Lan Hua has a very pretty face.
A nobleman, a well-behaved boy with a scholarly air. Since three years ago, Lan Hua has been able to move freely in the entertainment industry with this amulet. The reason for his popularity was a photo on his student ID card when he was a teenager. In the photo, the boy was wearing a blue and white school uniform, with clear eyes, like a small white birch under the warm winter sun.
This is a very obedient child.
This is the first impression most people have of Lan Hua after seeing his photo.
This face looks really cute. Therefore, even though Lan Hua has been doing himself a disservice in the past few years, he is still a good boy in the hearts of his fans. Lan Hua looks like his mother. His mother was a drama actress. It was also with this face that she married into the Lan family with Lan Hua, who was born out of wedlock with her first boyfriend.
-But she didn't know that although the Lan family seemed to be flourishing and prosperous at that time, it was actually an empty shell in the midst of wind and rain.
Lan Hua had indeed changed a bit compared to his youth: the dark complexion under her eyes could not be covered by any amount of makeup, her eyes widened nervously, the veins on the back of her hands bulging, only the outline of her facial features remained the same as when she was a teenager. Yi Wan looked at him and said, "Don't get excited."
Lan Hua was still breathing heavily. Yi Wan said, "Lan Bai won't let you become a 'consumable', right? You are his biological brother."
Lan Bo is the current president of Blu-ray Entertainment.
In the eyes of outsiders, he is a business genius who turned Blu-ray Entertainment from crisis to success in just seven years.
Cypress and birch are both evergreen trees. From the names, we can see that their parents gave the brothers a blessing. But Lan Hua's voice was low: "He is not my biological brother."
Yi Wan blinked. Lan Hua continued, "We are half-siblings. Before... my last name was Bai."
It didn't take Yi Wan much time to figure out how this "half-brother" relationship came about. He said, "Then why are you so bold?"
Lan Hua: “?”
He looked at Yi Wan as if his emotions were interrupted. Yi Wan actually sat down slowly beside the steps where he was sitting. The black-haired and black-eyed boy said, "I heard that you drive fast, drink alcohol, and do XXX."
"… "
"Aren't you afraid that he will give up on you and make you a 'consumable'?" Yi Wan looked at him with dark eyes, his tone emotionless, "What's more, you, who have different fathers and mothers from him, can be considered a burden brought by his stepmother. If he is also living according to the standards of the male protagonist in the cool novel."
"Why aren't you afraid of being abandoned by him?"
Lan Hua was silent.
At this moment, he didn't look as crazy as usual, nor did he have that sharp feeling of fear, despair, self-abandonment and bravado. Lan Hua looked at the sky in the distance. Only at this moment did he look like a thin young man.
“… Lan Bo originally didn’t plan to let me enter the entertainment industry.” Lan Hua said softly, “It was me who wanted to come in and accompany him. I am the first artist under him.”
Yi Wan: "The first artist?"
Eight years ago, Blu-ray Entertainment was in a precarious situation.
After the news that the president and his wife of Blue Light Entertainment were killed in a car accident was published in the newspaper, people came to collect debts or extort money. No one believed that Lan Bo, who was still in college, could take over the Blue Light Entertainment, a company that was already in decline. Those with or without debts came to take advantage of the situation.
"I watched our home being emptied out bit by bit. And the business as well."
At first, it was a piano, then a color TV, a sofa... The things in the house became fewer and fewer. The debt collectors even took a marble coffee table.
The young boy Lan Hua attends boarding school. He goes home once a week, and every time he goes home, he sees his home becoming emptier and emptier.
"You have to be careful." His classmate reminded him, "It's only the things at home that are gone, which is still relatively good."
"What could be worse?" asked the young boy Lan Hua.
The classmate exchanged a worried look with another classmate and lowered his voice and said, "You and Lan Bo are not related by blood. If he cashes out and leaves now, he can still take hundreds of thousands of dollars and flee the country..."
What will you do then
What should you do if you are burdened with debts and even your last capital has been taken away
The Mid-Autumn Festival was a holiday, and there were classes on the weekend, so Lan Hua couldn't go home until Wednesday. Carrying her schoolbag, Lan Hua returned from school to the place called "home" with a heavy heart. She opened the familiar door with the key, and when she saw the empty hall, Lan Hua was stunned.
there is none left.
There is nothing left.
The house that once had a piano and a sofa was now empty, with only the twilight shining on the flying dust. Lan Hua walked up and down three times and dropped her schoolbag on the ground.
He called out "Brother" twice in fear.
Lan Hua rarely called Lan Bo "brother". The identity of being a burden brought by the stepmother was really embarrassing. Moreover, there were rumors that his father and Ms. Bai had known each other when his late wife was ill. Lan Bo was always serious and cold. Since the age of five, Lan Hua had always been cautious and hid behind a pillar every time he saw Lan Bo.
But now there is no one left in this family.
Lan Hua was tired. He didn't know where to go. Finally, he hugged himself and took a nap in the living room.
He was suddenly awakened from his nap. He looked up blankly and saw a strange man: "Who are you and what are you doing here?"
"Who are you?" Lan Hua was confused.
The man said he was a real estate agent and that the house was urgently put up for sale last week. Lan Hua's eyes turned red, and she apologized quietly and was about to leave.
The man said, "Are you the second young master of this family? Let me call your brother."
How can he be considered the second young master
Lan Hua should have been surnamed Bai from the beginning to the end. There was not a drop of Lan family blood in his body.
Lan Hua really didn't want that person to call, and he didn't expect Lan Bo to answer the phone at all.
But the phone beeped twice and actually went through.
"He asked you to meet him at your company," said the real estate agent.
Lan Hua was "asked" to leave the house by the real estate agent with his schoolbag. He stood in front of the bus stop, not knowing where he should go.
Even though the real estate agent had told him where he should go, he still had no idea where he could go.
Lan Hua arrived at Blue Light Entertainment before the sun went down. The office building, which was once quite glorious, now had only one office lit up. He was very hesitant and walked in quietly with his bag on his back.
The office was almost emptied. There was a sofa in the office with a blanket on it - it looked like Lan Bo had been sleeping here for the past two weeks.
Lan Bo stared at the computer with dark circles under his eyes. He didn't notice him until Lan Hua came in ten minutes later and knocked over a cup of water.
"Sit down," Lan Bai said.
"I want to go to the bathroom." Lan Hua said in a low voice.
Lan Bai asked him to go. Before Lan Hua left the office, he stopped him and took out a pack of paper from the drawer and gave it to him: "Take it."
Facing Lan Hua's puzzled look, Lan Bo was a little embarrassed: "Many people resigned. They took all the toilet paper with them."
There is nothing left.
Lan Hua said nothing. He took the paper, went to the toilet and came back. Fortunately, there was no water or power outage on the office floor.
Lan Bo was still looking at the documents, trying to deduct some money from the pile of debts. He kept looking until midnight and made himself a bowl of instant noodles.
Then I thought of Lan Hua and wondered if she hadn't eaten yet.
When he turned around, he found Lan Hua had fallen asleep. The young boy was wearing a school uniform and curled up on the sofa, like a cat that accompanied him to work late at night.
…
"There was a time when Blu-ray almost failed," said Yi Wan.
Lan Hua said: "Many artists also took the opportunity to terminate their contracts. When the wall fell, everyone pushed it. Languang never owed them wages. But when they left, not to mention the printer, even the printing paper was taken away. The water dispenser, chairs, power strips... everything that could be taken away was taken away by them. Later, I went to school and acted at the same time."
Lan Bai is not good at acting, but Lan Hua happens to have some talent in this area.
Lan Hua told Lan Bo that even if the whole world betrayed them, he would stand with Lan Bo.
He will be Lan Bo's artist, Lan Bo's final trump card and tool.
Lan Bo's half-brother was his only property when he had fallen to the bottom of the world.
It is also the only sword he wants to keep but has to wield.
"Will it be tiring?" Yi Wan said.
Lan Hua nodded.
"Sometimes when I get out of class at six o'clock, he comes to pick me up and takes me to the theater. When I come out of the theater at one o'clock in the morning, he is outside the theater. Before twelve o'clock, he handles official business on the computer in the fast food restaurant next to it. After twelve o'clock, the fast food restaurant closes. He waits outside. The winter in S City is very cold, and the sea breeze is very strong. He just stands outside and waits." Lan Hua said.
The efforts did not make Blu-ray's situation better.
In the dark forest, weakness is the original sin. Blackmail and extortion always follow.
Even so, they slowly and bit by bit took back what belonged to them. The office building was filled up again, and the new rental house put down the luggage they brought back from the old house - the brothers no longer had to sleep in the office.
Lan Bo said: "I will take back everything that belongs to us."
He was no longer as silent as before. Lan Bai had learned to smile, but in Lan Hua's eyes, that smile was even colder than the boy's silence in the past.
There is a price to pay for getting things back.
For example, Lan Hua’s health.
Lan Hua fell ill. When he was seventeen years old. He had a nosebleed and was admitted to the hospital... When he opened his eyes on the white bed, he saw Lan Bai sitting beside the bed.
Lan Bai looked at him, as if he hadn't slept for several nights.
I pulled his hand, but unfortunately I had no strength.
Fortunately, the condition did not deteriorate to the most serious stage. Lan Hua applied for discharge after one month, but Lan Bo forced him to stay in the hospital for two more months.
Lan Hua said: "I missed a lot of announcements in this month."
Lan Bai just looked at him and said, "From now on, we can no longer be fools."
There is no way out if you just keep working hard. Lan Bo, who has been in the hell of the jungle for several years, understands this better than anyone else.
Lan Hua could no longer become his sword to slay ghosts—even if Lan Hua was willing.
Lan Hua still felt uncomfortable. He was awake for a while, and soon fell asleep again. Before he fell asleep, he could feel Lan Bo's hand on the back of his hand - just like they used to do. Lan Hua slept on the sofa in the office, and Lan Bo slept on the floor. When Lan Hua woke up from a nightmare due to stress, Lan Bo would always put his hand on the back of his hand.
Like a placebo in a nightmare life.
But this time, something else landed on his lips. It was very light and fleeting.
It was unclear whether it was an irresistible kiss or a farewell.
Lan Bo refused to let Lan Hua leave the hospital. Lan Hua could only do nothing in the hospital, lying on the bed every day watching the moon and the sun. The sun rose and the moon set, day after day, with no difference.
Only the details around him were changing.
The fruits Lan Bo bought for him included wax apples and snake apples—these were Lan Hua's favorites when she was a child, but now they are reluctant to buy them. Lan Bo's suits became more and more straight, and he smiled less and less.
The number of times he held Lan Hua's hand became less and less.
In addition, one time, there was a new friend of Lan Bo among the people who came to visit Lan Hua. The man was tall and slender, wearing a baseball cap and sunglasses, and looked like a popular singer who had recently debuted.
"Are you Lan Hua?" the man said.
Somehow, from the first moment she saw him, Lan Hua was wary of him—a wariness that was almost irrational and instinctive.
Because the nurse who came in to change the water for the flowers was also secretly looking at this man, with her eyes full of "this man is so handsome".
The man didn't care about Lan Hua's hostility, and just said: "So he is with you... Haha, interesting."
"Who are you?" Lan Hua said.
It was Lan Bo who interrupted the conversation. Lan Bo rushed in from the door of the ward like a gust of wind. His untidy clothes showed that he had rushed here in a hurry.
Lan Hua could see Lan Bo's respect, fear and vigilance towards this man.
“… What are you doing here?”
"Investigate the partners."
That was the last conversation left in Lan Hua's mind after Lan Bo and that man left.
Lan Hua was shocked when he returned to Blu-ray Entertainment again.
The bright and clean office building, the busy corridors... Blueray Entertainment has changed completely since he left three months ago. Rather than saying it is a revival, it is better to say that it has completely surpassed the past.
Lan Hua looked at the handsome men and beautiful women around her - each of them would be one of the most "star-like" ones if they were to be seen outside.
But perhaps due to the artist's extremely sensitive "nature", Lan Hua felt vaguely frightened by this scene.
Whether it’s the perfect smile of the actress in the white dress.
It's still the perfect downward curve of the rock youth's mouth.
Lan Bo did not come to pick him up when he was discharged from the hospital. Instead, a strange female secretary came to pick him up.
"Please wait here for a moment, Mr. Lan," said the female secretary.
The female secretary took him to the office and sat him down. The unfamiliar environment outside made Lan Hua nervous, but the familiar furnishings finally made Lan Hua feel like "returning home".
Lan Bai seemed very busy and hadn't come to see him for a long time. Lan Hua leaned on the sofa and fell asleep in a daze.
It was midnight when he woke up again. When he opened his eyes, he saw a hand withdrawn from in front of him.
The owner of the hand seemed to want to steal a little time from Tiandao while he was sleeping, and touch his face.
Lan Hua and Lan Bo, who was standing in front of him, looked at each other. They were a little stunned at first, and then a little angry.
"Why don't you come to the hospital to pick me up?" he said.
"It's hard to sleep well in the office. Since you're awake, let your secretary take you home later." Lan Bo walked away from him as if nothing had happened. "It's No. 32 Huaibei Road. Our old home - I bought it back."
"You haven't answered my question yet." Lan Hua insisted.
Lan Bai still didn't say anything. This aroused Lan Hua's anger. Lan Hua said: "What have you been doing these past few months? Lan Guang has changed his appearance, and you haven't come to the hospital all day... Speak up!"
No matter what he said, Lan Bo remained indifferent. Seeing Lan Bo calling his secretary, Lan Hua became even more furious. He jumped off the sofa and tried to grab Lan Bo's phone...
A chuckle came from deep inside the office.
There is someone here in the darkness!
Lan Hua turned around in surprise and saw a figure wearing a peaked cap in the dark. The figure had his hands crossed and his chin resting on his hand, as if he had been looking at them for a long time.
Lan Hua's scalp exploded.
"Who are you? What are you doing here?" he said.
Lan Hua roared loudly, more sharply than ever before, as if he wanted to use his momentum to completely expel the man from the country... This was not Lan Hua's usual reaction. In the eyes of others at that time, he was a very gentle boy. But this time, the sharpness seemed to come from some kind of premonition.
The premonition was that the existence of this person would turn everything he once had upside down.
The man did not answer his question, but raised his pale chin and said sarcastically: "Hey, you haven't told your brother yet?"
Lan Hua: "Tell me what?"
The feeling of uneasiness, fear, and despair became stronger and stronger... Lan Bai stared at the man over him, as if confronting his gaze in the air.
Finally, Lan Bo lowered his head.
He pulled out the computer chair and asked Lan Hua to sit opposite him. The light from the computer screen shone brightly in Lan Bai's eyes, like a faint will-o'-the-wisp reflected in his eyes.
Such a scene made Lan Hua feel scared.
Something is about to break.
Something is about to break.
"Lan Hua." Lan Bai's voice broke the silence of the night, "Do you remember the death of our parents?"
Lan Hua swallowed his saliva.
"They were murdered," Lambe said.
This earth-shattering statement shocked Lan Hua. He asked tremblingly, "Wasn't that an accident? Who murdered them?"
"Manjusri Rong."
Lan Bai uttered a name that Lan Hua had never expected.
"No, it can't be him. Uncle Wen was the only one who helped us pay back the money after the accident. Moreover, he has now gone to other companies and has been introducing resources and opportunities to us..." Lan Hua said, "It can't be him..."
"Wen Shurong signed a ten-year contract with Blueray Entertainment. The ten-year contract expired, and Crown Entertainment
Le wanted to poach him, and in Crown Entertainment, Wen Shurong would have a better development. But emotions hindered him - Wen Shurong is a grateful person. Because of this character Wen Shurong has, it is impossible for him not to renew his contract with Blue Light Entertainment, which has done him a favor. Therefore, Blue Light Entertainment has become his obstacle. In order to keep the plot going, Blue Light Entertainment can only have an accident. Thus, Wen Shurong can naturally terminate the contract. "Lan Bo said, "At the same time, he funded us with money, so that he can complete his 'grateful' character. Wen Shurong is the murderer, even if he himself knows nothing about it."
Lan Hua was confused: "I don't understand what you are saying at all."
He felt scared, getting more and more scared, as if millions of ants were biting him and crawling up his calves. But Lan Bai was still saying: "... This is a fateful concession we made to his fate."
"Let's go home!" Lan Hua suddenly said, "Let's go home, brother, it's too late..."
He called Lan Bo "Brother" again because he urgently needed to "go home" to interrupt Lan Bo's words.
Just go home, everything will be fine. When they wake up, they are still Lan Hua and Lan Bai, still two brothers. There is no darkness, no people sitting in the shadows, and no nonsense like Wen Shurong is the murderer... But Lan Bai keeps talking.
"It was Tiandao and Wenshu Rong who killed our parents together."
boom.
Something finally broke.
Shocking.
"But I don't plan to do anything to Wen Shurong unless it's necessary." Lan Bai said coldly, "There's no use hating them. In this cold world, we can only climb to the highest point... Now that we know the rules."
Lan Hua looked at him with fear, as if he was looking at a stranger.
"hehe."
The man in the corner laughed again.
"Lan Hua, I don't need you to struggle between performing and studying anymore. While you were in the hospital, I submitted your school application. You will study abroad next month." Lan Bai said, "It's a very good school, you will like it."
Everything was spinning. The sky, the earth, and Lan Bai's eyes. At that moment, Lan Hua suddenly realized a fact that frightened him.
That day, from beginning to end, Lan Bo never smiled at him.
Even for a moment.
He took a step back. Suddenly, his intuition took over, and he asked the man in the shadow like a madman: "Is it you? Did you do it?"
This outburst came out of nowhere, but the man in the shadows smiled.
"I'm Xie Ziyu. I suggest you get used to my presence as soon as possible. Because in the future, I will appear in your lives more and more often." The man took off his sunglasses, revealing a pair of upturned eyes.
Lan Hua: …
He was standing in the office, but it was as if he had stepped into empty air and fell into hell.
The Blue Light Building under construction was also shining brightly in the middle of the night. The era of Blue Light has begun.
…
It turns out that evil people also have evil feelings.
Lan Hua stopped talking.
He sat on the steps with his legs together, looking at the sunset in the distance. Yi Wan said beside him: "So that's how it is."
Lan Hua was ready to sneer at Yi Wan's consolation. But Yi Wan said, "Is this the reason why you are mentally ill?"
"You!" Lan Hua was furious.
Yi Wan: "Well... it's normal. No sensitive person can accept such mental stimulation day after day."
So it is logical to understand why Lan Hua has become the crazy person he is today. Speed racing, drug abuse, alcoholism, self-harm...
Is it because his understanding of the world has collapsed, or is it because he has a slight intention to... wake up Lan Bo
Hard to explain.
It is ironic. When Lan Bo learned the truth about the world and decided to stand on top of the world with unprecedented ruthlessness, how much of his firm determination was closely related to the illness of his "little brother"
But now, Blu-ray Entertainment has become the culprit that pushed Lan Hua's spirit into hell.
The effort to bring happiness to someone ends up bringing misfortune to that person... It's really like a gift from the Magi.
What is even more twisted is that even though Lan Hua has collapsed and self-destructed to such an extent, Lan Bo still holds on to him tightly, allowing him to avoid being pulled down by other male/female protagonists, and refuses to let him go.
"What I hate most is your self-righteous attitude." Lan Hua looked at Yi Wan and said viciously, "Is being an artist so great? Is iris5 so great? Your self-righteousness is nothing but the blessing of fate. Anyone can insult me, but you lucky people..."
He uttered the last three words: "Why!"
Yi Wan answered briefly: "No."
Lan Hua stopped talking. He breathed softly at the ancient street. Yi Wan said, "Your 'brother' will indeed always save you. He does have the ability to do so."
Ordinary people who can be as ruthless as Lan Bai are indeed rare.
"… "
"But if you continue like this, you will die." Yi Wan said.
Lan Hua smiled again, but in the eyes of others, he just twitched the corners of his mouth.
"You think too much." He said softly, "My brother won't let me die. With Blu-ray Entertainment, even if I'm broken into pieces, I can be repaired as a new one."
The evening breeze blew through the street. Yi Wan found Lan Hua crying.
Lan Hua shed tears for a while, then returned to her vicious attitude: "Why, you think it's funny to see me like this? You want to pity me? Humph, take a good look at yourself first."
Yi Wan: "No, I didn't. I was just thinking, I'm not good at comforting people, nor do I want to comfort people. Fortunately, you recovered on your own."
Lan Hua: …
Lan Hua: “Damn it!!”
Lan Hua was furious again. Two familiar voices came from not far away.
An Yelin: "I saw a shadow flashing over there..."
Ding Biehan: "Be quiet and follow me."
… Lan Hua stood up immediately. He didn't want to be seen sitting with Yi Wan, so he wiped his tears with his sleeves and was about to leave. When he turned around, Yi Wan said, "If you still have money, buy a plane ticket and leave here."
"Do you think it's that easy?" Lan Hua retorted, "No matter where I go, I can't leave."
"In fact, even Blue Ray Entertainment is not omnipotent." Yi Wan said, "The thing that has trapped you, driving you crazy and causing you pain, but you can't leave, is it the power of Blue Ray Entertainment or your own heart?"
Lan Hua was stunned.
He turned around slowly and found that Yi Wan was not looking at him, but at the sky. The black-haired and black-eyed boy said, "Perhaps it is you who really doesn't want to leave."
Lan Hua: “…”
"You still think of Lan Bo as your brother, don't you?" Yi Wan said.
"… "
Lan Hua turned and left without saying a word.
So only Yi Wan was left sitting in the evening
On the sunny street, the lively voices of An Yelin and Ding Biehan could still be heard.
An Yelin: "Ding Biehan, are you sure the ghost went in this direction?"
Ding Biehan: “…”
An Yelin: "Ding Biehan, it's seven o'clock, we should almost call it a day. By the way, Lan Hua who was in our group has been missing for the whole afternoon. Is she really okay?"
There were also voices from another group of people: "Shi Qiao, Lili, come and see what's here?"
"How long have you been standing here?"
Amidst the bustle, Yi Wan suddenly spoke calmly to the person behind him.