What made Lai Yang headache was that Tian Jing actually came. She changed into a beige jumpsuit and sat in the corner with her chin in her hand, thinking.
But the performance tonight was really bad. While Lai Yang was waiting for the next performance, something unexpected happened.
Five or six audience members stood up and left at the same time, which shocked Lai Yang and others. The actors on the stage were also stunned and stopped performing and watched the audience leave.
Lai Yang immediately rushed out, took the microphone and greeted the audience leaving, and humorously asked them if they were going to find the toilet
A leading audience member said in a very unfriendly tone: "It's the same old jokes all day long. This is my third time here, and it's boring. I'm leaving now."
"Hey buddy~"
Lai Yang glanced at Tian Jing from a distance, with a little sweat on his forehead, and said: "Excuse me, buddy, come, let me tell you a story. It says that I came from..."
"You're from Xi'an, and you're heavily in debt?" the audience asked bluntly.
"Uh~ buddy, you still understand me..." Lai Yang pointed at the audience and smiled fakely, with the corners of his mouth twitching slightly.
In fact, Lai Yang himself has quite a few jokes, but 90% of them are related to Gu Qian, which makes him really unable to tell them.
This wave of audience members pushed the door and left. The atmosphere completely fell into an ice valley. The quiet gazes shone coldly on Lai Yang's face like stage spotlights.
It's over, an epic cold open.
…
Faced with this situation, Lai Yang could only tell some unpolished new jokes, which made the scene even colder.
As soon as Lai Yang returned to the backstage, Tian Jing shook her head, picked up her bag, and left the theater gracefully.
Li Dian was hosting the show on stage. Yuan Sheng, who was waiting in the wings, lifted the curtain and found that Tian Jing had left. He was immediately panicked and hurriedly shouted to Lai Yang: "Hey, that female CEO ran away, are you going to chase her?"
Lai Yang lit a cigarette and said nothing. His underwear had been seen by everyone, so how could he have the courage to pursue Tian Jing
The performance has become like this. If we chase after them, wouldn’t we just be slapping them in the face
The smoke was reflected into a light blue color by the lights around the mirror. Through this layer of fog as thin as blue gauze, Lai Yang looked at his decadent self in the mirror and felt a sense of sadness in his heart.
When a person's mood is depressed to a certain extent, he doesn't even want to talk, and he just waits until the show is over. When all the actors come over to review the show, Lai Yang can't help but burst out with emotion.
He looked at the actor who had just been in a cold reception and complained, "Three months have passed, and you are still...
That same old ten minutes, and I still have to pay for those ten minutes every time."
The atmosphere backstage froze and everyone looked at each other. Yuan Shengda and Li Dian looked at each other but didn't say anything.
The actor hung his head and sat opposite Lai Yang in silence.
"I can't do that, so I'll just record a sound for you. I'll hang a big speaker on the stage every time I perform, so you don't have to run away."
After Lai Yang finished speaking with a gloomy face, the actor looked up and said, "Brother Yang, this hurts my heart."
"What? Wasn't my piercing obvious enough? You just noticed it? Can I ask you to be more careful? Can we come up with some new jokes?"
"Brother Yang, haven't you always been...debt-ridden?"
Lai Yang was so angry at this that his face froze. Yuan Shengda turned his head away, blushing and trying not to laugh.
"Hey, youcompared with me? I have a lot of jokes, I just don't want to tell them, you know nothing!"
“Then Brother Yang… tell me the jokes you don’t want to tell.” The actor whispered.
Lai Yang was almost choked to death by these words, and was about to lose his temper when Li Dian quickly came out to smooth things over. He simply blamed the actors, then asked them to go back first and hurry up to come up with new jokes.
As a result, the actor who was scolded said on the spot that he was very busy with work recently and might not be able to come in the future, so he asked to settle the performance fee.
This put Lai Yang and Li Dian in an awkward position. Seeing that the situation was not good, the other actors left in disappointment.
After Li Dian settled the fees, he turned off all the lights outside the theater and returned to the backstage with a gloomy expression.
"Why are you so angry tonight? Everyone else is panicking because of this. What are we going to do next? Tickets are not selling well, and there is a shortage of actors. How can we run this theater?"
"Then forget it, everyone go back to your own homes and find your own mothers!"
Lai Yang picked up his coat and walked quickly towards the door. The moment he pushed open the theater door, a cold current hit him, forcing him to wrap his clothes tightly, but the cold was so oppressive that it seemed to penetrate into his heart through his pores.
Lai Yang had no idea why he was so angry tonight.
It could be because he messed up his performance, it could be because he had been holding back his anger towards Tian Jing since morning, or of course it could be because he had embarrassed himself in front of her.
But more often than not, it is probably because one is made miserable by life and then feels resentful inside.
As Lai Yang walked quickly towards the subway station, he heard the sound of footsteps.
Yuan Shengda chased to Lai Yang's side, tilted his head, and looked at him with interest with his bright big eyes. His long black hair hung down like a waterfall, exuding a charming and alluring fragrance.
"What? Are you still angry?"
Lai Yang looked at the smiling Yuan Shengda and took a breath of cold air: "No, this group of actors is not good enough. Let's think of another way. I'm tired."
"You're not angry with Li Dian, are you? He's just worried. He just asked me to apologize to you." Yuan Shengda smiled.
"Do I look angry?"
"Not really. It's just like being hammered by life a thousand times." She smiled sweetly.
Looking at the childhood friend in front of him, Lai Yang was so angry that he lost his temper. Yuan Shengda came to Shanghai to seek refuge with him. At that time, he said that he would take her to eat and drink well, but now, the two of them were starving on the streets.
…
YuanShengda lived in the same community as Laiyang, so they went back together.
The rice noodle stall at the entrance of the community was still there. After they each ordered a portion of rice noodles, Lai Yang wiped the greasy small round table with paper, lit a cigarette, sat down, and looked at the community in front of him.
This is an old residential complex, with each building only six stories high.
The mottled walls are filled with the sediment of time, which is out of place in this bizarre Shanghai, but it suits him quite well.
This place was originally found by Gu Qian, and Lai Yang and her have lived here for a long time.
But every night when he came back in the past two days, the turbulent night always swept him into the deep sea of memories, making it impossible to breathe.
The hot rice noodles were brought up after Lai Yang finished half a cigarette, and he took big sips.
After eating for a while, he suddenly found Yuan Sheng staring at him with his watery eyes wide open. Bingjie's pretty face was a little dull, the rice noodles in front of her were not moved at all, and the heat was half gone.
"Eat? Why are you looking at me?" Lai Yang looked puzzled.
"Laiyang, there is something I need to tell you, but you...be mentally prepared first." Yuan Shengda blinked his big eyes.
Wow~
When Gu Qian checked into a room with the guy driving a Porsche, she just shouted at the top of her lungs. How could she be mentally prepared for this
"What? Are you pregnant?" Lai Yang took out a cigarette and put it in his mouth, showing off his usual level of taunting her.
"Yes, yours." Yuan Shengda said calmly.
Baji~
The smoke fell into the rice noodles and was instantly soaked red by the oil and soup.