San Francisco L student apartment.
After Shao Junling came here, he did not rent a house off-campus like other wealthy students, but chose an on-campus student apartment together with He Hongjun. Four or five people usually live together in this kind of apartment. Each person has a room with its own bathroom, and the kitchen and discussion room are shared. He Hongjun lives next door to him.
After ten days, all the procedures that should be done have been completed, and he has recently started to attend classes. His self-discipline and planned life all year round have made Shao Junling very adaptable to the environment, and he hardly feels any pressure.
After getting up in the morning and exercising, he came back to read the study materials all morning. Shao Junling glanced at the time, and it was already midnight in China.
He stretched his arms, got up and went to the refrigerator in the public kitchen to get himself a bottle of sparkling water, went back to the room and clicked on the cloud of the chat AI, browsing the records it collected that day, taking a short break.
A faint smile occasionally appeared on his calm face when browsing the information in front of him. If anyone who knew Shao Junling saw him now, he would definitely not believe that this normally unsmiling boy would have such a gentle expression on his face.
But seeing something else, Shao Junling's fingertips holding the mouse trembled suddenly, and his expression became a little dignified.
There was a knock on the door outside, and before Shao Junling could respond, the door was pushed open a crack.
"Shao Junling, are you going to eat?" He Hongjun poked his head in from the outside. He saw Shao Junling sitting in front of the computer, leaning back on the back of the chair, raising his head slightly, and staring at the wall.
"Hey, what's the problem?" He Hongjun was familiar with Shao Junling, and that guy usually looked like this when he was thinking about something.
"...It's nothing." Shao Junling quickly returned to his normal expression. He put the cap on the bottle of sparkling water, got up and grabbed his coat, and walked out while putting it on, "Let's go eat first."
He Hongjun didn't think much, and chatted with Shao Junling about some professional matters along the way, and also said that the freshman club would hold a party at the bar opened by a Spaniard near the school on weekends. After chatting for a long time, he realized that Shao Junling had been distracted.
"Hey, hello! Shao Junling, what are you thinking?" He Hongjun slapped him speechlessly.
"...I won't go to the party, I might be busy recently." Shao Junling was indeed distracted, but he listened to what He Hongjun said word for word.
"School has just started, what are you busy with?" He Hongjun was puzzled, remembering that he had spent more than half a year helping Shao Junling to create that chat AI—this was the condition for Shao Junling to agree to go abroad with him—he joked casually, "Should Could it be that you want to give your brother something again?"
"Yes." Shao Junling did not deny it.
He Hongjun: "..."
Shao Junling frowned: "But you can't help much this time."
He Hongjun said frantically, "Who wants to help you!"
***
In just one week, the news that Yin Chang had an AI spread throughout the crew.
Early this morning, he was putting on makeup in the dressing room. The director walked in and asked, "Yin Chang, I heard that your brother gave you an AI?"
Yin Chang: "..."
Of course, Mi Xiu did not spread this word, but someone else who saw "Xiao Ling" at the dinner table that day, because those people basically didn't know the specific function of the robot egg, and only said that it would be called Yin Chang" elder brother".
Moreover, I don't know when it started, everyone in the circle seems to know that Yin Chang is a brother-in-law, and now he "sticks to his body" all day long, so this naturally became a topic in the crew.
The director asked excitedly: "Where is the AI? I'll take a look too."
The girl who put on Yin Chang's makeup smiled and pointed to the stage and said, "Director Wu, what are you looking at, just leave it here."
The director stared at the "egg" and asked in surprise, "Is this AI?"
People who have never seen AI always have special expectations for this thing. Yin Chang had no choice but to let it show the function of Xiaoling transforming into "brother" in front of the director, and the director was satisfied: "Interesting, interesting."
At this moment, a staff member ran in and said, "Director Wu, something happened!"
The director frowned: "What's the matter?"
The staff hurriedly said: "Mr. Shi accidentally fell off while riding a horse just now, the situation may be serious!"
The director's face changed drastically when he heard that: "Shi Jiande?"
Not only the director, but everyone in the dressing room panicked because Shi Jiande was the actor who played Cao Cao. This man is nearly fifty years old and has great acting skills. He is a senior respected by everyone in the crew. The entire drama in the first half of "Three Kingdoms" revolves around the relationship between Cao Cao and the Han Dynasty, and Shi Jiande is undoubtedly an important role.
The director ran out with the staff, and Yin Chang was worried too. They were going to shoot a scene of "Cao Cao led the troops to conquer the North and South" today. If Shi Jiande was injured, they would not be able to shoot.
Half an hour later, the staff came to inform them that Shi Jiande had broken a bone, and today's filming was temporarily cancelled. But everyone knows that this is not a problem that can be solved after a day or two of delay. If it's just a minor injury, wait for Shi Jiande to recuperate for two days, adjust the sequence of the scenes, and make it up. But in this situation, who can afford to suffer a hundred days of pain
"It's over, it's over, it looks like we're going to change roles."
"But changing roles... Where can I find an actor with such a long schedule in a short period of time and an actor with Mr. Shi's acting skills?"
"Maybe we will move forward the scene after Cao Cao's death."
…
Listening to the people from the production team chattering on the sidelines, Yin Chang's heart was up and down. The external image and psychological emotions are all different.
Yin Chang has almost figured out the roles in the youth stage, but if he wants to adjust his state in a short period of time, the test is not usually too great.
In the afternoon, the crew held an emergency meeting, and the final decision was indeed the same as the plan discussed by everyone. While the crew was re-finding an actor to play Cao Cao, they were preparing for the next adjustment of the era. But before that, in order to reduce losses, the director asked Yin Chang and others to shoot the few scenes without Cao Cao first.
Due to this unexpected incident, many actors were forced to start resting, and Yin Chang's daily shooting volume was also greatly reduced. But the increase in rest time could not alleviate his mental stress and haggard caused by several days of insomnia.
In the evening, Lu Lingjuan bought some kiwi fruit for Yin Chang and sent them to his room. She had the key card for Yin Chang's room, but when she knocked on the door, there was no response, so she swiped the card directly to enter.
"I'm coming in." Lu Lingjuan stood at the door and said hello, but she didn't hear any sound. When she walked in, she saw Yin Chang paralyzed on the bed, rubbing her temple weakly.
"Juanjuan?" He slightly opened his eyes and spoke in a low voice. It seems that it was not intentional to disobey Lu Lingjuan, but that he really couldn't cheer up.
Lu Lingjuan was startled: "Are you okay?"
Yin Chang tried to support himself: "I have a headache."
Lu Lingjuan hurriedly said: "Don't get up, lie down quickly."
After Yin Chang heard that he stopped struggling, Lu Lingjuan went to the bathroom and twisted a hot towel for him, then came over and asked, "Due to insomnia?"
She knew about Yin Chang's recent problems, so she bought kiwi fruit for Yin Chang. She heard that eating this would help him sleep.
"I don't know, it may be a side effect of sleeping pills..." Yin Chang put the towel on his forehead, feeling a little more comfortable.
"Can it last?" Lu Lingjuan worried.
Yin Chang smiled wearily: "Sister, I'm only twenty-five, don't make me look fifty-two."
Lu Lingjuan glared at him. Because he was only twenty-five, Yin Chang could still carry him to death. But she, an old girl who is over thirty years old, is very aware of the damage to her body caused by insomnia and staying up late. She was confident in her early years, and now if she is allowed to stay up all night, she is guaranteed to have a fast heartbeat and sleep as if she is dead.
"You can't go on like this... This scene will take eight months to shoot. How can you hold on if you suffer from insomnia every day?"
"… I know."
In fact, Yin Chang did not expect the problem to be so serious.
When Mi Xiu told him in WeChat, "You're done", Yin Chang still thought that guy was exaggerating, isn't it just a habit? After a long separation, it will be fine. When there was no Shao Junling before, he didn't sleep soundly every day - Yin Chang who thought this way was slapped in the face by the cruel reality after Shao Junling left.
After entering the group for more than half a month, his sleep quality gradually declined, and three melatonin tablets before going to bed a few days ago could not save him.
He asked Lu Lingjuan to prepare some sleeping pills for himself. He tried to take it three days ago and fell asleep at night, but he started to have a migraine today.
At this moment, Yin Chang admitted that Mi Xiu was right.
After returning to the room after filming this evening, Yin Chang has been lying on the bed thinking wildly.
He remembered that since Yin Dong's plane crashed, he had often suffered from insomnia, and this symptom began to intensify after he learned that he might not be Yin Dong's biological child, and misunderstood that Yin Dong had an illegitimate child behind his back. It started to ease after I took it home. Because at that time, although he didn't like Shao Junling very much, he always felt that this child was as lonely and helpless as himself, connected with his destiny.
Later, when he learned about the reason why Yin Dong adopted Shao Junling and Shao Junling's life experience, the grudge in his heart was completely lifted, and his sense of responsibility for Shao Junling was transformed into love and cherishment from the heart.
But in the past year, when Shao Junling's future problem surfaced, Yin Chang suddenly realized that his younger brother would leave him one day, and it was time to leave him. When he realized this, Yin Chang seemed to fall back into the loneliness that was left behind by his father, and was anxious about it.
However, these are not the main reasons for disturbing Yin Chang's mood.
The main reason is what Shao Junling did to him in the car the day he went to the airport...
The night Mi Xiu came to his room to play AI, they not only talked about insomnia, Yin Chang also told Mi Xiu about Shao Junling kissing him.
"He kissed your mouth??" Mi Xiu's jaw dropped in shock.
"Yeah," Yin Chang smiled wryly, "he also said, 'kiss before leaving'."
Mi Xiu: "Is this the first time he kissed you?"
Yin Chang: "No, there was one time many years ago, when he got up in the morning to go for a morning run, I grabbed him and told him 'kiss before leaving'... It was an unconscious dream, and what I wanted was to kiss the forehead. Later He came back from his morning run, saw me fall asleep before going to school, and secretly kissed me... "
Mi Xiu: "..."
Yin Chang: "Well, I thought he was too young at the time, so I didn't take it seriously. But now, he is seventeen years old. He is not a person who can make such jokes. I was wondering if I gave it to him at the beginning. Some of his wrong guidance led him to have some... extraordinary feelings for me."