In fact, Yang Youming left before the dinner was over. He didn't even go back to his room. Someone had already packed his luggage and checked out. The car to the airport was waiting for him at the entrance of the hotel.
Xia Xingcheng and He Zheng sent Yang Youming to the front of the hotel together.
Before Yang Youming got into the car, he hugged He Zheng, and he also hugged Xia Xingcheng. The same strength quickly let go of his hand, and then he got into the car and waved to the person who saw him off.
After the door was closed, the driver slowly started the car.
Xia Xingcheng stared at the car leaving the hotel and stood for a long time until He Zheng patted his back, "Go back and rest."
He nodded, turned around and felt a strong sense of abandonment in his heart. Yang Youming had already left, but he was still stuck in place.
Continued shooting began after Fang Jianyuan returned to university after his summer vacation. The shooting location was in a vocational high school in the county seat.
Xia Xingcheng ushered in his new counterpart, a rookie actor who is younger than him. His name is Hong Qihui, and he plays the role of a senior named Qiu Zhen in Fang Jianyuan's same school.
After Qiu Zhen met Fang Jianyuan in a school lecture, he began to approach Fang Jianyuan and later showed his love to him.
In fact, Hong Qihui doesn't have many scenes, and the story about Qiu Zhen and Fang Jianyuan is only a few jumping clips, but Hong Qihui's performance often fails to satisfy He Zheng.
There was a scene where Qiu Zhen hugged Fang Jianyuan from behind and wanted to kiss him, but Fang Jianyuan strongly refused.
When Hong Qihui was hugging Xia Xingcheng, he always acted a little uncomfortable.
He Zheng stared blankly at the monitor, only repeating two words: "come again."
Hong Qihui is still not used to He Zheng's way of directing a movie. After nearly ten shots in a row, he has become less and less confident, and his hands and feet are stiff and he doesn't know how to act.
Xia Xingcheng had no choice but to accompany him to perform again and again.
Later, He Zheng let them rest for a while and adjust themselves.
Hong Qihui was full of sweat on his back. He felt very sorry and said to Xia Xingcheng, "I'm really not used to He Dao's style."
Xia Xingcheng asked the makeup artist to touch up his makeup, raised his head and closed his eyes, and said, "I was not used to it at first, but it will be fine after a long time."
Hong Qihui scratched his hair and sighed deeply.
Xia Xingcheng opened his mouth, but soon closed it again. He wanted to say something, but found that he couldn't. He was not Yang Youming, so he couldn't guide Hong Qihui well into the role, and even his own performance was one of a kind. This is a natural expression that comes from his inner emotions. If he had to say it, he would probably only say something like "try to enter the role yourself" which is not helpful to Hong Qihui.
He noticed that the distance between him and Yang Youming was actually very, very far. Even if they co-starred in the same movie, He Zheng often praised his performance, but he and Yang Youming would still not be actors on the same level.
Although the filming was stumbling later, He Zheng's requirements were successfully met in the end, but since Hong Qihui joined the group, Xia Xingcheng obviously felt that the progress of the filming had slowed down.
Fang Jianyuan returned to school, and his life gradually recovered. He met Qiu Zhen. Although Qiu Zhen pursued him enthusiastically, he was not tempted. If it wasn't for Yu Haiyang, he was not sure whether he really liked men.
Until one night, Fang Jianyuan met Qiu Zhen when he was attending the college student union party. He drank a lot that day, and Qiu Zhen followed him on the way back to school.
Fang Jianyuan was very unhappy, he told Qiu Zhen not to follow him several times in an impatient tone.
Later, Fang Jianyuan walked into a phone booth and used the public phone to call Yu Haiyang's number for the first time.
In this phone call scene, Xia Xingcheng and Yang Youming's scenes were filmed separately. Yang Youming's part was filmed before he left the group. At that time, Yang Youming was performing to a prop phone that was not connected at all.
But now in Xia Xingcheng's scene, He Zheng asked Xia Xingcheng to really call Yang Youming. He had already contacted Yang Youming in advance and asked Yang Youming to help him play against Xia Xingcheng.
The phone number is an IC card phone that is now rare. Xia Xingcheng directly dialed Yang Youming's mobile phone number. Because Fang Jianyuan was impulsive after being drunk, he pressed the number quickly when he dialed, and did not give himself any time to hesitate.
But only after the sound of the call came from the receiver, he felt his hands trembling slightly, and he couldn't help leaning his head against the glass baffle of the phone booth.
"Hey—" Yang Youming's voice came from the receiver.
Xia Xingcheng called him in a calm voice: "Yu Haiyang."
When Yang Youming was filming this scene, Xia Xingcheng was watching him. He can still recall Yang Youming's expression and tone when he was standing by the window to answer the phone.
And Yang Youming didn't slack off at the moment. He almost perfectly reproduced the state of the shooting day, and responded to him with a nervous and slightly excited voice: "Xiaoyuan?"
Xia Xingcheng, perhaps it is more appropriate to say Fang Jianyuan at this time, he said, "Are you going to divorce?"
Yu Haiyang, played by Yang Youming, was silent over the receiver.
The taste of alcohol eroded Fang Jianyuan's thinking and nerves. He said in a hoarse voice, "You don't love her, and she doesn't love you either. Divorce. If you get divorced, I will forgive you."
Yu Haiyang answered him in a low voice: "I can't, my mother won't be able to take it."
Fang Jianyuan cried silently, he sucked his nose hard, and asked him, "Then what should I do?"
Yu Haiyang said, "I love you, Xiaoyuan."
Fang Jianyuan said to him, "Go away, I don't want your love!" Then he hung up the phone heavily.
I don't know when it will rain outside the phone booth, and Qiu Zhen, who was waiting for him outside, has disappeared. Fang Jianyuan was lying on the glass baffle and crying. He cried so sadly that he didn't even notice how long it was before Qiu Zhen took an umbrella and appeared outside again, waiting for him silently.
This scene is over.
The person who continued to cry in the phone booth was no longer Fang Jianyuan, but Xia Xingcheng. It was as if the emotions that had accumulated for a long time had finally found a gap and burst out. He covered his face with his arms and cried bitterly without making a sound.
Hong Qihui stood outside at a loss, and did not dare to help him. This time, no Yang Youming would hold him and tell him "it's alright", and there won't be any more in the future.
This was the first and only contact between Xia Xingcheng and Yang Youming after Yang Youming left the group.