until someone reminded him that the flight would be delayed in the rain.
He scolded subconsciously in a low voice and asked, "Is there still a schedule for the high-speed train?"
The assistant quickly found out the information: "There's one more train that will leave in an hour. I'll book it for you?"
After hanging up, Cao Ye turned around and headed for the high-speed rail station. Hurry up and hurry up, Cao Ye got on the high-speed train before the departure.
Sitting in his seat, Cao Ye looked at the pattering rain outside. The rain was not rushing or slowing down, but there was no sign of it to stop. How about Liang Sizhe? Did it rain a lot
Cao Ye took out his phone and called up the chat interface with Liang Sizhe. He typed in a few words: "Is it raining over there?" He stared at those words for a while, then deleted them and changed them to " What are you doing?" Thumb hovered over "Send," then deleted after a moment.
It seems that no matter what you ask, it doesn't make sense.
I can almost think of the news that Liang Sizhe came back - "down" or "reading the script". Then, what should I say
I want to talk to Liang Sizhe, meet and get close, but I am afraid to talk to Liang Sizhe, meet and get close.
What a contradiction.
Forget it, let's meet again. Cao Ye raised his hand to turn off the screen and put the phone back in his pocket.
The more than four-hour drive should be difficult. Cao Ye used the pad to search for "Liang Sheng Zhu Meng", and the video website gave it a score of 7.1, which is not a very good score. Xu Yunchu said that Liang Sizhe made this film because of him, and he was a little curious about what kind of story this was.
He saw this film in Uto's theater three months ago. That day was the first time they met after the breakup. Maybe he was in the wrong mood to watch it. He didn't watch the film that day.
Cao Ye put on his headphones and looked at the pad screen.
The movie begins to enter the picture, and on the distant and blurred stage, two theatrical actors sing duet with their voices raised:
"If your brother Liang is undecided, the younger brother will be the matchmaker for you—"
"Brother Xian is a matchmaker for me, but I don't know who the daughter is?"
The song is Yue Opera "Liang Zhu".
Cao Ye still remembered in the opening film that a woman in her 40s was holding the remote control, squatting on the ground and looking at the TV screen in a trance.
Then the woman was called back to God by a "mom", and stood up in a hurry, turned off the TV, and began to hustle and bustle around her teenage daughter. After a few minutes, the woman stood by the window and watched her daughter go down. Upstairs, downstairs there was a boy waiting for her on a bicycle.
The woman stood in front of the window for a while, suddenly raised her voice, and sang softly: "If your brother Liang is undecided, the younger brother will be the matchmaker for you—"
There was a sound of footsteps in the room, and the woman's voice didn't stop until the man interrupted her a little annoyingly: "The theater has closed down, how about you still sing? Didn't Yuesao's company want you to go to the interview in the morning, why don't you go? "
The delicate drama came to an abrupt end, the woman was startled, and replied, "Go."
The two quarreled again before going out, because of a very trivial matter - the man went out to drink last night and forgot to take the garbage with him when he left.
The first half of the film is full of trivial details of life. The constant quarrels and compromises between men and women, meaningless waste of time and tormenting the audience's patience.
Until the woman became a confinement nanny and went to a young couple's house to take care of the pregnant woman and the newborn baby after childbirth. There she met the teacher who used to be a drama class. The teacher took her hand and introduced her daughter: "Liang Yan and Zhu Huaishan, they were the golden boys and girls in our drama class at that time, playing Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai. , Liang Zhu on the stage, Zhu Liang off the stage, both on and off the stage are a couple, I really envy others..."
The voice of the narration faded away, the camera gradually blurred, and turned to the backstage of the theater. Zhu Huaishan and Liang Yan, who were in their early twenties, were putting on make-up.
They are the most popular celebrities on campus, childhood sweethearts, and love each other. When they were young, their relationship was full of twists and turns, overcoming the resistance of the family, the interference of outsiders, and each other's paranoia. When they graduated from the drama class, the two were admitted to the two most famous theater groups in the country. He made sacrifices for the other party, went to a private small theater company in the locality together, and continued to be Liang Zhu on stage and Zhu Liang offstage.
The vigorous love affair was settled, and the golden boy and girl lived a fairy tale life, but in the end, life was consumed by life into the most trivial appearance.
Liang Yan came home from get off work that night. Before going to bed, she asked Zhu Huaishan a question: "If Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai did not turn into butterflies in the end, but lived together, what would happen?"
"What will it become?" Zhu Huaishan, who was about to fall asleep, mumbled impatiently, "It will become like us."
A few months later, the two went to the Civil Affairs Bureau to file for divorce, and when they came out of the hall, they were still arguing over the custody of their daughter.
The camera gave a close-up of the two of them, and took pictures of their tired eyes and the corners of their mouths unconsciously twitching when they were arguing.
The movie ends and the subtitles start rolling. This film is so realistic that it is hard to imagine that it took Liang Sizhe two years to film such a story.
Honestly, it's not too bad either. The way of shooting and transitions is remarkable, but the story is so realistic that people don't want to watch it.
After the film ended, another video automatically popped up. It was a video of Liang Sizhe being interviewed during the release of "Liang Sheng Zhu Meng" three years ago. The film did not fare well at the box office. At that time, many media ridiculed Liang Sizhe for taking too big steps, which resulted in a downfall.
The reporter holding the microphone followed him and asked, "Now that the film has been released for a week, the box office has just exceeded 10 million, and the number of films in theaters is very small. Do you regret spending two years shooting such a work?"
Liang Sizhe, who was walking forward, turned his face and glanced at the reporter who asked the question: "Why do you regret it?"
"The box office and word of mouth are not good. You shouldn't care about the audience's evaluation at all. After all, the film is made for people to see..."
Before he finished speaking, Liang Sizhe interrupted him without turning his head, and said, "Can't I take a picture to cross myself?" After speaking, he strode away.
It took two years to film it... Cao Ye looked at Liang Sizhe's back on the screen, why did Liang Sizhe choose such a realistic story to shoot
Movies are the art of dream-making, but Liang Sizhe's film just shatters a beautiful dream for others to see. Liang Sizhe must know that this film will not be the type that the public likes, but he still spent two years to shoot it.
Cao Ye typed the words "Liang Sheng Zhu Meng" on the search box, clicked on the film review page, and glanced at some of the most highly praised film reviews:
"Mourning. Just a suggestion, don't look at it, look at the fear of marriage."
"It's hard to imagine that Liang Yingdi would choose such a realistic subject for two years. What is he thinking?"
"What would happen if Liang Zhu didn't turn into a butterfly in the end, but lived together? The story after the prince and the princess lived happily together... I'm terrified to think about it."
"The film is very sincere, but it's just that Liang Yingdi has been in so many relationships, yet he has such a pessimistic attitude towards love?"
Cao Ye stared at the following comment slightly dazed: "This film has a miraculous effect on those who can't love, because it is breaking love, telling you that if you get it, it may not be so good. I guess Liang Sizhe is probably the same as me. A person who can't be loved, and is trying to persuade himself to let go through this film."
Shoot to cross yourself.
So Liang Sizhe has been persuading himself to let go in recent years.
Cao Ye took the phone and glanced at the chat interface with Liang Sizhe again. The last message stopped when Cao Ye asked him if he could borrow the one from the screening room, and Liang Sizhe said "use it". After that, Liang Sizhe never sent a message again.
For a while, Cao Ye felt a little panic in his heart.
He didn't think about taking a step forward with Liang Sizhe from being friends, but now that he knew that Liang Sizhe might let go at any time and step back, he was a little overwhelmed.
Yin Si has changed, Lan Yan has been dismantled, Xiao Xiao Bai has disappeared, and the connection ten years ago seems to have been cut off bit by bit with time—could it be at the moment when he found out that he liked Liang Sizhe, Liang Sizhe But chose to let go
After leaving the high-speed rail station, the torrential rain in Shanghai poured down on him. Cao Ye didn't bring an umbrella, and the moment he stepped out, he was soaked all over.
He called a car with his mobile phone, opened the door and sat in. The driver turned around and handed him a tissue: "It's raining hard enough."
Cao Ye didn't speak. He looked at the raindrops knocking on the car window, and suddenly thought of the umbrella that Liang Sizhe was leaning toward him on the filming set of "The Darkest Choice" two months ago.
The car was driving on the road, like a rain curtain splitting the sky.
Sitting in the car, Cao Ye felt like he was galloping in a dream. Ten years ago, they stayed in Yinsi, and it rained so hard that night. They were bored at Lanyan for a day. You and I were discussing the script of "Thirteen Days" without getting bored at all.
In a flash, ten years have passed.
He thought of the ten years he had known Liang Sizhe—
Backstage of the Academy Awards, he leaned on a pillar to talk to his friends, pretending that he didn't see Liang Sizhe, but he couldn't help but glance at him, then look again, but when Liang Sizhe turned his head to look at him, he quickly turned his face away avoided his gaze.
After hitting the producer of "Quarantine Zone", Liang Sizhe covered his face with his fingers and walked through the crowd. At that moment, the faint smell of red wine on his fingers, the cool temperature in his palms, and the sour and bulging swelling in his chest. It feels like he still remembers it clearly after so many years.
On the night of the breakup, he briefly fell asleep for a while, and then dreamed that Liang Sizhe suddenly came to look for him, saying that he would not act in Cao Xiuyuan's films. At that moment, he fell into a huge ecstasy, and then instinctively felt that he was dreaming. When he woke up, he found that it was really just a dream. He stared at the darkness for a long time, feeling that his chest was empty.
For the next five years, he deliberately avoided all news about Liang Sizhe and talked about love after love. Everyone around knew that Liang Sizhe couldn't be mentioned in front of him, so Cheng Duan joked that Liang Sizhe and Cao Xiuyuan were two scales that he couldn't touch.
It's absurd to think about. He had unconsciously liked Liang Sizhe for so many years, but he still deceived himself and didn't realize it.
What have you been doing all these years, Cao Ye? Three months ago, he flirted with Lin Huan in front of Liang Sizhe, and a month ago, he arranged Qin Zhenzhen and Liang Sizhe to be in the same crew, and they did so many absurd things. Why is Liang Sizhe still waiting for you
The car stopped at the entrance of the hotel, the driver turned around, and was about to say take an umbrella to take him out, but saw that Cao Ye had already pushed the door and got out of the car.
Entering the hotel lobby, the doorman opened the door for him, and all the guests waiting in the lobby looked at him.
Only then did Cao Ye realize how drenched he looked and how embarrassed he looked.
Forget it, no matter how embarrassed he was, Liang Sizhe had seen him before. Cao Ye took out his mobile phone and called Liang Sizhe.
After the phone rang a few times, Liang Sizhe said, "Cao Ye?"
"Liang Sizhe," Cao Ye tried his best to sound calm, "I'm in the hotel lobby, you can ask Song Qingyan to pick me up."
"Have you come to Shanghai?" Liang Sizhe seemed stunned for a moment, then replied, "Okay, wait a moment."
After hanging up, Cao Ye stood in the hotel lobby, startled. As soon as his head was hot, he ran over, so what would he say after seeing Liang Sizhe? Say I like you? But he doesn't seem to be ready to step out of being a friend and become gay from now on.
terribly upset. I was afraid of going further, I was also afraid of staying where I was, and even more afraid that Liang Sizhe would suddenly step back.
Before the thoughts in his mind were clear, Cao Ye saw Liang Sizhe approaching.
Liang Sizhe didn't let Song Qingyan come down, he went to the hotel lobby to pick up Cao Ye.
He only wore a black mask, so he walked towards Cao Ye, stopped in front of him and looked at him with dark eyes.
A few people in the hotel lobby turned their heads to look over, but Liang Sizhe ignored it.
He won the bet. Liang Sizhe looked at the drenched Cao Yexiang.
His teenager was like a wet puppy waiting for him in a daze.
"Go upstairs." Liang Sizhe raised his hand and held Cao Ye's wrist, but Cao Ye didn't hide and let him lead him forward.
There was no one in the elevator, they were standing side by side.
Cao Ye smelled the faint smell of alcohol on Liang Sizhe, and he turned to look at him: "Liang Sizhe, have you been drinking?"
"Yeah." Liang Sizhe's hand holding Cao Ye's wrist loosened a little, and he leaned down, first touching it vaguely, seeing that Cao Ye didn't hide, and then he held Cao Ye's hand.
The dry palm touched the wet back of the hand, and then got wet.
No one spoke, and in the cramped space, it seemed that they could hear each other's heartbeats.
Let it be a dream, Cao Ye closed his eyes, he could be bolder in the dream, and he could do anything.
Pushing the door into the room, Liang Sizhe poured hot water for Cao Ye, watched him drink it, and asked him if he wanted to take a bath first.
Standing in the bathroom, Cao Ye took off his soaked T-shirt and looked at the hand that Liang Sizhe had just held. The warm touch had not faded, and he stood there for a while.
Coming out of the bathroom, Cao Ye wore Liang Sizhe's clothes, a cotton white T-shirt and gray trousers, and he walked towards Liang Sizhe.
Liang Sizhe was sitting on a chair on the balcony with a bottle of wine and a wine glass in front of him. On the glass was a spoon with a white cube of sugar on it. He has been sitting there, as if intentionally waiting for him.
"Happy twenty-sixth birthday." When Cao Ye approached, Liang Sizhe looked at him and said.
Cao Ye was stunned for a moment. He only remembered that it was the end of September, but he didn't remember his birthday today.
"Why, you don't even remember your birthday?" Liang Sizhe looked at him and smiled.
Cao Ye walked over and sat opposite Liang Sizhe.
Liang Sizhe got up and turned off the lights, the room was dark, and then there was a light "cha", and the fire jumped on.
Only then did Cao Ye see that Liang Sizhe had a box of matches in his hand.
Liang Sizhe took the burning long-handled match, sat down, stretched out his hand and brought the flame to the wine glass. The wine in the glass suddenly lit up with a strange blue fire for only a second or two. After the fire died out, Liang Sizhe picked up the spoon, poured the melted sugar cube into the wine and stirred it twice, and the transparent liquid in the glass changed. It became a green like emerald.
"Do you still remember that movie?" Liang Sizhe struck another match, lit the candle on the table, looked at him and said, "Johnny Depp played it, I said I will give it to you when you are eighteen. Your bottle of absinthe."
Cao Ye's eyes dodged: "How long has it been..."
"Well, it's been a long time," Liang Sizhe said with a smile. "Every year on your birthday, I'll do this little trick for myself. This year is the tenth year, and I've practiced it very well."
For a moment, Cao Ye wanted to cry a little. He thought that he was too unpromising, and he wanted to cry when he was shaken by such a cluster of firelight. He turned his face away, trying his best to calm down: "It's been a long time since my birthday."
"Huh?" Liang Sizhe looked surprised, looking at him, "Why?"
"I think," Cao Ye swallowed, "no one should want me to come into this world, not to mention Cao Xiuyuan. My mother also said that she regretted giving birth to me that year. So later, it was only my birthday. ."
He didn't dare to look at Liang Sizhe, he thought that for so many years, Liang Sizhe liked the young Cao Ye ten years ago.
As for the current Cao Ye, maybe Liang Sizhe knew that he was really bad when he got closer.
He lowered his head very low and calmed down: "Liang Sizhe, have you ever thought that it has been ten years since the summer we first met. I am not the Cao Ye on Yinsi Street that year. I'm so bad right now, the Cao Ye you know may not be alone at all. I may... I don't deserve you to celebrate my 26th birthday, and I don't deserve you to open a bottle of absinthe for me. "
After his long series of words, Liang Sizhe was also stunned. How did his young man come here all these years to be so arrogant...
"How come?" Liang Sizhe looked at him and whispered slowly, "You can only prove how precious this day 26 years ago is when you grow up like this."
He drank the glass of wine, suppressed his emotions, and put the empty glass back on the table, "Of course I know people will change, and I can distinguish between 16-year-old and 26-year-old you, I don't think this is necessary. Deliberately distinguish, you should grow up to be like this, I can't think of a better result than this."
His voice fell, and Cao Ye, who was sitting opposite, suddenly raised his hand to cover his face.
He saw Cao Ye's Adam's apple rolling. His boy cried silently.
Liang Sizhe leaned over, half-squatted in front of him and looked at him, one of his heart was clenched tightly by Cao Ye, kneaded into a crumpled ball, his heart was a mess.
"Cao Ye." He whispered to him.
"Don't look at me," Cao Ye said in a hoarse voice, "It's a shame."
Cao Ye covered his eyes for a while, and then took his hand away. He endured it hard, and the tears didn't flow out much, but his eyes turned red uncontrollably.
They looked at each other from a very close distance.
Liang Sizhe saw the flames jumping from the candle reflected on Cao Ye's eyelashes. The flames were trembling, and Cao Ye's eyelashes were also trembling.
He suddenly couldn't help wanting to kiss Cao Ye.
Maybe the timing wasn't right, his teenager just stuck his head out of the shell and would be scared back by him at any time. But he couldn't restrain his heartbeat at this moment.
Drunk thirst can be overwhelmed once it emerges.
He looked down at Cao Ye's lips, they were so close, he could feel each other's entangled breaths. He saw that Cao Ye swallowed his throat again, his boy was very nervous now, like standing on the edge of a cliff, tentatively, hesitating whether to jump down.
"Cao Ye, I'm going to kiss you," Liang Sizhe looked at him, his voice very low, "I heard that you are homophobic, so this action may make you feel uncomfortable. I will slowly approach you, you For about ten seconds, you can avoid me at any time."
After he finished speaking, he slowly leaned over and approached Cao Ye slowly.
Cao Ye's moist breath rushed to the end of his nose, trembling slightly, which made people feel heartbroken.
The warm lips touched, but Cao Ye didn't hide, his eyelashes trembled and he closed his eyes.