Lin Xi walked through the tree-lined path covered by trees and entered the dressing room alone. The spacious room was empty. He quickly changed the tattered brocade clothes on his body, and put on his original light blue long windbreaker.
Just a few steps out of the door, suddenly saw Wang Fang's fleshy face crying, walking towards him with an expression of resignation to death.
"Boss... blah blah, the car crashed..."
"..."
Lin Xi stared at the little fat man silently, with gloomy eyes, the little fat man trembled all over, and the layer of fat on his body also trembled.
There was a big red lump on Wang Fang's forehead, and some bruises on his arms. He looked as if he had been beaten up, and he was very embarrassed. Lin Xi sighed helplessly, and asked, "What's going on?"
The little fat man sniffed, hiccupped loudly, and said, "Just now when I was going to back up the car, there was a car in front of me with high beams on, which made it hard to keep my eyes open. Then I couldn't hold the steering wheel firmly. And then… err…”
"...Did you call the car insurance company?"
"Hic... Hiccup..."
Lin Xi let out a long sigh, and looked up at the sky that had been completely blackened at some point. Now the car can't be driven, and it's difficult to get a taxi here in B City Film and Television City during this time period, so I'm afraid I have to call Ji Chengshu to trouble him.
But the film and television city is located in the West Sixth Ring Road of City B, and the artist apartment of CX Entertainment is close to the East Fourth Ring Road. After going back and forth, I am afraid that it will be almost 10 o'clock when I get home.
Lin Xi was frowning and thinking about a solution, when suddenly a high-pitched and refreshing male voice sounded: "Hey, isn't this the little fat man who foolishly bumped into the electric pole just now?"
Lin Xi heard the words and looked at the people who came. I saw a strange man about 1.8 meters walking towards the dressing room from the alley. He was wearing a thin white shirt, a pair of thin-rimmed silver glasses on the bridge of his nose, and his short black hair was meticulously treated with a hair mask. , inexplicably felt that he had a slight resemblance to Ji Chengshu.
Seeing that person, Wang Fang suddenly squeezed his eyes open, pointed at him in surprise, and said, "You... aren't you the passerby on the side of the road just now, and you kept smiling wretchedly."
Hearing this, the smile on the man's face suddenly disappeared, and his eyes swept over Lin Xi, who was silent at the side, a flash of amazement flashed in his eyes, but it quickly faded away. He turned his head to look at Wang Fang, and said seriously with a serious face: "Little fat man, don't talk nonsense, I just laughed because I saw you were so funny, you bumped into the pole when you were driving."
Wang Fang snorted heavily: "Why are you laughing, what's so funny, you're insane."
"you… "
"Zhao Xian, what's wrong?"
A thick and deep voice came from behind the three of them, Lin Xi and Wang Fang turned their heads to look at it, and saw Chen Yajing and a tall man standing behind them, they seemed to have been watching for a while .
Wang Fang's eyeballs were about to fall out of their sockets. He looked at the man in disbelief. It took him a while to recover, and he shouted loudly, "You... you are O... Uno!"
Seeing this, Chen Yajing couldn't help covering her lips and burst out laughing. She stepped up and walked a little closer, nodded and said, "Yes, yes, it's Uno, not O... Oono."
Being teased by Chen Yajing, who has always been respectful, Fatty Wang stood aside obediently with his mouth pursed, but kept looking at Uno curiously with his small eyes.
On the other hand, Uno walked to Zhao Xian's side as if he didn't feel anything, glanced at Lin Xi who was quietly standing aside, and asked, "What happened?"
Zhao Xian laughed, and said: "It's nothing, just now I saw this little fat man driving his car into a telephone pole by himself, so I laughed a couple of times."
Chen Yajing frowned when she heard the words, and asked Lin Xi, "Did you hit a utility pole? Can the car still drive, Lin Xi?"
Unexpectedly, such a scandal would be announced to the world in this way, Lin Xi shook his head dumbfoundingly, and said, "Since it hit a telegraph pole, I guess it won't be able to open today."
Chen Yajing thought for a while in embarrassment, and said: "There are still several shots in the film crew tonight, and no one has time to take you back. How about I lay a floor on the film crew today, and you and Wang Fang drive my car first." Let's go back."
Lin Xi immediately shook his head firmly and refused: "Thank you, Sister Chen, we can just go outside and take a taxi later." It is really impossible for Lin Xi to ask a woman to sleep on the floor and go home to sleep on the big bed.
"But it's not easy to take a taxi outside the film and television city. You have to film tomorrow..."
Lin Xi curled his lips to reveal a gentle smile, his clear and clean light amber eyes were bent into a beautiful crescent shape, and said, "It's okay, we can catch up."
Chen Yajing wanted to say something more, but Uno, who had been silent at the side, suddenly asked, "Are you going to CX's artist apartment?"
Lin Xi didn't expect that the other party would suddenly interrupt and ask this strange question. He didn't think much, nodded reflexively, and blurted out: "Well, the artist's apartment on the East Fourth Ring Road."
Uno lowered his head slightly, some black hair on his forehead fell on his eyelids, he lowered his eyes and was thinking about something, after a while, he suddenly said something surprising: "Then I'll take you back."
"!" Zhao Xian immediately looked at Uno with wide eyes.
Lin Xi frowned upon hearing this, and said hesitantly, "This...isn't that good?"
Chen Yajing calmed down her troubled complexion, smiled slightly with red lips, and said, "It's nothing inconvenient. I remember that Uno's house is nearby, so it's also convenient to ask him to give you a ride."
Uno nodded lightly, there was no expression on his handsome and cold face, but his dark eyes stared at Lin Xi seemingly inadvertently.
Seeing the other party's expression, Lin Xi silently swallowed the words of refusal that he was about to blurt, and he nodded in agreement: "Then I will trouble you."
"But..." Zhao Xian opened his mouth and was about to say something more, when Uno suddenly gave him a cold look with bayonet-like cold eyes. The words came to an abrupt end, Zhao Xian spread his hands helplessly, and said, "Okay, I have no objection, then let's go."
The matter seemed to be resolved so simply, Wang Fang stayed and waited for the people from the auto insurance company to deal with the accident, and Lin Xi followed Uno to the parking lot. Along the way, he secretly looked up at the tall and straight man in front of him, and doubts gradually arose in his heart.
Uno... since when did you become such a talkative person? Why didn't he know that Uno was such a good senior who took care of the newcomers
He still remembered that the last and only time he worked with Uno was six years ago. At that time, Uno had already stood at the top of the entertainment circle, and even he could only be the second male lead for Uno's movie. .
That collaboration... was really not a very pleasant memory.
His temper at that time was much more irritable than now, and because he had won several awards, he was also a little arrogant, and for some reason, he felt a little uncomfortable looking at Uno. Especially the silent and calm appearance of the other party outside the set, no matter how he looked at it, he felt that he was pretending and posturing.
Later, there was a little friction between the two, but fortunately, my part was about to wrap up, so I didn't feel afraid to tear myself apart with Uno. Although Uno didn't say anything at the time, he kept staring at him from different places with those deep and far-sighted eyes for a few days afterwards, which made him feel uncomfortable all over, and ran away as soon as it was finished without even attending the dinner party.
"Pfft." Thinking of the scene at that time, Uno, who was not good at talking, and himself, who was reckless and frivolous, were really quite ridiculous.
"?"
Uno turned his head and glanced at Lin Xi, a little puzzled why he laughed. Although he had already noticed the other party's gaze focused on him, Uno, who had been in the public eye for so many years, naturally didn't take it to heart.
Lin Xi put away her smile, shook her head and said, "It's nothing."
He recalled that in the following six years, he also met Uno several times at home and abroad, but he always avoided him first and tried not to meet him.
At first, it was embarrassing because he just broke his face, but later his vision broadened and his temperament was smoothed by this glamorous circle, but he lost the courage to go up to talk to Uno again.
It really is that the more you live, the more cowardly you become, the more you live... the less you have the courage to be fearless.
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Lin Xi followed Uno into a black and atmospheric Mercedes-Benz SUV, and sat in the back seat of the co-pilot. Uno opened the car door on the left and came in, naturally sitting on Lin Xi's left.
The car drove out of City B Film and Television City, and got on the elevated road around the city after a while. It happened to be the evening rush hour, and the car with superior performance was driving at a slow speed in the congested traffic flow of the elevated road, and the bright yellow street lights swayed over Lin Xi's face.
No one in the car spoke, Uno turned his face away and looked at the unchanging scenery outside the window, wondering what he was thinking. And it was even harder for Lin Xi to speak, so he could only silently turn his head to look at the scenery.
Zhao Xian looked at the two people through the rearview mirror without interfering with each other, and each looked at the scenery outside the car windows on both sides. He turned his head to look out the window, and he could only see the bright lights of City B, which he was tired of seeing in the night. night view. Helplessly looking back, he looked at the taciturn man in the mirror with resentful eyes.
This was the first time that Uno invited others on his own initiative. He thought that Uno had something to say to Lin Xi, but he didn't expect that he really wanted to send someone home
Feeling speechless, Zhao Xian finally couldn't help turning around, and broke the dull atmosphere in the car: "Your name is Lin Xi, right? My name is Zhao Xian, just call me Lao Zhao. I remember you seem to be an artist of Tianyu, right? "
Unexpectedly, Zhao Xian would ask this topic, Lin Xi smiled and replied: "Hello Brother Zhao. I just terminated my contract with Tianyu before, and now I am in CX Entertainment, following Brother Ji."
Zhao Xian was startled when he heard this, and asked, "Are you following Ji Chengshu?"
Lin Xi nodded.
Zhao Xian rubbed his chin, turned around again in the front row, most of his body was almost facing Lin Xi: "Haha, there is a future with Ji Chengshu. How did you come to our CX?"
Seeing Zhao Xian's rather smug expression, Lin Xi curled his lips silently, and said, "I was originally under President Pan. After Brother Qi's incident, I didn't want to get hurt, so I left Tianyu. With Shu Shan's help, they signed under CX Entertainment."
Just as Lin Xi finished speaking, he suddenly saw Zhao Xian's originally brimming smile froze on his face, and his body collapsed into a string. He squinted his eyes suspiciously and didn't speak, but saw Zhao Xian cautiously looking at the taciturn Uno, it took a long time before he seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, and his tense shoulders relaxed.
No one spoke for a while, and the embarrassing atmosphere in the car, which was finally broken, froze to freezing point again.
Lin Xi was a little restless.
He didn't understand which sentence he said wrong just now to make Zhao Xian behave like this. Whether it is the attitude or the tone of the left and right, I have grasped it extremely accurately, and I can't understand it after thinking about it carefully. Judging from the expressions of Uno and Zhao Xian, it doesn't seem like a big deal. Lin Xi can only keep this matter in his heart. Talk about it again.
Just as he was thinking, Uno suddenly asked, "You were an artist under Pan Lun before?"
Lin Xi turned to look at Uno in surprise, only to see that the other party turned his head and was looking at him at some point, his eyes were bright, his thin lips were slightly pursed, and his expression was calm and composed.
Nodding his head indifferently, Lin Xi said, "Well, it was just signed under Mr. Pan's banner last year."
Uno was silent for a long time, just when Lin Xi thought that the other party was just asking casually on a whim, he opened his lips again and asked, "What kind of person is Pan Lun?"
"..." This question... Lin Xi looked at Uno calmly, but couldn't see a trace of abnormality from the handsome and luxurious face of the other party. He had no choice but to sigh softly in his heart, and began to fabricate facts against his conscience: "Although Mr. Pan holds a high position, he has always been... very kind to artists like us, and he is also very magnanimous."
It is very taboo in the entertainment industry to arrange one's former boss in front of others. Even though he was disgusted with Pan Lun's behavior, Lin Xi could only try his best to speak well for him.
After hearing Lin Xi's words, Uno's face was uncertain. He clenched his fingers where no one else could see, and after a while, he asked hesitantly, "Then... where's Qi Wenyuan?"
"..." This question is really difficult to answer one by one.
If he talked about himself in a bad way, Lin Xi would not be able to say that. If you want to praise yourself in a good way... Lin Xi quietly glanced at Uno, and sighed - in terms of Qi Wenyuan's previous relationship with Uno, Uno would definitely not be happy to hear that.
In a dilemma, Lin Xi deliberated for a long time before choosing a moderate angle and said, "Brother Qi is a very nice person and takes good care of me. But after all, he is busy with many things, so I haven't seen him much. time." The implication is that Qi Wen and I are far from familiar, so I don't know anything.
After hearing this answer, Uno lowered his eyes and stopped talking. On the contrary, Zhao Xian, who had been eavesdropping with his ears up all the time, sneaked another peek from the rearview mirror, said badly in his heart, and hurriedly said: "I have also met King Qi, indeed he is very kind and treats others kindly. "
Hearing this, Lin Xi was taken aback for a moment, a little confused...
Since Uno appeared, Lin Xi has recognized Zhao Xian's identity. When he cooperated with Uno six years ago, Zhao Xian had already followed Uno. And now I actually heard the comment "Qi Wenyuan is very nice" from Zhao Xian...
How could he remember that the person who was most at odds with him six years ago was Uno's manager...
Could it be that he died once, and even his memory has declined? How can Uno seem to be friends with him for many years according to this trend