Eating hot pot for two was obviously deserted, but Yin Chang had no intention of inviting others, as if only Shao Junling could share this joy with him.
Shao Junling knew that Yin Chang had been influenced by Cao Pi recently, and he might not be willing to contact outsiders due to his closed heart. It was not easy to bring himself out for dinner in this state, and he didn't want a third person to intervene.
But things didn't go their way, and they were disturbed anyway.
Shao Junling ordered a lot of dishes and was waiting for the pot to boil when a voice came from far and near: "Hey, this is... your brother?"
Yin Chang turned his head to see the figure, stiffened, and called out "Senior".
It was Luo Chuan who came. Shao Junling had never seen Luo Chuan before, but he had watched the short video posted by Lu Lingjuan, and recognized at a glance that it was the actor playing Cao Cao.
Cao Cao's death also means that Luo Chuan's play is over. He rejected the crew's dinner, and took his agent out for dinner alone, and happened to run into the two brothers.
Luo Chuan stopped by the table and asked, "Just the two of you?"
Yin Chang received the temptation from the other party, and reluctantly invited: "Well, you don't mind being together."
"Okay, let's make a table and have fun." Luo Chuan sat down unceremoniously, looking straight at Shao Junling, not hiding his curiosity about him at all.
"Shao Junling," Shao Junling reported his name and stretched out his hand, "Hello, Uncle."
Luo Chuan shook his hand, wandered between Shao Junling and Yin Chang for a moment, and asked, "Are you coming to see your brother acting?"
Shao Junling raised his chin in Yin Chang's direction: "I just came to see him."
Luo Chuan recalled that Yao Manhuai said before, "They grew up taking care of each other", and said with a smile, "It's not easy for you two brothers."
While talking to Luo Chuan, Shao Junling observed Yin Chang worriedly, fearing that his brother would feel uncomfortable.
But Yin Chang was just a little stiff at the beginning, but now he seems to have relaxed. Maybe Luo Chuan was already a dead person in that world, and Yin Chang didn't have much resistance to him at the moment, and even felt a little bit like a world away.
Shao Junling changed the subject: "Uncle, are you drinking?"
Luo Chuan: "Drink, have a bottle of white wine."
Shao Junling called the waiter, ordered a bottle of Wuliangye, and when the wine was served, Luo Chuan poured Yin Chang a glass himself, handed it to him, and said, "Come, have a drink with your dead father."
Yin Chang & Shao Junling: "..."
The baijiu cup was very small, Yin Chang took it, raised his head and drank it in one gulp.
"Cheer up." Luo Chuan did the same.
He poured himself another glass of wine and signaled Shao Junling to drink too, Yin Chang immediately stopped him with a clear expression: "He can't drink, he's not yet of age."
Luo Chuan was taken aback: "Underage?"
Shao Junling looked at his nose, nose and heart: "It's still fifteen days away."
Luo Chuan raised his eyebrows: "Never had a drink?"
Shao Junling didn't speak, Luo Chuan said with a smile: "I must have drunk it secretly behind your brother's back, right? Isn't it half a month before you reach adulthood? Fifteen days away?"
Yin Chang glanced over sharply, and Shao Junling immediately picked up his Coca-Cola: "Uncle, I don't want to drink it, you can drink it."
Luo Chuan didn't force him, and continued to drink with Yin Chang.
After three glasses of wine, Luo Chuan looked at Yin Chang and said, "Your acting is very good."
Yin Chang didn't say a word, maybe he's used to covering himself up in front of "Cao Cao", he continued with punishments and rewards calmly.
Luo Chuan said: "Not surprisingly, this drama is likely to be a turning point in your acting career... Have you ever thought about your future development?"
Yin Chang hesitated and said, "I haven't thought about it yet, I'll talk about it after the play is over."
Luo Chuan glanced at him: "Do you like acting?"
Yin Chang didn't know how to say it. He thought he liked it before, because compared to others, acting made him feel more interesting. However, he acted in this drama very painfully.
Don’t look at Cao Pi inheriting the great cause, changing dynasties, and having infinite glory, but in Yin Chang’s view, Cao Pi’s life is a life of tragedy. These tragedies were doomed in his childhood, and no one will heal him until he dies... So when he sat Not many years in that position, he died.
How could he like playing such a role? He just couldn't help himself.
If analyzed in this way, he should not like acting.
But he acted in the most torturous scene, and everyone praised him, not only Luo Chuan, but also the big and small actors in the crew, including the director, all praised him full of praise, which made Yin Chang feel very at a loss.
Whether it is the hero Cao Cao in the play or the actor Luo Chuan in reality, they are all elders worthy of admiration. Yin Chang didn't want to pretend to be false, and said bluntly: "I probably just want to get to know my father better through acting."
Luo Chuan was greatly surprised by this answer. He originally thought that a person as talented as Yin Chang would answer "like" as a matter of course, so that he could give Yin Chang some pointers as someone who has experienced it...
Yin Chang sipped his wine, looked at Luo Chuan and said, "I heard that you used to be my father's deadly enemy?"
Luo Chuan smiled: "Do you think I am?"
Yin Chang shook his head. If it was a deadly enemy, how could Luo Chuan sit here and talk to him so calmly? If it was a deadly enemy, how could Luo Chuan point him everywhere on the set
Luo Chuan played with the wine glass and said, "Your dad and I have known each other since our early twenties."
Yin Chang was startled: "In his early twenties? Before he met Aunt Yao?"
"Man Huai?" Luo Chuan snorted, "She was probably still a student at that time."
Finally meeting someone who experienced Yin Dong's past, Yin Chang's heart beat wildly, and he asked anxiously, "Did you know my father well then?"
"It's not very familiar, just acquaintances." Luo Chuan narrowed his eyes and recalled the past. In the early years, the inland film and television industry was not as prosperous as it is now. Basically, those who wanted to be actors went to Hong Kong to seek development. When they first met, Yin Dong worked in a bar and worked part-time as a model, not an actor at all. And at that time, I was just playing tricks on CTB TV station, so I don't have the status I have today.
Hong Kong people are xenophobic. Luo Chuan occasionally goes to the bar to drink after work. When he meets Yin Dong, who is also from the mainland, he can't help but have a friendly chat. After going back and forth, we got to know each other like this. It was a period of youthful vigor, the two drank together, complained about the injustices encountered in life, and imagined the future wantonly.
"Your father is very kind, he values love and righteousness, and is very generous to his friends." Luo Chuan paused, his face a little embarrassed, "But because of one incident, he is not very popular with others..."
Yin Chang wondered, "What?"
Luo Chuan waved his hand and told his manager to leave first, and then said to Yin Chang, "He had a boyfriend in the early years."
Yin Chang was caught off guard when he heard the truth, and his mind was like a thunderclap!
Shao Junling on the side also looked at Luo Chuan in astonishment.
"In those days, ordinary people had a very low tolerance for this matter, so your father actually..." Luo Chuan remembered the scene when someone around him knew that Yin Dong was dating a man and scolded him "dead gay" viciously behind his back. Can't bear to go on.
Back then, he was also influenced by others and felt that it was disgusting for a man to be with a man, so he gradually kept his distance and stopped contacting him.
When we meet again a few years later, Yin Dong is already an actor who has just debuted, and there is an inseparable female manager by his side.
At that time, Yin Dong changed a lot, and the youthful spirit in his eyes disappeared, and no one connected him with the bar waiter back then.
Luo Chuan didn't have any hatred for Yin Dong at all, seeing that he "returned from the wrong way", he couldn't help letting go of his prejudices.
Thinking about it now, Luo Chuan felt that those caressing back then were ridiculous. He has been in the circle for several years, what kind of dirty deal has he not seen? Yin Dong's experience before his debut is nothing compared to those messy men and women in the entertainment industry.
Before Yin Chang's eyes flashed quickly the villa in Hong Kong that he and Lu Lingjuan had been to many years ago, the studio, the piano... staring at Luo Chuan as if suddenly sober and asking: "Have you seen my father's boyfriend?"
"I've met him once from a distance. He's a very beautiful man." Luo Chuan glanced at Yin Chang subconsciously as he spoke. In fact, the first time he saw Yin Chang in the media, he thought of Yin Dong's boyfriend in his early years. He was also so tall. Handsome, handsome, and a little mixed.
But Yin Dong protected Yin Chang too well. Luo Chuan remembered that he was revealed by the media to have a son when he was 27 years old when he won the Best Newcomer Award at the Hong Kong Film Golden Pine Awards, but no one knew about it. Knowing what his son looks like, it wasn't until a few years before Yin Dong's plane crashed that the paparazzi in mainland China secretly took a photo of Yin Chang at the age of fifteen.
Therefore, even though there were associations that shouldn't have arisen, Luo Chuan would not say such groundless things.
He looked at Yin Chang: "It's a long time ago, and I don't know much about it. If you don't want to believe it, just treat it as nonsense."
Yin Chang drank the wine and said in a daze, "It's okay, thank you."
Luo Chuan also talked about the past between him and Yin Dong. It was rumored that the two were rivals and wished to meet and fight each other, but it was not the case.
The stiff relationship between the two is not because of the "fight for best actor", but because of Yao Manhuai.
Not long after Yin Donggang won the Best Newcomer Award, he once attended a gathering in the circle in Hong Kong City, and Luo Chuan was also invited. During the banquet, Luo Chuan had close contact with Yao Manhuai for the first time. Yao Manhuai was also very young at that time. Although she was not as beautiful as those bright and charming female artists, she was born with a queen temperament, which was Luo Chuan's favorite type.
When he wanted to get Yao Manhuai's contact information, he pursued her, but Yao Manhuai refused him again and again, and told Luo Chuan very clearly that she already wanted her.
At first, Luo Chuan didn't know who Yao Manhuai's favorite was, and he also guessed Yin Dong. He didn't confirm until he and Yin Dong lost in the first competition for best actor. Hearing Yao Manhuai's confession to Yin Dong, Yin Dong rejected her elegantly and distantly, and comforted her softly: "If it is a life partner, Luo Chuan is more suitable to stand by your side than me."
...Since then, Luo Chuan has had extremely complicated emotions towards Yin Dong.
He was arguing with Yin Dong everywhere, just to fight for himself, and to let Yao Manhuai see him, but after so many years, Yao Manhuai was unmoved. Indeed, he hated Yin Dong for a while.
But he hated and hated, Yin Dong really died suddenly, completely disappeared from this world.
When he heard the news of Yin Dong's death, Luo Chuan felt uncomfortable at all. Not only did he lose his competitor, but he also seemed to have lost his best friend who understood him best in life.
After that, he let go of his obsession. Even if Yao Manhuai never responded for the rest of his life, he didn't care.
It's good to be ordinary friends just like this, at least they are still alive, and they can miss the days with Yin Dong together.
Luo Chuan put down his wine glass and looked up at the son of the old man: "If you want to know about your father's experience in Hong Kong City, there is a person who may know more than me..."